'~. trauldin init rg. c - pr • ivr-RMIZSDtII7.I?..G: Wednesday Morning', Sept. 16,1863. UNION STATE TICK FOR GOVERNOR. ANDREW G. CURTIN, G i entre . FOR SUPREME JUDGE, :DANIIIEL AGNEW,' Beaver. < UNION C(YVNTIY TICKE - FOU:ASSEMILY, T. JEFFERSON WILL. - 6hatribeisboi - g ' WILLIAM A. GRAY. Ftllton. FOP. PROTHO-NOTART, lb IL SHANNON TAYLOR , Ch ' 'F. TOR REGISTER. ArD . RECORD!. , HENRY STUICILLEU, Antrim • FOR CLERR Or nribotai „ l int. G. MITCHELL, tßinthampion. BOB_ COUNTY. TREAStIIEB, JAMES G. ELDER, St. Thomas. FOR CO3INUSSIONEU. 11ENET GOOD, Quincy: FOR. DIRECTOR OF THE Pool. JOHN DOEMEIt, Chambersbul FOR AUDITOR, , - WM. S. ABISERSON, Waabingf.n I t UNFOUNDED rumors Of a ebel ad vance into Franklin county h ve been started almost dailykdftring 'the last week. 'At noon yesterday, bur lines f in Virginia were undisturb' d, and there is no information at h ad-quar ters of any movement in th s diree tion. The last reportS seem to settle the question that Lee is fall g _back, 'and,' if so, there isno reaso to ap prehend even • raids North of the Potomac. • If . our people will only resolve to be ready for raids, we shall pretty certainly escape themientirely. THEE SITUATION. Another tide of victory h the Unio_n arms, and m iii results have been ,obtained ton in almost every section called Confederacy: 'Rosec. entered Chattanooga. witho l gle, by a splendid flank , which rendered the rebel defences use-_ less, and they sought safety in a pre cipitate retreat. Thus_ aft months of effort to defend that important strategic point, they had to permit it topass into Union hands without even an attempt to defend it. S?multane ous with the occupation o Chatta nooga by Rosetrans, Gen. 'Burnside entered Knoxville, and movled in two columns upon CumberlandiGap with such rapidity and skill as-t surprise and capture the ,entire rebe garrison, consisting of over 2 3 000 me . : These achii3vernents redeem East ' ennessee at last. For two yeais the ion al people of that region - have suffe , ed every torture that rebel taalignitY could in vent. Many were brutallyjmurdered in their own'llomes. Others , were hunted in , the mountains with the most fiendish ferocity, and, by a Ifornial or der from the rebel Secretary of War, a number of them were hung and their bodies were left suspendedi for some days to deter their eomr i ades from their ,devotion to the government; But after two years of patient suffer ing the Old Flag again oats over iil them, and they have greeted it with an enthusiasm that should Make timid, quibbling Northern men blUsh. ,East Tennessee is-irrevocably lost .to the 1., Empire of treason. T - It will furnish Tally ten thousand Union soldiers, and contribute - largely to the 'future tri umphs of the Republic. ° i . The doomed city of Charleston is gradually growing weaker, and weak er in resistance to the Union siege. l i. Forts Wagner and Greg ' and all of ,Morris Island have been . s rrendered to Gen. Gilmore, and For Sumter is but a mass of rains. Tha there will still be desperate energy in 'he defence of the place, we do not ,dotibt;. - but the -Union batteries can now readily com mand the city, and its ioassession by our forces cannot be long delayed. In Arkansas the Union army has - achieved signal triumphs. Little • Rock, the capitol of the I State, haS been occupied by Gen. Blunt, and Fort Smith has been abandoned by the re- bola, after a spirited resista;nce. Thus with Tennessee corned alMost the en tire territory o a State West of the Mississippi, into the folds of the old, 'the honored, the vietorio4s 'Union! —lt is worthy of notie that the rebel armies have disappeared at all points but Mobile, Charleston and in front of Richmond. , D4ubtless the armies Of Pemberton andi.Tohnstori in the South-west are practically, destroy ed, and that of Bragg hasi hardly half the available force it had klt the battle of StOne River. But it 4611 ,exists as an army, howeirer demOralizeil and ..dispirited, and must make its mark in some.: , kly before winter closes active operations. It does not seem reason- Able that an attempt will be made to re-possess Bast Tennessee. With.the spirit of that people, a large majority of whom are intensely loyal, to bring it under rebel rule again would re quire it to be literally subjUgated. The people will now be armed, and smarting under the cruelties practiced upon them, they will he the deadliest foes the rebels can encounter. - We regard- the whole of Tennessee as given up by the rebels, and the -rem nant of Bragg's army will doubtless join Lee, if it has not in fact done so already. The necessities of the rebels were never so great as now. They cannot subsist them in Virginia the, coming winter With their main lines of coMfnunieation - cut off from the South, and the Missisiippi held by our troops. One of two things Lee must, thorofore do—he must retreat South and surrender Richmond and all -of Virginia;' or he must stake the last hope of treason on a desperate Strug= gle and move North. We - believe that he will do the latter. True, it promises but little for his bad cause; but he had better lose half his army in an offensive' movement, if he can thereby plunder provisions for -the balan&), :than let his men waste away in idleness and abject want in their own desolated land. We shall be sur,„ prised if Lee does not make' an offen sive movement before thirty days 2 He will not'be likely to enter the North by the Shenandoah Valley as he did. last time—nor even to enter it at all until he first offers battle to the Army of the Potomac. .We look for hiM to move directly against Meade, in which case we doubt not'that Meade will abandon_ the -line of the Rappa hannoek, as he could giVe battle to much better advantage nearer Wash ington. Indeed, he may pot give bat tle at all, but fall back upon the de-_ fences of Washington, where Lee must attack impregnable fortifications, re, treat upon the Rappahannock, or cross the Potomac. TEe will not attack the fortifications—he dare not retreai--- he must therefore cross the Potomac, and accept battle-wherever it is given Min. Then would he be in the weak est possible position—his lines long and easily interrupted, and Meade would have ,Scherick's and Heintzel-- man's forces' to 'swell. his ranks, and Would be in the' very best candid& for a decisive stfuggle. El Iffl s blessed ,bstantial er trea f the so- ans t a strum ovement We have no information other than is accessible to everyone on this sub ject; but it seems clear to us thiit Lee must move, and' to move South and Abandon Virginia would be virtually surrendering the contest. „Ilowevet unwise as a mere. military Campaign,- therefov'we shall be disappOinted. if Lee does not, in the spirit of desper ation, hurl his broken, dispirited ,le gions against Baltimore and. Wash-. ington, and play.the last tragic act of this crimsoned drama North of the Potomac. If We shall be -fully -pre pared for it, as we doubt we must be, then we can only welcome the rebel chief and his herdeS to the loyal soil of the North r confident that, with the aid of Him *he ruleth in righteOns nese, the cause .of the Republic must achieve its crowning victory. 1 7 -Since the foregoing was in type, Gen. Pleasanton has advanced with the Union cavalry three miles beyond CUlpepper, and the Second Corps is reported at that place. .If so, Gen. Lee must• be retiring toward Rich mond, or striking for the Shenandoah Valley; but *at the 'advices indicate that he is not making an aggressive movement. Bragg is pretty Certainly in East Tennessee yet in consideiable force, and Lee cannot be prepared at present for- an aggressive warfare. Unless his arniy is in a worse condi tion than we supposed, we do not doubt-that he must make an aggres sive campaign]this fall. WHAT OF THE STATE? In 1860 the Democratic party was disintegrated and practically without organization, because of the mingled imbecility, treachery and corruption of the Buchanan administration: It had two candidates for the Presiden cy) and a party: struggling for each, looking to future domination rather than present success. Poster tried the 'not uncommon but as yet mime.: '7l cessful feat of i a small politician riding two' nags• heading opposite ways at once, and although a tolerably united effort was made for him, ,he was de. feated by over . 82,000 majority. , In 1861 there were no State officers or Congressmen to , elect and the State irk 'troth utlicis• itott),Atipinbeitint pa. rtic# went•by *default; and in 1862 tieeon , , :fusion resulting - from the proximity of Gett..Lees army to . oar. borders, , the calling of the militia and Stuart's raid, prevented - anything like syste matic effort- to poll the vote :of. the State. Berke and Lancaster were both reckoned doubtful on Congress —so little was known of the tendency of popular sentiment. ' The State has been without organ ization since 1860, and the present campaign opened with little or no data on which tO Calculate results. Woodward was nominated in June, and Biddle was in dtie time _charged with the leadership; but beyond pro ving his eminent unfitness for the po sition, he has accomplished nothing, He pretended to resign and. promised to fight when the; rebels invaded, the State; but he obliged loyal men gen erally by doing neither, for if he, has common honesty, he could hardly fight save, on the rebel side. 'His first estimate of the State fixed.:Wood ward's majority at 'froth '40,000 to 60,000, and heso 'assured his i "friends" with due official solemnity; but with in ten days past he has revised his figures, andproclaimed to the faith ful that he will ,carry the State by from 10,000 ,to 20,000. Whether 'he will keep reducing his majority - .until . he gets it on the Curtin side, depends upon how rinieh sense he acquires be fore the election. The Union men had but sixty days in which-to commence and complete the work of - organization, while 'the Democrats had four months; but in• point of effective, systematic and pro gressive effort the Union men are fully up to their opponents to-day, taking the whole State; and in twenty days more will W, quite prepared for the great battle to come Off in - October. Taking the vote of 1860 as a basis, there will be, singular changes in dif ferent sections of the State. West of the mountains Gov. Curtin will lose but little, if 'any, on his immense-ma jority of 1860. In Fayette, Greene and Westmoreland he may fall off' a few hundreds ; but upon the whole he will cross the mountains not=„2,ooo behind his old vote. In some of the southern, middle and north-eastern counties he will lose materially. York may give from 1,000 to 1,500 more than in 1860, and Adams,' Franklin, Fulton, Bedford and Cumberland will add an aggregate of 1;000 to-the gain, against him. , Clearfield,Centre,Union, Lycoming and Northumberland will swell the loss 2,000 more. Berks will 'add 1,500 to it, and Schuylkill and . Luzerne may add 5,000. Possibly we place them high; but we shall not be disappointed, nor shall we feel like complaining, if the vote shall so turn out. The Irish "friends" of that re gion have pretty much control of everything;- they, have arrested the draft, and seem to bave but two things particularly at heart--L-to stop the war and . vote the Democratic ticket.— Many of them have elnded the ehroll ingefficers entirely, and others have left suddenly after they were enrolled, to avoid` the fortunes of 'the draft; and a full vote in that region, since we can well afford it; may be of 'essen tial advantage to the government - It is natural that they should have a special affection 'for Judge' Wood ward, as he insists that they are unfitted either to vote or hold of fice, andas a heavy poll, cannot but be grist to the mill' of the Provost Marslals, we beg our Irish ((friends" to go in freely. In Northampton, Lehigh, Carbon, Monroe and Wayne there will, be a regular gain for Wosod ward over Foster, amounting in the, aggregate to some 2,500. With these counties, we have almost the entire` gain that can be claimed against Cur tin, and we have given the figures very liberally for Woodward. " Thirty days of effort such as will be'made may al most entirely overcome these conceded gains; but they would pretty certain ly be realized if the eleCtion were to be held to-morrow. On the 'other hand, 'Gov. Curtin Must gain full 10,061 in Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery, unless his friends fail criminally to press the advantages they now have. He was beaten in Philadelphia 2,200 in 1860, and it will require no very extraordinary effort to give him 8,000 over - Woodward now. Chester" and Delaware will give 1,000 more than iii 1860, and Mantgomery Win give' 600 less against.him., Such we beliebe to be a fair estimate of the State:;as it now appears and it is not within the range of probability that the current . can be otherwise thin favorable from • this to the eleetion. Sixty days ago - Woodward could possibly have been elected; 'hut -since 'then Democratic rule has culminated in utter-lawless ness in New York;' Vallandighamis treason and complicity with the rebels are clearlyestablished—thellinion arms have been giving victories to the cause of the Republic almoSt daily; the Na tional heartbeats hopefully, and loy alty grows stronger every hour ; and it . can grow in strength and hope only at the cost of Democratic prospects in the North. Unless all the signs of the times prove deceptive, Gov. Curtin must be re-elected -by not less than 25,000 majority.'' REBEL AID TO THE DEMOCRACY. The election of Judge Woodward to the Gubernatorial chair will. be hailed throughdu.t Rebeldorn as a sub stantial victory to their Waning ,and otherwise hopeless cause. Let the great States of. Pennsylvania 'and Ohio elect the Deniocratic candidates for Governor,. and, there is not a.trai tor in arms against the Republiq' who will 7:tcpt take fresh courage in his murderous work, and nerve himself for renewed struggles against our no . ble Soldiers in the,fteld. ' We are not left to conjecture as to the earnest solicitude cherished by the minions of treason, for the success of the Democratic ticket in Pennsyl vania.."lndeed military campaigns are devised and urged with sole refer . enee to their influence on the corn ing election; and the Richmond En -Darer openly declares that, any move ment by Lee will "raise the spirits of "the Democrats, confirm the timid "and give ' confidence to the waver "ing" and "will prove more effectual "than the bloodiest victories !" He is urged, to move into Pen.nsylvania, "with the hands-of onr (his) soldiers "untied,lo that they may - practice. "a systematic and organized retalia "tion and punishment," .because it "would react upon the representatives "in Congress, strengthen the Demo "crats," and mollify fanaticiSm gene , We quote the whcle article befiring. on the subject, and commend it to the candid deliberation or every boy-, al man. If it fails to point the path' of duty in the present struggle, men must be blinded to the high and holy claims of the Republic upon 'every citizen. From The Richmond Enquirer, Sept. 7. The success of the Democratic party would; be no longer doubtful should General Lee once more advance on Meade. Parties in the United States, are so nearly balanced that the least advantage thrown in favor of one will insure its success. Should the, Confederate, army remain quiescent on the banks of the Rappahannock, the bei - astfill braggadocio of Yankee reports will he confirmed,. and Lin-, coin and Halleck,will point in triumph to the Prippled condition of the Confederate army as confirmation of th*great victory won in Pennsylvania. The Democrats, unable to gainsay such evidence, will be constrainedto enter the contest for Speakership shorn of the principal part of their strength—the disgrace ful mismanagement and conduct of the war. Gen. Lee must turn politician as well as warrior; and we believe he will prove the most successful politician-Me Confederacy everpro duced. He may so move and direct his- army as to produce political resu/.4,5, which, in their bearing upon' this war., will prove more effect ual than the bloodiestvictories. Let him drive Meade into Waihington and he will again raise the spirits of Me Democrats, confirm the timid, and give confidence to the waver ing. He will emboldenthSPeaceparty should he again cross the Potomac, for, he will shoto the people of Pennsylvania hOw little security the yhave from LincOlp:for the-protection of their homes. 11 - matters not whether.the ad vance 'be made •for purposes 'of Permanent occupation or simply for a grand raid ; it will demonstrate that, in the third year of the war, they, are so far from the subjugation of the ,Confederate States that the defense dc Mary land anti - Pennsylvania has not been secured. .A. fall campaign into Pennsylvania, with• the hands of our soldiers untied, not fot in discriminate plunder—but a campaign for a systematic and organised retaliation andimn ishment, would arouse the popular mind to the uncertainty and insecurity of Pennsylva nia. This would react upon Me represinta fives in Congress; strengthening the Democrats `and mollifying even\,the hard shell of Janet in \ • The damages,which the lasteampaign in flicted, if augniented by another this Fall, when presented to the Linceinli - eVernment, would, unless' paid,' greatly exasperate the' people against an Administration which. neither defends the State, nor reimbuyses its citizens for losses which its own imbecility has produced.. And i if these, I damag are paid the debt is increased, the taxes raisbd, and the burdens imposed will accomplish . the same end. , • ' Let the great and } iniportarit fact be con stantly kept in a,, tangible and threatening aspect before the people of Pennsylvania, that notwithstanding they , havenpened the Mb sisaippi and are besieging Charleston, and threatening East Tel and Georgia, aneAlabiuna, that, notwithstanding all this, Pennsylvania is not safe: from invasion, and- Washington City is, again beleaguered i n thls third 'year of the war. The road to peace lies tlirOngh Pennsylvania via Wash ington. TELE UNION men of .ftianklin• cOnn . ty must look Well,to their cause. We have an insidious, 'untiring and un scrupulous foe, ready to inflame every prejudice, and, chill every loyal heart in its devotion to the government. Let the lovers of our common coun tryr—thoselvho would rescue it alike ,from armed , treason and the attacks 'of cowardly:foes at home, be prepar ,ed for every_ assault of malig,nant copperheads. The man who has no '.voice of complaint for murderous traitors,' for the wanton, wicked foes of our Free Institutions, but can „ever complain .of the government that: gives him life, .liberty' and property, •is a foe to our Nationality and a foe to humanity. ' Let him be shunned iveverypatri otic soul, and let every sincere friend 'of the Republic see that' his vote . is not- given as such, cowardly traitors at home; and Jeff. Davis's organ in Richmond would advise:. Union meetings have been called in almost every .district. See that they are well attended., Let us have the truth disseminated—let the peo ple understand the sacred obligations they owe to the government, and the old "Green Spot" will speak in 'thun der tone's in behalf of our, country.' Franklin county is loyal to the core; but traitorous leaders must not be permitted to defraud honest men in to the support of a cause, which, if successful, _the Richmond. Enquirer would pronounce of more value to the , rebels than the "bloodiest victorie'sl" Loyal men ! forewarned, forearmed ! MAINE has - given tliS:':copperheads another settler. After an exhausting struggle, the Union candidate for Governor gains ,in every county re ported. Not a single copperhead tri, umph has there been in 1863 i not - a single one Will there be -at the polls outside the limits of Jeff. Davis' im mediate power. Does, Judge Wood ward hear? WE GIVE on the third page the-ad mirable addrekt_of Maj. Wayne Mc. Yeagh, Chairman of the Union State Committee. It presents the issue of this vital contest in a. elear,and mas terly nianner, and no opszqiin read it without profit. Let it be as widely studied as pocsible. • THE Philadelphia Evening Bulletin has appeared in a new snit. It is an able and earnestly loyal journal, and we rejoice at this evidence of its pros perity. WE are indebted to Hon. E. Mc- Pherson for the Report of therCom mittee on the Conduct of the War. LOCAL ITEMS. How TO Pxxv m ItArns.--:It is not - to be disguised that the people, of Franklin county have been much exercised daring the last few weeks, ,beeause of the general -apprehension that cavalry raids may be made upon plundering our people, of horses;,