ISI traittlia' Vgi.DNESDAY, OCTOBER 28; 1862. A GLANCE AT THE STRUGGLE. -In another column of to-day's paper we give the official votefor Governor. The - poll is unprecedented—being lar ger than that of 1860, notwithstand ing the, fact that full twenty thousand Pennsylvania 'voters now fill authrtely graveS, heroic martyrs to preservation ofour sacred Nation ality, and not less than fifty thousand . more were denied the right of suffrage Solely because they confront the foes of the Republic in the field. Gov. Curtin's majority seems, mall with se-large a - vote east; but it must lie lborne in mind that of those who were Tefused the privilege: of voting cer -4inl,y nineteen - twentieths of - them would have cast, : their, votes for him. Had the' popular expression of the State not, been restrained' by Judge ' Woodward'B decision disfranchising the' soldiers, Gov.:Curtin Would now be the - Governor elect by not less than 50,000, instead of the meagre 15,000 by which the State has been barely_ isa4.ed frOm fatal hostility to the goy or*ent. Grateful as loyal Ten every where must 'be for the declared ma- jority on the right side,:it is due >to - the'great 'issue that the moral weight athe . disfranChised voters of the State be : considpred in estimating the fidel, ity of ourgreat Commonwealth to our Free institutions. • '—The 'Union men of Pelinsylvania were beset with embarrassinents in the late contest, such as would' have be,p" fatal' in, any ordinary politieai -struggle. Especially in the Southern iii,qpntics did the.loyal men labor under` almost crushing disadvantages—some of them unavoidable, but others were wantonly or stupidly imposed upon us. The invaded counties were be - set by 'maligliant Copperheads with un tiring energy, and a thousand petty -streams of poisontowed out upon the pebple from the fountain heads of rsneaking traitors. Every man who had been plundered by the rebels, or who had sneered from - the necessary occupation of our' territory by the Union troops, was counseled by every species of falsehood to array himself against the government because the goyernment did not promptly remit.: nerate him; and hundreds of votes • were lost to the Union cause inithis section, because of these 'persistent appeals to narrow selfishness, when a great Natjon was struggling for the - liberty that,overshadows and protects eyery home, every civil and religious right', and insures safety to the person and property_of every American citi zen. The' failure to compensate our people was charged to the wanton perverseness of the State and Nation al administrations; and peace and prompt payment were promised la vishly if Woodward should be chosen Governor. A few were thus 'deceived and made to turn against themselves, for falsehood ever outstrips truth in an even race; bid the great mass of aarsufferers stood manfully in sup pori 'of 'the right. - The draft was a staggering load. Tit was no fault of the administration,' that it proved .a ridiculous failure to the government anda costly farce to the pbople-; nor did.the authorities do anything more nor less than their duty , in prosecuting it. Men were imperatively demanded fol. our weak ened armies, and so emboldened - had - the foes otthe government become that volunteering was wholly stopp - The administration, had but one way.to clear its skirts and - that was to exhaust the authority it' pos sesied to procure men. That the law pritviding. for a draft was shamefully defective, waslhe fault of Congress, I na- of the administration; and they Ihad:to- wade through Congressional blunders and harass, bleed and alien ate; twenty citizens for every man added to'' the -army. Had the $3OO exemption clause been omitted, and each able-bodied man drafted been required to serve in person or by sub stitute, men , would have responded with comparative cheerfulness, and the draft Would have been sustained by the people because of the palpable • good attained by it; but when its failure was evident to all, it took-into the ;•areay only now , and then : some pennilessiund friendless citizen; whose lot was deeraeds cruel on e,n ot 60 much because he had, ,tn go,-as because his neigbors were =bled not to Many, of 'course, 'did' not stop to in-- quiie whose fault it was that they bw .~_,. ~..,_, . ~ were harassed, by ,a draft that' was, fruitless of good, and men' Were !tot wanting to 'seize the favorable oppor ,ttmity to impress.thein with the con viction that the government was des potic and faithless to the people. But bad as the draft was when con ducted skilfully and divested of all wanton oppression, it was made worse . by , the stupidity andreekless disre gard of the rights of the people by the Provost Marshal General. -Just On the eve of an election, the people of Somerset, Bedford and Fulton were summonedtereport at Chambersburg to claim exemption, pay commutation money or furnish substitutes. Many of them had to cross the Alleghenies and travel nearly three hundred miles -costing them largely in time' and money' when the Board of Exeinp tion could have gone from county to county'with little or no inconveni ence. Repeated applications Nfere made to the Provost !Marshal General, and the members of the Board joined in the requeSt, that the people should not be neediessly , dragged over the mountains himdreds of miles; but no regard whatever was paid to the ap plication, although in several other 'districts of the State the authority for. the Board to go: to the various county towns was granted. It would have been a small matter for three officers and a, few clerks to go to Som erset or Bedford for a week ; but it was not a small matter for one l thou sand mento'cross the Alleghenies and come one hundred and fifty l.miles to transact an hour's business, , That. the people appreciated it as an inso lent disregard of their convenience was not surprising; and instead of losing Fulton by 2GO, and. Bedford by '2BO, and gaining Somerset by over 1,300, the only wonder is that - we did not\lose 1,000 mere. - We beg Col. Fry to bear in mind that the Success of:this 'war and the safety of the g,ov ermrnent are 3 ,vitlith6People, and need less oppression in the execution of laWs cannot be justified by the .pre- Burned sanctity of military regulations. —Altogether the Southern counties did well. The Union men struggled heroically, and imßroved' materially on the vote of last - year in every. coun for South of the Suquehanna, and can justly claim' their lull part in the great -revolution that has declared in behalf of the preserVation of our imperiled Nationality. - ARMY MOVEMENTS. ', The scene has shifted again'; a Vir ginia, and Lee is retreating pursued by Meade. The rebel army is .all south of the •Rappahannock again, and probably has its main strength soutkof the Rapidan, and Meade holds the line immediately north ;of the', Rappahannock. Sensation correspon dents, announce daily that b, grand battle is imminent; but we 'do not look for a Idecisive engagement be tween Meade and Lee at present. Lee moved north recently for one of twu reasons, or probably 'both.— He knew that Meade had been weak ened to strengthen hattanooga, and' i ffelt well aSsured hat he could not give battle Unless quite near to Wash ington, where he would have short lines and ample. supports. His p9r pose therefore doubtless was either to force him to accept battle with the hope of destroying him and capturing Washington, or to compel him to re.; treat upon Washington; enable Lee to destroy his railroad lines as he fell 'back toward Richmond; and throw a part of his army to Bragg for deci sive operationo, before. Meade -could threaten hiin-again south of the Rap pahannock:l In this Lee has been . Sadly disappointed. ltireade . retired toward Washington in order, with his army perfectly in hand; defeated Hill severely' at Bristow Station; re-. sumed the Offensive by pursuing Lee as soon aahe attempted to retrace his steps, and jee was- scarcely back to 'his old lines .before Meade was in his front ready to force him to - give 'bat tle or to re:treat toward,Richmond in case he shOulo, Weaken his ranks to assist Bragg.. Lee cannot now re duce his army to reinforce Bragg, and unless he !Aloes, Meade will hardly force him into an engagement,- The armies in Virginia will pretty. Certain ly- face each other without collision until tha absorbing tragedy in Ten nessee and Georgia has become his tory. .. I . , , Jt4znoW Chattanooga is the cen tre of iiirerest on both sides, and both armies are being nerved and strength ened for the , decisive blow. Davis is with Bragg in. person to heal dissen- —t Ucpo%itorn y= CiLl)ant bet 9 . 13ttrg' ,- 13 a. sions, to inspirit the despairing, and to- implore.the ',soldiers of crime to make a desperate death struggle for Supremacy in East Tennessee; for the safety of Georgia. The Knoxville Register, now printed at-Atlanta, Ga., discloses, the desperation of the, reb els. It says that="the , very existence of the Confederate States depends on the re-occupation of Tennessee c by• Bragg. Our enemies know this as well as our own Commander-in-chief." Davis has reorganized Bragg's army; has addressed the troops, in the course of which he says—" Our cause de pends upon you!" and adds that "very much remains to be done r, There is no doubt but that alt the 'resources of Treason have been exhausted to give Bragg strength. - On the' other hand, Stanton, the Secretary of War, is with the Army of the Cumberland in person, and an entire reorganization of Rosecrans' ar my has i been effected. Gen. Thomas takes the immediate command, while Gen. Grant takes the general com mand of the several departments _in the south-west.' The impending bat tle will doubtless be fought under the eye of Grant himself, for upon it is hazarded everything. If Bragg shall be dafeated, - Georgia, Mobile and even Richmond must soon be at the mercy of Grant. if Grant shall be discom fitted, then must East Tennessee be surrendered, and Nashville would be the farthest point we could hope to hold in that direction. The terrible shock; so fraught with weal. or woe to- the Republic, must soon'come.— Gad speed the cause of Freedom' WE condole With. the Spirit. It had fondly hoped for the election Of Woodward :" but elected he was not. It had unclouded faith in - the success of its ticket in the_ county; but its hopeS have faded out in despair; and now in the agony of its _disappoint ment, it bids as doleful; tearful farewell with its " last hope for the Union!" But in spite of itself, hope still lingers; the days and nights of the 'Republic have been recorded as heretofore; faithful men still believe in a preserv ed Nationality; heroic armies still confront thn bloody banners o trea son; but the Spirit refuses to be com forted, and in sepulchral - tones utters -the prophetic admonitioil" Wait!" It had- piped to our people and they danced not;, it had mourned to them and they wept not; it plead with them .and they voted not ; it fal sified to . them and they believed not; it defamed.to them and: - they hated nit; and now in its hour of gloom, it would cloud the land with the dread mystery of threatening prophecy, as it points, as if with skeleton fingers, to the avenging future,- and inirls upon us the agonizing monosylable —" Wait !" • It could have died in - peace ; but when its " eyes turned for , the last time to behold" the sun of Democra cy, visions of fraud flitted before it, and it gasped uneasily as its'incohe rent inspirations went out for " the first fair election" Of the future. By all accepted rules of arithmetic - and logic, the Union vote of Pranklin county- was a glaring fraud. The vote was but 331.' larger thaiT --- ever before, while the Union vote was but 177 smaller than the vote of 1860; but; its the Democratic ticket still failed of election, of,course fraud stalked forth in every precinct and haunted the Spirit's evening hours of life. We would that, if determined to die, it might have died serenely— not as the perturbed spirit that rush,- e 4 to the unknown future amid the :s4rges of Helena, with the imagery of wavering coltlmns playing fantastic tricks with a bewildered brain; but like the settled of a summer's eve, that leaves lingering in its path the hopeful promise of light on the morrow. But it would not thus die. ' t would be a victim-- To all the pangs and fury of despair." And it resolved that those who n Lo‘ t with it should be divorced pe, as it uttered its fearful Wait!" We beg the Spirit to live. It: "last hope" may yet return to it, if It will' but look with loyal eyes and give a loyal heart to its imperiled Country. It would die unwept—its septildhral warding unheeded; and it may even yet renewlife with hope for its, and Air the Republic. Seymour ha l s sinn ed and suffered—has lived anti .larned, and from the crimsoned foot-pkints his treason he nowproelaims the duty' of a loyal State. Let the 4irit, .in its little way, learn the same lesson— to live, to hope, to be faithful, forz ,,The'mower mows on though the adder" may writhe, . And the Copperhead coil 'round the blade of his scythe." _ THE Age, having grown weary over the election returns from Perinsylva nia,-"Ohio, Indiana, and lowa, has de voted its attention to Constitutional law., It criticises the decision of the Court of Appeals . of New Y‘k, by which the government curreniTs is declared a legal tender, and especially complains that one of the Judges ap plied the term 'wickedness" to the rebellion. It says that "equally out of place, it seems to us, are the re marks of the — Court in reference to the 'wickedness' of the rebellion."— Certainly The,-idea, of so denomin a: ting such innodent amusement as aim ing, by perjUry, and murder, to des troy a', Republic, is wantonly harsh, and the tender sensibilities of the Age revolt at it. Had Judge -Denio en larged on the "patriotism' of the re bellion and declared government cur rency worthless, the Age would have been ,content I lie will probably do se about the time that Judge Wood :card.A declares his political ssntiments "in a ,language to be understo-or that is when he is elected Governor. May the editors of the Age, live till then! J. MCDOWELL OHARPE,. Esq., is' Cho sen to the legislature, by the vote of Fulton-county with a creditable mi nority vote in Franklin, without any special effort having been made to promote his election. The petty po litical tinkers who ran the Democra tic machine herp, and landed it in the Slough of despair by their hostility to the government, cost him many' votes and made him none; and as he Was an invalid from the time the cam paign Opened, ho of - course was mia ble to ,help himielf. He' was`thus Saved the humiliation of differing with his.assnmed leaders or differing - with his country-, and he emerges from. the contest with his record yet. to I,* made. fig commend to his careful consideration the ;votes of Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana, and lowa before he 1-esolves upon suicide. 'A sensible' interpretation of the late elections is to fke g9 ;rd them as a gentle _hint that he!lwho is strongest for the govern nett is strongest with the - people. Co sidering that Sharpe has ,seen bet ter days politically, the lesson may no be hard for him to learn. FIE Age reached the result of the lat contest through much tribulation. Nclally a week :after the election it :bought out exclusively thelucws that I - the. Copperheads had four majority . unijoint ballot in' the Legislature,—a small mistake of about iiinc. The next day it dolefully Surrende4dGovernor, Legislature and everything, and took a,sad but touching farewell of the Country just about to fade into noth ingness. But as the sun rose the next morning about as usual, it brilghtened Up, like its rebel friends after 'the cap ture of Vicksburg. and declared it for tunate that its friends had lost the Legislature. It used to - grumble daily about the horrors of the conscription; but when volunteers were called for it grumbles t *orse ,than ever.: Why don't it swat once that it wants Jeff. Davis to conquer? It Might just as well out with the truth, for everybody understands it. WOODWARO friends fought the late battle squarely in opposition to arbi trary arrests. and Gen. 3.l'Clellan de clared that he regarded the Judge's electron as "called for by the interests, of the Nation." On the 12th of Sep tember, 1861, he wrote Gen. Banks to arrest the Ma - ryland Legislature and was positive in his direetiOns that "none should escape!" What an in veterate joker " Little Mae" has -got to be. Dan Rice- or Barnum should engage him at once. He would be capital at " now you see it, and now you don't - see it !" I died from TirooDwAnn in his fall preserved his pride. He said he wouldn't declare his, opinions until he shofild be elected Governor; and as he wasn't elected he is not bound to avow his opposi tion to the Governnient, If6wever he may mean it. But Gen. relellau, although ever tardy in -his military charges, is not so in political - warfare. He; rushesin to the rescue of the re ticent Woodward, pulls his chestnuts f out of the fire, burns own, fingers and is greeted on - all hands with a hearty " served him right 1" Ea MUM ONE of our Philadelphia corespon dents gives an interesting history of the strategy resorted' to , in order to .make a suicide of Gen. M'Clellan.--: We have every reason to credit the statement. Men of all parties will be pained to learn how " Little Mae " has been knocked from corner to cor ner like a foot-ball • by political des peradoes, andy in the .end made to teach the - world in one easy lesson-his consummate littleness. • TaE Gettysburg Compiler says that gold has gOnenp because thq Demo crats were defeated in the_ late eke tions. Goldhati Since gone down be low its - ruling price before the elec tion. What's the matter now? , LITTLE Perry last - Year elected a Democratic, d Assemblyman by .even majority. The Union imen resolved to do better this time, and they have elected Barnett, Union, by one. Neat mathematicians over that way. THE Johnstown Democrat hoists - the name of Gen..ll'Clellari for the Pres idency. We have heard of men wor shipping the rising sun, but the Dem -ocrat prefers the setting luminarY pis its divinity. TIRE REBEL ARMIES. We are once in a while startled with the announcement that the rebel armies have suddenly become immensely strong; and when Gen. Lee commenced his late moye ment against Gen, Meade the - sensatitm cor respondents insisted that he had from 10,000 to 150,000 men. The most reliable informa tion. apparently, that we have noticed ret‘ent le rebel armies, is Ainetican from an Richmond. th of their armies, &pprebehsion at the aye good authority tgth of Lee's army )f the two corps to exceed 60,0001effi with his reinforce men, and that he 3nt to General Lee from Charleston And else ere is totally in correct. That there hare een no troops sent to Lee, except, in the wa 'of deserters and conscripts , that none have r tirned from Bragg's army, and to such 4trai have the rebel authoritieti been rediteed,4hat hey are evefi f forcing into the ranks those persolks who have provided substitutes. There was a general feeling of des] cy in Richmond, 'and the fact was frf mitted that their armies were none sufficiently strong to assume offensive opera tions with any prospect of success; and that the want of men prevented Bragg from fol lowing up his success, and prevents him now from attacking the Federal army at Chatta- nooma 0 With regard to Covode, we. prume the incorruptible 11.1:Clure had at least the grace t) return to that gentleman, before attacking him, certain SLIMS entrusted to his incorrupt ibility for a certain purpose, and by him in continently seized as spoils of burg Dispatch. LET us understand the Dispatch—let it emerge from its cowardly .inuendoes, and state when "certain sums"'wereentrut-ted to us ; h much, and by whom was it done ? Does Covode allege that he "entrusted" us with certain: sums," or that any one did so for him? -As we never received a dollar froth Mr. Covode for any purpose whatever; nor fro'm any personacting for him, nor frdm "any other man" assuming to be friendly to him, nor from any body, friend or foe of Covode, for any political purpose whatever since 180, we 'should be glad to see the Dispatch's bill of particulars. As it can't play Haynau by tying up and flogging the Editor ofthe REPOSITORY as it does deserters occa sionally, let it diversify its amusements by telling the truth once, just for the sake of reference. We don't insist upon it startling its readers by telling the truth violently ; but it can reach it by gradual approaches, only so it reaches it somehow or Other about= the "certain sums," &c.„. No skulking or strag gling Mr. Dispatch—out with it ! OPERATIONS in the Armies of the Cumber land, Ohio, and Kentucky" are about to be concentrated under, the commend of General Grant, whose arrival at Nashiille has been followed by that of the Secretary of War,. Gen. lioiiker is reported at Stevenson, Ala.', and' Gen. Roseerans has reported at Cincin nati, for what other service it is Onconjectur- - ed. Mismanagement of the late battle,whoie merit belongs to :Gen. Thomas, and which was in progress before Rosecrans was aware, is Mentioned in cerrespondence . as' the cause of ktis •removal. Gen. Burnside reports ex cellent progress in the war, near the line of the Virginia andi East Tennessee' Railroad. Ihe enemy were net at Blue Springs on the 10th, by a cavalry brigade, and some ; infant ry, and driven in confusion, with slogs of vtisoner,s, and many killed and wounded. Gon. Shaekleford , continued in pursuit, and drove the enemy. Lfrom East Tennessee,- and captured FortZollicoffer, destroying half n dozen bridges arid a locomotive (rain. He ivas ten miles bnyond Bristol on the 17th, and near. Abington. We now bold East Tennessee, from Bristol to the Hiawasee river. Fr is stated all.the crow of tbeAngto rebel pirate ship Alabama are British sailors. Slice the present year opened, electione have been held in the States of Nnw SHIRE, RIIODE ISLAND, CON NE&LICIIT, YEW' MONT, . KEN-TUC/CI, OALMENIk, PENNEYiiANIA, INDIINA,'XiethoAX, WISCONSIN', and lowa—thirteen in all-and. in every one of them the - sUpporters . of the Warlor the Union and the Government by, whichit is•proseeuted have triumphed. The' Territories of CDLONADO, NEVAD,i, NE4I- 4 MEXICO, and WAsumrrox, have lieewise held held elections, and - each of them has gone with the current except Washington, where a split has enabied . the Opposition candidate to succeed by a handful of votes. Muslopii would have swelled the number of our tri umphs; but the "Conservative" rulers of that State seasonably_took the alarm, and decided o have no ; Stir.e Election this year. Her Judicial Election, hoyever, .is close at hand, and will doubtless vindicate the sagacity of those who controlled he Constitutional Con, vontion. THE news from England received by jibe last steamer is rendered unustudly interesting by the announcement of the seizure of the iron-clad rams built 14 - - the Messrs. Lairdfor the rebel govelinment at' Richinond., Thite result is better than had been anticipated- em this side of the bees% and will be hailed with pleasure by all 'who desire to see slmicable lations maintqued between the two. great nations. 'Mesa rams are yery'.formidabhk , vessels. mounting each some eight heaiy guns, four of which are in two revolling turrets built on the monitor principle. Judging from the printed illustrations the;rains were' not the most ,formidable featureeabout the vessels. It is apparent that -tbe design of the builder was to combine the broadside principle with that of the turret guns.- The aim was also to make the Vessels very swift. • -Wu° is Governor of Pennsylvania? Not the man who said "let the South go peri4ett--- b1; - .7 No, one who is resolved that if the' South does break up the Republic, it shall be because the armies of the Republic cannot prevent it. Not the man who said that 4.sis very is un incalculable blUsing," but tine • who believes that freedom is the fundamental principle of the Union, that slavery is an in calculable evil. Not the man who declared, that "alaveholders might use in defence of their slave property any means in their pos session," but one who is determined that fire', Constitution shall not- be violated, the na tion ruined, to extend 'slavery over:free ' toy, or to keep one human being in bondage. Andrew G. Curtin is the Governor of Penn sylvania, and ho is worthy of the honor. - ' osecrnts by a sur plated columns. the story of *rein- THE maw-worm of the Pittsburg Dispatch imagines that it has found a grain of comfort in the fact that Col. Elder, Lieut. YR Capt. Doebler and, Sergt. Strickler—all heroes of the 126th;' all but NiW severely wounded at Fredericksburg, and all aheadof theirratr , ty vote—ran a few more votes than Geyer, nor Curtin in Franklin county, and adds— "We can only account for it in ono way— the Union voters must have had some ling of the connection of Gov. Curtin with eClure." As Gov. - Curtin ran ahead of his ticket in Allegheny, we presume it mast be"explaihed on the same principle—becaum the people there -believed that some Person ivouldn't have much "connection" with Gov. Curtin ! TEE formation of the State government of Virginia is :now complete. The capitOt is ,temporarily established at Alexandria. The following are the names of the,State officers: FranCis.,B. Pierpont. Governor ; L. P. C. Cowper, ,Lieut: Governor; L. A: Hagen!, Secretary of State; G. T. Smith, Treasurer; L. W. Webb, Auditor; F. E. Foster, Adju tant General; T. R. Bowden, Attorney Gen eral. THE trunks of two trees _have been sent fra•u the battle field at Gettysburg for thw Massachusetts and Pennsylvania Historical' Societies. They will:attest the fierceness of the conflict there, one of them having two hundred and fifty bullet holes in the space of Afventy-one feet, and the'.other having one hundred and ten in the" samespace., *Sad re minders they-will be of the heroic dead. - lown. gives • a Union' majority' of 'about - 2b,000. The importance and worth of that--; majority will be better appreciated when it is nmembered that lowa has been a:state only seventeen years, 'that she has a population notio exceed 800,000, and has already sent 40,000 inerktolbe field to fight against trai tors. -• ' - A Wasitoarrox dispatch says that th'e.re ceipts of money paid by drafted men' now amount to $9,000,000,• which, it is eSpeetta, will be increased by one or two-millions moss , . The whole of this sum, it is said, is to be ap propriated to recruiting undet l the recent proclamation of the President. JEFF. DAVIS has became indignint at the actions of the British Consuls in reference to foreigners- enlisted in the rebel service, and has given - all the said Consuls notice to quit. Soule believe that this action arises from the treatment received• by Mr. Mason in Eng land.. IT is officially announced that the Nation al Banks Will receive remittances in coin checks for the November interest on their. United States bonds in season for thiir col lection at New York, Philadelphi4, or Bos ton, on the Ist of November. ; TnE ItknEL.HoPE.—The MemPhis Atlan ta- AfipMl, speaking of their - sueetiseg 'Chattanooga; says: “We shall now be ree ognisetl. Our amities will rise. Vallan digharri will be elected!" , DAVID W. FINDLEY,'of Mercer, 114 been' appointed and cororuissioned•by .Gov. ; Curtinti. an .Associate Judge of Mercer county, in I . place of Hon. Joseph Kerr, deceased. f' - ,'