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The appointment jqf ptorojt-tearshals thro’-
onttbe tfpited States to ctfrryout the enroll
ment billVill bo made as rapMJJ as .possible.
Thera will be one fer every UMigresslonal dis
trict, and Vhen the,district is .Very large two or
- three will be appointed, as. (fee-ease may re
< quire. In addition for each <3 Utrioi, there will
be one civilian and one a'nrge<>u,{ to be paid as
, assistant surgeon of the rations 1
etc,’leaving about $ll3 per o noth. This will
constitute the enrolling board,Vwhose dnty it is
to divide' each- (jdstriot into two,; subdivisions,
■ and to appoint Or each an Enrolling officer,
wbose-speoial duty, it will be t'r>| make the en
rollment- j.-, ■ 1
Immediately after this'appointment,(the en
rolling officer of each sub-distrust js to proceed to
make the enrollment in'snolj manner that each
eball be enrolled separately,-Widjthe age pf the
person enrolled is to be set dcHvn, on the list as
it will be on the first day o£ |oly succeeding
the date of the enrollment., ■ E iuiat is, jf any
person ie not now twenty, hirt tyill he on the
first of July next, he is to be, J)|a«edon the list;
or if any married man is nHsthlrty-five now,
but,will be on the first day- next, be is
not to go in the first class, ftiitj in the second
class ; or if any person liabld tojdo duty is not
now forty-fire year* of age, hjatiwUl be oij the
first,day of July next, he is.hat jto be placed on
the list at all. ~ si
All persons thus enrolled atj to be subject to
military duty for two years ftpm the first day
of July after the enroliment/iind if called into
the service shall continue dung the rebellion,
but not to exceed three yeas-. Bnt the per
sons of tha second class shall ;nOt, in any dis
trict, be called into the service of the United
States until those qf the first; class shall have
been called. Whenever tbrj President shall
make the requisition, he is authorized to assign
to each district the number oilmen to be fur
nished, and then the enrophg board shall
make n draft of Ihe required sqtober, and fifty
per cent additional; atfd shall|make a complete
list in order in which the drawn- The
drafted men are to stand on:|-hO same footing
- with the three years in respect to
advance pay and bonnties’ajsijipw provided by
law ; and the President, injlMisigning the re
quired number to each dis&ifit, is authorized
to make allowance in respectthe mjmbejra al
ready furnished by such distrr&during the war.
After the draft is made, eet(k person whose
name is is to-be writing with
in ten days, and he is to repeat to a designated
place of rendezvous; but bwQfe the day of as
sembling he may furnish .Sjtnbslitute, or he
may pay to such person as; the Secretary of
War shall select, a sum of Jt/’vqy in Heu of a ■
substitute, which sum is tobfl l lSpadeuniform by,
a general " order, and is not to exceed three
hundred dollars. Every person failing to re*
port in person, or by procuring a substitute, or
by paying the stipulated aum. is to be deemed
a deserter.
Many persons are still of 'be opinion that
the militia law, as passed -by dhe last Congress,
is the same as that enforced; ay tho rebels.—
This is not so, as there* Hs flu wide difference.
The rebel act takes oft certain
ages, leaving none behindrwhile qur bill" merely
takes the required quota.£|nto^.tbe'whole num
ber enrolled. Thus might Ibe .in one dis
trict 10,000 persons hetwpen the ages of 20 and
45 years enrolled no liable ’So military duty,
and the quota required .i| ligb.t be only two or
three thousand, which wc aid Stall leave the ma
' jority af homo. The ret els jonj fbe contrary,
take all they can lay hat da upon, whether old
or young. ‘As Pennsyli snia;h*» already fur
nished for the war more droop's, than any other
State, and as some atf pbpB 1 j( new being di
rected to colored enlis necfii, for which it is
stated the Governor wilt glveTiue credit, there
is yet hope .that, .With Proper, exertions, our
State may escape the ifila call for more
men ie issued. —PAitofoJiAmrjfVsis.
The Finances >'pi4 the War.
the newspapers of ; pp 1 Conptry are daily
printing the best evidecje that can possibly be
given of the devotion', of the'j people to the
Union, and their belief,, fiat oittfar is necessary
for its preservation. * £e‘ B]|eak of the' little
paragraph that ■ announces the daily
subscription to the nati ari'loan at the office of
Mr. Jay Cooke, the agf it ;o£ itbe Treasury De
partment. This is a p Idan of the peo
ple to the Governmentj/pf be period of twen
ty years, the interest six ; ir cent. The pro
viesion allowing the holders jof legal-tender
notes to transfer them into tiiisi loan—in other
words, ; to invest the outrenc? jof the Govern
-1 ment in its faith, and maketSp imtiotr the great
|onrce of personal revenue 1 and deposit—is
P showing its Sappy effects in thjs manher. He
iafiy believe in a causa, prite.for it, and snstain
4 ft, as a matter of tbeoty or principle; bat it is
only when he gives it bis ridney, the result of
his time, and energy, and biaHl, that he exhib
its th»'frankest devoticjn. st, therefore, look
upon this brief table of .figures; and statements
every morning with as'.muoh interest as we look
upon tbe news from tbs seatiaf: war. The sol
dier who gives his life, snd tbs citizen who gives
the results of his life's irin i and successes, are
the-true patriots. Each Sustains tbe other, and
.is a true friend of the fGovdrsiyent. Both are
necessary. Without, the means to arm and
clothe, and feed him, the ecfftlier would-be use
less ; without the soldier to' protect ms home
and' property, the citizen Would be helpless.
So long as the Adminijjtiatipti continues to ob
tain these substantia! pvideepes of tbe people’s
devotion.it may well in the Republic,
and labor for the overferaw ofAhe nation’s en
emies.—Philadelphia JPress.
Disproportion or S*s|s.—The great ex
cess of females in neqjisrritories illustrate the
influence of emigration in ejecting a disparity
in the sexes; Tbs fethalesi of- California out
numbered the males sixty-seven thousand,
or about one fifth of tjge population. In Mas
sachusetts the females outnumber - the males
some thirty-seven thousand sis hundred. Con
'ajeotiout, seven thousaad. ' Miohigan shows
''iaealy forty-thousand pxoesf-of males; Texas,
thirty-sis thousand; Wisconsin thou
sand. In Colorado the nf\l»i are asntwenty to
one female. In Utah; tb numbers are nearly
equal; while in New ifork; there is a small .pre
ponderance ol the females - ; the males are most
numerous in t
A. Slaysholdiho Npßti Iry.—The Lonisville
Journal publishes a letterfrom Paris, from a
person intimately contested with the French
Court, who says that KaidgSiar letter had been
received.at the court ftim teff Davis and seven
ty-two other leading rop ,-f .the South,' They
vrgs Napoleon' to’recogmie the-confederacy,
:feecau»B it is their inWatiofcto establish a Mo
bility in the §mjth wStojtKe war is over, and
that France ohgat to eWprage democracy.
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f*V .'MI
THE AGITATOR.
M. H.-COBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
WELDSBOKODGH, PBNTTA;
"WEDNESDAY, i ; : :
Notice is hereby given that a Hass Conven
tion for the election of Delegates to the Uniori
State Convention to be held at Pittsburg on
the Ist of July next, will be held in the Court
House, Wellsboro, on Tuesday evening 26th
ifist. ’Speakers will be present to address the
Convention. C. H. Sevuoua,
Chairman Bep. Co. Coro.
Tioga, May 13, 1863.
• The Government is more than any mao; its
interests are higher than the interests of any
man, or of- any set of men; for the Govern
ment is the decree of the people, and its inter
ests are the aggregated'interests of the people.
Bat there are men who publicly and private
ly seek to create discontent among the ignorant
and penurious, by exhibiting the bugbear of
taxation ih its most distorted form ; who throw
discredit upon government securities; who cite
the high prices of articles of commerce to
show that the Government is not well adminis
tered ; and whose daily walk and conversation
is wor.ked up to the very line of treason.
These men are demagogues. They very well
know that direct taxation is not a new thing in
the history of this that this war
was hot inaugurated by the Government, but
by prominent leaders of the Democratic party ;
that there is no ■ honorable way out of it save
that whioh must be plowed by cannon-shot and
hewed by the sword ; that to do this calls for
a great expenditure of treasure ; that the nec
essaries of life t&sfleas to day, in the average,
than they did during the last eighteen months
of Pierce’s, and the first eighteen months of
Buchanan's administrations ; that the finances
of the country 1 are jn a much healthier condi
tion to-day than they were 'daring the terms of
either Pierce or Buchanan ; that under tha
mismanagement of the latter, capitalists would
not lend the Goverment money except at a ru
inous shave ; anti they ought to knbw that he
who seeks to throw discredit upon Government
securities, strikes at public credit; and the day
that sees the fall of U. S. Bonds tea cents be
low par, will also see a corresponding decrease
in the value of teal estate everywhere in the
North. It is a law of finance that property is
mutually dependent. Of course reference is
had to real property. The bonds! of a State
are a mortgage upon every farm and its im
provements ; and you cannot depreciate one
Without depreciating the other. Now the bonds
of the United States are a first lien upon the
farms, the mines of iron and coal, of gold and
copper, as well as upon all railroads- and canals
— banlts ana auue stoetts. lu, ....... T. Cw
to bring them into discredit is either a knave
or a fool.
Do you know what else these demagogues
do ? They have credit with State politicians
as leaders and controllers of the Democratic
*
masses In their several localities. They get
this credit bn their own representations, and
enjoy a kind of notoriety as local overseers of
a flock that would'repudiate them were their
baseness known.
These demagogues talkmuch about the Con
stitute. They are fearful the rulers will vio
late it. They cannot find hard words enough
with which to belabor the President for alleged
infractions of the organic law. But for that
armed boat of their partisan brethren in the
South, who have formally abolished the Consti
tution, they have few words of reproach. In
fact, their sympathies are with their old lead
ers—Davis, Benjamin, Toombs, and Floyd—so
strong and overruling above love of country
bad love of party become with these dema
gogues. We sincerely hope that no party of
the present or future will, through undisputed
rule, become so utterly debased and soulless.
These men talk about the inefficiency of the
Administration ; that it has bad more than two
years in which to put down the rebellion, and
has not succeeded. Tbe Democratic party
had control of the Government for near fifty
years, and could not prevent this great rebell
ion from culminating ; is there any decency in
grumbling at Mr. Lincoln because be has not
in barely two years, corrected the accumulated
disorder of h»lf-a-century of Democratic rule ?
Is it such a party that cornea forward to blab
about inefficiency f or about frauds, with the
robberies of Floyd and Thompson, the Willet’s
Point ond the Fort Scott swindles blackening
the record? or extravagance, with the Utah
Expedition, costing $10,000,000 without cause,
and a Mr. Buchanan expending $80,000,000
and upward, per annum, in jv time of profound
peace ? Is this a party privileged to set op in
the business of criticism i Is it a return to
power and plunder by this party that is to tare
all the evils that crflUct the State f
That is the prescription of these demagogues.
What can be greater and mors entire than
the love of a' mother for her children !
There is the bright, fair-haired girl of a Iqp
trum, htfloved of the house : how fondly the
mother's eye marks her outgoing and incoming,
and bow ehe makes haste to satisfy her grow
ing desire for knowledge.
There is the curly-headed, boisterous hoy—
second jewel in the family crown: how the
fond 'mother watches him in his mischievous
carryings-on, laughs at bis boy drolleries, sym
pathises with his hoy-troubles, and provides for
his comfort with a never-abating solicitude I
Now, can there be a higher exhibition of the
sublimity of maternal truth and devotion than
thie ? It would seem not.
But there is another jewel in that crown; a
jewel dearer than its peers by birth; and the
mother’s heart grows muni about it like a set
ting of puce gold. She loves no child of her
MAY ,20,1863,
MASS COSTESTIOK!
-TO DEMAGOGUES.
THE It IQG A- COXJETY A GIT ATOR^
brood as sbo fovfo that: and for no other will
she sacrifice as for that. Look into the cradle
and read the solution -of the mystery. This
best-beloved i« a'child of misfortune—crippled
for life! ,
This is a picture ot ; a tecs mother. There
ere mothers who* love only their strong, sturdy
children, and who abandon their unfortunates
to the care of strangers. And there are men
and women who love their friends ani) neigh
bors in health and prosperity, when all neigh
borly offices majJ be observed without sacrifice
of personal comfort and.convenience; but the
sublimity of true friendship, as of love, in
creases with the'sorrows and misfortunes of its
object.
Now, what is true of the parent, and neigh
bor and friend, is not less true of the citizen.
If he be worthy of the title, Citizen, his devo
tion bo the conn try of his birth or adoption will
increase and intensify as the nightfall of trial
and misfortune creeps along the horizon. Not
so with the “ Summer Soldier and Sunshine
Patriot.” When the storm threatens to over
whelm, you will find him adding volume to the
mutterings of discontent. He loves his conn-,
try when truth and devotion require no sacri
fice on his parti lie feels no affection for a
country whose misfortunes cripple it so that
a demand is made, upon his hoarded wealth —
wealth poured into his till in prosperous times.
He is a professor qf cheap patriotism. He be
lieves in no government that requires any re
turn for protection, and'the blessing of extend
ed privilege. Ton will hear him grumbling
about taxation; yet he probably does not pay
ten dollars a year for the use of the Govern
ment.
When the crowning victory copes, and teea
son hurries down to hell, its Some, these sun
shine patriots will shout loudest and fling their
hats highest of all the crowd. But no man
can escape bis record.
BHOOKS!
Home has its Tiber, Paris its Seine, London
its Thames ; but New York, with its babbling
Brooks, is more favored than they. Tiber
floats the garbage and offal of the imperial city ;
the Seine has become the sewer-maiu of the
second city on the globe ; the Thames holds in
solution the filth generated by three millions of
people ; but neither of these turbid arteries
has the sewerage capacity that must be conce
ded to the babbling Brooks, of New York.
The Tiber, tbe Seine, and the Thames hasten
to empty their filth in tbe all-devouring sea.
Rut the babbling Brooks spouts bis disgusting
freight in the balls and public squares of a city
—places sacred to tbe people—and throws bis
offal into the Highways, in tbe-form of newspa
pers ; both indecent, and insulting to the clean
ly tendencies of . the American people.
A great poet has said that there are- “ books
in the running brooks.” Had be lived in these
times be might have sang of babbling Rrooxs
gargling with nncleanness; and flowing thro’,
and watering desert places, home of the hissing
and malignant, and slimy copperhead. An
Elmira cotemporary suggests that Brooke is
‘dammed.’ That seems’likely, in every sense
of the word ; the arrested current flows back
on itself, forming little stagnant coves and pud
dles, covered with that unhealthful green slime
which may be seen in tbe ditches and sloughs.
Brooks has-been erupting again ; the occa
sion being the arrest of Vallandigham. He is
down on Burnside, down on Mr. Lincoln, down
on all men and things clean and reputable.
He s ays there is no liberty west of the Alle
ghenies, no liberty anywhere save in New York
and New Jersey. Forgetful Brooks ! There
is liberty in Jeffdom ; and, 0 Brooks ! is there
not liberty in Coney Island ? There is liberty
on Sandy,Hook, 0 Brooks ! and he who steals
and lies, and preaches treason, may roam (heir
classic shores in security; and mingle, his com
plaints .against law* and decency with tbe mur
mur of the sounding sea. Tbe thimble-riggers
and sneak-thieves, martyrs to the tyranny of
tbe law which afflicts Brooks, go there to es
cape tbe hateful surveillance of tbe police; and
why not join that congenial company, 0 Brooks
the sorely afflicted 1
May New York long retain her monopoly of
ber babbling-Brooks. He might overflow New
Jersey a trifle, without risk ; it might not be
wise to slop over into the rural districts ; he
will be dried, np if he does that." He made a
fair Know-Nothing; .he makes a better modern
democrat; he would make a still, better mar
tyr ; he is addicted to ‘‘slopping over,’’’'and
can lie beautifully.
Next winter be will be in Congress.
he takes bis seat the absence of Keitt, and'oth
er gentlemen of erudition, will not be noticed.
V'allandigham haa bad hi* trial, and it is
said that the court martial sentenced him to
two years on the Dry Tortogas. We hope not.
A better punishment would be to deliyetjiim
up to the Ohio troops in the field, whom'he has
traduced and villificd. They would do him jus
tice, and hta followers would not dare to yelp
or hiss about his persecution. We object to de-'
grading labor by putting such fellows at it.
Don't send that inearnate devil to work on the
Dry Tortagos, Mr. Lincoln.
Can some accommodatinggentleman famish
os with the name of some county not under so
called democratic rale 1 , where K. G. C. Lodges
can be made self-sustaining f
Col R jus, Provost Marshal of the War
Department, has evidence in his possession im
plicating several persons, some of whom are
bolding offices under the government, in « plot
to effect the release of certain of the inmates
of the did Capitol prison. One of the suspect
ed had the effrontery to attempt to bribe Col.
Baker to silence, with an offer of $lO,OOO. Af
ter a portion of the money had been paid to
Baker, wholymded it to the Sanitary Commis
sion, the donbr, with his accomplices was ar
rested. Timtoof the-alleged eanspisatori bare
been indicted by die Grand Jury now inieieion.
VAKxraws.
[JL Cairo iKspatoheejs that Adjntant-Gen.
Thomas baaorgamssd ten regiments of negroea,
and expects to organize ten’ - more. Ourtroopa
all the way from Memphis to. Young's Point are
moving to re-enforce Gen. Grant. Gen. Grant
will endeavor toent the railroad between Vicks
burg and Jackson, and a battle is expected in
the vicinity,of the Black River bridge. '
Richmond papers of the 14th are received at
Fortress Monroe. They contain a Charleston
telegram of the 12th reporting that the Union
ists are nnnsnaily active, and have built for
fnidahle batteries on Folly Island, bearing on
the Southern extremity of Morris Island.
Advices from Gen. Grant to the Bth inst. have
been received in ’Washington, He expresses
satisfaction with the appearance of affairs in
his vicinity, -and states that Port Hudson is
undoubtedly evacuated except by- a small gar
rison and their heavy artillery.
All our wounded left on the other side of the
Rappahannock have been brought over. While
in Rebel bands they were treated as well as they
had reason to expect.
■ Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, (Stonewall) died
recently in Richmond from the effect of wounds
received at the battle near Fredericksburg.
His death is a great loss to the rebels.
Gen. McClellan says that the news that he
has tendered his resignation to the Government
has not the slightest foundation in fact.
The remoteness of Gen Banks' Department,
and infrequency of communications'with him,
render it difficult to keep the public supplied
with accurate and connected details of his op
erations, or to accompany the accounts we do
publish with the requisite explanations of his
plans and purposes- His late campaign from
Berwick’s Bay to the Red River was, in many
respects, a complete surprise to the country.
' The first movement of Gen. Banka in field
operations was*bis advance from Baton Rouge
to co-operate with Admiral Farragutj, as it ap
peared, in an attack upon Port Hudson. But
he speedily withdrew to Baton Rouge and to
New-Orleans, foiled, as it seemed to the public,
and without military glory. His return to
New-Orleans was an occasion not unimproved
by rebels for rejoicing over bis supposed dis
comfiture. But Gen. Banks bad not withdrawn
to New-Orleans to fortify and-defend himself,-,
as the secessionists bad begun to imagine. On
the contrary, be returned to break the coil that’
the emboldened enemy w as-attempting to forin
around bis depaetroent. 'Leaving the Miss
issippi river, and leaving the gunboats to defend
New-Orleans from the fabulous thousands that
were to descend upon it from Mobile, Jackson
and other strongholds on the east, Gen. Banks
set out to attend in person to the increasing
bands that had begun to threaten his outposts
at Berwick’s Bay, on the west. The bulk of
the rebel forces in Louisiana bad gathered
about Pattersonville, Centreville and Franklin
—the former a town almost in sight of the Un
ion picket, at Berwick, and the two latter on
Bayou Teche, a few miles further west. They
bad become so bald as to meditate an advance
in force upon New-Orleans from this direction,
and by a gunboat fleet from the bayous into the
Mississippi, and believed that Gen. Banks had
burned back to New-Orleans to defend that
city.
- Bat without waiting for their advance, Gen.
Banks suddenly appeared at Berwick’s Bay
with neadv bis whole army. , And, not pausing
there to fortify or defend himself, he immedi
ately sought the camps where the rebels were
in force and organised. A day or two of rapid
advance and skirmishing brought him to Camp
Beaaland, near Centreville, where the rebels in
force were encountered, under Generals Sibley,
Taylor and Morton. After a severe fight, on
the 12th and 13th of April, the rebels evacuated
their position at night, leaving two cannon and
considerable small arms and ammunition, with ,
all their sick and wounded, behind. This bat-1
tie, called the battle of Bethel Place, was one :
of the most creditable engagements of the war. j
It was skilfully manoeuvred on the Union side .
by Gen. Banks in person. Every arm in the ,
service except cavalry was, engaged, six batte- j
ries of artillery having been in full play within |
rifle range of each other. The gunboat Clifton, {
closely beset by rebel torpedoes, did gallant■
w6rk in the fight. The rebel defeat and de
moralization was great, as exhibited by eviden
ces of panic in their flight.
On tbs 14th of April the enemy was again
struck two miles west of Franklin, and after a
brief but severe contest compelled to retreat.
By the time Gen. Banks had reached New.
Iberia, twenty miles west of Eranklin, he had
captured about 1500 prisoners ; a rebel steam
boat, the Cornie ; about 500 horses, mules, ,&o.;
bad caused the destruction by the rebels of their
gunboats Hart and Diana, and the steamers
Newsboy, Gossamer, Era No. 2, Louisa, Derby,
Uncle Tommy, Blue Hammock and Cricket, all
of whicn were burned on the Teche to prevent
them from falling into our hands. Seven miles
from New Iberia Gen. Banks took possession of
the celebrated island of rock salt, in the mid
dle of a mud lake, from which the rebels have
been supplied by way of the bayous connecting
with the Rod river at Alexandria, and thence
by Red river to Yicksbnrg. The rebel works
at this salt mine Gen. Banks destroyed. i
Even at bis victorious march the
jpublio in New-Orleans did not understand the j
intentions of Gen. Banks, and the papers were j
discussing the probability of his return. But 1
he still moved on, fighting a detachment of the
enemy again near Vermillionville, twenty miles
above New Iberia, the gnnbeat fleet in the mean
time reducing a strongly fortified place on his
right flank, called Bnte la Bose. The next
place we hear of Gen. Banks, he is at Opelousas,
still thirty'-milea farther on, the chief town of
the Attakappas country, the great sugar dis
trict, and one of the richest in all the south.
This seemed a fit stopping place for the victori
ous general. Bat no, he pushed on, and does
not stop until be reaches and .occupies Alexan
dria, on the Red river, near seventy miles north
of Opelousas. Hers he gods a foundry and
extensive machine shops of the rebels, one of
the chief depots for the gathering of Texas and
western Louisiana supplies for the rebel armies
at Port Hudson and Vicksburg and- the head
quarters, for the time being, of the rebel gov-!
eminent of the State of Louisiana.
Gen. Banka is now master.of all or nearly
all, the bayous ef Louisiana. Ho is above Port
Hudson, and ready to eo-operate with Farragut
in clearing Red river and the Mississippi banka
of rebels, and reducing Port Hudson. The
rebel forces at Pattersonville, Franklin, Iberia,
Opelousas and Alexandria, numbered fully 20,-
000 men. These have been beaten in detail
and dispersed by the rop|d marching of Sen.
Banks,, who moved bis army about one hundred
and eixty miles in two weeks time, fighting
battles on the way, and in all his fights not
losing a tetalof two hundred men. His achieve
ment is extraordinary, and his laurels may be
proudly worn.
Cfan. ‘ffitoseniMt’s ®xp*dltlon—CoL Kilpat
rick’s Official Report. ;.v
v YoßKTOwlir. Va., May 8; 1863.
MajortQeneral '2E W. Eaileck, Commander-in-
Chief United Slates Amny; : _
OtSABAL: I have the pleasure to report that
by direction from ..Major-General Stoneman I
left Louisa C. H. on the morning of the 3d in
stant, with one regiment—the’ Harris Eight
Cavalry of my brigade—and reached Hungary,
on the Fredericksburg Railroad, at daylight on
the morning of tbe 4th, destroyed the depot,
telegraph wires, and railroad for several miles;
passed over to the Broad tnrnpike and drove in
tbe rebel pickets down tbe tnrnpike across the
Break, charged a battery and forced it to re
tire to within two miles of the city of Rich
mond ; captured Lieut. Brown, aid-de-camp to
Gen. Winder, and eleven men, within the forti
fications-- I then passed down to tbe left to tbe
Meadow bridge, on the Cbickahominy, wbich l
(horned, and ran a train’of cars into the-river;
I retired to .Hanover town on tbe Peninsula;
crossed and destroyed the ferry just in time to
check the advance of a pursuing cavalry force.
Burned a train of thirty wagons loaded with
bacon, captured 13 prisoners, and encamped
for the night five miles from the river.
I resumed my march at 1 a. k. of tbe sth,
surprised a force of 300 cavalry at Aylett’s,
captured 2 officers and 33 men, horned 56 wa
gons, the depot containing upwards of 20,000
barrels of com and| wheat, quantity of cloth
ing and commissary stores, and safely crossed
the Mattapony, and( destroyed the ferry again,
just in time to escape the advance of the rebei
cavalry pursuing. Late in the evening
stroyed a third wagon train and depot a few
miles above and west of Tappabannoek, on the
Rappahannock, and from that point made a
forced march of 20 miles, being closely follow
ed by a superior force of cavalry; supposed to
be s portion of ‘''Stuart’s,” from the foot that
we captured prisoners from the Ist, stb and
10th Virginia Cavalry. At Rundown we dis
covered a force of cavalry drawn bp in line of
battle above King and Queen 0. H. Tbeir
strength was unknown, but I advanced at once
to the attack, only however to discover that
they were friends, being a portion of the 12th
Illinois Cavalry, who had become separated
from the command of Lieut.-Col. Davis, of the
same regiment. At 10 a. m., op the 7th, I
found safety and rest under our oWn brave old
flag within our Ijnes at Gloucester Point. This
raid and march about the entire rebel army—
a march of nearly two hundred miles —has been
made in less than five days, with a loss of one
officer and thirty-seven men, while we captured
and paroled upwards of three hundred men.
I take pleasure in bringing to your notice
tbe officers of my staff, Cspt. P. Owen Jones,
Capt. Armstrong, Capt. Mdlrvin, Dr. Hackley,
Lieut. Estis, especially the latte?, who volun
teered to carry a despatch to Mnj.-IGen. Hooker.
He failed’in the attempt; but, with his escort
of ten men, he captured and paroled one major,
two captains, a lieutenant, and fifteen'men ;
but was afterwards captured Tiimself, with his
escort, and was subsequently recaptured by
our own forces, and arrived here this morning.
I cannot' praise too highly the bravery, forti
tude, and (untiring energy displayed through
out the march by Lieut.-Col. Davies, and the
officers and men of the Harris Light Cavblry,
not one of whom but was willing ft> lose his
liberty or his life, if he could but aid in the
B f.-ing on. and win for himself
tbe approbation of his chief.
Respectfully submitted, J. KILPATRICK,
Cohnti Cowmaud’g Ist Briy. 3 d jDtr f Covalry C'ofpt,
BUCKEYE
mower‘and reaper.
THIS Movrer and Reaper took the FIRST
PREMIUM, a grand GOLD MISPAL and DI
PLOMA, at the greatest practical Field Trial ever
held in this country, at Syracuse, July 1&57. It bns
also been awarded the first premium at fifty Stale and
County Fairs* '
IT DEFIES COMPETITION. -
The undersigned has been appointed an agent for
the sale of this Mower and Reaper in Tioga county.
-Re will also soon be prepared to furnish formers
with every description of Agricultural implements
•suited to th© wants of this region. |
- Wallsboro, May 20,1863. Oj V.* CRANS.
LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the'Post
Office at Tioga, May ( 18, 1853 ,
Boner, Mr. William iMacnmber,{David 2
Duell, L. Rachel Strock, MrS. C. E.
Gordcu, Warren Stewart, L.> William
Henry, .Miss Chloe Stone, D. Warren
Hayes, Mrs. Tremaln, Dow
Hill, Mrs. Montana Teriel, Mrs. Peley
Reuse. Mr. Isaac Wobb, Miss A. C.
Moore, Mrs. EvaHno White, Mr. Eugcan
Marvin, Miss Mary
Persona calling for any of the above letters, will
please say they are advertised. ~
LEWIS DAGGETT, P. M.
LIST OF LETTERS remaininaJn *he Post
Office at Wellsboro, May 16, ISt^:
Bailey, Henry Jackson, Mayy E,
Bailey, Maryatt Mnmleville, Wooster 2
Borken, Palmer Matter, Amanda Jana
Barnes, James 2 NowherrjJSpenccr
Butler, L. B. Patton, John D.
Cole, Mary Jane Pellett, Charles
Cranco, Mdme Prudent (For’n) Reynolds, Wm.
Clark. Wm, D. Redfteld. Wm.
Carpenter, Letta Smith, Ellis
Doe, John Sheldon, Clias.
Dailey, Orlando Woodward, E. E. ’
Hunt, T. Cj - * v [
Persons calling for any of the above letters, will
please say they are advertised.
HUGH YOUNG, P. M.
Register’s Ifollcc.
NOTICE is hereby given that the following
Administrators, Executors, and Guardians, have
filed their accounts in lb© Register's] Office of Tioga
county, and that the some will be (presented to the
Orphan’s Court of Tioga county, obithe first Monday
of June, 1863, for confirmation and kllowan.ee:
Account of Roswell Ackley, Administrator of H.
A. Reynolds deceased. I
Account of O. B. Wells, Administrator- of Theodo
ras Larrison, dec'd. \
Account of E. S. Seeley, Administrator of Caroline
Seeley dec'd.
Account of J. P. & Thomas Keeney, Administrators
of Thomas Keeney dec’d.
Account of John Newbery, Executor of Nathan
Newbery dec'd.
Account of Peter Vaanesa, Guardian of James M.
3t Orren M. Dodd. H. S. ARCHER, Register.
Wellsboro, May 13, 1863.-3 w. !
MRS. IS. C. STRIKER,
BOARDING & DAY | SCHOOL,
LAWRENCEVILLE, TIOGA CO., PA.
school will be open for the reception of
A pupils on Monday, May 4,1863*. A limited num
ber of girls taken as boarders, anU ; every attention
paid to. their minds and morals. The coutse of in
struction will be most thorough, and no pains spared
to render the school deserving of public patronage.
Fob tern® &e., apply to
April 22,. 1863. Mrs. M. C. STRYKER. *
DESTISTBV.
PRICE & FIRMAN,
MECHANICAL & SURGICAL DENTISTS,
WOULD respectfully Inform theeitiießS of Wells
boro and surrounding country,, that they are
now stopping at J-. W. Bigoaey's Hotel, knows as the
Pennsylvania Hoase, for a few weeks, and would be
pleased to wait on all who may need the services of
thiii profession. All operations 'Pertaining to the
profession-perfbrmed in the most caretbl and scien
tific manner. We would call particular attention to
soar hard Rubber or Coralite work, wjhioh is unprece
dented. PRICE 4 FIRMAN. * ■’
Wellsboro) March 18. 1863. ' j
.•vr-u.•"!> U'-a.'rrsiK*.'' >r^.T.
WOOtfeU FACTORY.
THE undersigned takes ibis
forming the inhabitant* of Steuben and Tioga
counties and vicinity, that her baa rented for a term of
years, with the intention of purchasing the well knows
Woolen Factory at South Addison, (known os the
Wombongh Factory) where ho wHI manufacture Wool
by the yard, or on shares into Btocking-Yarn, Plan,
nels, Casslmeres, Doe*Skios, and Foil Cloths of *u
kinds. The Machinery is undergoing a thorough sad
complete repair, and new Machinery is being added
to the Mill, which will enable it to turn off a style tf
work far superior to anything of the kind ever done
in this section of the country. Also particular atten
tion will be paid to Roll Carding and Cloth-Dressing*
which will be done in the neatest possible manner*
Tbe Roll Machine is also being fitted entirely new,,
and can be depended upon doing work satisfactorily.
The subscriber would here say, that be has been en
gaged in tbe business of manufacturing Wool for
Farmers for tbe past fifteen years in the east, and i*\
thoroughly acquainted with the business ; that all
who want work of this kind may rely with confidence
on its being done to their entire satisfaction.
First class references given as to ability and respon
sibility. W, F. KEEFES.
South Addison, N. Y., April 15, 1863.-4tn*
TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS OF BOTH
SEXES.—A Reverend Qejitleman baring been
restored to health in a few days, after undergoing all
tbe usual routine and irregular modes of treatment
without success, considers it bis sacred duty to com*
municate to bis afflicted fellow creatures tbe means
of cure. Hence, on tbe receipt of an addressed en
velope, be will send (free) a copy of the prescription
.used. Direct to John M. Dangall, 186 Fulton street,
Brooklyn, New York. Jan. 28, 1863-ly,
ON and after JULY let, 1863, the privilege
of converting the present issue of LEGAL
TENDER NOTES INTO THE NATIONAL SIX
PER CENT. LOAN (commonly called ‘-‘Five-Iwen*
ties”) will cease.
All who wish to invest In the Five. Twenty Loan
must, therefore, apply before tbe Ist of JULY next.
JAY COOKE, Subscription Agent,
Ho. 11l S. Third St., Philadelphia.
April 8,1863-3 m. ;
Editor of The Agitator ?
Pear Sir: With year permission I wish to iay
to the readers of your paper that I will send by return
fa ail to all who wish it, (free) a Recipe, with full di
rections for making and using a simple Vegetable-
Balm, that will effectually remove, in 10 days, Pim
ples, Blotches, Tan, Freckles, and all Impurities of
the Skin, leaving ths same soft, clear, smooth and
beautiful.
I will also mail free to those having Bald Heads
or Bare Pages, simple directions and information tbac
will enable them to start a full growth of Luxuriant
Hair, Whiskers, or a Moustache, in less than 30 days.
All opplications answered by return mail without
charge. Respectfully yours,
THOS. P. CHAI*SjAN, Chemist,
Feb. 25,1863-3 m. No. S3l Broadly, New York,
111 LDRE N OWE OF THEIR
SICKNESS TO COLDST-J-No matter where tbe
disease may appear to be sealed, its origin may be
traced to suppressed perspiration, on a Cold. Cramps
and Lung Complaints are direct products of Colds.
In short Colds are the harbingers of half the diseases
that afflict humanity, for as they are caused by check
ed .perspiration, and as five-eighths of the waste mat
ter of the body escapes through the pores, if these
pores are closed, that proportion of diseases necessa
rily follows. Keep dear, therefore, of Colds and
Coughs, the great precursors of disease, or if con
tracted, break them up immediately, by a timely use
of Madame Porter '« Curative Buham. Sold by all
Druggists, at 13 cents and 25 cents per bottle:
March 11, 1863-ly.
A ? folSey,
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, &c., &c.,
repaired'\t old prices.
POST OFFICE SUILDING,
NO. 5, :UNION BLOCK.
Wellsboro, May 2rf, 1863,
WOOL CARDmO
AND CDOTFT DRESSING.
Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pa.
THE undersigned, thankful for past favcr-,
would inform his friends and the public general
ly. that he is located permanently in Wcllsboro, and
refitted up the old Foundry Building with entire new
machinery foi toe purpose of
WOOL CARDING CLOTH DRESSING,
He will manufacture wool by the yard, or on share?,
to suit customers, into
CASSIMER.ES, FLANNELS,'and FULL CLOTHS,
OF ‘ALL KINDS.
As his works run by steam power, he can card Wool
at any time fur customers coming from a distance.
Being a practical Cloth Dresser, and having follow
ed it for a number of years, ho can therefore warrant
"ill work to give full satisfaction, or the money re
turned.
Carded for four cents pep pound, and
Cloth Dressed at from eight to eighteen cents per yard;
as per color and finish.
Wool taken in pay for work.
Wellsboro, May 20, 1863. , CHARLES-LEE.
DEERFIELD WOOLEN FACTOR?.
fTUIE undersigned having purchased the weli
JL known Woolen Factory of Messrs. E. A B. S-.
Bowen on the Cowanesque River, two miles east of
Knoxville, takes this method of informing the inhabit
,fants of Tioga and adjoining counties that be will
‘‘manufacture wool by tho yard cr on scares to suit
customers, into
FLANNELS,
cassimere?,
DOE-SKINS,
FULL CLOTHS, of all 1 kind'/
Tb© machinery has been thoroughly repafred and
new machinery added thereto, also an improved tew
wheel which will enable him to wqrk tho entire sea
son. He will pay particular attention (o
Roll Carding Sc ClolH Dressing
which will be dona in the neatest possible manner,
having added one new Roll Machine, will enable him
to dispatch and accommodate people from a distance.
He would farther say that he has carried on the busL
ness in manufacturing wool /or fanner® in -Bradford
and adjoining counties for the pqgt twenty years; b»
therefore esn warrant all work and satisfy bis custo
mers, using nothing in manufacturing but genuine
wool. JOSEPH INGHAM-
Deerfield, May 5, 1863-ly. i
Ulaasficld Classical Seminar}' and
Stale Normal School.
A CALL is hereby made upon the stockhold
ers of the Mansfield 0. Seminary and State
Normal School for the 6th District, Pa,, to meet oa
Friday, May 22d, 1863, at S P. M.“ ,Jd
seminary, preparatory to the reception of $5OOO, ap
propriated to said institution by the neit Legislature c
as required by the following proviso, appended to the
appropriation bill;
■ , “ And provided further, that the Sams -hercinbefoW
given to the Stale Normal Schools shall only ha pay
able on the production to the Soperintendentof Com
mon Schools of a dulyscertified copy of the proceeds
mgs of a general meeting of the stockholders thereof
respectively held, after thirty days public notice, for
the purpose of agreeing by a majority of said con
.tribuiors or stockholders, that the capital stock there
of-shall be reduced by an amount equal to that hero
by appropriated by the Stale-; (to effecVwhioti reduc
tion when thus agreed to, authority is hereby given
to the Trustees of said schools- respectively, to call in
the present certificates of stock and issue others i&
iiea thereof, of each, amounts as shall effect said ro»
duction ;) and that should dividends be hereafter de
clared by either of said schools, such dividends shall
in no caseexceed six per cent on snch reduced capi
tal Btock.£? * W. COCHRAN,
* President of the Board of Trustees.
Wjt. C. Ripley, Secretary of the Board.
Mansfield, April 22, 1863."
FLOUR, best and middling gradfes, at lowest
market prices, at [April 22]
A' NY QUANTITY of CLOVER and GRASS
SEED at - rApril 13, *863.] HARDEN’S.
TEAS, COFFEE, and SPICES, best qualities
and fair prices always on hand at
Wellaboro, April 22, 1863. - MATHERS’.
'W'HITE WASH LIME & WHITE WASH
it BRUSHES for sale at Roy<’s Drag Store.
Welfsboro, April 22 r 1853.
NEW SPRING DELAINES at 2s. 6d. per
yard at [April 16, 1863. J HARDEN’S.
IEB,