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- Sr. Loots, Thursday, Jiffy 2c, 1804.
The Democrat publishes -a Ijng.account of
the for the erection <1 a North-
Western Confederacy, referred -to •. few 'days
since. The organization eng!i||ed\in this con
spiracy is known"os the “ OrdOr of American
Knights,” ?nd its, real object is-to. embarrass
the Government in the conduct pf the war, and
overthrow ' the Government if mecessary, for
the,supremacy of the Order, .Its professions
and purposes are different in tffferent States,
proclaimings, war policy in WM York, Penn
sylvariis,‘New-Jersey andothei Eastern States,
while in the West it is for psaio. The order
it of Southern origin, being eritKd on tjjo ra
ins of the Knights of the Goldin Circle, The
Rebel Gen. Sterling Price is Supreme Com
mander. .Vallandighcm, while-ii) Richmond,
was’ made the Supreme Com.mnnder of the
Northern section, fitid s con3 , ?lracy *vss em
tered into between him and th’.; Rebel author
ities to divide the East and u.j6t,:fhus to aid
the Southern Rebellion- ValUijdigham's tipe
in Canada was principally spo t in furthering
tbis sobeme. He had a cqafei fence with some
of the leading spirits in the 1 forth soon after
Hs arrival in Canada and am bged fori the es
tablishment of the Order thtou Loyal
Stated, The names of all wht' visited hith at
the Clifton House are known to the Govern
ment, uniting whom the names of "jV. 2. Reed
of Philadelphia, Pendleton end Ffigh cF Ohio,
Kribben of St. Louis, and Storey find -derrick
of Chicago, are!published. Tile result of this
conference was also known to }be Government
about th 6 first of January, ' v
Mi.' Vallsndigham issued ai } agrees to the
bdgeS in the Loyal States, in’, which he, calls
upon the members to renew 'jjisir vows* He
saysthe time is fast approeclliej|-which will
test their sincerity. He declares -at the pros
ccutiori of the war iso violnt ion of the rights
of thfl States, and thatPresid'MSt L'inooln is-.a
tyranf and usurper. 1 ,
A" ifteating of the Grand Co tmandsrs 'of
the different States was held.'in/the-City of
IfeW sbrk" on the 22nd day 5f . ; ’ebruary, for
the jjirfiose of organizing on our preak on the
10th of march, the day fixed fd the drhft to
take flace, but no definite plait vt ft agreed up
on. r : 1
The names of the oonspirat fs are also
knotfi. , " -t
The commanders' hade, conversation with
the SiprOrhe Commander at Witdsor, Canada
- early in April, for general cot-suiCation.
Among those In attendance ft this conference
were the Grand Commander in -New York:
Charles L. Hunt of St., Ldaisf at d Layfayetfe
Dealifiof Indiana. ■ ■
Thie programme adopted atiito meeting was'
that Mr, YaiJandighsm shoo!.1 represent his.
district in Ohio in tbs l\ati Jne} Democratic
Convention, to be held in the pity : of Ohioago.
Mrl Tallendigham in the Nltional Demo
cratic Convention wah to pijxf aim ihe doo
triaei of the Order of the An er «*n Knights,J
. i . :
1 £ renounced the _ existing- Adiiiinistration. of
the Government a power asriwed which the'
people bss.'a right to exgel by force, of necc-t
-*ity-*in fact to inaugurate a rebellion iu the
Northern -which the was to r|s supported iy
the Order.
Ea4h Gtand Commander "v as Jo hare fully
armed and equipped ;a Body Guard at the Na
tional Contention in Chicago ' for the defense
of Mr. Yallandigham. ‘‘
This, it was thought, weal] precipitate the
people of the Tree States into i an firmed con
filet, which was to he the Signal for the
Knights of the American Order to unite
against Jibe lawful authorities iand kiil or cap
ture the civil and military mittiorities.
Tha-Knights were then to I'eice the arsenals,
nrms, and public property o£j H kinds, and pro-,
claim the. Government orerthiown.
There is most' convincing evidence of the
truthfulness of this statement.
The reason of Mr.. Tallaniigham’s sudden
return to Ohio was the fear of being defeated
as a delegate to the National Democratic
Convention to be held at Chicago, and it was
only by his presence in the* State that his
election as a delegate was secured.
The numeroial strength o'-. the Anigffts of
the American Order is over hUlf omillion.
One hundred nod fifty thoi-sand of this num
ber are armed and organized.
The Order in New York Is' called the ‘ “ Mc
clellan Mirmje Men/ - ’ numbering ovfcr 200,000
men.
The Grand Commander in is Cbas:
I. Uiint, a nephew of James 11. • Lucas, and
for many years tbe Belgian (lonjul.
the Deputy Grand Commander in this city
is Charles E. Dunn. U ] ,
"An officer in St. Louis hoia Joflg list of the
names of the members of tbf order, together
with full information concerning the whole
■obeme.
The whole affair has been throughly bro’t
to light, and the proof of it is in the hands of
the anther!ties at ■Washington, and will he
given to the public at the proper fuse.
Ncwspabeb Publishers,—bn tbe smaller
„ towns weekly local papers at e given up entire
ly. tn Boston a weekly paper that_ began a
few months - einca 'with bright -prospects, has
announced that it must stoe ■ nder- the pres
sure of hl£h prices. -In .oit: - iwn.city there
has been a movement for inhrt ksiog the price
for the dailies, end it would hi ve been consu
rnated before this but for tbe , nwilliogness of
a single journal. The Weekly*papers have in
many instances already advanced their rates.
Printing paper is enormously high,’ so that
only p few papers can sastida ..the burden at
their old price*.—ifotwid 'TaVtt.
Printing paper is now dc-üble the price of
one year since, while the prices of journals
ere the same. "One thing is -certain, that the
price of. papers will have to he materially in
creased/or the-publication of one half the -
journals of the country will bo suspended.
Only those thoroughly well established can /go
on and hold on, even with an ii Icrease of pries.
— K. T. Express. •- - -
A ToCge Store. —SontiT Tj.py is'jost now
agitated by the stories told ftbiiut a child that
talked at birth. It prophesiieJ that a comet
was coming in a few weeks tnd was going
to give us a terrible drouth, ar d that in con
sequence of its disarrangement of atmospheric
laws there would be a five yea's famine; The
war Was to end nest year acceding to the in
spired baby's prophecy. The. *-are numbers
who have seen.the talking apd insist up
on the truth of these stories, Whig.
The Mobil* Kacs pablisivs hn account of
the death of Nathaniel' Hiwthom, and re
mark* that be wot one of the few literary men
of the North whose sympathies were with
thea. ; •
If
THE AGITATOR.
M, H. COBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR,
WEZrISBORQoGH; PSSSI’I’A:
■WEDNESDAY, : : : : •- AUGeST 3, 1804,
FOR PRESIDENT:
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
FOE TICE PRESIDENT:
ANDREW JOHNSON,
KOTOW SZSGTOBSXc TiCSeiT
1 SES4TOEIAT..
Morton HcJUchaot. Philadelphia. .
Thomas H. Cunningham, Beaver county.
BErSESSSTATTrE.
1 Robert P. Ring, IS Elios IT-JIalJ,
2 George M. Ccatc:-, 14 Charles n. Shrinsr,
S Henry Burom, 15 John Wister,
4 'William H. Eern. 16 David McConaughy,
5 Bartin H. Jcnts," 17 David W. .woods,
6 Charles M.Rnnk, 13 Isaac Benson,,
f Robert Parke, 19 John Patton,
8 William Taylor, 20 Samuel B. Dick,
9 John A.'Eiestand. .21 Everhardßieter/'
10 Richard H. Coryell, 22 John" P,Penney,-
11 Rdrrr.rd Halliday, 23 Ebedeser McJnnkin,
12 Charios R. Reed, - 24 John TV. -Blanchard.
Constitutional ■/amendments.
SPECIAL ELECTION, ATjSUST 2, 1564.
In Favor o* Soldiers Toting.
At a seating of tbs Republican County Committee
held in .Wellstoro, on Saturday, the Sth test,-it was
resolved—
That the outspoken and unequivocal friends and
supporters of the present National and State Admin
istrations, electors of Tioga County, he requested to
assemble at the usual places for holding elections in
their respective election distriots, on the afternoon of
SATURDAY, August 13th, next, then and them to
elect two delegates to represent uach sdoh district in
the Republican County Conventionyto be holdec at
Mansfield, on FRIDAY, August 19th, following.
- .The Committee recommend to the Committees of
Vigilance that at least sis days notice of each dele
gate elections he given by notices posted in-the
usual-plaecs in eaeh district. And farther, that as
fitch Committees constitute the election hoards at
said election, they are especially requested to see to
it that none but the outspoken and unequivocal
friends of tho State and National Governments as
administered, bo permitted to Tote at sold election
for delegates. -
The Convention will nominate the following can
didates:
One person to represent the ISth District ia Con
gress. - -
• One person for member of Assembly. ;
One person for Sheriff.
One person for Commissioner. -
Os® person for Auditor. -
And appoint Conferees to tbs Sepresentative and
Congressional Conferences.
CO3IHITTEE3 OF VIGILANCE ■ -■
Bless—A. T; James, Stephen Be—en,
.Brookfield—Xsaas Blank, John tv. Fitch,
- Chatham —Encfen Beaeh, Ssiifcen Clots.
-.Charleston —D, G. Edwards, E. P. Dookstader.
Cijmor-—B. V 7. Skinner, E. £[. Stobhins.
Covington—Hollins Clemens, John Bowie.
“ ■- Boro—Thee. Jones, Henry Eilbom.
Deerfield—Hiram Potter, Chester Hoyt.
Belmar—B. F. Kelsey, George Hildreth. ,
C. llaynard, James 5. Ifeseott.
Blklund—Joci-G.-perk.burst. Ataasa Culver.,.
Farmington—b Tm. Vondusen, K. T. Hall.
Gaines —Henry Crofatj £cnj, Purman.
Jackson —Edward Einner, 0 B Veils.
Enoxville —J. G. Seely, Chester Hopkins,
•—ilbertv—G. E, ShcSer, Jared Phelps-
Bawrenec—Dyer Powers, Eyer Inseho,
“ •' Boro-_x. B. Tompkins,. James Kisscy.
Maiusburg—A. C. Vitter, E. A. fish.
- Mansfield—Albert Clerk, John A. Holden. .
Morris—John Wilson, Edwin Gregory.
Middlobory—Wm. Stephens, A. Clark Cole.
Nelson—M. H. Brooks, Sami. Eazlott.
Osceola—A E. Eosscrd, John Tubbs.
Richmond —Harklo Wells, Jas. Madison Rose.
T. Vanncss, Lafayette Backer.
Rhippen—Homes Broughton, John Schoonover.
-Sullivan —Bateman Monroe, W. A. Rockwell.
Tioga—James Dewey, Ethel Mitcbel.
“ . ,Boro—Henry E. Fish, H. E. Smith.
Union—-Solomon W. Wright, Martin Harrington.
Word—Peter Cameron, Jr., Joshua Denmark.
Westfield—On-en Edgecomb, Chas. Qoodspeed.
Wellsboro—Elisha J. Purple, O. B. Kelly.
M, H. Cobb, J. P. Biles, - Geo. P. Card,
Jas. H. (Inlick, V. DePui, W. W. Babb,
H. C. Ycrmllyea,
■ - Committee.
Tee Opposition to the Government as admin
istered are. now exemplifying to what deeps of
crime men can descend when once they give
themselves np to the devil.- The plot to inau
gurate civil war in the north, Overthrow the
government, and establish a Northwestern Con
federacy, thus separating the East from the
■West—an account of which we print elsewhere
--will serve-to show to what lengths political
hucksters will go when once they begin the de
scent into hell.
Blots and conspiracies always thrive during
periods of. great civil disturbance. It is by no
means a new development of human reckless
ness jand depravity that presents itself in this
newly- unearthed plot of rebel sympathisers in
the North, Prance furnishes many bloody pa
ges of history bdrn'of the same spirit end en
acted by the same sort of men. Had this con
spiracy succeeded, the North would have been
deluged with blood, and its now peaceful com
munities subjected to a reign of. Terror. The
concoetors of this treason are cowards and
abandoned men. Cowards are cruel.. Had
they succeeded, tbe North would have been fill
ed with murder and unreasoning riot. Lvey
villain who had nursed a bate would have vis
ited vengeance upon its object. Brute force
would "have reigned supreme. The leaders
Would have bsfcn powerless to arrest tbe horrid
the tide of brutal violence. These are not spec
ulative Opinions,, but deductions from the un
disputed facts'of history. Ponder them well.
Who are the authors of this bloody scheme
to multiply mad extend the. horrors’of civil
War? Ithaditg birth in the cojirts of Jeffer
son Dayis, and is the twin brother of tbs great
Bebellion itself, vTorthy couplets! It found
for its adopted in the North such men
as Horatio Seymour, of New York, and Tal
landigham, of Ohio —men whose praises have
been shouted by universal Copperheaddom for
the past three years. We have earnestly testi
fied against these men and their fellows as dan
gerous men; not with partisan spirit, but be
cause-their acts have all-along-conducted to-.
Ward this very species of domestic violence.
this fact; The ,10011 whose names- ap*
m principals in tills conspiracy, m» the
.KATIGHAt UltfEOW TIOSET 5 .
OF ILLINOIS,
OF TENNESSEE.
Republic aw County Convention.
TO THE JIIXiT.
THE TIOGA COTJNTY AGITATOR.
chief managers of the political opposition to
Mr. Lincoln. They have been patting Fremont
bn the back of late, and wo suspect that his
fetter of acceptance was tinged ■ by tbeir evil
counsels. They went to work systematically.
They hoped to divide the friends of the Union
and so make conquest easy. Divide and" "con
quer—was their tnotto. From oat was thus in
duced to repudiate his old principles, ns well
as every not of his as Commander of the De
partment of the W est. But the Cleveland nom
inations fell still-born, and have now no con
siderable, apologists or advocates outside the
Copperhead press. Seeing this, the traitore
turned with renewed real to the work of per
fecting their conspiracy.'
. The people of the north have now to choose
between quiet and security under the Govern
ment as administered, or violence and unpar
alleled disorder under the usurped rule of Tal
iandigham end bit bind- We know that these
Involved, either by act or association, in this
alleged conspiracy to overthrow the Govern
ment. will seek to discredit the allegation. How
ever details may vary, we are entirely satisfied
that the fact of the' conspiracy will remain un-‘
affected. The hatred manifested'by Yoorhses,"
Cox, Dong, and others, to the Fast in {heir'de- :
bates during the recent session of Congress,
together with the several Copperhead outbreaks
in Indiana and Illinois last fail and spring, are
strong circumstantial evidence of an organized
effort to assist 'Jefferson Davis. Such system
atic outbreaks are not spontaneous- They are
the outcrop of organised treason.
These revelations bear a lesson of deep sig
nificance. The loyal men of the North can
heed that lesson, or negied.C it, as they.choose;
If they profit by_ the teaching the evidence will,
be presented in defensive organizations, embra--
cing every cqmmuity, The great cities and
many parts of the West already hate' their
loyal organisations, ready for the conflict if. it
be forced upon them; These men are in ear-'
nest.' They recognize in the woods, Seymours,
and Tallandighsms, sad their besotted follow
ers, the common enemy.. An enemy mors dan
gerous than the atsaies under Lee or Hood, be
cause secret, cowardly, and cruel. Every man.
is to he considered an enemy who has a word
of apology for such plotting. Every man is s'
public enemy who" favors the public enemy.
Freedom of Opinion is sacred; we stand by
that to the endhut wo deny, and will contest
the tight nf any men tb i breed violence and
murder ta| the streets in which he, in common
with others, walks, and under protection of the
laws, A man has the same right to apologise
for, and palliate, treason, that he has to advo
cate murder, arson, and theft, end no more.
Criticism of men and .measures is proper. It
is better to observe moderation in criticism, of
course; bat even intemperate criticism is pref
erable to suppression of criticism, generally.;
Abuse of public men is likewise legitimate.
Blackguards are amenable to the laws that
flow ont of taste'and breeding. But the advo
cacy of treason by unmistakable sympathy, is
not legitimate, end ought hot to he suffered in
any loyal community.
Tss Ifsrr 7-S& Zoj-w, we arc glad to see,
is likely to become as popular as was the S-20.
This is as it should he. The cause of civil
liberty the unconditional and hearty
support of every patriot now. . To assist Mr.
FnssEKCffir in the important work of funding
the floating debt of the. country, is to assist in
paying the army and the nary, and what is of
'equal importance, to raise the currency nearer
the gold standard. • "Were the new 7-30 loan
taken up to-morrow, the'price of gold and aIT
staples in the hands of speculators, would fall'
200 per cent. -We submit the fact to men of
large and small means everywhere, as one that
appeals to their interest no less than to their
patriotism. Fictitious values can only he sus
tained at the common cost, and by common os
sent. Tbe unemployed capital of the country
invested in the new loan, would send gold
down by the run, and Ijiury unscrupulous spec
ulators in utter ruin. The floating debt ought
immediately to be fanned. The people can do
it if they will. 11
I? may appear strange, if not incredible, but
is none the less a fact, that not one Woodward
paper in Pennsylvania advocated tie amend
ments to the Constitution voted for bn Tuesday.
Of oar exchanges, some of which have hereto
fore advocated the necessity and justice of sc
changing tbs naturalisation laws that wild
Irishmen could vote at an earlier moment after
their arrival than now legally permitted to do.
not one baa printed a line urging the peoplo to
vote for the amendment extending the right of
suffrage to the soldier. Make's note of this.
The “Woodward State Central Committee met
at Harrisburg last week, Many might -pr £ .
sums that that Committee; supposed to repre
sent the party, would have mentioned the feet
that an election was to he held on ths second
day of August, at which the freemen, of Penn
sylvania were to decide, among , other things,
whether qoaiiSed voters of- the Commonwealth
should hs disfranchised while serving their
country in the field. They did not condestend
to mention the fact, however. i
Make a nets of that fact, likewise. "■
Now, how long ago is it that. these Wood
ward papers and leaders were proclaiming q
the top of theip lungs that the army was made
up of ‘ democrats ! 1 if that was true, then
why object to ,'the soldiers’ voting ?
Or have the ‘ democrats’ then In the-army,
retired, by death, desertion, or by expiration of
their time, so as to leave few bat' Republicans
afield?
Or, do they .suspect that a bodyjof men upon
whom they habitually oast so much obloquy,
and reproach, would not hoover anxious to cast
their suffrages for their abusers ? '
The truth is, the Copperheads ate thinly rep
rinted In tin tfnien araiis, They ars w«U
represented iu the rebel army, bat that army
cannot vote in the coming election.
However, the Copperheads have eoms repre
sentatives Is ike Usioa army. We mei'irro of
them on a street car during tho battles of the
Wilderness last May. They were very drank
and very noisy, threatening to whip any man
who was not for McClellan. There chanced to
be a dozen candidates for the threatened whip
ping on the car who offered themselves at once,
but there was no fight in the ohaps: and next
day they went down tbs same street in charge
of the Provost guard, to be marched back to
the front as skednddlers.
Those men would vote for either Yallandig
ham or Fernando "Wood. They would not,vote
for Uncle Abe. L
Cowfcmmcss are oft marvelously striking.
The invasion of Pennsylvania-last year came
off ot about the same time with the great Cop
perhead riots, you know. So, the present in
' vasion happens'o at about the time the loyal
rasn of the Commonwealth are to vots for tbs
► enfranchisement .of the soldiers. It is quite
likely that the invasion will "have the desired
and expected effect— draw many Union men
away from their election distriots, so that they
will have been absent on Tuesday, Of coarse
nobody will b? so ungenerous as to suppose
• that the Copperheads, of Pennsylvania invited
tfaeir nobler allies under Lee to be present in
tbs State on the 2d of August. If
there be any suit, we ask them to consider the
invasion and tlfe election as happening at the
■same time through one of thoss remarkable oo
'inoidences which perversely seem to identify
Copperhcsalszs and JeSdost S 3 11 parts ot one
stupendous whole.” YToaderfal are the tricks
of Coincidence i And -don’t be too hard upon
those soldier-loving fellows who hava looked
so cheerful since Monday noon; Remember,
it is their torn to laugh when'. Pennsylvania
farmsteadsi andtillagesAte .lighted by; the reb
el torch.
,4a® tier Tnyasioii I
■Wo are merely able'to state that thcr rebels
made a dash into the lower part of the State
on Friday and Saturday last, penetrating as
.far as Chamhaxsharg, which town they'destroy
ed by fire. It appears from the different ac
counts teat not more than 560 zebels'enteted
tho town. They committed every species of
plundering at will. The plunder
era left, going west, and were met at McCon
nelshurg by Qen. Aveiill and Severely punish
ed- However, the main body of the raiders
ate said to have into Virginia, and no,
fores nf armed rebels are reported north of the
-Potomac.
Gov. Curiih has' called a special session of
the Legislature oh,the 9th lost.
WAS NBWB
Waseinstost, Friday, July 29,1864.
. A letter from the Amy of the Potomac,
dated July 23, says :
The arrirel of some troops la the rlclaiiy of
Bermuda Hundred, a day .or two ago, attract
ed the attention of the enemy, and caused
them to believe that an advance on Richmond'
by way of Malvern Hill was intended. A
force consisting of - JXershaw’a division- of
Longstreet’s corps and. Wilcox’s division of
Hill’s corps was immediately withdrawn from
the vicinity of Petersburg, and sent down to
check the movement.
To evanteraet this tsasearer of the enemy,
the 2d Corps was detached and sent across the
James River, and at Gj o’clock yesterday mor
ning oar Advance met the Rebel skirmishers
in an open field opposite Jones’s Neck, with a
battery in position ot the edge of the woods
on the farther side of the field. r-
A long line of skirmishers was at once
thrown out, who soon drove the Rebels to tbdr
breastworks, where they were kept hotly en
gaged, while a brigade of the Ist Division
moved around on the left of the enemy's line,
and, getting on their flank; charged, and drove
them from their guns into the woods," captu
ring 50 or 60 prisoners, four guns and a quan
tity of smafi arms.
The enemy fell back on their re-enforce
ments,-who occupied strong Works bo3t there
two years ago, end oar troops followed,, talcing
up positions on their front and flanks, and by
fore this reaches you the entire force may be
captured or routed. ■ " : -
Tha guns taken were four 20-poundsr Par
rots, marked " May 29,1864, near Richmond,”
! and era ths same which were captured' from
'tie IBth'corps ist Drury’s Bluff last May.
Oar loss was only about half a doten groun
ded, hone seriously. • ' r _ -
; Gen. Graht.rode to to ths front in the after
noon, in cbmpahy with Gen. Hancock, and
reviewed the position the enemy were in. V tie
seemed well phased with the morning’s operi£
tiffins. .- - •
WASEir.srorf, Friday, July 29,1564.
. .The latest official dispatches from Qen. Sher
man’s Artsy stateithat bo is steadily drawing
bis Hues closer around Atlanta,
He has as yet .'received no tidings of the
cavalry force asat'out to cat the Mason ..and
Columbus Railroad, which is the only means
of escape to, the Rebel army from Atlanta, 1
\f ASHirtcrorr, July 29, 1564. -
A dispatch received here states that <sen.
Hood has mads efforts to renew the assault up
on Geo. Sherman’s lines, since the battle ’on
Friday fast. They were, however, feeble efforts,
aid easily and promptly repelled, with an ag
gregate less to Sherma of only about 100
men.
The Atlanta Appeal of the 26th inst. has an
account’of aa iseeadiaty Sfe, commencing'in
Connolly Block, and consuming half a million
dollars worth of property.
During the fire the burning buildings were
pillaged by spectators.
'■ - Juzr so, im.
-Reports just in say that we have possession
of the entire -first line of the Rebsl works, with
a,large number of prisoners.
-• Our loss in the charge was ■ severe, as our
men had to cross’ an open field to roach tbf
Rebels.
lbs troop* engaged Wot* the Vth Corf* With
thp 18tb supporting them, the 2d and sth being
In reserve.
The firing is still going" on with great fury,
consisting principally of musketry.
Eaitixohs, July 31,1864.
The siege of Petersburg opened in earnest on
Saturday morning, and at daylight we blew up
one of the principal Rebel batteries, consisting
ol sixteen guns, and had carried three tiers of
the earthworks of the Rebels before the mal
steamer left City Point that morning.
The news is believed to be trustworthy.
Bssnnfsduring' an eppufitlss,
The awful note' of preparation for the ex
pected event at Chicago has just been sound
ed from ■Washington,, by a number of Demo
cratic Congressmen, led by the. opposition
members from this State. Hr. Csazzzs Bees-;
alsw, who, unfortunately, is one of the Sena- ■
tors from Pennsylvania; has had the peculiar!
honor of bolding the trumpet and the result j
of Lis efforts is a blast elaborately feeble!
against tbs 'policy of tee Gosoinmem. The :
public can very well imagine what Hr, Bscs- i
alsw has to say. Ha is reputed to be a’ stu-!
dent of the lits Hr. Caisoc:*, ci South Car-1
olina, and it is not to be wondered, therefore, j
that so aaeb of bis. argument is built upon i
State exclusiveness to the denial of the Nation
al power. Of course, be objects to military
interference/‘ of which he instances the cases
of Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Arkansas,
and Louisiana, States more or less tainted
with secession and its congenial spirit—sla
very ; to negro troops, who, he says, are mere
ly an aspens* to the country, without compen
sation ; to tha'equality of negro soldiers with
white in pay and provirion; to arbitrary ar
rests; corruption of race and corrupt Gov
ernment: to the Government plan of recon
struction, and a few, items mare, which are
readily imaginable. Mr. BtrcxAixw has been
shrewdly laboring, with bis best ingenuity, ,to
make oat a case; and though We mast com
pliment him upon the industry which b.e dis
plays through ten columns of type, it is un
necessary, to write ten columns to contradict
him. -The aim of Sir. Eockalxw and his
friends, in-this practical and cautious effort, is
to manipulate into some array the odds and
ends of opposition- They are even willing to
veil their enmity to Freedom in their opposi
tion to tbs President, and do not seek to gain
a principle, bat rather a point, which is Hr.
Bccsalxw’s favorite idea of statesmanship.
This document is, therefore, not remarkable
as a work of - conscience, and-only reveal* the
old pro-slavery-bias but slightly shaped by
circumstances. The Peace - Democrats, and
especially Fsbctando Wcop, ware tbs first to
suggest the idea of Dictatorship in the per
son of McClsllaw ; and to show that such a
chimera still exists in the Democratic mind,
Mr. Bccealew repeats the idea. Has any
other party presented to the people such an al
ternative as this ?—and yet these are the loud
est 5a clamoring about arbitrary arrests 1
" The problem for 33 now to solve is this:
Are the people of the United States compe
tent to organise themselves in defence of their
system of free government and voluntary union,
or must they resort to a dictator, armed with
large powers, who. wiH crush faction and ro
ster* peace and union at the sacrifice of liber
ty? Evil in the State will not die out if left
to itself. Some instrument adequate to its
extirpation must be sought and found, in the
direction of either dictatorial or popular power.”
•—■Philadelphia Press.
Tbs 4iu.MUBtrc.tioz and Sin . sty.
That veteran Abolitionist, H. C. Wright,
contribute* to the Zibsrotor tbs following list
of anti-slavery “ events” which have occurred
since Mr, Lincoln’s inauguration :
1. Emancipation in Western Virginia,
2. Emancipation in Missouri.
3. Emancipation In the District-of Columbia.
• 4. Emancipation In Maryland.
5. Slavery abolished and forever prohibited
In alljhe Territories.
6. Kansas admitted as a free State.
7. Provision mads to admit Colorado, Ne
braska, and Nevada as free States.
8. Organisation of Idaho, Montana, Dakota,
and Arizona as free Territories.
.9. Recognition of the independence of Hay
tiand Liberia. j
10. Three millions of slaves declared free
by proclamation of the President; January l,
1853.
11. All fugitive slave lows repealed,
12. Interstate slave trade abolished.
13. Negroes admitted to equal rights id uni
ted States courts, as parties to suits, and as
witnesses, *
14. Equality of the negro -recognised in the
public conveyances of the District of Colum
bia.
15. All rebel States prohibited from return
ing to the Union with slavery
-15. Tree labor established on nnmerons
plantations in South Carolina, Louisiana,
Jlississppi, Tennessee, and Arkansas.
IT. Schools for the education of freed slaves
in South Carolina, Tennessee, Louisiana, and
in Eastern. Virginia—where, till-within- three
years, to educate a negro was punishable with
dtath.
IS. The wives and children of all slaves
employed as freemen in military and other
service of the United States mads free.
19. All negroes, bond and free, enrolled as
:part of the military force of the nation.
20. Ths loyal people of Arkansas, Tennes
see, Louisiana., and Florida seeking a return
iito ths Union on the basis of freedom to all,
And of the abolition and prohibition- ofsia
■Jery-
.' 21- The abolition and prohibition of sla
very by an amendment of the Constitution
passed in the Senate by two-thirds majority,
hnd by nearly the same in the House. Lost
by lack, of three or four voices, through the
.influence of Democratic members.
22. The nation, through its representatives'in
Baltimore, June S, made the abolition and.
prohibition of slavery the basis of its govern
mental administration for the future.
- 23. The Federal Government forbidden to
employ any man aa a slave, in any capacity.
, 24. One hundred and fifty thousand negroes,
mostly free Blares, in the pay and uniform of
the Government as soldiers.
The Atlanta (Qa) Register praises the Nor
thern Copperheads as honest and patriotic men,
and says: they will use the ballot-bos, against
Mr. Lincoln, whilst we use the cartridge-bos,
each side will be a helper to the other, and
both co-operate in accomplishing the great
est work which-this country and the conti
nent have witnessed." Tbs Copperheads see
it in the eame light, but ate not honest enough
to say so.
Tbo Prssiiaatlal Blsctisa.
A correspondent. of the Chicago
forecasts the result of tha coming election
with mors than probable acoraoy. He findj
that the vote at the recent State elections held
in those States not in rebellion against ths
Union, was as follows;
Union Tote
penooratic rote
Ucioa majority. : s?ries
. Jhe Presidential election will call out nsarl
foar millions of votes, of which the Unionists
will, beyond question, cast sane 600,000 m:j 3
than their adversaries, Nearly every fc-J
State, except New Jersey, will vote heavily fo
the Union ticket, Fremont,-if inaace enough
to run as an outside candidate, could net pos
sibly obtain more than 200,000 vets*: on the
contrary, his poll codecs in all probability,
reach one-third of that number. But, conce
ding him 200,000 rotas, Lincoln would evea
then have over 300,000 plurality on tbs popu
lar vote as well as the electoral sufregss of
two-thirds of the loyal Stater.
The Democrats and copperheads do act «i
-pect to carpy the election, bat they hope with
the aid of Fremont, to prevent Lincoln's rj.
election by the people. Fat suppose they do
this, what can they hope to accomplish r 7h
House of Representatives would have to elect
one of two candidates. As tetween Llceob
and McClellan, a majority of the States would
'go for the former. Tbs President's rc-elsclicc
is, therefore, already decided.
ZIOqWZSCS 07 A 527 JoSSSOS.— The follow
ing eloquent passage is from a speech delivered
by Andrew'Johnson in April Inst to a mss’"
meeting of tie people of Enoirille aa d
. (unity ;
*' Mt ocnctrymen ! ay heart yearns toward
you; i {love yea ; lam bn* of yea. I bars
climbed yonder mountains that yoa hare
climbed, yonder mountains, rock-ribbed and
.glowing in_ sunshine, in whose gorges, in whos*
caverns, your sons, hunted like wild beasts,
hare fallen to rise no taoro. Ido no* speak of
these things to draw your tears. It is not tis
time for tears, but for bio—3. I speak of tisa
that I may firs yoar hearts with holy indigna
tion, and nerve your arms for unconquerable
fight. And I speak of them because the moun
tains seem to talk to me. My home is among
the mountains, and though it is not far away I
cannot go to it, It la the place where I met
horand loved her, and married h»r who is th»
mother cf my children. Do- I not love -tha—
mountains, then? And if liberty- Uto espire,
if freedom ia destroyed, if my country in ail
its lengtkansL; breadth, is to tremble beneath
the oppressor’s tread, let the Sag, the dear old
flag,'tbs' last flag be planted on yon rocky
heights,And upon it let theca be this inscrip
tion ; “Sere is the end of all that Is dear to
the heart and sacred to the memory of man "
Tsn Par or Seminas iKosnasns.—The Pro*
ident has signed the bill recently passed by
Congress, raising the pay of non-commissioned
officer* and privates in the army. The pay
hereafter will be as follows ;
Sergeant majors, $26; quartermaster and
commissary sergeants of cavalry, artillery and
infantry, $2O; sergeants of ordnance, sappers
and miners and' pontoniera, $2O; privates of
engineers and ordnance of the first class, $l3;
and of the second, $lO ; corporals of cavalry,
artillery and chief buglers of cavalry, $24;
buglers, $l6: farriers and blacksmiths of cav
alry and artillery and infantry, $l6 ; principal
musicians of artillery and- infantry, >22; loa
ders of brigade and regimental bands, $75;
hospital stewards of the first class. §33; musi
cians, $l3; hospital stewards of tbs second
class, $25; hospital stewards of the third class,
$23.
A Gcon Rstout.—’The ifew York Teurnd cf
Commerce, quoting tha oft-repeated common
place that " the rebellion i 3 on 1W last legs.' 7
asks peevishly bow many legs the rebellion has
got. The Chicago Tribune answers :
"There iso leg in <s>bio called TallaodigbaD,
one in Chicago called the Times, two la New
York, the Journal of Commerce a nd World, one
in Cincinnati, the Enquirer, besides two very
lame lege at Richmond and Atlanta. The Nor
thern legs are the most serviceable.’ ’
A copperhead in Augusta Maine was a few
days ago. reviling the Colon cause and saying
that Grant'would be whipped, 4c., when on old
farmer pushed up to the disloyalist and re
marked ; “Sir, I,ve got two soasjin Butler's
army—my only bless 'em i That
is for one' of 'em, (hitting Mr. Copperhead
square in the face with his fist) and that is
for the other,” (hitting him again and knock
ing him' down).
AKHOVNbEIEHTS.
t ob sassirr.
Wo ere requested to anoanco tha Beta* cf X.RRCT
X A.EOK, of Tioga, a* a candidate for the office of
Sheriff; subject to tbs decision; of the Republican
Ceanty Convention,*
ssxsrssroisa.
We afo requested to announce the tan* of 9SZ
pS2< BCXLEB, of Chatham, as a candidate for the
office of Commissioner, subjest to the dssislon cf tie
Republican Convention.
We arc authorised to asusuuo* the uaae of GnO.,
RBRRIS, of Chatham township, as a candidate for
the office of County Commissioner, subject to the «-
olsioa of She Republican County Convention.
TT« are requested So annouec® the naaaofHSu-
SEN MC£SE_. of Chatham, as a, candidate far tb*
office of County Commissioner, subject to the deci
sion of tie Republican County Convection.* 1
TTo are requested to announce Ilia name of It, _?■
3n wMWAT, of Charleston, as a candidate for tie
cSoe of County-Commissioner, subject to the decision
of the Republican Connty Convention,
Fioiir al Reduced, Prices.
WS are rscsiving Hey vThtat Piocr and tin
afford to aell it at greatly reduced prises.
We trinij 10,000. bushels tVheat, 10,000 batieH
Oats, and 10,000 bushels Com, for which m -ill p*7
tie highest market price in Cash.
Wellaboro, Aug. 3, '64. fTRXSHT 4 BAlias’■
Appllcailoa in Divorce.
jtthan ?. Eddy,' 'i May Tefa, 1354, So. Ja
va. ■ > T» H-vc-trob Eddv’ Ton at*
Susannah Eddy. J hereby notified that Ethan ?. Sd
dy, yonr htnband, has applied to the Court 6£.Csm-.
mon-Pleae of Tioga County for a divorce from the
bonds of matrimony, and the said Court has appelat
ed Monday, the 20th day of August, 1534, at the
Court House- in W sllsfcoro, for hearing ths said Ethan
P. Eddy in tie promises, at which time and pl B -‘*
you can attend if you think proper.
August 3, 1364.' H. 310 n EIL, Jr., Sheriff.
Application In Divorce.
Alonso 3. Catoun,.') May Term, 1334, Ho- 4s.
VJ- .-■ - > Jo J/u-y C. Ca ;c.- Tea
Mary C- Cahoun. j hereby notified that AJoaso’C'Ca
houn, your husband, has applied to the Court'of Com
mon Plane of Tioga County, for a divorce Stem
bonds of matrimony, and ths.eaid' Court has appoint
sd. Monday, the 28{h day of August, 1384, at the
Conn House, to tTellaboro, R> hearing the said Alon
zo 3. CShonn Is the promises, at which time and plseo
yon can attend if you think proper. ,
August 3, ISM. H- SIOWJBii, Jr-, Sheri®
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