'1 Sect tt eamantly Widest. I brae seen
Ise many dead ad womaledanaradesto Ind
maw than that the 136 , 1=nm:a has not
kJentited din army. If you do not do so new,
I . le geese isle**. HI save thkaresy now, I
tell yea plainly that I owe no Uvulas to wi
or to any other persons in Ws~sa. lou
nate dune your beat to sacrifkte this army. 7
.ligiriu to General Halleck on August 30th,
when the binged Pope was sacrificing
theenands of men through sheer lima
peaty and folly:
"I :aunt express to you the pain and
modificative* I have experienced to-day
in listening to the distant wend of the fire
of my mem As I can be of no nether use
here, I respectfully ask that if there is a
probsdaTay of the conflict being renewed to
morrow, I may le permitted to go to the
scene of battle with my staff merely, to be
with my own men, if nothing more; they
will fOt none the worse for my being with
them. If is not deemed best to intrust
me with the command even of my own army,
simply ask to be permitted to share their
fate oil the field of battle."
None but a true man and a brave sol
dier could write thus, and his comrades on
many a well fought field all bear testimony
to the kindly, generous disposition of the
man we would place at the head of our
Goverment—in the chair occupied by a
Gorge, Washington.
Profession and Practice.
lest a man count up the false prophesies
otebe Republican leaders—false, not from
intention, hpt from ignorance—add see how
hump they are and to what they have led.
Npbody hurt. Three hundred thousand
killed and wounded and sick.
Seventy-five thousand men: Over two
millions.
Rebellion starved out in three months
Rampant in 1864.
Bak& bone broken at every success. Not
yet.
Opening of Mississippi to commerce : Run
ning a gauntlet of guerrillas.
Every new levy sure to extinguish the re
bellien : Draft ordered for the sth of Sep
leather.
' Paper as good as gold : Gold 240.
The people richer for the war : Prices
advanced three hundred per cent. •
Every campaign to be the last : But one.
Eree'soil : Four states makiag such elec
tion returns as bayonets dictate.
Free speech : The suppression of news
papers.
Freemea 1 Hundreds &rested without
wuramicliiiprisoned without crime, and en
larged without trial.
National lxmor : The abandonment of the
'our°e doctrine, and the kidnapping of Ar
guelles.
Respect for law t The breach of it in ev
ery state in the Union.
• Belief in the Union u unbroken : The
manufacture of bogus states.
Freedpm of slave: Apprenticing him
through military orders, and crimping him
far the ranks.
Love of the negro; Letting him tot in
100 nm
Love of progress and humanity : Waging
war against women and children, and houses
and barns, and agricultural implements.
Care fat the soldiers : Leaving them to
hunger, and beat, and thirst, and prisons,
and vermin.
Now, if a man, after all such falsifications,
can yet believe, he must have the tenacity
of faith
"which, wedded fast
To some delusion hugs it to the last."
diam Every butchery of our soldiers is now
hailed by the Shoddy office-holders and their
master as a grand streak of political luck for
Old Abe. They look upon every soldier's
death as one more vote polled for him. What
should a civilized people think of a candi
date who seeks to be borne into the Pres
idency over the bodies of the slain, by a
surging current of blood—the hearts' blood
of his countrymen?
erThe universal confidence in the elec
tion of M'Clellan and the sure prospect of
peace under a restored Union, is steadily
bringing Own the price of gold. Little
Mac is therefore doing what splendid
victories formerly failed to accomplish.
Elect General M'Clellan and General Con
fidence will be restored along with the
Union.
- 'As a preliminary to a "fair" election
in the army, _ the circulation of Democratic
tewspapers has lately been stopped oy
military orders in one of the Western
departments. The same will be the case in
eery department where the hand of the mil
itary satraps had not previously been laid.
IThe overwhelming votes rolled up
for If'Clellan on railroad trains, steamboats,
in soldiers' hospital* du., are making
greenback Shoddy turn awful pale in front.
The muses are moving, and that's what's
the minter new!
ArA, Ward says : "If I am drafted I
shall resign. Deeply grateful for the un
expet! 3d honor thus conferred upon me, I
shall feel compelled to resign the position
in favor of some more worthy person.
Modesty is what ails me. That's what keeps
me under."
- trA number of oar exchanges con
template raising their subscription price
to 13 per annum. If Lincoln should
remain on the throne three years longer,
the pries of weekly papers will be lid
yawed to $5 a year. "Good times"
under Lincoln!
IfirWe are told that there ought at
thin time to be but one party in the
North. We agree to that. But that
party should be the one that desires to
have a change in the administration.
QUAKER Poi:.—The Quakers are
establishing a eollewin lostassykanis.
It has_ beeta isoloirporatedtsy the name of
,Swath amitie etd lege, and abant $40,000
eq. ("been paid ,toward the enterprise.
.
4 : W. JONES,
MM
JAS. S. 31NNINGSJ U
"One Country, One Constitution, One
Destiny."
lIVAINAMtiIs) 11t2
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1864.
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FOR PRESIDENT,
GEN. GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
OF NEW JERSEY
FOR VICE PRESIDENT,
GEORGE H. PENDLETON,
OF OHIO
FOR CONGRESS,
ZION. JESSE LAZEAR,
OF GREEN& COUNTY
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
ASSEMBLY,
THOMAS ROSE,
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SHERIFF,
HEATH JOHNS,
OF WA 8/1 INOTON.
COMMISSIONER,
THOMAS SC OTT,
IMBECESEIM
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
JOSEPH G. RITCHIE,
MEE=
POOR ROUSE DIRECTOR
ARTHUR RINEHART,
1=3:13
AUDITOR,
A. .1. iIe!Ey.TIN,
or R•TN6.
"While tl►e army is lighting. you as cit.
hens see that the war is prosecuted for
the .preservation of the Union and the
Constitution, and of your nationality and
your rights as citizens."
GEO. B. McCLELLAN.
•'The Constitution and the Union
I place them together. If they stand, they
must stand together; if they fall, they
must fall together."--Daniei Webster.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
ELECTORS AT LARGE.
Robert F. Johnson. of Cambria,
Richard Vans, of Philadelphia.
DISTRICT ELECTORS.
Ist Wm. Loughlin, 13th Paul Leidy,
2d E. R. Helmbold, 14th Rob't Sweinford,
3tl Edward P. Dunn, 15th John A hl,
4th T. M'Collough, 16th Henry G. Smith,
sth Edward T. Hess, 17th Thaddeus Banks,
6th Phil. S. Gerhard, 18th H. Montgomery,
7th Geo. P. Leipor, 19th Jno. M. Irwin,
Bth Michael Seltzer, 20th J. M. Thompson,
9th Pariah M'Avoy, 21st Erastus Brown,
10th T. H. Walker, 22d Jas. P. Bari.,
11th 0. S. Dhntnick, 23d Wm. J. Koontz,
12th A. B. Dunning, 24th W. Montgomery.
Change ! Change !
Is it pcssible for the American people to
make matters worse by changing the ad
ministration ? War with all its horrors, has
for the last three or four years blighted the
prosperity of our land, robbed us of our chil
dren, parents, husbands, and friends: it has
created a Debt which untold generations will
not see paid : we are yet apparently in the
midst of these sacrifices; no man can predict
when they will end, and the reasonable be
lief is that they will never end while the war
is waged on the present principles, to wit:
for the Emancipation of Negroes, instead of
the restoration of the Union, "the one con
dition" proposed by Gen. McClellan. The
substance of the citizen is eonsurned by
Bounties and Taxes, and he is harassed by
the constant presonce or apprehension of
Drafts! The Constitution, that only palle
d ium for the protection of the rights of the
citizen, is constantly disregirded and tram
pled upon by those in power. No man's
personal liberty, or personal rights are se
cure. Free speech and a Free Press, and
the great right of the writ of Habeas Corpus
have been denied to you, and would now be
denied to you, if the administration dared to
hazard such measures to suppress investiga
tion into their wicked and unjustifiable meas
ures. But you are invited to the ordeal by
Mr. Lincoln who presents himself for re-elec
tion and he dare not suppress investigation
under these circumstances. This it is, and
this only, which saves you. You are his
equal at the Ballot Box. lie has been mas
ter - heretotore, bat at the Ballot Box you
are master. He, and those in power, have
had their day, but now for the first time in
four years, your time is come ! We know
fou need no urging,* but are ready, WILL
/No, and WAITING to condemn, by your
vote, at the approachingElectioes, the many
short comings of your Republican Rulers.
Fremont Withdraws.
Gen. McClellan will not make the emanci
pation and equality of the Negro a condition
of pop:* find restoration, and hence, Fre
mont witipiravirs in favor of one who will.—
Tills is the pith and substance of Fremont's
letter; and the bitter repugnance to- Lincoln,
as pabibited In the Cleveland Platform, Fre
mont's letter of acceptance of that-nomina
tion, intil even in the present letter with
drawing ida name, are all made to yield to
the overwhelming conaidera . tion, drat Mc-
Clellan refuses to , pronto* phe war fop the
freedom of the Iferm !
The Great Mass Meeting on Tuesday.
The meeting .ef the DemocraCy of Greene
County which assembled in front of the
"Messenger" Office, on Tuesday of Court
Week, was certainly a harbinger of good
things to come in October and November.—
If the party is active and gaining ground in
Maine, as shown by the late election, it is
certainly not asleep in "little Greene." And
the speeches made on that occasion, no less
than the spirit manifested by the people, are
conclusive evidence that our people are—to
borrow a phrase from the Republican or
gans and speakers,—"terribly in earnest."—
They feel that drafts, high prices, arbitrary
arrests, branding of white ?nett, am*lie au
thors of all these abominable things, have
existed long enough. and that it is high tine
that a new order of things should be ushered
in. They think with Reverdy Johnson, that
the only salvation for our country, is in
"swapping" off the old, spavined lank horse
Lincoln for the young, strong, enduring Mc-
Clellan.
We can give but a passing notice to the
three very good speeches delivered on the
occasion referred to. Dr. Patton was the
first speaker, who entertained the great mass
of citizens with which the street was
crowded in his usual energetic and forcible
style, and ended by introducing to the meet
ing. Robert M. Gibson Esq., of Washington.
This speaker upon stepping upon the plat
form was greeted with prolonged cheers.—
It is said that the lamented Judge Douglas
once remarked upon bearing Mr. Gibson
speak, that he was "the best stump speaker
he had ever heard." Such testimony com
ing from one so celebrated in oratory, must
certainly carry With it much weight, and
we think that any one who listened to his
eloquence on this occasion must verity the
above remark. Though not lacking in im
agination, his remarks were chiefly confined,
as the logicians would say, ad judicium. And
as he remarked about our great national
debt, no one could fail to be struck with the
aptness of his proofs and illustrations. His
speech, in a word, was one of facts and fig
ures, and calculated to strike the common
sense of every sound-minded man.
David Crawford, Esq., followed in his
usual easy, flowing, facetious style, dwell
ing at some length upon the services of the
"Hero of Antietam," and his superior claims
upon the suffrages fta 1
e people.—
It was late in the day ere the meeting
closed, which it did 'with "three times three"
for McClellan and Lazear,—satisfied that
they had spent the day profitably to them
selves and the country.
The following gentlemen acted as officers
of the meeting :
PRESIDENT.—Major I. L. Craft, Cumber
land.
VICE PRESIDENT.—SamueI Sedgwick, Jef
ferson ; Richard Phillips, Wayne ; John Loar,
Richhill ; L. D. Inghram, Morgan ; General
Joseph G. Garrard, Cumberland ; Isaac Mor
foi d, Springhill ; Jesse Kent, Esq., Centre ;
George Wiscarver, Franklin ; George Wolf,
Morris.; Silas Barnes, Washington ; Jeremiah
Stewart, Greene ; Justice Garrard, Esq.,
Monongbelia; Daniel Donley, Esq., Dunkard;
Patrick Donloy, Perry; Capt. John Scott,
Jackson ; Capt John flagon, Gilmore ; Jacob
Miller, .Aleppo; Hon. Mark Gordon, White
ly.
SEcumams.—James S. Jennings, M. R.
Wise.
Lazear and Lawrence!
These are the names presented for the
consideration of the people of this District
for the next Congress. What a contrast! Whom
will you choose citizens of Greene county ?
Will you choose your own fellow citizen,
born and bred among you, knowing your
wishes, feelings, sentiments and interests, a
sincere, honest man, tried and found capa
ble ; a useful citizen, a courteous, christian
gentleman ; devoting his undivided attention
to your interests, while discharging his du
ties as your Representative, ungrudgingly,
faithfully, and intelligently. Will you re-elect
him, or will you ungratefully disown him,
for Geo. V. Lawrence, known every where
over the broad limits of the State, as a hac
neyed, political trickster, a practiced disciple
of Simon Camerons' taught in his school,
and an adapt but little behind his great mas
ter in the devious wendiugs and chicanery
known in the crooked science of politics.—
Choose y 4 between thorn, fellow citizens.
Gen. John Cochrane.
Wonders will never cease. We shall not be
surprised to see Old Abe himself supporting
when the Stir of November comes.
Non. John Cochrane, the candidate for Trice
President on the Fremont ticket, made a
speech in Coicago on the 27th ult, in which
he said:
"When he looked at the great crowd
before him, lie thought that the good
old Democratic times were coming
again. That the constitution guaranteed
the right of the people to assemble peace
ably and discuss the affairs of the Gov
erment; that they had assembled, arid
with one voice declared against the re
election of Abraham Lincoln. He said
that he belonged to the Celtic race, a
nation that had ever proved her devo
tion to the cause of liberty by shedding
her best blood. He concluded by stat
ing that the Irishmen of New Ygrk
city intended to roll up a majority of
40,000 for M'Clellan, the man who,
amid bribery, corruption, and falsehood,
stood proudly above it all, and preserved
the'escuteheon of his character pure,
•
bright, and untarnished.
An Inoident.
We had the pleasure, recently, of seeing a
letter from the Army of the Potomac, with
Abolition preferences, to a friend at home of
the same polithas. Speaking of the recent
election in relation to the right of the sol
dier to vote he says: "You have played the
d-1 in allowing tilt soldier to vote; as
sure as the election day comes around two
thirds of the soldiers of the Army of the Po
tomac will vote for 3f.cClellan, if permitted."
Wadies twice saved the capital, -and yet
because he is a candidate for the Pres
idency, biweoln's office-holders eenounce him
as everyttdm; that is tnittoresis and vile,
Shenite: efifirEW
Reverdy Johnson's Letters
*e call the etteitticin dt our readers, WA
particularly our Re . publican readers, to the
i letter of Hon. Reverdylohnson United States
Senator from Md., published;in this week's
paper. This letter is short, calm, emphatic,
and quite to the purpose. Mr. Johnson has
not looked at the Presidential question from
the Democratic stand-point; but comes to
precisely the same conclusions, which the
Democrats have, and for precisely the same
reasons. In truth, nu man uninfluenced by
interest, or partizan prejudices, can come to
any other conclusion than that the re-elec.
tiou of Mr. Lincoln would endanger ,the res
toration of the Union, or at all events render
the indefinite prolongation of the wai inevi
table. Mr. Lincoln is wedded to his theories
and so entangled by his committals, on the
subject of emancipation and negro equality,
that hundreds of thousands of lives and hun
dreds of millions of money must be expended
without avail; and even success upon his
plan, (if such a thing were possible), would
leave us with a Constitution mutilated, and
State Rights prostrated, it not utterly blot
ted out of existence.
We ask the serious and thoughtful reflec
tion of our renders upon the conteuts of this
letter.
IMPORTANT LEITH FROM HON, REV
EROY JOHNSON
Scathing Review of Mr. Lin
coin's Administration.--MC..
Cielian the Mope of Ilse Na
tion.—Why Senator Johnson
Opposed Lincoln's Election in
(S6O, and why he Opposes it
In IS6t.—llon. Iteverdy John
son for McClellan.
WAsurrnTros, September 19.—Washington
was electrified to-day by the publication of
the following latter from Senator Reverdy
Johnson, of Maryland.
SARATooA SPitICS, September 14.
GENTLEMEN : Your invitation to the meet
ing to be held in Washington on the 17th
inst. to ratify the nomination of McClellan
and Pendleton is but just received.
It will be out of my power to be with you,
my stay here for some days longer being un
avoid•ible Opposed as I was to the original
election of Mr. Lincoln to the station he now
occupies, from a conviction of his being un
equal to its duties, the manner in which he
has met them, has but confirmed Inc in that
opinion! With more than two millions of
soldiers placed iu his hands and an unlimited
amount of treasure, his policy and his in anr
ner of using his power, instead of putting
the rebellion down and bringing to our ranks
thousands of Union men who were then in
each of the seceded States, and who, in some,
are believed to outnumber the rebels, have
but served the double purpose of uniting
them against us and dividing the public opin
ion of the Iva' States. The effect, of course,
is that notwithstanding the gallant deeds of
our army and navy, and the manifest justice
of our cause, the Union is even more effect
ually broken now than it was when his ad
ministration commenced.. Whalever of hon
esty of purpose may belong to him, and I
am willing to admit that he has had it, his
v&scillation, his policy, now conservative,
now radical, his selection of military officers
grossly incompetent, his treatment of those
who were evidently competent, his yielding
in this to what he has himself been often
heard to say as an excuse was, "outside pros
surb," his having not only not puni-hed, but
as far as the public know, unrebuked the
vandal excesses of military officers of his
special selection, shocking the sentiment of
the world, and disgracing us in the view of
Christendom by the burning of private dwell
ings, and depriving their otten exclusively
female occupants of home and means of live
libood—all demonstrate that he is grossly
incompetent to govern the country in this
crisis of its fate.
How can an honorable man believe that
one who has so signally tailed for almost 4
entire years, can be successful if another 4
years be granted him ? No one in Congress
certainly. Not twenty members believe him
equator at all equal to the mighty task.—
Fie has been tried and found wanting. Let
us have a change, none, if loyal, can he for
the worse. It is not that we wish to use his
own classic fignre to swap horses in tLe
midst of a stream, bat that when we aro on
a journey and safety depends on making our
destination at the earliest moment, we
should cast aside a spavined and thin horse,
and secure a sound and active one.
In Gen. McClellan we are furnished—in
the history of his life, in the purity of his
character, his refinement, his attainments,
civil and military, and, above ail in his per
fect loyalty—every assurance that, under
his executive guidance, the war, now so ex
haustive of treasure and blood, will be soon
brought to a triumphant termination, and
this Union which "at all hazards" he will
never agree to surrender, will be restored.
With regard,
Your obedient servant,
REVERny JOISSON.
McClellan and Lincoln.—Why Mc-
Clellan Should be Preferred.
We make the following extract from a re
cent address of the venerable Amos Kendall,
the confidental friend of Gen. Jackson and
the Post Master General under his adminis
tration: This extract sums up in a very few
words and in a moat forcible manner, the
respective positions of McClellan and Lincoln
upon the subject of the restoration of the
Union and the lest means to that end. We
nvite the attention of thoughtful readers,
Republicans well as Democrats, to those ex
tracts:
But McClellan and Lincoln agree on
only one point, and that is a professed
determination to maintain the Union at
every hazard.
They differ radically in relation to the
best means to accomplish that end.
Lincoln has a preliminary to the res
toration of the Union, and that is the
abandonment of slavery by the seceded
States. Be will not let them return to
the Union without the relinquishment of
a right held in *common by all the States
—by Massachusetts' as well as South Ca
rolina. To force the abandonment of
this right upon the Southern States
while it is enjoyed by the-Northern,
whether they choose to exercise it or
not, be would sacrifice hundreds of thou
sands of northern lives and thousands of
millions of northern money. In short,
he is not waging' war to maintain the .
Constitutional Union based on the equal
ity of the States, At to enforce on the
Southern States a new Union, in which
their relation to the Northern shall be
that of conqured provinces, deriving
their local institutions, not from the will
of the people, but from the prescrip
tions of the conqueror.
McClellan,oh the other band, would
wage war for no other purpose than dis
arming rebels and enforcing the Consti
tution and laws, just as they are. That
done, the Union would be ipo facto re
stored, and each State would stand in its
original position of equal rights and equal.
privileges.
Lincoln will receive no proposition for
the restoration of peace and uuion which
does not also propose the abolishment of
slavery,
McClellan on the other hand, "so
soon as it is clear or even possible, that
our present adversaries are ready for
peace on the basis of the Union," would
"exhaust all the resources of statesman
ship practiced by civilized nations and
taught by the traditions of the Amer--
can people, consistent with the honor
and interests of the country, to secure
such peace, re-establish the Union and
guarantee the rights of every State."—
McClellan is fOr the old Union founded
on consent, only insisting that the 1
Southern States shall be faithful to their
engagements.
Lincoln is in favor of a new Union
founded on conquest, and supported by
minorities in the conquered States back
ed by bayonets.
In short McClellan is for permanent
peace and Lincoln virtually for perpetual
war.
Which ought conservative Dem
ocrats and Republicans vote for?,
The Democratic Victory in Maine.
In spite of what tremendous odds the Dem
ocrats won their victory in Maine, last week,
may be seen by the following from the Boston
Pont:
The Republicans crowed about Maine
before they were out of the woods.
The latest returns, we learn by a tel
egraphic dispatch from Bangor, show a
Democratic gain in every county in the
State and that Cony's majority will be reduced
FOETY FIVE nurantED. Had not Republican
soldiers been selected and sent home to
vote for Cony, he would have been de
feated. Courage, Democrats—light is
beaming in the east. This is indeed,
gratifying, especially when we consider
the unprecedented exertions made by
the Republicans. The Portlaud Argus
says: "In this congressional district
the most stupendous efforts were made
by the army office-holders. They ex
pended greenbacks as though they had
nothing to do but to print them, and
they gathered speakers into every town
by 'swarms', such as Governor Andrew
has never hurried forward to the battle
fields. There were over thirty speak
ers upon the stump in this district from
other parts, including Vice-President
Hamlin, Ex-Governor Bout well, Senator
Clark, of New Hampshire, and so on
down to the rebel Gantt. Never did
men work harder, or with more unscru
pulousness as to the means used."
THE SOLDIER'S VOTE
Every township in the State should,
without delay, get their county ticket
and send tickets, and a collector's re
ceipt for ten cents tax, immediately to
their soldiers in the army. The rolls
for each county, cannot be obtained, and
each county and township will be obli
ged to take care of itself Let the peo
ple of every township remember that
upon their own exertions rests the respon
sibility of this soleher's vote. Soldiers at
home on furlough, and new recruits are
constantly going to the army ; these
should be supplied, and every other
means, by letter, and through papers,
should be exhausted to send tickets and
thus give the soldier the right to vote
the ticket of his choice.
IX4...Coulden't the Republicans send here
a few more speakers of the sense and man
ners of the man McCook wlm exhibited him
self during the past week on our streets?—
The democrats want no better instruments
to advance their cause. Even decent Re
publicans were ashamed of him, and were
glad to shuffle him off at the earliest possi
ble period.
Scannutuirationo.
For the Messenger.
Congressional Record vs. Wateman
T. Willey.
'WAYNESBURG, Sept- 24th, 1864
Mews Editors:—l gave audience to speech
made by Mr. Willey of Morgantown, on
Tuesday evening last, in which he stated
positively and without qualification that Geo.
11. Pendleton, the Democratic candidate for
Vive President, being a member of Congress,
had never voted a dollar for the support of
the present war. It was presumed that a
gentleman, noted for truth and veracity,
would not have made such a declaration in
the absence of proof to substantiate . it, yet by
reference to the Congressional Globe, 2nd,
&s. 37th, Congress, 1861-62, part 2nd, page
1686, I find that this same Geo. H. Pendle
ton, voted for the army deficiency bill, ap
propriating $30,000,000, to pay the soldiers
who were unprovided for by the regular ap
propriation hill for the year ending June 30th,
1862.
From this it will be perceived that Mr.
Pendleton, not only voted for an appropria
tion of $30,000,000, but actually by this vote,
endorsed and approved the original bill, the
deficiency of which rendered this act neees•
sary.
Without amplyfying the subject I would
state that Mr. Pendleton never voted against
any bill far the sapporS of the army, of a
purely appropriation character; and in com
mon with other democratic members voted
against objectionable and unconstitutional
clauses agaiust slavery in the States and
other provisions of a kindred character.—
They stating, however,at the time,that if tLe
unconstitutioal clause were stricken ont they
would vote for all those bills. Mr. Pendleton
also voted for the bill to increase the pay of
soldiers, and thl resolution to pay them in
Gold, against both of which the names of
nearly all the Republican gembpre appear
upon record.
Mr. Wiley made a false statement, either
ignorantly or designedly. Oar charity in
duces us to say ignorantly, ant} we presume
Gs a gentleman he will make a. public correc
tion of the same.
A friend to the Constitution and Union.
For the Messenger
Glorkwe Demonstration.
A great McClellan ratification was held at
Taylortown, Dunkard Township, on Saturday
September 17th. On motion of W. F. Mil
ler, the following officers were selected.—
President John Bowlsby. Vice Presidents,
Thomas Fields, Joseph Province and John
McClarnan; Secretary, Jacob Province. The
President on being called to the chair, intro
duced A. A. Furman, Esq., of Waynesburg,
to the audience, who responded to the call,
by delivering an eloquent lnd patriotic speech,
which was received with great enthusiasm by
the people. The speaker gave satisfactory
evidence that our only remedy, to secure
our liberty,
, restore the Union on Constitu
tional terms, and preserve the flag of our
country, was by the Election of Geo. B. Mc-
Clellan to the Presidency and Geo. H. Pen
dleton to the Vice Presidency of the United
States. The meeting was largely attended
by men of all parties, and the Church near
which the meeting was held was filled with
ladies, who felt a deep interest in the meet
ing and the welfare of their country. All
thanks are duo them. After the speaker had
concluded his remarks, he was saluted by im
mense cheers and firing of cannon. The
meeting adjourned until evening, when the
town was illuminated in honor of McClellan
and Pendleton. The following Committee,
L. Russell, T. Maple, A. Y. McElroy, E
Haynes, W. L. Miller, James McClure, J.
Philips, A. 'faller, J. Wesley and S. Dusen
berry, took charge of the meeting of the
evening, and they called the lumens e
crowd that had gathered around into
procession, which was led by a band of
music. As they marched and countermarch : .
ed through the town, the cheers for Eittle
Mac, and the booming of cannon told to the
surrounding neighborhood that the people of
Dunkard and adjoining Townships are awak
ened to a sense of their duty. Fellow demo
crats of the county, follow our example and
make the Constitution and Little Mac your
watchword and cry.
JACOB PROVINCE, &Cy.
Another Account of Sheridan's Vic-
tory.
NEW Your:, September 22.—A Her
ald corref.pondent with Sheridan, in his
acfbunt of the great victory, says :
The enemy was first met at Darksv ille
by Gen. Averill, who drove in their
pickets. At the same time, however,
brisk firing was heard on the left. Gen.
Averill then formed his whole'division
and advanced, finding the enemy in
line at Bunker Hill. They proved to
be Imboden's force of retreating caval
ry.
Just as our artillery was brought up
and opened tire, this force scampered
off fn a most ridiculous manner. An
other advance was made, and the ene
my fuund near Stephenson. Their ar
tillery opened briskly, and was respon
ded to by Wier's. Averill swung his
force around, so as to bring it upon the
rear of the rebel artillery, and at the
same time our force pressed forward.
Simultaneous with these movements,
a thinking column was sent around to
the left where the enemy became con
fused, and we pressed forward, silenced
their artillery and drove off the support
ing This movement brought
a junction of Averill's and Costar's for
ces who had crossed the creek higher
up They had not met with so much
opposition, though at Brucetown they
encountered a heavy force which they
had attacked vigorously' while Averill
was crowding the enemy from an oppo
site direction, forcing them to get out
of their position as soon as possible.
Averill's division was on the right of
the pike, Meritt's division on the left of
it; Custar's brigade on Meritt's right,
and Powell's on the extreme left. Thus
formed, and on going a mile or so, the
enemy's cavalry was found in line.—
We advanced to drive it in, when the
enemy made a charge against our left
centre, striking full on Costar's front.
As this column approached we prepar
ed to meet it. Sabres were drawn and
all was got ready. On came the rebels,
their sabres flashing, and with hideous
yells scattering themselves so as to
make their liue attack as fierce as possi
ble.
Just as they got within pistol range
of Custar, his brigade went forward
recklessly upon the foe. Then (he
whole of Averill's line dashed forward
to the attacking party. The rebels
could not stand his attack and gave way,
and on went our charges, cuttino• '' and
slashing through their ranks, About
this time the cavalry line pitched on
the infantry line, and constant fighting,
charging, &c., became frequent along
the whole line at one and the same
time. Schoonmaker's brigade of Ave
-1 rill's division, charged and took the for
tified hill in view of Winchester.—
Powell's brigade, same division, was
making and receiving charges under
heavy fires from Fort Jackson. Wier's
artillery was engaged in shelling re
doubts from Winchester, Merritt s di
vision keeping up a heavy demonstra
tion on the left of the pike, Creeks'
corps advancing and attacking the reb
el batteries on the opposite side of Red
bird creek ; Terrie's corps pouring a
rapid fire in on the left of the enemy,
and Wilson's cavalry cutting in toward
the enemy's rear. Far to either side
of the Berryville pike the whole of this
could be seen by one person.
At this time Cook's infantry wa*
attacking the rebel batteries, and Av
erill's cavalry flanked the enemy's ex
treme left and occupied the sumunit
heights west of Winchester. The en
emy's extreme left occupied the
summit heights west .of Winchester.—
Tne enemy was then turned out of the
work known as Star Fort. This was
very annoying and several efforts were
made before the enemy were obliged
to leave. As soon as Cook's infantry
got in line to adyance the main front,
a brigade of Averill's cavalry was sent
around to cut Ott their retreat, when the
enemy skedaddled in great haste.—
Very soon after the enemy could be
seen dashing out through the main
street of the town, taking the road to
Starsburg.
Latest fror- - .% the Shetland
PURSU T VIGOROUSLY CONTINUED
LOSS OF THE REBELS 10,000 !
THE FEDERAL LOSS ONLY 2,000 !
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Information
received by the Government up to elev
en and a half, a. m , to-day, makes it
certain that up to this morning Sheri-•
dan has secured 5,000 prisoners, and
every hour more are being sent to the
rear. The rebels had 7 Generals killed
and wounded in the engagement,
Rhodes,Wharton, Gordon and Ram
seur killd, and the tory Bradley John
son and Fitz Hugh Lee wounded.
The pursuit was vigorously contin
ued yesterday, and is doubtless being:
pressed to-day with no less energy.--
So far, it is certain that the rebel loss.
was at least 10,000, and the operations
in the course of our pursuit may make
double that number ere the cud of the ,
work. The highest estimate that Ita , r ,
reached here of our loss in killed,
wounded and missing, is two thousand.
SHERIDAN'S LATE BATTLE.
REBEL LOSS BELIEVED TO BE 1.0.000.
Fall of Ljnehburg Probable.
NEw rola:, Sept. 21. —The Tines'
Washington special of the 29th, says
excift Sheridan's grand success near
'Winchester, is noted as the first victory
achieved by the National arms in the
Shenandoah Valley, but it is so mag
nificent in its proportions as completely
to wipe out the long series of reverses
ifhieli have given to that region the
designation of the Valley of Htnilia
tion.
The loss to the enemy in killed, wound
ed and prisoners will, it is beleired,
reach not les than ten thousand, while
the circumstances of the enemy's de
feat leave Early's army in a condition
little short of au absolute rout and de
moralization, and bearing on that portion
of the great problem inmediately before
Grant is of capital importance, and will
go far to decide the fate of Lee's army
add Richmond.
The tremendous importance ofLynch
burg as connecting the only remaining
line of railroad comunications with
Richmond has compelled Lee to retain
in the valley full halt his entire force,
and notwithstanding the terrible strait
he has been put to fin• lack of troops to
meet the movement of Grant, the fatal
menace which the presence of Sheridan's
army in the valley constantly held firth,
has forced Lee to submit to them on
peril of the loss of Lynchburg.
The army covering that point has, by
Shridan's splendid success, been dis
rupted and demoralized, and we may
at length look for the execution of that
movement in the valley which Las al
ways been an integral part of Gen.
Grant's programe of operations for the
capture of Richmond. Other co-opera
tive moves, not now proper for public
mention, may be expected, and those
best informed of all the elements of the
military situation, feel the most assurance
that we shall take Richmond before the
Presidential election.
The Late Railroad Accident.
Philadelphia, Sept. 21.—The dis
patch announcing a very severe accident
on the Pennsylvania Railroad, is not so
complete in its details as a statement
made to us by Mr. L. Converse, of
Bucyrus, Ohio, who was on the train and
escaped without injury, The train left
Pittsburgh at 9 o'clock Tuesday night
and at 4 A. M. ran into a freight train,
demolishing the engine and forcing the
baggage ear on top of the first itssen
ger car, which immediately caught fire.
Our informant states that tho formost
car in which the loss was greatest would
contain sixty passengers, and seven or
eight are known to have ef,caped. The
doors were locked, the car was crushed
and partly covered with the wreck of the
baggage wagon, and coals from the
locomotive fired the baggage car, which
communicated.
All on board say that only charred
remains could be found, which were be
yoild identification. The coductor was
recognized by his keys. Six or seven
who still lived when Mr. Converge
l e tt were in such physical agony that
nothing could he gleaned from them.
The passengers in the third alga fourth
cars were saved without injury, but the
cars themselves were burned , Mr.
Converse thinks more lives might have
been saved if the doors of the cars had
not been looked. Survivors to the num
bers of eighty-sic substantiate his
statement to flea effect.
The Wilderness Battle Field—Some
of our Dead Remain Unburied.
A couple of Wisconsin soldiers who
were severely wounded in the battles
of the Wilderness last Spring. succeed
ed in crawling into the residence of a
Union family in that vicinity, where
they were carefully nursed, and they
have just come in. They say large
numbers of our dead still remain un
buried on the battle-field, and that skel-.
etons of many more are bleaching
in the sun. The most of our wounded
left in the neighborhood after the bat
tles,died for lack of medical attention.
Kir A Porter in a hardware store,_.in
Cincinnati, on Friday last, while engaged
in the fourth story of the building in
hoisting a lot of 400 or 500 ax handles,
fell through the hatchway into the cellar
a distance of nearly sixty feet, and
alighted squarely on his feet. The
impetus and the shock of the fall, how 7.
ever, threw him violent!) , imme
diately after striking the floor, injuring
his head and chest somewhat, although
not seriously. The cat-like and unfor
tunate porter was taken to his residence
in Covington, after receiving surgiclit
aid, but it is not likely his wounds will
confinchkint it) the house more than two
or three days.
Spend not the morning, the
quintessence of the day, in recrea
tions; sleep itself is a recreation, add not,
therefore, sauce to sauce
careful of your table-talk,
Dio all your biting at table in biting yonr
food, polt le luting in your remarks