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WE give in to-day's paper a -statement
..trnirrthe Harrisburg Te/egropz. showing
-the 'struggle and fate of the bill in the
leithihitire for'the adp.dication of claims
for military- damages enthe border. It
will beams that after an exhausting strag
gle in the part of thehorder members, the
billsimply providing for the appraisement
of these .claims, so that therecord of our
sacrifices might be preserved for the con
aideration of the government at some fu
ture day, was defeated by one majority in
the Howie. A motion was made to re
consider the day following, which pre=
vailed by a small majority; but the con
dition of the bill is not such as to makeus
hopeful of its final passage.
-Why a measure so simple and so obvi
ously just should be serious resisted in
either branch of the legislature, is most
unaccountable; and we" apprehend that
the time will come when few who contrib-,
utelba embarrass the tneasure Till point
with pride to their reeor,d. Especially do
we pity rather than blame those' mem
_ bers Who attempted to 'justify their ac
tion by defaming the courage and the
fidelity of the border people, -who have
borne all the sad desolation of war, and
sill willingly yield theit• full tribute with
theirmore fortunate fellim-citizens to sus
tain their honoredinstitUtitions. The bill
will probably be considered in the House
again this week.
'VICE PRESIDENT JOVENISON.
That Hon. Andrew Johnson gave a most
appallingsexhibition of either shameless
debauchery or hopeapss insanity, When he
was inaugurated as Vice President of the
United States, is a fact too patent to ad
__mit of genial or paliation. When called
upon to assume the second official position
within the gift of the Nation, constituting
him the presiding officer of the first legis
lative tribunal of the Republic. and the
possible successor to the Presidency itself,
he ranted and raved like a madman, and
made every friend of the government bow
in the deepest humiliation and shame.
This spectacle wos witnessed by the rep
resentatives of every foreign government,
by grave Senators, by most of the heads
of departments and by crowded galleries;
and it is a fact .too terrible, alike in its
immediate and ultimate consequences, to
be excused. So far from attempting to
conceal it, it becomes the imperative duty
of every one to demand that the shame
with which the Nation has been blotted
shall be effaced as far as it may be by his
,prompt resignation. and the possibility of
the destiny of this great and fearfully
periled government Pilling into such bands,
-piecluded beyond contingency.
It is alleged in extenuation of the con
duct of this Vice president that he was la
losing under temporary derangement ; but
if seit is but an aggravation of the danger
to which the governinent must be exposed
by his occupancy of the Vice Presidential
chair. If his disgraceful condnet was the
result of debauchery, he might possibly
redeemhimself, however indelible thestain
he has already inflicted upon the fame of
the peciple who have loaded him with
honor; but if he was insane, then there
can be no hope, and his removal becomes
an imperious duty. But we submit that,
in either case, he should vacate his posi
tion. If he has given a display of drunk
enness on an occasion of all others calcu
lated to wound and humiliate the National
heart and pride. there can be bat one
atonement for it, and that is in his volun-.
nary retirement; and if mental aberations
have fallen to his lot and his reason tot
ters when most needed in the public ser
vice,: the Nation cannot feel any sense of
secuzity while he fills the most responsi
ble trustto - which he has been just chosen.
It iepOsaible that in the natural course of
events he mey be called to the position of
Chief Magistrate of the United States ; and
the feet that his succession thereto would
destroy all confidence of the people-and of
the civilized, world in the maintenance of
the dignity and power of the government,
- would be the strongest possible incentive
to treasonto consummate the often design
ed vacationpf the Presidencyby the assas
sin's hand. In no other way could; the
now well nigh exhausted effortetf traitors
so certainly consummate the destruction of
this government. What hope could fnith
fal men cherish for their own and their
country's safety, were Hr. Lincoln called
hence to-day and Andrew Johnson install
ed as our ruler I' The stoutest hearted
would bow in utter despair, and those
who hate the free institutions whose be
neficence they have enjoyed, would be
omnipotent for evil. We s can brave the
treason: in the field that has desolated and
bereaved the land ; but what hope, whit fi
delity, what heroism could shield our gov
ernment from such an appaling peril
Vie writer hereof was one of those who
advocated both in the columns of thisjour
nal ara in the National Convention,-,the
nomination of Andrew Johnson. We be
lieved him faithful among the faithless in
the South, and in all respects fitted for
the duties and deserving of the high hon
or it conferred ; but whether by reason of
the infirmities of habit or the still sadder
infirmities or reason, he has proved him
self insensible of its honors and unequal
to its responsibilities, we can now do no
less than demand his prompt resignation.
This is due to a people who have generous
ly showered their richest honors upon him
and must now share his shame, and espe
cially. is it due to them when treason is in
_ deadly conflict with the government, and
' his succession to the Presidency would
peril the last hope of the maintenance of
ourfree institutions. Such a danger, "so
fraught with the mightiest consequences,'
must rise above all party lines mad inter
' esti, and make but one conviction perf rule
every lciyal heart. To attempt to excuse
it world be to insult the intelligence and
viltne of _our people, and to attempt to
' shield kin:behalf of party, wonld be but to
aleck the just aPPratetlgiovii of the Na-
tint.
.....4044,44 t erjr-Jlf, our public• ueit.
hasloviouj 4 ;n,g, source of the profouridezt
hOmilintiiin to the Nation. , otelf,hitscof
late years, grown with fearful rapidity.
We remember haying witnessed a display
of the most beastly drunkenness halts .
United States Senate .by_ a member who
hai but recently beerire-elected for a fall
term of six years; and the dignity of the
Senate was satisfied by a half-way apology.
We have seen another member of that Au
gust body, from the West, who has - just
retired we trust forever, reel through the
bills of the capitol and insult every in
stinct of:decency and order on the floor of
the Senate. We have witnessed another
member from a most distant State stagger
about the passages and bar-room of his
hotel night after night, and he has at times
attempted to address the Senate when in
toxicated to such a degree as to forbid co
herent sentences or even intelligible artic
ulation. We have seen cabinet officers
revel in their cups until besotted reason
would yield to the vagaries of the pot
house politician ; and in every branch of
the government the same blistering stain
has been more, or less manifest for many
years. Sad as is this record— which is but
the record, with different shades, of most
Nations—the spoiler has at last invaded
the very sanctuary of our government, at
a time when it comes with the direst woes,
and however great. the sacrifice and inef
faciable the blot, still it may be well if it
shall arouse the people to demand as an
inexorable condition of public honors, that
they shall be repaid at least by dignity
and sobriety in the discharge of important
trusts.
TIM NEW BOUNTY LAW
A general Bounty law has passed both
branches_ of the' legislature, but in some
non-essential details the. two Houses did
notPagree, and a committee of confer
ence has reconciled the differences. The
report of the committee will certainly be
agreed to in both branches, if it has not
already been done, and the various dis
tricts of the State will - very properly
brought under a• uniform law regulating
the assessment of .taxes and the payment
of bounties. JO
The new bill 'provides that the school
directors, or other local authorities of any
township. ward or borough shall be au
thorized to pa:.- a bounty ant exceeding
four hundred dollars to all men enlisted
under therpending callow any future call,
and the tax for the same shall be levied
in accordance with the provisions of the
act of last year, with this exception—that
all persons subject to draft shall pay, in
addition to their tax on property, a per
capita tax of twenty dollars, and all aliens
between the ages of twenty aid forty-five
pay the same. The provisions of the old
law prohibiting the collection of more than
two per cent. per annum on the taxable
valuation of property'or bounty purposes
remain. The per capita tax will very ma
terially lesson the burden of bounty debts
upon property, and very justly.
The law also provides that a bounty not
exceeding four hundred dollars may be
paid to drafted men, or to their families
in such sums and at such times as the lo
tal authorities may determine. By this
provision thefiunifies of drafted men can
be cared for by the School Directors out
of the bounty funds due to their husbands
or brothers on whom they are dependent,
and dissolute or portligate men can be re
strained from squandering the money due
to their wives or children. •
As the law merely confers the authority
upon the township, ward and borough au
thorities to pay bounties, the matter rests
wholly with the people theMselves. The
law is not mandatory, and any township
may decline to pay bounties either to vol
unteers or drafted, men, or they may par
any sum from $lOO to $4OO, but they can
not exceed $4OO. Under the
. araendtd
conscription law men must be credited to
the districts in which they are enrolled,
and competition in bounties has therefore
ceased. Each district can provide such
bounty for its own citizens, both volun
teers and drafted men, 9s they may deem
just to themselves and to the soldiers; and
they can also now apply the same rule to
volunteers, relating to the payment of the
bounty, that the general law applies to
drafted men. As volunteers cannot enlist
elsewhere than in their own districts, the
school directors of each locality should,
as a matter of justice to the families of
soldiers, reserve the whole or a part of the
bounty to be applied to families where
destitution is probable to follow the ab
sence of the husband. It has not been
uncommon hitherto for men to volunteer,
receive large bounties and squander their
money before they entered the service,
leaving families behind to be a charge on
,the charity of the citizens. Under former
laws the local authorities could not con
trol bounties to volunteers, as they could
be credited wherever the terms" suited
them besti- c lynt under existing laws. both
State and National, the control of the
whOle matter is in the authorities of the
districts, and they can pay whatium they
I choose, to Whom they choose—either wife
or husband—and at such 'times as they
choose.
—Bounty taxes have grown to be most
oppressive owing to the competition here
tofore created by the discretion given
volunteers to be credited where they pre
ferecl ; but we trust that the people will
not withhold what is just to either vohm
teers or conscripts now that the discretion
is on the other side. Under the lawi and
orders as they now are, townships may is
sue their bonds to volunteers or - drafted
men, payable at such times as they May
prefer, and they can hold them for the
use and benefit of families either wholly
or in part, and thus make the bounty
- what it should be—a fund for the sup
port of those who maybe dependant on the
soldier. In this way excessive taxation
and the necessity of raising vast sums of
money at once is avoided. and the want
that has been so. widely prevalent among
this families of soldiers will be henceforth
Toil-;iaNt. Let the districts act promptly,
and "ghrt 4enerously, after considering
what ,is due, to the gallant defenders of
the Republie, and what is, due to them
selves,ns taxpayers; but let all doubts be
:waived. in lamer of the soldier.
• WE invite "attention to two important
Eilvtrtisemonts in to-day's iftEnte.
Tux amireay srrtexioN.
We•are still without any word of Sher
man. On thill7th of kebittary he entered
Coloiabia, the Capital of South Carolina,
and since that time there has been no re
liable information of his whereabouts.—
The rebel journals stated recently that
they would not report Sherman's
move
ments until they should be able to an
nounce his defeat ; but as yet theyllia ,ve
not been able to enjoy that luxury. ''''A late
rumor byway of Charleston says Sherman
was last heard from at Charlotte, North
Carolina, but no date is given. The cal'm
•._ onfidence of the people respecting Sher
man showi the unbounded confidence they
have in his skill and the proves of his no
nle army. Although nearly a month his
elapsed since he has been heard from, no
one seems to apprehend that serious diS
aster can, befal him, and they wait with
unnillied patience for the fulnesss of his
own time. He has certainly marched very
leisurely, as he did i l itrough Georgia. and
has dbubtless made the iron heel of the
conqueror felt as he passed along. Had
he made rapid marehes, or had he been
driven from his eourseby defeat, he would
have been heard froin before this time.
We look hourly for news that be lilts
formed a junction with a large
. portion of
Schofield's force, and is marching with an
irresistable army for such point in Lee's
rear as will most effectually serve to dis
lodge him from the rebel capital.
The gallant Phil Sheridan left Winches
ter two. weeks ago on Monday, with over
12,000 well
_trained troopers, and on
Fii
day, the 2d inst., he overtook Early near
Waynesboro and, of course, routed him
with the loss of ..some 1500 prisoners and
what few guns Phil had not captured be:
fine. Since then we have no acount of
Sheridan—pow twelve days.- ' When he
fought Eatly ' he was but sixty miles from
Lynchburg, and his command being well
mounted, if he was pointing for that place;
he must have reached it by Monday last;
It is probable, however, that he would
avoid the strong entrenchments of Lynch=
burg, and strike the railroad between that
point and the rebel capital and thus sever
the main line of supplies. tbr Lee. From
thence be must have pressed forward to
join Sherman, or to sweep around Lee's
rear and form a junction with Grant. We
shall have a good account of Phil's last
whirl shortly: gen. Hancock is now al
Winchester, temporarily in command of
the Middle Department, while Sheridan
is is the field.
Gen. Grant has massed a large part of
his army ou his left, so the rebel papers
inform us, and will probably strike for the
South-side railr?ad whenever the move
ments of his Lteutenants have reached
their co-operating point. It is evident .
that Grant does not mean to fight fruit
lessly for Richmond. In a very few days
there must be a solution of the movements
of- Sherman, Schofield i a i nd_Sheridan. and
we shall then most likely see another "on
to Richmond" that all the combined power
of treason cannot resist.
The movement in the South-west are
active but not yet understood outside of
the military authorities. his certain that
Gen. Canby is moving against Mobile, anti
a very large portion of Gen. Thomas''s
army has been mounted and with the cav
alry-, started—we know not where, but
manifestly to strike the coast fa seine
point; and probably at Mobile. Thus with
the beginning of March, when under Gen.
Mcylellan it was deemed bnpossible, to
mite an army at all, the entire Union
'arMies are in motion in the grandest cana l .
paigu: of the war.
—We learn that iu answer to a letter
ddrused tg the President by Gov. gun,
tin sonic weeks ago. the commander of
the Middle Departmeiit has assured the,
Goveruor that he is abaudantly able to
protect the border without the aid of a
State force: and none will be called out at
present.
Al; order haA been issued by Provots
Marshal General Fry requiring all volun:
teers and substitutes to be mustered for'
the districts - in what they are enrolled,
and henceforth competition in bounties:
for men is at an end. Eabh district can:
regulate its own bounties, and has an ab
solute claim uportits own eitizeris - to fill ,
its quota. Had this order been made be
fore the pending call was issued, it would
'have been just and eminently proper; but
now it must work the grossert injustice
unless a revision of the quotas can be had.
Already thousands in the -rural districts
have gone to the cities and wealther dis
tricts and enlisted to receive the high
bounties offered; and the districts which
have lost their men must now fill their
quotas from their own citizens remaining
unless there is a- general revision of the
quotas. We take it for granted that the
quotas will be revised so as to do justice
to the districts which have already been
depleted of men for the benefit of other
localities. It is so clearly demandedby
every consideration of fairness, that the
authorities cannot, we think, fail to do so.
Unless it is done, there are many of the
poorer districts which have not enough
mien remaining to fill their quotas, and
they dare not get them elsewhere. We
beg the Provost Marshal general to give
this question . early attention.
WE give elsewhere in to-day's paper a
proclamation from the President relating
to deserters. Under the late ac c t of
gress citizens who desert the service. and
all who are enrolled and depart the Juris
diction of the district with 'the intent to
avoid a draft, "shall be deemed and taken
"to have voluntarily relinquished and for
" feited their rights to become citizens,
" and such deserters shall be forever iuca
pable of holding any office of trust or
" profit under the United States, or of ex
“ereising any rights of citizens thereof.”
Under this act the thousands of skulkers
who have deserted their homes because
they were drafted, or feared they might
1113 drafted, will be forever disfranchised
unless they return within sixty days.
There were hundreds of - them who hid in
the mountains' of Bedford and Fulton last
fall until election drays, and then voted in
the strong Democratic distriets,—iu some
instances in Bedford county before day.
U*bt but; no* an each wild ho denied-
plc ,Franklin fteposiiorp, ill)antbrystnng,'
the right of suffrage, and. be ineligible. to
.any Ape,. forever, unless they shallTre4
tarn and accept the duties imposed. by the
government that guarantees them their
civil and religious rights.
SENATOR JA3IES HARLAN, of lowa, his
been nominated and confirmed as Secre
tary of the Interior, in place of Judge
Ushekresigniq. We presume_- that the
resignation of Secretary Usher was neces
sitated ty the appointment of Mr. M'Cul
loch to the porfolio of the Treasury from
the same State. Mr. Harlan is one o the
ablest men of the West, and we record his
appointment with more than ordinary sat
isfaCtion. He has already served in the
Senate some ten years.
UNIoNt Men should be mindful of the
fact that on Feltlay ;text the tnwnship elec
tions will be held, and they must not
iil
lo« their political foes to secure the.local
offl.i:ers and election boards by the supine
ness of our friends.
Ex-SENATon John P. Hale . has been
nominated and confirmed as Minister to
Spain, and Ex-Senator Wilkinson is to
take charge of the Indian Bureau.
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NAL for March, contains Gov. Febtoti of New,
York•; Edward Everett. the Orator; Major Du.
vidson, the Patriot; Aristotle, the Philosopher;
Charies- Fourier, the Socialist; W. EL Fry, the
composer; with Pdrtrairs and Biographies. The
races' of ; emit:Aims, Elide.
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Grouped portrnits e a eb,, and a 'Map showing
the Geouraphieal distribution of Mankind, with
Seventeen - ilinsfratiow, Also Pilymognowy, -or
"si g n/ of charnrier," Love under Difficultieh,
Fun secitr}, and - Seeina at Sea." ••Working to
grther for Good," by Rev. H. W. Beecher. Rul
ing by Love. Experience of a School Teacher.
Light:Gyninastics. The Inscrutable. Our right'
to Reason: How -we Change; How the brael
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SECRETARY STANTON, after waiting three
months for Gen. Grant's report of his last sum
iner's'eami—igh, sent his report to Congress on
Friday v - +thout it, Gen. Grant not baring
had leiure rime to write it a.p.' The report re.
c.,pitulates-the mihtary events of the - year, all of
winch are already fitniiliar to the public, and the
generid fer.ttires of theL . year's record are consid
ered as highly satisfactory and encouraging. The
veteran enlistments, amounting to over 136,000
men, are spoken of as adding greatly to the effi
ciency of the army. The arrest of deserters and
stragglers has beet' pushed with vigor. and'39j.
392 were arrested between October 1, 1863, and
October I, 1864. 'On October 1, 1864, the vete
ran reserve corps consisted of 28,738 men. The
report states that a general exchange of prisoners
is now going on, and each prisoner. hasa furlough
of thirty days IP . they arrive at Annapolis.
Tire bili to establish a home for disabled sbldiers
has pissed both Houses of bongress. It hicerpo
rates .Lieut. Gen. Gru' and 90 others. The cap-
ital id to be 1,000,000, and is to be made' up of
military fine;, deductions trona pay and donations.
No direct expen6e is to be incurred by the gov
ernment, no amull recommendation in these days
of large exprn-es. -
GEO. EnvircU'Ett, Esq., has retired from the
Lewistown Gazette. and is succeeded by David
Over, Esq., formerly of the Bedford Patriot. Mr.
-Frysinger retires after devoting an average life
time to the publication of a newspaper, and we
trust he has not been unrewarded. Mr. fiver
will undo, the Ga . zeUe quite BR acceptable ae ver
to its readers
The Bill for the Adjudication of Military
Damages An Interesting and Exciting
Debate—The Bill Defeated—Beconsider.
ed and Again Before the House—Vindi
cation of the Bill and the Border by the
Franklin Members—The lies--Provost
Marshall—Arbitrary Arrests.
orrespuaionee of the Franklin Reptcttory•.
1-I.l.musnutto, March 11,1KC5.
-The great event of the weekwas the consider
ation of the bill providing for the 'adjudication of
the claims for military damages in the border
counties. It was read in place early iu the ses
sion by Mr. McClure: but the- committee -on
claims refused to report it until some tert k ilays
ago, when it'was presented to the House, with a
proviso that the law should not imply any respon
sibility on the part of the State for the payment
of the claims. The first move toward the consid
eration of the measure was by a resolution offered
by Mr. McClure on Tuesday last fixing a special
session on Thursday evening with the claim blil
as the special order. It was at one resisted with
great earnestness by Mr. Browaof Warren, Coch
ran, of Erie, Sturde rant, of Crawford, and others,
and the resolution was defeated by four votes,
which was equivalent to a decisiohthat the bill
should not pass. On the same day, however, a
motion was made to reconsider, and the resolution
passed by some fifteen majority.
It was known that there would be an earnest
struggle on the bill. The opponents of the meas
ure had bcconicimostivindietive in their opposition,
and of course the friends of the measure were in
cited to corresponding efforts to save themselves
from defeat. Members were button-holed and
importuned on both sides, and as usual there Were
many who would have been glad; to go either way
but fur the protestations on the other aide. When
Thursday evening curve, the House was unusual
ly fall--nedrly every member in his place. An
animated . discussion was expected, and quite a
crowd was attracted. The galleries were Rea
with ladies; the lobbies were densely rraWded ;
the passages jammed, and all the spore places in
and about the Hall were occupied. One by one
the Senators - dropped, in and took extra chairs
among the members, and the Governor and most
of the Heads of Departments were also of the
audience. ,
The bill was at once taken up lord the House Knelt
into committee of the whole, n, here a erasure can
be kicked from post to pillar, as the yeas and nays
cannot be called, nor can a vote be forced by any
rule. The enemies of the bill attacked with a
vim and vindictiveness that mice it bnt little chance
in 'committee. When the vote was called on the
grat section. the opposition voted so vociferously
that they 'overwhelmed the affirmative Vote, and
the section was declared lost. This dissolved the
committee and brought the bill tip before the
House on the,question of agreeing to the report.
If agreed to the bill was lost—if not agreed to, it
would then come up for consideration on second
reading. The vital struggle was therefore an
agreeing to the report, and the debate was opened
by Dir. Sharpe in a short speech of great clear
ness, eloquence and power. I have heard him
more impassioned, but never more earnestand
convincing. The preliminary action of the session
had been so clearly against the bill, that it called
forth from the Franklin county members their
best energies. Mr. McClure followed in a speech
of an hour that was listened to with the profourid•
est interest. His allusions to the sufferings of the
border were most impressive, mid his bold vindi
cation of the rights of his constituents to the care
a Prnbeetion of the government to which Ithey
HARRISBURG
yield-tribute and obedience, were feltl*. all ilis
passiimed hearers to be - more easly 5%4.4 down
- „
than answeid. - - - - - -
Mr. Brown followed in a bitter assault upon-the'
bill, as but the fore-runner of payment, and at
tempted an artful evasion of the - isguer by demand- .
ing that the sacrificer of his own people—the be- - _
reared and. sorrowin g who have given sous and
brothers as martyrs to the government, should be
compensated before lost property on the border
be restored. To this Mr. • M'Clure replied that
while his constituents bad been despoiled of tail
lions of property by the tread ofof armies, they too
bad their broken household circles , and untimely
grim; as sad monuments of their devotion to the
cause of a (a - ninon country. Mr. Cochran, of
Erie, followed in a rambling,incoherent speech,,
the most salient features of which'were his fre
spent attempts to glorify himself, by reciting his
devotion to our soldiers on the border. His sciir=
lions assaults on the fidelity and cournge tif the
border people were occasionally answered by Mr.
M'Clure, by way of saplanatiosi, with a pointed
ness that in a single sentence dissipated half an
hour of his wandering vitiiperatieti. Time the
debate progressed mitil nearly eleven o'clock, Mr.
3l'Cliire prying the blows aimed. ut the bill - and
thsgair fame of his people, with consummate skill
add occasionally with 'Withering severity. At his
side was Mr: Sharpe, and their hurried constilta
tions. as some new danger . would deS'.elop itself,
ever attracted the attention of the House and an.
die - nee. ,Confident as were the opposition;they
felt they.were contending - With two leaders, usual.
ly antagonists, who either as disputants or leis's-,
lative strategists, were not easily excelled; and
while they felt that they hull the votes, they be
trayed a most nervous sense of insecurity. It is
confessed on all sides that if Sharpe and slt'Clure
had started with the Meer of the 11-louse as did
the opposiricia, there would have been no contest;
and the contest was unequal—not' for want of
leadership and ability on the port of the opposi
tion, as because of the earnest, impressive and ir.
resistable truthfulness and justice of the cause of
the plundered people of the border, .
At last the contest closed by common c o nsent.
Each felt that all
,lietrone that could be
done, and the vote was called. While the mem
bersivere responding to their names the profound
est silence preVailed, and the intensest interest
Was manifested. At last the roll is completed,
and exclamations are heard on every side. "Its
lost"—"its very clogsS".-"its neck nod neck," end
similar expressions fell from members as they
gathered in groups about the Bull; lint the vote isF
,finally - aunonnced by the Speaker, and the bill is
lost by one majority.. A few who seemed to have
no higher ambition than to insult the border suffer
ers attempted applause, but it grated harshly upon
the ears of all and had no response. But the tri
unaph was short liv - ed. for the next day, the vote
was reconsidered, after a feeble and awkward at
tempt atfillibusterifig by the opposition. Whether
it can be reached on the orders, is questionable,
and a special smion for its consideration is hard-.
ly probable. It is clear from the temper of the
present legislature that the pehple of the border
must bide their time.' It is theirs to suffer and
sacrifice, while the brawling patriots of safe sec
tions of the State vilify them as a pretext for de
nying them justice.
- No public bills of importance have been consida
ered this week,but the appropriation and general
bounty bills. The bounty bill authorizes,- but
does not require, bounties to lisi - paid to volunteers
and drafted men to an - amount not exceeding five
hundred dollars, and imposes a per tapita tax
twenty dollars on all who are subject to draft, and
also upon all aliens between twenty-one and forty
five. The appropriation bill is not yet finally dis
posed, of in the Senate, but may be to-day. It
will doubtless go to a ,emamittee of conference
next week and pass finally.' -It seems reasonably
eertaie that the kltialatnro will adjourn on the
24th insta The appropriation bill is unusually
large, but not more so perhaps than is necessary.
The pay ot the members will be raised $3OO be.
yond doubt
Gen. Hinks, the new Assistant Provost Marshal
General, is here on duty, and be gives general Bei
isfaction. It is confidently expected -that there
will be some respect shown. * to the rights of citi-'
tens mid soldiers under his administration. It is
not to be disguised Mat the system of arbitrary`
tar - Tits hitherto practised often by responsible
subodinate officers, has in many instances done
great wrong to individuals, and brought. discredit
upon the government. _ HORACE.
FROM THE 209TH,PENIsPA VOLS
Presentation of Horse and Equipineuts to
Adjutant Davison—Speeches on the Or.
canton—Reward" of a irranklin County
Boy for Meritorious Conduct.
Correspondence of the Franklin Repository.
CAMP ;C...F THE 209711 Pr...NVA VOLS.,
Near Petersburg. Va, March 3d, 18.55.
As a portion of our regiment is from Franklin
county, it may perhaps interest some of your rea
ders to know that the . .'ranklin boys have some
friends here also. Limit - A. R.. Davison, late
Captain of Co. K, 126th P. V., now our gentle
manly and efficient Adjutant, was presented on
Wednesday lase with a magnificent grey horse
and rguipmentslby the enlisted men of the regi
ment, as a testimonial of their esteem. The pre
sentation took place on the evening of that day,
immediately after dtesa parade, and was conduct
ed on the part of the donors by Samuel Singleton,
Elrst Sergeant Co. C, in the following neat and
complimentary speech:
"Adjutant : Some ditties are hard to be per
farmed, but the one that devolves upon use this
evening, is a very pleasant one. 14 e all know
the exigencies that have brought us into associa
tion during the past six months; and throughout
that period,. those who compose this command,
having eyes to see, and judgments by which to
discern, could not foil to notice that you have been
faithful to your trust;
"Therefore it is, and not through any desire tote
invidious. they wish to present you with a token
of their esteem and respect.
"Gifts,-sometimes, are as the meshes Of a spi
der's web. 'They serve but to entangle, to bind
the feet, and hinder from running in the path of
duty. But not so on the present occasion. This
gift is made because of adherence to duty, not
bemiuse, of deviation from it. ' You know the re
lation held here by one toward another, and that
sometimes duties are to be discharged which re:
quire sternness of purpose and an' unswerving
will. I feel 'free, however, to say that you need
not be entangled by this gift ; -but hard as at any
time may be the duty devolving upon you, may
you have sufficient nerve to perform it.
"I have not': many words to utter, nor is this
the place or occasion for words. Before closing,
however, let nip express the wish, the heartfelt
wish, that this steed may bear you in safety tad
the weary march, and in the day of conflict, for
certainly that day must come. And when you
turn your face homeward, may it not be upon the
red glare of battle: the destruction and desolation
of war, but to receive the congratulations of those
from amongst whom you came, auttAoongratu
late them in return that peace is restored, the in
tegrity of the nation maintained, arid the work of
our fathers preserved by the men of this day and
.generation. God grant that these wishes may be,
realized:" •
Which was eloquently responded to on behalf
of the Adjutant by Capt. Jacob Weidle, company
K, as follows: •
"On behalf of the Adjutant, - permit me to re.
turn through you to the enlisted men of the Reg.
iment, his most heartfelt and sincere thanks, for
this valuable and handsone present. He receives
it as an evidence of that kindness and goodwill
which you have ever manifested towards him and
which he requests me to say is cordially ree d, pro .
cated. His position has led to a perhaps more
full rind free intercourse with you than most of
your officers, arid he desires me to assure you that,
t o him, it has been of the most pleasant and
friendly character, that he will often review it as
a cheering Oasis in the great Sahara of this war's
trials and desolation. It is in the field, in the
immediate presence of death and danger, that the
qualities ofkhe mind and heart are moat thorough.:
ly tested; if on any occasion he may have shown a
disposition to severely censure or correct, he hopes
you will liave , charity emu* txkbefiev.o4,that he
acted from. g L,spriet sense, e flinly beat in
terests of tatOettitnit.O. He "dellirek_ine further
to assure yon, that will ever .liii With him
through your term qt ow the 104 and
tiresome march; duript,the 'dark eiVitarhwune,
in camp, or -on picket whae listening- to your
morning report or at dress-parade, 'and' he hopes
through a future happy and peaceful life under
our good Old Flag, this kindly recognition of duty
well and satisfactorily performed; and, permit
me to add, thrit I think you have most happily and
'properly' honored a - good, obliging and efficieut-of
lacer._ _
Conrad Hen; :of Upton, Franklin couuty,
Pa l a member dl Cape J. P. McCullough's Com-.
pally D, of the •AY4li •gimeut, is now at home
on a furlough of twenty-five days, as a reward for
meritorious conduct, granted under the provisions
of General Order No. 4, Headquarters Army of
the Potomac. •
SUMMARY or WAR NEWS.
—Oen. linniptuu bng been notified by
Gen. Sleennau that in consequence of the murder
of his tiliu,glrs :L similur number of rebel prison
ers will be executed in the same manner.
—Suff.:lk, Va., it is reported by tate rebel - pa
pers, %vas occupied on the lit by a force•of 1500
cavalry and a regiment of negroes. It i suppos
ed that this party inteads a ra:d upon the. Weldon
Pailroad.
--General Lee reports to the rebel War De
panatela that General Bragg fought the I.7uion
forces fivelmiles in front of Kinston, N. C., on the
tfth, and drove them from their position. The reb
els captured three guns - dad 1500 prisoners.
—Co. B, fith North Carolina cavalry, raised in
the western part of the State, came into our
lines at NeWbern on the sth, with, their ho . rses,
anus, accoutrements, &e. The - :reuminder of
the regiment was expected shot tly.
—From the accounts received, it would seem
as though the long talked or attack on Mobile
acre about to commence in earnest. &fleet of
twenty-tan iron vessels and six river ;Maulers
were in Mobile Bay approaching the city, and a
large land force was at or near the city, so that
the siege has either begun or is about to do hO.
—A despatch from Washington states that in.
formation has been received from Winchester,;
confirming the news brought into General Grant's- ,
lines by deserters of a victory achieved by Sheri.H
dan over Early in the Valley. Thin battle took:
place near Waynesboro, and resulted in the cap•
tare by Sheridan of forty rebel officers, one
'sand three hundred men, eight cannon, sad oven
one bathed wagons. The report does not give
the date of the battle. Waynesboro is on the
Virginia Central Railroad at the west base of the
Blue Ridge, shout fitteeu miles front Staunton,',
and twenty-five from Charlottesville. A special;
despatch, however, says Gen. Emery telegrapher
from Winchester that some of our men eineing
in represeut Sheritlau's victory over Early more,
complete than any report we have had. -
PERSONAL.
—Gen. Julius Stahl hns msigned his commission'
in the army. : •
—Major General Carl Schurz has been assytn-,
ed to a command in Hancock's Corps, and will
command a division when it is raised.
—John C. Fremont was fined twenty-five dollars
on Monday by Judge Mullen, of the New Font
Supreme Court, for non-attendance as a juror.
—A telegraphic dispatch from Gen. Cameron
to Senator Lowry, announces that Col. ; Barry
White has been promoted to Brigadier General.
. —Gen. D. M. Gregg harresigned his commis
sion in the army of the Potomac, and his resigner
lion haS been accepted by the War Department.
—Hon. J. A. J. Cresswell . has been elected
United States Senator from Maryland, to fill th'e
vacancy mused by the death of Hon. Thomas H.
Hicks. . • .>
—Major General W. S. Hancock has been ap
pointed to the command made vacant by the cap
ture of Gen. Crook, and Brig. Gen. Carroll to that
of Gen. Kelly.
—The San Jose (Cal.) Mercury says the wife of
Jose Castro, of Monterey, has given birth to thfr
ty-six children, all of whom are living together in
that. ountry. The first twenty are twins, each
pair representatives of either sex.
—The President nominaten the Hon. John P.
Hale as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plen
ipotentiary to the Court of Spain. The Senate,
without referring the, nomination to a committee,
in perional regard to a late distinguished mem
ber, unanimously confirmed the nomination. ,
—The President nominated Jas. Harlan, Stn.
ator from lowa, to be Secretary of the Interior,
in the place of Judge Usher, who has tendered
his resignation, to take effect on the Ist of Mai,
in order meantime that he may settle'eertain
bu
sinees pending in the department. The nomina
tion of Mr. Harlan was confirmed unanimously
without previous reference to a standing commit
tee, in'accordance with the usage, - where the no
minees are or have been members of the Senate.
From the Ehtrrisberg Telegraph, March 11th.
TRE SOLT/CERN BORDER RILL.
The bill making provision to assess the dama
ges accruing from the rebel raid in the 'Southern
Border counties, was fully discussed in the House
, Thursday night. Messrs. M'Clu re, Sharpe, Smith
(Phila.) and Hakes urged the passage of the same
in their usual able manner, while Messrs. Brown,
Cochran (Erie), Hill, Wells mid Ruddiman op-
pssed the bill most carnestly,laking the broad
ground that the State of Pennsylvania could in no
way be responsible for the damages done by the
rebels.
Maim Di'Clure and Sharp spoke eloquently
in behalf of their constituents, and while we can
not approve of the bill, we must admit that they
represent the interest of their constituents with
ability, and that the defeat of the measure is no
fault of theirs. The bill, as it was reported, pro
videdfor the appointMent of commissioners. whose
duty it shall bo to ascertain the damages created
by the rebels in their several raids during the war,
while the Attorney General is nuilionzed to tip
point au assistant to represent the Commonwealth
before the commissioners. The bill was most ad
roitly drawn, and while it makes no direct appro
priation for the payment or the damages, it was
not denied by the friends of the propmition. that
payment is expected eitherfrom the United States
or the State of Pennsylvania.
We most deeply sympathize with the citizens
of Chiuubereburg who suffered so severely by the
destiuction of their homes, but cannot see the
propriety of reimbursing every farmer who may
have suffered tempororlly by the rebel raids.
The bill was finally defeated by a majority of
one, but the opponents of the'same must be vigi
lant, otherwise it will be again re-considered, and
as friends of the measure are hard-workers they
will pat it through the House if possible. If these
damages are to be paid by the State. we may ex
pect au additional State debt of many millions,
and there is no telling where this may stop. The
question before the House was, "Shallthe report
of the committee of the whole who reported the
bill negatived be adopted?" and the bill was de
feated by one majority-95 to 44.
P. S.—Since the above was n ritteu the vote
given on 'Thursday has been re-considered, and
the bill is again before the House as reported by
the committee.
PROCLAMATION REGARDING..
DIRERTERS.
By the President of the United States
A .PROCLAIIIAITON
-WAsUpxeroN, Mar 510.0,1865.:
/Therms; The twenty•Orst section of the act
of Congress, approved on the 3d instant, entitled
"An act to amend the several acts heretofore pass
ed to provide for tho enrolling and calling out of
National forces, and for other purposes," requires
that in additton to the - other lawful penalties of
the crime of desertion from the military or naval
service, all persons who have deserted the military
or naval service of the 'United States who shall not
return to the said service or report themselves to
a Provost Marshal within slaty days after tho
Proclamation hereinafter mentioned, 'shall be
deemed and taken to have voluntarily relinquish
ed and forfeited their rights to became citizens,
.m4retk 15, 1.865
land such desertera shall be forever incapable of
:holding any Office 'of - trust or pni4if -under the
Muted States, or of exerciaing any riOis of eiti
: zens thereof. And all persons 'who AaU hereaf
ter desert the military or naval service, And all
persons . who, being duly enrolled, shall depart
the juriedictiba of the District in which he is en
rolled,-or go beyond the lilnits of the United Sta..
tes, with the intent to avoid any draft into the
military or naval service, duly ordered, shall be
liable to the penalties of this section. •
And the President is hereby authorized and
required forthwith on the passage of this act to
issue his proclamation setting forth the previsions
of this section, in which proclamation
.the
dent is requested to notify' all deserters returning
within sixty days as aforeiaid, that they shall be
pardoned on condition of returning to- their regi
ments and companies, or to such other organiza
tions as they may be assigned to, unless they shall
have served for a period of time equal tetheir art
iginal term of enlistment."
Now therefor, I, Abraham Lincoln, President
of the United States, do issue this my proclama
tion, as required by said act, ordering aud regal
ring all deserters to return to their proper posts
and I do hereby notify them that all deserters'who
shall, within sixty 'Aiwa from the date of this
proclamation, viz., l'ou or before the 10th day of
May, 156,1, return toservice or report their,sekest
TiNerosest Marshal, shall be pa - Moiled an condi
tion that they return to their regiments and com
panies, or to such other organizations as they ma"
he assigned toXand serve the remainder of their
orieinal terms of enlistment, nud in addition there
to a period equal to the time lost by desertion.
do testimony wherof -1 haye hereunto set my
hand, and caused the seal of the United States to
' Dune=at the City of Washington this llth day
of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand.
eight hundred and sisty-five, and of the, indepen ;
deuce of the United States, the eighty-ninth ,
ABRAIIi3I LzcoLY
By the President—
Wat.t.tat H. SEWARD, fieeretury el State
How TO MARE A FLAG.--:iev. Dr. Tyng,lll
recent address, gave the following incident
"
Let July, amid all the horrors of tht Libby
Prison, our soldiers there confined in filth, negli
gence and beggary, wretched, poor and: almost
forgotten, determined to have a eelebrationof
their countrY's independence among themselves.
(Appinuse.l But as they looked around upon the
neces•dties or their condition .they found them
,xviyes without a flag ; and a celebration bf their
comit*'s inaependence without a flag seemed
After a while one man looked upon him
self and said, • I have a red shirt 1.! and another
man, • Why I have a blue blouse; another man,
I have a white muslin shirt; and no sooner was
it said than they stripped themselves-of their red,
bite and blue shirts to be tort up into strips and
pinned together to extemporize their you tty's flag
PARK GOODWIN, ut a meeting held - in New
York receutly,said:
" Europe says we are too slew. I remember
that the great Wellington took six years to drive
Napoleon out of Spain, a country as great asNir
ginm, and then he retired because of reverses
elsewhere:. Four nations took two years to oc
cupy the Crimea, a countryas large as New Jer
sey. England took eighteen months to suppress
the Sepoy rebellion' about as great an undetak-
Mg as to put down a rebellion among the negroes
of a South Carolina county. France has-in more
than a year enoceeded in getting only abort one
hundred and eighty miles into Mexico, wheie she
holds a very insecure position. We think- that
England had better look attome before criticising
the movements of armies."
TnE three Staten—Delaware,• Kentucky and
New Jersey—that voted for McClellan, have vo
ted against the constitutional amendment she'.
Ishing slavery.
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