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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS ,
11.04: GOVERNOR.,
HON. GNO. W. WOODWARD,
ON MI:LIDILPHLt,
FOR-JUDGR OF TER SUPREME COURT,
WALT , EIL H. LOWRIE,
Of ALLIONINT COUNTY.
THE UNION
"These States are glorious in their individuality,
bat their collective glories are in the Union. By
all means, at all hazards, are they to be main
tained in their integrity and th; full measure of
their constitutional rights=for only so is the Union
to be preserved—only so is it worth preserving.
It is the perfection of the prismatic colors, which
Mauled, produce the ray of light. It is the com
pleteness of these assembled sovereignties, lacking
nothing which they have not lent for a great pur
pose, that makes the Union precious. This word
Union is a word of gracious omen_ It implies
confidence and a f fection—mutual support and pro
tection against external dangers. It is the chosen
expression of the strongest passion of young hearts.
It is the charmed circle within which the family
dwells. It is man helping his fellow!man in this
rugged world. It is States, perfect in themselves,
confederated for mutual advantage.. It is the peo
ple of States, separated by lines, and interests, and
institutions, and usages, and laws, all forming one
glorious nation—all moving onward to the same
sublime destiny, and all instinct with a common
life. Our fathers pledged their lives, their for
tune', and their sacred honors, to form this Union
—let ours be pledged to maintain it."—tiro. W.
WOODWARD, July 4, 1851.
THE SOLDIERS' RIGHT TO VOTE.
Men a soldier returns to his election district,
he resumes all the civil rights of citizenship, and
his residence being unimpaired by his temporary
absence, he has a right to vote on election day, but
under the Constitution, to which his fealty is due,
he can acquire no right to vote elsewhere, except by
a change of residence from one district to another.
* * * The learned judge deprecates a con
struction that shall DISFRANCHISE our volunteer
soldiers. It strikes us that this is an inaccurate use
of language. The Constitution would disfranchise
no qualified voter. But, to secure purity of elec
tion, it would have its voters in the place where they
are best known on election day. If a voter volun
tarily stays at home, orgoes on a jounwy, or jots
the army-of his country, can it be said the Consti
tution- has disfranchised him 2 Pour of the judges
of this court, living in other parts of this State,
find themselves, on the day of every Presidential
election, in the city of Pittsburg, where their official
duties take them and where they are not permitted
to vote. Have MR; a right to charge the Consti
tution with disfranchising them P Such is our case
and such is the case of the volunteers in the army.
The right of suffrage is carefully preserved for
both 44n. and us, to be enjoyed when we return to
the places which the Constitution has appointed for
its exercise.—Gso. W. WOODWARD.
•u An hese eleekit this - great, nimble bird out o' tide
wee egg He could vile She very Sounders out o' The
irith, 2l -11T. Ochiltree.
When ht'Clellan took leave of the Army of
the potomac at Harrison's Landing, one of the
Abolition journals in New York pronounced
the affecting incidents of his farewell, en
elaborate, spectacular pageant gotten up with
duchregard to stage effect—the enthusiasm of
the ireops a mockery, the honest sorrow and
the orbs that went up in memory of hard
itteght fields for his return, the jeering, noisy
efferveseence of. holiday hypocrisy. Others
ten quite a different tale—partakers in his well
earned' fame,. who shared the nottoW of his
lase, and tell us that to-day the memory of the
patient commander of the great army still en
dures irk their hearts of oak. Even the malig
nity of the Abolition press failed to find in all
that transpired there, in the conduct of the great
man the; were impotent to destroy, aught but
became the chieftain of so great an army_ It
is said fears were felt among those who sat in
council in the Star Chamber at Washington,
that the love the army bore M'Clellan might
be turned against his enemies_ The sense of
the familiar panic which pale]. their cheeks
after the battle of 801 l Run returned, the ter
ror, as when the news of Pope's defeat was
heard, agitated for a moment the cowardly
conspirators, who but a month before had
sought his succor, who alone, out of the abun
dance of that army's devotion to him, could
nerve. its arms to victory again, and re-illume
the pride of victory in its heart. It is said
swami, Halleck, and the Cabinet feared en
outbreak in the army. Thus the "holiday
vageant" was going on, while much uneasi
ness prevailed in administrative circles at the
Capital. But there was little occasion for it.
True to his, instinct, not a word escaped the
injured general to stir the angry passions of
his men—no exhibit was made to show who
caused the defe its they suffered—not a mur
mur against the injustice done him—nothing
bbt manly cheer and honorable regret The
oligarchy was safe in its seats ; and so the first
historic figure of the age faded for a time from
the scene of action.
. The mails on. Monday night brought us the
description of another spectacle, and the came
journal which, Menge file, sneered at M.'ael
lan's farewell' to his army, enlarges upon its
mimic glories and gives it the benefit of a full
report. A coterie of patriotic gentlemen visit
t h e army to be present at tbe ceremony of
sword presentation to its third commander
since W-Clellan's time. The accounts which
reach us have made much of what we had
learned to look upon ab a Tory ordinary affair,
having no State significance nor splendor of
attraction. A favorite corps of our State
troops had thought fit to present their General
with a token of their attachment. -Nothing
more natural or appropriate. But the event,
which front time to time we bad seen an
imoneed in prospect in the papers, had a curi
ous attraction fir the patiniotio gentlemen who
vent down from Washington to witness it, and
the Governor of Pennsylvania, who is a oon
stoat attendant upon Ma ceremagies, Pat in
an appearance too. The fete wirevery way
worthy of .1* Aistingiehlhed proem:ice. -.- . Akar7'µ,
lands and 4tretireeni, 'arches arid triWgphsl•;
legends decorated the • precincts around the .
commanding General's quarters. One brave
General made a neat little speech in handing
over the weapon ( ' to the other. In the course
of it he took occasion to allude pertinently to
the presence of the Governor, and somewhat
gratuitously referred to the soldier vote in the
State election. Then the recipient went through
the motions. He met the allusions of hie
brother-in-arms to the Governor with very cor
dial ;and unmistakable terms. Then the Gov
ernor himself spoke a piece. Then John W.
Forney. Then came a little banquet whereat
John Covode and Morton M'Michael, of high
contracting memory, indulged, it may be sup
posed, the genial vagaries of Abolitionism at
large. So the sword was probably in due time
forgotten, and its testimony of simple soldierly
admiration to the General in command from
his men, was Oonseorated to a special benefit
given with the aforesaid effective adjuncts, to
an aspirant to office. The report at the con
clusion from which we quote, notes the fact
that when it was all over, some of the soldiers
fell to and devoured what was left, and est the
crumbs and drank the wine left standing in the
glasses.
It was a pleasant gathering of patriotic men.
Forney was there to say a good 'Word for the
soldier—Forney, whose apostacy is the finest
type of disinterested patriotism. M'Michael
was there, whose sympathy for the soldier and
the cause of the Republic is so appropriately
nurtured in the aliment he finds in odd jobs
from the War Office. John Covode was there,
and gave to the tenor of the day's proceedings
the light and pleasing sanction of his counte
nance. Last, but not least, among loyal men
assembled, sat at meat, the " Soldiers' Friend."
Fancy Forney !erring over his glass at Covode,
and Covode complacently appreciative at -For
ney, and the " Soldiers' Erind," the cynosure
of all. Gen. Meade did the honors, who now
commands the Army of the Potomac. Gen.
Meade bespoke, too, the soldiers vote for the
Soldiers' Friend at the coming' election. How
natural such sympathy ! He testified to the
zeal of the " Soldiers* Friend" in their behalf.
flow faithful his facts ! How ardent he proved
the devotion of Governor Curtin to their inter
ests ! They had a pleasant time of it among
them over the testimonial which the soldiers
had bought for their commander ; and when it
was over some of the soldiers eat the fragments
which were left, and drank the wine out of the
unfinished glasses !
M'Clellan went away silently—silent under
the abuse of those who sent his army shorn of
half its strength to the bloody battle-fields of
the Peninsula. His farewell was called a
spectacle, the devotion of his men, sealed by
the blood of many martyrs, to the faithless
machinations of their enemies and his, a mock
ery and a sham. But the grand banquet at
Gen. Meade's headquarters was a plenteous
out pouring of pure patriotiem,and Gov. Cur
tin is by the same token an ardent patriot and
the Soldiers' Friend ! It was such men and
such friends to the soldier that dishonored
M'Clellan, brought defeat and disgrace upon
our arms all the way up the Peninsula, fighting
against the superior numbers. It is such men,
and such friends of the soldier who will seize
upon such an occasion as the foregoing to pam
per a lust for power and sacrifice the incidents
of so touching a memorial of soldierly feeling
to make political capital fora selfish demagogue
and tools and dupes of the brave men whom,
while he professes to befriend, he would use to
elevate himself to the Chair of the Executive of
the State whose interests he has abused, whose
fair fame he has dishonored !
Gov. Curtin Sick and Well.
When Gov. Curtin succeeded in outwitting
the rivals in his own putt' by rtublioly an
nouncing that he would not be a candidate for
re-eleotion, although he was all the while per
fecting his schemes to secure the nomination
of the Pittsburg 'Convention, he doubtless im
agined that be was playing a very shrewd po
litical pow; and viewed froti a low • literal
stand-point it was a shrewd dodge, calculated
to excite the admiration of the whole army of
shoddy, contractors and personal favorites who
have been fattening on the secret service fund
ever since the commencement of the war.
This class of patriots are in ecstasies at the
adroitness of their illustrious chief, regarding
him as about the smartest politician of the day—
smart enough to outwit Cameron, Covode, and
other graduates in the art of political chica
nery. Even these old stagers were completely
befooled. They could not conceive it possible
that the Governor•of Pennsylvania, would sol
emnly assure the Legislature that he had ac
cepted a di high position" from the President
of the United States, and that his failing
health prevented his being a candidate fur re
election, when he had not accepted the office
and his health was as good as could be ex
pected of one who had presented so many flags
and survived so many jollifications.
We look in vain, through the history of the
public men of our own generation for a par
allel to the conduct of Gov_ Curtin_ Bancroft,
in his essays upon the temperaments, tells us
of a certain Cardinal who was a candidate for
Pope. Before the sacred conclave met to
choose a successor to the chair of St. Peter,
this Cardinal was a feeble, decrepid, old man,
who could not speak above his breath, and
whose tottering steps promised soon to trip him
into the grave. His rivals, believing that his
lease of life was short and that another va
cancy would soon be created by his death,
withdrew their opposition, and this feeble old
Cardinal was chosen; but no sooner was the
triple crown planed upon his head than the
hale old man throwing aside his crutches spat
to the ceiling and walked erect with a firm
tread. Such is the substance of Bancroft's
story_ We suppose that Gov. Curtin is too
good a Know-Nothing to follow the example of
the best Pope That ever lived, but there is a
marvellous likeness between his conduct and
Baneroft's aecount of this Pope. Wfien hie
rivals threatened to defeat his nomination, his
health was very delicate—so delicate that he
could not possitly think of being a candidate
for re-election, The President, taking cam ,
passion upon our confirmed invalid, and anx
ious to save him from self-immolation upon the
altar of Ms country, had offered him a high
position—rumor said, Lb* position of Mitastor
to the sunny- land of Spain. He would go
abroad and endeavor to regain the strength
was in thpflervice of the State. He would
ataiW* auhlaVe way. Hie political friends
might ensile among themeelm as to his suc
cessor. He would not interfere. In fact be
was too sick to think of interfering, and only
sighed for the day that would enable him to
bid adieu to the cares and labors of the Ex
ecutive office. Bat since his re-nomination
mark the astonishing change ! He is no longer
the languishing invalid. His health is com
pletely restored. He is traveling hither and
thither, and promises to stump the State from
the Delaware to Lake Erie, and to honor any
draft that his friends may make upon his
strength.
During all the time that Gov. Curtin devotes
to stumping 'the State he is confessedly ne
glecting his official duties. " I will be able,
with more effect, to discharge my duties if I
avoid being nude the centre of en active political
struggle." Since he has made himself the cen
tre of an active political struggle he cannot dis
charge his official duties with effect, according
to his own showing. While he is playing the
political stump orator and magnifying his own
exploits, the official duties pertaining to his
office must remain entirely neglected. We take
his own word for it.
Now, if we suppose that Gov. Curtin spoke
the truth (and we may be permitted for the
sake of argument to make this supposition) it
would be a cruel and unmerciful act for the
people of Pennsylvania to compel him to serve
another term of three years. They should con
sider his failing health and take compassion
upon him.. Dees he not assure us that the
labors which I have necessarily undergone, have
already impaired my health ? I should have
serious cause to apprehend that a much longer
continuance of them might so break it down as to
render me unable to fuVII the duties of nay position?'
If you believe that the Governor spoke the truth
when he wrote these words, you surely cannot
be so unkind as to insist thai a man whose
health is so completely broken down as to ren
der him unable to fulfill the duties of the Ex
ecutive station, shall continue to perform those
duties for another term of three years? This
would be nothing less than murder—deliberate,
premeditated and malicious murder—to compel
a man to perform labors that must eventually
kill him. If you do not believe the Governor
spoke the truth wiser' be wrote these words.
you certainly cannot vote for him—unless, in
deed, you happen to belong to that.very limited
class" of men who admire shoddy contractors
and glory in eueh evidences of marina* with
out honesty.
Governor Curtin and the Soldiers-
It is very clear that a desperate effort is to
be made by Governor Curtin and the leading
demagogues and corruptionists interested in
his re-election, to secure the soldiers influ
ence. If the citizen soldiery of Pennsylvania
cannot vote, under the Constitution and laws,
out of their respective election districts, a dis
pensation from the War Office may be obtained,
permitting' them to return to their homes on
the eve of the election, by which the disability
would be removed. But whether such dispen
sation be secured or not, the soldiers have a
home influence beyond their votes, and this
influence Mr. Curtin and his friends mean to
secure, if possible. If this important advan
tage can be fairly achieved by the Abolition
candidate and his lieutenants, we shall not
object—but we do object to the attaining of it
under false pretences, by demagOgUehln and
dishonorable expedients. While we should
discountenance the introduction of party poli
/tics into our military camps, we certainly
should join in a request to the War Office that
all the soldiers of Pennsylvania, without dis
tinction of party, be furloughed to return to
their respective districts before the next elec
tion, and oast their votes for Governor, Supreme
Judge, Members of the Legislature, &c., but
we warn Governor Curtin' and his friends that
the people of Pennsylvania will not aubmit to
a contemptible fraud, such as was practiced in
New Hampshire and Connecticut, where the
soldiers who would vote' the Abolition ticket
alone were furloughed, and the Democrats re
tained in camp, and where a Demoerhtic offi
08r.1064 dise3lsssd the service for circulating
"Copperhead tickets."
But, whether the soldiers obtain such fur
lough or not, we enter our protest against the
plan of electioneering adopted by the Gover
nor and his friends of hanging his picture up
in the military hospitals, and visiting the sol
diers in camp under one pretext and another,
for the purpose of haranguing them on poli
tics, and representing Andrew G. Curtin as
"the soldiers' friend," "the soldiers' candi
date," &a., as though be were exclusively their
friend and candidate, with other contemptible
expedients to which honorable men would not
resort. These tricks of the mere demagogue,
which no candidate for Governor, worthy of
the position, would countenance, seem to con
stitute Curtin's chief reliance. They will cer
tainly not increase his popularity with the
high-minded, reflecting portion of the comma
nity; and if our soldiers are made of the stuff
we think they are, they will reject with disdain
the advances of a candidate who bases his
hopes of success upon the opinion that they
are extremely gullible and can be won by flat
tery better than by truth and reason.
Recently a sword was presented to General
Meade by the officers of the Pennsylvania Re
serve Corps, as a testimony of their apprecia
tion of him as a commander, and lo ! Gov.
Curtin and his lieutenants was there present
to make the most of the occasion. There could
be nothing more contemptible than this—aud
let us add, there can be nothing more danger
ous than the drawing of a distinction between
the citizen soldier and the citizen, appealing to
the former to ignore all civil interests and elect
to office those only who particularly distinguish
themselves, or claim to have done so, in the
interests of war, as though they were para
mount. The demagogue who would persuade
those in the military service of the country to
look upon themselves only as soldiers—to for
get their duties and interests as citizens—is as
much a traitor as he who deliberately betrays
his,country to• the, enemy for unless the whole
nature of our government has been changed by
the inanguratiori of an Abolition President and
policy, the soldier is , but:the creature of a day
—the result of a tetztpcirarY noCeSeity—while
the citizen is, for all tithe, part and parcel of
the government, interested:in the preservation
of its free institutions and the maintenance of
every civil right guararitiled by the great fun
damental law upon which alone we can depend
for freedom and good government. If the ob
ject of the demagogues who are now in the
field claiming unlimited powers for President
Lincoln, and beseiging the volunteer and drafted
soldiers of Pennsylvania for a solid vote for
Curtin, as Lincoln's fast friend, is not to con
vert this republican government into a military
despotism, creating a necessity for a standing
army of half a million or more, the time will
soon come when our citizen soldiery will doff
their uniforms and return to the pursuits of
civil life, In the former view of the ques
tion, we should not be surprised to see that
portion of the soldiers who favored a military
despotism and a huge standing army, fall
into the views of Lincoln, Curtin & Co., and
support them for the sake of subverting the
Constitution and crushing out republican in
stitutions and ideas ; but certainly in the
latter view, we should be greatly aston
ished to find any considerable portion of the
army, especially that large portion of the rank
and file who entered it as Democrats from prin
ciple and conviction, settled in the faith, lis
tening to and being cajoled by the hypocritical
declarations and professions of a set of Abo
lition demagogues—with Lincoln and Curtin
at their head—who, as partisans, never talk
but to deceive or act but for sinister or evil
purposes. We should regret to believe that
we have a soldiery made of stuff that can be
deceived by the arts of such transparent dema
gogues, or persuaded, or deterred from a faith
ful, conscientious discharge of the duties of
citizenship by the blandishments or threats of
power. We have confidence in the intelli
gence, the integrity and the patriotism of our
soldiers, and therefore, we favor the idea of
furloughing them to their respective districts
to vote at the coining election. But the fur
lough must be general, and not confined, as in
Connecticut and New Hampshire, to regiments
known l to be largely or altogether Abolition.
Let all the Pennsylvania soldiers come home
to vote; then, if any of them have been de
ceived by the Abolition demagogues who seem
to have exclusive access to the army, they
may, if they choose, be undeceived ; at all
events they can vote without the restraint of
undue influence or the dread of arbitrary pow
er—and, under such circumstances, we should
be satisfied with the result, whatever it might
be. If there are soldiers who can listen with
pleasure to Curtin% long-winded eulogies of
Curtin and his self-interested glorification of
the army; if there are those who believe Dog
Forney to be a patriot, and Col. M'Clure and
John Cevode honest men, why all such the
Abolitionists may rely upon for votes and any
other required aid to overthrow the Govern
ment—and to all such they are welcome. They
claim that this class is the more numerous.
We are willing to risk it—and with all the ad
vantages Curtin has from his position. We
say to the President and the War Office send
all our soldiers home to vote—let us have a
fair and free election, and we shall be satisfied.
WHO IS THE SOLDIER'S REAL FRIEND?
Extract from the decision of Judge WOOD
WARD sustaining the stay law passed by our
Legislature in favor of the soldier:
"Now, if a stay of execution for three years
would not be tolerated in ordinary times, did not
these circumstances constitute an emergency that
justryed the pushing of legislation to the extremest
limit of the Constitution? No citizen could be
blamed for volunteering. He was invoked to do so
by appeals as strong as his love of country. In
the nature of things there is nothing unreasonable
in exempting a soldier's property from execution
whilst he is absent from home battling for the
supremacy of the Constitution and the integrity of
the Union. And when he has not run before he
was sent, but has yielded himself up to the call of
his country, his self-sacrificing patriotism pleads,
trumpet-tongued, for all the indulgence from his
creditors which the Legislature hetebpoiaor to grant.
If the term of indulgence seem long in this instance,
it was not longer than the time for which the Pre
sident and Congress demanded the soldier's ser-
vices."
NATIVE AMERICANISM.
"I, am not and never'haile been a 'Native Amer
ican' in any political sense, any more than lam or
have been a nig, Antimason or an Abolitionist.
* * * The speech so often quoted against me,
lam not responsible for. It was introduced into
the debates by a Whig reporter, in violation of the
rules of the body, which required him to submit for
revision before publication, and which he never did.
* * I promptly denounced it, in the face of
the Convention, as I have done many a time since,
as a gross misrepresentation. * * * The Na
tive American party itself is my witness. Seven
years ago I was the caucus nominee for U. S.
Senator. The county of Philadelphia was repre
sented by Natives. They asked whether, i f elected
by their votes, I would favor their measures for
changing the naturalization laws, I answered them
NO, and they threw every vote they cou'd command
against me and ratted a shout of triumph over
their victory."—Gro. W. WOODWARD, Pittsburg,
Sept. 14, . 1852.
TROOPS AT ELECTIONS..
By the 95th beotion of the aet of Assembly
of the State of Pennsylvania. of 2d July, 1889,
it is enacted that
"No body of troops in the army of the United
States, or of this Commonwealth, shalt be present,
either armed or unarmed, at any place of election
within this Commonwealth, during the time of such
election."
The Providence Journal records the follow
ing : A drafted Irishman called upon one of our
lawyers, on Saturday, and desired to have
papers prepared claiming exemption from mill
very service for the several reasons which he
named
1. That be was the only eon of a widow, de
pendent upon him for support.
2. That his father was in such infirm health
as to be unable to get his own living.
3. That he had two brothers already in the
service, all which facts Patrick desired then
and there to verify by affidavit.
No MORE DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS.—There
will never be another election of a Copperhead
Governors It is LOU late in the day —.Daily Times.
The above threat is full of significance, and
we ask the people of Pennsylvania and Ohio to
make a note of it. The editor of the Times has
recently returned from Washington, and, we
have little doubt, speaks knowingly.— World.
PRACTICAL WORKINGS OP CONSCRIPTION.-
Money comes in, 'Lc t men. In Oswego the
Collector of Internal Revenue had several days
since received upwards of $34,000 under the
act.
THE Buffalo Express says that nineteen sub
stitutes from that ell) , escaped on Friday night
on the way to Elmira. They put out the rights
in the ear and jumped from the train. It is
said that five were killed.
Lord Lyons. the' British Minister at Wash
ington, is on a visit to Canada.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
B•Y TELEGRAPH.
IMPORTANT RECONNOISSANCE ON THE
PENINSULA.
FORTRESS MONROE, August 29.—General
Wistar's cavalry has just returned to Yorktown
from an expedition to Bottom's Bridge. The
force engaged was parts of the First New York
Mounted Rifles, Cal. Onderdonk, and of the
Fifth Pennsylvania cavalry, Lieutenant Colonel
Lewis. They left Williamsburg on the 20th
inst., and pushed through New Kent Court
House directly to Bottom's Bridge. At the
latter place they found one regiment of in
fantry in rifle-pits, supported by squadron of
cavalry.
A charge was immediately made, rhich car
ried the rifle-pits, and drove the enemy across
the bridge, which they took up behind them.
Our troops lost one killed and one wounded.
They captured five prisoners from the enemy,
who left dead on .the grOnnd one .Officer, 'one
sergeant and two men, besides what they car
ried off. The bridge being rendered impassa
ble. and the object of the expedition being en
tirely accomplished, the troops returned with
much valuable information of the enemy's
force and movements in the vicinity of Rich
mond.
FROM WASHINTON
WASHINGTON, Sept. I.—The State of Illinois
recently preferred a claim for about four hun
dred and seventy thousand dollars against the
government for two per cent. of the ,proceeds
of the sales of all public lands in that, State.
for road purposes. Acting Secretary Otto has
decided against the claim. This decision is
also applicable to Ohio and Indiana in similar
cases.
The Secretary of the Navy will visit Phila
delphia on his return from an inspection of
the New York, Boston and Portsmouth navy
yards. ,
BY THE MAILS.
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND.
THE ADVANCE ON CHATTANOOGA-TEE REBELS IN
FORCE THERE-THE BOMBARDMENT
STIMINSON, Ala., August al.—The rebel ac
counts of the late bombardment of Chattanooga
says that General Winder opened fire without
warning.
A daughter of Mr. Roche, of Nashville, was
mortally wounded, and three children and five
citizens were killed, among the latter were two
ladies.
Gen. Crook has penetrated to the summit of
Lookout mountain, and within nine miles of
Chattanooga. He found the mountains clear
of rebels. The enemy are in Chattanooga in
force, and are digging like beavers, and are
making boasts of their intention to fight us
there.
Mr. Currie, of Kentucky,was killed in Rich
mond on the 26th, by Daseford, a clerk in the
Treasury Department.
FROM WASHINGTON
„:•: , i .
WASHINGTON, August 81.—The steamer Bal
timore, Captain Mitchell, arrived here this
morning from Fortress Monroe. She reports
that the gunboats Reliance and Statellite, cap
tured from us on the Chesapeake, near the
mouth of the Rappahannock. are at Urbana,
on the Rappahannock. The wounded men,
among whom was the commanding officer of
the Reliance, have been liberated. Last night
a fleet of gunboats, accompanied by a Monitor
from the coast squadron, went up the Rappa
hannock for the purpose of destroying the rebel
port at Lowrey's Point and recapturing the
gunboats. Among the rebels who captured the
steamers was a portion of the old Merrimac
crew.
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A dispatch has been received by tho military
authorities here from General King, announ
cing the death of Mosby at a farm house just
beyond the Bull Run mountains.
GUERRILLAS IN KENTUCKY.
LoursviLLE, August 31.--Bands of guerrillas,
from 100 to •200 strong, have recently appeared
in Clinton, Monroe and Cumberland counties_
On Saturday one band captured four of Wool
ford's cavalry, at Albany.
Small parties of guerrillas are reported in
Trimble county_
The re.bel General Proton is at Tasewall,
Va., with seven regiments.
About 400 guerrillas passed through Pound
Gap, on Saturday.
PURSUIT OF THE LAWRENCE MURDER
IERS-_-MORE THAN 100 • BILLED.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 4—Lieutenant- Colonel
Clark, of. the Ninth Kansas Cavalry, returned
last evening from the pursuit of Quantrell
through Jackson, Case, and Johnson counties.
His command killed ay perpetrators of the
Lawrence massacre, and other companies have
returned to the different posts, having killed
and wounded several bushwhackers. Among
the killed wit's Captain Este, recruiting officer
for. Marmadiike. The whole number of guer
rillas killed, as far as known, considerably ex
ceeds one hundred.
BOUNTIES TO VOLUNTEERS IN NEW
JERSEY.
TRENTON, Aug 31. —The Delaware and Rari
tan Canal, and Camden and Amboy Railroad
and Transportation Company, haVing paid to
the Governor of New Jersey the sum of $30,-
000, for the encouragement of volunteering in
this State, the Governor has determined to ap
propriate it in bounties of $25 to eaah of the
first 1,200 volunteers who shalt enlist in a New
Jersey regiment on or after the let day of Sep
tember.
FROM CHARLESTON.
The latest news from Charleston is that on
the evening of the 25th ult., our troops made
an assault on Fort Wagner, with a view to the
possession of that stronghold. Rebel authority
states that it was repulsed. On the 26th ult.,
the fire on both aides was very slow and delib
erate. The dispatch of the 18th says that the
Union troops are working hard in the trenches
in front of Fort Wagner.
AFFAIRS IN JAPAN
BOSTON, Aug. 61.—A private despatch, dated
Hong Kong. July 6th, says that war against
Japan by England and France is almost cer
tain. Exchange on Hong Kong is falling.
The Markets.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 1, 1863
The flour market inactive and only 1,000
Ws sold at $5 25®5 50, for old stock, and
so@o 25 for fresh ground extra family. The
receipts are very small. Rye flour steady at
$4 7505. Corn meal at $4. The demand for
wheat continues limited and only 3,000 bus.
sold at $1 20®1 31 for new red ; $1 33®
1 35 for old, and $1 53 for choice Kentucky
white. New rye dull at 90e. Corn less active.
Seek 8,000 bus. at 82c. for yellow, and 79c.
for mixed western. Oats in good request and
5,000 bus, new sold at 550. Coffee is firm at
25:1®280. for Rio, and 28@30c. for Laguayra
Sugar firm. Provisions move slowly ; mess
pork held at $14@14 25 ; 8.000 tee. hams sold
at 12c. for plain, and 13®,13i- for canvass.
Lard has declined and is offered at lino.
Petroleum dull and declining sales ; crude at •
34 ®35c., and refined at 57057-ic. Whiskey
advanced, sales at 49®50e.
NEW YORK, September 1
Flour heavy. Sales 8,000 barrels at $3 90®
4 45 for State, $5.10e5.35 for Obio.aud $6 10
® 6 25 ter Bouthorn. Wheat quiet. Sales
4,000 bushels at 82®51.10 for Chicago Spring,
and 941 for Milwaukee Club. Corn advanced
1 cent. Beef quiet. . Pork quiet. Lard steady
at 91(3101. Whisky steady at. 4 7@471. Re
ceipts—flour 15.145 barrels. Wheat 31,491
bushels. Corn 43,774 bushels. Stooks firm.
Gold 128. Treasury 7 3-10, 107. Tennessee
6's, 662.
Democratic Comity convention.
At a meeting of the County Committee, het('
at the public house of Jas. Raymond, in thR
City of Harrisburg, on the 15th inst., it way
unanimously
Resolved, That the Democratic voters of the
several wards, boroughs and townships in Dau.
pbin county, are requested to meet at their
usual places of holding delegate elections, in
the townships, between the hours of five and
seven o'clock, T. M., and in the wards and
boroughs, between the hours of seven and a
half and nine o'clock, P. M„ on Saturday the
sth day of September next; for the purpose of
electing two delegates from eat& ward, bor
ough and township, to represent them in a
County Convention, which shall be held at the
Court House, in the City of Harrisburg, co
Tuesday, the Bth day of September next, at
two o'clock. P. M., for the purpose of forming
a county ticket, &c.
The following changes in the places of hold
ing delegate elections were made, vis
Susquehanna Townandp.--From Miller's school
house, to Michael G. Shreiner's hotel, Coxes
town.
Middletown—Middle Ward.—To the public
house of Raymond & Kendig.
A. W. WATSON, Chairman.
Franklin Smith, Secretary.
New 24inciertisements.
PUBLIC SALE.
In pursuance of an order of the Orphans• Court et
Dapphin county, will be exposed to 1140, on
S&TURDAY, the 3d day of OCTOBER, 1803,
On the prowling, a Timor OF IMPBOVED LAND,
situate on the waters of Powell's creek, in Jefferson
township, in said county, adjoining lands of Archibald
M•Olaughlin, Joh" Hoffman and others, containing
about FIFTY-FOUR ACRES, having a fine GRIST
MILL ani SAW MILL erected thereon. There
are also two DWELLING iIOI7:SES and a new
" BARN on the premises about forty acres of the
land are cleared an. has lately been limed. Wa er is
carried by pipes ti the spring house. There is also a
young orchard on the premises.
Sale to commence at 1 o'clock p. in., when attendance
will be given and conditions of sale made known by
JOHN BOWERMAN,
Administrator of said deceased
JOHN RINOLAND, Clerk, 0. 0.
Harrisburg, 8814. 1, ISM-to
PUBLIC SALE.
In wantons of an rrder of the Orphans , Oourt of
Dauphin county, will be exposed to sale, on
SATURDAY, the 24th day of OCTOBER, 1863,
On the premises, at ono o'clock p. m., the following
real estate, viz CERTAIN TRACT OP LAND,
situate, bios and being in Mifflin township, Dauphin
county, bounded by lands of Nil lam Metz, ile.l'zer Wal
ter, Benjamin Bomberger, Benjamin Snyder and Jona
than Miller, containing 23 Acres and )13% Perehee ;
whereon is erected a two story LOG EfOljelel, weather
boarded, Log Barn and other out buildings There is
a never-felling spring of rennieg_ifeter on the premise'',
and en excellent Orchard coasiming of 'nations kinds of
fruit. Late the estate of William Snodgrass, dec'd.
Attendance will be given and conditions or ease matte
known by
JONATHAN MILLER,
Admi•iet ator of sTicl d3cqase4
j NO. RINGLAND, Clerk, 0. C.
Harrisburg, Sept. 1, 1563 —nep3-ts
"FOR SALE.—The house and lot, situ
atedr on the corner of Sewed and Nortk streets, in
the °Ay of tiarrisburir. Title indisputable_ For fur
ther information apply on the remises, to Mrs Joshua
Fackler. sep2-Swd,
WANTED IMMEDIaTELY.—At
Ettinger & Ullman's, 92 Market street, a compe
tent man to carry on the shoe business. Good refer
ences required.
FOR BALE.—One llowe's Original Leather, and one
family sewirg machine, together with ;aloe and other
shoemaker's Emtures_ sep2—lwd.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS,-Pro
.ol poaale will be received at the C ommon Council
Chamber till 6 o'clock P. N., September 2d, for con
structing a Sewer 18 inches In diameter in the clear, in
Cherry Alley, from a. point near Second street to Frog;
street, ac , ording to a profile of the city regulator, ap
prover by the Council A nguyt 29.1862, end on file in the
clerk's office. Said proposals to state the price for men
lineal yard for the sower when completed. The con
tractor to furnirl all the material and de all the work.
Troporals to be directed to W. O. SIMMS
eeI-St President Common Council.
DR. J. C. HOYE.R.,.
31:0 gek MR
OFFICE IN WYETWS .BIIILDINa,
In room formerly occupied by Dr. Carman,
CORNER or MARKET STREET AND MARKET EGO:UBE.
WANTED.—A Woman with a fresh
breast of milk wanted to name a young ohibi at
No. 90, Market street. ang 31,3tik
ROSS' AMERICAN WRITING
FLUID, equal if not superior to Arnold's Engii,,,is
Fluid, and only 62 cents per quart bottle, at
SCIIXFFER 2 6 BOOKSTORE.
MENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING CER.
TAtN AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITU
TION.
Be resolved by the Satiate and Ho WE. of Re
presentatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva
nia in General Assembly met, That the, folloWing
amendments be proposed to the Censtitution
of the Commonwealth, in accordance with the
provisions of the tenth article thereof:
There shall be an additional section to the
third article of the Constitution, to be designa
ted as section four, as follows
Simms 4. Whenever any of the qualified
electors of this Commonwealth shall be in any
actual military service, under a requisition.
:rota the President of the United States, or by
he authority of this Commonwealth, such
electors may exercise the right of ourrsge its
all elections by the citizens, under such regu
lations as are, or shall be, prescribed by law,
as fully as if they were present at their usual
place of election.
There shall be two additiOnal Sections to the
eleventh article of the Constittiiion, to be de
signated as sections eight and nine, as fol
lows: •
SECTION 8. No bill shall be passed by the
Legislature containing more than one subject,
whieh shall be clearly expressed in the title,
except appropriation bills.
SECTION 9. No bill shall be passed by the
Legislature granting any powers, or privile
ges, in any case, where the authority to grant
such powers, or privileges, has been, or may
hereafter be, conferred upon the courta of this
ComMonwealth.
JOHN CESSNA,
Sneaker of the House of Reprosentatiwe,
JOHN P. PENNEY,
Speaker of the Senate.
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH. I
Harrisburg, July 1, 188... 1;
PENNSYLVANIA. SS:
I do hereby certify that the foregoing and
annexed is a full, true awl correct copy of the
original Joint Resolution of the General As
sembly, entitled "A Joint Resolution propo
sing certain amendments to the Constitution,'
as the same remains on file in this office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the Secretary's
office to be affixed, the day and year above
written. ELI SLIFER,
iy7 law6m Secretary of the Onnynonvisalth.
HOTO GRAPH ALB WIS.—A large
and beautiful assortment of Pboti graph Albums
just received and for sale cheap, at KNOOtill'B,
ayeB3 Market street.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that letters of administration
have this day be•n nrantod to the unierdirned by the
Register of D -upbin county, upon the estate of Dud&
Breeeler, late Of Jatoit4 on township, h, paid county, de
ceased All persona having claims or demands against
said estate are hereby req rated to make known the
mate without delay, and those iodebte • to said estate
are notified to make imm.itiate paymmt to
JOHN HOFFMAN, ad., , taistrator,
aug27•lawdt* Jefereon township, usaphia Co,
BROOMS, BRUSH B;'4, 'I ÜBS AND
BASKETS of an descriptione, guts If tie. and Prises,
for sale by WM. DOCK, Jo., & CO.