:FOR SALE. We are eompelied, on account of impaired Wealth, to offer fur sale this office. TN F. PILOT is sew in its 4th year. It has enjoyed a con siderable degree of patronage. A good paying subscription list has been secured. Any en srgetie person would be able to increase it rapidly. A weekly journal can and will be supported by a wealthy community lik,e ours. The business of the town and neighborhood i. being constantly enlar.ed. The material in this office is good. The office enjoys a good run of JOB WORK,. For terms and other particulars, Address J. W. MTRORY, THE GREENCASTLE Tuesday' Morning, Jan. 5, 1864 or ; ed: " THE BANNER TOWN 4'Speciat Despatch to the Inquirer " Gaitnicasn.r.. Franklin Co., Pa.. Dec. 31.—We held a town meeting here two weeks ago for the purpose of taking steps towards filling our quota wider the January draft by volunteers. The citi sens subscribed liberally Bounties were offered to recruits. and a committee was nppointed to attend to the 111111CFP : and in less then ten days time we bad the satisfaction of knowing that the work was done and our quails filled. This is the first instance we have heard of in Pennsylvania." ' We clip the above from the Philadelphia Inquirer of January Ist. Apart from the sat isfaetion we feel in being relieved from all care . in relation to the impending draft, we exult in the fact that we have filled our quota with volunteers; because it speaks well for the pa triotism, liberality, and enterprize of our town to be not only one of the first towns in the State to do so. but so far as we knoW, the very first; It argues our patriotism, because we preferred to put men into the ranks of the 'Cajon armies rather than money into the Fed• eral Treasury—money being less needed than men; it evidences our liberality, for the citizens, of their own accord, subscribed promptly, and, generally, in accordance with their means, and paid in the amount. of their subscriptions at once, hardly one refusing who was in dut) bound to aid ; it manifests our enterprize, in that we were not deterred by the shortness of the tittle nor the many difficulties which pre seated themselves, front attempting success.— For let no one imagine that real difficulties did not spring up at the very outset. It was for vs and for this section, a new and untried field We had no lights. No method had been adop ted by any neighboring community, which, by its success, had been proved to be a proper one But with great unanimity and with the con viction that nothing is impossible to those de termined to succeed, the citizens of the bor. ough entered zealously upon the labor. With admirable judgment they appointed a commit tee, composed of Messrs. Pen Singer, Prather. Schafhirt, Irwin, Pawling and Gates. and chose for their treasurer Mr. John Wilhelm. Jr. They placed the whole management of the matter in their hands, without instructions They gave them cartiLlanche, and said : Go in and do your best. In this way the neces nary unity of action was obtained, and that secrecy, without which all plans would have was . preserved. The fact the.- in ten days the executive committee and treasurer were able to announce the quota filled, demon strated that the community's couffilence was not misplaced nor its judgment Mistaken. We are glad to learn that our example has stirred up our neighbors to attempt the same. Of their success so far, we have not been in formed But there is no reason for failure, ex cept supineness or. discord. Every borough in the county could yet fill its quota, with a proper effort, if, as is now generally supposed. the draft shall be postponed until February The townships are not in so good a situation. They labor under many disadvantages. The inhabitants are dispersed over so wide an area that they cannot hastily be got together for deliberation, even in sub-districts, and subscrip tions and collections must necessarily go for ward slowly. But fur this difficulty, our town ship and town would have been united, we persuwe, in procuring `volunteers. We wish success to our neighbors. Some of them have offered bounti e s fooli s hly l arge supposing that large bounties will supply the rick of energy on the part of citizens, which is a sad mistake ; but that is none of our busi ness. We shan't have to pay the taxes. Bur they must allow us to e.ongratulate ourselves at being—for ogee—ahead, and grant us a small jubilation at being " out of' the draft," and forgive a pleasant smile at the thought that all this is so, and nobody the poorer and the taxes no heavier. Greencastle is the "Banner Town." ' Su says the Inquirer wan. It has not been so very often, iu any respee-, i n the past, but now that we have "gone up head ," look out f»• hereafter' Greencastle, Franklin county. Pa TH E: PILOT :--GEEEN THE OLD YEAR The year 1863 has gone. It is a thing of the past. It has become a part of history.— And now that we can survey it as a whole, what a grand old year it was? It was marked by a great conflict of ideas as well as a Titanic conflict of arms. Its deeds are heroic; its achievements grand. It was a year of decided pr i Kress. It is, therefore, immortal. In recalling the events which occurred dur ing the year. we find that there were not near ly so many battles fought in it as in the year preceeding. But its battles were decisive. It was ushered in by the great battle of Stone River, where Roseeranz defeated Bragg. Then Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and the tak ing of Morris Island, in the East, and the bat tles preliminary to the seige of Vicksburg, the siege and fall of that place and Port Hud son, the indecisive battle of Chickamauga nod the decisive battle of Chattanooga, in the West. The year 1862 was much more prolific of great engagements. But those of 1863, with far less sacrifice of life on our part, yielded incomparably greater results. It is true, in the East the geographical relations of the op posing parties are about the same as at the be sinning of the year. Gettysburg, however. decided forever the inability of the enemy to transfer the war to Northern soil. Morris Island gave us the needed foothold in Charles ton Harbor, and secured the fall of Charleston itself in .due time—enabling us already to avenge the first great insult to the Stars and Stripes at-Sumter, by the utter destruction of that fortress. And Chaneellorsville even, though a repulse to our arms. was more disas trous to the enemy, fur how were they to re place the thou ands they lost there ? But leek Westward. The Mississippi rolls his waters to the gulf disenthralled and un trammeled. The confederacy is split in two. The Western portiou is not only separated per manently and completely front the Eastern, but. is fast being reclaimed to loyalty. Tennessee, East, Middle, and West—is wholly ours—is saved and safe. Tennessee and Kentucky, to uether form the real Keystone of the Federal arch. A good portion of Misshaippi we hold and occupy. Our forces under General U. S. Grant, are on the borders of Georgia, and their look is, towards the Gulf. Get tysburg, Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and Chat tanooga, these four great names will make the year 1863 the most illustrous in American annals, for they destroyed the power of the South, and gave the confederacy its quietus. At the beginning of 1863, the South had still good hopes of rams and fast sailing priva teers to be fitted out in English ship-yards.— Jeff. Davis looked confidently to France for re-. e,ignition and help, and not withont reason.— But in the beginning of 1864, how have all these hopes and ,expeetations vanished ! Eng land has been completely revolutionized in her opinion upon the American war, and has pro claimed in unmistakable accents, her detesta tion of the Southern Slave holding confederacy. Even the fear of losing Mexico; if our arms should sue:iced, could 'not induce Napoleon. the False, to outrage the sense of liberal Europe, and risk the glory of French arms, by taking part with the rebeli. With 1863 Went out all hope of Foreign aid for Jeff. The great losses which the rebels sustained during the year just closed, are made manifest by the necessity to which they are reduced of dragging every man into the ranks—even boys of 16 and decrept old men of 60. And that the fighting. material of the South is wholly exhaus• ted is clearly shown by the frenzy which seems lately to possess both the administrative and legislative branches of the confederate govern• went upon the subject of swelling the muster rolls of their armies. " Whence Conies this frantic infatuation ?" says the Richmond Wkly. " Is it a symptom of panic, of trepidation bordering on despair 7 Are we reduced to the necessity of making such an exhibition to our enemies and to the world, in resorting to such desperate measureg, unparalleled in the history of wars?" It looks very like it. Lord Lyons, it is said, wrote lately to Earl Russell that the rebellion would succumb in three months. The correspondent of the Lou don. Times in Richmond, himself an ardent secessionist, declares that six months will probably see the South su far exhausted as to be unable longer to continue the war: From a survey of the whole-field, it would seem that the operations of the Union armies during the year 1b63, were fatal to the rebellion. But 1863 will be retnenibered forever by us. it fur no other reason, on account of the grand invasion of Pennsylvania by the Rebel arm► under Gen. Lee, and the occupation of our t own by the Confederates for several weeks.— Such a sight as Greencastle saw in June and July last, she will never see again. So long as one house stands to mark the site of this town„' so long will incidents of the invasion under Lee—relating to this neighborhood—be told by the fireside. In Ihr oft' western homes, many years from now, old men, who are the young men of to-day, will rehearse to wondering grand-children the moving accidents" which befell them here in 1863, 1,1 heu Greencastle was in the Southern Confederacy. FRAN KLAN CO.. PA., J.A.N Y J, 11304. In the year just closed the growth and wa feria' prosperity of our borough—tho Ugh sadly checked by the continuance of the war—has been marked, and gives earnest of what we may expect " when this cruel war is over?' THE NEWS. The War Department is engaged in settling some important questions connected with the draft, and the quotas which will be assigned to the several States. The rules which are to govern the States will also be settled. As soon as it is definitely fixed and the arrange ments completed, orders will at once be issued to proceed with the draft. It will probably take place about the middle of January. Anl:expedition to co-operate with Gen. Aver ill, consisting of two regiments of infantry. four hundred cavalry and" a battery of six guns, a force numbering fourteen hundred .men in all, under the command of Oolonel George D. Wells, of the Thirty-fourth Massa chusetts Infantry, has returned to. Harper's Ferry without the loss of a man, after pene trating to Harrisonburg, Va. When Gen. Averill had finished his work, and Col. Wells had accomplished his.diversion, strictly according to orders, the latter found himself coufronted by from 7000 to 10,000 of Lee's forces, with Gen. Rosser's Brigade and a part of Stuart's Cavalry in his rear, at Front Royal. By clever strategy and forced marches Col. Wells escaped the former and avoided the latter forces, and reached his post with his men and munitions unharmed.. Ile made march of forty-three utiles in thirty hours. So desperate seemed the chances of the ex pedition, that the Rebels of Winchester offer ed heavy bets that not a man would return.— One hundred Rebel prisoners were brought safely off. Washington, Dec. 80.—The folloWing des patch has been received at flead,quarters of the army : Chattanooga, Dec. 29, 1863.—MajorGen. IL W. HaHeck General in-Chief:—Colonel Long, of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry; command ing the Second Division of Cavalry, reports from Calhoun, December 28th, that the Rebel General Wheeler, with twelve hundred or fifteen hundred cavalry and mounted infantry. attacked Colonel Leibert and captured a supply train, front Chattanooga to Knoxville, about ten o'clock this morning, at Charleston on the south bank of the fliawassae. The train escort had reached, Charleston last night, and Leibert's skirmishers were wholly engaged with the enemy this morning, before Colonel Long was apprised of' their approach He immediately moved the small force for duty in his camp at the time, one hundred and fifty men .stod crossed to Colonel. Leibert.'weupport.. The Rebels slimily, gave away,•Long pursu ing them closely. Discovering a portion of their force cut off, to the right, he charged them with sabres, completely demoralizing and scattered them in great confusion, in every di. rection. Several of the enemy, number not known, were killed and wounded. One hued; red and twenty-one prisoners,inetuding five commissioned officers, were captured. - The Rebel colcuin fled, and was, pursued for live miles on the Dalton road, and when last seen was fleeing precipitately. Long's loss was ,one man slightly wounded. The officer in command of the courier sta tion at Cleveland also reports that he was at tacked early this morning (Dec. 28th,) by a force of one hundred Rebels. He drove them off. (Signed) GEo. H. THOMAS, Major General Commanding Raid of General Averill Gen. Avert: Raid on the East Tennessee Railroad—the Railroad euVat mense Amount of Rebel Stores Destroyed. Edsay Pocahontas County, Va., Dec. 21. via Beverly, Dec. 22.—Major-General H. W.' Ilalleck, General•in Chief:-1 have the honor to report that [ cut the Virginia and Tennes see Railroad at Salem on the 16th inet., and have arrived safely 'at this point with my cum !nand, consisting of the 2d, 3d and Bth Vir ginia Mounted Infintry, 11th Pennsylvania. Dobson's Battalion of Cavalry and Ewing's Battery. At Salem three depots were destreyed'con taiuing 2,000 barrels of flour, 10,000 bushel of wheat. 100,000 bushels of shelled corn, 50,000 bushels of oats, 2,000 barrels of meat, several cords of leather, 1,000 sacks of salt, 31 boxes of clothing, 20 bales of cotton, and a large amount of harness, shoes. saddles, equip ments, tools, oil, tar, and various other stores. and 100 wagons. The telegraph wire was cut and coiled and burned for half' a mile. The water-station, turn-tables and three cars were burned .and the track torn up and the rails torn up and heated and destroyed as much as possible in six hours. Five bridges and several culverts were de stroyed over an extent of fifteen miles. A large quantity of bridge timber and repairing materials were destroyed. My march was interrupted occasionally by the tempest in all the mountains and the icy roads. I was obliged to swim my command and drag my artillery with ropes across Croy's Creek several times in twenty-four hours. On my return I found six separate com mands under Gens. Early, Jones, Fitz Lee, Inaboden, Jackson and McCausin, arranged in a line extending from Staunton to Newport, upon all the available roads,'to prevent my re turn. I captured a despatcher from General .Jones to Gen. Early, giving me their positions and that of Jackson's Clifton Forge and Covington were selected to be carried. I marched from the front of Jones to that of Jackson during the night. His outposts were pursued in at a gallop by the Bth Vir ginia mounted infantry, and the two bridges across Jackson's river were saved, although faggots had been hauled ready to ignite them. My column, about tour miles long hastened across, regardless of the enemy, until all but my ambulances and a few wa! , ons, and one regi :uent had. passed, when a stron.:effort was made to retake the first bridge, which did not suc ceed.. The ambulances and some sick men were lost, and by the darkness and the difficulties the last regiments was d'etained upon the op posite side until morning, when it was ascer tain that the enemy seemed determined to maintain his position upon the cliff's which over looked the bridge. T caused; the : bridges, which were long and high, to be destroyed, and the enemy immediately Changed his Position talhe flank and rear of the detachment which-was cut off. I sent orders to the remnants to destroy our wagons and to come to' we= aetoss the river -or over the moot-it:tins. They swam the ricer with a loss of only four men drowned and joined *me. In the meautime the forces of the enemy were eon • centrating on me at Callaghan's over every available road but one, which was decided in practicable ; but by which I crossed over 'tu the top of the Alleghanie.s with my command with the exceptions of four caissons; which were destroyed in order to increase the teams of pieces. My loss is six men drowned, one officer and four men wounded, and four officers ainfilmety men nunsmg Wi captured about two hundred prisoners. but retained but five officers and eidity men on account of their inability to march. We took also about one hundred and fifty horses My men and horses have subsisted entirely upon a very poor country, and tho'officers and men have auffured cold and hunger and fatigue with remarkable fbrtiuude. I..ry command has marched, elimbed,.srd and swam 335 miles, since the Bth inst. (Signed) W. W. AN-ERIE:L.' PASSING EVENTS,,&C- Tun cold member of week before laat has given place to snow and rairk. =:] Prcimoted.—We are glad to learn that let Ser geant J. M. Durnicur. of NfetteettAr 7 a company. 22d Pa. Cavalry. lira been 'promoted 'to the 211.1 Lieutenancy of the Name company. Mr. R. A. 11Pettrnes classes in vocal mnsic are making rapid progress. He ,is a teacher whose. abilities are unquestioned. 'He is eminently quali• fled to impart instruction in the science. THE 2011 and 21st Pennsylvania cavalry regi ments have been ordered to report to Harrisburg. for the purpose of re-organizing and it-enlisting, for the war. Mi WE are pleased to see our young friend ,Tottx . ,ll., ALLISON. . He comes home ,on furlough. His regi ment, the 55th Pa., are going to re-enlist for the war. They have been in South Carolina for over two Years. Revival.—A revival of religion has been in progreits in theM. E. Church. Some CIA veitit hive been obtained. The junior Pastor; Reit. 111Answ,": who has entered upon his duties in this circuit, as sisted in the services. A rUMOR prevailed in ~Waynesborol some days ago, that. the Rebels were crossing at Cherry Run, Va. Of course it was untrue. for the Pot omacWM9 rolling high, making it impoosible for, them to cross. Hugh Log4n. —ln speaking of the operations of Cot. BOYD'S Cavalry in the late raid, the Prank /in Repository says, " At Woodstock Captain Boon LOGAN, formerly of this county. was captured. after ho had been wounded seriously,in the right arm, and slightly in the thigh, The command returned: to . Charlestown on the, 24th inst., to enjoy their merry Christmas." = George E. Hollar.—Through the editor of the New Orleans Era, the relatives of ibis young man have heard from him. He is engaged in the office of the Mobile Register, in which place he has war. Mr.nearly ever since the breaking out of the Mr. tiomAtiierned the printing business in the Spirit office, a known to most of the craft in this county. SeptetinittlAitittessment.-We find in the table of taxables given in the Repository, that in 1856 Antrim township bad 656 taxableS, in 1863, 800--:a gain of 144; Washington township in 1856, 546, uow 610—gain of 64; Mercershurg, 194, now 200; them:mastic, 216, now 300--gain of 84 ; Waynesboro' 282. now 295--gain of 13.• Some townships have fallen off Whole county had in 1856, 8,405 tax: ables ; in 1868, 9324--gain of 919. =llll =I Township Meetings.—we under/loud meetings have been hold in most of the school rl t triets of the township, tor the purpose of told,, steps towards obtaining volunteers le fill up quota under the January draft. What has beau th i result of these meetings we have not learned, I, seems to us that each school district should 'boon delegates to attend a township convention, le •hieh powers should be given to make all the needful sr• rangements for carrying on recruitin g• ri m et , all it will be necessary for those subject to the draft to make large contributions. We have en doubt to that there are land owners who arenot subject to the draft themselves, who would contribute liborolly the funds of the Assoeleetion, because every Bohlitt added to the number alretly in the field, is ea R d. ditional safe guard for the,lives and property et th e rich. Surely there is money , enough, and goedw id sense and energy to put this risible work through. Week of Prayer.--This week will be nhaerr. ed by the Christian world as a FOlll , Ol of prayer. It has been the custom for several years p ut. There never yet has been a time when a season of prayer was so much needed r.s new. THE 4CIS.JECTS RICONIIIINDET) Sunday, January 31 —Sermon" Sobjecta—ri, Work of the Holy Spirit and our Lord's at Agreement in Prayer. Monday. Januavy 4.--Penitential Confessio n o f Sin—Personal, Social, and 'l r iationsi--With cation for the Divine 111Crei rarougli the atoll.- menta of our Savior.Jeaus Christ. Tuesday, January B.—For the tautest, 6f all Ef• forts to Evangelize the Fifeouverted at Homo sad Abroad. Wednesday, January.6.—For tits , Christi ns is:Ty—for] -Sun( Sclibels, and all other Chirstic a Agencies, and for 'be jncre test n, gpiritual Lite, Activity, and .Holiness in all Beliivers. Thursday, Jimmy 7.—For the Afflictod Oppressed--that' Slier) , and Oppression may ew e , and that Christian 10ime..nuty reach she Destitute in I lands. Friday, January, 8 =For all in;ialliorily, f or the i'revalenee of PeaC'e, and for thelloly °bier *nee of: the Sabbath. Saturday, January 9:=Qorl'a _B'.a•cing—Pur.ottel, Social, National the Revival and titenaintes of pure Chribtirtaitithnought the, world..: Sunday, January 10 , ---Settrtions.. , Subjrcis—The Christian Church 'its unify. , a'n4 the Duty and Desirableness of - Manifesting,* • N. 8.---Our Country--itektins----its Repentnnce— its Deliverance-11141's.Hxnd in our Tokens of to be retieniVe.red, each day. , &C.—The series. of Lennart Exhibitions was closed on last. Saturday night. Ai we have said before, the perforreances s Ars credit able. It must be remembered th'ist., the company had but a very short time in which, to make pram :dine. We presume, however, ttiat 'they cane up to general expectation. Btsides, they labored uudsr peculiar disadvantages, want of scenery, etc. The leading characters in tha 'plays were gem ally will sustained. With Pructfee... some memhert of the company would sunk° excellent perf r neut. if they wish te continue their exhibition's during the winter; they should tfy . to cultivate ease and grace upon the stage, and try to feel as t hey were the real persons whose characters ehay represent. Faults common to AbOsts fret `entoritit 'upon the stage,'we need not' mention nor 'criticise at ,hit time. The trio of musicians who added so much to the entertainments of the audienie aneinterest of the plays; shWuld be o:spatially .rautenksarpl.. Awing the pieties well executed by them. " HishisoLl Mary," sang and played in an artless manner, was highly appreciated. ^ A The commedians• in the Ethiopian piece, "A 11usic Lesson," and also in the part of •• Irish Schoolutaster," , contrilsuted much to the amuse ment of the audience: The Hall was crowded every night, showint that the-public appreciated the object for which these performances were gotten up—to relieve tick aad wounded ; soldiers. As to the plan of selling reserved seats, "its play ed. out." The principle was wrong, and the pm floe bungling The nninher of such seats was tee limited, and the.preferment given to those sonnet. ted with the cOinpany; hardly gave the Outsiders I chance to buy reserved , seat, at all. While it mode no difference to us, yet there were many prevented from witnessing the performance en thii account. tie think that hereafter the best.' plan would be to tell all tickets alike, and reserve "front seats for ladies." We are grateful to the company iel;eitheless, for these amusements during tiie'ho 4 !Maya. A slight disturbance was created on two 'resists by some intoxicated individuals. Order WAS prompt• ly enforced by ejecting the ofi'enders. The door ltdepor, usher, and others, deserve credit for the manner in which they performed their arduous slid unpleasant duties. lawttes- Hall was kindly' tendered by the propri etor„:free of charge, for the OCCSOIOt. •TH - E 1 ALTAR. •. ....... mAttimo.—lty the Rev. T. G. Apple, o n the 15th ult., Mr. Lazarus - Marlin to Miss LP:th On the lit h ult., by the same, Mr. Franklin Kuhn to. Miss Anna Fry. By the same. on alst ult., Mr John McDowell to :kris% Mary E. Sculy. both of this vicinity. THE TOMB. . . . . . • DIED--In this place. Deceniber nth, 1812. ‘fr Henry Miller, 'aged 65 ye*irs',l. &tenth and 20 day' Mr. MILLER was the last but one, of the old raw . ily stock of that name. (The decedents of the Old f imily are quite numerous and, live mostly aloof the Maryland Line.‘ He was born in Antrim tows ship, and resided in the South=west portion of it during nearly' all his .life, except the last two or three years which he spent in this town. He wit a kind and affectionate husband and parent. Affable in his manners everywhere, hospitable st home, 'be was much respected and - *beloved by hit neighbors and acquaintances. He was a consistent member of the German RP . formed Church. Near This place, December 28th, 1863, gr. William Ovelman. aged 75 years, 6 months sndlO days lifthis place. January Ist. 1864, Abraham Lie' coin, son of John Kautimin, Esq., aged poi , 1 month and 18 days. "
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