.gaislJTebJ'A’it- < ,,r ' ‘’’ • ' rn.sts. o.' \Z. \y. : ' j?iuroaltieg | ‘' at the WtfJjj Department 'compete the number of the Union armiee sinoe tbe commencement engagement Grant in.theW*. t. he .lost 13- 7 ’078 men at Pittsburg L 6.875: in the . .severe contest around VicksbuTg, and in the ~attack on Missionary Ridge aUolit 7,000. ... -Though our losses in many of the campaigns - have-been heavy, they yet fatt oeftw those incur redin-sume of the European wtrs., .This-has been due, to a considerable extent,.to the effic iency. of the medicpd department and the lavish , amount of supplies, at least.ojjj-i-third greater .. .than.those-furnished to- any ■ European army. A report recently ihade to the ‘lmperial Acad- Jemy of Medicine, by_ Chenu, Pfeystcian of the " Trench army, estimates the of that army in the Crimean war as follows. killed on the field of -battle or missing, 10,240 ; -lost in the Semiiante. 702; -died of various diseases at A1m5.8.084; died of .cold,*ppbplexy, &0., be fore Sebastopol, 4.342; dien in the field and general hospitals, 72,247 ; toal, 95, 615. Thus, of 309,264 men-sent by France to the Crimea, about one third found a soldier's grave. - Thesiege and reduction oft Jerusalem re«nl ’ ted, eays' Josephus, in the tasi of 1,000,000, lives. 60,000 Persian* weje 5 - placed hors de eOmbat at the battle of and 100,000 "Carthageoians in the engager qat of Palermo. 12,000 infantry and 10,000 c' tilry perished on the fatal field of Issue. Spa t' lost 2.000,000 lives during the persecution of the Arabians, and 800,000 in expelling tbf Jews. Frederick the Great infiioted a loss of 4 1,600 on the Aus trians in the conflicts of Leofheq and Leignltz. -The battle of Jens, and the lesser engage ’■ ments immediately following, dost the Prussian ■ army over 80,000 men. At'kh'e battle of Leip sic, the'French suffered casualties to thenumber ' of 60,000, and the Swedes and their allies 40,- -000 more. 50,000 French Mg Russian soldiers lay dead apd dying on the feli after th| battle Of Moscow, and Napoleont-aJ'ain lost 47,000 men at Waterloo, and the I u-;e of Wellington 15,000 morel— N. T. Comtl a's,jxl Advertiser. Why Simon Cameron lef; War Depart* ment. . / A correspondent of the 'obisago Republican, : ' deriving hie information front _“a gentleman of Illinois,"- gives a new verSptf in regard to the - reasons that induced Mr. Cameron to leave the ■War Department. The' reason a are alleged to have been given by Mr. Cameron himself ,to the informant of the Writer in the Republican. We give them as follows; - y When Qen. Mc- Clellan was called to the eo’rojnand of the army, ‘'military affairs were in,a deplorable condition. We'were compelled to callfnim to the bead of - the army at a time when .hti coaid dictate bis own terms, and he did so. -He stipulated that he should naee upon all appointments and pro motions, and the President and myself felt .compelled for the sake of -hecountry to accede to them. - Under hie tol', things .went from bad to worse, and having ,nC hope in the fu ture, I saw the only way'.*» Xt ve the .country , was to break the agreetnet Vy;ith Gen. McClel lan. I represented to his, that things could not continue in this way, brt.Gen. McClellan mnst.be removed from tht, supreme command of the army lif he wanted Jo put down'the re bellion. The President ajffted with me in this view, of the ease, but bow can - it be done f ‘We have palled our words to him - to him that be shall havq control of the ap pointments, and we cannotJbresk them/ I re plied : ‘.Leave that Co me £-thrill cat the gordian /knot if 1 can not' unravel ft. I will resign, and yon can appoint ano'ndy to my position/ Mr. Lincoln came conclusion that 1 -• He said be would ttppwint roe to,the Rua sian-Embassy,' from which Mr. Clay was about ! -to return. which would be a proof of his entire confidence in me. I told' him that I did not want to go to Russia, hat he said that I must go in Justice to that I might regigo ■. «B:SOon as I saw fit, after the acceptance of the mission. We then agree tny auoeeasor, Staoton.and so -broughyMcClellan buck to the original position of matt ts in the army before ■i par agreement with him . Stinton refused -to continue the agreement/ and McClellan moat - take hie proper position >r,iesign." ... - —f _ The New .York the 18th inst., in " referring to the report)'Relating to persons . claiming to be the the traitors in the " custody of the now awaiting .. .their.' trial, declares oq spat it deems good ■' authority, that the “famrf as of Jefferson Davis _ *nd O. C. Clay retained [eminent and well ” "known legal advisers as as the middle of last to appear whether the Government •ball think proper to om the trials of those State prisoners. The Counsel is a gen tleman of whose at the bar there "" will be bo question wbep it is thought proper to announce hie came, '• kny reports, there fore, which appear from "'.tine to time in differ ent newspapers as to effojf made on behalf of the prisoners by personiNepresenting tbem selves as their counsel, ori mgaged in their le gal service, may bo safe!' regarded as unau thorized by the parties oh;, fly concerned.” ■' The Provisional Rebel -jbnrention at Mont- - gomeryl whose archives captured by Gen. Wilson; intended to call the “Confederacy” 6 foe ""Republic of Washington.” This propoei- J -tlon was defeated by Washington'* ■ naibe was therefor saved tjje discredit of being • sponsor to the Rebellion designed to overthrow the Union which he fought sd bard to establish. The Montgomery conclave met in the days . -When their ambition blown, and noth ing short of the p 6» is* ion of . Washington wo aid ever nemit thet it make peace with the North. * i ■ \ THE AGITATOR. M. H. 0088, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR _ WBLLSBOROUGH, PBWN’A WEDNESDAY, : : ; : : : JULY 26, 1865. •syith malice toward none, with charity for all, with firm* ness In the bight, let na .strive to finish tho work w© are ip, to bind np the natlonVwounds, to carofor him who wall have borne the battle, and for his widow and or* nhans, and to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.— ■*'AiBAHAM Likcolk—March-4, 1865.- ' - Republican County Convention, At an adjourned meeting of the Republican County Committee, held at Tioga, 15th instant, it was resol ved and recommended that the Republican electors of Tioga County, do assemble at the usual polling places in the several townships and boroughs, on Sat urday, Auguat 19, for the purpose of electing, each, two delegates to represent their respective election districts in the County Convention, to be held FRI DAY, the 25th day of August next, at tho COURT HOUSE, WelUboro, then and there to putin nomin ation candidates for the following offices-t Ooe person for Associate Law Judge. One person for Representative. One person for Senator. (Contcrees, instructed to declare the choice of the 'Convention for the three officers aforenamed.) One person for Treasurer. One person for Commissioner. Two persons for Auditors. The Committee also appointed the following _ COMMITTEES OF VIGIIAItOB.' ' Bios* —A. T. James, George Maxwell. Brookfield—Wllliam Guernsey. John W. Fitch. Chutham—L. O Beach. Hoses Lee. Charleston—Capl John Rees. Thomas Mitchell.' Clympr—E. H. Stebblns, Salmon Rowland. 1 Covington—-John Robinson, Win. S. Hoagland. - - M Boro—Thomas Jones, P. L. Clark. • Delmar—M. W. Wetherbee. Gordon Steele. Deerfield—Hiram Potter. Q. M. burlingame. Elkland—Benjamin Dorranoe, ( Jr.,Capt.B.T. Wood. | Elk—John C. Maynard. Loren Wotmore, , Farmington—William Vandusen. Q. M. Burch. ~ Fall Brook—Martin btratton, Jame* Pollock. Gaiocs—O. A. Smith, Leri Furman. , Jackson—Richard Znacho, Edgar Sinner. Knoxville—J. P. Biles, William Knox. J Lawrence—S. I. Power, Moses B. Baldwin. Lavrrencovllle—C. Osborn, Charles Mather. Liberty—George R. Shaffer. R. O. Sebrlng. Mlddlebury—V. O. Lqwls, Merrill Staples.l Morris—Enoch Blackwell, Samuel Doane. Mansfield—J. M. Bailey, Abram Shnart. Malnaburg—P. D. Parkhurst, Doctor Robbins. Nelson —Oeorgo H- Baxter, Samuel Bogrart, Jr. Oceola— Charles Tubbs, V. C, Phelps. Richmond —L. H. Robbins, Lyman Faulkner. Rutland—William Hutchinson, Seeley frost, ; SnlUvan—W. A. Rockwell, Cyrus Davenport. Bhippen—.l A. Darling, O. W. Phillips. Tioga—Edward DePnl, William M&tcisoa. Tioga boro—E. G. Bcbieffiein, Philo Toller. Union—John Irwin, William Braine. Wellsboro—O. Bullard, William Roberts. Ward—Erostus Klff, J. D.Denmark. Westfield—Joel Calkins, James Secord. The Vigilance are requested to give not less than a week’s notice of the delegate elections. O. F. TAT LOB, Chairman. When Republican editors accused the semi rebel press of sympathy with Assassination, the semi-rebels complained most bitterly, de nouncing "the charge as the offspring of parti san malice. Wo,studiously refrained from do ing more than arraying these unprincipled fel lows face to face with their previous utteran ces; thus showing their culpability for teach ings which made the awful crime possible. But the coarse of the entire Copperhead press touching the h anging of Mrs. Suratt, Payne, Harold, and A tzerodt, and the impris onment for life of Dr. Mudd. Arnold, Spangler' and O’Laughlin, pate .the question of Copper head sympathy with Assassination and assass ins oat of the province of debate into that of clear, unquestioned fact. ' They denounce ; the Court, the witnesses dor the ’prosecution, the findings, sentence, and execution thereof, as illegal, tyrannical, barbarous, and. murderous. The guilt of the parties is not denied ; no—it is nhdisguised sympathy with the crime itself which moves them-to stigmatize-and denounce the Government. ’ ' ' “ Occasionally one gets frantic over the stran gulation of that mother of infamy, Mrs. Snratt; We are not aware that Crime is either male, or female. Murder is murder, arson is arson, and theft is theft; and it is the crime, not the sex, color, or condition in life of the criminal, of which the law takes cognisance. These tin washed Chevaliers fall into a mistake quite common with that ilk—the mistake of suppos-. ing it ro be a mark of chivalrous veneration of Woman to champion the sex under all circum stances. The jfact is, however, that all this hullabaloo about banging Mrs. Shratt comes from a class of men who have more inclination for female depravity, than reverence for female virtue. We see it stated that the Catholics of .Wash ington threaten to hold a great Sanhedrim and denounce the President and the Military Com- mission If they do, so much the wpfae' for them ns a religious denomination.' The Catholics are not strong enough to risk so much in that. way. The fact that John H..Suratt, one of the chief assassins, is. hiding from justice within the walls of ' a monastery. Is not intended to help that Church to extra popular favor. 1 As Payne was a Baptist, we are waiting for a Bkptist manifesto in bis behalf. Or baa the Baptist Cfboroh too much common .sense to. threaten Church action against the 'President of the United States ? It is’ a notable fact that nearly every one of these-editors was but the other day landing the President. Since he signed the death-warrants of the assassins, all that is changed.' Shall we explain the “ why” of tills sudden change of base ? It is this: The rope that strangled the aeeateint choked these sympathisers with treason and assassina tion. - “ No rogue e’er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law.". UNroaicNAli, and. greatly to be pitied, is that man who, having been a spectator bf the great contest whose smoke has not' yet cleared away, still regards it as a partisan struggle-*-' baying nq I higher object than the damage' or profit of, a particular’ class of men ; who mis takes popular indignation at the bad faitb.of Yallandigbam, Seymour, and Woodward, and their deluded, or vicious followers, aa a tran sient ebullition of partisan beat; for that man fails to measure the depth of hia crime against the human race, and belittles the strife for na tional existence by mistaking it for a strife for party aggrandizement. The old parties lost their distinctive organ!- ‘THi£ Tll> UA O QgStT AGITATOR. zations when.the war broke out. Men no lon ger, as a rule, thought of party, but hoped, and feared, and labored for, country. Those who did not so rise above mere party pride, ■gravitated' into various secret organizations with objects at war with the integrity: oLthe nation. These men have' never been able to distinguish politics from 'patriotism; They have devoted their time to singing psalms in braise of -Democracy, their knowledge of which never extended beyond the name. The nation was sick, and they prescribed—“ Demooracy.f’ A great war was waged'against the Govern ment, and they folded their arms and shut their eyes, and cried—“ Democracy They looked over the field, and seeing their old leaders in the van of Rebellion, naturally enough conclu ded that the Rebellion was but a new form of Democracy, and gave it their sy apathies. Now these mistaken men dep reoate the in dignation of the people, which m akes against them. They did not bargain for defeat. They believed, as they noisily declared, that the re bellion could not be suppressed;, and the piti less ruling of Destiny baa stranded them on the coists of Despair, among false prophets mod kick at fate, and denounce the operation of the righteous law of Compensation. Mas? Barkis, who shot A. J. Bd&boughs, a Treasury clerk in Washington', last winter, has been, tried on a charge of murder and ac quitted., The allegation was that Burroughs Courted,:promised to marry • her, and after con* eluding not to marry hrr, endeavored to trap. Miss Harris into a boose of bad repute in Chi* oago. She "followed him to Washington and shot him down without warning.- Probably nobody is surprised at the verdict. It makes little difference whether the defence sustained its theory of insanity or not. For Woman's obiefest wrongs at the hands of innn the law affords no remedy. So, juries take the matter into .their own bands, and makesnch atonement for the shortcomings of law-makers as they may, by permitting her to avenge her wrongs, real and fancied, with impunity. We shall not complain of the acquittal of Mary Harris—though, the defence seems to us to have been quite lame, impotent, and incon clusive—because there is a good reason for the action of the jury, as stated. When the law recognizes libertinism as something more than a venial crime, and regulates the penalty in the ligbt.of such recognition, it will not be so safe for a jilted woman to shop! her jilter as the acquittal of Mary Harris proves it to be. Lawmakers, in refusing to make felopy of libertinism, prejudge every, case where it wo man is the defendant to such ’ an extent that it is impossible to convict her, however gnilty. Whatever may be said of HCraob Qrsilet, all candid men agree that he is always fair to ward an adversary,. As a case in. point may be mentioned the acridity of faieidislike for ’Secretary Stanton. Lees than a week ago the Tribune published a statement of some priest, to the effect that the Secretary of War rtfdsed to pass Mrs. Suratt’s confessor into the prison after the sentence of that person. Mr. Greeley rounded np some bitter comments with—" We dare Mr. Stanton to deny that be refused a pass for Father Walters to visit Mrs. Suratt” --substantially. In his last Friday's paper Mr. Greeley publishes a letter from Gen. Bar die, through whom all the communications between the War Office and the assassins were made, stating in explicit terms that Secretary Stanton issued the pass without objeotien or condition attached. Gen. Hardie is himself a Catholic, and has as good a reputation for ve racity as Father Walters. So Mr. Greeley is satisfactorily answered, and the charge against Secretary Stanton, like most charges against him, comes to grief. ' But tbe Copperhead papers, swift to copy Greeley’s caustic criticism, do not copy bis ha bitual magnanimity to his fdes. None of tbe foul brood publish Gen. Bardie’s disclaimer.' Traitors oannot play fair. , Since President Johnson refused to reprieve Mrs. Suratt on tbe unsupported statement of one Brophy, an alien, by the way, and the ready apologist for traitors and assassins, tbs whilom adulators of the President,’semi-rebel editors, have resumed their vulgar, allusions to his falsely alleged habits of exoeaaZ Do they not see that snob depravity as they Charge dp pon him would bring him into sympathy, not only with their party, but with the entire brood of Monsters ? ... • „ A British paper gets severe on this Government because of the close.eonflne ment of Jeff. Davis, and Lints tbattbe-Jlritiah, Government will withdraw its embassy in case Jeff, shall be hung. Don't fret, old fellow I Great Britain is in no hurry to declare war against the United States of America. The execution of Mrs. Surratt caused excitement among the rebel conspirators in in Canada. They manifested tbeir feelings by wearing crape on tbeir arms, singing secession songs and threatening the President of the United States with terrible retribution. The rebel ,sympathisers here in the North were scarcely less indignant. Id a neighboring ;ROSPEGTDS— 'i >H »t: i PETROLEUM COMPANY. i r ■ rzsi -n. -i.;;,-. . . ; CAPITAL STOCK. -0100,000. * 10,000 SHARES OF 510 JUGS'. FIRST ASSESSMENT $1 PER SHARE. The Wellsboro Petroleum Company has duly exe outod leasee of 5,000 acres of sxlxctkd lasds, ly ing In the townships of Delmar, Ship pen, Gaines, Morris, Liberty, and Middlebury, and In Wellsboro, Tioga county, and in Brown township, Lycoming county—ln number about LOO leases. Agents of the Company are actively employed in lehsing'other choice lands. $60,000 of the stock is already subscribed. 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