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ing every Thursday evening at 6 o clock.
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o Preacher in charge. Rev. W. II. M'Beide,
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m n ing at 10 o'clock. Sabbath School at 9
UdockrA. M. Prayer meeting every Thursday
renin, at 7 o'clock. .
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ach month. ,
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:and 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at K o clock,
A M. Piayer meeting every Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock. .
Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach
er every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular DaptistsRw . David Jenkins,
Tastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
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COUNTY OFFICERS.
Judges of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Taylor Huntingdon-. Associates, George W, .
Prothonotarv Joseph M'DonaH.
Register and Recorder James Griffin.
Sheriff John Buck.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners Peter J. Little, Jno.
Campbell, Edward Glass.
Treasurer lsaae Wike.
Poor House Directors George M'Cullough,
George Delany, Irwin Rutledge.
Poor House Treasurer George C. K. Zahm.
Auditors William J. William3, George C
. Zahm, Francis Tierney.
County Surveyor. Henry Scanlan.
Coroner. -"William Flattery.
Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe.
Svp,t. of Common Schools 3. F. Condon.
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AT LARGE.
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Harrison Kinkead.
Burgess A. A. Barker.
School Directors Ael Lloyd., Phil S. Noon,
Joshua D. Parrish, Hugh Jones, E. J. Mills,
David J. Jones.
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Town Council J. Alexander Moore, Daniel
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William Clement.
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Judge of Election Richard Jones, Jr.
Assessor Thomas M. Jones.
Assistant Assessors David E. Evans, Win.
D- Davis.
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Town Council John Dougherty, George C.
Zahm, Isaac Crawford, Francis A. Shoe
ker, James S. Todd.
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Judge of Election Michael Hasson.
Assessor James Murray.
. Aitant Assessors William Barnes. Dan
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Belcci Poctrii.
June Roses.
9
The roses had come with the summer.
And the red and the white bloom fair,
And the scent of their'balmy breathing
Is loading the balmy air.
Their shell-like leaves drop lightly
All through the long June hour;,
Like unto perfumed snow-flakes,
In the garden's grassy bowers.
Oh, sweet are the wild white roses
That cling on the garden wall,
But one that sees not the sunlight
Is sweeter and dearer than all !
One white rose, locked and hidden
In a dark, still grave away,
That bloomed on that garden terrace
One year ago, to-day.
When the air was sweet and breezy,
And the rose3 blushed in the sun
And their pink leaves floated lightly
On the west wind, one by one :
Then, under the cool, close arbor,
We watched the summer storm
"Gather, and pass o'er heaYen,
And its sunlight clear and warm.
And, under the sweet green shelter,
I leaned on that shoulder tall,
While the thunder rolled above us,
And the drops began to fall.
And he plucked one white rose, dripping
With the rain o"n its petals fair,
And his hand swept over my forehead,
As he wove it in my hair.
Now again the June sun shineth,
But last year's fiowers are gone ;
Only that white rose, withered,
Lies in it3 grave forlorn.
In the warm' rain, downward pattering,
I have given it many a tear, ,
Shed for the bloom and beauty
That died with the rose last year !
And the love that went with the blossoms,
As lovely and frail as they,
And the hand that piucked my white rose,
Are dead, like the flower, to-day I
Speech or Dr. Breckinridge.
BEFORE THE UNION NATIONAL CONVENTION,
BALTIMORE, 7lU JUNE, 186-i.
The following is the pointed and elo
quent address of Rev. Dr Breckinridge,
of Kentucky, on taking the chair of the
Union National Convention as temporary
President :
Gentlemen of t7ie Committee : You can
not be more sensible than I am that the
part which I have to perform here to-day
is merely a matter of form, and acting
upon the principles of my wholo life, I
was inclined, when the suggestion was
made to me from. various quarters, that
i it was in the minds of many members of
the Convention to confer this distinction
upon me, to earnestly decline to accept it.
Because I have never sought honors, I
have ricver sought distinction. I have
been a working man, and nothing else.
But certain considerations led me to
1 obnnoro mv mind. There is a class of
cn .Q country far too small for
of CQunt These are the
the
try. Ihese are the men
who merely by their example, by their
pen, by their voice try to do good, and
all the more in perilous times, without
regard to the reward that may come. It
is given to mauy such men to understand,
by tho distinction conlerred upon me,
one of the humblest of their class, that
there are men whom the country will
cherish, and who will not be forgotten.
Here i? another motive relative to your
selves and to the country at large. It
is good for you ; it is good for every nation
and every people, every State and every
party, to cherish all general impulses, to
follow all noble instincts, (and where are
men more noble, more generous ?) to
purge yourselves of all 6elf-seekers and
betrayers, and to confer offices, if it be
only in mere form, upon those who are
worthy to be trusted, and ask nothing
more. Now, according to my convictions
of propriety, having said this, I should
say nothing more. But it has been inti
mated to me from many quarters, and in a
way which I cannot disregard, that I
should disappoint the wishes of my friends,
and perhaps the just expectations of the
Convention, if I did not as briefly and yet
as precisely as I could, say something
upon the great matters wh ich have brough t
us here. Therefore, in a very few words,
and as plainly as I can, I will endeavor to
Jraw your attention to one and another of
these great matters in which we are all
engaged. - In the first placej'nothing can
be more plain than the fact that you are
here as representatives of a great nation
voluntary representatives, chosen without
forms of law; but as really representing
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE
the feelings and principles and, if you
choose, the prejudices of the American
people as if it were written in their laws
and already passed by their votes. For
the man that you will nominate here for
the Presidency of the United States and
ruler of a great people, in a great crisis,
is just as certain, I suppose, to become
that ruler, as anything under Heaven is
certain before it is done ; and moreover,
you will allow me to say, though perhaps
it is hardly strictly proper that I should,
but as far as I know your opinions, I sup
pose it is just as certain now as before
you utter it, whose name you will utter,
and which will be responded to from one
end to the other of this nation, as it will
after it has been uttered and recorded by
your Secretary. Docs any man doubt
that this Convention intends to say that
Abraham Lincoln shall be the nominee ?
What I wish, however, to call your atten
tion to is the grandeur of the misssion
upon which, you are met, and therefore
the dignity and solemnity, earnestness
and conscientiousness with which, repre
senting one of the greatest, and certainly
one of the first people of tho world, you
ooght to discharge these duties. Now,
beside the nomiuation of President and
Vice President, in regard to which latter
office I will say nothing, because I know
there is more or less difference ct opinion
among you but beside these nominations,
you have other most solemn duties to
perform. You have to organize this party
throughout the United States. You have
to put it in whatever form your wisdom
will suggest, that will unite -your wisdom,
energy, and determination to gain the
victorj, which I have already said was in
our power. More than that, you have to
lay down with clearness and precision the
principles on which ycu intend to carry
on this great political contest, and prose
cute the war which is underneath them,
and the glory of the country which lies
before us if we succeed, plainly not in . a
double sense, briefly not in a treatise,
with the dignity and precision of a great
people to utter by its representatives
the political principles by which they
intend to live, and for the sake of which
they ara willing to die, so that all men
everywhere may understand precisely what
we mean, aud lay that furrow so deeply
and clearly that while every man who is
worthy to associate with freemen may see
it and pas3 over it, every man who is
unworthy may be either unable to pass it,
or may be driven far from it. We want
none but those who are like us to bo with us
Now, among these principles, if you
will allow me to say it, the first and most
dustinct is that we do not intend to allow
this nation to be destroyed. AVe arc a
nation, no doubt a peculiar one a nation
formed of States, and no nation except as
these States form it; and these States are
no States except as they are States in that
nation. They had no more right to repu
diate the naticn than the nation has to
repudiate them. None of them had even
the shadow of a right to do this, and God
helping us, we will vindicate that truth
so that it shall never be disputed any more
in this world. It is a fearful utteranco
that is set befors us, but there are great
compensations for it. lhose of you who
have alluded to this subject know that
from the foundation of the present Gov
ernment, before and since our present
Constitution was formed, there have al
ways been parties that had uo faith in our
Government. The men that formed it
were doubtful of its success, and the men
who opposed its formation did not desire
its success. And I am bold to say, with
out detaining you on this subject, that for
all the outcry about our violations of the
Constitution, this present liviug generation
and thi3 present Union party arc more
thoroughly devoted to that Constitution
than any generation that has ever lived
under it. While I say that, and solemnly
believe it, atid believe it to be capable of
the strongest proof, I may also add that it
:s a great error, which is being propagated
in our land, to say that our national life
depends merely upon the sustaining of
that Constitution. Our lathers mads it,
and we love it. I intend to maintain it
But if it suits us to change it, we can do
it; and when it suits us to change it, we
will change it. If it were torn into ten
thousand pieces, the nation would be as
much a nation as it was before the Con
stitution wa3 made a nation always
that declared its independence a3 a united
people, and lived as a united people until
now a nation independent of all particu
lar institutions under which they lived,
capable of modeling them precisely as
their interests require. We ought to have
it distinctly , understood , by friends and
enemies that whilo we love that instru
ment, we will maintain it, and will with
undoubted certainty put to death friend
or foe who undertakes to trample it under
foot ; yet beyond a doubt we will reserve
tho right to alter it to suit ourselves from
time to time and from generation to gen
eration. One more idea on that subject :
We have incorporated in that instrument
the right of revolution, which gives us,
without a doubt, the right to change it.
It never existed before in the American
States, and there is no need of rebellion,
insurrection, or civil war, except upon a
denial of the fundamental principles of all
free governments that the major part must
rule, and there is no other way of carrying
on society except that the will of the ma
jority shall bo the will of the whole, or
that the will of the minority shall be tho
will of the whole. So that, in one word,
to deny the principles I have tried to state
is to make a dogmatic assertion that the
only form of government possible with
perfect liberty, and acknowledged by God,
is a pure and absolute despotism, lhe
principles, therefore, which I am 'trying
to 6tate before you, are principles which,
if they be not true, freedom is impossible,
and no government but one of pure force
can exist or ought to endure among men.
But the idea which I wished to carry
out a3 the remedy for these troubles and
sorrows, dreadful as they are, is this :
This fearful truth runs through the whole
history of mankind, that whatever else
may be done to give stability to authority,
whatever else may be done to give perpe
tuity to institutions, however wise, how
ever glorious, practical, and just may be
the philosophy of -it, it has been found
that the only enduring, only imperishable
cement of all free institutions has been
the blood ot traitors. No Government has
ever been built upon imperishable founda
tions, which foundations were not laid in
the blood of traitors. It is a fearful truth,
but we had as well avow it at once, and
every lick you strike, and every rebel you
kill, every battle you win, dreadful as it is
to do it, you are adding, it may be a year,
it may be ten years, it may be a century,
it may be ten centuries, to the life of the
Government and the freedom of your
children. Now, passing over that idea,
many other things which it would be right
for mo to say, did time serve, and were
this the occasion, let me add, you are a
Union party. Your origin has been re
ferred to as havicg occurred eight years
ago. In one sense it is true that you arc
far older than that. I see before me not
only primitive llepublicans and primitive
Abolitionists, but I see, also, primitive
Democrats and primitive Whigs, primitive
Americans, and, if you will allow me to
say so, I myself am here, who, all my life,
have been a party to myself. As a Union
party, I will follow you to the ends of the
earth and to the gates of death ; but as an
Abolition party, as a Republican party, as
a Whig party, as a Democratic party, as
an American party, I will not follow you
one foot. But it is true of tho mass of
the American people, however you may
divide and scatter, while this war lasts,
while the country is in peril, while you
call yourselves as you do in the call of the"
Convention, the Union party, you are for
the preservation of the TJuion and the
destruction of thi-j rebellion, root and
branch ; and in my judgement, one of the
great errors that has been" committed by
our Administration of the Federal Gov
ernment, the chief of which are about to
nominate for another term of office one
of the errors has been to believe that we
have succeeded when we have not suc
ceeded, and to act in a manner which is
precisely for those who have succeeded.
You will not, you cannot succeed until
you have utterly broken the military pow
er of this people. I will not detain you
on these incidental point?, one of which
has been made prominent in the remarks
of the excellent Chairman of the National
Committee.- I do not know that I would
bo willing to go so far as, probably, he
would, but I cordially agree with him in
this. I think, considering what has been
done about Slavery, taking the thing as it
now stands, overlooking altogether, either
in way of condemnation or approval, any
act that has brought us to tho point where
we are; but believing in ray conscience
and with all my heart that what has
brought us where wo are in the matter of
Slavery, is the original sin and folly of
treason and Secession. Because you re
member that the Chicago Convention
itself was understood, and I believe it
virtually did explicitly state that they
would not touch Slavery in the States.
Leaving it, therefore, altogether out of the
question how wo came where we aro on
that particular point, we are prepared to
go further than the original llepublicans
themselves were prepared to go. We are
prepared to demand not only that the
whole territory of the United States shall
not 'be made slave, Dut that the General
Government of the American people shall
do one of two things, and it appears to mc
that there is. nothing else that can be
done,- either to use the whole power of
the Government, both war power and
peace power, to put slavery as nearly as
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possible back where it was (for although
that will be a fearful state of society, it is
better than anarchy), or else to use the
whole power of the Government both of
war and peace and all the practical pow
er that the people of the United States
will give them to exterminate and extin
guish. I have no hesitation in saying for
myself that, if I were a pro-slavery man, if
I believed this institution was an ordinance
of God. and w?s given to man, I would
unhesitatingly join those who demand
that Government should be put back
where it was ; but I am not a pro-slavery
man. I never was. I unite myself with
those who believe it is contrary to the
brightest interests of all men and of all
government, contrary to the spirit of the
Christian religion, and incompatible
with the natural right of man. I join
myself with those who say, away with it
forever, and I fervently pray God that the
day may come when throughout the whole
land every man may be as free as you arc,
and as capable of enjoying regulated lib-crtv-
I will not detain you any longer. One
single word you will allow me to say in
behalf of the State from which I come,
one of the smallest of the thousands of
Israel. We know very well that our
eleven votes are ot no consequence in the
Presidential election ; we know very well
that in our present unhappy condition it
is by no means certain that we are here
to-day representing the party that will
carry the majority of the votes in that
unhappy State. I know very well that
sentiments which I am uttering will cause
me great odium in the State in which I
was bom, which I love, where the bone3
of two generations of my ancestors and of
some of my children are, and where, very
soon, I shall lay my own. I know very
well that my colleagues will incur odium
it they indorse what I say ; and they, too,
know it. But we have put our faces
toward the way in which we intend to go,
and we will co in it to the end. If we
are to perish, we will perish in that way.
All 1 have to say to you is, help us it you
can; if you cannot, believe in your hearts
that we have died like men.
a m mm
Tlic Status of Our Generals.
The War Department, in response to a
resolution of the Senate, has given infor
mation concerning our field officers since
the commencement of the rebellion, from
which it appears that in the regular army
Generals Scott, Harney, Wool, Anderson
and Ripley have retired, Sumner, Mans
field and Totteu have died, and Twiggs
dismissed. Of Major Generals in the
volunteer corps, Blair resigned, aud res
ignation revoked; Wm. F. Smith jnd
SchoSeld's appointments expired by con
stitutional limitation, and they re-appointed;
Horatio S. Wright, rejected by the
Senate, and since appjintcd, now in com
mand of Sedgwick's corps. The resigna
tions are Cassiu.s M. Clay, James A. Gar
field, Schuyler Hamilton, C. S. Hamilton,
E. D. Keyes, E. D. Morgan, B. M. Pren
tiss and II. C. Schenck. One Major
General and one Brigadier General have
declined the appointment. Buford, Cox
and Morrell's commissions expired by
constitutional limits. The nominations of
N. T. II. Bnnks and John Newton were
withdrawn. Wm. II. French, mustered
but ; Fitz John Porter cashiered.'
Of the Brigadiers General of volunteers,
Benham's appointment wa3 revoked.
Ten ceased to be officers by constitutional
limitation, and were re-appointed. Thom
as F. Meagher resigned, and his resigna
tion was revoked. Eighteen declined
appointment a3 Major Generals, including
Bramlctte, the present Governor of Ken
tucky, and Charles P. Stone. Nineteen
appointments expired by constitutional
limit. Of eleven rejections by the Senate,
one was re-appointeu, namely, Gen. Sick
les. Another was restored to the army,
one was canceled, two were revoked, Blen
kcr was discharged, Ileverc dismissed.
The total number of Generals in the
regular army since the commencement of
the war is 29 : one lieutenant General, six
Major Generals, 2 Brigadier Generals,
and 18 of all grades are now in the serv
ice, namely : one Lieutenant General ;
three Major General, fourteen Brigadiers.
In the volunteer force 133 have been
appointed Major Generals, incluJing the
promotion of 01 Brigadier Generals, and
477 have been appointed Brigadier Gen
erals, of whom 257 are now acting as such.
There are 70 Major Generals at this
time in the service.
' KQm Sheridan had a very convenient
formula for acknowledging all the new
publications that were sent to him : "Dear
sir, I have received your exquisite work,
and I have no doubt I shall be highly
delighted after I have read it.' Tha
author may tako this remark either, way,
complimentary or otherwise.
NUMBER 39.
Campania 3JIsceIIaiiy.
POKING FUN AT THE UEBELS.
Our men have singular nmnsAmonfji
while at their labor. Hamlet wondered
that the grave-diggers sang at their work,
he would be more surprised to witness
the sports with which the soldiers amuso
inemseives while employed in a similar
occupation, uur lines were so near to
the enemy that we could hear their voices
distinctly. Not a man dared to raise his
head above the works. At such a time,
by way of diversion, our troops devoted
ii l . . .
ineniseives to trilling with the excitability
of the enemy's pickets, by getting up a
snam assault. A. cry was raised, muskets
rattled, and a shout "Steady in the cen
tre,'.' "Guide right," "Charge," creating,
no doubt, great perturbation in the ene
my's ranks. When this sport was ex
hausted so as to be no longer available,
the accuracy and vigilance of the enemy's
sharpshooters were unfeelingly tampered
with by many of our men, who, fastening
th eir hats upon their bayonets, raised
them cautiously above their works, as if
about to look over, when a bullet from an
enemy's rifleman passing through tho
empty hat justified a most hearty laugh
on our 6ide.
"SCYUGLE."
An army correspondent gives a new?
word which has lately been coined, and
which is synonymous with "gobble" and
with "skeedaddle," and is used for any
other word and for want of any other
word. He says : "A Gth corps army offi
cer dismounted near me a moment ago.-
I inquired where he had been riding,
lie informed me that he had been sent
on a general 'scyugle :' that he had scy-
ugled' along the front, where the John
nies 'scyugled' a bullet through his clothes;
that on his return Ee 'scyugled' an ice
house; that he should .'scyugle' his servant,
who, by the way, had 'scyugled' three fat
chickens, for a supply of ice ; that after
he had 'scyugled' his dinner he proposed
to 'scyugle' a nap and closed by asking
how I 'jscyuglcd' " The correspondent
claims that this new word, like "skedad
dle' is classical, aud is derived from two
Greek words.
NOX-COMMITTAL.
During General Birney's recent raid
through Florida, a bright little girl was
alone at one house, her parents having
skedaddled. She was rather non-committal,
for she did not know whether tho
troops were Union or rebel. Two fine,
dogs made their appearance while a con
versation was being held with thd child,
and 6he informed one of her questioners
that their names were Gilmore and, Beau
regard. "Which is the best dog V asked
a bj-stander. J'l don't know," said she ;
"they're both mighty smart dogs; but,
they'll either of them suck eggs if you
don't watch them." The troops left with
out ascertaining whether the family of
which the girl was so hopeful a scion, was
Union or rebel.
FUNKING.
The rank and file have a pretty good
appreciation of the strategy of the Rich
mond campaign. They understand that
it has been a series of splendid flank
movements, and "flanking" has become
the current joke With which to account
for everything from a night march to tho
capture of a sheep or a pig. A poor fellow,
terribly wounded, yesterday, said he saw
the shell coming, "but hadn't time to
flank it." And hernjoyed his joke with
a smile and a chuckle, when hisquick eye ,
had sought and found appreciation among
the bystanders. The shell had "flanked"
him, by taking off an arm.
WELL AND TRULY SAID.
Here is a little war story from the far
West. A lieutenant of the Tenth United
States Infantry recently met with a sad
rebuff at Fort Kearney. The Lieutenant,
was promenading in full uniform one day,
and approached a volunteer on sentry, who
challenged him with "Halt ! who comes
there ?" The Lieutenant, with contempt .
in every lineament of his face, exclaimed, :
"Ass 1" The sentry's reply, apt and quick,
came, "Advance, Ass, and give the coun
tersign !" 1
THE PRESIDENT AND DEN BUTLER.
Some gentlemen, in conversation with
the President a few days ago, expressed
their doubts a3 to Butler's capacity as au
officer in the field. "Well," said Mr.
Lincoln, "It he does not succeed it will
rnot be my fault. I have set three of my
best Generals to watch him Baldy Smith,
Gilmore andWeitzell. Now, if they can't
keep him from doing harm, I am sure I
ought not to bo held accountable for what
he does."
JUay In one Rhode Island regiment ara
fourteen brothers named Postly. Four of
them are twins! Their average height if
six feet two inches.
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