THE PILOT.
GREEN CASTLE :
Tuesday - Morning, Feb 18, 1864
• 14010. t
166 A,
Wu copy the following from the Franklin
Repository of February 10th, in which it ap
pears as an advertisement :
PLOUGH'S SCHOOL HOUSE,
cuEEN TOWNSHIP, Feb.. 4, 1864
Resolved, That the officers of this meeting notify
the authorities of - Castle Borough. that in
the future this township expects them to look after
the interests Of the colored families of Africa, locat
ed in the Southern end of this towhehip, in educat
ing their children and supplying their other wants.
as the philanthropical 'bounty of fifty dollars won't
see the colored friends out.
Resolved, That the above be published at. the ex
pense of this township.
JACOB GLASS, Prest.,
JACOB BOWNGER. Scc'y.
To all which, in behalf of the good people
of Greencastle, we reply
That true it is, that " the philanthropical
bounty of fifty dollars won't see the colored
friends out," but it saw them in, and the peo•
pie of Greencastle out—of the draft, and the
people of Green township out—of pdcket and
it seems out of humor also, especially Jacob
Glass, Prest., Jacob Bollinger, Sec'y, and the
other resolutioners of the region sound about
Plough's School House, which is nigh unto
the borders - of Africa.
But before we proceed to ventilate the reso
lution, let us say that the " Castle Bor
ough" mentioned in the resolution, means
Greencastle borough, because none other in
the county obtained any recruits at sso—
justifies us in taking up the guantlet
thrown done by Glass, Bullioger & Co., of
Plough's School House, near Africa; and we
must be allowed to suggest to Messrs. Glass,
and Bollinger, that their little meeting in
Plough's School House, which is somewhere
in the nei. hborhood of Africa, which is, the
Lord knows where—but supposed to be six
miles from any place—because, as we shall
show hereafter, the enrolling officer of the dis
trict couldn't, or at least didn't find it—we say
we would suggest that that little meeting, in
that little school house, whereat was passed
that little resolution, was hardly competent to
speak in the name of Green township, and we
shall therefore regard it as the expression not
of that township, but of Jacob Glass, Prest ,
Jacob Bollinger, Sec'y, and the several other
individuals who vegetate in the neighborhood
of Plough's School House, and " look after
the interests of the colored families of Africa.'
What was the cause or oriein of this resolu
tion ? Simply this : While the rest of the
county slumbered on, with arms folded on the
bosom, undisturbed by the impending draft,
Greencastle was awake, up, and active. In the
space of two weeks she raised sufficient money
to seoure not only twenty-one volunteers, which
was her quota in the call- for 800,000, but
forty-eight, enough to answer the call for
200,000. more, and still-lea'''e a surplus. All
these volunteers she obtained by paying to
each a local bounty of only fifty dollars. In
filling the quota of the borough we labored
under peculiar difficulties. The Provost Mar
shal was unable to decide many questions that
arose, and to be safe, kept us down to the very
strictest interpretation of the law. He would
not allow us to place to our credit a single man
who had been enrolled in any other township
of the county. We were driven to seek out
men who had been missed in the enrollment,
young men under twenty, and contrabands ar
riving from Virginia. Besides this we met
the fiercest opposition wherever we went, even
in boroughs and townships wherein no move
was making to raise their own quota. But by
an honorable course of dealing with those who
enlisted, and by the energy and activity of the
Executive Committee we overcame all these
obstacles, and .demonstrated to the other bor
oughs and townships of the county that their
quotas might be filled by volunteers. We led
the way and pointed out the path, and by our
example and success stimulated them to at
tempt the same. Some began at once, and
by offering a local bounty of $lOO filled their
respective quotas; others slept on and would
not be aroused by the activity around them
until the last moment, and as the price of
their negligence, indifference and supineness,
are now endeavoring to obtain volunteers at
slso—and. Green township belongs to the lat
ter class. They must pay $l5O to accomplish
the same result which we effected with sso.
Thus it is always; the possessions of the su
pine fall an easy prey to the active and vigi
lent.
But a hundred dollars now-a-days, is as they
say, a hundred dollars, and Jacob Glass, Prest.,
Jacob Bollinger, Sec'y, and the other sleepers
about Plough's School House groan within
themselves, yea, draw a deep sigh from the
very bottom of their boots, as they contemplate
these goodly sums of $lOO glide into the pock
ets of their recruits, for which there is no
value received. And these internal melancholy
emotions have taken an external form in the
above resolution. A deep grief on account of
the departure of the war-like sons of Africa,
whom they might have obtained as volunteers
THE PILOT:--GREENCASTLE, FRANKLIN CO., PA., FEBRUARY 16, 1864.
at $5O per head, if they hadn't been asleep,
and whose places they must fill at $l5O per
head, pervades the resolution. But there
also a smack of satire and bitterness. It would
seem that Glass, Bollinger & Co., are wroth,
that they have, Ls fact, been stirred up by the
extra $lOO front their profound lethargy even
to the point of anger. Well, it is natural to
feel uncomfortable in paying $l5O down in
greenbacks, when $5O would have answered
the same purpose, and an uncomfortable feel
ing, very frequently repeated, quite as natur
ally produces anger and bitterness. But it is
wholly unnatural for men to be angry with
themselves. Now, since Jacob Glass, Prest.,
Jacolll Bollinger, Sec'y, and the others about
Plough's School House must, naturally, be
angry and must, naturally also, be angry at
somebody else than themselves, we cannot see
any possible reason why they should not select
Greencastle as the object of their ire as well as
any other community, and perhaps there was
a peculiar propriety in selecting our town, be
cause that extra $lOO which we saved on every
recruit, if it is tied up right tight and safe in
our pocket-books during the day and counted
over before going to bed acts as an antidote
against the deleterious effects of the resolution.
It is even thought by some, that by counting
it over in the morning also and tying it a little
tighter—first being sure that the notes are all
greenbacks—we could even survive another
such.
One would think, from the above resolution
that Green township has not enlisted any re
cruits to fill her quota from any other township,
but has obtained all from among her own in
habitants. What, then, are her committees
doing in Ohambersburg, offering large bounties
to every one willing to accept? But if any
one says, we do not object to your having en
listed men from our township, but to the paltry
bounty which you paid, we reply that a new
era has dawned upon us, indeed, and the mil
lenium surely approaches—if men will no lon
ger obtain substitutes as cheaply as possible.
Who, that is not as green as glass, would pay
$l5O for a substitute, ready and willing to go
for $5O? None, within our knowledge, except
Jacob Glass, Prest., Jacob Bollinger, Sec'y, and
the men of the neighborhood of Plough's
School House, is Green township, near Africa.
They are philanthropists. The give "philan
thropical bounties," especially when they can't
help it. Judging from the above resolution
we would say, if fifty men had offered -them
selves to Jacob Glass et. al, as, volunteers for
$5O per man, they would have indignantly re
fused to take them at that sum, but would have
compelled them to receive a " philanthropical
bounty," would, in fact, have pushed and shov
ed $l5O into their pockets. and if the recruit
had not been very careful would have slipped
in $5O more clandestinely. We, down in these
benighted regions, have not reached that point
of moral elevation. Bub then, it is possible,
that some missionaries sent to Africa may have
stopped for a time at Plough's School House,
on their way thither.
But the men who passed the resolution
above, want the authorities of Greencas
tle to look after the interests of the colored
families of Africa, because some of the
men of Africa enlisted for us and were
placed to our credit, that is, went as our sub
stitutes. And do they propose to act upon
the same principle ? But we gave $l5O, and
you only $5O, say they. And pray, how far
will your $lOO go to supply the wants of the
family of the volunteer and educate his child
ren, in the event of his death ? And do you
propose then, as soon as the $lOO is exhausted,
to undertake to keep the families of such as
volunteered for you from other districts and
to educate their children ? Greencastle took
from other townships and boroughs only the
unenrolled inhabitants physically fit for mili
tary duty, nearly all poor negroes. We have
given to other districts perhaps.an equal num
ber of our enrolled white citizens. We are
willing to keep and care for the expensive fam
ilies of the whites not credited to us, but you.
Messrs. Glass and Bollinger, are not willing to
care for the colored families, that need but little,
whose heads are not credited to you. Which
party is acting the more honorable part, you
yourselves being the judges? You seem to
think it the duty of a district to provide for
the families of those only who have gone as
substitutes for the people of that district, and
your care and apparent charity is therefore
founded upon utter selfishness. We provide
for those who go to the war, whether for us or
others, for all whose supports are fighting - or
have fallen for the , preservation of liberty and
union, and what we do is done from motives of
patriotism. We give the lowest sum he will
take to one who is willing to encounter the
hardships and dangers of campaign life to re
lieve us from undergoing
, them. When we
have paid him the money, we are square with
him on that score and as our substitute he can
claim nothing further from us. But as 'A sol
dier of the republic, battling for right and free
dom, we can :lever be equal with him, but will
owe him an eternal debt of gratitude, and this
we will owe equally to every one whether he
Inlisted to fill our quota or not, and front this
arises the obligation of every community to
support the families of all who have gone from•
it to the war. Now, Messrs. Jacob Glass, Prest.,
and Jacob Bollinger, Sec'y, don't that resolu•
tion smack of selfishness rather than patriotism,
and wouldn't it be well to reconsider it ?
But the authorities of Greencastle are asked
to " hereafter look after the interest of the
colored families of Africa," to provide for their
wants, and to see to the education of their child
ren. From this we would imply that the color
ed families of Africa, their wants and educa
tion, had been cared for by the gentlemen whet
dwell in the neighborhood of Plough's School
House. With what attention and liberality they
were cared for may be gathered from the facts
that those enlisted from that locality were the
most lean and hungry, ragged
S and tattered,
ignorant and uncultivated human beings that
ever entered a Provost Marshal's office. Such
they are represented. Why, we really put them
in as much for their sakes as our own. In that
way they would having, clothing to their backs.
and food for their stomachs, as well as wages
to keep their families in better condition than
they had been. We felt that they ought to go
into the army by all means, and we saw that
the people about Plough's School House, whose
business it was to look after their interests, had
no thouoht of putting them or any body else
into the army at that time, and, in fact, had
forgot all about their wards, the Africans ; for
even the enrolling officer, who is said to live
some where in the neighborhood of Plough's
School House, never thought of them, at least
those of them that enlisted for us, for we were
not allowed to put any enrolled in another d;s
trict into service to be credited tons, as we had
occasion to say before. In truth, the Africans.
in the latter part of 1863, were going it on
their own hook, and the Plough's SChool House
people were in blissful ignorance of their exist
ence. If we are not expected to take any bet
ter care of those families, or provide better for
their education, then was being taken andj pro
vided for them at the time we were filling our
qtiota, the burden would not be such a heavy
one. But since we have furnished•white sol
diers to other districts in lieu of the blacks we
received from them, and purpose to keep the
families of the whites we respectfully decline
"to look after the interests of the colored fami
lies of Africa."
But hear, 0 Glass, and give heed, 0
Bollinger, and lend us your ears, 0 People
of Plough's School House, in Green township.
near Africa: We enlisted six Africans. Four
of them are single, and are presumed to have
no families to be provided for, at least no child
ren to be educated. Of the two married re
cruits, we already have with us the family of
one. All this thunder and lightning—this
PLOUGH'S SCHOOL HOUSE, JACOB GLASS.
PREST., JACOB BOLLINGER, SEC'T, and Re-
solved, That the resolution be published at the
expense of the township—all this is about the
family of a solitary poor devil of an African
who is now in the armies Of the Republic!
The mountain (i. e. Plough's School House,)
labors ; out pops a ridiculous mouse (i. e. the
aforesaid resolution.)
- , -...•••-4.4M.
THE NEWS.
Fortress Monroe, Feb. 8,1864.—The expedi
tion having returned we are permitted to state
the following facts On. Saturday morning Gen.
Butler's forces, under command of Brigadier-
General Wistar, marched from Yorktown by
way of New Kent Court House. The cavalry
arrived at half past two o'clock yesterday morn
ing at Bottom Bridge, across the Chickahomny,
ten miles from Richmond, for the purpose of
making a raid into Richmond, and endeavoring,
by a surprise, to liberate Our prisoners there.
The cavalry reached the bridge at the time
appointed, marched in sixteen and selloff hours
forty seven miles. A force of infantry follow
ed in their rear, for the purpose of supporting
them. It was expected to surprise the enemy
at Bottom's Bridge, who bad for some time
only a small picket there. The surprise failed
because, as the Richmond Examiner of tO•day
says, "A Yankee deserter gave information in
Richmond of the intended movement." The
enemy had felled a large amount of timber so
as to obstruct the roads, and make it impossible
for our cavalry to pass. After remaining at
the bridge from two o'clock until twelve, Gen.
Wistar joined them with his infantry, and the
whole object of the surprise having been de
tested, General Wistar returned to Williams
burg. On his march back to New Kent Court
House his rear was attacked by the enemy,
but they were repulsed without loss to us.
A march by our infantry, three regiments of
whom were colored, of, more than eighty miles,
was made in fifty six hours. The cavalry
marched over one hundred, miles in fifty, hours.
This shows that it is possible to make a cam
paign into Virginia in the winter.—N. Y.
Tribune.
Washington, B.—The Chronicle of yester
day says.:
We are informed that a reconnoissance in
force was made by the Army of the Potomac
on Saturday last, the 3d Army Corps moving
to the Rapidan at eight A. M. on that day.
The enemy resisted the crossing, but, deipite
their utrui.st effort to prvent it, the corps nam
ed was finally successful in laying a pontoon
bridge, over which it advanced, driving the
enemy before them, and capturing a large num
ber of prisoners.
This engagement, resulting as reported, so
brilliantly to our army, lasted two hours, the
rebels annoying our forces with their artillery
and sharpshooters, but, as the sequel proved,
without avail.
At 4, P. M., the 2d Army Corps having in
the interim also crossed, the advance was con
tinued, the enemy, as before, offering 'protract
ed resistance, but in vain. They fought stub
bornly for two hours, but, as in the first fight
fell back. having been baffled in all their at
tempt to repulse or cheek our intrepid columns.
Their loss in prisoners, in the two engagements,
it is rumored to be very large, as well as in
killed and wounded.
We are not advised how much farther the
reported reconnoissance in force will be ez.
tended; but it is claimed that its results are
very satisfactory. The strength of the enemy
has been ascertained, and other important
movements will speedily follow.
Major General Sedgwick is now in command
of the Army of the Potomac, General Meade
being detained at home by sickness.
To Soldiers and Postmasters.
Editors of newspapers throughout the United
States will , doubtless confer a favot on• the sol.
diers in the field, as well as there friends at
home, by giving publicity to the following :
Be it enacted, &c., That articles of clothing,
being manfactured of wool, cotton or linen, and
comprised in a package not exceeding two
pounds in weight, addressed to any non commis
sioned officer or private serving in the armies of
the United States, may be transmitted in the
mails of the United States at the rate of eight
cents, to be in all cases prepaid, for every fair
ounces, or any fraction thereof subject to such
regulations as the Postmaster General way
prescribe
Approved, January 22, 1864.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
January 25, Ib6l.
The foregoing law is published for the in
formation`of the public, and especially for the
guidance of Postmasters, and is thought to be
so full and plain that no one can mistake its
meaning. Postmasters will, however, bear in
mind that packages of clothing entitled to pas.
iu the mails—four ounces for eight cents—
must be manufactured from moot, cotton or
linen, and not exceeding two pounds in weight.
and must be addressed to a non.commissioned
officer or private serving in the armies of the
United States. Consequently a package ad
dressed to a commissioned officer, or, composed
of other material than as a above specified.
such as boots, shoes, Ste., if sent by mail, must
be prepaid by stamps at the letter rates, via :
three cents for, every half ounce or . . fraction
thereof.
[We published the above last , week ; hut
as it was incorrect in regard to, the sums to be
paid as postage, we republish above an of
ficial copy.]
PASSING EVENTS, &C•
Tribute of Regard.—At ft meeting of the
Town Council, on Friday evening, February 12th,
the following resolutions were adopted:
WHEREAS, It has pleased an All-wise Providence
to remove from earth one of our number; therefore,
Resolved. That in the death of Mr. CHARLES HART•
MAN the town has lost a useful and most valuable
citizen,—one who was always deeply interested in
the welfare of the Borough—the Town council an
active and tried member, whose advice and opinions,
based on long experience as a Borough officer, were
of the utmost value in all that concerned the inter
ests and improvements of the town. . .
Revolved, That we deeply sympathise with the
family of the deceased in their bereavement.
Gsoman H. DAVIDSON, Burgess.
A. K. Wait,
Wu. W. FLEMING,
Jan. DETRICH,
W. A. REID, JO/1.11 WILHELM. Jr.
Council.
Important Legal Decision.—A Case was
tried in the District Court of Philadelphia last week.
which is of considerable interest to purchasers of
property, inasmuch as it involves the question, who
is to pay the stamp cost attending the transfer. A
party had purchased a property for a certain sum
of money,. The, deed to be made out to the pur.
chaser, of course requires an internal revenue
stamp, amounting in the present case to $lBO. The
purchaser paid the same, but afterwards brought
suit against the party selling to recover it back,
taking the ground that the seller of the property
was bound to furnish a full deed of title and the
affixing of the stamp was necessary to make the
title full. Judge Sharawood, in delivering the
opinion of the Court . , took the ground that the ens
tom everywhere is, for the purchaser of property to
pay the expense of the transfer, and in this case,
the stamp duty was but an. item of such expense.
and accordingly gave judgment for the defendant.
The decision may be considered as settling the
much agitated and important question, so constant
ly coming up in almost all business relations as t o
whether the seller or the purchaser is to pay the
stamp duty in transfers of property. The decision
will, we presume, hold good also in personal as well
as real prpperty, and in all kinds of personal pro.
pert,y.-- Valley
1..;
M. BLAIR.,
Postmaster deneral.
Wir chronicle in our list of deaths in this
the name Of CHARLES HARTMAN, of OUT borough.
one of our most esteemed citizens. Mr. Ilaarg,N,
we understand, wag a little over sixty-three
told. Almtst all his life wag opera in our midst._
No one in this whole community was better or more
f kvorably known. By a youth and manhood dotal
ted to industry, sobriety and economy, he war La..
abled in his later years to enjoy a calm and plut.
ant manner of life, and to take part in I rotooc tt
the welfare of the borough. He was frequrntly
elected to municipal positions, by his fellow
zees, for he was a man of unimpeachable integri,
and sound judgment. He occupied that middle
station in life which is admitted by all to be the
happiest, and being without, ambition gave to t o
useful, he succeeded in securing for himself
th e
greatest boon of life, contentment. He will bi
missed in the community, for he was a good citizen;
he will be missed in the church of which be au
not only a good and pious man but a consis eta end
prominent member ; he will be missed and ta,creec
in the family, for he was hue to all his duties,
whether in the relation of husband, brother or M.
er. He sleeps the sleep of a christian, in the Ger.
man Reformed graveyard in this borough.
THE DAMAGE BY ISTIMAIteN RAID.—The
sinners appointed by the act. of assembly to appr ain
military damages in the border counties, b ete
heard all claims for losses sustvined by STEunin't
cavalry raid in the 3outitiee of Adams, Franklin,
and Fulton. There were one hundred claims heard
and disposed of in Adams, and three hundred Bad
thirty-nine in Franklin and Fulton. These Oahu
halm been adjudicated, and those of Franklin and
Fulton were reported to the Court of Dauphin
county on the 18th ultimo.
The Adams county ease will be reported in a ter
days. The claims arising from the Militia and the
Anderson cavalry have not been considered, and
the losses sustained by the rebel occupation et
Dauphin county last summer, having occurred after
the passage of the law. are not embraced within
the duties of the commissioners. The present Leg.
islature will doubtless enlarge their powers, so
to embrace this class of claims. The commissioners
bear testimony to the honesty of our people as
rile by reporting that attempts at extortion wen
extremely rare.
Tiey estimate that it will require about $1,250,..
000 to cover all the milittiry damages, of every
kind, by our own and rebel troops, in the anthers
counties
Arrested.—Mr. GEORGE WHITE, of this plea,
was arrested recently in Steubenville, Ohio, on
requisition from Gov. BRO11(111 to bring him to
Chambersburg to rinswer an indictment for Mayhem,
in putting out the right eye of Mr. Cturs
Guemos, of this place. A writ of habeas corps:
was sued out and the prisoner discharged on the
ground that, the Mayor could not hold him, when he
was arrested by the Provost Marshal on the clump
of •• aiding and abetting the enemy" during the
rebel occupation of this place. lie wassubsecineat
ly delivered into the custody of Mr. Gummy, the
prosecutor in our courts, and by Mtn delivered to
the Sheriff of Franklin county for trial at the nest
court. lie was afterwards released on giviug se.
curity in the sum of $4,000 for his uppoarauce et
the next term.—Franklin Repository
[TOR THE MOT.)
Take Warning.—. , Be it enacted, ,Ye.. That if
any person shall wilfully and maliciously disturb
or interrupt any meeting, society, - assembly or con•
gregatiou, convened for the purpose of religion
worship,or for any moral, eocial, literary, scientific,
agricuyural, horticultural or floral object,ceremuny,
examination, exhibition or lecture, such persog
shall on conviction, be sentenced to pay a tine not
exceeding fay dollars, and suffer an imprisonment
not exceeding three Months, or both, or either, st
the discretion of the court."
Notwithstanding, the above statute demands en.
forcement against tifienders by all good citizens.—
tt Fee it frequently violated even in the eultghten
ed town of Greencastle with impunity; and by
whom, not by the abused and despised sons aid
daughters of African descent, 0, no ! They would
have' 'more r espect for the word of God and for
themselves. It is by the decentlants of the much
vaunted .superior white race, those who hare been
brought up amidst free schools and churches, the
this deficiency of moral principle and intellect
manifested ' Aty the enlightened wisdom of the
fathers and framers of the Constitution of the
United States, is secured to every one, the right to
"worship God according to the dictates of his own
conscience ; and whether be praise God at the top
of his voice, or in the lowest whisper, or softest
breath, in the church or otkt of the church, if ill'
cere, is alike acceptable to God, and protected by
our laws. Mark, for the future, those who are Jo
termined to disregard both the laws of God e ml
man, by unbecoming conduct or conversation, either
inside the house of worship, or by nssembliug too
the outside to talk and laugh, keeping up a noise,
injurious not only to the cause of religion but 10
the peace and good order of society, will experieuee
toe terce.of the above statute summarily applied.
tt. L.
Public Sales.—The tuilowing is p list of pub
lie sales, the bills of which have been prince) at
this Office:—
. .
J. WHITMORE, February 17, 1k miles South Welt
of Greencastle.
W. H. CRAIG, February 18, li miles North WO
of Greencastle.
S. KUHN, Feb. 18, lf miles South West of tiptoe,
on the farm of •Jacob Young. '
J. S Lboss, February 1% 1k miles North East °f
Greencastle.
J. D. MYERS, February 19,5 miles South West of
Greencastle and 2 miles South of Upton.
I%u. OSBRAUGU, Feb. 2J, on tho form formerly
owned by Daniel tit.ha, dead, and near Gunner's
School House.
D. F. D. wawa'. Feb. 20. on the form of lVillism
Allison, about 2 miles South of Greencastle.
J. W. CRAIG, February 20, near Jacob Elliott's
tavern, , Ilelsh Run.
M. SNIVELY, February 22,' in Shady Grove, 3
miles East of Greencastle.
J. EsuLamAii, February 23, 3 miles East of Ereelc .
castle, along the Leitersburg - roati.
S. HAMMILL, February 25. 21 miles North N est
of G:eencastle, near the pike leading to Mer cer°.
burg.
Vs - 13. TOUIAS, February 26, i of a mile South of
Greencast le.'
Jon Swrrzsu, March 5, k mile East of Grecc
castle, on the farm of John B. %Vitali: .
r -
H. A. By
C Lits, March 10, on the f rm 05 0 -•
3/
Powell, miles South of Greencastle
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