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Weduleaday, October 13114 1884.
i7NION NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR PRESIDENT,
ABBAHAM !,,!NCOLN,
- - FOB MR PRESIDENT,
ANDREW JOHNSON,
6? trantiouis.
UNION ELECTORAL TICKET.
- SiLNATORIAL. •
NOME WiSICIIIIIL,' I THOMAS CUNNINGHA/4.
firEPRESENTATIVE.-
.A. ROUST P. KING. 113. Et.us W. HALE.
i. 2.3.
HEN
G H .1491221496 COATEK. 14.1 CH Ly.
Aft 4 H. SHRINRIL
KT BMX. 115. JOHN 'WINTER.
' 4. Wa.1.1.414 H. KEES. 16. DAVID M'CONAUGHS.
E. BAJMN H. /Ma 1 17. DAVID W. Wo°Da
6. ClAluss IL RUNE. 18. IgAXC SEN.V,kIi,
j
7. ItoBUT Rams. 19. Jom4PArrox.
6 WILLIAM TAYLOR. th). SAMUELS. thos.
9. JOHN A. firEBTAND. 2L ETERARD BIEREE.
10. - RICHARD H. CORTELL 22. JOIIK P. PEHcRY.
12.... E1Y6 1 .4.1.D EL41.11)4r. M. Env:zz's 11'.1111:sel .
W.. CRLILU F. puts. ,24. JOHN W. BLANCELARD.
VICE PRESIDENT HAMAN
HON. HANNIBAL ' HAMLIN, `i c e Presi
dent of the United' States, will -sPeak in
Chamberaburg on Friday next, at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, and the people of all par
tiett, who desire to hear a candid, earnest
and most able discussion of the issues at
stake in the present contest, should attend
end liter Mr. Hamlin. He is not eminent
for eloquence,- save as the irresistablelogic
of "enlightened truth sways honest and
intelligent hearers, and but few can hear
- him and err as to the duty, of every pa
triot-.in the pending crisis. We - bespeak
forhim. as we know he must receive the
most cordial welcome ever extended to a
' public speaker in our midst. Of his pres
ence. here at the appointed' time thereds
no reasonable doubt. He - 11.1 , ,Miw in the
State speaking daily, and proposes to re
main Mitil the last blow is struck against
the treacherous sympathizers with our
country's foes.
ON TO VICTORY!
UNION MYRF- 1 OF PENNftLVANIA ! but
twelve days remain—to prepare for the
great National struggle with those 'who
pronounce the War a "failure," and' de
mand that our victorious armies should
be arested to give a "cessation of hostil
ities" to exhausted traitors. The time is
short. the moments golden, the issue vital
—fraught indeed with the destiny of the
Republic. -
With such a cause tibutrality is impos
sible, indifference criminal. With our
;gallant annies`victorions on almost every
field; with treason exhausted in its re
sources,broken in its credit,its despairing
armies decimated . by desertion, and field
after field, and State after Statesurren
dered to the heroic armies of the Union.
.the great work of preserving our govern
ment now and for all time is well nigh
accomplished. " They have robbed the
cradle and the grave" says the invincible
Grant, and their last hope is the success of
•
the Peace candidate at the next election!,
Loyal men! ponder well the significant
language of your great chieftain.- You,
who have given your sons and brothers
' to vindicate the integrity of the govern
ment against the murderous assaults of
traitors; who have given freely - of your
. •
treasures, and mourned the bereavements
with which you have . been shadowed by
a wanton war, turn not now• upon the faith
ful-warriors you have sent to the front
and cloud their crimsoned fields and their
wounds with • shame, and the grave es-of
their martyred comrades with dishonor.
* Their sacred sacrifices are well nigh ful
filled; their mission about to be completed
—not by a humiliating surrender to our
barbarous foes, but by the crowning tri
umph of the Union - armies and the utter
overthrOw of treason.
From the Valley we hear the fresh notes
of victory, giving ua promise of safety to
our long distracted and plundered borders,
and weaving another chaplet in the wreath
of honored and enduring Peace.' The ever
triumphant-Sheridan has again discomfited
our vandal foes, and sent them "whirling"
---- back, upon the land they have desolated
by crime. - Shall these triumphs be voted
"failures?"—shall these victories be wasted
by resting over the graves of our noble
sons sacrificed to pr'eserve oui free insti-
toles, and conceding a "cessation of
.Thos
tildes?" Every dictate of patriotism, of
''-ihumartity, of honor, and of safety foibids
When traitors yield obedience to the
laws—the same-to which we yieldwilling
obedience—the war will be etald, and
ended with honorsto our living and to our
dead, and with honor to the Republic.
• Umoti Mix! Let there be a rally along
' the leheie Pennsylvania has declar
' ed for the Union by over eleven thousand;
' bit it is due to the gallant army that has
given tuf victory and preserved our gov
ernment, that loyal men at home 8111111
_ protect the rear while' they protect us in
the front. The honie Vote of Pennsylva
nia can and WILL declare for Liberty mid
Law--for Lincoln and the Union; and let
• no man falter or -hesitate because the ie
. Ault is certain. The more decisive is the
verdict for the government, the sooner
We shall reach Peace, the-more thoroughly
, will the laws be vindicated, and the more
' overwhelming will be the discomfiture
- and despair of traitors in the field. Their
last hope will - vanish as the North x•itl
:One voice declares that there shall he no
degrading compromise with perjured tmi
tots, to give fresh life for mad ambition to
crimson new fields in our future history.
Ohio, Indiana and . Maryland send us
words of cheer. They have spoken and
sent deep and deadly the thrust into the•
very vitals of our Country's foes. Lefbie
and all.malze common cause with then;
let us join hearts and hands to give Victory
to Right_-P 6 eace•by Union and Freedom
to, this fairest of man's inheritance. For
ward, Loyal Men ! Th% hour of final tri
umph seems just at hand, and let us greet
and strengthen every hope that beats for
Union and Law, and drive into utter con
fuSion and dishonor, the faithless men who
wouldlning shame to our brave soldiery,
disaster to oink government, and anarchy
to thirty millions of people. On to Victory!
HOW THE TAILS Nytt IGGLE:
We congratulate the Spirit. True. it
lost its county ticket ;, it has lost nearly if
not quite all its district ticket ; it has lost
the House by nearly two-thirds: i; , lias
lost the 'Senate by nineteen to-fonfteeu ;
it has lost fully two-thirds of the Congres
sional delegation; it has lost the State Ly
not less than ten and Probably as much as
twelve thousand ; it has lost Ohio by inure
majority than any body cures 'to count,
includiqg pretty nearly all the CongTess
men ; it has lost Indiana by twenty thou
sand or more, and saved probably three
Congressmen to tell fluit there was 'a Dou r
Oolitic, party in that State: - it has lost
Maryland by the triumph of It Prev Con
stitution, the unerring precurser , the
success of 14»cotn ; but in the midst of
this wide-sPri‘ad disaster. with its party
defeated on every hand. even routed. de
molalized and • scarcely sale to stagger
into line* be diseondited'in overwhelm
ing confusion, in November, the spirit,
true to itfi serpentine instincts. wriggles a,
score of Coppery tails in imitation of life.
while the heltd is severed and crushed
into lifeless Oformity.
Iu tender Sympathy for it; inmiriiittg
readers, it Nils yniggled some siekly:tail
to tell the stow that however fatal to the
vital; each loyal thrust has b ee n, th ere
still life l t in the snaky body pOlitic. and
that until the sun gotsdown in utter, star
less darknesS over the coppery dead. there
shall be wriggling tails in sickly imitation
of life to confront the loyal hosts at every
step. It does not tell the truth, ha the
good reason that it dare not tell the truth.
If it did not wriggle its tails with (lever
ate energy, even while death is creeping to
its extremities, it would have lint one mass
of dead, and instead of wriggling around
the l=ollson the Sth of November, its his
tory henceforth Would he but a busy work
of finding selnfichres for its slain.- It
therefore instructs its readers not to sic
ceKfilliPuth ; not to hear the troth ; not
to be 'eve the truth—
" Nor to know things where knowledge is haled."
It therefore proclaims victories to its de
feated and despairing ranks, turd wriggles
its slimy tailS through every election table
and into every dispatch recording the ver
dict of October.. Mr. Ward wriggles the
tail of the defunct Democratic State Coni;. •
mittee - into the columns of the spirit, and"
declares Pennsylvania to have gone Derr-
°untie 1;13y - a majority = of seven to ten thou
sand of the home rota?' The votes of
the soldiers" wriggles Mr. Ward, "may, or
may not, reduce this aggregate!" He
therefore wriggles out a congratulation -on
this glorious result:" and the Spirit wrig
gles # out to its readers, in the face of,
stuh.torn figures and the old fashiOned
rules of simple addition. Again in a con
vulsive wriggle, the ,c'piritsays "the returns
indicate large liVmocratic gains frAd.
complete Democratic triumph!" but just
where the "gains" are or where the "coin
plete nitunpli" court's in, the wriggler fails
to tell. Again it wriggles through alcaller,
and declares that "the Dentocracy of the
Old. Keystone State has won a signOtti
utuph!" Possibly it wits a " triumph'', for
Democracy that it could even wriggle a
tail after the October election.; but how
the loss of the State by over tett thousand
and the low; - of the legislature and Con
gressmen "secures the electoral vote of
our graild old Commonwealth for M'Clel
hut and Pendleton," is:a- refinement of
wriggling logic that even the most perspi
cacious of• wrigglers must fail to compre
hend. Again it. wriggles into Mary-lad.
"MarylandhaSspoken,."wrigglasthe Spirit,
"and asserting her dignity, has declared
that she will be free." Thus blundered
out the truth, lint it was disguised and es:
coped notice in the mass of wriggling dtii
ceptions as it concludes that as Maryland
has voted against them in October, 4here
fore it is "insured for M'Clellan ana Pen
dleton." Merciful.hopeful wriggler!—but
look well to the iietting sun that leaves
the serpents wriggling tails with their oc
cupation gone!
Cotiroth is wriggled iu us "endorsed,"
and "by a majority of seven hundred,"
when it was known to even every wrig
gling body that if not utterly defeated, it
is because lizindreds of hrave soldiers have
been unable to cast their votes against
him. "Kimmell received a majority eif
;225, and is iwobably elected." 110 w "such'
a probability - is to be wriggleti against from
'two to
,three hundred majority on the
whole voter, would puzzle any bitt one
who wriggles Vs, rule. Again it wrigglls
and declares that "the result of they late
election iu Franklin county was a glorious
triumph for the Democracy," although in
a lumant of repose, it allowed the
-signif
icant truth to be uttered that its ticket
"will very likely he defeated,by the sol
dier vote!". It didn't profess to have any -
tiguresc"or returns; but it remembered that
instead
,of brave'soldierA hissing copper
heads have learned to sing—•'G ive us back
our Old Commander." and it wriggled its
fears to the surface in a moment of forget
fulness and guessed the truth. But it was
-not content merely m
with wriggling its il
-I.ny tails in imitation of life alier the bruis
ed head has ceased to respond to the 'gy
rations of its tenacious extremities. It
stride* rooster with flowing tail. and
erect head, as if strutting in victorious and
defiant attitude, and under its shadow the
coppery tails wriggle out Nictories on every
hand. "The Dentneracroriotten"--;,--
"Immense Democratic Gains!"—"A Gaul '
'of Four Congressmen and three Senators.' _
and similar-wriggling figures are cut in
fantastic shadows in its columns. Its gain- . 1
of " four Congressmen" was a :Iv-Jiggle'
right through the truth, and would have
been exactly right had it confessed four
lost instead of won, and its wrigglirig phan
tom of a gain of " three State Senators,"
fades away after the wriggling dance is
over. and presents two lost to the coppery
sidejand two 'gained to the Union. Its
, !Deinocratic majority of 5.000" in the,
State, over which it wriggles a plattoon
of expiring tails, has vanished
ignis lanais that bewitches.
And lends men into p9ols and ditchea",
Nor has it simply Vanished; but while there
was apparent merriment in the high car
nival of wriggling tails over the said "five
thousand," the sullen thunders from the
armies of tlul Republic swelled full ten
thousand high against the co pp er y trib e .
Another wriggle and tlie farce is closed.
A little side-show replete with fantastic
splendors and sublime contortions, assaults
the truth with convulsive fury as its iv-tith
ing extremities points "on to victory."
It is the expiring remnant of the Chairman
of the Democratit County Conimittee. It,
once had vital organs to make it whirl in,
"graCi.ful circles and flaunt its colors into l
the uerysitidel of loyalty; but its wrig
filing tail only remains, and it wriggles iul
keenest imitation of life as it congratulates
the Demoeritcy of Franklin on the "sue.:
cess" which crowned their efforts on the
Itll. Nobly have you battled,'` wrig-
gips the venous little coppery oppendage,
and you have rescued the '•Old Green
?illicit from the control of that organiza
tion which seek to retain power 1)) -- the
inculcation of principles dii•ectlV antago
nistic to those upon which ourgovernment
is founded." ,Suell a wriggle might be
termed a lung wriggle, a strung wriggle,
and a, wriggle alltogether: but the shadows.
of the setting nun seem to be gathering
- about it as it katitions the faithful against
"the apathby which.geOrally tidlows $.111 . -
ces..; !" and urges "labor until the going
down of the sun on the rlth day of Ntiveln
her." Well said, lifeless, wriggling tail,
of the e(mperhead race, for theu the Lveary
its
may rest in . eternal 4(.4) ;us f i
elf Libert: and - Law breaks )
periled government, loud its . •Li
Ong foes fade out ladbre th 1
e
triumphs of :L Loyal People. and 1
and victorious Army ! .
INS MIEN TEI)
We are enabled to revise our li,t of
CongTessinen chosen in the State and give
sevet . addition. to the right Nide". - The
_present delegation:: stand, 13 Union and
12 Democratic. Now the-delegation will
stand certainly 11; Union. and probably
17, leaving about one-third of the scelega
tion to the Democracy. .The folloWing iy
a list of the new certainly elected:::
-
2. diaries O'Neill " I &Ina J. Randall."
I. Leonard Meyers." ' 6. B. Maridey gayer.
4. Win. 11. e, R. E. Anrona.
31. R rvsellTbuycr."' In. _Never Strouse."
7. J no. M. Broomall," 11. Philip Johinst.on'
11. Thn(ldeits rit.even , .' 15. Glos:ibrenner
OEM
IMEIM
6. Wm. It. Komitz.
.7.
_1..1•. Barker.
S. F. Wilaoa.
9. I ;lewd NII. Scofield."
'4O. ('li V:Cellver.
22. :las. K. Morhead."
23. Tla,h.
V. - Lass reuse.
ne following districts are iu dinibt and
settled - by the army vote
Ut.m Comdlates. Dom. Curiaidates.
2. W. W. Ketchilut...!C'harles Dennison_'
John L. Dawson.;
3 3. Smith. Fulii
Mr. Ketcham was beaten about- l.• 100 on
the home vote and Mr. Fuller a4xpit 700
The returns already received point with rca
Amiable certainty to the election of the
Union candidates in the two districts. if
so, the delegation will stand Eitfirf - EEN
Union to six Dennicratie. Of the men
given as certainly elected in the above list.
but three were beaten by the home vote
—Mr. Thayer be , about 40 ; Mr. Barker
by about 150 awl Koontz by WO. All,
however,,have returns from the army to
give them from - 50 to 500 majority, and
their success -is -free—from all possible
doubt. We. probably have definite
return; from the doubtful districtS by tel
egi:aph before going to press.
17.031E531
' We are able to make a most gratifying
revision of our list of Senators kected. In
our last issue we gave the 21st district as
against us, thus giving the Democrats two
new Senators there. The army vote has
more than' overcome themajorities of the
Democratic candidates on the home vote,
and elected llall and Haines handsomely.
The New Senators stand as folleWs: _
3. C. M. Donavan." !M. John Walls.
5. Horace Ros.er. ;21. Louis W. ELI]
6. Olizrer P. Jaine.l._ '• Kirk Baines.
7. tiro. .Schall.i2s. Thos. J. Bigham.
8. Heisler Clymer.* 21. Norrow B. Lowry.'
9. -Wm. M. Randall.
They new Senate will therefore. stand
thu4 :
Holding over
Elected
majority, ' 5. -
THE !mum:.
The 'House will stand as folloWs:
tuies ..,. EP2 I Democrats:,...... Sr'
Thus giving a Union majority of five in
the Senate. of 24 on the Home. and 29 on
joint Ballot. Last Year there was- one
Union majoity in the Senate mid even in
thn House.
ttEN. HOONT - Z JELE(TED.
We congratulate the loyal men o
State, and especially of the Itith district,
on the election of Gen. WM. 11. KOPNTZ
to Congress over Gen. A. 11. Cotfroth, the
present incumbent. - With over fifteen
huhdredvf our brave and loyal sons sent
to the field within sixty days} of the elec
tion, a large majority of whom lost their
votes, the home vote naturally enough
gave 060 in favor of Gen. Coffroth. who
had voted steadily to withhold men from
our armies and to deny means to maintain
the government credit and pay our gal
lant armies; but enough of those who are
periling their lives for the , safety of the
Republic have voted to reverse the home
- najorify and elect Gen. Koontz. Our
Harrisburg dispatch dated at three P. Me
Monday, gives the aggregate army vote
received at the office of the Secretary of
Slate-lb, 1056 for Koontz, and 385 forCof
froth—majority for Koontz 671, just eleven
more than Cotiroth's majority on the tome
vote, We doubt not that Gen. Kodittes'
majority will be inereesNl from 50 to 100
,franklitt Itepositorp, timnbtraburg, Pa.
before Friday by additional returns. We
subjoin the vote for Congress, giving the
home vote official, ; and the, army vote, as
returned at 'Harris : burg up to Monday af
ternoon :
1864. , I eti2.
Koo4a. Coffrotli. it' Phersou. Cottrotli
Adam 5... -2,233 2,644 '2,517 2,96(1.
Army vote.- 225 , Sz4
Bedford.. .1,740 2.410 1,656 . 2,332
Army vote. 357 : 112
Franklin.. 3,260 3,320 :'.,124 334 e
Army vote. '271 14z-. -
Fulton. ..... .., 513 t+o3_ 710 1,011 •
Army vote. - 3'2 5 .
Somerset —2,330 1.:,59 .2,:'-' 4 O 1.51)3
Army rote. 171 :I'2
Koontz's tpajority 11 ----enough for prim
lical purposes. but we look for thi official
'irote to increase it from 50 4:0 I
done loyal mot of the 11;th disti jet !
—Since the• above was in type a later
diSpateh laitS Gen. Koontz's majority up
to 82. See telegraphic news.
The following exhibits the official - home
vote for President Judge, and the army
vote of each county as received at' the
Secretary's office at Harrisburg up ti tosm_
on Monday. The majority for Kin;; kxill
doubtless he Increased be the full arm
vote, butit is enough now, and intere.t in
dendls will cease :
Sing. Kitipwil.
8edf0rd........ • . ;ice
Army rote .
Frmiklin
Army lote .. ,1 1 . .!•-
Fr.ltott .....
Arm% , •
t-otivq , t
.1 rt,l%
Majorit3 73. The majority will
&whiles, he inereasol - mill'tew lint. bill mit
halnl;\ tint ON et tiftY. - r.:tia• .1 talge me.;
vottql titr Mt a t,t.pchttc ',lilt. very tually
vaiesjy t l'ltly wit bpi'. Iu SOllle COlll-_
110 tick t•I •••• were op 'halal at all, and
the inaunltt nt Jiiii ! rt; king i. tht'i tlty
;ti tat lc rt•thiet d. We t:intgrat abut. Judke
ruing on the re:.illt. atal run i rt...are tin pea
ple'of di , niet that he «ill meet every
jut eNiaTtathai as a atable, arrhzlit
..ttree•—fal
=
'~
lwroie
'fur D.,mo,Tar, ytauldin bar,.
t o g o throu g h , din 1110i1011:. tin OW
!WTI C 14411011.. TI -141 pretty ninth
their NI hole stout, in trade 1) the verdict"
of the people on ter and have
the hand -writing otu the tVall pointing to
their u; ter disconititnie in November. hut
they mean'to die on the field and in some
stirt of order if pi)ssild e . We commend'
their pluck, hut iiindlyeaution them tohe
:Taring on their 'ling.and the incidental
expenses of the campaign. for the divi
dends are all out of the cuIICITII,
think they have thine well to hold Li aeries
of - meetings throughoutlhe eountyo'rue. -
thq can't hope to make any vote ,T, butt by
exhibiting Mr.,Sharpethey can proW . that
there was mo , Dentoqat elected :on 114'
ith of October iu this region. A's he is
the sc de Isurvivor of the pitytnership% it will
NN ell for him to :familiarize lititik,elt
with the - firm etfeet,i. as he is !'elettrly
entitled to wind ap the and
clom• the Aop. 111-1 will
aid in om friend jot. Steng:t.r.;:who
in a tit of desperation luialeits,olt to run
the machine when its : running gedrswere
past tenair. and who didn't runit through
heeinew it :couldn't evil' run one n l ity"well.
and it had to be run two wars at once to
go through safely. We enj,iin all hands
to take hold of-the wheelq. for it will re
quire an immense antountTof galvt6ism to
keep the,riekety machine in motion until
the r 4 th of November. We appeal" to the
mounters -to stand up like mete and go
down together!
"'V a Caine. NVe S:LW, We immix:clod !''
says Mr. 0. E. Shannon. Chaim:l4n of the
Democracy of Redford. iu his address to
his followers - . That he came. th4t he saw,
is not to be disputed : but just ?what.' he
conquered. is not visible to ordbiury
ties. Ile has lost a Congressman J udge:
two Asitemblpnen ; a State: •Senate: a
House ; two-thirds of the Congressmen,
and probably . saved :i Comniissionerir
Auditor in I tedford county. ICeatl'ection.
ately advise Mr. Shannon to revise his ad
dress and give his quotation in the origi
nal vernacular. and then have the
advantage of but few understanding it,
The unwashed waild probably regard it
as a broad-side against the draft, or as
wog of cheer to the skulking copperhead
..rters under the shadow of Mr. Shan
min, and they-would yell' their approval;
but to use English. which everybody 'un
derstands. to figure out copperhead -Nieto
ries when the party is routed everywiiere,
is crowding the mourners most relentless
ly. Lot Mr. Shannon go back to the orig
inal !
Detnorratir
14
WE giNe, on the first page of to-dars
paper a-portrait of Gen. Geo. B. M'Clellan,
with a history of his military andpolit it.al
career. We affectionately 'advise (fur
Democratic , friends to sa"ve 'this paper. as
it will preserve the fact to history that
Gen.lPClellan was a caned: te for the
i i
PreFidencyin 1864_ It is not probable,
from the present signs of t/; , political hor
izon, that the electoral co lege will give
any evidence that the Chicago tTickstiTs
.Thad a National ticket., Next week ,we
,
`tihall present 4 portrait of 'Pendleton. 'Ve
think it due to him that the fact of bis
. running for Vice President 'should be . 1;e11
established before the people get a chance
at him on the Bth of November. Alley
that time it will require very iespectable
affidavits to Prove that he was a candidate
in the Northern States, as impartial his
tory, unless confronted by the inexorable
fact, would natura'ly enough chess Win as
having run behind Jeff. DasiS.
It) 14
Uxios ,11E.N! a full rote is—all that is
necessary to a decisive victory: There is
not au election .district hi this county that
had not from five to twenty Union voters
absent at the late election, while the Dem
ocratic vote vas polled almost to d man.
A loss of two votes in each election district,
of the. State will make, dyer five thousand
in the aggregate. The State will vote fitr
Lincoln, but it is tide to the cause that the
vote shall'be decisive. The more over
whelming it is the inore beneficent will be
its fruits. Let the People speak in vindi
cation of their government_ hi such tones
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11,13‘2 11,1:21
1 - 41;TE FOR 'EDGE
2.;10 17,4';
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acs will make lawlessness and all shades of
treason hide in shame. , '
I_Tstos meetings have mit been called
iu the townships. and we concur in'the
opinionc tha,t they are not needed: but
woinc--- z earnest. tireless', systematic work
is necessary to make the majority in Frank
lin county decisive forABRAHAN COL.!i.
We have over 1.200 brave soldiers in the'
:field. and we must . not throw upon them
idle necessityrof saving the county from 'a
Verdict against their heroism, their sacri
flees and_their victories; Let even' Union
man go to work. at once. and the victory
will be ‘s im MI;
s tillft treason and
its sympathisers will I;inv in imbinission
to the laws and the support.. of th e
uc
ernmeut. : _ 94"
isT—carious Democratic majorrtie,,
:in assortment of DemmeratieCongressnien.
several Democratic Senators, a score or so
of Democratic .114 , 41nblynien. and thousi.
:mils of, Democratic soldiers 'who were es
pectMl to make the Nation redolent o ith
the m usle of —Dicer us back mir Old
manner." All have disappeart'(l. most \
at itoil,lS and inopportanel within the last
1111? :lt r UeIS,. alepl O to the Chief pitiun e rs .
--inioprietors of the Valley Spiri,t, or With
the assi.gime of tho, :Lbsconiled ipropert'y.
Mr. Stenger. Early information is much
wanted,' and would greatly relie:vo-several
afflicted Xanrilies.
kyv
rordtql by him 01.111 lort .‘ capotwil
..,nni,at hi. head-quarter.. hew took
tin Idhdr in hand" he sayS. referiing fo his
appearaueeupon ,the licld vlieu his arm)
SA:is in retreat; and n rebel: victory was
to to a whel disahter, and copperltialls
weye,turned from
: ,iny trmourning.
doubt; that it' }:arlY had driven Sheridan
:terns. the Potomac it would lave - given
hope to the'despairing frieink of t=eneral
M'Cleilan for the :nth fif %iVetillwr! Will
tovnt tholiociath u ,tain enike who-e
chier-hoi.4 .if 01111
dPath to our hnive ariniv, in the tield
'Fitt: Chicago platform pronounces thi.
N‘nr hut four ear's of failwi " de
mands "an ininictliate cessati o n of hostil•
Mr. Stephens. the rel 44 Vice Pre , -
grew , the 141811'4)1ln in the follOwitrg
poetic strain of ex%tatir joy-S.-801l holy
oppring of llrureit!' - Natnrall'\
enough for a ,rebel quiet' thn. to ,go wild
with delight-over the work of ('lenient
Valhindigham. Will a lu.af people thus
hail the work of •8 traitor thus endorsed
by one of the chief conspirators who
Lave wantonly plunged us into WILT to de
stroy the'best government of the earth?,
THE dYing woras of the gallant Birney
's keep your two. onglie
.flag boys!"
His last act Acsas to vote the Union ticket.
and Isis last sentence was in lutpw, har
mony with his heroism ou the Yield and
his tidelit3 to his cause-. Can men who
love their Nationality vote to libel the
fame of our chieftains and their brave s6l
- by enthusing the treachery of Chi
cago !.N bleb. the war a ••fitilure?"
Should the grave of a Birney be blottefl
with dishonor by humiliating concession
th ouevaisdal toes? :If so, vote the Chi:
sago ticket:
IN'rowai.rio.'s is wanted of the Spi'rit's
rooster that strutted •::o triumphantly in
last weeks issue of that paper over an im
mense list of DMnocratie victories. Dile
by one the victories have faded away un
til there is not a shadow of them left.
Hand bith "over to Sharpe. the • •qonc: star"
of Demoeracy iu the Green Spot, and let
them i take care of each, others toes as they
Winter together in affectionate communion.
Both crowed too sooni for their common
cans,:_ Par noble fralonn! •
Woumi-you vote to restore the glygern
ment to the Eremocratierlmrty, under Whose
fostering care Treason becanie - mighty,
and under «•hose adnllnistration it eta
minatettin wicked wai, andhasloudyd us
with debt and staggered us with taxes
Demoeracy gave us treason—it gave birth•
to it, nursed it, and cherished it until-it
made it Nation mourn. Can the perfuli
iiii*author of this war give us honorable
and * enduring Peace!
Ct'9 F F Ito TII voted against .providing
means to pay the soldiers, and maintained
his Consistency by voting against,extend
*the right of suffrage hi them.' We
now:have the sequel in the soldiers.main
taining their consist eney and casting three- ,
fourths of their vote against 'Cot:froth, and
electing Gen. Koontz to CM4ress. l3ad
for Coffroth, but bulb for the soldiers!
Timm; is not a draft made for men that
is not necessitated bY the treachery of the
-Democratic party, It has declared the
war "failure" and` strengthened the foes
Of the government too perseverance in their
murderous work. Tht:ir last hope, says
Grant,'is the electiOn of the Peace ticket
at the nest' elect* !; Shall traitors be
thus cheered in their Work Of death
Wm - ) gave us crushing debt and °ppm
i:/;"
\ axes I The ,Denureratie party—= ; thr.
,pa ent of treason, the; author of this wan
ton war, and now the last hope of -our
Com try's Toes! Shall it be restored to
power? A 114a1 people have declared in
thunder tones that it; shall not Consum
mate its treachery 1)3, betraying the gov
ernment at the feet of traitors. 1-,
t:puitious electdral tickets may he
cir
culated.b}' the Democrats just before the
election, with one or two of the Lincoln
electors at the head and the rest MlClel
lan. The correct electoral ; ticket is at the
head of this paper, and veters would. do
well to compare their tickets with
'Vno gave us seces'sion and with it vary
Thirteen Demor•ratic, Governors and leg
islatnres produced theseeession of thirteen.
States, nod a brave Union arms - has res
cued half them back to the Old
Have they not giVen tts enough of desola
tion and death
,WE give gratis to Messrs. Sharpe and
Steng6 t“heine for their next Democratic
sptkeelies. Try Sheridan on "failure:ft!"
AssEs:on:N . l . s
, must *be '.made . ten days
before the deethm. any Union! votes
were lost at the htsf eleMion bec4use of
neglect in this imix>rtant 'partictila. L e t
district committees meet 'at once. id see
that every ITnion voter is not ohl,y 'assess
ekimt that every such vote is certain to
be polled. " - •
WAxTEn—'• an immediate. cessation of
•hostilities." Apply o :Items. Lee'orMe-
Clellan; Hood or Pei dietott: Early or Cot
'froth; ...Mosby or flu Spirit. The mourn
ers thicken and eon idatiipt has taken the
wings of the nun iitig. Call ati once
,withont ceremony.__.- -
. ' 1
' i , , .:_
EvEui . district in Penusylvanialwhere
soldiers haveAo be taken; from the border
and the amities in the field - to-enforce the
laws. is vociferous for . .‘c*Clell4, preferr
ing hint next to Jett. Davis. Can loyal
votes. he crist for the 4sanie ticket .?
- -
proxies of
diet, must leave envelopes untipened
anti deposit tllein,R•ltll the election fitlieers-
InAt aS they are reeeivett. Severo votes
Were lost at the lute 'elertion Persons
opening the e)•elope.i.
So I.nl Fani who mean to vote 'hyl proxy
should forward their proxies at iltnee.--
Quite a ntintber Aver4:t et eived ni
(Inuit nal late tin' the first election. Send
Elwin in at once:
it
u:1.1 kas nt.ta(. hi: , lain :•Itini 1.0 : - starai)
- Pennsylvania fur tin. l'( l .n.t. I ieht.i." and
had hi , mweting anwerntain•onsly;hrirken
up 1).1 that relentless diAnrgauhm...y. Phil. :I
Stu.: hlan.
, ,
iiiir iint;
e4ipsfitatioii. suvi.r-linin g to
his elintil is that Judgt Rinunt 11 till with,
- United hi life, in they' have;
nut - 14'141 11:1111.11 ! - - floppy faiitil.,‘
MI j rang,,l!.lllll:4t•li thSt
artillery and a litruher of his itien
ea lit nreil- —a nother "failure." Mr. 1))1.1):1:4
Slit 110 9 1-! • • •
ilium is again retruiling heft qe the vie -I,
till Slternin--anoilier •• tlAilure !"--;
Duncan will please ili•av liis ri. , ;-.lll‘er and
explain!
. _ . .
Si is ii t'ii it ti county is full of, copperhead e•o:t
script , who are willing to ;vote against the gov
eminent but most unwilling to fight for it. An
they are deserters and liable to arrest, the 1)t
-inner:v.3 of Bedford- teared that some of thrii
might be caught on their; way to or from the
polls. and tint riots . might pfissibly ensue. histead
of insistiag that Wier) malt must übel the laWs
and uid in Fupportin. the government, the Detim
fu•ratie uhcrifl of the conhty printe:tl and postad
over the eount) a proclamation cautloniiig all per-
MAN "to abstain from .riotous prkiceedings
meaning that all mini-the:ad desefters must- he
allowed to vote and then skulk gway again with
out being inolcsted. The reknit was an excited
state of feeling and a murder in 61. Clair town
ship—Mr. Frederick Mock having eeisi• shot dead
'by a soldier. We do not in any sease justify the
use of ;oldif•rb at the polls, nor hare vie ester satia
tion,' any infraction of personal rights bs' the
militar3 except where imp t eriously demanded Mr
the public s atety; but still! leSs ptir4onable is the
deliberate sanction of desertions from the armies
_by Democratic officials and leaders. When will
Ailey learn that all laws deMand their support and
respect"!
THE. DODD TRIAL.—The es idence adduced in
the Dodd trial at Indianapolisshines that tiVo
thirds of Vallandightun's order were armed . ; that
the number enrolled iu the lodgei if Illinois was
40,000, in Missouri 40,00, in S. Louis alone
20.000: it was already ioostinion's that Indina
had from 411,000 to 4,000 : that Ohio
was to be invaded at three. points!by John Mor
can or Wheeler: that Indiana was to be invaded
by Lonistreet, and Itit4uri by Price and Mar
maduke: that the invading rebels,With V,allandig 7
ham:s S'ons of Liberty, were, in all these States,
"to shake hands and be friends;"! that the inva
sion of Missouri was postld in flip order for Oc
tober, and.that it was inalerstond in the lodges
that Price's (now progres,sing) wluld stay in
souri at least until after the electiOn. Vallandig
hrim's chief stalk officer sOms to hare, been one
C'apt. Hines, fotlinerly of 'John Mfrgan's staff, to
313
whom 1V earn uitted thl duty of releasing ;the
prisoners on Johnson's Wand.
WHICH Is TRUE? -4t will be remembered,
says the Shippensburg that at the time
when Captain Coffey's, (now Captain CoehnaM's)
company, left the place,;it was published Mthe
copperhead papers of Cumberland and Franklin,
. counties, that the members of said company Were'
" all good Democrats." Now, one of two things
must be frue,--tither that these papers published
what was false. or that the company have seen
getting their eyes open ,pretty that, and that if
'They continue on at the Same rate, this " Dermo
cmtie company" will all; vote tor Mr. Lincoln in
' November. The following is theivote of the c:om
pany referred too :
Bnily. Union ti I Glimbeenper. Cop . 34
TnE Bradford Argus has naturally gravitated
from secret, treacheroui hostility to the Union
cause to the open embrace of copperheads. I To
give the color of decency to the transfer,;Mr.
Masons retires and is AZlrceplekbyMr. De Witt.
We haveleard of men; changing their base to
worship the rising sun ; but-a man must be well
owned when he comes oitt to worship at a shrine
just on the threshhold of , the inott decisive defeat
in our political - history. We dispense withi the
Arias
WE invite attention to the n6v schedule of the
Philadelphia 'and Erie Railroad in our advertising
columns. This great thoroughfare, connecting
the" Atlantic with the Lakes, and opening uo the
richest mineral region„Of our Strife, is now Com
pleted and train. run regularly through to Erie.
TravelerS,will notice that the :tekedule tithe is.
in - laerially changed.
have had immernns letters from soldiers
within the 1:14 two weeks for pohlication, Mit the
crowded state of our cohnims has prevented 'their
apieweane s e. They all breath tth n e truest devotion
to the great cause for which , they are periling
their lives, and show that our heroes in the, field
horn with anxious solie4ude to the great4triiggle
iu which the people are engaged at home, confi
dently trusting that thkr sacrifices in the front
will not be dishonored 6r the people.
average Democratic majority for Messrs.
Meyers and Findlay, fur Assembly in the Fidton,
Bedford and Somerset dbitriet is less than 200
on the home vote. The army vote elects MOATA.
Rose and Armstrong, tnion, hj) a handsome ma.
jority. - • !
-11oseby's gang, on iWednes i day tuorning, sp.
peared at-Falls church, seven •es from Wash
ington, and' murdered al Mr. R ,aUninn than,
and one of MI; nhgriwiLl
.
October 26, 1864
Phil. Skin "Rite Apt!
ANOTHER DECISIVE VICTORY
E DEFEATS GENLLONGSTREET!
48 REBEL CANNON CAPTURED!
OVER 2,000 PRISONERS TAKEN !
(lea.Wl Sheridan continues to be moat'disre
,
ipeetfill fo the Chicago-Plattbrim'and persist); in
efeating the rebels just as often as they allow.
him n fight - . He find routed Early in two pi , ched
;battles in three dace, and sent him "whirling .
Wincha,ter," with:the loss of many guns
dud prisoners. They next sent Geri. Roper with
fitrge reinforcements to regain the Valley and de
lieat Sheridan, but Sheridan eoncluded to delay
:dm. day "and settle this new cavalry Geueral,:'
11, - hich he did hr routing lion and capturing "el er -
103;ug on wheels." The enemy had but one gun.
.ton :street was then cent with additional rein
_thri.entente to rcdeem the Valley. 11e mimed
With great celeritj and attneked Aeridan's tinny
yi Inn he was at Winchester ou his way from
NV.:Thington. •At first Loagstreet was successful,
our line and capturing some twenty
guns: but Sheridan hurried to the held and "took
the ailaii•in hand" just in time to retrieve the
l'ort ones of the day. Ilia own :wound of the bat
tle is Hi brief, so frank, so graphic, that it needs
to, emtfritent in explanation. We give it :
I•EDAR-Ctult:x.f/el. 19, lit pm.—Lie ute lif t nt.,
t;:eneral itrant, City Point :—.I have the how to .
treport that my army Ceder Creek was attack
td this morning below daylight, and my left •m, as
turned and dm en in vomit:don. with the loss of
twenty purees of :trtillvt. I i n te ned from Win
...Coe:4er, where I. wan on my reittrrn fronl Wanhin
'ton. mid 'annul the a rode; between Middletolvr.
! an d Newtott n, having been driven back nhoutdinfr
.;,,qle,.. I here tuck the atthir in hand, and quickly
'united ire corps, hymned a compact line Of hAittlP
jll , l Mtinle m 1111111 attack (re the enomy,
,w Men was hamkonl4.l3 (kw \ at Maria 1 P. M.
At :11': NI., atter suns ,-hung'' of the cavalry
from the kit to the right hank. I attacked with,
great vigor, driving - Nod routing The _enemy, eali=
neroriling to' tiii• last report,
pieces ui urrillrr), and m.iuy prisoners. Ido not
yrt know thr oundwr of we ramialtieh, or tholii:4,
of for oiolny. Wagon train, aiiiholimeiN nod
chlSAililt, in hrrGr numbers, are in our ponavoiou,
The also burned trains.
G-•aeral Itanisenr is a prisoner in (tar Ituds, se
vend) toot perhsp, mortallt wounded. I hove to
regret the 10,A id General Bidwell killed, and Gen.
ends Wright, Gm er anti Ricketts, wounded;
Wright Alightly wounded
' Affairs at time, looked hedlt • but by the gallant
ry of our brave officers and men disastar has been•
converted into a splendid victory, Darkness again
intervened to cut off n greater victory.
I now occupy :Strasburg. As soon an allowed.
I will ',end liirthrr
(Signed) I'. 11. Sliv.itioAs,-Major-Generul.
Staiintini in ptildialiiiigsithe abovedivateh
idt‘ii that the battle tiiiight on the same day, ,
Ilith of the mouth, that vi,ittiewil Sheridan'a
tort in september. What the numbers were op
ine:v(l to Iho. Sheridan tire 110 t vet reported to
the Department, but the boldness, vigor aid sue
cess of the attack strongly indicate that a heavy
re mforcement had been sent trout Richmonthvith
the expectation of hilfioise Longstret's boast to
smash up Sheridan. 'Longstreet was known to
be hi the Va =lliad assumed mainland of
the Rebel army, and cofident hopes of an over
whelming disaster to the Union army were boast
fully expressed for several days backyt the Re
bel adherents in Washington and Baltimore.
The day following, Gen. Sheridan sent the fol
lowing dispatch to Gen. Grant, giving additional
particulars of the victory.
CEDAR CREEK, Va., Oct. 20,1494, 11.30 A. M.
Lieut. Gen. U. S. Grant, City Point:.-We have
. again been favored by a great victory—a victory
won from disaster by the gallantry of bur officers
land men.
The attack on the enemy was made about 3
it:clock I'. M., by a left half-wheel of the whole
line, with a division of cavalry turning each flank
of the enemy, the whole line advancing. The en
jemy. after a stubborn resistance, broke -anti fled.
and were pursued with vigor.
The artillery captured will probably be or fifty
pieces. This of course, includes those captured
from our troops in the morning.- At least] 000pri.
oners have been brought in. Also, wagoils - and
bmbulances in large numbers. -
This morning the cavalry made a dash at'Fish
er's Hill and carried it, the enemy .having fled clu
eing the night, leaving only a small tear guard. '
1 have to regret the loss of many valuable ofli
(tem, killed and wounded, among them Colonel
Joseph Th - ob urn, commanding a.division oferook's
command, killed; Colonel J. Howard Kirckwn,
Commanding a brigade, wounded ; C01°11413.. G.
3,lcßenzie, commanding a brigade, wounded se
verely, hit would not leave the field. I cannot
yet give exact details. Many of our men captur
ed iu the moniing have made their escape and are
coming in. Ramseur, commanding a corps in
Early's Division, died this morning..
P. H. SHERIDAN, Maj. Gen. Coin.
Lieut. Gen. Grant, upon receipt of the above
dispatch, sent the following -to the Secretary of
War:
Cfri: four, Oct. 20, 8 P. 31.
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of Irar.--1 fired
a, salute (done hundred guns from each of the ar
mies here in honor of Sheridan's last vietory.—
'ranting what had bid him fair to be a disaster
into a glorious victory stamps Sheridan what I
have always thaught him—one of the ablest Gen
erals.;,ti. S. GRANT, Lieut.!Gen.
Thus low fi. gallant Sheridan and his noble ar
my snatched victory frbm the very jaws Of disas
ter, and the Valley and the Border are sired !
STILL LATER AND BETTER.
- A later dispatch from Gen. Sheridan gives the
following interestims particulars of the utter route
and demoralizatiodot the rebel army:
CEDAR CREEK, VA., 4 P. M., °els 21st,
1864—Lieut. General U. S. Grant, City Point,
pursued the routed forces of the enemy
nearly to Mount Jackson, which point he reach
ed during the night of the 19th o' 29111 .1 Without
an organized regiment of his army. I
From the accounts of our prisoners who bare
escaped, and citizens, the rout was complete.—
Abont two thousand of the enemy broke and made
their way down through the mountains on the
left. For ten miles on the line of retreat the
road and country were covered with small arms,
thrown away by the flying rebels, ind other
- ,
Forty-right pieces of captured artillery are
now at headquarters. I think that not :leas than
300 wagons and ambulances were either captured
Or destroyed.
The accident of the morning turned to otT,ad
vantage as much as though the whole Movement
had been planned. The 0103 regret I ha!ve is the
capture in the early morning of from 800; to 1,000
of our men. 1 am. now sending tb the (War De
partment ten battle-flags.
. The I of artillery in the morning Was seven
guns from Crook, eleven from Emery' and six
from Wright.
From all that I eau learn I think that Early!s
reinforcements could not be less than 16,000 men.
P. H. SHERIDAN , Goi. Com.
Gen. Stevenson telegraphs from Martinsburg
that over 1,500 rebel prisoners have reached that
place, and that ten rebel battle-flags 'lave peen
forwarded to the War Department at Washing
ton. We.think the valley may be considered safe
from rebel occupation for the remainddr of this .
season, it not for the war.
—Maj. Gen.' David B. Birney, commander of
the Tenth Corps, died in Philadelphia, on the night
of the 18th, of mutations fever.: Gen. Birney
was the son of Hon. James G. Birney, a wealthy
Alabama planter, who removed many years since
to Oa, liberated his slaves, and openly and man
fully avowed his principles in behalf of freedom
and the emancipation of the slave from'Southern
bondage: ,ulVhen the war war forced ; upon the
North by the South, Gen. Biniey was engaged in
a lucrative business in Philadelphia. A civilian.
he espoused ardently the sacred cause tof the na
tion, and volunteering for.ita defense, sviikirnade
Lietnenant Coloriel of the 23d Penna.lVols., en
listed for three - Months' service. At the erpica
tin!' of his term'of service he recruited the regisF:
meet for three years, and again took the field as
its comtnandi!r. In August, 1861, he was promot
ed, for gallant service in the field, to be Brigadier
General of Volunteers„a position which be filled •
with such credit to himself and the country that,
on the ind Of May, 1863, he was advaneedly the
President to a Major Generalship. As:a division
eommander in the famotts Second Corps,
he wen
an enviable distinction; and there were few bat
tles in which Division did not take a
prominent and decisive part. It, is but a brief
period since he was appointed to "the command of
the Tenth Army Corps: yet in that time be bad
fought several battles of magnitude, in all of which
he proved victor. In the movement on the north
bank of the James be was in the advance, and his
corps, through his skill and gallantry, gained those
great, advantages which have plaeed our army at
the very gates of Richmond.