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HUBS WILY, BITeHANAN & HUSS, ittorneys & Counsellors at Law, • WAYNESBURG, PA. Will practice in the Courts of Greene and adjoining counties. Collections and other legal business will re ceive prompt attention. Office on the South side of Main stre te, in the Old Bank Building., Jan. 29, 1863.-13, A. A. PURMAN. J G. RITCHIE PURMAN & RITCHIE, ATTORNEYS AND COU nesburgNSELLORS AT LAW, Way, Pa. Orrice—Main Street, one door east of the old Bulk Building. IU -- . 1 .11 Justness in Greene, Washington, and Fay me Giihnties, entrusted to them, will receive promp [mention. Sept. it, ISill—ty. R. W. DOWNEY, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW II:TT/Ulan in ledwitla's Building, opposite the Court House, Waynesburg, Pa. R. A. IeCONNELL. J. .1. HUFFMAN. INEVONEMLL & ELITTIMILA , N, 4T7'ORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LA If' Waynesburg, Pa. IWir — Officp In the "Wright Ili tie," East Door.. Collections, &cc.. will receive prompt attention. Waynesburg. April 23, 1862-Iy. DAVID CRA fVFORD, Attorney and Counsellor at Law. Office on Main Street, East and nearly opposite the Bank, Waynesburg, Pa.,..1u1y 30, 1863.--ly. C. A.4IL.ACK. JOHN PHELAN. BLACK *. PHEILAN, ATTOR Office in dor Cou Rouse, Wayeetburg. Sept. 11;1661-1v. SOLDIERS' WAR CLAIMS P. XX1:7116591, 1411TORNEY AT LAW, W•YNESSLING, PENNA., - ETAS received from the War Department at ',"Wash ington city. D. C., official copies of the several laws passed by Congress, and all the necessary Forms and Instructions for the prosecution and collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTY, BACK PAY, due dis tharged and disabled soldiers, their widows, orphan children, widowed mothers, fathers, taste's and broth ers, which business, [upon due notice] will be attend_. ed to promptly, and accnrately. if entrusted to his care. Office in the old Bank Building.—April 8, 18G3. G. W. G. WADDELL, • ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR A.T LAW, OFFICE in Campbell's Row opposite the Hamilton House, WaYllest'llrg, Penna. liusiness of all kind.. solicited. Has received official copies of all the laws passed by congress, mot other necessary instruc tions for the collection of PENSIONS, BOUNTIES, BACK PAY, Due discharged and disabled soldiers, widows, Orphan children, &c., which business if intrusted to his rare will le promptly attended to. May 13. '63. PHYSICIANS DR. A. G. CROSS WOULD very respectfully tender nis services as a PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, to the people of Waynesburg and vicinity. He hopes by a due appre ciation of human life and health, and strict attention to • busintss, to merit a share of public patronage. Waynesburg. January 8, 1862. DR. A. J. EGGY RESPECTFULLY offers his services to the citizens of Waynesburg and vicinity, as a Physician and Surgeon. Office opposite the Republican office. He hopes by a due appreciation of the laws of human life and health, so native medication, and strict attention to business, to merit a liberal she's of public patronage. April 9, 1862. DRUGS M. A. EIARVE,Y, Drewlst and toothecarmtmktoaler in Paints and Oils, the most celebrated Patent Medicines, and Pure Liquors for medicinal purposes. Sept. I I, 1861-Iy. • MEROHA.NTS • WM. A. PORTER, Whoiesale and Retail Peale: in Foreign and Domes I Pry Goods, Groceries, Notions, &c., Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy. R. CLARK, D..1.1.er in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, Queens e•aic and notions, in the Hamilton House, opposite the Court House. Main street. Sept. 11. 1861—ly. MINOR & Olenlers in Foreign and Dittnestie Dry Goods, Gro eerier, queensweare, Hardware and Notions, opposite the Green House. Main street. Sept. 11, 1861-Iy, • BOOT AND SHOE DEALERS. J. D. COSGRAt, • Hoot and Shoe maker, Main street, nearly opposite ,the "Farmer's and Drover's Raba." Every style or Mdots and Shoei constantly on hand or made to order. Sept. 11, 1881—ly. GROCER/ES & VARIETIES. JOSEPH YATER, Dealer in Groceries and Confectioneries, Notions, Medicines, Perfumeries, Liverpool Ware, &c., Glass of all sizes, and Gilt Moulding and Looking Glass Plates. iir'eash paid for good eating Apples. pt. 11„ 1661-Iy. ------- JOHN MUNNELL, Dealer in rid and Confectionaries, and Variety goods Generally, Wilsrou'p Building, Main street. Sept. 11. 1861-Iy. FOUNDRY. DUNN & DOWNEY, At the Waynesburg Foundry, on Greene street, keep irlystitntly on nand Conking and Plikinr Stover attpiportsugh Canines. an d Castings ot WI kinds. sdpt. 11, 1.461 ly. izallawm, THE CAUSE OF VOLCANOES. Dr. Antisel, in a recent lecture, after referring to the internal heat of the earth, observed that volcanoes were nothing more or less than so many tents through which the con tents of the earth were passed to :the outside. There are about two hun dred and seventy-nine of these vents active, though all of them are not in operation at the same time. One' hundred and sixteen of them are on this continent. Some ninety of them are in the Pacific, and the remainder are scattered over Europe, the is lands of the Indian Seas, Sumatra, Java, &c.,•iind along the islands of the Chinese coast. Volcanoes, in fact., are scattered all over the globe from the further north to the further south. Those within the tropics outnumber the others. There are about twenty volcanoes in action every year, so we have two hundred and fifty of them quiescent; their ac tion seems reciprocal. As one becomes silent another comes into operation. The lecturer went on to speak of the enormous amount of matter upheav ed from the bosom of the earth by the force of volcanic eruptiolk This in the eruption of Etna, 1659, the quantity of lava thrown out was twelve times the mass of the moun tain itself. Vesuvius, in 1780. emit ted a stream. of lava nine miles in length, and in 1805 a stream some three miles long and forty feet deep. In the year 69 an eruption of the same mountain utterly overwhelm ed the cities of Herculanteum and Pompeii, as most know. These erup tions from time to time, made in the appearance and configuration of the earth vast changes, as might be ex pected. Dr. A. described in a graphic man ner the terrible sublimity of the cel ebrated volcano of Kiranca, in the isl And of Owyhee, and this part of the lecture touched upon the difference which the Vesuvius of to day pre sents when ,compared with that of the time of Strabo With regard to the source which occasioned the throwing out of such vast quantities of matter from volcanoes there were many hypotheses advanced, but only two were tenable The idea advanc ed by Sir Humphrey Davy was that the center of the earth was compos ed of metals in a pure state, which, when coming in contact with water, evolved an expansive gas, and so produced earthquakes and volcanoes. The most probable theory, observes Dr. A., was this : Our earth derived its heat from the action of the sun's rays upon it only. The action. of the sun's rays was to produce an electric al current. When this current pass ed along a body that conducted well no result was observable; but if' we placed at the end of a wire a non-con ductor--a charcoal point, for instance —intense heat was the result. The sun's rays, then, passing through the atmosphere produced electrical cur rents which, passing into the earth, ignited the interior like a charcoal point. Were the earth heated inte riorly by artificial metals—as sug gested by Davy—,-it might readily be supposed it would soon cool, seeing that its interior was exposed in two hundred and seventy places, or the masses within would be consumed like coal by the ordinary means of combustion. Though much de struction of life and property, and many lesser evils, resulted from the development of volcanic phenomena, yet they were not unattended by many advantages. Were it not for j eaft'uquakes the land would not rise above the level oft he sea. If it were other wise, we should have no dry ' land distinctively--no hills, conse quently no rains—no rivers, of course no navigation, and everything would be reduced to one great horizontal level,—in fine, chaos would be once more produced. Volcanic eruptions in themselves were beneficial. They throw within the reach of the hand of man copper, and silver and planti num Note, for instance, the vast quantities of copper to be found in the volcanic basalt on the shores of ' Lake Superior. Our porphyry, mar- 1 bles anu finer descriptions of stone were all the result of volcanic action and he need not add, that to the same origin we owed the exposure of that most valuable and deservedly*. ' prized of minerals—coals. Truth Simply Expressed. It is not what people eat, but what they digest, that makes them strong. It is not what they gain, but what they save, that makes them rich. It is not what they read, but what they remember, that makes them learned. It is not what they profess, but what they practice, that mikes them righteous. These are very plain and important truths, too little heeded by gluttons, spendthrifts, bookworms and hypocrites. sear A Maine editor, having been elected fence viewer and field-driver, announces that although he is some what afraid of horned cattle he is groat on the fence. Any of his con stituents who wish any viewing done., are invited to bring their fencei to hie Ogee. WAYNESBURG, GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1863. ANECDOTES OF CAVALRY. Frederick the Great fully appre ciated the value of cavalry. lioeru er's book on cavalry says : Never were more glorious dee achieved by cavalry than those exl cited by the Prussian horsemen • those days, thanks to the indefatig: ble exertions of their king. In the he was admirably assisted by Sey dlitz, who from his earliest youth had evinced a wonderful talent for horsemanship. When only seven years old he is said to have ridden between the sails of a windmill in full revolution. This feat he often performed, even after he had attain ed the rank- of general officer. In 1738 he entered the king's service, and was captured in the first Silic ian war, his horse having been kill ed under him in a charge. One day at Berlin, riding out with the king and some officers, he maintained that under no other circumstances could a cavalry officer be excusable for be ing made prisoner. They were thee just crossing a bridge over the Spree, and the king, having ordered both ends to be closed, turned to Sey dlitz, and told him that he was his prisoner. "Not so," replied the lat ter, and spurring his horse, he leap ed over the parapet into the river.— All trembled for his safety, for the bridge was high ; but to their amazement they saw him stated on his horse. quietly swim to the shore, and join the cortege as if nothing extraordinary had occurred. It was through his influence, that, after the peace of Ilubertsburg and Dresden; the establishmen t of riding houses was commenced, and riding masters were appointed for every regiment. Nothing was left untried • by him to make his men bold and skillful riders. In front of his window there was a large stone watering-trough. surrounded by a railing three fec i t high. Almost daily at the hour of watering, he sent for some squadron fully equipped, and let every man leap his horse over the barrier, drink, and go out as he got in.. Whoever fell with or from his horse, was se verely punished. This exercise took place in the Winter as well as in Summer. On one occasion, when the king •vas inspecting his regiment, and complained of the number of `deaths occasioned that season, by accidents at drill, Seydlitz answered drily, "If you make so much fuss about a few broken necks, your ma jesty will never have the bold horse men you require for the field." A GOOD STORY. A merchant of Munich having ob tained a large fortune gave each of his three daughters a considerable sum and married them to three broth ers, sons of a worthy man of _Ham burg. lle reserved to himmilfa large capital, and his son-in-laws employ ed all their efforts to induce him to give it to them. At last, by flattery and demonstrations of affection, they got the old mail's money. But from that time they began to show indif ference for him, and at last totally neglected him. The good old man was very wretched, and what w worse, very poor. One day h, youngest daughter went to see him In the course of the con versatic she suggested to him that he might gain the good will of her and her sisters' husbands by pretending to be still rich. The, old man seeing the idea a good one, resolved at once to act on it. He went, to a friend of his, a banker, and obtained an ad vance of money and the loan of a service of plate, The next day be invited his sons in-law to dinner. They were aston ished to find a service of plate on the table, and still more sc• when the servant brought the old man a letter, when be exclaimed—"W . hat, let my old friend be embarassed for 10,000 florins ?" And he went and got that sum from his strong box, saying : "There take that to your master " "You see," said he, "I am still rich !" The sons.in-law were confounded, and each with great earnestness, immediately pressed the old man to go a. - id live with him, promising that he should receive every atten• tion, and everything he could possi bly wish for. But the old man laid down his conditions—that he should have his own apartments and do mestics, and a carriage and a cer tain sum placed at his disposal. To this his sons-in-law eagerly consented. For some time the old man lived comfortable enough, and wherever he went he took the precaution to carry with him the strong box, which was very heavy. A little while ago he fell ill. His sors-in-law pressed him to make his will, but he said his intention was to divide the contents of his strong box equally between them and a friend, and that he and his executor should have a key. Not long since he died. By a writing which he left behind him ho directed that the box should not he opened until five days after his inter ment, that be should be buried with the greatest pomp, and that each poor Iran in the town should receive a new suit of clothes and a florin. At last the day for opening the strong box arrived. The sons-►n law, to their mortification, found, not as they had expected, money and securities to a large amount, but lead and stone A FATHER KILLED BY HIS SONS, Mr. John S. Holiar met with a sud den and terrible death, at the hands of his own children, in Bertram t 1., lowa, on Saturday, the Ist inst. The _Reyister says: Mr. Hollar had been engaged near ly a'l the forenoon in driving out some unruly cattle which had got into his corn field. When he return ed to the house he found that his wife and one of the children had gone out blackberrying. This added a great deal of irritability, and hemade some threats as to what he would do when they returned. He then ordered his two sons [one about sev enteen and the otherfifteen] to go to one of his neighbors [Mr. Campbell's] and bind oats. The boys, knowing their father's disposition, saw a storm was brewing, and refused to go un til after dinner, thinking their moth er would be home by that time and they would protect her, in case of trouble. This refusal brought out an awful storm of wrath from the father and he seized his axe and told them he would split them open if they did not go. One of the boys tried to escape through the house, but was met at the back door by his father, who made a pass at him with the axe, but missed him. The boy then took back through the house, snatching a shot gun as he went.— ' He was met at the other door by his enraged parent, with the uplifted axe. The boy fired upon him, the -cbarge doing no injury beyond tear ing the shirt. The father then took the gun away from his boy, and tried to shoot him twice, the gun failing to go off each time. At this juncture felie older boy came to the rescue of his brother, and the father turned upon him; a scuffle ensued for the pos session of the gun, during which it was broken, the boy getting the breech and the father the barrel.— By a well directed blow the boy knocked him down with the breech, but ho arose to his feet, and was about to strike with the barrel, when the hoy wrested it from !}is grasp, struck him a blow over the head, which broke in the skull and killed almost instantly. No one amen the children, who only acted self defense. SAD SIGHTS, A correspondent of the Evangelist ,on) the battle-field of Gettysburg, thus closes his letter : In the 11th Corps my heart was saddened by the pitiful condition of some of the poor Germans—perhaps the more from my inability to con verse with them. it wrung the heart to see them dying with no lend to speak to them a word of imfort. It pressed from the soul a cry of anguish for that day when "peace on earth" shall be the glad song of men and angels. But it was in the 2d Corps, whith er we were sent to make a register of the wounded for the Directory kept by the Sanitary Commission at Washington, that the saddest scenes met our eyes. In two great camps, one upon a bare hillside, the other on a wooded bill across a cheek, lay our wounded men of this corps.— The rain was rapidly falling, the stream was swollen. the earth soak ed, the way muddy. 'The tents were many of them the little shelter tent, and straw was very deficient— it could not be bad. Intermixed with our men were wounded rebels, treated precisely as were our own soldiers. But at the bottom of the hill was a piteous sight. On a muddy fiat, mainly without any shelter, lay many wounded rebels, where they had been deposited after the battle 'ne days before. Nine corpses lay a row beside the fence, half ,vered with gray blankets. A )uthern chaplain, with a volunteer lysician from the Christian Com ission, came to beg from us some imulant, as the men were about be moved. We were happily )le to give them a bottle of brandy. 'e crossed the creek, ascended the 'posit° hill to the other camp, and, )ilst making our register, the army wagons followed us, the shrieks of the poor wretches at every jolt telling of their suffering. But-this was not all. A little farther, on an other hillside, we found a hundred and fifty of these wounded rebels with no shelter whatever. There, for nine long days and nights, had they lain. One poor fellow from Mississippi, with a voice and face of profound melancholy, said to ne, "I thought I bad a good deal of patience, it it is almost gone." lie was shot rough the thigh. We bade him be ' good cheer and keep up heart, as ,e wounded who could walk were eing sent off rapidly, and so making 'porn for others. 0 God, when shalt iy law of love rule the world RICH NEW YORK MINISTERS. A New York correspondent of the , stop Post, in the course of a gos- ipping letter to that journal, touch es upon the subject of •rich minis ters" in Gotham. At the head of the list the writer places, as of course, Archbishop Hughes, whose 'vale property, be says, amounts the snug little sum of a round million dollars. He is the millionaire minister par excellence. In the Lu theran Church there is a Rev. J. W. Geisenhainer,who is reckoned worth $250,000, and whose secular hours are for the most part occupied in forging "the silken chain that binds two willing hearts." Thousands of couples matrimonially inclined, have, by his aid, reached the con ; rummatiou devoutly wished. His residence in toutteenth street is lit erally beseigod by the crowds who desire to change the true lover's for that Gordian knot which nothing but death can cut. Among the Dutch reformed clergymen, Rev. A. R. Van Nest ranks as the richest.— This gentleman has one or two hun dred thousand dollars. The Presby terians, perhaps, have more rich ministers than any other denomina tion. At the head of the list—the Nestor of the Church in this city— stands Dr. Spring, clareni venerabile namen—who is easily worth a hun dred thousand dollars, and whose young and interesting bride is set down as having three hundred thousand dollars. Rev. Dr. Adams no one thinks of estimating at less than one hundred thousand dollars. Rev. Dr. Potts and -Rev. Dr. Phillips each worth fifty thousand, and seve ral other Presbyterian clergy are equally able to keep the wolf from the flock. Bishop Janes, of the Methodist Church, possesses treas ures on earth to the value of one hundred thousand dollars, and* so does Rev. James _Ploy, the best poli tician in that denomination. Rev. Dr. Hagany is worth about thirty thousand dollars. Among the Bap tists Rev. Doctors Dowling and Som mers are set down at thirty thous and apiece, and Rev. S. A• Coro was about twenty thousand tiollars.— Rev. Air. Beecher and Dr. B. S. Storrs, of Brooklyn, own fine resi dences, and aro called worth twenty five or thirty thousand dollars each. ma-Richardson, the guerrilla, and his set of !An, have 4een driven from West Tennessee, • *titital. THAT'S IT, The New York World holds the true Democratic position upon the subject of the Conscription law, and defines itself thus : "When it is argued that the Con scription law is wise, expedient and constitutional, we feel compelled to express our dissent. If citizens were bound to obey no laws but such as they believed just and proper, the duty of obedience would, indeed, be established by proving the wisdom of the law. But we counsel obedi ence to this particular law believing it to be unwise, and notwithstanding its unconstitutionality ; on the broad principle that all laws are to be obey ed, and that it is inconsistent with the existence of political society for indivk'ual citizens to determine, each for himself, whether particular laws aro binding. It is a higher act of public virtue to obey a bad law than a good one. A good citizen dries not say to himself, approve of this law, and therefore I will sub mit to it;' he submits to all laws, whatever may be his opinion of their character. 11-0 is as careful to obey a law which he attempts to render odious with a view to procure its re peal by the legislature, or which means to contest in the courts to get it declared unconstitutional, as he is to obey the most approved law in the statute-book. It is obedience to all laws, not approval of all laws, which Government has a right to de mand of free citizens. If they were compelled to approve of all laws which they are bound to obey, im provement in legislation would be impossible, and it would be all in vain that the power to repeal is vest ed in the legislature, and the power to declare unconstitutional laws void is lodged in the courts." That is about. all there is of it.-- Democrats having nothing to do with laws upon the statute-book but 1. To obey them if they be good. 2 To obey them if they be bad. 3. To approve of them if they be good. 4. To repeal them if they be bad. —Philadelphia Age. A LOFTY DESTINY FOR THE HUMAN RAGE. A clergyman at Milford, Massa chusetts, called the Bev. E. S. Best, has published a sermon in one of the Boston papers in which occurs the following paragraph: "This blending of the two races (Caucasian and African) by amalga mation is just what.is needed for the perfection of botL: * You will then have the higltest, noblest, and most God-like species of humanity. Such a race will constitute the real people 9f America. Here the human rape will reach its loftiest destiny, and this nation becoma the glory of all lands; the place which, above all others, shall resemble heaven, and bo nearest to it." The Rev. Mr. Best is perhaps a little in advance of. the Abolition party in his ethics, but the party will soon be up with him. To be sure, it has hitherto been the doc trine of the most approved physiol ogy that white and black inter mar riage is a gross violation of nature, and the issue of such intermarriage a degenerate specimen of humanity, both physically and intellectually, but of what value are old doctrines and long established physiological truths in these days of a higher and purer philosophy than the world has ever known before ? We look to see the Rev. Mr. Best's idea of the higher typo of civilized man in serted as a plank in the next Chicago platform.—Chicago Times. The most nauseating hypocrisy i: Abolition hypocrisy. We hire an exam ple, The New York Tribune of Monday of last week, says The absence of the national flag in all parts of the city during the past week during the riot was a note-worthy cir cumstance ; but now that citizens have taken breath and a new start, let the dear old flag be flung to the breeze from every flag-staff in the city, that all may thus anew give sign of patriotism and I oyalty. The same New York Tribune, three years ago, contained the followfng tribute to the "dear old flag;"— TEE AMERICAN FLAG. All hail the flaunting Lie The stars grow pale and dini; The stripes are bloody scars— A Lie the vaunting hymn. It shields a pirate's deck, It binds a man in chains, It yokes the captive neck, And wipes the bloody stains. Tear down the flaunting Lie! Ilalf-mast the starry flag ! Insult no sunny sky With hate's polluted rag! Destroy it ye who can! Deep sink it in the waves! It hears a fellow man • To groan with fellow slaves Furl, fuel, the Loasted Lie Tilt freedom lives again, To rule once more in truth Among untrammeled men. Roll up The starry sheen, Conceal its bloody stains ; For in its folds arp seen The stamp of rasiing chains NEW SERIES.--VOL. 5, NO. 13. WILLIAM BARKER-THE YOUNG PA. BY ARTEMVS .WARD "No, i Ilia in Barker,. you cannot have myil►daugtiter's band in mar riage until you are .her equal in wealth and social position." The speaker was a haughty old man of some sixty .years, and the person he addressed was a fine look ing young man ut twenty-five. With a sail aspect the young man withdrew front the stately man 6ioll. Six months later the young man stood in the presence of the haughty old man. "What! you here again ?" angrily cried the uld man. "Ay, old man," proudly exclaimed William Barker. "I am here, your daughter's equal and yours." The old man's lips curled with scorn. A derisive smiie lit up his cold features; when casting violent ly upon the rr.:l•!r3 centre-table an enormous green-backs Wil ham Barker cried— " Bee Look on this wealth. And I have tenfold more Listen old man I You spurned me from your door. But 1 did not despair. I se cured a contract for furnishing the Army of the -- with beef--." "l es, yes:" ettgerly exclaimed tho old man. "-- and 1 bought up all the dis abled cavalry ht. rocs 1 ,could find "I see! I see !" .cried the old :man. "And good beef they make too." "They do ! they do! and the profits are immense." "I should say so I" "4.nd now, sir, I claim your daugh ter's lair hand I" "Boy, she is yours. But hold ! ' Look me in the eye. Through all this have you been loyal ?" 1 "To the core :" cried William Bar ker. "And," continued the old man, is► a voice husky with emotion, ".are yo g a in favor of a vigorous prosecu tion of the war?" "1 am, I am'." "Then, - boy, take herl Maria, my child come hither. Your William claims thee ! Be happy my chil dren ! and whatever lair lot in life may DS, let us all swyort the Govern ment." THE NEGRO EVERYWHERE. It is almost impossible to imagine a single place in which the n%gro is not the object of attractio under this adm;nistration. He is first in the heart of the President and his Cabinet, first, last and all the while in Congress, first in all Republican speeches. first in the prayers of some of our ministers, first in his sermons, and in fact first everywhere. The last use we have heard for the ebony idol is in the decoration of a flag to be presented to the first negro regi ment. of the District of Columbia.— lt is said that the design is the God dess of Liberty with her feet upon a snake; in one hand she holds the proclamation of the President, and in the other a musket, which she of. fern to an "American citizen of Afri can descent." Comment is unneeessary.—Lacka. wana Register. ‘SPIEIT OF THE ABOLITION PRESS. . "It we do not harmonize ear dif ferences and coucontrate our forces, the enemies of the Government will ' succeed in electing Woodward Gov ernor, a result, .to bo estimated as more disastrous to the cause of the country than the defeat of Meade by Lee. Indeed, it would be far better to allow Leo to penetrate Pennsyl vania and establish himself in Har risburg, than to allow Woodward t) succeed at the ballot-box and then be inaugurated Governor of the State."---Harrisburg Telegraph, Gov. Curtin's Organ. A LAW TO PUNISH POVERTY.—It is well enough to pat things'in their true shape. Let us try it : Be it enacted by the Congress of the Unitr.d States, That any able-,bOdi,e.d man, between the .ages of twenty arid forty-five, who shoji from any cause be too poor to pay three bun dred dollars on rieman,d, shall he seized and convoyed to the nearest military post and compelled tt. , servo in the ranks as a private so,- dler for the full term of three . yoars, any provisions in L,be p'ederal or State Constitutions to the contrary notes ithstanding.—Logan ,Gazette. Mir Our institutions aro assailed by startling usurpations of power by the Executive. ..)I . le of thean start- ling usurpations is the substitution of military orders for the Constitu- ion and laws of this State. declaring '; , ho shall vote at elections and who shall be voted for. The rebels Are guilty O Os) ,greater violation of laws and Constitutions than that.— The platform. that th , u t ,i o p party professed to adopt condemns these startling usurpatious; bat what or- gun or candid:au or Least party will open his mouth about thet# ilrotoerat. TRIOT.
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