A. 4. BARKER, Editor and Proprietor,
j. TOOD IIUTCIIIIVSOX, l'ublislier.
I WOULD RATIIER BE RIGHT TIIAN PRESIDENT. Henry Clay.
I S1.SO IX ADVAXCL.
VOLUME 6.
TyRECTORY.
LIST OF POST OFFICES.
Post Officii.
Carolltown,
Ches3 Springs;
Conemaugh,
Cresson,
Ebensburg.
Fallen Timber,
Gallitzin,
fiemlock,
Johnstown,
Loretto,
Munster,
Plattsville,
Koseland, -St.
Augustine,
Sculp Level,
Sontnan,
Sumuierhill,
Summit,
TCilmore,
I 'rut f Masters.
Jjistricts.
Joseph Bebe, Carroll.
HenryNutter, Chest.
A. O. Crooks, Taylor.
J.Houston, -Washint'n.
John Thompson, Eben3burg.
Asa II. Fisko White.
J. M. Christy, Gallitzin'.
Wm Tiley, Jr., Wa3ht'n.
I. E. Chandler, Johnst'wn.
M. Adlesberger, Loretto.
A. Durbin, Munster.
Andrew J Ferral, Susq'han.
G.W.Bowman, White.
Stan. Wharton, Clearfield.
George Berkey, Richland.
B. M'Colgaa,. Washt'n.
B. F. Slick, Croyle.
William M'Connelt Washt'n.
Morris Keil, S'merhill.
CHI RCIIES, MINISTERS, &C.
Presbyterian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10
a clock, and in the evening at C o'clock. Sab
r,,th School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet-
iu-T everv Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
"v.thnJItt Koiscoval Church Rev. J. S. Lem
oao.i.0r;n rhiirce. Rer. Y . II. .M'Uride,
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morning at 10 o'clock. Sabbath School at
odockA. M. Prayer meeting every Thursda
evening, at 7 o'clock.
Welch Independent Rev Ll. R. Powell,
Ptor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, and in the evening at 6 o'clock,
fabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
aiectin"- on the first Monday evening of each
month I and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
each month.
Calvinistic Methodist -Rev. Jons Williams,
Panor Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at V o'clock,
A M. Piayer meeting every Friday evening,
it 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock.
Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach
r,y every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
'Particular Baptists Rev. David Jenkins,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
3 o'clock. Sabbath School at at I o'clock, P. M.
CitliClic Rev. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
Ssrvkts every Sabbath morning at 10 J o'clock
and Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
CHKXSIllRG MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
Eastern, dailv, at- 12 J o'clock, A. M.
Western, "" at 12 o'clock, A. M.
MAILS CLOSE.
rfn- Rt 8 o'clock, P. M.
i3aant - l-'reaemnzevery funumc
Western, " at 8 o'clock, P. M.
5TIip mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs
lown, &c, arrive on Thursday of each week,
et 5 o'clock, P. M. .
Leave Ebensburg on Friday ot eacii weeu,
etc A.M.
2TL.The mails from Newman's Mills, Car-
ro'i'.town. &c, arrive on Monday, Wednesday
tzi Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M.
Leave Ebensburg on Tuesday?, Thursdays
md Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M.
RAILROAD SCHEDULE.
CRE3SOX STATION
Wst Bait. Express leaves at
Phila. Express
3.7 A. M
3.r7 A.
9A8 P.
. 8.33 P.
7.:i4 A.
4.55 P.
3.40 P.
1.Z3 P.
7.08 A.
5.15 P.
11.27 A.
M.
M-
Fast Line
Mail Train .
Pitts. & Erie Ex.
' Emigrant Train
Ess.! Pliila. Express
" Fast Line"
" Fast Mail
Pitts. & Erie Ex.
" Harrisb. Accom.
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COtTI OICUb.
HintYnJJon1-: AclaUs ' GVge W.
tasley, Henry (J. Devine.
J "rcthonotary Joseph 31 'JJonan.
Register and Recorder James urilhn.
Sheriff John Buck. ' '
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commisaioners Peter J. Litlle, Jno.
Campbell, Edward Glass.
Treasurer Isaac Wike. - - .
Poor 116use Directors George M'Cullough,
George Delany, Irwin Rutledge.
Poor House Treasurer George C. K. Zahm.
. 4 uiitors William J. Williams, George C.
E.'Zahm, Francis Tierney.
County surveyor. Henry bcanian.
Coroner. -William Flattery.
Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe.
Sup't.. of Common Schools J. F. Condon.
EBEXSHURC ISOK. OFFICERS.
AT LARGE.
Justices of the Peace David II. Roberta
tarrison Kinkead. -
Burgess A. A. Barker.
School Directors A'el Lloj'd, Phil S. Noon,
Josliua D. Parrish, Hugh Jones, E. J. Mills,
David J. Jones.
EAST. WARD.
Constable Thomas J. Davis.
Town Council J. Alexander Moore. Daniel
Evans, Richard R. Tibbott, Evan E. Evans,
William Clement.
: Inspectors Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans.
Judge of Election Richard Jones, Jr. . ,
Assessor Thomas M.' Jones. ' -
AttUtant Assessors David E. Evan3. Wm.
D-Davis.
WEST WARD. . .
. ?onitaJZ William : Mills, Jr.
ahm, Isaac Crawford, Francis A. Shoe
maker .Tomoa fS TnAA
, Inspector t G. W. Oatman, Roberta Evan3
fye of Election Michael Hasson.
sjMorr-James Murray.
-AMwtant Assessors WiUiam Barnes, Dan-.
. Zahm )
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, NOYEMBER 10, 1864.
Bdect Poctrn.
Pusuins- On!
When I was a boy about your age,
My rosy-cheeked John ! rosy-cheeked John,
I took as my motto, from some old page,
"Pushing on !"
I wrote it all over my books and slate,
All over them, John ! over them, John ;
And thought of it ever, both early and late,
"Pushing on I"
At work or at play, at home or at school,
Think of it, John I think of it, John !
At books or at playthings, 'twas ever the rule:
"Pushing on !"
I pushed out of boy, and I pushed into man,
That I did, John ! that I did, John ;
I pushed out of 'can't,' and pushed into 'can,'
"Pushing along!"'
Whenever an obstacle in my path lay,
And many did, John ! many did, John -I
pushed and I pushed, 'till I pushed it away,
'Pushing on !''
I pushed thro' the world with an honester
heart,
Honester, John ! honester, John !
Than many a man with a fairer start,
"Pushing on !"
And now I've a good wife, and children well
taught,
Very well, John ! very well, John ;
And a snug llitle fortune, all honestly got,
"Pushing on !"
I've pushed a large place in the hearts of the
poor
That is good. John ! very good, John ;
And down the bright valley together we go,
'Tushing on !'' r
I'm now an old man; my head white as snow,
And mother's too, John! mother,stoo, John,
And down the bright valley together we go,
"Pushing on !''
I am still pushing on for a happier land,
Trustingly, John ! trustingly, John ;
Trustingly holding my Father's hand
"Pushing on !"
THE PATRIOT AND THE TRAITOR.
Fifty years ago a terrible storm shook
the city of London. At the dead of the
night, when the storm was at its highest,
an aged minister living in the suburbs of
the city, was aroused by an earnest cry for
help. Looking from his window he beheld
a rude man clad in the coarse attire of the
sweeper of the public streets. In a few
moments, while the rain came down in
torrens, and the storm howled above, the
preacher, leaning on the arm of the scav
enger, threaded hia way through the dark
suburbs.
That very day a strange old man had
fallen, speechless, in iront of the scaven
ger's rufie home. The eood hearted street
sweeper had taken him in, laid him on his
own oea ne Taa not spoken ouce hhu
now he was dying.
This was the story of the rough man.
Aud now, through dark alleys, among
miserable tenements, that seem to topple
down upon their heads, into the loneliest
i and dreariest suburbs they pass that white
haired minister and hi guide. At last, in
a narrow court, and up a flight of stairs
that creaked beneath their tread, and then
into the death room.
It was, in truth, a miserable place.
A glimmering light stood ou a broken
chair. Thero were the rough wall?, there
the solitary garret window, with the rain
beating through the rags and straw, which
stuffed the broken panes and there, amid
a heap of cold ashes, the small valise which
it seems the stranger had with him.
In one corner,'on the coarse straw of. the
ragged bed, lay the dying man. lie was
but half dressed his legs were concealed
by military boots.
The aged preacher drew near and looked
upon him. And as he looked throb
throb you might hear the death watch
ticking in the shattered wall.
It was the form of a Etrong roan, grown
old with care more than age.
There was a face you might look upon
once, and yet wear in your memory forev
er. Let us bend over that bed, and look
on that face. -
. A bold forehead, seamed by one deep'
wrinkle between the brows: long locks of
dark hair, sprinkled over with gray lips
firmly set, yet quivering as though they
had a life -separate from the life of the
man and then, two large eyes, vivid,
Durriing, unnatural in their glare.;
Ah, there was something so terrible in
that face somcthingso full of unutterable
loneliness, unspeakable despair, that the
aged minister started back in horror.
Uut look j those strong arms are clutch
ing: at the vacant air the death sweat
starts in drops upon the cold brow the
man is dying I : ' y"
Throb ! throb ! throb ! beat' the death'
watch in the battered, shattered old wall.
"Would you die in the faith of a Chris
tian ?" faltered the preacher, as he knelt
there on the dark floor.
The white lips of the death stricken
man trembled, but made no sound.
Then, with the agony of death upon
him, he rose to a sitting posture. For the
first time he spoke :
"Christian !" he echoed in a deep tone
which thrilled the preacher to the heart,
"will faith give me back my honor? Come
with me with me, far over the water.-
Ha ! we are there ! This is my native
home. 'Yonder is the church ia which I
knelt in childhood yonder, the green on
which I sported when a boy. IJut another
flag than that waved when I was a child.
And, listen, old man, were I to pass the
street as I passed when a child, the babes
in their cradles would raise their tiny hands
and curse me. The graves in yonder
churchyard would shrink from my foot
steps, and yonder flag would rain a baptism
of blood upon my heart."
That was an awful death bed. The
minister had watched the "last night"
with a hundred convict3 in their cells,
asd yet never beheld a scene so terrible a3
this.
Suddenly the dying man arose. lie
tottered along the floor. With those
white fingers, whose nails are blue with
the death chill, he threw open the valise.
He showed a military coat, trimmed with
silver, an old parchment, and a piece of
cloth, that looked like the wreck of a bat
tle flag.
"Look ye, priest, this faded coat is
spotted with my blood !" ho cried, as old
memories seemed stirring at his heart.
"This is the last coat I wore when I
planted the stars . on Ticonderoga, That
bullet hole was pierced in the fight at
Quebec, now I am a let me whisper in
your ear."
. "Now, help me, priest," he said, in a
voice growing suddenly tremulous, "help
me to put on this coat of tbc blue and
silver. For you see," and a ghastly smile
came over his face, "there is no one to
wipe the 'cold drops from my brow; uo
wife, no child I must meet death alone;
but I will meet him, as I met him in the
battle, without fear."
While he stood arraying himself in that
worm eaten coat of blue and silver, the
good preacher spoke to him of faith in
Jesus. Ye?," of that great faith which
pierces the clouds of human guilt, and
rolls them back from the face of God.
"Faith " echoed the ttrange man, who
stood there erect,- with the death light in
his eye, "faith ! can it give me back my
honor? - Look ye, priest, there, over the
waves, sit George Washington, telling to
his comrades the pleasant etory of the
eight years' war there, in his royal hall,
sits George of Engl.-vrJ, bewailing in
idiotic voice the ioss of his colonies. And
here am I I, who wus the first to raise
the flag of freedom, the first to strike the
blow against that king here am I, dying
like a dog !"
The awe stricken preacher Etarted back
from the louk of the dying man, while
throb throb beat the -death watcli ia
the shattered wall.
"Hush ! silence along the line?, there
he muttered, iu that wild, absent tone, as
though speaking to the dead; "silence
along the lines ! Hark you, Montgomery,
we will meet there in victory or in death !
Hist'! silence my men, not a whisper, as
you move up those steep rocks! Now on,
my boys, now on ! Men of the wilderness,
we will gain the town ! Now up with the
banner of the stars; up with the flag of
freedom, though the night is dark and the
snow falls! Now now," shrieked the
death stricken man, towering there in his
blue uniform, with his clenched hands
moving in the air "now, now! one blow,
and Quebec is ours I"
And look. His eyes grow glassy. With
that word on his lips, he stands there
ah ! what a hideous picture of despair,
erect, livid, ghastly. There for a moment,
and then he falls! He is dead ! Ah!
look at that proud form, thrown cold and
stiff upon the damp floor. In the glassy
eye there lingers even yet horrible energy,
a sublimity of despair.
Who if the strange roan, dyios here
alone in this garret, this man who, in all
his crime, still treasured up his blue uni
form and faded flag?
Who is this thing of terrible remorse
this man, whose memories link something
of heaven and more of hell?
Let us look at that parchment and that
flag. ' ' . : '
The old minister unfolded that faded
flag- it was a bluo banner, gleaming with
thirteen stars. " -
He unrolls that parchment. It is a
Colonel's commission in the Continental
Army, -addressed, Benedict Arnold 1
And there, in that rude hut, while the
death watch throbbed like a heart in the
shattered wall unknown unwept, in all
the bitterness of desolation, lay the corpse
of that patriot and traitor.
O, that our own true Washington h'ad
been there, to sever that good right arm
from the corpse, and while the dishonored
body rotted into dust, to bring home that
good right arm, and embalm it among the
holiest memories of the past.
For that right arm had struck many a
gallant blow for freedom; yonder at Ti
conderoga, at Quebec, Champlain, Saratoga
that arm yonder, beneath the snow
white mountain, amid the deep silence of
the dead, first raised into sight the banner
of the Stars. '
It was during the renowned expedition
through the wilderness to Quebec, that
Arnold encamped for two or three days
beside the lTiver of the Dead, near a snow
white mountain, which rose in lovely
grandeur over all the other mountains into
the autumnal sky. A single soldier ascend
ed the mountain with the hope of behold
ing from its summit the rocks and spires
of Quebec. When ho came down, Arnold
took from his breast, where, for four days
in privation and danger, he had carried it,
a bluo banner gleaming with thirteen
stars. He raised it into the light, and for
the first time the Continental Uanner
floated over the solitudes of the Dead
liiver. This is a fact attested by history
and corroborated by tradition.
m m
Inciter from a Secesli Soldier to
Iiis IScttcr Half.
Cami of the First S. C. Gratbacks,
Before a Swamp 4 Behind Peters
teeskurq, July 31, 18C4.
elovf.d of Mr Soul: our war-worn
husbaud takes his pen in baud in a strange
land on a foreign strand under the com
mand of our mutual friend Colonel Pluck
Buzzard, of llainwater Court House, S. O.
My ink is pale, but my ale ain't. My
pen is poor, and so 13 my grub. My
quarters in camp are passable, but the
quarters in my pocket are not. Last
night I had a mud-puddle for a pilbw,
and I covered myself with a sheet of wa
ter. I long for more whisky barrels, and
fewer gun barrels, more biscuit and fewer
bullets. How I wish you were here, idol
' of my heart ! The further away I get
i from you, the more I like you.
j ir'o that you may know how we work
I linrn in flpfi.mpf nf t.hfi fnn-flisspd Yfink?.
send you a what-d'ye-call it of my daily
labor.
4 o'clock : Called up from a roll in the
mud by a roll of the drums. No pros
pects of a roll of bread, and am hungry.
Shoulder spades ! .
4 1 to 0 a. m. : Dig and throw up the
earth. G et sick, and throw up yesterday's
rations.
7 o'clock: Another roil of drums. Fi
ling off into line, defile my inexpressibles
witii mud and other sacred soil. Draw
ramrods, but uary pay. No shelling out
by government, but a cussed deal too
much by Grant.
9 o'clock: More drilling, but not of the
cotton kind, wherewith to increase my
present supply of one shirt.
. 10 o'clock : More digging. Spadular
researches into the geological formation
of the earth. '..Find-it composed of alter
nate strata of sweat, sunsuoke, swearing,
boulders, and blisters.
12 o'clock : Evidences of dinner. Saw
Captain -Yapsl?ck pickiug his teeth with
a tenpenny nail a moment ago, and a cor
poral tasiug a chew of tobacco.
Oh, Mariar, if you only knew what I
have suffered and am suffering to save
you from being bombarded by the diabol
ical Yanks ! Ilather than any of the
Northern scum should blockade you, light
of my eyes, I'd divorce you. I would,
Mariar.
Colonel Pluck camo very near being
shot in the neck, last night, by one of his
own officers. The Colonel had just gath
ered his 6taff together, and was repeating
the fen commandments toihem in Dutch,
when Captain Swipes leveled a bottle at
him.. Fortunately, the bottle missed the
Colonel, but its contents strufk him in
the throat. He was somewhat staggered
thereby, but not seriously hurt.
I am reduced to a skeleton. My eyes
arc sunk so far into my head that I can
look down my windpipe. If there was a
hole in the top of my head, I'd make a
first class telescope I've got the classes
in me now. My chin is so sharp that it
shaves itself.
I am going on picket duty to-night.
Picket duty is awiul hard work. Almost
every night a picket's gun goes off, and
when wo come to- look for the fellow what
shot, we find he's gone off, too.
Ever your dear husband,
V . Buckiiorn Handell.
P. S. Tell your pa not to drink all
that tanglefoot juice I left at home until
I get back. If ho does, I'll cram the
empty demijohn. down his throat and then
kick him all around the potato-patch for"
his intemperate insolence. So I will,
Marier.
P. P. S. No more at present, angel of
my dreams.
m
Tlie Sew Slate of Kcvatla.
The territory of Nevada, which has just
been admitted to the union as a State by
PresidentLincoln, was organized in March,
1SG1. For this purpose about ten thous
and square miles were appropriated from
the northern extremity of California, and
about seventy thousand from western Utah.
At the time of its organization, the Terri
tory possessed a population of nearly seven
thousand white settlers. The dsvelopment
of her mineral resources was rapid, and
almost without parallel, and attracted a
constant stream of immigration to the
Territory. . As the population ha3 not
been subject to the fluctuations irom which
other Territories have suffered, the growth
of Nevada has been rapid and steady. At
the general convention election of 18G3,
nearly eleven thousand votes were cast.
During the present year great accessions
to the population have been made.
Nevada is probably the richest State in
the Union in respect to mineral resources.
No region in the world is richer iu argen
tiferous leads. .These leads are found
scattered over the entire Washoe county,'
the richest of which is that known as the
Comstock lead,- of Yirgiuia City. The
localities of the other principal mines in
the region east of the Sierra Nevada, are
the Emerald Mines, one hundred miles
southeast ot Yirginia; the Humboldt, one
hundred and sixty miles northeast ; the
Silver mountain, sixty-miles south; Pea
vine, thirty mile3 north, and the Heese
river country, one hundred and seventy
miles east northeast, embracing many dis
tricts, and flanked by two of more than
ordinary promise the Cortez, seventy
miles north, aud the San Antonio, , one
hundred miles south of Austin, now the
principal, town on the Ileese river.
A few months ago another deposit of
mineral wealth was brought to light, which
has proved of incalculable value to the
silvo miners. This was an immense basin
of salt, five miles square, near the sink of
the Carson river. This basin, says a
gentlemau who writes from Yirginia City,
appears once to have been the bottom of a
lake, and the salt is found good even on
the surface." A coveriner of about three
inches is loose and indifferent, but below
this, "for a depth of fourteen feet, pure
rock salt is found, as clear ss ice, and
white "as the driven snow." Beneath
there is water, which seems to be filtered
through salt for an unknown depth. The
whole of the fourteen feet in thickness
does net contain a single streak of any
deleterious matter or rubbish, and is ready
for quarrying and sending to market. The
locality is one hundred miles west of Reese
river, and Eeventy miles east of Yirginia
City, on the overland road. '
In Jauuary of this year, there were one
hundred and twenty-tive quartz mills in
operation in Nevada, which were erected
at a cos.t ranging from 810,000 to 100,
000. About three-fourths of the quartz
mills of Nevada are driven by steam, and
the balance by water power. Of the entire
number, four-fifths are in the vicinity of
Yirginia. There is an average of one
hundred mills in constant operation. These
will carry, on an average, ten stamps
each, making one thousand, with a capac
ity for crushing one thousand tons per
day. This ore will yield at the rate of
$50 per ton, giving a daily production of
850,000, or $15,000,000 per annum. ,
. War in Clearfield County. The
numerous threats which have been made
to resist the draft in Clearfield county cul
minated on Monday, 30th ult., in the
shooting of Col. But'.er,' Deputy Provost
Marshal, while in the discharge of his
duty in the arrest ot a deserter. A great
many persons in that region, knon as
copperheads, are armed and equipped and
orgauized in squads, to resist every effort
of the authorities to gather in the drafted
men. Colonel Butler was killed instant
ly. His murderer's name is Lounsberry,
who is still at large. The Colonel was a
most exemplary and unassuming man,
aud was loved and respected wherever he
was known. Retaliation for his murder
will be visited upon those who caused it.
The military authorities have sent seven
hundred troops to Clearfield, who will im
diately arrest all who have in any manner
been concerned in thi3 outrage.
Bi-The U. S. Christian Commission
have received from Nevada a silver and
gold brick, worth 2,900 in currency, as
a contribution to the cause. It is as much
as a man could conveniently lift, and no
man could conveniently carry in his hat.
It is one of several bricks of the kind the
Christian Commission has received, or is
to receive." . . .
NUMBER ,7.
Way of Rational Tlianlisgiviny.
As will be seen by the following proc
lamations, the Chief Executive of the
Nation and of the State unite in recom
mending Thursday, 24th iust., as a day of
general Thanksgiving and prayer : '''
By the President of the United S.'alcs of America :
A PROCLAMATION. .
It has pleased Almighty God to r.rolong our
National life another year, dc-feudino- us with
His guardian care against unfriendly designs
from abroad, and vouchsafing to us in His
mercy many and signal victories over the
enemy w ho is of our own household. It ha3
also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as
well our citizens in their home? as our soldiers
in their camps and our sailors on the seas
with unusual health. He has largely aug
mented our fiee population by emancipation
and by immigration, while lie has opened to
us new sources ot wealth, aad has crowned
the labor of our working men ir every de
partment of industry with abundant reward.
Moreover, He has been pleated to animate
and inspire our minds and hearts with forti
tude, courage and resolation sufficient for the
great trial of of civil war, into which we have
been brought by our adherence as a nation
to the cause of lreedom and humanity, and to
afibrd us reasonable hopes of an ultimate and
happy deliverance from all cur dangers and
afflictions.
Now, therefore, T, Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident of the United States, do hereby appoint
and set apart the last - Thurtday of November
next, as a day which I desire to be observed
by all my fellow citizens, wherever they may
then be. a3 a day of thanksgiving and prayer
to Almighty God, the beneficent Creator and
Ruler of the universe ; and 1 do further rec
ommend to my fellow citizens aforesaid, that
on that occasion they do reverently bumble
themselves in the dat, and from thence offer
up penitent and fervent prayers and supplica
tions to the Great Disposer of events, for a
retarn of Ihe inestimable biessirgs of peace,
union and harmony throughout the land
which it ha3 pleased Him to assign as a
dwelling place for ourselves and our posterity
throughout all generations.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto1 set
ray hand and caused the seal of the United
States to be aflixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this 20th
day of October, in. the year. of our Lord 18G4,
and ot the Independence of the United States
the eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. ;
By the President :' : .. ;
Yx. II. Seward. Sec'y of State.
Pennsylvania, ss : . . k. ' ; -
In the name andl.y the authority of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Andrew G.
Curtin, Governor of eaid Commonwealth :
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, It is the honored custom of Penn
sylvania to set apart, on the recommendation
ot the Lxecutivc, a day for returning thanks
to the Giver of all Good, the Shepherd and
Bishop of our Souls : . .
Now, therefore, I, Andrew G. Curtin, Gov
ernor as aforesaid, do recommend that the
people thronghout the Commonwealth ob
serve Thursd-iy, the Twenty -fourth day of No
rember, instant, as a day of Thanksgiving to
Almighty God,
For tlie gathered fruits of the earth ; - ' '
For the continuance of health ; .
For the prosperity of industry ;
For th.-i preservation of goJd order and
tranquility throughout our borders;
' Tor the victories which lie has vouchsafed
to i:s over armed traitors : :.
, And lor the manifold biessiugs which Ha
has heaped upon us,uriw'orthy,
. And that they do, ni6rcover, ' humbly be
seech Him to renew and increase His merci
ful favor toward us during the year to come
so that, rebellion being overthrown, peace
may be restored to our distracted country
and, in every State, with' grateful and loving
accord, the Wcense of Praise and Thanks
giving may be offered by all the people unto
His Holy Name. t .
Given under my band and the great se-1 of
tbt State, at Harrisbarg, this second day of
November, in the year of our Lord one thous
and eight hundred and sixty-four, and of tLa
Commonw ealth the eighty-ninth.
By the Governor : ELI SLIFER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Maryland rrec !
The following is the conclusion of Gov
ernor Bradford's proclamation declaring
the adoption of the new Maryland Con
stitution by the voice of the people :
And whereas. The results of the said elec
tions "have been duly certified to me by tha
proper judges of the said several elections,
and upon accurately counting and casting up
the votes sq returned to me for and against
the said Constitution, including the soldiers'
vote aforesaid, it does appear that there wertj
30,174 ballots for the Constitution, 29,79!
ballots against the Constitution, and that
there were 01 blank ballots reported as given
against the Constitution, but not counted
the persons offering them refusing to take the
oath required by the said Constitution and
there being, therefore, of the aggregate vote
so cast, a majority in favor of the adoptiou of
the said Constitution ; (
Now, therefore, I, Augustus W. Bradford,
Governor of the State of Maryland, ia pursu
ance of the authority so vested in me by tho
said Act of Assembly aud the Constitution
aforesaid, do, by this my proclamation, de
clare and make known that the said Consti
tution and form of government so framed and
adopted by the convention aforesaid has been5
adopted by a majority of the voters of the
State, and that, n pursuance of the provisiou
therein Contained, the same will go iuto ef-'
feet aj tho proper Constitution and form of,
government of the State, superseding the on
cow existing on the firev day of November,
1864.
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