Congratulatory address.
lion. John Cessna Chairman of the
Union State Committee, ]has issued the
following cOngratulatory I , address to Abe,
Union men of the State :'
Another political contest has been de
ternsioed by,the freeman of Pennsylvania.
The Union 'cause has again triumphed at
the ballot bOx. Official returns have been
„received from sixty-two of the sixty-six
sounties in•the State. Cfthese tifty-four
,--- show gates for the Union cause "over the
Vote of 186 p. The aggregate gains over
lasses are nearly twenty-five thousand.
This will give to our candidates on the
borne vote alone majorities exeeeding that
gheeariny and home vote to our late
lamented President Abraham Lincoln.—
: of thweeven Union Senators whose term
of office expired, we hare not lost one.—
„ , The.home Tote hatogained us .ono from
the opposition to Luzerne, and the army
vote will gain us another la Franklin and
Adams. 41 the lower House we have re
tained all of our sixty-three members of
last'session'.', The home vote has added
three to this number, and the army vote
will give us. one wore. The Senate will
stand tweolty.sone to twelve,and the House,
Sixty-seven to tbirty-thri.e, thus giving
:to us a majority of, furty.three on joint
}
For these results, so gratifying to the
friends of our cause in Pennsylvania,and
to alt patriots shrougheut the nation, we
are deeply)indebted to the returned sol
dier of the late Union army, who have
taught their friends and their foes that
they know is well how to vote intellig ently
for the cause of the country as they know
how to fight bravely and heroically for
the same cause.
To, the Secretaries of the State Central
Venimittee, Mesers. ilamersly and Berle.
drat, the fop( men of Pennsylvania are
under lasting obligations. Upon them
devolved ikrduous and responsible dutieS.
Zdany of their labors are act witnessed
or-,even known to the ptiblic. They labor
ed assidoCusly by, day end by night for
the success of the Unioni cause, to which'
they are both most devotedly attached.
Every tmember of the State Central
Commitiee performed well his part and
co-operated cheerfully and cordially with
the ebiarzan in promoting the success of
the Union ticket: To the chairman of
the several county cotnmittees, it is eon.
ceded that much lof the credit of our tri
umph belong e. To all the true and faith
ful mezref the State who so effectually
discharged their duties, and made our tri
umph easy as well as Overwhelming, our
tnost earnest sad hearty thanks are ex
tended.
The defeat of our opponents is thorough
Auld disaStrous. To them it was unexpect
ed, although well merited. Having op.
posed the , war so happily and so glorious
ly terrnieated, they changed their policy'
'nominated officers, and assumed to be the
especial' friends. of the soldiers. They
were conffdent and defiant. When we
were silent, they clamorously and impori
uusly demanded I our views. When we
spoke they charged that it was "puerile
invective.” They told their followers
"that *e were endeavoring to turn their
Sanite,7 and called lustily upon them "to
'pierce ocr centre." Some of them retired
with both flanks turned and their centre
pierced. balance were made prison
ers.
Last year they assured their followers
ibat the election bad been carried at the
point Of the bayonet; that military rule
bad interferad with the freedom of the
election, and that our country was fast
verging towards a military despotism.—
That Shallow pretext cannot (avail them
uow. 1 '
. Supporting soldiers, they became the,
champions of deserters and refugees froui
the draft. To rally their desponding and
disheartened forces the, proclaimed Abut
our president had become a conve'rt to
their ;views. They well knew the opinions
of these who had elected him, /and the
principles of the platfornalupou/which he
stood. Yet they , would gladly . have in.
deiced him to abandon his friends and
his principles in order that/they might be
restored to power.
- The spirit of slaver y, secession and
State soverignty bad' assassinated one
Presider 'last six months,and
was stri .alize and steal anoth
er, TED failed. The effort
to make terribly rebuked by
the . Om !suit ie the complete
demorali ierthrow of those who
'dared to our Chief
lllagis
trate in t mote the success of
Omit. sin
TheAft.repeated and well established
truth of history has again been vindicated.
NoiMan, in any country, can take sides
ia aims& his Government when engaged in
ar, whether foreign or domestic, and
stain the confidence and respect of his
y • fellow-citizens after the termination of
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, that war. And snob is the unavoidable
fate of partiei. - Either the party which
antagonizes the government during the
w a r must no down or the nation must
11? fish. Onr nation is too young to die.
. hose' who 'opposed , our armies on the
field of battle have been defeated. The
,a;rty whose leaders opposed the prosecu
tien of our war for national existence has
been beaten at the ballot box:,'Oar pee - ,
plc have just given another of the highest
. proofs of the fact that man is capable of
Felfgcrvenwttent. The people at the bah
Ict boa hare declared their adherence to
-, the principles which were made trumph• '
alit by the skill aad bravery of American
11ficers, soldiers and seamen amid the
storm of battle. Let all good Union filen I
POotinue tc:t be faithful and true to thej
tOtse of their country, and all will be well.
2be nation' rained by the fiery 'ordeal
,
',through which r J t b 4 lately pasaed, will
start upows new era of progress. The
enemies of free' govrritnent Will every
where respect and, fear our greatness and
power,and the downtrodden and oppressj
ed of every Ohne will seek arid find an
asylum in one Mids t, TO.nrt CEsssza..
Chairmao,tliion tate Central Cotn;
mittee. 1, *_ •
PRESIII,ENIII JOUNSON.
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eoretary geward i roam) a speech in
Auburn New Yorlr,last weels,in the course
of which he alluded io the efforts of the
Democracy to Make the President unfaith:
fill to his prinotnies and . hip friends. 3.11 . r
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Seward said : ''t
Some of youseem to,have been slight
iv disturbed by Iprofessions or demonstra
tions of favor toward the President, made
by'parties who l l have heretofore opposed
his Administratio4 as well as the Amin
istration of bid predecessor. [Laughter.]
And you ask, maylnot the President yet
prove unfaithful to us ? For myself, I
laid aside partizanShip, if I had any; in
1861, when-the salvation of the country
demanded that sacrifice. It is , not there
fore, my Purpose to descend to mere par-,
tizonship 'now. Andrew Johnson laid
aside, I am sure,what.ver of partizanship'
he had at the same, kime. [Applausel
That noble net did nnt allow, but, on the,
other band, ii,lforbede, collusion by the
friends of the Union 'with opponents of
the policies of the and of reconcilia
tion which the Governmeot has found h
accessary to Ohm(); IDuty required ab
solute and uncompromising fidelity tothe
supporters of those- policies, whosoever
p ond whatsoever party! they may be. [Ap
plause.] Atidrew JOhnson has practiced,
that fidelity against,' the violence of ene-' 1
rules, td.theisocrifice of his .fortune, the
hazard of hiS liberty, and even the perii,
of his life. CEnthuSiastio cheering.] The,
same fidelity is still identified with the'
success of thOsdpolicies, and, of courseiis
necessary to , the achievement of their,
magnificent ends. [Loud applause.] Wily
should he now abandon those policies,and
desert time•banored and favored support
ers, merely because the dawning success
of our efforts has compelled former oppo
nents to appi‘ove and accept them? [Re.
nerved applause.] ,Patriotism and! loyalty
equally, however, require that fidelitylln
this case shall be !mutual. Be ye faith
ful, therefore, on your part, and although
Ithe security I offer is unnecesssary and
superfluous, yet L will guarantee fidelity
on his part. [Renewed Oeeriar] Those
I who hitherto opposed the President, buu
now profess ;to suppors him, either are
sincere or insincere, Time .must prove
which is the fact. lf they are 'sincere,
who that .his a loyal heart tuustlnOt ! re
joice in their late though too long flerdyed
conversion 7. If they are ix:mince/a, are
we either less sagacious, 4
or hav,swe less
ability now thanheretofore to;connteracti
!treachery to the national cause'? Perhaps
you fear the integrity of the man.' con•
fess, with a full sense of i/y accountabil
ity, that among ap thel ,publie men whom
I have met or with whWm I have 'been as
sociated or concerned On this or oily other
country, no one has/seemed to the to be
more wholly free from' personal caprice
and selfish ambit:fon than Andrew John
boa; none to hd niare 'purely and exclu
sively moved - n public action by love of
cannery and l Z3 as ood will to mankind.,
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coppy the following from a
Harrisburg letter to the Frank/in Reles
itory •
The next Senator will therefore certain
ly'/he a Union man, and already the con
test is bechming animated. There will be
hot less than (a score of candidates and
muohibitterness will Miegle in the strug
gle.
_Geo. Cameron has labored untiring
ly since hi i s retirement from the cabinet
for the pos ition, and will exhaust his en
ergies to attain it. He has just emerged
from a contest at home with victory on'
his banner, and feels chat he can now de
vote,
his energies to other'sections. Phil
adelphia will present not less than two
candidates , both of whom are, next to be
ing for themselves against Cameron. I
refer to dol. Wm. B. Themes and Hon.
Wm. D. Kelly. JnlJge Kelly is especial.
ly bitter against Cameron and will deal
some heavy blows in the progress of the
struggle. GOv. Curtin is Widely spoken
i of, but I do not know that be regards
himself as a candidate. Ciiain it is that
ho has not deiroted his efforts to control!
the election of members of time legislnture
favorable to himself. Ron. Thaddeus
Stevens is named, but I do not regard it
as probable that' be will enter the list of
e)tonetitors. 1 Hon. G. A. Grow I will
probably be a formidable candidate as the
whole North would adhere to bite with
great fidelity! The West will, of course,
have a smalllcrop of candidates also, but
as Cowan has the position now, it ie like
ly that the Senatot will be yielded to the
East. 1 IA decided majority of the new
Senators chosen this fall are sqoarely
hostile to Gen. Cameron,and the Chester
Lanedster, Bedford and Beaver diStricts
will piitty certainly elect Senators nest
fall whh will not prefer him. He has,
howeiter, earnest Mends in Hall, Haines
and NiChole.whci will prabable be reelect
ed,and:RidgewaY will likely support him
if Phil l adelphia cannot carry one of her
candidaiesithrohgh. I Unless the House
shall :b madestro egly foreameron=rntich
more so than itiis this year—he cannot
be the hornincehf the Union canons ; but
just who way be is a question that is most,
diffichlt ofisolutien. i
Nithrally - enough the overwhelming
Union victory just achieved has hrotight
out a largtli crop of candidates for Govern
or. Co Ptiorohead of Allegheny,Col.
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Jordan, of i Bedford, Gen. Geary and Hon.
jno. Covode, of Weatmorland, W. W.
Xetchem,lof Luzerne, have been known
candidates for some months, and the es
tablished snpreinaey of the Union party
Will make their friends increase their en
rgies. In additiun to these, I hear the
amea of Hon. Thos. M. Howe and Hon.
no. P. Penny,of Allegheny,Gen.Lemuel
iTodd of Cumberland, Mayor McMichael,
p l f Philadelphia, Gen.,Hartranft and Gen.
Hancock, of Montgomery, Hon.. 0. A.
Grose, of Susquehanna, Senator Lowry,of
Erie, FFlin. Geo. V. Lawrence, of Wash
ington, Hon. Jno. Cessna, of Bedford,and
ethers whose names. I do now recall. The
name of the chief editor of the REPOSI
TORY has also beewipietty freely used in
connection with thei nomination ; but as
his, own columns peremptory decline him
I presume that I am bound to obey and
strike his name friim the list. Of the
'new names suggeste d, that of Mr. Cessna
has the most vitality, and it is probable
[ that there will be a powerful concentra. 1
' tien in his favor. Ile has made a most
gallant fight for the, country since the day
commenced war was comoced and has never
blotted his record by faltering under any
circumstances; and the consumate skill
and energy with Which he won victory
for the party in the. late contest, gives
him a prestige thatcourses to fortune with
a strong tide, If a military man mast be
taken, Gen
_Haneock would doubtless
bear off the prize it he is willingtoaccept
it ; buta brevet Maj. General in the reg
-1 ular army would hesitate loos: before ea
-1 ohangizig a life office in the line of his
profession aad in which he had won all
his fame, for the uncertain fortunes of
political lif e.
Gov. Curtin has just signalized his de
votion to the soldiers again by appointing
1 Col. Qat k to the position of Master War
den of Philadelphia,in place of Mr. Wayne
deceased, and by installing a wounded
private as messenger in place of Mr. Miles
deceased. Enduring as the monumental
marble which attests our heroism and
sacrifices on so many sanguinary fields,
will be , the grateful remembrance of Gov.
Curtin's tireless efforts in behalf of our 1
brave soldiery,by them and their posterity. !
For thn Potter Journal
Something About "Stara Falling."
There is a seat of professed Christians,
not entirely l of modern date, who seem to
pride themselves in unfolding those mys
terious prophecies of Scripture calculated
to puzzle more profound theologians.
Adventista, for so they are called, •during
the past centuries have fixed the' time and
date when Christ would make his second
appearance on this earth, and when time
must end. Whole communities have
been ,deluded; agriculture and business
of all sorts have been suspended to the
great detriment of Nature's fondest de.
sires. Those fixed periods have come and
gone, and no Savior in their way yet.
"Immediately after the tribulation of
those days, shall the sun lbe darkened,
and the moon shall not give bee' light,
and. the stars shall full from hearen,and
tho powers of heaven ti ball be shaken."
Matthew xxiv. 29.
The prophecy "the stars shall fall from
heaven" was, they say, fulfilled in 1836,
and they predicate much upon the mete
oric; shower of that night. It
; so hap
pened that I witnessed that singular
phenOmenon, and will here give a des
cription of it, with pleasure too, as I have.
heard sd many false representations.
I thick it was in October.lB36, I was
;
near the city of Elmira, N. Y., traveling
toWards that city from the north.. The
sky was very bright, the atmosphere very
pure, and the stars shone with peculiur
brilliancy. Until past midnight nothing
unusual' appeared. As is always seen on
a brigh. starlight evening, occasionally a
meteor,, commonly called h star, could be
seen falling or rather streaking across the
horizon; At about two o'clock they were
going so fast that' it was impossible to
count them, and_l think they kept in
greasing for an hour longer, when; they
resembled, somewhat, large flakes of snow.
They emitted no light, and all went ex-;
actly in the same direction; i. 0., from the
zenith to the west. Sometimes they dis-
appeared in the horizor,, but were gener
ally seen until •lost behind the western
hills. Duringthe whore exhibitiou,wbich
lasted until obscured by sun-light, the I
number of stars peen in the sky was not
diminished nor changed in the least., It
was precisely what every person has s l een,
only instead of one at a time falling, say
fifty, or a hundred, ,and perhaps a thou-
Sand. Perhaps the same could be seen
a`py night, were the sky as clear and bright,
and very probably the same might be seen
at any hour of the day, had we the vision.
It is one of Natnre'e,freaka and gambols.
"The sun shall be darkened, and the
moon shall not give her light, ; and the
star
a shall fall from the heavens." This
i'ery figurative language. Changes
hould occur in the government,and ruin
shonld fall upon the cities of the nation
li t hat should be like the putting out of the
Isuu and moon. Fifty years from the
time our Saviour spoke, these words, the
complete extirpation of the Jewish peo
pleoccurred. They' were sold us as slaves
and utterly driven out from the land of
their fathers. In. the prophecy of Isaiah,
xiii, 10, we find thesitme figures of speech.
Speaking of the des' i traction,of Babylon,
he says. "For the stars of heaven and the
constellations thereof shall not give their
light, the sun shall' be darkened in his
going forth, and the moon shall not cause
her light 0) shine "' The same can be
found in Joel; httving reference again to
the destruction of Jerusalem, and their
ecclesiastical and aqil state, The east
,
,
ern magi were miraculously led to Beth
14beta by a meteoriti light called a star.
Christ is called the "Morning Star,"
which is the; brightness of the heavenly
train, and ushers in the day. ,The word
"star," "stars," "constellationa g " &c., are
used very figuratively in ' all Scripture
language, and bard indeed is that theory
that tales the falling star In its literal
sense, and still harder that view of As
tronomy that tbinks'a literal star Could
fall upon this little planet called Earth.
H. L. Brim.
Sweden Valley, Oct. 23, 1865.
The New Senate and Assembly
Who will compose the next Legkishitnee
SENATE,
Philadelphialremiati Nichols, Jacob E.
Ridgway,* C. M. °amen, George Connell.*
Chester, Delaw re and Montgomery—W.
Worthington, flor ce Royer.
Ba ck s--:0. P. mes.
Lehigh and Nort amplon—George B.Schall.
Berks—Heisfer, clymer.
Carbon, Monro 4 Pike and Wayne—H. B.
Beardslf.e. f
Bradford, Sasqiiehanna and Wyoming , —
George Landon.* I
Lugerne-4. D. , Shoemaker.
Potter, Tioga, McKean and Clinton—War
ren Cowles.* L I
Lycoming, Unidn and Snyder—:-.T. Wut/s.
Nortlturnberlan i Montour, Columbia and
Sullivan—Datnd —Montgomery.
Dauphin awl Llbanon—D. Fleming.
Lancaster—B. :Champneys, J.M. Dunlap:
York and CumVprland—A.Hiestand Glatz.*
madams awl Franklin—C. M. Duncan.*
Somerset, Bed(ord and Franklin—Geo. W.
Householder. I
Blair, Huotinkdon, Centre, I,li/Bin, Juniata
and Perry—L. W. Hall, Kirk Hainea.
Cambria, Indiana. and Jefferson—Gen.
Ilairy White.*
Clearfield, Catheron, Clarion, Forest and
Flk— W. A. Wa4e:re.*
Westmorelandi Fayette and Green—John
Latta.
Allegheny-=-.T. L. Graham,* T. J. Bigham.
Washington and Beaver—Win, Hopkins.
Lawrence, BuO.er. and Armstrong—Rer. R.
Audley Brown.*
Mercer, Venango and Warren 7 —Thomas
Hogs). -
Crawford and Erie-3forrow IL Lowry.
Vnion Senators
Opposition Senators
Union majority
It is believed that Ifr. Conaughty,the Union
candidate in the Nineteenth district, may be
elected by'the soldiers' vote, which will give
a Union majority of nine.,
Those marked with a*'are newly elected.
Democrats in Italic.
ASSEMBLY".
Philadelphia—Geo. W. Ghegan, W. H.
Ruddituan, Sam' I Josephs, W . W. Watt, James
Freeborn, James Sabers, James N. Kerns,
George A. Quiglieg, Elisha W. Davis, F. D.
Sterner, Ales. Adair, Jas. Donnelly, Francis
Hood, G. DeHaven, Jri, D. A. Wallace, Ed.
G. Lee, Jas. N. Marks.
Adams—Philip L. Houck. •
Allegheny—Geo Y. McKee, Hans B. Her
ron, Alfred Slack, David Shaffer, John P.
Glass. John A: banks,
Armstrong F. Afechling. •
Berks—John Missimer t S. B. Rhoads. Fred.
Hamner.
Ilucks—Zulhur Caloix, F. W. Zeadman.
Bradford and Sallitart—Lorenso Grinell,
C. W. Kinney.
Blair—Joseph G. Adlum.
Cambria—Cl/sus L. Pershing.
Carbon and Conroe--Allen r'rezig.
Centre—Fred. Kurtz.
Clarion and Jefferson—W. W. Barr.
Clearfield, Elk and Fores.t—Dr.R. C. Early,
(Independent Democrat).
Clinton, Cameron and McKean—E. B.
Eldred.
Chester—N. J. Sharpless, W. B. Waddell,
N. A. Pennypacker.
Crawford—J. C. Sturteiant, Geo. H. Bemis.
Columbia and Montour— W. H. Jacoby.
Cumberland—Philip Long.
Thiuphin—Jeremiah Seiler, H. B. Hoffman.
Delaware—Ellwood Tyson.
Erie—O. S Woodward, U. B. McCreary.
Fayette—Chas. E. Bogle.
Greene—Thos. Rose. •
Huntingdon, Mifflin and Juniata--Ept t rai m
Baker, James At. Brown,
Indiana and Westmoreland—George E.
Smith, T. I?. , llfeAfer s Jas. McElroy..
Lancaster—R. W. Schenck, Chas. Dennes,
Day Wood, Jim, JI. Stohman.
Lebanon—Jacob B. !deny.
Lehigh—K. Weisner, .Ta 4. P. Mine. •
Lyco:ning, Union and Snyder—Sam'l C.
Winegard; Isaac Rotbrock, D. A. Irwin.
Luzerne—Anthony Grady, D. P. Seybert,
D. 5 KOOll.
, Mercer, Lawrence and Butler—Josiah Mc-
Pherrin, N. Keagley, Sam'l McKinley'
Henry Pillow.
Montgoinery—A. .D. Markley, B. L. Sat
terktvaite. ;
Northampton—Oliver H. Myers, T. D. Bar
rington.
Northumberland—Charles W. Tharp.
Perry and Franklin—Geo. A. Shuman,
F. S. Stambannh.
Schuylkill—Kennedy Robinson, .I. Al. Cros
land, P. P. Collins.
Somerset. Bedford and Fulton—Moses A.
Rossi D. B. Armstrong.
Susquehanna and Wyoming—P. M. Oster
hout J. T. Cameron.
Tqva and Potter—Wm. T. Humphrey,
John S. Mann..
Venang,o and Warren—W. N. Whaun, Har
rison Allen.
Washington and Beaver—James R. Kelley
Joseph B. Welsh, Matthew S. Quay.
Wayne and Pike—Wm. A!. Nelson.
York---,James Cameron, at. S. Lawrence.
• Union Members 66
Democratic - ' 33
Independent Democrat
.
Union Majority 82
Union Majority on joint ballot 39
Democrats in Italic.
Never refuse to pay the printer when
you have read his paper. A man who
does this is dean enough to ,steal rotten
aeions from a; blind pig.
Gov. Pierpont has declared himself sat'
isfied with the result of the election in
Virginia. It is stated that five of the
eight candidates ekcted can take the oath.
.A. New weekly journal is announced in
Lonacin called the St-14%140ne° Gridiron
and Ramsgate Washing Tub. It states
that it is "Price one shilling and cheap
too I"
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Six Collars from Fifty Centi3. Call and ex
amine an invention urgently needed by every
body. Or a sample pent free by mail for 50
cents. that retails easily for $6, by R. L.
Wolcott i 110, Chatham square, New York,
Simmons
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