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WAR.
Wars are contrary to the peace-breathing
spirit of the gospel, the first publication of
which was "peace on earth, and good-will to
man ;" and yet. in God's providential govern.
tent of the world, they are permitted. -The
explanation of their existence is to be sought
in the fact, that men have refused to submit
themselves to the rule of, the gospel. They
would be imposible in a world entirely con
verted to God. The substratum would be re
,
moved on which they are founded. The evil
passions which foment them, and by which
they are chiefly carrjed,on, would be subdued,
and feelings of holy, brotherhood would take
their place. It would be incongruous to sup
pose, that in the -millennial reign of Christ,
when, the principles of the gospel shall have
full away, men should be found imbruingAheir
hands in each other's blood. Then the sword
shkltt be converted into the ploughshare, and
the spear into the pruning -hook, and universal
peace shall prevail. < War is only congenial to
oeirdpt 'hutimn nature, and is one of its Most
terrible manifestations; and it is only on the
presumption that such "a • nature exists, that
the A)iVine goodness can be vindicated in its
permission. • -It is one of God's terrible instru
ments in punishing human sin, national and
He 'in no sense causes it, but he
uses it. "From whence come war and fight
ing, among you? cothettiefitot hence, even of
your lustg that war in your members?" The
Waits Which are . olirOnicled in theOld'Testaraent
had this origin. They are all traceble to the
unsubdued lust 'of The nation of Ca•
naan7becattie the victims of their own fear
ful and vas 'the instrument b'y
which they were extinguished. God bore long .
with them, until the measure of their inquity
was full ? and as they would not reform, they
were' ( destroyed
ere' destroyed in the wars of Israel. Sin
worked the forfeiture of their inheritance,
and then it was wrested from them and given
to a people, which, in its turn, exposed them
selves by their sins to the same forfeiture and
destruction..
In subsequent times nations have flourished
and been destroyed by the same instrumentality.
God has thus fulfilled his threatenings, and ac
emnplished his rightful purposes; and will so
continue to do until the nation shag learn to
know,•fear, and obey his as the universal Sove
reign.
The war which is.now afflicting our own land
in , b6C , the work of God, but of .man. It has
beeni:petmitted. to rage 'for the punishment of
those 'whose wicked passions have originated it.
All suffer, for all have sinned; and they suffer
moat intensely who have first :taken up the
autorl,;•.God ;has struck at haughti
ness and fleshly indulgences of =the North, and,,
in a more emphatic way, at the proud assurnp
tion and grinding oppressions of the South
His .purpose is to punish, and this he will ac
complish in humbling 'the North, and wresting
from the South their most cherished and in
huinan institutions. When these purposes are
fulfilled, we have hope and belief, that in
stead of destroying our nation he will refoi•to
it, and place it on-wholier basis.— The Presby-
THE NEWS.
We have meagre news from Charleston Bar
to the morning Of the 6th. The Weehawken
Vad' return+ d, and was at anchor off Morris
Island. The Patapsco and Passiac were at
work, but as a generat , thing the Navy was do
lag little of importance. Our batteries were
tred upon' occasionallyfrom the rebel forts on
Sullivan's and James Islands. General Gill
more was on the eve of completing his prepar
talons, andactiie operations would soon be re
sinned.
A despatch from Gen. Rosecrans' head-quar
ters, dated the 6th, says:-
"Not a man was injured by the rebel batter
ies yesterday. 'Our men are not annoyed by
the long range firing in tbe least, and keep
al:Pant their work the same as ever. The negro
lipys contitlued to play marbles while the born
hardnaant, was going, on, which is some evidence
that a very extensive alarm did pot exist.
There is no official confirmation of the rebel
statement that one of Gen. Robecraos . pontoon
bridges across the Tennessee River had been
carried away_by the freshet and the other being
submerged
The telegraphic communication, broken by
rebel, raiders between Nashville and Stevenson,
Ala., has been re-established.
It appears from an advertisement of the
Chief of Ordinance that two hundred 42-
pounder guns are, to be repaired in the forts
and arsenals of the Atlantic States, and fifty
guns of the same calibre in the defenses on the•
lE:aeifiu coast. All the forts and arsenals are
immediately to be put into the most effective
condition.
THE PILOT :-GREENCASTI,E, FRANKLIN CO., PA., OCTOBER 1803.
On the night of the Lit instant, the Rebel
guerrilla White, with about one hundred and
fifty mounted Rebels, made one of the most
successful raids of the war, upon a point near
Lewinsville, Fairfax county, known as Camp
Beckwith, where there was a small guard for
the protection of one of the contraband farms.
This guard, consisting of one Second Lieu
tenant, one acting Lieutenant, and forty caval
rymen, and one Lieutenant and seventeen in
fantrymen, was under command of First Lieu.
tenant W. J. Keays, Sixteenth New York
Cavalry. The attack was wade at 1350 on the
night of the Ist, by White, who approached
upon an unfrequented road (from the direction
of Drainsville), which Lieut. Keays had ner•'
lected to picket; his two,pickets being strange
ly placed in ravines very near the camp, and
without their horses, which were left in camp
unsaddled. White, therefore, had an easy
time of it. He rushed into the camp, killed ,
2, wounded. 3, and took 20 prisoners ; also, 50,1
cavalry horses, with most of their equipments,'
and arms of the •men, and ten horses: of the
Quartermaster's Department, -without a single ,
shot being fired by the guard. •
Lieutenant Keays has, of course, been or-k
dered to be.court-martialed. His case seemsi
to offer ,a very fair opportunity indeed for com:?
meneing to reduce officers to the ranks found.
guilty. of the very dangerous offense of neglea'
of duty.,— Washington. Star, Oct. sth.
'St. Louis, Oct. 9.—The Democrat has a spe'
'Mal despatch from Leavenworth, saying '
Intelligence have reached Pert Scott of rk
threatened attack on Fort Smith, General Blunt
left- the former post'for the latter one, Sunday
last.
The Rebel General Cabell, with about
10,000 men from General Cooper's Rebel force,
crossed the Arkansas River east of Fort Smith
on the Ist inst., and joined General Coffey at
Crooking Prairie, Missouri.
General Cabell was determinded to make a
raid into Arkansas or Missouri.
On the receipt of this intelligence all the
Federal cavalry in the Kansas District and
battery was sent to Fort Scott:
A letter from Fort Scott, dated the 7th
instant, says :
Lieutenant Tappin, of G-eneral 'Blunt's staff,
has arrived here. He reports that all Blunt's
staff and'body guard have been captured by the
Rebels, and also the command under Lieutenant
Pond at Baxter Spring.
General Blunt has succeeded in ;:etting ten
miles away, but it was uncertain whether Ilk
had escaped or not.
The Rebels were under Quantrell, Hunter
and Gordon and were moving towards Fort
Scott.
There was no danger of Fort Scott being
taken, it being abundantly strong enough
resist attack. i
Louisville, Oct. B.—One hundred guerrillas
under Captain Richardson, at two o'clock this
afternoon, placed obstructions on`the Lebandn
branch of the railroad at New Hope, twenty
miles from the Junction, threw the train dfl
the track and fired into it, doing no damage
to the passengers. They captured the train,
burned two passenger cars, the baggage and ex
press cars, and destroyed the locomotive, rob
bed the .passengers of money and clothing acid
decamped.
Reports prevail of a guerrilla raid in Sirup
son and Warren counties, under Hughes. Thty
burned the depot at Auburn, on the Memphis
branch.
Great excitement prevails in all the counths
between Muwfordville and the Tennessee line,
which are infested by guerrillas.
Major Martin, of the Third Regiment Mount
ed Infantry, pursued the Rebels yesterday frcina
Glasgow, and recaptured everything the Rebels
took at that place. The report that the Rebels
robbed the 'bank at Glasgow is untrue.
Chicago, Oct. B.—A special despatch from
St. Paul says intelligence brought by half - -
breeds to -Pembina states that Captain risk's
overland expedition to Idaho has been masea
ered by the Sioux. Nothing definite is given
as to time and place, except that it took place
on the Big Bend on the Missouri River.
The hall-breeds say that the Indians display
as their trophies, guns and other articles known
to have to belonged to the expedition.
The despatch says that the only hope that
this despatch may prove untrue is tnat it May
be, another version of an attack upon a patly
of miners who came down the Missouri,
counts of which have already been published.
Nashville, Oct. S.—Rumors prevail that
the Rebel cavalry have captured and entirely
destroyed Shelbyville, Tennessee, taken the
throe there prisoners. No particulars received
so far, and the truth of there port is unquestion
able.
General Mitchell, with a large' cavalry force,
was pursuing the Rebel cavalry, but we have
uo report of his being within striking distance.
The telegraph is working within three miles
of Chattanooga, and a large force is repaiting
the track recently torn up. •
Probably the Rebel cavalry had divided, a
part marehing towarus Kentucky, to narrass
Gen. Burnside's lines of supply, and a lart
going southward against B,osecraus.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 3.—The Cuinwprcia/ has
tclvices from Chattanooga to Saturday last.—
The estimate at headquarters of our loss at the
battle of Chickamauga creek is as follows:
Killed, 1,800; wounded, 9,500; taken prison
ers, 2,500; total loss, 13.800. It was the
opinion that if the right wing of our army had
held its own, the result would have been a de
tided Union victory. The success of General
Thomas on the left was very much greater
than • has been represented in any published
account of the great battle. General Thomas
routed Longstreet's rebel corp, and was in a
condition to pursue the enemy, had it not been
for the disorganization of our right wing. No
surprise was felt by our army officers at the
rebels not resuming the attack. The loss of
the enemy is believed to be 20,000. Our
army is in superb fighting trim; compact in
organization;' well supplied with provisions;
has plenty-Of ammunition, and is full of confi
deuce.
Official Majorities of 1860 and '62
We give below the official majorities at the
Governor's election in 1860, and also the Audi•
tor General's of 1862. These will be impor
tant for reference, and we recommend to those
who want therujo cut them out and preserve
them.
For Gov. For Aud. Gen.
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Adams 76 411
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Allegheny 6689 44 . 28
Armstrong - 776 226
Beaver 967 534
Bedf,rd 97 641
Becks 3485 5914
Blair 879 664
Bradford 4336 4063
Bucks.
Butler
Cambria 496 1109
Cameron 60
Carbon • 408 700
Centre .. 941 831
Chester 1627 2354 •
Clarion 502 , 959
Clinton 47 387
Clearfield 285 852
Columbia 783 1570
Crawford 2099 1417
Cumberland 91 844
Dauphin 1253 874
Delaware 1187 1311
Erie 3144 1542
Elk- 212 311
Fayette 174 935
Fraukl. n 674 17 .
Fulton
Forest
Greene 1140 1926
Huntingdon . 965 643 ....
Indiana 1786 1900 ......
Jefferson 393 . 71
`Juniata - 454
Lancaster. 5859 4939
Lawrence 1686 1498
1613
390
Lebanon
Lehigh..
254 2621
581 923
650 372 ......
Luzerne
Lycoming
Mereir
892 152
. 233 98
1341 1662
1580 1647.
111'Kean
Mifflin •
Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northampton
Northumberland-- 566 983
Perry ' -288 42
Philadeldelphia....... 1826 2801
Pike - 519 6,32
Potter 795 777
Schuylkill 234 1594
Somerset '1605 1060 ......
Snyder. e , 569 389
Sullivan 149 . 329
Susquehanna 1654 1196
Tioga 2816 1986 •
Union ...
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Warren ......... 940 655
Washington. 562 429
Wayne 73 941
Westmoreland ' ' 445 1367
Wyoming 174 191
York • 1343 3086
2roclamation by the President
By the President of the United . States of
America :—A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing to a Close has been
filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and
healthful skies. To these bounties, which are
so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to for
get the source from which they come, others
have been added, which are of such an extra
ordinary nature that they cannot fail to pene
trate and soften the heart which is habitually
insensible to the ever watchful providence- of
Al mighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled
magnitude and severity, which has sometimes
seemed to provoke the aggression of foreign
States, peace has been preserved with all na
tions—order has been maintained—the laws
have been respected and obeyed, and harmony
has prevailed everywhere, except in the theatre
of our military conflict, while that theatre has
been" greatly contracted by the advancing ar
mies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength
from the fields of peaceful industry to the na
tional defence, have not arrested the plough,
the shuttle, or the ship. The ax has enlarged
the borders of our settlements, and the mines
are full of iron and coal and of the 'precious
metals, and have yielded even more abuudntly
than heretofore.
Population has steadily increased, notwith
standing the waste that has been made in camp,
the siege and the battle field, and the country,
rejoicing in the consciousness of auginent'ed
strenght and vigor, is permitted to expect a
continuance of years, with a large increase of
freedom.
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Nn human council ?lath devised, nor bath
any mortal hand worked out these great things.
They are the gracious gilts of the Most High
God, who, while dealing with us in anger for
our sins, has nevertheless remembered us in
mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper
that they should be solemnly, reverently, and
gratefully ackuowleged, by the whole Ameri
can people.
I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in
every part of the United States, and also those
who are at sea, and those who are sojouring in
foreign countries, to set apart and observe the
last Thursday of November next, as a day of
thanksgiving and prayer and praise to our be
nefieent Father, who dwelleth in the Heavens
—and I recommend that, while offering up the
ascriptions justly due to Him fur such singular
deliverances and blessings, they do also, , with
humble penitence for our perverseness and
disobedience, commend to His tender care, all
those who have become widows, orphans, mour
ners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife
in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fer
vently implore the indisposition of the Almighty
hand to heal the wound of the nation, and to
restore it, as soon as it may be consistent with
the Divine purposes, to the full enjoyment of
peace and harmony, tranquility and union.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my
hand and caused the great seal of the United
States to• be affixed.
Done , at. the City of Washington, this 3rd
day of October, in the year of our Lord 1863,
and of the Independence of the Uinted States
the eighiy-eighth.
By the President: ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Wm. H. Seward, Secretary of State
Rosecrans Before the Battle.
• The correspondent of the New York Herald,
writing of the battle of Chickamauga, says:—
The General, who had been up all night,
though seriously ill, indefatigable as ever, had
donned what his staff call "his fighting coat," a
great coat of the style in common use among
the private soldiers. He had early slung the
canteen of his orderly around his own neck,
and this, said his staff, who had watched and
studied his manners, meant fight." He was
to me, that morning, an interesting study, for
had found him in a new character. He has
three distinct characters, Which it requires
three different oircumstauces to reveal. In
p:arrison, as at Murfreesboro', lively, good
natured, pleasant .ad agreeable, fond of social
games and conversation, be had grown pain
fullyless to one who ap.proacited him with rev
erence for him as a great warrior; for he
could see no traits of it. -In movernents(dur
ing his manceuvres, I mean), quick, lively, yet
severe, his nerves strung to the gratest tension,
and somewhat disposed to be excited over his
'plans and 'calculations, he creates in the be
holder a curiosity as to his real nature, and one
gets bewildered in seeing the opposing traits
of the man.
But on the morning of the 19th, when it
was evident that everything was narrowed down
to an engagement, his manner assumed a rigid,
dignity that was painful. He spoke in low
tones, neither soft nor pleasant, nor harsh, nor
rough. His nerves hemline solidified, and he
is a man of iron. He sees everything and
notices nothing. He stares and says nothing.
You speak, and he looks at you for a moment
and then turns away. All instinctively 'felt on
that morning that ".Rosey" was not in-his ap
proachable humor; "for, like the oracles,• he
talked with fate."
I shall never believe that Gen. itoseerans or
Thomas entered into the first battle of Chicka
mauga with that degree of confidence which
should have been felt by them. There ap
peared to be .something over which Rosecrans
had no control urging him to buttle,-and the
knowledge of it made Thomas, who blanches at
nothing, look. black.
Gen. Lee's Official Report.
The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday the 3d
lust., contains G-eu. Lee's official report of the
Pennsylvania campaign. It occupies nearly
three columns of that paper. The following
were the reasons for his campaign this sum
mer: "The position occupied by the enemy,
oppsite Fredericksburg, being one in which he
could not be attacked to advantage, it was deter
mined to draw him from it The execution of
this purpose embraced, the reliefof the Shenan
doah Valley from, the troops that had occupied
the lower part of it during the winter and
spring, and, if practicable, the transfer, of the
scene of hostilities north of the Potomac. It
was thought that in the corresponding move
ments on the part of the enemy to whic those
contemplated by us would probably given rise,
there might be a fair opportunity to strike a
blow at the army then commanded by General
Hooker, and that in any event that army would
be compelled to leave Virginia, and pos s ibly to
draw to its support the troops designed to oper
ate against other parts of the country. In
this way, it was supposed that the enemy's
plan of campaign for the summer would be
'broken up, and part of the season of active
operations be consumed in the' formation of
pew combinations, and the preparations they
would requ re. In add tion to these advan
tages, it was hoped that other valuable, results
tni , ht be attained by military success. Be ad
niits larger lossei but does not state them."
PASSING EVENTS, &c,
Tue. Atmospheric Fruit Jilr is sold by S. Ii pit
THEW. & CO. lc is the best in use.
FISHER'S improved Pereserve Can, for sale by
W. BARR. It is the most convenient in use.
Mn. JOSEPH Ftss, Sr., will please accept our
thanks for some . fine peaches.
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WHO IS going to present us with a few large ap
plea, pumpkins or potatoes
SEVERAL of our towns people have been out to the
mountain gathering chestnuts. As yet we tens e
seen "nary one."
THE Cavalry encamped at Moss Spring, h ave b eer ,
increased in numbers, by tke addition of the Ist
Batts.llion of 22nd Pa. Cavalry, besides some coin.
ponies of the 21st
WlLidam and JEREMIAH LONG, of this township,
went out hunting on Monday of last week, and g ot
three wild turkeys, and wounded another which
they got next day. This is the best we have h ead
of this year.
A MEETING of the Union parry was held here ni t
last. Wednesday evening. It was addressed by Won.
F BOUND and Hon. A. K. M'CLURE. As oxirn
train was up from Chambersburg. The excellut
Band from that place was in attendance.
TILE lecture, in behalf of the Ladies' Aid Society,
held iu the German tleformed Church ou last Mon
day evening, was pretty well attended. The pro
ceed's from the sale of ticeets and eontributious
amounted in all to forty odd dollars.
Thrown.—A few days ago, just as Capt. NEFF,
of the 22d Pa. Cavalry, was s.tarting from M'Nutry s
hotel, his horse fell throwing him oil en the sid,.
walk. His head was bruised and cut severely.—.
Dr. 31touti.m. wits called in and dressed the wound.
The Captain is out nein.
BeAt This.--We were shown x peer, by Mr. H.
13ngsbLe, weighing 12 ounces, and measuring 114-
nohes in circinnfee'ence
BENBY i‘JlLLstt, sr., has
. a pumpkin vine, which
prodticed ten pumpkins, iveigbing,l3s pounds.—
" That's some pumpkins."
Fkir Sale..L.-The'enliri apparatus and stock of a
well'furnished and well patronized Picture Gallery.
Also, the use of a large room with good light, &c.
Apply immediately to
[Spt. 18, 1863.-*]
MR. J. W. P. REID Eueceeds Mr 1.. Y. ATHERTON,
as teacher of the public school in the New School
Building.
'We are pleased to learn that Mr ATIISIIITON
been appointed to a clerkship in one of the depart-
Incas at Washington. He is certainly well qualiti.
ed for the post.
ALL of the Sunday Schools, we believe, connected
witlitlie different churches of the town, meet eveiy
Sabbath afternoon. Parents ahould see that their
clikldren should' attend one of these schools. hi
aliWys find the faithful Sunday Szbool scholar 3
good boy, or a virtuous girl. It is ft matter which
every parent and guardian should take an interest
MEI
perioßs Accident.—We learn from the Me
chanicsburg (Pa.) Journal, that a Mr. DRESBAUGH,
frotroWhiie Hall, in'Cumberland county, and MN.
BoWitax, from Illinois, met with a Severe accident.
The horse attached :to their 'carriage took fright at
the fiend; car below town. throwing Mr. D. out, se
verely injuring him. Mrs. B. in jumping •ut of
the carriage was severely hurt. They are now both
on a fair way of recovery.
Picket Shot.—A cavalry picket, belonging to
the 22nd l's., was shot in a woods near the —Corner,"
on last Tuesday night. Ile was shot through the
leg—though not dangerous, yet is a severe wound.
It was supposed that. the act was committed by ammo
horse thief. Several men Weie Feeii in the wools
by the picket,.and thinking something was wrong.
he sent his comrade who was on the post with him.
baeltAo inform the officer in chsrge. It was a fog
minutes after this cavalryman left that the, shot w
fired:
Ministerial.—Rev. J. W. WIGETTmAx, fit the
meeting of CarlislePresbyteryheld at Mercerabir;
last week, passed a highly creditable examination.
Re will he ordained and installed as Pastor of the
Presbyterian church in this place, on the 121 h day
of November, and on the 13th day of N ovem ber in
Waynesboro'. •
Rev. Moons, junior minister on the Mercershurg
and Greencastle Circuit of the M. E. Church, Inv
been transferred to the Clearspring Circuit. The
good - wishes of his many friends here go with ban.
Election.—The State election miles off to-day.
being the second Tuesday of October. It is the
right and privilege of qualified voters to cast their
ballots to-day for candidates for various offices
The platforms of both parties have been published:
the merits of 'the candidates have been pretty thor
oughly discussed. Let every citizen do his duty.—
It is no time to draw nice distinctions of party- -
The country demands our earnest support. Le t
every voter consider to-day the perils the republic
is in, and cast his ballot with a conscientious dein ,
of promoting the best interests of his country- 0 °
of party.
What the Children might Do.—We see
from several of our exchanges. that the children in
many places are doing a good work for the soldier
—in the way of holding' Fairs The evenings er e
growing long, and after the school lessons Are
,studied, the little girls would still have time to mak e
tt.p some.fancy and useful articles, which, about the
holidays, might be collected together, and opene d
for sale in some suitable room. The proceeds being
devoted to the purchase of articles for the coroferl
of the sick and wounded soldiers. The little boys,
too, might take a share in this work. In one town ,
no larger than this, about five hundred dollars wer e
realited from a Fair of this kind. What slag b e
done?' Wort the mother's give their sanction mo.
encouragement_? Won't the alder girls help a little •
Won't everybody who loves the soldiers be wining
to do 'sotinthiisit?
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H. R. FETTERROFF,
Gieencastle, Pa