Carlisle herald. (Carlisle, Pa.) 1845-1881, October 23, 1863, Image 2

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CARLISLE, PA,
Friday, Oct. 23, 1863.
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. S. M. PEc.TTENGILI. & CO.,
I 7 Park Row, New York, and 6 NTtn 3 tuSt. Boston, are our Agents fori,the ilenet)
In those cities. and are authorized to take Advertise.
mesas auilBifeserlpttonsTor us at our lownk rates.
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110 RE RALLY FOR THE UNION.
300,000 Volunteers
Wanted.
PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT
The Usual Advance, Premium and
Bount)
By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AMERICA,
A PROCLAMATION
Whereas, The term of service of a part of
the volunteer forces of the United States
will expire during the coming year; and
whereas, in addition to the men raised by
the present draft, it is deemed expedient to
call out three hundred thousand volunteers
to serve for three years or the war, not how
ever exceeding three years;
Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, Pre
sident of the United States and Commander,.
in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, and
of the militia of the several States when
called into actual service, do issue this my'
_proclamation, calling upon the Governors of
the different States to raise and have enlisted
into the United States service, fur the va
rious companies and regiments iu the field
from their respective States, their quotas of
three hundred thousand men.
I do further proclaim that all volunteers
thus called out and duly enlisted shall re
ceive advance pay, premium, - and bounty, as
heretofore communicated to the Goyernors
of states b the War Department, through
the Prot ust Marshal-Geller:o's (Alice, by spe
chd letters.
I furtlit•r proel.din that nll volunteers re
eeitt•d nutlet this call, as well as all o thers
not ltrret,,fore tlre.lited, shall tie duly credited
on and 4leducted, crow the quotas.establishtl
fur the draft.
I further proclaim that if any State shall
fail to raise the tomb: assigned to it by the
War Department under this call, then a 'lraft
for the deficiencyin said quota shall he made
on Said State, or on the districts of said
State, for their due proportion of said quota;
and the said dratt shall continence on the sth
day of January, 18;4.
And I further proclaim that nothing in
',Oils proclamation shall interfere with exist
ing orders, or those which may be issued,
for the present draft in the States where it is
-now in 111'0141:43,th Us' tthare. it. has _nut
cuillumwed.
The tluutas of the States and Districts will
be assigned lly the \\',n• Department, through
the Provos:-.larslial-lietteral's °nice, due
regard heing had fur the wen heretofore fur
nished whether by volunteering - or drafting,
and the recruiting will lie 'coin:to:led in ac
cordance with ~uch in,truct.ions as have
beep. or may be by that Department.
In issuing this Proclamation, I address
myself not only to tho Governors of
the several dates, lint also to the good, and
loyal people thereof. intuiting them to lend
their willing, cheerful, and effective aid to
the measures thus adopted, with a view to
reinforce our victorious armies now in, the
field, and bring our neviltul military opera
tions to a prosperous end, thus closing fon.
ever the fountains of sedition and civil war.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of,llic United
States to be affixed.
once announced, when he thought his arms
were triumphant, that a mere separation was
insufficient—that the agents of slavery were
to keep ou in their malignant agitation until
the whole north was convulsed with social
disorganization, so as to make the slave em
pire relatively strong and secure. the same
idea is significantly dwelt upon also in that
article in the London Quarterly Review for
metly alluded to by us, and which was evi
dently written by some agent of the rebellion,
or from assumed data furnished through such
IBRAIIAM LINCOhN• I an-instrumentality..
Done at the City of WaAningiton this sev
enteenth day of O i rtuber,iin the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty
three, and of the Independence of the United
states tine eighty-eighth.
By the President:
WILLIAM 11. SewARD, Secretory Qf State
Our Platform Vindicated.
The recent Union victories in Pennsylvania
and Ohio, have been won upon the identical
platform laid down iu the Express in January
1863, and from which we have not deviated a
line druing all the charges of individuals and
parties In the intervening time. During that
time this platform of "Union for the sake of
the Union" has been hod) rejected and accept
ed by the leaders of both parties in this coun
try. In 1861 the lenders of the Republican
party rejected it, and their principal candid
ates were defeated, 38 we warned them in ad
vance they would be. The Democratic lead
ers went into that campaign otLour platform
and won. They then tell back on their old
party tactics, and some of them had the ef.
frontry to suppose that the Express would
abandon its cherished and declared principles
by either supporting their candidates or re
maining "neutral." They forget that while
in ordinary times "to be neutral is to be noth
ing," in a state of war, with the life of nation
at stake, neutrality is a crime. This year the
issue was distinctly drawn between party lines
and the Union, and the result is a complete
victory of national significance and impor
lance. The Philadelphia Press truly says,
this victory was "not won by any party."—
That is the first great truth. The victory was
won by the people, irrespective of all parties,
and iu the purest devotion to the Union. The
Government is sustained not merely by the
Republicans who elected Mr. Lincoln, but by
the Douglas Democrats, who voted against
him, by many who supported Mr. Bell, and
many, oven, who repent of their adherenoe to
Breokinridgo. It is thus sustained because
it is the Government of the Union—an Ad
ministration attacked by open traitors, and
secret traitors ; because to strengthen it is to
strengthen the Republic. This primal truth
underlies the success of thereampaign ; it must
be remembered, if the speedy subjugation of
the rebellion is desired ; -it must not be for
gotten, if the North is to be united against
treason."
AS announced nearly three years ago, the
Eipreas will consistently adhere to this plat
from until the rebellion is orushe and the
national integrity restored. We are with all
men, of whatever party, who stand upon that
platform. We are against all men, without
distinction of party, who attempt to interpose
their party between the Government, and
Victory.
IMPORTANT ARREST OF RAILROAD CONDI:fa- .
TORBLALLEDGED EMBEZZLEMENT or LARGE
SUMS OP MONEY. Quito a sensation was ore.
aced in this city, yesterday, by the arrest of
several of the conductors on the Lebanon Vol
ley and'the Reading and Philadelphia rail
roads, charged with having, at several peri
ods, while 'running their trains, embezzled
largo' 'tinting arrests were
made at different points on the road, inolu
ding baggage masters and conduelors, who
are 'all implicated in the•samekeharge.
pears•tbat the company' have had in their iito
ploy a number of detectives; who had 'heMi
traveling oti the dikerent, in cog., noting the
number of passengers who were in the• cars,
the Instance which they travelled; &c., and
on tho. returns made .by, these detective! 'offr .
cars, when they were compared with the r©
turns made•by the,conduotOrs themselves, the
evidence of embezzlement is derived, and the
arreats•in question have beeia : toado.—llar
rieburg Telegraph. ,r ,• di
HARPING ON PEACE.
*sr is terrible evil, says the Philadelphia .
North AmericaWevon when it
.preseee mast
lightly upon the territory when the. combat•
ants join issue. It has alleviations in certain
cases, and perhaps there never was a war
which exhibited more of these, so far as the
loyal States are concerned, than this of ours,
where the conflict rages in the midst of the
wicked men who began it, leaving our north
ern domain unscathed, and even prosperous.
Our heroes who fall in battle die willingly ; for
to their eyes the case of freedom hallows the
sacrifice, and they know that their country
men will honor them through all coming time.
The sick and wounded aro content under
their afflictions from a similar spirit of patriot
ism, and the knowledge that they will be
kindly cared for by a nation most able and
willing to perform that grateful duty, and
shame the falsity which charges republics
with ingratitude.
But with all this, who among loyal men de
Mos that war is a dreadful scourge? Does it
require peace Democrats to tell us that, and
read us hypocritical homilies on so trite a
theme? We knew well enough the inevita
ble waste and bloodshed, and all the train of
attendant calamities, which make so inelan•
oboly Vie perusal of human history. There
fore was it that we forbore so long, and took
so many insults patiently, and even saw our
n rthern citizens scourged, robbed, or mur
dered, as they were passing through the dis
mal realm of slavery ; We saw that to enforce
tnetr' constitutional rights was impossible
wh.'re rutliatiry ruled the country, tfnd were
Luu magnanimous to retaliate on southrous in
our midst for the misdeeis towards our own
people. Only when, in addition to these
wrongs, traitors in arms attempted revolu
tion, did we resist with similar weapons ; and
hence this war, which unworthy partisans
would charge upon the north, knowing full
well its origin in a southern conspiracy.
Frankly -and truly did the 'Vice President of
the southern confederacy acknowledge in the
beginning of the revolt that the south had dn
dured no wrong, but had even more than her
shore in the adutment of common benefits.
We resisted the arnied violence because we
saw that even a division of the republic just
ns thearatturs chose to dictate, with the loyal
States thrown in as their victims, and every
loyal man abandoned to a cruel persecution,
would fail to satisfy an arrogance and• a tyr
anny that had Dever yet been checked, and
that imperatively needed a check before any
dwellers upon this continent could find repose
or safety. Every blow we strike in this great
war against the evil spirit of slavery and des
purism; is - a' bi ow 'lard h e - pro recrinirof - hn man i=
ty itself —fur the exemption of Central America
and other weaker nationalities beyond from
the brutal sway of a slave empire, looking to
their conquest anti oppression. We expect to
restore the national unity, an 1 at the same
time cripple a diabolism dangerous to all the
word "Forced into the war, our honor and
safely equally demand its vigorous prosecu
Lion The common enemy has more than
As the enemy began the war for such ends,
so does he continue it. Ile asks no peace, and
spurns the proposition to return to his alle
glance on any terns lie has been beaten in
many encounters, and deprived of half his
usurped territory ; but still, in his pride and
desperation, he tights on, seizing with frantic
energy on every material within his reach.
aml forcing into the held thousands of unwii
ling combatants. lie is sorely pressed by
many wants, and has nearly reached the point
of execution. At such a juncture do our
copperheads ask us to desist, and declare an
armistice. What other effect could arise from
such a measure but reinvigoration of the
wicked rebellion, and a prolongation of the
wait'?
The recent elections have declared that such
are the unalterable views of the American peo
ple. Abhorring war for conquest or glory,
they accept it when forded upon them by an
unreasonable enemy. They resist him in the
attempt to overthroW the noblest republic of
all the earth. The blood-guiltiness rests on
the heads of the traitors alone. Every true
Democrat should recognize these manifest
truths, and, renouncing the unfaithful leaders
who have belied every principle which distin
guished the old Democracy, join heart and
hand with the national party whose ascendan
cy is now so powerfully affirmed Let all unite
in the great endeavor, and the very knowl
edge that the north is no longer divided will
of itself dispirit the traitors and hasten their
overthrow.
CHARLESTON.
General Gillmorc has achieved one triumph.
He has at last succeeded is masking his ope
rations and plans so elfectually,that neither
the rebels nor the correspondents of the north•
ern press can gather the least clue to them,—
All that is known is that he is very busy iu
various directions; that Morris Island is being
rendered imp eguable by immense works and
very heavy guns ; that he is pushing forward
his works toward James Island, and that he
has. strengthened Forts Gregg and Wagner,
and mounted many enormous guns there. But
what does , all this portend ? Is ho going to
attack the works in the harbor frola Forts
Gregg and Wagner by Means of his heavy
artillery, or to demolish Charlestoh, Orto take
James Island Y.
Otte of the correspondents alleges that Qen.
Gilmore does not intend to destroy Charles
ton, as he hopes to take and occupy it. 'The
rebels, on their part appear to think his prepa
rations all directed against their works on Sul
linat3 Island, whiCh they have, therefore
strengthened greatly, so that the whole inland
bristles with,,caimon. Meantime he has
Hammed FortiJohusten by his fire from Gregg,
Mid havihg • rendered- hie -works--ott :Morris
Island strong etiough . to 'be easily hold by a
liinitnd
,garriooa, hos removect, hint of his
troops to Folly Jeland.for otherfoperations.
AWFUL TO Kleir..7-A mad" will kill a lion
by bis hoofs. One box , of Byraifs.Pulmon
v
Waters cures a sore ihrOati 'hoarseness,
cough and cold most•apeedily, 25 Ceuta a boz.
Elliott's Sell it: , "'
THE REPUBLIC LIVES 1
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and lowa
have vmoken, in tones not to be misunder
stood,ldeclaring that THE REVHILIH SHALL
LIVE! The joyful' tidings have flashed from
the coast of Maine to the slopes of the Pacific;
from the North western wilderness to the
mouth of the Father of Waters ; from the
bitarts of a loyal people at home to
the threateeed veterans of • Roseerans:.,and
Meade, and there is rejoicing and gratitude .
wherever unmingled loyalty has a home, that
the great States of the North have resolved
to strengthen the hands of the government;
to cheer the brave defenders of its Flag, and
to preserve unimpaired and unspotted our
sacred Nationality.
There is Pennsylvania—behold her l After
a contest waged against her patriotism and
fidelity by subtle, insidious, sleepless foes—
after a season of bewildering defamatic n and
Unscrupulous appeals to every passion or
prejudice that warred upon the Country—af
ter denouncing everything but treason to the
ignorant, and promising everything to
the patriot—the people have vindicated their
undying devotion to the Institutions of their
Fathers, and hurled bank in hapless despair
those who so,,ght cower to paralyze the gov
ernment iy its deadly struggle with treason.
The Keystone State has spoken in behalf of
her martyred dead—declared that their grave,
shall be sepulchres of honor, not of shame—
has.defended her living from that sordid cow
ardice that would barter a Republic fur the
shadow of Peace, with anarchy and degra
dation as its fruits.
Ohio has joined with Pennsylvania in spurn
ing treason of every shade ; and Vallandig
ham, kti the retreat that. his goverutuent and
peoplo 4- '4IM4 assigned him, has heard with
crushing rcottilicatiou the verdict : 'The lie
' üblic must live—Treason shall die! loin
mot Inis mingled her voice with ours, and an
nounced her purpose to support the friends;
to dethrone the toes of the government: and
little lowa, away on the sunset side of tie
,Nlississippi, answers across in thunder tones,
her determination to preserve the Union with
out cowardly compromise or humiliating con
cession to give lite and hope to future traitors.
—Especially do we rejoice that Pennsylva
nia has a, faithful Executikt.t. ANDREW U.
CURTIN lies served his great State and his
Country's cause wiib a de'votion and single
tress of purpose iu which none but himself
has been Its parallel. Ins herculean labors
and ceaseless cure for the brave sons of Penn
sylvania, have stricken him with untimely
- if 111118.-1140, e diantned-his—eyconiti :borne. bun
duw u life's rapid siceatu with quickened pace;
but Ins lie .11, beats with all the ardor of youth
in behalf of Ins imperiled Nationality and
People, and whi.e treason lives to hate and to
crimson the steps of Freedom, the power of
his mighty State will be ever wielded as its
deadly foe. All honor to Gov. CURTIN—aII
hall faithful, loyal Pennsylvania! TUE lie
DUBLiu Lives —Franklin a eronitory.
General McClellan and the Penn
sylvania Election.
- Gen McClcllnu says thiiNew.lorF.77, —
who was so slow in the military field, is rath
er faster in the political. We have at last a
dash from him—a regular slap dash. At his
re.reot in New Jersey, ho learns from "'axe
liable gentlemen" that there is danger that
the Copperhead line will not come up to the
scratch; and he no sooner hears of it than he
speeds, as be never sped before, Lu the rescue.
The lightning could not outstrip him ; or, if
it disl, it was on,ly . to carry the message that
General McClellan was only a little behind,
and that he regards the election of Judge
Woodw i ard, its Governor of Pennsylvania, to
be called for by the interests of the nation."
The tidings reached PhiladOphia just as the
sun was descending beyond the Schuylkill—
thirteen hours and three quarters, by the best
watches, before the opening of the tight The
shades of qigbt, we understand. were used,
to the best purpose, in working the dirt. The
eng a g ement commenced with sunrise, and
Lasted through the day, with terrible etTect,
we hear, upon the followers of Judge Wood •
ward They are routed, it is said. horse,
foot and dragoons. Gen. McClellan, it is
expected, wilt reach' the field in person to-
It is indeed, somewhat singular that Gen.
McClellan, who has been so stoical in regard
ing his military credit, should be so exceed
ingly sensitive concerning his political re
pute. lie submits unmoved to the severest,
and, if we are to believe his friends, the falsest
statements concerning his military career,
without n o thing a sign; yet it is no sooner
given out that he is iu favor of there election
of a Governor who is a friend of the Adtninis
!ration, titan he is off like a shot to put down
the lie. It would seem Gnu the General can
stand anything but the suspicion that, he has
parted company with the Copperheads. It is
manifestly an object of prime concern with
him to keep himself identified, as completely
as possible, with the men who are not war
ring against the rebels, quarbing with the
constituted authorities of the Government. Of
all the score or two of Major Generals of the
United States, in service and out of service,
there probably is not another one, who, what
ever his former political associations, would
have treated as a slander to be publicly re
polled, a story that he was for sustaining the
Executive which gave him his commission.—
Mai Gen McClellan has the peculiar dis
tinction Whether it be owing to resentment
at his displacement from the command of the
Army of the Potonme, or to an ambition of
being made, as has been talked of, an Anti-
Administration elan Mate tor the Presidency,
we shall offer no conjecture ills motives are
known only to himself. But we do say that
it is not conduct which would become a true
soldier in his peculiar position.
Gen. McClellan, in his letter, represents
himself as bound to favor Judge Woodward by
" the principles of humanity and civilization,"
respect for "private rights and property,"
and fidelity to the great objects of the war,
which lie specifies to be "the restoration of
the unity of the nation, the preservation of
the Constitution, and the. tupreamoy of the
laws of the country." Now, if this means
anything, it means that the Administration of
President Lincoln is unfaithful to those prin •
ciples and olljeuts. If he thus believes, we
should like to know when the conviction first
dawned upon him? Was it before or was it
after Nov. 2, 1862, on which day ho received
an order from President Lincoln to turn over
his command to .Maj.-Gen. Burnside ? If it
was before, what words are strong enough
fitly to reprobate the man who would lend
himself to the official carrying out of a policy
which he saw was hostile to civilization, to
humanity, to private rights, to the laws, to
the Constitution, to the Union. if this en•
lightmerit did not come until after that date,
why was it so long delayed ? The prelimina
ry Emancipation Proclamation had been is
sued many weeks previous; •the Confiscation
bills, and the bills against the rendition of fu
gitive slaves, had been passed months pre•
vious ; .and summary arrests of disloyal per•
sons had been made from the beginning of
the war In respect to these arrests, Gen
NleClullan had himself, morethan a year pre
vious, not only cheerfully but zealously en
gaged in the,boblest and'-the most question
able act of the - kind that hus ever been per
formed,•even up to -this day.—we-.mean the
arrest of the members of the Maryland Legis,
Wore. It appears from the ollicill tiorres
pondenco. just published, that Maj.-Geri,
McClellan wrote - from Washington to Maj
Gen Banks, in Baltimore, to arrest the
whole party, and be sure• that none eseape,!',
and took occasion to. enforce his :directions
with Ow declaration thtit;" if this be — ticoest.
fully carried out, it will go far toward break:
the backbone of theyebellion . ." NoW, if Gen--
McClellan Was so long in attaining his pres
ent preCeptions of " private rights," and the
"rights of properly," and " the supremacy
of the lawe,"vand "the principles of humani•
ty," and all that, how are we to account for
WasiC•from pental dullness of appro.
Was it from .sluggishness of . the
-moral sense ? Was thorki anything is hie bO
ing unhorsed and.sent to Trenton that would
naturally sharpen his faculties ?
Really, we'think there is much here that
requires explanation__ No_faii,rninded man
can helo-.wondering that iluring the fifteen
months, Gen.•MoClellan was' in high command,.
he should, with Out one word' of 'protest or
complaint, have beertsi,o forward tfid serve the
Executive hilts complete development of a
policy ; and that yet, during the,eleven months
he has been out of command, ho should 'have'-
sought to make that policy a justification for
hi 4 tinning against the Executive and attach
ing hinsself_to its worst enemies. There is no
possible - escap'a.from the conclusion that there
is some strange defibiency here, either iu mind
or in heart; that there was not the under
standing reasonably to comprehend the poli
cy of the President when it was plain to
everybody, or not the moral resolution to sep
arate from that policy. This dilemma is com
plete in itself, even allowing the perfect. lion
esty of his pre-ent language, and that it was
not dictated either by overweening -ambition
or Tow•lived resnotiment.
The letter, as a political venture, has failed
wretchedly. With all its specious phrases,
and all the fancied prestige cf the name at
tached to it, it has not saved Judge Wood
ward from an inglorious defeat. General
McClellan has thus openly joined the side of
faction in the very hour when the people were
bracing thernselves`to overwhelm it with pa
trim ic indignation. Ho has gratuitously
linked himself to the fortunes of a party which
wlis just. about to be prostrated never to rise
again. lle seems to be persecuted by an
evil fate in politics as in war. There is no
help for hint. Ilis case is hopeless.
•
LIFE IN RI.CEIBIOND
Terrible Suffering of the People—gonfessions
of the Southern Pied."
Judging by the tone of the Richnlond news
paper 4 the domestic elf iirs of the Rebels must
be in a deplorable condition. They have all
eschewed the 'ninety, jolly, rollicking air which
they whiloni atfecte , i, and have taken to
Loathed melancholy
Of Cerberos and I.laekest midnight bore.
In Stygian rave forlorn,
'Alongst horrid shapes and shrieks and sights unholy."
There is not au exception to this remark a•
mong the papers received in our last files.—
The Sentinel is , on Imppy concerning the
• Croakers and grumblers" who 118.010 Jeff.
Davis, and in another article pours out its
grief over the "Suflerings of the people."—
The Dispatch mourns the ••Distress Irma high
prices" in one column, and renews the subject
in another, where it seeks to entpree the idea
that said high prices are " The greatest dan
ger It; iliii — CoaTederacy." The Whig - bewails
the sad condition of the ' Currency;" the Ex
tummy. enlarges on the -High prices," and
the &Wind, iu addition to what is above
stated, deals in 130111(3 very sharp remarks 'on
the new •• Conscription."
Referring t o the "croakers and grumblers."
the &lama. denounces thetn as the authors of
the depreciation of the currency, and as mis•
chief makers who ''have but one other work
to perform in order to effect our (Rebel)rum"
and "they seem to be labor lug diligently for
that." They have'but 'to intr,,lnce their
sentiment (distrust of Davis) among the sal •
lers,- and it needs no pr,,pro fru - or - ea . ? Ira!
in,vitody and speedily pllow." Su says the
Sentinel, and the s tatement is remarkable as
being the confession of Davis' personal organ.
In the same lugubrious tone, the Sentinel
otlhe operation of the conscription
laws which "have been executed with more
severity in 'Virginia than anywhere else."
"draining the State of its labor," which re
sults aro now to be followed up by the sweep
tug unlit iii act contemplated uy the " detua
gog,o es of the Legislature."
But its most melsocholy and truly distress-
ful strain is under the head of ...Sufferings of
the People." It relates the tale of sorrow
of two ladies of Goochland county, widows of
soldiers, aho have been striving to live on the
mockery of an allowance made by the County
Court, but wby, being threatened with starva•
lion, prooui-M -e passage on a cluntl boat to
Richmond, in search of needmwork to enable
thew to get fool lor their children. lint they
cannot earn enough to pay even fur a passage
on the boat, ILIA he ineatrinie winter is coin
big on, their orphan children lire without
clothing, and the look to the Wore with
dread and alarm. All they ask is work en
0 ugh.- La-4144 . ff. krsf Jesi t t h
Sentinel Mars that "the curse of Heaven will
be upon, the land if these widows and their
children are allowed to cry for bread in vain "
This is, in truth, a sad story. let these
two aJies and their children are but units a•
mong the milliocs of like cases in the South,
all of whom have been reduced to the depths
of distress by the wanton and wicked proceed •
ings of just such tcoundrels as they who con
trol and give inspiration to the Sentinel. It
will be wonderful, indeed, if "the curse of
Heaven" does not fall upon. not the land or
the people, but the 'great-criminals who in
Booted the Rebellion, which is the cause of
all this woe. We hear a great deal about
this "wicke I war" from the spokesmen and
organs of the Northern malcontents, but they
fail to apply the -wicked" epithet where it
prof erly belongs, viz : To the unutterably
"wicked" Secessionists and conspirators who
brought the dire calamity upon the country.
Following all this, the Sentinel calls upon
Davis to "tax the people high," and to “sup•
press high prices by law." And it demands
of the people to pay their taxes cheerfully (its
if it were possible for people in such distress
to pay taxes at all, much less cheerfully), and
give all to the Government.
Thus far the Sentinel Let us next hear the
Dispatch on the subject of distress :
The rapid advance in all umessaries 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 inoomes and sala
ries, are to get along, especially at the iu
clement season of the year now rapid y op
preaching. How are they to buy,shoes and
clothing at the present rates ? Nay, how ong
are thee- rates to prevail? A great auotion
may in a day or two run them as up fifty per
cent ! An auction thus has become to be re
garded by the people with as much dread as
a battle_! A defeat on the battle-field 'l3iltild
hardly bring more suffering upou thetn.—
These questions are growing daily more and
more important. Something must be done--
Produce must be distributed, prices must be
reduced, 4twine "must be disgorged, or there
will be suffering intense, and intense suffer
ing will beget, what? Think of it.
And in num...ter article, the same journal
speaks of the distress resulting trout these
high prices as ' lhegreitest danger of the Con
federacy at the present moment " The Dis•
patch then goes en to deplore the inevitable
augmentation of these sufferings if more men
are drafted into the army. " Already," it
says, "we are beginning to feel the want of
labor in those employments that tire indis
pensible to existence. - What are the people to
do this winter for clothing, fuel and for other
prime necessities of life, if the few producers
who are left. are turned into the army. Our
•`most pressing danger is the immense priva•
tion and suffering o r people most endure if
the producing power is any ftirther ditnin•
ished."
It was our purpose to reproduce the more
pointed passages trout all these articles, but
space fails.. What, we have given pret , ente a
fair average of the exist ing_gleetu which dark
cns.evcry page of every newspaper in Itlrlt
mood. We lay befo, e. the Northern people
what is above recited, not, in any spirit of ex
ultation over the suffering people of the
Southern .00Autry. butiti a sad sorrowing
spirit that. Inch things should be, The au
thorn, ofauell dire calamity. brought needless
nod prosparous; l -peoplO,
should - be - subjected to the united-execration
of all Christendom, 'and above all the people of
the Loyal States should by as ono man in
their condemnaiion'of the conspirators and
perpetrators of such an enormous crime•—r:
Oh I .that, our armiei, scattered over the-far
Southwest were oribe consolidated to,Steike
stir O death blow at the bead of the despotism
whit% perpetuates this-fearful distress, and
that,-the aufferlugpeOplo of, tholSouthi might
be deliTered: •' ' •
Eventful_ History of a Soldier Wo-
man
The Grand Rapids (Michigan) Engle, tells
the following romantic story :
Mrs. Frances Louisa Clayton called at the
Provost Marshal's office, in this city, Thurs
day, with letters from officers, to procure a
pass to her home in Minnesota. Mrs. Clay
ton enlisted as a private, with her husband,
in a Minnesota reAtent, some two years
si.ice. She was in Rosecrans' army, and
did full duty us a soldier nearly, a year be
fore her see was discovered. While in the
army, the better to conceal her sex, she
learned to drink, smoke, chew and swear with
the best, or worst of the soldiers. She stood
guard, went on picket duty, in rain and storm,
and fought on the field with the rest, and was
considered a good fighting soon.
At the battle of Stone river, while making
a charge, her husband was intently killed by
a ball, just five paces in front of her, in the
front rank. She charged over his body with
the rear line, driving the rebels with the bay
onet ; but was soon struck with a ball in the
hip, and conveyed to the hospital, where her
sex was, of course, discovered. On recover
ing sufficiently to travel, she was' discharged
on the 3d of January last, and sent North.
On the way between Nashville and Louis
ville, a Ir/terrine party attacked the train,
and rubbed her of papers, money, .V.e. After
reaching home and recovering from her
wounds, Mrs. Clayton started for the army a
gain, to recover the papers belonging to her
husband ; but was turned back at Louisville,
and ordered home. By mistake her pass
carried her to Kalamazoo instead of Chicago,
and she was compelled to appJy to the Pro-
Yost Marshal there, who sent her through this
war.
She is a very tall, masculine looking wo
man, Inonzed by exposure to the weather,
and attracted universal attention by her mas
culine stride in walking, erect and soldierly
carriage, and generally mitre appearance.
Some soldiers following her rather too fami
liarly, Thursday evening, she drew a revol
ver and. promptly scattered the . crowd. She
was recognrAld as an old acquaintance by
the keeper of
-an eating house on Monroe
street, who knew her before her marriage,
and knew of her disappearance when her
husband enlistud, and who provided shelter
fur her Thursday night.
REBEL TERMS OF PEACE.
The Richmond Enquirer, of the 16th instant,
in an editorial upon "Peace," 8 ays:—
Sae on our own terms, we can accept no
peace whatever, and must fight till doomsday
rather than yield an iota of them ; and our
terms are 1—
Rvemznition by the enemy of the indepen
denee or the Con!ederate States.
Withdrawal of Yankee forces from every
foot of Confederate ground, including Ken
tucky and Missouri. •
W - ithdrawal of Yankee soldiers from Mary
land until that State ishall decide, by a free
vote, whether she shall remain in the old
or ask admission into the Cunteder-
Consent, on the part of the Federal Gov
ernment to give up to the Confederacy its
propor ion of the navy as it stood at the time
StICCSBIOII, or to pay for the same.
Yielding up all protensions on the part.of
the Feder. 1 Government to . that portion of
the old territories which !ies west of-the Con
federate States.
An equitable settlement, on the basis of
our absolu - y jn lepem!ence and equal rights,
Of all accounts of the public debt and public
lands, and of the advantages accruing from
ft.reign treaties.
'These provisions, we apprehend, comprise
the minimum of what we must require be
fore we lay down on our arias. That is--to
say, the Notth must yield al, ; we nothing.
The whole pretension of that country to pre
vent by force the separation of the States
must be abandoned, which will be equiva
lent to au avowal that our enemies w, re
wrong from the first ; and, of course, as they
waged a causeless and wicked war upon us,
they ought, in strict justice, to be required,
according to usage in such cases, to reitn
:but:se- to-usthe ,whole, of —our expenses -and
losses in the course of that war.
Whether this last proviso is to be insisted
upon or not, certain we are that we c ,un•it
have any peace at all until we shall be in a
position, not only to demand and exact, but
also to enforce and collect the treasure for
our own reimbursement out of the wealthy
cities in the anti Inv's cumin. ) . In other words,
unless we can destroy or scatter their armies
and break up their government, we ctin have
no peace, and it we can do that, then we can,
and ought not only to extort from them our
own full terms, and ample acknowledgment
of their wrong, kat also a handsome indem
nity of the trouble and expense caused to us
by their crime.
THE LEGTSLATURE!
A Union Majority Certain!
Majority in the Senate,
" House,
On joint ballct,
Cann
Union Senators certain, 17
Copperhead, 1G
Majority
ituusE OF REPREShNTATIVES
The llottse of Representatives consists of
one hundred members, of which the Union
men have elected 52 and the Copperheads
4S. Cumilete returns from all the counties
in the State give the following result;
• Union. Dern.
Philadelphia, 11 6
Delaware, 1
Chester, 3
Montgomery, 3
Bucks, .;, ' 2
Northatnplon, 2
Lehigh and Carbon, 2
Mon roe and Pike, 1
Wayne, 1
Luzerne, 3
Susquehanna, 1
Bradford, 2
Wyoming, Sullivan, &c., 2
Lycowing and Clinton, 2
Centre, 1
Atilllin, 1
Union, Snyder and Juniata, ' 2
Northumberland, 1
Schuylkill, "3
Dauphin, (2
Lebanon, 1
Berks, 3
Lancaster, 4 -
York, 2
Cumberland, 1
.
Adams, 1
Franklin and Fulton, 2
Bedford, 1
SomdSet, 1
Huntingdon, . 1
Blair, "1
Cambria, . 1
Indiana, ' • 1
Armstrong and Westatoreland, 3
Fayette, 1
.
Greene,. . ~ , 1
Washington, 2
Allegheny,• , 5
Beaver and Lawrence, - 2
1 Butler, --
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Mercer and Venango, 2
1 . Clarion and Forest, 1
Jefferson,Cletyrfield, &c., , 2
Crawford and Warren, 2. •
Erie, ;'' 2
Potter and Tioga l 2 ~
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CANDIDATES
.oorrrnor,
A. G. Curtin, It 170
G. W. Woodward, 1)... 269
Supreme Judge
Daniel Agnew, R 105
Walter 11. Lowrie, 1)... 263
A. G. Marlatt, It 167
John D. Bowman, D... 265
Prothonotary,
W. Emory Struck, R... 171
Samuel Shireman, 1)... 261
Clerk of the Courts,
Daniel Miller, It 137
Ephraim Cornman, U.. 295
Register,
Chas. E. Kaufman, it... 175
Geo. W. North, I) 257
Treasurer,
— JaenWT: 7.fik,Tlr
Henry S. Ritter, D.
Commissioners,
S. W. Sharp, R., 3 yrs. IG3
Jacob Seiler, It., 2 yrs. 178
John M'Coy, D., 3 yrs. 2GB
M. M'Clellan, 1)., 2 yrs. 252
Director of the Poor,
John W. Faust, It 164
Christian Hartman, I).. 267
A uditor,
Peter S. Artz, R
9. 13. Stevick, 1)
Official Vote for Governor
CQIINTI6B C/
Adams.
Allegheny,
Ardistrong,
Beaver,
Bedford,
Berke,
Blair,
Bradford,
Bucks,.
Butler,
Cambria,
Cameron,
Carbon,
Centre,
Chester,
Clarion,
Clinton,
Clearfield,
Columbia,
Crawford,
Cumberland
Dauphin,
Delaware,
Erie,
Elk,
Fayette,
Franklin,
Fulton,
Forest,
Greene,
Huntingdon, 8,260 2.167 3,226 2,204
Indiana, 3,961 1,955 8,904. 1,967
Jefferson, 1,764 '1,698 1,739 1,695
Juniata, ' 1,456 1,78/ 1,443 1,742
Lancaster, 18,341 7,659 18,354 " 71668
Lawrence, 8,063 1,251 3,064 1,239
Lebanon, 3,658 2,653 3,645 2,653
Lehigh, 13,696 6,626 8,636 6.623
luzerne, 7,022 9.809 6,910 9,849
Lyconliug, 8,414 13,16 i 3,347 3,911
Mercer, ' ' 8,907 d,408 , 3,897 8,403
M 'Kean, 727 622 709 631
Mifflin, 1,709 1,626 1,694 1.627
Monroe, 084 - 2,712 048 2,659
Montgomery, 6,238 7.489 6,176, 7,512
Montour, 1,112 1,447 I_loo_ 1.458
Northampton, 3,465 6.358 2.459 6,540
Northumbead, 2,649 3,856 2.608 3;883
Perry, 2,328 2,2116 2,312 2 , 304
Philadelphia, 44,274 37,193 43,914 37,516
Pike,' ' 270 1,184:- , _.-:268 i 1,166
Potter. ' . 1'.4421 ' 597
Schuylkill, . 6.506 8,647 6.462, '; 8,663
Somerset, .8,064 1,788 _3,960 ' 1,744
Snyder, 1,758- ,I. 881" 1,706 1,820'
Sullivan, ' '859 - 718 . 854 711
Susqueltiana, "4,184,._'2;932 - _4,0 9 8 , 2,930
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Venango, . 3,295 ,2,,979 .3.271 2,981
Warren-4 2,27,4 ,1'886" - 2.216 1.882
Washington, '4,027 4,371 4' 617 4 866
Wayne,.,_ ' 2.191 8.185
Westmoreland, '4,494 5,581 4,473 5;581
W yom i n g, . 1,3 - 9 1,418 1,365 1,431
_York, ' 6,512 8;069 6:657 8,007
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Carlisle Illistriet.
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129
2G3
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274
233
214
197
Mil
2,689 2,917 2,698 2,918
17 708 10,053 17,570 10,355
3,146 .2,977 3,046 2,992
8,057 2,056 8,035 2,059
2,430 2,704 2,358 2.680
6,005 12,627 5.936 12,571
3,283 2.886 3,259 2,418
6,722 2,954 6,565 2,929
6,266 6,836 6 247 6,858
3,228 3,054 3,236 3 023
2,164 8,000 2,138 3,020
2,1111 1,531
3,058 2.680
6,498 7,958
2,698 1,591
1,911 1,592
2 483 1,626
3,842 1,801
4,236
4,695 3,400
3,875 5,015
1,789 3,421
3,260 6,178
8 791 3,093
3,710 3,869
1,022 750
8,091
8,876
701
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80
211
214
313
310
The Ohio Election.
CINCINNATI, October 17.—Returns from the
eighty live counties give Brough 61,482 ma
jority on the home vote, a gain of 66,639.
There are three counties to hear from.
THE IOLDIERS' VOTE
The returns thus far so trough, HUM ;
Vallandigham, 025. This includes most of
the army under Roseerans.
FROM ROSECHANS' ARMY-01110 VOTING-.
nßouoir, 9,424 ; VALLINDIGGAIS, 252
CHATTANOOGA, October 14.—Iteturns .thus
far of the Ohio volunteer infantry in this army
give 9,424 for Bt ough, and 252 for Vallaudig
ham. Seven regiments of infantry and eight
batteries not yet heard from. Over four I eg
iment s Gf cavalry did not vote: they were ab
sent, writing history with their sabres on the
heads r f Vallandighatn's friends. Ohio, lost
5,000 Union votes at Chickamauga. We that
are left greet John Brough again. Give us
the news from home J. A GARFIELD.
2,114
a 058
5,621
2.608
1,908
2,484
3,346
01110 SOLDIERS AT ELMIRA, NEW YOUR
The following, is the vote of Ohio soldiers
at Barracks No. 8, Elmira, New Yo'rk, be-
longing to the Invalid Corps After the vote
was taken they burned Vallandigham in effigy,
but refused a burial of the remains within tho
precincts of their camp. ,It,,yas,:itnattietnn
occasion of rejoicing over tho success of aro
vote for the Union.
Brough 68
vamandi g ham 1
Mrdurnts, October 14.—The voting by the
lowa and Ohio soldiers passed off quietly.—
The vote of General Pollees Ohio brigade is :
1,681, Vallandigham 91.
4,116
8.908
1,820
3,2b8
3,771
3,710
1,026
The Union. Pyramid for 1883.
The elections bell thus far this year form
the following pyramid ,
OHIO.
lOWA. .
MAINE.
• 'INDIANA. •
VERMONT,
NEBRASKA.
KENTUCKY.
CALIFORNIA.
CONNECTICUT. , .
RHODE ISLAND.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
PENNSYLVANIA
Middlesex. Teachers Institute:
Agreeably to a previous appointment, Hip
Teachers of Middlesex Township, convened at
"Harmony Hall," on ThuradaY eVening,
I6th:1868, for the purpose of 'Netit4atilidugtu
lootiluto. • • . _ • •••rt• •
The house was called to order t ? ,,t iitoCk.
and - the exercises opened -with singing. by
Obese of his mmHg, [aloe Which a iery appro
priate prayer was offered by the Rev L'lloin
berger- in behalf of (hi cause of education: t
The Teachers then proceeded to, the oleo.
Lion of officers, when, on motion. the folloivAuff
Cintikett persons were
,unaniniously electe d, . for
the ensuing winter Pres. Joo., f“
Zeigler,
See. J. C.,Stock, Asst.'. See. Witi. W. Ileagy„
• -On motion, the, old Constitution wag thba
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