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Where breathes the foe but falls before us?
With Freedman's soli beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us
OIIR PLATFORM
TIER UNION-THE CONSnTunON-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
HARRISBURG, PA
Wednesday Afternoon, May 29, IStil.
IMPORTANT OFFICIAL NE ,S.
THE SECESSIONISTS ON THE. BORDERS OF OHIO AND
=I
Early yesterday morning the Governor of
Ohio telegraphed to Governor Curtin that their
border was attacked, and desired to know
whether the authorities of Pennsylvania oould
furnish or loan the government of Ohio three
thousand stand of arms, knapsacks and accou
trements. Governor Curtin replied to this
dispatch that Pennsylvania was unable to sup
ply Ohio as she desired. The arms were for
immediate, pressing use, to be returned or paid
for by the authorities of Ohio.•
Later in the day Gen. McClelland tele
graphed to Gov. Curtin that he was entering
Western Virginia with two regiments of Ohio
troops. These regiments are therefore now on the
ground ready to meet the Secessionists on their
march of invasion towards the Ohio line.
FALSE ALARMS.
The people along the western border of the
State of Pennsylvania have been excited and
alarmed for the last month by all sorts of ru
mors which reach them from all sorts of quar
ters, in relation to invasion from the rebels of
Virginia. The authorities of this State have
frequently been imposed upon by these alarms,
in the shape of telegraphic dispatches from the
west, calling for troops, and appealing for aid
in the most beseeching terms. If the alarm
was well founded, this would be all right—but
each is not the case.
Last night a committee of gentlemen from
Fayette county telegraphed to the Governor
that the Secessionists had taken possession of
Morgantown, Va., a short distance from the
Pennsylvania line. The committee appealed to
the Governor for arms to supply the people of
Fayette and Greene counties. Arms belong
ing to the United States which were in charge
here, were to be sent for ward to Pittsburg at noon
to-day, for the purpose of supplying this de
mand and also to arm Col. McClain's regiments
now in camp at Pittsburg. After these arms
had been prepared, a dispatch was received con
tradicting the first information, and thus occa
sioning much labor and time to be needlessly
thrown away. Campble's battery was also out,
and ready to leave to-day for the west, but their
departure was countermanded on account of
this contradiction.
Our friends in the west should be more care
ful how they raise the cry of "wolf," lest when
the wolf does come, like the boy in the fable
they may be left to his ferocity unprotected
and unaided in defense.
APPOINIMENTS BY THE GOVERNOR.
Jacob Fry, of Montgomery county, has been
appointed by Gov. Curtin, to act in conjunction
with Benjamin Haywood, to examine into the
bide for supplying, and the supplies which have
been furnished to, the volunteers of Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Haywood has been engaged for
some time in gathering the evidences attending
these supplies—and it is the full determination
and intention of Gov. Curtin to probe this
business to the quick, and expose (if there is
any) all the frauds which it is alleged have
been committed in the furnishing of supplies
and clothing to the volunteers of Pennsyl
vania.
The public, we think, can rely with confi
dence on the gentlemen appointed to conduct
this investigation. If fraud has been commit
ted, Messrs. Fry and Haywood will most as
suredly ferret it out—and if there are any
guilty parties to the wrongs alleged to have
been perpetrated, they will now be brought to
justice. On the subject of these frauds, the
public mind has been excited and swayed with
a terrible indignation. Suspicion has attached
to all who are in the remotest degree connected
with our military organization, and therefore
we trust that these charges will either be re
futed, the authorities vindicated, or the guilty
parties of every degree brought to prompt and
merited punishment.
Until this investigation is had, we trust that
the judgment and the apprehension of the
public will be suspended, until all the circum
stances have been investigated, and the facts in
the case fully laid before the people.
HEALTH OF Thrfil ARXY.
The presence of large bodies of troops, close
ly collected together in the various encamp
ments in the State, will require the utmost vig
ilance on the part of the Surgeon General,
both to preserve the health of the men as it ex
ists, and prevent contagion from spreading
disease and death among them. In some
parts of the State the small-pox is raging to an
alarming extent. Volunteers marching from
those sections, and coming in contact with those
from other portions of the State may be
the means of spreading this loathsome disease
and bring our armies within its power. In
view of this danger, we seriously urge upon
the Surgeon General the necessity of at once
ordering his assistants to vaccinate the volun
teers as fast as possible, and to urge his assist
ants to the utmost vigilance in the care of the
health of the men, as far as they come within
their control.
OUR DISAPPOINTMENTS.
Man was made to mourn. This is as old as
it is true, as poetical as it is trite, and as appli
! cable now as when it wee first written. There
can be no doubt whatever that man was made
to mourn—but has it never occurred to the
reader that man was made also to growl? The
philosopher and naturalist will perhaps take
issue with us, on the inconsistency of our posi
tion in regard to the growling of that higher
order of animals to which the species man be
longs. Brutes only growl. Suppose, then, to
compromise (and in this way all difficulties are
settled) definitions, .we assert that man was
made to grumble—thus leaving the growling to
brutes, and the grumbling to bipeds. We must
do one or the other, or surrender ourselves en
tirely to the vexations and the actual injuries
of the present tone of public sentiment and
opinion. Every man who finds himself disap
pointed, sets to at once to grumble at his neigh
bor. If he is a soldier, and discovers that the
reality of the service is different from the
dreamy chivalry add knight-errantry with which
he had invested camp life, he grumbles. He
grumbles if his coffee is too strong—and if his
meat is rare or well done, he grumbles again
—simply because he is disappointed. If
he is a bidder, and fails to get a
contract, he grumbles at the successful bid
der, lets loose the train of barkers who were
at his call for plunder, as they are now at his
command for persecution, misrepresentation
and actual, down-right falsehood. Our private
disappointments are too often made public
wrongs. Our personal failures to reap profits
or enhance gains are too often erected on mis
taken altars of outrage and injustice, before
which we expect the people to pour their wrath
and indignation. Such a condition of society,
cultivated and encouraged not to redress a
wrong or remedy an evil, but to reap revenge,
is most melancholy to contemplate. It has
given Pennsylvania a dreadful reputation
abroad—it has injured her credit, outraged her
generosity, and made the glorious old Key
stone State as well a subject of scorn as an
object of contempt among the loyal common
wealths of this Union. We do not deny that
wrongs have crept into the minutia; and the
details attending the organization of the mili
tary forces of the state—that speculators have
taken advantage of our necessities, and that
some of our agents have even failed to do their
duty—but all this could not be avoided ? Per
haps greater vigilance would have saved the
state more money ; but it must be remembered by
the people who are so excited by the stories of impo
sition, that not a single dollar has been paid to par
ties thus charged with cheating the soldier. Let us,
then, be just while we profess to be so frank
in our disapproval of the conduct of those
charged with cheating the state. If fraud has
been practised, those who are guilty May not,
escape as easily as themselves and the public
imagine. Let us at least put an end to this
incessant grumbling. Let us disarm the fault
finder by adhering to the truth. Let us be
generous to those who have had placed on
their shoulders the immense responsibility of
carrying on this stupendous organization amid
confusion, jealousy, suspicion and • grum-
bling
In this business the TELEGRAM has spoken
while others were silent, and we were actuated
with the single and only purpose of seeing the
innocent righted and the guilty punished. But
we are not willing that the disappointments of
some should be converted into sources of public
suffering or outrage. We are not willing that
the mere grumbling and growling of a few
speculators should absorb the public mind and
money, the public judgment, until actual out
rages grow out of imaginary evils, and justice,
that was created for high and holy purposes,
becomes blinded, perverted and abused, no
more an object of fear and respect, but a thing
worthy only the scorn and contempt of men.
It is nobler to bear our disappointments in si
lence, than to obtrude them with noisy com
plaints upon a public that is already weary of
causeless alarm and senseless excitement.
Again, we urge, let us not be mistaken in ac
cepting the disappointments of men as the
honest complaints of either outraged justice or
humanity.
APPOINTMENTS.
We have just been informed that Samuel B.
Lauffer, Esq., has been appointed a measurer
in the Philadelphia Custom House. The posi
tion is both respectable and responsible, while
the new appointee is fully qualified to discharge
any of the duties that will devolve upon him
in his new position. Mr. Lauffer has been con.
netted with the Land Office of Pennsylvania
for the past year, in which department he was
regarded as one of the most efficient and relia
ble clerks. The friends of Mr. Lauffer in this
city, and his many friends and acquaintances
throughout the, State will rejoice at this recog
nition of his claims and abilities, and will con
gratulate him on his entrance upon a larger
field of usefulness, where he will be able to
exercise, with more advantage to himself, the
clerical and business qualifications with which
be is so eminently endowed.
Daniel Welsh, Esq., of Bellefonte, Centre
county, Pennsylvania, has been appointed to a
clerkship in the Pension Oftl:.,e at Washington
city. Mr. Welsh was one of the clerks in the
Senate, during its last session, in which posi
tion he won for himself many friends and much
credit, and we predict for him a greater success
in his new and more enlarged sphere of duty.
He haft had a large experience as an active and
reliable business man, and will not be long in
rendering himself both invaluable and popular
,in the position he is about to assume in the
General Government.
Hon. John J. Crittenden, on the 20th of
June next, will be chosen the Representative
of the Ashland District to the Congress of the
United States by a majority that will be as
gratifying to him as it will be to the friends of
peace and Union throughout the entire length
and breadth of the land.
TREASON TO SECESSION is constituted by the
payment of your debts, the respect of your
oath, and a regard for your word of honor.
Men in the rebel states, who are suspected of
these actions, are deemed guilty of crimes,
and accordingly punished.
1 - 13enn°11thallia 11361 " OltitgraPh. tUrtmesbap Ilan 29, 1861.
No man desires to question the great im
portance of the writ of habeas corpus. It would
be insane and ridiculous to do so—but every
honest and straight forward American citizen
will begin to think that there is something
wrong with the mind and the man, who is
looked up to as the Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court. His action in the case
of John Merriman, the Maryland incendiary,
was ill-timed, ill-advised and ill-tempered,
when we consider the condition of the country
and the state of public opinion in the city of
Baltimore. Merriman was arrested as one of
the wretches who were engaged in burning the
bridges on the Northern Central Railroad. He
had boasted of his actions, and proclaimed
his readiness and ability to apply the
torch again, whenever the cause of trea
son would be benefitted by the incendiar
ism. He was rich and therefore defied arrest,
laughed at the idea of being arraigned, tried
and convicted. But Mr. Merriman was arrest
ed and detained at Fort McHenry by General
George Cadwallader. This arrest caused great
commotion among the aristocratic traitors of
Maryland, who, to make good the escape of
the bridge burner, induced the presence of
Chief Justice Taney in the city of Baltimore,
for the purpose'of issuing a writ of habeas corpus.
Gen. Cadwallader refused to give up his pris
oner, and the country will sustain him. Justice
Taney expressed great indignation at the re
fusal and of course intends to make it a matter
of giving aid and comfort to the cause of trea
son.
As we wrote in the commencement of these
paragraphs, no man questions the supremacy
and the safety of the habeas corpus. But we
have a right to question the motives of the
Chief Justice in this entire business. The loyal
citizens of the United States will suspect him
in this matter, and hold him accountable for
this feigned strict construction of the law, in
what to them seemed a loose administration of
justice where the law was not so strictly con
strued or justice so impartially administered.
In the event of Gen. Cadwallader havinggiven
up Merriman, Chief Justice Taney would have
admitted him to bail, and to-day the bridge
burner would undoubtedly have been one of
the plumed and commissioned advisers of the
arch-traitor Davis. The demand, and the offer
of money as a security that the incendiary thus
admitted to bail would return for trial, would
have been a trifling mockery which most peo
ple suppose should be beneath the Supreme
Court. At any rate, in times like these, the
opinion or decision of Roger B. Taney is of
no more value than that of any other man,
and when he allows his prejudice to warp his
judgment as he has done in this case, the
country have reason to rejoice that there are
such men in Its service as Uen. George Cadwal
lader, himself a lawyer of high renown and
Constitutional ability. When traitors and in
cendiaries are at work to destroy every vestige
of government, we have no patience to throw
away on those who resort to the technicalities
and theories of the law to hide their own pre
judices and assist in the escape of criminals.—
This will be the' verdict of the people between
Gen. George Cadwallader and Chief Justice
Roger B. Taney.
ONE DEPLORABLE RESULT of the troubles
through which the American people are now
passing, no matter what may come in the way
of reconciliation or reconstruction, will be, it is
to be feared, a disregard for those laws and
those forms which, properly adhered to and
respected, are the only true bulwark of civil
liberty. Accustomed, of bite, to see the most
sacred clauses of the Constitution, bought at so
great a price, trampled in the dust, educated to
believe that the strong hand may right public
wrongs, and daily witnessing successful dem
agogueism flaun ting itself in high places, whilst
patriotism and public honesty are driven to the
wall, what can be expected in the future but
that the people will be restive under the just
restraints of good government? What is to
hoped for, but that even if our liberties are
maintained, they will degenerate into license;
or end in the destruction of all government?
TRU RICHMOND DISPATCH —the paper having
the largest circulation in Virginia—says in dos
ing one of its last week's leaders :
This very moment ought to see our long range
cannon planted on the heights of Arlington,
and the bayonets of our legions on the Long
Bridge. Not another week should pass over
our heads without witnessing the capture of
Scott and Lincoln, and leading them in triumph
through the streets of Richmond.
THERE IS NO UNION This is now the cant of
secession emissaries and their friends. Because
States have revolutionized, and repudiated all
allegiance to the Union, there is no Union left.
If Breckinridge had been elected, and New Eng
land had seceded, would there have been a
Union left? In that case, would there not
have been such things as traitors in the estima
tion of fire eaters ?
JACKSON, who assassinated Col. Ellsworth,
was the cannible who cut off a piece of John
Brown's ear, after he was hung, and chewed it.
It is also a remarkable fact that nearly all who
engaged in the pagaentry of the proceedings
attending the execution of Brown, have either
met violent deaths, or become insane.
VOTE OE THE PAN-HANDLE COUNTIES. —The vote
of the four counties in Virginia comprising the
"Pan-handle," against the Ordinance of Seces
sion, was 6,825, to 431 cast in its favor.
SLAVE INsuitancTion.--- The Des Arc (Ark.)
Wizen gives the following account of the hang
ing of a white man and three negroes for their
efforts to get up a negro insurrection :
Our neighbors of Hickory Plain and vicinity,
fourteen miles west of Des Arc, after a patient
investigation before a committee of twenty
five, on Friday last, in accordance with the
verdict of said committee, proceeded to a spot
designated, and to a tree, having a long pro
jecting limb, said limb being stout and well
proportioned —whereupon they hung, until
they wera dead, Tom Williamson, a white
man, and three negroes—Big Dave, Lewis and
Jeff. Williamson was convicted as the leader
of an insurrection, and the negroes as alders
and abettors. The balance of the negroes im
plicated have been whipt severely, and not less
than three of them were banished from the
county
THE HABEAS CORPUS?
IMPORTANT CORRESPONDENCE
The following correspondence between the
Governors of Maine and Pennsylvania explains
itself, and will be found exceedingly interest-
STATE. DE MAINE, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.
Augusta,
May 23d, 1861.
Sra :—I would be obliged to you, if you will
inform me whether your state is raising more
regiments or companies than have been called
for by the President, under the requisition and
call of April and May, and if so, how many,
and what you propose to do with them.
It seems to me that prudence and a wise fore
cast dictate that troops should be raised and
put under discipline and instruction in all the
loyal States, ready to march at a moment's no
tice. If you are raising troops to be kept in
reserve and under discipline, what are you do
ing in the way of uniforming and equipping
them ? How many of your regiments have al
ready been accepted by the United States ?
Au early answer will greatly obblige me.
I have the honor to be your obedient servant.
I. WASHBURN.
His Excellency Gov. Curtin, Pa.
PENNSYLVANIA. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, Hag 27th, 1861. f
To His Excellency, I. Washburn., Jr. Governor of
the State of Maine.
SIR :—I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your communication of the 23d in
stant.
It affords me pleasure to enclose to you a
copy of An Act of Assembly approved May
15th, 1861, which will fully answer your inter
rogatories. I have under the provisions of
of that act appointed Major General George A.
McCall, late Inspector General United States
Army, to the command, who is proceeding to
organize, arm and equip, fifteen regiments.
They are being thrown into camps as rapidly
as possible after inspection and will be drilled
for three months unless sooner required by the
General Government. It is hoped that in this way
a large and available force will be always in
readiness, either for the defence of the State,
or to answer the further requisitions of the
Government of the United States; they will
be, so far as we are able to do so, uniformed
in accordance with the United States regula
tions.
Prior to the passage of this act twenty
live regiments had already been accepted by
the United States through me, and one regi
ment by the War Department direct, together
with one or two companies also by direct or
der.
I entirely concur with your Excellency in
the wisdom and prudence of your suggestion
in relation to the indispensible necessities of
raising and equipping and havin g thoroughly
disciplined and instructed a State force, and in
pursuance of the same view and in accordance
with the same design shall urge forward under
the command of the accomplished officer
named, the necessary arrangements to place
the troops in fine condition.
These men are mustered in for three years
and will if necessary be in readiness to take the
place of those who are discharged at the end
of three months, and should the public exigen
cy seem to requires it, as I much fear it will,
they will all be detained in Camp until the
fall of the year, and thus thoroughly drilled
and organized, will form a valuable addition
to the army for whatever decisive action may be
deemed necessary at that time.
Uniting with you in commendation of the
patriotism and loyalty of the people of the
Northern States, and in admiration of the de
votion to our institutions which has so rapidly
filled our armies, State and National, with the
flower of the young men of our country, my
fervent prayer is, that after this rebellion shall
have been effectually put down, we will be ena
bled to transmit the blessings of a free, united
and powerful Government.
I have the honor to bR,
With great respect, your ob't serv't,
A. G. CURT/N.
FROM THE CAMERON GUARDS
[Correspondence of the Telegraplid
LUNATIC ASYLUM, Balt. co., May 28, 1861
EDITOR TELEGRAM :—Since my my last we
have changed quarters. At 8 o'clock on Sat
urday night we started for the long wished for
South. We arrived in Baltimore on Sunday
morning, formed our Regiment, placed the
stars and stripes at the head of our company
and proceeded on the way to our present quar
ters. In going through Baltimore we saw but
one American flag. There was uo sign of se
cession, but one woman standing- at the door
holding a card in her hand hurrahing for Jeff.
Davis.
There cannot be too much praise given to
Lieutenant G. W. Davis for the care he took of
us on our march from Baltimore to our present
quarters. The Cameron Guards may be proud
of such an officer, for a more punctual and
brave one cannot be found. In fact we have
as good officers as there is in the country. .
At a meeting of the Cameron Guards, held
at their quarters, to express their thanks to the
ladies of Harrisburg, Wm. Wallace Geety was
elected President, and Mr. Bush Secretary.—
The President appointed a committee of five
to express the thanks of the company, who
presented the following preamble and resolu
tions, which were unanimously adopted :
WHERELs, The ladies of Harrisburg having
placed us under obligations to them for their
many acts of kindness, Therefore he it
Resolved, That the thanks of the Cameron
Guards are hereby tendered to the ladies of
Harrisburg, and that we will ever hold them in
kind remembrance. It cheers us to know that
" though absent we are not forgotten" by the
kind friends at home. And should the time
come when we may face our foe on the battle
field, they can rest assured that we will never
bring disgrace upon our name or native home.
Resolved, That our thanks are due to the citi
zens of York, for their kindness to us during
our stay among them ; assuring them that we
will ever think of them kindly whilst memory
lasts.
CHAS. A. SUYDAM',
CHAS. A. STONER,
J. B. Moss,
Ersas. L. ECK,
THEODORE F. SCHEFFER,
Committee
Attest—Wu. Bum, Secretary.
LETTER FROM CAMP SLIFER,
CAMP SLIFER, May 28, 1861.
DEAR TELEGRAPH :—For several days past we
have been somewhat uneasy on account of our
location being so near the border, and at the
entrance of the great Cumberland Valley, from
an invasion from Harper's Ferry. Were we
furnished with our equipments in full, we
would not have been in such a state, for as yet
we have not seen a cartridge.
This morning our camp made the welkin
ring with their hurrahs on the arrival of rein
forcements—the exact number I as yet do not
know. Suffice it to say there is a sufficient
force here now to repel any invasion of our
Talley. The troops that have arrived this
morning are from Camp Scott, and will be quar
tered at Camp Irwin until the balance of rein
forcethents arrive. The soldiers in Camp Sli
fer are rejoicing at this, we think, timely as
sistance. Every man of us is eager to bear the
orders to march southward. We have been
lying sufficiently long at this point, and are
eager to have a move. We received, yester-
day, our overcoats, a very fine article, much
better than any other clothing we have yet re
ce.
We will in a few days receive our full equip
ment, the invoice having arrived.
Respectfully yours,
• EISM ZniTNLY.
FROM MARYLAND.
[We are indebted to a friend for the follow
ing extracts from a letter that was not written
for publication, but which he deemed of suffi
cient importance to lay before the public.—
EDITOR. TELEORM4I.]
CUMBERLAND, Md., May 18, 1861.
DEAIt Sic 0 0 0 0 0
You seem to think that
there would be some danger in your coming to
Maryland in the present disturbed and unhap
py condition of our beloved country. You
may dismiss all fears of that kind. No more
Union-loving people are to be found in any
State of the North than are to be found in Ma
ryland. There are, to be sure, some very bad
men amongst us, who are always bent on evil,
and deeds of darkness and of blood, but the
majority of order-loving, law-abiding people
among us is so very great that the conspirators
against the laws and the Government can do
no harm with us. Maryland could and would
give a majority of twenty-five or thirty thou
sand votes against secession, which is only
another word for treason. In Allegheny coun
ty out of a voting population of four thousand
two hundred, the Secessionists, I am well
assured, could not muster two hundred votes.
My native county of Washington, at a special
election on the 4th inst., gave the Union can
didate within a few votes of four thousand,
whilst the rebel candidate could not poll over
two or three hundred votes, and was obliged
to withdraw from the canvass. Our friends in
Baltimore city feel sure that they could give
fifteen thousand majority in favor of the Union
and the constitutional enforcement of the laws.
The cut-throats and rowdies who made so
shameful and cowardly an attack on the soldiers
in the streets of Baltimore, are not to be regard
' ed as an index of the sentiments and feelings
of the great mass of the citizens of the city.
For the time being, respectable and sober
minded people there stood amazed and con
founded before the turbulent spirit of the
bloodhounds and unchained devils, who ran
rampant through the streets of the city. Peo
ple there have had time to reflect, and the
demons, werthey to attempt to re-enact their
hellish purposes now, would find ropes in the
hands of more than thirty thousand law-loving
citizens, who would hang the rebels without
judge or jury.
With regard to the attempt of the Legisia
ture of our State to create a Board of Relief
Safety, so strong and overpowering were the
demonstrations of public indignation against
the iniquitous attempt to place over us a Mili
tary Despotism, that traitors in the Legislature
who contrived this scheme to rob us of our
liberties withdrew the bill after it 6 had received
a second reading. The members of our Legis
lature were elected in the fall of 1859 without
any reference to the present crisis, and their .
acts are not to be regarded as the sentiments
of the people of Maryland. Most of them have
been urged by their outraged constituents to
resign, but they refuse to do so. They hold
over for two years.
If it were not for the Virginia troops at Har
per's Ferry, you would be jest as safe coming
to see us by the way of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to Cumberland, as you would be in
passing through any part of Pennsylvania.
Mn. EDITOR:—Your correspondent, "W. A.
P.," whose letter appears in the TELEGRAPH of
last evening, labors under a mistake, wherein
he says : "I had almost forgotten to mention,
that the Cameron Guard (our company) were the
first to convey the stars and stripes, proudly
erect and unfurled to the breeze, through Bal
timore, since the present trouble:, commenced.
They were carried by Second Lieutenant Awl."
That distinguished exploit and honor belongs
to the Loehiel Greys, Capt. ll'eormick, of this
city, who marched through tho streets of 8..1-
timore on the afternoon of the 16th instant,
just ten days before the Guards did, with their
banner borne aloft by that perfect pattern of a
fine looking and excellent soldier, John Parke,
of Chester county, ensign bearer of the compa
ny. I feel confident that "W. A. P:" was not
aware of this fact, (which was honorably no
ticed at the time in our newspapers,) and that
he, and the gallant corps of which he is a
member, will as cheerfully award the honor to
the Lochiel Greys, where it justly belongs, as
they will be proud to claim it as attaching to
a company from the same city with themselves.
JUSTITIA.
CAMP CORTIN, May 28.
MESSRS. EDITORS : — To-day the "Jersey Shore
Rifles" were visited by a number of ladies from
Paxton Valley, and made 'the happy recipients
of several baskets of cakes, pies and vegetables.
It is not often that they meet with such splen
did luck, but when they do they know how to
appreciate it. They all, without exception,
left homes of plenty to partake in the trials of
war, and the coarse food of camp began to
make them wish for a change. A change they
had to-day, and the fair donors departed with
the blessings of all invoked upon their devoted
heads. The ladies of Paxton Valley will ever
be held in grateful remembrance by the "El
des."
arritb.
On the 13th inst., by the Rev.W. Deitrick, MR. REu.BEN
A. BENDER, JR., to MSS MARY E. JOHNSTON, both of liar
ritburg.
New 2brtertiontatts.
LIME FOR SALE.
LICE UNDERSIGNED having embarked
in the LIME BUSINESS is prepared to furnish tic
very best article at short notice, and at the lowest prices
for cash. He sells the lime burnt at Columbia and also
that burnt at home.
my2o-d3rn PETER BERNHTSEL.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
THE UNDERSIGNED COMMISSION
ERS of Dauphin county, in pursuance of an Act of
the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania. approved the 16th day of May, 1861, entitled
"An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Dauphin coun
ty to appropriate a certain sum of money for the sup
port of the families during the present war," do hereby
inform the public that they will make a loan to the
amount of a sum Dot exceeding tea thousand dollars, for
which bonds will be issued for a term not exceeding ten
years, with coupons attached, for the payment of half
yearly interest, payable at the County Treasury at 6
per cent. Said bonds are to be clear of all taxation. It
is therefore hoped that the said amount in bonds of s uch
amounts as the lenders wilt desire, will be prompt
ly taken by the patriotic capitalists or others, without
resorting to special taxation at this time.
JOHN S. MEiiSER,
JACOB BERM, }Commissioners.
GEO. GAIiVERICH.
Attest—Joszat MILLER. Clerk. my29-daw
TO CONTRACTORS FOR SUPPLIES.
We hereby give notice to all those who may
be contracting to furnish supplies to the State,
under the recent appropriation of three mil
lions, that, having received the power under
that Act of appointing inspectors of all sup
plies, and other power also in reference to the
settlement of claims, which was not delegated
to us under the previous Act of April 12tH, we
shall hold every contractor to the most rigid
accountability in the settlement of his claims,
and the inspection of his supplies must be of
that character which shall prevent any impo
sition upon the State, and protect the volun
teers who have so nobly responded to its call ;
and no supplies will be paid for until they have
been inspected by officers who shall have been
duly appointed for that purpose.
HENRY D. MOORE,
State Treasurer.
THOS. E. COCHRAN,
Auditor General.
Proposals for a Loan of $3,000,000
to the Commonwealth of Pennsyl
vania.
In pursuance of the first section of an Act of
the General Assembly, entitled "an Act to
create a loan and provide for arming the State,"
approved May 15th, A. D. 1861, and the sixth
section of the Act entitled " an Act to provide
for the payment of the members, officers and
contingent expenses of the Extra Session of the
Legislature," approved May 16th, A. D. 1861,
and by the authority of the same,
NOTICE is hereby given that proposals will
be received at the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth, until three o'clock P. M. of
Wednesday the fifth day of June next, for the
loaning to the Commonwealth the sum of
THREE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, for the pur
poses set forth in the before named Acts of As
sembly. The said loan to bear an interest of
six per cent. per annum, payable semi-annual
ly in Philadelphia, and the loan to be redeem.
able in ten years from date; and for the pay.
ment of the interest and liquidation of the
principal thereof a special tax of one-half mill
on the dollar has been directed to be levied ou
all the property in the Commonwealth tax
able for State purposes. The certificates of
loan shall not be subject to taxation for any
purpose whatever ; and all certificates of the
denomination of one hundred dollars or lees
shall have coupons attached ; those of a larger
denomination will be issued either as inscrip
tion or coupon bonds at the option of the bid
der.
The proposals must state explicitly the
amount proposed to be taken and the rate to he
paid. The State reserves the right to accept
the whole or any part of the amount offered to
be taken unless the proposer stipulates other
wise. No conditional proposals will be con
sidered.
Upon the acceptance of any proposal at leas
ten per cent of the amount must be paid down,
the balance, if preferred by the bidder, in thir
ty and sixty days, when certificates shall issue
for the same, bearing interest from the time of
payment..
The proposals must be directed under seal to
the Secretary of the Commonwealth endorsed
" Proposals for Loan."
The bide will be opened at 3 o'clock in the
afternoon of the day above named in th e presence
of the Governor, state Treasurer and Auditor
General and such other persons as may see
proper to be present, when, after examination
of the same the Governor will award the loan
to the highest bidder or bidders.
By order of the Governor.
ELI SLIFER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Office of the Secretary of the Common
wealth.
HAItnL9BIJRO, May 17. 1861.
The time for receiving proposals and opening
bids for the above loan is hereby extended to
the 13th instant.
Your friend, &c.,
The Commander-in-Chief P. M., directs the
following circular to the different Railroad com
panies in the State of Pennsylvania, to be pub
lished for the information of all parties con
cerned.
The following Rules are established to facili
tate the settling of accounts for Transportation
over your Road, of Troops and Munitions of
War :
First—The State will not be responsible for
the coast of Transportation of any Troops or
Munitions of War, unless your Company
through its Agents, has been instructed to pass
them, or the officer in command produces au
thority, (a telegraphic dispatch to be considered
authority,) from the Governor, directing such
Transportation, or a pass from the Governor be
produced and handed over.
Second.—That the proper Agents of your
Road be instructed to require the signatures of
the officer in command to a certificate, a copy
of which is annexed, copies of which will be
furnished you, certifying to amount of services
performed ; to which must be annexed the
order under which the troops moved, or an
order to your agents to furnish the transpor
tation,
Third.—These certificates, and orders attach
ed, will be considered by the proper Auditing
Departments, when approved by the Governor,
as vouchers in the settlement of your accounts.
Fourth.—The account for the Transportation
of Troops must be produced and settled to and
include the last day of each month, or as early
in each 'succeeding month as possible.
Fifth.—This order takes effect on the first
day of June, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.
By order of the Governor nad Commander
in-Chief.
FORM OF CERTIFICATE.
I hereby certify, that the
Railroad Company has furnished transportation
for
From
ON STATE GOVERNMENT SERVICE
By order of
which order is herewith attached.
.1861..
N. B. The number of Soldiers, Horses and
weight of Field Pieces and Ammunition must
be written at length.
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ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE, }
Ilarravry, May 16, 1861.
The Governor of Pennsylvania has received
from the War Department, at Washington, the
following announcement, in reference to the
second requisition of militia made by the Gen
eral Government.
"Ten Regiments are assigned to Pennsylva
nia, making, in addition to the thirteen regi
ments of three months already called for,
twenty-three regiments. It is important to
reduce rather than enlarge this number, and in
no event to exceed it."
Pennsylvania has already furnished to the
United States service twenty-five regiments.—
Of this number at least ten regiments—the
amount of the second requisition—have signi
fied a willingness to change their term of ser
vice from three months to three years. No
more companies, therefore, from this Common
wealth can now be received for the United
States Government.
By order of the. Governor, Commander-in-
Chief, E. 'M. BIDDLE,
Adjutant General.
THE SOLDIER'S BOOK, 31 - 'l(inney's.
"Our Government," an exposition of the 00nait
Mon of the United states, explaining the nature and oper
ation of our government, from judicial and authentic
sources. Price $1 00. For sale at
my 2
BERGNER'S STORM.
MY2S 42w
New ratilitrtifitMtllta.
By order of the Governor
ELI SLIFER, Seeretary.
JOHN A. WEIGHT,
Aid-de Camp
HEAD QIJARTERS,
PENNSYLVANIA MamA,
Harrisburg, May 16, 1861
RUIN A. WRIGHT ;
Aid-de•Camp
GENERAL ORDERS, NO. 2.
—Officers and Men
Horses
.Field Pieces
Ammunition