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THE PEPPER'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
HARRISBURG, PA
SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1864.
Investigating Committees.
We are just as ready to denounce a fraud
committed on the Government as any jour
nalist in the country—and we have gone as
far as the most zealous in condemning those
in authority, when the public voice has point
ed to their dereliction. But we wish to ask
seriously, what are the benefits which have
been conferred on the country by the differ
ent Congressional and Legislative committees
whose invedtigations are daily being laid be-
fore the world? These committees, partic
ularly when their attention is directed to
officers in command in the field, constitute a
source of annoyance to our fighting men, in
nine cases out of ten, more dangerous than
are the armed foes of the nation. The testi
mony before such bodies is always a jarring,
discordant mass of elimination and recrimin
ation—witnesses broadly contradicting each
other—until the veracity of good men is placed
in conflict—and the summing up of the evi
dence results in the failure to convict any
body—in fact to do anything but waste
immense sums of money in paying the fees
of witnesses, printing the reports, and scan
dalizing the nation at large. The evidence in
the case. of Major-General Meade is in point.
Serious charges were preferred against this
gallant soldier. These were sustained by
men who fought- bravely by his side while
they were at the same time flatly contra
dicted by other officers who fought as
bravely with -their accused leader. Now,
what are sensible men to think of such
proceedings? What are the men in the rants
of the army to--think of such ioaestigations?
They impress the nation, the world and our
brave boys who endure fire and sword, the
weary march and the cheerless blvoutiek, with
diarist. If wrongs are committed, let the
proper tribunals take in hand and punish the
offenders. It is not necessary that Congress
should organize itself into a Court of Quartor
Sessions, for the trial of dishonest contractors,
or tliatit should form a Court Martial for the m
vestigation of charges against militaryofficis,
If Congress attends to its legitimate business,
it will have more labor to discharge than
most of its members are capacitated for. If
it legislates for the good of the nation, and
frames wholesome laws for the punishment
criminals and delinquents, there are these
outside of its halls who will see that they are
enforced.
A Legislator on the Rampage;
Benjamin Franklin Meyers, the editor of the I
Bedford Gazette; (one of the vilest and most in
tolerant copperhead sheets in the Common
wealth:ols also a memher of the Legislature.
In hie leisure moments, (and they are numer
ous,) he amuses himself by writing letters
from the 'Mouse of Representatives,"- to the
Gazette, from one of which productions we ex
tract the following:
There is quite a flutter, just now, among 1
the "Republican" Abolition politicians. They •
are divided into three factions, the Chase,
Lincoln and Fremont parties. The war be
tween the Chasites and the Lincolnits is grow
ing very bitter, and the whole Abolition
Presidential imbroglio is "a very pretty quar
rel as it stands." The Democracy are united,
harmonious and determined. "There is a
better day coming, wait a little longer."
—When Benjamin penned the foregoing,
lie knew that he eras writing an untruth, but
the hunger of his readers for what is false and
vile induced him, doubtless,
.to concoct the
lie. That the Union men of Pennsylvania:and
hereabouts particularly, are united ankt4e4A. o.
nions, is what troubles the bowels of suplatAieds
as Meyers. That the loyal men of thetegisle
ture are undivided in favor of Mr. Lincolk is is
palpable as the fact that they are devoted
- ,.t0
the Union. Anti yet there is one who occu
pies a seat on the floor of that House, who in
4he presence of this unanimity, deliberately
occupies himself with writing falsehoods
. to
the readers of a . journal; of which he is . the
controller, to servo the dirty purposes of his
colleagues of his side of the House in deceiv
ing tke people. Is it to be wondered at that
the people are losing faith in the morality ot
of many of our legislators ?
TEC LEGIBLATMLE OF Taw Yana has decided
to enlarge their Capitol building to meet the
increasing wants of the State Government.
This reminds us that the wants of the Gov-
ernment of Pennsylvania, both executive and
legislative, demand a similar enlargement of
our Capitol , building. The increased labors
of the different departments have made it ne
cessary to employ additional clerical force—
while the coming into operation of military
departments whose duties, before the war,
were merely nominal, completely crowd the
Capitol building with business, taking up
rooms which were heretofore used exclusively
by committees, awl forcing committees to
meet in the Library rooms, for the transaction
of their business. It is ardently hoped. by
those who have the public interest sincerely
at heart, that the Legislature will not adjourn
without providing for this great want of room
to accommodate the different departments.
Indeed the highest interests 'depend for suc
cess upon such enlarged facilities for the
transaction of the daily growing public busi
ness.
A PECLADELPRIe paper of yesterday says
"that a letter has been received from a friend
of the late brave Col. Dahlgren, who served
with that unfortunate officer during the re
cent raid about Richmond, which states em
phatically that the so-called 'order' alleged to
have been found upon the body of Dahlgren,
wai a fabrication and forgery in tote. No such
order was ever written, issued, printed, or
even considered by the noble young Colonel,
as fax as his friends are - apprized. It is be
lieved that this miserable lie was gotten up
for effect s to cover the indignities visited upon
the remains 01 Dahlgren,
The constitutional Amendments.--S en
tor Johnson.
The right of the soldier to vote—the right
of the soldier to be represented in the Govern
ment, involves a question of the most vital
importance. The orighial colonists, who
pioneered the newly-formed States through
the rough battle fields of the Revolutionary
war, fought for identically the same principle
for which the friends of the soldiers now eon
tend. The colonists, while contributing to
the success and the glory of the mother coun
try, deemed that they had a right to represen
tation—a right to participate in the control of
a government of which they were so import
ant a portion. We all know what followed the
refusal to acknowledge this right. Prom its
rejection sprang the mighty Republic which
is now filled with a dissension on identically
the same question. A class at the South,
which has assumed to itself aristocratic attri
butes, have long declared that there was too
much representation in the Government—
that the irresponsible masses had too much
control in affairs of State—and hence to crush
the idea of free government, the Southern
aristocracy resolved, and for three years have
waged a war for the introduction of slavery, and
the degradation of free labor in all the States.
Acting with the aristocracy in the South,
(which is the only element of the influence
which monarchial Europe left in the Ameri
can States, after its rule was broken therein,)
we have a party here in the North, seeking to
carry out the- Original idea of disfranchis
ing the masses. 'They started the experiment
by attempting to disfranchise the soldier.
If they could outlaw' the soldier, as it
were, by disfranchising him, the path to the
disfranchisement of the citizen would be con
siderably shortened. If they could degrade
the defenders of the Government by refusing
them citizenship, they would soon render onr
institutions too worthless to be defended, and
thereby make certain the conspiracy to over
throw and destroy the Govermnent. This is
just the light in which to view this question of
enfranchising the soldier. But we did not
commence-to write this article for the pur
pose of. diitussing the subject of the soldiers'
right to vote. We rather took up our pen to
point to the very able speech of Senator John
son, published on our outside of this after
noon., Senator Johnson may be justly re
garded as the champion of the principle
involved in the question of the soldiers' right
to vote, as it was he who introduced the
amendment to the Constitution. His ad
vocacy of that amendment has been per
siatent -and eloquent; and the speech which
we publish ,this afternoon, though brief, is
nevertheless a very powerful defence of his
principles. We trust that the soldiers who
are now present in the capital, will not fail to
read this speech. Our brave defenders are
here to - note the pro - ceedings on this - great
measure of justice and of right. By the vote
on the liassage of,this ainendinerd they can; see
that every Annocrat:bitt One, either toted against
or dodged the guestiOn.
Personal and Political'
. The Lancaster Evening &press announces
the death of Col. Samuel C. Stambaugh. He
died at his residence, near Lancaster city, on
the morning of. the 11th inst. Col. S., at one
time, filled a large place in the political his
tory of the country, and few men of equal po
litical position were more widely known. He
was a genial, warm-hearted man, and a true
friend. In social life he was respected alike
by political friends and opponents. The last
official position he held was under President
Buchanan, as , ,Surveyorof Utah. In his early
manhood, he was connected with the press of
Pennsylvania and Washington city, and was,
we, believe, a practical printer,
The Springfield (Ill) Register, upon the au
thority of Gen. Singleton, pronounces the
stateident l how going the rounds of the con
servallittpred to the etre . et _that Gen. Fre
raprit WO declared to Singleton his willing
ness.--to accept the Democratic nomination for
the Presicleney,. "a deliberate falsehood."
According to the Register, Gen. Singleton as
serts that no such language as that imputed
to Gen Fremont was,employed by him.
The" Boston Transcript has this paragraph :
"Hon. Wm. Whiting, Solicitor of the War
Department, left here this morning for Wash
ington. This distinguished lawyer, we un
derstand, gives his services free to the Gov
errunent, and he has recently refused the re
taining fee in a heavy patent case, which
would have brought him the stated stun of
$lO,OOO, preferring to give his services to his
country. He is probably the ablest authority
on State and international law in the country,
and. his disinteiested action is worthy of uni
versal imitation." • •
When Morgan "raided" through Indiana
and Ohio, Richmond editors called him the
gallant cavalier of the South, and styled his
horse-stealing and old men and women mur
dering operations "glorious" and chivalric.
When Kilpatrick pitches his shells into Rich
mond and ontrivals Morgan in the "raiding"
way, minus the inhuman acts of the great
horse-thief, the same editors call his opera
tions "barbarous."
The Committee on Emancipation, of the
Virginia Constitutional Convention, sitting
at Alexandria, has, reported in favor of the
abolition of slavery, and its prohibition in
the State forever, but negro children may be
apprenticed under laws governing whites.
Gen. Banks is to be reinforced with negro
troops, while two corps are to be sent from
the Mississippi river to, the Potomac army,
which will probably be increased to two hun
dred and fifty thousand. --
The - allegations against Gen. Meade are
said to come from Gens. Sickles, Doubleday
and Birney. The opinion the parties enter
tain for each other is that of mutual distrust.
The Society of Friends are raising funds
in London for the liberated negioes in
America.
A statute of the Empress Eugenie in crino
line costume is to be erected in the marke
place of Puebla.
Gen. Pemberton is living in seclusion at
Columbus, S. C., having been laid' upon the
shelf by jet Davis.
For the Telegraph
The Publte Schools of liarrishtliv.
EDITOR:—Some days ago I handed to
the local editor of the Patriot and Union the
following communication,which promptly ap
peared in its columns: -
" Oun Commol; Scuoona.—The common
school system of our State is one of her
proudest monuments. She has reason to con
gratulate herself upon its excellence, and can
look with honest pride upon what it has al
ready accomplished. One of its adriiirable
features is that, whilst it is adapted to all sec
tions of the State, and capable of practical
and profitable application to sparsely settled
and poorer districts, it is at the same time spe
cially suited to meet the educational wants of
larger towns and cities; and, when properly
developed and applied, secures, at the very
lowest rate of expense, the very best education- '
al facilities for the entire population.
That these excellencies of the system have
not been illustrated in our own city is no
fault of the system itself, but is owing mainly
to two causes: first, an unwarrantable and
unreasonable prejudice against the system on
the part of some of our leading citizens • and
secondly, to a defective developcment and
ap
plieation of the system on the part of those
entrusted with its management in our com
munity. Were it not for the influence of
.these causes we should now have our common
schools thoroughly graded, the - primary
schools reduced in size and supplied with
truly capable teachers, and we should have
one male and one female high school, to which
our wealthier citizens, who are now paying
their school taxes for nothing, could send their
children without any further expense.
The opinion is indeed entertained. by some
among us that such carefully graded schools,
culminating in a male and female high school
for the entire city, have elsewhere pioved a
failure. We-have been at some pains to
certain the facts in the ease, and have ob
tained permission from the present Superin
tendent of . Common Schools of our State, C.
It. Coburn, Egq., to lay before your readers
several communications on this subject, which
he has received from some of the leading ed
ucators of the land, in answer to interrogato
ries addressed to them by him, in consequence
f our representation to him of the present
condition of the schools in our city.
A CHRISTIAN PARENT."
In your evening issue of the same day, you
noticed this'item of your "morning eotempo
rary," and expressed your deep interest in the
subject proposed for discussion, promising to
watch the course of articles alluded to, and,
as you might findlhem interesting, print•such
of them for the benefit of your readers, as you
might have room to insert in your columns.
My second article for the Patriot and Union
was, however, declined, - in the next morning's
issue, in the following paragraph:
"To COBRESPONDENT3.-It would afford us
much Oaten:ire to acommodate "A Christian
Parent," but he asks more. room than we can
possibly spare in our limited department. The
object he has in view is agood one, but it seems
to us that the proper place to agitate the subject
would be in the meetings of the board of school
directors, who have the matter entirely in
their own hands."
To this I replied, in the next issue, as fol
lows:
"Mr. Eorrou.—l am glad to learn that you
approve of the object I have in view in calling
public attention to the defective administra
tion of common school affairs in our city, and
am sorry to learn that the length of my second
communication has deterred" you.. from its
publication. Please assign mo space, how
ever limited; in your columns, and I will en
deavor to keep strictly within. On
,prescribed
limits. Be assured that very many of your
readers feel interested in this tiaestion and
dehire its ventilation. I must beg leave re
spectfully to dissent from the opinion that the
school directors "have the matter entirely'lir
their own hands." Are they not public ser
vants, and responsthle to those who appoint
them to office ? Have we no right to discuss
publicly and freely their mode of administering
the trust confided to them ? You surely spoke
inadvertently, Mr. Editor, and I cannot be
lieve, that, upon reflection, you will exclude
(vim your columns a calm and friendly discus
sion of this topic, so_vital to the interests of
the whole community, and is which every
property holder has a personal stake. If yon
should nevertheless decide adversely to my
wishes, I will be doubly disappointed; for I
perceive that the other daily paper proposes
to transfer at least the substance of my re
marks to its columns, and in that case the
facts and reasonings would reach the readers
of both papers, who are all equally interested,
or ahoulcl-be, in this, which is no party ques
tion. A CHRISTIAN PARENT."
And to this note the Editor appended the
following reply:.
'We repeat, that we regard the object aimed
at by "A Christian Parent as one of4Jae high
est importance, and ,heartily aOl tv 6T lhss
views. Our ordy.objectifbnAMV? o roeat
length of his necond ciniutintdoliti*,lf L in
the discussiotit f:a the subjeCt, he will confine
himself withi&reisonable bounds, our columns
are at his disphial.'
My second communication, however, after
being set up, was ordered by the proprietor
to be set aside ; and now, in his. absence from
town, the editor declines assuming any fur
ther reeponsibilityin the matter.
I turn yon, Mr. Editor, hoping that, if
you will be kind enough to day these well
meant and unpretending statements and re
flections before your readers, the proprietor
of the other journal will soon discover that
there is nothing in them but truth, and just
such truth as the great mass of his readers
desire to blow.
That grand old hero, who was not afraid to
"take the responsibility,", used to delight in
the motto : "Truth is mighty and will_
prevail."
A CHRISTIAN PAMr.
From Fortress Monroe.
ForruEss Morntor., March 10.
A heavy easterly rain storm commenced
early this morning, and continued all thy.
The Norfolk Old Dominion of March 10th
says:
"The enemy attacked our cavalry yesterday
near Suffolk, and forced them back in disor
der, capturing in their retreat several of the.
unfortunate fugitives.
"The farmers, with, their families, are com
ing into our lines."
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
PHILADELPHIA, march 12
All departments are dull and inactive, but
a few hundred bbls flour were sold only to
trade at $606 25 for superfine, $6 5007 for
extras, $707 50 for extra family, and sB®
$9 50 for fancy brands. In rye flour and corn
meal t here is nothing doing ; small sales of
the former at $6. Offerings of wheat are
light, and it may be quoted nominal at $1 64
01 65 for red, and $1 7001 89 for white.
Rye is dull at $1 30. The demand for corn
has fallen off, and it is offered to-day at $1 17
in store, and $1 1904 20 afloat, and deliv
ered on board. Oats are unchnanged. A sale
of 100 hhds quercitron bark on pnvate terms.
Provisions are -firm, with but little doing.
Seeds are without noticeable change. Whisky
dull, with sales at 93@96c for bbls, and 90®
91c for drudge.
BALTDIORE, March 12.
hour dull at $7 -25®7 37i - for Ohio extra.
Wheat activ% and firm. Corn advanced 20.;
yellow and white, $1 1701 18. Whisky quiet
at 93 ®940.
(TACenrapg.
FROM KNOXVILLE.
LONDSTREET ORDERED TO NORTH CAROLINA.
LatrisNi;u4v. March 12
The Democrat has inforination from an of
fice, who has just arrived from Knoxville,
Which place he left on the 6th, that Long
street had sent his wagon train to Richmond
and was mounting his entire force, and that
the general impression at Knoxville was that
Longstreet had been ordered to North Car
olina.
GEN. SHERMAN'S EXPEDITION.
LATER FROM • VICKSBURG.
Meridian the Furthest Point
Reached.
NEW Yonx, March 11.—Advices from Vicks
burg, via Memphis on the Bth inst., state that
General Sherman's expedition had returned
to that place, except the 17th and 18th Corps,
which remain at Canton, Mississippi, until
further orders.
They did not proceed beyond Mendia'n, and
had no fighting of any consequence.
Our loss was small, mostly from straggling.
The 158th New York lost two hundred from
this cause, being greater than the entire loss
of the balance of the expedition. Four thou
sand prisoners and six thousand negroes were
brought in.
The negro troops at Haines' Bluff made a
descent on Yazoo City on the 28th ult., and,
after a sharp fight, occupied the place, with
a loss of about th - tits , blled and wounded.
The Johnson Unconditional Unionists
elected their entire county ticket in Shelby
county on-Saturtlivic lent.
FROM CAIRO 42D
CALso, March 11.—The steamer Constitd
tion, from New Orleans,'arrived,", this after
teruoon with five hundred bales of cotton and
a large number of troops of Battery F, First
Missouri Artillery.
The 4th lowa Cavalry and part of the 16th,,
and 17th Ohio Batteries of re-enlisted veter
ans have arrived, on their way home, and win
leave to-morrow morning.
The stearmer Ninhlan o wes attacked by
guerillas from the Missouri shore, while work
ing past the foot of Island No. 18, on Wed
nesday. One soldier was killed, seven wound
ed, and two captured. The boat escaped.
The steamer A. J. Sweeney, laden with
-Government freight; from Nashville, Tenn.,
struck the pier of the bridge at Clarksville, on
Wednesday ht, and took fire and was to
tally destroys_ 6,000 sacks of corn and 30
horses were lost. The boat was valued at
$40,000.
The steamer Atlantic, from New Orleans on
the 4d, arrived this morning The new State
officers would be:inaugurated on March 4th.
Grand preparations were making to celebrate
the event.
The steamer Gladiator brought up the 30th
llinois Infantry this morning.
Mail Letti
WASILINOTON, March 11
The Post Office -Pepartment has just con
cluded contracts-for mail service. In Nebras
ka, Washington, Idaho and other-far off Ter
ritories. Among them is one tormidng that
from the first day ofNy..next, tha mails shell
be thrice a week from the intersection of the
overland roil route at Salt Lake City in Utah
Teriittiry; by. Boitha- 'ow sad Allbourno
Walla Walla, in Washington' Territory, in= ten
days, in lieu of sending men via Placerville,
Cal.,to Portland, Oregon.
Tis saves 1200 miles of travel, and 10 days
in the expedition of the mail for Oregon,
Washington and Idaho Territories. This im
portant mail service is let to Berry Holiday
at $156,000 per annum. The mails for the
new discovered gold mines of Idaho and Ban
nock city will be sent three times a week
from Salt Lake city, and the contract is award
ed to Mr. E. Salwood, commencing "at Fort
Hall and intersecting the Walla' Walla route
at this route.
Rebel Movements in West Lou-
isiana.
Advices from Natchez, to the 2d inst., say
that reliable information had been received
there to the effect that the rebel force in West
Louisiana was between 5,000 and 6,000• men,
under the Command of General Dick Taylor,
Colonel Rolignake andDolonel Harrison.
The enemy were fortifying Fort Demsle,
Black river, uniting on the' Ouebita.
There was'only a . provost guard at Shreve
port. Three rams were building below that
point.
The rebel gunboat Well recently showed
herself at the mouth of the Red river. We
have quite a fleet of iron clads and rams col
lecting there.
Arizona News--The Navajo Indi
ans Subjugated.
SiA FRaiwiscii, March 11.
Letters frond. Boss Brown, dated Tack
han, Alison% Feb. 6th; state that Kit Carson
arrived at Santa Fe, after a very successful
campaign against the Navajo Indians. He
brought 280 prisoners, leaving over 500 with
Col. Canby, to be removed as soon as their
families could be gathered. The Navajos are
virtually subjugated, and their principal chief
is Trilled.
Governor Goodman had temporarily es
tablished his headquarters near the confluence
of the Selma and Rio Verde, and is engage d
in organizing civil government for Arizona.
Nearly every white man in the Territory is a
candidate for Congress.;
Sixteen Mexicans were recently killed by
the Apaches.
The news from the gold places is favOrable.
A large immigration from California is ex
pected.
The Indian. Territory.
Tag, CHOCTAWS . ' 88TTOINTRO TO LOYALTY--MILI
TART NEW,
FORT SMITH; Ark., March 10
A citizen of Santa Fe, who arrived here to
day via the Choctaw Nation, says the people
of New Mexico' are in great fear of a rebel
raid into their country,. in consequence of the
occupation of the entire Southwest by the
Federal troops, and the necessity the rebels
are under of finding an outlet through that
cou ntry, Gen. Herron having blockaded all
the routes to Mexico or the Rio Grande. A
convention . of Choctaws is called to meet in
the middleof April, and will embrace all the
leading men of the tribe. The rebel General
Mazy failed to induce the. Choctaws to con
tinue their relations with the. Confederate
Government. The Government Will propose
the old terms of allegiance with the United
States. The chief, Jack NE'Curtin, has cir
culated over five thousand' copies of the Presi
dent's amnesty proclamation, which were re-.
ceived with much favor. .
The Seminoles and Chickasaws' are st i ll ob
durate, owing mainly to t4e,influence of Gen.
Cooper, their old Indian agent.
General Blunt =tired yesterday. General
Kimxnell, superintendent of the enrollment of
voters, has also arrived.
General Magruder, it is said, accompanied
General Price on his return to his command.
Blockade of Danish Ports.
WASEMZGTON, March 12.
The State Department has been officially
notified of the blockade by the Danish Gov
ernment of all the ports and inlets on the
coast of the Duchies of Schleswig and Hol
stein, from the 23d of February last, with the
exception of Neustadt and the Islands of Als
and Aeroe, and such other places as are actu
ally under the authority of his majesty the
King.
ST. Lotrrs, Maireh 12
Movements of a Blockade Runner.
PORTLAND, March 12.
The brig Wappoo, from Matanzas, reports
that on the 3d hut, in let. 32 58, long. 7620,
she saw a bark-rigged U. S. gunboat chasing
and firing at a steamer, apparently a blockade
runner.
" DIED.
On the 12$b inst., Wuxi; infant son of .1. W. and
Harriet Moffitt, aged 5 months.
The relatives and friends of the famiiy are respectfully
invited torattend the funeral, from the residence of his
parents, No. 25 North Second street, to•morroe afternoon
at 4 o'clock. -' • - ' *
On the 12th inst., Srsts ' daughter of Charles and Su
san Wotenon, aged 12 years, d months and 12 days.
Funeral will take place from the residence of her pa
rents, North +vet, between Filbert and Spruce, on Mon
day afternoon: at 8 o''clock. 'hie friends of the fasiiily ,
are requested to attend without further notice.
Yesterday morning, at his residence in Susquehanna
township, JACOB GROVE, in his 65th year.
Funeral Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, to whioh the
friends are incited.
NEW 'ADVERTISEMENTS.
FOR SALE.
THAT VALUABLE PBOPXRTY, No. 7, in
1 this city, adjoining the .Tonca House premises,
fronting twenty.five feet six inches on !Market Square
and extending back one hundred and fifty-seven and a
half feet to Rasyberry alley. Terms actxunmodating.
g„ Hanisburg March 11, 1864. CHAS. C. HAWK,
marl2.-diw
LOST—At the Market House, on Saturday
morning, a POCKET BOOK, containing some $3OO,
and two railroad checks, ono $47 50; the other SO. A
reward of .$25 will be paid to the tinder on returning the
.same to WM. M'KINLEY, Proprietor Morris Motel,
mar/2-dlts near the Round House.
VOR SALE.—That valuAble Hotelpro_perty
known as the PARKE HOME; situate on •Maricet
street, near Third.
For bums inquire of JOHNS DETWEILER.
Harrisburg, Pa. inarl2.4l2w
MILLINERY AND STRAW
Cr 0 40
IN EVERY VARIETY,
of the latest importations, and of the newest and most
fashionable styles.
Our Straw Department
w1.,1.4 comprise every variety of Bonnets,
y . Hats and Trininitngs to be found in that Rae; of
thei bttsst end 'most approved shapetand styles
Soliciting in earl T y-, realm
Yount, tdl lo 5 y - , IL WARD
Nos. 108, and 107 North Second street,
marl2.dtt Philadelphia.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONOERN.—At
1 the last stated meeting of the Citizen Fire Engine
and Rosa Company it was ordered that the HOMO. Com
mittee be required to give notice, by advertisement in
both daily papers, t 6 all persons having property belong
log to the Citizen Fire CompenyOzi, return the same to
the Company's House within ten days from date of notice,
and that said Committee be required to prosecute all per
sona, whether members or not, who shall not comyl
BERNARD
SAMUEL SMILER,
G. W. OSLER,
House Committee
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Harrisburg, March 20,1883
VALUABLE PROPERTY
AT
pu . EILIC
W ILL 15e sold at Public Sale,
ON SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1864,
at the COURT HOUSE in this city, at 2
o'clock, r. M., the ,
STEAM MILL PROPERTY
_ HARRISBURG,
Located on East State street. This is the most valuable
property in the city, either for a hotel or manfacturing
purposes. It is located in the immediate vicinity of the
lot on which the Pennsylvania Railroad Company contem
plate eventually to erect a new passenger depot, and within
one-half square of the canal and railroad. The lot is 53
feet, 4 Inches, on State street, 180 feet, 7 inches, on Poplar
Lane, and 98 feet on North alley. The foundation of the
Mill, - which was burned in 1880, Is stilt' standing, which
contains nearly 200 perch of good building stone, There
is a brick storehouse on the property, 28 by 42 feet, three
stories high, in which there is about 75,000 brick. On the
back part of the property are two frame dwelling houses
and a frame barn. This property will be sold in one block
or in lots to suit purchasers. A map of the property can
be seen at the Exchange Mae of S. L. M'Culloch, Na 128
Market street, Harrisburg, Pa: For further particulars
inquire of S. L. M'OULLOCH,
March 11, 1884. —dlw A. J. JONES.
PUBLIC SALE.
subscriber- being , about to relinquish
the TrE ' farming business, will offer at Public, Sale, on
Tuesday and Wednesday, March N & 16,1864,
on the premises on which hanow resides, in Susquehanna
township, Dauphin county, two and a half miles above
Harrisburg, on the river road leading from Harrisburg
to Dauphin, the following , personal property, to wit:
Four Head of Good
WC)XWEIP4TV/- HORSES,
One fine black Colt, (3 years old,) seven head or first
rate Mitch Cows, consisting of 2 Nil-blooded Devon Cows,
1 thorough-bred Durham. Cow, bred by Jacob S. Halde
man ; 1 fall-blooded Devon Bull, 3 years old, 7 head of
Young Cattle, consisting of 1 full-blooded Devon Bull
Calf, 5 months old; 1 theroughbred Durham Heifer, 18
months old ; 1 grade Alderney Heifer; the balance bred
from the very best Mitch Cows, 20 head of shoats, 2 pairs
of the celebrated mammoth Bronze Turkey; 1 farm
Wagon, calculated for two or four horses, with shifting,
tongues; 1 one or two-hor s e Wagon, with shafts and
tongue; 1 Spring Wagon for one or two ho with
shafts and tongue; 1 light Spring Wagon, with shiftng
top, nearly new; 2 light Spring Wagons, used as milk
wagons; 1 Cart, 1 two-seated Rockaway Carriage, with
pole and shafts; 1 two-seated Sleigh, with pole and
tentirely new ; , ; 1 single-seated Sleigh, 1 Market
ill pair of Bob Sleds. 1 Hussey Reaper, 1 Pine's Far
mer Mower, 1 York County Grain Drill, 1 Farm Roller, 2
Taira of Hay Ladders, 18 and 20 feet long, 1 pair Yankee
Ladders, boxed up, 15 feet long; 1 No. 7 1 No. 4, Iron
Ploughs, 1 two-horse and one-horse Minnich Plows, 1
Prouty Plough, 1 Mapes' Subsoil Plough, 2 Cultivator
Ploughs, 1 Rocker Corn Plough, 1 double shovel Plough,
8 Cultivators, 2 triangle Harrow; 2 two-horse square, 1
one-horse and 1 Scotch Hinge Harrow; 1 Carrot Weeder,
or Horse Hoe; 1 Turnip Drill, 1 Turnip Cutter, 1 Wheel
er's Railway Horse Rower and Thresher, I Eureka No. 3
Hay and Fodder Cutter, 1 Lancaster Winnowing 11111, 1
hand Corn Sheller, 1 Former's Stove and Boiler, I=4o
gallons,' 1 Delano's Independent Tooh Wheel .
Revolving Hay Rake, lot of Double t and Single Trees,
Spreads, 3 Log Chains, 30 Cow Chains, Farm and Wagon
Harness for eve Horses, 4 sets of single Harness, 1 set of
silver mounted Carriage Harness, (good as new,) set of
doable harness for Carriage, 1 set of Cart Harness, 1
Wagon Saddle, 1 riding Saddle and Riding Bridles, 5
Housing Bridles, Collars, Wagon, Plough and Cheek
Linea, Ratters, Horse Blankets, Sleigh Bell; '
Feed Chests and Mixing Troughs, 40 Grain Bags,
dozen Bushel Basket; lot of Handle Baskets, - Half
Bushel, Peck and Half Pack Measures, hay, grain and
Shaking Fort; Grain Shovels, Mattocks, Picks,. Sledge;
Drills, Crowbara, Shovels, Hoes, Splitting Axe and
wedges, Chopping Axes, Digging Iron, 250 Cook's patent
Strawberry., Baskets and Crates, 53 hot bed sash and lot
of straw matting, 250 transphuating pots, a large lot of
various gardeirWs, 300 bushels of
_pure seed Potatoes,
consisting of Mercers , Peach 810 Earl June; Prince
Alberts and Buck . Eyes, Also, and DAIRY
FURNITURE, consisting of 2 Corner Gunboat*, Tables,
Chairs, Benches, Wooden and Tin Itac Milk
Cans and Measures, Stone . and Earthenware
2 Milk Troughs, 2 011 Hogsheads; Meet Stands,
Tight and Flour Mum); and various other alleles
too numerous to mention; the whole together
forming one of the most complete assortments of Farm
ing and Gardening Implements and Dairy Utensils to be
round aurvia l 7Wil and perms in Want of any artkie in
thi awn line cannot do bettertban attend the above sale,
as they can 'anthem almost any article they may want-
Sale to • commence °thick, A. X., when attendant*
will be given and erMs made known by
SW. .110PFMAlt
/41,15 VaTonam i Auctioneer.malls4B4444‘
WANTS.
BOOK BINDERS--Wanted, one or t, - ;
good FORWARDERS. Apply to or addretz •
WM. W. HARDINiT.
325 C1...e:-. - tant. street.
IMMES
BARBER WANTED
at E.P.P.. Larer
A T CARLISLE.—S7 to sa pe r wee k
XX. be paid a good hanb. Apply
Saloon, near C V. KR. Depot, Harts.tqt.F.,
WANTED,
A FEW first-class WOOD IVop,,F3 TEN
Cabinet Makers or Carpenters
_ ALSO,
MACHINISTS and &lOCLDRSS. Apply at tcc
marS-dlw EAGLE. Wopx.3
BARK. BARK_
WANTED Black Oak and other Dark: d
livered in Harrisburg, Pa., near the dep *
highest market price in cash paid for any atnounz
For information call on S. L. afcCßLi.o4l - .
Exchange Broker, 123 Market street, Harils,
11612-deadtf
$5,000 WANTED with or teitho
a businaw man, by til• V.: - .-. e
April ? to use in the manufacturing and mereaztile tßzi
-I)Elfe at Harrisburg, Pa. For making taoneF ti , .e onpor,:,.
ally is a rare one and safe. No companion. For inf:.
=don enquire of S L McCILLOCH,
Exchange Broker, LIE Market stret , Harnsburg, Pz
WANTED,
A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN, to ac; tit
capacity of NURSE, to take charge c,r 1,4 ct..
drop. Must, be one who has bad experieLce
Either an English or Scotch Woman preferred. T.,
good wages will be paid, and a good home c yenai _
Apply at ROOM 33, ' State Capitol Rotel, j
o'clock, A. m, and 6 r.
VRIITED-500 bbls. Fresh Daiplai: 511
Root, by S./ .
ct9ol Apothecaries, 118 Market at, Haris,;.ura
A ' wanted to sell the Standard
bay the War. A ram chance to ma le . Agents ere meeting from Si® to $2OO pus - moult.
volumes already sold_ Send for circulars. Adin<,
JONES BROS'. t CO
Publishers, Baltatr.oNi.
di 30
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
PHOTOGRAPH A L
Photograph Albums.
Photograph Albums.
Photograph Album,.
Photograph Album;.
Wlargest and cheapest variety of PII3
Y/GRAPH ALBUM in the city are constantly kelt*
at [marl2) BERGNER'S CHEAP BOOKSTORE
House FOr Sale,
AT PRIVATE SALE, a Three-story Brick
ROUSE, situate in Second street, :11poEite Rapt s•
Cnumb. niquire of [marl2-dSt*] A. .1_ HF.RF.
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS.
ANOTHER LARGE ASSORTMENT
OF
Photograph Alb - au - is.
BOUND in FIRE MOROCCO—patielle.;.
gilt and mounted with two heavy gill
ALBUMS WITH
30 Pictures for...
40 "
50 "
together with mica= other styles of bmainz, -
prices, which will be soldchesp.
Soldler,s yon nnnot buy a prettier, nor , ttur,•.:
cheaper album anywhere.
Call and see at SCREFFER'S
' marl2-dtf Harrizburg. Pa
LOST --On the evening , of March lOil„
Braut's Hall, a POCKET BOOK containing
hundred and twenty dollars. It also contained ',en:
ameled cards, printed in Script ; with the cam ,
station of the owner.
CAnn—Lt. JAMES H. MILLER, 55th P.,,'..
Beaufort, S. C.
The finder on leaving it at Herr's Hotel will 7 .
_
bly niiwarded. m=rll-.
ANOTHER SHEET IRON (so-
SAFE blown open and robbed of $250! !!
Read the following extract from a letter from liessr
H. Ruby &
SHITIRDiSBVICG, March 10, 18
Gino. W. PARSOSS, Esq.—Dear air:—Yours duly
eared and in reply state that our safe, which was opcce.:
and robbed on the night of the 7th inst., is the Herr p , .,
make, patented May, 1.852. The door wag drill , l
the lock and blown to pieces by powder. We wiod a:=
pose of It and procure one secure against FIRE el u..,!1 ;z
against BURGLARS; a No. 6 Lillie's would mit u ,
Yours truly, li . RC - Itl - W iv‘
The above speaks for itself. A word to the e
Solent. GEO. W. PARSoNS
Agent for Lillia's Chilled Iron Fire and Burglar
Safes, no. Market street. marl
TO SOLDIERS.
firffOGA COUNTY BONDS bought al. 11
I Banking House of C. 0. Zimmerman, Nr. 121 \
ket atreaL C. 0. ZIMMERMAN,
marlo4l3t* Rinke:
$2,300 CASH.
A YOUNG MrAN, of settled habits, po.rie,.
Ails& lug the Shore amount, is dextrous of COhnezt - ...,
himself ak a partner with some established buE4er.: , „
reply to this parties will state the kind of businc4
Address by hitter,lhrough the Harrisburg P. 0.,
[niarlo-cl3Ol BUSINEF!,,
JOHN'DOITGLASS,
[Late 107 Arch street„]
WEIOTRSALE dealer in all kinds of Fo!
gn and Domestic Leaf and Manufactured
TOBACCO,
Also, Imported, Havanna, German and Domestic 24tr
SnuE, Smoking Tobacco, Pipes, &c , No. 13 North 3:t:
street corner of commerce, Philadelphia. marlo4lv.
DESIRABLE
SUBURBAN RESIDENC
FOR, SA—LE.
111= undersigned offers, at private %.,I±,
at a great advantage to capitalists,
THREE ACRES OF LAN,
situate on the Hmnmelstown turnpike, within In:
limits, whereon is erected a ,
TWO-STORYFRAME DWRLTJNG H01T:31 . 7
Barn, and other out-houses.
For farther particulars enquire of
JAMES B. TROMP:3.ON,
marßtiltf Mt street, between Walnut and .119titct
LECTURE ON THE
PENINSULA CAMPA
OF THE
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
BY AN EYE-WITNESS.
AALECTURE will be delivered at the Cour
House in Hanish, on Toolay Evening, Marc ,
15, 1 by HENRY K Esq. Subject: "The Peet
finda • of the Army Of the Potomac_ „
To commence at halt-past seven. Tickets 25 cent& r,
be had at the Bookstores, Post Office, Hotels and at
door. marlo4t.
FOR SALE
ASECOND-HAND PLUTO, suitable for
beginners. Also, a Large Three-Cornered
Window and Handsome Flag Staff. All will be sold cry
low t called for before are Ist of April. Enquire F"
BCRIEFTER'S Bookstore, Harrisburg, Penna. marls
DITILDING STONE FOR "SALE, of be":
1.) quality, delivered to any part of the city,
Apply to
janl2 Immediately below the city.
PROPOSALS
For the Erection of Fifty Dwelling Houses
HARRISBURG, March 11, 1864.
PROPOSALS are invited for the building
of five blocks of ten houses each, of wood or brier.
to be located on the grounds of the Lochiel Iron IL.:
CO.
Plans and specifications may be seen at the office o:
Wiliam Colder.
Proposals will be received for one or more bl ocks
April 12th. •
Address proposals to
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WILLIAM COLDER,
Chairman Building Committee.
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To Our Friends and the Public Generally.
volt reasons satisfactory to ourselves, we
:22 yousi' c ha i n% R y l rem V. the ?Lenny of our PIANOS to the
,1114 RD, Third street, which
will harm lar 000nionly agency forthis city and vicinity
Orden; for tuning our instrusients will receive prompt at
pination than M. WARD. SOHO/LASER k CO,.
marl Plano Ifannfitctur" Philadellada•
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