FOR SALE.
We are compelled, on account of impaired
health, to offer for sale this office. TUE PILOT
it now 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
run of Jon WORK.
For terms and other particulars,
Address
J. W. M'CRORT,
G reencastle,
THE PILOT.
GREENCASTLE:
Tuesday . Morning, April 5,18(34
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MILITARY.
There is every appearance of a forward
movement at an early day, by all our armies.
The troops are being rapidly concentrated at
certain points, and the policy of scattering
troops in every direction for the purpose of
taking unimportant places, just for the sake (it
would seem) of giving them up again, we hope
and believe has been fully abandoned.' No
tenger will we be compelled to bear of being
met by superior numbers and repulsed. We
have the men, and we need some one to know
how to direct them—and we believe we have
that man, in the person of the ' Lieut.-General
—a " tried man" and a " successful General."
So mote it be.
" Horse, foot, and dragoons," the whole of
fective force is going to the front. Troops who
have been doing' garrison duty for a year or
more arc going out, and their places filled by
the Veteran Reserves (formerly Invalid Corps.)
This is as it should be.
The troops about Chambersburg are 'going,
or hare gone. The 20th Pennsylvania Cavalry
passed south last week.
'The 2nd Pennsylvania. (Heavy) Artillery
has gone out from Washington, supposed to
South Carolina.
A detachment of the ith Maryland passed
through this place on Sabbath, en route for
Hagerstown. These soldiers have gone home
to attend the election on the 6th instant.
Proclamation of the President.
WASHINGTON, March 26, 1.86 , 1
By the President of the United States.
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, It has become necessary to define
the eases in which insurgent enemies are enti
tled to the benefits of the Proclamation of the .
President of the United States, which was
made on the Bth day of December, 1863, and
the manner in which they shall proceed to
aval themselves of these benefits ;
And whereas, The object of that proclama
tion were to suppress the insurrection and to
restore the authority of the United States;
And whereas, The amnesty therein propos
ed by the President was offered with reference
to these objects alone;
Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, Presi
dent of the United States, do hereby proclaim
and declare that the said proclamation does not
apply to the cases of persons who, at the time
when they seek to obtain the benefits thereof,
by taking the oath thereby prescribed, are in
military, naval or civil confinement or custody,
or under bonds or on parole of the civil, mili
tary or naval authorities or agents, of the
United States, as prisoners of war, or persons
detained for offences of any kind, either before
or after conviction ; and that on the contrary, it
does apply only to those persons who, being at
large and free from any arrest, confinement or
duress, shall voluntarily come forward and take
the said oath, with the purpose of restoring
peace and establishing the national authority.
Prisoners excluded from the amnesty offered
in the said proclamation may apply to the
President for clemency, like all other offenders,
and their application will receive due consider
ation.
I do further declare and proclaim that the
oath prescribed in the aforesaid proclamation
of the Bth December, 1863, may be taken and
subscribed to before any commanding officer,
civil, military or naval, in the service of the
United States, or any civil or military officer
of a State or territory not in insurrection, who,
by the laws thereof, may be qualified for
administering oaths.
All officers who receive such oaths are hereby
authorized to give certificates thereon to the
persons respectively by whom they arc made,
and such officers are hereby •required to trans
mit the original records of' such oaths at as
.early a day as may be convenient to the De
partment of State, where they will be deposited
and rewaiu in the archives of the government
Franklin county, Pa
THE PILOT :
The Secretary of State will keep a register
thereof, and will, on application, in proper
cases, issue certificates of Sue h records in the
customary form of official certificates.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city of Wash
ington the twenty-sixth day of March, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and sixty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States the eighty-eighth.
By the President.
Wm. 11. SEWARD, Secretary of the State
BOUNTY LAW.
An Act relating to the payment of Boun-
ties to Volunteers
See. 1. Be it enacted, &c., That all bonds,
warrants, certificates of indebtedness, issued
by the commissioners, or commissioners and
controller, of any county, or the corporate
authorities of any city, ward or borough, or
the school directors, or road comma ioaers,
or supervisors, of any township of this
commonwealth, for the payment of boun
ties to persons volunteering to enter the mili
tary or naval service of the United States,
under any requisition heretofore made by the
President of the United States, be and the
same are hereby legalized, made valid and
binding upon such counties, cities, wards, bor
oughs, and townships, as if full and legal au
thority• bad existed for the issuing and making
of the same when they were issued and made;
and that in all cases where any special commit
tee, commissioners, or an individual or indivi
duals, of any county, city, township, borough
or ward, shall have subscribed and paid, or
become personally liable for the payment of
money, for the purpose of paying bounties to
volunteers, under the late call of the President
of the United States, who have been mustered
into the •United States military service, and
credited to such county, city, township, ward,
or borough, with the understanding, or agree
ment, that a law would be enacted to levy and
collect a tax upon such county, city, town
ship, borough, or ward, for the payment of such
advancement and liabilities, all subscriptions.
so paid, or money borrowed as aforesaid, shall
be good and valid against such county, city,
township, borough, or ward, as if the same had
been subscribed or borrowed by the corporate
authorities of the same under the provisions
of this act; and it shall be the duty of the
commissioners, supervisors, councils, or school
directors as the case may be, to proceed, to levy
and collect a tax upon such county, city, town
ship, borough, or ward; sufficient to pay the
principal of all such claims, with interest there
on until the day of payment, together with the
cost of collection thereof.
Sec. 2. That all payments of bounties to
volunteers, entering the service of the United
States as aforesaid, by the commissioners o a r the
commissionersand the controller, of any county,
or the corporate authorities of any city, ward,
or borough,,or by the school directors, or road
commissioners, or supervisors, of any township
of this commonwealth, and all loans made by
said authorities, for the purpose of making such
payments, be and the same• are hereby lega
lized and made valid.
S.ec 3. That the authorities aforesaid are
hereby authorized, and required, to execute,
and complete, all agreements, and contracts,
heretofore made by th.; autho'rities of such
counties, cities, wards, boroughs, or townships,
for the payment of bounties, as aforesaid, or
refunding advancements made for that purpose
by any committee, speoial commissioners, indi
vidual, or individuals, on condition that they
should be refunded, according to the true in
tent and meaning of such agreement and con-
tracts ; and for that purpose said authorities
are hereby authorized to 'borrow money, and
issue bonds, warrants or certificates, in the
name of such county, corporations, or town
ships, with or without interest coupons attach
ed, payable at such a time and place as may be
agreed upon, and to levy such taxes as may be
necessary to meet the payment of the principal
and interest of said bonds, warrants, and cer
tificates, as the same shall become due; which
taxes and levies shall be assessed, and collect
ed, as other county, city, ward, borough or
township, taxes are assessed, levied, and col
lected: Provided, That in all election, or en
rolment, districts" not having any constituted
authorities, as contemplated by this act, com
petent to levy and collect said tax, the board
of election officers of such districts shall be
authorized to levy, and proceed to have such
tax collected in such districts.
Sec. 4. That all assessments heretofore made
of taxes for the purpose of paying bounties,
as aforesaid, be and the same are hereby legal
ized and made valid : Provided, That the prop
erty of non-commissioned officers, and privates,
in actual service in the United States army
and navy, from this commonwealth, or who
died, or were permanently disabled, in such
service, or having been in such service for the
space of one year and six months, were honor
ably discharged therefrom, and the property of
widows, minor children, and widowed mothers
of uon-conmiissioned officers and privates, who
--GRE.ENCASTLE, FRANKLIN CO., PA., APRIL Li, 1864.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
died in such service, shall be exempt from any
taxation under the provision of this act : Pro
vided, That the provisions of the first, second,
third and fourth sections of this act shall be
al understood as to have reference only to such
agreements and contracts as have been entered
into by the authorities aforesaid, subsequent
to the seventeenth day of October, one thou
sand eight hundred and sixty-three.
Sec. 5. That all the provisions of the four
teenth section of an act to create a loan, and
provide for arming the state, passed the fifteenth
day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one, which authorized the associated
judges, and county commissioners, of the sev
eral counties of this commonwealth, to consti
tute a board of relief for the families of such
volunteers as have been, or shall be, enrolled
and mustered into service from their several
counties, are hereby extended, and applied, to
the families of mmi who have been, or may
hereafter be, drafted_ or conscripted, and mus
tered into the service of the United States, and
credited to the quota of said counties, respect
ively; and all arrangements made by the seve
ral counties of this commonwealth, for the sup
port of the families of volunteers, militia, draft
ed or conscripted men mustered into the ser
vice, and credite4,.as aforesaid , are hereby le
galized and confirmed; and full and legal au
thority is hereby given said county commis
sioners to 'borrow money for the payment of
such expenses, and for the extension of such
relief to the families of all private soldiers, and
non-commissioned officers, who have been mus
tered in, or may hereafter be mustered into,
the service of the United States, and credited
as aforesaid; in pursuance of any requisition
made, or to be made, by the President of the
United States, or by any law of the United
States now made, or hereafter to be made, or by
the Governor of Pennsylvania, or any law of
said commonwealth now made, or hereafter to
be made.
Sec. 6. That the commissioners of any and
every county in this commonwealth Are hereby
authorized to borrow such sum, or sums of
money as may be sufficient to pay to each and
every non-commissioned officer and private sol
dier who volunteered from such county. and
entered the military or naval service of the
United States, on, or, after the seventeenth
day of October, Anno Domini one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-three; and to each
and every non-commissioned officer and private
soldier who may hereafter volunteer and enter
the service of the United States from such
county, and be credited to the quota thereof, in
in pursuance of any requisition of the Presi
dent of the United States, or any laW of the
United States, now made, or hereafter to be
made, a sum not exceeding $300: Pro
vided however, That in that part of any county
where school directors, or road commissioners,
or supervisors, of any township, or where the
corporate authorities of any city, ward, or bor 7
ough, or any committee, special commissioners,
individual, or individuals, have paid, or have
now commenced to raise a fund for that pur
pose of paying, slich bounties, it shall be law
ful for such school directors, or road commis
sioners, or supervisors, of such township, or
townships, or the corporate authorities of such
city, ward, or borough ; to borrow such sum,
or sums of money as may be required to pay
to each volunteer fromsueh district, a sum not
exceeding three hundred dollars; and it shall
be lawful for such authorities of said townships,
cities, wards, or boroughs, to . issue bonds of
said townships, cities, wards, or boroughs, fin
such sum, or . sums, of money, and in such
amounts as may be necessary to pay the author
ized bounty to each volunteer, required to fill
the quota or quotas of such township, city,
ward, or borough : And provided farther, That
such townships, cities, wards, and boroughs, as
have filled their quota or, quotas, under any
call or requisition heretofore made by the Presi
dent of the United States, as aforesaid, with
out aid from the county, city, or borough shall
be exempt from any tax levied, or to be levied,
by the said county ; city or borough, for the
payment of bounties, or for the payment of
bonds issued by said commissioners, city or
borough authorities, for the payment of boun
ties to volunteers to fill the quota aforesaid :
And provided further, That no county, city,
ward, township, borough, or other districts,
which shall have agreed, or offered, to pay, as
bounty to each volunteer credited to such
county, city, ward, township, borough, or other
districts, a larger sum than three hundred dol-
lars, shall be subject to the limitation as to
amount prescribed in this act ; but any payment
made, or to be made, or obligation given, or to
be given, or liability incurred, or to be incur
red, iu pursuance of such offer or-agreement,
is hereby ratified and declared 'to be lawful
and valid : And provided further, That in
case the commissioners of any county, or the
commissioners and controller, of 'any ,county
in this commonwealth, shall negleCt, or
refuse, to take the necessary steps to raise,
or complete, the raising of bounties in town
ships, wards, and boroughs, not baying raised, or
commenced to raise; bounties, at the time of the
passage of this act, then, and in that case, said
township, ward, or borough, by their authorities
aforesaid, shall hare power to proceed and"raise
bounties as fully and effectually as if done by
the county authorities.
See. 7. That the said county commissioners,
or school directors ; road commissioners, or
supervisors, of any township, or corporate au•
thorities of any city, ward, or borough, are
hereby authorized, (for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of this act,) to borrow money,
and issue bonds, or certificates of indebted.
ness, no bond, or certificates, to be less than
the sum of twenty-five dollars, except when
the bounty is less than twenty-five dollars, in
the name of such county, township, city, ward,
or borough, with, or without, interest coupons
attached, payable at such a time, and in such
a manner, as may be agreed upon ; and to levy,
and assess, on all property, professions, trades
and occupations, subject to
taxation, for state
and county purposes, and collect such taxes as
may be necessary to meet the principal, and
interest, of said bonds and certificates, as they
shall become due, and payable; which taxes
shall be collected as county, oity, ward, and
borough, taxes are now levied and collected
including a per capita tax, of not more than
one dollar, on all taxable male inhabitants :
Provided, That only one per capita tax shall
be levied in any one year: Provided, That in
all cases where any person, or persons, liable
to a draft, have, for the purpose of raising the
sum requisite to pay a bounty to volunteers
required to fill the quota of any county, city,
ward, borough, or township, stipulated, in writ•
ing, to pay a sum greater than the amount of
tax which would be due upon the assessed
valuation of the real, or personal, property, it
shall and may be lawful for the corporate au
thorities of such county, city, ward, borough,
and township, to
.collect the amount so sub
scribed ; Provided, That nq bonds, or certifi
cotes, .issued under any of fhe provisions of
this act, shall be for a longer period than ten
years: Provided farther, That in all cases
where a borough and township have separate
boards of school directors, and are embraced
in one district, for the purposes of the military
draft, tl4 directors of said districts are hereby
authorized to act jointly in carrying into effect
the provisions of this act.
See. 8. That in all cases where the county
commissioners of' any county, the school direc
tors, road commissioners, or supervisors, of
any township, or the corporate authorities of
any city, ward, or borough, have levied a per
capita tax upon persons subjeot to draft, or
military duty, the action of said corporate au
thorities be and the same are hereby legalized
and made valid.
See. 9. That in any case where a part of the
bounty, authorized by this alt., has been paid
by any ward, township, or borough, and said
ward, township, city, or borough authorities as
aforesaid, shall neglect, or refuse, to pay such
part as remains unpaid by the terms of their
agreement to pay bounties to volunteers, then
the difference between the sum so paid, and
the full amount of the bounty promised, (not
exceeding, in the whole, the sum of three
hundred dollars to each volunteer,) shall be
paid said volunteers by the county authorities,
in which said ward, townships, cities, or bor
oughs, are located; and thp county commission
erifi in which said ward, townships, cities, or
boroughs, are located, shall assess, levy and
collect a tax on such defaulting ward, town
ships, cities, or boroughs, as other ward, town
ship, city, or borough, taxes are levied and
collected, in such amounts as May. le required
to pay the balance due the volunteers, as afore
said, from such defaulting township,eity, or
borough.
- Sec. 10. That the money co borrowed by the
county commissioners, shall be paid over to the
treasurer of the proper county, who shall pay
to each non=commissioned officer, or private
soldier, who volunteered from, and has been
credited to the quota of such county, and has
been mustered into the United States, or has
been honorably discharged therefrom, the sum
of money to which such person shall be enti
tled, under,the provisions of this act, on the
warrant or order of the commissioners, drawn
on him for that purpose; and said treasurer
shall not receive more than one-half of one
per centum on any money so paid over to him.
Sec. 11. That the money so borrowed by the
school directors, or road commissioners, or su•
pervisors of any township, or the corporate au
thorities of any city, ward, or borough, shall
be paid over to the treasurer of said city, ward,
borough, or township, or when such officer does
not exist, to a person duly appointed by said
authoritiep of said township, city, ward, or
borough, who upon giving sufficient bonds, for
the faithful performance of his duties, shall
proceed to pay `to such persons, in the manner
directed by the tenth section of this act, and
shall be allowed the same par centage as is al
lowed to the county treasurer, by the tenth
section of this act. : Provided, That the com
pensation allowed to any collector of taxes,
under this act, shall not exceed two par aentum.
Sec. 12. That in case any veteran soldiers,
who have reenlisted, and have not been credited
to any special locality, shall hereafter be
credited, on the present draft, to the locality
from which they originally volunteered, such
veterans'shall be paid by the local atithoritiee,
who s e duty it is to pay bounties, such bounty
as, under the provisions of this net, shall b e
paid to volunteers from said locality.
Seo. 13. That if any soldier, or non.cotn
missiozed officer, or private, who would have
been entitled to receive the said bounty sh a ll
have died before receiving the money, tha pro
per authorities shall pay the same to such per
son, or persons, as by the laws of the United
States would be entitled to receive the bounty
of deceased soldiers.
Sec. 14. That all accounts of the receipts
and expenditures of the bounty fund, arising
from any taxes that have been assessed, or that
may be assessed for the purpose as aforesaid,
shall be audited in like instiller as other county,
township, city, borough, or school district, a c .
counts are audited.
See. 15. All bonds, warrants, certificates of
indebtedness, or loans issued, or to be issued,
under the provisions of this aot or any special
act heretofore passed, or hereafter to be passed,
authorising particular cities, counties, wards,
boroughs, or townships, to borrow moneys and
pay bounties to volunteers, shall be exempt
from all taxation.
HENRY C., JOHNSON,
Speaker of the HOUSE of the Repreetntatires.
JOHN P PENNEY,
Speaker of the Senate.
APPROVED—T h e twenty-fifth day or Nfar.:ll,
Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four. A. G. CURTIN.
PASSING EVENTS, c4cC.
HATS AXD CAPS fOr sale cheap, At
At,l. kinds of furniture, farming implements and
stock generally, hare been selling at high prices at
the public sales this Spring.
SOME Rebel deprtere passed through here some
days ago, mating that a large number were on the
road from Dixie. We haTe'ut emelt them yet.
J. MaasuaL DI:TRICIA 1$ located" as the effici.
ent and obliging clerk in the Post Office of 1134
place.
Personal—Lieut. J. J. BURK, quarter Master
of the Ist Maryland Regiment, is now in town,
Wish him a pleasant time.
CAPT. GEO. W. COLI 4 IER, of Carroll county, Md.,
who has numerous friends and acquaintances here,
is now in command of the U. S. Marines at fiseh-
ingto
THE Telegraph line from Loudon to Meroaraborg
was lately completed, and our Mereeroburg neigh,
bora talk of extending it further, to "tap" the
Baltimore and Ohio. line,
Surgeon.—Dr. S. G. Lu has resigned his ps.
eition in the Pennsylvaaia lt,eserves, and has been
appointed Surgeon to the Board of enrollment of
this Cangreesianal District, in place of Dr. Ssiss,
resigned.
For Rent—A good two-story- Brick House stoi
Lot, adjoining the Borough of Greencastle. For
further particulars apply to Joseph Paxton, Green-
castle, Pa. J. L. P. DETRICH
Greencaplig, April 5, 1864.*
WM. KICICNMDT, Esq., has withdrawn Irom the
Valley Spirit. The paper is now published by B.
Y. HAMSHICR and U. C. KEYSER, under the style of
Y. HAMMER & Co, The Spirit has been clothed
in aauit of new type.
Declined.—Rev. T. G. Arms announced lo
his congregation not long dinge, that he had after a
full consideration of the matter, declined the call to
the Professorship in the Theological Seminary at
Mercersburg, which was tendered him a month or
two ago.
So far from there being a retreat or our forces
from Martinsburg, they have tuoved further up the
Valley. No large force of Rebels has been in Wiu•
chester for some time. There are a good many
guerrillas, however, prowling about in that region
picking up stragglers and plundering on au exten
sive scale.
IrOA Works.—lt is said that HOLKKH HUGHES '
Mont Alto iron works have been sold to a eoutpanY
from Scranton, Pa., for a sum exceeding two hue&
red thousand dollars.
Some time since the Aims, of Cumberland coun
ty, Pa., purchased the Antietam iron works in
Washington county, Md.
"U. B. CHRISTIAN COMMISSION, 1
" Philadelphia, March 18, 1864.
" Received, of Mrs. M. "M'Lapfthen, Forty Dol
laz for the 11. S. Christian Commission. from the
Lacs' Aid Society of Greencastle, Pa.
"JOS. PATTERSON, Treasurer.
4 'per Wm. H. HILL."
Infornaation Wauted.—Mrs, ASN E. Gao
sow, who recently made her escape from Virginia,
is anxious to learn the whereabouts of her husband
Joux L. GRAYSON, of Green county, Vs. He left
hia home on December 24, 1862, with the intention
of making hie way to the loyal States. When last
heard of he was said to have been at Sharpsburg ,
Md. Mrs. GRAYSON is now at Waynesboro' P.
Railroad Matters.—Every afternoon a long
train of freight cars passes through this place, bear
ing the rich cereal fruits of the lower part of this
and Washington county, Md.
The passenger cars are crowded almost every
morning with passengers going to the West. In
deed, there has not been such an emigration west
ward for many years.
goads.—We do hope that the new Supervisors ,
not looking to the example of their predecessors ,
will go to work at the earliest moment to improve
the condition of the public roads. If so, they wil l
be entitled to the gratitude of all travelers. The
roads in this county are, to say the least, abomin
able, and when compared with those of our neigh
.
bore jug) across the Line, we cannot help feeling
ashamed.. For once then, let the Supervisors throw .
of the shackles.
KUNKELS