fll it I I THE BLESSINGS OF GOVERNMENT, LIKE THE DEWS OF HEAVEN, SHOULD BE DISTRIBUTED ALIKE, UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND THE POOR. ff SERIES. EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1863. VOL. 10-NO. 48. 0OCRAT & SENTINEL" every Wednesday ..Vw Hollar and Fifty Cents tn payable in advance ; Onb Dol s'ivestt Five Cests, if not paid 'iinoDtU ; and Two Dollar if ; until the termination- of the year. Vription will be received for a iiriod than six months, and no jfwill be at liberty to discontinue , until a" arrearages are paid, ex option of the editor. Any per iaibing kr i months wil be char- Dollab, unless the money :s Evince. , uvertlslnr Rates. OneimerCn. Two do. Three do . ri2line! 1 50 $ 75 $1.00 24 lines J 36 lines 1 00 1 50 1 2 00 2 00 00 8 00 monins. o ao. u ao ,.!. 1 $3 00 $5 00 12 lines J 2 50 4 60 9 00 J 24 lines 4 00 7 00 12 00 - 86 lines! 6 00 9 00 14 00 ..0,'mn. 10 00 12 00 20 00 aan. 15 00 22 00 35 00 nrollment and I lie Draft. tMaksiiai. General's Office,) D. C. Oct. 19, 18G3. j -I have the honor to report for jrmalion certain general facts con itb the draft, as shown by the made up to this time, machinery for executing the en act is in" conipli te working order. n as it stands cannot be made to f thn entire military strensth of and the execution of it has has most nearly approached completion, j Since the present rebellion began about 200,000 soldiers after entering service, have been discharged on surgeon's certifi cate of disability. . It is probable that at least one-half of them were unfit for ser vice when received. It may be safely said that forty millions of money were uselessly expended in bringing them into the field, to say nothing of their subse quent expenses to the Government, In great Britian, under the system of voluntary enlistments, the rejections aver age over 27 per cent. In France, from 1831 to 1842, the average number of exemptions annually was 94,8G0 ; so that to secure the contingent of 80,000 men, 174,860 conscripts were annually examined. Of the recruits who presented them selves for enlistment in the regular army in 1862, 70 per cent, were rejected for nhvsical infirmities, exclusive ot ase or statute, lietween 1st January and 1st July hist, more than half were rejected. These were men who desired to be accep ted. These proportions are of interest in connection with the fact that less than one-third of the drafted men who desire not to be accepted have been exempted on account of physical unfitness. There have been but few cases ot in- -a . t. competency, fraud, neglect or aouse in the examination of dratted men. 1 nese men, have, however, in many ways been swindled by rogues having no connection with Boards oF Enrolment, as for exam- ion, ndered exceedingly difficult by the made in various ways to resist or t, or to escape from its operation, ruits. therefore, are not as abun- i thev will be from a perfected law nore thorough established system of ins it. All the advantages, how wlucb could reasonably have been el from the law are accruing. 2vwnjiwnciples distribute the bur of militarr service fairly among those to bear them, but there is perhaps, m'D'.'roitY than iustness in some of limine provisions. With certain cation?, which can readily be made ngn'ss, the military strength of the T mav, by the direct and indirect ira of this act, be surely and cheap- n'ht into the field. eral of the Western States have en subjected to the present draft on t of the excess of volunteers hereto minhed. and from the 6ame cause to in other Western States are d quite small ; the present draft re, is but a partial one, ana no : total was established as a quota Tbe Sisters of Charity. The following beautiful and eloquent extract is from a letter of Guy H. Salis- burg, published in the Buffalo Courier : " The kind Sisters of Charity, whose holy mission is ever with the suffering, glide noiselessly about the hospitals, with j beaten. nourishment '. lor the feeble convalescent, THE OHIO ELECTION ADDRESS OF HON. C. L. VALLANDIG II AM TO THE OHIO DEMOCRA Democrats of Ohio You have been By what means it is idle now to It is enough that while tens of inquire. with soothing palliatives for those writhing thousands of soldiers were sent or kept within your State, or held inactive in camp elsewhere to vote against you, the Confederate enemy were marching upon the capitol of your country. You were beaten ; but a nobler battle for Constitutional liberty and free popu lar Government never was fought by any people. And your unconquerable firm ness and couracre. even in the midst of PENNSYLVANIA, SS'. in the grasp of fell disease, and mutely kneeling by the bed sides of the dying. On battle fields amidst hurling shot and hissing shell, they have calmly walked to seek and save the wounded. Stalwart men, who lay gasping in agony unutter able have shed tears like children, as they eagerly drank the draught brought by these devoted creatures. " Would that our own Bayard Wilke- armed military force, secured you those son, wno lor nours eoDcu oui ms ncii young blood on the gory plains of Gettys burg, had fallen into the hands of these ministering angels. Then had not been written, by his stricken father, that elo quent psalm of death whose deep wail was as grand as the dirge ot Saul. 1 hen had the sacred shades of Forest Lawn not Iw.l.t tlmt mtimolv irrnvp ! 'Blessed, pure, angelic woman! It she lost us Eden, she wins for us the more glorious Paradise of God ! "Is that mother! mumered a ew England youth, whose lacerated bosom was heaving with the last struggle, in the Acaldema of an army hospital, as his Hazin" eye saw dimly the outline ot a female form, and telt a sott nana on nis forehead, where the drops of death were "atherin". ' His thoughts had wandered first of freemen's rights free speech and a free ballot The conspiracy of the 5th IX THE NAME AND BY THE AUTHORITY OK THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSTL VA NIA, ANDREW G. CTJRTIN, Governor of the said Commonwealth, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas, The President of the United States, by Proclamation, bearing date on of May fell before yoo. Be not discour- .f.1" TJ iiinuFD TlioU ..l . .1.,;.. nt r - KVm,hi;, I called for .THREE IIUNDUhU 111UU- Maintain your rights ; stand firm to your position ; never yield up your principles or your organizations. Listen not to any who would have you lower you standard in the hour of defeat. No mellowing of your opinions upon any question, even of policy, will avail anything to conciliate your political foes. They demand noth ing less than an absolute surrender of your principles and your organization. Moreover, if there be any nope for the Constitution or liberty, it is in the Demo cratic party alone ; and your fellow citi zens in a little while longer, will see it. Time and evenU will force it upon all, except those only who profit by the ca- ple, the fact that certain drafted men . I. . . 1 1 unh f tM con i sn n a a rw- come known to these sharpers, when it far from the pallet where he lay, back to Wales of their country. was, perhaps, not known to themselves, that village home, in the quiet valley ot I thank you, one and all, tor your th Connecticut, where father and mother, sympathies and your suffracos. Be assu . t a w sisters and brothers were thinking as the I ped that though in exile for no offence but davs wore on how very soon they should I mv political opinions, and the free expres- welcome home the darling boy who left I gion of them to you in peaceful public as- - I .i 11 i tinMlo f.ti t,a ctsrrv I l l .. C 1 ..ir.,t I knew thev were entitled and would sure- mem bo prwuuo, semuij, juu wi .uc. -""-- ... . I a n.ri orhon rppQ l rn ruiniA ran- I .n.nivnn nrl tmm tn th -rtnstiiK dratted men. nndine r oy me genii ouiws vi iuc and they have so far imposed upon the i-'norance or credulity ot the dratted men as to get from them sums of money to se- pnre nn exemDtion to which the r;jrues Iv receive, and the themselves exempted as promised, have sometimes thought ana given out that they seeurcd exemption by bribery of drafting officers, whereas they legally entitled tr TPinntiin. and have themselves been 1 7 swindled by sharpers. All has been done that seemed proper under cxistinc laws to check these evils on.1 tn mwt nronerlv the few cases of of criminality and incompetency which luivn occurred araonz the officers of this bureau.. All the expenditures up to this time on ncconnt of this bureau, including the en .lir.f ,?r?ift nnd nav of officers and sciousness rtonrl'inor nurse, he fondly thoucht that U.v..-.-n J - mother had flown to his relief on wings of mercy. " Heroic lad I he indeed -went nome, but not as he left upon the lovely June morning, with a wreath ot roses upon Ins bayonet, to the roll of the stirring drums and waving ot tnumpnani Danners. xne drums beat with muffled notes, and craped banners drooped mournfully as they bore the vouner soldier to Ins rest . tion and the State and country of my birth. C. L. Vaixandigham. Windsor, C. W., Oct. 14. Pennsylvania leajlslature. The followinsr table shows the political coloring of the next House of Represen tatives ; there being 52 Abolitionists to 48 Democrats : which leave a majority of four in their favor. They will also have J o ... ! w Too much cannt be said in praise oi flioritv of one ; tiie Senate, making a K5icrific.in? I J J . women. persons connected with it, over 1,200,000. are . -a if m 1 1 A ,1 .kfl A t tliese noDie-uearicu ...... hllot Th world owes them a debt ot maju.. - j silent and exclusive j Abol. Adams, o but little gratitude which the r.. j-. : natnn nt their mission muiiis imrm vitij jne ex rawiiu - ; " . . . . . ,i AllPrnV elude all made on account of the maeh.n- to accep, -7ffiZr S Armstrong and Westmoreland, hoKc drawn in the present draft, in ; the fifty per cent additional, over fr cent have reported ir. accor ith the orders of the boards. Of i"nty per cent who have not repor any arc not willful deserters, being daily absent, at sea and the like. farters are being ai rested, ill examined, about thirty per cent. en exempted on account of physi ability, alout thirty per cent, have xcmpted under the provisions of the 1 section of the act, or found not Iia military duty on account of alien-ns-uitableness of age, non-residents, Thoe who are not liable to milita j, and form no part of the National , and, therefore, have been crrone enrolled, appear in the general re of the hoards among those exempted e their non-ability to serve could e estabiBhed until they came before oarda. The number of exemptions is made to appear much larger than uy is. ut forty per cent of the men exam uve been held to service, and have ' entered the army in person, furnish hstitutes or paid commutation. hii one half of those held to service paid commutation ; of the remain tout one-third have cone in person, wo-thirds have furnished substitutes, " excepting a few in transit and proportion of deserters from among Hier substitutes accepted, are in the 'of their reeiments in front of the 7- It is fair to suppo?0 that most ol who willfully fail to report, and kcomo deserters, are physically fit n ; if they had been examined, roportion exempted for physical disa f ould have been reduced to about llJ-five per cent. The proportion of tytions would be still further reduced urging the enrolment lists before draft 11 caes of manifest unfitness, and of " and others not liable to military duty, u7 be done where this system of rais 'roops is well established. propositions above given are based 1 the reports up to this time from the "ty-three Conereseional Districts r th drift has been completed, or the sutfering recipients of their ministration. ... , i j dvinr blessmcs ot err wmcn nas nruuui- m . . -j - J , .i 1 f thir ministratu return ot Z'.,UU deserters 10 me nu. The amount of money received from the draft up to this date is about ten times as ureat as all the expenses incurred on account of the Enrolment Act ; those re- oitin.r from the New York riots are not, c. - I I .... .1 lowever included in this statement, as witnessed the engagement m wmcn tne THE LATE COL S. W. BLACK. There has recently turned up a sad but mturoctmo mimrntO to Col. lilack. It IS ; ih. nnsecssion of his beloved and fc. A Rebel officer, who .... . . . .. . J J....U I " tt. r nmro nronerlv attriDutanie 10 rnllnnt L-olonel lost ins nie, aim i. Uentre. other causes and other persons than to the intensely admired the bold dash and chiv- Chester alric spirit which cliaraciertsea ins movc- memorabie occasion, saw dnift or the officers of this bureau I am. very resiectfully, your obedient T T T. servant, jAMts i x i, l'rovost .Marshal ienerai. Hon. Eclivin M. Stanton, beet oj ar. mllan A lY21ilM In I.OlOraOO A CU" lieaver and liawrence. Bedford, Berks, Blair. Bradford, Butkr, Buck. Cambria. Lehigh and Carbon, 1 2 2 Dem. 1 3 1 3 Affairs In Colorado rltorr. Washington. Oct. 28. The Governor of Colorado, who is also Indian superin tendent in that lerntory, has intormea the Commissioner of Indian Aaffirs that, in conjunction with the commission here tofore appointed, and with the assistance of Mr. Nicolay, the I'resiaenrs pnaic secretary, he has concluded a treaty with the Tabcquache biind Ute . Indians. Al though they failed to secure tneir seuie- ment on reservation, there is a provision that such settlement be inaugurated tor a cradual consumation. The lands ceded arc, the liovernor says, prouauiv iircu.. valuable ever purchased by the Govern ment, from any Indian tribe, including, as they do, nearly all the mining land yet discovered in Colorado, and in addition a larce amount of agricultural and grazing lands. The lands lie between the thirty seventh and forty-firvt degrees north lati tude. Nicolay is now on the way to Washington with the treaty. Informa- iviwwirni nt the Indian liUltUU OI the Cmaha Snrerintendancy states that many of the Poncas and V innebagoes have arrived there besgins for food. The Indians from the northern Superintendency sent to the upper country are workuig tu'f way down the Missouri river ; and it is added, unless some action be taken thev will be scattered all around the river, creatly to the injury and annoyance of the whites. It is proper to say that as soon as the suffering of the Indians be cam lrnnwn the Government at once made provision for the required relief. menfs nn that memorable occasion, him fall and die on the battle-field. He was so much interested in the man, al though a Strang r and an enemy, that i. o ntifihxrranh to be taken of iicuumu i'" r i . ... him when dead, and endorsed on it, a Bran Soldier." The photograph haiv pened to be shown in a group of Rebel officers, and one of them at once recog- nized it as the image oi ioi. r. v . diuin, of Pittsbur. This simple and brief trib ute to the bravery of the Colonel, elicited from a stranger and an enemy is not need ed here "We all knew that he would be foremost in the battle that he would cm- l,t-,llv lead his men. Strange tnat none of his soldiers, whom he had watch ed over like a brother, evincing the ut- mt solicitude for their health and com fort did not peril everything to obtain his body. It would be pleasart if it were If- 1..aL.). r roctinrr icicle ms venerauic luiucr o nun r in the Allegheny Cemetry. returns the Tif. Ohio Election. The v th Ohio election show that Aiwa- .. t ii nmtlfi vote in that State will tail vv- . . very little behind that ot last year, wnen 1 a1 e?.A. nJ-k.u the Democrats carnca ms iy m.c than six thousand majority. In six coun ties Vallandigham's vote is oniy n:iy-sev-en less than that of Armstrong, Demo cratic candidate for secretary ot ruue iasi year, and in Hamilton county (Cincin natti) it is only nine hundred less, while the Republican gain is nearly fifty per cent It will be admitted by every one that the honest vote was unusually large as the issues were of a character to bring out every one; but it is incredible that a hundred thousand citizens of Ohio, and as many more of Pennsylvania, went to the polls at the last election for the first time in their lives. Clarion and Forrest, Philadelphia. Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton. Monroe and Tike, Wayne, ' Luzerre. Susquehanna. Wyoming. Sullivan. Arc., Lycoming and cnnion, Mifflin, Union, Snyder anct juniaia, Northumberland, Schuylkill, Dauphin, Leban n . Lancaster, Ynk, Cumberland, Franklin and Fulton, Somerset, Huntingdon, Indiana, Fayette. Grceue, Washington, Mercer and Venango. Jefferson, deal field. 4c. Crawford and Warren, Erie. Potter and Tioga, Perry. 11 1 rernments now in the field from the re- n snective States : and Whereas, Uy information reccivea this day, the quota of the State of Penn sylvania under said call is declared to be THIRTY-EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY-EIGHT MEN, (38,268): And Wiiekeas, Ihe President, in his said Proclamation, re quests the Governors of the respective States to assist in raisinz the torce tnus reauircd. A . Now. therefore, 1, Andrew It. curtm, Governor of the Commonwealth of 1'enn sylvania, do earnestly call upon the good and loyal freemen ot the Uommouweaitn to enlist in the service ot the l;nited States, under the Proclamatisn aforesaid ' . so that the required quota may lie made up before the fifth day of January next, on which day the President announces that a draft will bo commenced for any deficiency that may then exist in the same. The freemen of Pennsylvania enlisting under this call will be attached to regi ments from this State. All who are wil ling to enlist arc requested " to present themselves at once, for that purpose, to the United States Provost Marshals re cruiting and mustering offices, in their respective cities, towns and counties. Thpv will receive the followinz sums as allowance, pay, premium and bounty, viz: To every recruit who is a iWtrai vol unteer, as defined in General Orders of the War Department of June 25th 18C3No. 191, for recruiting veteran volunteers, one month's pay in advance, and a bounty and premium amounting to 402. To all other recruits, not veterans, accepted and enlisted as required in existing Or ders, one month's pay in advance, and in addition a bounty and premium amoun ting to S302. . Any further information desired can be obtained from the Provost Mrfhals of the rcsjiective districts. In making this appeal to the good and loyal freemen of Pennsylvania, I fell en tire confidence that it will be effectually responded to. The approaching expira tion of the term of enlistment of the men now in the field renders it necessary to replenish our regiments. lx;t us maintain the glory which their valor and conduct Exempts. The following is an abstract of exempts for this county, and the causo of their exemption. Patrick Mealey, Allegheny, disability Benedict Hight, Anthony Hoffman, Gallitiin Christy, Francis A Gibbons, " non-resldenc Michael Vansner, Loretto, alienage John G Lake, Loretto, only son aged and in firm parents John Sannan, Allegheny, disability Peter Rispan, " only son inf. par. Philip Downey, " non-residenca Nicholas O'Conner, Loretto, alienage James Will, Allegheny, disability John A Storm, " " Martin Waltz, " only son Ini parents Jas C M'Mullin, " unsnitablenese age Jacob L Buck, " paid commutation William Becher. " " Earhart Ferrenbaugh, Allegheny, pd com Edward Kehoe, Allegheny, only son inf par John Griffin, " paid commutation James Bowe, State of Maine, non-residence A F M'Connell, Allegheny, paid commutation Michael Fichtner, " disability Sylvester A Parish, " paid commutation Caleb Douglas, " John Shook, John V alters, John Bruce, David Koons, Charles Drass, Thomas Pollard, Lewis Beecher, Jacob Creamer, Samuel Shnrt, Peter femelger, asthma paid commutation unsuitableness fcga paid commutation unsuitableness age. paid commutation disability paid commutation unsuitableness ag disability paid commutation Martin Beck, Carrolltown, disability Thomas L Parish, Allegheny, paid .com Charles Miller, " Jos M'Gougb, Washington, disability Patrick Moreland, Allegheny, paid com W Tomlinson, " nenry P M'Ateer, " " John F Will, " " William Christy, Christ Eckeurode, " nusuitableness age. Joseph Noel, Blair county, non-residence Christ Carlhcira, Carrolltown, unsuitable aga Joseph Shearner, Iienry Horn, Patrick Murray, John Yohner, William Went, Philip Barnhart, Bernard Carlheim, George Schettig, L Goss, John Campbell, jr Sebastian Sibert, Charles Feigbtner, Clement Fresh, John A Kennedy, Fred Brininger, John Bookemrer, Martin A Miller, Carroll, disability paid commutation in service 3d March paid commutation ii disability paid commutation disability unsuitableness ago paid commutation loss left leg two brothers in serr unsuitableness age Anthony Moihler, Henry fetalis, Peter Bertram, Camper Smith, Anthony Litr, John N'itzcl. William Nagle, John Wertner, Amos Rupert, Adam Staltz, Daniel M'Dunn, Alexander Sinclair, John M'Hugh, John Daley, Archibald Smith, Martin Seymour, Leander Strong, Daniel Buck,. Henry J Eckenrode, Christian Luther, " " Charles E Evans, Johustown, nnn-resideat John Ott, Carroll, paid commutation Jacob Wildman, Carroll, alieuacre only son aged jarenti unsuitableness age only son aged parents disability ii ouly son aged parent disability paid commutation disability . paid commutation ouly son widow only son aged parent disability paid commutation William Day, Joseph Worthner. j John Shilling, illiam 31 Nulty, Justus Apple, 1 2 2 1 4 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 I 62 have reflected on the Commonwealth, and j John Ii Berkey, let our people show, by their promptness j;' and alacrity on this occasion, that tncy Uenr Sutton . I a" I J have not aoateti m courage or iovc oi country, or in the determination that the j unholy rebellion, already stunned and j staggering shall be utterly crushed and extinguished. (liven under mv hand and the . Great Seal of the State, at Hairisburg, this twenty-eighth day of October, in the yaor of our Ird one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Commonwealth the eighty-eighth. ANDREW G. CURTIN. THE GOVEUNOU. ELI SLIFER, Secretary of the Commonwealth. i i Vive Hf.aths at a Time.. A Kreneh- went a disability paid commutation u disability paid commntation " dkabi'itr 48 New Basks! The following new Banks have been established in Pennsyl vania, during thg last six months, by our masters at Washington, all based upon Lincoln Greenbacks. These banks are lo cated as follows: Erie, Girard.Erie coun ty, (a good section of the country for fraudulent banks ); Hollidaysburg, Hun tingdon, Johnstown, Kittanning, Marietta, Newville, Pittsburg, two atScranton, two at Wilkrsbarre, and one at To anda Five Deaths at a Time.- A ' man resolved to get rid of life, I little before high tide, to a post set up by the sea side. 1 Ie had provided himselt with a ladder, a rope, a pistol, a bundle of matches and a vial of poison. Ascen ding the ladder, he tied one end of the rope to the post, and the other end around his neck, then he took the poison, set.his clothes on fire, put the muzzle of the pis tol to his head, and kicked away the lad der. In kicking down the ladder he slop ped the pistol so that the ball missed his head and cut the rope hy which be was suspended : he fell into the sea, thus ex- j tingu'iBhing the flames of his clothes and i the sea water, which h involuntarily j swallowed, counteracted the poison, thus in spite of his precautions, he remained, unhanged, Unshot, un poisoned, unbymed and undrowacd. Silas Byrne, Susquehanna, paid com- ' Adam liowers Chest, dtsability Pettr Beck, Susquehanna, paid com Albert M'Cawley, " " David Keith, " " disability John M'Donald, " paid commutation John Buck, " unsuitableness age Jobn W Learner, paid commutation Joseph Hib rieck, Chest, unsuitableness ag Francis J Baker, Susquehanna, paid com Math ias Shortcnkrcbner, Susquehanna, oaly son widow Joseph Wilson, Susquehanna, paid com William Gray, Carroll, non-residence Walker Westover, Susquehanna, paid com i Jacob Glosser, Chest, unsuitableness age mui n.iriain:&, vursi, aisaoui'y Joseph Towle, " paid commutation Jos A Elliott, Susquehanna, disability Osborne A M Keen, paid com Levi Nagle, " . George Yager, Chest, only son widow James A Ryan, paid commutation Levi Blouse, Susquehanna, Jacob Jones, Chest, " Conrad Yager, " John D Learner, Susquehanna, ' J. D. CAMPBELL, Capt. and Pro. Mar. San Franciso, Oct. 30. An inoendi arv fire burned a considerable portion of Antrim, Placer county, yesterday, inclu ding the Empire Hotel. Loss o0,000. Insurance $5,000. C3 Why is a newspaper like a tooth brush I D'ye give it up ? lVcause everybody should have one of h'm own, and. not borrow hi neighbor's
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