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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATIONS.
808 GOVERNOR, ,
HON. GEO. W. WOODWA.RD,
Or PSILADELPHIA•
POE JUDGE OF TEE-SUPREME COURT,
WALTER H. LOWRIE,
OF A.LLZGHENT COUNTY.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
SENATOR"
DANIEL D. BOAS, of Harrisburg.
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J. WESLEY AWL, Harrisburg.
CHAS. H. ZIEGLER, Reed township.
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JOHN RAYMOND, Middletown.
OGIONTIZ COXIMISSIONBR,
T. A. HAMILTON, (8 years,) Harrisburg,
JAMB BUCK, year,) Upper l'axton.
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JAMES MORNING, Jefferson.
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Dr. DAVID LIEBERGER, Lower Paxton.
DIREWS OF TUX POQP,
JOHN BUCK, West Hanover.
AUDITOR,
JAMES M'CORMICK, Jr., Harrisburg.
TO DEMOCRATIC EDITORS AND
PRINTERS.
WariIEPORTART NOTICE.—Many of the news
papers in the interior of the State are printing
the name of our candidate for Supreme Judge,
fig Walter B." instead of Walter H. Lowrie,
which is the proper way. This mistake, espe
cially if carried out in the printing of tickets,
may be the means of depriving us on the count
of thousands of votes. Let editors and printers
at once look to this, and print the name here
after WALTER H. LOWRIE.
p oiv %EVA 10 *3O ;IEI to • 40 4
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The 'mild County Committees of Superintendence
are requested to communicate the names and post office
address of their members to the Chairman of the State
Central Committee.
CHARLES J. BIDDLE, Chairman
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Rooms 144 S. Sixth Street, Second Story.
Mairruert—Hon_ Ca,uri-ea J_
Secretary—Jauss F. SauNK,Zeq.
Treasurer--Col. WILLIAM H. ifricaLutrz.
The officers are in attendance daily at the Committee
DEMOCRATIC MEETINGS.
Wednesday, Oct. 7.
Bush, Susquehanna county.
Fennersvine, Monroe county. [To be addressed by
Hon. J . H. Walton, John DeYoung, Esq., Col. John
Nye°, Col W. H. /letter, Stephens Holmes, Beg.,
John li_ Storm, Esq., Lieut. Chas. S.Deitrich,ltsq.,
and Charlton Burnett, Req.]
Salina, 'Penang° county.
Allentown, Lehigh county. [To be addressed by Hon.
P. W. Hughes, Hon. W. H. Witte, Hon. Boyer,
Hon. James Campbell, Hon. Heister Clymer. Hon.
Owen Jones, George Northrop. Beg., J. S O'Neil,
Max Geopp, Beg., John O'Byrne, Hon. J. D. Stiles,
Joel Cook, and others.]
Pittsburg. Allegheny county. [To be addressed by
Hon- C. W. Carrigan and others.
!Wiley, Huntingdon county. [To be addressed by $.
M. Speer, H. B. Petriken. Zs. Itlingh, and others.
Archbald, Luxerne county. [To be addressed by E. B.
Chase, Dr. H. Hakes, 0. H.. Silkmau, P. C. Grit
man, H. M'Hnne. Thomas Wright, of Bingham
ton, D. B. Randall, and others.]
Thursday. October 8.
Carlisle, Cumberland county. [A grand rat ly, to be ad
dressed by Ex-Governor Win. Bigler, Hon. Wm. A.
Porter Hon_ Chas_ W. °arrive, Hon. W. H. Witte,
Hon. Jeremiah 8. 18111114 the. Northrop, Isq.,linn,
A. V. Parsons, and Hon. H. ClayDean.]
Downingtown, Chester county. [To be addressed lby
Hon. John L. Dawson, Hon. Wester Clymer, G. W.
Biddle, Bee., G. M. Wharton, Esq., and J. Boss
894Wdon,
Doylestown, Barks county.
Kittanning; Armstrong county. [To be addressed by
Bz-Gov. Bigler, Hon. Charles Ingersoll and T. J.
Miles, and Hon. W. H. Witte.]
Powell's, Bedford county.
Roxbury, Franklin (minty.
Morgan's Corner, Chester county.
Btrattonsille, Clarion county.
New Columbus, Luzern( county. [To be addressed by
Om. Stardom:et family Woodward audit. B. Chase,
Howl* Susquehanna county.
Long's Valley, Monroe county. [To be addressed by
Col. John Nyco, Hon. James H. Walton, Lieut,
Chas. 8. Detrick, John B. Storm, Stephen Holmes,
and Charlton Burnett, Esqs. on English, and Col.
W. .IL Hatter and John DeYonng, Esq ., in Gar-
man
Jerseytow .]
n, Columbia county. [To be addressed by
Joseph - C. Bucher, Beg., Col. Wm. Brindle, and
Hon. N. R. Jackson.
Alexandria. Huntingdon county. [To be addressed by
R. L. Jehefiati, J. P. O'Neill, Sod atm.*.
mosoow, Luzern county. [To be addressed by A. B.
Dunning, R. H John Handley, C. H. link
man, E. Merrifield and others.]
Friday, October S.
Springfield, Fayette county.
Bowser, Bedford county.
Orrstown. Franklin county
Manville, Cumberland county.
M•Siden, Weetmordend county.
Corsica, Clarion county.
M'Coytown, Juniata county.
pandas, Suquehanna multi%
Rasa, Monroe county. [To be addressed by Col. W. H.
Hatter and John BeYoung, Bal i in fierrovi„ bug
Hon. James H. iYalton, Gel. John Nyce. Tient_
Ches. 8 . Derrick, Lewis D. trail, Stephen Holmes,
John B. Storm, and Charlton Burnett, lags., in
Hew Inoomoaeld, Perry county. [To be addressed by
Hon- C. W. Carrigan, liz-Ser. Bigler, sod others.]
Xt. Union. Huntingdon county. [To be addressed by
John P. O'Neill. and others.]
Vernon, Crawford county.
Wellettat. Lucerne county. [To be addressed by Hon.
F. W. Hughes, Puttees Hahn, Dr. H. Hakim, C. P.
Bowman, S. 8 Winchester, C. R. Brundage, W C.
Robinson and Thomas Wright, of Binghampton.]
Saturday, October 10.
Tallow Taman, Barks aslant,.
Dawson's Station, Payette county.
Hatboro', Montgomery county.
Soldier Young.
It was decided in the Philadelphia Common
Pleas, on Thursday last, by Judges Thompson
and Allison, in referencelto information asked
by _Assessors, " That a soldier was sot disqual
ified from being assessed, and did not lose his
citizenship by becoming a soldier, but retained
Ale residence in the election diarist from which h e
enlisted ; that being an inmate of a hospital or
s camp did not disqualify him, provided at the
time of his enlistment ists resifkase was in this city.
But there was a difference between enlisted
soldiers and surgeons, officers, and nurses, and
other employees of hospitals, as the latter had
gone into these establishments voluntarily,
and Gould resign, or leave at pleasure; and this
ez th i , a ssessment did not of itself qualify a
vote—it is only one of the requisites of quali
fication for voting."
Abolition Falsehoods.
All the Abolitioniate say or print now in re
gard to Woodward, Lowrie or any of the Dem
ocratic candidates, may be set down as false.
Our advice to Democrats is—believe not a
word that comes from Mein.
They have neither written, spoken, nor
printed anything impeaching the patriotism or
loyalty of the Demooratic nominees, since the
campaign opened, but the grossest falsehoods.
Now that but a few days intervene between
this and the election, and their falsehoods can
not be exposed, we need expect nothing but the
most atrocious calumnies. The devil himself
cannot beat them at lying—they have long
since bartered their honor, if not their very
souls, for gold, and they are reckless what they
say or do.
They charge Gen. M'Clellan with favoring
the election of Curtin.
It is false.
They say Judge Woodward sympathises with
the rebels.
It is false.
That he favors an assumption of the rebel
debt.
It is false.
That he is'disloyal to the Government.
It is false.
That he is hostile to the naturalization of
foreigners_
- It is false.
That he is opposed to Roman Catholics.
It is equally false.
These and all other charges they have
brought against him are deliberate, malicious,
atrocious falsehoods. Let everypemocrat and
every honest Republican bear this in mind.
A TEXT FOR COMMENT.
Creed of the Lincoln and Curtin Aboli
tion Party.
The late Massachusetts Abolition State Con
vention J2tiolved, "That the policy of employ
ing colored soldiers should be enlarged and libe
ralized by putting such soldiers ON A PER
FECT EQUALITY WITH WHITES."
This resolution was drawn up by Hon. Mr.
Bourwinx, late United States Internal Reve
nue Commissioner_ What is its plain meaning?
This, and nothing less : To make negro offi
cers for white soldiers to touch their caps to—
,to obey their order, to march under and fight
under—and it means, when the war is over, to
give them the right of suffrage without any re
striations more than are placed on white men,
to make them eligible to the jury box and to
offioe—in short to confer upon them PERFECT
EQUALITY, political and social.
This is now the creed of the whole party
that supports the administration of Lincoln.
It is the creed of ANDREW G. Collin; who has
avowed himself to be the humble follower and
obedient servant of Lincoln in every thing—
and every SOLDIER and every CIVILIAN that
caste a vote for Curtin on Tuesday next, gives
his voice as emphatically for perfect negro
equality, social and political, as if he had voted
for Boutwell's resolution, or proclaimed the
sentiment aloud from the house top,
CORRUPTION-FRAUD-SNAVERY.
WILIORMI • TP wan
The Army Tainted—Officers Selling their
Men.
Another interesting proof a the universal
rascality and corruption so generally prevalent
not only in the administration of the Govern
ment but in the army, was brought to light a
few days ago by Provost Marshal Nugent, of
New York. A report had prevailed for some
time that several military officers were engaged
in disposing of their enlisted men as substi
tutes. Three men were arrested, belonging to
the 11th N. Y. regiment, who had been sold as
substitutes by their lieutenant, to parties in
Brooklyn. Having pocketed the bounties,
however, he disappeared with all the money,
not carrying out the original programme,
which was that he shoQd receive $lOO only
out of each $3OO. Of course the men will be
tried for desertion. A colonel of a certain
regiment in New York has also been put under
arrest on several charges of fraud. One of them
is that he sold the whole of one of hie emnpensiet to
a rural district to complete its quota I He is to
be tried in a few days, for his extremely cool
attempt at " turning an honest penny."
A Blow at Venal Democrats.
Hon. A. G. Riddle ? Abolition member of Con
gress from the Cleveland, Ohio, district, made
a speech on the 29th of September, in which
he thus alluded to the renegades who have gone
over from the Democratic ranks to the Aboli
tion party :
" Who has injured Demograts ? Haven't we
HIRED them to be loyal, and PAID them in
PLACES and in noxone for their pairiolians
[He was too modest to add, and in mowev.]
Haven't we thrust by our own Noma and ux
somen ones to make place for them ? Was
not the brave and sagacious and true man, now
on this stand, [Gov. Dennison,] rudely pushed
from the Executive chair, that a scarred politi
cal fob [the renegade Todd might have the
place," &e.
What a volume of truth there is in this short
extract. " Haven't we hired them to be loyal ?".
Yon are all hired, you political renegades—
bought up, every man of you, with a price, like
cattle. So says one of your own party, a prom
inent man—a leader of your new associates;
and he knew what he was talking about. You
are, as he says, the ignoble and the soiled ones,
for whom bet(cr men have been thrust aside.
Poor, debased wretches ! despised even by those
who have hired you—despised but treed. If you
have any shame left, there is but one course
for you to pursue—do as your prototype, Judas,
did—return the purchase money, and then hang
yourselves.
Revolution to follow Defeat.
John Brough, the Abolition candidate for
tiovernor Oki% threatens, if defeated, to
prevent the inauguration of his opponent by
force. In this State we are threatened with
another draft in case the people should elect
Woodward.
What a set of precious rascals the Abolition
leaders are. But, thank God, the Demooracy
of Ohio and Pennsylvania fear neither force nor
draft. If revolution should be resorted to, they
will meet it and put it down—they will try the
traitors who lead it, and, if connoted, they will
hang them. If the punishment for loyalty to
the Constitution and Union is to be only an
other draft, why they can stand that as well as
their neighbors. They will do their duty, and
take the consequences.
The Soldier's Friend.
The Carlisle Volunteer—Extra—October 6,
contains, in the shape of a soldier's affidavit,
strong evidence of the warm friendship which
"Shoddy" CURTIN entertains for the war-worn
private. The Volunteer says:
The following affidavit of our brave young
townsman, Mr. William Walton, who served
faithfully in the army of tho Potomac for a
year and a-half, and who was honorably dis
charged on account of a severe wound he re
ceived in battle, will be read with indignation
by patriotic men of all parties, and particularly
by our brave soldiers who have been falsely
told that Shoddy Curtin is the "soldier's friend."
Had Walton been a black soldier—"an Ameri
can Citizen of African descent"—or had he been
a shoddy contractor, or a "loyal" thief, the
favor he asked would have been cheerfully
granted ; but he is a white man, and therefore
left the Executive chamber branded by Gov.
Curtin "A LOAFER." And this is the Curtin
who is paraded before the people as the "sol
dier's friend !" But to the affidavit of Mr.
Watson :
Cumberland County, as :
Personally appeared before me, M. Holcomb,
a Justice of the Peace in and for Cumberland
county, William Walton, who upon his solemn
oath says, that I (Walton) belonged to the army
of the United States, 11th Pa. Vol., Company
A, for the term of eighteen months, which I
served. On my way home to Carlisle , I lost
forty-five dollars in Baltimore, and had money
enough left to bring me to Harrisburg, Pa. I
called on Andrew G. Curtin, Governor of the
State of Pennsylvania, with my discharge, to
get transportation home to Carlisle. When I
laid in my complaint to Andrew G. Curtin, he
said "get out of my office; I want no loafing here;
if you want to go home, go on a freight train," and
then I went to Bridgeport, and my brother gave
me money to go home.
WILLIAM WALTON.
Sworn before me the 3d day of October,
1863. M. HoLcomn, J. P.
Mass IRWIN; at Carlisle.
TO-morrow a grand Democratic Mao meet
ing will be held at Carlisle. It is important
that the demonstration should be powerful.
As many of our Democratic citizens as can
should be there. In this great struggle for the
maintenance of republican government and
free principles we most help MN selghbori end
they must help us. We must hang together
and render mutual support if we would push
on the column to vietory. Let us give Old
Mother Cumberland a lift. Ho ! for Carlisle
to-morrow.
Is there Ground for Hope.
We are often asked, says an exchange, is
there any ground for hope of good in the fu
ture ? There is—but it can be reached only
by a change of rulers. The present H powers
that be" have proved themselves. unfit and un
worthy; the progress of affairs under them,
has been, and is likely to be, from bad to worse;
they have shown themselves ignorant and reck
less experimenters, vainly sacrificing the blood
and tromp; of the nation, to such an ostent
that there is now no choice left to the people,
but A RUINED COUNTRY or A CHANGE OF
ADMINISTRATION.
SIR, THE ABOLITION PARTY IS A DIS
LOYAL ORGANIZATION. ITS PRETENDED
LOVE FOR FREEDOM MEANS NOTHING
MORE OR LESS THAN CIVIL WAR AND A
DISSOLUTION OF THE UNION. HONEST
MEN OF ALL PARTIES SHOULD UNITE TO
REST THEIR PROGRESS.-ANDREW JACK
SON.
PBl. tha Pada ima
DEMOCRATIC MEETING AT MUNCE
Mom, October 5, /863.
Editors Patriot and Union :—GENTLEMEN :
On Wednesday, September 30, the largest meet
ing of the Democracy ever held in Lycoming
county, assembled in this place. The stand
for the speakers was erected on a five acre grass
plat, near the centre of the town, and festooned
with wreathes and decorated by the American
flag and appropriate banners.
The assembled thousands were addressed in
'most eloquent and appropriate speeches, by
Hon. Messrs. Parsons and Carrigan of Phila.,
and by the Hon. T. H. Purdy, of Sunbury.—
The meeting adjourned at a late hour, after
giving repeated' and prolonged cheers for the
bold and patriotic orators, and for the standard
bearers of the Democracy,
In the evening, Hon. A. V. Parsons, Hon.
C. W. Carrigan, and Hon. Truman H. Purdy,
were serenaded by the Danville Band, at the
residenee of Gen. W. A. Petrikin.
Never was so large or enthusiastic a politi
cal meeting held in Lycoming county on any
former occasion. The spirit of the white man
for his constitutional liberties is thoroughly
aroused, and the Democracy are determined to
maintain them at all hazards. The demon
stration struck consternation and dismay into
the adherents of the revolutionary and dis
union elements that, by usurpation of power,
seek to overthrow the liberties of the white
men.of Pennsylvania.
The usurpers are attempting to retain pow
er by colonising voters. They will fail in their
purpose. The people arik resolved to hurl them
from power, and thus re-establish their consti
tutional rights. A glorious and overwhelming
victory awaits the Democracy on the 13th of
October instant.
THE ISSUE MADE UP!
FREEMEN, CONSIDER AND DECIDE
"The people of Pennsylvania are to decide,
among other things, on the SECOND TUES
DAY OF OCTOBER, whether the Constitution
of the United States is to continue to be re
garded as the Supreme law of the land, alike
binding upon the rulers and people, and to be
preserved inviolate, or whether it is to be
trampled upon by any man who may chance
to occupy the presidential chair.
"Whether the rights reserved by it to the
States are to be respected, and the great Demo
cratic doctrine of State rights sustained.
"Whether the rights of the individual citizen,
as derived from nature and defined by civil
law, are to continue secure, or to be subject
to the whim of a temporary ruler.
"Whether we are still to enjoy the great
Anglo. Saxon rights of the writ of habeas corpus,
and trial by jury.
"Whether we are to be protected in life,
liberty and property by the majesty of the
civil law, or whether all these are to be sub
ject to the caprice of any man . who may happen
to be in command of the military forces of the
nation.
"Whether, in short, this is to continue to be
a constitutional government,having the powers
of its rulers limited by well established and
known laws, or to degenerate into a military
despotism.
“Whether the Union as our fathers made it
is to be restored by a wise system of policy,
or its restoration to be rendered impossible by
the mad sohemes of a set of miserable fanatics
whose sympathies seem to exhaust themselves
entirely upon the negro.
"Whether the white man is to continue to
rule in America, as is his right by virtue of
superiority of race, or whether we are to con
sent to see the negro elevated to social and
political equality.
" Whether the war is to be managed for the
benefit of the white race, or for that of the
negro.
" Whether we are to be tared' for ages to
oome that the slaves of the South may be freed.
"Whether they are all to be freed, as Mr.
Lincoln in his late letter declares they shall,
and turned loose to compete with the poor
white man of the North in his struggle for a
livelihood.
ss Whether we are to have a speedy and an
honorable peace, by extending a cordial imi
tation to the people of the South to return to
their allegiance in the Union as it was under
the Constitution as it is, or to see the war pro
tracted for years upon the policy avowed by
Abraham Lincoln in his late letter.
" Whether we are to have free elections in
the future, or to be mocked by a farce.
"Never were more momentous questions sub
mitted to the decision of any people. All the
best interest of the nation are hanging on the
result.
ss The eyes of all conservative men are turned
anxiously to watch the issue of the coming
elections.
" We have a high and eelenin dab' to per
form.
" Every ballot is big with destiny.
"No voter should lightly esteem his great
privilege as a freeman. A grand triumph of
the Democracy will be a glorious victory for
the 'people.
" The election of Woodward and Lowrie will
insure such an administration of the affairs of
the Commonwealth as will make glad the hearts
of our people, while the great moral effect of
the victory will be of even greater importance.
" Freemen of Pennsylrania 1 you moot re
buke the spirit of fanaticism that is hurrying
our country to destruction.
" If you value your dearest rights you must
make a united and determined struggle to main
tain them.
" The work before you is one that demands
all your zeal and all your energy.
"Let, not a day pass unimproved between
the and the second Tuesday of October.
" Work earnestly and unremittingly and a
glorious triumph will be the result."
There is a wide difference between the Demo
cratic and Republican parties.
The Democratic party rely on the people at
the ballot boxes to redress political grievances.
The Republican party rely upon the power
of the President to control the ballot boa sad
defeat the people.
The Democratic party believe that the Con
stitution should be adhered to strictly, in time
of peace or war.
The Republican party believe that the Con
stitution should be disregarded if their party
is in power, and the administration of their
choice deems it "necessary" to set it aside.
The Democratic party believe in the great
constitutional right of the habeas corpus, as a
shield to the citizens!, against unlawful arrest,
and that Congress alone can suspend it in time
of insurrection or invasion.
The Republican party believe that this right
should not be regarded if their partisan Presi
dent only sees fit to suppress it.
The Democratic party believe that the civil
law is superior to the military.
The Republican party believe that military
power is superior to the civil.
The Democratic party are opposed to arbi'
trary arrests, "without due proceso of law,"
where the courts are unobstructed.
The Republican party favor all such ar
rests.
varLyveneve Emit the states
are sovereign in all political power which they
have not delegated to the Federal Govern
ment.
The Republicans centralize power in the
Federal Government, and sanction acts which
subvert the rights of the States and suppress
the libartiee of the people.
The Democrats believe that the Union can
be maintained only upon the principles of the
Constitution upon which it was based—but
when all the States are not admitted as
equals in the Union, the Union itself cannot
stand.
The Republicans propose that a portion of
the States shall dictate to another ae to the
State institutions that shall exist within their
jurisdiction, and hold that a portion of the
States should be dependencies to the more
numerous and more powerful States.
The Democrats hold that secession and re
bellion are hostile to the Constitution, and
wickedly in violation of the pledged faith of
the State ; and that the Constitution, and the
laws in pursuance thereof, shall be maintained
in all the States of the Union.
The Republicans go much further, and hold
that the laws under the Constitution—the Fu
gitive Slave law and others—shall not be main
tained, but destroyed by armed forces—that
the President's word or order shall override
Constitution and law, and destroy not only pro
visions of the Constitution, but State laws and
State institutions. The Union as it was, they
will not have.
Vide Thaddeus Stevens, who said: 66 The
Union as it was—the Constitution an it is—
GOD FORBID !" And all the Abolitionists—Lin
coln and Curtin included—respond amen !
People of Pennsylvania, you must choose
between these parties on Tuesday next. Your
choice will bring salvation or ruin. Think,
then—reflect—and choose wisely.
.NEWS OF THE DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ARRIVAL FROM CHARLESTON
NO NEWS.-OAPTURE Or A BLOOICA.DE RIINNER.-.A
Nnw YORK, Oct. s.—The Fulton has arrived
from Charleston Bar, bringing dates to the 3d
inst. 'No news of importance. Everything
there as it was at previous dates. The rebel
steamer Diamond, from Nassau, laden with
saltpeter and liquors, had arrived at Port
Royal,
.a prize to one of the United States
gunboats.
A Nashville dispatch to the Herald states
that the rebel fiatneral Forrest had made a raid
on the road betiFeen that city and the front,
cutting the telegraph wires and temporarily
stopping communication with General Rose-
OVUM
SENTLVEL
EXPLOSION-SEVEN KILLED AND WOUN-
POUGHICEPSIE N. Y., Oct. 6.—An explosion
occurred yesterday at the Washington iron
works' new building, by which some persons
were killed and wounded. The damage amounts
to about $2,500.
BY THE MAILS.
THE WAR IN GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE]
FROM ,BURNSIDE AND ROBECRANS' ARMIES
Cnvotrucari'
Oct. 5.—A dispatch to the Com
mercial, dated Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 4th, says
Colonel Carter has taken a position at Bull's
Gap. The rebels still hold Greenville, and are
said to have been strongly reinforced.
Decisive results are expected in the East.—
Bayard and Woolford are still in our advance,
below London, skirmishing with the rebel cav
alry.
General Hascall is in command of the 23d
army corps. This, with the fact that the rebel
cavalry have • attacked M'Minnville, is con
strued to mean a formidable flank cavalry
movement to cut floseorane' lines and isolate
Barneide.
TEE TWO PARTIES.
RAP) ET FORREST
DED.
Officers direct from Chattanooga say both
armies are busy fortifying, and their pickets
are close together and skirmishing daily.
On the 28th ultimo the rebels attacked our
right, but were repulsed after a fight of two
hours, with considerable loss. A large num
ber of prisoners were taken, all of whom ex
pressed disappointment at the result of the
Chiohamauga battles. They say their losses
were enormous, in killed far exceeding ours.
Five hundred wounded have been exchanged
on each side, but no officers.
Two divisions of the enemy were separated
at Harrison's Landing, on the Tennessee. Hie
cavalry were detached in an effort to cross the
river on the SOth, and were driven back.
A FIGHT IN TENNESSEE.
Headquarters of the Ist Division of Cavalry,
near Dunlap, Tenn., Oct. 3.—Colonel Edward
M. M'Cook, with the Ist Wisconsin and 2d In
diana cavalry, attacked Wheeler's rebel force
of 4,000, at Anderson's Coes Roads, yesterday,
and whipped them badly, killing 120, taking
87 prisoners, recapturing all the Government
property, including 809 mules, and also the
prisoners taken from our train. Among the
prisoners is a major of Wheeler's staff, and
commander of his escort; a major of General
Martin's staff ; Col. Russel, commanding a
brigade, and nine other officers. The enemy
was completely routed.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—A letter from Dalton.
Georgia, dated September 26th, published in
the Richmond Dispatch of Saturday, says!
"The over-sanguine multitude will be some
what disappointed to know that the chance of
General Bragg taking General Rosecrans' army
is no easy job. Although his losses have been
heavy, he has yet a very formidable army."
THE WAR IN VIRGINIA.
WASHINGTON. Oct. s.—Yesterday morning as
some of our teamsters were foraging near the
Rapidan, north of Clark's mountain, one of the
enemy's entrenched batteries fired seven shots
at them. The Hisao had preitionaly given out'
pickets notice they should do so if they re
peated the act. No one was injured.
A rebel brigade occupy a strong position
north of the Rapidan, near the railroad, a short
distance from our lines. The roads are in goad
order between the two lines.
Our troops strongly picket the Rapidan to
its mouth, thence down the Rappahannock, be
low Falmouth.
Guerrillas still infest the southern side of the
Potomac. Some of their raids and captures, it
is knoll, initklit be prevented, if oar troops
were more watchful of the enemy's movements.
Severe penalties are the result of their fancied
security.
DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF.
Nsw Onmuma, Sept. 20, via CAIRO, Oct. 5.
Matters are evidently drawing to a crisis on the
western side of the Mississippi.
All the 18th and 19th corps, except General
Herron's division, have been moved to Bra
shear City.
One corps will move further West, while
others move North to cooperate with Herron,
who has been after Dick Taylor, on Red river.
Gen. Banks, it is said, is to take the field in
person.
Gen. Franklin in in command of the 19th
corps.
Gen. Herron's headquarters are on Atchafa
laya river.
DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI.
CAIRO, Oct. 5.—H. D. Gully,of Kemp county,
Miss., announces himself as a candidate for
Representative in Congress on the reconstruc
tion platform.
Vicksburg dates of the 25th ultimo say that
the Texas expedition had been abonnoned.
The railroad from ham to Vicksburg is to
be rebuilt.
No movement of any kind will be made from
Vicksburg very soon. General Logan has taken
command of the city, and closed all the places
onsnitm.
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There is a great want ofilifilleor OW - Trans
ports at Vicksburg.
A flag of truce, under Colonel COlbaugh, let
for Dixie on the 20th of September. '
General Grant role out, for the first time
since hie accident, on the 25th ultimo.
Prominent citizens of Mobile report that
there will not be much resistance offered to the
Federal advance on that city. -
GEN. BLUNT'S COMMAND-AFFAIRS IN
KANSAS AND MISSOURI.
ST. Louis, Oct. s.—The Democrat of this city
has a special despatch from Leavenworth ;
which says ! General Blunt has left for Fort
Scott and Fort Smith. Guerillas are cutting
off trains, and are around Fort Smith in a
Menacing attitude.
The Mit,yot of Pialonle, and one hundred
other citizens of Platte county, Missouri, have
made a statement to the effect that there are
now in Leavenworth over a hundred Union
men with their families, who have lied from
Platte county for fear of violence from the Mis
souri State militia, and that if a change in the
condition of affairs is net soon made, the lives
and property of the Union men in Platte
county will be at the mercy of the men whose
loyalty has always been, at the beet, doubtful.
So many destitute refugees have arrived in
Leavenworth from Missouri that the Mayor of
that city has been compelled to issue a procla
mation to provide means to relieve their neces
sities.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
SPEECH OF POSTMASTER-GENERAL BLAIR.
WASHINGTON, Oct. s.—Postmaster-General
Blair made a speech on Saturday in an adjoin
ing county of Maryland that is attracting
much attention to-day. He denounced the
revolutionary scheme of the Abolitionists to
obliterate the States of the South, and declared
that it was now the manifest duty of the Presi
dent to steer his course through the strong con
flicting tides of two revolutionary movements
—that of the nullifiers, to destroy the Union
and set up the Southern Confederacy, and that
of the ultra Abolitionists, which has set in to
disfranchise the South on the pretext of ma
king secure the emancipation of the slaves. It
is not improbable, he said, that the ultra Abo
litionists will be found co-operating in the end
with the conspirators of the South and their
foreign allies.
GILMORE AND DAHLGREN.
Full advioes, which it is not thought proper
to publish, have been received at Washington
from these commanders. They aro not idle,
but, on the contrary, are pushing forward pre
parations for a renewal of the conflict. They
are working. together cordially, and have confi
dence of ultimate success.
BALTIMORE GAZETTE.
Permission has been given for the Baltimore
Daly Gazette to resume publication under the
management of the late editor, its publishers
being required not to return to the city during
the remainder of the war.
CIIN. 80110PIIILD.
Several of the remaining Missourians are
now not very confident that the President will
remove Gen. Schofield. The speech of Post
master Blair on Saturday, representing the
President's course in the future conduct of the
war has left but little hope of change. The
pressure from the President's friends against
the demands of the delegation is stronger than
ever, and will yet carry the day.
ARREST OF A MEMBER OF moRGAN'S STAFF.
Col. David Graham, chief of John 'Morgan's
Ataff, bee been arrested on his way south, with
an irresponsible parole obtained at Camp
Chase, Ohio.
JAPANE-E TEA.—A choice lot of
this oelebrated Tea just received. It is of the first
cargo ever imported, and in mush superior to the Chi
nese Teas in quality , strength and fragrance, and i 8 also
entirely free of adulteration, coloring or mixture of any
kind.
It is the natural leaf of the Japanese Tea Plant.
Per sale by WM. DOCYIE, jr., do Co.
THE UNION.
"These States are glorious in their indipi.i„,d; ; .. ,
but their collective glories are in the Uo;on,
all means, at all hazards, are they to be main
tained in their integrity and the full worm
their constitutional rights—for only so the
to be preserved—only so is it worth preservirtf.
It is the perfection of the prismatic eoiors,
blended, produce the ray of light. It is the es , n--
pleteness of these assembled sovereignties, lack.iny
nothing which they have not lent for a great pur
pose, that makes the Union precious. This worl
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 chasm
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 *sages, and laws, all forming raze
glorious nation—all moving onward to the sam; ,
tublime destiny, and all instinct with, a commo:1
life. Our fathers pledged their lives, their for
tunes, and their sacred honors, to form thisi on ,
—let ours be pledged to maintain it."-LGEo.W W.
WOODWAIXP I July 4, 1851.
m-nrm. mi7n
Extract from the decision of Judge WoBD
WARD Ouetaining 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
justified the pushing of legislation to the eztremcst
limit of the Constitution ? No citizen could le
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-gowned, for all the indulgence from Re
creditors which the Legislature have power to grant.
If the term of indulgence seem long in this instance,
et was not longer than the time for which the Pre:-
sident and Congress demanded the soldier's set-
vices."
Ell r2lbuertionnents.
AN ITEM FOR THE LADIES.
70.
The undersigned, having a long erperienee in the
Bcot and Bho' business, is now prepared to sell the
very best styles of Ladies' shoes at the lowest possible
prices. He keeps every imaginable kind of Gaiters,
Balmoral boots and Slippers. Also, all kinds of Child
ren's shoes, from the finest Infinni shoe to a coarse
brogan. Also, a full assortment of Men's Boots and
Gaiters of every description, beetles an excellent lot of
louth's shoes and boots.
Call and examine his large stock before purchasing
elsewhere. -
117•No.12, Market equare, next door to Felix 7 g con
fectionary.
N. B.—All orders promptly executed.
oct7-dly. LIPPMANN HESS.
AN ORDINANCE Providing for the Payment
of Policemen for the Months of August and
September, and for the Payment of three Police
men from the First of October, 1863, until the
Thirty-first day of March, 1864.
SEC. 1. Be it ordained by the Gammon Council of
the city u( .liamstnarg, That tbo sum of two hun
dred and forty dollars and sixty-seven cents be,
and the game is hereby appropriated for the pay
ment of the policemen employed by the Mayor
under a resolution of Council of June 6, 1663.
SEC. 2. That the sum of four hundred and fifty
dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated for
the payment of three policemen from the first day'
of October, 1863, until the thirty-first day of
March, 1864.
W. 0. HICKOK,
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President cOagni COM/
Passed October 3, 1863.
Attest—Devin Haunts, Clerk.
Approved October 5, 1863.
A. L. ROUMFORT, Mayor.
TO ALL WllO VALUE THEIR
SIGHT !
JULIUS ROSENDALE,
OPTICIAN AND OCULIST,
Itespectfully announces to the citizens of Harrisburg
and vicinity that he has opened an office at Market
Square; next to Felix , a confectionary, where he will
keep L large aiworLaseat of hie
PANTASCOPIC AND TINTED SPECTACLES,
Set in Gold, Silver, and Magnetic Steel Frames
Pelir 4ppreeleting the eoundence that bee been re
poled in him on Ida former visits, he secures his patients
that his aim will be, as heretofore, to merit thefr con
fidence and good will.
These glasses are now recommended by the first =M
'ea( men through the country. and all who purchased
them from me on fernier visits will testify to their
great advantage over all other ones in nee. They waist
and strengthen the weak and impaired vision and ena
ble the wearer to do the most critical work without the
feeling of weakness always caused by common glasses.
The Lenses, which are ground from the finest eryetel 7
will last from ten to tweve yearn without change.
These spectacles are manufactured at No. 221, New
Street, Philadelphia, and may be exchanged any time
if not suited to the eye.
Consultation free.
Office hours from 8 a. m. till 8 p. m.
N.B.—All kinds of spectacles and optical instruments
neatly repaired. octe-d&wlm.
VALUABLE PRORERTY AT PUB
LIC
VALUABLE
pursuance of the last will and testament of John
Bele, deceased, will be exposed to public sale, on Sat
urday, the 17th day of uctober, 1663. at the Court
House in the city of Haarisintrg, at 2 o'clock, p. m.,
V ALITARLD TRACT OF LAND, situate in the city of
Harrisburg, on the Jonestown road adjoining property
of John Shoop, William Allison and the Elwin:den es
tate, it being the property of John Bele, deceased, con
taining twenty-one acres more or less. Erected thereon
IS a glad two-story frame house and barn, other out.
buildings, good water, and a thriving young apple or
chard.
Bale to commence at 2 o'clock, as above stated, when
the terms and conditions of sale will be made known by
JOHN BRADY.
Administrator de bonie non C. T. A.
oatO•dts
DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNER
SHIP.—The Pa-tnership heretofore existing tin
der the name of Nichols t Bowman, was this day dis
solved by mutual consent. All persona indebted to the
Ist* firm are requested to call at our late place of busi
ness and settle their bills.
• A. W. NICHOLS,
H. N. BOWMAN.
Harrisburg, Sept. 28,1863—pct 6.3 t
C A R D.
The undersigned respectfully Announces to the citi
zens of Harrisburg and vicinity that he has this day
purchased the stock and fixtures of the late firm of
Nichols & Bowman, and will continue the wholesale
and retail Grocery Business at the old stand, corner of
Front and Market street. ge will open next week a
new collection of choice Groceries, in addition to his
present large and well assorted stock. A call is re
spectfully solicited. ADAM KELLER, JR.
Harrisburg, Sept. 28, 1863—oct 6-3 t.
rOR SALE.—A pair of splendid three
year old MULES, and a good two-horse carriage,
suitable for Livery or Family.
JOHN O. Mod:LIMITER,
Fort Hunter.
Oct 5-d2w
}MINTING PRESSES FOR SALE.
One small CARD PRESS.
Ono SUPER-ROYAL SMITH'S HAND PBXS&
One RUGGLES' QUARTER MEDIUM EAST PRESS,
for cards, circulars, &o.
Coe DAVIES' OSCILLATING, SIIPEB-ROYAL, O A "'
CHINE PRESS, suitable for jobs and newspaper work.
A stout boy can run off 1,000 eopiee per hour.
All the presses are in good order, and will be Hole
low. Apply to T 1 :120 1?„ 8011(letrAlg,
oat 1, No. 18, Market et w Harrisburg.
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)FFEES AND SUGrARB O F LAI
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QRApBIS, and at raanonaVrActiOLlNal,