GENERAL : NEWS ■ The severe . weather is said tnhave killed most of the peach bads in New En 'land. ' —Mrs. Grace Davis, of Halifax,' V't., comple ted her one hundreth year on thj} 22 nit. —Co Aids more plentiful in the United Statejs and more expensive—than in any either Sssjn try'-'-, - I • I —lt ie officially estimated that |we gross re ceipts into the Treasury for the eljsuing fiscal year under the newly considered bill, the "tariff bill, and from miscellaneous iionroes, will reach about $450,000,000. —The President has issued s. Proclamation pronouncing the pains and penalties attending , desertion from the army and navy, or removal from any district to avoid the draft, and extend ing a pardon to those who htfv» deserted but shell report for duty within elsty days. —Of the 40,000 Chinese in ilalifornia, about 80,000 are engaged as miners, each paying, dr supposed to pay, a monthly tsX of $4- —$12,000 a month—to the State and caiidty "revenue.— About 2.500 work on ranches i about 1,000 as cooks aud private servants. 'Nearly 2,000 are females, and nearly 5,000 are- merchants and traders. • • —lt Js estimated that fhe.o!l .product of Venango county, Pennsylvania*, is: at'least 10,- 000 barrels daily. This at f e average price of tin dollars at the wells, wh.:h is a low aver age is over thirty-one millioi. dollars a year, xtm number of wells on Oil in July, 1862, was seven hundred; at the present time, the number of wells down, and ginug down in the oounty,is estimated at between' three andfour thousand. . ■ —Gen. Cameron. —Mahy warm 'friends of ■ Gen. Simon -Cameron having repeatedly .urged upon the President bis a member of the,Cabinet, it js proper to S;4tis that" he has frequently informed Mr. Li pc' b that all steps in this direction were without hia sanction, and that there was ho position in ■ Tiis gift he had any desire to occupy. There is the best of feeling between Gen. Camerott and the Presi dent. —New conflicts are arising between the Gov ernment of Prussia and the Chamber of Depu ties. The Government lias in formed the Douse that the Government had taken from the Pnbiio'' 10,00p,000; thalers in addition to the. Budget for 1864. A leading member of Party, i Herr Von Hoverdeeb, moved tc hold the mem bers personally responsible for t thia act. ; A/TrOy alderman got paarried the other day and pad rather a thrilling time on his wed ding tour. He was- two days in getting to BufiMo on account- of the snow. W as' in the Amerioan hotel in that citywhen it burned.down and on his way to Chicago waf^thrown over an embankment twenty feet higp by a railroad accident, badly bruising him and his new wife. The couple are nowin Chioago/recovetingfrom their injuries and getting cod rage to try the return trip. -j 1 —The Nashviu.ee Time*, Of the 18th inst.,- states, that Mr. A'. 0. P. Sficholaon, ex-editor and ex-Senator, who has beet confined in the ;l military prison for some tin>a, was released yesterday, being placed tihd'or bonds to the amount often thousand to appear at the next term of the Federal GOnitin this place, to answer the charge of conspiracy against the United States Government. .Mr. Nicholson re fused the amnesty offered by the President. - Sheehan to His Qdabtee'kasteb. — Tie Uni ted Service Magazine, in ap article on the Quar termaster's Department, soy# that when, in May Shermamstarted to open J iVhi campaign from • .Chattanooga—" Sir," said ,!?') to the Quarter f master at Nashville, “ I shat' move from Chat tanooga when the Lieutenant General orders me—ready or not ready—aqj if yon don’t have my army sppplied, and ' keep it supplied we’ll eat your moles up, sir t" 4>od JiTilUam Tecum seh no doubt thoroughly meant it, but the Quartermaster was up to time and saved his mule*.' — Those “ Foets • and : Plaoces.” —ln April -1861, after Beauregard’s, war-declaring bom bardment of Fort Sumter, President Linooln, in his first call of troops t i choree the supreme authoritty of the Union,, taij that among-their first duties would be the tasfcof recovering the forts of the United States seized by the insur gents. This task, with tbg|' recovery of the forts of Charleston a at length fully accomplished. From Bfcauri rt, in North Car olina, to New Orleans, thovc-has been a clean sweep, involving the recapt’Na of over a thou , sand pieces of artillery. fort Sumter very finished this branc h of the business, and the work remained to t e done is compara tively light and easy. Internal bbvende HECisfes.—By a decsion of the Commissiomer of Internal Revenue, the receipt given to a sheriff by a plaintiff, or his attorney, for monpy collected upon judgment is subject to stamp duty where the amount of sdob receipt is for a sum Hotexceeding twenty dollars. Such receipt oanno,- be held to be ex empt under the provisions of (he statute exempt ing receipts given for the satisfaction of any >mortage judgment, or decree of court; hut - a receipt given by the sheriff to that defendant, .upon payment,or satisfaction of the judgment on the return of the aJieri|F upon the order of - execution, can be re’glrdes jis exempt from stamp duty. , ; • A Bot Suicide. —A hoy named Joeiab Wat • eon, about twetve years Of age, residing at Bor dentown, N. J., was put but to service on a farm near that place, bui went home several times to 1 see bis mother, without permission, and had been taken back. On Friday last he was refused permission, to go again, and there upon threatened to bang' himself. It was thought to be a boyish three;, and no attention was paid to it; but, 6a • going to the barn shortly after, his employer found the boy bang ing to one of the beams by the neck, and be-, fore he was able to out him loose life bad be come entirely extinct.; \ Rebel Deserters. — been noticed that whenever the rebel arciif ) have abandoned any Southern State, we hajrg .invariably had from the troops of the Stats/rhereover they were stationed, a tide of deefirl Jon. One cause of the depletion of'Hood’s arm /, on its retreat from Nashville, was in the des *rtion of thousands of the Tennessee soldiers,JWtjo declared they would never again fight out of Tennessee; and there have been very many other illustrations of the same phenomenon in the course of the war. The latest development of. kind has occurred since Sherman’s army pYssed triumphantly across the State of The con-' scripts of that State, serving with Lee, ate now pawing over into one lines in large numbers. THE AGITATOR. M. H. COBB? EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. WBLX.SBOROUGH, PBNN’A. WEDNESDAY, Hon. W. P. Fessenden, having been elected to the Senate, has resigned the Secretaryship of the Treasury and Hon. Hugh McCulj.ocqh, late Comptroller of the Currency, is appointed in his place. Mr. McCullough is one of the ablest financiers in the country. Hon. J. P. Usher retires from the Secre taryship of the Interior, and Hon. James Har lan, at.presenta Senator, has been appointed to fill the vacancy, Mr. Harlan is one of the best men in the Senate, and will make a most excellent Cabinet officer. It is a fact that Andrew Johnson, Vice Pres ident elect, appeared in the Senate Chamber 6n the 4th of Maroh in a state of inebriation, and made a spectacle of himself. For. one, we have no desire to conceal the fact from the peo ple, none, to palliatoit. Andrew-Johnson is nota habitual drunkard- unless he has become Bo within two years. In fact be bad tbs repu tation of a strictly temperate man. When,'and how, he became otherwise we have no means of. knowing. His condition took bis, friends in Washington compla tely.by surprise. But we have a word for the Copperhead sheets which are endeavoring to make capital out. of circumstance. Three Senators of the United States are beastly drunkards. They have disgraced the Senate for years.- Saulsbn ry of Delaware, a bitter copperhead, has sev eral times been taken into custody by the ser geant-at-arms. He is pro fane, noisy, and - ha bituated to drawing pistols upo n Senate offi cers. Mr. McDongall, of California, also a Copperhead, is seldom, perhaps, never sober.— His drunkenness was the subject of remark by strangers during the last day s of the late Con gress. In other respects he is a gentleman.— Richardson, of Illinois, seldom appears in the Senate Chamber when drunk, and truth com pels us to that be has not been there more than six hours of the three months of the clo sing session of the 38th Congress, We have never seen a word of condemnation -of these man in a Copperhead paper. Sauls bury has just been re-elected for a term of six years. When sober, be is an agreeable, genial man. When drunk, be is ugly. Let the Cop perhead papers be consistent, and while bera ting Andrew Johnson, apply the lash of their virtuons wrath to the backs of their own maud lin leaders. • PEOK WASHINGTOW, Editorial Correspondence of The Agitator] Washikoton, March 3,1865, I have somewhere seen a poem, in which the myth of Romulus and Remus was recited, and declared to be the autotype of the struggle he tweep Freedom and Slavery, now going oh in this country. The figure seemed to be good; for, as the mythic twine were reared on the same “ bloody suck,” so Freedom and Slavery were “ twinned at a birth," and.drew their sus tenance from the same Constitution. But why will not some poet, in whom the fires of inspiration dwell, brihg forward the legend of Ourtius quenching the wrath of the gods as be disappeared in the gulf that severed the forum ? If some Bryant, or Whit ter, could fling the reins upon the neok of im agination, and show the American people , tbattbh myth of Curtins was the antetype of some distinguishing example of patriotic devo tion of these times, he would put the country . under a vast debt of obligation. Wanted—a Statesman. A man who oan, literally, be said to he, in the political world, yet not of it. A man who has no. friends to reward and no enemies to punish. A man who can forget himself in remembering man kind ; one who is ambitious of but one fame— that-'of a common benefactor. It is an uncommon want. Ton shall find he roes in plenty; and men of profundity ; and brilliant men; and orators ; and men great in the law and gospel; but statesmen are not plenty. 1 never saw bat one ; or if seen, did not recognize them. A statesman is, I think, one who shapes and tones the policy of nations. Two dozen would cover the entire number the world ever saw, possibly. Are there to be no more such ? Is the die broken? The demand is pressing. Is there to be no supply f Wanted—a man who has no ax to grind. A man who, if elected to elevated place, prefers to do his whole duty as he understands jt, and do nothing merely because it may increase his chances for a re-election. A man who woald prefer, the painless obscurity of a log bnt in the heart of .the forest to prominence and place as the'reward of o tinning or demagoguery. A man who has faith to wail'npon merit, and disdains every sop flpng from the hand of Fa vor. ■ • I am afraid that many of onr beet and bra vest public men value more the name of being known as the originators of some measure than than that of “public benefactors.” At the same time, I suppose. they nearly all desire to live in the hearts of a grateful people ; nearly all hope to benefit the race. None can bo found who will admit that they ere governed by purely selfish motives. No ; all profess to love the people, all profess to be ambitious of the public good. It is the fortune (misfortune) of all who lis ten to debates in Congress, to hear many ear nest appeals put'up at the shrine of St. Bun kum. St. Bunkum is popular. He was can onized on the day when the first man under took to achieve the greatness and profit of Num ber One. Number. One is no stranger to any of us poor humans. We all know, ahd some of ns love, Number One, We all trj to take THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITATOR. good care of, and aggrandize, Number One.— But, unfortunately, there are as many Number Ones’ ae there are men and women in this wicked world. Now, what the country wants is a great beaded, great-hearted man, who knows how to add up the infinite sum of integer Number Ones, and regard them as a unit. For, really, I can not depress my neighbor without sinking, somewhat, as be sinks. I oannot elevate my neighbor without,■somewhat, rising with him. It is said by some people, that when one man rises, another falls. ; ; MAR. 15,-1865, That is a—lie. If yon strike a bell, you cause every one of its atoms to vibrate. If yon lift one hundred pounds from the earth you draw the solid earth after it; rather, you offer re sistance to a law which affects every atom of the globe. No; men go up together, and they go down together; and no man can get op without pulling the world after him. ,So men are benefactors whether they will or not. And some day this truth will gain a world-wide re cognition beyond the slender circle of school men and economists. Speed the day. ! I know some will sigh and say: “Tile race of statesmen is in the last stages of decay.— Webster, Calhoun; Wrightr-thoy are dead; and their mantles fell upon nobody. Well— perhaps so. But who believes that there are fewer (men of brains in public life to day than at any time before? I not only do not believe it, but deny it. Ido not believe that any Con gress, under the constitution, has ever contain ed more real talent than this Thirty-eighth Con gress. But talent is not statesmanship; and -statesmanship is the outward manifestation of geuius; there is little genins abroad in the land. Why, then, do not these legislators show off to better advantage, if there is so much ability among them! somebody asks. Well—because of a law which obtains wherever a teaching is by contrast, rather than by positive precept.— The artist never putsascarlel figure upon a scarlet gronnd ; nor a white figure upon a white ground. So,, where nearly all men are talent ed; be must possess positive genius who suc ceeds in attaining to distinction in their com pany. The Senate of the United States to-day would not prove so favorable a background for Webster as that Senate against which be stood. Webster and Clay were great by themselves; bnt they are never seen in their true propor tions, because the Senate was not then a con course of superior men as it is to-day. There are none so massive end eloquent as Webster, or so and convincing as Olay, in'the Senate now. But there ore quite a number of good logioans and superior debaters, and a few orators. There are a few cyphers, also. In Webster’s time there were a great many cy phers. That is the difference. If there is a public man in the country who does not, in bis heartof hearts, cherish a hope of becoming governor of a State, or President of the United States, then I will journey one thousand miles, by railroad (and that is a jjmqnstroas sacrifice) to look at hjm, and by fa |vojr to take hie hand. Ambition is good when not multiplied by 1000 and divided by I. li is bad enough, otherwise. We need men am bitions of the public good—men who,like Abra ham Lincoln, feel every blow aimed at the in terests of the country as if it were aimed at bis own heart. lam not sure that Mr, Lincoln, with the nnselfish instincts of a noble nature, is not to go down to posterity as the statesman .of the time. He is a patriot if be is not a Web ster. He is truthful if he is not a Calhoun.— Bnt, oh, for a Webster to burl some thunder bolts treason-ward, just now, when the animus , of treason is being spent in its death-struggle 1 t f M. H. C. The badly breached frails of the “ Confede racy” appear to. be crumbling into otter rain. Sheridan has beaten the rebel General Early and despoiled him of hi* army and .monitions of War. The battle took place not far from Staunton in the Shenandoah. From Sherman we have good report. He is said to be within forty miles of Raleigh North Carolina, and progressing without serious oppositfon. In fact, the report is that the rebel army in North Carolina is deserting by companies, and that the people do not respond to the call to arms by Gov. Vance. Farmers are bringing in their produce to Sherman uninvited, instead of to Jeff. Davis, whose call for supplies seems to be unheeded by the farmers of the old North State. From the Richmond papers we learn that there is. dissension in Rebeldom—dissension which is bringing the rebels to grief. A por tion of the rebel Senate, with Hunter at the head, ate trying to force Davis to make peace on such terms as may be best made with this government.. We can sea the beginning of the end. Tiie President baa issued a proclamation calling upon all deserter* and absentees from Union army to return to their regiments with in sixty days. Those who obey will be freely on condition that that they serve out their term of enlistment and a further pe riod covering the term of their absence from the ranks. Those who do not return will be deprived of the rights of citizenship, and be forever incapable of holding any office or trust under the United States, or of exercising any of the rights of citizenship. This proclama tion is in pursuance of a law passed daring the late session. —Art extensive religious revival prevails in several New England States. Hundreds have joined the church within the past few weeks. In the Maine towns the revival is remarkable. It is reported that the whole of the officers and orews of several vessels have been converted at sea. In' the West the revival spirit also pre vails, the Methodist papers at Cincinnati report* ing five thousand conversions in two weeks. WAR NZWS The Enrollment SOL The enrollment bill as it passed is as follows: Hereafter all persons mustered into the mili tary or naval service, whether us volunteers, substitutes, representatives, or Otherwise, shall be credited to the State and to the Ward, Township, Precinct or other enrollment sub district where such persons belong by actual residence, if such persons have an actual resi dence wi'hin the United States,! and where ! such persons were or shall be enrobed, if liable to enrolment, and it is made the duty' of the Provost-Marshal General to make such rules and give such instructions to the several Pro vost-Marshals, Boards of Enrolment and Mus tering Officers, as-shall be necessary for the faithful enforcement of the provisions of this section to the end that fair and just credits shall be given to every section of the country ; provided that no credits shall be given except for such men as have -been actually mastered in. ....= The third section provides that in computing quotas hereafter, credit shall be given to tbs several States, districts and sub-districts, for all men famished from them respectively, and not heretofore credited during the present re bellion for any period of service of not less than three months, calculating the number of days for which service was furnished, and re ducing the same to years; provided that such credits shall not be applied to the call for ad ditional troops made by the President on the 21st day of December, 1864. Sec. 4. No person of foreign birth, who has resided in the United States for three years pre ceding his arrivnl, at the age of 21 years, shall be exempt from enrolment; and draft on ac count of being an alien. The remaining section provides that the mas tering in of a substitute shall be conclusive in favor of the principal, and exempt him from military seryce for the term for which he was drafted. Assistant-Provost Marshal-Generals are to be appointed by the President,and charge able with tfcje duties intermediate between the, Provost-Marshal-Qeneral and the District Pro vost ; any person who has been or may be drafted for one year, but who has furnished an acceptable substitute for- three years, shall be exempt for this period of time. It shall not be lawful for any person to engage in the busi ness of procuring recruits or substitutes for money or profit without having first obtained from the Secretary of War authority in writing. The party is to file proof of his loyalty and good character, and give bond to the amount of $50,000 that he will faithfully observe and obey the laws and regulations in force govern ing the obtaining of recruits or substitutes.— Any recruiting agent who causes to be enlisted any insane person or convict, or person under indictment for felony, is to be punished by fine -and imprisonment; and any officer knowingly mastering any deserter or insane person or persons in a condition of intoxication, or any minor without the consent of his parent or guardians, shall, on conviction, be dishonora bly dismissed the service. Principals who put in insufficient substitutes are to be notified of the fact, in order that their places may be pro perly supplied, provided that Ofitice be given to such principals within thirty days. In ad dition to the other lawful penalties of the crime of desertion from military or naval ser vice ; all persons who have deserted who shall not return or report themselves jto a Provost Marshal within sixty days, shall be deemed and to have voluntarily relinquished and for feited their rights of citizenship and their right to beoozne citizens ; and all persons who shall hereafter desert on bring enrolled, or shall depart from the jurisdiction and go be yond the limits of the United States with intent to avoid the draft duly ordered, shall be liable to the penalties of this section, and the Presi dent is authorized to issue his proclamation that he will pardon those who return and serve out their original term. This act is to take effect from and after its passage, and. nothing therein' is to operate to depart from, or interfere with, or postpone the pending draft or the quo tas assigned therefor. The bill repeals the third section of the present enrolment law, which authorizes Governors of States to send recruiting agents into the rebel States. Eruption of Mount Etna.— Letters from Sicily, received on Tuesday, announce an erup tion of Mount Etna. It will be remembered that the mountain showed rigns of activity on the first day of the year, when a smart shook of earthquake was experienced throughout the surrounding country. A letter from.Messina of the stb intt. thus describes the eruption “ Daring the last few days a fresh eruption of Mount Etna has taken place. It being an extraordinary spectacle, and a phenomenon on ly repeated at long intervals, I went to the mountain at the first receipt of the news, and stayed there two days notwithstanding the excessively bad weather. The lava is not abun dant at its course, and immediately divides it self into two torrents very wide. That which I hove,seen, and,the largest, was about 15 meters high, and of width of 250 to 300 meters. It issues on the east side of Etna, and hardly reaches the border of the cultivated vine dis- I triots, but it has overwhelmed two cottages, and if it continues it will probably destroy the villages'of Masoal and Piedimonte; at least it is likely to take that direction, for it isimpossible to establish the laws by which these enormous masses of red-hot liquid matter are guided.— The other branch runs down the northern side, and threatens the village of Lingungross.— This is the smaller torrent, and it is already snbivided into several ramifications, which tend to take a coarse in the direction of the un cultivated region.” A letter from Catania, of the sth lost., on the same subject says: “We arrived here on the 2d inst.,and came from Bronte by Piedmonte and Qisrre, to get a view of the eruption. The daylight prevented oar seeing much, but after dusk we saw one of the principal streams of molten matter, and all day were stunned by the tremendous noise. Cannonading is nothing to it. There are five craters hard at work and various streams. No accommodation is to be bad near, so it is not accessible to ladies, or I would make an effort to go. Foreigners and Sicilians are pouring towards the spot. lam afraid to give particulars, Sjte rumors are con flicting ; but be certain that there is much to see awfully grand, and more to hear than most people's tympanums will bear. —Malta Time*, Feb. 9. —Cost or Living in Richmond. —A board ing house next door to the Spotswood Hotel, advertise in the Examiner of the 9th to accom modate persons visiting Richmond with board and lodging at SSS pen day. Single meals dinner $l5, breakfast and sapper eaob, $lO, The proprietor promises good board and com fortable rooms at reasonable rates. MAJOR GENERAL HANCOCK’S j Fl»»t Army Corps of Veter a nr. THE BIBIVSV BRIGADE. ! Fall Bounties and no Commissions-. 1 No Star on Our Flag shall ever be Dimmed. TO THE PEOPLE EVERYWHERE; 1 “ Bally round tb* Vlas, boys,” and Beep step to tb< innate of the Union. BOUNTIES AND PAY. The net pa; of a Veteran Volunteer in Bancoek's corps is, viz : ; For one year. Government Bonnty $ 400 City of Philadelphia 400 Monthly pay from U. S. Gov’t, sl6permontfa... life Clothing account yearly 42 Ward Bonnty (average) 25 City relief for families of vols., $6 per month... 72 Total ; 11,1311 The net pay of a Veteran Volunteer for two years In Hancock’s corps is, viz; 1 1 Government Bounty [ $ 6,00 City of Philadelphia Bounty 430 Monthly pay from D. S. Gov’t, $l6 per month... 384 Clothing account, $42 per year 34 Ward Bounty (average) 35 City relief for family, $6 per month..... 144 Total ._. .$1,537 The net pay of a Veteran Volunteer for three years in Hancock's corps is, viz: i Government Bounty $ 600 City of Philadelphia £OO Monthly pay from U.'S. Gov’t, $l6 per month... 576 Clothing account, $42 per year 126 Ward Bounty (average) 25 City relief for family, $6 per month 216 Total, $2 043 ORGANIZATION TO RAISE THE BRIGADE! The committee who have charge of the organiza tion of the brigade are: > O. W. DAVIS, HENRT C. HOWELL, GEORGE BULLOCK, DAVID FAUST, JOHN W. EVERMAN, JOSEPH P. TOBIAS, * D. S. WINEBBENER, SETH B. STITT. EXECUTIVE OFFICER OP OOMHITTEE, ’ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Chief of Detective Police of the City of Philadelphia. TREASURER, I . i MORTON M'MICII AEL, Jb., 1 Caehier of Pint National Bank , The brigade will be composed of three regiments. One will be raised under the direction of the corpora tions of Philadelphia. From these corporations the committee will consist of— CoL THOMAS A. SCOTT, Vics President of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. FREDERICK tfRALEY, Preeident-of the Schuylkill Navigation Co. CHARLES B. SMITH, Preeident of the Reading Railroad Co. THOMAS C. HAND, Preeident of the Delaware Mutual insurance Co. STEPHEN A. CALDWELL, Preeident of the Pint National Bank of Philadelphia, Tho second regiment will be raised under the di rection of the manufacturers, merchants and brokers of Philadelphia. The committee will consist of— BARTON H. JENKB, LEMUEL COFFIN, HENRY LEWIS, Jr., CHAS. L. BORIS, JOHN W. SEXTON, of Jay Cooke <fc Co, The third regiment will be raised under direction of the Corn Exchange. The committee appointed are CHARLES KNECHT, Prerident of the Corn Exchange, E. G. JAMBS, JAMES L. WARD, JOSEPH W., MILLER, JAMBS 8. PEROT. TO VETERANS EVERYWHERE. Come and join ns, whether! you live in Maine or Michigan, New Jersey, Delaware, lowa, of any other loyal State. All who know she gallant Hancock, and all who ever served under tho brave Birney, need no inducement to Join ns after they have made up their minds to return to the front. Besides this, make your selves recruiting officers, and talk the matter over with the “ boys.” Bring all you can with yon, and you shall be put in the siunoeompany, and we will have a brigade without jealousies or strife. Think of this, and don't take much time to decide. We want to put the thing through before the first of May. OFFICERS will be appointed by Gen. Hancock. No one need apply to any one but him. The com mittee's cannot take the time to decide upon such questions, or to answer letters. We want to get tjie soldiers and attend to their comforts. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Chief of Detective Police, Mayor** Office, Philad*a. From the great mass of official correspondence we select the fallowing, as exhibiting the manner in which the-Veteran Recruits have been received and provided for. Circulars, giving full particulars, may be had at this office, or at recruiting stations (about to be organized) in different sections of the country : Washisqtoh, D. C., Feb. 16, 1865. Benjamin Franklin, Esq., Chief of Detective Po lice, Philadelphia:—My Dear Sir: Your detachment of veterans for (he Ist corps arrived yesterday. The menj without exception, have been mustered into the service of the United States. lam very mnoh obliged to yon for the exertion you have used toward filling np my corps, and I trust that the success. yon have thus for met with may be an earnest for greater suc cess in the future. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, WINFIELD S. HANCOCK, Major General U. S, Army, Commanding Carpi. WasanruTOK, Fabrnaiy 13, 1865, Headquart’s Ist Army Corps. Benjamin Franklin, Chief of Police, Corner Fifth and Cnestnnt,Philadelphia:—Substitntesfor enrolled men do not receive the (Government Bounty. Prin cipals are exempted from draft. Representative re cruits receive the .Government' bounty. Volunteers, substitutes and representative recruits residing in Philadelphia are credited to that city in coming drafts. Fay commences from day the enlistment is perfected. Letter by mail W. S. HANCOCK, Maj. Qen. It it to be'expressly understood that veterans, ei ther of the infantry service, cavalry, artillery, or na val, may he credited to the olty, town, county or town ship where they reside. The following affidavit will exhibit at once the ad mirable demeanor of the recruits when they arrived at Washington, and how they were mustered in. Washington, D. C., Feb. 19, 1865. X hereby certify that as a Notary Public I was re* quired to be present at Camp Stoneman, yesterday, the 18th, on the occasion of the mustering in of 28 men, recruited by Benjaman Franklin, Esq., Chief of Detectives of Philadelphia. That they were all sworn in and uniformed In my prosecco, and they aoknowl edged that they bad been paid all of the bounties pro misedjthem by Mr. Franklin. I further state, that all of the above men expressed themselses as satisfied with the conduct of Mr. Frank lin. I further say, of my own knowledge, that efforts were made by persons about the Baltimore depot in Washington to induce the men to violate their engage ments with Mr. to no effect. I say this for the credit of the men. A. CK LAWRENCE, Notary Public. CONCLUSION. All veterans who desire to have their interests look ed after without being swindled by sharpers, are di rected to the Recruiting Agency, 106 south SIXTH street, w Berry's Marquee,” where the rifle is to be seen dally which the veteran is entitled to keep atthe expiration of his term of service, which discharges sixteen shots per minnte. All communications on this subject after this expla nation, must be brief and to the point. They will be promptly answered by addressing ‘ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Chief Detective Deposit folic*, Moyer** Ojf.ee, Phi Va. N, B.—No loafers, bounty jumpers or commission men need apply, as no dealing will be allowed with them. Remember that each veteran will be supplied with a patent breech-loading rifle, that can be fired off sixteen times per minute. AUDITOR’S NOTICE.—The undersigned having been appointed an Auditor to distribute the proceeds arising from the sale of real estate of A. G. Elliott, will atteud to the duties of said appointment at the office of Williams A Smith on Friday, the 24th day of Maroh, A. D. 1865, at I o’clock P. M.,at which time and place all persons interested in the distrihn tion of said funds, are invited to present their claims, or be forever barred from any claims upon said fund. W. H. SMITH, Auditor. Wellsboro, March 1, 1865-41. JOHN I. MTCBELL, Attorney and counsellor at iaw. Tioga Village, Tioga County, Ponn’a. . | Prompt attention to Collections. Maroh 1,1865.-ly. U. S. 7*Bo Loan. By aothority of the Secretary of the Treasury ji undersigned has assumed the General Subscrim; * Agency for the sole of United State* Treasury HotT bearing seven and three-tenths per cent, interest * annum, known ns the ' SEVEN-THIRTY-LOAN. These Notes are issued under dale of Aogntt, IJtb ytf4, and are payable three years from ih a[ t |’ me ’ ourronoy, or are convertible at the option of th» der into 5 ' A I lit S* 5—30 Six per cent flOtD-BEARIIUI BOUDs These bonds are now worth a premium of niner, ' cent., including gold interest from November, wiki makes the actual profit on the 7-30 loan at 'cortea: rates, including interest, about ten per cent annum, besides its exemption from State and nenH pal taxation, which addt from one to thru p,rent mart, according to the rate levied on other proper: The interest is payable semi-annually by coupon, tacbed to each note, which may be cat off and sold to aoy bank or banter. The interest amounts to One cent per day »n a $5O note, ifwo cents “ “ “ ' sioo “ Ten , « “ “ “ $5OO 20 " " “ « $lOOO ■■ $1 “ « “ “ $4OOO Note* of all the denomination* named will b, promptly furnished upon receipt of subscriptions, This is THE ONLY LOAW IN HARKET now offered by the Government, aftd it ii conadently expected that it* superior advantages will make it the Great Popular Loan of the People. Less than $200,000,000 remain unsold, w.hich will probably bo | disposed of within tbo next 60 or 90 days, when the notes will undoubtedly command a premium, as has uniformly been the case on closing the subscriptions to other Loans. la orderthat citizens of every town and section of the country may bo afforded facilities for taking the loan, the National Banks, State Banka, and Private Bankers thronghootthe country have generally agreed to receive subscriptions at par. Subscribers will se lect their own agents, in whom they have confidence, and who only are lo.be responsible for the delivery o[ the notes for which they receive orders. JAY COOKE, SoßsoaiPtroa Aosst, Philadelphia. Subscriptions vxli. bb rbcbitbd by the FIRST NATIONAL BANK of Wellsboro. March 5, 1865. THE IflffTH 3f AXIOJf AL BANK or THE CITY OP SE.W YORK. CAPITAL, $1,000,000, Faid in. Fiscal Agent of ike United States, and Special Agent, for Jay Cooke , Subscription Agent, WILL DELIVER 7-30 NOTES, fret of charge, by express, in all parts of the country, and receive is payment checks on New York, Philadelphia and Bos ton, current bills, and all five per cent Interest notes, with interest to date of subscription. Orders sent by mail will be promptly filled. This Bank receives the accounts of Banks nod Bankers on favorable terms; also of individuals tap ing Now Tork accounts J. T. HILL, Cathier. Mar 8-3 m a AUCTION SALS of Valuable Real Eatate—utu ated in Ward, Union, Liberty and Biota town ships, in tho County of Tioga and State of Pmdjjl wani*. * The subscribers will offer at Public Sale at Blow burg In Tioga County on Thursday* the UHh daj of March next, at 1 o’clock, P. M., the following loti or tracts of land situated at aforesaid, to wit: Lot No. 1, in Warrant No. 5972, containing 105 acres, in Ward. Lot No. 6, in warrant Ne. 5972, containing 49j acres in Ward. East half of lots Nos. 9 and 10, in warrant No. 5972,49| acres. Lots Nos. 4, 6 and 7, in warrant No. 1, containing 132 acres and 158 perches each, in Bloas and Union. Lota Nos. 4 and S, in warrant No. 2, containing 133 acres and 68 perches each, in Union. Lots Nos. 1, 5 and 7, in warrant No. 3, containing 181 acres and 100 perches each, in Union. Lot No. 5, in warrant No. 4, containing 129 sorts and 24 perches, in Union. Lots Nos. 1, 2 and 3, In warrant No. 5, containing 145 acres and 83 perches each, in Union. Lots Nos. 1 and 3, in warrant No. 3, containing 127 acres and 50 perches each, in Union. North part of Lot No. 6, warrant No. 3, containing 67 acres, in Union. Lot No. 3, in warrant No. 7, containing 150 acres and 94 perches. Also 84 acres the south part of Lot No. 5, warrant No. 7, in Union. 664 acres in warrant No. 5980, in Liberty. | 364 acres in warrant Ne. 5980, in Bloss. 700 acres, south part of warrant No. 5955, in Bios*. 526 acres, south part of warrant No. 5970, in Blow. 400 acres, north part of warrant No. 5977, In Blois. The above lands are well covered with Beech, Ma ple, Birch and Hemlock timber. Hon ore and Bits urinous Coal have been found on parts of the lands above described. The above lands will be sold at the time and pUs« above mentioned without reserve. Terms of Sale- Cosh on the day of sale when good and sufficient deads will bo given. J. H. GULICK, | T t#as G. R. WILSON,) Aru “* Blossburg, March 1,1866-3 t. JEROME B. NILES, ATTORNEY & COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Niles Valley, Tioffa Conn tv, Pa-, Having been specially licensed by the United States for the Prosecution of Claims for Pensions, Back Pay and Bounties. Particular attention will be given to that olasi of business. J. B. NILES. Niles Valley, Feb. 15, 1865-ly* OSCEOLA HIGH SCHOOJL. THE Spring Term of the Osceola High School, an* der the direction of Prof. C. A. STONE, will commence on Tuesday, April 4th, 1385, and continue in session two months. The past success of this institution has been tniij gratifying to ita numerous friends, and tbe prospects for the ensuing year are no less flattering than tin*y have been heretofore. Thera is no want of commo* dioos rooms for a large number of students. Tber* is a building designed exclusively foriadies. Gentle men, or companies of ladies and gentlemen together will room in the school A teacher will room in each of the buildings and bare control of the students. No Institution in this section of the country off* rl better facilities for obtaining an education than tbis- The range of studies embraces everything nece*w*7 to entering college. A Teachers' Class will be formed daring the Fall Term. ** Tnition from $4,00 to $O,OO. Prof. I- Q. Horr b* l charge of the department of Music. For farth« r particulars as to expenses, regulations, <tc., sddreu oue of tbe Trustees and obtain a circular. J Osceola, Aug. 17, 1863-tf. . TJ EMEAIBEK—Th« piaoo to jot best Or ten Black Tea, Best Baking Soda, Best Indigo and other dyes, Best Cream of Tartar, Best Keroslne OU, Best Sods Crackers. Best Washing Soap, , Beat and purest Medicines, superior envelope* letter paper. *TU at kOT* S Drug and Cbemip > Store. . marBJf_ TO BUILDERS—Tha ChariootoD: Sohool Ki«‘- or» will meet «t th. Roond Top School Ho °. ' Friday, 17th inat., at 9 o'clock, A. M., to l=t building of a School Bouse in said 1 neighborly Size of House 24 by 34. . By order of the President, , . March 8,1885. J. L. KINSSBURt,S« J- J. U, ORVIS, Prttidtnt. A. K. BOSARD, Esq.,l ALLEN SEELT, }-Tmt«a- ENOCH M. STEER. )
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