FOR SALE. We are compelled, on account of impaired health, to offer for sale this office. THE PILOT is now in its 4th year. It has enjoyed a con siderable degree of patronage. A good paying subscription list has been secured. Auy en ergetic person would be able to increase it Tepidly. A weekly journal can and will be supported by 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 JOB WORK. For terms and other particulars, Address J. W. APCRORY, Greencastle, Franklin county, Pa THE PILOT. GREENCASTLE: Tuesday Morning, April 12, 1864 e t r - - / • '/ 4 1 1110, or; „ BE TEMPERATE. The varying seasons of the 'year, abjustel with beautiful harmony and rolling around to give birth to the fruits and flowers, shade and sunshine, heat and cold, prolific in every luxury that ministers to the sensual delight of man, or instructs his intellect in knowledge of the mysterious power of God., are hailed with joy by all his creatures, save man, who end cises what he cannot comprehend, condemns what he cannot judge, and repines at what his wilfulness only disqualifies him from appre ciating. And yet t.he variation of the seasons is one of the chief sources of his happiness, novelty only being considered, in nature all bar tisony, even when the magnificence of the sum mer eve thunder storms darts in vivid lightnings through the air, and flashed winged fire to the skies. In man only lurks the discontented of a thankless heart, and the peevishness of a festering spirit. With the peevish, fretful and ill-natured, it is always too hot or too cold, too moist or too dry, too calm or too windy. Some writers has said " never marry a woman who frets at the weather," and we join in the ad vice, for she will always find something else to fret at, besides what she cannot control.— Thank God we have no weather mongers but the almanac makers, or what a hotch-potch of it would pelt us about the•head, swelter us with heat or freeze us with cold, all in the same mi nute ; and it is no little satisfaction to think that " a patent" has not been taken out to regulite the seasons, so as to suit all tastes at the same time, especially tidy housekeepers, who always want the dust laid, or growling farmers, who eternally want rain for the grass. If it rains for a day, "Oh !" cry these rebels against God, "it is always raining." If it clears, and a fine shower of silver light pours down from the face of the God of day, " Oh, this horrid sun, we are never to have a rain ?" "Blow, blow, blow, the wind is always blow ing," cries peevish Jeremiah ; and then fol lows a calm, when some gentle pet-lamb of the other sex cries in despair, "What would I give for a little breeze .?" and for want of one "out of doors," she is sure to raise one in the house, all which is weak, silly, culpable, and unworthy of a reasonable being, who ought to know the useful operations of the seasons,for the sustenance and health of a man. Be thank ful equally for the summer's heat and the win ter's cold. If it is hot, reeking, steaming hot, patience and good nature will make it twenty degrees cooler, besides securing your health from damage by that irritation which is so apt to throw one in a fever. "Take things coolly." Don't overheat yourself -;,• don't overdrink your self, and don't eat inordinately. Put steam on anything bat your own brain, ;and you may survive many worse things than the sum mer's scorching rays. " Keep cool," for the therinometer won't go down by scolding, and every breeze you raise only makes it hotter. THE NEWS. An order has been issued in the Army of the Potomac which indicates early action. All private property is ordered to the rear. All citizens, with few exceptions, are forbidden to remain with the army after the 16th inst. No more furloughs and leaves of absence are to be granted except in extreme cases. Lieutenant-General Grant calls the attention of all officers to the Army: Regulations and General Orders in regard to correspondence on official matters. All such correspondence must be conducted through the proper official chan nels, except in cases of pressing necessity, which do not leave time for regular communi cation, and then the necessity must be stated. In Fort Putman, formerly " Gregg," on the northernmost extremity of Morris Island, it was determined by General Gillusore to fire shells into Charleston from a 30-pounder gun at re• gutsy intervals of five minutes bewteen each shell, until the gun should become disabled; tour thousand six hundred and fifteen missiles wero discharged into the city from this piece before it burst. THE PILOT :-GREENCASTLE, FRANKLIN CO By direction of the President of the United States, the following changes and assignments arc made in Army Corps commands : Major• General P. H. Sheridan is assigned to the command of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac. The Eleventh and Twelfth Army Corps are consolidated, and will be called the First Army Corps. Major-General J. Hooker is assigned to command. Major-General Gordon Granger is relieved from the command of the Fourth Army Corps, and Major 0. 0. _Howard is assigned in his stead. Major-General Schofield is assigned to the command of the Twenty-third Army Corps. Major-General Slocum will report to Major- General Sherman, commanding the Division of the Mississippi, and Major-General Stoneman will report to Major-General Schofield, com manding the. Department of the Ohio, for as signment. • Major-General Granger will report by letter to the Adjutant-General of the Army. Captain Horace Porter, United States Or dnance Department, is announced as an Aid-de- Camp to Lieutenant-General Grant, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Payment of the Militia. The following is the message of Gov. Cur tin sent to the Legislature in reference to the payment of the' militia called out in Septem ber, 1862: To the Honorable the House of Representative,' GENTLEMEN : I received the following res olution of the House on the 24th of March, instant " Resolved, That the Governor be requested to inform the• House what has been done in re lation to the payment of the militia that was called out on the 11th of September, 1862." The subject of the resolution was properly assigned to the Adjutant General of the State. Great difficulties occurred in preparing proper vouchers for payments made to the militia called in service in September, 1862, under proclamation made by the Governor of this State. The men were called into service and were hurried forward to the border without the usual form of muster, and no rolls were wade, at the time, of regiments and companies. The Adjutant General, in his annual report, says : "On the sth of September last the Second Controller of the Treasury approved a blank form of roll for payment of militia for 1862. These rolls have been sent to the Captains of all companies who have applied for them and stated their post office address. They are now rapidly being returned to this Department, and as soon as all are received will be transmitted to the Pay Department at Washington, when paymasters will be detailed to the several counties from which these troops were fur nished." Much correspondence has been had through the Adjutant General with the authorities at Washington on this subject, since the date of the, report of the Adjutant General, and I am informed by Col. Frances Jordon, military agent of the State at Washington, that on the 22nd instant an order was 'made on Major Brice, Chief Paymaster at Baltimore, to take charge of these payments, to estimate the amount of funds required, to report;the number of paymasters necessary, and make the pay ments at as early a day as practicable. Major Brice made requisition on the Adju tant General of Pennsylvania for the rolls, which were promptly furnished him by that officer. There is reason to believe that the militia called into service in September, 1862, will now be promptly paid. Difficulties of a Campaign in Virginia. From a calm and soldierly article on the Army of the Potonac, in the Army and Navy Journal, we take some instructive hints as to the difficulties of a campaign in Virginia : On the right of our army are chains of moun tains which enable the rebels to conceal any flanking movement they may undertake, while the valleys afford to them the means for an easy and uninterrupted passage to the Potomac above Washington, and one almost entirely se cure from attacks in their rear. On our front is a succession of rivers, presenting great nat ural obstacles to our advance, and at the same time easily defensible; to make flanking move ment by ascending them is to open our rear to attacks from Fredericksburg, and to cross below the rebel army, leaves the railroad a prey to guerrillas. The country is, moreover, mashed in every direction by dense forests, rendering anything like a surprise in force impracticable. A few rebel scouts may at all times easily de. teat and thwart such a movement. Such are the natural features of the country. It is a well known rule of military opera tions that a "base" should neither be too extend ed nor too limited, and that it should be accessi ble by several routes. The base of the Army of the Potomac is just the width of a railroad track and that railroad furnishes really the only prat tillable route of communication. For every mile of advance beyond Fairfax Court House, 500 men are requircd.to protect the rear. The leaders of the rebels of course understand all the circumstances : and are always ready to take advantage of them. They are fully aware that they can hold in check, with three-fourths of its force, the Army of the Potomac. Mean time, they pursue the Fabian policy—the policy of Washington on the mountains of the Hudson river. They are not foolish enough to stake every thing on the risk of a battle, accept where invulnerably fortified. They will not attack, nor will they accept a battle in the field. Their own rear needs no protection; they have two railroad routes besides all the ordinary roads. Thus they have all the advantage of position on their side. But we in view of these difficulties to expect nothing from the Army of the Potomac No, it may overcome them in two or three ways. First, with a sufficient force to cover its flanks, it may compel the enemy to retreat and Rich mond to be abandoned. Second, it may be able to bring on an engagement, which will prove de cisive. Third, by cutting it loose from Wash ington, and, making it a moveable column, it may go at any time to the rear of the rebel army and open a new base for itself on the Pa. munky or York rivers, or by the railroad from Federioksburg. We risk nothing in saying that the army can at any time go to Richmond, if relieved from the necessity of protecting its rear. This could have been done last fall, when General Meade crossed the Rapidan and was stopped by the rebel works on Mine Run. The army can transport fifteen days subsis tence and forage, and with this it can be moved to Hanover Court House, where it can operate on a new base; or if successful in forcing the rebel lines, can even enter Richmond at once. Summary Dismissal of Army and Naval Senator Wilson reported yesterday from the Military Committee unfavorably to the passage of a bill taking from the President the power to summarily dismiss army and navy officers, and substitute suspension of 'such officers in command, with trial by court-martial ; also, providing for the restoration of dismissed of ficers. The Committee asked the views of the Judge Advoca'te General ou the subject, who reported as follows : Judge Advocate-General's Office, March 28, 1804 —Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War::—Upon the bill entitled "an act to reg ulate the dismissal of officers in the military and naval service," now pending in the Senate, and referred by you for my consideration, I have the honor to submit the following obser vations :—(Here follows a particular statement of the character of the bill ) Mr. Ho"t then proceeded as follows :—" From the foundation of the Government the President has been in the. habit of summarily dismissing officers in the land and naval service. The power to do so seems to inhere in him under the Constitu tion, as Commander•in-Chief of the Army and navy. His action in this respect has been at tended by no oppression or abuses, and its strict legality cannot be contested. The exercise, therefore, of this authority since the outbreak of this rebellion has nothing in it that savors of usurpation or innovation, or that should ex cite alarm. That the lodgment of such power in the Commander•in-Chief of our army is necessary to preserve its discipline, the experience of our military men would generally attest. This necessity is most manifest and pressing in the case of an army of volunteers, suddenly with drawn from the pursuit of civil life and im patient of these restraints without which mili tary forces in the field must soon degenerate into a mob. The government of such an army often calls for punishment more severe than those which are tardily inflicted through the process of a slow military trial. The authority to suspend without pay or emolument for a limited period, as given by the bill, would prove a most inadequated substi tute for the power of dismissal. In the emer gencies of military life, and especially during a period of active hostilities, the interest of the service often not only require that officers shall be instantly dismissed, but that their places shall be immediately supplied. This bill makes such supply impracticable in the ease of de linquent and suspended officers, because it con templates no vacancy. A. G. CURTIN. It is well known that in time of war the convening of a court-martial for the trial of officers within the space of ten clays prescribed by this bill would not, in a very large number of cases, be possible, without serious detriment to the service. As there could be no trial without an arrest of the officer, should he think proper to avoid such arrest—as he might do by flight or other wise—he could, under this bill, be summarily dismissed only for having been "absent for twenty days without leave," or whatever crime he might have been guilty. Had such a law existed when General Twiggs traitorously sur rendered his Department to the Rebels, instead of being dishonorably dismissed for." treachery to his country's flag," as be was, by the Presi dent, he would, though •in 'arms against the Government, have been continued.on the Army Registor,•unless it had been thought proper to dismiss him, simply for " absent , without,leave." Officers. , PA., APRIL 186-1. The number of dismissals which have taken place since the beginning of the war is not large, all the circumstances of the service con sidered. The Government has acted upon the testimony furnished at the moment, and mis takes have, in some oases, occurred. In every instance however, where it has been alleged that wrong had been done, the case has been carefully re-examined, and all the proofs and testimonials offered in behalf of the officer well considered, and it is belived that it is rarely happened that a correct conclusion has not been finally reached. These re-examinations have constituted one of the most laborious duties of this office, and I can bear testimony to patience and impartiality with which they have been conducted. To the restoration of these officers, through the instrumentality of a court-martial, as pro posed by the bill, several seemingly insuper able obstacles present themselves. 1. Their places, after dismissal, were, in al most every instance,; filled by appointments legally and probably made. How is it possi ble to restore them to positions not vacant, but which are fully occupied by others. 2. The regiment to which many of these officers belonged have been disbanded. In reference to this class, how would it be practi cable to enforce the provisions of this bill ? 3. These officers are now as much out of service as if they had never belonged to it, and this by force of orders in every respect regular and legal. A revocation of these orders of the President would certainly reinstate the officers in cases where the vacancies remain unfilled, but is it competent for Congress to make such revocation ? I think clearly not. 4. The 'orders being unrevoked, and the of ficers being out of the servie they can be re stored by reappointment. Under the Constitu tion, however the largest pada these appoint ments must be made by the Governors of the states, and the remaiudli by the President.— Is tliere any principal or precedent which can justify Congress in an attempt to exercise,these functions of the President and Govern*, by substituting for such presidential and guber natorial action the simple declaration of a gen eral .coUrt-martial ? 5. The Government could not investigate through courts•martial the hundreds of cases which this bill would bring up for trial, with out such a draft. upon the officers of the army needed for active field service as must greatly impair the efficiency of the campagin now about to open in every part of the theatre of the war. To this should be added the fact that the witnesses to the transactions to be examin ed into are, doubtless, many of them dead, and others so scattered by the fortunes of the war as to be unavailable—a condition of things which would render it impossible to accept the action of the courts-martial sitting in judg ment on these offences, many of them long past as satisfactory or reliable. All of which is respectfully submitted. J. HOLT, Judge Advocate- General. PASSING EVENTS, &C. REMEMBER the place to get cheap Hats, Caps, Boots and Shoes, is at KUNKEL'S. PHIRSONS wishing a neat pair of Boots or Shoes made to order, should call at KUNKEL'S. 1440. , 4 COURT was convened on Monday. Three murder cases are on the calendar, CARLISLE Presbytery meets alb (Tuesday) even ing et Hegel-sat:van. = QUITE a number of veterans, of the 107th Penn sylvania, are visiting their homes in this county. MR. Joint KEAGY, the well known photograithist of. Chambersburg, died on Saturday of last week. Tits most delicious oysters and finest fish are brought here weekly, by J. HOSTETTER & Co., who keep lots of nice things for the table: Wood Corder.—M S. GORDON is now acting Wood Measurer of the Borough. 1118 office is in the Chairmaker's shop on East Baltimore street. Streets.—ln all other boroughs around here, the streets are being cleaned up, but. in Greencastle they are allowed to remain as tnuudy as can well be imagined. Tne 7th Maryland Infantry passed through this place on Saturday morning last, en route for the army. They had been . home to vote on the 6th. Major MOBLEY of Hagerstown, was in command. LEANDER WlC.su, Esq., proprietor of- the iron foundry and machine shop, at Hagerstown, died at his residence, on Tuesday, April 3rd. The deceas ed was an energetic and enterprising business man. For Rent—A good two-story Brick House and Lot, adjoining the Borough of Greencastle. For further particulars apply to Joseph Paxton, Green castle, Pa. J. L. P. DETBJCIL Greencastle, April 5, 1864.* =Z Flag Presentation.—On Thursday, March 31st, a flag was presented by the ladies of Phila delphia to the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry in camp near Chambersburg. The presentation speech was made by Hon. A. X. M'CLuaa. The Band from Carlisle Barracks was in attendance. bill has been presented to the Penn sylvania. Legislature, for the re-organisation of the Pennsylvania Militia. If this is dame we will , be able to. prevent rebel " raids" and repel any or dinary invasion without 'drawing troopi from the U S. Army. We hope the bill will pass. =IC Election in Marylaiicl.—An election )14,,i held throughout the State of Maryland on last Wed nesday, on the question of calling a Convention to alter the State Constitution so far as to provide for the immediate emancipation of slaves, and for tie election of delegates to this Convention. The State has gone by a very large majority in favar of call ing the Convention, and from the character of the delegates pitmen, it is clear that emancipation, without compensation, will be adopted. Thus loyal Maryland has cut loose from the fetters of the peculiar institution, setting an example to old Kett-. tucky to do likewise. New Music, --We received a few days ago, from a good soldier and an old friend, R. E. Cations, a piece of music. entitled the k' Heroes of Gettys burg, or a dirge for the Brave." The words were composed by Corporal, J. A. SCOTT, of company C, COLE'S Battalion of Cavalry, and set to !mini; by Max. J. COIILI, a member of the same company, and who is now in Libby prison. The piece was orginally prepared for the company Glee Club, but having been very highly praised by excellent stud_ masswho have seen and hoard it, it has recently bean published. Its sentiment is elevated far above the light, ephemeral songs of the day. We wish every guitarist and pianist in the town and neigh. borhood would call at Fermi:none& and get a copy, and we can assure them that in learning this they will be learning something worth learning, an d which will be more pleasing to the heart of a true patriot than any other late music. Sad and Painful Accident.—We are called upon to record a sad and painful accident Which occurred in this place on Saturday of last The faots of the case, as far as we CAR ascertain, are these: A negro bey in the employ of Mr. W. D. licKin strey, took a musket from the house for the pur pose of shooting a load out of it, which we under stand, bad been in for some time. He proceeded to the stable, and taking that object as a mark, dis oharged the load. The ball, which was a common musket one, passed through both sides of the stable, a stall and a partition, (in all about four inehes of timber,) then entering a window lodged in the shoulder of Miss MARY E. COOPER, a daughter of a widow lady, living in the rear of the stable, laid lug a very severe and dangerous wound. We un derstand she is doing pretty well under the circum. stances, but still suffers severely. She is about 17 years of age, and is highly ell. teemed by all her acquaintances. The ball, as yet has nor. been found.—Hercersberg Toured. STAFFORD H. WESTON, a genteel colored man, who says he was in Hagerstown about ten days ago on the worthy mission of procuring colored Chaplaic& for the colored regiments in the field, was arrested first on a frivolous charge of running off slaves and dismissed by the Provost Marshal, and afterward up on complaint and information of a professed Union ist was taken before a magistrate on the charge of violating the law of Maryland, relating to free per sons of color coming into the State from other States. He was fined twenty dollars and costs, of which the informant (who WESTON says is expecting an ap. pointment in the U. S. Quartermaster's department) received ten dollars. WESTON has been in the em ploy of Government officers and was exposed to the perils of the service for over thirty-seven years. Was with Col. D. MITCHELL in Florida; with Lieut, (now Gen.) Bunssum in Mexico ; was with Capt. GILLIS on the Montecello gunboat at the taking of Hatteras, and last with Capt. Comm. of the sloop of war Connecticut, conveying the mail from As pinwall to New York. It- is about time to change the laws of Maryland, Ix is eTpeoted that there will be some trouble with the miners in Schuylkill °aunty if the April draft is enforced. Some troops have been recently sent there, including Capt. liumaxona's company, of the 21st Pennsylvania Cavalry. The Spirit men advises "the Schuylkill °aunty people to do as the folks about "Plough's School House" say Castle Borough" did; hire "niggers" at $5O I bead to fill their quota, and thus avoid a drnft alto gether." This is a very good adlice, and we hope the "Schuylkill county people" will fill up their quota by volunteers, as they ought to do, for the credit of themselves and the credit of the State, and if they don't do their duty voluntarily, the Govern ment ought to make them perform it. But " Castle Borough' "s success not only troubles the midnight slumbers of the persons who composed the meeting hell at "Plough's School House" last winter, but the committees and enrolled citizens of ether districts of the oeunty are nervous about it , After the 15th instant there ere some probably who will be a little more than nervous. We will calmly await to hear the report of the drawing in the de linquent.portions of old Frafiklin. Humbug.—We suppose there are none cf our subscribers verdant enough to be caught by the " Confidential Letters," or the beautifully printed "brilliant schemes" of some Havana lottery, or the splendid drawings in the "Gift Enterprises" of the day. These humbugs have been before the public long enough for every one possessed of common sense and prudence to fully understand their character. It may do no harm, however, to expose in a few words, a new swindle, Probably some of our readers have reoeived by mail, circu lars of the " Cosmopolitan Art Union Association," at Canaan, Maine, of which Paints% ROBISON & Co., are represented to be managers, and by the same mail pethaps, a confidential letter, enclosing a ticket for this drawing, from ALEX. Tuomsow , Real Estate and Money Broker, No. 18, Main street, Canaan. 'The tickets cost ten dollars, and by send ing that sum you are to get a prize of from $lO to $2OOO, or a lithograph of "Love's Young Dream." A friend of ours received a circular, a letter,* ticket, Am., but like a sensible man kept his ten dollars, and paid no attention to it. Some days after the drawing took (7) place, he received a " private confidential letter," and a neatly printed report of the Bth drawing, signed by the m anagers. His ticket was entitled to a prize of several hundred dollars, but as he had not sent the ten dollars lie was out. But hare Mr. THOMSON' proposed to do clever thing. Mr. should immediately write a letter, dated back to the drawing, and send it by mail, encleging the ten dollars, to Mr. Tnoxsol , who would, when received, take the letter to the
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