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A Few Words on Our Own Account.
Some Aistant intimations have reached us to
the effect that the amiable suggestions of our
agreeable cotemporary, the Telegraph, are hav
ing their effect among the soldiers in camp—
that there are reasons to apprehend en attack
upon this office by the misguided disciples of
the Telegraph's teachings because of a certain
sprightly comparison which . the Telegraph
garbled from our news column on Tuesday.
The occasion for such an attack is as oppor
tune as our friends over the way could possi
bly desire—there are at present several thou.
sand soldiers, returned from the war, in town,
and the Telegraph's wanton perversions and in
flammatory appeals to incite a riot in our midst
may possibly Wing about the consummation
these gentlemen seem so ardently to desire.
In view of such a possibility we very naturally
have a few words to any.
If the office which we occupy, and our law
ful property and possession, were to be raced
to the ground in some untoward outburst of
mistaken zeal, by a mob, civil or military, it
would be no singular circumstance in times
like these. Such a circumstance, however un
fortunate for ourselves, and while its ultima •
effects could not be otherwise than unfortur 14e
in all respects and to all concerned, wont Ate
indeed, but a verification, in part, of w' be,
have been accustomed to think by nr AS we
unlikely—in fact, a fulfilment, in sor
of the frequent prophecies of disord ne sense.
lence we have not sparingly hints,. er And vio
paper. We desire to avoid, to p- Aat in this
Bible, the evil day of all such It off, if pos
we do not pretend to court or dieturbances ;
if a pretext so simple, so el!' Anvil e them ; but
absurd, can be made at any gdently false and
of an unwarrantable outrir time the eccaelon
plated in the intimations hge like that contem
sooner we realize the fe we have received; the
teetion as the laws e ,et the better. Such pro
failing to obtain a Lord us we may invoke—
teem the officers r :doge in them, we shall es
and the common' if law recreant to their duty,
extremity of ity given over at once to the full
rioters and i* .olence.—Once and for all, to all
feared p er , salters of riot, and to the pro
that thie r fliers of public peace, be it known
timenta r _Japer intends to print its honest Ben
of its o hs heretofore, in the perfect security
intim; forn sense of right, heedless of every
filer- Adieu meant to restrain the publishers
tio - eof from the pursuit of their lawful avoca
r 4, in the manner they shall see fit to adopt,
.nder the warrant of freedom of Speech and
of the Press which the Covenant of the peo
ple's liberties guarantees alike to them and us.
We submit to the free interpretation of all
whom it may concern, this deliberate determi
nation. We should infinitely prefer to aban
den at once the post we oeenpy than hold it
subject to the control of every chance excite
ment of the hour.
Gen. Franklin's Reply to the Report of
the War Committee.
The administration and its privy council who
sit in the seats of the faithful grow singularly
desperate in recourse, as the logic of events
and the misfortunes of the war turn to evi
dence against them. In the consciousness of
their own treachery and weakness, they resort
to a multiplicity of expedients to distract the
public mind from the disasters their policy has
brought upon the country ; they seek for vic
tims on whom to shift the responsibility of
their own malfeasance, and their ingenuity in
finding a pretext for a delay, or an excuse for
a defeat, is as admirable as their perversions
of truth are shameless and abandoned. The
Committee on the Conduct of the War mutt have
been esteemed a valuable adjunct in the gen
eral scheme they have deliberately lain to
heart to—deceive the country, and vainly en
deavor to set aside the inexorable verdict of
history. Its institution may be looked upon
fairly as a device to distort the evidence of
their own failures, and cover up the naked re
ality of facts which are stubbornly accumula
ting in numbers so strong as to them become the
reasonable subject of alarm. This purpose the
committee carried out faithfully and persistently
to the end of their report. Having, by the
basest infidelity to Muth and fairness, by the
grossest suppressions and perverelone, thrown
the whole weight of the failure of the Penin
sular Campaign upon M'Clellan, they proceed
at the close to fix, with curious caprice, th e
fault of Burnside's -defeated demonstration
against Fredericksburg on General Franklin.
What temporary political effect they seek to
achieve in this last and crowning act of injus
tice against a brave and faithful soldier—what
private griefs may have impelled them to it—
St is difficult to divine. In the abandonment of
candor and truth, and the reckless pursuit of
partisan purpokee, they seem to have run mad
with an insatiate eagerness to destroy and pro
scribe every General not entirely proselyte to
their uses. WClellan, Porter, and Franklin
have followed each other to the block, succes
sive martyrs to the unquiet apprehensions of
their self-constituted enemies. The official
privilege of falsehood, which the committee
have used so freely in their report, eon avail
4hem nothing in the end. Developments, here
4efore shrouded in the suppressed history of
the times, are slowly effecting -their ultimate
conviction and discomfiture ; these will super
sede in the memory of mankind the passionate
perversions of partisan malignity, and descend
to posterity, the truthful records of the day.
The statement of general Franklin is among
them; it furnishes to the candid observer- of
the great struggle express truths of historical
interest and value; it puts the aspersions of
the of demagogues, so wantonly bent on
the destruction of his military fame and honor,
to the severe test of truth; it convict] them
of foul and ungenerous falsehood.
On the night before the contemplated assault
on the rebel works at Fredericksburg, on the
12th of December, Gen. Franklin, it appears,
had strongly urged a plan of attack, beginning
in force of at least 30,000 men from his posi
tion on the left of the army, then across the
Rappahannock, early in the succeeding day.
This plan Burnside gave Franklin to under
stand should be followed, with the assurance
that the necessary orders should be sent him
before midnight that time might be given
for a proper disposition of his forces for the
attack. Notwithstanding this, nothing trans
pired
until between seven and eight o'clock 'on
on the following morning, when Ger. Hardie,
of Burnsidoe's staff, reached Franklin with an
order "to keep, his whole command in po talon,"
sending out a division on his left to take and
occupy a point known as the L hei ghts near
Capt. Hamilton's," closing with th command
"to keep his whole force in readiness to move
as soon as the fog lifted." This order General
Franklin and his corps Comm
,adders,
as well
as Gen. Hardie himself, con. Aimed and acted
upon with perfect unanimit7 / . At nine o'clock
Meade's division, posted o A the left of Frank
lin's corps, advanced to the attack indicated
in the order. Of this r .dvance Burnside was
immediately informed ' oy telegram from Har
die. The advance c ontinned, as appears by
the various advices r
.tom the field sent to Burn
side,
up to 12 o'elc ck, when the telegram from
Hardie at that ho or announced "Gen. Meade's
line advancing in the line you prescribed This
morning." T 4
-- A fighting was kept np hotly on
the left wit' a some progress, telegrams from
Hardie la kitting every quarter of an hour
with who
the after noon,
result, until a quarter past two in
:noon, when an order from Burneide
arrive
a, as follows : " Your instructions this
morn ing are so far modified as to require an
adv ance on the heights directly in front of
an;" to which Hardie immediately replied,
4 Franklin will do his best—new troops gone
in." Three quarters of an hour later Hardie
sends word that " troops in front are engaged;
I fear it may be too late ;" and an hour
later, " the enemy in force left , and front—Too
LATE for an advance either to the left or front."
It appears from Burnside's testimony before
the committee, quoted in Gen. Franklin's
statement, that he changid the plan of Frank
lin to which he had signified his approval on
the night previous to the attack, (the 12th of
December,) which readily accounts for the de
lay in sending the promised orders and the
modification they had undergone before the
receipt of them by the corps commander.
When asked in substance what duty he expec
ted Franklin to perform, he replied that he
expected him to carry the point (the heights
near Uamilton'e) at the extreme left, which,
he says, " I thought would shake their (the
enemy's) forces to such an extent that the posi
tions in front could be easily stormed and carried."
When asked to what he attributed Franklin's
failure, he replied simply, "To the great
strength of the position and the accumulation
of the enemy's forces there." When asked
how much of his whole force was engaged in
the general attack, after testifying to the good
conduct universally of the men and officers,
he said all of them were under fire, and "every
man was put in column that could be got in."
The friendly relations between the corps
commander and the commanding general ap
pear, from the statement of General Franklin,
to have been, both before and after the disas
ter, of the most cordial and confidential cha
racter. Burnside is said by Franklin to have
assured him, in so many words, that he was
'the only man Who Lad' held up his hands,"
and to have indicated 11 intention to recom
mend Franklin as his successor in command.
The testimony of Gen. Hardie was not allowed
to be taken at all, and the whole investigation
was conducted as a secret inquisition, the wit
nesses testifying in utter ignorance of the
concealed purpose of their inquisitors.
In the face of facts like these, the conclusion
of the committee cannot stand a moment in the
mind of any one rational enough to form a
judgment for himself, or fair enough to wish
49 be just in his decision. A more pusillani
mous and ungrateful attack on the fair fame
of a faithful public servant than this by the
War Committee on Gen. Franklin, it is hard to
conceive. The brief authority which confers
the privilege of such attacks upon the kind of
men who composed this inquisition, and ren
ders such contributions as they have made to
the history of this war is surely:sadly, wrong
fully bestowed. It is our intention to re
view at length, at some future day, in the light
of the facts now made public, the whole of the
War Committee's report ; the melancholy com
mentary it offers on the meanness and partial
ity of the men who compose it is as depressing
as the indignity of the work they endeavored
to perform is unworthy of the high positions
they presume to occupy in public confidence.
The intimate relation of their labors to the
sinister aims and motives of the administration
makes an exposure of their falsehood and
malice of much importance to the people.
, means
ADDRESS OF MR. VALLANDIG HAM. —The
newspapers publish the following address is
sued by Mr. Yallandigham to the.Demoormey of
Ohio before the commencement of his trial.—
It defines his political position at the present
crisis:
MILITARY PRISOR, CINCINNAIT,
May 5,1563.
To the Democracy of Ohio : I am here in the
military bastile for no other 6ff61166 then my
political opinions, and the defense of them,
and of the rights of the people, and ofyour con
stitutional liberties. Speeches made hi the
hearing of thousands of you in denunciation
of die usurpations of power, infractions of the
constitution and laws and of military despotism
were the sole cause of my arrest and imprison
ment. lam a Democrat, for Constitution, for
law. for the Union, for liberty—this is my only
"crime."
For no disobedience to the Constitution; for
no violation of law; for no word, sign or ges
ture of sympathy with the men of the South
who are for disunion and Southern independ
ence, but in obedience to tkeir demand, as well
as the demand of Northern Ahotition dieunion
fists and traitors, lam here in bonds to-day ;
but
"Time, at last, sets all things even
Meanwhile, Democrats of Ohio, of the North
west, of the United States, be firm, be trae to
your principles, to the Constitution, to the
Union, and all will yet be well. As for myself,
I adhere to every principle, and will Make good,
through imprisonment . and life itself; every
pledge and declaration which I have ever made,
uttered or maintained from the beginning_ To
you, to the people, to time, I again appeal.—
Stand firm Falter not an instant !
C- L. VALLANDIGHAII.
MOSMON COMPLICATIONS —The Mormons are
playing a big game of bluff on Gov. Hardinge.
As we anticipated,Brigham Young is too shrewd
to engage in military operations against the
Federal authorities, and relies on other and
perhaps more effectual means to accomplish
his purposes and maintain his ascendency.
Every device of saintly ingenuity is resorted
to for the purpose of harassing the Gover
nor and defeating the operations of the Federal
law. The latest and most notable expedient
is the action of the grand jury in presenting
his Excellency as a "dangerous min" and a
nuisance. They present him as an " unsafe
bridge over a dangerous stream, and as a pes
tiferous cesspool, breeding disease and death."
This is decidedly c001,,t0 say the least of it.
The real motives of the charge, however, are
betrayed in the statement that he withheld the
" Royal Sanction" from appropriation bills,
without assigning any cause, and thus thwarted
legislation ; and also converted justice into a
mockery by extending the Executive clemency
to convicted criminals.
The charge that the Governor withheld his
signature to appropriation bills is simply un
true. The fact is, the Mormon Legislature re
fused to print the Governor's message, denied
Sim copies of the journals of the House, and
even forged his name to a bill that was hurri
edly recorded by the Secretary of the Terri
tory as having passed. Upon this Governor
Hardinge with his own hand corrected the re
cord, and adopted means to prevent the recur
rence of similar acts. With respect to the ap
propriation bill which was vetoed, it contained,
among other glaring items, a grant of $86,004
to Brigham Young and his nephew for bogus
improvements in the territory. The Governor
gave good reasons for his conduct, but these
were never suffered to appear before the Mor
mon public.
As for the charge respecting the abuse of the
pardoning power, it arose from the fact that
Gov. Harding° refused to permit the civil
power to be used as a means of religious per
secution. A short time since, it will be re
membered, seventy-six persons were convicted
in Judge M'Kinney's court, whose chief crime
was that, under the guidance of a crazy zealot
named Morris, they threw off allegiance to
Brigham Young, and were found guilty by a
docile Mormon jury of trumped-up charges.
Gov. Hardinge, of course, had no alternative
but to shield these victims of religious persecu
tion.
An amusing instance of the peculiarities of
Mormon doctrine and statecraft was the effort
resorted to at the outset of Gov. Hardinge's ca
reer to obtain an ascendency over him and en
list his feeling in their behalf. With a sublime
faith in the divinity of crinoline, the Mormon
elders invoked its aid as an unfailing specific.
When he first arrived in the territory it was
announced that the "hand of the Tiord" WAS
with him, and painted and scented crinoline,
dressed to kill, waylaid him at every step.—
Presents of fruit and flowers poured in upon
him, and old saints trained young and beauti
ful ones of the feminine gender "to put a hook
in his nose." To the credit of our excellent
and vigorous Governor, the trick failed, and
other tactics have since been adopted to coun
teyact his authority, The latest of which cul
minates in the presentment of the grand
jury.—N. Y. Sun.
A FOREIGN VIEW OF LOYAL LEAGUES.—The
truth of the classia statement., that it is some
times good and wholesome to learn of an
enemy, is illustrated in the following com
ments of the New York correspondent of the
London Times on the Union Square Loyal
League meeting, which be describes in the
columns of that journal ;
If the pains and interests engendered and
fostered by this . cruel and illogical war had not
blinded the eyes of Americans to the dangers
to which their liberties are exposed by its con
tinuance, they might have seen by the multi
plicity of banners and placards bearing the
words "Unconditional Loyalty," how low they
have fallen from their once high estate. That
a free people, justly jealous of their liberty,
should allow such banners to be flaunted in
their faces without indignantly tearing them
down, or that they should accept the doctrine
of " unconditional loyalty" without scornful
repudiation of the political slavery and degra
dation implied, shows how much real freedom
and independence of mind the war has already
destroyed. Unconditional loyalty is more than
the Russians give to their Czar, or the Turks to
their Sultan, and has never been yielded to King or
Government by any people speaking the English
language since the days of Henry VIII. Is it
not strange as well as humiliating that such a
doctrine should first be hard of in the English
language in a republic founded by English
men 1 And should it not lead modern Ameri
cans to inquire whether it really had its origin
among men of British blood and lineage, or
whether it is due to the Celtic, Teutonic, or
other alien races that have adopted the English
language without' adopting the English liberty
of thought that should accompany it ? What
ever may be the reason, it is not creditable
that a doctrine so long ago buried and forgot
ten in civilized Europe should be exhumed in
America, under the leadership of fanatics upon
the one hand, and of selfish traders making
unholy fortunes out of the war, upon the other.
The fact remains, however, that the liberty of
the Americans is rapidly slipping out of their
grasp ; and while they avow a sentiment so
slavish, not to a King or Emperor claiming to
rule by Divine right, but to a fetish of their
own making, such as Mr. Lincoln, it is scarcely
surprising that military men should be ready
to take them at their word, and to prepare
means for their final subjugation and reduction
to that state of thraldom to which they would
subject their brothers of the South.
Potter County.
A meeting of the Democratic Central Com
mittee for the county of Potter was held at the
office of F. W. Knox, Esq., in the borough of
Coudersport, on Saturday, May 9,lB63—called
for the purpose of appointing Senatorial and
Representative delegates to the Democratic
Convention to be held at Harrisburg on the
17th day of June next.
The meeting was organized by calling F. W.
Knox,,Esq. ' to the chair, and appointing Sam
uel Haven, Esq., Secretary.
After consultation, the meeting proceeded
to ballot for delegates.
Whereupon, the Hon. T. Ives was declared
duly appointed a delegate for the Senatorial
district, subject to the concurrence of the De
mocracy of the other counties in the said Sen
atorial district; and Miles White, EN„ wag
declared duly appointed delegate for the Re
presentative district.
Resolved, That in case of the inability of
either of the delegates to attend the Conven
tion, they have the power to appoint substi
tutes.
Rooked, That the proceedings Of thi s meet ,
ing he published in the several Democratic pa
pers in this Senatorial and Representative
district, and in the PATRIOT AND UNION, pub
lished in Harrisburg.
The meeting then adjourned.
(Signed by the officers.)
A cooventioa of too flict-game manufactu
rers of the United States is to beheld in Pitts
bvrg some time. in June.
HEWS OF THE DAY.
Governor Morton, of Indiana, has asked the
Secretary of War to order the confinement of
800 of the rebel prisoners now in our hands,
that they may be held se hostages for the .en
charge and return of the 400 Alabamians be
longing to Col. Straight's 51st Indiana regi
ment, who were not paroled with the other
troops recently captured, but sent to Richmond,
and denounced as renegade Alabamians.
Rebel Commissioner Robert Ould came down
on the flag of truce to Newport News, on Mon
day, and reported that five thousand Union
prisoners were now at Richmond waiting to be
exchanged, and that five thousand Are will
be there in a few days. These were all taken,
according to the rebel commissioner, at the late
battle of Fredericksburg. Transports have been
sent for them.
The Washington Star says that it has every
reason to believe that there is no truth in the
story that General Halleek designs taking the
field in person in the next movement of the
Army of the Potomac.
' The Democratic General Committee at Al
bany has called a meeting of citizens for Sat
urday to express indignation at the arrest and
sentence of Vallandigham, and to • protest
against their consummation.
The marshal for the District of Columbia has
seized the real and personal estate of Charles
S. Wallach, in Washington, under the confis
cation act. The property is supposed to be
worth $BO,OOO.
From intercepted rebel letters, intended for
citizens of Norfolk, it has been ascertained
that the secesh intend making a raid with their
new Merrimac between the middle of June and
the Ist of July.
The " Dry Tortugas," the place to which
Mr. Vallandigham is said to be consigned, is a
large fortification now in course of construc
tion by the government on Tortugas Islands,
off the coast of Florida, near Key West, and
all persons thus sentenced are forced to labor
on the works, without discrimination as to
former rank or station. A number of soldiers
are now there under sentence of one and two
years, for various acts of insubordination.
The N, Y. _Herald of yesterday has the fol
lowing :
We have some important news from the
Southwest. Gen. Grant had a severe action
on Wednesday last, at Clinton, ten miles from
Jackson, on the railroad, with a rebel force
under General Bowen. The fight lasted all
day, and the rebels were defeated. Reports
are said to have reached Gen. Grant that large
reinforcements of rebels are coming, up from
Mobile and Charleston to protect Vicksburg
and Jackson, and that he (Grant) has accor
dingly fallen back to the river to await fur
ther support.
The stories circulated by the rebel authori
ties at Jackson, Miss,, that our• forces wore
beaten, after a severe battle of four hours' du
ration, on the 4th inst., on the Big Black river,
prove to be entirely without foundation. A
telegraphic dispatch from General Grant, dated
the oth, two days later than the reported fight,
was received in Washington yesterday, and it
makes no mention whatever of any battle at
Anderson's ferry on the 4th inst.
A skirmish between a party of sixty mounted
rebels and a detachment of Union troops oc
curred on Tuesday between Franklin and
Woodburn, Ky., on the railroad, in which the
former were routed and driven back, our forces
still pursuing them at last accounts on that
night.
The rebels in front of Murfressboro', Tenn.,
continue to exhibit symptoms of activity which
keep the army of General Rosecrans on the
qui vive. The cavalry of the enemy is con
stantly changing its position. The rebel Gen
erals Morgan and Wheeler are said to be at
Liberty and Alexandria, with a force of 5,000
cavalry, and are supposed to be meditating an
attack on Nashville.
Rumors prevailed on the streets yesterday to
the effect that General Lougstreet fought a bat
tle with General Keyes, at West Psint, Va., in
which the latter had been beaten. It was said
that ex-Governor Morgim was the recipient of
a telegram to that effect, but we believe there is
no truth whatever in the statement.
With regard to the case of the Hon. Clement
L. Vallandigham, recently on trial by court
martial at Cincinnati, on a charge of using
"treasonable" language at a public meeting,
at which two military officers, .disguised as
civilians, reported his speech, and testified
against him, a report was circulated and pub
lished in a Washington paper that the decision
of the court condemned him to two years' im
prisonment and hard labor et the Dry Tortugas,
off the coast of Florida. Now, as the pro
ceedings of a, court martial are necessarily
secret, until promulgated by the commanding
general who orders the trial, and as all the
members of the court are solemnly sworn not
to reveal any portion of what transpires, and
inasmuch as General Burnside has neither ap
proved nor disapproved of the finding of the
court up to this time, it is difficult to imagine
how the vote of the majority or the minority
of the court, as stated, could be made known.
It is fair, therefore, to conclude that the story
is premature, to say the least of it.
We have some interesting news from Gen.
Foster's command at Newbern, N. C., to the
7th inst. The nine months soldiers are about
to return home, but many of them have ac
cepted a furlough of thirty days, and are wil
ling to re-enlist after that time, provided they
are again permitted to serve with Gen. Foster.
The General highly compliments them on their
bravery while under his command.
The rebels, it is said, refuse to receive the
disloyal citizens sent outside our lines, unless
they can give a guarantee of their ability to
maintain themselves.
By telegraph yesterday :
NEW Yost;, May 14.—Advices from Puebla
via Havana to 21st ultimo, state that the French
were repulsed on the 13th in an attack on the
Convents of San Augustine, Comorn and Mer
ced. On the 14th a battle occurred at Alexio
between part of Comonfort's and the French, in
which both parties claim success. Reports re
ceived from Vera Cruz state that the French
were driven from San Xavier and the hill of
San Juan to their former position at Amalcuan.
The French account disagrees with this, and
reports the capture of the Church of Comorn.
There is little change in the situation since the
Ist of April. General O'Heran, with 1,500
Mexican cavalry, had made a sortie from Puebla
to attack a French supply train on the road
from Orizaba, and several expeditions had been
gent to annihilate the guerillas; but they were
all unsuccessful. The French in Vera Cruz
had great fears that a million of dollars, with
a large amount of ammunition about to leave
for Puebla, would not arrive. Gen. Comenfort
had been reinforced by
. 7,000 men from the
city of Mexico.
Wasnisarox, May 13.—Gentlemen arriving
from the army last night, who certainly speak
advisedly, say there are no indications of a
mcrvement to the South side of the river by our
army.
CLEVELAND, May 14.—Graham & Co.'s tub
and pail factory, in the Old Exchange Hotel
building, has been burned to-day. The loss
is between $30,000 and $40,000, and was in
ettrtid at $17,000 in the eastern companies.
NEW YORK, May 14.—The steamer Plantage
net has arrived with Jamaica dates of the sth
and Port au Prince of the 7th. Gen. Segroe
attempted a rising against the Haytien gov
ernment. He was arrested, and the affair
squelched in four hours.
The Express says, It understands General
M'Clellan last week sent a request to the Presi
dent, either to accept his resignation or give
him active service. Rumor says that the re
signation was not accepted, but the reply was
accompanied by an intimation that his active
services will be required at an early day.
WASHINGTON, May 14.—The rebel prisoners
still remaining here in custody are, under
proper regulations, permitted to be supplied
With whatever may contribute to their per
sonal comfort.
The censorship over telegraphic messages,
instead of becoming relaxed, has, if possible,
become more stringent.
Thousands of discharged volunteers—their
term of service having expired—passed
through to Baltimore, homeward bound, on
Tuesday, and regiments, yesterday and to-day,
returning from the Army of - the Potomac, pa
raded our streets.
The men generally appear to be in a healthy
condition, and many of them, by their own
statements, say their bodily condition has been
strengthened by their two years' or nine
months' service. Their power of physical
endurance has been put to the test by carry
ing about fifty pounds weight—musket, ra
tions, ammunition, blanket, etc., while on the
march previous to the late battle.
In addition to the seizure, under the Confis
cation act, of the real and personal property
of Dr. Cornelius Boyle, and of Charles S. Wal
lach, of this city, orders have been given to
the occupant of Dr. Garnett's house and others,
to pay no rent to any of the agents acting for
the rebel absentees.
John Orcutt Carpenter, of Kentucky, who
was convicted of treason, has been pardoned
by the President. The exercise of the execu
tive clemency has been procured through the
intervention of his friends, on the ground that
he has repented of his crime, voluntarily aban
doned the service of the rebels, and returned
to allegiance, to live at peace as a law abiding
citizen.
The Navy Department has received informa
tion that the steamship Cherokee was captured
off Charleston, while endeavoring to run the
blookade.
CINCINNATI, May 14.—A dispatch to the
commercial, dated Somerset, Sy., May 13th,
says no doubt exists that the enemy is in force
across the Cumberland. Morgan, with the
commando of Wheeler and remit, is at Monti
cello. All conversation between pickets has
been stopped, and affairs wear a stirring as
pect.
The Chattanooga Rebel says Van Dorn was
shot in the street by Dr. Peters. It refuses to
give particulars but regards the act justifiable.
Peters is wealthy and was formerly State Sena
tor from Hardin county.
• A rebel captain, writing from Huntsville,
Ala., under date of May Bth, says :
"We have had a gay time during the past
fifteen days, hunting Abolition devils, whose
advance and retreat through the valley is
traced by burning dwellings, corn and bacon,
and innocent women and children leaving the
roads in their noble efforts to escape from the
more than savage foe. Thanks to God and
Forrest, not a Yankee treads the soil of Ala
bama, save as a prisoner of war. Among the
captured are many belonging to the First Ala
bama Federal cavalry, taken in the neighbor
hood where they were raised. The prisoners
taken compriad the force under Col. Straight,
and were cat tared at Rome."
ME APPROACH OF DEATH.—The article
upon "Death," in the New Encycloptedia, has
the following :
"As life approaches extinction, insensibility
supervenes—a numbness, and disposition to
repose, Which does not admit of the idea of ,
suffering. Even in those cases when activity
of mind remains to the last, and when nervous
sensibility would seem to continue, it is sur
prising how often there has been observed a
happy state of feeling on the approach of Death.
If I had sufficient strength to hold the pen I
would write how easy it is to die, were the
words of the celebrated William Hunter during
his last moments.
Montagne, in one of 'his essays, describes an
incident which left him so senseless he was
taken up for dead. On being restored, how
ever, he says : ‘Meihought my life hung only
on my lips, and I shut my eyes to help thrust
it out, and took pleasure in languishing * and
letting go.'—A writer in the Quarterly Review
records that a gentleman who had been res
cued from drowning declared that he bad not
experienced the slightest feeling of suffocation.
The stream was transparent, the day brilliant,
and as he stood upright he could see the sun
shining through the water with a dreamy con
sciousness that his eyes were being closed for
ever. Yet he neither feared his fate nor
wished to avert it. A sleepy sensation, which
soothed and gratified him, made a luxurious
bed of a watery grave"
THE LATE COLONEL CROWTHEIL—During the
recent battles at Fredericksburg, Col. James
Crowther, of Tyrone City, this county, was
killed whilst commanding his regiment in ac
tion. Col. Crowther removed to Tyrone from
Centre county, a number of years ago, and was
engaged in bueiness in that place till the break
ing out of the war. He served as a lieutenant
in the three months service, and at the expira
tion of his enlistment raised a company for the
110th regiment, in the organizing of which he
was elected major, became lieutenant colonel,
and was finally proMoted to its command. The
fortunes of the 84th and 110th have long since
became historic, and Col. Crowther participated
in every action in which the 110th was engaged,
and it is notorious that these two regiments
have seen more active service than any other
regiments in the army.. It was mainly owing
to the energy and military skill of Col. Crow
ther that it was brought to its present state of
efficiency; but he dice, leaving his name not
only linked to the fame of his gallant com
mand, but respected and beloved by all who
had intercourse with him in the service, and
by all who knew him in his private life.
Col. Crowther was about forty-five years of
age, and leaves a wife and family to mourn his
untimely, yet glorious death. Peace to his
manes.—Holtidaysburg Standard.
Tun DOUGLAS WILL CASU.—A decision has
been finally reached in Shia will case. Among
other points decided by it, we understand that
the Auburn Theological Seminary, and the
Presbyterian Publication Committee ' ( new
school) will each receive the $lO,OOO left them
by the testator.
DIED.
On Wednesday, the 13th, after a severe illness, Mrs.
BABAS 13., widow of the late M'Nair Willson, aged 72
years.
Her friends are respectfully invited to attend the
funeral, on Friday afternoon at (o'clock, from the real
denee of John Tlll,llalent street below Fifth.
"Messed are the dead who die in the Lord.''
Nan) tAtruertistmentn.
EXECUTOR'S ICE.--L e tetset e
r s t
Testamentary upon the erase of D %NIEL g.
KEEFE SR, late of Jefferson township, Dauphin county,
decd, having been granted by the Register of said
county to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said
estate are hereby notified to render immediate payme n t ,
and those having or demands against said a
are requested to make them known without delay to
JONAS SWETGABD, Exeessor,
Jefferson tow'p, Dauphin co., P
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pROCLAMATION.
MAYOR'S OFFICE,
Harrisburg, May 14th, 1863.
WHEREAS, It is the duty of every citizen to
lend his aid to the preservation of the public
peace ; and whereas, the unlimited and indis
criminate sale of intoxicating liquors to a
large population must inevitably lead.to serious
disorders and breaches of the peace; there
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tion to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Dauphin county
for tavern license, and that the same will be presented
to the said Court on the 29th day of May, instant
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SPECIAL NOTICE
The American Annual Cyclopeclia and Register of
Important Events of 1862. to be published by D. Apple
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The very favorable.; reception given to the volume fee
the preceding year has induced ns to make special ef
forts in the preparation of this one. ItN contents will
embrace the intellectual and material progress of the
year, the important civil and political measures of the
Federal and State Governments, an accurate and minute
history of the struggles of the great armies and the
many battles, illustrated with maps of the country and
plans of the battles taken from official copies; debates
of Congress, Commerce, &c.; the progress of foreign
nations, the developments in science, the progrone of
literature, mechanical inventions and improvements,
religious statistics of the world, and biographical
sketches of eminent persons deceased in 1862. The
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