-S, qre nhL - Ifl & «t. (jbeuNobtb.i we really; in earnest ; -Walt ;to 1 pat downfee-rCbelljonthey surety Cannot ob ject., - We could. stoi <at least onef'hundred ■feottsaud/of.-them-by-fee first of-Aftj-Xt hi n k there .cannot feosopaWy-he,any objection. ' Cer tainly we need nil the .men at homo tjtatareleft, and shall we rcfase'to’recrnit onr. aiiay fro* tC« source. I believe every, man jirtie tq-his country :will eiy,.nay. ~ ■ j", Erom the lltb'|Pennsylvaiiiei Cavalry, Bead Quarters lltb'Pa,Vbt.<&rALßE, \ ■ "Ca»P SarrofiK;;V'A.,'.F’e6; : . | • "J FshsWb Aoitatob-; Nowfent 'Ar tey’of’ the Pommrtc isforqed into winter -quar tefeby* the-Wretched' ‘condition fj Jjbo'“ sacred soil;" ihfeUtlle band composing, fee 7th army Are 1 having very lively times.l f-Thispor (iot> of tbe' Union forces.is pitted', dgaidst Geo. Prvorof Virginla/wbo holds of the town of Prariklin on'the• BlaoWra ter, river,and frequentwre tljso -skirmishes which' l stake place filefigfee banks -of. that-ktr.eam, f the affair Of last Friday to tally eclipses alt fftihef preci dentsesv- 'lt seems tho -celebrated Jeff -Davis iP resident of tha-C. S.jeamo dows ( by rail to Danilin for'thd purpose of having an inter view willflGov.‘Vance 1 of North ‘GaroUna, and the presencfiof sucha distinguished personage rehdCre'd'it necessary to advance fee 'forces at that point 6o‘ as -to preteht tbe surprise and capture of the said J. D.‘ ‘ , ! Pry of advanced asfttr as; the Deserted Hojtse, eigh t -miles from Suffolk, where they Were me t byarecotmoitering party from- thjs /regiment, (Ulh'Pa. Voi;Cavalry) whocbarged upon their advance guard and then relrehtibg- gave the alarm;-'lnstantly all Was preparation, and at 12 oh:(ock Thursday night we deceived orders to piove'forward—drove in’the febjel pickets at 4 A.M., -Friday; I'be advance gpdrd sent a dispatch back to Gen. Corcoran Command ed the expedition saying-. “ WeTtive driven in tbepiftkete, shall,we retire?"’to Vfhtch the old hero replied: ‘“-General Corcoran-pever retires.’ Tell GoJ.fepe'at .to charge - oh them.l’ ’ tjur tfeeimont reoeiyed this lacodio order with p rousing chepr, and drawing ourfrusty sabres we-nioved down upon the foe whdWere’ drawn dp'ond'er cover of the darkness twaiting’our approach/ V-olley .after Volley Was poured into’our ranks,’but still onward nlmwent 'until WO’tairied the top of the bill.] Ff.gkn’- instant A’otmng’wna to be heard but; the‘trampling of horses and the clashing of they -went drtfafiing-through the skulls of ' tWffoe,' then a fliiSh like lightning’followed by thunder of three entire batteries oflVrtiUery as they sent their.missiles of destruction into-our Close ranks.’ Our batteries hating §ot into po- Citidri, we retired, leaving the; fit|d’ to he con fested by fee opposing iTbey who have never deen a battle’by night. Cap forin no Adequate idea Of the terriblf seine. First comes the quick, bright flash, ifillqwed by the report, and then the shell may.' Lessen wing ing through tho air, foilowed.ljy ;a|)laz4, then, bursting, scatters death amoiuf ihs foe. For fee space of nine dreadful hoi iriffße fight con-, tinned, when the rebels, dishnagtaabd ■at the rapid and severe fire from our goad,-which was fast decimating feeir ranks, hegapl to retire. Then entne the order fer n charge, and the gal lant 13fe Indiana and 69thewi York, rushed upon- them, driving them boldto ftfsecond po ritioh.from which they were tjuickly ousted by A second charge from the ITlji. /The pntanit was continued eight miles bynur'eovalry, when . the forces were recalled by s4n, ®orc6ran. ■Casualties on our side arciight—the killed, woundedi'and missing, are ILl—-the enemy ac knowledge a loss of - somethiijg ovqr 200. ' Col. Spear liad his horse s|ht ijhder him but Suffered no personal injury. 1 vFolfett-’s battery, 4lh U. S. artillery,-and Davie? Massachu setts battery, took part in thftfijjnfnnd acquit ted themselves nobly. * ■Altogether the fight was j if significant affair, and our troops nave’! j f prirtrated that dependence can be placed Ipy* them in any! emergency. With' one’ exoej !i jn—the 13th In diana, which has heen’with-1 igelnhd Banks— all the ‘troops have never !. ei|n ’ Engaged, but j veterans of, n score of battle l-iodld behave no better than they. ( ’-5. ' 1 Gen. Fry or.boasted along ti-pe-since feat he would deliver Suffolk frqif, :> Yankee thrall— 3nm," but this time fid;’intend to fulfill Ins promise. lam yourf iyr tlje war,’ y dVI. D. Baioev, a TProm the 138tii Pennsyi-eatiia 1 Begiment PaUF NEAR Bel< EnPealN, Va,, 1 Fehru;vyil, 1863. ; J Bear Agitator : Varjoue rib; |he scones that pass berpre my imagift'atio * §s~l sit myself down ,to talk, for a short tit ie,Mtb yont fend ers! I can let my thauglis wander back a short distance into the pastf) Sebold myself a school-boy,..passing awa ( J ' thV fleetipg mo ments of youth, unconscioijn f the fierce strug gle the freemen of America I ', buitlbave to pass through ta sustain their • | itiofaality. 1 And now, after years have pags; £, ~aWay, and I find myself engaged in that {tfat oonfliot, I am puzzled to know when arjt.bpj? it will end. I have seen the brave son) *\jf bur land drawn dp. in battle ait ay and rvt»S toward against the" breast-works of an enrthy.yrho had every advantage of position that, iktftrh oonld afford, find there, like the Spartan r,(j£;old, stand and .-battle for aft that they, hd/9|ear- Again, I have seen them march storms of wind and rain over impassable, and at night lay themsb Vei ;upon the cold ground to sleep. * What ajiJs the feelings and passions of men that nrj.B 1 jtfiem to endure these dengers and hardship ? I-It can be noth ing lees than a pnre loveief Ficeedoip, and a desire to see their govoripicnt triumph over all its foes. - ' The great which all have had to.labor under; 1 ; fori few months, may for a'fime "damped ! bp’ spirits of those Bffave men., But when! see that their generals apd the noble' government which they have endured so many hafishipe to maintain, are using e.|very effort to ytsptsf them in this h'qur of trouble,, and danger,'’'they will go to vfirk withe two-fold energy, mqd this unholy rpbelUbd'must soon he i yaihed. You must pot look at me as an egotist when I say that I Wfas among the number,who left their homes with pui-e motives. withio,:m£ heart to' help defend that noble instil 1 itiob,' a Republican form of Government; whit fa hjUi ever protected mo.’ Tarn at times paim.d to witness a wgnt of respect in our soldiers ifor r themselves and lived ones at home, by gii ng-wiy to all of the temptations thrown inth) jr rushing' dib ; regardless of the io’strj c trai l received when beriemh a parental roof. me, Mr. Edi ’ to, for thus breaking injupqtflyoar sanctity; toi a lonely feeling' chancyd td i steal oyer roe to-day, and I thongfat 1 tafald'not Improve the fito better than tti tallt-Jwith ;the readers of ioiir paper. . Accept tbi for fhe present. I Ldpe to have a chat with; fern -again soon. Respectfully, ydor;,' . - ' Mazeffa. TfiE J AGirMoHi - M. ASP j the 453/cp}<>% J, We hear much speaking, and read much wri ting, about the Army of the Potomac.' We hear that it is sadty demoralised, discontented, and 'inefficient. ’’That" there’"ls’mo’’ esprit de porpsi which is to on army .what, health .is to, the; hodyjvnd soul-—aotnetlimg jwhich p.reserycs the integrity oqd .keeps them together. Doubtless rtinch that we hear has stable foundation in fact But it is nothing; new. Personally, we have been aware of this condi tion ,<if things as pertaining to feat army for more tban a year. Close observing visitors to the camps opposite .Washington during the months of December and-January of 1861 and and 1862, respectively, marked this demorali zation find commented upon it then. It was deeply regretted; and if oor readers recollect what was the bourse of many city papers at that time, they may cease to wonder that the editors-thereof urged a forward movement as a Vital necessity. It is .well known that a state of Inaction in the face of an enemy has quadruple influence to demoralize an army feat defeat has. Action stimulates, knits together, and strengthens.— Inaction is a disorganizing influence. It gives free, play to all petty jeaWasles which afflict military officers, and from fighting tbs battle of freedom they scon descend to -wage petty quarrel for personal aggrandisement, Napoleon did these things better. He kept his Armies on the move. He sought the enemy and fell upon, him wherever he found him. But even if lie did not desire to bring on a battle prematurely, ho kept his men in motion. He was a philosopher. He reasoned feat the ocean, without tides and currents, would, soon become putrescent. This fact led him to keep bls-men in motion—leading them to -forget; themselves Jind remember their business. At the period we speak of the army of’.the Potomac was convinced that its valor and de termination was not equal to tho (ask of driving the rebels from the vicinity of Manassas.— There they lay encamped, a mnguificent army, for months, in. the.face of an inferior force. The constant inquiry was “ Why don’t we do something And finally they began to say that-their general know too much to lead them up'to the entrenchments at Centerville. And it became a settled conviction in the minds of line officers and men that defeat was certain if a forward movement was made.' Now an army is ihoroughly demoralized the moment the idea of its inferiority to the enemy becomes prevalent Among the rank and file. To enter into a contest expecting to come off second best is usually equivalent to defeat. There was certainly a time in November, 1801, when -the army of the Potomac could have soundly thrashed the army at M,masses had they been led on. The rank and file, general ly, at that time had great confidence in their ability to do any possible thing. It was ex pected daily by them that they would he or-i dered forward. But days and weeks, and months, dragged on, and no order came. Hav ing confidence in the judgment of their leader, they at last concluded that they had overrated themselves. Then come that reaction which every observer remarked during December and January following. And so it, came to pass that Drnnesvillo did, more for the morale of the army than all the dress parades that ever were invented to make puppets of decent men. To fee Pennsylvania Reserves belongs the credit of giving the army of the Potomac all the heart it has had since 1801. . But there ate other eauees’at work to com plete the work of demoralization. It is noto rious that scarcely any papers are permitted to circulate in the lines save the New York Herald and its congener the World. Both these pa pers lire vilely disloyal. The World is as aban donetoasia man without belief in God, or re spect for principle, can make It, After it was abandoned by its..original editor-in-chief, it sank into the pit, and subsisted on subsidies drawn from men who had been groping about the purlieus of New York for a man to do their dirty work. As for the Herald, no man of right motives and intelligence pretends to believe in its integrity. But these are the papers in whose favor the political officers of the army of the Potomac discriminate. Now, what other than demoralization, ccn be expected of nn army thus fed 7 Shall these vile sheets be forbidden within the lines ? Cer tainly net. But let " the bane and antidote” go together. That is simple justice. The inconsistencies of partisan leaders ought to he instructive. In time past the pro-slavery leaders of the North have opposed the various ■measures for the restriction of slavery as-tend ing to a violation of the constitution. That is to say—to restrict slavery was to indirectly interfere with the rights of States and.to bring about the abolition of slavery. Sift now, when tbe State of Missouri, comes forward and asks to be aided in emancipating her slaves, and the appropriation of twenty millions is asked of Congress as partial com pensation for such emancipated slaves, tbese pro-slavery partisans grow indignant, and make long speeches against the appropriation, on the ground that Congress has no authority to com pensate tbe owners for their slaves, in order to their emancipation, “ Bow is (his? The people of Missouri, thro’ their legislators, have proposed to make anoth er free state. .They only desire, to share the harden assumed for the general good with the whole people. Were Congress to appropriate tbe Sam asked for, it would not be Interference, but co-operation. As for the rest, there is no constitutional provision forbidding Congress to Til E Tl 6 OA CO UN t Y''lG XT ATOK. patchase evlry slave iu the country,' nt hip; or her full vaine/whonever, inftho judgment of public meh, -thAgeneral welfare wouldfeepro moted thereby. - ; - ~ ThTSe' partisabs’h’flve filled "theft newepapoire -with chargee -af-abolitionism-againstAhe Re-- publican .party, for ten ,yeats t nearly]. They ‘haVo- cbarged'that Republicans wished- to de stroy not only the rights, but-the property of Southern mqnr.. But Republicans now-propose to pay Sou them ,men.for their proper ty, to the end-feat it-mpy-be property longer. Prp sfav'ery leaders oppose fee proposition. ' They oppose ft, hot because it increasesfew indebted ness of the government, but because it aims at the destruction of an. universally acknowledged wrong. , They desire to keep tho evil in our midst And they now interfere to frustrate the will of fee people of Missouri, constita-, tionally .directed; Who interferes to 1 thwart the people of a .State in si fair expression of their, will, now ? Who but these punctilious partisans) who have been denouncing such in terference'heretofore? * ING.-Fm-l We desire publicly to return thanks for two. recent happenings. We refer to the cashiering of Filz-John Porter, and the secession of Thur low Weed, from the ranks of the Republican party. There is one, fact to which we refer with pride and Satisfaction ; that, is, that du ring ten years of journalism we never yet indited a line eulogistic of Tburlow Weed. To os be ever Seemed a combination of Amin idab Sleek and Uriah Beep, endued with the Spirit of Simon Magus. Thorlow Weed has been painted blacker than he merited by the partisan leaders to whom he has now gone over. As persistently has he been overrated by Whig and Republican lead ers. Between the two extremes he was located by nature. He baa been an able editor and a man of influence, but never a man of real ability. He was never an uhnelfieh man, yet never a thorough scoundrel, because incapable of daring acts qf any sort. -He is, and always was, a moral coward. His forte was contract brokerage. Daring bis public life be has al ways succeeded in topping the State and Na tional Treasury, no matter what party admin istered the government. Though publishing the Albany Evening Journal during tho Ad ministrations of Pierce and Buchanan, he managed to share the inordinate plunder of the Government printing with O. W. Bowman. He is, therefore, rich, and can afford to retire on his fortune.. He shared the profits of the great swindle which was nnjnstly charged upon Alexander Cummings in 1861, and probably pocketed thousands as hiss-share of other con tracts made by government during this war. So it may, be safely said that though abandon ing the support of the government he does not forego fee gratification of his passion for mon opolizing its patronage. Whether he has kept Mr. Seward, or whether Mr. Seward kept him, is still a matter of doubt. But we presume the liason is uow broken, and each will betake himself to some new connec tion. The government submitted to nameless outrage and'indelihle disgrace when it suffered him to represent it in a semi-official capacity in Europe last summer. ‘ Ostensibly, he went to Europe to correct some errors into which the potentates there had fallen in regard to American affairs ; really, he went to Europe to get out of the way of tlm investigation into th'e conduct of AlosanderCumihings as a charterer of vessels and purchaser of supplies for the army of the United States. It was in keeping with tbp cowardice of the mao. ITaving led Mr. Cummings into difficulty be abandoned him in the hour of trial. 'So, having plunder ed the Government until it no longer paid in gold, he now abandons its support and goes over to the ranks of that democracy led by James Brooks and Fernando Wood. Heaven be praised! We do not expect to survive the destruction of evil under the eun. Nor do we expect the tendency to do evil will ever, in this world, be fully eliminated from human dispositions.— Nevertheless, it is incumbent upottevery man, and peculiarly upon all teachers, to denounce evil doings in every walk of life. Otherwise the public conscience would fall asleep, and wrong might gain a dangerous ascendancy over Right. r There is a great evil, now prevalent under the sun, chiefly pertaining to the army of the Potomac. We have conversed with many dis interested and perfectly reliable persons, just from the front, and the report of each corrobo rates the report of every other, to this general effect: It ia iropossible to get any New York papers in tbe army of the Potomac save the Herald and its servile imitator the World. Other pa pers are purchased and forwarded, hut some how never reach their destination. The reason of this is found in the disloyalty of line and field officers, Who, in concert with their soqial equals, camp-followers, sutlers and plunderers, are doing thqlr worst to utterly demoralize the army of the Potomac. We do not echo rumor in this statement. We have the best possible evidence in the world that this is the true rea son of the discontent in the army. These offi cers care nothing for the country so long as they draw their pay and partake of the fruits of frauds perpetrated by dishonest sutlers and wagon-masters. And if some action is not. had, with a view of correcting the evil, the worst may be expected. We say further, that in the progress of an investigation of this matter, the fact appears that these mischief-makers, from Colonels to camp-thieves—are democrats; at least, they claim to be such. They are, also, without ex/ cepiion, “ McClellan men.” Their business is to cry down Gen. Burnside and cry up Gen. McClellan. Meet them where you on the boat or on the field, they speak of loyal and r A -• *** j : i * trtfe men ift.terms of repronch.-but never for get to laud-i|eir former leader. ' iSluch are tlie-facts.' W-e-Jeave the public to draw tbeir own rnierences. \ The OmciAi. Af lhe J last battle of Bull Run, by Mnj. General Pope, on abstract of wbich',we‘ po§lish’. A|sewhere,: wilt -fie! jeafi with peculiar interest at the present Jime.— Taken in connexion with, the evidence produ ced on the Fife-John Porter trial, it serves to clear up “ the mystery of defeat” in a Thor oughly satisfactory manner. It is very Well that this report was not published, before the .trial of Porter; as, had it been, fee friends of that disgraced man would hav6| charged Gen.’ .Pope; with striving to prejudice' the public -against him. I ■ ; r It will be seen that Pope bad some 1 thou sands of men less than he has I had credit for heretofore.. Nobody thooght he bad less than 50,000-men under bis command.’ With inade quate force, and insubordinate officers to con tend with as well as a desperate 1 enemy, his apology for defeat cannot be judged lathe and inefficient. . ' On the 4fe instant, Mr. McDoegall introdu ced a series of resolutions info the Senate rela tive to French intervention in Mexico. These resolutions' offensive toward France, and were, no doubt, intended to entangle fee gov ernment'* a war with, that country. Mr. Mc- DougaU.iwbo is a Democrat of the mulatto stripe, like bis fellow democrats in the Senate and elsewhere, is much more [troubled about the war in Mexico than about that in the United States. The resolutions- were intended to embarrass the as the vote on them indicates. The vote against tabling,them was nine, all peace alias “ copper heads.” ' ! The election of Edwin D. Morgan as U. S. Senator from New York, effectually : extin guishes Thurlow Weed and his great coadju tor, Fernando Wood. It is gratifying to knqw that with all fee reverses of last fall,Jhe mu latto democracy have gained but one Senator. And that gain may yet give us as much work ing’ strength as we had before] Retaliation. —The Jackson Appeal suggests two methods of rcfalliation. The first of these is that, after fee first of January, all coromis loned officers captured on slave territory le-sum marily executed, and the other is that each on cers should be turned over by the Confederate Government to fee State authorities, to.be dfefclt with ns felons. The adoption of either onefof these measures would, no'doubt, exercise a very beneficial influence upon these minions of Lincoln, who carry feeir conlmissions in feeir pockets for fee purpose of limiting the slaves to rebellion and insurrection/ For such fiends no punishment is too severe 1 , and they should he made to feel and know in advance that the death penalty awaits them, if ;thcy are captured on Southern soil after fee proclamation of Lin coln shall have made its appearance. The same suggestion was ]naile In this jour nal immediately on the Tcceipt of Lincoln’s preliminary proclamation, showing that this was to be an Abolition warl -The presence of such men on our soil is a violation of tho State law which inflicts the penalty of death.’’ Their purpose is not a irar in the civilized acceptation of fee term, and hence they are entitled to none of the privileges of belligerents. Every StUie should make a demand for dll Abolition officers captured within, its limits, dnd they should be tried and hung as insurrectionists. Such a course would Le both legal and just, and we hope Congress will, on reassembling, give its sanction to the proceeding find obviate all dan ger of collision. A New Remedy foe the Smallpox. —The Saracenia purpurea, or Indian cup, a native plant of Nova Scotia, ,wblch we mentioned -some time agu as being the specific used by the Indians against the smallpox, bids fair to realize the expectations entertained by medi cal men of its efficacy. In a letter addressed to the American Medical Times, Dr. Frederic W. Morris, President-Physician of thn Halifax Visitin'' Dispensary, states that this Saracinia, a papaveraceous plant, will cure smallpox in all its forma within twelve hours after the patient has taken the decoction. « However alarming and numerous the eruptions,” he says, “ or confluent and frightful they may be, the peculiar action of the medicine is such that very seldom is a scar left to tell the story of the disease. If either vaccine or variolous matter is washed with the infusion of the Saracenia, they are deprived of their contagious proper ties'. So mild is the medicine to the taste that it may be largely mixed with tea or coffee, and given to connoisseurs in these beverages to drink, without being aware of the admixture. The medicine hits been successfully tried in the hospitals of Nora Scotia, aud its uso will be continued.” —Galignani Confederate Decision on Color. —The Con federate Adjutant General has decided that men with any portion of the blood of tbe white race are liable to conscription. This certainly looks more like confidence in the superiority of tbe blood of the whites, j than the Northern notion that ninety-nine hundredths of the Wood of the white race in a person are overcome by the hundredth fraction of faegro blood. But if all who have a fraction of the blood of the whites arc declared subject to military service, our Democratic friends will perceive how large a portion of the colored population of the South is made subject to the conditions of war by the decision of the rebels. > If liable to military duty, they of course owe that duty to the Gov ernment. They of course are capable of loyal ty and treason, and it is jbe duty of the Gov ernment to give them every facility for de serting treason and showing fidelity. Thus by the act of the rebels, the Democratic scru ples about the color of the assistance offered in the South are cut down to the fractional, full-blood, native American African.— Bar. Telegraph, The' Russian Emancipation is already be ginning to show its good fruits. The govern ment of Toula, which formerly bad 10 village schools with 256 pupils, now eighteen months later, numbers 1,123 schools with 16,387 pu pils. In the government of Simbirsk the nam-' her of aohools .rose during the, same period from 20 to 277, pupils from 375 to 4,192 ; in Podolia, from 306 to 1,288 schools, and 14,596 to 30,000 pupils. | i . , ' 4 [From tbs Washington Qhrqniclo.3 \ ': A EATIONAI,; DEFECT. . ' Blsegsod in the individual is a greht misfortune; appertaining to S nation it is kierious fault. . [l* —TtiitT nation' is pre-6minehtly setPcdnicious. lUL.aeties.pf eentatian .lie .very near the sur face. Touch the body ever so lightly, and.the remotest members writhe; touch the remotest member and the body is convulsed. We say nothing and do nothing offitciolly that we;do not.osk, “What will England say to that V r “ What will Franoe think of that f" Whereas, whatever wa say or da.as a nation, should be submitted to the arbitration.df con science, and 7 10 it_o!one. ■' Poes a military expedition fail, or is an ar my repulsed, t we straitway set .about excusing ourselves to ourselves., We apoligize and crave indulgence of our own judgment. We bring forward a' variety of real or supposed causes of failure, most of which are’declared to have been beyond human control.] We proceed to explain; then follow with an explanation of pur explanation. Wo are very tolerant of causes, but intolerant of the results of those causes. The self-conscious man is inevitably awk ward. He looks at bis hands and feet, and votes tbe'm de 'irop. At his coat, and beholds innumerable wrinkles. The face of every man and woman is a mirror in which his awk wardness is reflected. He is, therefore, consti tutionally an unhappy being. And as man individually is a compendium .of man in the aggregate, the foregoing is p faithful picture of the figure we.make as a na tion. We have not enough of self-respect. We are not calm and self-poised. Possessed of great inherit power, and by no means back-- ward in boasting of if, we still are not strength ened by the consciousness of such possession. How can this fault be corrected 1 Certainly not by giving it unlimited indulgence. We must go back to the alphabet of a true educa tion, and learn the elementary processes which conduct to—fhe high elevation of self-respect. Respecting ourselves, it must follow that others will respect us. Once willing and determined to do right and leave the issue with a higher power, our nationhood will assert itself, and place us above the ex parte criticisms of Eu rope. Why should we defer to the opinion of Eu rope? Wo are engaged in working out the problem involved in the maintenance of dem ocratic institutions. Europe declares, in the ory and in practice, that the solution develops anarchy and uncontrollable disorder. If we do not deny this, our fathers denied it for usr We have to make that denial good by experi ment. We cannot look for sympathy and en couragement from the advocates of the affirma tive. Deputed to demonstrate the power and the right of the people to gorern themselves, we are to proceed diligently, and wait for the result. If we suffer ourselves to be plagued with thoughts of national death, we shall never be prepared to live.” “Think of living!’’ wrote Goethe ; and by the mere moral force of such thinking, wa may enter into a higher national life. The man who resolves to do right, and abide the consequences, is well-nigh invincible. How much more a i alion ; A homogeneous people are knit together with indissoluble bonds. Working together, obedient to the behests of high principle, they never yet failed. Eor shall we fail. Wa shall smite organized wrong with rods of iron; and, having over thrown, shall bind it with bonds of steel. We must act true to the present, and future peace and security will follow as the day the night. But we cannot pin our faith on the embroid ered sleeve of kingly Europe. Europehas her problem to work out; we, ours. And neither can lighten the burden of the other. But this habit of excusing ourselves to our selves must be dropped. It is a strohg'ppfnt in any character which is manifested by self poised and persistent effort. The record of the Good Samaritan nowhere shows that bo apolo gized for doing what was not laid down in the practical canons of the priest and the Levite. How much less ought we to stain our record with apologies for binding up the wounds of twenty millions ? How the Eebels Treat our Dead. It was stated some time since that the rebels had ordered the body of General Sill,* who was killed at Murfreesboro’, to bo buried with mili tary honors. This was afterwards denied, and we now find in the Nashville Union, a letter from Surgeon Bowmau of the Twenty-seventh Illinois volunteers upon the subject, which we quote Camp on Stone River, South of Mur- 1 freesroro. Tens., Jan. 20, 1803. J Editor of the Kashville Union : l In your issue of tbe 17th instant, in your editorial under the head of ‘A.Perfidious Peo ple,’ in speaking of atrocities by tbe rebels, yon say: ‘ The dead body of Gen. Sill, whom barbarians would have admired for his chival rous courage, was stripped on the field of bat tle. Tbe subsequent honor of a military burial by the enemy was the smallest reparation they could make for this fiendish barbarism.’ The truth of history compels me to state that the inference that General Sill was buried by the rebels with military honors is not correct’— They did not bury him at all, whatever they may have ordered done. I was taken prisoner while attending to our wounded on the 31st ultimo. The enemy charged valiantly upon onr extemporized field hospital, where wa bad up four red flags, fired a volley into ns and then took all prisoners who couid be moved. My Colonel, F. A. Harrington, of the Twenty seventh Illinois, was very severely wounded. Wo were taken to Murfreesboro on the after noon of the 31st. - Colonel H. died on tbe morning of the 2d inst. I procured an order for an extra fine coffin, same as General Sill’s was. ,Found the undertaker with no lumber but green oak and poplar, and but little of that and besieged by a: crowd of importunate appli cants for coffins, boxes, anything in which to bury their dead friends, I laid off my coat, and with the help of a negro, completed a rough coffin, the heat the place afforded, and same as General Sill’s. 1 procured the same hearse and driver, so as to bury my friend be side General Sill. The driver took us to the spot where be had left the body of General Sill. "We found it in the fence corner unbnri ed, no grave dug, and no detail for that' pur pose. It was too late in the day (Friday, Jan uary 2d) to go back to town to make arrange ments. So, after borrowing some tools, which we procured only by energetic representations to the rebels, we dug a grave large enough to contain both ‘coffins; and with a feeling of sadness to which language cannot’ do justice, we lowered ttyem to their resting place side by side, and heaped tbe earth over them, putting up the'head-board I had prepared with my own bonds/' < r> i-f f-v-,':-.; s7?r fi <■ < •" rr">’f<i-r -* ‘ TiaJiishti Sort, of- T*U(t ' General Burlbut and ihe__Memphis Seeeeeiinitte'. General ijrfrlhdt, ih'cbhsip'shd at Memphis ba» recently issbetl an order whichis extremely distasteful to tbs' seceaiioniats. Having been troubled' for some time by persons r»hb,te 'siding in Memphis under the out flag, were constantly plotting ogainnf tqe jedl eral authorities, holding communication ;abo with guerilla bands which infest the neighbor ing country,- General iluribut j thus Notifies them of his intentions; : “Many of these sympathizers hive expressed » determinationthat the Charleston and Memphis* railroad shall tjpt.be used by the Dnited Slatetf All such persons may rest assured that military 'authority will run and use itbat railroad ga long as necessary for the palallo dffa every family and all personal property, between Hatchie and_Coldwatar rivers, .will be removed; if necessary, to'an''unobstructed use of the road. Nay, inore, every, family in the. city of .Memphis of doubtful loyalty, whether they, havejgone through the form of talcing.the oath of allegiance or not, will be sent north of onr lined, if those measures! shal beeome for every raid or attempted raid by guerillas upon railroads. • “ Tcu families of most noted secessionists in Memphis will be .sent South, and these are to be selected from those of greatest wealth a ad highest social position first, because' less-likely to suffer from banishment. “ Citizens will not bo considered responsible for attacks made by regularly organized forces of the public enemy, but wilt be held responsi ble for irregular forces,-which are mainly kept up or supplied by their sympathizers in and about this city. Any person not belonging to The Confederate army who shall supply arms, ammunition 1 or military supplies to tbeSs law less bands, will be summarily fried by a milita ry commission, and if sentenced by that com mission, executed forthwith." Petroleum.-—From January Ist up tp the 30th ult., no less than 1,656,117 gallons Vf pe troleum have been shipped from. :New York, and io addition to this there were exported from Boston 217,298 gallons ; from Philadel phia, 129,513 gallons; from Baltimore, 55,369 gallons; and from Portland. Maine, 47,466 gal lons—total 440,646 gallons—making a total export from the United States, smooths Ist of January, of 2,005,763 gallons. The petroleum trade, in its sudden rise and rapid progress, is the most extraordinary on record.. The Im portation into London last year, was 28,3*3(5 barrels ; Liverpool, 39,309 barrels ; Glasgow, 650 barrels. Tutal exports to Europe from America, 257,914 barrels, or 10,318,658 Amer ican gallons. V. S. lIVTERML REVENUE. NOTICE ia hereby given that the duties and taxes under the Excise Laws of tbeUnited, States have become duo and payable, and that the Deputy Collector for Tioga county, will attend at the times and places hereinafter, mentioned, for the purpose of receiving the same, between thq hours of TEN o'clock in the forenoon until FOLH o’clock in the afternoon, viz; In Mansfield, at the office of Boss k 'Williams, on Satuv&vy, the 21st day of February, 1803. In Afkmsburg, at the "Hotel of D. James, on Hon. day, the 23d of February, 1863. In Jackson, at the office of 0. B. Wells, on Tues day, the 24th of February, 1863. In Liberty, at the Hotel of J. H. Woodruff, on Wednesday, the 261 b of February, 1563. In Closshurg, at the Hotel of A. L, Bodine, on Thursday, the 26th of February, 1863. In Wellsboro, at the office of Massena Bullard, on Friday and Saturday, the 27th and 23th of February, 1563, of each day. In Tioga, at the Hotel of Lyman H, Smith, on Monday, the 2d of March, 1863. In Lnwrenccville, at Slosson’s Hotel, on Tuesday, the 3d of March, 1803. In ElkJand, at the Hotel of David Dunharr, on Wednesday, the sth of March, 1863. In Deerfield, at the Hotel of C. H. Goldsmith, on Thursday, the sth of March, 1863. In West 6eW, at the Hotel of Peter Bush, on Fri day, the 6lh of March, 1863. * _ Notice is also given, that all persona who neglect to pay the Duties and Taxes assessed npon them within the time specified, will be liable to pay ten per cent additional upon the amount thereof. Payment may be mode at any of the above times and places mentioned, that may best suit-the convenience of the tax-payers. Government money only, will bo received from me+but to accommodate tax-payers, I have made arrangements by which I can take, besides Government funds, good.par drafts, payabla in New York or Philadelphia, or par currency. JOHN M. PHELPS, Deputy-ColfectorlSth CoL District. Mansfield, Piu, Feb. 11, 1863 V JEROME B- IVIL£S, ATTORNEY. & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, NILES VALLEY, TIOGA COUNTY, PA-t HAVING associated-himself with a legal firm in Washington, bo possesses first rate facilities for the prosecution of Claims for Pensions, Back-Pay* Bounty, and all other just demands against the Gov ernment, All-such claims will bo attended to with promptness and fidelity, and “no charges” wvli ho made unless the application it tuccetsful. Mitidlebury 'Centre, Nov. 12, 1862.-3 m. JOHif S. MASS, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Courts in P ter and McKean Counties. All business en trusted to big care will receive prompt attention. He has the agency of large tracts of good settling land and will attend to the payment of taxes on any lands in said counties, Coudersport, Jan. 28, 1863.® HOMESTEAD. Anew stove and tin shop has ; just been opened in Tioga, Penna., where may bo found a good assortment of Cooking, Parlor and Bos Stoves, of the most approved patterns, andiron* 1 the best manufacturers. The HOMESTEAD is ad mitted to be the best Elevated Over* Stove in the market, Tbo r» GOLDEN AGR” dr GOOD HOPE” arc square, flat top air tight stoves, with large ovens,- with many advantages over any other stave before made. Parlor Stoves. The Signet and Caspion iw both very neat and superior stoves. Also Tin. Copper, and Sheet Iron ware, kept con s Unity on hand and made to order of the best mate rial and workmanship; all of which will be sold at tfae lowest figure for cash or ready pay. Job work of all kinds atlenßed to on call* Tioga, Jan. U» 1863. GUERNSEY &. SMEAff. ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.-Letters of administration baring been granted to the sab*- scrlbers on tbo estate of Albert S, Shieves, late of' Jackson township, dec’d, notice is hereby given to those indebted to said estate to make immediate pay ment, and those baring claims to present them prop-- erly authenticated to the subscribers. SHEIVES,*) JACOB SHEIVES, i Adm’rs. A. Q. GARRISON, j Jackson, Feb. XT, 1863-6 t« Sore Throat and Diphtheria. A NETT and powerful remedy to be used only externally has just been found. It most be applied when the first symptoms appear, and it will certainly reduce tbo swelling and inflamation. Call for the Lethean Ointment at Roy’s Drug Store. Directions accompany each bottle. Price 25 cents. ■Wellsboro, Feb. 4, 1863. NEW COOPER SHOP.—Tbo undersigned respectfully informs the oitUcns of \Vellsboro and vicinity, that be has opened a COOPER-SHOP opposite CROWE’S WIGOJf SHOP, and is ready to do all manner of work prompt and to order, from a gallon keg to»af fifty barrel tub. Be* pairing i Iso done on abort notice* 0, F* JSLLJS- Wellsboro, May 18$l*
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