, • -,_J _ ' i€. - -y, 4.., ;•-•::: ,- t: ; ',. .- ~',.., -.4...., e:- i t •--. , ,:zr' -'ll. ',...-,% .—,e-Lf . 1 . ,i: ' ~.„ •. .., ... , .„. . ,•air. ..... . ~ . „,- .. : . . - .‘,.. Th -: -- '..• . • :. 0 J : ii 2.. f i 'l. - , , ! ' :--, ••, ~.. -,-.,' -, ,-_ ~;,'I. , - ,..'1:: .'.1.1,1-i ; . 17 ~,, -,.. ' - '•,n.' :_.% ' I', , 1 -,•-:.:-!!.,,, ••• 12 , : ERSBUTIG , -PA,,_ IirgINCESDAY-s , ,,MARCE- 30: -1864: - - -- . . ' ' ' ..' ' ''- ',l ”: '" ; MI .-f ME ME BY MCLUItE '&-,STONER. grltuldbl Pcfvpogitaig. ittigocn,Atic STATE vonvit,wriozir; The DernoCiatie State Conventionniet in the Nationalquards! Hall; Philadelphia, on Thurs -4ay 'end.-was , temporarilTerganiied by the elettion Of * Themes 'B. 'Searight, - Esq.,"Of Pay ettecas Priaident. 4.11 animated straggle fol lowedfor permanent oTedri; Ara fie, onfest for pneeldent finally,parroWo &Ain into Wm. H. _Of thiladelphia, and peir?. Sander/30n,, of, Lah*ter:--bOth Gubernatorial aspirants r but Wittee was chosen by a iote of 94 to . 31 for Sanderson.' ,A committee of 28 on. organization and . a similar one resolutions were the - 1it:0 . 7 poited, and pretty much ;all the delegates not - put o!lthe committeeslyere, made Vico:Weal; *nis or . Secretaries. The Convention - then proceeded to . the selection of delegate's to the . Chicago Convention and the pominaticin Electoral tichet. The, folloNting is the delega thin to the Democratic National Convention to meet in. Chicago on the 4tti of July.; ' „ • •: - DELDGATES AT4ADGE. • - Geo. W. Case,.- I -SsePapker,! William V. bf.'Gratb • ; - DISTRiCT DELEGATES. • Runnel 'King, Dr. George Nebinger. 2. William N. Reilv, G: . W. Irwin. 3, William Curtis, • 4. William W. 13ornell, IsaaaS. Catinin.• G M. P. Ross, Charles W. Carrigan.,, 6. John.'"). Stiles,yerry Hunter.: ' 7. John H. Brintei, YolliTC. Beatty, Glaneoy Jones, Williams Rosenthal. ' 0. George Sanderson,'Henry.A. Wade 10;''FmnemlW. HughogiDr. C: B. Glbninger 11. Philip Johnson, Carlton Burnett.) , _ Dennison, A.. 3. Garrett Om. 13. John E.'Means, David -LonenVerg. ' 14:' Hamilton .A.lricks,•VhOinai Bower. 15. Peter A. Keller, IL . D. Egolf. 19.'"Henry S. Stable, B. F.:Myers- , 17..R..8ruee Petriken, D. M. Dull. 18. •,itilm li. Qrmis, Stephen Pierce. 19. C:-L. Lamberton , James K. Ken'. W.'Thoteas B: Searigh 21. WiMani A. Ga'bre, 4. William 'D. Patte 23. 3. A. M'Calloch,r u, John Latta. ' ith, William A. Wallace ion, Samuel P.:ROss. . H. HutChinsoln. 24. R. W. Jones, S. B: Wilson. ' DEI4IOCRATIC EL - - . 11:-,L. Johnson (Sen.) 112. A. B. Dunning. Richard `Tana' " 113: Paul Le' idy. 1. William Laughlin: 14. Robert Swineford. 2.- Rd. R. Helmbold.i 15. JohniAhl. • 3. Edward P. Dunn. 16. Henry_G. Smith. Thos.'Neulloch. 17. Thaddeus Bank's -5.1 Edward T. Hess. 18: Hugh Montgomery. B.. Philip S. geilietta. 19. John lif. /inn. 7. G: G. Lelper. 20. Jos. M. Thompson. 8. Miehitel - Seltzer. 21.`•Erastus Birown. 9. Patrick M'Avoy., 22.. James P. - Barr. 10. ThOs. H. Walker. 23: Wm. J. Koontz. 11: 0:S. Dimmibk. 24. Wm. Montgomery. An earnest contest was made for delegates at taigao tile Chicago Convention. _The follow ing. was the ballot: P (4eo. W. Cass .97IHenry D. Foster.. 37, Wra'. ... 's9i Thomas J. Mi1e5...24 Asa Packer 72 1 Alfred Gilinore.— . 28 Wm. V. IFGrath'... 91 Thos. J.' Hemphill. 7 W. A.. Galbreath. -37 - , The Senatorial Eiectors were, chosen by the lollowing vote : Robt. L. Johnson ..1041Robert Ewing. - - 11 Richard Vanx 71' Vincent Bradford.. '2l -The ,Convention departed from the usual rule of such bodies, and electedthe Chain:Mu of the new State Committee by ballot. Th i s follow ing were the ballots : . _ . , Ist 2d. 3d. C. L. Ward- I 51 y, 85 Wm. EL Wittee • 44 -42 Wm. L. Hirst • • •29 - 2'.3 •• 35 Wm. Bigler I 1 1 Wm. A..-Wallace 1 -- "Mr. Ward, of Bradford, was chosen on the third ballot. The _delegates from the! several Senatorial districts named three members from each-to compose the - State CoMmittee4making it a body of just 100 men 'including the chair man. WM. P. Sehell,j.-BrDowell Sharpe and Levi Leichty are the members from this!district. POD. J. Glancy, Jones, chairman of the com mittee on resolutions, reported the following, which were unanimously adopted without dis cussion: Resolved, That - as we have no State candi date to present to the people, and no issue in volved- in the coming erection other than those which affect the welfare and liberties of our sister States equally with ours, we leave it to our representatives in the Chicago Convention to unite with the 'representatives of the other severeignties of the North in embodying the sentiment of the people in a declaration of prin. ciples acceptable to-all the States, on - Whom we relylo elect a President, and bring heel peace and union to this distracted land. • &solved, That the Democracy of Pennsyl vania hereby express their preference' for the nomination of Gen. George brChillart, as the Dimocratie candidate for the Presidency by the Chicago Convention, and .that the dele gaWi to said Cdnvention be instructed to vote asa unit on questions arising therein, as a majority of the delegates shall decide; -Read/rad; That-the first necessary step to re store the welfare and prosperity of the Ameri can Republic is to get rid of the present corrupt Pelletal Administration; and the sure way to accomplish this and is a thorough organization of the time-honored Democratic party, and the prevalence of Knion and harmony among its members. THE ildalfi Sentinel states that theioffieers anditrlvisies of thd filet Army Corps have de ter Mined to erect a monument , on the Gettys burg Rattle-field, to-the memory of theirgallant 'commef:#r, Maj. Gen. Reynolds, who fellearly trAtte engrigethent On the firi3t day of the battle ofG4tyAbnrg., ; -The money has been raised for thiParO)fm , an4'6e Committee has written to Nvid Wills,' Rag., Of that place, tai, -secure enitablegroeinds for the location ' f the menu-, '"'• • • • 11VL learn 'that - all the bodies of the Union Staler* hi e now been disinterred' From the gn4 treadles where they were has tilythrown after thihettle, end carefully" buried in their appitliri f ite places ilf. the National cemetery. The total number of bodies thus removed and entombed is three thousand Ave hundred and tweivo. , Workmen are busily engaged in im prisvinglhe grounds, Und• will so continue until ,the piticeis completed. CTORAL TICKET WASIIINOVON. A Review of the Tatrt , Venr. Gen. Grant • --Gen. W. M. smith--Gen. Sherman-- Tr Arrival - of Lient.Gen. Grant.Wffe and SCM—lte-organisatioA of the Artny of the Poterane=o pis 1-4 war Sonetto* onSerring SO - glees to Drafte!:l - Men—The PreehleneoLeree. _ Correspondenee,of the rtattltlia Repository. :W4IIIIKON We live in times replete. with remarkable ,events'in the tint:long dents of individuaf2experienee. Iliatory is' made , now - at astonishing. rate, and its . fresh page present changes reforrhs,'yea Jutions of extraordinary Character and import a ance in, the affairs of the keit American people+ In looking back over •hiiitory of this gi grintie rebellieny the most:'indifferent observer ,of- human life 'cannot but Wonder at the very, 'great nhanieis which haie beeri'deveioped and recorded, both in respect to men and Oil . go+- ernurent. The•untissuriting' and brave General who. eta° fall 'of Fort,'Delialson and the bat tles of Beaumont aim 'Pittsburg' Lhading wits' unmercifully maligned as tinineffieient "drank:' en" General, has becoMeitta ranSiirkiffifi , period i through his - victory of Viokshitg r afid subsequent generalship; the leading taarifef the age. The 'sainis people , rind presti,'WhO 'have both taken an aellie part:' in. abusing .&re#Generali.whom te-day they are proad to phiedat the head of the grand armies. of the Uhited Stites. The same remarkable mutations eharacter izing the life of Gen. W. F. Smith, (oftenualled " Baldy,"). He too has outgrown the base in-, siunations which were tittered against him du ring the siege 9f tiiiy ,tolm and which kept him from being confirmed as a Major General by the United States Senate: • • He wail on jYed neaday almost the Oar= Senators who two Years ago rejected his' nomination,' and his commisaion was 'Made .out, signed by the President and handed . 'to him the same evening. Now he is Lassigned to 'one of the most responsible . ,pooltions which •Gen., Grant can bestow. And GOO. Sherman, who in alb early part 'of the 'war Wei every where sat down. by the press and people as a, lunatic. In one of these.spells of insanityhe declared that it would take oyer 200,000 'men to rid Tennessee of the Babels,' and was actually relieved of command for it.. -Yet he,has heen selected, by Gen. Grant its the fittest Altai fOrthat veWrie partMent; and new commando more than that, number As an eildence of his funricy,• see whathe has uccomplished in a late - raid-- rendered; peeks to the rebels over 150 miles of . railroad, burned 'JO mills 'lola - 10,000 bales of Confederate Cotton, destreyed 2,000,000 bush els of corn, 20 locomotives, 28 - cars, 67 bridges and 7000- feet of trestle4cos.,„ :He capfered 300 prisoners, liberated 8,000 negroes, brought back 3,500 head of horses and' mules and over 300 wagons, subsisted his men entirely on the country and, returned safely to Victiburg with a loss of only- 170. men. Verily, as Father Abraham said to the committee who waited-on him to urge the removal of Grant, because he drank too mueirwhisky—" If you know where he gets his whisky inform me, so I can order a supply for the rest of.the Generals' =and so we might pray for a few more lunatics like Sher man spreadout among the army. Gen. Grant, accompanied ,with his wife, and son, and staff, arrived on Wednesday morning. He put np at Willard's, which is to be his board ing place while in this city. His headquarters will be in Winder's building, Seventeenth St. This was the headquarters of the Quartemaster General, which officelas been - removed to the Corcoran building. Gen. Grant spent most of Wednesday at the - War Department. During the afterecion in company with the Secretary of War, he visited - Brady's photograph gallery where a number of 'excellent likenesses were taken. Afterwards he spent part of the even ing at the Presidential Mansion. Oa his return to the hotel the ladies sojourning there, assem bled in the parlors and sent a message' to the, General, desiring him to hold a levee. He ac cede/1/o their request,'and a-very pleasant time was spent. His autograph vvasin great demand,. and many of the ladies succeeded in getting it 4 The hotel, as it was during his brief stay be fore, was thronged by peopleeager to get a sight of him, and whenvever seed„, was heartily 1 cheered by the crowd.' He avoids all display. On Thursday morning he left with his staff for the headquarters of the, Army of the Potoome; Very important changes in the re-organizatiOn of that army have already taken place. The. lst and 3d Corps have been distributed amongst the 2nd, sth and 6th Corps, and these three Corps to be commanded by Gens. Hisneocfc,- Warren and Sedgwick. Tne followingare the orders: k HEAD QUARTERS ARMY 'OP THE POTOMAC, March 24, 1864.—General Grdero,No:'•lo.—lst. The following, order, hub beinteeeived from the War Department:— WAR DEPARTMENT, GEN's. OFFICE, : WASHINGTON, March 23.-General Orders No.: 115.-Ist. By direction of the President of the - United States, the number of army corps com posing the Army of the Potomac will be re-. dueed to three, 'vizi—The Second, •Fifth and Sixth Corps. The troops of the other two corps, viz :—The First and Third Corps will be temporarily re organized and distributed among the Second, Filth and Sixth- by' the commanding General, who will determine what existing organizations will 'retain their carps badges and other dis tinctive Marks. The, staff officers of the two ,corps which are tempOrarily broken Op will be assigned to; vacancies ni'the.other corps, so far as such va cancies may exist; ' those for whom there are no • vacancies will cease to be con sidered as officers of the General Staff of Army Corps. . 201'.. ma). Gen. G. K. Warren 'is 'assigned by the President to , the cOinmand of the Fifth- Coring, • 3d. The following ,General officers are de tached from the Army of the Potomac. and will report for orders to the Adjt. Gen. ' of the Army, viz iblaj. Oren. George Sykes,' United States Volunteers; blef; Gen. W. H. Freneti,Volle4 States Volunteers; MuJ. Gen. John S. Newton, : UnitCd • States Volunteers i• Brig. Gen. I`, - `,l-`:` , t :D.C. ,. "„ . ( 101, 3 1,,,..,, , j):.4,4; ; ;„ 4 ,114 , :BBtri,toi'!o,,, IsompAy-.:i4ifici,i-,.?0,j804'; CILIA XerileY Milted States' Volanteeri; 'and'Brig: Gen. Solomon Meredith, United States Teton teem. ,By order of the Secreted-of War. E. D. TOWNSENDi Aist. Adjt. Gen. 2d. The following arrangements are made to carry out the provisions of the foregoing, order: The Second, Fifth and Sixth Army Corps will each be consolidated into two divisions. The First and Second Divisions of• the Third• Corps are transferred to the Second Corps r pre. serving their badges and distinctivemarks. The Third Division of the-ThirdiCorps is transferred permanently to the Sixth_CorPa. ' The three ( Divislons now forming the First Corte, : are transferred to,the Fifth Corm pre- Serving their badges and distinctive.maris, and ton forming the Fifth Corps they wink; consoli dated into two •Divisions. The commanderS of. Divisions transferred to the Second, , Fifth and, Siith Corps will at once report to the command; err of these corps for instructions: Brigadier General 3'; 13. Carr will repert tO, Major General Hancock, commanding tri,,finc ond Corps, and Brigadier General H. Prince to' Major Gen. Sedgwick,. commanding, the Sixth The Chief of Artillery' ill assign cightbat te ries each to the Second,n6lll44 SittkCinr, thein hatterieg bi taken from those now in these cOrpi, and with the First and Thlritcorps. ,ThWb4tte,pep;*itil gqlerani'PO excess, 'Ofht 41),OPreveres: f ,O 1 I 00 4, 4 0;10 JRP 4,, P l ft l o#'m , "' r q " ' The coosoitilidio#q446 tliSlOne ealle4 for hithia Ordk;ifoibee*.th,e, UcePs - *Odom are, authorized to re. arrange brigades of their, tectictive, com ma:rids-ilk such manner as may t think best feithe , The.re4ifisigairtittt tiffidera , Of 'the staff de- Faritiients', - :consetinent tiPpli: the re-organisation .orthe - army, will be made.upon the nomination of the Chiefs of the Staff. Departments, at these lieadquarterti. '", • Special instructions will be given hereafter with respect to the sta ff officers of the two corps temporarily:broksti :ay.'. • ' ' • 3d.''The Woe Gmteral commanding himSolf Of this ocensiiinto say that in new of the reduced strength of nearly all the regitnents• herring in this army, the temporary reduntitni of the Army Confl to_three is a, sneasnre,imm. atively demanded 'We best interests of , the service; and that :the foesenliforlittachinitha First and Third Corpk t ler the _thee heing•to other - Corpi'wers in, no yes'pectlinin4d upon any supposed inferiority_ of those"corps to the other corps of this:Ailey: , I• • • • All the corps haveegnally-provedtheir-valor on many field s,' and all - hav,e:mpaabilaimsto - the confide:lN:tattle Gov - err:Meet irraroftlki pantry.: The l'lrst end Third '-qtrps will ibtalitilteir', badges of dietthetion nuirks, and" the IN. gen eral Commanding the hope that the ranks of the army will be filled at an early day; lao that these'corpt*Agan ibe re-organized.,. By command , s. wiutiausi A. A. G. Gen. - Pleasanton,* heat relieved from com mand of the Cavalry Corps, and is to report to Gen. Rosecratis. General Sykes is to report to Gen. Curtis; Gen. FeWlon,flo,,Glo. §`herinan; Gen. French assigned to duty at Philadelphia; Gen. Meredith at Cairo; Gencral . SPitrolic: to a. coral riarrtird ; Gene Calftellliteliritiskto sit on.court martial, and Gene. Ricketts,,Gibhoo and Wadsworth are to report to Gen. Meade for assignment to. cormnands.- - Hon. William Whiting, Solicitor of the War Department has given an opinion, which-is pub lished for the information of all persons enroll- - ed, and intending to leave their places of resi dence for other places at a distance. All per sent enrolled are liable to draft and any, person drafted, a notice must be served on him person ally or by leaving it at his last plaiie of residence within ten days after the draft, nritifyinghimto appear at a certain place. If he fails to ,report after such notice served on him or left at his last place of residence, without 'furnishing-a substitute or paying $3OO, he is a deserter and may be arrested, court martialed and sentenc ed to death. The Levee given by the President on last Tuesday evening notwithstanding the snow stonn, was - weßattended. Every branch of the Government, Civil, Military and Naval was rep resented, and the elite of this and other cities were present. The attendance not 'being :so large as usual, a She opportunity' was giveioer promenading in the East Room, which present ed a brilliant appearance: As usual, many of the ladies wore very elegant ,costumes. Mrs. Lincoln wore a beautiful silver-colored moire antique, trimmed with white satin ribon, with a handsoine black lace shawl thrown loosely over the' shoulders. She wore lieautiful wreath efrare but modest flowers upon her head, and her only jewels were a necklace of pearl. The 'President looked somewhat worn and fatigued, but the crowd not. being as large as usual, the hand shaking was soon over;and he enjoyed the pleasures of the evening, as happily as did any one of the party. It is a pleasure in itself, to look at a man borne down with such immense responsibilities as Abraham Lincoln, and see him smile and be happy if only for an instant. History of the 24,Pa. Artillery—Lieut. B.F. Winger-Number in the Regiment from Franklin County—Vacancies in Line Officers—Appeal to the Ladies. Correspondence of The Franklin Itopositdry. FORT BUNK E R HILL, D. C., Hard 23 As Franklin 'county has quite a number of her sons 'serving in the 2d Pa. Artillery; a brief history of the Regiment may not be uninterest ing 'to your readers. ' ' '' - • In Octobir, 1861, col. Charles Angeroth, a Prussian by birth and education, was author ized by the Secretary_ of War to raise a Battat ion of Heavy Artillery in Pennsylvania. for duty at• Fortress, Monroe, , to be Officered in, ac cordance with the views and directions of.the' Governor. On February Bth, 1862, the Regimentwas or ganizekwith ten companies, numbering in all about 800 men, made up from the 'different parts of the State- as follosvrtN-4 ampoules from Philadelphia, 1 from Pittsburg, 1 from Fayette county, 1 from Luzerne county, lfrom Columbia an d M on tour counties, 1 from' Wayne county, 'and 1 from Northumberland county. Three companies Were immediately' assigned to duty at Fort Delaware and the others rea dezvoused at Cottage 9 arden, .Camden •N.,3., until 'April following Whey the whole `Were ordered to the defeneei around Washington, • *Urn , the Regtelint has been ever since and. hai dine enouihot 'digging in thp:meantindta have underminel*e rebel cspitol.: Jime,lB64 tel.- Angeroth reiigned,ani in ; August foil - 4:04 Capt.'A. A. Gibson, of the e Regular Artillezy -ViftEi • appointed: to the Colo neley. ' The Rei3imentithen MunberedSbout6po men. A. short time aftervVet4s- Capts;Jones' and §ohotd4fs -- Independent Light Bidterles were attnobed by oider of the Seerpiery ofWar, which gave the requisite number of,comiminies , for an Arttliery,Regiment. conAvat24,‘ 7862, 8., F. 'Winger was pointed lat Lient. in Co. D, .vice ;Lieut:Bagge ,promoted,, and ;while arranging- for the :fort of Vitus family 4 :firthrte years or during the tear" • ,and tdaig to; .Nts friends in "old Frank lin; 't he;enrolled ,thirty•fivirmen :for the limed.: • .t • • • About October sth, 1862; Lieut. Winger 'rasa: erdered ; on 'recruiting -service, in liermsylvania, and was Maimed at ChtemberstOirgand Green cnstle;. and, from that time 'until AP& follOW.ing he-enlisted 157 men for the organization. A fu!d Attikef men were - enlisted, and through their )*lfiiie t e,ii4ol:4 and the deserved popularity :4:-tho.llpOromi, over one hundred tnore'men Yiele iiidlleed4O-enlist so that Fran lin county 1411kt - 474 - put; for this Regiment at leash-800 The men frOm Franklin county ure.distribut edaniong D,l, C, A, H and L, coMpanies and form the dein:ars of the three Omer: If the War pep4rbilent bad allowed the men enlisted in the Rill 0fr1862 to havcre-enlisted as - vetbr- Una, nearly every man would have Miciried - hiru-• self with the honorablel•veteran badge, but as they had not 'Served two years • it could not be done. Therd , :are now fourteen vacancies of lice officers, and owing to a. dead-lock hetween the•authoritiei at 'Haitisburg, and' our Colonel' no conunissioasare issued 4 ,t0 this Sogiment. It is to be hoped, 'however, that thO - barrier will Soon be renfored, : so that able dbd &serving non-comithisioned officers, of which wahaVe a number, may he , prothptly promotel to fillthe vacancies:: :linsight be in order toxemarklere' that tranklin county has but one commissioned officer ih the. Begimpnt, out of all the men she has furnished the organization. • • The Regiment is now more than fall, 1'769 enlisted men.beingothe and'we hive' over 2600. . there are but two heavy Artillery re &lents fipm , Pennsylvania, : tine one and tee. ta l