FOR SALE, We are compelled, on account of impaired health, to offer for sale this office. THE PILOT IR SW in its 4th year. It has enjoyed a con siderable degree of patronage. A good paying subscription list has been secured. Any en ergetic person would be able to increase it rapidly. A weekly journal can and will be supported by a wealthy community like ours. The business of the town and neighborhood is being constantly enlarged. The material in this office is good. The office enjoys a good ran of Jos WORK. For terms and other part;eulars, Address J. W. Iif'CRORY, G reencastle, THE PILOT. GREENCASTLE: Tuesday . Morning . , Jan. 28, 1564 . .. ..... ..... e?"' SAVE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS. We are compelled again to urge upon all persons knowing themselves indebted to us for sabacription,job•work or advertising., to pay up at their earliest con'venience. If we ever needed nioney badly, we do now. and we trust those who know themselves to be indebted, will some and settle Without delay. Subscribers can save 'T EN TY -FIVE CENTS by paying up within the next ten days. After that date full rates ($2) will be exacted. ANTRIM IN COUNCIL In response to a call signed by many citizens of Antrim township, a public meeting was held in the Antrim School House, on Saturday last, for the purpose of making the necessary arrangements to fill the quota of the township by volunteers. The meeting was called to order by A. B. Wingerd, Esq., who was chosen Chairman. Mr. F. B. Snively was chosen Secretary, pro tent. The object and aim of the meeting were fully and clearly discussed.— By a resolution passed, a permanent organize. tien was effected, by the election of David Strite, President, F. B. Snively, Secretary, and A. B. Wingerd, Treasurer. An Executive Committee was appointed, consisting of the following named gentlemen :—Joseph Jr., John Wallick, •Dr. V. D. Miller, Jacob Shank, Jeremiah Ebbert and Daniel Barnhart. This committee was entrusted with the control of the recruiting business, and empowered to do whatever was • best to further the interests •f the organization, and was authorized by a vote of the same to pay one hundred dollars ($100) bounty to every recruit 'sworn into the triilitary • service of the United States and pitted' to the credit of Antrim township on the present call. A committee of three persons was appointed in each of the supervisors districts to ,solicit subscriptions and collect money.in the same for the purpose of the organization. We give the names as far as we have obtained them. North East Supervisor's District.—Joseph &lyely, Jr., and Jacob S. Smith. - South East Supervisor's Distriet.—F. B. &lively and D. Barnhart. South West Supervisor's District. —Jacob Whitmore, D. Strite and A. B. Wingerd. North West Supervisor's District. —John Wallick and Jacob Stouffer. These several committees will report at the Meeting to be held on next Saturday afternoon at,'2 o'clock, P. M. A subscription book was opened at the meet ing; and a . pretty heavy amount put down.— COnsidering. the. number present, it was very liberal. A large portion was contributed by persons not subject, to the draft. By-the-way, While the meeting was in session, more than a a hundred young, active men from the country, subject to the draft, standing on the streets, some looking at the cars or whatever else at . tinted. their attention, others running about from saloon to taverns. We ask them, Why they did not attend ? The meeting was gotten np for them, and for their especial benefit.-- Bome of them are not deserving of the gener ous, efforts made in their behalf. They can yet redeem their character. The solid men of the township are in earn est. The money can and will be subsjribed, but every man under 45 years of agelby the recent changes in the conscription bill, has a deep interest in the matter. One must not wait upon another tolnake up the .money or do the work. The subject my be briefly presented to every person liable to military ,duty; you must either contribute of your means or go into the army. That is simply the question. We know of poor .men who have given fifty dollars, and it is the best investment for them. While it is.necessary in the first place to have money, yet this is not all of the daty of a citizen. Every one must use his personal efforts to enlist men: And every one can, do something. The people must work. Against Franklin county, Pa THE PILOT :--OREENCASTLE, FRANICIAN CO., PA., JANUA.V.Y VS-14364- every one who fails to do his duty in the pres ent juncture, let the public scorn of the com munity rest on him. Public opinion is power ful. It is a noble work, this filling up of our de. cimated armies. It is supporting the Govern ment in the right and most effective manner. If it is generally done, as we believe it is in most districts, we can look forward to a speedy termination of the war and the suppression of the rebellion. Men of Antrim, forty-eight recruits are all you need Your township is first in the county, in respect to population, let it be the first in the great work. Let it be done speedily. Correspondence of the New York Herald. The Terrible Catastrophy at Santiago, Chili. SANTIAGO DE CHILI, Dec. 17.—1 have told you many_ tales from abroad during the many )ears I have been your correspondent, but seldom one. that has made your heart strings tingle as• will this. On Tuesday last, at seven, o'clock in the evening„one of the most splendid churdies of the capital' was redueed to ashes, and in the ruins were burned to death over two thousand females. Santiago is in mourning for hundreds of the brightest ornaments, and there is scarce ly a female which is not.more or, less bereaved by the terriffic tragedy of the night of the Bth instant. . Oa that day was celebrated this year throughout the,Catholic world the Feast of the Conception of . the Virgin. In Chili the ••Month of Mary" (celebrated elsewhere in May) ends with that evening. There are no feasts in. Spanish America so popular, particularly with the ladies, as those dedicated to the Virgin.. Some one of the gorgeous churches of the capital is annually selected for the ceremonies, and this year the magnificent temple or the Compania (called so Prow having once belonged to the Jesuits) was chosen. It is in the very heart or the city. For thirty evenings it has been crowd ed to excess, and almost exclusively by females. Every effort had been made to make this even ing'surpass in splendor its predecessor. The church was gorgeously ornamented and illuminated by more than ten thousand lights. Of these the most remarkable was a crescent of gas jets at the foot of a colossal statue of the Virgin, on the high alter. It had just been lighted, and, whether from .carelessness in lighting or from too much pressure.in, the metre, the blaze flew up to an inordinary height, and in a. moment the thousand tinsel alter or naments were on fire. The cry of "fire re-eehoed through the tern Imagine, if you can, the consternation of tkose kneeling phousands of tender women aril children. I say kneeling, tor kneel they musi., as there are no pews in the churches here, as. with you. Timie were at this time, as near as can now, be caledlated, three thousand five hundred in the church. Only two of the doors were open, and to these a rush was instantly wade. Hundreds fell in their efforts to reach them, and becom .ing entangled 'in, their crinolines or fainting through fright, were unable to rise again.— Over these fell others, and soon a pile of bodies . was formed in .front of the doors, preventing all further egress. In the meantime , the flames had reached the dome and cotumuniea ted quickly to the roof. The lamps, of which thousands were fille:d.with catuphene oil or kerosene, bursting, scattered their contents over . the multitude below. You will ask, Iv . her,e were the fire en!*ines all this time ? There are none in Santiago. But to continue : Many .had already escaped; some few were saved by the superhuman efforts of those from the out side; but soon the mass of shrieking victims before the doors had become so cotnpact that no strength of Man was able to break 'it, and iu the efforts arms. were•aetually torn from their sockets. The struggle within must have been fear ful, since those who were saved were dragged out completely naked, and many have' since died. Now followed the most terrific scene mortal eye has ever witnessed. In a brief half hour from the breaking out of the fire the whole interior of the church was a lake of flame, rising far above the head of the shriek ing sufferers, while the hundreds of bodies massed immovably together burned like su many blocks of wood. Through the lurid flames arms could be seen extended in supplicatiOn, mothers folding their daughters to their burning breasts, and while the hellish light painted up the distorted features, loud • above the.roar of the crackling rafters and rushing flames rose the ccmmingled shrieks of over two thousand victims. Dante, in his wildest vision, never dreamed of such a hell as this. Bad the roof fallen in now what suffering had' been spared ! The fire reached, the doers. Effort after effort was made to break the compact but still living mass. Strong, robust wen were seen struggling to extricate thewselves, but in vain , ; and all this within a few feet of hundreds of spectators!— Trees in the, plaza were cut down and thrust in over the binning heads; but it was to late. The smaller branches were almost immediately reduced to ashes, or when the body of the tree was withdrawn those branches taken bold of remained in the victim hands. It will seem scarcely credible that any yet ved; and yet so it was. A moment more however, and all wa■ over. Amid the flames blackened heads might be seen swaying to and fro, then tailing from the shoulders. The mass rim the &or was: . now' iminmieable in death and hundreds of the coal-black statues retained their kneeling posture. At last the roof fell in with a crash like; mighty thunder. The gorgeous belftY still stood, and wrapped in flames, made the scene around bright as noonday, and then, with .a dull. sudden sound. the mammoth bells fell from their high, places. The scene without the church baffles all des cription.. Every house, far and near, was crowded with the dying and the dead. In one hour from the breaking out of the flames all was, over. Of two tbouSand beautiful women . of Santiago there remained but a hideous mass reeking and Carbonized corpses, and not a sin gle family in . the city but was left to mourn some lost one. Very many of the corpses were found with only the, head and arms burned; hut as the clothes in, most cases were burned it was im possible to recognize them. I dare not tell you of the scenes I witnessed that night and at daylight on the following morning. No pen can describe the father or the, mother or brother searching among the blackened thousand for some one single sign that the fearful corpse before them was all that remained to them of that cherished form which but a few short hours before was the object of their love and fond idolatry. What pen can portray to you a father who had lost his young wife' and five lovely daughters, searching, in vain, for them ; or tell you of the haaffard features of a widow mother, too happy had the flames but spared only enough of her cherished child that she might know it hers, and bathe its blackened limbs in hot scalding tears ? Yet these and other scenes I have witnessed. and, though days have passed, my eyes fill with tears as I tell you this story.;. and I must live long years before. as memory reprothices the awful scene, my blood will cease to grow cold at its remembrance. or my heart refuse its tear of tribute to unquestionably the most tragedy in ancient or modern history. Others there have been where more have perishvi„ hut none under such heart-rending eircom ; stances. ,• In one of the largest and most cul, tivated capitals of South America two thousand: of• its lowliest women are burned to death, and that in presence of their fathers, husbands,, brothers, powerleSs tri save them. ,Do you require staAistiesT Let me give r you, , but a. sioglc one.; it will „suffice. , Ctoehqa4 red and fifty csrtloads of unreeognizetl, 93Tprk were'on the 9th. and 10th, carried, to, the came, tery. The beauty and thewealth and, the proud, Spanish aristocarcy all had their reprosentk tires in that awful cortege. The following gives an idea of the elass.of. persons that perished by the deplorable acci dent: "Although many heroic men performed 'prodgies of daring and strentgh in, tearing some from the death grasp of the phalnx of bodies that choked the door, in some:cases literally tearing of the arms without being able to extricate them; the number of. saved by:this. means falls short of fifty: More than five . hundred persons of our highest society have perished, the greater part of our. young gills . of fifteen to twenty years of age. One mother has perished with her five daughter". Two: thirds of the victims were servants, and there are many houses in which .not one has escaped; several houses have been noted by the police as. empty because all their inhabitants have perished. Archbishop Hughes. This distinguished Roman Catholic prelate died on Sunday, a week, in 'New York, in the 66th year of his age. He was born in the North of Ireland, in 1798. In 1815 his father, who was . a respectable farmer, of small means,' _emigrated to this country. Two years later the son, a young man of nineteen, followed him. For a while he worked' as day- laborer in ehambersburg, Pa., where a surviving brother still resides Here he broke stone on the road, and performed such other work as he could lay his, hands on. After attempting t. - 4_ learn the art of gardening, for which it seems he hadno taste, he began the study of .theolo g,y in Mount St. Mary's Seminary, at Emmitts burg, Mdi, where he remained for several years. 'ln 1825 he was ordained priest in Philadelphia, where he began his labors in his first parish. In 1642 he was consecrated Bishop of New York. He at once instituted reforms in dio cese. Previous to this the tenure of church property was vested in lay trustees, a system which gave rise to scandalous •conflict between the congregations and • episcopal authority. Five of the churches in New York were bank rupt, and on the'point of being sold. He con. solidated the church debts, took their 'manage- meat out of the hands of laymen, and secured the titles in his , own name, a measure which provoked the violent opposition of the trustees. From the time be entered the priesthood be showed himself the valiant champion of Roman ism: Some twenty years age the Catholics of New 4nek, charged that common schools were sectarian, in the Protestant sense, and complained of the injustice of taxing them for the support of a system which they con scientiously conceived to be erroneous. A violent controversy ensued, and after making an issue, in the political campaign, it terminat ed unfavorably to the Catholics. In 1830, when yet a priest in Philadelphia, he aicepted'a'challenge from the Rev. J. C. Breckenridge to discuss the question : "Is the Protestant religion the religion of Christ?" The controversy was confined to the news papers, and the articles were subsequently published in a volume, which for a time had a wide circulation. In 1834 Mr. Breckenridge renewed the encounter by proposing an oral discussion on the question : "Is the Roman Catholic religion, in any or all its principles and doctrines, inimical to civil or religious liberty." Mr. Hughes immediately accepted the challenge. The debate was published iu a book form, and, as usual in such discussions, both parties claimed the victory. A second controversy of this kind he had with the Rev. Nicholas Murray, D. D., of Elizabethtown, N. J. The latter published a series of letters iu the New York Observer, over the signature of "Kirwan," addressed to "The Right Rev John Hughes, Bishop of New York." Bishop Hughes again replied with his usual prompt ness. Both have now gone to a tribunal be fore which the truth or error of all systems will be infallibly tested. In 185 U New York was raised to an Archi episcopal see, and Archbishop Hughes went to Rollie to receive the pallium at the hands of the Pope. It is needless to state that his office gave him an influence over the Catholic population, second to none of his papal coad jutors in the nation. Presidential candidates and political seekers of place and pelt' eagerly courted his favor. Ile knew how to use this influence shrewdly in favor of his church. He was the companion and advisor of statesmen, which sometimes made him the subject of unsparing criticism iu . secular papers. He was one'of 'the many instances peculiar to this country, where young men of native energy. have arisen from obscure parentage to posi tiuus of national pruminence.— , German He - formed _Messenger. The Quickest Passage. The extraor,dinary passage of the Inman company's steamer ,City of Nevi York, cow mandod by Capt. Kennedy, has created quite a sensation in nautical circles in Liverpool, and ,thmahstraes.of her log, which was •posted in the LiverpouLlixchauge .Newsrouuryester. day, was a source of-coutinuaLlutereat during the day. The..di§tance steamed each day by the City of New York, was sox great and so regular, throughout the pas - sage, that we consider a synopsis of the lag worthy of persual. From the day (the 12th lust.) she left Sandy Hook, until noon the following, day, she steamed; 251 miles; on the 14th, 830 miles ; 15th, 320 wiles; 16th, 306 wiles; 17th, 311 miles; 18th, 831 miles; 19th., 823 . miles; 20th, 318 mites; 21st (to Fastnet Roads) 254 miles ar riving at Queenstown at half past eleven in the forenoon of that day. Then time of the mean • run from Sandy Rook to Queenstown is eight days and sixteen hours, being the fastest•ever made by an ocean steamer.—Liverpool Post, Deb:23. • Nashville, Jan. 17.—Major General Hal leek, Commander in• Chief :—Ou the 14th in• staut, General. Vance made a raid.towards Tanis ville, and captured a train of three wagons. H,e was promptly pursued by Col. Palmer, who recaptured the wagons and took one ambulance ~loaded with medicines, one hundred and fifty ?saddle horses and one hundred stand of arms General Vance, his Assistant Adjutant General and his Inspector-General are among the prisoners captured. U. S. GRANT, Major-General. ° Fairfax Court House, Jan. 18 .— Fifteen or twenty Rebels attacked th 6 picket at Flint Hill, this morning, but were driven off by a volley 'row our men A few guerrillas have appeared, both last night and to night, in the vicinity of our lines. Parties have been sent out to try and pick them off Isaae Leibman, who claimed to be a Union refugee from Wilmington, N. C, was taken from the Leonardstown stage, yesterday, while on his way to this city, and was committed to the Old Capitol Prison, by Provost-Marshal Todd. The prisoner, when arrested, had upon his peison seven hundred dollars in gold, most ly twenty dollar pieces, four hundred dollars in State money and two gold watches. Leib- Dian says when he was endeavoring to make his way through Virginia he was overhauled by a Conlederat: recruiting° officer, but was let off on pi'esenting his captain' with a gold watch and chain PASSING EVENTS, do C, Visiting the Schools.—The new N ifty Superintendent, Mr..McawAtics, visited the schools of this Borough, last week. Thanks.—We are indebted to Hon. E. D. Ma. PnEASON, Senator 11.1cSusnar. andßepresenistiret 7. MeD. SHARPS and Capt. HORTON, for tsrisus puhlic documents. The geutlemea will please se. cept our thanks. Sale of Real Estate. The farm of 111 r, JACOB SITES. on the Waynesboro' turnpike road. near Shady Grove, was sold at private sale some days ago, at SGO per acre. Purchaser, Mr. Pant? GROVE. Ger. Ref. Messenger.—This valuablo gious paper is now published by a committee ap_ pointed by the Synod of the German Reformed Church, in the U. S. The committee consists of S. R. FISHER. A B. WINGEBD. JOHN MULL; D. W. GROSS ! Jon; WEIST and G. S. GRIFFITH S. R. FISHER, D. D., will remain Editor of the paper. Malieigus.—A cow belonging to Mr. Joss Swirrzaw,.a poor maw, living on the Waynesboro' turnpike road, was shot by a soldier last week._ The animal has since died. There was no cause or provocation whatever, fur this act ; it. was purely malicious. Out of respect for his company, we for bear mentioning the name of the offender. In Town.—We had the pleasure recently, of meeting Capt. Jos. A. DAviscts, 6th Pa. Reserve, Lieut.. Heixis„, 21st Pa. Cavalry, Lieut. &UTERI, Ind. Pa. Artillery, Ist Sergt. G. W. KENNEDY, list Pa. Cavalry, besides a number of other officers sad men well known in this community. All we sits who were home on furlough, have re-enlisted for three years. Gallant 77th Pa. From a private letter shown us, which was written by a member of the 77th Pa. Keg., we learn that this gallant little band of brave soldiers has almost to a man re•en. listed for three years. This has been done, too, when all their Field and Stuff Officers are absent, Leing prisoners in the hands of the. enemy. On the 20th of January. these men were to shirt for home on a furlough of thirty days. Let the peo ple of Franklin county extend a warm welcome to these veterans. We have reas3n to be proud of them. All Around.—FORHEY, at the last criminal court held in Fulton county, was acquitted of the charge of killing Lieut. Four,. We suppose moat of our readers remember the circumstances. It ap pears FORNEY was over age, but was enrolled, nod was drafted, and the officer in attempting to arrest hint was shot. Both parties had listened to bad ad vice A. young lad applied to our devil not long since for a situation to learn to be an Editor. We would be obliged to the aforesaid or to anybody elso; who will help us through this week J Booms BYERS learned shoetnalting, then printing. He has returned to his " first love," and we hop. he May be encouraged Mr. ISAIAH CLIPPIE:MCI, of —, Ills., has been visiting( this Place for a fee weeks Mr. It. A. McCLuae will this evening (Tuesday) re-organize his class in vocal tuudc. Ile is certainly the best teacher we have lead here for some time. All who like te sing, or who went te learn to sing, should become scholar,. The meeting this evening is free to all The locomotive to -whit* the train, was akutehed on Saturday setting, gave out , about"a 'sant hof Mom Another en gine was t,elegraphed for,. which.tesached here 5001 after, and,took the train to Hagerstown We Lars been so busy this week that we have not had time to give proper attention to the paper Kum has riz—ten cents a drink is all the go. Pity it would'ut get so high that nobody could get That's the kind of a rise we are in favor oL THE following are the names of Company K, 2 1 it Reg. Pa. Cavalry : OFFICERS. Captain, J. Boyd, Ist Lieut., H. C. Phenecie, 2nd " L. H. Hinkle, Lit Sergi., Geo. W. Kennedy, 2nd " Samuel Palmer,* 3rd " John Kuhn,* 4th " John Palmer, 4 5th '4 J W. HOCITer.i . 6th " Philip Goldner,* 7th 4, Daniel Bitner, Bth " Levi Growl,* Ist Corp., Joel Stoner, 2nd " Banner Graves, Srd 4, Jonas Frye, 4th " Jacob Ritter, sth " Geo. W. Lewis ; 6th " Henry Bartle,* 7th " Jacob Kuhn, Bth " J. L. IVeagly. BUGLERS. Matthew Myers, John Koons, FARRIER. nenry Eaulmam BLACKSMITH. John Gams. SADDLER. John Freaner.* PRIVATES Albert Alexander, Simon Palmer,* Oscar Anderson, Jacob Pool, David Armstrong,* William Pensinger,* Charles Barret, Jacob Pensinger* John Brendle, John Pensinger, J. A. Bowles, , William Rankin, David Crisswell, Lewis Ridnoar,* William Champion, George Ross,* Thomas Chambers, Jonathan Russel.: Thomas Cleary, Archibald lisymer, William B. Cook, Abraham Sheely, William Davis, Andrew Skully,,, Henry Davis,: E. G. W. Small,* John Donnelly:* Jeremiah Snider,* Elisha Dier,* George W. Snider, Upton Easton, Peter Swisher, J. D. Frye, George Swisher, David Fulton, Peter Smith, Robert Graham, William Smith, Reuben Grossman, Henry Shrader4 Samuel Hollinger, J. K. Spear. William D. Keyser, Jacob Shrader, Geurge - Pensinger, J. W _Sweeny.l C. R. Kennedy, David Taylor,* George Lovett,* John Thompson, * Jeremiah Mummert. Martin Unger, J. W. Mummert, Charles Unger, Daniel WLaughlin, Alfred Wagner, John M'Cormao,* ' ' James Woods. Frank M'Cutcheon, *Re-enlist ed. M 144 :Discharged. Pori°
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