, : •. '-'l .:. , ... . - :: -.••• r. ;. - 4 .. , t . •• - . . . . , ...... • . . - r ' ~.- -, I. .Le.r' l' ~ t li ,. ..: 7 .: . ' =•- -:- ' . . ' • I ::.'' ' ." .- '' \ _ • . . - 1.....7 ,- • . iro ~..,. .. . . , , - Xi — • - _ ..: . ...., .. , ... . . . 1 i I . ~. . . ill. Ai .. . i. , . • . , . / . . . . .. • e• = II M MI ;!'ty VIATRE tk, 'STONER., -1 grantlin WASHINGTON JE lard e rot in Washin gion —Death of Mont: liirannixt—TholhoWted Men—Military • Orders--Gov. Curtin—Military Rignil *nide% insplaced—Distingnioned Visit ' 'tors in WaShington. '-Ootrelponderice of The Franklin Repository. I • -WAsarstirox, September 11th, 1863. ,bur city has been remarkably quiet for thei last week, only two cases of murder have ; °warred; one of these two is called a "sheck-1 ing murder," because, I - presume, one darki ' killed another darkie with a penknife, an .because he done it- effectively, completel severing the jugular vein, causing :death i a few minutes. No cause shown at the: in - quest. The other murder is called "a' hear rending one," from the fact that a Police . ' ratin named Charles W. Thompson sliot dead 'a . detective, named:`Lieut. J. 31. Brannin. B annin isn,nativa,, of New Jersey, mid is - the soldier that bayonetted Jackson' at thq same time he was shot by, Brownell, .at tlio ,3isassination of Ellsworth, in the ' Marshall' Souse, Alexandria, in 1861. He was an ex imAft4r, detective and two things had some- i • :thing-to do: with his murder. •: First, as is l ,generally the case in everything of the kind' iti , Washington, a woman was mixed ,up inl it. Second, llrannin was known to havel -over $l2OO with him but a short time before • the murder—after his death none of.it wasl found on his person. Where did it go - 11 Murder here has become such-4i : common' thing,',that it rarely causes a second thought. i 'The examination of the. drafted, men - isl ,-, -- T progressing rapidly. Out of 2400 that have been - before the board, nearly WO soldiers; have been obtained: of this number over 20 are - colored. Drafted men from ,all parts o . ' the country are arriving at Alexandria rap t .:Idiy—by Rail Road and by • Boat—so that ita i as very short tine the army will be recruited ' to-its original standard. Very many Itegi- 1 1 meats that were detached from it, have again, joined it—and they-can again defy Lee to eome out of his hole or they will bring hiro l . out:, , A good and sensible order is now rigi idly enforced in this city, namely, General _ , Order -114, “prohibits alfofficers from Visit- :' ing Washington; without spcciill permission I rom the it ariDeplrintent." Another ordaq _oottkpelks all officer' to wear their uniforrti-4 . _ consequently an officer On sick leave, (which! .:- is the general plea) if caught . at -places of, — amusement or honaps of ill fame—is considi ~.Ared..N. y si) -, nongli - fov . duty. - These e are - tw4' Of the best order 'ever enforced in this city] - as it was a burning disgrace to see officer 4 - - here by the thousand alnlost, and continually : - 'fltling the hundreds of barrooms and sup' porting over 160 houses . pf 'ln fame, each -ono of, which has not - lesl than 10 girls .- whereas the common soldiers had to - lie iiii .camp year in and year,out, without even sp . much a two days furlough. . - 1 .' Gov. Curtin, the friend of the soldier.will eograft himself still deeper, to their hearts; ithe will appoint, or give power to an agen4, to,be located in this city, ilia', will look aftek the wants of each and eve# Soldier, no matl torwhat, his rank may t5. 1 - tKe :SaMe as Ohio and-otter states have iibv.' The agent of ,Ohio, Mr. Witmore, attends tOpension apph -Bations, gets and gives transportation and goes to the most ,distant Hbspital to atterill to the wants of the soldier. • Such an agerit, ii, wanted from Pennsylvania moro_than auk , t other State—and it is to be regretted thqt she has not had such an one limg ago. „. t ' -At Ford's Theatre, the Naiad Queen has been played for over two weeks, and yet the ,Muse is jammed everr night, I have seen the deco played in many Theatres, but never ~witlfsuch a series of enchanting picturO3. ' .lifeit week Fords traits us to the sight of ia ,' real Ghost—au ini-ported Ghost—The sank Ghost that is creating .such a sensation , in the eastern Cities. , i Quite a . sensation has been created by the letting down by the easiest means possible 4 a number of high officials. Gen...3leigs, Chief _Quartermaster ; Gen. Hipley, Chief of Ord nance; -,ttigeon-General Hamniond ;_ Sur _ peon Clyiqr ; Gen. Taylor, chief of Sub iistance, &c. - , • A very large sale of confiscated property -located in Washington city took place On Wednesday, a large crowd was in attendane, but there was no spirit in the' bids. This —sale has illustrated one fact, that is that io rime cares much about buying an uncertain . The sale lA'As for the lifetime of the owner such beiUg the case, only a few thousa d dollars Was realized in an immenso isal ,which if it had been a sale of property go ",for all times, would have realized. the G v -1 ernment nearly a million of dollars. • Quite a number of distinguished ufen Ift , for acanvas by stump speaking in thestate of PennsylvAia in favor _of Gov. :Purtn. , Oil: Forney, Dr. Wm. Elder, Ex-GoV. Ben ,dal, Hon. Green. Adams and Chief - Justice ;,:tarter. They will be followed next weick , ..try Maj. Gen. Butler and. many, lothers. : Alarge number of Eminent persons wEre "iii town yesterday. Corn. Farragut 4 Dens.' ~ Meade, • Hooker and Blair, ,John, covode, l a Henry J. Raymond, Ex 7 Gov. Hicks, v. , "Morton, Hon. F. S. White, Mitt'. J . . Palfrey and Mayor Opdyke. NORVAL 1 1 ' - 4:1 ) THE Cnol's.—The corn crop through ut Ole County will be generally ' good, nt ipitlAbstanding itlias considerably. neglliced iti r igg the rebel invasion. Potatoes also 4re. Ood, •but the rot is affecting them to''se.. e extent. /% t. 11•3 =I BEM °~.. From the Natfonal Guard HON. , ,DANIEL AGNEW. Daniel Agnew, the candidate of-the Union party of Pennsylvania for Judge cif Sipreme Court, -was born in Trenton, New Tfersey, January sth, 1809. His father, the late Jui. Agnew, A. M., M. D., of the city of Pitts burg. was a native ofPrinceton, New Jersey, a graduate orthe college there, taking one of the honors, and a classmate with the late John Sergeant, Charles Fenton Mercer, and and, others of distinguished reputation. He was a man ofcomrnanding personal presence, and of magnificent intellect. His mother, who is yet living, and resides with her son the judge, is a daughter of the late Richard Howell, a major of the Revolutienidy war in _'the New Jersey line. He was singularly hondred for his servicesby his fellow -citizens, having been chosen Governor of New Jersey nine times in succession. Mrs. Agnew, the writer of this sketch is quite confident, was one of the little girls dressed - in white who strewed flowers before the great and good Washington when he passed, ,under the tri umphal arch erected on Trenton bridge.— Of this scene Irving remarks. ' , Never was ovation more graceful, touching, and sincere. and Washington, tenderly affected, declared the impression of it on ,his heart could never be effaced." The brothers of Mrs. Agnew,- including Major Richard Howell, so long in the Custom, House, Philadelphia, were near ly all in service in- the' war of 1812. The iliungest of them, Franklin Howell, was a lieutenant in the Navy, and lost his life by the shattering of a spar on board theill-fated President in her fight with the Endymion, off New York. Her brother,lVilliam How ell, Esq., a lieutenant in the ;land service, removed a number of year's ago to Natchez, Mississippi, and is the fatheriof the present Mrs. Jefferson Davis, the' first Mrs. Davis having-been a daughter of the late President Taylor, The treason and rebellion of Mr- Davis have not spared his own relatives by marriage. Few families in the land,, as the writer of this skdtch ,knows, though delicacy forbids lftm to state all, have been more bit terly bereaved by the war than the family-of Judge Agnew.. A most noble son-in-law; the late Surgeon Minis of the Forty-eighth Regiment Pennsylvania Volthiteers, dieol at Roanoke Island, a few days after the battle, through whose perils he had passed safely, from fatigues and exposure, While attending_ conscientiously to hi \ professional duties to the wounded soldiers. He Was an admirable surgeon General Burnside alluded in one of his general orders to-his heroic self-sacra fieing death as calling for. gratitude. He was acting . surgeon of Ninth New Jersey Regiment in the - battle, and at the time of his death. In the terrible conflict at. Get tysburg the Judge was again written a mourner by the sudden death of the gallant B. P. Roberts, the friend - of General Zook, and Colonel of the One-hundred-and-fertieth, Pennsylvania Volunteers. Colonel Roberts lelt a large practice at the bar of Beaver county to endure suffering and death for the glory and perpetuity of his country. He was killed on the afternoon of the second of July, hat in one hand and sword in the other, urging his men to drive the rebelinvaders, and to remember they were on their own soil. He was the most intimate friend Judge Ag new possessed. No one, had he lived, would, have rejoiced more heartily than he in the elevation of his friend to the Supreme Bench of Pennsylvania. In an interview which the w riter held with the Colonel in June last, leis than a month before his heroid'death, he spoke- enthusiastically of -the . courage and - Hon. Daniel• Agnew, Union Candidate for Judge of the Supreme Court, qualification of the 'Judge to grace public staticn. Dr. Agnew moved many years ago with his family to Western Pennsylvania, and settled temporarily in Butler county ; thence he removed to Pittsburg`' to educate his sons. Judge Agnew received his education at the Western University of Pennsylvania, then in charge of the late Robert Bruce, D. D.; and of the late John Black, the .father of the distinguished and lamented Colonel Samuel W. Black. These were noble men, ripe scholars, being graduates, the one of Edinburg and the other of Glasglow Uni versity, Scotland. After graduating in 1825, the Judge studied law in the office of the late Judge Baldwin and W. W. Fetterman. He was a student in whom, as also in the late Hon. Walter Forward—a student of an ear lier day—Judge Baldwin afterwards felt "a pride. He was admitted to the practice of the law in 1829, and in thesameyear reinov ,- ed to Beaver, Beaver county, Pennsylvania, where he hp resided to the present time, gathering b)Niis unebstrusive course in 'his daily life and by great-merit, influence with his years. Here he was married on the 4th of July, .1831, to _Miss Elizabeth Moore, who has now for more than thirty years adorned his home with a quiet grace which has made it exceedingly sweet to him and to their- children. She has "proved herself the, worthy wife of a noble man. She is a sister of Rev. F. Moore, D. the present pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Union Church of this city, and a daughter of the late Hon. Robert 'Moore, member of Congress from 1817 to and in his time one-of the distinguish ed lawyers and statesmen of Western Penn sylvania. - • In 1886 he was elected a delegate to the Convention to-revise the ConstitutiOn. of Pennsylvania, and was with Judge Wood ward one of the youngest of its members. After this he confined himself exclusively, to the practice of the law until he was appoint ed by Governor Johnson. in 1851, to fill the vacancy on the bench of his district (Seven teenth) occasioned by the death of Hon. Judge Bredin. At the October election of the same year_ he was triumphantly elected by the people cf the district over an able and popular opponent, Hon John N. Purviance, carrying his own county of Beaver (which has always supported him nobly) by a ma jority of 455, when its average Democratic majority was about 100. Since that time the politics of the county have changed very much, and it is now a strong Union county. He was reelected without opposition in 1861. His career as a President Judge has been eminently successful, .comparatively few of his decisions having been reversed by the Supreine Court . - - Although never aspiring tonnuolitical of fice, indeed resisting solicitations. of friends in that direction, he gave his services as an old line - Whig to promote what lie believed to be the interests of the nation and State in the campaigns of 1836, 1840, 1844, and 1848, for Harrison, Clay and Taylor. In 1848 he was the Taylor elector for his district,' and was mainly instrumental by his efforts on the stump in redeeming his own county from the *opposition to General Taylor, an opposi tion which had taken so deep a hold that it seemed likely to sink his prospects entirely. Though firm in his views of political truth -and duty, Judge Agnew, having strict no tions'ofjudicial 'propriety, has since his elec tion to the bench constantly-kept aloof from activis partisanship. His able and impartial course as a Jiidge,has made him. a- favorite with, candid men of All 'parties. CHAMBERSBURG, PAZ, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1863, BIM s_ I - _ " - On the 'breaking out °Nile rebellion lie - at once took sides with those whose-hearts were wholly given to the Union, and to the 'Pres ervation of the existence and liberty of the nation. He was chosen President of the Committee of Safety of the county, and 'has ever since been active in every effort to pre serve the authority of the Government and every effort to suppress the rebellion. He is one who considers it to be the duty of ev ery patriot to sustain the Union, not only by,professions, but by active sympathy, by all the means which are necessary to uphold the'hands of those who administer the Gov ernment. His lecture on "Our National COnstitution, its Adaptation to a state of Wur and Insurrection;" is a masterly . pro duction, which has done valuable service in behalf of loyalty. He is the author of an able, eloquent and original lecture that has never been in print,, on -" The Poetry of Low." . His character in private life is, (it any. exaggeration, beautiful. Few, men are more devotedly loved . by - relatives and friends who know. him well. He poss6sses great cleatness and force of intellect, an em inently judicial mind. If elected, as doubt less he will be, his intimate .friends. predict for,him a splendid career on , the Supreme bench. If the people of the ComMonwealth knew his private worth, his, ability and in tegrity? his qualifications for high offiCe, as they are known to his personal friends, they would devote hini to the Supreme bench as the Union Convention nominated him—by acclamatiou. Certainly, with such stendard=bearers as the noble-hearted, patriotic Curtin and Jude Agnew, the Union party of Pennsylvania deserves :success before the people at the coming election. - p 04:1w o_3 Al_4:ii)a• 4:4 )'•311) 4,10 ts`M) 4;1 The following dispassionate and patriotic letter was written by' President Lincoln to a meeting of the Union men at Springfield,. 111. It effectually silences all the Cop perhead climor for penCe on the ground that the rebels are ready -to negotiate, and is followed by the assurance to-the people, given with characteristic; sincerity and frank nesi, that "if any such propesition shall "hereafter come it shall not.b4 rejected and "kept secret from you." We subjoin the . . letter :' - - ' EXECUTIVE RAMON, W.minniorox, Aug. 26, 1863. - Bort. ,TAMES C. CONICLINU.„—MY Slit: Your letter inviting me to attend a mass meeting of unconditional Union men, to be held at the capital of Illinois, on_ the 3d day of September, has been received. It would be very agreeable to me thus tO meet my old friends a: in own home, but I cannot just now be absent from this city so, long as a' visit :there would require. The meeting is to be of all those who maintain • unconditionlil devotion to the Union, and I a m sure that my old: political friends will thank me for tendering ; as I do, •the nation's gratitude to those other noblemen whom nb partisan malice or partisan) hope can make false to the 'nation's life". There are those who are dissatisfied with me. To -Rich I would . say, •4 , You, desire peace, and _you blame me that we do not have it. But how can we attain it? -. There are but three conceivable ways : First; TO suppress the rebellion by force df arms.: This lam trying to do.. Are you for it ? •If•yeu IM =I MI - are ,so far we are agreed., If You are not for it, we are not agreed. A second way la - to give up the Union. lam against thls.i If you are, you should say so plainly. If you are not for force, nor yet for dissolution, there only remains some imaginary compro mise. Ido not believe that any compromise embracing the' maintenance of the Union is now possible. All that I learn leads to a, directly opposite belief. The strength of the rebellion is its military—its army. That army. denominates all the country and all the people within its range. Anv offer of terms made by, any man or, men within that range„ in opposition to that army, is simply nothing for the- present, because such man or men have no power whatever to enforce 'their side of a compromise, if one were made with them. To illustrate—suppose a 'refu gee from, the South and the peace men of the North get together in Convention, and frame and proclaim a compromise embracing a res toration of the Union ; in what way can that compromise be .used to keep General Leo's - army out of Pennsylvania! Gen. Meade's army can keep Lee's _army out of Pennsyl vania, and I think can, ultimately drive it out of existence ;' but go paper compromise, to which the controllers of General Lee's ar my are not agreed, can at all effect that 'arre.Y.. In an efo-t at such compromise we wbutd waste the time which the'enemy, would im • prove to our disadvantage, and that would be all. . A compromise, to be effective, must be made either • with those who control the'rebel army, or with the first liberated from the dominatiOn of that army by the success of our army. .no, allow me to assure youthat no word or intimation from the rebel army or from any of the men controlling it, has ever come to my knowledge or belief.. All _charges and in timations to the contrary are deceptive and groundless, and I promise you, that if any such proposition shall hereafter come, it shall not be rejected, and kept secret from you. I freely acknowledge myself to be the servant of the people, according to the' -bond of ser vice, the United States Constitution, and that as such I am responsible to them. But, to be plain, you are dissatisfied with me about the negro. Quite likely there is a differtinde of opinion between yoU and Myself Open, that subject. I certainly wish that all men could- he free, while you, I suppose, do not. , Aret I have, neither adopted nor pro posed - any measure which is not consistent with even your views, provided you are for the Union. I suggested compensated eman cipation; to which you replied that you wish ednot to be taxed. to buy negroes. But I had not asked : yon to lie &sotto buy negroes, except in such •a way as to save you from greater taxation to. 'save the Union exch..' sively by other means. Y.,ou dislike the emancipation proclamation, q,nd perhaj a you want to have at retracted. ' , /You say it is unconstitutional. I think differently. think that the Constitution invests its Corn mander-ifi-chief with the' law of-War in time of war. The most that can be, said, if so much is, that slaves are property: Is there; has there ever been, any question that by_the law of war the property, both of enemies and friends,' may be taken when needed, and is it not needed when never ta ken it,,helps us or hurst the enemy ? Armies,. the world over, destroy enemies' property when they' cannot use it, and even destroy their' . own to rkeep it from the enemy. Civ ilized belligerents do all in their power to 'help themselves or hurt the enemy, except a few, things regarded as barbarous or cruel. VOL. 700... WHOLE NO. 3,621 Among the exceptions are the mas.sacrer.-ef vanquished foes and non-combatants, male and female. But the proclamation, as la*, is valid or not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction ; if it is valid, it cannot be retracted any more than the dead can be brought to life Some of you profess to think that Its retraction would operate favorbly.for the Union. Why better after the retraction than before the issue? • _There was mare than a year and a halfior -trial to suppress the rebellion before the proc lamation was issued; the last one htinclOd days of which passed under an explicit notice that it was coming unless averted by those in revolt returning to their `alleg,iance. The war has certainly progresied 'as favorablyfor us since the issue of.the proclamation as before. I. know as fully as one can know the opinions of others, that some of the commanders +of out armiiVin the field who have given us our_ most important victories ; believe the emanbi pation policy and the aid of colored' troops constitute the heaviest blows yet dealt 'to the rebellion ; :and that at least one of these im portant successes .could not have been achgvkd when it was, but for the aid of black soldiers. Among the commanders holding these views are some who never had any affinity with what is called Abolitionism, or with. the Re publican party politics, but who held them purely as mibtary opinions. I submit their opinions *as being -entitled to slime weight against the objections often urged that'eman mpation and. the firming of the blacks are unwise as military measures,' and were not adopted es such in good faith. Yon say that you will, not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem to be willing to fight for you; but no mutter-I;Th t jou, then, exclusively tosaye the Union. , • I issued the proclamation on purpose - UP aid you-in saving.the Union. Whenever you shalt have. conquered 'all , resistance to the Union, if I shall urge you to .continue fight ing, it will he an apt ti then for you to. de .elare that you :will notig..t to free negroes. I thought that; in yourstruggle for the Union, to.whatever; extent the negroes should cease helping the enemy, to that extent it weak ened the enemy in his resistance to you. Do you think differently! I, thought that what ever iiegroes can be got to do as soldiers, leaves just so much less for white soldiers to do in saving the Union. Does it appear oth ei W. 83 to you? But_negroes, like other*- pie, act upon motives. Why should they do anytlAng for us, if we will do nothing for Ahem Y If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompte.d:by the strongest motives— even theramise of freedom; and the prom ise, being . made, must be kept. The signs look better. The Father of Waters again goes unvexed, to the sea; thanks to the great North - west for it ; nor yet whol ly to. them. Three hundred miles up they met New England, the Empire, the Key stone and New 'Jersey, hewing their way right and left. The sunny South, too,/ in more colors than one, also lent a hand,- on the spot; their part of the history was jot ted down in black and white. • The job was a great national one; and let none be banned who bore an honorable part in it, while those who have cleared the great river may Well be :proud. Even that is - not all. It is hard to say •that; anything has been more bravely and better done than at'Antiettim, Murfreesboro, Gettysburg, and on many fields, of less note. Nor must llfnele Sam's web-feet be forgot ten. F At all the water's margins they have -been' present, not only on the deep sea, the broad bay, and the rapid river, but also' up the narrow, muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp they have been and made their tracks. Thanks to all! For the Great Republic—for the principles -by which it lives and keeps alive—for man's vast future; thanks to all! Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to -star, and so come as to be worth the keeping. in all 'future time. It will then -have been proved that among freemen there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the 'bul let, and that they who take such appeal are sure to lose their case and pay the cost; and then there will be some black men who can remember that, , with silent tongue, and clenched - . teeth, and steady eye,' And -well poised bayonet, they have- helpd mankind on to this great consummation, while I fear that there will be some white men unable to forget that; with malignant heart and deceit ful speech, they have striven to hinder it.- Still, let us not be over sanguine of a speedy final triumph. Let us lie quite ,sober. Let us diligently apnly the means, never doubt l ing that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result. Yours, -very trury, . A. LINCOLN.: UNION MEETINGS IN FRANKLIN COUNTY I ~The People of Franklin County, - • :without Distinction of Party, • Who are in favor of SUSTAINING THE GOVERNMENT -, 'arciinst • • Armed Traitors in the South • .and • Secret Foes at-Rome; " Who will Sustain The Brave Soldieri in the Field * _ battling fcr. - The Life of-the Republic -6 and our -Honored Nationality: • Who favor of theijElection - • 4 . . GOV . ..ANDREW G. CITHTEI. , the Faithful and Patriotic Executive ' - and the Soldiers' Friend. - - are reqUested to 'ATTEND DISTRICT MEETINGS .• at the following named plains: WAYNESBORO', Monday, September 21. GREENCASTLE.— ........ ...Tuesday, do 22. MERCERSBURG Wednesday, do .211; LOUDON Thursday. do 24, ST. THOMAS Friday, do 25, STRASBURG Saturday. ,de • 26. FAYETTEVILLE - do do 26, FANNETTSBURG Monday ' ' do - - 28. DRY RUN ," Tuasday.• - ' 4o 29. CONCORD Wednesday, do ' 30. SULPHUR SPRING ,Thursday, October 1: (2 o'clock; P. M.) ROXBURY Thursday, , do 1. GREENVILLAGE Friday - ' do 2. ORRSTOWN .Saturday do 3. .1991-All the above meeting's will,chei helil ic! the .evening, excepting &doh= Spyiiiii. : l - . i' Sir Good Speakers will beta attend - mice at each of themeetingsmentioied"above: Other meetings will shortly be announced,' 30141 STEWART, - ,:Eop. 9, , 6544- , k ,_: Clutha:tail UnicAßAranty -Com. * )DYiticat. A