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. )