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Wednesday Morning,. Augt. 19, 1863.
UNIO.AT ST ATB TICKET.
FOR GOVERNOR,
ANDREW G. 'CURTIN,. Centre
. - FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
DAPitIF I L . AGNEW, Beavr.
ILYION COUNTY TICKET.
FOP." ASSFAILLT,
T. JEFFERSON MILL, Chamboreburg
FOR. PROVIOtiOTASY,
SIIANN'ON TATLo,ll,,Chazab'g
FOR REGISTER Alki'D RECORDER,
HENRY STRICKLER, Antrim.
FOR CLERE. OF THE COURTS,
WM., G. 311TOffELI., Southampton
`FOR COUNTY 'TREASURER,
JAMES G. ,FJ.DEU, St. Thema&
. FOR COMMISSIONER.
lIENRY GOOD, Quincy
FOR DIRECTOR. OF TIM POOR.
101 EN k 3 E LEST, Chambereburg.
FOR AUDITOR,
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SII.IIYOCE, is authorized to
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THE•: SITEATfiON.
The ATmy of the Potomac is still
resting on the North side of the Rail
paharinock while Lee reposes on the
South side. The intense heat of the'
last several weeks has doubtless pre
vented Gen. - kende frorh venturing
on any offensive operatioUs, an&Gen.
Lee is evidently too much shattered
by his Pennsylvania campaign to re-
sumo the offensive. Rumors have
been afloat of Lee having been large
ly reinforced, but we'do not credit it
for the very
. good reason that the
'rebels have not the troops to furnish
him. Their universal conscription is,
a failure, and,does not -fill the vacan
cies created by desertions. - Meade
has been reinforced by Burnside's old
Corps, not less than 10,000 strong,
and returned deserters, enntvaleseents
find contieripts have swollen his ranks
Until he is now quite as strong 'as he
was before the battle of Gettysburg.
The news from Charlesto,n is espe
, eially interesting. Gen. Gilmore and
Adthiral Dalghren have doubtless
commenced a .combined attack upon
the rebel works and forts, and we
hava the - reit& in a few -days.
Large reinforcements have ben sent
to Gen. Gilmore, and he is now deem
ed strong, enough for every emergen
cy. We hope soon to record the fall
of Charleston.
A lUOT WANTED.
, The Harrisburg Patriot and Union
announces with an air of fiendish tri
.nmph that "several regiments have
"been precipitated upon Schuylkill to .
"enforce the draft," and in the same
Perfidious spirit inquires—" How does
"that sound? What becomes of For
"riey's idea that the draft is an expres
"siori of the popular will—something
"desired byrthe people, if it has to be
"enforced at the point ofthe bayonet?"
Considering that the" Patriot and
Union has spared no pains to provoke
open resistance to -the draft, by its
'shameless perversions of the tenor
and aim (If the conscription act, and
by . its undisguised hostility to the war
and the success of our army, it is not
surprising that it should gloat with
infernal joy' 'over the remotest pros:.
peet of 'riot and murderous lawless
ness - within the liniits of its own
State. If there shall not be riots and
anarchy in the mining regions of
Pennsylvania,', it will be no fault of
the Patriot and 'Union, for it has ap
pealed to every base passion, to
every unholy 'prejudice; and no W : , af
ter having aroused its dupes to the
verge of resistance, it. plays its last
,eard by pointing to the bayonets it
has made to glisten over its own ma-
Egnant work, and seems impatient'
led the 'bloody pageant should -be
wetted.
. ,
The fideLity.of the people...t:tf 'Penn
sylvania toi the laws, 'as a rule, has
evidently been a source - of the keen
est mortificatiiol3. Judge Wood
ward's central organ. For weeks past
it has labored for a generalievolution ;
but in !ne'seetion,lidie ,be mining
•"
regions, has there been a shadow of
response to its mingledmalignitys,nd
treachery. •Despairing in its efforts
for a sweeplakburrloane ,of Anarchy,
it,ig utifl. tuniilling to forego entirely
: itelt&isonvible eritarise, tamd it'lumi
bends its 'energies with unrelenting
fury to crimson the mining, regions of
Schuylkill, ,Luzerne, &C., with the
blood of their own citizens. It well
knows that there and there only is a
lingering hope of lawlessness—there
where free scheols are contemned and
the regular Democratic ticket Voted
with a yell, it makes its last, exhaust
ing appeal for the deadly work of rev
olution to begin.
It has well selected its field of ppe
rations. If it cannot breed lawless
ness in Schuylkill,' then must its oc
cupation be gone, for in no-other
section of the State have ignorance.
prejudice and partizan hatred-pre-ra
ised such abundant fruits of treason.
In portions of Schuylkill, peopled
ex
clusively by miners, Jeff. Davis could
reign supreme, surrounded by appro
ving subjects, as long as Frank Hughes
and such echoes of his sentiments as
the Patriot and Union did not invoke
their prejudices against him.' The
writer heyeof had somewhat to do
with this people a year ago when the
last, draft was made; and in_ Cass
township the miners stopped work
and resolved that they would not be
drafted, and that they would permit
no resident of that district, however
- willing, to respond to the call of his
country. In pursuance of that reso
lution they mobbed the cars loaded
with patriotic conscripts and drove
them out with pistols, 'knives and.
stones, and but for the timely inter
position of the Catholic clergy,. who
finally brought them to peaceable sub
mission, we should have had the riots
then 'which the Patriot and Union so
badly wants now. A little iiquiry
into the character, habits and preju
dices of these men, and the uses for
which they are employed by design
ing and reckless political leaders, re-,
moves all surprise at their probable
attempt to defy the laws. During
three years there were thirteen delib:
crate murders in Cass township, and
not a single criminal was brought to
trial. The District Attorney labored
in vain to have processes served and
arrests made, but the civil authorities
had become completely powerless be
fore .this perpetual mob. Democratic
politicians must have their votes, and
they cannot hang or imprison one
half and Vote the balance at their
pledsure, sd the laws have become a
by-Word and mockery, while an al
most unanimous Democratic vote at
elections; an occasional little home
riot, and now and then seasons of la
bor- at their own prices and under
their own regulations, vary the amuse
ments of the innocent creatures upon
whom several regiments of have
been "precipitated" to enforce the
la' vs. • • -
Gen. Whipple, the military com
mander at'Pottsville, has already had
several rifle balls "precipitated at
him by skulking 44ssassins, and the
mines have been stopped-by the oper
atives preparatory to a general shindy
when the draft is made. They, are
perfectly masters of law-makers, law
officers and property ,owners' in their
-region; and when - they want prices
of goods reduced, wages raised, bosses
discharged, systems revised, processes
prevented, or particular laws defied,
they resolve to have it done, and hith
erto their decree has been final.—
Judges, Sheriffs, and other officers of
the courts must be voted for by,the
enlightened and virtuous citizens of
Cass and kindred townships, and when
once elected it is . trouble enough for
the leaders to keep them in order for
the next election, without exaspera
ting them by imposing upon them the
restraints and penalties of the laws:
Their last resolve was against the
draft—it should not be mad the
conscripts should not report, for dity, ,
and all labor has been arrested to pre
pare for a free fight. But it seems
Gen. Couch , has some old-Pashioned
ideas about the Cass township amuse
ments
-of killing, robbing and defying
laws generally, and he has -" precipi
tatedT several regiments . Upon the
exceedingly docile citizens of the
mines. Instead of making speeches
tothem and telling them to vote the
Democratic ticket and thus stop the
draft and this " nigger -war," he has
employed as his orators several bat
teries of artillery and the gleam of
several thousand bayonets; and judg
ing from the agonies of the Patriot and
Union ho has almost persuaded thein
to reputable citizenship. Whether
:they will submit, as do better- men
everywhere, or whether they will_
bring.upon themselves the fearful eon
,seßnea6 ,of lawlessness, is for the
Patriot ,and Union, Frank. Ittights,
.lii_ - _:',friniklittlattiositcirt); - - fbamtlifsbiitt,':Pa.
and other owners of their - prejudices
to determine. If they insist upon a
a riot in behalf of Jeff. Davis,_a small
experiment can now bemade in that
way; but beyond a feNifunerals of the
men 'who should have been 'hung long
two for the reek - less commission of
capital crimes, and the consequent
reduction of Judge Woodward's vote
at the nest election, we don't see the
profits of the transaction. The laws
will be vindicated—the time has ome
cELABLES THE-VALIANT.
on. Charles J. Biddle, whose peo
ple voted him into Congress because
they believed him to - be a patriot, and
afterwards voted him- out, dedisively
because they found that he , wasn't,
has turned up alive-.-a fact we an
nounce with pressure to our Demo
cratic friends, especially those of the
positive copperhead stripe: We had
mourned Charles as dead, and would
have embanked: him hr history - with
the illustrious heroes of bonder de
fenee,-had We been able, 'to discover
-his deeds of daring and the - bloody
field on which he fell. Tor weeks
we supposed that .he had fallen in .
some sanguinary struggle; and found.
a grave' in spine secluded spot, un wept
and unsung', where / lie would lie mon, -
umentless and unepitaphed, because"
his dying valor spatted no foe to re:-
cord his - achievements. But he is
alive- 7 -thanks for that; he has written
an address of five mortal colurnns—
thanks for that;- he promises to write
and publish more of the same 'sort—
our gratitude overflows !
Charles was some two months ago
appointed Chairman of the Demo
cratic State Committee. 'Rebore MS
honors meekly until the rebel hOrdes
invaded Pennsylvania, when_he re
solved to draw his somewhat tried
but, still bloodless sword, against the
vandals who were desolating his na
tive, State.
, •But a point of etiquette, a
or perhaps grave question of polit
ical .policy, confronted him. Could
the Chairman of the temocratic
State Committee engage in actual
hostility against an invading foe
without compromising his party ?
Charles. reasoned the ease, and decid
ed that be clearly could not without
a special dispensation. Whereupon
Charles asked leave of his masters to
fight. He would fight at the head of
a division, of a brigade, of a regi
ment, of a company, of's squad or
as a' private; but 'fight he insisted
upon and light Charles would ; and
to remove all difficulty in the solotion
of the novel question, he proposed
"to resign the position of Chairman,
" in order to give as a private soldier, or
" in any sphere that may be open, my,
"(his) whole exertions for the defense
"of our invaded Conimonwealth.v
A council was called, and the pug
nacity of Charles was duly consider
ed, and the delicate relation a fight
ing soldier would sustain to the lead
ership of the Democratic party was
made the occasion of a profound con
sultation. How the issue might have
been - 'determined, - had not Charles
been pre-determined to fight, history
will never know ; but as he was al
ready on record as an unrelenting
belligerent, the knot had to be cut
and Charles had to be allowed to go.
Judge Woodward therefore said—" I
" cheerfully consent so far as I have
" any interest in your movement, to
" your resort to arms in the defence
"of the State." He probably did not
know that the Nation was engaged
in a deadly war to preserve the life
of the Republic, and Charles evident
ly forgot to tell him ; but he did
agree that the , naughty, ebels should
not " with impunity tread the' soil of
‘ 1 Pennsylvania."
Charles drew his sword. Placards
as if by i magic graced every brick:pile,
mortar-bed and street corner regard
less of "post no bills here,"- an 4 the
daily journals or the Quaker "City
were tuned to war by' the bulletins
wherewith Charles called the people
to fill
, a regiment, of which he should
be Colonel. Morning and evening
notices announced how rapidly its
ranks were filling up. In a, little time
the equanimity of the city was re-
stored, and we supposed that sills by
side
. with the three Union League
regiments, the several Coal regiments
and the Grey and Blue Reserves; was
ill° valiant Charles with his thous
and heroic Copperheads; and that
they had marched on with' eager
tread to .the Scene of conflict, with
drums beating, banners flying and
muskets gleaming. We did not tie*
them march through
,Chambersburg,
but We felt assured, that they had
found some shorter route to meet the
foe, and that where the cannon boom
ed"loudest and the hail of leiden mis
sle,s_was thickest, there was the pug
nacious Charles leadin his heroes
and hurying his dead. But the smoke
of battle and the hoStile tread of rob
e's have cleared away, and of the re
doubtable Charles and his regiment.
"Not a drum was heard nor a funeral note,"
Neither his, warlike 'deeds nor his
death were recorded, and we mourned
him 'as an unheralded martyr.to the
defence of our homes; for whether
departmental,' division, - brigade, field,
or' line commander, or whether "a
private soldier," we did not doubt
that he had gone, as bidden by Judge
Woodward, "to teach the World that
hostile foe can, with impunity
"tread the soil of Pennsylvania."-
rßutSharles neither marched, nor
f0u.„ ,, 0r died; neither commanded
nor was conunanded ; biit "still liveS,"
as lie -"did during the invasion, in
peirce - And security in Philadelphia, as
his -immense address to the Democra
cy- of
,the State assures us. That
Charles, didn't fight we rejoice, for
he might have fallen, and more sens .
and_patriotism might havei,:appeare
in DemocrAie addresseq defrau
the voters of the. State;, but tha
he insisted Upon
_rnshing, - bati
tle, and called the world;; Judg
Woodward and 'the rest rOf man
kind" to witness. bus - bloOdy pur
pose, and then quietly squelched on
while thoUsands marched to the field
without making public proclamation
of, their, bravery, might be called by
the unappreciating home-spun world
a mingling of fraud, falsehood. , and
cowardly- bravado, Charles Might
ya.ve redeemedhiS Military pomposity
'Measurably by issuing a truly patri
otic:address 'to the .Democracy, arid
'excused himself, By pleading the la
bor of such a
; mammoth production;
but his address is as vapory as his'
valor, and has not 'an earnest line in
defence of the life of the Nation.
' =Let us have a few more addresses,
Charles. - Rand them along!
CIEARLESTON.
Charleston was - the - Cradle of trea
son. It was there t16. - t , the first par
ricidal blow was aimed at the govern
ment—there that traitors first met fo
counsel the severance of the , StatesH
there that the bloody -drama, since
enacted over the graves of two hund
red thou Sand citizens, was first con
ceived—there that the insidious pol
son of infidelity to the Republic had
been first taught ! and for years Pour
ed out upon the 'Nation- 7 -there 1 that
Sumter fell in the first-assault of r arin - -
ed rebels against . our common flag.
Since then two Years of horrible, sick
ening war have Crowded into history
- the most thrilling achievements and
diasters .known'. in the crimsoned rec
ords of-human daring. The confines
of the murd6rous foes of the Republic
have been narrowed; , and still nar
rowed until not a single State but
;can point to the national ensign float
in; within its borders, and more than
half the -- tertitiary claimed and ;origi
nally held' by, the foes- of Free -Gov
ernment, has been'permanently wres
ted from their fatal embrace:
Just now every patriotic heart
turns with no ordinary emotions to
Charleston. Hitherto it has escaped
the scourge, it nursed into colossal
power to desolate the homes of oth
ers, but at last the retribution of
sometimes tardy but ever sleepless
justice, seems to be nn the eve of its
relentless vindication. The hand
writing has been on the wall at Get
tysburg,-at Vicksburg, at Port Hud
son, at Helena, at Tullahoma, in char
acters too plain to be misunderstood;
and now with Lee and his-shattered
columns at bay south of the Rappa
hannock, and Bragg and Johnston
driven in confusion into the interiorof the so-called confederacy, Charles
ton is being encircled by patriot com
mands on land and water; and soon
we hope to see the National heart elec
trified with joy over tlie announce
ment that the home and hot-bed of
treason has at last felt the avenging
stroke; and has fallen before the 'gal
lant sons of the North.,
—On the first page of to-day's pa
per we give an accurate and compre
hensive map of Charleston, its al) ,
preaches and defences, and the, range
of its various batteries. Our readers
may readily understand the condititm
of affairs between the two contending
armies. Gen. Beauregard commands
the rebels, and it will be seen that he
has every ayenne bristling with his
guns ready to tiweep approaching par-
ties; but - Gen. Gilmore, who is at least
Beauregard's equal as un Engineer
and as a brave and skilful commander,
has 'made a secure- lodgment on Mor
ris Island, and now has his immense
guns planted within short range. of
Fort Wagner, and easy rang6--,Af
Sumter. Since his repulse in the atl
tempt to storm Wagner, he has been
aal ly, reinforced, _so that the siege
canno i *-sibly be raised by a sortie
irom e rebel works; and the
Charleston papers confess that unless
Gilmore is dislodged by assault,. he
will in his own time reduce Fort
Sumter and capture _the city. The
iron-clads are heroically aiding Gen.
Gilmore, and have several times en
gaged both Wagner and Sumter at a
few hundred yards; and l when theft
nal attack is to be mp,de, they will
- play no unimportant Partin the glory,
of restoring the Old Flag . .over - the'
last lingering hope of treason. Heaven
speed the day ! •
IrNiON"LEAGVES.
There - should be a Union League
organized in every election district
of Franklin . County without; delay.
It needs but a little effort, is attended
with little or no- expense, and in no
way can so much 'effective work be
done to promots--the-Union cause.
Union Leagues should be working
institutions. With active officers and
efficient committees, every vote in the
district Can be ascertained—the doubt
ful strengthened, the timid and hesi
tating supplied with documents, and,
'above all, a full vote can thug be se
cured in October. A full vote in
Franklin, bear in mind, will give 1,000
Union majority.
Let the good work begin at once.
There is no time for delay. The en
emy is busy everywhere, quietly talk
ing about taxation, debt, Abolition
ism and . kindred treachery to mislead
honest voters against the govern ;
went: Their efforts must be met
- sternly by the patriotic Union men,
and they have but to expose the trea
sonable designs of Copperhead lead
ers, to alienate hiindreds of loyal
Democrats from the support of Wood
ward.
Sometimes public meetings are ne
cessary or wise—sometimes not. Let
the Leagues see to this, and when
speakers or documents are wanted,•
call on the Chairman of the CoUnty
Committee for them and they will be
forthcoming. Now is the time "to
beglnthe work of organization, and
we hope that_ two weeks hence will
see a thoroughly officered _ Union
Lea:4lloin every district in the county.
UNION COUNTY TICKET.
In another column of to-day's pa
per will be found the proceedings of
the Union County Convention, held
on Mon&ly last; and a full Union
ticket is now presented to the loyal ,
Voters for their suffrages. That there
.are disappointments 'when choice has
to be made from many competent,
faith-ful and meritorious men in the.
selection of a, ticket, is inevitable ;
but the
.chosen representatives of the
party having, 'after consulting the
preferences of the several sections of
the County, presented the names on
which the loyal men can best unite,
and for whom they can give the hest
promise' of success, but one duty -re
,mains—that is Lo sink all :preferences
and regrets and unite in an earnest,
-determined effort to give a decisive.
triumph to the ticket..
Welave neither time nor space to
review the , ticket; but we can assure
the Union voters of the "Green Spot"
that the men upon it are honest and
competent; are strong in the. affec
tions of . the loyal people, and are
faithful to the Union cause as the
needle is to the pole. Several of them
wear honorable scars and maimed
limbs as- the testimony of their bra
very, in the sanguinaryfield in defence
of the Republic,and they will achieve
a crowning victory, alike for them
selves and for the government, at, the
polls in October. next. If tlfis ticket
don't have 1,000 majority in Franklin,
it will be because Union men fail to
discharge their whole duty.
ORGANIZE AT ONCE
The Union men of Franklin County
nowt have their State and local tickets
in the field, and in less than sixty
days they must triumph or suffer a
most disastrous, a fatal defeat, at the
polls. Bear in mind that at no pre
vious election have such' 8 1 101
vital issues ben!, involved. llf we
ivoul4 .untintain the integrity 'of the
Republic, the supremacy of the laws.
the cause of our soldiers doing battle
forourNationalay, we must strength
en our cause by a decisive popular
verdict.' - -
• Our foes will not =openly ,assail the.
Flab, nor will they manfully- decry
the cause of the country. But they
will oison the public mind untiring
13' appeal to every preju
dice, toe ry passion, that promises
to array an honest voter against the
government. They will he organized
in evcryeleetion district, and, with an
energy worthy of a better cause:
they will contest our success
_at every
step.
• - :
Let the friends of the Union (tem
mence the work of organization at
once. The time is short—the duty
imperative—the cause worthy, of the
noblest efforts of every patriot. Let
e endangered or lost by supine
ness. Eternal vigilance is _the prig
of Liberty ! ,
' THE Spirit has taken a spasm—but
whether it was because the' Union
ticket was elected. in Kentucky, err
because General Burnside issued-an
order declaring-that "ho disloyal per
sons-be allowed to vote," is not par
ticularly clear from its halftcolumn I,n‘
incokerent ravings oh the 'subject.-
'Either" would be a mortal - offence to
the Spirit.; for if. Kentucky elects .an
unconditional Union Governor, the -
last hop© of Woodward periShes in
Pennsylvania ; and if "disloyal per
_Ons" are denied the right of suffrages
in Kentucky, it- Might so happen in
Pennsylvania, reasons the - Spirit, find
then, Woodwardwouldpigure with a
'most scanty column of election re
turns. Besides; What, business has
Gen. Burnside ; "or any other man,"
to: stop "disloyal persons" -from vo
ting in ,Kentucky? Why stop the
traitor, Breckenridge's brigade, or.
Forrest's, - Morgan's. cut-throats,
froth. stealing home, into Kentucky.
as they did two years agO, - Voting the
Rebel-Democratic ticket - in Order to
swing the State out Of the Union,
and theil "go back into. he rebel ranks
and helple fight her into, the deadly
efabrace of Jeff. Davis ? The Spirit
insists that such restrictions upoll , the,
right -of suffrage indicates "with
„what
frightfUl rapidity we are drifting into
' , despotism I" Most certainly! It is
true that every criminal who cuts
throat, or steals a purse, and feels the
despotism of the law - in 'restraint of
his liberty, whines just as the__ Spirit
does: :If "disloyal persons" had not
been morally Certain to vote t4p Spir
it's ticket in KentuckY, its equanini
ity would not have been_distnrbed ii
behalf.of„ the cowardly traitors *lto
have but one purpose in voting,
to steal or defraud Kentucky' out of
the Union; but the case being alter
ed, alters the - case! -It pronounce:l3
G-en. Burnside'S order a "most alarm:,
ing manifestation of usurpation" and
declares 'that such `victories "are 'no
cause for congratulation." On the
other hand the Buffalo Courier, &rad
ical Democratic paper,. declar4 the
result in Kentucky "a victoll over
Secession and over Abolition, and for
the Union and the laws."- Has not
the Spirit-got tangled in this-affair'.'
-"Say, Mr. - Showman, vich is the
monkey, and vich tht elephant ?"
We presume the Spirit's idea is that
you "pays"-your moneY and takes
your choice !",
THE attention of Farmers is-direct
_
ed,to the article and illustrations on
the third page-of to-day's paper. Es).
pecially do we urge upon. every: owner
or oceupant of land to see-to the de
struction of the Canada Thistle with
out delay. It threatens to become
one of the Most dangerous foes of the
Farmer in this section, unless imme
diate and persistent -far is made
upon, it. If yon have an indolent,
thriftless neighbor who alloWs- it to
grow upon - his land, and thus raise
weeds to destroy the crops and pol
lute the, farms of others, 'remind Min
of the act of asseinby, 'and if he don't
mew, see that the work is done:for him
and that he pays so dearly for it that
he will not need telling next time.
THE Spirit announces that Brig.
Gen. Alexander ira,milton CrytTrotb,
M. C. from this district, did not raise
a row-generally about Union soldiers
taking rails and butter-railk in Ad
ams county. We stand eorreeteu and
Ilre prepared to apologize; and as
soon as convinced whether we should
apoligize to the General of to the.
people of Adams county for thus as
twisting them, it shall be given hear
tily. Can the Spirit tell?