!■ »"• Tram' the iStli Peimsylfanl* BeguHent. CiMP ifIAE Newpoz&Nsws.'Vs., 1 r , • Uar&l > .■ • Fbiehp AtCnivoß; This pli oaant finds me is my tent, seated' oi - the -wood .pile, ; with paniniand, about toiWlStelVor the reod , era of thb-Agitator. Beside me is- a brisk fire which , threatens 'to reduce- thy seat I gee through; ■ should that %e the case it trill ba a good-excuse for the blitjiderei I shall make. So little of importance h£s transpired since >my l^st, that were I not psored that a sol ' diet's letter is always acceptable I should think myself in poor-picking.' s -pn the,2sth’ ultimo oar porpswas reviewed r by Mfij.-Qen. John A. Dir.} The-morning was warm and,pleasant,.and wo all anticipated- an ‘ agreeable - time, in which we .weref-not disap pointed. By 10-q’clook-Wtfc had' marched to a i.suitable position’for executing the different manoeuyree-O'f.tbe review, and after forming in ; line,! awaited the booming of cannon which' .would announce the apprpachof the review 'd ng genefok At 12 it. the long expfccted sound . WasTbeifrd echoing far ovifr {he .waters of the Jambs fiver, andiover the jplain into the forest . beyond.. Immediately the old (general; with . partj of his Staff, accompanied cy Gen.Wilpox, Ofltne galloping towards ns,.; •- | , .After the usual ceremonies the review open ed 71 First,[General Dix, ftSiowedby hia escort, rode along our lines-rfirlt in ' front, then in , rear of us.; As he was pissing Our regiment, our {appearance elicited from (be General a re mark, intimating, that - ojirs was a, splendid regiment, looking much life regulars. Having finished his observations d» onrUmes and gene td appearance, the Gemwal took -a, favorable to review us as wj,' matched pastTiim. . The beautifal lines of glistening bayonets, the! eteady 1 regular ,tramp|sf. twenty thousand soldiers -as we marched by venerable old General, and especially the' stars and stripes waving over , the decimated ranks of the old Ninth Corps—the name of moiiy a memorable battle, coming .to. view, |on. .-ijjji folds, as the battle-torn and riddled Eanpet spread them-, selves to the gentle breeze, ' All had 1 an inspi ring effect-on the which could be seen in tbeir'bearing and firthjstep, keeping beauti ful’itime to the not . Very jfiqgd inusic of a few -aid (drums, ‘j which ate a? poor-substitute for music from a regimental -riband, as be longed to the 45tb bofolSjUncle Sam took it into bis head that if waa|( J‘ expensive. . Wbnt soldier's beartJiites net throb with pride on suchTiceasions ?!$ With.-pride that be is atdefeedUT of -that goo|.<!jd fljsg*? ■*’ fhaster ror of tyrants'ah3 the ffttbng|h of the free" •wherever ' it appears—wifi pride- that he is risking all for the. maintenance and perpetua tion of these established by the heroes of the Refelutfoji, tbe life and death of-vrliich aro identical with the triumph and failure of that standard snails defenders? The' weather being favofnbld.every manoeuvre Was executed admirably jt&d without, accident AH were well pleased; ;j| No materia} changes have taken place in our ramp, except that it has-iinprovedmuoh'in'ap pearance and comfort,' especially the,officers quarters, the most of which are surrounded by pine delicately arrang ed to'moke the best appesrqnod possible. Our’ city is regularly kid ouit|in streets, each com pany haying a Street of jib bwti, , -AII are kept in fine order and well jsw.cpt'St least once a day. Oor camp is .ajnfest dtt|ly Braced, with the-sp'peafanceofsome-^adyvisitor from tlje North, having edtae tq v|sit dome dear one con nected with the army. I,' Hafirfg completed ourihntnble dwellings and every thing else neceesnay to oqr comfort,-Col. . ■Welsh has Sbt us to drying. AYa bavo com pany drill' at Jeasti day, and battalion or brigade drill once osTtwice a day—that is when the weather pcfmfte. i A regular routine f(/r the manual of beeh adopted-in oar regiment; each is performed by the tap of the -drum, without, a word being said. At certain fiours*|f the day nothing can, 'be heard but the tap-|mpr-o.f the drum; old barrel, frying pan, orljtbafever else may be most handy. Once leashed. it will be. an. ad vantageous lesson, ifespanally for the officers who have Weak lungs. MJomingfrotn the Colo nel the boys have full confidence that it will be all for.tho beat; ( - Col. Welsh has won jfotjpnly the admiration but full confidence tf a|t bjsinien!. No father conld expect hie children than Col. Welsh gets fjfcm his boys.' Though Strict jq bis enforcemjn4 of Sveiy order, the well-being of bis men sterns always paramount in his affections. -His f igh-toned nature being Shave- every thing tha%is debasing, he allows • no practised vice to' cifcape ibis vigilant eye or ,go-unpunished-.' , i* _ ;! Too ronch.cnnnot belaid ip favor.of the gal lant,.the amiable Liefet.-Col. John ,1. Curtin. His kind and unselfisfe nature,-' and good con duct, him |}ie good opinion of tbe whole regiment. ' . J J• ■ • No changes .among j|he officers of thoTiogd boys have taken plaq|, qkc|pt that Sergeant Seely of company H, been promoted to 2d lieutenant of that oompahyi’' Cap't. Richkrda still, remains at his ptjst lailfifnlly performing tho duties of his- position',,as Captain of com-’ pahyG. The healthf*f- the- regiment is unu sually good.' Convale&enls iffom the hospital arrive from tidie-to time/ The weather bha ,'b«Sm veiy- fluctuating—one day it Is Warm and stariff, the birds will sing, and every" thing as sink fee appearance of spring;' the next it «sy be-so cold that it is. impossible to drill without gloves, or stand out witboot'an overcoat., f;; -.nj ’ Aq yet ndthing hasihee'nijjeveloped as to our fbt&re movement. Iff we mpy "trust to appear. . knees, tbe nnutoal and care taken In building quarters terrijdih'man and beast, Would seem -to indiclfta*th'at we are to make this oor bomd for soipd tijoe to come. It is certainly the bes t oanfp We| have . bad, and we ate of course not anxiburftd part with it. - 1 Boh my seat, : tba wffdd pife, is getting pretty low, and I most closed •i' -, }’. - 1 Yours, respectfully, f pouno Ausrica. ils .noW buying land in Chester eountyi Pa., ii is aaid,»is going extensively Into the cuUiyation of flax, for what-purpese is left open tji, public Suspicion. It is a natural presaijjjptiottf tbat lie means to make ropes to bang tt|o rascals who nominated him for the- Presidettby; and he now regards as the WQthq|diof'Ml s hls woes. But for .them,'he -might Jaj?e pied in peace, and been honored In memorjafiet a fashion. Now- - 'he is likely to -go dovlni'to;sorrow,, unless his rope bußinrss is ,re**ly a jpenitontial dodge, signifying his TsadmcHf to facilitate the hang-- ing of his old friendsi, b ] -[• s- As oil refteery in BdSalh has becn confisca- wiib it« an ottempt of the proprietors toerade £$ taximeter the Unit&d gtat*sTaxlaw.. #'] . .i ' ‘ ‘ ‘ I } , • •• ■ ' ' ( r-> -1; < - • J -a 1 THE AGITATOR. _H. H- COBB, EDITOR AND PBOPKIETOB, wsusßosonaa, penn'a > WEDNESDAY, : ; ; : MtfRCII 25,1863. There was never a State stabbed to.' the heart that the patricide did not ; mnsk his mor* derous intention with a" high-wrought devotion -to its organic law. Traitors always borrow language from heavep, nnd motives from, the lowest hell. _- The dietinctive feature of copperheadism'is its nltra-devotion.toy and 'simulated respect for the CoDStitatibn. They tell os that the Con stitution is the palladium of our liberties; the sheet anchor of our hopes, the chief good of all that can accrue to mao from a written kw. Do they believe it ? Let us-see:- Did Frank Hughes believe it when be boldly advocated Mlid cause of secession ? Does Wm, B. Heed believe it when be, and Randall, are fulminating pamphlet-treason < — dissertations witb no rebuke for traitors in arms, but fall of abase of the government which gives them a living while -it owes them a halier ? - No. None ef these men, believed of belieVe in the Consti tution as the great charter of onr liberties. Turn a moment to .the not distant post. How long is it since these defenders of-tbe Constitu tion were openly engaged in violating its plain est provisions ? How long agoCmitw&ce they, led' by Pierce and Buchanan, were foremost to justify the stupendous election frauds perpe trated, in Kansas ? When the majority in that State—and it now to late to deny it, for it is o part of the history of the country—petitioned •and protested against tfie injustice of being overridden by a minority, be cans? that minor ity was abetted by the government, what word of rebuke for outrage open constitutional law was uttered by these second lovers of the. Con stitution ? Not one. ! They rage about the violation of the liberty of the citizens by arbitrary arrests during this war. When tbe prominent free state men of Kansas were arrested and kept imprisoned witbont trial for - months, who among these' jealous constitutionalist's ottered a word of protest ? None. These men were then clam orous fur the destruction of those citizens, guilty of no crime, as alleged or attempted to be alleged, in any court of competent jurisdic tion. Wherq then was their zeal for the liberty of tbe citizcb ? Did the government even afford tbe privilege of the habeas corpus to those citi zens of Kansas ? Did it at any subsequent time, arraign them and convict ? Never. ■■ But where was-, this jealousy of tho liberty of tbe citizen ? Not in administration circles manifestly ; nor yet in the minds of the Bay ards, the Saulsburys, tbe Powell’s and the Richardsons. . No five column speeches in,-tbe Olobe then attestfed their high respect for the rights of citizens ? Now it Is different. TUe fact .is that these constitutionalists are traitors now as they were traitors then. And this class of democrats were born alien to any ennobling love of liberty, law, or rational privilege.— Corrupt practices and natural deformity con joined, do not suffer, tho vital spark of virtue to exist in such souls. They are rebels against every good thing, haters of every ennobling virtue, and their lives full of rottenness. It was only' tbe other day that they lashed thcmselve^ - into a fury because they were re quired, some of them, to take the new oath of allegiance before entering upon their senatorial j ‘duties. Bad as they were, they did not desire to add another perjury to tbe catalogue of their official crimes. , . AYith such men liberty reveals itself, in the . guise of license.. They love liberty which drags men into the pit, not that which exalts. • Ami this js Copperhendism. Looking over one of oor copperhead exchan ges wq chanced upon a paragraph making mention of tbe secret cose of conscience by | virtue-of which some hundreds of dollars were - returned to the Treasury of- the United States by some unknown person'in New York, with a ' confession that the money was dishonestly oh-1 t.-imed. The exchange cites this os evidence of the turpitude of the party in power. j It occurs to us that confession and restitution are not Usually regarded as evidences of turpi tude in - Christian communities. On tbe con trary, concealment of, and compromise with crime is rather more indicative of moral-de generacy. But the mistake of our copperhead critic is not very surprising. Ho belongs to s class which-sees nothing to bo n'shamed of in crime in the-abstract; or in the' concrete, as for that matter.. It is only iu detect ion that such people discover anything to apologize for, . Tbe ras calities of Floyd, Thompson, & Co., "the advisers of Mr. Buchanan, though stupendous above all cotemporary frauds and villainies, never yet provoked a word of rebuke from tho individual who indited tbe paragraph nbovuiulluded to. AYith accustomed (logic he jumps ttS-Mhe conclu sion tbat the repentant sinner referred to was an abolitionist. Since.tbe name oi tbe person is unknown op to tbe present time, we think tbe conclusion savors of copperhead intellectu ality as well as of conscience. AVe can assure him that the biggest frauds of contractors du ring this war. have gone to swell the ill-gotten hoards of life-long democrats. If that fact comfortsTiim he is welcome to-it, ' We like tbe ring of tbe closing sentence of a protest by tjic 81st Ohio Regiment stationed at Corinth, Miss.: “ AA’e want every man,-woman arid child-in Ohio to know <that our regiment, is opposed, bitterly and forever, to treason in its midst, in its front, and in its. rear.” | Tnt Union State -Convention will assemble at Pittsburg on the ltt -day-of July next,-in stead of the 15th of July, as at first reported. ooppebheadibm, Tk Tlt©©A COUfJTTY AGITATOR* -tse wAb ioewb, ' The ptet week ha* notbeen prolific ofstjr ring events. There has been a cavalry raid by onr trooprtfn the Rappahannock, in which onrcnvalrymetand handsomely whipped, the rebel cavalry'and artillery npder Gen. Stoart. Otar lose Was 50'in : kifled,-wounded and miss-! jug'; the rebel loss was upward of 200. The rebels made an attack in force on New bern, N. C., last week, but were repulsed with •considerable damage. - * In the West there have been several sharp ■skirmishes,- in which the Union troops were victorious. The Yazoo expedition is not yet ont of the woods, nor had Vicksburg fallen at latest accounts. ' . , ' The fight at Port,Hudson did not result in either victory or defeat. We lost some vessels, among them the gunboat Mississippi. It is reported that the rebels are about to Tall back from the Potomac open Richmond, fear ing an attack from tbe Janies riper base,, Major-Gen. B] V. Sumner, died. &t tbe resi dence of his son-in-law, in Syracuse, on Fn -day last, of congestion of the longs. He was' on his .way to tbe department .of Missouri. UU loss is much regretted in army circl.es. There was a smart skirmish on the Black water, Virginia, between a detachment of oar troops and a'.rebel’ force in entrenchments. Tbe rebels proved too strongly posted to be dislodged by our fofooa. The loss.was small. Tbe copperhead democracy in Ohio and In dians. are combining with the deserters from the army to resist the authorities., Several de serters having been arrested by the provost marshal injndiana recently, a company of 100 copperheads, armed with rifles, rescued them. Whereupon the citizens took up arms and dis persed the. copperheads, and reclaimed tbe re cusant soldiers,handing them over to the Uni ted States. When we hear men speaking of the '‘Union Democracy,” -we understand tbem to mean the Democracy represented by such life-long dem ocrats ns Andrew'Johnson, Joseph Wright, of Indiana, Daniel S. Dickinson, and Benjamin F. Butler—not to mention others of scarcely less note. But it seems that we are mistaken. These men are ndt recognized, scarcely tolera ted by the ‘‘Union Democracy.” It is bat the other day that the legislature of this State de liberately voted not to lend the Capitol to An drew Johnson and Gov. Wright for the purpose of making patriotic addresses; not for the pur pose ‘of making partisan harangues, bear in mind, but addresses calculated to enlighten and encourage the people. Yet that legislature halls itself n-“ Union Democratic” legislature. Precisely at what time these life-long demo crats forfeited their right to recognition among democrats, as well as to the ordinary courte sies usual to be observed between public men of the same political family, does ndt, at first glance, appear. Bat actual and undisguised bootilitj tu iUcui nao ituycc mEHiifesieu toward tbem until they publicly arrayed themselves on tbeside of the government and declared for uncompromising hostility to the slaveholders’ rebellion. From that day they lost caste with the “ Union Democracy.” You will never bear a word in praise of Andrew Johnson and bis sturdy compatriots from tho so-called “Un iott Democracy.” And for this reason we consider the differ ence between a so-called “Union democrat” and-a sympathiser with treason as of no mo ment whatever. The “ virtuous 7 ' democracy are about to es tablish a new paper in Washington for the purpose of saving the country from utter ruin. Those who know »o well how to destroy oogbt to know how to restore. Such adepts at plun dering the Treasury ought to prove apt at ex posing schemes of plunder. AVe wish them success in that direction. But the following morsel from the prospectus of the incipient thicf-killing-fiery-nbyss-rescuing journal is ne cessary to a full comprehension of the object of its projectors: " The madness and folly of abolitionism have not only involved ns in a deplorable civil war, but they have brought ns to tho very verge of anarchy! It ie the high and holy mission of the Democracy to rescue our beloved country from the-fiery abyss into which blind fanati cism and mad. ambition would hurl it. And the Demdcracy can and will do it!" Taking into consideration the'fact that this great “ antiseptic” party had control of the government for nearly balf-o-centqry preceding this rebellion, and for several months after it broke out, the foregoing is cool and refreshing. However, if any set of men in the country are more fully qualified to explore ,the “ fiery abyss” in search of lost men or.nations, we Have yet to bear of them. We have yet to meet a soldier, either in field or camp, whodoes not rejoice nt the possagj of the law for calling put the national forces. And Wa have yet to find a fair and square, oat and out, loyal man, who does not acquiesce in its provisions.. The Copperhead prejs is on the rampage, dbout the payment of a snm of mon ey to the government for a substitute; bat no conscription law ever existed that did not pre sent the alternative of, substitution in lien of service. In this cue the government takes the money and provides the substitute. Sacb is the intention of the l»Jr, such the spirit of the debate upon its provisions/and such,the under standing of the law by its maker*. Let every non-exempt either “ fight, pay, or emigrate.” The municipal election in Harrisburg on Friday last, resulted in the election of Boom-, fort,. Copperhead/by a majority of 38 votes. The usual democratic majority in Uarrishprg is not less than 230. A fair gain for the Colon mem ' • Secret jvrt Cjjasb has received from a cele brated hanking firrain Germany, an offer of a loan of'Sl,ooo,ooo worth of "bonds’at seine thing ahtvc par htenrfehcy;, . JjETTEB FBpU if, BMEBY, 883. • ' Wasbinoton, March 6,18G3.. Bear AeuriioK: I wrote you last evening on my return fromOVOiTtbp river, and thought then i Bhould retutn.immfidiately .home,, but. have concluded to extend my walk and visit, ,at least,,to the Army of the Potomac, or as the people say here, “ go down to the front." I ended my firsfdays walk in Gen; Heintzle man’s department in a seaoh after a hotel in ■ Alexandria, and brought up at tbe Marshall House, where. I got a poor supper, indifferen t ’lodging and a worse breakfast, by paying for it in advance. HadfT known at the time that it was the famous house where Ellsworth was killed, I might have lingered to view the staircase and spot where be died, but ns it was I went away unconscio.os that I had eat and slept where a martyr fell. Port Ellsworth is named after him to commemorate his braveryand though rash, he will always be held- in grateful re membrance as one of the men whose lives have -been sacrificed to gratify the Moloch of, slavery. i I was off as soon as I had swallowed my poor breakfast, taking the advantage of a hea vy freeze during'the night to walk over the seas of mud that lay beneath, and sdcceeded in reaching the Alexandria heights before the sun had rendered the flats impassable to tbe pedeOtri&m One can now hardly judge of the bottom lands between the river and the heights, bntthey looked ns tfabogh they might be very productive. They were without fences or in- Slosures, and were cut up by roads in every direction. One, advantage : they will • derive ■ftoin. this war: they will become heavily ma nured with dead horses, if with nothing else. Tlie Seminary, which is a very large and prominent building, can be seen from a* great distance, and looks'from Washington to be not overitwo miles distant. It is about west from the Oortbern point of Alexandria, and distant, perhaps, about three miles. It is id a most delightful situation, , nearly in the midst of a fine grove, which seems to-have been untouch ed by the hand of wad. The building,- how ever, is converted into a hospital, and nejir it is quite a number of other buildings,-which have beeri. constructed for the same purpose; In tbe'grove near the Seminary the American flag floats over the headquarters of the general commanding. From the Seminary you strike northerly to the road, leading in a northwesterly'direction from Alexandria to Falla Church. .All through here, with the exception of the Seminary and its surroundings, the country looks dreary and desolate. Almost every thing is swept away— fences destroyed, buildings stripped or torn "down, and the. land apparently a dead waste. A few miles above tbe Seminary this road crosses tbe Colombia turnpike leading from Burke’s Station to the Long Bridge] The in tersection is tbo famous Bailey’s Cross Roads, and a short distance beyond this, on. tbe turn pike is Bailey's house. His buildingrare un touched,' and all things about him look as though jthey had been scrupulously guarded, from the footsteps of tbe destroyer. The secret of this ■ is, I suppose, that Bailey held his tongue, was a go.od friend to every body, rebel or loyal, staid nt 'home and minded bis own business. At all event* I don’t think be is much worse Off for the rebellion. • Beyond here still, in a northwest direction, is Munson’s Hill, famous for its wooden guns, wlifctif fur a toog fimo, frlgMcoed ortr p«oph apd kept tbem at hay. The earth-works on the hill still remain, and within is stationed the Provost guard of that region. It is.a dirty, desolate, miserable, foul-smelling elevation, pre senting near it only one redeeming feature, and ‘that is Munson’s nursery south of the hill, by the side of the Fall’s Church road, it is a vpry large, well trimmed and well dressed nursery of peach, plumb, cherry, and apricot trees,; entirely nriiucloscd, and yet in an al most perfect state of preservation. WJierever I have traveled-! have noticed that fruit treos Were generally undisturbed. Nearly northwest from Munson’s Hill is : Fall’s Church, from Which is a very good road leading to Fairfax Court House, about eight or nine miles distant. 1-should have gone down there to visit the- old Bucktails and the Gth Re serves, but I had reserved that point and Bull Bun for another day, intending to go by the Alexandria and Orange railroad, If I could suc ceed in getting a pass and transportation to the latter 1 place from Gen. Heintzlemah, who had just received orders to grant.no transportation and no passes beyond Fairfax Station. - <At a small distance from Munson’s Hill, in a northeasterly direction, is Upson’s • Hill, and still further on towards Georgetown, easterly, is- the Commissary Headquarters of that Divi sion on the Loudon and Hampshire railroad, Most of tbo troops stationed in this region are Pennsylvania Reserves, a bare' remnant of as brave a body of men as any army over had— npw reduced to mere skeleton companies apd regiments—-for they have been in the front of nearly every battle that has been fought .any where in the region- of the Potomac. More than half of their men sleep in death, and half the remainder have been sent homo with mu tilated limbs or broken constitutions. . . From Munson’s Hill on towards Georgetown, from some .cause or other, the country is not desolated as in other parts. The, fences, per haps, in many.places are gone, but from the railroad east X do not recollect of seeing any appearance of buildings destroyed. Tho ene mies pickets, 1 think, were never stationed nearer the river -than Ball’s Cross Roads, and no battles or skirmishes took place in this part. From Munson’s Hill across to George town the land is mostjy sandy, and the timber, I should think l)pd been mostly pitch pine; the forms being, comparatively, less valuable than nearer Alexandria, i It was near 2 o’clock. 1 had arrived within sight of Georgetown, near Fort Corcoran—was hungry—looked into an eating shop—tho sight had a magical effect in allaying toy, hunger, as the sight of the forceps often stops the tooth ache, so I concluded I would file right, take Fort Woodberry, Cass, Hie Arlington House, Fort Runyon, Albany, &o.f and haul up again at Alexandria! That would make about thirty five miles, including the ins and outs, certain ly not a very heavy days. march for an old soldier. ' ■ Ffom Fort Corcoran, hear the Acqnedabt bridge, south and southwesterly the country'is completely barricaded with forts and'breast works. It would seem to be impo&ible for any army, however large, to’get into Washing-, ton from’this direction. Fort Ellsworth and another obtho hill sonth, completely command the Orange railroad and the valley through which it runs, and every approach to the north of that is commanded by forts and gans brist ling on every height. No man in one day can get more than a bird's-eye glance of the de fences, but even such a glance will convince him that Washington is in no danger by the ypy of'Alexandrhvcounty. - - v - I C From the point whwo I turned pootb, you pass over a succession df hills and valleys, all strongly fortified. Here the timber is not much'destroyed,-and there is not that appear ance of utter desolation as further west, but 'y eUair agricnltural operations appear to have been utterly suspended, and to one set down there from Tioga county, without having seen any other place where the army had .been, it would present a desolate, appearance. ' The Arlington property, where! I lingered sometime, is a most romantic and beautiful situation. Tbo buildings are on the brow of the hill, in full sight of Washington, and ex tending back of thorn is a very extensive and beautiful grove, of open timber. .To the front is a descending slope to the bottom lands of the river, covered with numerous evergreens and trees of various kinds. The house in which Gen. Lee resided, when be was not a rebel, is now occupied as General Heintzleman’s head quarters. Back of the mansion are the negro quarters, and I saw quite a number of women and children, who, I presume, had been Lee’s slaves, and who now remain on th& plantation. Some distance,back of the Arlington House, in tbe oak grove, -are two marble monuments; on one of which is inscribed—" George Wash ington'Parke Custis, born April 3ft, 1781, died October 10, 1857-. ■< Blessed ore tbe merciful tot they; shall obtain mercy. ” - On the other is inscribed—“ Mary tee Cns tis, born April 22,1788, died iSpril 23,1853. < Blessed are tbe pure In heart for they shall see God.’” Slaveholders, as they were, these, simple in scriptions no doubt Indicated their true char acters. . li There were no enclosures around the monu ments, and no appearance of other nemberg| of the family having been buried pear; but a few feet off there were other graces—the graves of soldiers, who bad died far away from hope, and were botied by the side of the relatives of the rebel General, who now heads the armies, of that rebellion, in the effort to put down which they had lost their lives. Side by side they slept, and I thought, as I stood there all alone,' how eagerly, if fe the grave it could be done, these relatives of Washington would; clasp, in love, the bony bands of the dead sol diers, while their skinless lips would curse the degenerate Lee. - i Gen. Helntzleraan was hot at his headquar ters. It was getting late in the afternoon. I was tired and hungry. Washington looked ex ceedingly pleasant in the distance. Alexandria was a good way off, and the Marshall House not very tempting. I could sjee the Long Bridge, which a soldier told me was only two miles off across the flat. I knew that Virginia miles, through the mud, were somewhat leng thy. Washington or Alexandria)? Washing ton carried the day, and I started for the Long Bridge, It -is getting late.. I must hurry up. One tells me I shall get mired if I take a bee-line. No matter, I can't go round by the high lands, and so I am off for my pleasant hoarding house in Washington, " by the nearestroute.” Gentlemen, readers of the Agitator , I would like for your entertainment, and for ray own relief, to give your a description of my journey over that two miles, but the women would read it, and it wouldn't do. “Mud?" Why yon don’t know any thing about mud compa-, red to what I do. Dead horses 1 : Ugh I ■ What an atmosphere. Did you ever run plump into a corral of sick horses, where yoh had to wind in and out to avoid carcases 7. 1 recollect of feeling a sense of. suffocation—of thinking I had not mode* my will—of compressed nos trils—and a despairing effort to, run through. Ten. thousand crows, as I |odj on, were all around, on the ground and in the air, crying like so many demons—“ khaus! khans I” as if inviting me to the feast of death.— Thank heaven, I escaped. I bad got-into a belt of purer atmosphere. 1 stopped to breathe and shake myself, and then polled ahead. The atmosphere gradually began to change, but I was sure it was not a dead horse odour. Suddenly a black cloud rose each side of me, and ten thousand black demons began to cry “ Caoow!, cauow!” I was in an open triangle, hurrying on to its apex, the legs of which were offal from the great slaughter, house just a head. I bad ffone through dead horses and thought I could go. through this. Escaped at the apex over a platform of blood, and bad a clear field for the bridge. But the horrors of those two Virginia miles 1 I would. like hj de scribe them if I could. \ I reached the city. Made direct to a bar ber's shop. Got shaved. 5 Boots blacked. — Clothes br.usbed. Asked tbe barber if I’d do. Said I'd better go and buy a. pad of musk. Followed bis advice. Paid for a glass of ale to settle my stomach, and went to my boarding house. . Stomach somewhat nauseated, but made out to eqt a little. Feel very much re freshed. Shan’t complain if my landlady, charges me the price of three. meals for this one. Ain going down the Potomac to-morrow to stay a few days, if I see anything of interest will write you. Truly, kd. J. E. A Onion League. Editor of the Agitator ; Dear Sir ; I noticed in q late issue of your paper a suggestion that Union Leagues be or ganized in this and other towns in the county. I regret that yon did. not also suggest a time and’ place for a meeting to organize. In New York and elsewhere, Ull patriotic Democrats, who vainc the integrity and honor of the country, more than the success of the Democratic Party, are anitiug in [these Union Leagues with Republicans,' and are pledging themselves to sustain the Government in; put ting down armed rebels in the South, as well os the dangerous, insidious, sneaking rebels of' the North—now known as Copperheads. - ’ : The Copperheads are organized all over the North itt-ajecret society known ns The Knights of the Golden Circle; and this society has bent l all its efforts lately in sowing: distrust in the army, by the circulation of snob papers as the Wprid, Argus and their the small Cop perhead'papers in the country. It is tho obvi ohs duty of loyal men to defeatjtbese traitorous schemes. Let Union. Leagues, therefore, be Termed every where, and thus create and sus tain a healthy pnblic sentimeht in favor of the -prosecution of theAVar until peace is attained by subjugation. Peace attained in any other way now, con only be at the sacrifice of honor. : ' Lotalit. The town of Itichmond, Indiana, was visit ed by one of thd noblest bodies of invaders ever seen, on the 2d instant. Thera were 125 wagons/ loaded with 100 cords of wood and 3,000 pounds of floor and corn meal, all of Which were distributed to the families of sol diers. National flags were flying, bands of music playing, and better than all, the hearts of soldiers’ wives and children Were beating gladly,- ~ ; TEST VOTES. . No man- in tho Rebel States "has done more for the Union.,' or suffered much more from the Rebels, than the man (once poor, and a tailor bytrade), Andrew. Johnson, of Tenn. Fore most, in fighting traitor sympathizers in tho Free States, is Joseph A'. Wright,- of Indiana. These gentlemen passing through Harrisburg, it was thought all men professing even a spark of loyalty, would be glad to' honor them, aad that the. State authorities should officially re ceive them. Accordingly, oh-Friday, Major White, in Senate, moved that thp use of the Senate be tendered to these gentlemen. It waw adopted by a vote of 20 to 10; every Democrat voting against the measure except the patriotic’ and respected Kinsey, of Bucks. The follow-- ing are the names of the miscreants, who,- claiming to be Union men, voted against the' measure: Bucher, Ciymer, Donovan, Qlatz,. Lamberton, Mott, Smith, Stark, Steine, Wah lace. All Democrats !| Let them bo branded with the brand of Arnold 1 In-the House, the sjma honor was - proposed' by Mr. Vincent of Erie. After ah animated discussion (it requiring a two thirds’ vote to carry) the proposition was lost, by the follow ing vote (Republicans in Roman, Democrats in italic;) Yeas— Messrs. Beebe. Benedict, Bowman (Laneas 1 -- tef), Bowman (Tioga), Brown (Mercer), Brown (War-- ren,) Champneys, Cochran, Coleman, Craig, Foster, Freeland, Gllitlllan, Graham, Grant, Gross, Harrey, Henry, Bopkine (Philadelphia), Bopkine (Washing-' ton), Huston, Dutchman, Jaeohy, Johnson, Ker:>- (Philadelphia), Laporta, Loo, Lehman, Lilly, M’Clay,- M’Clellan, M’Coy, M’Murtrie, Mayer, Magee, Moose,. Mussulman, Neteo a, Olmsted, Pancoast, PcrtMvg, Ritter, Schofield, Slack, Smith. (Chester). Smim (Philadelphia'), Stronse, Sutphin, Twltchcll, Vincent, Wakefield, Warner, While, Windle, Young and £V«- na, Speaker —s 6, Rep. 44—. Dem. 12. Nats —Messrs. Alexander, Barger, Barron; Beck, Soileau, Brown, (Northumberland,) Delone, Ellis, Glenn, Umber, Hess, Hoover, Horton, Jackson, Jo sephs, Kaine, Kerns (Schuylkill), Kline, Labor, My ers, Neiman, Noyes, Patton, Quigley, “Rex, Rhoades, Robinson, Rowland, Trimmer, Walsh, Weidber, and Wolf—23—ALL DEMOCRATS. Here we have 12 oat of 67. Democrats i who tote to hear Andrew Johnson and Joseph A. Wright, illustrious Union Democrats—‘and 42 out of 67 who vote against that testimony to those honored men in this day of trial—and 12 absent, pr dodging the vote. , While this was going on the Committee of Arrangements- had quietly secured the larger and more commodious Court room for the re ception, so that the opposition of the Copper heads only served to get them on tlio record properly, but did not prevent the intended de monstration. i Friday evening, atian early hour, the commo dious and elegant Court Hoorn was crammed to suffocation, and the speeches of the two guests kept up until after eleven. , Gov. Curtin pre sided, assisted by Judge Pearson, Speakers Lawrence and Cessna, and other eminent men. The attention was most excellent and the ap plause'roost rapturous; "-Andrew Johnson is a stont, hearty-looking man of about fifty years, I should think, who spoke earnestly and.im pressively, but somewhat in the Southern de fective oratory, in that aipsjrt of his articula tion was,v#ry low and and conse quently not heard at a distance, many hearers thereby losing the thread of bis argument. Gov. Wright.is an erect, white-headed, strait forward, logical speaker, forcible and patriotic. —Lewishurg Chronicle. ' i Chasid nr a Panther. —A panther bos been seen several times recently in the neighborhood of the road leading from Coohrantoh to the Mer cer and Meadville turnpike. 0a Thursday of last week, Mr. IVm. Lytle, of Fairfield town ship, Crawford county, was passing along the road on horseback, when his horse took fright at something, and looking for the cause, Mr. L. saw the panther making ready for a spring.— He gave hiahorse the rein, and after-tt ra'-e of half a mile the panther gave up and started, off in the direction of Conneaut Marsh. The citizens of that vicinity should get up a general hunt and exterminate the ani mal ,- otherwise be may do some damage in the neighborhood. —Harrisburg Telegraph, A Mas. Howe, in Portland, Maine, had $630 in gold deposited in a hank. A “ friend," one John Clancy, told her the bank would proba bly break, and advised her to take the money * .out and bury it in her cellar. Sho did so, and was happy until the time Arrived when sho wanted the'*' brads,” and on digging for them found that they bod disappeared. Mr. Johd Clancy is under bonds of $1,200 to appear arm answer to some questions concerning the re appearance of the treasure. *, ;' The Supreme Court of the United Stales has decided that the stocks and bonds of the Gene ral Government cannot be taxed by the States. The case was that of the State of Now York, against the Bank of Commerce. All the State courts bod decided that the stocks held by the bank should be taxed, and the bank appealed to the United States-Supreme Court. Of course the decision is linal and settles the principle. Panning Land & Saw MUlforSale. THE subscriber offers .for sale a 1 valuable Water Power Saw Mill in Union township, Tioga County, Pa., within half a", mile of the Roaring Branch tnrnont of the Williamsport and Elmira Rail Read. Also five hundred and sixty acres of land in connection with said Mil) and upon which tho same is bailt. Tho Mill and land together with a good two sigrj frame house and somo other improvements wilt sold very low for cash, or a liberal credit will bo given if desired. Enquire of ttife subscriber at Wells boro—or of Augustas Gastlo living on the premises. • Wcllsboro, March 25,1863—1 t. BACHE. Bradford Reporter and Williamsport Bulletin willpublish four times and send*bills to Jhis office. Tioga County Teachers’ Institute. THE next meeting of the Tioga County Teachers’ Institute, will he held at. Tioga, the 7tb> Btß,-9th and 10th'of April, commencing Tuesday*, at 9 o'clock a. *f. Bev. Tjios. K* Beeches, of Elmira, who is iarly and favorably known to the teachers of tbia > an experienced and efficient worker In In* as a zealous and devoted friend to Com mon Schools, will be with no tbd whole time, oud-ia addition to other labors, will lecture eremrty** "• Not a single teacher in the county, can ajford to stay away from this Institnte. The manuscript books, furnished mo at Examina tions, will bo returned to all teachers who actual? attend the Institute. * A class will be formed daring the Institute, for sucb Teachers as were sick or necessarily absent county during the regular cxaminataonVlast fall, this class will be examined at Tioga, on Saturday, the llth of'April, the day following the Institute. 1 School Directors and'the educational public ‘rally, are cordially incited to attend. ‘ , HIBAMC. JOHKS; Co..Suptj March 18., 1862-rt*.. ■VTEW COOPER SHOP.—The undersigned respectfully Informs the citizens of Wellshoro and vicinity, that ho has opened a COOTER*SBQ* opposite * i GROWL’S WAfiOII SBOF, and is ready to do all manner of work prompt »ad to order, from a gallon keg to a fifty barrel t«l>. I' c ‘ pairing i ’so done on short notice. 0. F.BLUS' , Wellt'boro, Jlay B,IS Cl. ’
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