: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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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. "