Growth ia the Midst of tjPa v.
Some of tie results of the Ha election,
■would' go far to confirm the truth Mr. Mad
ison’s observation to Harriet Mar-meau that
the United States was destined many
things before thought impossible,'! It would
eeenito be impossible that a'nation should
grow in. number during the deeo' atfocs and
ravages of a fierce civil war, a'nd yet if ws
take -the total popular vote of 1864, in eocb
states as we have beard from’ officially, and
the total popular vote in the same states in
ISOO, wo shall find reason to believe that in
spite of the calamities of three fears of mor
tal strife, they have actually grown Jp popula
tion' Here is a short table of compara
tive votes of iB6O and 1864,that we have had
prepared from the official source r ,
1864. > x 1860.
106,014- '- r 98.919
.66,850- ; 1 65,943
.55,741 - ’ 44,644
Maine
New Hampshire.
Vermont
..175,487 -b 109,175
...’.22.085 »20,141
....€6,076 . 76.C00
.“51.7 12 ' 675,150
!. 128,630 ' 121,125
...498,103 ' 470,445
..'...1C,924 •' ' 1C 239
.....72,0*0 - 92,502
...347,750 V ,330.093
....42,534 34,737
...460,532-,' 442 447
■ 276,143
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
NewTork...
New Jersey.'..
Pennsylvania ...
De1aware..’.........
Maryland.... A.....
111in0i5......
Minnesota ....
Ohio
Indiana
■We have heard bo .mu elf of t, e hundreds of
thousands of lives that have born sacrificed in
the prr-sontywr.r, so much" of th;> new-distrihuj
tic-ns of its troubles, that it
must strike us ns strange, ot least, that in ev
ery State thus far reported, with'tile single ex
ception of Maryland, there hart beep a very
considerable increase m.llVt su.,Voge. 'A part
of this increase is undoubtedly p wing to the
greater excitement of the latar^political can
vass, which drew out many voKre who did not
before attend tiro polls. .It is’estimated by
Flatisticaiis, that in ordinary titles about twen
ty-five per cent of those entitled;,to vote in any
community, refuse to use the phivetege.
This percentage would suffice to account fur
the increase to which wo refer,‘.l? wo had rea
son ito suppose that it bad,all behn called out.
but such'was not the rase ; a latge'number .of
voters have refrained fr< m voting this year,
ns in times past; a largej.nmbei'bejng engaged
at remote points in the armyjLhave been unable
to vote ; in some fetates soldiers in the field are
not permitted to vote; and *thcre-has been
more than the usual- proportion of sailors and
marines in.our fleets whe-haVi ,no oportn
nity of giving in their halfbtsgb-Cm'idering
all these circumstances, then.lwcTliink we have
n right to infer that the iticritis| noted in the
popular vote is a proof of ’’Miosgrowth of cur
population in the face of tho'ditfjputinn caused
by the terrible hostilities in k-bjeh we are en
gaged.-;!. _ . ,-t
Petrolcunu.
Seven years ago; Tenangfff county, Pennsyl
vania, was regarded as one’Slf,-thepoorest,, as
it is one of the smallest cooutitfs lu the Stale
of Pennsylvania- More thijri one third of its
entire surface could have beeb purchased for
three dollars per acre, 'll? best improved
farms would bring little if anything over thir
ty dollars per acre, and its’entire industrial
products did not exceed thrle hundred thou
sand dollars. Choice nil binds sell now readi
ly at from three*to. five thousand* dollars per
acre, and they have been as high as forty
five, thousand doHars per a,<re. The yield of
oil from the county during'ih.o last year was
over fifty millions of dot!irp ; or greater than’
the entire coal and iron hide of'the entire
State of Pennsylvania, and ’should the present
price of oil be sustained, : he produce will be
Pearly eight millions of (cites the coming
VOBT-- 1
That oil, as an article of commerce and ex
portation, is to become of-tile first importance
is very lts use's everywhere are daily
multiplying, and the demand ibr it augmenting
in the same proportion. ft. is rapidly displa
cing other substances as a* lubricator. As an
illuminator ontside of the cities and towns,
where there is no gas, it http taken the place
of everything else heretofortefnployed for that
purpose. In time the saiue will he'true of
Europe. Predictions are tV.iide that it will be
extensively consumed ill'tfi.| production of gas,
especially in towns remote. rom coni mines, as
there will be a great saving.jn tbs difference of
tbe cost of transportation-' Nor is it at all
unlikely that it will he applied to generating
steanjl in ocean navigation.
There peed be no fear of tftc failure of the sup
ply. Tbe extent of the oi,'bearing territory
and the richness of the deposits, is such that it
may be considered moxboistible. Since the
original discovery in Pefipsylvania, oil has
been found in. Western New York, Virginia
and Ohio. Fine surface indications are also
saijl to have been discoverd bn the Pacific coasti
—Journal of Commerce'. ! . *
What an Army Cotfps Requires.
In the Army of the Potemne amarmy corps
0f30,000 infantry has about 700 wagons, drawn
l.y 4,200 moles. Including (the horses of officer*
and of artillery, about 7,fj10 animals hare to
be provided for. On the I '.arch, it is calculated
that eajjh wagon will occu 'y eighty feet; in bad
roads much more : so that'! train of 700 wagons
will cover 50,000 feet, or ,jvcr ten raiUs ; the
ambulances will occupy aiflmt-a mile, and bat
teries three mile= ; 20,000 troops nee J six miles
to march in if they form fl'fe column; the total
length of the. marching column of a corps is,
therefore, ttcentyvuhs, without including the
cattle herds and trains ci .bridge materials.
Impatient critics of movements wonld
often be more lenient were theyt to familiarise
themselves with the details of the immense
difficulty of organizing andbooving largeiraips
and artillery
John W. -Forset eor the Cabinet. —At a
Jute meeting of Philadelphia, merchants action
was taken in favor of JbaiflW. Forsey for the
Cabinet, arid it is reportei iTrom 'VVnsbingtou
that this movement is strongly supported, not
•only by Pennsylvania influence, but'by prom
inent gentlemen from other Slates. The De
partment of the Interior'is mentioned as the
position for which he is specially urged. Jud»e
Usher, the preseut head of that Department
will, ittseaid, be translated,to the vacancylof
Judge of the hnited States District Court of
Indians. Mr. Foritoy'e great familiarity with
public affairs, hi* executive abilities and habits
of industry, constitute,high aualifications for*
seat in the President’*' Cabinet. His acquain
lance with the polities of the country is i nt ;.
mate and cf long standing, When Mr. Bn-
■Jr.' i
'
chanan proved false to the Nation-, he -kept
straight ahead, an able and consistent advocate
of the principles of freedom and progress, lie
has laborad long and faithfully, and'his servi
ces have contributed not a little, to the civil
triumph over treason, soon to he followed by
the overthrow of the military power of- the re
bellion.
THE AGITATOR.
Jf, H. COBB', EDITOR AKD PROPRIETOR
WBtISSOROOGH, FEKSJ’A:
WEDNESDAY, ; ;
EBOM WASHINGTON,
[Editorial Correstrondenco of The Agitator.]
Washington, Dee. 16, 1864.
Whep politicians take to romancing, it is
pretty flood evidence that the old tricks 'and
dodges lao longer serve to deceive the people.
If I ajn not greatly mistaken, the country is
about to be invited to witness a great spectacu
lar drama, which, for convenience sake, may
be named “ The-Magnanimous Assassin.” The
stories of Paul Clifford, by Bulwer, and of
Robin Hood, by Scott, are to,receive their in
duction info the realm'of Fact through the new
policy to be pursued by the Copperhead leaders
in Congress.
•There tras a time when the Democratic party
was, emphatically the champion of labor.—
There was a time when that party was the
Poor man’s party in something higher and
better than a Pickwickian sense. But that
time is in the distant past. The faction which
struts about in the cast-off clothes of the Dera
cratic party, is neither the champion of labor,
nor the advocate of. equal rights. It sports
borrowed plumes, or, better, perhaps, it is the
ass in the lion’s skin. It enters into political
campaigns under the lead of men who, all their
lives, have been pitting Capital against Labor
in the most offensive sense; men who are, and
have been for years, the agents of aristocratic
Europe for the destruction of in
America. In old times, the Democratic, party
had no affiliation with aristocratic Europe. Its
priests and prominent laymen dreaded nothing
so much corrupting influence of British
gold. But the men who now swagger about in
the cast-off clothes of jthose sturdy democrats,
so'far from dreading foreign influence, are am
bitious of, distinction (purchased through alli
ances with the aristocrats of the old world.—
They do not disdain to accept the money fur
nished by the mortal enemies of this nation, to
further political purposes which -involve the
overthrow of its cherished institutions.
The people kicked these fellows out of doors
in October. They returned and asked for an
explanation. The people kicked them into the
gutter in reply, in November. Two hints uf
that kind might be deemed unmistakable by
the not particularly obtuse. But these leaders,
not seeing themselves as others see them, and
having long since parted with the finer sensi
bilities, still fawn upop their executioners. —
They are never weary of playing the aycophant
to power. This- explains Itself. The people
have exhibited power to crush them, like vipers,
and they, the demagogues, from long habids of
prostration at the feet of power, now prostrate
themselves at the feet of the people.
The first indication of the’ new policy of
tbese'defeated leaders appears in the hill intro
duced by Sunset Cos <fc Co., in the House on
the second day of the session. It proposes to
reduce the duty on tea, coffee, 4e.,50 as to put
those luxuries within the reach of the poor.—
They have a very lively affection fop the poor—
these apologists for treason. But we submit
that their effort to put tea and coffee within the
reach of the poor would have come with a better
grhee, and not so liable to misconstruction,
from men who had not, for three years past,
exerted every nerve and muscle, and exhausted
every resource of their fertile brains, to com
pass the total ruin of poor and rich alike. And
further, it ought not to have' been the propo
sition of men who made themselves conspicu
ous last session in their endeavor to keep the
tax on whiskey, beer, and tobacco, down to the
lowest notch in the scale. No set of men ever
fought n fiercer fight than they fought for dis
tiller* and brewers.
Yet they know, if they know enoiigh to oc
cupy seats in the Congress oflhe United States,
that both poverty and crime root in .grog- shops
aqd beer saloons; tbe latter induct boys into
beastly habits of intoxication, and the former
finish (hem off.
The conduct of these coffee and tea philan
thropists remind ns of the old couplet—
" When the devil got sick,the devil a monk wonld be;
Eat when tbo devil got well, the devil a monk was he.”
The philanthropy of these leaders is born of
wholesome castigation, perhaps. But wo in
cline to the notion that it is only another of the
almost inexhaustible arts of as radical a set of
hypocrites as ever cursed Jerusalem with their
long prayers. “ They are now about to at
tempt the role of the Magnanimous Assassin
and the converted Highwayman. They will
devote their attention to the interests of the
“ dear, deluded people,” for the session. Per
haps we shall have a short homily on the sin*
fulness of swindling, by the Rev. Fernando
Wood ; or a sermon on the wickedness of lot
tery-gambling by the Rev, Ben. Wood ; or an
exhortation to vigilance against the encroach
ments of Popery, by the Rev. James Brooks;
or an essay on public and private morality by"
the Hon. S. S. Cox; or an ovation on the vir
tues of Patriotism, by the celebrated Dan.
Voorbees. No doubt we shall all be much edi
fied by the conduct and, utterances of these
new converts to decency this winter.' They
have tried villainy, and villainy doea not go
down with the people. They bare tried whole
sale lying. That failed. They have put on
airs, and set up for lovers of the Constitution
THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOE.
and the Onion. That didn't work. They now
if go hack on themselves,’' and present them
selves before the people as their.dear, devoted
friends.
We shall see hfitv tlial will work.
M. H. C.
Washington, Dec. 17, 1864.
' Happening into the House the other day, I
noticed four Individuals who ate somewhat uo
lotioas in current politics.- Pendleton was con
ferring with Long, and evidently in earnest,—
Fernando Wood was writing at his desk, speo
taclis on nose, coat buttoned to the chin. and
face as solemn ns the phiz of a discomfited
owl. Sunset Cos wasrin spiightly Conversation
with some one not notorious; and James Brooks
was writing like Fernando, at his seat.
Of all the defunct Copper leaders, Cox is
most of a philosopher. He takes his defeat as
a joke of the first water and contemplates re
tiring from public life with apparent good
humor. Not so with Pendleton. ,He looks,
somewhat crest-fallen, though not positively
sullen. He is a man cf polish and good man
ners, and Lis sympathy with treason is not the
offspring of deep convictions. In fact, Mr.
Pendleton has no profound convictions. He is
an aristocrat who knows that some are born
with saddles on, and some are born to ride.—
He gravitates toward Jeff. Davis and Slavery
simply because be is aristocratic.
But Fernando’Wood being a gentleman by
neither birth nor culture, takes his dismissal
from service most sullenly. He looks like a
man who hated most intensely. I should pick
him out for a conspirator among a thousand.—
He looks-most implacable. • The old-tiroo Oily
Gnmtnon-ish smile has disappeared from his
chalky face. He is a brooding member now.
Last session he was a smiling member. But
bis teeth are drawn, his claws blunted, his
wings clipped. He is no longer ■ dangerous to
the government, unless it be in secret. He has
neither the confident daring of Vallandigbaro
nor the finer culture of Pendleton. Cunning,
crafty, subtle in his way, and holding consid
erable sway over the riff-raff of New York, he
may make us some trouble in the future. His
sympathy with Jeff. Davis and treason arises
from the operation of the laws of moral gravr
tation.
DEC. 21, 1864.
In the Senate we are to have a lesson of pa
tience and forbearance in enduring the inflic
tion of Senator Davis. He is again on his feet
and suffering fearfully from negro on the brain.
His series of resolutions, presented on the 12th
inst., stamp him as a man utterly beside him
self, and therefore to be pitied. They ask for
a Convention of the States; the wiping out of
New England, and the States of Maryland and
Delaware, by merging tbo former in each other,
and the latter in one ; the recognition of Sla
very now and forever ; the election of Presi
dent and Vice President, one from the Save
and tha other from the free States, alternately ;
the absolute right of the wriflof habeas corpus
under all circumstances; Chat no negro shall
become a citizen of the United States. This is
the gist of his grand, plea for pacifioating the
Country. ' t
Senator Davis is troubled with a short mem
ory. He forgets that the people of the United
States, by an overwhelming majority, on the
Bth day of last November, decided the points
raised by his resolutions, seriatim, and finally.
He only elaborates the Chicago Platform and
■thrusts it forward in the United States Senate,
lafter the people have rejected it in ioio. Does
he understand that this is a government of ma
jorities ? that the will of the people is (ho su
preme low ? I fear not. He is groping in the
murk and gloom created by Slavery. He has
not yet been born into the great and marvelous
light of true freedom. It is to be hoped that
the Senate will suffer him and bis vagaries to
drop outofjnind. He J displays the painful
signs of dotage, and should be tolerated- rather
than recogriized.
Tho House on the 12th inst., passed the Na
tional Bankrupt Law, which failed last session.
How it will fare in the Senate it is not now possi
ble to say. Its features I have not yet been able
to discover, although they were quite familiar
last session while the bill was pending. As
soon as it is printed I will make a digest of its
essential provisions and publish. Doubtless
such a measure is required by every considera
tion of justice and humanity. Whether this
one "is just what the the case requires is more
than I can promise. It will scarcely get through
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate without
some modifications.
Both Houses are now fairly at work. Legis
lation for the relief of individuals will not, it
is to he hoped, bo indulged in to any consid
erable extent. In fact, but little general legis
lation is required f and Jhat required relates
mostly to the finances. M. H, C.
P, S.—l forgot to say that I saw James Wil
kinson, of Middlehury, in Judiciary Square
Hospital the other day. He has lost a leg, but
is doing well, and will soon get his discharge.
M. U. C.
The President ok Religion.— The Washing
ton Chronicle says that on Thursday of last
week two ladies from Tennessee came before
the President, asking the release of their hus
bands, held as prisoners of war on Johnson’s
Island. They were put off until Friday, when
they came again, and were again put off until
Saturday. At each of the interviews one of
the ladies urged that her husband was a relig
ious man, and on Saturday, when the Presi
dent ordered the rel ease of the prisoners, he
said to this lady ; “ You say your husband is
a religious man ; tell him when you meet him
that 1 say I am net much of a judge of relig
ion, but that, in my opinion, the religion that
sets men to rebel and fight against their gov
ernment, because, as they think, that govern
ment does not sufficiently help some men to
edit their bread in the sweat of other msiYs fa
ces, is not the sort of religion upon which peo
ple can get to heaven.”
WAR NEWS,
,ER Oil SHERMAN'S A RMT.
The correspondent of the American at An
napolis telegraphs as follows:
“ The steamship Varuna left Charleston Bar
on the I4th inst, at 8 o’clock in the morning.
The report had reached there by the Rebel flag
of truce hoar that Sherman was in possession
of Savannah after an eight hours’ fight, cap
turing eleven thousand prisoners.”
War Department, 1
Washinqton, Friday,’Deo. 16, 8.15 p. m. )
To Maj. Gen. Dix, New York;
Official dispatches from Gen. Canby -have
been received to day, showing the complete
success of an expedition sent out by him from.
Vicksburg to co-operate with Gen. Sherman's
operations, and cut Hood’s communications
with Mobile.
Gen. Canby also reports the probable suc
cess of another expedition from Baton Rouge,
under command of Gen. Davidson, the details
and object of which it is not proper now to
disclose.*. When last heard from Davidson was
reported as having caused quite a panic in
Mobile, and to be devastating the country gen
erally. Lieut. Col. Eurl, commanding a spe
cial party, was severely wounded, and fell into
the hands of the enemy at Fayette. Miss.
The Richmond papers of to day confirm the
rrportedjcapture 6f Bristol by an expedition
supposedj to be under the command of Stone
roan and Burbridge.
Also the surprise and capture of Glade
Springs depot, on Jhe railroad thirteen miles
south of Abington, To.
They also contain Gen- Hood’s official report
of the battle of Franklin, in which he acknowb
edges the loss of many gallant officers and brave
men, among whom he enumerates Maj. Gen.
Cleburne, Brig.-Gens.John Williams, Adams,
Geiat, Strohl and Cranberry, killed ; Maj. Gen.
■John Brown, and Brig.-Gens. S. Carter, Mani
gault, Quarles, Cockcrill -and Scott, wounded,
and Brig.-Gens.Gordon taken prisoner.
They also state that on Wednesday Gen.
Sherman carried Fort McAllister commanding
the entrance to'the Ogcechee River, by storm,
and the capture of this position pats Sherman
in communication with the Yankee fleet, and
necessitates the re-enforcement of Savannah.
FROM THOMAS’ ARMY.
War Department, 1
Washington, Friday, Dec. 16, 1864. j
Maj;-Gen. Dix: The Western telegraph lines
are working very badly, on account of the
snow storms, prevailing. The following unoffi
cial dispatches have been received: a
,f u , “ Nashville Dec. 16, 1864.
• “ Just returned from the battle-field. Bat
tle severe and terrific. Our forces victorious.”
A second dispatch of the same date says •
“ Hood has fallen back, and is apparently
doing his best to get away, while Thomas is
pressing him with great vigor, frequently cap
turing guns and men. Everything thus far is
perfectly successful, and the prospect is fair to
crush Hood’s army.” -
There is notfaingsince my last dispatch from
any other quarter..
Edwin M. Stanton, Sec’y. of War.
What Smaccipatisn Will do for the South.
The downfall of slavery will open the road
to property for the poor laboring men. Sla
very once abolished, the great landed estates,
based upon and supported by slave labor will
go to pieces, and the pieces will fall into the
bauds of the poor - labo-ing man. Instead of
the grand palatial mansion surrounded by
miserable negro'-cabins, and instead of the
wretched hovel inhabited by the poor white, we ;
shall see neat, white cottages in the midst of
small, but flourishing fields, and the interior of
the cottage will he adorned, not with lh£ bowls
knife and pistol, but with the book case, news
paper, and every evidence of progressive civil-1
ization. This will go quickly as thought, for '
the Southern people will not be left to work j
out that development alone. Thousands of j
Nortben men, who but recently had been roam- ]
ing-over the country with sword and bayonet, j
and on that occasion had made the discovery
of the truth, will invade it again with sword and
plough, and machinery and capital, and know
ledge, apd a spirit of progressive improvement.
These invaders will be peaceable neighbors of I
the invaded, and each one will work for the)
other in working for himself, and all will bel
one people. Thus the southern people will be re-‘
organized and regenerated by the emancipation'
of a large majority also from the rule of a pow
erful few. Then the acrimony of the rebellion
will be blotfted out and they will no longer
have time to think of tho differences of the
unfortunate past, for they will have to think
of the problems of a busy present and a
hopeful future.
The First Vetekan Army Corps.— By the
beginning of January Gen. Hancock is likely
to have an army corps unsurpassed in strength
and value. The War Department ordered that
the Ist Veteran Army Corps should consist of
twenty thousand men, and that none.should be
accepted except those who had served honora
bly not less than two years ; limited enlistments
from December I tq January 1, the term of
service to one year, and offered a bounty of
three hundred dollars to each volunteer payable
when he is mustered in. The popularity of
such a corps will be immense; veterans who
would be reluctant to enlist in new regiments
will eagerly join the rally of their old comrades
and proudly serve under tho gallant and dis
tinguished Hancock. It will be the Old Guard
of the Union army-revery man an accomplished
soldier, baptised in battle, knowing his duty
and able to do it, and'thc whole force self-reliant
experienced, and in earnest. General Hancock
will call around him the best fighting material
of the North, the veterans who, having already
fought so well for the Union, want to be in at
the death of the Rebellion.. It is not surpris
ing that the rate of enlistments in the Old
Guard already promises to fill the ranks by
the end of the month. Abonthix hundred and
fity men daily will complete the organization.
Philadelphia Press. t
Among the ingenious eontrijbutions lo the J
Sailors’ Pair in Boston, by the ’ State Prison.)
couvicts, is a email house, so contrived that |
upon opening the door a figure of Jeff. Davis 1
suspended to a gibbet comes up through I a J
chimney, and from the other chimney a blalck
man comes np to look at him. I
A letter from a traveler in the new oil ret
gions of Pennsylvania soya —“We were pad
died across the creek by an oil prince, aged
fifteen, heir to a million, costless and hatless,
and with but one suspender to keep his cour
age and his- trousers up.”
The RiHel Butcher Forrest has been
warded fur hiscrimes. The misters he serves
huvß raised him to the rank of Lieutenant-Gen
eral in the Confederate Armies. In doing this
they have brought additional infamy on them
selves without succeeding in whitewashing him.
Starting in life as a-slave trader, Forrest has
passed logically .through all those varieties of
iniquity which prove hhn a true friend to the
South, and has ended in teaching, high rebel
military command. His elevation is an attempt
to exalt mnrderand confer dignity upon rapine,
and we accordingly have the spectacle of a
Lieutenant-General who has placed himself, by
bis own acts, beyond the pale of civilized war,
and who would be shot like' a wild beast, should
he fall intu Fe'deral hands.— Boston Transcipi.
Army Losses. —Mr. E. B. Ellioit, of Washing
ton, has prepared an account of the proportion
of deaths in the Union armies, covering the
first fifteen months of the war. It seemjs that
five have died from accident and disease, where
two have died from the armsLof the enemy.
The mortality from ail causes Jlias been about
seven, per cent, per year. This is less than our
losses in the Mexican war—one half less than
that of the British in Spain—and one third]
less than their loss in the Crimea. Yet our
battles' have been among the most frequent
and sanguinary of any recorded in history.
One great cause of this favorable state of
1 affairs, is the aid of the Christian and Sanitary
Commissions and kindred efforts to prevent
and to cure disease. Timely precautions, and
timely preparations have saved many thou
sands of lives.
Just .before the presidential election, the
democrats of this country so far outraged pub
lic decency as to parade a coffin in their pro
cession, and afterwards to bnry it with an effi
gy of Mr. Lincolti in it. During the parade
the stone-boat containing the coffin broke down,
as a sort of intimation to the degraded rag
amuffins surrounding it, that they were misbe
having themselves, and that their expectation
would not be realized. They did not take the
hint. Such fellows are always slow at taking
hints, unless given at the a brogan. Do
they see now that Lincoln is not the dead man,
and does not stand in need of burial —and that
somebody else does ?—Honesdale Republic.
In Cambria, Somerset, and the adjoining
counties of Pennsylvania, a good quality of tar
is manufactured from the knots of the pitch pine.
The manufacture of this substitute for North
Carolina tar. It is caried on extensively and has
already, it is stated, considerably depreciated
the price of the latter article. The tar thus
produced, answers nearly all the requisites as
a substitute for the original article.
The Union men of Calais, Me., being preven
ted from getting their Presidential tickety by
the Postmaster, went to work on election day
after 3 o’clock and wrote the ballots complete,
and carried the town for Lincoln by forty ma
jority.
•It will be remember! that Mrs. Rase Green
how, the female rebel, who' has attracted so
much attention during ths war, was lately
drowned. A Richmond paper says that her
drowning was caused by her having six hun
dred pounds sterling, in gold, tied to bar person.
New Flour and Provision Store.
(CHARLES VANVALKENRURG wishes to in
j form the citizens of Wcilsboro and the surround
ing country that be has recently started a new
FLOUR AND PROVISION STORE,
in the building formerly known a a 4< Osgood’s Store,”
where he may be found at all times ready to walton
all customers who may favor himwitba call, and sell
them the choicest kinds of
FLOUR, MEAL, BOCK WHEAT, PORK,
Ac , at as reasonable rates as any firm in this place.
CASH paid for all kinds of GRAIN, HIDES,
and FURS. CHA3. VAN VALKENBURG.
WelUboro, Dec. 21, 1864.
PROSPECTUS
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“TO BOWEN’S!”
SEEING a big crowd on Main Suret, T llitlT ,
ing toward a common center, somebody asked
Where Are You Going?
The answer was
" r fo Bowen's, Wo. I, Union Block!’’
To loot at that splendid stock of
NEW FAU £ WINTER CORDS I
uit Jirrmog frvm New York. ■ J
“ VERY SENSIBLE PEOPLE,^
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gain, and sells so as to give the purchaser a bar T
too. * nill
Therefore if jonwant anything in thaline of
DRY GOODS,
LADIES’ GOODS,
READY MADE CLOTHING
BOOTS, SHOES. * s '
GO TO BOWEN’S,
and if vou want
HARDWARE,
QUEENSWARE,
WOODEN-WARE, and
groceries.
at prices 70a can afford to pny
OO TO BOWENS
If yon have Cash, or Butter, or Ch-as#,©* Q ra | 0
to exchange for this 1
SPLEXDID STOCK OF GOODS,
bring them along, and 70a will get '
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Don’t forget the place :
NO. I, UNION BLOCK,
■Wellaboro, Nov. 1, 1364. JOHN R. BOWEN
The peculiar taint or infec
'ion which we cal! Scant
-la lurks in the const,tu
ions of multitudes of men,
i either produces or u
iroduced by an enfeeble;!
.•itiateil state of the blood,
wherein that llmd becomoi
incompetent to sustain the
vital forces in their vigorous
ictiom and leave; the svs
:cni to fall into disorder
tnd decay. ThcscroMon;
:ontainination is. variouslr
mused by mercurial dis
ease, low living, disordered digestion from un
healthy food, impure air. filth and filthy habits,
the depressing vices, and. above ell, by the vcr.;-
real infection. Whatever be its origin, it is hered
itary in tile constitution, descending “ rrom,pnrcr.;s
to children unto the third and fourth generation: ’
indeed, it seems to be the rod of Him who says, ■ I
will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their
children.” The diseases it originates take various
names, according to the organs it attacks. In the
lungs, Scrofula produces. tubercles, and finally
Consumption; in the glands, swellings which sup
purate and become ulcerous sores; in the stomach
and derangements which produce indi
gestion, dyspepsia, and liver complaints; on the
skin, eruptive and cutaneous affections. These,
..all having the same origin, require the same rem
edy, viz., purification and invigoratmn of the
blood. Purify the blood, and these dangerous dis
tempers leave yon. With feeble, foul, or corrupted
blood, you cannot have health; with that ‘-Tite of
the flesh” healthy, you cannot hkve scrofulous
disease. . 1
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla
is compounded from the most effectual antidotes
that medical science has disc over.. J for this afflict
ing distemper, and lor the cure of the disorders it
entails. That it is far superioi to any other
remedy yet devised, is known Ifyi all who have
, given it a trial. That it docs combine virtues truly
extraordinary in their effect upon this class of
complaints, is indisputably proven hy tiie jreat
multitude of publicly known and remarkable; Ui.,
it has made of the following diseases 'King's
Evil, or Glandular Swellings, Tumors, Erup
tions, Pimples, Blotches and Sores, Erysipelas,
Hose or St. Anthony’s Fire, Silt Bheum, Seal!
Head, Coughs from tuberculous deposits in
the lungs. White Swellings, Debility, Dropsy,
Heuralgia, Dyspepsia or Indigestion, Syphilis
and Syphilitic Infections, Mercurial Diseases,
Female Weaknesses, and, indeed, the whole series
of complaints that arise from impurity of the blood
Jlinnte reports of individual casts may be limni
in Ayer’s American Almanac, which is furnish-.!
to the druggists for gratuitous distribution, wherein
may be learned the direttions for its use. and some
of the remarkable cures which it lias made when
all other remedies had failed to afford relief. Tho,a
cases are purposely taken from all sections of the
country, in order that every reader may have a.-
cess to some one who can speak to him of its bene
fits from personal experience. Scrofula depresses'
the vital energies, and thus leaves its victims lar
more subject to disease and its fatal results than
arc healthy constitutions. Hence it tends to shorten,
and does greatly shorten, the average duration of
human life. The vast importance of these con
siderations has icd us to spend years in perfecting
a remedy which is adequate to its cure. This we
now offer to the public under the name of Ayer's
Sarsaparilla, although it is composed of ingre
dients, some of which exceed the best of Mit
parilla in alterative power. By its aid you may
protect yourself from the suffering and danger of
these disorders-. Purge out the foul corruptions
that rot and fester in the blood, purge out the
chases of disease, and vigorous health will follow
By its peculiar virtues this remedy stimulates the
vital functions, and thus expels the distemper*
which lurk within the system or burst out on any
part of it.
Wo know the public have been deceived b
many ct|mpounds of Sarsaparilla, that promi=.i
much and did nothing; but they will neither i-o
deceived nor disappointed in this. Its virtues has-.-
been proven by abundant trial, and there remains
no question of it; surpassing excellence for the
cure of the afflicting diseases it is intended v>
reach. Although under the same name, it is a
very different medicine from any Other winch has
been before the people, and is fan more effectual
than any other which has ever been available :i
them.
-A.'STBH.’S
CHERRY PECTORAL.
The World’s Great Remedy for CotigQm
Colds, Incipient Consumption, and
for the relief of Consumptive
patients in advanced sta
ges of the disease.
This has been so long nsethand so unirert.ill;
known, that wo need do no more than ns tare <■-
public that its quality is kept up to die he-t it c ' ‘
lias been, and that it may lo relied on to it' rJ “
has ever done.
Prepared by Dr: .1 i’. Aver d ( l} •
P.acticvl mid Axthd.-nt rh-~ •'
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Sold by all Jfruggists every where, and 1 >'
Sold by J. A. Roy and P. R. Williams, Wc!lil»«
Dr. H. H. Borden, Tioga ; S. S. Packard. Ccrmgt"
C. V. Elliott. Mansfield,; S. X. Billings, Gaines; »"
by Dealers everywhere. [Nor. 23, ISdi-ly-l
BAUOAISS FOP. CASH /—Eiamino and F 1 *-*
the Stock of Goods now offered for sale ty
AMBROSE CLOSE,
beforo making yonr purchases. His stock comF n *
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS!
Shawls, Balmorals, Hoop Skirts, Cloth), Ca?d“S rii '
Flannels and
DRY GOODS,
generally. Also, Groceries, Crockery, Jf»rda»r s
Boots and Shoes. . , s -
X am also prepared to cut and make all kiaili
men and boys’
CLOTHING TO ORDER.
Westfield, Nor. 16, ’fi-t-Ct® AMBROSE CLOSE.