Jamb Hoke-lard Story Brick Boat, and two story sitriek back building and Frame stable 5,500 Dr. Lruagheito-Two story Brick front, two story Frame beck banding and Frame stable 3,000 Widow Montgomery (Hotel}-Three story Brick front sted two story Bnck back building, two story Straw front and two story' Brick back building ' and Brick Daniel Trostle-T stablewo story Brick and Stone front 9,0:0 and three two story Stone back buildings, lot of sheds arid Stone stable 7,003 Swan Chambers-One story Brick shop, two story Brick manslon:and Stone stable 2,500 A. Frey-To Frame and Log front and ape story Brick back bonding, two story Brick shop, Coachmaker shed and blacksmith shop and LOC gable 3, Hu11......Tw0-stary Brick front and one story 000 back building and Frame Wash house 2,10) Mn. (kW. Goettumn-Troo story Log (weather ' basal) Briek back bulldirtg and .FrameahoO 1, 2 00 INFEST SIDE ALUMPROMSQUARE TO WASHINGTON' main Bank-Tito story Brick front and beak building, smoke and wash house, 8,000 Mrs. Gilittore-Two story Brick front and back and two Frame shops. 5,500 Jacob •B. Baler-Two story Frame front (brick cased) and story back, coal shed, stove Shed, --- Frame stable .. 3,003 Dr., ltichards.-Two story Brick front aid, back ' handbag, smoke home, stable 5,50 0 Christian Burkhart-Three story Brick front and hark building, Frame icehouse, stable; - 4,500 John M. Coo pe r-Three story Brick front, three story Brick back and tiro story Brick back baild- Inas, stone stable, dm. 15,000 James L. Black-Two story Brit* front and back building, spring house, stable 5,000 -Dr. James Hamilton-Three story Brick front and back building, and stable 7,000 John A. Grove-Frain° shop 250 Jacob Hutton-Three story Brick front and two two. - story Brick buildings, wash and smoke houses... -John krenntook-Two story Brick front and back Minding, hatter shop and smoke house ' 3,5 Lewis.Shoernaker-Two story Brick front and &rk building, store room, bake house and ice house.. 4-' 33 Samuel Greenawalt-Two story Brick front and A back buildings, and Frame shed. 5,500' - J..Allisort Eyster-Two story Brick trod and e and a-tudf story back building - • - .7. 'Ailison Eyster-Two story Brick front r , lle J. star, Brick back building 1,500 Allison Eyster-Three story Brick Dant and two two-story back buildings, and Mica Stable 5,000 Wm. Heyser's heirs-Two story Erick front and back buildings, Brick bake and smoke house, and Brick stable 5.500 Rev. 8. B. Ftsher-BrioS stable 500 Geti'Lehner-Lw stable.. , George Ludwlg-'l‘ao story Brick Bout and four k two story and me one and a half story Brick back buildings, Frame shed, and one story Brick bake ~.„2souse Charles FOltillterTwo story Brick front and back building, Brick wash house Adam Wolff-Two story Frame and Brick front and Frame shed 1,010 John Forbes-Two story Log front and one story , Brick 'back building, Frame wash and smoke house 2,000 John Dittman-Two story Brick front and back • banding 2,0X 1 Joseph Decksdraayar...l`wo story Brick front and back bonding, one day bakery Samuel Ott-Two third vary Wick Boat and one 3,000 two story thick bank betildlng B. Radebangh-Orte story Frame shop. Samuel Ott-One story Frame shop.:. . B.lbrdebaugh-Two story Brick front building_... 600 EAST SIDE MAIN FROM WASHINGTON TO SQUARE. F. Spahr-Twottory Brick front and back build _ing Misslietrick-Two story Brick front and one story Brick back building 1,500 john A. Lemaster-4."Two story Brick front and back banding, and Frame shed. Aug er . Relneman-Two story Brick front and back bdings 2,5e0 Samuel M. Perry-Two story Brick front and back building 2,030 David L.'faylor-Two story Log (weatherboarded) front and Frame back buildings 1500 John W. Taylor-Two story Brick front and back building, wash and smoke house, stable, shed and seales. 7,000 George Ludwig-Two story Brick 'fr;ont and back • budding:tin shop, Bnck, Brick stable.... IL H. Hnts-Two story k front andbaok build- DaVwash and smoke house and brick stable.... 6,500 IRelsber-Two and a-balf story Brick front and two story bae.k building, Frame kitcheuvrash, amoke and bake house and stable 4,500 Michael Suss-Two story Brick front and back building, wash house and same stable 2,500 Isaac Hutton-Two story Brick front rind two story Brick back building, wood and wash house, back shop and Stone stable John P. Culbertson-One story Frame front and two Brame back shops Dr. John Lambert-Two story Brick front and two house story book building, Brick stable and carriage 590 Mrs. R. Fisher-Two story Brick f ro nt building.... 5 5, ,000 William Wallace (Hotel)-Three story Brick front and three story back building and wash basso 9,003 Daniel Reisher-Two story Bnck front and two two story back buildings and:Brick stable 6,000 J. Allison F,yster (Nixon's)-Two story Brick front and two two story back buildings, Brick shed and two story Brick shop Joiner Eyster-Two story Brick front and two story back building and Brick stable 4,500 - Eyster & Bro.-Two story Stone front, Brick back building and me 'kitchen .. 5,500 E &B-Three-story Brick front, Warehouse, Ve r ~ k ra stable 10,030 Brand & Flack-Two story Stone front and brick back building, Brick ware house 6,500 A. J. White-Two story Stone front and Brickback building and kitchen Hiram White-Three story Brick front, and back building anti kitchen.a John Jeffries-Two story Stone front and Brick back bonding, Brick wash house and Frame stable.' A. B.Mamiltan-Two story Stone front and Frame and. Brick back buildings, Frame wash house, Brick stable 6,0)0 Mansion House-Three story Brick front and two story Brick back building, and Stone stable.... 10,000 oticadearya-Two story Brick - 4,033 _ QUEEN • SOUTH SIDE. John W. Beges—Two story Brick front and hack - building and wash house Win. Cunningham—Two story Brick front and ;back building, wash bonne, and Granary. ...3,oooJohn - Mull—Two story Brick front and back . .:. build- ing '2°°° J. T. Hoskinson—Two story Brick front and—b—'.llc' binding 2,210 Jacob Fluader—Two stony Frame front and one sto ry back building 800 Jacob Hinder—Two story Frame front and one sta. ry back bonding, and stable 700 Wm. Wallace—Two story Brick front and back building; wash house, arid wood work of spring house . 4,000 Mrs John Lindsay.—Two story Brick .front and back building 2,500 Barnard Wo.l.6—Two two story Brick front and bitok buildings, ono story Frame kitchen, wash bowie, warehouse, IMMO butcher shop, Frump carriage house one story Brick stable J. AllisonEystei"—Two story Brick front and back banding 2,3:0 Maw Blind—Two atory.Brick front and two two sto ry Brick back buildings 1,800 bfroCiark—Twostaq Brick front and back bonding l,eoo Mrs R. Fisher—a Two story Brick front and back indidtag 2,000 Mn. Sarah Stavonson—Two two-story-Brick front and one book building, wash and smoke bowie.. 2,000 John D. Grier—Two story Brick front • and buck building 4,500 Mrs. Stow Nixon—Twostory Brick front and one story back building , 1,800 Robert Gaols—Tyro sksq . jh . , iek building 2,000 John Cree—Two dory Brick front and back build ing, wash and mocks house,_.. SamuelMyersTWo story Mkt - front, one two and a-half and ono twit story beck building - 200 Mot Thompson—Two story Log buildin 3, g. GM) Mrs. Geo. S. Bysisi—Two story Brick front and backbuilding 2,5 0 0 Andrew Banker—Two storrLog front and lock building (rough cased) and smoke house QUEEN-NORTH SIDE Huber & Ca—Edge Tool Factory—Fire one stdry Brick and one Forme building 3,500 Brick blacksmith shop GB Baptist Church—Brick dime story 3,000 George Ludwig (Brewery)--Two story gtene front and book budding, two story Brick bock building onestery office and engine house, Frame-stable, two story abed 8,000 Widow Grove of Wm.—Two story Frame -front and. beck building, Brick smoke house - 1,50(1 Timm Carlisle—Two story Brick front building, and two story Frame front building - 3,000 Bitalline'slieirs—Two story Brick front and two story Frame back building, two story Log and Brick front and two story Brick back building... 4,000 Widow Grove of Alex.—Two story Frame front and ' one story book building, smoke house, Frame stable John Ilqber , —Two story Brick front and back build. bisr,•one story kitchen, Frame stable - 3,000 Abribiun Huber- , , Two story Brick front building sod Brick kitchen, Frame stable 2,000 likdrer—Two story Frame front and back build- - Thomas Carlisle—Two story Brick front and two - two 4 01 7 back buildings 2,500 lug, two atorr Frame worcroom, Stone stable, . - sled, one wkitchen adjoining Stevenson's... . 1,000 Wut Wallace,- throe story Brick front, end tares two• story s Brick back balblings, two one • story Frame shopo, and two and a half story, Brick stable • 8,000 Nicholas Snyder—Two 'tory Brick front and back building, two Frame cork booms and Frame stable 2,500 Dr. 8. D. Culbertson—Two and a half story Brick front, arid two story Brick buck building, Brick - spring - house, and Brick stable Mrs. Brand—Roof slightly J. P. Culbertson—Two story Brick front and back building, smoke end siring house, and stable.. 4,500 SECOND MtKik. P. Henry Peiffer—New two story Frame stable. .. Associate Reformed Church—One story Brick build swith end gallery 8e4. , Rhodes—Two story Log front and o ne s to r y Brick back building 1,200 J. Allison F. irtes—One story Log shop 100 Charles no and rt-half story Log bondin g and Frame-kitchen ......... . .. . . ... goo John P. Keefer—Two story Brick intilding and Frame kitchen ... . ......-.. ....... ... .. 1,500 John Reesner = One ;tory Log bakery and, IF corn crib 501 Jacob B. Brown—Roof and upper door of front back building John Dobler—Two story Brick front and two story back building Holmes Crawford—Two story Brick front and two story beck building 3,900 Panel Amostrong—TWO story Brick front and back building, kitchen, stable and frame shed4,l4 Aug. Reineman—Two one story•Prnme shops and FRANKLIN. Martin Cole—Two story Brick front- and b a ck and two Mori Log. buildings, and wash house Piaip Evans—Two story Brick front and one story Frame back building 1,^40 IVoLFsrosvw Dr. A. IL Bensony—Two ono story Log buildings 213() N. llglow—Threo one story Log buildings__ . _ 250 MEM Geo. Kindlinp—One and what! story Brick wagon maker and bknkswith shop, 1 Brick stable ALLEY. Willow Palmer—Frame stable. 150 Nleholan'Garrtek—Trame stable 100 Henry Greirtawalt—Brick stable g.--, , - • KING. fieorge Chambers—Three Mastery Brick front and flue Mit*" uok. back buildingt.. ...... . , - 4 2,50 c, Hpfon Washabandb—Twd story Frame front and Brick back building, Stone breerery, Brink gran ary, wagon shed, two Brick 'Stables and Frame shed. 8,000 Conrad Harman—Stone mill Frame butcher shop and dwelling, frame stable 800 A. K. 3PClure—House and barn 9,9)0 Jacob Eby—Barn 2,500 Andrew 3PElwaine—House. 400 • RECAPITULATION. The following is the aggregate of buildings burned: Residences and places of business 266 Barns and stables Oa Out buildings of carious kinds 173 Total buildings burned 1137 The aggregate valuation of the real estate as made by a committee of upright and disinterested citizens—consisting of -Win. McLellan, C. M. Burnett, Joseph Clark, D. K. Wunderlich, and John A rms t rong —i s $7l 0. "We are unable this week to give a full account of the loss of per sonal property, but it will greatly exceed the real estate. = Th e re b e l s retreated from this place across the North Afountair to McConnellsburg, where Gfill. Averill overtook them, and harassed them severe ly us th e y fell back towards the Potomac. His command wss so much exhausted, however, that the, rebels escaped across the river without seri ous loss. 4:kn. Averill rested his command a few days before he moved into Virginia. He then m sreiied to Moorfield, where he •met the coin 3incd rebel command; -and gave batty. , , on the 7th inst. and routed them completely. We copy the following• from his official ' report to Gov. Boreman dated the Bth inst: • "I attacked McCausland at Mogrefield yesterday morn ing at daylight, and compftely rent e d his anwand, cap turing his artillery and 42 pnsoners; also 400 horses'and equipments, 3 ixtttle flags, and a quantity of small arms The number of the enentAs killed is unknoWn„ but large Gen. Bradley,,Johaston wrS captured with his color., and three of his staff, but subsit - quently escaped. Cot. Tigers, 21st Virginia, rebel regiment, was mortally wounded. McCausland' escaped to the mountains. The enemy was pursued toward Wordenyitle, Howard Lick and up the south branch, from tan 'to twenty-tivo miles. My NMl =and became 150 ITCTlfied with the clone and hi) enedm berei with prisoners and captured property, I thought it t best to bring it here. My loss is 7 killed and 21, wounded. '.. W. ANTHILL, Brig. Gov't." THE REB L STRENGTH, 4,500 5,000 The entire rebel force under Early consistea of t*o Corps under Rhodes and 13reekinridge, with about 5,500 cavalry. They had about 40 guns exclusifo of the light guns with the cavalry. The following we regard as a reliable estimate- of Early's army that operated on the border Breckinride's corps - Wharton is &Orlon. Clodon's. 7,(CCI 9,500 Total Ithodest-oOrtis— Ramseues Ithodes' old division... In reserve 'at Winchester .. 9,000 ... 200 Total infantry force Total cavalry Number of area with artillery 2,500 Total number of roes Gen. Hunter's force was much larger than Early's, but it was worn out and wanted iu effec tiveness generally, Gen. Sheridan is now in su preme command of the several districts covering the border, and will doubtless make a vigorous campaign. We regard incursions on the border as about at an end for the present, and with a well organized militia force, they can be prevent. ed entirely hereafter. Gen: Early's loss iu the various movements made on the Potomac exceeds 5000 men. flu: I original command was about 25,090. 1,500 4,000 TUE REBELS IN M'CONNELLSBURG. tie Fulton itcpub/icon says that after 3PCaus land had burned Chambersburg, his command moved West on the Chambersburg and Bedford turnpike, entering our. town about 3 o'clock on Saturday, the 30th Mt. They numbered about . 3,000, encamped here over night, mid took up their line of march on Sunday morning for Han cock. Gen. Averill was close on his rear Sunday morning, his pickets driving the rebels from the mountain, and harassing him through our valley. Soon after the rebels entered town on Saturday afternoon, they commenced plundering the stores, pillaging private houses, and robbing citizens. They first demanded the key of Dr. Duffield's Drug store, which was given, to prevent them breaking open the door. Not content with taking what they choose, they emptied the contents of drawers, jars, cases, &c., on the floor in a hete rogeneous mass. Private papers, accounts, and books shared the same fate. The stores of J. W. Greathead, Cahill & Thompson, Hoke .& nice, and the Messrs. Shoemaker, were !did visited and received the same treatment. 9,000 CM IZ3 The greater portion of the dry goods had been removed from the store - of Hoke & dace—which caused no little cursing-and swearing among the chivalry—as they expected to reap a harvest from this establishment. The losses of Dr. Duffield. J. W. Greathead. Cahill & .Thompson, and A.iz. W D. Shoemaker, were very considerable. Most 'of the private houses in town were pillaged ofchdlbs —and many citizens were stripped and robbed in the streets and roads. t Money. was demanded from every one, the demand being accompanied in most eases with threats of burning, or n cocked revolver inclose proximity with, the head. - 7,500 3,000 4,0(X) In all Our intercourse with rebels last summer we never met any so ntterly'depraved, so reek less, an desperate, as were a - portion of those wht were with M'Causland here week before last. OPINION-OF THE REBEL PRESS The Richmond &nand savagely defends tht burnik of Chambersburg. 'After referring to t ‘ h( fact that,the rebels had twice occupied the Cum Berland Valley without destroying private prop erty,•it,mys: "A course of duty no longer to be neglecter! or delay ol will forever Justify the burning of Chombersburg. This is but the beginning of the end. 'We knuo that this burn ing will render you more cruel than ever, that you will try to lay waste the entire Smith. to eonliseate our ,lands. to make, your ,negro soldiers a pollee guard to insult. watch, and rule the native whites. But it the wont ciimes to the Worst we will leave the South as a field for you to devustate--if you can Mel anything to devaste—for you to plunder and thieve in, where you havoleft anything en stolen, with none to opppese your onward ,march; while our regulars, who would innueh ewe' number almost, or quite a million—say half a million at lea At--divided tutu ihattysepamte commands, ell breathing vengeance, will March inta the:forth and Northwest, where there is a rich town or village at every live mil.; w here more than Asiatic Wealth invites the raider and plunderer; where no base oropersttoras, no Wagons or other 1111.111111 of transpor tatirm,arell beneeded. We will leave the South for you to glean in, while we gather flak harvests in the North. EIII 11 r I3EirI,IART'OF WAR NEWS ' Written has seized the Weldon railroad mouth oTT'etersburg, and still holds-it. OM --Gen. Grant has made a new rnoveinent north of the. James River. The 2nd mid 10th Corps were thrown rapidly north of the river on the Ulth inst., and secured a position within nine miles of Richmond' Several guns and about 500 rebel prisoners were captured. .Just what move Grant means to make is not clearly indicated. --Gen. Hood, the rebel commander at Atlanta seems determined to bear the'title of chief rebel butcher. ,He has made three attacks upon Sher man to raise the siege,,and each time has been repulsed with fearful slaughter, leaving his dead and wounded on the bloody field. His assaults, have cost him fully 20,000 men, while the Union loss was not one-fourth that number. Of Sher man's success at Atlanta at an early day, there seems to be no reasonable doubt, and with Sher man in Atlanta, Richmond could not be long held by the rebels. 1,2X1 —Gun. Sheridan last week pursued the rebel Gen. Early up the Shenandoah Valley beyond Winchester, and routed the rebel cavalry hand somely in an engagement. Subsequently Early was reinforced, and moved northward east, of the Blue Ridge; ms_ threatening Sheridan's Hank and movementAgeen him and Washington. Sher idan fell barto B4r i rysville, and his command is now betweMl thaq-rint and Harper's Ferry, while-Gem Averill holds 'the North line of the Po tomac frotu StkWardstown to Clearspring. There was heavy skirmishing on Sunday and Monday last, but no decisive engagement. We do At ap prehend an offensive movement of the rebels moth of the Potomac. It would be perilous nith &crazes army on the border. 4,060 1,9(X) —Commodore Farragut has made a most suc cessful derronstrathm against Mobile, destroying nearly all the rebel fleet and capturing Forts Gaiges and Pavell ts which defended the Fort Gaines is a 'sfrong work, was garrison ed by over GOO men, had over 40 guns mounted, and was well Munitioned and provisioned. The Lwork with the men and material was surrendered 7,000 nconditionally by Col. Anderson, of South Caro. a, who is -now denouueed by the robels`as a itor. Com. Farragut is now in Istobile Biiy , a with the land forces cooperating with him, ill soon attack the cid. We,give on our first page a map which shows the captured forts and the remaining &fences of the city. Several of our Iron-clads have already crossed 1)o bar, and au quite near the city. Plormin cppoitim. Wednesday, August 24, 1864. UNION NATIONAL TICKET.' FOR PRESIDEINTT, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OF ILLLS"OIS. FOR VICE PRESIDENT ANDREW JOHNSON, UNION COUNTY TICKET. 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We shall reglad it as a favor if Post llastei; will give us thu names of persons who received clubs at their re spective oflices, with the number of pa pers in each. - RIM 9.00 9.01111 2.l ii x) '5 DUO EZEI Tax oi.D FLAG will be sent from this date Tail the full returns of the Presi dential elietion ean be given,'at the fol lowing rates: Single Copies 10 Copies to one Ind at the ~.ame ratee2.s vents per INTy) fi wally additional =I Additlei !nay be made m elutei lit any Mlle u• to .eritre the full ink autage of our vial, rate , . and eltile. may Le divided bvtireen two or more lust Othee... Alt enters iliould be addres.ed to 31 Cr, t• s, NT( il BURNI . NG OF CHAMBERSISFRG We give in to-day's paper a detailed account of the the burning and sacking of Cluunbersburg, on the 311th ult. by the rebels miller command of Gen. McCaus land. Appalling as is the account given by our reporters, so far from dealing in exaggerations, it falls far, very flu , short of a complete picture of the wanton atulci ties practiced by the bat barons foe. Save the few humane exeepticms who openly and manfully resisted the leutal fury of their military superiors and associates. the entire command engaged iu the work of destruction seemed like insatiate fiends fiotn hell itself, who reveled in indiscrimi nate robbery and arson, regardless of the appe.• is of the widowed and fatherless. or the - claims of the stricken in years, the in firm or even the sanctity due to the dead. The allegation that Chambersburg was burned in retaliation for the destruction of rebel property by our armies, merely adds unblushing falsehood to shameless' baibarity. True, the rebels who in their fiendish intoxication thrust their torches into our homes. cried "retaliation" they rubbed defenceless women. and rifled drawers, jewelry-boxes, and purses; but that they should love falsehood, and pre fer it to truth, as they prefer robbery to honesty, and brutality to the ordinary Inunanities whTch characterize all but bru talized men, is - most natural. We can understand why the thief, with a remnant of shame, should resit to falsehood to paliate his crimes; but for the incain the North who cowardly skulk and whine over rebel falsehoods to extenuate rebel atrocities, there can be no excuse save the common law that binds men of like sym= pathis to justifyfhe acts, anti rush, with the mantle of charity to hide the defor mities of those whose cause they would openly espouse, had they common hon ,esty and manhood. It is untrue—wholly, maliciously and treasonably false, as broadly stated or in sidiously intimated by several journals in this State, that the Union troops have fur nished-any precedent for the burning and plundering Of Chamliersburg. Rebel jom.- nals have' so stated, it is true; but the fal sity of their statements has been clearly disproved, and a deCent respect, for truth, if not for the claims of patriotism, should have saved Pennsylvania the blistering sliame„of jothmals supported by her own people justifying, by every c.!.onceivalile excuse, the fiendish malignity that has left Chambersburg a mass of blackened walls, and our people robbed ,and homeless.— Gen. Hunter destroyed just six house, in his late march to Lynchburg - itil Parkers biug,.and by well recognized rules of war, he was fully justified in so doing. He burned the 'residenee,of Guy. Letcher, af ter having af-tirst guarded it, because he hound an appeal written by Gov. L etcher, a few days before, urging the people there to arm and ‘ ambush and murder the Union troops. - The destructiomof the Lexington Military:lnstitute we regretted, and still regret that \ it Atits, dime; but When (ten. Rhodes burned a similar institution in Carlisle one year ago, no ones thought of raising the cry, of vandalism: EVen the journals which have given columns of in dignant-denunciation to Hunter for de stroying a rebel military school, have yet to denounce the vandalism that applied the torch at Carlisle. E-ery other bidd ing destroyed by Gen. Minter was for spe cial reasons Which the rebels themselves deem humane when they tire invading our \wil. That his defeated, retreating. and half starved command committed many wanton outrages, we do_not doubt; but Zile Franklin Uep ttoru, ti)aniberobtirg, Pet. in that they were no exception to other commandS similarly situated on. either side. Even Earley could find but six buil dings destroyed by Hunter to give him a pretext for his atrocious -order, as his or der clearly demonstrated, , for he recited the names of the owners as ri warrant for his infamy. • Equally false are the - statements that Union troops wantonly buried Jacksoml ills, Alexandria, Jackson and Other towns carefully given by Penusylitania journals to break the crushing blow treason has dealt itself by the destruction of Chain bersburg. Jacksonville was fired at a single point when our troop's were retreat ing from it, because citizeUs fired. on oui• troops from the. house, and! unfortunately miZr ' wooden structi The firing MEE ME in their houses to fire upon troops, shall not only lose their, property but suffer death. Our troops, sometimes=--and only sometimes enforce the first /anal milder part of the ink. The rebels invariably enforce the 'entire rule relentlessly, and we hare yet to hear of complaint from northernjournals because they'do so t _ In Alexandria an accidental fire, - resulting -- from a party of intoxicated soldierS. threat ened the destructiotT of the entire towit; owing to its inikumible, buildings aud un favorable winds;, but it was arrest/4 be fore one-third of the •village—the poorest portion of it, was bunted. At the head of the force detailed to put out the fire was : Maj.,Gen. Banks in person, and by his or derit and efforts the town - was sated. Jackson was partially _de . Stroyed by our, gnus when it was defended 'by the rebels; but it was not fired and burned by our troops after possession was gained.— Wrongs, even atrocities may have 'been - eonnuitted by individual soldiers,tn• istila- - ted commands; but no such. thing as de liberately and N - tt n ton ly .bt um 'lig. and rob bing houses Was practiced •by the'Union army. '. Col. Montgomery committed gross outrages on private citizens in-two raids • in South Carolina, w hieb we have never seen reason to justify, but he was depriv, ea of his command, or at least subordina ted, and it may be dismissed, as he should have been. Kilpatrick burned mills an-' Warrataably as we have ever believed. anti other Unbot commanders mar have dime the same ; but it was some excnSe that - they werolilled with rebel supplies: *lli le M'Causland was on his way to lliambert burg to lay it waste, Gen. Rosseau was penetrating the richest part of G6n•;.;-ia. and not a single private hotiseor building • of any kind was destroyed, nor were his soldiers permitted to enter a reSidenee on the route. When private property Was . li i near to government storg 'Which 1.1a141 -to tire. he (144:tiled men to save all I it, tin buildings belonging to or used, by t e re bel government. 6 cli. Stoneman enforc ed the same rules rigidly in all his rai4 and so- did Grierson. The Union troy.; lrave captured and occupied hundreds of rebel towns since the war has comMene ell, and they have yet the first Wile to de -mand the free-booters tribute or dearoy a towu by order of a commanding Mfieer. Repeatedly have. our troops been tired upon and murdered by sknlking rebels N'vho protected themselves in their dwell ings ; but in no case has , a town been de stroyed therefor. , ' ' 45 , out . $4 00 ELM MEI DEEM robbers' tri hate demanded from defenceless towns like liag,erstown, Fred erick, 13t - mm.l )011 and Cha mbersburg, 'and_ the brutal robbery and fientlish 7 burning of our town: stand out in a ppallin - g, tulle in this war, and are without Prece dent in lie histhrY of warfare in the present century'. A Napoleon. fifty years ago, might e demandt4l tribute from Chambersintig if defended and captured and deStrained to raise' the ransom. A Septiy might have sacked it and appro priated its wealth to glut hiS semi-savage instincts. , A McCausland first robbed it by an unrestrained command, ' then re lentlessly hurried out alike the Opulent and humble, widoW 11:Warrior, and, spared neither age, sex, persuasion..or condition. such is the truth, and such must be the history of our titxmied , village, regard less of the slimy 'shadoW of charity with which the brutality of traitors and the ready falsehoods of cowardly. sympathiz ers, would-seek to extenuate, the crowning atrocity of modern warfare. The deliberate, wanton robbery - and buruing of Chaulher; ; iburg, a defenceless town, by order of Gen. *Mind A. Early; one of the corps commanders of Gen. Lee's army, demands the pnimptest and most decisive action of our government. It must be borne in mind that while the vaq dal chief Weausland brought his trained free-bpoters here and bid them st - earand destroy indiscriminately, he and they - were but the meaner instruments detailed to do for Earley what he was Ohittned- to do himself. Coining-thus from one of the trusted Lieutenants of Gen. Lee, While the vandals of Areausland are - nene the less eOllllllOll robbers, the responsibility of the act is plated squarely on the shoulders of the commander of the insurgent arniy of Northern Virginia. If 31'eauslandlad burned and phuidered Ohambersburg in a fit of drunkenness or - to gratify some personal malice, without direct authority from his superiors, the responsibility lconld have been his own but -when a corps commander under special orders Gen. Lee, deliberately directs' a town to be sacked, and destroyed by fire, witlicit& even the pretext that a 4 bf its citizens 1001 violated the accepted rules of:civilized warfare, - the government can do noless than bring the rebel - authorities, to the strictest accountability for the, act, _We have uniforialy deer seated in these columns the wanto i u destruction Of pri vate property by our armies, and even with our own !mines desolated, and thou sands of ow: citizens houseless and many, very ninny penniless, we' adhere to the same convictions touching the prosemi tioit of this -war. We would not burn Lexington, Staunton, or any 9ther town peopled by rebels because one fiend of a commander directed, a brutalized mand to rob and destroy Chiuubcrsbufg. If we hold 'to the true theory that all _the elf recognized er themselves WANTtII=A POLICY • territory aud towns of the Seceded States are the property of the United States, we - . camiOt justify their.dekruetion, even in retaliation for like wrongsldone by bar barons rebels. • Such 'retaliation visits its severest Vengeance• mainly upon the inno centwhile the guilty iiieasureably if- not wholly escape its power; but where the home or possessions of one wlfo ordered applied, or in any way sanctioned the torch, can be found, retaliation.should be relentless: - ,Gen. Lee is the superior offi cer of Gen ; Eearly, and unless: he shall disavow the - acts of his Corps commander, and bring• him to proper punishment, it would lie lint an actlif juStice to all man kind to hold Lee individually responsible for the act, and no possession of hiS should be spared, So witlin t ery: officer of the rebel civil government; - and .:every • com niatler who k contimWs to serve tinder Vandal chiefs. All such-men should lose all they possess when it is !in the power of-the Union to retaliate. and there the, destruethm of property = should stop. wt taunt io destroy indisciiminafely 'ray of fetal Mt ion, we shall be. guilty of the very crimes which have consigned the rebels to perpetual hilirmy, 'mild' la -sides ,we ,should make (ful- armies`} bait -bands of maranderz; instead] o f soldiers. —So much touching ,the question of propertk. But fhe're is another duty now imperatively imposed on the government, mid it must meet it bravely and inextu.a- . bl'Y if would command !the respeei ui the world and'of its Own people. It must 'hold every coniniander and every soldier wtto actively Or passively participated in thiitthbbery and destruction of,Chandiers burp; as without the pale ofth'i , al war.. On this point there can be hesitatioaor indecision without Sacrificing at once the respect anti the cower of the ' goverment. No soldier. either Union or relief, who resorts to indistuiminatc: rob bery aitil burnin! , of defem•elt: ,, s"towns, is fit to live. All such tlar common foes of hiummity4nenties of alf,mankind, and it is a common mercy to all the living to execute them. No Ruch: soldier should bencefOrth he treated as a: prislon4: of Way.: If caPtitred., and climgedN'Yith arstnt.atid ioldicyy, he shonld • be faidy flied and if guiltY, should surely die.- I'his and this alone atone for the bulldog of'bhain hersbur:g, and at the sanie'time prevent similar:atrocities hereafter. idle fur a govel nnwnt trthope to comina t ud the respect and confidence of its peojile, if it fails to manifest its cups eine4 poWet in avenging wrongs , which strikt/' at their protection . and their property., Imperial Rance or the British Monarchy would not allow the living: emberS to go 011 C; of their villages Were destroyed wantonly by a fim, - withoutlaking such a position us windd ttilli;le el tgeance on the guilty, and give confidence' and se-. ettrity-to their eitiAms; and the govern -Mem of the United States is; no les i i'strong if it but appreciated and wisely exercised its power, That it has been feeble—fa feeb-}e fin vindicating itself antlts people , front rebel brutality; is a painful truth ; and unles:s it \would become too treble todiVe. it must asseit its majestv! in behalf of humanity and justice. AVe have liven assured by pi oclamatiik*inid also by a speech of the President in nal timorei that. tin horrible butchery of ne gro soldiers must be - avenged—that their rights inust be reeognized; but the Fort Pillowinassacre is still unavenged: the butche i ries which followed the repulses at Port Ifiulson, at Challeston Mid ;it Peters tairg, Are still unatoned for; and as if in contempt of the energy or power of oar govermuent, a town Pennsylvania is bruited and philidered when we hold half the to of the Surith, and can reach a score df others iii 4s idanv days. Fin. these habit - Mil and groWing - violations of all ac cepted:rules of war,- there Must be a rem- . edy; and a government that is unequal to an adequate remedy must .bring von it self the contempt 'of friend and foe. 1 0 Thelinsurgent - eolunms are still hover ing on' 4 the Pdtomac and oily to-day or to :inorrokstrike any of -caul border towns. Now 4 - the time for the, goveridnent to say injlafiguag,e too emphatic to be IlliS under:it-90d that no violation s of the'nsages of civilized warfare shall full fo besignally avenged, and let prompt,deetlA enforce what iimpty Wards have so long tailed to command—the profound respect that must : . ever In cherished for a • faithful govei-n -t is', not yet too late; however tartly.l for the government to vindicate • ' • itself and its people; lint at cannotilope to sir4g . le On in feeble indecision on this vital (Oestinn, and trust.to l secure the res pect of ekend l e or the attections of friends. m nSt linVe a policy rind it must be proinpt, positive, and inexorable in itsown rindiention ! ! [,- • IN SLAItCII OF A • destractitni .of Chimibersburg, tL town On the border ever exposed to rebel incursions, and the head-quarters - of the eiminitiader of the militaiY Department, clearly demands explanatiim, - and there nidst haiT a victim, , :WhO it should be, shrewdest military and journalistic eloOqs grievionsly differ. Bennett, of thetialtanic .11cru/d, Who 114:i t'ell public ly bori4e-whipped nine times on the streets . of .):11,4 Yoih-, for his infaMOIN attempts at blidiiiniailing:decent people, without the maulffloil to raise his band in defence of his hideous cid•Cass, naturally etiongh de noun4s the people Of Chaining -11;11w for cowardice. That a life-long, striped and whining coward should rejoice at a shadow of a ketext charge upon, his ti Ilow, suriniSes no one, and it would have ttivaze4 mu' people had the ifero/r/ done less than systeniatically: defame our rob bed aid sorely afflicted people. r Having foundithat our,'people, stOod the presence of - tlffl New Fork militia frith patience, aid rtiwarded thieYbig and wanton spoliation, by igiving them of our then scanty' stores,) it is not unreasimable for thfi Herald to presuine that a people so jollied to hie sad 'exactions of war t should regard' the lucre lankiingol a town' by thai rebels 48 a eleverjoke—a timely" 1 relief from themonotinty•OfAirmishe' ,s a q battled accordhig to accepted rule:i of wai fare. Herald tlfflrelire niakeEi sittfert'.irs responsible for' their-own fortunes; becatise they did not fight title : or five times their nanibiar of veteran re bel troops, and has its victim. The Tribune bears a name as its chief editor that has earned some distinction among the authcirs of beneficent deeds; but in a single article made up of mingled fals4ood and malignity against a despoil ptkople, it takes its .rank proutllY with the Herald IA its bad eminence. Bennett c never:goes !from home, *for the good rea son that nobOdi knoWs 'hint personally who can help knowing . him ; but the chief editor of the Tribune knows our people— 'knows' much , good of them---has slimed their hospitality, and enjoyed a generous patronage from them. 'When the Tribune ridiculed the' invasion as a "chicken-thie ving raid" and thus shinned men out of 'enlisting to defend the border, our people were startledat the pertinacity with which it falsified the military situation; but when its falsehoods reached fruition in the sack ing and lairning of chambersburg, it seem ed resolved to forfeit all the reputation for truth and candor itbad earned in many years by heaping -insult upon the home les;; and suffering iu our, midst. Rather than confi.ss its error in denouncing the citizens 'of the border for their alarm at , the rebel demonstrations on the Potomac, and give a kind- or generous word such as common luunanity would have dictated, it added insulttb our,calamities, and mock- ed the appeal of starving people for bread. Spetiking of the burning of Clmben4burg, it says—" The swiftness of "its citizens to invoke relief from their own . lo.s.ses, is in unpleasant contrast to their previous alac rity in retreating where a defence might have Lhelped - the cenittryli' It is officially shown that Gem - Cmtch had not over one hundred men . to concentrate for the de- fence of Chalubersbarg„ and it' is as con clnsWely established that the - attacking -party consisted of 3,000 iebels—tWo brig adil's under- I%l'Causland And Jolinston— with two_l4tteries of artillery; but the Tribune Inks never allowed its renters to learn from its columns that over:3oo reb els'n•ere in or about this place when it 'was burned., It has published Ihe'nuin bey in italics at 208, by way of txcusing its fabiaoods; but the truth it peAstent ly.withholds, and then forestall the hand of charity because our people did not de fend against , live, times their limber of veteran rebel troops, Did the Tribune, in thus withholding justice front a sadly wronged people and steeling generous hearts against our needs, observe the rule it demanded to be applied to it when 1.000 rude irishmen lull its of inhabitants in anarchy for a week and destroyed millions of property? Did it not theft call for troops until brig ade after loigade - of regulars vale with- drawn from Gen. M6atle, and a fall cam paign NA as lost thereby ? Rid the valor of the editor of the Tribune then shine out to give the force of example to hi;; now emiraget precepts?as lf so, his dead have nameless graves , and his wontuletl are strangers to history. If it required smite 0,000 veteran troops and HOOD able bodied Citizens in New Fork to resist the aggressions of a thousand or to of au in furiated mob, might not the Tribmip fit least have been just to 500 Atizens for failing to defeat 3,000 trained troops with two batteries? If shame be still lett, to New "York., the Tribune sadly needi to bor row of that commodity.' "[Wets w 6 are much mistaken the Tribune's el'orts, iu Search of a victim have resulted Winding the otliiring in Mr. Greeley's blots. welcome to the honors of the achieve ment. Others have been in diligeir search of a 'victim. and have waded though much tribulation in vaM. We do tot allude to thej petty echoes of New Yorl slanders in tlii State. such as the Erie Dvatch, who, has ing been denied brains ly a sometimes mygterions but ever just Ceator, borrow where their base instincts tee best rfccom niedated. Ambitious but ueless generals, decayed politicians; and muulders gen erally demanded a victiimhud even strug gled for the honor Of leadiig the victim to the block Some had themillotine erected for Gen. Conch, and theday of his execu tion was ,even proclaixed; but the sun rose and set as usual aid the suspended axe was 'still bloodless The olden story had been probably realled, wherein the flits sober dance upomothing wa6 assign ed to the executiOne; and there Iwas for-- bearame. - Everybay supposed , 'that a Major General shoal have Men, especial when it was clear hat he needed theta. and it was a luct - stroke to demand a headin that quart(; but discretion proved the better part ofvalor • and victims were not demanded /ten the apparition 'of a sequel presentetitself. Others clamored for a civil atoument—nothing less than a Guberatorialhead would appease the wrath of the_teople, particularly those who had.upt offered, and did not expect to suffer. - Gt..Cnrtin was declar&l. re responsible. lie was Governor,• and it Was his dot to know that the rebels would be iultamberslnirg on the : 3oth of July. and inru .E.r72 houses, and three millions ‘1,5 - 11 of property. He should had imps, say the grumblers—par ticularly raise who never respond to any call ; theiore the fault was' his, and lie was set mat for sacrifice. But he would not 9 staymieiti..4l. On the' contrary, in dethmechf the funeral arrangements got ton up j his; behalf, which were to have been dried out regardless of wind or ii'eatlA he obstinately refused to be de capitiql or. shrouded, and instead Of lfav4 his ;own obituary written, lie prodded tit, amuse himself• among the truth of history, • in producing sentences whit fell upon the ears of his accusers fearfully sepulchral strains. finis have we ,had various steeple cites after ',a victim for the binning of Gambersburg, and while the early and anestly licensed • have acquitted- them- Chambersburg is still a mass, of bins, and is nobody to blame We shall e=t see ! SL'Clt of Our advertisers who have been burnt, out and started business in )Itw lo cations, will - oblige us by handing in their new cards at an early day. We have omitted all-such not directed for renewal, is most of the old ones are unsuited to the new order of business. August 24, 1864, - THE REPOSITORY re-appears to-day af ter a suspension covering three-issues, ne 'cessitated by rebelivandalism which cul minated in the buying of Chambersburg on Saturday the 30th of July. We print it somewhat reduced in dimensions for the reason that it is impossible to --obtain a pre 5.4 Sufficiently large for our old size in less than six months from the, inanufac-. turers. Another maim—the . increase of the cost of white paper overiewenty• per cent. within sixty days—Would fully jus tify the reduction,' if it did not impera tively demand it; but it is enough time to print a larger sheet is a physical-impos sibility at present. Our types, presses, ind everything pertnining to the office, excepting only the ledger and newspaper . list were destroyed; and as all the other offices in the town shared the same fate, we hlid to refit the office — enmpletely in al4.its-deinrtuients 'before a paper could printed. 7 -- We have - done so as speedily as lightning could order, steam transport. and expert hands set up and print for us; and the ll,KrusiTour again greets its - old readers to-day ater having passed through the fiery ordeal of the full measure of rebel vengeance. —We need hardly remind our patrons that oar less has been a severe one, a that.pmnipt payments of ontstanding a - counts is an imperative necessity to ena— ble us to meet the extraordinary just Made upon - us. We ask no patronage excepting upon the principle of rendering full compensation to both readers and ad vertisers; but we mist enforce the CASH SYSTEM under all circumstances.- We have lost filly $7,500 by the fire: white paper now costs us' nearly one-half more per sheet than it did one year ago; labor, has justly advanced as the niressaries of life have increased in cost; everything we use has doubled or trebled in value, and w'e must strictly adhere to a cash business, or suffer serious embarassmenta. —We hope, wimn. better days shall come; when Peace and order and a- re stored Union shall be the golden - fruits of this wanton, appalling wai, to resume our old form and old prices; but till then, we are prepaied to make any and every. pos sible sacrifice to inaintain - thelast hope of Free Fox-eminent by the preservation of the Union of our fathers. We can take no step backward, though .fire and sword may threaten and at Hines fall with all of MeCansland's fiendish fury upon our homes and places of business. Every blackened wall and withered tree left as inomunents; tif the unbridled atrocity of our foes, but hastens the day of final reckoning- and- triumph for the cause of Right ; and sad and cruel as is the sacri fice, if it be well for the Republic, for our selves we have no tears, no sorrows, no re grets, save that uuhob- treason has won a winding-sheet so ferfully crimsoned with loyal Moo& There is no sacrifice that can be weighed iu the bal4ce with the unity of these States! • Tin , . new Militia bill passed by the leg islature on Friday last provides for a loan of $3,000,000, and authorizes the organi zation of fifteen regiinents to by called the State Guard, to be-composed of such pro portions of infantry, artillery, and cavalry as may be deemed best. The men Are tii be mustered into the service of the State for the term of three years unless sooner dischargee They matt be called upon at any time by the Governor to repel inva sion or suppress insurrection, and any por- , tion of them deemed necessary for the =safetyof the border may be kept upon duty all the time while the war lasts, and the remainder of the corps be armed, - equipped, drilled at stated periods, and ready for duty whenever ; called upon.— They will be paid and rationed the same as volunteers in the United States service when on actual duty. We have no as surance that men enlisted in this corps will be exempt from draft into the United States service; but we presume that all who, may be actually and all the time in the service of the State will not be trans ferred to the service of the general gov.- ernment in case they are drafted. We doubt not that under this bill Gov. Cur tin will keep not less . than 5,000 men.on the border the time, under experienced and efficient officers, and thus have a com petent force ever ready to repel rebel raids. When the call is made for the or ganization of this corps, we hope to see everyman in Franklin county able to perform military duty connected with it. Those who prefer constant service can join organizations for that purpose, and all others can join the reserve regiments and thus b e re /1( 13- and qualified for their own defence at any time it may be neces sary. We shall find room for the bill in full in our next issue. Tim Union men of Perry county have unanimously nominated gA3I - CEL ROATII, Esq. for Assembly, and dispensed with the necessity of a legislature conference by coneuring in the,nomination of A. K. ,It'Ct.rut•:, of Franklin, as the other Union candidate. Mr. loath is a most worthy gentleman, a sound Union man, and will be cordially supported by the Union party of the '• Green Spot." Perry is one of the noblest of the old Democratic counties disenthraled from the so-called Democracy in 1854, becatn4.‘ of the repeal of. the Missouri compromifT and the pro-Slavery- teudeueies of that party. While others have been faithless, and relapsed into tfie embrace of the foes of the -Union, Perry has stood with Un faltering fidelity, in evil and good report: totho cause of Freedom ; -and the sorely tried but ever. faithful Union men of Franklin will extend the hand of fellow ship to the loyal men of Little perry, and make common cause with them to elect true Representatives. _ The vote of the legislative district for Governor last fall was na follows: Franklin Perry. . Curtin's majority, 199 GEN. CAM:BRON has called the Union State Committee to meet at the Conunittee Rooms in Philadelphia, on Tharsdai Sep tember lat e la 4P. M. A full attendance . . is requested. , CURTIX. WOODWARD. a 876 _3710 .. 2223- 2296 6204 VOO6
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