gcmotrat anb Stntintl. M. IIASSOX, Editor &. Publisher. WED5ESDAY. M i 14 S. M. Petteng-ill&Co. Advertising Agents, 37 Park Row New York, and 10 State street, Boston, are the authorized Agents for the "Dem ocrat & Skntisel," and the most influen tial and largest circulating Newspapers in the Uuited States aul Canadas. They are empowered to coutract for us at our LOWEST TKBMS. Democratic Ticket. Assembly, CYKUS L. PERSUING, of Johnstown. Sheriff, JAMES MYERS, ol Ebeusburg. Commissioner, El). R. D UN N EG AN, of ClearfiilJ Tp. Poor Utmse Director, GEORGE ORRIS, of Richland Tp. Auditor, JOHN A. KENNEDY, of CarroIStown. COUXTY CO.ll.lIirT'LE. 1. S. NOON, Chairman, George Delany, J. S. Mardi. George C. E. McKenzie, Joseph Behe. John Durbin, David Earner, Henry Friedtbuof. John Stough, Elisha I'lumnier, Lewis IJndgcrs, George Gurley, John McDermit. Simon Dunmyer, V. A. Krise. Thus. F. McG-ugh. Jacob Fronheiser, J. F. Condon, John 11am iltoc, F. OTriel. Michael Bohlin, Wm. C. Diver, John White, Henry Topper, Nicho las Cannan, M. J. IMott. J. W. Condon, Daniel C nfair, Wra. MoC oskey. Daniel H. Donnelly, Anthony Long, John Marsh, John Ryan. The -Popularity of the War. We have had an opportunity of seeing a great many people in town last week, called here by Lincoln's Hoard of F.xami ners. They are very successful in getting Greenbacks, but are petting few men. They came up nearly all prepared to pay three hundred dollars, those that have it not of their own generally borrow it. Or if they can't borrow, they raise it by subscription. It is paid with reluctance, with muttering inward curses against the authors of the wrongs that they are suf fering. They would pay the commutation be it ever so much, sooner than shoulder a musket or bridle on a knapsack. How is it that no one will go to tight for the protection of the best Government the world ever buw. lias our people become so degenerate so unpatriotic that cowar dice prevails over every other ennobling quality they ossess. No such thing. They love their country as dearly as ever, but they loathe and dispise the corrupt imbecile men at the head of the affairs of this Northern nation. They boldly proclaim that it is the last dollar .Mr. Lincoln will ever get from them. So if they epeak truth they have come to the (inclusion of the warwo mmiuisp It , . , . . . , . to be prosecuted to the List man and the last dollar, it has then arrived at this cri sis according to the saying of the con scripts, and we aregettingit from good Re publican conscripts at that. It was not so three years ago, when a brave and pa triotic set of men v ied with each other to eee who should get first into the service of their country, to sustain the integrity of the Union, to maintain its flag unsullied aud its institutions intact Then there was no party, the vilest copperheads sent their men and gave their money freely and without stint. Rut as soon as the Ad ministration thought they had secured an army sufficiently large for the purpose of subjugation and abolition, they made a coup de tjucrrt" and changed tlie whole programme. They commenced by setting down the whole Democratic partv as traitors and copperheads, that party that kept the Government tgether ami sus- tallied it iu eace and in war Ur over 1 seventy years, until it became a country ? C3 Purify, purity, purify the blood the wonder and admiration of the world, with Aykk's Sausaparhj.a, and the hu A Democrat dared not utter the senti- mors, derangements and distempers which inents of hie mind, or he. was in danger of J pervade the system at this season will dis the rope, the dungeon, or tlie blow. I appear. We have" tried it and epeak Marvy ot the best men and purest patriots with knowledge. of the country suffered the meanest kind of incarceration without a hearing or without a trial. No Democratic news paper would get leave to circulate if it told the truth, a paper that would not make a victory out of a defeat, was sure to be suppressed. Such was the state of affairs in this country during the last three years. Within these last six months, people of all parties are beginning to open their eyes, and to ask each other what there things mean. Does this Adminis tration, after taking every available man we could spare, and leaving his bones to rot in some Southern soil, or else sending him home mutilated and crippled to us, j expect us to give all our available means to supiort the Shoddy Government, ana leave our aged, ami our young, and fe males to starve and perish for the want of the necessaries of life, and make a char nel of our once beautiful country. The people are quietly but anxiously looking out for the last man and the last dollar. The people are aware that our army had no success in this campaign since its open ing, Grant has got with the loss of seven ty or one hundred thousand of the bravest men that the world ever saw to the place where he might have been without loosing any of that noble army, and has made nothing out of it. lie is now going round the fortifications of Richmond and Peters burg, without much chance of success. If! he would succeed, it would be only a pro longation of the war which every dav and every Iraft, clearly evinces to the j people of the North that the longer the j war exists the oppression of the people is ! the deeper and more inevitable. Is it any j wonder then, that the war is unpopular J with the masses, indeed, with every one who is not making money out of it. It w terminate shortly, it is nearly plavcd out, and so is the administration of Abra ham Lincoln. If he is as sharp as he is good at a joke, he might see the hand writing on the wall, as Rclshazzar did, and might interpret it, too, without send ing for any iMnitl. If he were not as blind ns an owl, lie would sec that his days were numbered, that the weakness and wickedness of him and his adminis tration have invoked the vengeance, of an outraged people. Why don't he arrest Yaliandigham ? If lie was ri'jrht before. , 7 ; he is certainly right in doing so yet, the same order exists unrepealed. lie knew I he was vvror.f then as well a ho kn.e.va i now. He thought he was strong enough j is aP':i? :iftcr ,he monarchies of Furope, then. He knows he is not now. On the ! iM "!1 the5r luAVS lin,J 'yannies, they can whole he and his Administration have i lMi Set tlie Pt,Ic to :1Pe after the bduod ruined and destroyed a noble country, and outraged a gallant people. "Had he stopped to swap horses in crossing the stream," he might have saved himself from much odium, but he could not then have saved his country from destruction. The rourth of July. We had no celebration here on the 4 th of July. Our orators and musicians went to different places to assist their neighbors to celebrate this once national festiv al. As we were not from home, we can only speak from rumor of those cele brations. At Johnstown there were two or three picnics. At Wilmore there was a fourth, and at Ixiretto there was a gay time. Rut the largest of them all was at St. Augustine in Clearfield township. Thither our ' distinguished townsmen Messrs. Johnston and Noon were invited, in order to have a public talk with their friends in that region. The social en- , dearments were unfortunately marred by a young boy being thrown off a horse, his foot stuck in the stirup and he was dragged for some distance, he came in contact with the sharp corner of a log, and he received a severe cut in the side so much so that his entrails protruded to considerable extent. The doctors on tlie ground, got them reduced and sewed up the wound, but said he would not live long. Ry the way there were a whole chapter of accidents occurred on the 4th. Mr. A. Gcis from Carrolltown it was said got his leg broken by a fall from his wagon, but we since hear his leg was not broken, but badly cut by the wheel of the wagon running over it. At Johns town, at one of the picnics, a young man, by the name of John Glass shot another with a revolver, but whether the wound was mortal or any of the particulars of the dispute we are not advised. Xlie Draft Or as it is called out West, Lincoln's Raffle for a three years war of Abolition ism " was concluded here on Saturday evenin". The officers, although, they are at a dirty business, behaved them selves as gentlemanly as possible. Hut when men are robbed, it is little differ ence to them whether it is done in the Dick Turpin style, or in a more vulgar manner. We are informed that they took eighty or ninety thousand dollars worth of the sweat of the hardy sons of Cambria county, with them this week. They suc ceeded in getting four men in the whole county, luckless wights, who were too poor to pay, and made no previous ar rangements, depending on their bodily in firmities as a sure guarantee for exemp tion. It appears they are not so hard to please in soldiers now as formerly. They are like the old toper, they think more of the quantity than the quality of the arti cle. They had a guard of invalids along, many of them walking on timber, instead of bone and muscle. They seemed to do their duty remarkably well, particularly as they had no duty to do. From what we real in the papers of the gallantry of the colored troops, this kind of service would suit them very well in which to distinguish themselves. We are satisfied they would be prompt at every call of duty, particularly their i dinner calls. I he whole larce must be a humiliating spectacle to every citizen, ex cept those who are making money out of it. To seo high spirited men. men, if they were satisfied in the cause they were fighting f f, would, like the men of Lu c'tiel 'Be true t the lat of their blod aid their breath, And like r-apcTs descend .) the harvest el death." To see such men hunting up some bodily infirmity, that they would at ali other times keep hidden from the world, or if they failed in that, they gave the three hundred dollars of their hard earn ing, for the same value that they would get from a highwayman, who de manded their money or their life. It is the first time in the history of this Rcpuh Iic, that the American people would glory in their infirmities. This needs no com mentary, and will regulate itself through time. The people will not soon forget a Government who has driven them to thisc necessities, ai.d although tins Government serfs of those lands, they were born and educated fnemcn, and if they once get aroused let tyrants beware. This Govern ment can easily become tyrants and rival king's and monarch's, but freemen cannot easily be serfs or slaves. Thk. Age. The Philadelphia Aje says : " In consequence of the recent great advance in white paper, materials and labor, the price of the Daily Aye, from and after the first instant, will be to mail subscribers, ten dollars per annum ; five dollars for six months ; and two dol lars and fifty cents for three months, payable in all caees in advance." We believe if any paper in the country, is worth the money, the Agk is. Its Demo cratic doctrine is sound, and its exposition of it, is fearless and reliable. Patriot ani Union. This spirited daily has at its mast head Camplell and Hite formerly of the Johnstown iJcnocrat in this county. With both these gentle men we are personally acquainted, and know they combine fine business capacitj with an excellent talent for writing. They are both me?hanics of the first class and can scarcely fail in issuing a first rate paper at the seat of Government. We wish them entire success. The Late William Smith O'Rkies. This Irish gentleman, orator and patriot died on the 18th ultimo, as announced by the arrival of the steamship Arabia. lie was born Oct., 17th 1803. His name is familiar to all our readers. He was a pure patriot and a statesman of enlarged views and liberal sentiments. His name should not only be endeared to his coun trymen, but to all lovers of right and liberty on the face of the earth. We very much regret to learn that the house of our friend Patrick Fenlon, Esq., of Rlairsville, was consumed by fire yesterday. At present we have not learn ed the particulars, but it is reported that he did not succeed in saving any of his furniture. ' I k I i, s, a a y v rv v x a v a. A VIL U l I 3 jjJ U il JU I U 1 1 . Kaii-ROad, July 1, 1864. Fkiksi Hasson: It gave me great pleasure to see in your last issue, that our gallant friend, Gen. Gillan, has been pro moted from a messenger to that of a Ma jor General. - It is a praiseworthy act of the man who appointed him, as I for one, believe lie is about as capable as hundreds who hold high offices in our army at pre sent. One thing I would advise the Gene ral, that when ho takes to the field, that he gets a safe horse, as he was very near meeting with a bad accident when he brought the last news to our town, though he was mounted on a well trained caval ry horse, which was purchased at Al toona, at a sale of. Government horses, it appears he was a borrowed horse, and the General not being acquainted with his practice, he entered town, at the rate j Ot i:. : me lasiest nine, inaui. nade, since lie passe.., "7- i - : a wag cried tia.t, me i.orse stopped suu- , ati orJer No Coilfe,erate general 0ffi denly. and the then, messenger threw a inxv.a- ilo,. e)Jri etinimcr-sWf over his the horses head, j iigmmir on nis siem cm, no oones .hokh,, . the Lynchburg expedition reached Gaul only his pants somewhat damaged by the ! e in Western Virginia, on June 28th. shock. Yours, etc., O. 1J. j jIe uusi.ej on westward towards Charles- ' " j ton, a short distance from the Ohio. Tlic War XeH. General Ewell did not pursue him far We were writing an article on the war . from Lynchburg. He turned northward news, but we clip the following from the j a'"1 marched up the Shenandoah Valley. a .... c T i I Philadelphia Aoe. ol the rourth of July, I 1 ' which may be relied on. As it possesses sources of information that we have not in our power : General Fvve-11, with a large force of ! Confederates, is approaching Western Maryland. He has captured Martins-burg, and General Sigel, too weak to oppose him, has retreated towards Harper's j l fin. uiis.ji.ii; is iweiuy June., juimi ot tlie i enusv ivar.ia nne, and eigui nines .. . ... , c , west t the 1 otoiuac at Shephcrdstovvn. I The Confederates move in three columns, ! ' ! . , .. . .. . i one lowarus onepnerusiown ; one on a parallel road crossing the Potomac above it and one on a parallel road crossing below. The Rultimore and Ohio Rail road has been captured, and the moving of trains prevented. Dwell entered ilai tinsburg yesterday morning. There was some fighting done, but Sigel's forces with.lrcw r-i 1 11 v 1 1 41 1 tln'i-t w.r lew casualties. At last accounts the centre column was about four miles from the Potomac, at Shepherdstown ; the northern column was at North Mountain, three miles west of Falling Waters, on the Potomac ; and the southern column was at Leetovvn six miles southwest of Shepherdstown. This southern column was the only one opposed. A small force was iu front of it. The absence of Hun ter permits Kvvell to do as he pleases. He can easily cross the Potomac, as there are not five thousand Federal troops within forty miles ol Harper's Ferry. Generals Wilson and Kautz, with their cavalry Federal expedition, had returned to the m trout tf Petersburg. They cat their way through the Coni'ede- rates who intercepted their march. I hey rvirwlillin.l ,l-.-k .rn.ia ti flirt ninnnv aoanuoneu twelve guns to me enemy. Secretary Stanton says they lost a " small wagon train." Every wagon and ambu lance they had fell into the enemy's hands or was burned. As this expedition com prised two divisions, one-half the cavalry of Grant's army ; and as Sheridan, who commanded the other half, reported that he had a wagon train which extended " over twenty miles," the number of wagons which were lost by Wilson and Kautz must have been large. For six thousand men, the number of their troops, at least two hundred wagons are necessa ry, and at least two hundred were lost From seven hundred and fifty to one thousand men were nho lost. Four hun dred negroes were safely brought to Grant's camp. Very little has been done by the Federal army before Petersburg. The Confederates have appeared on the north b.ank of the James, between Gene ral Foster's earthwork and Malvern Hill. Another force has appeared on the river above Koster. Ratteries hav e been planted in both places, which throw shells into his camp. General Smith, on the south side of the Appomattox, has made an as sault upon the Confederate works in front of him and northeast of Petersburg. He was repulsed and retired to his original line. It has been nearly a week since a des patch from Secretary Stanton announced that General Sherman's attack upon the Confederate works on Kenesaw Mountain on June 27th, had been repulsed. This morning we print a despatch confirming the account. It was sent by mail from Sherman's camp to Cincinnati. After his repulse, General Sherman pave up the idea ot attacking Jvencsavv Mountain in front, and began a flank movement around its western side. For nearly a week the t i i , - - various federal columns were marching and a length General Johnston nbandoned Kenesaw Mountain and Marietta just south of it. He retired to the Chattahoo chee river, a few miles in the rear, where high bluffs and a deep, wide valley, with a rapid stream in the centre, will aid his defense. At daylight, yesterday morning, the Federal advance captured Kenesaw Mountain, and at eight o'clock they en tered Marietta. The Confederate retreat had been successful. They carried all their baggage with them, and destroyed the railroad in their rear. The Chatta- hoochee River will be the scene of future operations. Sherman must cross it. All idea of any more expeditions west of the Mississippi seems to have been given up. Lieneral Canby has ordered proacti, and with a stern sense ot the re all the transports and war vessels from j sponsibiiity imposed upon him by his po the mouth of the Red River and Natchez j sition, and "m spite of the frowns of tha to New Orleans. The troops left some J secretary and the difficulties thrown in time since. The only post now held by ! his way, he has discharged his duty with the Federal troops west of the lower j the most signal fidelity, integrity and fear Mississippi, is Little Rock, in Arkansas. lesMiess. He deserves the gratitude and General Steele is there with about fivd thousand men. It is supposed, however, that lie will have to evacuate the place. The Confederates have cut him off from his supply post on the Mississippi, and ! Colonel Raker should now be sacrificed are closing in around Little Rock. lor exposures he has made of Clark's viL- There has been sin arrival from Charles- lanies, the time will soon come when his ton. The siege progresses languidly. faithful work will bear its legitimate fruit. The Navy Department is strengthening If the President will not interfere to put the blockading lleet. A monitor, a fri- ! down this great iniquity the most gigan gate and several gunboats have been sent J tic combination of debauchery and swin- i to it. rorty-hve Confederate oliicers of I the k f coioncl anj unjor i,;lve hw distributed through the blockading fleet, i m ou,,jionce to Secretary Stanton's reta'.i- I in obedience to Secretary General Hunter with the remains of xiio uiuthauu oi inc .iississipoi is tun ... , T ri maintained. On June 2Gth, the Con- federates captured a Federal gunboat in White river, just above its mouth. Nearly all the crew of two bundled men were taken prisoners. Three cannon were taken off" the boat and she was burned. The President is about to make an- jf,y jay9 v.jjj dher call for five hundred thousand men. !loved for volnnUr- . 1 , (V t il . 1 !"i will Login, b-vn abo!- in.. (lU'J ai t.iti nil. rn . . , 1 he commutation clause ha jj.ej " V i i .1 1 General butler has ironc Fortre-s ;::i!iy 1 e Gra'.il's Monroe with his stall! It is uen lieved that his conuectien with army has ceased. Resignation. Treiisury Chase, the Secretary of the as re.Mgned. W hetii"r he has done it -t .1 1- t o t-i I .. i . A. 1. t w.i t sert a sinking ship or that he was com pelled to do it from the force of public opinion, on account of the corruption that was about to be developed in one branch of the Treasury Department, where tluy make the Greenbacks, and where he had one of his favorites, a certain Mr. Clark, making them, we know not Rut one thing is certain, awful was the state of things that existed in that branch of the Department. We clip the following ex tract of a letter to the '"'New York World," showing how matters were con ducted in that branch of the Department, where they made the Greenbacks and had the fcmales clipn;Ilg ,!,, for them. 1 LIC Mr. Clark has it in his power to put ii. circulation millions of notes beyond ii:e amount authorized, and it would be 1 x- tremely difficult to detect the fraud. Kvery note passed over to the treasurer is corn- ulete when it leaves the hands of Mr Clark. The signatures are all printed, and nothing remains to be done in order to fit them for circulation. Mr. Clark could just as well use these notes as the treasurer ; and he has it in his power to commit the most gigantic frauds with scarcely any possibility of detection. An excess of four or five millions of dollars ! ,n a maps f fcur or five hundred millions of circulation would hardlv lie noticed The los3 and destruction of notes in use would more than cover this excess ; and the detection by the numbers in so great an amount of money would be slow and uncertain. The most extraordinary fact of all is, that these things are known to the inti mate friends of Secretary Chase, and are denounced and deplored by them. Spin ner, Chittenden, McCullocb, Jordan, and Taylor are all understood to be uneasy and much mortified at the existing state of things, and to have made known their feelings to the secretary. Rut he is im movable. The secret tie which exists be tween him and Clark is a complete mys tery. The friends and official associates of Mr. Chase believe him to be honest, and they submit to his determined will ; but they cannot explain satisfactorily to themselves how he can shut his eyes to the monstrous doings and the dangerous opportunities of his man Clark. Many surmises are indulged, some of them not at all creditable to the secretary ; the pro- Lability is that Clark's great address, his I Fupplo and subservient manner to his su- i : 1 1 " - 1 penors, and Ins unscrupulous representa tion of facts in his own interest, have taken Mr. Chase captive, and hold him blindly in the chains of a most malign in fluence. Clark can, of course, command the means of controlling the venal, and he will use them without stint This be may do upon any scale of ijrnit necessary to secure his ends. While he pretends to chaise Colonel Baker with being bribed by the bank-note companies, the fact is that every conceivable influence has been used to induce that officer to be- tray his trust, and to throw a veil over the hideous corruption in this particular department of the Treasury. Hut Col. j Raker lias been inaccessible to ev cry ap- thanks of every property-holder and tax payer in the United States. For even if Mr. Chase should succeed in smothering investigation at the present time, and itung that has been inaugurated since the then the Republican party will in- dignantly hurl him from power; i the Republican party will not act pro and if partv' will not act promptly in the matter, then the people themselves will rise up in their majesty and scatter that partv to the four winds of heaven They will express their indignation in public, meetings and K-titions to Congress, and through all the channels of public ex pression, until the flood of their wrath shall sweep through the augean stable of the treasury and bear it3 nauseous accu mulations of corruption ii to the gulf of oblivion. Obseuver. 1'runi Va;iinglon. W.Ut IKl'Ar:TMKNT, Washington, July 3. To Mujor G'-iui'ttl : A dispatch from General Grant's head-qvarfi-rs, dated at nine o'chjek tins moni--ic-s the foUowiirj result of Geiietai ii.-oa's operati 'lis: Sixty miles of railroads were thorough ly djstroyed. The Danville road, Gen. Wiisoti reports, could not be repaired in less than forty days, even if all the mate were on hand. He has destroyed all the b! ickciiiilh's shops where the rails iniiiht bJ straightened, a:i I all tlie mii:.-. where scantlings for sleepers :ou 11 1. . O - j sawe 1. Tuirty miles of the South Sid': i road were destroyed 'i!son brought in aheut f ur hundred negroes and many of : hi? va-t i Lllt ilv I tci nuniber of horses and mul 'S by his force. II? reports lha: the thls i!'.iiij'itciil without inirrij te n. gr::s ty it oL. Wilson's loss of proper ty is a smail wagon train used to carry a:n:ncnition, his ambulance train an 1 tvvelve cannon. The horses of the artii- J ler,' and wagons w ere gene-rally brought j off! Of the cannon, two were removed 4"rom their carriages, the w heels of which ' were broken and thrown into the water; 1 ! aad en? other gun ha 1 b.-ep. disnb'.ed by a j rebel shot, breaking its trunnijns, before 1 it was ai audond. He estimates his total loss at from seven hundred to a thousand men, including those lost from Kautz" s division. Lnvvis M. Stanton, S'-eretary of War. Washington July 3. The following telegram, dated to-day, at Marietta, G-orrin. was received this evening from Gcii-ra! Sherman, giving tlie successful result of the tl.ii. king operations in proxies- k.r s.:.ie days past: The titovem -nt cn ur right caused iho tneniv to evacuate. We occupied j Kencsaw at daylight, and Marietta at 8:30 A. M. Thomas is moving down the main road toward the Chattaboochie, and McPherson toward the mouth of the Nickajack, on the Sandtown road. Our cavalry is on the extreme flanks. Whether the enemy will halt this side of the Chat taboochie or not will soon be known. Marietta is almost entirely abandoned by its inhabitants. More than a mile of the railroad iron has Wen removed betwe(n the town and the foot of the Kenesaw.'' FmyiN M. S'ia.nion, Secretary of War. "Sni-L One Ahead." It is the ob ject of every one, when buying anything (whether to cat, drink or wear) to go where they can be best suited, and that place is always the cheapest. Also per sons wish to get the best quality, this is the reason why E. J. Mills & Co. always have such a rush to their store, .they al ways have the best quality. The chief attraction at present is a new lot of light clothing for gentlemen's wear, which they invite comparison as to quality, and defy competition as to prices. They are con stantly receiving goods, hence they keep uo with the fashions. C3" "In our advertising columns will bo found the cheap gold pens, sold by M Young & Pro's., New York. We have tried these pens and find them a very good article, We are confident those that order these pens are getting a very good bargain, and will doubtless be satisfied with them. See advertisement. CJ The Commutation clause was stricken out by a vote of G5 to 53. Con- : f,rpS., has adiourned. and it is understood ; 1 1 oecreiary 01 uw roasu... 3" Nothing is more intolerable tbaa proud ignorance. S'