tesrxrnr GENERAL NEWS ■~Th* .health committee of IJ&jford have pulled out of the Park river ove/don bushels of poisoned fish, seven dead lpte of cats, any- quantity.of hogs’ !jj(f junks.of stale meat, and many other offal to mention. . • ■ ,i —dPorty houses, embracing to sij .tire blocks of buildings, formed the mter£c'ff;ion of St. Vallier, Eleury, St. Domiqiquq;'.-Jrant, and Deepens., streets, Quebec, wyfr. destroyed by fire on the night of tho 13fcjiC sst. . Loss «ioo,ooo. . , —Gen. JFCook, in bis recent f a>d, captured or destroyed 1100 -wagons, over mules and horses',* vast amont-of stores'thN railroad and telegraph at Palmetto, and lOOO pris oners. At btewman he was 'sqirbundcd, and lost 500 men. In the northern Aroostook (Mlihe) region is a place called Tiolette Brook, fjHsoiles above and helpw which the .inhabitants'!can neither read, write, nor speak the English language, and what little intercourse th'rfi is between, the village and surrounding com fry is carried on by interpreters. _ • • jfk »3' —A gentleman in Bristol bas«;ftade a some what novel use of the electric ‘ By rueaue pf the wire -Jho consulted Ins physician lb,London lately; the pbyaioiolj-immediately telegraphed back a pveaoriptioVjo a dispens ing cbemist, and tho medicine ‘Os "duly, deliv ered—the whole occupying more than about two hqura, ' l-.f- —The modarn .Democracy uWff to be awful ly down on allowing niggcrsfttV fight. Now are sendiijj-agents South to enlist colored men to fill Bosks county; the stronghold' of modyro democracy, has oa agent down in Dixie Minting up nig gers to fight “onr southern brethren 1” ' —lt is related of a man in t\ Newport, R. 1., that he married his second wlfeiix -weeks af ter the death of hie first; the sjcrmd was killed by a carpet thrown on her hjled, and in four weeks be married a third, wh’jimonth after Iwas drowned. lie waited onl.V two weeks this |ftjmc,a'nd then married nuni,s,w four, whose %Imsband was killed four weel&i ' previously in -battle. **■ -- —The Rebels know who thtir-friends are’in the North. For instance,'the! Atlanta Appeal openly .and above board declares- hat the North ern Copperheads, are working . v br the benefit of_tha South, remarking: if. [very success ful blow we strike is so much Woe and muscle to the arm which, under Vie training of Long, Harris, and Yoorkccs and 'jfiUandigham, is preparing to strike.at the -i'ajfh.” . . 1 —Mrs. Snyder, wife of Atom Snyder, near Rsynoldeville, Jefferson Pa.,. a few days since, took a rifle' and l to dis charge it at «.hawk. Resting the gun on the, fence; she snapped it, when to explode the cap. As it looked black lift'd smashed, .she concluded it must have been-discharged previ ously! She then pulled the-i:ap off the tube, und-threw it away, letting tee hammer fall on the tube: unfortunately', th&percussion pow der remained and discharge the gnn.. The ball passed thrrngh the hea*of her little! son aged three years, producing: instant death.— Mr. Snyder was not at home,it the time.* The agony of the parents can .be imagined. —Lancaster township, thr|home of the great Buchanan gave a unanimous vote, for the sol- .diets amendment at the rec-Jit election. In a " carnVas of the' township immediately precced ingtbe election, it was that two votes were against giving t*ji soldier the right to vote. These were Buchjbjn and his Irish coachman. This former, Sing unexpectedly called to a 'copperhead ci bclave at Bedford Springs was unable to atte-.d tbe polls, which the Irish coachman did, hoJ could not muster courage to put in his, vote. „He left the polls swearing that “ Ameriky w jiuld be an illigant conntbry whon the'nager w.vuld have the right to vote.” We-hope that tl;bf bogtrotter’s dis obedience of his master’s ;|rder -will not lose him his situation. ' *. '4 * —We had the pleasure b' sttendiog on Sat urday, a private levee of remarkably intelli gent canine,.who goes by jtfl name of Jerry, and who was born, bred, asc educated and re sides in Brunswick. Jerk's education .has been carried,to a pitch hmifly over attained by his species. Ha kn'ow i his alphabet per fectly, and can spell a liftie; arithmetic has not been neglected,; ha kipits his figures, and can do a small sum in addition. He is per fectly familiar with playing. cards, and can pick out any one in the pa ;k that is called for. But it must not be inferred Worn this that Jer ry's morals are open to suspicion; he can walk on two legs as upright as jj' church member, and do the. Various callisth'rlo exercises taught in the gymnasium's,' his physique as well as his intellect having been' i gined. Jerry be longs to the Spanish branc h of the poodle fam ily,'and is perfectly wl? ]i what tho ladies would call a “ love’ of og.” His owner, Mri Barnes, feeling a pri.ji in Jerry’s accom plishments, proposes to >t;|.H)dace him to the public. The time dnd-filAeq of bis debut will shortly be announced, jfe prophecy that he will become a dog-star o.'i; bo first magnitude. —Piltsburg Post. -y. The Effects or PtssocpiioNi —The New- Xofk Evening Post thufiarcibly states one of tbe consequences of dissolution: “.Hsaitoccurred to ally of our readers, in the midst of these discussions ,of rebel terms of peace, to consider ld be the re unite! our Southern Con federacy ? Should we dUo>6nd pur forces, and reduce qur great military/establishment, with a foreign nation across ihi> Ohio and on tbe other- side-t)f-the Potom-u'f Not at all, hnt we .should be forced for .otr own security to maintain not for one r three years, but for ail time, a standing lirtay, to oppose the warlike South. We sho./dd have to ijeaafne a military people, and our h. At blood and ener gies would bo wasted,^'7not in war, yet in those preparations for t .f, those immense lev ies .of troops, those cGitcf armaments, under which we hoar the pootfVver-ridden people of Europe groan. Is any anxious to see such » state of thing 1 ' ! ibtain here ? Then ' let him oppose the draft, j jh’Jpurage enlistments, and vote for allapdigba t- and the recognition of the Confederacy. Striar from producing peace, such a conanmmsi on would only be the of interthriiable, never ceasing hostilities. “ It is the cl.ldpcst and best for us, then, to make an end of bj e war at once ; and to do thisihe people must -'pi rely upon the .Gov ■ ernment, but upon them ;'slveß. If they wait for B draft they waste strertgth, and. perhaps, lose opportunities no* to be wtoveredVif they take into their,own hands tPi filling np of the ar mUi,ikey can do U in bjll/ the time, and twice m tS*9tutil/ M the fiffifnaent." THE AGITATOR. M. H. COBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. WEI.ISBORODGB, PENN’Ai WEDNESDAY, -. V : :j. ADGDST 31, 1864, NATIONAL CNION TICKET, FOR PRESIDENT: ABBAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLINOIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT: ' ANDREW JOHNSON, - OF TENNESSEE. -- - UNION ELECTORAL TICKET srsAtoniAt. Morton Mciliohsel, Philadelphia. Thomas H. Cnnnloghanj, Beaver county. RE?RE*2StATmS 1 Robert?, King, 13 Elias W, Hall, 2 George M. Coates, • 14 Charles B« Sh liner, 3 Henry Bumm, 13 John Witter, 4 William H. Kern, 16 David MoGonanghy, 5 Bartin H. Jcnks, . IT David W. Woods, 6 Charles M. Rank, IS Isaac Beneon, 7 Robert Parke, 19 John Patton, 8 -William Taylor, . 20 Samuel B. Dick, 9 John A. Hiestand, 21 Everhard Bierer, - 10 Richard H. Coryell, 22 John V. Penney, it Edward HalUday,' 23 EB6rT62er McJnnkin, 12 Charles P. Reed, 24 John W. Blanchard. LOCAL TICKET. FOB CONGRESS. S. F. WILSON, of Tioga Comty . [Subject to action of Conference.] FOB ASSEMBIF. JOHN W. GUERNSEY, of Tioga . [Subject to action of Conference.] " FOB SHERIFF. LEROY TABOR, of Tioga. ' FOB COMMISSIONER. ELEAZER S. SEELEY, of Deaf eld. FOE AUDITOR, . JOHsf a. ARGOTZINQEH,©/ Rutland. FOB CORONER. DAVID S. PETERS, of Mainsburg. OWE OBJECTION. When a man assumes a prominent .public position be, in one sense, ceases to be his own master; he becomes public property; his go ings out and comings in are matters for public criticism; his coat and hat, bis wife’s ward robe, the deportment of his children)—these become the themes of public criticism. Per haps it is right; however, it matters not, as it is the patent fact, and none can gainsay it. So, it happens that onr ] opponents, of all shades, object to* Mr. Lincoln’s re-election be cause Mrs. Lincoln is, as they allege, so ex travagant. Well, perhaps she Is extravagant; bat.let ns have a specific charge. Is it in"lihe itemof new'gowns ? As to that, Mrs. Lincoln dresses no mere expensively,, hardly so mneh ao, as the women of her social class, either in Washington or elsewhere. Every one who has observed her at receptions, and elsewhere in public, knows, and readily admits this. What then ? " Oh, but,” says one, “ Mrs. Lincoln gave an expensive and inappropriate ball, in the winter of 1861-62—right In face of 1 public dis tress'.’? Well, admit for a moment that Mrs. Lincoln gave a costly public ball, at the White House, at that time ; Does it follow that that was unnecessary and extravagant? We all know, or ought to know if we’do not, that peo ple conform to the requirements of tbe positions they are called upon to fill. If it was done in accordance with immemorial custom at tbe White House, then that goes in to mitigate the fault. But did Mrs. Lincoln give a costly “ball” at the Presidential Mansion, daring the winter of 1861-62 ? Briefly, so; neither at that nor. at any pridr or later time did she give a hall at the place named, in tbe popular sense of the term. The affair was nothing more than a se lect reception, with the addition of very fine mu sic and a collation. There was no polkaing, waltzing, or quadrilleing. No one, at all up in such affairs, went there expecting to dance. Bat why give such a reception at all 7 Most economical inquirer, do ns tbe honor to listen a moment:, Mas. Lincoln fixed upon that as a measure of economy . That is simple fact —no more,' no less. Let ns stats the fact bear ing upon it, and then submit the case to the candid public. It has been customary from the establish ment of the -Government, for the President to give, every winter, what are known as “ State Dinners.” To these dinners were invited, first —Foreign Ministers, and their lamilies, with our own Cabinet officers and .possibly some of the Senators. Then came others, until the en . tire list of public functionaries, including Con gressmen, 1 were dinnered at the White House. How many of these grand dinners it required to accomplish this customary hospitality we cannot say; probably half a dozen—each at an inevitable expense that weald buy a very com fortable farm in Tioga connty. For pork and beans, and corn pudding, do not figure in such dinners in modern times. Now as to the economy of the " grand ball." The condition of public affairs was seriously considered, and in view of the expensiveness of the'customary state dinners, it was thought better to have a grand-select-reception, with'a collation, and .Antic, the Which would costnot more than.oae-sixth as much as the dinners. We submit the question of economy to the candid. These are'the substantial facts. And as regards the other gossip about Mrs. Lincoln, it is not only ridiculous, but positive ly cruel. It will not be retailed, save by men and women who ate no better than they should be. ... The War news is encouraging. Grant has the Weldon railroad, end Us importance to the rebels may ha teen in their repeated and des perate attempt* W retake It. . , THE TIO Q AGO TTNTY AftlT A TQJt. - Pan Yoorhees, the rad-mootbed lndiena cop perhead Member of Congress, has come ' to great grief. He has been dreadfully “ put up on” by Gen. Carrington, and sundry detective officers of‘the Provost-Marshal’s. Office. The grief that came to Dan Yooobefta'issued out of bis connection with tbo trsnarmabla 0, A. K., or “Order of American Knights,” the espos ura of whose conspiracy to overthrow the Gov ernment we wrote of a short time ago. Docu; meats, showing that he was the ostensible lea der of an armed force of conspirators) number ing 100,000 men, were found in his law office, at Terre Haute. Yoorhees wrote a note to Gen. Carrington, demanding a withdrawal of the, charges implicating him in the conspiracy. He declared that he had not-occupied the office where the documents were-found for many months. Gen. Carrington replies, that in the -office where the 112 copies of the ritual of the 0. A. K. were found, were; hmong other things going to show who occupied the office, the fol lowing; The library and furniture of D. W. Yoorhees. The Congressional documents of Yoorhees/ Sector-Wall’s letter to Yoorhees, proposing to furnish. Yoorhees 20,000 rifles. Letters from Yalkndigham, and twelve others, urging said Yoorhees to have-his 100,000 men ready, and declaring that the “Democracy’ are stiffening up for open resistance to the Government/’ Also, the petition of Yallandigham, Yoorhees, and Ben Wood, in favor of two republics and an united South. In short, the peculiarly pri vate correspondence of Dan Yoorhees was un earthed in the office which Yoorhees says is not bis office.. Couple these facts with this other: Within the past ten days, the Government has discov ered and seized 20 boxes of navy revolvers and 135.000 rounds of fixed ammunition, in Cop perhead hands, at Indianapolis. Correspond ence has been found, stating that the Copper heads of Indiana have purchased and paid for 30.000 revolvers, with 42 boxes of ammunition, for the purpose of controlling the Presidential election. The authorities have relieved these law-and-order, anti-fraud, peace “ Democrats'' of tbs custody of these munitions of war. - Now mark what follows: Voorhees, Vallan-. digham, Wall, and Ben Wood, will be promin ent in the .Chicago Convention, which assem bled on Monday. How much* better are they than those-open- traitors, Jeff'Davis, Mason, and'Slidell 7 It is between the puppet of such men and Abraham .Lincoln that the freemen of. the North have to choose next November. A deuaocode would never have called for 500,000 men, as Abraham Lincoln has donej while a candidate for the suffrages.of the peo ple. A selfishly ambitious man would have postponed a measure so likely to estrange the disaffected and weaken the knees of the chick en-hearted. It is many years since anything higher and nobler than a demagogue occupied tbe Presi dential chair. Mr. Lincoln has given fresh and unmistakable evidence of his superiority to his immediate predecessors. He looks for person al success to come through tbe successful pros ecution of this straggle for national life, if it is to come at all. Tbe enemies of the country are shaking the terrors of the draft over the people, as a means to render Mr. Liocoln unpopular. If there be any whose patriotism was redhot jwhile their neighbors were doing all the fighting, and who find it rapidly cooling now that they are asked to take a band in the fight, let them be broOght forward into tbe daylight. The world wants to 'see them.' And while on this topic let ns say, that any expectation of a postponement of the draft ought not to be indulged. The army must be filled up, and the quicker it is done the better it will be for the country. We should say this even though it might possibly alienate some, from the support of Mr, Lincoln. It cannot defeat him, for it will save the country. That is what Mr. Lincoln wants. That is what we want. - Soketijte in July last, a Mr. Briggs was brutally robbed sod murdered in a railroad car in England. The supposed murderer, Franz Muller, was traced on board the ship Victoria, in which he had taken passage for this coun try. Agents of the London police were imme diately despatched on the first steamer for New York, and having arrived some days in advance of the Victorio, concerted with the New York police a plan for Muller’s arrest; On Wednes day last the Victoria was signaled as in the offing, and was boarded by the police. Muller was fully identified by the London men, and a search discovered the bat and watch of the murdered man among Muller’s effects. He is now undergoing an examination in New York, and will, of course, be given np to the British authorities, and sept to London for trial. The World, and other rebel sheets are ex pected to print several columns in denunciation of this second “ atrocious violation of the right of asylum,” the extradition of ArguClles, the Cuban slavetrader, being the first. The Roll of Skedaddlers from the. draft is being written up for the benefit of posterity. We notice, some names that surprise ns a little, but adversity is the, trial of friendship and pat riotism. It will be pleasant, in the time to come, when 'the Skedoddler’s babies swarm around his knees and ask; "Father, do yon remember the great rebellion ?” - " Yea, boy.” “.What did you do, father?” “ What did Ido ? Why, boy, I-4-ahem I I —ahem! I ton away to avoid the draft !" Will not that be a particularly pleasant con fession to make to one’s children? Think of it, skedsddlert. • a . . Qua friends of the Wayne County Herald do us the honor of calling this paper “ the rabid est Abolition sheet in Pennsylvania.” As we know of no pro-slavery papers in the country save the rebel press in rebeldom and the Cop perhead- press North, we accept the compli ment. - However, we are ready to submit a file of the Agitator for sis months past, to a dis interested umpire, if our friends of Wajne .will also furnish a file- of their paper during the same period, and leave that umpire to say which has oftenest agitated the Negro Question for the space-of time mentioned. At the same time, let it be distinctly understood that we are in favor of the total destruction of slavery. We-offer Rogers, of the McKean Miner, our hearty congratulations upon his nomination for Assembly. It is getting to be rather more rep utable business than it formerly wae, and since Cowan, of Warren, endured two terme without material moral damage, we conclude that it is tolerably safe for editors to tarn legislators. No news from the Chicago Convention has reached ua up to going to press. -The probable result-may be looked for in the nomination of McClellan. WAR paws. A Great Battle at Ream’s. Station—Terrible Slaughter of the Rebels. Washington, Aug., 27,1564 —10:20 a.m. Major-General John Drx: On Thursday, the 25tb, Gen. Hancock, who was south of Beam’s Station, was attacked several times during the day, but he repulsed the enemy at every as sault. At half -past S p.m. a combined attack was made on his centre and left, which after one of the most desperate battles of the war, resulted'in the enemy withdrawing from the field, leaving their dead and and wounded on the ground. This-ia acknowledged to have been one of the most determined and desperate fights of the war, resembling Spottsylvania in its char acter, though the number engaged gives less importance ..to it. A few mote good troops would have given a victory of considerable im portance. Poliowing is just received; Second Cobps— l2:3o p.m., August26,lB64. A safe-guard that was left on the battle-field remained there-until after daylight this mor ning. At that time the enemy had all disappear ed, leaving their dead on the field .unboned. — This shows how severely they' were punished, and doubtless, bearing of the, arrival of rein forcements, they feared the results to-day if they remained. G. Q. Meade, Major General. , The following is just received: Second Abut Cobps, Aug. 26.1864. —1 p.m. ~To Lieut. 'Oen. Grant; Since sending my . last dispatch I have" conversed with the safe -guard referred to. He did not leave the field until sunrise. At that time nearly alt the enemy had left, moving towards Petersburg. He says that they not only abandoned their dead, hut their wounded also. He conversed with an officer, who~]said their losses were greater than ever before daring tbe war. The safe guard, says he was over the field and it was covered with the enemy’s dead and wounded. -He has seen a great many battle fields, but never such a eight. Nearly all of tbe enemy’s and all our wounded, were brought off, but our dead were unbnried. I have in structed Gen. Gregg, to make an effort to eend a party to the field and bury our dead.'- G. O. Meade, Maj.- Gen. D. S. Grant, Lieot.-Gen. • Our forces hold the Weldon road, and in a patch dated 3 p. m. yesterday, Qeh Grant says that their losi of this road seems to be a .blow to tbe enemy be cannot stand. I think I do not overstate tbe loss of the enemy in tbe last two weeks at 10,000 killed and wounded.— We have lost heavily, but ours has been most ly in captured, 'when the enemy gained' tempo-' rary advantages. The number of Rebel pris oners taken on our side has not yet been re ported. Gen. Grant makes the following report of an unsuccessful attack by the enemy I “ Yesterday (Thursday) morning the enemy drove in Butler’s Picket line. The picket guard soon rallied, however, drove the enemy backhand re-established their line. The re sult was one killed, sixteen wounded and four teen missing on-oar side. Two commanding officers and fifty-pine enlisted men were cap tured from the enemy. What their casualties were in killed and wounded we do not know.” Edwin M. Stanton, Seo’y of War. Cincinnati, Aug. 26. Tho Gazette, this City, has a dispatch from Atlanta, which says .- Qen. Kilpatrick destroyed Jhe Macon rail road in several .places, tearing np about four teen miles of it. He also captured and burned a train of sup plies ; belonging to the Rebels en route- to At lanta. On his return he met the. Babels in strong force, and totally defeated them, capturing four stands of colors, six cannon and 200 prisonsrs. Afterwards be mot another force of rebels, who pressed him so heavily that he was obli ged to abandon all but two of the gans, and most of the prisoners. He made an entire circuit of Atlanta, and reached Decatur with 100 men. He inflicted severe damage on the Rebel communications. From the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry. Head Quaktsbi 2d CaTalbt Bbioade, Kactz’ Division; In the Field, Ya., Aug, 11th 1864. . Fbiend Cobb. —Pardon my abrupt intrusion for I am decidedly lonesome, and innumerable little Blue quadrupeds, bipeds or something of the kind, greatly disturb my honest reflections. Strange, is it not ? that a real, live soldier should have the blues, bat if yon will (in im agination) vacate yonr cosy stool, (undoubtedly you have discarded chairs &a. on account of the "hard times,”) and allow me to slip in, in your stead, while I will surrender my inverted “cracker-box” for your especial accommoda tion, and sit, wondering “why that- Agitator don’t come,” and keep wondering for a couple of long, dreary, unpleasant. weeks, and gaze for said article until you are “ done, gone orop-eyed.” , I predict that the “ Goblins of despair” would play the mischief, even with the peaceful'conscience of an. Editor, but we do not proposed subject you to the terrible test, or even to‘Barrow your feelings by lifting too great a portion of tbe friendly veil which cot-: ers tbe horrid scene; for the-angel of hope still hovers hear as if unwilling to " take its everlasting flight." Not a single periodical has greeted our mor tal vision, for the past week. Not even the immortal Herald has penetrated- the gloomy shades of our secluded abode (if the term is allowable) and for aught we may know Abraham’s Last” may have transpired, and the cohorts of Jeff, be resting on their “arms” at the Court House in Wellsborongh. One thing we are sure of, whichis the fact of the sun still occupying very nearly its or iginal position, and it docs seem as if “ Old Sol” was determined to make ua fully aware of his presence for he pours down-flood* of scorch ing, glaring heat drying np every particle of moisture in reach of bis scorching rays. Noth ing hut the same dull round of outpost life the usual number of pickets being shot night ly, and the same monotonous style of announ cement “ picket at post” No. 7 shot, wounded, or captured. No delightful raids, no daring charges, but constant picket and vidette duty cheerless bivouacs, interspersed with dreams of happy home, and voracious long billed mos quetoes, green eyed “ Swifts” and harmless “ Pilots,” and all join in filling the measure of the soldiers’ happiness. Many of our comrade* are now returning home and how we do pity the poor miserable creatures, bow they will be pestered, obliged to sleep, or try to sleep, on odious “Feather Beds,” afraid to move for fear of striking their beads against a post, or falling out upon the floor and compelled to waste their valuable time ini “ playing the fashionable.” Under such circumstances who would not rather be. a Yeteran and die nobly for the cause of “ Lib erty and Union.” It is rnmored that Grant and Sherman are busy digging ft “ mine” to reach from Peters burg (by the way of Fort. Darling and Rich mond) to Atlanta so as to blow np the entire “ Southern Confederacy.” I hope this will not be taken as contraband news. There is not much news to write and I will close by-hoping to bear from you through the columns of the old once familiar but now al most forgotten Agitator. lam Yours, M. D, B. Alf ACT. to avihoriae the payment of Bounties to Tolun teers in the County of Tioga. Sec. 1. Be it enacted (ic., That it shall be lawful for tbe Supervisors of tbe several town ships in the County of Tioga (and in case tbe said Supervisors or any of them refuse or neg lect to to do)' for the School Directors of said township and the Burgess and Council of the several Boroughs in said County, to offer and pay bounties to volunteers to fill tbe quotajjf said Townships and Boroughs, under tbe pres ent call of tbe President of the United States, or any future call of said President not exceed ing three hundred dollars each', and the said supervisors or school directors as the case may be, and the Burgess and Council of tbe several boroughs are hereby authorized to borrow mon ey and issue bonds, warrants, or certificates of loan therefor, with or without interest, and coupons attached which shall be exempted from taxation for State and County purposes. Sec. 2. That it shall be lawful for 'said su pervisor* or school directors, as the case may be, and the Burgess and Council of said Borough to levy and collect a tax for the purpose of pay ing said bounties, and repayment of said loan upon all personal property, professions, trades and occupations made taxable for State and County purposes, together with a per capita tax on all male taxable inhabitants of said town ships and boroughs not exceeding §5 each; pro vided that not more than two per cent per an num shall be assessed on tbe lost adjusted' val uation of property in said several townships and boroughs for State and County purposes. Provided that non-commissioned officer* and privates in actual service of the United States army and navy from this commmonwealtb, or who were permanently disabled in such ser vice or having been in such service for the space of one year and honorably disbarged therefrom, and the property of widows and and Union children, and widowed, mothers of non-commissioned officers and privates shall be exempted from taxation undor this act. Sec. 3. That all assessments of taxes by th* school directors or a supervisor in any of tbe township* in eaid county for the. purpose of paying bounties to volunteers to fill the quota U hereby legalized and made valid. HENRY C.. JOHNSON. Speaker of tbe House of Rep’s. JOHN P. PENNEY. Approved the twenty-fifth day of August Anno Domini ono thousand eight hundred and sixty four. A, Q. CURTIN. —The Quotas. We herewith give the approximate quotas of . the several districts in this county, kindly furnished by Deputy Provoat-Marshal SchieSelin; Wellsboro 25 * Delmar 55 Charleston ...» 43 Liberty ~...45 Union 21 Ward 1 —36 Blosa 32 Richmond -....—37 Mansfield .’ 9 Covington borough.. 9 Covington 20 • Mlddlebury..... .........37 Tioga borough 10 Tioga- 28 Rutland Sullivan Mainsbnrg Elkland Oeeola Deerfield Knoxville ..... Brookfield Chatham Westfield Clymer... Caines Elk ;... Shlppen- '. Morris. Jackson -.— Lawrencevllle —... Lawrence - Nelson -11 Farmington 27 These figures will not be varied mneh by the latest official estimate; —There is a great and argent need of slip pers in all our army hospitals. For want of them, in many coses, the sick and convalescent soldiers are doubtless many in our cities and towns who have pieces of carpeting (both new and old,) and remnants of thick cloth suitable for slippers, which they will gladly give when they learn the need that exists. Tailors and dry goods merchants have patterns of cloth that areeiaotly what-are needed in - this ease. —Pearl hunting is lively in s Montpdier, Ver mont. Over fifteen hundred dollars' worth have been found in Winnookski rivet and its branehei within a fortnight. - Speaker of the Senate. l7 lO 2B B* si 26 —Daring Use thunder-shower of-Monday eve ning of last week, Mr. Thomas Reece went to the door of his residence, on Washington street jost aa the lightning struck a tree a few yards distant. Across a small alley a vine bearing a small flower runs up the side of the boos* of Mr. Kipple. Mr. Reece was in his shirt sleeves and, in the morning, branches of the vino were found to be distinctly traced* in green on his right sleeve. On the wristband is a twig and a flower. From the elbow up, sev eral branches and a leaf are very clearly to seen. Mr. Reece came into our office on Wed nesday last, when; the color wna still fresh on his sleeve. A yoiung girl at the door fainted at the shock of ttje lightning, and he assisted to carry bee into the honse,— Willezbant Times, Attention Tioga County' To all Merchants, Pedlars, and Dealers in gen rah and to the Citizens of Wdlsboro’, and the surrounding country in particular. The subscriber scads greeting, together with tic following notice, that he will be prepared to offer b all who may want a largo lot of calamities of tlooit every description at prices that defy competition having had the reputation for many years of boiag the .CHEAPEST DEALER this side of Sundown, and beatisg everything between him and tho li.ni-g Star for selling cheap, he wont go hack on the cili. zona of Wellsborongh, hat intends to give them tall bargains, so all he prepared to nntia the old stock ings and money bags, gather np tho eggs and chum tho fresh butter for they all bring the ready money, for my motto Is “ sell cheap afid they will buy” and ovary man made happy for a dollar. The Store will open on or about Thursday, the lit day of September, first door below J. A. Roy's Drug Store, T. C. COWEJT. TO PROFESSORS OF MUSIC, AMATEURS, AND TEE MUSICAL PUBLIC GENERALLY. P. A. wusderhass, Foreign & American Music Warehouse, BQ4 BROADWAY, Haring on hand the largest stock of Foreign Mcsio in New York, which he imports from Europe expressly to meet the taato and requirement* of the American lovers of Music, respectfully calls attention to the fact, that ha is now supplying Masic of Every Style at a reduction of Twenty-Five to i Fifty per cent less than any other boss* in tho United States. Private Families can bo supplied (post free) by for warding the cash to the above address. Should the amount of cash forwarded exceed the coat of the Masic, the balance will be promptly returned in postage currency. Dealers and Professors should not neglect this op portunity : they will be liberally dealt with. N. B,—Any and every piece of Music (vocal or In strumental) published in Europe or America, will be supplied to order, if accompanied by the cash. Remember the Address, P. A. WUNDERMANN. Foreign and American Music Warehouse, 824 Broadway, New Tork. August 31, 18d4-3m. LIST OF.LETTERS remaining in the Pott Office at Weliaboro, August 30,1864; Borchard, H. S. Orr, Alice M. Brewster, Miss Mary J. Orr, Thomas Brewster, Miss Boxania Overton, 6. S. 6 Blakeslee, Mrs. Polly Plumloy, Calvin Cook, Mrs. Margaret Sheen, (Foreign) Cambells, Miss 3. J. Smith, Lisaader Drew, Mias Alma Smith, M. L. Day, Obas. Smith, Truman Freeman, John H. Smith, Anna E. Jones, Wm. L. Smith, J. M, Lewis, Libbie Smith, H. R. Langford, Jonas Staples, Silas Langan, Miss M. J. Stephens, Philander Lambert, Michael Steele, Julia Lutz, Wm. J. Saxberry, Cornelius Mackey A Co. * Schuler, Simon. MeCully, Tbos. Wetmore>, Lester Mont, John Wilber, John Magill, Jaa. P. Wheeler, Miss Lide gST* To obtain any of these letters, the applicant must call for “ advertised letters,” give the data of this list, and pay one cent for advertising. If not called for within one month they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office, HUGH YOUNG, P. M. Administrator’s Ifotice. LETTERS of administration having been granted to the undersigned on the estate of John Cush ing, dec’d, notice is hereby given to those indebted to immediate payment, and those baring claim* to present them properly authenticated for settlement to ALEX. H. QATLOBD, Adm’r. Bloss, August 24,1864-6 L ESTRAT. CAME' into the enclosure of the subscriber, in . East Charleston, on the 11th inst., a Dark Hed. Three’Tear Old Bull, head, and foot tied : is requested to come forward, pay charges, and take him JOSEPH CLEMONS. East Aug. 24, 18£4.* Election Ifotice. THE Lotholders of the Wellsbord Cemetery Cota . pany will meet at the counting room of C. & J. L. Robinson, on Monday, the dth day of Sept, next, at two o’clock-P. M-, for the purpose of electing nic# persons to acirve as managers of said Company for the ensuing year. A financial statement will £e*eihibUod, showing tbo prosperous condition of Company. Some sixty Deeds are opt hand' and will be ready for those entitled to tbemt S A general attendance isSdquerted by the Board. J. I. JACKSON, Sec. W. Cem. Co, Wellsboro, August 24, 1864. Ifotice to Bridge Builders, SEALED proposals will he received at the Com missioners* Office in Wellsboro, to let the building 2of the bridge across Tioga River, at the mouth of Elk Ran, Covington township, until Friday, Ist week of Court. , J Wellahoro, August 10,1864. P. SEWELL, DENTIST, MANSFIELD, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., IS prepared to operate in all the improvements in the various departments of filling, extracting, in serting artificial dentures,