.jt . r't .Itill,ting-7: Ulu= orsuncass tuuscuanaucessuuuris. Neatly and Prorteptly Executed, a the - AM/EMT/BEE OFFICE, LEBANON, PENN'A . . _ TEMI establishment is now supplied with an extensive assortment of JOB TYPE, which will be increased as the patronage demands. It can now turn nut knowtso, of every description, in a neat and expeditious umunor— and on very reasonable terms. Such as Pamphlets, Checks, Business Cards, Handbills, Circulars, Labels, Bill Headings, Blanks, Programmes, Bills of Fare, Invitations, Tickets, &c., &a. illae" DEEDS of all kinds. Common and Judgment BONDS. School, Justices', Constables' and other BLANES, printed correctly and neatly on the best paper, constantly kept for sale at this office, at prices "to suit the times." s',,,*Subscription price of the LEBANON ADVERTISER One Dollar and a Half a Year. Address, Wit. H. BRESLIN, Lebanon, Pa. Appeal of the President to the Border States Con gressmen. RESPONSE OF THE DELL (7' ATION. The Representatives and Senators of the border slave-holding States having, by special invitation of the President, been convened at the Ex cutive Mansion on Saturday morn. ing, the 12th ult., Mr. Lincoln ad dressed them as follows, from a writ ten paper held in his band : Gentlemen :—After the adjournment of Congress, now near, I shall have no opportunity of seeing you for sev eral months. Believing that you of the Border States hold more power for good than any other equal number of members, I feel it a duty which I cannot justifiably waive to make this appeal to you. 1. intend no reproach or complaint when I assure you that, in my opin. ion, if you all had voted for the reso lution in the gradual emancipation message of last March, the war would now be substantially ended. And the plan therein proposed is yet one of the most potent and swift means of ending it. Let the States which are in rebellion see definitely and cer tainly that in no event will the States you represent-ever join their propos ed Confederacy, and they cannot Much longer maintain the contest.— But you cannot divest them of their hope to ultimately have you with them .so long as you show a determination to perpetuate the institution within your own States. Beat them at elec tions, as you have overwhelmingly done, and nothing daunted, they still •claim you as their own. You and I &now what the lever of their power is.. Break that lever before their fa ces, and they can shake you no more forever. Most of you have treated me with kindness and consideration, and I trust you will not now think I improp erly touch what is exclusive yourown, when , for the sake of the whole coun try, lask, "can you, for your States do better than to tali() the course 1 urge?" Discarding punctilio and max ims adapted to more manageable times and looking only to the unprecedent edly stern fact of our case, can you do better in anypossible event ? You prefer that_ the , Constitutional rela tion of the 'States to the nation - shall. be practically restored without dis turbance of the institution; and. if this were done, my whole duty, in this respect, under the Constitution and my oath of office, would bo per formed. But it is not done, and we are trying to accomplish it by war. The incidents of the war cannot be avoided. If the war continues long, as it must if the object be no sooner obtained, the institution in your States will be extinguished by mere friction and abrasion—by the mere incidents of war. It will be gone, and you will have nothing valuable in lien of it.— Much of its value is gone already-- How much better fbr you and for your people to take the step which at once shortens the war,and secures substantial compensation for that which is sure to be wholly lost in any other event 1 How much better to thus save the money which else we sink forever in the war How much better to do it while we can, lest the war ere long render us pecuniarily un able to do it 1 How much better for you, as seller, and the nation, as a buy. er, to sell out and buy out that with out which the war could never have been, than to sink both the thing to be sold and the price of it in cutting one another's throats I I do not speak of emancipation at once but of a decision at once to eman .cipate :gradually. Room in South .American for colonization can be ob• tained cheaply, in abundance, and when numbers shall be large enough to be a company and encouragement for one another, the freed people will not be so reluctant to go. I am pressed with a difficulty not yet mentioned—one which threatens division among\those who, united, are done too strong. Au instance of it is known to you. Gen. Hunter is an honest man. He was and I hope still is, my friend. I valued him none the less for his agreeing with me in the general wish that all men everywhere 'could be freed. He proclaimed all men free within certain States, and I :repudiated the proClamation. Ile ex pected more good and less harm, from 'the measure than I could believe would follow. Yet in repudiating it I gave kdissatisfaction, if not offense to many whose support the country cannot afford to loose: And this is not the .end of it. The pressure in this direc- tion is still upon me and is increas ing. By conceding what I now ask, you can relieve me, and much more, can relieve the country in this impor tant point. Upon these consideration I have . ;again begged your attention to the message of March last. Before leav ing the Capitol, consider and discuss it among yourselves. You are patri• ots and statesman, and as such spray you consider this proposition; and at the least commend it to the consider. ation of your States and people. A s you would perpetuate popular govern ment for the bestpeople in the world, I beseech you that you do in no wise omit this. Our common couptry is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views and boldest action to bring a speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of gpveromer4 is saved to the world; ',wow ' • 0„, b v t , 0 Afo tritts Cr . VIRTUE 438ERTY U INDEPENDENCE. VOL. 14--NO. 8. its beloved history and cherished mem ories are vindicated, and its happy future fully assured and rendered in conceivably grand. To you, more than to any others, the privilege is given to assure that happiness and swell that grandeur, and to link your names.therewith forever. • With a view to a statement of their position, the Members thus addressed met in council to deliberate on the re ply they should make to the Presi dent, and as the result of a compari son of opinions among themselves; they determined upon the adoption of a majority and. a minority answer. REPLY OF THE MAJORITY The following paper was sent to the President on Thursday, the . l7th ult., signed by a majority of the repre , sentatives from the border slave-hold ing States WASUINOTON July 14, 1862 To the President :--- The undersigned representatives of Kentucky, Virginia,. Missouri and Maryland, in the two Houses of Con gress have listened to your address with the profound sensibility natural ly inspired by the high source from which it emanates, the earnestness which marked its delivery, and the overwhelmning importance of the subject of which it treats. We have given it a most respectful considera tion, and now lay before you our re sponse. We regret that want of time_ has not .been permitted to us to make it more perfect. We have not been wanting, Mr. President, in respect - to you, and in devotion to the Constitution and the Union. We have not been indiffer. eat to the great difficulties surround ing you, compared with which all for mer national troubles have been but as the summer cloud; and we have freely given you our sympathy and support. Repudiating the dangerous heresies of the Secessionists, we be lieved, with you, that the war on their part, is aggressive and wicked, and - the objects for which it. was to be prosecuted on ours, defined by your message atth e e opening of the pres ent Congress, to be such as all good . men . should approve, we have not hesitated to vote all supplies necessa to carry it -on vigorously. We have voted all the men and money you asked, for, and even more; we have imposed onerous taxes on our people and they are paying them with cheer fullness and alacrity; we have encour aged en listments__and. sen e_ eld _rnany of - -our best men; and some of our number have offered their per sons to the enemy as pledges of their sincerity and devotion to country.— We have done all this under the most digeouraging circumstances and in the face of measures most distastful to us, and injurious to the interests we represent, and in the hearing of doctrines avowed by those who claim to be your friends, most abhorent to us and our constituents. But for all this, we have never faltered,nor shall we as long as we have a Constitution to defend and a government which protects us. And we are ready for renewed efforts, and even greater sac rifice, when we are satisfied it is re• quired to preserve our admirable form of government and the priceless bless ings of constitutional liberty. A few of our number voted for the resolution recommended by your mes sage of the 6th of March last, the greater portion of us did not and we will briefly state the prominent rea sons which influenced our action In the first place it proposed a rad. Ica' change of our social system, an was hurried through both houses with undue hesto, without reasonable time for consideration and debate, and with no time at all for consultation with our constituents, whose interests it deeply involved. It seemed, like an interference by this Government, with a question which peculiarly and exclusively belonged to our respec tive States, on which they had not sought advice or solicited aid. Many of us doubted the constitutional pow er of this Government to make ap• propriations of money for the object designated, and allot' us thought our finances were in no condition to bear the immense outlay which its adoption and faithful execution would impose upon the national Treasury. If we patise but a moment to think of the debt its acceptance would have entail. ed we are appalled by its magnitude. The proposition was addressed to all the States,and embraced the whole number of slaves. According to the census of 1860 there were nearly four milions slaves in the country; from natural increase they exceed that number now. At even the low aver age of three hundred dollars, the price fixed by the emancipation act for the slaves of this district, and greatly be low their real worth, their value runs up to the enormous sum of twelve hundred millions of dollars; and if to that we add the cost of deportation and colonization, at one hundred dol lars each, which is but a fraction more than is actually paid by the Maryland Colonization Society, we have four hundred millions morel— We were not willing to impose a tax on our people sufficient to pay the in terest on that sum, in addition to the vast and daily increasing debt already fixed upon them by tne exigencies of the war; and, if we had been willing, the country could not bear it. Stated in this form the proposition is noth ing less than thedeportation froin the country of sixteen , hundred millions dal lars worth .of . producing labor, and the substitution in its place of an in terest-bearing debt of the same amount LEBANON, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1862. But, if we are told that it was ex pected that only the. States we rep resent would accept the proposition, we respectfully submit that even then it involves a sum too great for the fi nancial ability of this Government at this time. According to the census of 1860— Kentucky had 225,490 slaves. Maryland 87,000 " Virginia 490,867 " Delaware 1,798 " Missouri 114,965 " Tennessee 275,788 Making in the whole 1,196,112 slaves At the saute rate of valuation these,would amount to $358,833,000 Add for dew - .10.00n and coloni zation $lOO each 119,244;533 And we have the enormous sum o f We did not feel that we should be justified in voting for a measure which if carried oat,. would add this vast amount to our public debt at a mo ment whom the Treasury was teel, incl. b under the enormous expenditures ofth e war. Again, it seemed to us that this res. olution was but the annunciation of It sentiment which could not or was not likely to be reduced to an actual, tangible proposition. No movement was then made to provide and ap propriate the funds required to carry it into effect; and we were not encour aged to believe that funds would be provided. And our belief has been fully justified by subsequent events.— Not to mention other circumstances, it is quite sufficient for our purpose to bring to your notice the fact that while this resolution was under con sideration in the Senate, our colleague, the Senator from Kentucky, moved an amendment appropriating $500,- 000 to the object therein designated, and it was voted down with great unanimity. What confidence, then, could we reasonably feel that if we committed ourselves to the policy it proposed, our constituents would reap the fruits of the promise held out; and on what ground could we, as fair men, approach them and challenge their support? The right to hold slaves is a right appertaining to all the States of this Union. They have the right to cher. ish or abolish this institution as their tastes or their interests may prompt, and no (melts authorized to question the right or limit its enjoyment. And no one has more clearly affirmed that' right than you have. Your inaugu ral address does you great honor in this respect, and inspired the :country with confidence in your fairness and respect for the law. Our States are not feel called on to defend the insti tution, or to affirm that it is one which ought to be cherished; perhaps if wo were to make the attempt, We might find that we differ even among our selves. It is enough for our purpose to know that it is a right; and so know ing, we did not see why we should now be expected to yield to it. We had contributed our full share to re. lieve the country at this terrible cri• sis; we had done as much as had been required of others, in like circumstan ces; and we did not see why sacrifices should be expected from us from which others, no more loyal, were ex empt. Nor could we see what good the nation would derive from it. Such a sacrifice submitted to by us would not have strengthened the arm of this Government or weakened that of the enemy. It is not necesary as a pledge of our loyalty, for that had been man ifested heyono a reasonable doubt in every form and at every place possi ble. There was not the remotest probability that the States we repre sent would join in the rebellion, nor is there now; or of their electing to go with the Southern section in the event of a recognition of the indepen dence of any part of the dissatisfied region. Our States are fixed unalter ably in their• resolution to adhere to and support the Union; they see no safety for themselves and no hope for 'constitutional liberty but by its pre servation. They will under no cir cumstances consent to its dissolution, and we do them no more than justice when we assure you that while the war is conducted to prevent that de plorable catastrophe, they will sustain it as long as they can muster a man or command a dollar. Nor will they ever consent, in any event, to unite with the Southern Confederacy. The bitter fruits of the peculiar doctrine of that region will forever prevent them from placing their security and happi ness in the custody of an association which has incorporated in its organic law Lie seeds of its own destruction. We cannot admit, Mr. President, that if we had voted for the resolu tion in the emancipation message of March last, the war would now be substantially ended. We are unable to see how our action in this particu lar has given, or could give, encour agement to the rebellion. The reso lution has passed ; and if there be vir tue in it, it will be quite as efficacious as if we had voted for it. We have no power to bind our State in this re spect by our votes here and wheth. er we had voted the one way or the other, they are in. the same condition of freedom to reject it's provisions.— No, sir, the war has not been prolong ed or hindered by our action on this or any other measure. We must look for other causes for that lament ed fact. We think there is not much difficulty, not much uncertainty, in pointing out others far more proba ble and potent in their agencies to that end. The rebellion derives its strength from the tnion'ofull classes in the insurgent States and while - thatan• ion lasts the war will never end until they are utterly exhausted. We know that:at the inception.: of -these troubleti Southern society was divid ed, and that a large portion, perhaps a majority, were opposed to seces sion. .New, the great' mass of South ern peOple .are united.. To discover why they are so we must glance at Southern society and notice the clu es into Vihieh it has been divided, and which atilt distinguish it. They are, in arms; but not for the same object, ; they are moved to a common end, but by different and inconsistent reasons. The leaders, which comprehends what was preViensly.known as the State Rights party, and is much the lesser class, seek to break down national independence and Set up State denom inationj ..With them it is a war against •rationality. The other class is fighting, as it supposes, to maintain and preServe its rights of property and deMestic safety, which it has been nialie-he believe are assailed. by this Government. This latter class" are dot disunionists per se; they are so only, because they have been made to belieVe that this administration is inimical to.their rights, and is inak ing war 911 . their domestic institutions. As long = s_ tthese two classes act to gether, . hey will never assent to peace. . 'he policy, then, to be pur sued is obvious. The ormer class will nev r-be reconciled, but the latter may be. I, Remove their apprehension. Satisfy thein' that no harm is intend ed to them and their institutions, that this Government is not making war on their rights of property, but is sim ply defending its legitimate authori ty, and they will gladly return to their allegiance as soon as the pressure of military dominion imposed by the Confederate authorities is removed from them. $478,078,133 Twelve months Ago both houses of Congress, adopting the spirit of your message, then but recently sent in, declared with singular unanimity the objects of the war, and the country instantly bounded to your side to as• sist you in carrying it on. If the spirit of that resolution had been ad hered to we are confident that we should before now have seen the end of this deplorable conflict. But what have we seen ? In both houses of Con gress we have doctrines subversive of the principles of the Constitution, and seen measure after measure founded in substance on those doctrnes pro posed and carried through, which can have no other effect than to distract and divide loyal men, and exasperate and drive'still further from us and their duty the people of the rebel lious States. Military officers, follow in t Kesli o ttacLexAtual es }image ~eyOa C ato-dust limits of tnele - or: ity in - the same direction, until in several instances you have felt the necessity of interfering to arrest them. And even the passage of the resolu tion to which you refer has been os tentatiously proclaimed as the tri umph of the principle which the peo ple of the Southern States regard as ruinous to them. The effect of these measures was foretold, and may now be seen in the indurated state of Southern feeling. To these causes, My. President, and not to our omission to vote for the res olution recommended by you, we sol emnly believe we are to attribute the terrible earnestness of those in arms against the Government and the con tinuance of the %var. Nor do we (per mit us to say, Mr. President, with all respect for you) agree that the insti• tution of slavery is "the lever of their power," but we are of the opinion that "the lever of their power" is the apprehension that the powers of a common government, created for com mon and equal protection•to the inter ests of all, will be wielded against the institutions of the Southern States. There is one other idea hi your ad dress we feel called on to notice. Af ter stating the fact of your repudia tion of General Hunter's proclama tion, you add "Yet, in repudiating it, I give dissatisfaction, if not offence, to many whose support the coun try cannot afford to lose. And this is not the end of it. The pressure in this direction is still upon me, and is increasing. By conceding, what I now ask.you can relieve me, and much more, can relieve the country in this important point." We have anxiously looked into this passage to discover its true import, but we are yetin painful uncertainty. How can we, by conceding what you now ask, relieve you and the county from the increasing pressure to which you refer? We will not allow our selves to think that the proposition is, that we consent to give up slavery, to the end that the Hunter proclama tion may be let loose on the South ern people, for it is too well known that we would not be parties to any such measure, and we have too much respect for you to imagine you would propose it. Can it mean that by sac rificing our interest in slavery we ap pease the spirit that controls that pressure, cause it to be withdrawn, and rid the county of the pestilent agitation of the slavery question ? We are forbidden so to think, for that spirit would not be satisfied with the liberation of 700,000 slaves, and cease its agitation, while three mil lions remain in bondage. Can it mean that by abandoning slavery in our States we are removing the pressure from you and the country, by prepar ing for a separation on the line of the cotton States ? We are forbidden so to think, because it is known that we are, and we believe that you are, unalterably opposed to any division at all. We would prefer to think that you desire this concession as a pledge of our support, and thus enable you to withstand a pressure which weighs heavily on you and the country. Mr. President, no such sacrifice is neces sary to secure our support. Confine :yourself to your constitutional au thority ; confine : .your Subordinates within the same litnits4 ooncluot t..tds war solely for the purpose of rester. ing the Constitution to its legitimate authority ; concede to each State and its loyal citizens their just rights, and we are wedded to you by indissolu ble ties. Do this, Mr. President, and you touch the American heart and invigorate it with new hope. You will, as we sincerely believe, in due time restore peace to your country, lift it from despondency to a future glory; and preserve to your country men, their posterity, and man, the inestimable treasure of constitutional goverment. - Mr. President, we have stated with frankness and candor the reasons on which we forbore to vote for the res. olution you have mentioned; but you have again presented this proposition, and appealed to us, with an earnest. ness and eloquence which have not failed' to impress us, to "consider it, and at the least to - commend it to the consideration of our States and people.' Thus appealed to by the Chief Mag istrate of our beloved country, in the hours of its greatest peril, we cannot wholly decline. We are willing to trust every question relating to their interest and happiness to the consid eration and ultimate judgment of our people. While differing from you as to the necessity of emancipating the slaves of our States as a means of putting down the rebellion, and while protesting against the propriety of any extra territorial interference to induce the people of our States to adopt any particular line of policy on a subject which peculiarly and exclu• sively belongs to them ; yet when you and our brethren of the loyal States sincerely believe that the retention of slavery by us is an obstacle to peace and national harmony, and are willing to contribute pecuniary aid to compensate our States and people for the inconvenience produced by such a change of system, we are not unwilling that our people shall con sider the propriety of putting it aside. But we have already said that we regarded this resolution as the utter. ante of a sentiment, and we had no confidence that it would assume the shape of a tangible, practical proposi tion, which would yield the fruits of the sacrifice it required. Our people are influenced by the same want of confidence, and will not consider the proposition in its present impalpable form. The interest they are asked to give up is to them of immense ha portance, and ought not to be expect. ed even to entertain the proposal un til they are assured that when they accept it their just expectations will r - NY - q" ' • • r plan as a proposition from the nation to the States to exercise an admitted constitutional right in a particular manner and yield up a valuable inter est. Before they ought to consider the proposition it should be present. ed in such a tangible, practical, effic ient shape as to command their con fidence that its fruits are contingent only upon their acceptance. We can not trust anything to the contingen cies of future legislations. If Con gress, by proper and necessary legis. lation, shall provide sufficient funds and place them at your disposal to be applied by you to the payment of any of our States or the citizens thereof who shall adopt the abolishment of slavery, either gradual or immediate, as they may determine, and the ex pense of deportation and colonization of the liberated slaves, then will our States and people take this proposi tion into careful consideration, for such decision as in their judgement is demanded by their interest, their honor, and their duty to the whole country. We have the honor to be, with great respect, C. A. WICKLIFFE, Chairman. GARRETT DAVIS, R. WILSON, J. J. CRITTENDEN. JNO. S. CARLISLE, J. W. CRISFIELD, J. S. JACKSON, 11. °RIDER, JOHN S. PHELPS, FRANCIS THOMAS. CHARLES B. CALVERT, C. L. L. LEARY, EDWIN 11. WEBSTER, R. MALLORY, AARON HARDING, JAMES S. ROLLINS, J. W. MENZIES. THOS. L• PRICE, G. W. DIINLA.P, WM. A. HALL. Who Can be Drafted As it is now determined that drafting shall take place, an interest is felt to know who is exempt. A section of the bill passed by ;ongress July 15, 1862. provides: "That whenever the President of the llama, States obeli call forth the militia of the Statue. to be employed in the service of the Unit-d Utntee t he may specify in his call the I ..roni for Which bush berViCt, will he qutred, rod exci•ding nine months; and the militia Ito ,g . “l shaft be atuat,ree in and continue to Mlle for and dune!) the term so specified, un less sooner ditChar.yrd by conimund of the Pi eeletend if. by reason of defects in existing lows or in the execution of thorn 10 tht• sever. at States, or any of them, it shall be foued necessary to provide tar enrolling the militia, and otherwise put ting this act into execution.the President is author.zed in such cases to make all necenery rules and urgent. Moue ; aril the enrollment of the militia shall in ail cafes include all able bodied male citizens &besot the oats of eighteen and forty fiat, and 611mIt be apportion ad among Mutilates accolding to representative popu lation." It will be seen from the above that the President has uo rower to draft except for nine months. Each State has its own laws in regard to the enrollment of the militia force, and and these laws generally embody the wan ner in which drafting shall be carried out, when called for by the National Govern ment. According to the laws of Pennsylvania all able-bodied white male citizens,between the ages of 21 and 45 years, residing in the State, and not exempted by the laws of the .tfolted States, shall be subject to military duty ; excepting 1. Ail permute in the .rmy and navy of the United Slate. IL Ministers and preachars at thr Gospel. and pro. 1 , 46/10r4 of collrgos mod school directors, and all jcinges of the owyttral CAM* of this co.iornonwe k ith. HI ..4wilonet who hmr. h.4th horpol t ir ehsitt be. regularly and boo 'viably disolisiged from , the army and navy of the United.fgatee in consequence of the perfor. mace of military duty; in putout , * of any law of this 14a rlir te : Onsombeloned °MOMS mho shall have served au mien in the tuilitiaof this State or any one of the United WHOLE NO. 686. States, for the space of five consecutive years ; but no office shall be so exempt unless by his resignation, after such term of service duly accepted, or In such other law ful manner, he shall have been honorably discharged. V. Every non-commissioned officer, musician, and pri vate of every uniformed troop raised, who haa or shall hereafter Uniform himself according to the provisions of auy law of this State, and who shall have performed ser vice in such company or troops for the apace of seven, consecutive years from the time of his enrollment there in, shall be exempt from military duty, except in case of war, insurrection, or invasion. . . VI. If any member of such company, or troop, who shah hive beau regularly uniformed and equipped, shall upon his removal out of the beat of such company, or troop, or upon the disbandment thereof; enlist in any other uniformed company, or troop, and uniform and equip himself therefor, and serve in the same, whenever the whole time of his service in such companies, or troops computed together, shall amount to seven years, ho shall be exempt from military duty in like manner as if he had served for the whole period in the company or trooped's which he was first enrolled; the certificates from the commanding officers of such companies shall be the proof of such service. By the laws of the United States the persons exempted from military duty are the Vice President of the United States; the officers, judicial and executive, of the Government of the United States ; the members of both Houses of Congress and their respective clerks ; all customhouse officers, with their cleks; all post officers and stage-drivers who are employed in the care ":and —conveyance ,of the mail of the post office of the UnitEd States ; all ferrymen employed at any ferry on the post toad ; all inspectors of exports ; all mariners actually employed in the sea ser vice of any citizen or merchant within the United States; ail postmasters,post-riders, and drivers of mail stages, assistant postmasters and clerks regularly employed and engaged in post offices. Idiots, lunatics, papers, habitual drunkards, and persons convicted of infamous crimes, are also exempt. The enrollment of perkons subject to military duty is conducted as follows : The assessors chosen in each city shall make a return of all persons in their respective districts between the ages of 21. and 45 years liable to be enrolled by the laws of the General Government. All those ex empted from service shall pay annually the sum of fifty cents. Every person embraced in the military roll shall receive a notice that he is enrolled. As soon as the roll is completed,the assessors shall cause notices to be put up iu conspicuous public places setting lorth that they have made their roll of persons liabl to draft, and that the roll is with one of their number, where all interested can call and examine until the said assessors meet to review the enrollment. Any person claiming exemption on ac countof physical defect or bodily infirm ty, or by the laws of this Sta.e or of the Uni ted States, may, before the day specified in the notice, make an affidavit before some one qualified to take the same, of his ex emption, which shall be filed in the office of the City or County Commissioner, and any person swearing fs,lsely shall be liable to a prosecution for perjury, On the day the Commissioners shall meet to review the enrollments, they shall make a certified list of the persons they shall determine to be exempt,,and shall file said list in their office fur the Future guidance of Assessors and Commissioners. A Draft for 300,000 Militia for WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.—The following order has just been issued WAR DEPARTAIRNT, WASLITNGTOK, D. 0., Aug. 4, 1862. Order calling. for militia from the several States : Orderal—lst. That a draft of 300,000 militia be immediately called into the ser vice of the United States, to serve for nine months, unless sooner discharged.— The Secretary of War will assign the quo tas to the. Slates, and establish regulations for the draft. 2d. That if any State shall not, by the 15th of August, furnish its quota of the additional 300,000 volunteers authorized by law, the deficiency of volunteers in that State will also be made by special draft from the militia. The Secretary of War will establish regulations for this. 3d. Regulations will be prepared by the War Department and presented to the President, with the object of securing the promotion of:officers of the army and vol unteers, for meritorious end distinguished services, and of preventing the nomination or appointment in the military service of incompetent or unworthy officers. The regulations will also provide' for ridding the service of such incompetent persons as now bold commissions. By order of the President. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War FROM CAPT. WEIDMAN, tIv"1 Describing the Battles before Biehmoud Capt. Biddle, as he came by, passed directly in front of me, and I was struck with the expres sion of his countenance, and the oddness of his manner. I had met him several times, to be sure, even on the field of battle, and been much pleas ed by the elegance of his address, his courtesy, and the cheerfulness of his countenance and con versation, even when suffering from a severe head ache, in which condition he once was. On the present occasion, he looked steadily at me, but did not return my salute, or that of any of the other officers, with the majority of whom he was well acquainted personally, both since and before the war. At the time I attributed it to pre-occupation of mind, although he was not at all the kind of man to neglect any of the ameni. ties'uf life. I have since thought he was in that state, which the Scotch call "fey," and which means one, exactly the contrary to that frame of mind in which a man usually is, and in their opinion denotes the immediate happening of some great stroke of good or bad fortunes to the indi vidual. I suppose I should have thought noth ing of the kind had he not been killed. I did not, of Course, hear the conversation between Col. Childs and bite, but I was told that he in sisted that there could not be a stronger posi tion, and that 500 men could hold it against ten thousand, which may be true, fur all I know, but it did not look so. iden'l Seymour, when be came up to me, which he shortly after did, also approved of it, but it was by his order, I believe, toe infantry were put between the artillery and cavalry. Cul. Childs soon after they left the field, be came SD convinced of the extreme danger, to which our squadron would be exposed, that he took us away, and put us in a wood to the rear, and right of the remainder of the regiment, but entirely disconnected with it. Ile left Capt. Herron, with no positive orders, but pointed out a wood-road leading up the slight'bill in front of us, from the left of the squadron,-and told him if anything could be done that was the road to do it by. Tbis led to the edge of the wmads, which w a s hounded by the swamp, the extremity of which nearest to the etteuiy had been uncovered by' the removal of,our squadron, and whish wag now on the right of the left wing, composed of the Cos. of Captains Young, Dart, Tombler, Dun can, McCullough and such men as Capt. Taylor bad been stile to collect, after the disastrous dis pinion suffered by them, astien't MoCa Ire body guard on Friday. The whole force of the regi- Me& on the' field erns - about 400 men. Colonel Childs also set a' party of men.. to work, to tear down 'the fences in the neighborhood, and throw enough rails into they Swamp about two -lengths wide, to enable - the horses to cross the swamp, safely, If not sexily. This he had done at two plums, fir the 'rear of his right, and in me of his eaustre.., thp eases, thins, on the right and rear of ottr'pottition, fit one place having' the .m.4.in it I atoll 5101trii,str. A FAMILY PAPER FORTOWN AND COUNTRY IS PRINTED AND PUBLISHED WEE ZLT By WI!. Ble BRESLIN, 2d Story of Funek's New Building, Cumbertand St At One Dollar and Fifty Cents a Year. - • .I,"•Anvaerreitimirts inserted at the usual rants. -sit The friends of the establishment, and the public poor ally are t espectfully solicited to send in their orders- Aiiir/lANDBILLS Printed at an home Ito**. RATES OF POSTAGE. In Lebanon County, postage free. In Pennsylvania, out of Lebanon county 334; cents pe quarter, or 13 cents a year. Out of this State, 63 cts. per quarter, or 26 chi. a slot if the postage is not paid in advance, rates are doubled. New Market road touching on our right , so that we could go tiff at once, if necessary. Our squad. ron did not dismount. We remained in the posi tions described a long while, until at length the first shell howled through the air above us. There ensued a storm of shell and musketry, and for all I know grape and canister of the most fearful character. The fire itself was hotter and heavier than any we had been exposed to, and swept our fernier ground like a broom. It was also more concentrated, and the hustling of the larger mile. silos as they flew over oar heads into the swamp or field behind, or exploded in the air over our beads, sometimes not more than ton feet above, behind or before us, received additional effect from the mashing of the limbs of trees as they were cut away, and the reverberation of the sound through the woods. Oar men and horses stood. quietly, one of the latter occasionally making a plunge, which was met by the shout of his offi cer, "Steady there, in the cen tre, in the leftfiank, in the right, or in the rear rank," as the ease might be. At length, when we had stood this about half an hour or three quarters, indications of what bad happened began to show themselves. Ralf a dozen wagons and ambulances first passed down the road at full speed,—next came strag glers, at first one or two, then half a dozen, and at last in crowds. Seven or eight riderless her. sea, flew by also as hard as they could pelt, and Capt. Derma filed us out, and also moved as down the toad, at a steady trot, calling on the infantry to mop, threatening to shoot them with his raised pistol and otherwise doing his best, to reform the men. It was, however, in vain. The remonstrances of the Rev. Mr. Cult, Chaplain of the Sixty- Sixth P. V. (Col. Cake,) who displayed the most perfect coolness in all the turmoil, seem ed to have some effect, but not much. After we had gone about a mile, the Colonel rejoined as, with a portion of the left wing, and then as we formed, from than to time across the road, or re. tired, as we saw our efforts were unavailing, to a new position, we learned from our comrades what had happened. The enemy in heavy force came across the field in front of our aix pieces, receiving their fire with steadiness, and returning it as fiercely, until it got to , he too hot for their stay, and as the infantry was not advanced to their support, they limbered up three pieces and retired with theist before their men and horses were all destroyed ; the infantry rose from the ground, where they were lying down to protect themselves, delivered one, two or three notifies, Some deny that they fired at all, and broke. They fled directly back on our dismounted left wing, who, sharing their panic, tubed along with them, some mounted. and some dismounted. It was in vain that Col. Taggart, in the first instance, and Col. Child's af terwards tried to stop the rout, in that part of oar line; it was complete. Col. Childs sent Adj. Biddle to stop those farthest ad, and it was whilst on this duty that be was wounded in the leg jest below the knee. lie was soon attended to by Dr. Marsh, the regimental Surgeon, who on this oc casion displayed an unexpected solicitude for the wounded, and did his duty nobly and well. Oar gallant Colonel remained the last man on the field, calling on the men not to desert him, when finally the eeeond platoon of Capt. IdeCullongt4 company, whieh were on the extreme left rallied around him, and swore they would never desert him. With this nucleus he managed to collect the most of the left wing, and rejoined our squad ron, as I before stated. Another platoon of the left wing behaved very creditably, and did real aerviee. This was the first platoon of Co. 8., na tter the immediate command of Ist Lieut. Parke, a young officer of whose good conduct I have bad Eeverat occasions to speak highly. With some faults, natural to a high.epirited and im pulsive youth of twenty, he hail many excellent qualities, and superior, although uncultivated natural abilities. Capt. Young, than whom there is no better officer of his rank, ordered his com pany to wheel first by forming the right, and then to the left, which of course, brought them, near er to, and still faeisig the rebels. This platoon only obeyed the command, the others flying with •• left wine 'di ieu 'arse on. the rigat, an u g, a ice e, sw a y advanced, ate walk, then a trot, and finally' drew their sabres to charge, when Gen't Seymour him /tell ordered them back. At this moment an in fantry officer, shot through the right wrist, cam* up, and pointed out a 20-pound Parrott gun, be longing to a New York battery close by deserted, and suggested that it might be saved. Capt. Young withdrew his platoon to the woods, and himself and Lieut. Parke went out with ten dis mounted men, hauled it into the woods from whence it was finally removed and saved. As the rebels Were coming up fast, our troops de serting the field s the fire severe and heavy, and the gun one of the best sort of field pieces we have, I think, that I do not say too much, when I say, that both Capt. Young, Lieut. Parke, and the men of that platoon, deserve a more perma nent and authoritative notice of their achieves meet than the sketches of an obscure writer, or the columns of a country newspaper will give them. From this point, our whole duty consist ed in stopping stragglers, and sending them back to the new lines forming, and as reinforcements had now come up and the tide of battle was turn ing against the rebels we really had not much to do, except to sit in our saddles, and listen to the roar of the cannon and musketry from: thebattle about 2 miles distance. This we did, retaining, however, our foimation, and never dismounting. This continued until it became manifest that the enemy was repulsed, and it must have been with great loss. Our own was heavy, and the hospi tal in the immediate neighborhood where we en camped was crowded by sick and wounded, so that many had to be laid on stretchers on the lawn, and in the garden. We then bivouacked on fine ground behind the hospital, and about one o'clock were roused to commence a march which I shall never think of, without feelings of profound shame, regret and the deepest sympa thy and pain for those whose fate was involved in its haste, and who might so easily in my judg ment have been saved from the captivity impend ing over them. I snpppse Capt. Herron had hie orders, As was his right and duty he led off the column, but at such a rate of speed that we,. the eccotd division of bid squadron, had lost him.bar, the time we reached the road we were to go. which was not two hundred yards distant. As he had: given me no orders of any kind except that we were to march, and as I was therefore not bound to proceed faster than the usual gait, I felt no responsibility, but I did net like to see affairs conducted in this way. Byshard riding we caught up with his rear before a great while, but great part of his men were far before—and we had lost our own. The roads were filled with artillery and wagon trains, and this is what made me feel. ashamed, many of the wagons being empty, ow ing to the destruction of stores at Savage's Ste-. tie% all of which pysed by the old church in, which our poor sick and wounded were laying': without tre effort or au offer so far as I know from the Quarter Masters in charge of the trains to transport them to the place of entire safety to, which we and they were hurrying. At any rate. it was not done. The conveyance would have, been rough, and some would have died, but the. great majority would soon have been enjoying. the kind attentions and fond caresses of dears ones, as many who were removed, now are, and. the sublime devotion of the Surgeons who re mained with them in their peril, would have been saved for seine more necessary occasion. It wax in this church that Dr. Marsh, Lieut. Biddle and several of the wounded of our regiment were, placed, and here they were taken, when the ene my came up, for besides the transportation I have. alluded to, there was none, and those in chargeof that seemed wholly occupied in securing their own safety. Lieut. Biddle was much beloved in the regiment. His manly form and generous,. open character prepossessed all involuntarily in his favor, and he displayed great coolnees and courage, amid the confusion of the panic. Col.. Childs is doubtful whether be was not wounded at the time he went, in obedience to his order s to stop the rout of the men ; it is certain, that he. was before that end was attained, and he soon had to be supported on his horse, where hefaint ed, and was finally tomtit/ea from the field on a stretcher. The result itif our hasty night march, was, that. when the Captains reached the ground appointed for the assembling of our regiment, as well es the whole army, each of us bed about six men, ex cept Capt. Herron. who had managed to keep. about forty of his with him. However, they gradually came up, and we were moved once ire search of more favorable ground for cavalry, bat. finally returned to the immense field in which an army corps or two made their appearance, Fur rounding Gen. McClellan'e head quarters, which were within 600 yards of us. That night we, were again on the march for liarrison'a Loading s , expecting an attack of gueirillas on the march., which did nets however, happen, and drawn eta on our arrival in front of the landing to. maize an attack of the enemy's cavalry in forces which .we were given to anderstand wield certainly hap pen. As there were several infantry regiment
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