_ . . , i • . • - •• , , . . . . .. . . '• . . . • . . .. t , • • . ~ , ~.. -.. t 0 ( .,,,.. 7 . 2 ..;.:‘,1 1 ,k -. 1 ,...n: :.::_ 1 1 A • j • , tl , < . • . .. C \----.-- i ' I •- - ,1 ,- •- . - . , • . . _ .• • ... . . • BY M'CLURE & BTONEIi: trtaititlin MiOoitoig. LOCAL ITEMS. .-.- - Tits pallet - LTS :7 AT WATNESHORo.-71 1 - -- HEIIikWARTERS IST BATTALION 2ID PA. Cali/. . - Camp near Waynesboro. Sept. 24, lgEla. ' • Editors:o'4e Franklin liepositorw• - Seeing gyr9 ar ticle in your paper to which I deem it my dut7 to: ,reply. t hone you will give me space , in your pal _gtmns to make an explanation. On the evening of • Septensber.list, I returned to this place bite in !the ftening from GreeWeidle. where I had been all 'day ' 4tl,dats•. On - my arrival; Id:ound in progress alp°. ' laical meeting, and havingat present no voicelpe- Ilticaiii—n o t having the right of suffrage—l deeined " It prudentnot to attend. After having my horse ritrett for, 1, - accompanied by a gentleman of 'the town. walked to the further end of town, where we remained some tune, and returned to the hotel. I aapposed at that time the mooting was alinost aver. I stepped into the parlor of the hotel and fonnd ;vim an agreeable company of ladies and gentle - _mien, with whom I, was enjoying myself, until a gen tleman came-in and told tau there was a difficulty hetwe'en some of my men and the citizens, wbteh was the first intimation I had of any Soldiers h4ng Zln the town. I I-mmediately started to the dear to -enforce my authority as an" officer with the soldiers. My reception when.arriving at the door was 7 -'lHe Is a traitor." and was struck by two or three persons, At - the late time I ordered every soldier to leave the town, and then asked for the person or perions who knack me. No one appearing willing to-Sa.v -Oho it, was. I then found every thing quiet, when 1 ritOunted•my horse and rode out of tarn. - NOw. those are facts that lam prepared to prove at any snoment; and I feel 'elpfident that you, as gentle ...men, will make the necessary correction.. It may be necessary to say, as I Itae since learned, the :dhaers for lirClellan were given at the suggestioti of sumo Indies who were in conversation with the sot diets at thetitne. I do not think their intention was to interrupter annoy any one—it was dine :hastily anewithout thought. " As for the term of Copperhead applied to mi. I 'oare'not, as my attachment to the army for sabre thaniyo years will give the lie to that. 1 I merely ask to explain,: as my - character as lan officer and a soldier has been brought before the public, and there is nothing a true soldier prizes; so high as his character its &soldier and a gentleman. Hoping you will give this a placoin your columns, lam gentlemen. Very respectfully, ' Your obedient servant, 1 e ' B. M, Monnew.li Major Ist Battalion fr2d cavalry-1. , Cavalry. I We give Maj. Morrow the benefit of Ads statement in our'columns. and if we.bad lie-, toe doubted his ,complicity in the distiir l b - • f .ances at the Waynesboro' ineeting, his own awkward: evasions must settle his guilt, eitli l or by direct eff6rt or by: tolerating disorleA on the part of his command. ~ , ! . On one pokrat we are constrained to del:, The correctness of Maj. Morrow's statement. lie did not behave in the qUiet, orderly man ner he represents. He was intoxicated, 'as a. Multitude of most reputable witnesses 1124(e -.-t -testified over their own signatures, 'and in-! 'ulged in the 'mist profane and ungentle manly language to _and of the Union ITliin participating in the meeting ; and members _ of his command, who were intoxicated, ,opdn -17 declared that • the Major was on a spree and they would do. as they pleased. If he' had been sober. and meant to do his duty. a would not onlyihave ordered the men of his thin-Jar:lnd out of town, ni he alleges he die i 1 but bis selfresp?ct its an officer, if not !Ils regard for tte pence of the town, would have 'made him enforce the order. He either did; not give such an "order ; or he permitted las atIIOLORIId to defy it insolently, for they dig t, ~,not leave town: On the contrary, they rea.7 mained until the Union meeting was broken , ttp, sill the time creating disorder by yelling You, "Jolly," "Woodward" and “MeClellail," 1 'raid committed numerous outrageous acts of -vtiolence upon citizens. The President! of !the Union meeting was cut in the neck with I.sknife, and narrowly escaped a mortal wound, and others were treated with like brutalifr. .kntr. when the 'Union meeting closed, the aoldiers called for Jolly and huzzaed 'For ' Woofiiirard and McClellan; and finally did wet.one of Maj, Morrow's command to make !"-, !,-, a regular copperhead speech. Where Was theisensitive Maj. Morrow, who `as he saws, "prizes nothing so high as his character,''' . when all these disgrac(:!ful scenes were trans piring? Thies he falsify about e d his havinarOr- too tiere men out of town, or was h • _,.. drank, too copperheadisli or too cowardly to enforce it ?• °a l e or'the other he must pird ' guilty to, and either stamps him .as utterly -.unfitted' to have a command Of, any kind.— Tlifi - kopzier he t ys ,dismissed the- service !the sooner will the honor and dignity of the pro fession be vindiettted. ' -'. -• 1 31ti.j. Morrow -has a right to be a Den i merki? and a Woodw,ii.d or:a McClellan' man; A anything else he pleases ; and he has a right to attend Union or Democratic meotiingt when such attendance does not conflict with his military duties; hut we insist that he hil. no right tmetdronk and let his Men loose and get drunlewith hini, solely for the pur- - pose of interfering with a political nieeting of any kind. , That he 'should be a viol.ent copperhead when drunk, is - raostnaturali for - a drunken officer is the most brutal and! de ' 'graded of all men, and if there be a -latent - spark of the traitor in him, it Will crop', out sT--/co surely as the sparks fly upward. IWe kindly advise the Major to leave,the service ~ at the - earliest possible period. He can. re - sign - by stating the truth—that his “charac te-rati a soldier and a gentleman" is implgired by occasional intoxication and fits of 144ti1, , , • ity to - Union' men, and - he will doubtless be taken at his word. Once free, he could re, deem something of his manhood - by going ''openly into the rebel ranks, or he may ,play the part of a cowardly copperhead at *me, ill' the latter seems to be "constitution`' ac . cording ,to modern Deinocratic constru tion. One thing, however, he cannotand shall not „ttu--14,1,-,, ~, ....':• - i-71int' Union - meetings4 and - - thi sootier he learns this iet•se-- ..... : - , ,, tiir ! A Woltz) To Worts .—The, loyal women in every community have exerted a vast in fluence-in 'sustaining the war. and the govern ment. them remember that in' no way can they better uphold their country at this hour than by influencing votesfor Curtin and cvain s e; Woodward. They can influence fathers, husbands and sons.." To the young women we would say; that if after trying all their persuasive eloquence on their 'suitors they prove to be . incorrigihle Copperheads, 'give them the mitten at once.: Don't waste 'a smite on a fellow who refuses either by bullet or ballot to help : put dOwn the rebellion. Make these bucks face - the Union music square, or go under I The sick and wounded soldiers everywhere bless'our ,noble women .They will bestow upon.thein additional bles sings if they aid:-in eleaing the soldiers' truest friend, - Andrew G. Curtin: • ME FATAL ACCIDENT.—A* tinder Clugston,' Jr., a man of abOut 40 , oars of ago, who in the empldy onfr. Jacob: Frey, of Quincy township, was so shockingly man gled by a threshing machine, on the morning of the 21st inst., that he died shortly after wards. He was driving the horseS, and while get- ting off the platforni he made a mis-step; and became entangled in the counter and strap wheels, which were uncovered, crushing one of his legs'itp to the body, and receiving -other injuries, which terminated his existence in a few hours. Though a- mute, his generous qualities of hcart-won for him a laro:carcle of friends, who mourn his 'sudden departure, and his remains were boine: to the cemetery att Brown's *ill, attended.by - a large concourse of friends. CHILD BURNED' TO DEATH.—On Satur day afternoon, Mni, Simmers, who resides on Catharine street, had Occasion to leave hei yard, where she had al the burning, on an errand to a neighbor„.l leaving a child about live years old therelkintil her return. Mr. Byprs, - a neighbor, ;Alarmed by the child's screams, proceeded -'to the yard and found -it enveloped in a ; sheet of thane: With much diffichlty he 'slice:ceded in extin guishing it, burning himself _seVerely in his humane efforts. The littler; sufferer lingered until Sunday morning, expitriencing intoler able agony, when death came to its relief. It is not known how the .f4e was Communi cated.tci the child's elothes. POSTAL.--A,ccording to the new postage law, which went into operation on the Ist of July last, postage on all!rnail mutter, and box rents, are required to be paid quarterly in advance. The quarters Commence on the Ist day.of January; April, ijuly, and Octo 7 ber., Post Master Deal gives notice'that on and after the Ist of October; die provisions of the following- section of the law will be strictly enforced: SRC. 3.- A-nd it further enricted, That no mail matter shall be delivered by th'e Post Master until the postage due thereon shall Dave been paid :, and no box, at nay Post Office, assigned to the use nf any person until the rerit °therefor has been %id for at least ohe lquarterifor which the Post caster will give 'a roccipi, and •eep a record" there fi,in his office, which record Audi be delivered to his-successor. BURGLART.--Ori Saturchiy night last, says the Shippensburg News, .K.Okr's Drug Store was entered by some persos. and a money drawer with all its contents taken. Fortu nately the drawer containl hut - a small sum of money. ' - On the same night the cedar of the "Triti+- eler's Rest" Hotel was entgred,,and a keg of whisky taken therefrom.. The supposition is that the same persons were the perpetrators of these several acts, and that they were in search of "something to d6"nk," which they finally obtained in the celhir referred to'- TESTIMONIAL TO GEN. ISMITIL—The la dies of Carlisle have•raisedi a handsome sum of money for the purpos of presenting a suitable testimonial to Gcn. Smith, for his gallantry in defending thati place against the rebel attack on the Ist a- July last. The gifts are a beautifully chased solid silc