/ ? j* • ' .■*; .'S*L IT::- 1 ; :.’j ■ • ' /"r!f 7 • , From tbd Eeansylvaaift. - | ' ■ : J '-OAaP,NEiu WAT=ktn(^'‘,j •• ‘ November 14, 13.62.'; , Mb, -EDITOR—TKis - pleasant day: finds qjho 45th Pn. Tola, fo cam[V near Wliite't jak Cfsk. Faquier Co.'Ya., where wo,have tyen| fbr|)fhe past week. We left the camp -whege ;.m‘S |ast ( fatter was wrote, Sunday, Novembdir 2d[> after ■ burying our brother iaoldier s -jJJ;I'E. j ' Jones, who died . suddenly at that) place mjfar Waterford. Corporal jqnes has bqen wiyl|lhe Company every since it first came from bli|Ti oga. go was taken' ill, after the; batilttjirli of • Maryland, and went to the General sod had but'reeehtly returned to JuV, lie !was o,good soldier and died like such., | ; 'j|f' f After lenvifig'Waterford,' we wept ?n a sfijjilh Western direotipp,through the fnwpq.bf Hamil ton, Percilsville, Phijotpupt, DnioiLßloo.nifißld. Eectortown, Salen), and several jiihers. ijVe passed to the left'of Vestal’s, Gregory’a. Snick er’s, Ashby’s, Manassas and Chester’s Chips, and to the right.of Fhorofare Gap and Plains, and ore now seven miles from Warden ton Junction,- arid two fretn Waterloo. jTlfe 7tb of this mpnth .it spewed hard all day pnd wit- wry disagreeable to us" peer if Hows’ who had to pack up about |noon and hhe miles to this piacp and, pitch ’yjrl tools*in t s snow, but-a copplgof days the -sjftiw g-tie and the groufid dry once j|n<)re, )We* I: .-.-e out, as yetoom.e it) oorpact witp the-re|els, •.a.it is more than rebel citizens tU|ie we met', , y" day. - The rehels are said' tcifhave tfeir "i quarter* at .Culpepper, abmrj 25 ■ miles V, 10-re. - They have a conei'diinibhj of a e Fr.irot Royal tin tlie Shenatthmhfßlirer LO miles distant; They are a!v>al.V&tpd , k and |jDuv ! e/-s are iu possession of the country ,6BJS|. of li Ridge, the rebels the' west. 15' lubes west of Bulls Run nnd-.8.u11g-RuD .ijiliCO .miles west of .Washington, makiog'qs about! 3S hiiK-s frniii the Federal Capital. For, the sStij-ifac tion of friends nt. home I will say IJncle Sam clothes and.feeds us well, emd for (heir -befA-lit I will give thq amouotof tipw fo days. We generally get'about ten eracijters a day. all theLpork, beef, and coffee one, needs, but for the past week we have been ratbemver stocked with' har.d tack.. Last .'Mundayiwe drew one and a .half; crackers—these ,hii|l to hist us for. this nest fopr .days, but we. dtjojii not suffer aethmg nethere.was any scorn iij'.llye fields any where in reach, for we could diiike. a very good cake of grated cord meaf and-'wju'iit bran ■_« lib'll could be -hmight for .five cdnli'jpU) - pound. One-iroeble was"the awble &-'.;'hi|i-:iir disappeared from this vicinity-, and j ust/jpon Gen. Burns cotnniaiiding'Dmeioiv,j with a fitful tale of isurrow and- distress ijmbe, half of j'OOr’etai vibg and‘wfnds up by giving nll'gunrds .and jpatrclfs full-diwerty to slmoi without "mercy alt poor pimishwlsui,- diers that should, get the idea ,tha| his ’empty stomach required that hfl should' feed- Himself with a confederate porker or' cabbage plead, that,is if hfshouW' attempt to act accordingly. But at last ,after four days of 'fasting tfljlow loads of hatd titek hove in view, anil, we [trust* in future'we shall get a ’plenty. • Tjie reasHjt pf the stoppage of otlr bread- we lear|h wasflthat our Gen. Somebody did ftot pay tfufficienf at tention to hie rear, and' after our troops [bad passed a certain gap in the mountains the Reb els came oat and confiscated our hnrdita ’ Well this may bo all-right,'at feast,'it show great generalship in said sntijebody. We are in daily[ezpectafion of feavihg, We will probably pass through WJjrren'tqi fo in the direction of 1 Culpepper.* CuUAj left, the Regithent yestyday mornlhg fur | on'private affair*. Ho' is expeotfd to ri within n week. Company K are filing pij< duty for the Division and . guards’ Gei). heath -quarters. This Burns* rekeij Captain In the-Regular Army, atny was pt ted to Brigadier General rn the t&lunteel vice. Company It, and sevgn meiijof Gan) I, are permanent gnardaefor (Jen. mandiug' 9th Army Corps. Get). JSor now has full swing on’the Pominae, ■ speedily acquainting himself with, fiis <Vfls<i in a few days all will go on as before we 1 Onr Post Office address is’ yet ; n,t' ton, D. C. - ’ ■ Cnasi GRV. C.4MBROS AKD THE NEGRO —Gi Cameron, American Minister to St. Pijter now in this city on official business," is (oi be a very agreeshle and entertaining tul|!er.-s- Soroe nf hid sketches of the scenes he when in the Old World'reoiiil the viVid’pihturc,- so admirably presented-his (jxpa.iiinnj.-a in Europe by, the lamenthd Stephen A. I'uhgUe, Genet al Cameron not only daw ' the •oof interior of Russia itself— its innbiilfty >mi -'serfdom—its Emperor- and ilji Empress— . h • traveled*, and observed .intyjligetlitjly the . vhvr and customs of Italy, Oerfpany.'lfance cv.nLind, Ireland, and England. fOne'KaldpntV h he" relates with great humorj.iiAeVve : .. lociion -in the columns, of 'Waily !(,. , ■ \ , H ii;nvinq;|nt a small German town ftp|the ~:-,g ri Whitsuptiile—which 'is a f|npiu'a livbrite holiday with the Lutherailj-—lie .. \h ,crook will) the decent and : oOh|fi|jt-:ibli -,.i'-i-.ir tnee of the, people i who crowdiltlj,the •i; reel*; but what most .interested blip « i ul stout, and" impreessive, negro, Ibtj packer Othello, even before he.was reprelemed „s a highly colored gentleman. Supposing oim to be an-American negro, Mr. iCaiiivrun ■aciit up to him and said "How are 1 yiSu, my friend 7”—using the Bennsylvitnja Gcitiiiliiii. in wrnich the : Oeneral is fi sort of adept—wiieii, to his infinite .horror, the colored individual, burned upon him and said, in good .guttural jput’ch, “I am no American ; X am an African, and if you tire an American, L,do not want to talk, to yog. I won’t talk, to any. man who ffnin a country professing to be free, In which Ipumaii beings are .held as slaves."- ‘ Ajtid this was said with a magisterial aiid indignant, air ,that would have.been irre-istii.'iy ' severe, if at.; had not been irresistibly omniy, , Gen. C.onevcin mate h’is. e»cape|*wi|h, llie hen gsace pcs-ible ir mi ids stilwartaiid-sable an i .igonist.,)nni supp.ts.-t lie had got rid o| hiyi, but on_ passing into an ,i,j.,, i ,ng Sah-opwilh Secretary,-Bajtv.d Taylor, to take, a -goids of lager-beer, he. was again eunfrontid -■s£, the German Afrioanns; who reopi-ued bis tjiWls of wrath, and concludod by turning toi theVGen eral and asking him in broad German, t }:Sagh bin ieh re-cfd,orbin ichunrechiV which pi’eaos, "Say, am I right, or amt I wrong! Answer 1 Gen. Cameron made inquiry a’s- to flja joegr'o, and ascertained one of the nobility in . the neighborhood, who had spent some'iyears in .Africa in’a sc.iiiiifio and hunting tourj brought i back with liiin to 'Germany a very handsome native, who in course, of’ time, nevelopetE into the individual that-sought the uppotuiiity to I administer a rebuke to an American who lived in a country professing to he free, yelt pcog niting the institution of bnman\Slav i * , WOOL, CABPIMC CILOTH DBEjSSING., /.V TUB OLD FOVXpBY ±T Wellsborocgh, Tioga County, Pa- TTPHE subscriber having fitted op lie place for ti* I ..pdrpose of .Wool Carding end- Cloth DreSfW and also would inform the people that we will •“ wool to manufacture on shares or bj the yard, tot customers, and,would[inform, the people tint w card wool at-anytime,‘as "our works rnn powar.Ttnd also that allwofll will be p or cent,«jper pound.’ "Wool and pi’Odßce’WiH M Promprnftention will be p.id.o ill u V Wo wilt give •, JOHN EBB. ■ ... mllahdra,7oo6 11,1882: • . -f,. _ . . - . .. -••■ rfen. , p. " r j' ! I'j < TH<E- WELLSBOROUGH, PA., ■WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 3, 1862, “ The Union in its integrity, above all THINGS EI.SE, FIRST, EAST, A*D FOBEYEiI.” Present -Democratic Platform. ■ “ The Cnion as it was whcn-slavenj ruled it, and the Constitution as it is, <i« slavery in terprets If" ■Through ilie operations of the National Taxi Lair; the materials upon which we rely for the publication of a•'newspaper, have .advanced in, price fruin twenty to, fifty per, centum. The paper maker receives for each blank sheet nearly as much as we receive for it after it is printed.' T&e price of Jiving, and of course the price of labor, have greatly increased.— Jlany country newspapers will be stopped en tirely under the pressure of these hard times, manyf-have already increased their subscrip ■thin, and even the daily papers ore about to ad uance in price. After much consultation with, and advice from friends, we have concluded to raise the subscription of the Agitator from One Dollar —its present pries—to One Dollar and a Half a year. We are compelled reluc tantly to do this in order to counteract;the ! .sudden addition to o.ut expenses.'. This change will not take effedt until the firi& of January next, and all new subscriptions, ,fir renew als-of subscription, made hcf,.re that time will ho at the old rates. We ask our friends, there fore, to come forward and aid us ,hy prompt renewals before the close of the year; The pael year has been a hard one for all newspapers—city as well as country. The,de pression in business df all kinds hos~ made a consequent scarcity of advertising, and adver tising is, in point nf fact, the life-blood of the newspaper. The Agitator has'suffered some what from this cause, but we believe—oind we shy it with gratitude to our friends—that the increiised circulation of the paper during the past two.yeals has made mure, than apod this 1 loss. Oirr circulation is-now nearly double that of ttny alh'ir paper ever published in the county, :and‘dtlr list is steadily increasing. Of course we expect M lose many subscribers by the pro posed change in price, but no one can blame us-for making this change. Should the com ing year bring easier limes, we shall either re sume nur old rites, or erflargetbe paper so as to make it a fair equivalent for the price. Grateful to nur friends for their confidence ami support for the past four years, we shall in the future try to merit both, not only by devo tion to their interests,'bufalso by our integ rity to « hat we'belie.vo Vo'be correct political principles. J6Sy”,The Democratic majority on joint ballot in the Legislature is only one. Some fears hare been expressed lest we should lose the United States Senator and Stale Treasurer, through bribery and treachery. We have no fears on that point. The man who betrays the Democratic party at a time like this, will be dis posed of in a very summary manner, and the man who is elected United Slates Senator, or State Treasurer by corrupting members uf the Legislature, will not enjoy bis illgotten tri umph, The public at large will not be trifled .with. The member of the Senate or House of Kepresentatives who deserts his colors, -will hare a fearful responsibility resting upon him.—Sul livan Co. Democrat. iere. and f-w. Sprue |juVn jsVoBt urns ilv a .The'Democratic pony in the South tried to defeat a constitutional election by the crime of treason ; the some party in the North now pro pose to defeat an election by assassination; First of “ the man who betrays the Democrat ic party;” and then of the Republican Senator ami Stale Treasurer elected by such votes. The ■step front} treason to secret murder is a short one, but the penalty for these crimes is'snmewhat more certain than it is among “ our hreih orn of the South.” If we mistake not there will be a dozen or more to he ■ assassinated. “Come, come, my friend put by your whittle,” ahd keep cool. - < ~ oattv ft Ee and |t(V.pe, suing I mernl The Tribune’s. oorrespohdentsienr Fredericks burg, under date of the 30th, says that the Reb els still continue to fortify vigorously on their second line. It is believed in our official quar ters the Rebel force abou and within call near enough to cnoeeoirate against u« when we cross the river is from 100, 00p tn’125.000. The President, the War De partment and Gen. Burnside are united in the view that the army must not go into Winter quarters. The present delay, owing to certain changes in the situation, is only to take such steps as will insure the Vigorous and successful prosecution of the campaign when it reopens, Under yesterday’s date we learn (hat vegetables are, greatly heeded in our-army, and scurvy and fevers are inoreasingtfrnm the.ir lack. Cannon ading was heard down the Rappahannock on Saturday night—supposed to have been firing by gunboats. No hope of help from Europe; the fear of insurrection in the Southern States during hol idays, tile desertion and sickness of from 60,- ■ 000 t 0.100,000 men in the last ninety days; the failure of their-Merrimac No. 2, tho prospect of a V Yankee on to Richmond” movement un der Burnside ( whom they fear ) has caused a tremendous paniayn Richmond for the past two weeks.' The.forts around that city have- been manned in a hurried manner; *lhey (the Rebel-) have plenty of raw provisions and an -abundance is being concentrated at Richmond ; their army is badly off for clothing ; Leo is on 'the defensive with his available force, rind Burnside is pasted oa.aU the facts, and, he is preparing himself. •Albert Pike, bimpolFbearing a Geneasl’a com miHbion under the Paris usurpation, charges Gen. Hindman with ordering all the’-wells in the country through which Gen. Curtis' army would hare to pass to be poisoned. Is it possb Ide to conceive of a more fiendishaet ? Yet there it stands upon the blistering record as the de*‘ liberate charge of a rebel chief against hit broth* AGITATOR. .UGff YOUNG, EDITOR £ .PROPRIETOR? OUR PLATFORM. SPECIAL.. NOTICE. THE WAE NEWS, Til E T 10« A CP UN TY AGJTA TO R. 'From thV 52d Pennsylvatdi Begiment.- Extracts frow a Private! Letter. ' X"\ Tork.iwn, Va.,iNqv. 25, 18^2;. * * \?e*Have not leftSfeis place to r ji>in the cFpeditToh To Texas, tlmt T spT.ke oßoitf in my-dast,. nor we.have not, taken, filchtuotid yet, but we have been on an-expedition of some im portance,-of tfhich I iwUP try- and - give.y.ou some of the' particulars, *■ ' *' When we easts in from dress-parade on the evening of the 22d, we, were, ta.ld to .cat our supper at once aind lie ready to fall in at any n)oment but' pur overcoats and cantdensj beside*;o'u "guns atiif equfppage. Much wonder: was indulged in in regard to where we were going, and’ai~ first it was gen erally believed Iby the men that the- officers wanted to see how quickly W could be.-got in to linev or that we were gnirig out on- a sham picket, ; ‘‘But when lit was'found that, some sledge hathmerS were to rtccompany us, the mysterious -word “ salt works” was passed around, and then it-was concluded -that some thing was-op npd a jolly time was’expected. About 8 6’ehick' we inarched down to the l w.hnrf and embarked onboard the gunboat Mahnskn. Here we found a, detatchment from rlie lllb Maine,! and [with the' companies E. K, and ll,"from the 52d. there wan alioufeSOO men besides the marines and sailors. The Mahaska was chartered by the government about nine months ago and was in the James River while Cur army was at Harrison’s'Landing, and with the Vest cif the ghribonts shelled- the rebels at the battle of Malvern Hill.' : After the army left Harrison'S it joined the blocka ding fleet at 'Wilmington, K.C., where it re- |- mained until a few nays ago. Its armament! consists of 6 nine inch guns, 1 100 pound ri-; fled gun, arid 212 pound howitzers'—the ves sel is 900 tuns ilnrden After we gi)t on board the vessel started, but after going a short dis- ' : tanie down the'bay, it Caine to a stop and re mained there fi|r’_ a' couple of hours when it started !\gain Hie afterwards'learned that a launch which was in'tow and carrying a Bold -howitzer, had broken loose and the hah - was hinds' to enable the small boats to. And it; but owing to the darkness nnd the water it was lost, nnd it doubtless sunk as soon as loose, for the sea was iso rough that llie waveti swept over the wired hOuseiand into the quarter deck. We were accompanied by the Putman, carry ing two guns and the May Queen, u little tug boat with one gun at the bow. We were ex pected fo be joined by another gunboat called the Crusade at the moiith of the York River, but after cruising up the hay to the mouth of the Rapnnbannoc without finding anything of it, the vessels turned about seven o’clock the next’mnrhlng arid started oh the back track. We left Fortress Monroe to'onr right, entered Bob Jacks Bay; and from that inW the East River. "We went up the river about ten miles and came to anchor at n place called Holland Point ip Mathers, County; Va. The troops landed 'from the Mahaska at a fine wharf oi£g the east side oif the river, which here, is wot over half a mile wide, at a wharf ma le mostly of oyster shells, and were ’by about forty of the marines, armed, nnd drawing a 12 pound brass field howitzer. We had not proceeded inland more than a quarter of a mile when a person was seen about half a mile off and ndvancihg toWnrd us. A file of men were sent to receive him, who took him to the main body where he was questioned by nor Major', who ha'd command of the'expedition He confessed he was for the' Union before the war broke out, but now ho was for disunion, as'every other true hearted Southerner was, and before we;got through with them we'fou-nd that lie was about correct. He was sent back to the gunboat under guard, much to bis sur prise if I am to judge'hy the way he begged to be allowed to return home. But bis en treaties were of no' avail, nnd ns he was marched off between glistening bayonets he doubtless wished he had no.t come to see the eleohant quite so soon. After marching a short distance further we saw,a couple ,of J men with puns, running to wards a piece of woods-directly in our front. Our company which was on the van started af ter them at double ’quick, and after a few minutes run we 'reached the woods "and de ployed as skirmj'tiers by the left flunk, hot they had pot too much the start of us to he caught, and after a fruitless search we re turned to the. main body ot the troops. We continued ip; a southerly direction at a quick march and after going six or seven miles we halted on the 1 lawn which was shaded by trees of more than a century’s glow th, and in front of a.splenoid mansion. Our Captain advanced to the door where he wps met hy a gray haired old man, and who asked what our business was, and in what way he could bo of service to us. Our Captain briefly told him that our business was to de stroy his salt-works tlpit were being used to furnish salt fur, the ,rehels. Ho might have guea«ed mif business, still the, news seemed to give him anything but pleasure. lie asked permission til get his hat which was granted, and with a coqple of guards he entered the house hut refused to come out again. Ue brought by force hy the guards, but bis family consisting of- four young ladies dressed in mourning, and it wo or three, small children, who crowded on the piazza, and up some tall screaming and begging for thetr father; but their entreaties were useless, but; they were informed that their father vyould nqtj he hurt. They soon ;recovered their , senses , and then Uddly faced our men and looked scornful enough at uls to appear ridiculous !if nothing worse. . , A squad !pf men went mend searched the house* imd after sending a number of times to the owner after different keys, they ..returned with a couple of young men whom they had i found secreted, in the house.' One of theji ; had been iri the rebel army, had beejn wounded and discharged. Meanwhile a detachment of l men were sent to the rivef and ;destfoyed the ; pans, kettles, and arches used in boiling tha ; salt, and when these returned we went into the cellar and found about -150 bushels' of, fait which we destroyed by carrying and scattering it over the ground around the house. There was a large, number of barrels of fish and, great quantities.of farm produce also, but the orders were to destroy that only . Intended for the useof the rebels, sq they were not (unshed,. After destroying the salt, and, works on this •plantation,.; the owner whoso name is Smith, we with.our prisoner went about a mile further and destroyed about 30 bushels of salt, together with the pans and kettles that it was made in. One old lady came crying out and begged us to spare one kettle as she would have .nothing to intake suup in; if she had said sail' she would doubtless have told the truth. * About a mile further we found more salt and kettles which wo destroyed, and with their owner we came back to tbe place where.; we' found ibr* joind by i dojachmentof our men, who, under Capt. Hilf, jif.the_lUh;:M.e., had been engaged in the same business in.jajiolher direction. A large num ber uf boais' were found on-shore containing tire iOrltwriter, and-Hrese wore emptied and de stroyed. The portion of JVjrginia that the ex nedittlm led-us into, is the Snest. ITiave yet seen in Dixie,. The land i* levej, ns the urj.- ■ru filed oceangahd apparently very-fertile.— There were beautiful mansiong on every plan tation. wjitlc,jtbe white cabins of the negroes and great barns that surround them gives' the appearanco of a little viHage on every -pianta tion./, % , j V ;;1 ; / 1 1') iT . •,;' ; ■ large herds of cattle, sheep,‘swirte, and poultry,-tn- abundance— were -passed, quietly, feeding in,'the fie.ldiy had it was with tpuch rs .luctanee llmlithey Were passed, unto united by the soldiers and marines, fiut,(iur orders were positive til'touch.ho private property, apitwhen some of,the men did- on some turkeys, the officers com palled ;them ,to return them to ■their owners,; With the threat that if the offence was committed -again, -the', offenders would he pot under arrest. J - The only thing wanted, to make, the farm complete, wafi fruit trees ; especially the ap ple, fop there was generally peach orchards, though-bat ftjw other tpyes except ornamental. Peace and prpsperity seemed ro reign on every hand,.and as;we marched on in,the warm sun shiny,,we could hardly believe that this fair State was engaged in a desolating war, so great was the contrast between this ‘ and the other portions of the “sacred soil” over whicluour army,has passed. After haying accomplished the. work we were sent on, we returned to .the wharf which we reached, about seven o’clock thtit evening, and went on board the May Queen, and were -carried on board the Mahas ka, which was at anchor out in the,' stream, having destroyed four or five hundred bushels of salt, about forty, pans and kettles, .took, twelve prisoners and about thirty contrabands, j though none were taken hut what had been s employed in making the sail, The next morn- ■ iug horsemen were seen passing along'the fidge j uf apiece of woods, about one mile from.the | shore. About filly of the men of the Putman , landed, and mm died off in the direction of the | horsemen. About the same tint? an old man . came in with a flag of truce, who informed our i officers that a squad of rebel cavalry were in j the woods, hut tnyy probably fled at the ap- i proach of our men, for in.a couple of hours i they returned without meeting them, with the i exception of, a lieutenant and corporal, of the I 11th Me., wHb had gone to a house to get 1 their breakfast, where they were taken .prison- j ers by the inhabitants. After the men from i the shore returned -to their vessel, the anchors were weighed, and the three vessels steamed down the river and into the .Chassepeako. Be fore proceeding far, we discovered the masts of ] the Crusader ahead, hut when wo came out, it hove anchor and started for Fortress Monroe. ( The Crusader is an old three ,mast, sea going | 'vessel, and carries eight guns, hut I was not [ near enough to ascertain its caliber. _ , j X-forgot tivstate that while we were on land, .destroying ,ttye salt -and works, the May Queen proceeded farther up the River, and horned •three schooners belonging* to the reticle. The light was very br'gn't when we returned to th,e "boat*. IM’oie the vessels started on the return, the sailors were sent ,out in th? launches and picked up a large number of h-mts that-were moored the shore. The best, of them were, retained and the'poorer ones scuttled and sunk.y * t ' The knowledge of the existence of the salt works, was derive ! from nn intelligent negro bor> who a short time ago fled from h man by the name of .Smith, where the largest quantity of salt "was fount! in tiny ‘me place, fl*> led: the way to a 1,1 the salt we found, and soemed to he more delighted to lead us to his awn master than any other place. If his master had the power, ha doubtless would make quick, win k wub Isaac, (for that is h£s name,) hut Isaac is safe in our army, and he will probably be de prived of that pleasure. The run back to. Y.pdfctown, was perfirmed safely, and pleasantly, a£d about sundown we reached the wharf and landed amid a crowd of soldiers who,were anxious to know where we’ had been gone ami what we had done, while on our part, we were highly pleased with the expedition. It is rumored that we will soon j go on another such trip, and the order to that | effect will be- hailed with pleasure. If we do I go, and anything of interest occurs, I will let ; you,know the particulars if I am able. Al though I have made my letter quite lengthy, 1 have pasned jover much that, might interest you,. but what I have written is poorly .expressed, bo 1 will write ho mure this time. j ITrom ttiues’ Company. Camp Fayetteville, Va,, 1 November 15, 18G2,. j Friend Acitatob — A. week has passed since 1 last wrote,| and in the .meantime we left our camp at, Warrenvon and advanced some thing like Pen miles in the direction of the llappahatinock River, and are now encamped within about tvyo miles of that stream near the place wherelthe Orange and Alexandria' Rail Road crosses ft'. Nothing of interest has oc curred during the past week and wqre it not for our military surroundings and the general desolation and barrennesspf the country .about us., one'could easily imagine there wag ho war. But as Vie proceed the deserted homesteads,, fenceless fatiuis, and the charred ruins'of what were once happy homes, tell us, and but too plainly, that we are in ibe midst of war. Poor old Virginia;, siie has been the theatre for con-, tending armies until to-day, she is a desert. She has fallen from her high position among the bright sisterhood as “ Mother of States and Statesmen," to become a nest for tbe black est tieasun that was ever hatched and a Mother pf the foulest traitors that ever disgraced the name of main ; anil bow fearful hits been her punishment; It will take mcentury of industry to place hey |where she wap; only two short years ago, and it will require many centuries to .wipe from her name that foul, stain upon' her name and honor which haji taken upon herself in,her league with treason.. But we will leave her to a fate which she.has richly merited and try and talk of matters with which the friends ; a,l home arej mure nearly concerned. ‘ * "/ We .are Waving beaqtifnl .weather and the health,«fr the treops hero,,,is excellent. The Ducktails are in their usual good spirits and will,- if they have a chapoo during the present campaign add something to their already proud name. ; We, are now armed with Sharpe’s, breech loading Jiifle, a heaatifnl, and if one may judge from the increased confidence which ' the boys feel in their invincibility a most ser j useable weapon, they were uaedf. by onr regi- I ment foy the first time at the seoimd battle of j Bull ilun, and the rebels who were opposed to j tbfcm there could not be induced to fight against ;-Uwbi at Seuth fjounuin, This is few axebsl office ifSvbo gjisonef nt t|ie latter place &y our sWmmsh4ine! and is prdtiy good evidence a» to their efficacy and the tparkman ship qf'the Buek'tails. K a—A nta»ber-»f4)fi«ep»-firom- the Reverses are j now absent for,the purpose of bringing from "llirrTsSurg afofof the draTEeiTmen'wifh whom il-is proposed to filbup.the. old ( regiments of the ! tied?, timman.uf our Com- 1 pany is the representative for the regiment, and I believe is to bring 540 men for it. This mum* . bcrivnoltf mate a huh 'addition to our thinned* I ranks, «b-o«t-number ei(M»-aU-ti»ld amounts to ; i but litllfi oyer three hundred men.' 'There is a | ! rumor floating,about camp which I will , j not be con Armed—totbe effect .that -the-Stata r Authorities will'.notsonriithe *ien only as full companies and that the old companies are to be consolidated.' / This'excite* general indignation among'the nrunps here, and I hope if'true that the matter will ba ! reconsidered. The -men who have .in the service sincd the com- , mcncemenl of the war do not like thus to be | cheated nut of their chitneesfo)' promotion even '1 if they cared nothing about being officered,'by. recruits,-nn3 they Hope that the Authorities, will not deal so unjustly by them. . There is a great deal" of feeling amongst the troopsibeTre as to the removal of ! Gen. McClellan, and tinny are the conjectures | as to what will he done with him, some assert- i ing that he is to take the place of Gen. Halleck j whb.is again to take. command of one.ofvthe 1 departments of the West, while others are equally certain that.he - Ts to he removed en tirely, and thnlTor the' future he will, have no com log rid in the, A r .my of Virginia. Whatever may he.the motive for bis removal just at this time, I am not sure that, the- tpove was a’wise one, for the fact cannot be denied that the men ’bare more.confidence in and will fight, better for him than any man who has bad command of them thus [ far. The ceremony of’ leave taking was jterfiirmedjjusrt previous to.our de parture from'iWarikntion, and though marked by no particular event made an impression on me that I will; never forget. About noon.the men were ordered into line and. soon after ns ■ far as the eye could reach, the bill sides were covered by dense misses of men drawn up dn iioe by close column,, awaiting, they knew; not what. j . | ! . Soon a paper was handed to the. Adjutant of i each regiment who proceeded to read the Eare ! well Address of'McCbellan. It was very abort, i lie first cungratulated them upon the victories I they had wop, and spoke: sadly of their dead 1 and wounded comrades, and then added a few I words of encouragement and cheer for the tri i als which they, were about to encounter and concluded~wjtb a few Words of patriotism-, such as none batjk patriot heart could utter. Soon after the Gerieral himself appeared riding down 1 the lines. lie was accompanied by General 1 Burnside and a numerous stuff and rode so [ close to the,, front rank that he could have | toaohed-any ; man in ir. Has appearance at the i bead of eocfairegimcnt was the signal, for the 1 most deafening cheers and the wildest Admin istrations of affection, i • Could you have -heard :-you would have wondered and asked yourself as I did, nhd is - this men ? who had scarcely been heard of two years ago, and who now has gained suchA hold upon so many thousands of hcartsj and whose name has become a " hoose sold word.” pßut nhjlell have been stinging, the General l|a,S passed on .down the line, and the column is moving towards camp we will leave thijiu with every -man’s heart sad dened by the occurrences of 7 the. afternoon. Gen. Burnside takes command in place of Mc- Clellan, and |tbungh as yet an limned •' mam with a huge army, has shown to the country that he Could; handle a small one quite offerlu ally. Aliy success.attend him. Wnn,t say juo kind friends at home ? will you join your good wishes fur bib welfare and success to those of f * SOQEK BOV,. A “Wbipplino HoLTjE.’'—A ci rrespomlant .of The Jlhsaouri Veviucrat, unun-g limn Jl'lena, Arkansas, under d.vtp ol Sep'. 9, dc-crine-, as follow*, one ,»f the beauties ol Uo* “peculiar institution ;”j ; ■ , ( “Perhaps ynur readers are not aware that whipping negrpes is a regular business in some purls;of the S loth ; hui such i» undoubtedly' the ease. Improved machinery lias been in vented and p|ut into operation, and whipping is done dy wholesale, , “An institution ofj this kind is located at Mayena, 25 Pules from this place, on the St. Franc a routjj ! The ‘‘whipping-house," as it is called, is about six feet in diamater and ten ‘feet high. 4 shall runs from bottom to top, on the upper end is a small cog-wheel running horizontally,‘ into which a large . wheel works. Tfte propelling power is a robust Oegro. At tached to thd shaft uru leather thongs or straps about two inches wide. Lashes are inserted in these, and when the shaft ia in motion they reach the heck. ‘ Near by is tbe office and stripping-house. Here the victims are divested of tlioir eluthing. and live or six are placed in the torture-room, door being fastened,-the negro on hold.of. the crank; the proprietor, with watbh in band, orders the machine to be putin motion. ' Cecil A. Deane. . l“Around whirls the shaft at the rate of. 200 revolutions per minute,..with straps and lashes extended brtlising and lacerating the p.ior vic tim with thousands |of blows, extending from head to foot. Fifteen .nqinutes is, considered by the proprietor—Hampton Jones—to be a reasonable time to grind at'batch of human flesh; and then it ia so very.cheap, costing but a dollar peh head. I do think it very nearly equals hell itself. Nothing for human torture could be.more terrible. ’ A thousand scorpions stinging tbdjr flesh qould not inflict more pun ishment. At the time’ the. poor, bleeding, quivering victims ate brought out more dead than olive. The.- plantations for miles send their grists ta this milt to be ground, and the proprietor lijid been doing a {thriving business until the Union tluops came, and consequently Othello’s oc«upation;was rhined'. PowpEtt rs. Isojf.—The -success of the ex periments made with the Stafford projectile, at the Washington Navy TVrcl, on Monday last, gives the ascendency once 'more to artillery, over iron or steel plating iind demonstrates that there js nothing impossible to the invehtiveger ius of?ouy engineers and mechanics. It is now ascertained have a projeotrlp which the .plating , of none, of the iron monsters it) the Eng lish or French navy;can yesist. It will riddle ten inches of iron add twmrity odd inches of sol id oak with us much ease, as .an inch board. For obvious reasons; it has not fioen thought, proper, to give publicity to the means by which these results have been arrived at. “fe. is 'suffi cient for our'.people toknow that, in the event of any atfemjit by ah English or. French fleet to enter odr harbors and; bombard - our seaboard cities, we possess a'projeotile which will pene trate and sink the most'ithpregimhle.of the iron frigates of which lUey'iaako'auetrtJO'ast. - —vy sr- te'ss. | CERIttAMToirt li tJß^rapb" ! A Family. a/iVah AjyiiculbirdL:jatnal, deeot.y ', ~ n.Chaife Literature, including Poetry, “ • :t . . ■Tale,, and Mural ■| , Heading ffencraffy, cj; ■ To thcliitirnrj Do part men t she, II prw ,.. „ choice?! yarmtea within fho reach of'oiit means. 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A Clttb- uf fire,'subscribers-, at $B, irJH entitle the person getting it up to a copy for six months& Club of ten or more, to a copy for one year. All Chzbtub. scriptlqns stopped a't the end.ef the time paid Term less .re-ordered. • \ ' No order will receive attention unless tcconiptiiiid with the cosh. '' . Specimen numbers sent to applicants ■ ;1 PHILIP-JL .FBEAS, Editor and Proprietor. ■ GerhiantatSh, Philadelphia, Octr.il? 18©. . FALL AND WINTER GOOD*! No. 2, Union Block. JEROME- SMITH HAS returned from Now. York with a splendid' assortment of DKY GOODS, . KEADY iIADE CLOTHING, DATS A CAPS/ ‘ HARDWARE, BOOT& i SHOES, GLASSWARE, ’groceries, DOMESTICS, ■•* WOODENWARE, Eir6LISH CLOTHS,. LADIES’ DRESS GOOD S, SATINS,’ FRENCH CaSSIMERES, - FULL CLOTH, TWEEDS AND KENTUCKY JEANS. Attention is called to his stock of' k jwd Figured Drew jsilks, _ Won-ted Ooods, Merxnnes, 13l.iek and Fjguor.'d PpLaines/ Long and Square Shawls,- • Ladies’" Cloth, | Opera F'anueli, £«» purchasers will find that No. 2, Union Block, fflzin Street, is the place to buy tbe best qnaliiv of poods at the ldKe«t prices. . JEROME SMITH. Wellsbnro. Nor.'Si W%,' " §l5O BEST PIANOS. 150 JOS. P. KALE A CO., having removed 10-their new warerooms, . s ' , _ Wo. 478 BROADWAY. = .ire pn'p.sred to offer the public a magnifiers! M * W M*:ile foil 7 OCTAVE ROSEWOOD PIANO, conijiinisiir nil improvement' known in this cenotry -r Europe. er strung: bass, French grand action, ary i>fvd.»). f u’l ti-iu frame, for ' $l5O & 175 CASH, Warrantsd for 5 Tears. Rich moulding cases, ’ $2OO, $250, & $3OO, all warranted made of the best Reasoned material, and 10 stand sold fur s4oft or sso§ by the old methods of manufacture. *We invito DEALERS AND TEACHERS ' in nil parts of tbe country, to act as- agents,’.and to test these unrivalled Pianos with Steinway A Sons, dickering A Senator any first-class manufacturers. JO % Ss I ‘PrHALE,'& CO 478 BROADWAY, TEW YORK. Oct; 22,. 18ff2.-dm. PENSION AGENCY. TO SOX.DSERS AND THEIR FRIENDS. THE under/ngned haring hn,d considerable expe* rienco in r procuri»g Pension Bounties and Batk [my of Soldiers, will attend to oil business in that Hoe entrusted to bis care with promptness and fidelity. Persons wishing to',confer with me will ploase call or address me by letter at Sylvo'nm, Bradford County, Pa." Charges-reasonable., . 6£o«"Pa MONROE. Refers by permission to H. B. Card, County Treasurer, WolUboro, Pa* D. F. Pomeroy, Trrfy, Pa. A* Spalding, Sheriff, Towanda, Pa. ‘Oct. 15, 1863. The Cairftssiiiil and Experience - of u Poor Young Man. . A GENTLEMAN having been cured of therwultr of early error and disease,- will, from motives of benevolence, send to. those who request, a copy of tbe above interesting narrative, published by himself. — XLU little-book is designed as a warning and c»p|p n to young'men and those wb'o "'gufiTer from Nbbtocs Debility, Loss op Pbematcbe Decay, &c,, Ac., supplying at the same time tbe means ot self cure. Single copies will be sent under seal in a plain envelope,—without charge,—tb any wheiaquest it, by addressing the author.' CIIAS. A. LAMBERT; F«jh „ . Greonppint, Long Island, New York. OTImgTR.VrOR’iJ,’NOTICE. -Letlcrt *M*- ministration having been granted to tiro J?. signed on the estate of-Jos. 'H. &oot, late Tqwlisliij), dec’djall persons having qlaiae.or demac against said estate are' hereby' rtgnwted to immediate and those having daim® **£s:l gent them properlj authenticated for settlement 1} subscriber. ' NA.NCZ Q.-B^OQT,, Morris; Dee. 3,1862.* . . jf
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