THE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
Wednesday, July 16, 1862.
$1 per annum in advance—sl.so at end of six
months—s2 at end of year.
Papers sent out of th County must be paid for in
advance.
Wc have *Uo set a limit In Mifflin conntv, beyond which
we intend no man in future shall owe us for subscription.
Those receiving the paper with this paragraph marked,
will therefore know that they have come under our rule,
end if payment la not made wltbiu oue month thereafter
we aball discontinue all such.
*
Flag of the eheart's only homo,
By mi go I hands to valor given!
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome
And all thy hues were born in heaven;
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
With freedom's soil beneath our feet.
And freedom's banner streaming o'er us.
TIII2 PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION.
THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHO DESIRE
cordially to unite in sustaining the NATIONAL
AOMINI.tTRATION in its patriotic efforts to stip
fress a sectional and unholy rebellion against the
NITY OF THE REPUBLIC, and who desire to sup
port, by every power of the Government, one hun
dred thousand heroic brethren in arms, braving dis
ease and the perils of the field to preserve the Union
of our Fathers, are requested to select the number
of Delegates equal to the Legislative Representation
of the State, at such times ami in such manner as,
wiil best respond to the spirit of this call, to meet in
STATE CONVENTION at II VRKISRURG. mi THURS
DAY, the SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JULY next, at
11 o'clock, en said day. to nominate Candidates for
the offices of AUDITOR GENERAL and SURVEY
OR GENERAL, and to take such measures as may
bu deemed necessary to strengthen the Government
iu this season of common peril to a common country.
A. K. MeCLDRE.
Chairman People's Statu Committee.
;*o. IV. lUIIMEKSLVja . -
JOMX SULLIVAN, J*
For Auditor General,
lion. THOMAS E. COCIIUAN.
National Resolutions.
A meeting of the Republican members
of Congress wa3 held in Washington on
Saturday, and the following resolutions
fussed inviting the co operation of all loy
al men in aiding to suppress the rebellion:
" Resolved, That wo hold it to be the duty
of all loyal men to stand by the Union in this
hour of its trial, to unite their hearts and
hands in the earnest and patriotic efforts for
its maintenance against those who are in
arms against it; to sustain with determined
resolution our patriotic President and his ad
ministration in their most energetic efforts
fer the prosecution of the war and the pres
ervation of the Uniou against its enemies at
home or abroad; to punish traitors and trea
son with fitting severity, and to so crush the
present wicked and causeless rebellion that
no flag ef disunion 6hall over again be rais
ed oyer any portion of the Republic.
" That to this end we incite the co-opera
tion of all men who love their country in the
endeavor to rekindle throughout all the States
•uch a patriotic fire as shall utterly consume
all who strike at the Union of our fathers,
and all who sympathize with their treason or
palliate their guilt."
jK£?*The patent democratic Slenkcr doc
trine is, Preserve the Nigger at all haz- ;
ards, and let your husbands, your sons, and
your relatives die in digging trenches and
building fortifications. On the other hand,
the People's Party—in fact, honest men of
all other parties—say, Employ the acclim
ated negroes south to do this labor, and
thus preserve our soldiers' lives, and if ne
cessary, put arms in their hands to defend
themselves and shoot rebels! Voters, who
have sons or relatives in the army, choose
for yourselves between these two parties—
remembering that the former makes the
nigger of more value than the white man,
whilo tU latter makes the negro of somo
use.
the true history of this rebellion
will ever be written, posterity vriii pro
nounce the verdict that but for the aid giv
ten it by patent democratic office-holders
■under Buchanan, and a set of tory editors
-who preached up DISUNION by advocating
NON-COERCION, it would never have taken
place. Such fellows may cry out abolition,
but they, and they only, were the tools used
by the conspirators.
S® l rhe Lewistown Democrat having
been nailed down in one of its characteris
tic contraband falsehoods, creeps out of it
in the best way it can, and then reiterates
the statement that these contrabands are
elsewhere throwing white men out of em
ployment. This is just as false as its story
about the Cambria Iron Works. In fact,
wherever charged, it has been contradicted.
At one time these contrabands were located
£n Beaver and other western counties, then
.in Chester, then north of us, but not a par
ticle of evidence, except the assertion of
Breckinridge swindlers, has been produced
that white labor wa9 supplanted anywhere.
Gathe contrary there is plenty of work in
all qyiarters for both white and black, and
a general complaint that hands are scarce.
Wfc-The Republicau County Convention of
Snyder county met at Middleburg on Monday,
the i th inst., and made the following nomina
tions: lor Congress—John J. Patterson, of
Juniata eounty ; for Assembly— Ilenry K.
Ritter; for Commissioner—A. K. Middles
,wartb.
The War—Gen. McClellan's Army.
It has been so difficult to procure relia
ble information of passing events in the
peninsula, that an opinion, pro or con, could
hardly be formed as to results. Of one
thing however there can be no doubt now, ,
namely, that Gen. MoClellan tailed for the j
present to accomplish the grand end in view, ;
and that with a fearful loss o( life, we are
now no nearer that end than we were two
months ago. Unless he would have been
able to have reached Richmond before the
middle of June and defeated the rebels,
we always doubted the propriety of the
movement, for any one at all conversant
with the country beyond Washington and
the neighborhood of York and James Riv
ers, with their swamps and marshes, must
or ought to have known that to leave Man
asses for that point was but going from one
mud hole into another, with a fever coun
try into the bargain. Gen. Pope is now
on the right road for capturing Richmond
and beating the rebels, and if he is backed
up with an army equal in numbers to that
furnished Gen. McClellan, he will not only
sweep Pastern Virginia clear of rebels and
guerrillas, but drive the rebel army into the
Cotton States in less time than it took the
former to dig his different entrenchments.
Indeed, it is not yet too late to change the
whole programme. Gen. Burnside, with
25,000 men, aided by the gunboats, could
keep the rebels in continued hot water on
the James, York, and other navigable riv
ers —the man, too, to do it —and in the
meanwhile McClellan's forces could be
transported to Acquin creek, march to Fred
ericksburg. in a few days effect a junction
with Pope's army, and move forward in one
irresistible body—arresting every man sus
pected of disloyalty, hanging every spy,
tendering a musket to every professing
Union man, and taking along every contra
band coming into the lines to relieve our
fatigued soldiers from many onerous duties
incident to camping. With men willing
to fight, and who volunteered to fight, not
to dig entrenchments every few miles,
such a march would be one of triumph and
certain victory. Whether this view is mil
itary, according to old fogyism, we cannot
tell, but very sure are we it is COMMON
SENSE, an article in our judgment rather
scarce with many who ought to possess it.
That Gen. McClellan had difficulties to
contend with no one will deny; but it is the
part of an able general to overcome difficul
ties. And in this respect it would have
been far better had he imitated the rebel
policy of retreating from the inhospitable
region he was in before the heats of sum
mer, than to peril the lives of many thous
ands of gallant men who either fell by war's
weapons or disease. By some it is alleged
his numerical strength was insufficient to
cope with the rebels. Perhaps it was, af
ter they had ample time to consolidate all
the troops in Virginia and North Carolina,
as well as States farther south, hut certain
ly not at the battle of Williamsburg. On
this subject the army correspondent of the j
Cincinnati Commercial, no doubt a warm i
friend, writes—
It would not be prudent to attempt to state
definitely how much it has been reduced nu
merically. But there can be no impropriety
in stating that Gen. McC'lellan was nevef able
to carry over 80,000 effective men into battle.
When he landed at fortress Moproe his mus
ter rolls exhibited 115,000 men of all arms.
A considerable proportion of these, say
8,000, were cavalry, of which 2,000 wero
serviceable. The remainder would have
served their country better behind their plows
than at home. Others were necessarily de
tailed to keep open our communications and
protect our flanks—leaving about 100,000 to
be disposed of. A very large per centage of
sick were then to be subtracted. It is not
very extravagant to say that wounds and
deaths at Yorktown cost u9 1,000 men ; Wil
liamsburg cost U9 8,000 ; West Point, 250 ;
Hanover Court House 500; Fair Oaks, so says
official bulletins, 5,700. I wish I could be
lieve that were all. Skirmishes and affairs
before liichmor.d 1,000 at least; Mechanics
ville 3(M: Gaines' Hill 7,500 ; Savage Station j
1,000; White Oak Swamp and Turkey Creek
—oh, how many? Where are the stragglers?
To be sure the enemy have lo9t full as many,
but they could afford it. Without attempt
ing to estimate the average number of sick,
I will give one exceptional fast which may
cause you to shudder. When Gen. Casey's
Division landed at Fortress Monroe it num
bered 13,000 men. When hi 3 division was
routed at Seven Pines it numbered less than
6,000. All the rest were dead and in the
hospital. But no other division suffered as
much. Alter Seven Pines it was no division
at all. Many of these losses were compensa
ted by reinforcements—seven regiments—say
0,000 men from Fortress Monroe, and Gen.
McCall s Division of 10,000 effectives from
the Rappahannock. But even with these re
dactions the army could sustain itself against
attack if it had requisite rest and supplies.
1 I state these facts because the crisis seems to
have passed. Reinforcements and supplies
1 have been forwarded.
The above estimate of 115,000 at Fort
ress Monroe may be correct, but it must
bo recollected that Gen. Franklin joined
him at Yorktown with 20,000 men, subse
quently Gen. M'Call with 10,000, and pro
bably other smaller bodies, swelling that
total to at least 150,000. More recently
Gen. Burnside's forces have been added,
so that unless our losses have been greater
by sickness and in battles than any army
before suffered in this country, there ought
to be even now one of the hardiest and
best equipped armies under his command
ever seen on this continent.
A Breckinridge Triumph.
In Pennsylvania, says the Lewisburg
Chronicle, a large proportion of the friends
of tho late Judge Douglas have cut loose
from that Breckinridge faction, which first
divided the Democratic party, and then di
vided the Union. Some of them, however,
went last Friday to the Party-above-Coun
try Convention at Ilarrisburg, hoping to
regulate, it not to control, its action. But
they were outnumbered, and were placed
in a subordinate position throughout. *F.
W. Hughes, a most malignant secession
sympathizer—one of those most promin
ent in uttering the falsehood that "Polk is
a better tariff man than Clay"—was made
the President, and appoints the State Com
mittee, himself the Chairman...over Rich
ard Vaux.
The resolutions are of the " Kane Let
ter" web of contradictions. They have a
gloss of patriotism intended to seduce the
casual reader: at the same time, they will
suit every rebel sympathizer, and Jeff. Da
vis would say that—for our State, at this
time—they are the best calculated to aid
him: for the men elected under it would
co-operate with him, no matter what cheat
they used to obtain the power. We will
copy the resolutions, side by side with
thoso of the People's Convention, when
the latter shall be held, that all readers
may judge ot the SPIRIT of the two Plat
forms.
James P. Barr, of Pittsburg, was nomi
nated lor Surveyor General. He is editor
of the Post, and is described to us by gen
tlemen who know him as a slippery, oily
politician, fit for any desperate work. lie
once nominated Buchanan for re-election
—next came out for Douglas—and is now
in full faith with those who killed Doug
las at Charleston. Professedly a war man,
he hinders the Administration in measures
necessary to success.
Isaac Slenker, of Union county, for Au
ditor General, is a more consistent politi
cian, having boasted of his unvarying par
ty fealty, and only one year ago not only
acknowledging his vote for Breckinridge,
but justilying hisAote. He is a respecta
ble lawyer, slow and plodding iu his turn
for business. In our lata local legal con
tests, Democratic Judges decided him all
wrong in the expense and ill feeling in
which he plunged his clients and the coun
ty. In the peculiar qualifications for Au
ditor General, all who know them both
must admit the of Mr. Cochran,
the incumbent, who will be renominated
at once.
On tho slavery and war question, Mr.
Slenkcr has an unenviable record. In
1840, he stood on the Free Soil Platform
of Saml. W. Black, Gamble, )V iiißQt, &c.
In Union county, ho aided Shriner, llic
kok and others in support of the Pittsburg
Platform —
" That it is no part of the Compromises of
the Constitution that Slavery should forever
go with the advancing tide of our Territorial
progress," and similar sentiments.
He has since repudiated that sentiment,
and iij Feb. 18G1 —when G or 8 States had
Sacsdod, after stealing 25 or 40 forts, ar
senals, mints, &c., when the rebels had
fired on the Star of the West, and pro
claimed Jeff Davis their President—Mr.
SJenker endorsed the following (among
other) resolutions at the Lewisburg Con
vention :
Resolved, 2, That we deprecate civil war, as
wc behove that this UNION can NEYEIi be
maintained by force of arms, and that as
Democrats we are not willing to take
Hp arms to support a platform which a ma
jority of the peoplo repudiated and opposed
at the polls.
3. That we cordiaUg approve the policy of
the National Administration, [Buchanan's] in
its wise and conciliatory course in the present
perilous condition of the country."
By that Convention he was sent a Dele
gate to the Democratic Convention atHar
risburg, and left Court to attend it. He
was a Vice President of that body, which
—22 d Feb. 13G1, when the rebellion was
as open as flagrant —aided and applauded
it by the following infamous Resolution :
" Bth. That we will, by all proper and legi
timate means, oppose, discountenance and
Drevent any attempt on the part of the
Republicans in power to make any armed
aggression upon the Southern States, espec
ially so long as laws contravening their rights
shall remain unrepealed on the statute books
of Northern States, and so long as the just
(demands of the South shall continue to be
unrecognized by the Republican majorities
in these States, and unsecured by proper
amendatory explanations of the Constitution.'
It is true he afterwards yielded to the
Btorm of popular indignation that was
aroused by the attack upon Fort Sumter,
and talked and acted more patriotically
! after that time. But for months after
wards he expressed his admiration for
Breckinridge—has acted with and for his
friends—and Slcnker will be voted for by
every half-way or open friend of the Reb
els in this State. In politices, those who
nominate and support a man prove what he
I is.
The secret of Mr. Slenker'a nomination is
said to be his comparative obscurity, and the
fact of his good run for Judge last Fall. But
it should be remembered that he did not
then—as he does now—run as a party man.
He refused to be nominated or to be advo-
cated as a Democratic candidate,but was vo-
ted for independently of party. Had he run
as a nominee of a party, he would have fal
len far behind the vote he received. A na
tive of our eounty, where he has relatives
and friends of influence in both parties—not
runuing fur a political station —his opponent
comparatively unknown, and loaded down
with false charges, with prejudices, and per
sonal and professional rivalries—Mr. Slenker
had advantages which his antiwar record
only defeated. Three Democratic and two
Republican papers in the District supported
him, and he had the neutral if not the posi
tive aid of the only German paper also—three
papers only opposed him. Other candidates
were sacrificed for him. Money was used
profusely to buy up all the purchasable ma
terial for Slenker, and every effort (fair and
unfair) was made in vain to elect him. but,
since his opponent, Judge Woods, is known
and has been tried by the people, he would
now beat Mr. Slenker two to one in running
for the same office. These facts may assure
those abroad that Mr. Slenker, running no
longer under " no party" colors, can not
command last fall's vote. lie now stands
forth unmistakably the embodiment of the
Breckinridge faction, and should be voted
for or against, according as our fellow citizens
approve or condemn that traitor's course pre
vious to his complete apostacy.
*Thiß man's bJsom friend and relative,
Jno. Hughes, was two years ago the " Dem
ocratic" candidate for Congsess from Schuyl
kill and Northumberland, and is now in the
Rebel ranks in North Carolina.
WAR NEWS,
An engagement recently occurred near
Tompkinsville, Ky., in which four com
panies of the Lochiel Cavalry were taken
prisoners by the rebels. A dispatch to
Gov. Curtiu says :
BOWLINO GREE.T, )
July, 11, 1862.1
To A. G. Curtin :
Companies l'l, C, I and M, captured. Maj.
Jordan is reported sate by paroled men ;
Capt. Harris reported wounded ; Lieut. Sul
livan killed.
Will telegraph particulars when received.
S. D. BRUCE,
Col. Commanding Post.
A subsequent dispateh from Gov. An
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, to Adjutant
General Russell, gives some additional
intelligence respecting the fight.
NASHVILLE, July 12.
To A. L. Russell, Adjutant General, Penn
sylvania:—As near as wo can ascertain, Maj-
Jordan was taken prisoner with 47 of his
men. Four were killed and 7 wounded.
Col. Williams and Maj. Brown were not
in the fight.
The guerillas have since been twieo defeat
ed with great loss at other point 3, and are
now almost surrounded. The entire band, it
is believed will bo captured.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
The companies referred to are officered
as follows :
COM PAXY C.
Capt Wm. 11. Harris, Harrisburg,
First Lieutenant, vacant.
Second Lieutenant, Win. K. Campbell,
Cumberland county.
COMCAST K .
Capt. John S. Detwiler, Harrisburg.
First Lieutenant, Wm. It. Ecklcs, Harris
burg.
Secoud Lieutenant, Aaron Sullivan, liar
risburg.
COV PAN V I.
Capt. Hugh M'Coliough, Cumberland co.
F.rst Lieutenant, Win. il. LongsJorff,
Co tuberous 1 county.
Second Lieutenant, Wm. M. Shriner, Cum
berland county.
COMPANY if.
Capt. James Rell, Blair county.
First Lieutenant, Thomas S. M'Cahan.
Second Lieutenant, Isaac C. Temple.
Company L, in which a cumber of citi
zen.s of this county are enlisted, has the
following officers :
Capt. Geo. D. Hand, Northampton county.
First Lieutenant, Gilbert Waters, Mifflin
county.
Second Lieutenant, Wm. M. Shoemaker,
Luzerne county.
From Fortress Monroe we have received a
list of sick and wounded Pennsylvanians, al
so a list of those deceased, at the Mill Creek
Hospital. The Daniel Webster, while passing
up the Jamer river, on Friday, was fired at
by the enemy, a ball passing through two of
her staterooms. No one was injured, The
rebels, for some reason not yet made apparent
are reported to be withdrawing their troops
from our front. Have they become alarmed
at tho prospect of the Army of tho Shenan
doah paying them a visit ?
The rumor that the rebel General Magrud
er, who, itjseems, was not taken prisoner|in
the late battles, is moving down the Peninsu
la with the intention of seizing Williamsburg
and perhaps Yorktown, gains a coloring of
probability, from the fact that a portion of
General Burnside's command, embracing sev
eral thousand men, were landed at Newport
News, on Wednesday night, instead of pro
ceeding up the James river to the assistance
of General McClellan. What this rebel move
ment means it is difficult to conjecture. Per- :
haps it may be a mere reconnoissanee.
A despatch from Cairo furnishes us with
the intelligence from Gen. Curtis that he had
divided his forces, one portion being on the
Cache and White rivers, and the other being
to the eastward, seventy-five miles west of
Memphis—doubtless on the line of the (un 1
finished) railroad to Little Rock. The rebel
General Hindman, we are informed, had or
dered the inhabitants near Gauley Bridge to
destroy their provisions and shoot their
cattle.
Morgan's rebel cavalry, as a Nashville des
patch intimates, intend to carry into erecn.
tion a long standing threat, and are now en
route for Louisville, for the purpose of paying
their respects to that city. From the reports
of passengers arrived in Nashville, it appears
that they were in the vicinity of Cave City, a
station on the Louisville and Nashville road,
about eighty miles south of Louisville.
By an arrival from New Orleans, we learn
that Mobile bay has been completely obstruc
ted by the rebels, who have also dug a ditoh
entirely around the city, and erected breast
works and batteries at vulnerable points.—
The rebel Governor of Louisiana has issued a
flaming proclamation, enjoining upon the
Secessionists to continue resistance to Fed
eral authority, and assuring them that South
ern independence was certain of being gained.
The town of Lebanon, Kentucky, has been
burned by a body of 450 rebel cavalry. For
tunately the guerillas afterwards encountered
a party of Federal troops, and were put to
flight. Additional troops have been sent in
pursuit of them. Let their be no mercy shown
the guerillas.
The reports of Union recruiting meetiugs
roll in upon us from nearly all the loyal
States. A mammoth Union meeting of the
citizens of New York, of all parties, who are
for supporting the Government in the prose
cution of the war and the suppression of the
rebellion, was held in Union Square, yester
day afternoon, to express, without reference
to any party question whatever, their un
diminished confidence in the justice of our
cause, and their inflexible purpose to main
tain it to the end, and to proffer to the Gov
ernment all the aid it may need, to the extent
of all their resources. The call is signed by
Hon. George Opdyke, Mayor of New York,
and over one hundred of the wealthiest and
most influential men of the city.
General Pope's army is moving on. Gen.
Hatch's command, the advance guard of the
army of Virginia, has ocecupied Culpepper,
which is situated in one of the wealthiest por
tions of the State. The reurganizalion of
this grand army is already exerting good ini
fluence over commanders and men who will
assuredly march to victory upon future fielda.
Address of Geu. Pope to his Army.
By special assignment of the President of
the United States, I have assumed the com
mand of this army. I have spent two weeks
in learning your whereabouts, your condition
and your wants, in preparing for active oper
ations, and in placing you in a position from
which you can act promptly and to the pur
pose. These labors are nearly all completed,
and lam about to join you in the field. Let
us understand each other. I have come to
you from the west where we have always seen
the backs of your enemies—from an army
whose business it has been to seek the adver
sary and beat him wherw he was found- whose
policy has been to attack and not defence.—
In but one case has the enemy b<-en able to
place our western army in a defensive atti
tude.
1 presume that I have been called here to
pursue them, and to lead you against the en
cmy. It is my purpose to do so, and that
speedily. lam sura you long for an opportu
nity to win the distinction yiu ara capable of
achieving—that opportunity I shall endeavor
to give you. In the meantime I desire to dis
miss from your minds certain phrases which
I atn sorry to find much in vogue amongst
you. I hear constantly of taking strong pus
itions and holding them ; of lines of retreat
and a basis of supplies. Let us discard such
ideas. The strongest position a soldier can
desire to occupy is one from which he can
moat easily advance against the enemy. Let
us 6tudy the probable li es of retreat ef our
opponents and leavo our own to tako caro of
themselves. Let us look before us, not bo
hind. Success and glory are in advance—
disaster and shame lurk in the rear. Let us
act on this understanding, and it is safe to
predict your banners shall bo inscribed with
many a glorious deed, and that your names
will be dear to your countrymen forever.
(Signed) JOHN I'OPE,
Major General Commanding.
Visit of the President to the Army of
the Potomac.
Tho President, accompanied by Colonel
Frank I'. Blair, Chairman of the Military
Committee of tho House, Mr. Watsou,
Assistant Secretary of War, and General
Xaglee, returned from a visit to the army
ot the Potomac on Saturday evening.
A correspondent states that upon the
President's arrival in the James river, off
Harrison Landing, he was visited by Gen.
McClellan and staff. Soon after the whole
party disembarked, and upon reaching the
landing they mounted and proceeded to
the headquarters of Gen. McClellan, and
thenoe, without delay, to review tho whole
army. The President rode to the extreme
front. The welcome that greeted him is
described by those who witnessed it as in
the highest degree enthusiastic. He was
not satisfied with riding iu front of the
army, but dismounted and ascended the
ramparts in flew of the rebel pickets.—
Many of tho men were at work in the
ditches, and among the latter were two ex-
Congressmen. All were cheerful and san
guine of an early and final success.
Despatches from Memphis furnish some
items of southern intelligence. Refugees
from Arkansas report that Gen. Curtis at
tacked and completely cut to pieces five hun
dred rebels near Batesvillo. On the other
hand the Grenada Appeal asserts that oue
thousand of Gen. Curtis' troops, out on a
foraging expedition, were attacked and near
ly sll killed. The bombardment of Yicks
burg was tremendous and uncoasing, and the
city had been greatly damaged. Five thou •
sand negroes were at work on the canal, and
i? was approaching completion. The Appeal
also states that the 7th Tennessee Regiment
went into the Richmond battles three hun
dred strong, and came out with one effec
tive man left!
Tbo President on Monday sent into Con- i
gross a message enclosing a draft of a bill to
compensate any State which may abolish
elavery within its limits, and earnestly re
ommending its passage substantially as pres
ented. The bill provides that whenever the
President 6hall be satisfied that any State j
shall have lawfully abolished slavery it shall j
be his duty to issue to such State sis per cent.
bonds at the rate of dollars for each
slave manumitted. The whole amount to be
delivered at once if the emancipation is im
mediate, or at any proportionate rate if the
emancipation is gradual. If any State re
oeiving such bonds shall introduce slavery,
the bonds issued to it to be cancelled. The
I message and bill was referred to the Confis
cation Committee.
Gen. Butler has confiscated Gen. Twiggs's
■ property at New Orleans. He has also sent
; several rebel sympathizers to Fort Jackson
i for hard work, and sent a lady wench named
Philips, who used to figure atnorfg the aristo
crats at Washington, to Ship Island with
soldier's rations, for having mocked the fa
ncral procession of Lieut. DeKay. Had wa
more Butlers, Burnsides, and Hunters in tha
field, this rebellion would soon be put down.
Considerable alarm exists in Kentucky and
Tennessee from the inroads made by the reb
el troops, which our scattered forces are at
present unable to prevent. The Union men
in these States must take up arms and dis
pose of these marauders themselves-
Col. McCarter on Northern Judases.
Col. McCarter, of the 93d l'a. regiment,
delivered an oration at Lancaster on tha
4th, (luring which he reviewed the bless
ings of our government, and thus referred to
the craven spirit engendered by that mis
erable band of biue-light politicians who.
are bent upon rule or ruin :
" You will in a few days have yoqr patriot
ism tested in a manner that it has never been,
before. Your men will come home wounded
and maimed; they will appear on your streets*
and for every man who thus comes home, five
more will go to the field of battle, for I read
thus the feelings of your inmost hearts.—
[Applause.] And if we must fight not only
the south, but all the despots of the old world,
then a few patriots will even at the end bo
found under the old flag somewhere on God's,
footstool—and we will die under it rather
than surrender 1 [Applause ] Yet there
are men among us, with Judas souls, who.
calculate the cost of the war in dollars and
cents, rather than in blood, and brains, and,
lives! If we can afford to let that poor wo
man's boy go to fight for our liberties and
lay down his life for our national integrity—
if we can afford that, then all questions on
that score are answered. Let that be done,
and then when men go to calculating the
cost in dollars and cents, when they get oth
ers to do so, and their hearts—a nation's;
cart—will become more and mors rotten, as
it is a bait to prevent duly by sordid consid
erations. We stand amazed thatsiioh things
can be! When America shall have enough
of such men to control her affairs, she will
not bu worth ODC drop of blood, and he would
turn his back upon his father's grave, if ho
could not carry bis bones with him, and
would die a hermit, thanking God that he did
not share in the mora! contamination of such
a country."
Letter from Major General Banks in
Answer to a Resolution of Inquiry of
the House.
WASUINUTOX, July ll.—The fallowing i
the letter of Major General N. P. Hanks to
Mr. Gooch of tho House of Representatives,
relating to the resolution of June 10th, offered
by Mr. Vourhee9, of Indiana, directing tho
Committee on the Conduct of the War to in
quire whether persons of color were all awed
Government transportation in Gen. Bank*'
retreat from Strasburg, while white people,
including sick and wounded soldiers, wore
compelled to walk ; and which letter Mr_
Gooch asked tho unanimous consent of the
House to read last Monday, when the ques
tion was taken on the preamble to this reso
lution, but objection was made by Mr. Voor
heea and others, patent democrats :
WINCHESTER, Ya., JUDO 19, ISGI.
lion. IJ. IF". Gooch:
Sir —ln answer to yonr resolution of in
quiry, 1 haTo '.he houor to say that there i*
no lbundatiou of fact fur tho statement con
tained iu tho resolution enclosed to in#. No
person not belonging to the army, white or
black, was allowed to use or occupy Govern
ment transportation of any kind on the march
of my command from Strasburg. If any in
stance has occured, it was, with one excep
tion, not only without authority, but against
orders, and has not yet conic to my knowl
edge. Citizens, traders, refugees, &c.„ were
protected in the occupancy of their own wag
ons, and allowed to move with tho Govern
ment trains in order, nothing further.
The rear guard of infantry and artillery
halted in tho rear of Martinsburg from tw*
o'clock till evening. When at considerable
distance on our march we overtook a small
party on foot.
My attention was attracted by a little girl,
about eight years of age, who was toddling
over the stones by the wayside, and I asked
" llow far she had travelled ?" " From Win
chester," they said. We were then about
twenty-seven miles on our march. I reques
ted the cannoniers to givo her a lift, and the
gallant men who had hung upon the rear of
the column for its defence tho greater part of
the distance answered with alacrity. No suc
cessful efforts were made to ascertain her
complexion, but it is not impossible .that she
belonged to the class referred to in the reso
lution, and that hor little limbs had beeh
strengthened by some vague dream of liberty
to bo lost or won on that hurried night rparcb,
I have the honor to be, with much Respect,
your obedient servant. N. P. BANKS,
Major General Commanding.
BQL.John J. Patterson carried Snydei
county for Congress.
Married.
On Thursday, June sth, at the parsonage,
Lewistown Circuit, by He v. S. 11. C. Smith,
JOSEPH H. MANN to Miss EMMA E.
KINSLOE, both of Mifflin county.
In Philadelphia, on Monday, June 23d,
TS62, by Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., WAL
TER B. MoATEE, of fuss place, formerly of
Maryland, to Miss RACHEL W.ALBRIGHT,
of that city.
Died.
On the 12th June, at his residence in Arm
strong county, Pa., of diptheria, SAMUEL
LAUGH LIN, formerly of Wayne township,
Mifflin county, aged 48 years.
Mrs. Nancy Peachey, wife Peach
ey, died on the 24th of June instead of the
25th, as published:
Died, July 4th, near Falls Church, Fairfax
co., Ya., \YM. A. McKEE, of Nittany Hall,
Centre co., Pa., aged 30 years, 4 months and
16 days.
He passed away calm and peaceful from
i life to death in a southern clime, with no rel
| alive near him but his affectionate wife, who
watched over him faithfully till death separa
i ted them. She then brought his remains
home to hi 9 weeping relatives, where he was
interred on the 10th.
Dearest Beckie, though 1 love you,
Jesus calls ue, I must go:
O, be a true and tauhful christian,
And God will see you safely throagh.
[Contra county papers plea** copy ]