...TTIWTia^IW; *1 St ' Ull .'ab iviirs 1 |c either hired lab >rors or what .we .cal) sl:i utid further it 4a aoos miiiglu tteir own. labor j rjb capital —th «t is, tlmy Itibof' witli tbei-r »; j-ii b-mls; ami nl-» * or hire citln'rsb. labi- tjforthi'in j but tbi.> a luixi'd iilrl uot a» fetiuct cl.i". N • principle aiafuj is diaiinoj 'spied by ibe (Xi.>teuce of tbia mixed cla-s. ; Again, as,,lms'v.pdy been sanl, there'' is not n( ■; thfng as iln- five bird 1 abi*n■ rb> i- fix. >1 in ilml cmidi hdi for lifo. M.my ff )p_|n mien ne i rvi r) wln-rc in these States ; !,J| |f Ji’.us h.« k in tli- i r lives .were bird-'iob ners Tlie prudent, penniless bcgin’tj V-ln the world labels for Wages awhile-, s.njjQ-iji surplus with which to buy tools and hini-i If, then labors on -im own account; pnolher "while, and at Icnirfh hiiers'alio|lii|i') new beginner to h Ip .him. This is jlihj j-n-t and g-remus and prosperous si stem-; which opens ihe way- to all, giivt-s hope and con-cqnenl etn-rgy add [hngt'ess in .the inpinvi no-nt of their Condition to all ( men living arc more .woriliy to he Iru-'KjiVlnm those who toil up from povi-riy ; tQdL h-w inclined to take or -touch'aught have not- honestly tamed. L'-tllu’i fbeHarc o( snrrondciing a polilicaf pnWcr w hji they aln-ady pd-sc-s, and. winch, it ftei Ai ted, will 1 surely b.- Used to close the! ot advancement against -gneb as tbey, and jjn fix new dis d'nlitn-s and buideu' upon tin tjj- ml all of libelty shall be lost. 'i f‘ From the Grst t Ijfingi-f i-ur mitiotml census to tlie'last are , fteiity vais, and we find our population.ah. lie end id ibe p. ri ■ d eight times as great a- t «j- at the beginning The increase id if.aV'o'ber tiling' which im u i deem desirable. I;.ri4 hieii i ven gieatcr. We thus have, at m|e;l \ icw, what, the popular principle, applied fto govi rnment, t hr-nigh the tnaehiia ly op, the St,it,es and ihe Union, has produced in a; given lime; and abo what if finnlv piomiseS lor the future. Theu* ah'e'ni bendy among us those who, if tlie Unmp.be pi (-served,, «i II live to Bee it contain *i5G[!00",000. '1 li C btl 1)1 to-day is not altogether tor to-day. It is» fur a vast future alstc * £ With, a firm ivlhmcp on Providence, all' the more earnest for our prvsjeui troubles, let os M pr-ocrcd itMhe gieat tu&k which .events harder- dvpd-upon us. - J .Abraham Lincoln. 3, lb6l. *r ,r ,m Listen, !—The Frankfurt (Kentmky) 'ComfyittVKaUh wi\s:—“The reb els have two full|i'j'iniHnis of negroes in L-«u* iainna. They ha** I Three or’ fb\ir regiments nf Indians in the fi'f l, armed with .tomahawk* and scalping .ktiij ft, in addition to the ordin ary- weapons of wtiif.ile. They have'a battal jiun of Nashville ft} 'enne«*see) Stale Prison con victs in the field, (l*ie Bull Pup*,) commanded by a beast (R< ti B j«i) that served ten years iti our. Whit do the professed Union men, win* m> shm-ked about the con tingency hinted John Cochrane, way tu these fact**? The*;! approve them, of course. THe confederates can do nothing wrong. II they violate the Cl i-Btitgiion, the rules of de cency and the law*''nf civilized sl is all right, because,’', they have no Constitution, no decetivy, o-nd in* o vilization. But the Gov ernment miist nifloTe -strictly to the ConMitu tinn4 and throw ifs-uroreeling arm around the traitors who n»e trying to destroy it. Out upmi such hypocritical ylant sjiy we. A straight out, open, and avowed lebcl is infinitely above Union men; T The death of , ruß 'President’s Friends Alas for lh» dioul. hours of honest IVifnilr-liip ! the goodfv.fellowsSiipof noble spirits I Whore tire the goodfellow's who were friends at Spring field in tile bappier ( days? IlmlenV spirit went up through til*’ auirK.'y canopy whose baleful shadow' over the battling b’igions at iftienii Vistii; p.ssel pushed frnnl lingering pain tn Paradi-o,lnquired in the highest by tlie State Unit ha', had biiiored ; Douglas lies under the prairie hud in the dear State, whose half-estranged betirt burned with enure than the old love for .liiip before ho died: Belter rests glorious in ilpatbi a precious offering to llie , spirit iif Fn-i dom to which through life his worship and Lincoln stands, lonely,in his powl-p, a sadder, silenter, greater tnatl than of old, cr neihegi'nnmg tn sift its early snows upon the hliieltpe»sof his hojr, his heart heavy with the Porjf .iws t>f a nation, his mind nnd soul pledged to si lemn and self-abnegating effort to, keep Iroor i oriment in his hands the costly treasure. of t institutional government. —Say's Sketch of 0 I. Baker. ‘ Size of Our A| ;v. —The Boston Journal bays that, if the h of the Potomac was in line, muring ion a., ’ arrow country road, with cavalry four abroad iiod men in file 'of four, ocpompanied byj all. the wagons and nmbulnn ,ces and ammunitior trains, it would reach from Boston to II 'tford—not far from one Jiundred and fifty a' l bs. • Blaved Our. —T-'f't' l| ar.estoM S C. and Au gusta- It .I,loan, »tilth one year ago used 120 looomotiyeB, 'no'.v os* four. THE AGITATOR. HUGH YOUNG, EUll’oB & PROPRIETOR, WEttSBOfIOtTGII, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 11, 1861. a®“Thc election of George Opdvke—a gen uine Republican—as Mayor of the city of Now York, on the 3J inst., gives new hops to the friends of the Union. IDs oppononts were the notorious Fernando Wood, an out-and-out seces i .-i. sionist who ought to be in Fort LaFuyette, and :0. Godfrey Gunter, a Tammany Democrat. The rote stood; 0pdyke,"25.584; Gyrither, 24,813 ; Wood. 24,174 j; Opdyke’s plurality, 771. Ma jority fur the Union, 26,226. Well done, New York! BsalfMueh of our space is taken up this week by ihe President’s Message, and we know that no one who fcj-ds an interest in the welfare of our country fill fail to read it'. It will be found exeeedihgly brief, when we consider the large amount’kif information and the many im portant suggestions contained in it. Consider ing t lie peculiar state of the country, resulting from tlie rebellion, its general condition is re garded as exceedingly .favorable. It is itself s» much condensed that it is not possible even to mention itsjmany points without writing an article almost Its long us it is, and which would not be near so satisfactory. We say therefore to every one of our readers, “read it, for you will find that i!t will repay a most careful peru sal." : WHAT WE THINK. The Democrat tries to crawl, out of its whole sale repudiation of tlie bogus Union platform which it swallowed six weeks ago, by trying to saddle upop us tljGb 'iews of ii traveling charlatan whose name was never mentioned in this piper. In the came issue it invites our opinion as to: the order of Gon. Ilalleck pro hibiting the slaves of rebels from entering the Union lines, and returning to slavery those who may bo found within said Tines. The Democrat knows, or ought to know our views on the question of slavery in all its Aspects. It has denounced us, and those who have acted with us, as abolitionists for a number of years, and we are surprised to be interrogated by that paper as to our opinion on any aspect of tl>e question. To set it at rest for all future time, we will now define our-position in as plain language as we can command. We believe that slavery is a crime against God and humanity—that it is a moral, politi cal. and social curse,—that it blights and'has blighted eiety where it has found a fuwthold. Ours bring a political newspaper, we have chosen to di&ouss shivery only from a political stand point, leaning the discussion of its moral and social relailiuns to the pulpit and the reli- gtoas press. \ In our discussion nf the political relatione of slavery and its) tremendous influences in sha ping the de.st’mfies of the republic, we have had for opponents oply pro-slavery apologists, some times called democrats. Many of these were sincere in thejr belief that slavery-propagan dists could do no wrong—that the country could not be governed rightly, unless governed hy a pro-slavery Administration—that the “rights 1 ' of Southern brethren" were abridged unless all the territories of the nation were thrown open to be cursed bv slavery—that a man was a traitor who refused to catch and send back a hajnted fugitive who had no trial. We have had much experience with this class —a class which the Democrat may recognize under any name it chooses. Wo can see some thing of the old spirit of exultation in the DemoaaCs announcement of Ilaileck’s order. We -believe the [order to be totally and radically wrong. It is ttfue this war was not commenced tor the purpose of abolishing slavery, but we cannot doubt thjat thin will be the ultimate re sult. The war j was commenced to bring back the rebels tu a sense of ibcir treasonable con dition and to re-establish the authority pf the government everywhere. Slavery was the cause of the war, and slaves and savages are now . be : ng used and {armed to fight our troops. If you doubt this, jreud an article in another col umn from the tjninkfurt (Ky.) Commonwealth. Would not the government be faithless if it did not use all the means in its ‘power to suppress the rebellion wiithin the scope of the laws of war? Within this scope is the confiscation of property, including slaves. This Government has no constitutional power to hold slaves, and hence every slave confiscated is one slave made free, "Wdl the hcmocrai argue that the Gov ernment has not the right to place arms in the hands uf free men (no matter bow made free) for its defence ? The expediency of thus using the free ne groes of the South is entirely a military ques tion. ■ Gen. Cameron, th« able and efficient Secretary of War, believes that the slaves made free by the treason of their masters, ought to be employed in (Jvery way possible against the rebels ; that they ought to be paid fur their la bor; that they lire fee forever. John Coch rane, D. & Dickinson (the Democrat's candi date fur the Presidency last year,) Edwin Crosswell, and ninny other leading democrats believe in this dlictrine. Almost ail Republi cans believe this! to be the true policy of the Government. It is hardly nece*mwfor us to state that ice be Have in these viewsfand if the Democrat thinks jwe are any more of an abuli tionistthan we were a week ago, we trust it will let us know.! ■ . • —lining thus answered its queries, will that paper give us its views on the. present as pect of - the slavery question? -Now then, let ,vs hear from you’! THE TIOGA COli'TY ; latest was mews. : By way of Cairo we have intelligence of a reported battle at Morristown, Bjist Tennessee, on Sunday last, between the Union forces un der Parson Biownlow and the rebels, in which I , v . . , . __ the latter were totally routed. The story conies fromithe Memphis papers, and they admit that it was a Union victory.—Brownlow is said to have ji force of 3.000 men, but the number of the rebels is not stated. ~ An ordor has been Just issued by General McClellan, directing that all officers and enlist ed men of the volunteer service now prisoners in the hands, of the enemy, or reportod as miss- ingj in {action, or that may hereafter be taken prisoners or reputed missing in action, bo transferred tp skeleton regiments, to be formed by the .Governors of the respective States, and to jonsist entirely of such missing officers and men. Major General Ilallock lias issued an impor tant order to his commanding officers in Mis souri, directing them to arrest and hold in con finement every one found in arms against the government, or those'who in any Way, give aid’to the rebels ; and ordering that all persons foujid jwithjn the lines of the army, ih disguise as Ihyhl citizens, and giving information to the enemy, and all those taken from the ranks of the rebels in actual service, shall not be treat ed as (prisoners of war but as spies,! and shall be shot. lie further orders that the Provost Marshals of St. Louis shall take in charge the numbers of Union families who are crowding into i that, city—having been plundered and driven from their homes by the rebels—and quarter them upon avowed secessionists, char ging the expense of their hoard to them on the ground that, although they have hot them- selves plundered and driven forth these unfor tunate people. they are giving aid and comfort to tjiose' who have done so. Ben McCulloch with his army, hasjgone into 'Wiilter quarters on Pear Ridge, near Benton ville, Benton county, Ark. The Rebel, Hays, witll 300 men, made a dash into Independence, 1 S' r Mo.j on Monday, and seized all the horses be longing to the Pacific Stage Compapy, beside 'making a general confiscation of all propeffy beluning to Union citizens. On Friday a party of exasperated citizens of Sadalia, Mo., attacked a going of returned rebels from Price’s army, under C ipita. Yoqpg and Wheatly, at a place about twenty miles west of the place mentioned. Teni of the rebels were killed or wounded. Aming the killed was Captain Young. The latest from Price is that ,he has moved a short distance from Osceola with a part of hi* force. Tjhe expedition which has recently been fitting out from Port Royal was to shil on Mon day last. Much impatience is felt by the troops because they are not allowed to take Savannah and Charleston. The destruction of cotton by the rebels, in order to prevent it from falling into jour hands, is wide spread. T(ie Richmond papers of Monday contain a dispatch, dated Savannah, the 4th inst., which saysl that sixteen Union vessels were inside of the bar, an 1 that an attack on Fort Pulaski had commenced. The Richmond Dispatch of. Monday says that it is currently reported that Gen. Floyd’s command has been ordered to another impor tant post for duty. A telegram, dated Nash ville, 3d inst., says Gen. Floyd has fallen back to w ithin 30 miles of the Virginia and East Tennessee railroad. Striking Coincidences.—On the 7th of No vember, 1837, Elijah T. Lovejoy was murdered at Alton, Illinois, by a pro-slavery mob, for pub lishing, in a free State, the moderate doctrines ofanti-slaveryism. Last year, the twenty-fourth anniversary of Lovejoy’s death was celebrated by the cheers of a nation rejoicing over the elec tion of a-President from the same state of Illi nois, chosen for his adherence to principles iden tical with those in defense of which the martyr fdl. This year, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the same event has been commemorated by the glorious capture of the forts at Port Royal and the planting of the Union power in the heart of the stronghold of treason and slavery. The Union Flag Up in all but two States. —The National Hag now floats over every se ceded State, except Alabama and Arkansas. In Virginia over one third Of the State; In North Carolina, at Hatteras Inlet; in South Candina, at Port Royal and neighboring islands; In Georgia, on Tybee Island; in Flori da, at Key West, Santa Rosa Island, and other Points; in Mississippi, at Ship Island; in Lou isiana, at. Candaleur Island: in Texas, at El Paso; and in Tennessee, at Bristol, Elizabeth town, and other points in the eastern part of the state. Member* op Congress in the Arut. —Among the members of the present Congress now in the Retire service of the United States ngainst tire rebels, are Hon. John H. MoClearnand and lion. Owen Lnvejoy, of lllinuls; Kellogg, of Michigan ; Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts/ Senator Sherman, of Ohio ; Hon. John S. Phelps, ef Missouri; lion; James S. Jackson, of Kentucky ; Hon. McKee Dun, of Indiana; Senator Lane, of Kansas, and Edward Mc- Pherson, of Pennsylvania—Col. Curtis of lowa, ru-igned his seat to accept the appoint ment of Brigadier General. Capt. John Brown Again.— The Grand Rapids (Michigan) Ragle contains an advertise ment from Capt. John Brown, Jr., the son of the well known Ossawattomie Brown, of Virginia antecedents. Capt. Brown is raising a company of sharpshooters, to be attached to Col. Mont gomery’s Regiment, and Gen. Lane!s Brigade, Kansas. A company of sharpshooters, under such men Brown, Montgomery and Lane, will do good service against the rebels, and the hunt ers and lumbermen of Northern Michigan are precisely the kind of men to do it. Gen. Patterson’s Defense.— The most strik ing feature in the defense of himself offered by Gen. Patterson, is that it har been delayed four months, and until Gen Scott, upon whom it casts all blame, has left the country, in snch a state of health as to justify the expectation on Patterson’s part that he would never return to jut in his reply. GXTATOE. PEOJt THE BUCK-TAILS. Biddle'» Letter—Whit Crocket thinks of it and, its writer —■ The j sklrmish at Drainsville—The dead and wounded —The prisoners don't ad mire Buck-tailsi — The, names of the Buck-tails discharged on Recount of ill health—How the boys Thanksgiving day—The'prize turkey , and toAo von it — George Kriner of Company E. Head—Under marching orders —Tice Camp Chimney a failure m bad weath er, &C„ &C. ; I Correspondence of tpe Agitator. Camp PiERPONr, Va., Dec. 1, 1861. The Philadelphia Tnqiurer of Nov. 28th i« before me, and I have read with wonderland a feeling of regret, Ithe letter of our once, beloved and honored Colotiel, Charles J. .Biddle, as he declare? his determination to resign bis'com mission in the unity , and leave a regiroetrt that would have died flor him, to mingle his voice among the councils of the notion, j I do not wonder that Col. Biddle is about td leave the cold and muddy tattle fields of old Virginia, to spend a gay winter nindng the festivities of a great eity, tnd mingle with the master minds of Araerici in the halls of Congress; hut I do wonder that he did not eome out like a true statesman, and let party spirit be buried among the reverses of the past, which he so unjustly heaps npon the weakness and short sightedness of the black Republican Adminis tration which now rules in Washington. I do wonder that be lores hie party, or the ruins of what was once a party, more than he does his country. Col. Bi Idle well knows that when the fall of Sumter awikened the sleeping millions of the North to a true sense of their condition, and the dangers which threatened them, they arose with a voice that astonished the world, irrespective of party ties, or the names they bad learned to love, and said: “Let usgoTurth to battle, and crush out forever this unholy re bellion, forced upon us, not by the Re publican party, bjit by a band of dipappoited politicians.” This is no'lime to harp politics, or the cause of th|e war; it is upon us and it is our business tolput a slop to it in t,he quick est possible manner. lie has wounded hearts that he can never! heal, for nine-tenths of the regiment that lie has commanded so pbly and so lung, once belinged to the Republican party, but to-day they bdung to no party bat the par ty that would fight and die for the l|jnion. I read it with feelings of regret, because ha took us when an “akwkward squad” of. mountain eers, and all that We are, we owe' to him ; he has toiled with us faithfully during (he 'long, hot, summer months, until wo, to-day, as u-reg iment, stand second to none in all the vast ar my of the Potomaje, and as a colone), 1 have never yet seen hisi superior. He is just the man \ we want. He is no coward, but is a| true sol- | dier, and 1 honor and respect him as il military commander, but this does not deprive mo of the privelege of differing with him in politics, or iu opinion as tb the causes of all dur troub les. Colonel Biddle is very much nlissed by this regiment, and without him, wo feel like a ship’s crew tossing upon a stormy sea, without a captain. ' 1 - A skirmish took placs last Wednesday near Dranesville, between a party of rebels and the Ist Pennsylvania, Cavalry, which resulted in the death of three rebels, three wourided, and eleven taken prisoners. Five of our men were wounded —two, mortally. One of the wounded rebels was brought to our hospital,| together with one of oors. , Our man was cujnfcciuus of liig situation, and IsAid that he only vyished to live to see the traitor die : he said ha cbuld not, would not die firjt—and when tolif that the traitor was dead, (ie sunk back and said lib was ready to die. I sjw the prisoners before they were taken to Washington ; thly word a ihard looking set of meli. They were not upif rand and some of their clothes were very ppnr ; one of them was a Lieutenant, ana a deserter from the regular army I —another was a Lieutenant Colonel—another sin old gray-headed Willi permission, I pissed the guards where I could get a at them ; as I approached within a few feet of the pen, one of -them, an old hard one, caught sight of my buck-tail ami spoke to one of his .comrades near'him' and said: “There is one of them d d buck tails.” One of thjem was a man that sold us groceries when we were out on our last (skir mish ; then lie wak a good Union man, ni)W he is a traitor. The) fact is simply this—“it is good Lord or good devil” just as the case hap pens to be. ! The Tioga boys discharged are (Co. A) Uriah Brimmer, George iKimball, James V.npbinder, (Co. E) James McCabe, J. R. Ogden, (Co. G) Simeon Benson. There are more that ought to be discharged, for! the army is no place for sick men. Thanksgiving was kept in this section of the army the soldiers enjoyed themselves "eating oysters and shootibg at a target. Odr regiment shot for prizes, a turkey, two bbls. ofj apples, and twelve pair of sucks, which had pre sented to Colonel Kano hy an old lady ninety year? old. Private Herrick, of Company A. won the first prize, the turkey. Privates Cyrjus Wet more of CompanyjE, and Cyrus Margorsun of Company G, tied, and took each a bbl. of the apples, one half fdr their own use, and one half for the Company. , The socks were divided be tween three privates in other companies. A. 1). Baker of Westfield, came within J qf an inch of tnk'ng the turkey. Mmy of the shots would have plunked a rebel’s eye at one hundred yards. 1 Private George W. Kriner, of Company E, died in the hospital last Wednesday, of camp fever. I don’t wiib to find fault with men in power, but it is a truth beyond contradiction, that our quarters ;.re not what they should he for the cold winter which is now upon us, and we could easily rai.ke them much better, if we were sure of rem lining here any lehgth of time: but we are under marching orders now, and know nut what hour we .will start. L ist Thursday i lorning. our caiifp presented a eomical sight, ard still it was no desirable job. Many of the boys have dug the bottom of their tents down two or three feet, and made a little fire-place—ihia goes good in dry wiiivth- [ er, but the mornin ; referred to, was a very stor 1 my one, and daylight found them with a oiim'p kettle, throwing mud and water out of their tents. One great, comical yankee, in Compa ny G, said they had bailed.ever since midnight, and the water was a foot and a half deep then. Coi.. Crocket. Appearance of the country—lts desolation—A trial of skill — Holland’s Company, first-hut " — Co. E, not in the ring — Col. Biddle, resigns What his regie lent think of him. : 1 from another Corresp mdent. Camp Pieupont, Va., Nov. 28, 1861. Knowing bow anger the friends at homdl are to receive thesmal est item of news from, the Tioga boys, I will venture to trespass upon their patience and good nature, that is, with your permission. We t.re at present encamped in a beautiful meatJo'T neqr a small town called Langley*, and are surrounded by the encamp-1 in (he wind, and the mentsof Regiments. composing the Penn- ( man, in my epinion, should b. i, lttri! sylvania R. C. V. The present appearance of into the gate, if he look* the country. I imagine, would somewhat aston- neither commissioned. ' or «*" ish the 1 secesh”inhabitant* -who formerly oc- officer*, without a pas* f t0 * ?! copied this section of Uncle Sam’s farm. One officer. - might ride lor miles and never see a fence rail. hov. 25f/i.~To-day. anotw they (the rails) having been split into fire wood of firearms by the eleventh recin? to cook the invaders’ meals. Whole acres of celled the one above mentioned t, timber land, and groves of shade trees have it is said, have drawn their th't,. been sacrificed, and have fallen before the keen and will march for the South axe and sturdy arm of the North-man. Fine, One o’clock, battallion drill young orchards have been ruthlessly leveled Capt. Tarbutton. who ha* been., with the ground, to make room for the reviews Washington tw a drill tn»,t er . £"! of the troops of the Union, _ teresting iHovement, The boys of this company (Niles’) are in fine At 4o’clock, dre*a parade-^ii spirits, and are waiting’to try their metal with mes on the ground, being p„ ‘ the boasted chivalry of the South. Our regi- j* interesting. 9 o’clock roll ii i,lent bad a trial of skill with the rifle to-day. bed. Roll call at 6A. M ‘ and as far ns I have seen, Company A, under half past 7% breakfast #f Capt. Holland .of Tioga, made the first best vrormy crackers. If the eoldie ** shot. Our Company (£) being on guard, have ton and in that vicinity, Hav.* 1 bad no chance, as yet; but hope to have an op- than we do here, 1 pity them fa portunity to measure swords in a friendly con- of my*heart. ( test with our friend* and brother soldiers to- After breakfast, one hour’* drill morrow, in which we hope to come pretty close then to the wood pile and get i to the center,!,if not to hear off the palm as the load of wood, and then to our ° best shots in the Buck-tail Regiment. o’clock, battallion drill, at four lam writing in the midst of a general gloom Nothing of importance has « f which has .fallen upon the Kane Rifle Regi- day. Mw,< ment, in consequence of the rumored resigna tion of our fcolonel, Chas. J. Biddle, who has been elecleti-tn ; Congress. He stated in a let ter in to-day’s Philadelphia Enquirer , addressed to his constuents, that it was his intention to resign his commission in the army, and repre sent them in the Congress, about to assemble at Washington. To say that we would miss him, would but do him justice.' He is a thor ough soldier, ,an accomplished gentleman, a man whose good qualities have endeared him to all who have come in contact with him ; and I may say that there is not one man who has been under his command since we started from Harrisbyrg, blit what is willing to fight under him at any odds whatever. I believe Col. Bid dle to bo the only man who could have taken this regiment, so successfully drilled and gained the confidencejand esteem of the men under his command, ana in saying this, I but express the sentiments of every man in the regiment. As one of oiir hoys expressed it to-day : “A boy at the age of ten years, might better lose his father and mother, and be thrown penniless upon the world than we to lose our little Col onel.” Give us Biddle, and we will meet the en emy anywhere and at any time, with full cutj fidence of success. Soger-Boy>! THE TIOGA MOUNTAINEERS. The Mountaineers and their Officers —The Camp Tite Eleventh—Good weather and bad—A funeral —The Mountaineers on guard—A good deal if bad whickey “ confiscated” —Eight prisoners—Friceleged characters—The duties of a day — Soldiers’ fare, cL’c., tfc. From another Correspondent. ' Camp Cirtis, Nov. 23, 1861 Allow me to trespass upon your columns with a few lines from Camp Curtin. I enlisted and came t» camp the Ist day of .November, under Cant. J. S. Hoard. ■ Our company is called the Tioga Mountain eers, and a finer company you will seldom see. We are a jolly set I assure yon, and when we get down nmengst the rebels, we intend to take each of us our man, as fast as we come to them. By the way, .1 think that C.ipt. Hoard will make a very ; he has not a very extensive knowledge in military affairs, hut is trying to learn something, and doubtless bo will get to be a Major General, in time. Our Lieutenants are both of them, good jolly old boys, full of fun and frolic—l think it a pity tliat all of our best military men, are kept insubordinate offices; why not make them C donels or Generals, at once, where they can make tliemsehes conspicuous? We have a splendid camp giound hero; our tents are eight feet square -at the bottom, and .eight by nothing at the top. Th -so with a few loose boards, cnstitute our dwellings. Trim four to five of us occupy one tent, so that we have from four to five blankets with the same number of quilts, which we brought from home. . With these and our overcoats, we man age to keep quite comfortable, as far as sleep ing is concerned. To-day we had a grand display of firearms by the eleventh regiment, all drawn up in bat tle array 1 , for the purpose of instructing the meq in loading and-firing by companies, and by tight and left wing, which was done exceed ingly,well by the right wing, all firing, at the command ; it sounded like the report of but one gun. The left wing not so well, in conseqotnce of firing at the word, “take aim,” and not waiting for the word, ‘'fire!” t 0 b e gj y . en, but take it altogether, it was a grand dis play of firearms. The weither to-day, is warm and pleasant; there is not a cloud to be'seen. * Kuv. 24 th. —The weather to-day is told, with occasional snow squalls. This morning is a solemn time in camp, oc casioned by the death of two soldiers who were buried with military honors. The whole regi ment following to the grave. First, the hearse containing the corpse, next the bearers ; in rear of these the Brass Band ; still in rear of these the privates, and still farther in the rear, the Commissioned Officers. We ail. of course, paid due respect to these pour soldiers, not knowing who will bo the next to be called hence. I could but drop a tear, as the proces sion passed a line of soldiers, drawn up on each side of the road, some forty rods long. Possi bly my turn may come next to pass through the same ordeal, and yet, to think that wo of the Fforth should lose one man from our ranks, men who have gone forth to fight for our free dom, against tyranny and oppression, but-we must leave it te Him who rules the destinies of individuals, as well as nations. Last night was an Interesting time with'ns, our company having been detailed to guardnhe gate entrance, there not being another compa ny itj camp who could do it satisfactorily, every Company on the ground,' having .been tried, except our«. My first tour was from four o’clock, rfhtil eight Pi M.. malting four hours, which was worth a whole week to me. It would have done you good to have seen the liquor we took from the soldiers who had it concealed nest to their persons ; some having to take their clothes nearly all off to get to where it wn*. But we of course had to do it; this was oor duty. When we got to where the whiskey was, we emptied it out, and put the soldier iu the guard house, until.we had eight in prison, each one having from one to two quarts of whiskey, and all pretty drunk. These were all privates, we having no right to meddle j .with a commanding officer, they being privi-1 leged characters, which I think is wrong, for! they are “fond of the critter,” and ,a great many came in, as we supposed, pretty well” “forked,” or iu other words "about three sheets Gek. Houston not death of Gen. Sam Houston, of T true. By the last account* 'i, t 6“ Civilian,,he recovered eof Wa)to danger. ■ WELLSBORO BOOKS! 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