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PA.
Friday, Oct. 30, 1863.
S. M. PETTESGILI. & CO.,
LO. 37 'Park Row, New York, and 6
State Ft. Ilesten, are our Agents for the HERALD
In thogo rtttee and are authorised to take Advertise
mutts and Sonserlptlons for un at our lowest rates.
300,000 MORE MEN
As our readers are aware, the President
has issued a proclamation calling for three
hundred thousand more men, and allowing un
til January 1, 1804 to recruit them ; after
which they will be drafted. The quota for
Pennsylvania and Cutuberland county h .s not
yet been made known, but as soon as it is,
Gov. Curtin will issue his proclamation, call
ing the attention of the people to the impor.
tauce of raising them immediately. As soon
as the quota of the county is known, we will
have seine suggestions to make, which we
hope will induce our people to lake the mat.
ter in hand and raise our quota without a
draft. AL this time we shall do no more than
refer to the matter, and hope the attention of
our citizens in each of the districts will be
turned to the subject.
Dar During the draft just ended the Cop.
perhelds took occasion to array the poor
against the rich, because of the three hundred
dollar exemption clause. dt is now proposed
that immediately on the meeting of Congress
in December, that Congress repeal that clause,
and compel all to go or furnish a substitute.
This, we guets,„ would make some Copper
heads " falynto line" who have been very
loud in their denunciation of this rich man's
law.
rairThe lace triumphs of Unionism in
Pennsylvania, - Ohio villa lowa, have shown to
the world that: Gov. SEYMOUR is a pretty
shrewd man. When the Pnesident called
for "301),000 more," and asked for then as
volunteers, SEYMOUR issued a proclamation
which is very patriotic and at the some Lime
will not offend soy copperhead who has "eyes
to see." Ile knows how it would affect the
election if lie were to oppose the President's
Proclamation and he eecs by the result in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, that the " mad-dog"
cry of draft, enormous taxes, habeas corpus,
un-constitutional, etc., are played out and
that the great peoi le of the Union cannot be
swerved from their fidelity to our cause, even
by his friends," inure commonly known as
New York rioters_ May the 0 . 0 , 1 work
_go
on, and [nay the converts to Unionism and
loyalty to our institutions, multiply !
Tne $3OO EXEMPFU,N.—The Washingiort
correspondent of the New York Evening
Post says that there is talk in military cir
cles of an early rercal of one of the sections
of the Conseriplion act by the new Congress
—that w ich provides fir temporary cxem
tion by the payment of three hundred dollars.
This will he urged in December, of it i not
improbable that when the next draft is made,
should the quotas not be made by volunteer
ing, exemption by the payment of mei ey
will be impossible.
The repeal of the $3OO exemption clause
of the Conscription Art, will take away- the
great argument of the Copperheads against
the Conscription Act.
OF T 111.: OIL Iti.:otox.—Veintn
go county l l'a., is the seat of the famous
petroleum trade. All the wells are located
in the valley of Oil creek, Vena'ngo county.
At the Governor's election, in the year 18.60,
this county polled 4713 votes. At the State
election, in the year 1862, the aggregate
vote polled in the cone ty was 5060. This
year the vote rolls up to 6:26.5. These figures
indicate iu soot,, degree the steady and re
maxi; dde progress of settlement and increase
of population in the oil region. The vote
indicates a populatibn equal to that of Leb
anon c ,unty, so that Venango is fast be
coming one of the most populous and flour
ishing, counties in the commonwealth. At
the rate of progress already shown, the vote
of the county at the election next fall well
be apt to reach some 8000. It seems scarce
ly conceivable that a few years since this
county was one of the wildest and most
sparsely settled in Pennsylvania.
Ite,,The Philadelphia Evening Journal, for
a long time the espouser of those principles
which falsely hear the name of Democratic,
has drawn its last breath. It issued its last,
number on Saturday afternoon, and ono of
the proprietors informed the hands that they
might go to the devil for their pay. We have
always thought his Satanic Majesty,. or some
other fiend, wrote its editorials. These rebel
sheets have a hard time of it. In thO south
they perish for want of paper, and in the
North they die ea account of so few traitors
to rend them. Verily, "the way of the
transgressor is hard," even though they kneel
at the shrine of the " divine blessing" of sla•
very.
DS. THE Old School Presbyterian Synod
of Baltimore convened in Washington, D.
C., a few days ago. Five Presbyteries (Car
lisle, Baltimore, Winchester, Eastern Mary
land, and Potomac,) are represented in this
Synod. We notice by the proceedings pub
lished, that the Sabbath services were con
ducted principally by clergymen belonging
to the Presbytery of Carlisle. On Saturday
afternoon the members of the Synod called
upon the President, in a body, at the Execu
tive Mansion. The Moderator introduced
the members to the President, in a few re
marks, which were responded to by Mr. Lin
coln, who thanked them fur the visit, as well
as for their prayers in his 'behalf.
The Synod of Pennsylvania (New Schopl)
is also in session at Washington. Among
the Presbyterh-s embraced in this Synod is
that of Harrisburg. The members, in a
body, paid their respects to the President on
Thursday last, and were kindly received.
The Synod has adjourned sine die.
PARTRItiE SIIOOTING.—This sport commen
ced on the 15th inst., and will continue un
til the Ist of January next: As a natural
consequence many of our citizens started
upon the war path of poor "Bob White," Who
will be obliged to lteep. cover very closely if
ho wants to escape the vigilant and untiring
search of his remorseless enemy-the gun
ner !,
The South Middleton Majority
Last week we gave our readers a glimpse
at the causes which produced the enormous
copperhead majority in South • Middleton
township. We specified several of these
among which were the notorious malversa-
Lions of the assessor; we then cited the case'
of Thos. WILSON, a rebel•soldier as indispu
table evidence orthe truth of these charges,
giving the names of the men engaged in the
disreputable swindle of jockeying his vote in
to the ballot box. The Volunteer, noticing
our article in its own happy style, says that
" there is not a particle of truth in our state
ment." Now the sworn statement of this reb
el—whose veracity the Volunteer will certain
ly not question—is that almost five years
ago, when ho was but twenty years old, he
left Pennsylvania and removed to Illinois;
after about a year's residence in that State,
he removed to Louisiana, from which State
he claims to have been conscripted into the
rebel army. Ile further states that, for al
most two years he was an active, earnest reb
el in arms against the United States, that he
was captured at 'Gettysburg and subsequently
escaped from his captors, came into Cumber
land county and had been employed on, the
farm of Geo. SEARIGIIT, where we have no
doubt lie found the sympathy and comfort his
antecedents entitled him to. The eircum•
stances attending his voting are substantially
as detailed last week. Now to prove the
truth or falsity of this statement we call the
attention of the District, Attorney to it, and
ask that he simply do his duty in the premi
ses, and if the result does not show that there
are several other persons equally culpable
with WILSON, we will admit that Woodward's
majority is an honest one. Come, Mr. Vol
unteer, help us to sift this matter, and clear
your own skirts of the charge of aiding the
stuffing of Pennsylvania ballot-boxes with the
votes of JEFF DAVIS' soldiers.
The Interest of American Laborers
If American laborers need any insight into
the designs of the Southern leaders of this re.
bellion as regards labor and American labor
ers, there is no lack of light, no doubtfulness
of meaning, in their own declarations._
Said Deßow, in the New Orleans Review :
" The right to govern resoles in a very am ill
mtnorto : the duty to obey is tnlaerent in the
great MUSS of mankind."
Sprat t, of South Carolina, in adlress to the
Confederate Congress at I.(satgotriery, in 1881
said: "The contest, now pea ling is not be
tween the North anl South 111 geographical
sections ;' nor between people of the North
and the people of the South, fur oar relations
_ltii,ce,AsKu r plt;al.4nt,. Lkat .c.o.tatost
lies between the two bonny of society." Sucie•
ty is essentially didereat from government "
" lii the uuu, the reins of g eiernmeut come
front the heels; in the other, from the head
of the society." The principle that al' men am e
cqual would It ice b en dy.tractive of sherry at
(hr 'nth '
But the dec!nt atiun of the Charlest , m .1/ . r
ry —so well known —k outright an•l unruis
tttkable: " Siaerry the rzalarat and n,raial
condition of the laborinj 73.111, whether white or
Such, then, is the issue distinctly present
ed before Atn,!ricati lab,irers, in this war of
the rebellion. On the one side, slave labor,
—on the other, free Labor; on the ono side,
labor degrade I,—on the other, labor hon
oretl; on the one silo, the acknowledgement
of universal equality under the Constitution,
—on the other, express and irrevocable deni
al of the constitutional declaration of equali
ty itself.
General Itoseerans' Successor
Major General George 11. Thomas, the
successor of General Rosecrans to the com
mand of the Army of the Cumberland, is
s p o k en of as a splendid officer, and, indeed,
the nold in
_which he acquited him
self at Mill Springs, Stone River, and recent
ly at Chickamatra, where his single division
foiled the maneuvers of Bragg's entire army,
must entitle him the highest credit. The
National Intelligeneer, several weeks ago,
said of him : "Ile was in the regular army
for twelve years without being absent a day
from his post. Just before the breaking out
of the war he obtained twelve months' leave
of absence, but before the expiration of three
months of the time Fort Sumpter was fired
upon he returned to duty, where he has
been ever since, without being absent a
single day." This is high praise, but assured
ly nut undeserved., An officer of the regu
lar service, who has long enjoyed the ac
qti;ltintance of General Thomas, states that
lie was eighteen years in the army without
being absent from his post. The following
anecdote, as serving to show his rare fideli
ty to the claims of duty, is eminently char
acteristic of the man : While our army was
lying at Murfreesboro, Gen. Thomas was
asked when he intended to visit Nashville,
thirty miles distant, "Why," ho replied, • "I
have been trying for some time to find an
excuse to go up there, but cannot do it. I
am not sick ; have duties hero, and really
don't know what excuse I could offer for
going away." So it would seem that fidelity
and courage are qualities not lacking in the
composition of General Thomas; and though
he should possess but a tithe of the dash and
energy that have distinguished Major Gen
eral Grant, now his superior, he must win
for himself a still prouder name in time an
nals of the Western army, and exercise a
controlling influence in moulding the issues
of the Tennessee campaign.
gerTRANSPLA NT' so Inms.—This is the
best season of the year for transplanting fruit
or shade trees of all kinds. Any time in
the fall before the ground freezes deeply will
do. Persons having unoccupied lands, yards,
&„0., should plant them with trees. The re
sult will amply pay the cost of labor and
yield a thousand per cent. in satisfaction,
comfort and beauty. Our Farmers' fields are
too bare of fruit trees. There should be suf
ficient to furnish cattle with a shade during
the heat of the'day under a summer sun.—
There - is land enough that might be well oc
cupied for this purpose.
A. MONSTER GUN.—The patterns have
been made and preparations commenced-at
the Fort Pitt foundry, Pittsburg, for the caat
ings "of a gun which will have a bore of
twenty inches. Its length will be twenty
feet, and its greatest dituneter at the breach,
five feet - Tour inches. It will weigh about
114,000 pounds.
Changing Commanders
The New York Tribuqe, in si:talking of
the recent change of commanders in the
Army of the-Cumberland, truthfully remarks
that there twort reasons for borrowing less
trouble than (Id? some of its-cotemporaries in
regard to charges of commanders for sever
al armies of the Union. One is a consci
ousness that the President and his civil and
military advisers are far better informed
than we or any of the writers can be with
regards to the capacities, the merits, the
achievements and the shortcomings, of our
various generals in the field. He who can
imagine that there is any warrant for the in
sinuations of the viler Copperhead journals
that generals are displaced under the im
pulse of jealousy, or any other unworthy mo
tive, ought to let his feet follow his heart in
to the Confederate camps. Of all men; on
this earth, the President and his Cabinetare
most anxious that the war shall be honor
ably closed at the earliest moment, and are
straining every nerve to that sole end. Mis
takes and errors they may and doubtless do
commit; but that they ever displaced a
general because they feared he would prove
too successful or too popular, is a calumny
too absurdly malicious to deserve refutation.
They are doing their very best to _bring
the War speedily to a beneficent close; and
they promote or relieve generals with a sin
gle eye to this end. When we know all the
facts in any case, we may judge that they
have erred in their decision wills regard to
it; but not till then.
In the second place we feel sure that
there are men now filling subordinate posi
tions in the national service's that are etni
neatly qualified for high commands, and we
are anxious to see them so placed that they
may conclusively demonstrate their capacity.
Now every change increases probability that
these may be soon placed where they should
be. If a general proves not fully up to his
work it is sheer imbecility to keep him in
command on the plea that you know not
who would do better. Replace him by the
best man you know; he can at the worst but
fail, and thus give you opportunity to make
a fresh selection. If your predestined Na
poleon is yet a corporal this change may
very possibly advance hitn to the rank of a
sergeant and to get one step nearer to him
is worth an effort. Almost everybody was
troubled and depressed by the tidings that
Meade had replaced Hooker ;_yet the Army
of the Potomac fought its most creditable
battle under its new commander only five
[flys - nftcrwards, - d - won"tt - victory t h aUcle c
trilled the country.
Le' us trust our Government. It is doing
its very best ; and its progress during the
prese4 year has been great. Copperhead
oracles dilate on the fact that Lee's army
was within a day's march of Washington and,
draw thence the cciicluion that the war has
mildp , no progress during, the past two years.
They shut their eyes at Putt Royal, Roanoke
Newhern, N ew Orleans, Port Do—nel
son, Nashville, Corinth, Murfreesboro, Vicks
burg, Helena, Port Hudson, Little Rock, &c.,
&c., and confine their vision to one spot, and
test the success or failure of the war by our
progress at this point alone. But, even
thus unfai ly considered, Our progress has
be n considerable since the rebels obstruct
ed the lower Potomac on one side and the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad on the other,
beleaguering with fifty thousand men the
Federal Metropolis and McClellan's army
one hundred and fifty thousand strong.—
These days of humiliation are happily
passed, and can hardly return but through
the restoration of their master-spirit to the
position he so grossly forfeited. Our acting
Generals may not be Marlboroughs, but they
are certainly a great improvement on those
of our earlier and darker day,
We entreat those in authority to put faith
in the people, anti never fail to do the right
thing at the very instar.t that its wisdom be
comes apparent. Never fear to do exactly
what ought to be done, and you will infalli
bly secure that public confidence which
weak timidity would righteously sacrifice
while seeking to preserve. "Be just and
fear not."
MODERN ECONOMY OF TIME
The Scientific American thus shows how
time has been economised by the applica
tion of machinery :
Cotton—One man can spin more cotton
yarn now than four hundred men could have
done in the same time iml-760, when Ark
wright, the best cotton-spinner, took out his
first patent.
Flour— One man can make as much flour
in a day now as a hundred and fifty could a
century ago.
Lace—One woman can now make as
much lnc•t in a day as a hundred women
could a hundred years ago.
Sugar—lt now req wires only as many
days to refine sugar as it did months thirty
years ago.
Looking-glasses—lt once required six
months to put quicksilver on a glass ; now it
needs only forty minutes. ,
Engines—The engine of a first rate iron
clad frigate will perform as much work in a
day as forty-two thousand horses.
A JEALOUS 131.usnEtt.—A laughable inci
dent is related of a jealous woman, at Lewis
ton, Maine, who went into an auction room
the other day, and saw (as she supposed)
her husband very familiarly sitting beside a
young lady. Stepping up softly, she seized
a head in each of her hands and pounded
them togeth r a number of times in great
rage. fler surprise may be imagined when
she found that the innocent stranger was not
her "worser half." She - apologized and
passed out amid the laughter of the crowd .
lam• The Reading Gazette is hottest e fr oough
to admit ••that, instead of being surprised at
our defeat, wt; ought to wonder that it was
not, more orti.hing." It is a "wonder that so
many could be seduced into voting for such a
party ; but after the lesson.they have learned,
it in not likely they will ever be caught is so
foolish and censurable a serape
oar Miss Kate Chase, daughter of the
United:Sttes Secretary of the Treasury, will
be married to Hon. William Sprague, Rhode
Island United States Senator, on the 12th . of
November.
Statistics of the War.
An• statement of the number of
troops raised by the several States and terri
tories for tiro'; defence of the Union in ,the
pending' war, down to January Ist, 1863,
makes the aggregate 1,276,246 of all class
es, t.f which over a million were for the full
term,of titre; years. This -enormous array
of figures sufficiently attests the fighting ea
pacify of the republic, and when we consi l
er the vast number of troops raised in the
rebel States by conscription and every other
means, the total is well calculated to excite
the amazement even if our own countrymen.
Much as we are apt to say that this war is
unparalled for magnitude, few of us have
been prepared to find the official 'statistics
of it reaching such formidable proportions.
Our own commonwealth appears to have
contributed no less than two hundred thous
and men, an army in itself, raised from a
population of only three - millions. No na
tion of Europe, great or small, can equal
this relatively. No people of the same num
ber have, within our recollection, raised such
an array of troops. And yet we show no
signs of exhaustion. Our resources of fight
ing men are as great now, apparently, as
when the war broke out ; and after this great
drain of our male population, we have polled
more votes at the recent State election than
at any former election in our history.
Nothing could more forcibly illustrate the
terrible strength of the republic. We are
but a single State of the thirty-five, and not
the largest, and yet we have sent forth from
our borders en army nearly equal rig in
numbers that upon which England depends
for her defence. Our paper armies, which
the world had regarded as impossible things,
have shown in the hour of trial that they
were realties of the most fearful kind. We
had but to call them, and they came, pre
pared for battle to the direst extremity.
Important Recruiting Regulations
The following regulations approved by the
Secretary of War, are being promulgated by
the Provost-Marshal-General :
- Distriet Agents t re - to he appointed by
the Provost-Marshal-General to arrest deser
ters and procure recruits.
$3O reward will be paid fur the apprehen
sion and delivery of a deserter.
$25 premium-will be paid to the agents
for each accepted recruit presented by them
who have served in the army at least nine
months, [lad been honorably discharged fur
other cause than disability.
$l5 premium will be paid fur all o her ac
cepted recruits.
The money received from drafted persons
as an - r*memistion *am - sort-ire-iv-shall-consti
tute a substitute fail for the payment of
premiums and bounty to recruits.
The total amount of bounty paid to each
recruit is $lO2, 01 which he will receive $75
cash before leaving the general reilde4Vl):lB.
The balance will be paid to him by install
ments according to rxisiing regulations.
The monthly cionpensitiiim ul soldi.tirs en
listed under this order will be at the follow
ing rates :
If continued in the Fie vice three year--;.—
_Vateran Volunteers s2l_; _alter volunteers
not veteran, 21 30.
If hmmrably mustered out in less than two
ye trs, the monthly rate of compen-ation
will be increased as the term of service is
diminished.
if the Government shall not require these
troops for th full term of three years, and
they shall b innor
t t
ithly mustered out betori
iv
the expir y of their term of enlistment,
they shall receive the whole amount of b un
ty remainit.g unpaid the same as if the lull
term had been served. Legal heirs of le
emits who die in the service, shall he eiitiiied
to the whole bounty remaining unpaid- lit
the time of the soldier's death.
Any person practicing or attempting to
practice fraud ur imposition either to the
Government or the recruit shall be sum
marily dealt with, by a military commission.
Men enlisted under this Lrder will be as
signed to old regiments.
Consecration of the Sodiers' Na
tional Cemetery.
David Willis, Eeq., of Gettysburg, Pa., the
agent of the Goveinor of Pennsylvania, and
the projector of the idea of erecting a ceme
tery and monument in memory of the dead
who fell at the battle of Gettysburg, states
that the consecration will take place on Thurs
day, the 19th'of November next, when it k
expected an immense concourse of people will
he present to participate in the ceremonies
lion. Edward Everett is:to deliver the dedica
tory oration, President Lincoln will be pros
ent and participate in the ceremonies. Au
ode or dirge prepared by the poet Longfellow
is to be sung. besides other ceremonies. The
Marine Baud will be in attendance fr m
Washington, besides. other hands of music
from other States. T e Governors of all the
loyal States are expected to he in atten
dunce, as well as the members of the Cab.
inet of the United States and the foreign
ministers, besides many other distinguished
personages. The Marshal of the district of
Columbia will liiiTilFdtiT! of the civic and
Major General Cadwaleder of the military
portion of the procession, composed of caval
ry, artillery and infantry. Arrangements
will bo made with all the railroad companies
to accommodate those who may wish to be
present on the occasion The cemeirey en
closure will contain seventeen acres It is
south of Gettysburg, and embraces a par of
the battle field field where the fiercest con
Slot occurred, and where hundreds wore killed
on both sides.
Order of Major General Birney.
11EAl?QUARTE11.9 BIRNEY'S DIVISION,
THIRD CORPH, Oct olwr 17th, 18113
General Orders, No 93 —The Major Gen
oral oommandieg Division thanks the officers
and men for their admirable conduct during
the late movements Especial en dit is due
to the let Brigade, Col. Collis. to the sth
Michigan Volunteers, the' lot U. 8. Sharp
shooters, and to the 10.11 Massachusetts Bat
tery, Captain Sleeper, for their gallantry in
repulsing the enemy's attack on the head of
the column at Auburn. and to Colonel Collis
for his skill and promptitude in making the
dispositions ordered.
F BittriEr, Major and A. A. 0.
N. B.—The Ist Brigade is the one which
published the patriotic appeal to the loyal cit
'zone of Pennsylvania to vote for Curtin, and
consists of the 671 h, 63d, GBth, 1051 h, 111th
and 141st Pennsylvania regiments.
re,,, LARGE LocomoTivn.—The largest lo
comotive in the United states, if not In the
world, has just been built for the PhiMdel
phin. and Reading Railroad Company, in the
machine shop of this city, It has twelve
driving wheels 43 inches in diameter. The
cylinder is 20 inches in diameter, and the
stroke of the piston 26 inches. The fire boxes
10 feet 8 inches long, and 41i inches wide.—
Inside diameter 48 inches. The weight of the
locomotive when in running order is 106.320
Pounds This locomotive is intended for a
pushing one, to force the , heavy coal trains' up
the grades of the road at the Falls. It was
deli; soil b"y Mr. James MUM°nand and its
construction superintended by him.
It has received the appropriate name of
"POnnsylvania," of which it is a good repre•
sontativo. It has been tried and works to ad
Flintlon.—Reading
OFFICIAL VOTE COMPLETE
Fifteen Thoneand Three Hundred and Twenty
Five Majority for the Government) .
We give below a carefully revise' and Fcom•
pleto tabular statement of the official vote for
Governor and Supreme Judge, as oast ifa
Pennsylvania, October 13, 1833. It wil he
sma by this vole, that the majority for Gov
ernorCurtm is f 5 .345, and of Judge Agnew
12.308, and th it UV,. Curtin leads the Union
candidate for the Supreme Judgeship 5,017
votes. These results are highly gratifying . .
The majorities are large enough to give the
most i-üblimejpreatige to our cause, and to ad
monish us in the future as to the results of a
thorough, active and vigilant organization.
In this connection, it is not out of place to
refer to the fact that Gov. Curtin ran ahead
of the Union county nominees in a majority
of the counties of the State• Wherever our
political opponents made the bitterest fight
on cur candidate personally, in these lo
calities ho received his largest vote, a fact
which seems to indicate the deep hold he has
upon the people, and the determination of the
popular will to sustain Gov. Curtin in his pop
ular position.
Below we give the figures of the vote as it
officially recorded in the Secretary of State's
office :
C.', -" ;...-
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COUNTIES
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C.
Adorns, 2,089 2,917 2,098 2,918
Allegheny, 17,708 10,033 17,750 10,135
Armstrong, 3,146 2,977 3.049 2,992
Beaver;
.3,017 2,056 3,035 2 039
Bedford, 2,431 2,704 2.358 2.980
Berke, 6,095 12,627 5.096 12.671
Blair, 3,283 2.386 3,259 2 118
Bradford, 6,722 2,934 6.563 2,929
Bucks, 6,236 6.836 6 247 6.838
Butler, 3,928 3.051 3,2.10 3 02,1
Cambria, 2,164 3,1100 2,138 3,020
Cameron, 318 216 309 219
Carbon, 1,542 2,119 1.531 2,114
Centre, 2,714 3,038 2 680 3,038
Chester, 7,988 5,498 7.938 5,321
Clarion, 1,618 2,598 1,591 2 608
Clinton, 1,607 1,911 1.592 1,908
Clearfield, 1,531 2 483 1.52)1 2,181
Columbia, 1,801 3,342 1,801 3,34)1
Crawford, 6,141 4,236 6 056 4.103
Cumberland 3,431 1,073 3,400 4,116
Dauphin, 5 965 3,875 5 015 3.908
Delaware, 3,102 1,71 , 9 3 421 1820
Erie, 6,2311 3,260 6,178 3 258
Eik, 336 722 317 731
Fayette, 3,091 3 791 3,098 3,771
Franklin, 3,5;76 3,710 3,8.,9 3,710
Fulton, 761 1,022 730 1,026
Forest, 91 GS 91 ' 51;
arevne, 1,191 2 990 1,440 2,953
11 untingdon 3,260 2,167 3,225 2,204
In liana, 3,961 1.955 3.9n1 I
,Ihri
.I,llei sup, 1,151 1 698 1.7;;A 1,695
.1 uniatli, 1,459 1,731 1.4 11 1,742
Lancaster, 13,311 7,659 13.;1.", 7,969
Lawrence, 3.063 1.251 3,' 1 9 1,216
Lehan,n, 3,658 2 6 - ,3 3.1;15 2,657,
Lehigh, 3.696 3.529 11 6:G
I,llLct 7,0'22 ;$11,; t;
Lyttnuiub, 3,4: I 3. , •; •; IT
Mercer, 3,907 108 3,807 3,103
11 feat, 727 622 709 6•11
.\lOllOl, 1,709 1,026 1,01 1,627
M,nroo, 11;11 2,712 1111 3.639
Nl.l,lgortiery, 6,2143 7,480 6.173 7,3)2
1L); tour, • 1,112 1,417 1 100 1, 138
N Jru: uupfon, 3,463 6,5:18 2 439 6,310
Nut I Liutubead, 2,649 3,336 2.608 3 383
Perry, 2.328 2,296 2,312 2,304
Philadelphia, 44,274 37,193 43,914 37,316
Pike, 270 1,184 238 1.166
Potter, 1,470 619 1,442 597
Schuylkill, 9,506 8,547 9.402 8,593
S , aner,et, 3,064 1,738 3,960 1,711
Snyder, 1,758 1 331 1,733 1,326
Suliivan, 339 713 331 711
811,a 1 iehanna, 4,134 2,932 4 098 2,930
flog t, 4 501 1,617 4,126 1.101
1,-:1111A1, 2,024 1 2:10 1,993 4.238
Ven4ngo, 3,293 2 973 3,271 2,1 p-q
Warren, 2,274 1,386 2.219 1.382
WaAington, 4,627 4 371 4 917 4.366
Wayne, 2,211 3,132 2,194 3,133
Westmoreland, 4,491 3,581 4,473 5 381
Wyoming, 1,3,40 1,418 1,333 1,431
York, 5,512 8,069 5,537 8,097
269 , 251, 171 267,197 2.7)1 Bb9
BE
Guy Curtin's vole
U W. Woudward's vote,
Gov Curtin's majority,
U Agnew's vote,
W. 11. Lowrie's vole,
Agnew'ti majority
NATIONAL GROWTH
The President in his most admirable proc
lamation for a National Thanksi,Tiving, enu
merates among our national blessings the far t
that "Population has steadily increased not
withstanding the waste that has been ;trade
in the camp, the siege and the battle•field,"
and that "the country rejoices in the con
sciousness of augmented strength and vigor,"
This growth in numbers springs, firstly, from
the natural increase in the existing popula
tion of the country, and, secondly, front im
migration. Few people here expected that
tire latter s-urea of national streifoth would
be maintained in a period of civil war. It
seemed preposterous that hundreds of thous
ands of people would leave their native land,
when they enjoyed peace and "strong goy
ernments," to come to a land resounding
with the clash of arms, and reeling under
the mightiest struggle ever witnessed. The
European Press predicted that, in event of
war, the iminigrati at to which we owed in
part our wonderful growth, would dry up.—
But we have been mistaken as well as they.
During the nine past months of the current
year, one hundred and sixty thousands souls
(and bodies) arrived al this poet alone from
Europe, or more than double the entire im
migration of last year. During the bygone
month of September the arrivals numbered
11,38 1 persons. During the first three days
of this month, nearly :1,000 immigrants ar
rived. The gross arrivals of the year will
not fall much short of• two hundred thous
and.
Nutwithstanditw the fearful losses and
embarrassments of the var, we believe that
the next census of the United States will
show a population of forty million freemen
—including, of course, the States and people
of the South, who will all then he hack in
the Union, and will all have taken the oath
of allegiance, except Ji•fr, Davis and other
rebel chiefs, who will either have taken ref
uge in Mexico or in Hades. —N. Times.
=I
Tho Truo and Only Democratic
Part-y
We are heart and soul a denioeratic people ;
and the only party entitled to the democrat
_ic name is the party which hest embodies and
carries out the popular inspiration. That
party just now is not the one which is in s.)
par hy with the wicked insurrection formed to
d'estroy our institutions (and which on that
accept ought to be called the panty of Des
tructives), but the one which is earnestly
struggling, at the cost of Bo much blood and
treasure, to preserve whatever is good and
valuable in those, institutions. The Union
War party, theref64, composed of the sin
cere men of every previous party, which does
not keep its voters at home to divide the pick
ings of office, but sends thorn in a stalwart
phalanx to the field, to defend the Menaced
life of•the nation, is the true and only demo
ratio party. It alone expresses those great
popular truths which lio at the foundation of
our system ; it alone, as it appears by the late
elections, possesses the popular confidence or
the hearty .good will of the people; and it a
lone promises for the future to bear up that
noble inheritance of freedom which we re
ceived
from our ancestors, and to applYin all
its justice and beauty that magnificent theory
of equal human rights which has been the
salmi of our prodigious growth and prosperi
ty herefore—of our unexampled development
of the finest and highest power of civilization
and which is certain to lead us onward in ai
career of wealth, of strength, and of glory—
of popular content and happines, and of nit
tional grandeur—which the great historic na
tions of antiquity, at the summit of their fame,
hut dimly foreshadowed and prophesied.
New York Evening Post.
BALTIMORE CITY ELECTION
Baltimore, on Wednesday, held acaelection
for City Councils, resulting in the success -of
all the unconditional Union candidates.
We hope the above record will convince our
copperhead friends that the North is true to
herself, and will stand by the Government.
OHIO ELECTION
A table of the official and unofficial returns
of the Ohio election for 1863, embracing all
the counties in the State, makes the majority
of [trough, the Union candidate, on the home
vote, 62,000! The soldiers' vote will probe:
bly increase this to 100,000! or more.
I=l
The return of soldiers' votes continue about
the same rate as first received. The (xi itor
Vallandighain, who " waits and watches" on
the Canadian frontier, is properly appreciated
by our gallant soldiers. We give below the
votes of the army as far as they have come to
hand :
Brough. Varhant
Troops at Buchanan, Va., 1,257 none
1211 i Regimen!,
931 11,gi-nietit,
=I
Ohio men in s'h Virginia,
C lhert's brigade, 1.500 22
Troops at Charlestown, Va 2,733 60
100111 Ohio, in E Toun. 295 81
144th Orli°, in E Tenn. 499 none
101111 Ohio, in E Tenn. 475 4
Kmdcle's battery, in E. Tenn. 67 none
Shield's (19111) hat in Er. T 98 none
71hh Regiment., Edgefieid, T. 413
28th Regiment, Beverly, Va. 517 none
Ohio men at Clarksburg, V. 24 11
Cutup Dennison, 135 11
Ohio troops al Nashville, 627 25
In two hospitals tit Nnshvillo 121 none
Huffman linttnl., Johnson's
Island, 191 16
Ohio troot s at Cairo, 60 4
Invalid Cory+. Elmira, N. V. 60 1
In Roseerans' army (in part) 9,420 9 52
Fuller's brigade, Nlemphi4 , , 1,590 91
let Regiment, fleas y Ariil
lery, Covington, Ky. 940 39
Troops at Washington, Alex.
andria and Anappolis, 857 12
Tro, - TA at St. hospitals 60 none
Troops in Philadelphia hospi-
pital 60
27;11, - 30;1i, --- 4? I, - 63,1 - 0:. io
luf , 1,881
11 ijority fnr Brough, 21 681
Where are the Copperhead sohlieri V
•rM OF OHIO lior.ntErts ON MOIMIS ISLAND
)2'
.1 I ' !
1
l‘lr. 11. 11, ()haste I, comthisioned from Ohio
t take the V,.le of Ohio soldiers on Mortis
reports the following:
ri4igh. ur hant
Oltio, 1:19
I. (11iio,
1;7111 (I;ii,),
75th (illio,
107th Ohio,
Hospital,
Total,
lOWA ELECTION
The ele:3 in thi4 State has also re.ultel
in a co•npi , :te Union truimph. Every county
in the State his given inere.ased Union major
Wl=
E J. Pratt, Esq., of lirlependenee, lowa,
one of the Commis , ioners appointed to take
vote of lowa soldiers, furnishes the following
returns of the vote of lowa regiments 4t and
about Corinth :
A
21,
ith,
2.0:1 I.lb
En
2J4,1i1
Gth, 176 9
7th, 359 10
oth, 327 5
10:13, 280 37
1) 322
207,197
234 FS9
17th, 177
25th, 207 70
2611 a, 162 76
30th, 152 90
12,308
ME
39th,
8,1 Cavalry, 671 107
Noneer Corps, 86
o,taclirnent Infantry, 60 3
tat B titery
14111 Infantry,
32.1 lulautry,
ESE
The Burlington Hawkeye, of Saturday says:
'• From the returns now received we behove
that upon the home vote the oopperlmads will
have eight, no wore, out of the ninety coun
ties composing the State. Counting the s al
diers' vote. they will probably, lose every
county excel t Dubuqe, but may possibly car
ry two more The majority for the Union
ticket will reach 16,000 iu the home vote, and
23,000 to 30,000 in all.
Union majorities in 48 counties, 3,187.
Copperhead majority in the same last year
4.946. Union gain in half the State 7,812
The entire Democratic majority last year was
9,542.
ELECTION IN COLORADO.
An extrsot from a letter conveys the ful
lowing welcome intelligence :
“DENYLIII CITY, Oct 3, 1833
"The Territorial election, which came off
on the lot ult , albeit, it was hotly contested
all over the Territory, resulted in a uniform
unconditional Union victory. But one ap.
perhead was elected to either "louse. Many
sage calculations on the influx of sympathi
zers and refugees from other States have
proven fallacious. Loyal emigrants out num•
tiered them, or let thmelection go by default.
At all events, we have a Mean Union Council,
llomdi and Territorial officers from County
Judges down to Constables—glory enough for
one season. The Legislature will not meet
until the first Windily of February next It
is confidently expected that it will be the last
Legisiature under our present organization,
as the ensuing Congress will doubtless pass
an Enabling act, under which Colorado will
present beriolf for admission into the Union
on the first Monday of the ensuing session.—
The people are ripe for it."
NEBRASKA ELECTION
Nebraska, on .tho 13th, hold an election for
members of the Legislature. The House will
stand 27 Unionists to 12 Demoorats ; the
Council 8 Unionists to s,Demoorats.
DON'T Coven AND CRY SO, C HILDREN.—
Bryan's Pulmonie Wafers will relieve you in
ten minutes after use, cure your sore throat
and hoarseness, give tone and Compass to
your voice, - and leave you in perfect singing
order. Procure . a box without delay, put a
hamiful in your pocket, and then bid farewell
to coughi, calks, &c. For sale at S. Elliott's
25 cents•a box,
450 none
430 none
231 none
272 41
233 20
130 0
808 78
STONE, TUTTLE
Ciiiora. Copper
93 13
294 13
302 12
167 90
252 87
ME
INDIANA
The Great ,Union Victories.
Not victories in the field, but better yet—
at the ballot box. It is strictly true that the
most, glorious triumphs over the rebels--
Donelson, Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg
—were of less moment than the victories
over the Copperheads gained at the polls, in
Pennsylvania and Ohio, last Tuesday. The
battle won in the field of blood to-day might
be lost on the next week or the next day
but that won at the ballot-box stands. Tues
day's work secured loyal Governors for the
great States of Ohio and Pennsylvania for
two and three years to come. No vicissi
tudes of fortune can take away the fruits of
these great successes. Combined with sim
ilar results in the other leading States, they
in fact put the triumph of the national cause
beyond all contingency. From the begin
ning it has been certain that the North had
a strength sufficient - to Sub d ue the rebellion,
and sure to do it if kept true to the Govern
ment. The only real danger has been that
this strength would be divided and made of
no effect, by the arts of seditious and factious
men. The most unt.ring, drills have been
made to accomplish , this_ Every machina
tion known to political craft has been ap
plied. The. Confederate generals who have
fought against the Government have not
displayed one whit more skill or persever
ance than the Copperhead leaders who have
intrigued against the Government. his the
grande-t event of the times that these intri
gues have been baffled by the intelligence
and pakriotisin of the people,. It is now suh
stanttally settled that the North, in all its of
finial agencies, will stand firmly by the Gov
ernment to the end of the war, and that its
factious Minority will remain powerless for
mischief. The settlement of this lact was
all that was wanted to settle the issue of the
war itself.
Vet the result is a matter of no sirprise to
men who understand the real character of
the Ainetiean people. With such, there
never was any very serious apprehension
that the great heart of the North could be
alienated into a practical desertion of their
Government, V. hen it was struggling with
arm .d traitors for its existence. They could
nut
_help believing that the popular heart
was too sound for any reereancy ; that its
honest insti,:cts would prevail o.er all the
wretche 1 sopliistries so constantly addressed
to the popular mind.
Demagogues thought they were a doing
grand business in hulling out Vallandig,haux
as a martyr to the, constitutional right of free
speech.. They really imagined that they had
only to make out by the card" that his ar
rest was out of the line of civil precedent, to
induce the people to put the lii:thest trusts of
the S , ri.!e into his hands. Their whole theory
was, tf.at the people were we ik enough and
fatsa enough to be ready to saeruli.le the Gov
ernment itself, rather than any of its forms
and ordinary preeedures. Ther'e never was
a nowe complete tlelasi , ,n. The present gen
eration .tf Americans under.,tand the value of
fixed price--es of law quite as we:l as their
father- del, and iu ordinary times ia,.1,3t with
quite as much earnestness that they shall bo
followed. hut, for :ill that, they are none the
le-s able ro'rea'.lzo ;hat - a state of mir brings
with it IS peculiar war rjlTCrg, n d that the
President, us Commander•in Chief, may use
thus,. powers, on his official responsibility,
for the puldte, ~ a fety Knowing that Vallan
.digham was :Cousing Ins tree speech for the
prmnotion „!'sedition au I rebelboa, and as
sured th it President I,;neoln in good faith
eoomidered II a !labia: tieee,•ily that he should
be stopped in his evil caller. the people of
Ohm have, without the slightest misgiving,
crushed Mtn cith 'helm nmuntamous vote.
Ju-t in Peritt , ylvattia It was fancied
that the people cauiti be in•lticed to make
in lge Wuod,v:ir t their (Jose:110r by preten
ces that. whi'e he was an opponent of the Ad
ministration, he was still for a vigorous pros
ecution of the war. Stump orators vocifera
ted this into the popular ear through all the
State ; and not content with the impression
this might make, Gen. :McClellan gavellis tes
timony that the Cupperheal candidate was a
goo• 1 Liter of the re:,alten, and a
,thorough
war titan. But no artifice could blind the
people to the plain Eked that there cool I be
no honest support of the war which did not.
inv. Ice :in !wile-I ~, u pp.)rt of the nuthoritie9
who prosecuted the war. The patriotic spirits
of the ptatple revolte I against all
of this false pretension, and thong to the dust
the men who dared to us.., IL All this, too,
in spite of the fact that a hundred thousand
of the best patriots of the hale—engaged in
their country's service fur away—had no part
in the business.
The result in Ohio and Pennsylvania ought
to give faction its final cpuetus all through
the North. The canvass was condueted on
different grounds in the two States, and alike
thoroughly in both. Its termination
in both ought to be taken as a demon-t ration
that the struggle of the Northern malcontents
is as futile ns the struggle of the Southern
rebels. If any additional proof is needed,
Now York will furnish it in a shape that will
etvisly the most inctedulous But the man
mutt he stone Win I who cannot discover
already that Copperhead:sm 13:is had its day.
Take what form it may, the pe,ple recognize
it, and put their heel upon 1". Tunes.
A Glorious Democratic Triumph.
THE ELECTIONS IN PENNSYLVANIA &
01110
No man of a particle of practical ander
standmg can mistake the meaning of the prac
tical re,ults achieved in th• States
3 m•terday. They hem- but one interpretation.
That is, that the people of this country—the
great democratic - nutsseq— without regard to
parties or prejudices, are determined to main
tain their government in tali its integrity and
strength. In other works, the elections show
a glorious democratic uprising in defence of
democratic institutions. .1 wretched and pea.
tilent friction, which has falsely assumed the
time honored democratic name in the intereqs
of its hypocritical leaders. has been swept 8-
way by the mighty popular flood The peo
ple, scorning all party deidgnat ions when their
country is in danger, say to these mousing
schemers : "We are the only democracy, and
we mean to sustain the Covernment and fight
the battle until every insolent - traitor has laid
down his arms."
That's the primary lesson of the hour, and
a le*A'sort involving the future in many wayti.
Both the peace men of the North and the
wor men of the South received a stunning
blow yesterday. The elections are disclosing
state of public sentiment which neither the
rebels nor copperheads were prepared—a un
ion of men of all parties in support of the Gov
ernment and in stern opposition to the rebell
ion, which will strengthen by many hundred
thouiands the peace party in the South, and
do as much to persuade the Southern people
of the hopelessness of rebellion and- of the
wisdom of submission to the laws as any vic
tory in the field.
In Ohio, Vallandigham. the special friend of
the rr bel lenders, has been beaten by an un
precedented majority. Governor Brought has
been r lected by a trnjority of probably seven
ty-five and perhals one hundred thousand.—
In l'enr Sylvania, Governor Curtin has been
reelected hn spite of the utmost efforts of the
copperheads. and by a heavy majority, In
Newark the local elections held yesterday as
tonklied even the Pition nun by their result;
the democratic majorities were cut down, and
the Union men elected their racket in weeds'
where they did not look for success. In In-'
dinna, a few days ago, local' elections were
held, • with almost uniform, success for tho
Union ticket.
The people at home aro affected with the
same spirit which animates their brothers, the
soldiers in - the, field. They feel that leis . nee
essary above all thinizs to present a united
front to the enemy ; they know that the rebels
are encouraged by every sign of disunion in
the North, and they do not mean to prolong
the war, and revive the failing hopi , s of the
rebels by any.such divi.ions.—N. Y. Evenina
Post, Oct. 14, .