ADDRESS AND RESOLUTIONS
Mr. Geo. Bergner, from the Committee on
'Resolutions and Address, submitted the fol
luwing : ,
To The People of Pennsylvania :
In presenting the name of Abraham Lin
coln, for re-election to the Presidency, to our
fellow-citizens of Pennsylvania and of the
other loyal States, we are constrained by a
high sense of what is due to the principle
involved briefly to set forth the reasons
which impel us to this preference. In doing
so, we desire eniphatically to state that our
ardent purpose to secure the re-election of
the present Chief Magistrate of the Union is
controlled by uo hasty intention to neutral
ize the high claims to patriotism of otffer
statesmen mentioned in connection with the
same great office by the Union men of the
country; nor to have it manifest, either, that
we are controlled by any selfish adherence
to a mere man, iu this the hour of a free peo
.ple's struggle for their existence. The rea
sons which urge us to advocate the
re-election of Abraham Lincoln, are such
as must influence all patriotic men in
adopting measures that will best subserve
the safety and purity of the Government,
the honor and glory of its people, with their
speedy triumph over the murderous combi
nations of a wicked rebellion. The Admin
istration, in all its attitudes, presents the
power of the Government in all its might
and majesty. Whatever effects the one, must
more or less, influence and impair the other.
If the Government should be defeated, the
overthrow of the Administration must of
course follow. If the conspirators, who do
the bidding of Jefferson Davis, triumph, nec
essarily the brave men who obey the sum
mons and enter in the fight for the Union,
under the general direction of the President
of the United States, must also be defeated,
and as they go down, the President ceases
to be the representative of national power;
and as all these perish, so, too, will all men
who are now free and independent, either be
sacrificed to the horrors of war, or be doomed
to the still gkeater horrors of slavery. Prom
these alternatives there is no escape. Our
political enemies have so couched their bat
tle cry as to render most odious those who
now represent the National authority ; while
our armed foes, (the natural allies of those
opposed to us politically) have schooled
their followers in the same prejnilices. So
closely are these identified, even now it is
boasted in the revolted States as being only
necessary fir the success of rebellion, that
the peace Democracy should succeed in the
, loyal States ; while the peace Democracy
insist, as the basis of their success, that the
rebellion must first become a military tri
- utrephi----This--4s-not-o-tr-o?strurptioir- of 'Tint'
own to make an argument against our ene
mies. The history of the whole course of
the slaveholders rebellion corroborates it on
the one side, while the career of those who
sympathize with treaso3 affirms it on the
other. hence the necessity of so identifying
the Administration with the Government in
the coming political contest, as to make them
inseparable—the one as potential as the
other—invincible against their combined
enemies, North and South, This ran only ler
done by the re-nominalzon and r'e-Archon of
Abraham Lincoln. Until the rebellion is put
, town,i - or-at=-leastuntidits - itrint.d-fette and
vigor are broken, there should lie no chauge
in the Administration representing the Gov
ernment. Obvious reasons ithpress us with
the importance of this position. A change
of meu would involve a change of measures;
so that while the loyal States were under
going such a revulsion, the States that are
iu rebellion would be atiVided time to gather
new-strength wherewith poSsibly to over
whelm and destroy the Government. Cam
paigns then just projected would be immedi
ately countermanded to appease the rage of
partizan rivalry. Leaders fairly tried would
be reduced in command to inake rutin] for the
ambitious, incompetent roil useless imbecile
The depreciation of the currency, now so
eagerly aimed at, would then be speedily
accomplished. The 1 nin of the national
credit, now treated as it jest, would then be
received as a reality, and mocked as a de
serving result. Our diplomacy would
become the channel of conveying to the na
tions of the world t'L evidence of our inter
nal broils and the facts of our national
weakness. And thus, with schi sal wh ere
the Union is now strong and antagonisms
where cordiality now prevails, the general
wreck of the Government wool t mark the
imprudent chauge in its present administra
tion, and the enslavement of a people who
are now free and independent, conclude the
bleak record of the nation's decline and fall.
If a nation's safety is worth a party's no
blest efforts, then indeed have we, Claiming
to be the lryal men of the land, and ready
to sacrifice all that is dear ur valuable, the,
noblest incentives to labor for our political
success. Believing, as we do, that there is
but one principle of politics now animating
the public heart—and that principle involv
ing the purity of the government and the
freedom of the governed—our duty heroines
at once plain, forcible and binding. In the
performance of this duty, we are asked to
make no sacrifices. On the contrary, we are
invoked to contend against the sacrifice of
what is essentially necessary for the perma
nency of the Government. We are asked to
harmonize our political organizatian, and to
unite on a tried and faithful servant, in order
that the contest at the ballot-box may be a
victory worthy of the emulation of our fel-.
low citizens on the battle field, a victory
which will forever seal the doom of treason
in all the States. In the contest for the
Presidency we have it in our power materi
ally to aid those who are currying on a
struggle where blood marks their progress
and death hovers over the combatants. If
we succeed in re-electing Abraham Lincoln,
our brothers iu the field will triumph over
the armed foes of the Government. If we
reaffirm the power of the National Adminis
tration by endorsing the national authorities
in the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, re
hellion must cease. Nothing is surer—noth•
in could be more desirable
' But is not necessaey for us to go into a
history of the National Administration, in
order to make up a claim for the re-election
of Abraham Lincoln. With thatclaim rest
ing on the necessities of the-Government,
and endorsed by the preferences of the peo
ple, any merit which the man may have of
personal virtue and unsallied reputation,
sinks into insignificance. And yet the Am
erican people owe it to themselves as well
as to Abaaham Lincoln, to acknowledge the
influence which his personal virtues have
exercised on the conflict in which we arc
engaged. That influence has more than
once dispelled the grovelling suspicion of
demagogues, and hushed the angry jar of
faction. The firmness of his rule has dis
armed the machinations of the Northern
sympathizers with Southern rebellion. The
impartiality of his official acts and construc
tions, have preserv , A. the Constitution he
swore to support, pure; and the law he was,
pledged to enforce, inviohtte ; so far as his
authority extended and his official power
could be weilded. In the first struggle for
independence, our fathers could not have
bees prodder of Washington, than are we,
in this our struggle for a more perfect inde
pendence, proud of Abraham Liuboln. The
future will enhance the greatness and glory
which cluster around hini in the present
hour. And if we, nobly striving for equita
ble principle and a free Government, can
can secure the services of Abraham Lin !On
in the Presidential chair for another- term,
we will.be conferring the greatest possible
boon upon posterity, by securing the eter
nal perpetuate:L.4f a free Government. To
this end we invoke the cooperation of our
fellow-eitizetig of this and the other loyal
States, We ask all true men to join with us
bra securing, not the mere triumph of a party,
or the continuation of the rule off - a man—
but the success of a principle—the vindiea-
Um:A of a heaven-born, God-inspired right,
that the life, of the, Republic May be pro
longed; the hope of the World once more re
animated, and the down-troddeo_of all coun
tries and , with ,jO , and .glad
nese! • . A • . •
lIIMOLUTIONS
Resolved, That the vindication of the na.-
tfonal honor, and the enforcement of the
national authority, against the aggressions
of a desperate and wicked conspiracy, are
the only objects which should now claim the
attention of parties and engage the efforts
of those u - ho represent the Government.—
Until that authority which is thb supreme
law of the laud is recognized in all its bor
ders, there cannot and dare not be any terms
of peace offered to traitors. Until peace
elicits unqualified and entire submission to
the national authority, war must be waged
while there is an arm left to strike a blow,
and a dollar in the national treasury to sub
sist a soldier.
Resolved, That we heartily endorse the
policy of the National Administration, and
the means employed for the suppression of
rebellion, the punishment of traitors at home
and abroad ; a policy which, if carried out,
will end in the speedy triumph of our arms,
and the security and permanence of the
Government.
Resolved, That we regard the re-nomina
tion and election of Abraham Lincoln to the
Presidency as essential not only to the com
plete overthrow of the slaveholders'
relel
lion, but as necessary to the full organiza
tion and operation of that policy which
alohe can secure the future peace and pros
perity of a restored Union. The purity of
his character, the liberality of his views,
the independence of his action, nod the re
gard whielrhe ever manifests for justice and
right, ft him preeminently for the direction
of the affairs of the nation, until its author
ity is recognized, received and respected in
all the States 'of the American Union.
Resolved, That, in response to the loyal
men of Pennsylvania, and in justice to a
tried and faithful public officer, the thanks
of this convention are hereby tendered to
Andrew C. Curtin Governor of the Com
monwealth. His manly defence of the hon
or and dignity of the State, his unwavering
adherence to its credit, and his vigilant care
of its interests, have had their influence
alike upon the political character of its citi
zens, and the prosperity which now marks
their trade and enterprise, and demands a
people's highest admiration and applause.
Resolved, That the alacrity with which the
Governor of Pennsylvania has contributed,
through the aid of our fellow citizens, to the
National defence, is in keeping with the
characterof loyalty ever borne by the Key
sum, State. 'through the active energy of
Governor Curtin, Pennsylvania has had the
satisfaction of knowing that her State flag
has floated in almost every battle fought
fur the Luion, while no Commonwealth has
_glica,_MOre.,oLif-s l uaterial.means—iet-aitUor
the Government than that which the wisn
and frugal measures of Andrew G. Curtie
have enabled this State to extend to the NA
tional Government.
Resolved, That the highest rewards of the
nation are due to the brave men who are
now in the field, perilrng their lives in a
struggle with a base and-wicked conspiracy;
that we will ever hold in grateful recollec
tion the memory of those wh o have already
perishnd in the fight for the Union, and ex
tend to those who sun ice -to return once
more to their homes, the honor which their
calyx it I.4iriy- and- the,- -peaceful r,e6L
which their labors so eminently deserve.
Resolved, That we thank the loyal mem
bets of the Legislature fur the steady and
! persistent course with which they have
maintained the honor and credit of the Com
monwealth, mid the stern patriotism with
which they also resisted the revolutionary
,clottnes of the minorities in the Senate and
llousy. The .attitude tke majority. in
both branches of the Le islature on the in
terest question and on the enfranchisement
of the soldier, was controlled alike lir a re
gard for economy and a determination to
recognize in the defenders of the Union citi
zeus, deserving the highest rank and fran
chises;- while the course of general legisla
tion has been such at least as to deserve for
the Legislature during the session about to
close, our .rank approval.
Resolved, That the thanks of the whole
people are due to the gallant men who arc
now in the lead of our armies, and that we
hold uurst•lres in readiness, at a moment's
warning, to second the efforts of these ,to
render the summer campaign against trea
son, the final end of the struggle for the
peace of the country and the full recogni
tion of the authority of '.he Government in
all the States.
The reading of the foregoing address and
resolutions was frequently interrupted by
the heartiest applause, and they were adopt
ed without a disstinting, voice, amid the
warmest demonstrations of enthusiasm.
Eloquent speeches were then made 1,
lion. M. B. Lowry, of Elie, lion. A. K. Me
Chire, of Franklin, Wm. B. Mann, Esq., of
Philadelphia, lion. Wayne McVeigh, of
Clie, , ter county, Hon. W. W. Ketcham, of
Luzerne county, Hon. Linn Bartholomew
and James H. Campbell, of Schuylkill Co.
On motion of Mr. Bergner, the thanks of
the convention were tendered to the House
of Representatives for the use of their Hall.
On motion of Mr. Turrel, the thanks o
the convention were tendered to its officers
for the able manner in which they had dis
charged their duties.
The convention thee adjourned
Jh 4 4erald
CARLISLE, PA.
Friday, May 6, 1864.
S. M. PETTENGII.II. & CO.,
O. 37 Park Row, New York, and 6
j .. 1 State St. Boston, aro our Agents for the HERALD
in 'hose cities, and ere authorised to take Advertise-
ments and Subscriptions for us at our lowest rater.
The People's Choice for President,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
A REMARKABLE MILITARY COMPANY —COM
pony D. of the 47th, Pennsylvania Regiment,
shows a most remarkable record, as regards
the relationships of a portion of the men.
Their are four brothers and a cousin, all
named Powell. There are five brothers, all
named Brady, three brothers named Baltzer,
three brothers named Krosier, and three
brothers named Harper, who are also broth
ers•in law of the captain. There are two
brothers and a-eou•io named Shaffer, and a
father-and two sell named Tag. Perhaps
the most singular circumstance is the pre
sence of six pairs of brothers, named Clay,
Charles, Reynolds. Vance, Anthony and Ver-
Lig ; also two step-brothers named Baldwin
and Taylor. These men aro all mainly from
Perry county, Pa. They are mainly of the
old Holland stock, and liver within a circuit
of fifteen miles. They ate all re enlisted men
but two or three.
PM, The reinforcements of General Lee
from South Carolina and Georgia, are rapidly
reaching him. General Beauregard pasted !
through Wilmington with a large force o4i
Thursday last. • All the troops, in Augusta\
WO left for Richmond. General Loogstreet
is ascertained:kr t he at Charlottsville, Va.,
where he holds his army as a reserve,to Gen.
Lee. „General Butler, it is reported, tole.
graphs i to the President that the Rebels are
ibandoning Norlh Carolina and concentrat
ing their forceewith those of Lee for the '46.;
fence .f Virginia
HIGH PRICES
The National Union says the uncalled for
advance in price of almost every article of
household consumpticn, calls loudly for ex
planation. Housekeepers and otheis seem
perfectly willing to be imposed upon; and
some of them take as much pride in.paying
sixty cents for a pound of butter, as they do
in buying silks and satins at three times their
value. This is, in some cases;. shoddy' dis
play, and should not be taken as a fair sam
ple of all. In the first place, what justifies
a farmer in asking sixty cents for his butter
Grass has not advanced beyond its usual
height from "mother earth." Cows are not
much dearer than usual ; labor his not ad
vanced on farms. Again why are eggs thir-
ty-five and forty cents per dozen ? Chickens
have not advanced beyond their nest, where
their eggs are found as usual in abundance.
These two items are named as instances of
extortion, and if the public would refrain
from buying these articles for the space of
thirty dills, we venture to say the price would
not likely continue until the end of that time.
The fluctuation in the price, or rather we
may say, the fictions value of gold has, in
reality, no hearing on butter or eggs; and
although fanners give as an excuse the high
price of sugar, tea and coffee, we venture to
say that few such farmers go beyond rye
coffee, and in some instances use no sugar.
They are acting wisely here, inasmuch as
town-folks should, in some measure, do the
same. Fifty cents , for coffee is a crime, twen
ty cents for sugar a judgment, and a d.)llar
and twenty-five cents per pound for tea a
punishment.
Joking apart, we consider the people touch
to blame in encouraging dealers to the ex
tent they do. One decided determination to
refrain from using to the usual extent many
articles, actually those of luxury, would, in a
very short time, bring dealers to their senses,
who seem to imagine that their customers
are all Shoddyites. Disabuse them of this,
and we venture to say those who give freely
to the Government, without receiving ally
yetaras,ol iLsJavor, in the—way- at- cont Facts
wil: far outnumber those who, for the sake
of display, encourage these tricksters in
their trade:
It is true, a vast atn,,unt of coffee and so
gar goes to the army. and in many instances
passes throgh the hands of speculators ; still
this does not seem to justify the present high
prices.
It is understood that the War Deyartment,
is about taking w.asures to proc .re these
.two_items direct-forthe-artuyi , audniur-coast ,
ting vessels will be the medium through
which this will be accomplished It will
then be seen it the excuse given by our gro
cers that the army demand for sugar and
coffin: is the chief cause of this augmenta
tion of price is correct.
The.,ouccess of which we have, my doubt,
that will attend this movement, will be fully
equal to that which_ would- be -firoduced -at
home. if for thirty days the community
wouhl hold lent during fabulous prices for
Lome luxuries.
A VALUABLE 131PRoVEMENT IN NAIL CUT
LINO !BLS just been applied to one of ~the nail
machines of the Providence Iron Co , of In
dia stre et , by the inventor, Mr John Gould
of Boonton. New Jersey. It consists of a self
feeding apparatus. which is so ingeniously ar
ranged, that p performs every part of the la
bor required of it, with movements so natural
and perfect, that it recommend+ itself to all
lovers of mechanical skill, and would well re
pay a' visit to the works. During the week
that it has been in operation here, it has been
visited by a large number of mechanics and
nailer& who have without an exception pro
nouoced it the best thing of the kind that has
ever been applied to a nail machine. We un•
derstand that a number of the leading menu
facturers are about to put it into general use.
l'rortdence Journal
A .9 ELF EDUCATED NEGRO —The Presby
terian gives an interesting account of a negro
named George. now a private in the Ist Tenn
ease Light Artillery. While a slave on a
Southern plantation he was the playmate of
his master's children, and by close attention
he learned the letters of the alphabet. Some
time afterward be tumid an old speliing book,
and studied it secretly, remembering the order
of the letters, until he was able to read—a
long and tedious process lie then used to
read books, no one suspecting him. Finally his
••young master" studied Latin and Greek, and
George found a Latin grammer, and after
wards a Greek grammer, both of which he la
boriously studied. He was then put in charge
of a distillery, under a new master, whose
family had an Irish• tutor. The latter he
paid with whiskey for private instruction, the
lessons only ceasing from the increasing love
of the liquor overcoming the teacher's stattis
in-the family. Ile is now, by the fortune of
war, a tree man, and in the service of his
country, as stated above.
j'Duatso the invest went of Chattanooga
and the occupation of Lookout Mountain by
the enemy, it was a titatter of some surprise
and speculation. how, when we in the valley
were shivering from the cold, the rebel troops
on the mountain side, almost naked and with
out blankets, managed to keep alive The
mystery was solved after the storming of the
heights. We found at several points on the
slope, where bowlders and' fiat stones had
been FO laid as to form a bed, hollowed slight
ly in the middle. Sometimes the stones were
laid in an ,excavation deep enough to shelter
from the winds. The width of the beds was
the length of a man. They were long enough
to receive fifteen or twenty persops. In
these paved or bouldered couches huge fires
Were built. The wood consumed, the coals,
and ashes were raked out, and ou the warm
stony bed the shivering soldiers disposed
themselves for sleep.
THROAT DISCABZEI.7“We would call atten
tron to •BrOwn'a Bronchial Trochee: We
have found:them efficacious in relieving Irri
tation in the Throat and Bronchia, and would
commend them to' the attention of Public
S 'sabers, and others troubled with affeotions
of the Throat. They Ore 'also an ex6iTient
remedy for Hoarseness resulting from cold.
The Littletdown Railroad alio Bold at pub-
lie .outcry on Thursday last, at $26,100—,
purchased by Ephraim Myers, in trust for
the ,first and. second mortgage bondliolders
and the Hanover Branch Railroad Company.
Ae eionni the conveyance is campleted, a
new corporatioon will be nrganized.
FroJn Washington.
Colored Troops Attacked by Guerrillas.—The
Rebels Put. to • Plight.—Fring heard in
Washington.—lmportant Order of Gen.
Meade.—Death the Penalty for Refit: ing to
do a Soldier's Duties.
WASHINGTON, May 4.
Late Richmond impels received here endna
vor to make light of the massacre of color
ed soldiers at Fort , Pillow. The articles are
written in a jesting vein. No e3ccuse is of
fered to palliate .the fearful offence agoiinst
the laws of war, but the editorials are an
attempt to be witty and factetious over a
horrible crime, which they evidently fear
will lead to a retaliation. This is s'.own by
threats introduced as to what will be done
when word is received that their troops re
ceive a like fate.
It is said that yesirday morning while a
detachment of 'Colored troops where chan
ging position they were attacked by a small
party of guerrillas who suddenly pounced
upon them, but. the neg roes drove them off
without sustaining any loss.
The guerrillas were at work in the neigh
borhood of Manasses, and yesterday a road
train wa attacked, but the rebels were driven
off before they did any damage
Parties from the army to day report hav
ing heard heavy tiring on our left early this
morning.
Major General Meade has issued another
order relative to the men in the army who
refuse to do duty on the gruund that their
time of service has expired, and statinc that
the punishment for such conduct will be
death.
From the information obtained at Roan
oke Island, it appears that our loss was quite
small. while the Rebels' was very severe.
Our killed and wounded who fell in the on
gagement will not amount t one hundred.
while the Rebels have to mourn the loss of
over seventeen hundred of their men The
great disparity of numbers was caused by
the grape, canister and shell that mowed their
way through the Rebel ranks during their
repeated assaults upon the fortifications.
There is a report prevalent that the Rebels,
after capturing the place, gathered together
all the loyal North Carolina soldiers, drew
them up into line, and shot them in cold blood'
It is also said that the blacks remaining in
the town met with a similar fate. Should
there be a confirmation of this, and it be,
proven that the Rebels acted in this ferocious
and inhuman manner, a swift and severe re
tribution should be dealt out to them
Flom: North: Carolina
Little Washington Evacuated. —,Was.cacre of
Persons Accepting the _linnestg of President
Lincoln. —The Rebel Rain Roanoke, ,j-c
New YORK, :llny 4.
:slewhern advicea to April 30th confirm the
evacuation of WaBhington, N. C , by order of
lien. Butler.
After the spiking of the gone and destrue
Lion of as much property as ebuld not be car
ried away, it was discovered that the enemy
had left for Virginia, leaving but seven coin
pities in front of the place.
The rebels havv : tqready_pommonood imaar_
i - tll who have accepted President
Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and pressing
into their ,ervices all capable of bearing arms
Gen Pock is ordered to report to Gen. But
lees Headquarters, for such light duty us his
health will enable him to perform.
It was reported that the rebel ram Roanoke
now at Plymouth, is delaying for the purpose
of mounting- the 200-pounder Parrott gun
which fell-into tiro - rebel hands then:
IL was generally believed in lhe iolerior
hat the fall of. Ply,mouill_ -
IVashington will enable Govunor Vance
beceseion candidate, to secure hiv election
Latest News.
Just before going to press we received the
following by telegraph:
Wasirtngion. May 5, 3 P
Our army moved Tuesday night, and ha,
crossed the Rapidan. The crossing was made
at Culpepper, Germania and Paned States
ford•, and was elf cited without serious °pit
skin .
Lee has been compelled to fall back from
the strong position where he has held us at
hay all winter It is the opinion of .oine that
he will tight at Chancellorsville Every hour
may now bring us news of a battle, but we
are inclined to the belief that it will be a foot
race for Richmond.
Working Guns by Steam
The St. Louie Union describes some inter
Poling experimehts with' a new invention in
that city, devised for the purpose of working
heavy guns by Steam power. The plan was
tested last week on hoard a monitor. The
Union says :
Two eleven inch Dahlgren go ns are so corn
pletely under the control of one man in it. and
handled with as much ease by him, and with
almost as much celerity, as a pair of duelling
pistols could be every movement of the guns
is made by steam. They are run out of their
port, by it, and their recoil checked by it,
they are lowered into the hold by steam for
loading, and raised evil) to he fired, and all
these movements are made in as little time as
it has taken to relate it.
The perfect ease and accuracy with which
every movement was gone through excited
the admiration of the whole party. Four
shots were aimed by Gee. Rosecrans at a tar
get, about three quarters of a tulle distant,
some ten or twelve feet square, and each one
struck it fairly The firing from it is much
more rapid than frmn the Ericsson turrets.—
The fifteen and twenty inch guns can be hand
led in this way quite as easily as those in this
turret. The eleven inch guns can be with
drawn from their ports, lowered and loaded
and returned ready for firing in sixty seconds
The borizOntal range is obtained by the rota
Lion of the turret.
THE FINANCIAL FLURRY
About thirteen months ago we had a flurry
in the money market not unlike that which
now exists, and in March, 1883 —one year
ago —gold stood just about where it does now.
Let. us compute the situation then and now.
We were then just feeling the success of
the spurious "democracy" inl several state
elections, especially iu the greet state of New
York ; the North seemed, to the' superficial, on
the point of dividingbour military situation
was critical; the paralysing influence of our
disastrous peninsula campaign had been fol
lowed by the victory of Antietam, from which
McClellan could draw no greater fruit than
that announced by his celebrated dispatch et
Friday, 19th" September : “The rebels had
retreated and Pennsylvania wee safe." Next
came our reverses iu the political campaign,
and 13urnside's defeat at Fredericksburg.—
Thus in March, 1863, our army under Hook
er was preparing for a contest with Leo, whose
compact army under Stonewall Jackson and
other leaders had certain acknowledged ad
vantages over our large army, commanded
by generals whose internal dissensions were
notorious.
With our political and military prospects
thus shadowed at home, our prospects abroad
were still more gloomy. The British rebels
were fitting our priVateers almoktunoheeked
by. their government, and there was every
reason to fear ,that iron clads would soon ho
at sea, ready to burn our cities or break our
blockade.
Whitt was onr*finanoial position then?—
With gold as high as now or higher, we were.
just beginning to place the, five hundred mil
lions of five twenty bonds, which were- coun
ted upon to fund
,the currency and and carry
on the war. The people wore beginning to
take theM, but capitalists were standing aloof.
Now, mark - the result from that time furiard;
and deaw from it that courage. which is so
necessary. ~
We lost the battle of Chancelloreville, and
saw the Itliesirislppi still eloped and en appa
rently doubtful struggle going on the South
We have beaten the enemy last, July at
Vicksburg and Gettysburg, and tu the streets
of New York, where they made their• most
desperate raily, more lately still in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, and New Hatupsnire and Con•
nemicut ; and we now stand a united people,
with a veteran army led by the hero of Vtoks
burg and of Chattanooga, and a larger in of
Naive men titan ever before. We see the
whole valley of she Mississippi in our posses .
sion, the soutliern line of Texas,field by our
armies against toreign and domestic foes, and
need ii to said, with a position HO improved
in every reuse of political and
nameial —huw fenseless is the late panic, if
panic it may be called
The only want to d ty for the restoration of
confidence is the prompt and energetic action
of Congress. They have wasted precious
time, and this financial quiver is the inevita
ble response to their neghed Let them now
go to work like wen or sense Let them pass
a strong tax bill. Let them either tilt out of
existence the stale bank paper which has
• caused this present inflation, or effeett the same
object by 'so amending the National Bank bill
as to induce all the state banks, big as welt
as little, to become its friends, and get to
work promptly as well as efficiently uncler its
provisions: - 1:13C - uca fui- till - I lie
pretensions of a spurious states-rights party
to tax our national banks upon-141e r national
bonds; let them pass all the bills of practical
importance for recruiting our armies; fur
protecting the rights and industry of our four
millions of treedinen; for extenuing our nil
vy ; for stretigineuing the hands of the goy
nnient ; and then let them adjourn
When once Congress has begun to do its
duty to grim and faithful earnest, we shall
see confidence restored, and, even under the
saws dreadlul vicissitudes of war which oc
curred last year, be compelletl,torecord the_
lame Feel urn tn•Wit:rd - S - a i•Mund currency atiffa
' state of tranquility In ail other respects
than the action of the national legislature we
are infinitely better off than lust year, and as
the responsibility for the existing state of
things hes upon its members, let public opin
to it.iting Ihtouglt the press and other prop
er channels, make them feel not only what is
expected of them, but the necessity of doing
oar-duty-at once- We have had - enough
enou:h silly personal squabbling en
°ugh nu less silly p trtisan crumnation and
recrimination, enough speech makiog fur con
rnituents and posterity, and we want solve,
solid, pram lc tl work. The whole nation i•••
il_ .aud e
cunt ion of
.
II guslc•l
inetLibly with Bett y exhibitions
of party tociics unit jealousies at Washingt 011,
nod demands united !borough going labor for
the cotbilion goad.—.V Y Evening Poxl
Tie 101 , owing are Hit) leading features of
tie Alihim Bill low under consideration by
the L•gi, ure
der the age of forty five, excepting persona
enlisted into volunteer companies, persons ex.
(mimed by other sections of the bill, idiots,
lunatics, common drunkards, vagabonds, pau
pers and persons! convicted of any infamous
be enrolled iu the militia , per
suns so convicted after enrollment shall be
disenrolled, and w all cases of doubt respect
in the age of a person enrolled, the burden
of proof shall be upon him. The second sec
tion prescribes that the Assessors shall annu.
ally, at the time they are taking the assess
ment of valuation of real and personal prop
erty, make out a list ot all persons in their
respective districts, who are liable to enroll.
went, which list shall be known as the [nil
itary roll of that district ; but persons claim
trig that racy are nut liable to military duty,
can make affidavit to that effect The third
section compels keepers of taverns and board
tog houses anti the heads of fatuities to give
the uece•sary answers to questions asked by
the Assessors. The six succeeding sections
prescribe that the persons enrolled shall be
subject to active duty only in case of war, in
vaston, the prevention 01 invasion, the sup
pression of riots, and to aid in the execution
of the laws of the Commonwealth, and the
Commander iu Chief is empowered to order
out by draft or otherwise, as many of the ml
litia as the necessity demands lie also has
powcr to requir cities and counties to provide
the requisite qnautitiCs of ordnatice stores
and camp equipage ; and his order for troops
my be directed to the Mayor or Councilmen
ot cities, or to the Couuntssi•roers of counties,
who front the number sun moiled may select
volunteers, or if necessary, pr..ceed to
draft When called into service the militia
shall be organized into the usual military di
visions, and shall be furnished with arms,
equipments and pay by ihe State.
Each county in the State is to be consid
ered a separate brigade, but where a county
has not the minimum number of enrolled mi
litia necessary to constitute a brigade shall
he consolidated with other counties at the die•
cretin]] of the commander in chief. The city
of Philadelphia is to be divided into four bri•
gales and the city of Pittsburg shall coneti•
Lute one brigade
The volunteer and enrolled militia are to be
divided into twenty divisions
Section twenty states that the principal of
flours of the militia shall be a Commander in
Chief; an Adjutant General, an Inspector
General, a Quart. rmastOr General, and a
Commissary General, each with the rank of
Colonel, not exceeding four in number ; to
each division one Major General, one Divis.
ion Inspector with the rank of Lieut. Colonel,
two Aide•de Camp, one division Quartermast
er, and onoJudge Advocate, each with the rank
of Major; and to each brigade one Brigadier
General, ono Brigade Inspector with the rank
of Major. to servo also as Brigade Major, one
Brigade Quartermaster, and one Aid de Camp.
eaoh with the rank of Captain. In time of
war, insurrection or invasion, there shall al
so bo one Surgeon General, to be appointed
by the the Commander in• Chief, with the ad
;vice and consent of the Senate. The Adju
tant General, the Quartermaster General, the
Inspector General and the Commissary Gener
al and to reeeive,-,a salary of three thousand
dollars a year.
That part of the bill included in the sec
tions from thirty.one to forty se• en, gives
in detail all the necess,ry particulars in ref
orence to the mode of electing officers, to
resignations and to dismissals.
Under the caption of "Discipline, Train
ing', Inspection and Camp duty," the -bill
authorizes that the system of discipline and
field exercise observed by the soldiers of the
Union armies, shall he'adopted by the mili
tia of Pennsylvania; twice in "each year be
tween the middle of: May and the middle of
July, there may be an elementary drill ; and
west. Yet the people rallied to the rescue.
the soldiers set an example to their Officers,
the industrious classes set one to the capital
isle, and both wet() well followed. Gold fell
gradually from 176 to 125. We have placed
in the hands of all classes five hundred mill
ions of our bonds with a steadiness which
gives assurance, of an equal success with our
future loans We have developed resources
which surprise the most sanguine of our
friends end alarm our enemies on both sides
of the Atlantic.
Our experiment with the negro race has
been entirely successful both in a miltary and
industrial point of view, and justifies the strik
ing calculations of one of our most experi
enced financiers, Robert J. Walker, that the
additional profit of 'free labor would in one
year equal the whole national debt. The cot•
ton famine has passed by, and this. fruitful
source of foreign intervention has disappeared•
from our catalogue of dangers. Europe will
this year get nearly three million bales of
cotton, and her manufacturers and ours are
again prosperous ; the British iron-clads are
stooped; tho British people are with us ; the
negro reserve of eight hundred thousand men
are without tiisorder or insurrection corning
into our ranks, and negro soldiers, to prove
their capacity, have at Port Hudson and
Wagner and Olustee funk their way not on•
ly through the lines of our barbarian enemy,
but through the prejudices of our northern
trail ors
Reorganization of the State
Militia
l'he brat aectiou of the act specifie+ that
iy ahle bodied white male citizen of this
to tit the tiAe of twenty .0110 years and uti
the commander-in-chief may order the com
mander of a division to take his troops intti
camp, for a period not exceeding three days,
for the purpose of exercising them in the
routine of camp and field duty, but no officer
or soldier shall be compelled to pei'form mil
itary duty except in case of actual &threat
ened itivtision, it surrection, riot or tumult,
on a day appointed for a general or State
election.
The compensation of the militia is thus
established. The militia while in actual
service sliall receive the same pay and ra
tions as the regular troops of the United
States, and the rations shall be valued at
thirty tents each. Every non-cornmisioned
officer and private who provides himself with
a uniform and blanket, when called into the
service, shall receive in abbition to his sta
ted pay, two dollars- When the militia aro
dischasged from actual service, they shall
be allowed pay and rations to their respec•
tive homes "
Etibm au Count' Matter
ger The second of a course of Month•
Iy sermons to the young People of our place,
will be delivered by Mr. Bowman, at Emory
Church, at 3. 80, next Sabbath.
TOO FAST.—thlr tOWn clock has for a
considerable time at lenet fifteen minutes too
fast. This error is a fruitful source of an
noyance, especially to persons travelling in
the oars. Let us have ihe correct time.
m.„ The Carlisle Deposit Bank has
declared its usual semi annual dividend of
five per cent. The dividends from this ven
erable institution come as regularly as the
sentient', and its credit is as firm as the rock
of ages: See notice in another column.
tres,..ln another column we print the
quarterly statement of the Mechanicsburg
Bank. This statement exhibits a very favor
able financial condition for ihat institution,
largely attributable, we think, to the intelli
gent efforts of its Cashier, H. A. Sturgeon,
Esq. The condition of its pffairs certainly
show that it deserves, as it has received the
confidence and patronage of the ltivternA = Tiiie .
'stsieioent closes the business of the Me
chanicsburg Bank, as on the 3d instant it
commenced business as I he First National Bank
of Mechanicsburg. May success attend the
new enterprise
as_ At noon on Tuesday, next the
time for receiving proposals fur the necessary
material for the re construction of Carlisle
Barracks, will close, at the office of the Chief
Quartermaster, in Chambersburg. The arti
cles wanted consist or a large quantity of lum•
her of various kinds. 150 000 bricks, 500
bushels of lime, 1,500 bushels of saud, 6 70J
pounds of nails, and 24 204 feet of tin roofing.
Proposals will also ho received for 14,760
square yards of plastering.
EIRE NEAR NEvir CUMBER - LA ND.,—The
rez+idence of Mr. Rudolph Martin, one mile
north of New Cumberland, was totally des
tro)ed by fire on Thursday of last week.—
The tire is supposed to have originated from
the Np , trks thrown on the roof by one of the
engines on the North Central railroad.
IMPOItTANT SEWING MACHINE ITEM
We do not believe in puffing indifferen
thinyp, and make it a rule to say nothing that
we do not believe "to be true. In the case of
sewing machines. while we admit that many
kinds are made to answer, yet we give it as
our decided opinion that Wheeler & Wilson
is the most perfect sewing machine in the
world We advise our readers to examine
this wonderful labor saving machine. It will
save the lives of thousand of our women, and
they will bless us for recommending them to
this best of sewing machines. We hope the
day will soon come when every house in the
land will have a Wheeler & Wilson's Sewing
Machine.
COUNTY SCHOOL CONVENTION •--On
Monday morning last, in pursuance of a call
from the State School Superintendent, a con
vention of the school directors of this county
ass, ridded in the Court House. The object
for which the Convention assembled was to
consider the proposition of increasing the sal
ary of county superintendent. Win R Gor
g.B Esq , was called to the ohair The. salary
formerly paid to the superintendent was $5OO
per annum ; and the first offer in the conven
tion was to Increase it to $9OO. This failed,
as did several others which followed. Finally
it was agreed by a considerable majority to
fix the salary for the year just olosed, as well
as the succeeding one at $7OO. The conven
tion then adjourned.
We are much pleased to note the spirit of
progress which prompted this notion ; but at
the same time are compelled to state our opin•
ion that the increase is not adequ to to the oc
casion. The position is a responsible one,
and requires, to the honest and intelligent ful•
fitment of its duties, more than average attain •
merits. The present incumbent is a gentle •
tleman, wheie services in almost any other
profession would command in these times'at
least $l,OOO per annum ; and we think should
is his present position be paid that amount.
The rule of paying fair prices" for honest
work, should apply here with equal effect as in
harvest field.
RHEEM'S HALL—We call attention
to the *announcement in our advertising col
1111113 of the Dramatic Combination under the
management of Mr .8. C. Dubois. They in
tend.during. their stay to give a series of first
class entertainments, moral, amusing nod In
structive. -They have been meeting with groat
success in Lancaster and other cities of the
stale, o,nd tram the reputation they bring
with them, we have no doubt of their being
well paid by the trip.
ATTENTION COMPANY I !—The mem
bers of Company I, Ist Regt. P. M., will
meet in Carlisle, on Thursday. th• 12th day
of May, for the purpose of receiving their
pay for services in September, 1862.
Members are t squired to return their arms
and equipments to the undersigned before
sal: day. C. P. HIMIRICR,
May 6, 1864. Capiain.
NEW
who
PROJECT —The com
pany who recently purchased the Mount Alto
Iron ‘Vorks, in Franklin county, contempl'ate
constructing a railroad from that point to
Scotland, ou the Cumberland Valley.. A bill
incorporating the company for the purpcse
has already passed the House, and no doubt
will be concurred in by .the Senate, so that
the work will likely be coma:top:wed In a very
short time.
Mr. WAIINEit'S LECTURE.—We had
the pleasure on Monday evening last of
lis
tening to Mr. Warner's justly popular lecture
on the Battle o( Gettysburg. The evening
was a very unfaibrable one; a cold, easterly
rain drenching the streets, causing the would
be auditor to think twice ere he left the cheer
ful fireside ; the audience, in consequence
was not a very large one. But those who
did go were amply repaid for the venture .
The lecturer dated the commencement of the
campaign, which ended so ingloriously for
the rebels at Gettysburg, at Beverly's Ford.
He attached vast importance to this, in it
self inconsequential action, from the fact that
it developed the entire object of the rebels,
and delayed the proposed invasion long e
nough to give Gen. Hooker time to so ar
range his movements, as to be prepared to
give or except battle on his own ground.—
Then follows the appearance of the rebels in
Pennsylvania, their occupation of Gettys
burg and vicinity. Then the appearance of
Buford's cavalry, his occupation of the ridge
south of Gettysburg. On the next day the
lamented Reynolds with the Ist corps arrives,
and the first day's battle is fought and lost,
we, although reinforced during the day by
the 11th corps, being so largely outnumbered
by the rebel hosts, that we are compelled to
fall back—inch by inch though it be, to the
fortified heights on the south, where the une
qual c mtest'is maintained until night. Du
ring this (Wednesday) night, and the follow
ing morning flie bulk of the Army of the
Potomac, under General Meade had arrived,
and the forces were disposed for the battle
which might commence at any moment.
Late in the afternoon the shock comes. Long
street masses his columns for an attack on
the right of our line ; his serried columns are
hurled against round-top, but after an u npar
ailed struggle he is repulsed with tremendous
loss. Now Ewell swears by a horrible oath
that lie will take cemetery bill, the key of
our position. On he comes, but only to his
discomfiture ; the veterans of the Potomac
..artny.fitansi_fircuiy-to.their.gun s , and are un- -
conquerable. Again and again are they
assailed:and as often driven back. The last
grand attack and the one which resulted in
the entire and utter defeat and rout of the
rebels occurred on Friday afternoon at about
half-past one o'clock. This effort was also
against cemetery and.was made by the
entire disposable force of the enemy. In its
impetuosity and fierceness, persistency and
and bravery it overshadowed all previous as
-souks:— Tire ntirms - t — th - id - bravo men could
do was done by Lee's army in that charge,
but the result was far more disastrous to
them than any previous attack had 1 een.
Leaving thousands of dead and wounded on
the field, they fled in the wildest terror and
confusion, and could not be brought to the
charge- again; - The la - veil° of the NOrth
was thus brought to a grevious end, and the
next day witnessed the precipitate flight of
the broken remnants of the rebel army of
Northern Virginia.
, These events were detailed by the lecturer
in that vivid and life-like manner only possi•
ble to an eye witness, and the audience was
held spell-bound by the recital. The speak
er's manlier was very impressive, and at times,
when describing seine fearful assault and its
more terrible repulse, was thrillingly grand.
The Soldiers' Aid Society are entitled to the
hanks of the community for this interesting
nter.niornent
IMPORTANT ARREST.—On Monday
afternoon last, Officer Martin arrested a
Dutchman named Augustus. Jeremiah better
known as the "Dutch Chandler," on informa
tion of Messrs. Halbert & Fleming, who were
engaged in the grocery business at the-time
the theft occurred, but who have since dis
solved partnership. The fact of the case as
given us by Mr. Fleming are as follows : A
German whose name we have not learned,
came to the store of the Messrs. Halbert on
Monday last and told him that Jeremiah met
him in Harrisburg two years ago and asked
him to go into partnership with him in ••the
business of stealing," and used every induce•
merit to persuade him to do so ; but being
unable to secure his services, give him ten
dollars to "sing dumb." After a lapse of
two years, the German visited this p lane, met
the "Chandler" and was again requested to
engage in the "enterprise," and this time
Augustus "took him around" and pointed out
a number of 'stores that lie had visited and
showed him a buneb of keys which would
open theta and many other places. This, it
seems, frightened the • .partner" - and he im
mediately gave the above information, where
upon Jeremiah was Arrested, his "store" on
East Louthec r street, searched and three wag
on loads of the stolen property recovered.—
The principal pai•t of the goods were stolen
last summer about the time of the rebel inva
sion and Messrs. H. & supposed they had
been taken by the "rebs."
Augustus has been creating quite a sensa
tion for some time book with his cheap goods,
and whilst our large merchants were selling
coffee, sugar, &0., at 25 and 40 cents ; per
pound, he charged but 16 and 18 cents and
when asked where be got his groceries at, and
how he managed to sell them so low, would
give some unintelligible reply and leave the
customer to ••wait on another man ;" but the
truth must some out sooner or later, and
"cheap Jerry" may yet learn that "honesty
Is the best of policyjiell as the surest
way of making ntoitei.
This Dutchman is not a stranger to our civ •
it officers, having been arrested and confined
in our county prison several Ocoee, during the
last few ye;tra ; but. this "pull" will_probably_
prove stronger than he imagined, and will ,
doubtless send him "down east" for a num
ber of years.—Democrat.
lICP. We have received the annexed
circular from the subsoribers, and cheerfully
give it place in our paper, with the earnest
reoommendation that the request it contains.
be heeded immediately. There it ample rea
son why Cumberland• county should contrib
ute generously to the aid of our soldiers, and
we feel confident the Messrs. Rhoads will
Have a good report to make to Philadelphia.
The undersigned having been appointed by
the PRODI:Olt 00AIMITTNE of the GREAT OM
VIAL YALU to be held in Philadelphia early in
June, their agent for this neighbovni od, 10
receive and forward all art ioles ot proauce and
money given to the Fair; respectfully solioit
a CSaltribUtiOn from you.
The whole proceeds of the Fair is for the
beuefit of the great Sonittry Commisaion,
' hose benevolent and patriotio object is to