VOLUME 1.
The AmericanCitizen,
13 published everv Wednewfay in the borottgll «»f JJntler,
by TnoMA-I HOBIXSON & C. K. ASPERSOM on Main itreet,
•;>p<rre t-j Jacfc'i II >t ! - rR •» up .-'.lira in the brick
formerly ooenpi'-d by £ll Yettur. a* a ftor®
TKRXV $1 50 H v*«:ar, if paid in advene*, <T within the
first six month*; or $2 If not paid until after the.-xpiro
tion of the flrattix months.
The New Military Bill—What isit?
The following is the act as agreed to by
both houses —Further to regulate and pro
vide for the enrolling and calling out of
the national forces, and for other purpos
es;
The President of the United States
may. at his discretion, at any time hereaf
ter. call for any number of men as volun
teers, for the respective terms of one,
two or three years, for military service,
ami any such volunteer, or, in case of a
draft, as herein after provided, any sub
stitute shall be credited to the town, town
ship, ward, or city precinct, or election
district of a county, towards tho quota of
which he may have volunteered or enga
ged as a substitute, an 1 every volunteer
•.vho is accepted and mustered into the ser
vice for a term of ono year, unless sooner
■discharged, shall receive and be paid by
tha United States a bounty of SIOO, and
if for a term of two years, unless sooner!
discharged, a bounty of 8200, and if for
a term of three years, unless sooner dis- j
charged, a bounty of $300: oue-third of
which bouuty shall be paid to the sol- i
ilier at the time of his being mustered in- j
to the service, one-third at the expira
tion of one-half of his term of service,
and one-third at the expiration of his term
of service, and in case of his death while
in the service, the residue of his boun
ty remaining unpaid shall be paid to
his widow, if lie shall have left a widow,
if ivot to his children, or if there be none,
to his mother, in cas she be a widow.
In case the quota of any part thereof
of any town, township, and ward of a city,
precinct or election district, orany county
not so sub-divided, shall not be filled
within tlx: space of fifty days after such
a call, then the President shall immedia
tely order a draft for one year to fill such
quota, or any part whereof which may be
unfilled; and in the ease of any such draft,
110 payment of money shall be. accepted or
received by the government as commuta
tion to re!e;i-(; an eijrulle 1 or drafted man
from personal obligation-to perform mili
tary service.
It shall be lawful for the executive o!
any of the States to send recruiting
agents into any of tho States declared to
bo iu rebellion, except the States of Ar
kansas. Tennessee, and Lousiaua, and to
recruit volunteers uuder any call under
the provisions of this act, who shall be
crodited to the State and to the represen
tative snb-divisions thereof which may
procure the enlistment.
Drafted man, substitutes and volun
teers, when mustered in, shall be organ
ized in. or assigned to regiments, batter
ies or other organizations from among
those of their respective States which at
the time of their assignment may not be
filled to their maximum number.
The twentieth section of the act enti
tled ''An act to amend an act entitled an
net for enrolling and calling out the na
tional forces," approved Felonry 24. 18R4,
shall be constructed to mean that the Sec
retary of War shall discharge minors un
der the age of eighteen years, under the
circumstances and on the conditions pre
scribed in said section; and hereafter if
any officer of tho United States shall enlist
or muster into the military service any per
son under the age of sixteen years with
or without the consent of his parents or
guardian, such person so enlisted or re
cruited shall be immediately and uueon- j
ditionally discharged upon the repayment j
of all bounty received; and such lecruit- j
ing or mustering officer who knowingly
enlists a person under sixteen years of'
age, shall be dismissed the service, with
the forfeiture of all pay and allowcnces.
and shall bo subject to such further pun- '
ishiueut as a court-martial may decide.
Sixth —Section throe of an act entitled
"An net to amend an act entitled an act
for enrolling and calling out the uational
forces uud for other purposes," approved
J'ebuary 24, ISG4, be and the same is
hereby amended, so as t<> authorize and
direct provost marshals, under the direc
tion of the Provost Marshal General, to
make a draft for one hundred per centum
in addition to the number required to fill
the quota of any district as provided by
said section.
j Seventh —That instead of traveling pay,
all dialled persons reporting at a place of
rendezvous! bhall be allowed transportation
to their praocs of residence, and persons
discharged at the place ol rendezvous
shall be allowed transportation to their
places of residence.
Ei'jhih —All persons in the navvl serv
ice of the United States, who have enter
ed said service during the preseut rebel
lion, who have not been credited to the
quota of any town, district, ward or State,
by reason of their being in said service.
AMERICAN CITIZEN.
; und nut enrolled prior to Febuary 4, 1804.
! shall, on satisfactory proof of their resi-
I dence, made to the Secretary of War, be
enrolled am^credited to the quotas of the
town, ward, district or State in which they
respectively reside.
Xinth —lf any person duly drafted
shall be absent from home in the prose
cution of his usual business, the Provost
.Marshal of the district shall cause him to
be duly notified, as soon as may be, and
ho shall not be deemed a deserter, nor li
able as such, until notice has. been given
to him and reasonable time allowed for
him to return and report to the Provost
Marshal of his district; but such absence
shall not otherwise affect his liability un
der tho act.
Truth and Eleventh —Nothing contained
111 this act is to bo construed to alter, or in
any way affect the law relative to those
conscientiously opposed to bearing arms,
or to affect, the rights of persons to procure
substitutes.
The following are the ayes and nays on
the passage of the bill:
YKA»—Messrs, Allison, Ames, Arnold.
Ashley, liuldwin ( Mass.), Baxter, Boam
an, Blair (West V #.), Boutwell, Boyd,
Cobb, Cole, Croswcll, i >avis(Md.), Dawes,
Doming, Dixon, Driggs, Kckley, Elliot,
Farnsworth, 1 "enton, Garfield, Gooch,
Iligby, Hooper, Ilotchkiss, Hubbard
(Iowa), Hubbard (Conn.), Ingersoll,
Jencks. Julian, Kelley, Littlejohn, Loan.
Longycar, Mcßride, McClurg, Miller (N.
V), Moorhead, Morrill, Morris (N. V.)
\nios Myers, Leonard, .Myers, Morton,
O'Neill (l';i.),Orth, Randall (Ky.), liicc
(Mo.), Slienek. Shannon, Sloan, Smith. J
Sluithcrs, Spaulding, Tracy, Upson Van
Valkenburg, Washburn (Mass.), Williams. |
Wilder, Wilson, Windam, Woodbridgc j
—OS.
NAYS—Messrs Win. J. Allen, Alley,
Vncona, Uaily, Blaine, Bliss, Chandler.
Coffroth, Cox, Dawson, Dennison, Eden,
Edgerton, Eldridgo, English, Frank, Gan
s.m, (rvi.-wild, llarris(Md.), Harris (111.),
Ilutehins, Kernan,Knapp, Law, Lofland,
Long, Mallory, Marey. Middleton, Miller i
(Pa.), Morris (Ohio.), Noble, Odell, Pat
terson. Pendleton. Pcrham, Pruyn, Ran" |
dull (Pa.), Rice (Mass.), Robinson, Steele j
(N. V.), Steele (N. J.), Stevens, Stiles, i
Thomas, WadswcTill. Webster. Wheeler, I
Winfield— o2.
" MORE POUK."—Amongtliecommon-j
est birds which frequent the forests of j
New Zealand is a small owl, generally j
known to the settlers and soldiers by the i
denomination of " More Pork," from a j
habit it has of pertinaciously and distinct- j
ly reiterating this phrase for h'llf an hour j
before daylight. This bird gave rise to j
rather an amusing incident in the Jlutt
Valley, during the time of the fighting
with Mauiaku and his chiefs, and when,
in anticipation of a morning, a strong
picket was turned out regularly about an
hour before daylight. On one occasion j
the men had been standing silently under j
arms for some time, and shivering in the
cold morning air, when they.were start
led by a solemn request for "more pork."
The officer in command of the picket,who !
had only recently arrived in tne country,
ordered' no talking in the ranks, which !
was immediately replied toby another de
mand, distinctly enunciated for " more j
pork.'' So mal-aproj)'is a remark produc- j
eda titter along the ranks, which roused j
the irate i ffiecr, and he threatened to put j
the next person under arrest who dared |
make any allusion to the subject. As if
in defiance of his threat, and incontempt
of the constituted authorities, '• more !
pork" was distinctly demanded in two pla.
ees at once, and was seconded by an irre
sistible giggle from one end of the line to
the other. It was impossible to ovorlook
such a breach of discipline as this, and
the officer, in a fury of indignation, went
along the line in search of the mutinous
offender; when suddenly a small chorus
of " more pork" was heard on all sides,
and it was then explained who the real
culprits were.
IIOW TO LIVE. —Wo commend the fol
lowing report of an experiment made by
au eminent Now York pliysieian in his
own family and practice: He says that
from May to December, he habitually re
stricts his family and all his patients to
two ounces eaeli of animal food per day,
urging them to use vegetables freely du
ring the summer. Having, for twenty
years, kept a record of the matter, he es
timates the mortality in the meat-eating
iiimilies as about four times as great as in
those houfrholds which have faithfully fol
lowed the advice.
" I LITFJNA KJSN. —Master—" Whaur
was the text the day, Jock." " I dinna
ken. I was owrc lang o' gaun in."—
" What was the conclusion ?" " I dinna
ken—l cam' out afore he was done."—
" What did he say obout the middle o't
then?" "I dinna ken—l slepit a'the
time."
" Let us have Faith that Right makes Might; and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as-we understand it" — A - LINCOLN.
BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 18G4.
Army CorrcopoixVi'iioc.
CAVALRY CAMP, ( I! IRI.KS CITT Ponrr, VA.,
JUIIC 20.1804.
MAJ. ANDERSON: Dear Sir:—Hav
ing previously promised you an aceasional
item, I now propose giring you a brief
and miscellaneous account of our recent
raid through several counties of Virginia.
The Ist and 2nd divisions of Sheridan's
corps,left Bottom Bridge, June 7th; cross
ed the I'aumunky river and traveled north
ward on the 7th, and Bth. We thought
our destination was Fredericksburg, but
wc changed direction erelong, and on the
11th arrfvod at tlie Va. Central R. R.,
where a considerable rebel force was sta
tioned Holding it. Our brigade charged
on their right, the centre of which was
Sanncts Tavern in which were a force of
rebel sharpshooters; we took the house
handsomely. The rebels then fell back
into the R. li. ditch a few rods in rear of
the house; but we charged on them again;
drove them out of the ditch and followed
them about one-half-mile, where wo form
ed across the track and held it; the next
day, (Sunday 12th,) we tore up about six
miles ol the road. The eausalties of our
Regiment in killed and wounded, were 31;
of our company,#Jacob Wolford, killed;
Hugh Hamilton, John Derigan, Thomas
Bogucs, wounded. Wo captured over
300 prisoners, about ono thousand contra- j
bands, including men, women and chil-
dren. We came back to White House,
June the 20th, as that place was about to
be evacuated on account of getting army
supplies up the James river. We had a
large supply train of over 800 wagons to
guard to the front. Tho Johnny's court
ed tho train very much, and used all their
arts to get it, but we routed them, from
White House. Ido not know their force,
but 1 understand it was the same we had'
fought at the R. R. Our division suffer
ed considerably on the 24tli. We were
ordered to hold a road at St. Mary's
Church, while our train passejJ on anoth
er. We did hold if, but had to fall back
after a severe contest against three times
our own number; but fortunately not a
wagon or a piece of artillery fell into their
hands. Col. Covode was he is
.much regretted by the Regiment; the
lossof the Regiment iii all,inkilled, wound
ed, and missing, is 13. Our company's
loss is Corp. Thomas M'Lamiro and private
Hugh M'Cormick, killed j John Caldwell,
and Wm. Phelps, missing.
The above named camp is said to be be
tween 25 and 30 miles from Richmond.
I presume we will rest and recruit our for
ces, as they much need it, or at least stay
till nil the trains are safely landed across
the James river; we are now under the
protection of flic gun-boats. Our loss in
horses is considerable, but 1 have no idea
of the amount. The most of them died
of fatigue, owing-to tho great amount of
laborious marching they had to endure.—
Our squadron, composed of Co's. E and
G, is at present commanded by Lieuten
ant Coon, of Pittsburg. It is said the
cavalry has done more service this summer
than they hud ever previously done since
the organization. The time liaa come
when every branch should put forth its ut
most strength aud as quickly and as speed
ily as possible, terminate this unholy re
bellion which I think now needs only a
few vigorous thrusts to pierce its heart.
Yours Respectfully,
J. 11. S.
Co. G, 4th Pa. Cav.
HILLINGS ON DRAFTING.— There are
some nice points in drafting operations
which are extensively discussed in the red
ribbon circles. The most lucid explana
tion of a few of the.<e is given by Josh
Billings.
Widder wiminin and their only son iz
xmpt, provided the widder's husband has
already sarved 2 years in the war and iz
willing togo agin ; I believe the supreme
cortc lias decided the tiling forever.
Once more —If a man should run awa
with his draft, he probably wouldn't cx<*r
bo allowed to stand the draft agin ; thi»
looks sevear at fust sight, but the more
you look at it the more you see the wis
dom into it.
Once more—Xmpts arc those who have
been drafted, into the staitprizzen for try
ing to git an honist livin by supporting 2
wives at onct, also, all them people who
are e razee apd unsound on the goose; al?o,
all the nuespaper correspondents and fools
in general. »
Once more again—No substitute will
be acksepted who is less than three or
more than ten feet high; he must know
how ter chew terbacker and drink poor
whii-kee, and musnt bo afraid of the itch
or the rebels. Moral charakter ain't re
quired, as the government furnishes that
and rations.
Conclusively—No person can be draft
ed but twice in 2 different places without
his consent, but all men has a right to be
drafted at least onot; i dout think even a
rit of habcus corpus "could deprive a man
of thi? las) blfcssed privilege,
Prom W'arerley Magazine.
JOY COMES TO MORROW.
Hope came to me, nn« day, and said,
" Joy come to tht-e to-iuorrow
The morrow camo—my joy dead,
My «uul waa filled with nomvw\
Again It'»pe cftine. and, mniling. said,
" Why «ive thy heart to sorrow?
Joy only sleep*, she is not dead.
She »urely wakes to-morrow."
And on I waited, day by day,
While hopo, to Ko»the my sorrow,
Would ever, a l * she passed, thud say,
'• Thy joy will come to-morrow.
GBOROE W.
WIT AMD WISDOM.
EVERY dtwdrop, every raiudrop, has a
whole heaven within it, and so has every
pure and high human heart.
Till only chance for some men's hats
ever to obtain any thing valuablo is to
pass them around for pennies.
NEVER relate your misfortunes, and
never grieve over what you cannot pre :
vent.
AGE.—When men grow virtuous iu
their old age they are merely making a
sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings.
HE that has no Friend and no Enemy
is one of the vulgar; and without Tal
ents. Powers, or Energy.
TJIE Passions act as Winds to propel
our vessel, Reason is the Pi'ot that steers
licr; without the winds she would be lost.
WIIF.X men arc brought together they
listen to one another; but women and girls
look at ouc another.
IT is said there are but two sexes, but
you have only to come to Armstrong coun
ty to find a Middle-sex.
THE lawyers of Adrain, Michigan, are
on a strike. Tho people are debating
whether to give them bigger wages or to
live quietly and starve theui out.
A YANKEE editor says he " liked to
died a larfin, to see a drinkin chap tryin
to pocket the shadow of a swinging sign
for a pocket handkerchief."
THE daily Papers all record the fact
that the stoue cutters have struck. Wide
Awake inquires how they can cut stone
without striking ?
A VICTIM of sea-sickness described
the sensations thus : " Tho first hour 1
was afraid I should die and tho second•
hour I was more afraid 1 shouldn't.''
ATHEISM. —There is no being eloquent
for Atheism. In that exhausted receiver
the mind cannot use its wings—the clear
est proof tlijt it is out of its element.
You don't understand your business,
landlord; did you never have a gentle
man stop with you before? "No, not if
you are a specimen."
MRS. PARTINGTON expressed her ap
'prehension that the people of the gold re
gions will bleed to death as the papers
are constantly announcing the opening of
another vein.
WHEREFORE !B a darky, with no hair
on the top of his head, " like a candidate
for a club who has been rejected by its
members ?" Becailse he's a BLACK. BAI»D
individual'.
'' MR. JONES, don't you think marriage
is a means of grace ? "
" Certainty: anything is a means of
grace that leads us to repentance."
Scene closed with a broom-handle.
OPPORTUNITY has Ilair in front, behind
she is bald; if you seize her by the fore
lock, you may hold her, but if suffered
to escape, not Jupiter himself can catch
her again.
JIARIITORD, one of the back towns in
Maine, without a lawyer, physician or li
quor agent within its borders, has not on
ly tilled all her quotas, but has a surplus
for auother call.
LOCAL politics rau high in the West
ern country. A candidate for county
registrary, in Texas, offered to register
marriages-for nothing. His opponent un
dismayed. promised to do the same and
throw the cradle in !
TIIE following is genuine Alabama po
etry. It is addressed by a female secesh
to her lover in the Confederate army:
" It's hard f>r yon'uns to Hre fn rump:
It's hard for you'uin to flght thr Yank*;
Ir'H hard fur you'tina and wo'mi.* to part;
For you uns all know you kvt gut *«• una hearts."
IT is said that there are people in the
" Mountain District" of Kentucky so
green that they followed a wagon that hap
pened to pass that way, twenty miles,
"just to sec whether the hind wheels would
overtake the fore ones."
A MAN brought before a justice of the
peaco in Vermont, charged with some
petty offence, pleaded in extenuation a
natural infirmity. " I should have made
a considerable figure in the world, Judge,"
said he,"if I hadn't been a /oof; it's a
drcadf\il pull-back to a man."
A YANKEE traveler, deseribinga dough
nutof unusually large proportions, which
he purchased in Buffalo, says:—
" It wasone of those stupendous achieve
, ments of art which are only attempted in
tho vicinity of the great works of Nature
like the Niagara Falls,"
I
General Grant?
The New York Tribune pays this trib
ute to General Grant:
We* loathe man-worship, and distrust
the worth of a nation which but one man
can save; yet every dav*s experience
strengthens our faith iu Lieutenant Gen
eral Grant. The task devolved on him is
ardous: ho is confronted by an able Gen
eral and a gallant, veteran army, who en
joy enormous advantages in their defen
sive altitude, the nature of the country,
and their intimate knowledge of its to
pography; yet, from the hour of his cross
ing the Rapidan, Gen. Grant has gone
steadily, sturdily forward, repelling impet
uous attacks; assaulting (when necessary)
strongly fortified positions; withdrawing
unobserved from the immediate front of
his wary antagonists, and effecting the
most daring and difficult flank move
ment#, thereby achieving the fruits of
viotory without encountering the carnage
which is tlie usual cost of such success—
and all this with a stem quietude that in
dicates resorved force, and a conscious
ness of powers adapted to any emergency.
We are not apt to be over sanguine. We
realize that victory is often a happy ac
cident, and that occurrences purely fortu
itous often derange and defeat the ablest
combinations ; but having noted his bear
ing undeivcvcry ] base of fortune, his
quick improvement of advantages; and
his skilful reparation of mischances,. we
cannot doubt that lie lias a true military
genius, and that he will do whatever one
man can do to break the back of the
slave-holders' rebellion.
Pennsylvania Congressmen.
The long session of Congress has came
to a close, and the Pennsylvania Rep
resentatives are about to appeal to their
constituencies. They have been entrust
ed with a high measure 'of responsibility
in this fearful peril to our common coun
try, and they will be judged by an earn
est and loyal people with a jealous scru
tiny that no cunning sophistry or politi
cal discipline can withstand. Those who
have been faithful to tho National cause
will, in most instances, bo returned by
increased majorities, while those repre
senting debatable districts, like Messrs.
Miller, Coffroth, M'Allister, Dawson and
Lazear, and have voted generally as Jeff.
Davis would have dictated, will have a
fearful rendering when they confront the
people they have persistently betrayed.
Tho following is a list of the present del
egation—Democrats in Italics, and Union
members in Roman:
13. 11. M. Trace v.
14. H*W». II Miller.
'ls. Jottph Jiaitey.
HI. A. 11. Ojffrot/i.
17. Arch. M'Allister
,I*l J*uu» T. iiaie.
10. (}. W. Rcofleld.
! SJO. Amos Myers.
!21. John L. Datpjnn.
-2. J. K. Moorhead.
!23. Thomas Williams.
124. Jette iMzear.
1. S-tmuel J. Itandalt.
'J. ChurliM O. Neil.
3. Leonard Myers,
•1. Win. \). Kelly.
0. M. Kuwcl Thayer,
ft. John I'. Utibt.
7. John M. B roc mall.
P. .V. K. Arizona.
I*. Tlmddous Stevens.
10. Mt/er .Slroute.
11. P. Johnnon.
12. Cha rlet Dun n iton.
Of the old members lion. J. K. Moor
head has already hcon unanimously re
nominated for a fourth term, and Hon.
Thos. Williams lias beeu practically re
nominated by two of the three counties
of his district declaring for him. Of the
other Union members, all arc pretty cer
tain to be re-nominated without a contest
and triumphantly re-elected, but Messrs.
llale and Tracy, who wcro elected two
years ago irregularly, receiving the votes
of the Democrats and a fraction of the
Unionists, although both have made
blameless records. Judge Ilalc. we learn
will not be a candidate, and the regular
Union nominee will succeed him. Tracy
will probably run nolens tolens against the
Union nominee, and the issue will depend
upon the force of the nomination made
against him, but we look for the election
of the candidate for whom the Copper
heads do not vote. A feeble effort has
been made to defeat the re-nomination of
Judgo Kelly in the 4th district,but it will
not succeed. So true, earnest and able
Representative cannot well be spared just
now from our National council.
On tho Democratic side, Messrs. Ran
dall, Stiles, Strouse and Dennison will
certainly be re-nominated, and we look
for their re-election. A contest will l>e
made against Dennisou in Susquehanna
and Luzerne, and against Strouse in Leb
anon and Schuylkill, but the chances are
largely with them. W'c have not seen any
indications as yet of our Irish "friends"
in tho mining regions of Schuylkill and
Luzerne voting less earnestly, less fre
quently or taking less interest in making
their neighbors vote against the war and
everything that savors of loyalty and
Freedom; and as they make their own
i rimiual and election laws, they will give
just as much majority us they deem ne
cessary. We learn that Grow will not
ruu again, and Campbell has gone abroad
as Minister to Sweden. Auconn and
Johnston will go out by party limitation
and will bo succeeded by intense Copper
heads like themselves. Bailey will be re
jected by his party for sustaining our ai
mies in the field and the cause of the gov-
eminent generally, and will probably be
supported by the Union men of tho dis
trict against Mr. Glossbrenner of the Aye.
McAllister, being neither hot nor cold.will
go overboard by general consent. He
cast just enough of loyal votes to alienate
his own party, and not enough to gain tho
confidence of the Uniou men. Messrs.
Miller, Coffrotb, Dawson and Lazear, will
likely be re-nominated —certainly they
all can be without a contest if they de
sire it, and, unless the signs of tho times
prove singularly delusive they will all be
defeated by decisive majorities. Their
districts and McAllister's voted as follows
for Gouernor last fall:
14th Dlatilct (Miller's.)
Curt In. WOodward.
Dauphin 5065
Junlatta... 1456 1737
Union ..2024 1250
Pnyder 1758 1331
Northumberland 2649 3350
12902 11519
Curt ill's rnajoiitv, 1,403.
10th District (CoflYvth'a.)*
Adam* . 2G89 2917
Bedford 2130 27u|
Franklin 3870 3710
lultoD.. 761 1022
Somersot 3061 1736
12820 12091
Curtln'ti majority, 72?.
J7th District (McAllister**)
Blair 3283 2SBO
Cambria - ,2164 3000
Huntingdon 3260 2)67
Mifflin 1709 1620
10416 9179
Curtln'a majority, 1,237.
2lflt District (Dawcon's.)
Fayette ,3091 3791
Indtftm .3901 lv&i
Curtln's majority, 219.
24th District
Heaver .1037 2056
Oreene ». 1484 2%0
Ijiwrenco . 3063 1251
Wellington. .......4627 4371
12211 10638
Cu.tiu'd majoiity, 1,573.
It will bo seen that Gov. Curtin.s ma
jorities in the five districts ranged- from
219 to 1,573, and tho soldiers' vote was
of course rejected. Had it been counted
it would have chosen Wallace over Lazcar
aud Stewart over Dawson. Next fall the
Union strength at home cannot be short
of tho vote given for Gov. Curtin, unless
we should have decisive disasters in the
field, and tho vote of our heroic volun
teers will bo east almost unanimously in
favor of the great cause for which they
are periling their lives. McAllister will
probably bo succeeded by lion. Louis W.
Hall, of Blair; Win. 11. Miller will most
likely bo opposed successfully by Goo. 1\
Miller, of Union; Dawson will bo suc
ceeded by Stewart of Indiana; Lazcar
by Lawrenco. of Washington, or Cun
ningham, of Heaver, and CofTroth will b»
run out by Col. Jordan of Bedford, or
Gen. Koontz of Somerset. Judging the
result in these districts by the present in
dications, the Ur£>n men cannot fail to
gain at least sro Congressmen in this
State, and if New York, Ohio and Indi
ana do os well, the proposed amendment
of the constitution abolishing slavery,
will not bo defeated in the next Congress
for want of a two-thirds vote. Let the
I'nion men look well to tho interests of
the cause in the debatable districts, and
there will bo few Copperheads chosen to
hurl their impotent treason against the
measures doomed necessary to give us a
United and Free Republic.— Franklin
Repository.
AST' A writer in the Cincinnati Com
mercial, who is a soldier in Gen. Hun
ter's command, expresses the following
opinion of the Rebel " situation " The
impression on my mind about the rebel
lion is that the rebels are now using their
last man, last dollarand last loaf of bread.
There is absolutely nothing in reserve.—
If beaten now. they go up suddenly and
surely. We could sec this everywhere.
The last card is now being played, and if
lost, all is last for them. I do hope nur
people will hold out, no matter what hap
pens to Grant or any body else. A little
perseverance is bound to win the day.—
All rebels want to end tho war now.—
They prefer subjection to another year of
wsr."
ANOTHER RKBEL INVASION.—The tel
egraph yesterday evening brought us the
startling intelligence that another rebel
invasion of Pennsylvania had probably
been made. It is certain that a large rebel
force, variously estimated at from 10,000
to 20,000 strong, under the leadership of
Ewell and lireckinridge, had altackcd
Sigcl at Martinsburg, and compelled him
to fall back to Harper'* Ferry. From
Martinsburg the rebels are reported to
have continued their march towards
Pennsylvania, and had reached at last ac
counts lianeock, which is situated on the
State line. The route taken by the rebels
is the same pursued by Lee ole year ago,
and indicates another invasion of our'
State. Gov. Curtin had gone forward to
ascertain the state of affairs, and the great
est excitement prevailed at Harriaburg and
Chambersburg.— Pitt*. Com■
tegr It is well some men are cowards,
because it is only when under the influ.
enco of fear they afknowledge the power,
and invoke the help of a Supreme Be
ing.
NUMBER 30
A LOSING GAME. —Some years since,
before the secession war, a Southern gen
tleman visited the Noith for the purjxxse
of seeiDg the lion anil fighting the tiger.
He tried the tiger, and didn't like it,
and thought he'd tuke ashy at a game fa
miliar to him by name only, called ro«-
lette. Due turn of roulette, you know,
makes the whole world win ! He started
out in quest of the game, only knowing
that roulette had something to do witli
roll, but entirely ignorant whether the roll
was a French or a Dutch one. On the
first corner ho mat a barrel organ man
grinding awny for dear life.
Ho was turning as though ho hud only
n few moments to turn in,and didn't waut
to die before big work was completed
The tune was '• The Hold Privateer."
Our Georgian friend thouglithe'd found
his game. Stepping briskly up, lie laid
a dollar bill down 011 the bo*. The or
gan man's eyes opened—be bagged th<>
bill, nnd ground away with renewed rig
or.
Our Georgian thought he bad lost, ami
"doubled up," laying down a two dollar
bill. That war bugged, and Ilia barrel of
the organ went around as though there
were seven imps inside it.
To make a long story short, the thing
went on, and the Georgian "doubled up"
the organ grinder pocketing the money
idl the time—until he had " nary" anoth
er dollar left.
But he didn't complain. As lie saw
the last of his currcuoy bagged by the de
lighted organ grinder, ho simply remark
ed :
" Well, of all the games I ever backed
against, this is the dogdarndeat! I guess
I'll jump it;" and he left.
I'tiuTY OF CHARACTER. —Over
the beauty of the plum and the apri
cot there grows n bloom and beauty
more exquisite than the fruit itself—•
n soft, delicate ilushspreads its blush
ing cheek. Now, if you strike your
hand over that,it is gone. The flower
that hangs in the morning, "impcarl
ed with dew, arrayed as no queenly
woman ever was arrayed with jewels,
once shake it so that the beads roll
oil', and you may sprinkle water over
it as yon please, yet it can never be
again what it was when the dew fell
silently on it from Heaven. On a
frosty morning you may see panes of
glass covered with landscape —moun*
tains, lakes, trees, blemlcd in a beautiful
picture. Now lay your band upon the
glass, and by a scratch of your finger, or
by the warmth of your palm, all the del
icato tracery will be obliterated.—
there is in youth a beauty and purity of
character, which when, once touched and
defiled, can never be restored; a fringe
more delicate than frostwork, and which
when torn and broken,will never be re-em
broidered. lie who has spotted and
spoiled bis garments in youth, though ho
may seek to make them white again, can
never wholly doit, even were ho to wash
them with bis tears. When a young
mail leaves his father's house with tho
blessings of a mother's tears still wet up
on bis brow, if he once lose tho early
purity of character, it is a loss that ho
can never make wholo again. Stleh is
the consequence of erinic. Its effects
cannot be eradicated ;it can only be for
given.*
®sT'Lorenzo Dow, tlie itinerant preach
er, so famous in liis life-tiiiio for Lis ec
centricity, commenced his scrmon-on one
occasion, by reading from St. l'aul, "I
can do all things:" The prcnchftr patls
ed, took off his spectacles, laid them orl
the open Bible, and said—"No, I'aut,
you're mistaken for once j I'll bet you
five dollars you can't fthd stake the mon
ey " At the same time putting' his ha lid
in his pocket, he took out a five dol ar
bill, laid it on the Bible, took up hia
spectacles again, and read," —through
Jesus Christ our Lord." "Ah, Paul,"
exclaimed the preacher, snatching up the
five dollar bill and returning it to his
pocket— that's a different matter ; tho
net's withdrawn."
A Woman WITH UORsa.—A Xew
York p per contains a letter fron its
correspondent at La-naca, in the Islaud
'of Cyrus (Turkish do" iu ions), deseibing
a most remarkable lusus natural recc tI A
discovered there. It : H nothing less than
a woman with horns grownig out of her
head ! She has one largo horn ou the
do of her head of the sixe and consist
ency of an ordinary ram's horn, besides
three or four cornicles on other parts of
the head. Tlfc wiiter states that he has
seen her, and (hat she has been visited
by nearly all the Consuls and Europeans
in that place, some of whom are making
au effort to seeuro her for exhibition
SOtF* A bloomer lady who appeared in
Brooklyn the other day was stopped by an
impudent little Irish boy, who wanted to
black her boots.
'• Boots blackened, sir ! shall J shine >ra
up. s-ir T"