Zhit herald.
CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, Oct. 16, 1863.
S. M. PETTENGIfia. &
NO. 37 Park Row, gew' 'York, and 6
State St. Boston, are our Agents for the Ilmtatm
in those cities, and are authorized to take Advertise
ments and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rates.
Our County
With shame and humiliation we announce
the result in this county to be a defeat of the
loyal Union ticket by an average majority of
700. We have neither time nor disposition to
review the causes which brought about this
disgraceful result, but will not fail in duo
time to give the subject the consideration it
merits. For the present we will but give the
figures, which will be found to tally pretty
nearly with the official announcement.
Woodward. Curtin
89
Carlisle, East Ward,
West Ward,
South Nliddleten,
North Alitlilleton,
Lower Dickinson,
Lower Frankford,
Carlisle District,
Newville District,
Hampden,
Upper Dickinson,
Jacksonville,
Leesburg, 40
Silver Spring, 237
Middlesex, 66
Penn, 70
Hopewell, (estimated,) 65
Lower Allen,
Upper Allen,
Mechanicsburg,
Monroe,
Shippensburg District,
Plainfield District, •
East Pennsboro',
New Cumberland,
Woodward's maj_
Despair in Rebellion.
The voice of lamentation and mourning
says the Franklin Rrpository, comes up from
the dominions of Treason on every side. Mad
dened by temporary successes in the field, the
foes of the government became insoledt and
relentless in their career of crime, and their
hearts were gladdened with the hope that they
should rule the continent and doom Freedom
to,an carly..grave. Rut_ their season of joy
and rejoicing has been changed for one of
universal sorrow. Retribution seems to have
smitten them in the field ; in their usurped
tdepartmente of power; in .homes—every
Where, indeed, that the avenging hand of jus
tice could bow them in humiliation and shame
The late rebel papers are filled with curses
upon their leaders and grief for the woes in
flicted upon their people. The Richmond
Sentinel is sad because the South is filled with
" croakers and grumblers" who see no hope
for the triumph of traitors, and it laments
the " sufferings of the people." The Dispatch
warns the bogus government and the people
that the "distress from high prices" is now
" the greatest danger to the Confederacy."
The Whig is gloomy because of the fearful de
predation of rebel currency ; and the Exam
iner telso treats of the fabulous rates at which
the commonest necessaries of life aro held as
the great peril that now threatens the exist
once of the traitors' government, The Senti
nel, in denouncing the "croakers and grum
blers" charges them with being the authors
of the depreciation of the currency, and de
clares that " they seem to be laboring dili
gently" for the ruin of the rebel cause. It
adds that they have but to sow the seeds of
distrust among the soldiers. and " it needs no
prophet to tell what will inevitably and spee
dily follow. Under the head of " Sufferings
of the People," it relates instances of suffer
ing among the widows of soldiers, and adds
that "the curse of Heaven will be upon the
land if these widows and their children are
allowed to cry for bread in vain." The same
paper calls upon lieff. Davis to " tax the peo
ple high" and " suppress high prices by law!"
On the subject of the distress of the people,
the Dispatch says:
"The rapid advance in all necessaries of
clothing and subsistence threatens us with
great distress. There is no disguising the fact.
We cannot see how unemployed persons, and
how those who live on incomes and salaries,
are to get along, especially at the inclement,
season of the year now rapidly approaching.
How are they to. buy shoes and clothing at
the present rates? Nay, low long are these
rates to prevail? A great'auction may in a
day or two run them all up fifty per cent!—
An auction thus has become to be regarded
by the people with as much dread as a battle!
A defeat on the battle-field could hardly bring
more suffering upon them. These questions
are growing daily more and more important.
Something must be be done. Produce must
be distributed, prices must be reduced, gains
must be disgorged, or there will be suffering
intense, and intense suffering will beget,
what? Think of it."
The eamq paper deplores the new draft,
and says
"Already we are beginning to feel the want
of labor in those employments that are indis
pensable to existence. What are the people
to do this winter for clothing, fuel and for
other prime necessities of life, if the few pro
dhcers who are left are turned into consent
era by being drafted into the army. Our most
pressing danger is the.immense privation and
suffering our people n ny endure if the pro
ducing power is any further diminished."
In the extreme South and Southwest there
is if possible still greater destitution and sor
row among the deluded people who in an evil
hour gave themselves over to the crime 'of
treason. When this causeless, wicked war
was commenced by them, their land was teem
ing with wealth and plenty ; but now by their
own wanton rebellion against the government
that gave them peace, protection and pros
perity, they have spread a withering desola-
tion over their own homes. Such are the
fruits of treason in the South, and the only
places where their wants are supplied and
the general desolation measurably remedied,
aro where the Old Flag asserts its supremacy
and gathers the people again under its pro.
_tooting
To MINISTERS AND.LAWYERB.-COUBiBDE UBO
of the lunge surely injures them. Bryan's
-Pulmonlo Wafers aan be carried-in your pock •
et, neat, handy and soothing to the irritated
lungs.- Try them. 26 cents a box, at 8
Blliott'e.
tit Corn is worth fifty cents •per bushel at
Burliogton,.Kansas. Wheat fifty find Seventy
five cents. Good prices for that section; but
our farmers will ,realize nearly double that
amount for their crops.
How the War Maintains the War.
The secession of the Southern Sena
tors and Members of Congress having re
lieved the loyal State's from that tyrrany of
the slave power by which their industry had
been so often crushed, the " mudsills" of the
north were enabled once again to obtain a
tariff of protection. Protection bas increased
the demand for labor, and for:all the products
of the earth, while giving us larger supplies
of fuel, cloth, and iron, and of thousands of
other things for which the pro-slavery aris
tocracy had so long compelled us to remain
tributary to that piratical power which now
seeks, by means of the rebel flag, to drive
from the ocean all American ships.
Secession closed the southern market for
the produce of western farms, and compelled
the owners of these latter to seek a market
in the east. Secession having been followed
by war, the necessities of war created demand
upon the farmers of all the, loyal States
greatly exceeding that which had been lost
by means of the rebellion, the amount paid
by the government, directly or indirectly, for
the produce of the land, having, as we feel
well assured, thrice greater than had previ
ously been paid by all the cotton States.
War having driven from the markets of
the world the accustomed supplies of many
commodities of high importance, northern
farmers find greatly increased demand for
wool, to take the place of cotton, for wheat
to take the place of rice, for northern tobac
co to take the' place of that supplied by the
southern States, and for sorghum sugar to
take the place of that of Louisiana ; the
product of northern oil wells being, mean
while required to fill the void created by the
disappearance of southern turpentine.—
Northern farmers being thus enabled to vary
the demands upon their land, while, by
means of a protAtive tariff, the market is
being daily brought closer to the farm, the
results exhibit themselveS in the fact that
their farms are being daily discharged from
mortgage, while money-lenders find them
selves compelled to seek for borrowers, and
greatly to reduce the rates at which their
commodity will be supplied. At no time in
our history has it been found so difficult to
obtain satisfactory mortgage securities, even
at greatly reduced rates of interest, At no
time has the tyranny of the money lender ex
isted in a degree so small as that at which
we write.
109
87
28
34
1185
489
6.96
War having brought with it the exercise
of the c oi.stitutional.power—of--the—national
government over the national currency, far
rni-rs, mechanics, and laborers, find them
selves at Once relieved from all necessity for
paying heavy discounts on the money they
receive when they desire to use it in dis
charge of debts they have to-pay, the wild
cat currency of central and western States
having almost entirely disappeared from cir
culation, and having been replaced by green
back notes whose value is the same in every
portion of the Union.
War having thus compelled the govern
ment to assume the responsibility of main
taining the value of the currency, we find
the country now supplied with a medium of
exchange that is no longer liable to increase
or diminution of its amount by any changes
of policy on the part of those foreign bank
ers to whom we have been indebted for the
destructive crisis by which we have so often
.been afflicted. The_quantily of-the-medium
of exchange that is supplied now bears, and
for the first time bears, a fair proportion to
the work that is to be done ; as a conse
quence of which the farmer, the miner, the
mill-owner, and the artisan, throughout the
loyal States, find themselves enabled to com
mand the services of money at a rate of in
terest lower than, until now, has ever been
known.
War having thus brought with it increased
facilities of exchange, the circulation (Abe
products of land and labor has become so
rapid as to proouce greatly increased demand
for the services of men in both the field and
the work shop. Wages have therefore large
ly grown, the farmer and the mechanic, the
miner and the laborer, being more prosper
ous than at any previous period of our his
tory, while the land-owner and the capitalist
profit of theii prosperity in the consequent
increase in the .
_Money value of all the prop
lerty in which their investments have been
made.
War having thus brought with it high wa
ges for human service, the eyes of the peo
ple of the eastern 'world are once again
opened to the vast advantages offered, under
the protective system, by the mines and
the workshops, the prairies and the hills of
the Union, and as a necessary consequence,
immigration direct from Europe has already
more than doubled each new producer thus
introduced being hiniself a customer to those
who were already here. How our great de
mand for labor is now affecting our momim
mediate neighbors, and how, should protec
tion be inflexibly maintained, it must ulti
mately effect all Europe, will be seen by the
following passage from one of the most re
cent Canadian journals:
" Whilst we are speaking of defence, mi
litia, &c., &c., our industrious and indispen
sable classes of mechanics, workmen, labor
ers, &c., are, with their families, leaving
daily by the hundred from our land to obtain
a subsistence in a neighboring country, af
flicted by a civil war. Our population, al.
ready inadequate to this immense territory,
is every day decreasing immeasurably. The
forests, the wilderness, which not long since
were so rapidly changing into beautiful
fields, dread less• the persevering hand of
'bid: New towns are no longer Peen to
spring up. Capital, brought into the coun
try formerly by the exertions ofcbme of our
great men who were often ungratfully cal
umniated, no longer contributes to the en
largemenfor embeilishment of our cities,
nor to the erection of new public edifides,
but hidden, as it were t is unprofitable to the
public welfare. Even foreign immigration,
the true wealth of a new country, and which,
to a certain degree, was prosperous and had
found its way to Canada, has also of lute
turned its tide to the United States. But
enough of these calamities."--4=Leader.
Canada is now suffering under the diease
of British free trade, as we should still- con
tinue to he, had not the secession madness
enabled us to relieve ourselves from the yoke
of our southern masters. bleier° the war we
Were becoming daily more and more subject
to their control, and at the moment when se.
cession was commenced their 'power in the
halls of Congress was so thoroughly assured
as to make it absolutely certain that the free
trade disease was destined to become more
and more universal throughout the land.—
Population was becoming daily more and
more superabundant, the laborer's reward
was daily decreasing, and immigration bad
almost ceased. The demands of the war
found employment for our surplus popula
tion, while the demands of the workshops
and the mines stimulated into greater activ
ity all who bad before been but half em
ployed ; and the consequences.exhibit them -
selves in the wonderful fact that, although
we have furnished a million of men for the
war, we are now making more roads, smelt
ing more iron ore, building more houses and
ships, bringing to market more of the
precious metals, making more clothing, and
raising more food, than at any previous pe
riod.
Those who may study these facts will, as
we think, find little difficulty in understand
ing how it is that the war ma:i \ ntains the war.
The ultimate cause, as they/ will discover
when they shall come to seek it, is to be
found in the fact, that while seeking only
emancipation from southern tyrrany, we,
the " mud-sills," were enabled, and at once,
to obtain emancipation from that most bru
talizing of all tyrranies which is now sought
to be imposed upon the world under the
mask of British free trade.
THE ELECTIONS.
.••••
GLORIOUS VICTORIES IN
Pennsylvania and Ohio
FOR THE UNION CAUSE
Woodward and Vallandigham
Overwhelmingly Defeated.
Copperhead Traitors Demolished
Glorious Andy Curtin Re-elected
We give below a summary of the reported
majorities, in counties that have reached us,
omitting the details of cities, boroughs and
townships. Gov. Curtin's majority from the
most reliable indications will be between
15,000 and 20,000.
REPORTED MAJORITIES
Curtin. Woodward
8000
Counties
Allegheny,
Armstrong,
Bei ksi
Beaver,
1000
Bradford, 3500
Bucks, 300
Cambria, 700
Carbon, 576
Chester, 2500
Crawford, 2000
Cumberland, 529
Dauphin, 1500
Delaware, 1500
Erie, 3000
Franklin, 350
Fulton, 675
Huntingdon, 1200
Indiana, 2100
Lancaster, 6200
Lawrence, 1,800
Lehigh, 1691
Luzerne,' 2200
Lycoming, lock .
Mifflin, 50
Nlonroe, - 1500
Montgomery, 900
Northampton, 3150
Philadelphia, 6521
- S'clinylkill, 1700
Snyder, 450
Susquehanna, 1700
Wayne, 900
Westmoreland, 900
Wyoming, 40
York, 2600
THE LEGISLATURE.
The Republicans having elected the Sena
tor in the First District of the city of Phila
delphia, it will give them at least a majority
of ONE.
THE-Si/SSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The Republicans will have a majority of
members in the [louse of Representatives.
The list is as follows:
Philadelphia,
Delaware,
Chester,
Montgomery,
Bucks,
Northampton,
Lehigh and Carbon,
Monroe and pike, I
Wayne, - 1
Luzerne, 3
Susquehanna, 1
Bradford, 2 •
Wyoming, Sullivan, &c., 2
Lycoming and Clinton, 2
Centre, 1
Nlifflin, 1
Union, Snyder and Juniata, 2
Northumberland, 1
Schuylkill, 3
Dauphin, 2
Lebanon, 1
Becks, 3
Lancaster, 4
York,
Cumberland,
Adams, 1
Franklin and Fulton, 1 1
Bedford,
Somerset,
Huntingdon,
Blair,
Cambria,
Indiana,
Armstrong and Westmoreland,
Fayette,
Greene,
Washington,
Allegheny,
Beaver and Lawrence
Butler,
Mercer and Venango,
Clarion and Forest,
Jefferson, Clearfield, &c.,
Crawford and Warren,
Erie,
Potter--and Tioga,
Perry,
BEDFORD COUNTY
The borough of Bedford gives 1 majority
for Curtin.
Nine districts Curtin gains 33 votes on
Slenker's.majority of last year.
• LANCASTER. COUNTY.
Coney ttwnship, 135 majority for Carlin.
Rupp township gives 97 for Curtin.
In Lancaster city Curtin gains two bun.
dred and twelveover the vote In 1860, Wood.
ward's, majority is no* 58.
Lancaster city givei - 58Tratjority - for Wood.
ward ; gain of 212 for Curtin, as compared
with 1860. Lancaster township,Mr. Bitch•
anan's residence, gives Curtin 85 majority ;
gtiin of 44, as compared with 1860 f gain of
186 in the four districts heard from. •
Little Britton 22 majority for Curtin.
PHILADELPHIA.
' let Ward, dortitee majority 1132, , gait)
mince last year 441,
Ten city wards give Curtin a majority of
6,546; Curtin gain, 1,074 over the vote of
last year.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 14-2 A. M.—The
majority in Philadelphia for Curtin will be
over 9,000. The gain thus far in the State
over the last Governor's vote is about 16,000.
The majority in the State for Governor Cur
tin will be over 30,000.
Four city wards to hear from ; Curtin's ma
jority 7, 533.
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY.
Union township gives Woodward 247 ma
jority, and Lowrie 243. A considerable Dem
ocratic gain.
Pottsville borough—majority for Curtin
446 ; gain of 83 on the vote of 1863. Nor
wegian—Woodward's majority 245 ; gain of
55 on the vote of 1862. Auburn, 18 majori
for Curtin.
Pine Grove, 83 majority for Curtin.
Tamaqua borough, Woodward 174 major
ity. .
Port Clinton, Curtin 9 majority
Altoona gives Woodward a majority of 69,
a gain for Curtin, over three years ago, of 113.
Danville gives 18G majority for Curtin, a
gain t,f 113.
Danville borough, (South ward,) Curtin
112 majority ;Curtin gain of 70. North ward,
Curtin 73 majority ; heavy gain.
Selinsgrove gives Curtin a majority of 85
This is a gain of 80.
Cbambersburg gi'ves'23B majority for Cur
tin.
The County gives 400 majority for Gov
Curtin. Both Union members of the Legis
lature elected.
Mercersburg, 199 majority for Curtin
LYCOMINO COUNTY.
Williamsport, east ward 248 for Curtin,
245 for Woodward ; West ward, Curtin 213,
Woodward 105 ; centre ward, Curtin 247,
Woodward 20.
Lewis township, Woodward's tnijority 4,
Curtin gain 18.
Mclntyre township, Curtin 41 majority.
Curtin's majority 507. Agnew runs about
even with so - far us - heard-trom — Cur
tin gains largely over the vote of 1862, and
nearly equals the vote of 1860.
In 22 districts heard from, Curtin has 259
majority. There are 22 districts still to be'
heard from. The county has probably gone
for Curtin.
Augusta township, Woodward 12 majority;
Union gain. Mutiny borough and township,
Curtin.34-majority ; -Union gain -24:
Philadelphia, 14th ward, Curtin 960 ;
-Fourth Woodward 953 ; 23d, Curtin 414 ;6th,
Woodward 44 ; 2d, Curtin 200 . 3d, Wood
ward 88.
500
978
6500
York borough gives Woodward 53 major
ity.
Liverpool, Woodward 46 majority.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
Gov. Curtin's gain in 22 townships reach
es 1,100.
The returns, as far as heard from, give
And. G. Curtin 9,000 majority.
Three wards in the city and five neighbor
ing districts give Curtin au aggregate gain o
'"c on last,rte.
LEBANON COVNTY.
inssority in the borough of Leb
anon is 74.
Reading,"lsrVirtird=Ciirtiti Pr, majority ;
loss 11. Second Ward—Curtin 125 majority;
loss 6 ; Third Ward—Woodward 27 majori
ty ; gain 17. Muhlenburg township—Wood
ward 195 majority gain 49. Union town
ship—Curtin 29 majority. Richmond town
ship—Woodward 393 majority ; gain 100.
Rockland township—Woodward 25 majori
ty ; gain 3.
Reading city 34 majority for Curtin, Berks
county 7,000 for Woodward.
Comaxatatmey township, Woodward 227
majority ; Kutztown borough, Woodward 97
majority ; North Whitehall township, Wood
ward 106 majority—loss 41.
Oxford borough, Curtin's majority 22
Curtin gain 28. East Nothingham, Curtin
majority 8 ; Curtin gain 49. Hopewell bor.
ough Curtin majority 3 ; Curtin gain 18
Lower Oxford Woodward majority 39, Cur
tin gain 18. East Coventry, Curtin 190
Woodward 88. Delaware county, town of
Chester and borough, gives Curtin 330 ma
jority.
Union. Dem.
12 5
Elk township gives Curtin 29 majority, a
loss of 10.
Freemansburg borough—Woodward 5 ma
jority ; a gain of 3 for Curtin, as compared
with the vote of 18G0. Bethlehem toweship
—Woodward 144 ; gain 44.
Easton borough 77 majority for Curtin, a
gain of 17 as compared with 1860.
South Easton 69 majority for Curtin, a gain
of 38 as compared with 18.60.
Bethlehem borough gives Woodward 59
majority, a Democratic gain of 18.
Sancon township gives Woodward 606 ma
jority, a Democratic gain of 172.
Gives Woodward 2,800 majority.
LUZERNE COUNTY.
Wilkesbarre borough 88 majority for Curtin
a gain as compared With the vote of 1862 o
over 109
Pittston, borough, South ward, Woodward
107 majority, North ward, Woodward SO ma
krity, middle ward, Curtin 17 majority, all
Union gains.
Madison township, Curtin 3 majority, loss
of 2.
Gives 2. 200 for Woodward.
Carbondale city and township, Woodward
469 majority, Union gain 74.
Covington township, Curtin 27 majority.—
Gain.- „.
Kingston borough, Curtin 40 majority— gain
of 8 ; Providence, 808 ; Providence borough,
Curtin 92 majority—gain 21 : Plymouth bor
ough and township, Curtin 100 majority—gain
66.
Doylestown borough, Woodward 1 majority
CUrtitea gain 18.
62 ----48
Emans borough, Curtin 1 majority, Demo
oratia gait of 6.
Loitendanan— Curtin, 87 Majority ; gain o:
10 • Allentown borough, 6th ward, Wood
ward 105 tonjority..
borough, Majority for Curtin 84
a Demooratio gain of 116.
Curtin gains 820 .on last year's, vote.. Low
er Maoanzie township, Woodwardl7l majori
ty Ciirtin_galo 8.
•
• . ERIE COUNTY. _ _
,Erie county gives over 8.100 for Curiin,
Brie oily' gives„ Curtin 297 majority.
majority 'in the county, it is said, will real*
8 000. -
,
MONROE COUNTY.
litreudiburg borough, Curtin 52 majority.
BLAIR COUNTY
MONTOUR COUNTY
SNY DER, COUNTY
FRANKLIN COUNTY
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
Milton gives 161 majority for Curtin.
Sunbury gives 147 majority for Curtin
YORK COUNTY
PITTSBURG
BEItKS COUNTY
CHESTER COUNTY
Curtin's majority will reach 3,100.
NORTHAMPTON COUNTY
West Pittston, Curtin 67 majority, pin 10
pucKs COUNTY
LEHIGH COUNTY
• BtIB9VMI4I%INA couNiy.
crest ead borough, Woo4ward'a majority
17 ; the township gives Curtin 90 majority, a
gain.
NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY
Curtin's majority, 140 ; gain of 90.
CARBON COUNTY.
Carbon—Curtin 188 majority ; last year a
le vote
East Mauch Chunk borough 11 majoriy. for
Curtin, a gain of 28, as compared with the vote
of 1860.
AIORRIBTOWN
•The borough of Morristown gives Curtin 128
majority ; gain of 624 over the vote of 1860.
ARMSTRONG COUNTY
Curtin 83, Woodward 92.
Loyalsaok township, Curtin 136, Woodward
48
Money borough, Curtin majority 103.
Montville, Curtin majority 90.
COLUMBIA COUNTY.
Berwick—Curtin's majority 82; gain of 4.
Wilkesbarro—Curtin's majority 88; gain of
119.
Bloomsburg borough and township 87 ma
ority for Curtin, gain 180.
DANVILLE
Second Ward—Curtin 112 majority; gain
of 7.
MILTON
North Ward—Curtin 72 majority.
Northumberland borough—Woodward 15
majority. Williamsport borough, Ist Ward
Cu, tin 108 majority; gain of 58. Milton bo
rough—Curtin 161 majority ; gain 96. Kings
ton borough—Curtin 90 majority, Plymouth
borough, and township—Curtin 10 majority ;
gain of 66. Bloomsburg township, and bo
rougliCurtin 87 majority ; gain of 21.
Hide Park borough Woodward 18 majority,
gain 68. Pittston township, Woodward 207,
majority, gain 68. South ward, Pittston,
Woodward 107 majority. Middle ward Cur
tin 17 majority. North ward, Woodward 30
majority. Scranton, North ward Curtin ma
jority. Shickshinney, Curtin 8 majority.—
Lewisburg, Curtin 256 majority. Curtin has
gained largely in Northumberland township
as far as heard from.
BEAVER COUNTY
New Brighton gives 208 majoriLy for Cur
tin, gni 67 over the vote 1860.
Franklin gives 400 majority for Curtin.
Rochester borough—Curtin's majority 72.
New Brig grab Cr - tie - tin 300 majority:.
BRADFORD COUNTY
Towanda borough, Curtin 84 majority;
Litchfield township, Curtin 73 majority. To
wands (North) Curtin 30 majority —all Union
gains.
CENTRE COUNTY
Bellefonte, Curtin 78 majority.
Carbondale, Curtin 292 majority.
flolenback, Curtin 21 majority.
Exeter, Curtin 25 majority, gain 16.
Pincus township,_ 'Woodward 9 majority,
Curtin gain N.
Losshure, Curtin 55 majority, gain 26.
Jackson, ‘Voodward 30 majority.
Jersey, Curtin 36 majority.
YEN:INa° COUNTY
'Oil City—Curtin 91 majority ; gain 60.
Franklin—Curtin 43 majority; gain 21.
WESTMORELAND COUNTY
In Greensburg, Curtin, gains 41 ; 8 . Clair
township, Curtin gains 26
MIFFLIN COUNTI
In 12 districts, Curtin's majority is 66
Curtin's loss is 180, as compared with 1860.
The three districts to hear from will give a
bout 30 majority for Woodward.
BUTLER COUNTY.
Eight. districts give Uaion State ticket. 400
mrity.
CRA WFORD COUNTY
Curtin has 2,200 majority
CARBON COUNTY
Summit 11111, 10 majority for Woodward.—
Dem oc ra t ic gtriu 9-7.
Chester county gives 2,900 majority for
Curtin.
Montgomery county—Norristown and twen
ty townships show a gain tor Curtin of abou
700 over his vote in 1860. The county wil
give Woodward not over 900 majority
Monroe. —The county gives about 1,500 ma
jority for Woodward.
Lehigh county gives about 2,000 for Wood
ward.
Bradford county reported 3,000 majority
for Curtin.
1V ayne county reported 850 majority for
Wood ward.
Berks county. The returns thus far receiv
cd indicate that Berks county will give a mo,
jority of about 6,000 for Woodward.
Wayne county 550 majority for Woodward
Susquehanna county 1,700 for Curtin.
GAINS FOR CURTIN SINCE 1860.
Altoona. 113 gain.
Tyrone. 22 "
Coatesville. 117 "
Huntingdon. 95 "
\Vest Chester. 100 44
Middletown. 101 . 4
Lancaster city• 212 "
Harrisburg. 04 4 4
Berwick, 32 moj. 4 gain.
Wilkosbarre, 88 " 119 ••
Danville. (S. W.,) 112 " 70 "
Milton, (N. W.,) 72 • 4
Williamsport, 108 •4 58 ••
Milton, 161 •{ 96 ••
Kingston. (Luzorne,) 90 ••
Plymouth, (bor. & twp)100 •4 66 44
Bloomsburg, 87 44 13 ••
West Pittston, 87 " 21 4 .
Scranton, (N. W.,) 230 ••
Shickshinney, 8 al
Lewisburg, 266 '•
Carlisle. 6 83 "
Just on going to press we receivpd the
following despatch :
" From returns now in we make Cuitin
19,000 and some hundreds a ead."
Have You Heard From Ohio P
She Sends Greeting to Pennsylvania in
the Election of the Patriot John Brougli by
100,000 majority
The Foreign Traitor Vallandigham will
remain in Canada by the almost unanimous
verdict of Ohio's citizens.
Three times Three for Pennsylvania, Ohio
and the Union.
The Slaughter of Gen• Longstreet's
Corps
Col. J. T. Wilder, lately in command in
the Army of the Cumberland, thus describes
the terrible slaughter of Longstreet's men in
the battleOf Chieamauga, The narrative is
given by a cotemporary :
" Among the incidents of the battle of
Saturday, Col. Wilder described the fearf9l
slaughter of Longstreet's men at the time
'they were driven back by our left wing.—
This Celebrated corps, as desperate soldiers
as ever lived, attacking two divisions, Van
Cleve's and ; Davis', to the right and a little
it front. of Wilder separated them' and
pushed on through the open space yelping
-the. rebel shout is a yelvinstead of a civ
ilised hurrah— and efinfideru.:of, - vietory, - A
portion of them had .to cross, a,;:eufall, field,
behind which, in a small woods, _Wilder lay,
and through which ran a ditch five or six
feet deep, to carry off the water of an adja
'cent stream or swamp.
As the rebels entered this field in heavy
nissseti fully.exposed, the mounted infantry,
with their seven-shooting rifies, .kept up a
,poptinpous blast of ire upon the:rn ? wbilp
Lilly, with his Indiana battery; hurled
through them double allotted canister from
his 10 pounder rifles, at less than 300 yards.
The effect was awful. Every shot seemed to
tell. The head of the column, as it was
pushed on by those behind, appeared to inch
away or sink into the earth i for though con
tinually moving it got no nearer. It broke
at last, and fell back in great disorder. It
was rallied, and came on again, and with
desperate resolution pushed through the solid
fire to the ditch. Here all that could get it
took shelter.
"Instantly Lilly whirled two of his guns
and poured, right down the whole length of
the ditch his horrible double canister.—
Hardly did a man get out of it alive. 'At
this point,' said Wilder, (who has been sea
soned to slaughter by being two hundred
times under fire,), it actually seemed a pity
to kill men so. They fell in heaps, and I
had it in my heart to order the firing to
cease to end the awful sight.' But the mer
ciless seven-shooters and canister would not
stop, and again the boasted flower of Lee's
army was crushed into a disorderly mob and
driven off.
When the firing ceased one could have
walked for two hundred yards down that
ditch on dead rebels without ever touching
the ground. Of course, Col. Wilder does not
claim that his brigade defeated Longstreet.
Ills statement refers only to that portion of
the corps which entered the field in his front.
He thinks that no less than two thousand
rebels were killed and wounded in this field.
It was probably the most disastrous fire of
the two days' tight on either side."
Pennsylvania Elections.
'GOVERNOR 1860. AUDIT'R GEN'L. 1862
IJORITY. MAJORITY.
COUNTIES: . Curtin. Foster. Blanker. Cochran.
Adams, 76 411
Allegheny, 6,689 4,428
Armstrong, 776 226
Beaver, 867 631
Bedford, - 97 611
Berke, 3,485 5,914
. .
879
Bradford, 4.336
Buckg, . 53 707
Butler, 978 153
Cambria, 406 1,199
Came, on, 60
Carbon, 208 700
Centre, 341 831
Chester, 1,027 2,354
Clarion, 602 059
Clearfield,
47 387
738 1,570
2,099 1,417
Clinton
Columbia
Craw lord,
.Coniborlandr- r fift _ 744,
.
Dauphin, 1,253 874
Delaware, 1,187 1,311
E'k, 212 311
Erie, 3,114 1,542
Fayette, 171 035
Franklin, 674 17
Fulton, 129 283
Forest, 60 28
Omen, 1,140 1,9'20
II un ti ngdon, 956 643
Indiana, 1,786 1,900
JulTerson, 393 71
Juniata, 39 454
Lamas ter, 5,859 4,939
Lawrence., 1,686 1.498
Lebanon, 1,613 532
•
Lehigh, 390 1.944
Luterne, 254 2,621 .
M e K eau 392 152
Mercer, 830 372
Mifflin, 233 98
Monroe, 1,741 1.662
Montgomery, 1,590 1,647
Montour, 237 471
Northampton, 1,742 2,491
Northumberland, 520 953
,
Perry, 288 42
Philadelphia, 1,886 2,801
Pike, 519 632
Potter, 795 777
Schuylkill, 234 1,594
Somerset, 1,505 1.010
Snyder, ' 570 859
Sullivan, 148 329
Susquehanna, 1,554 1,196
Tioga, 2,816 1,956
Union, rOl 425
Venango, 449 68
Warren, 040 655
Washington, 562 429
Wayne, 73 941
Westmoreland, 416 1,367
Wyoming, 174 191
York, —4,343 3,006
Total, 50,264 18,130 40,468 37,180
Total vote. 1860, 492,672 Total veto, 1862, 434,750.
Curtin's majority 32,134. Olenker's majority, :1,382.
A Day of Thanksgiving and Prayer
WASHINGTON, October 3d
By the Presifint orthe Unded Slates 'of A merico
A PROCLAMATION
Tux year that is drawing towards its close
has been tilled with the blessings of fruitful
fields and healthful skies. To those bounties,
which are so constantly enjoyed that we are
prone to forget the source from which they
come, others have been added, which are of
such an extraordinary nature that they cannot
fail to penetrate and soften the boars which is
habitually insensible to the ever watchful
providence of Almighty God_
In the midst of civil war of unequalled mag
nitude and severity, which has sometimes
seemed to provoke the aggression of foreign
States, peace has been preserved with all na
lions, order has been maintained, the laws
have been respected and obeyed, and harmony
has prevailed everywhere except in the thea
tre of our military conflict, while that theatre
has been greatly contracted by the advancing
armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength
from the fields of peaceful labor to the nation
al defense have not arrested the plough, the
shuttle, or the ship. The axe has enlarged
the borders of our settlements, and the mines
are Full of iron and coal, and the precious
metals, and have yielded oven more abundant
ly than heretofore.
Population has steadily increased, notwith
standing the waste that has been made in the
camp, the siege, and the battle field ; and the
country, rejoicing in the consciousness of aug
merited strength and vigor, is permitted to ex
pect a continuance of years, with a large in.
crease of freedom.
No human council bath devised, nor hath any
mortal hand worked out, those great things.
They are the gracious gifts of the Most High
God, who, while dealing with us in anger for
our sins, has, nevertheless, remembered mer
cy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that
they should bo solemnly, reverently, and
gratefully acknowledged by the whole Amer.
loan people.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in
every part of the United States, and also those
who are at sea and those who are adjourning
in foreign countries, to set apart and observe
the last Thursday of November next as a day
of thanksgiving and prayer and praise to our
beneficent Father, who dwelleth iu the betty
ens ; and I recommend that, while offering up
the asoriptions justly duo to Him for such
singular deliverances and blessing 4, they do
4180, with humble penitence for our perverse
nese and disobedience, commend to his tender
care all those who have become widows, or
phans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamenta
ble civil strife in which we are unavoidably
engaged, and fervently implore the interpo
sition-of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds
of the nation, and to restore it, as soon as may
be consistent with the Divitie purposes', to the
lull enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquili
ty, and union.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my...hand-and—caused the-i p eelnf—the-United
States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this third
day of October, in the year of our Lord 'one
thousand eight hundred and sixty three, and
of the independence of the United States t' e
eighty-eighth.
By the -President,
41311.1111 AM LINCOLN.
H. SIMARD.
Secretary of State.
- .
JUST FOREIGN COMMENT
- ON TEE PRESIDENT'S' --
LETTER.
The following hearty and - truthful appre
ciation of
• Mr. Lincoln's hitter to the Spring. ,
field Cenventien, ie free: Lech arilolo in the
Londo7l. of Sept. 17 . :
The-text of Preeidelt. Linocda's letter to the
Springfield Convention jthatilles at once our
'distrust of its telegraphic) abstract an 4 . our
confidence in the writer. If it. disappointl
the expectation of immediate peace, it con•
firms our faith in the man who has the con
duct of the war. It offers no new induce
ment to the Southern States to return to theii
allegianee—.neither does it attempt to placate
the Northern opponents of the Federal Gov
ernment. But it, places ill the clearest
strongest light, the wicked unreasonable
ness of the rebellion and the religious duty of
all loyal citizens. Asa vindication of the Wash
ington Cabinet, it is a master piece of cogent
argument. As an appeal to the spirit of the
nation, it is sublime in the dignified simpli
city of its eloquence. No nobler State paper
was ever penned. It is the manifesto of a
truly great man in an exigency of. almost un
equalled moment.. It is worthy of a Cromwell
or a Washington. It. breathes the calm hero
ism of o Christian patriot —trusting in the
blessing of God upon dauntless exertions in a
just cause. It is such as Garibaldi and Mar
zini might have written from Rome if event
had placed them at the bend of an Italian
commonwealth threatened by a formidable
combination of enemies to its freedom and in
tegrity. It is the utterance of a statesman
who has nothing to conceal—of a ruler guilt-
less of oppression—of the genius that con
sists in transparent honesty and unflintthing
resolution. Addressed to friends and neigh
bors, to supporters and opponents, it is open
to all the world to read. It. really challenges
the judgment of contemporary _civilization,
though it contains scarce a hint of any coun
try but the United States. If it fail there to
combine all parties in ardent approval of the
President's policy, it must be because party
differences are invincible to logic and persua
sion.. But abroad. it must immensely enlarge
and et rengt lien the evergrowing sentiment in
favor of a Government that insists upon mak
ing citizens of till its subjects, and vindicat.
ing the supremacy of the national will against
groundless discontent and a local insurrection.
* * * * *
In calm confidence that the war will result,
in the re establishment, not only of the Union,
but of the principle of popular sovereignty on
which it is based—in we I-assured hope, too,
that the negro will obtain his share of that .
great blessing in the abolition of his,.bondage,
and the removal of his degradation—President
Lincoln exhorts the great people of whom he
is the chosen and worthy chief not to be over
sanguine of a speedy triumph, but to soberly
and diligently persevere in their struggle.—
In words of Puritanic east, he bids them "ap
ply the means," t rusting a just God for the
rightful result. With such words armies have
ere this been led to victory, and nations en.
etitrritigetr to the salvation of their Tiberties.:—
They are words hero.' ing men who believe at
once in themselve •, in their cause, and in a
righteous Providence. Such men assuredly
abound in the commonwealth planted with the
choicest seedlings from our English stock.--
The suns are not degenerate from their noble
fathers. Nor will we in the mother country
be unmindful of our common parentage, and of
the ties of a more than fleshly kinship.
644
,013
MIM:EI
THE
The Cavalry , Battle Between Kilpat
' rick and Stuart.
APPREHENDED DEMONSTRATION OF
THE REBELS.
HILL'S CORPS IN MOTION.
Retreat of Gen. Lee's Army to
The Washington specials state that Genera'
Lee's army has retreated from the Rapidan to
Richmond.
Yesterday evebiug reports from the front
represented that early in the morning one of
Kilpatriek's cavalry brigs les, consisting of
the Filth Michigan, Fifth New York and
Seventh Pennsylvania, and another cavalry
regiment, attempted to make n reconnoissance
on the south side of Robertson's river, when
they were met by a large body of Stuart's
rebel cavalry.
A fight ensued, continuing an hour, when
our cavalry tell baeit upon the infantry re
serves.
After another severe contest our infantry
were compelled to give way, and a consider.
able number of them were captured.
A detachment of our cavalry then dashed
upo.a the enemy. retaking all the prisoners
they had taken, with the exception of fifteen
or ttyeniy of the infantry.
Our entire force was then pushed back by
the rebels towards Culpepper, skirmishing on
the way and contesting every foot of ground.
Heavy firing in the afternoon indicated that
the contest had been renewed
Our signal Station on the summit of Thor
oughfare mountain was nearly cut off, but
fortunately the entire party, with their proper.
ty, escaped.
It appears to be generally believed that the
main body of Gen. A. P. Hill's rebel corps has
passed from the left to the right of our front,
pursuingan obscure rout, near the Blue Ridge,
intending to make a demonstration on our right
and rear, fey the purposa of cutting off our
railroad communication.
Measures are preparing to give him a fit
ting reception in that quarter; but should the
rebel movement be simply a rose to cover a
heavy attack on our front, we are propaxed
for it, us the ground has boon cleared of every
thing calculated to embarrass a general awl
vigorous battle on our part.
The advance of lieu. Hill's corps probably
commenced moving from Madison Court !louse
on Thursday morning, and by this time it
mutt be between Gaurdeine fork and Aeatba-
EU=
IL was positively stated yesterday morning
that the rebel cavalry and infantry were upon
the Sperryvillo t and Culpepper pike.
On Friday soine_verrillas were seen on Pony
Mountain, three miles southwest of Culpepper,
and are reported to have been secreted in the
Devil's Down cave in tho mountain.
A citizen who was compelled to conduct a
scouting party failed to find it, and under the
belief that. ho purposely misled our party, ha
has been arrested.
A FIOIIT NEAR MADISON 0048. T 110178 D.
yv ASUINOTON, Oct. 11.— A letter from the
headquarters of the Army of the Potomac
say 8 ;
•' For two three days the enemy have been
concentrating a heavy force around Madison
Court House, and on Friday night and Satur
day morning they moved out of town in a
northwardly direction.
" A division of infantry, a large body of
cavalry, and considerable artillery, were occa
sionally seen by our signalmen pushing
through the openings of a forest which gener
ally conceals the road.
"The object of the movement could not, at
that limo, be determined upon."
FORTRESS MosaciE, Oct. The flog•of-.
truce steamer New York returned last evening
from City Point in charge of Maj. John
,E.
Mulford
- -The-rebels- de-not-appear-to.feeldisposedie_
return our soldiers which they hold as prison
ers of war, and consequently our flag-of-truce
boats have for several trips returned empty,
or. nearly so.
The Richmond Zraminor cf the Bth instant
has the following; •
GORDONSVILL.E, Oct o,—Citizens confirm
the report that the enemy is falling book to
Culpepper Court House.
Latest by Telegraph from the
Army of,, the Potomac. ,
• Washington,.o4.l.s,
The Star has just published an extra con.
taining thy. following stirring intelligence:
The firing yesterday at the front was that
of a considerable engagement between a
large force of. Rebels and a portion of the
Array of the Potomac—Tit part of Oen. %Vat%
ren's corps that was in the vicinity of Brie !
tow's Station. . .
Infantry as well as .cavalry and artillety
WAR NEWS.
RiCil 1111011 d .
NiN YORK, Oa, 11
MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL HILL ' S COUPS