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®'The ft:oMb* sue ourterms foe, subscription
telvertising and ieb Work, to *bleb We *lir strictly
adhere whilst the present "war prices" tot►ttaue
SUBSCHIi i TIOIC '
'et Annum, if paid within the yeat,
10 114 after" the teat,
ADVERTISiNG,
Per Sqhttre of ton lines, three times, . 411.50
, •. . 1 each subsequentinsertion. ' •35
Administrator's and .13xecutor's notices. 6w, 2.50
A fibers! deductioh triode to yearly advertisers.
JOB WORK
quarter• Sheet Hand-Bills. (25 to 30) . $2.00
Half ° ' . 6 6. I• 3.50
Whote "
larrer all job' work and local advertising terms
invariably cash. - • W. BLAIR.
PUBLIC . MEETING.=\Ye have bees. re►
__quested to announce that a public meeting
will he held in the Town flall i on Monday
—evenitrr, - treatito - mai - e - ttli - trecessuryitrrange= l
mente to give the returned soldiers from this
section a suitable reception. A full atten-
dance is requested
IYANeED.—A barrel of eider,
oat, WANTED.—Any person hauling
tie and desiring a reiurnload can secure one
by applying at this office. •
DECEASED.-COL JOHN SHIRTS, a promi
nent citizen of Mercersburg, died on the
12th inat., aged 56 years - and 4 days.
SUBSCRIBERS WANTED.—The Valley Spir
it wants two new subscribers. Where's "big
foot."
- CAMP - 31 EETING.-Th - e -U.ll. in Christ
will hold a Camp Meeting on the land of G-eo.
Miller's heirs, one and a half. miles North of
Marion, in this eountheommeacing OD 'Mon..
day next.
HOTEL PROPERTY Sor,r).—FnANers Bow-
DEN has purehus , eti of Major L. B. KURTZ,
liisjiaterprope_r_t_y, in this place Mr Rjs
to get possession of the house on the 2d of
October.
NEW CHIJRCII.-- . We understand the erec
tion of a new church by tho German Re
formed congregation of thia_pla.
contenuplation
NEw Fritit. —We are under obligations
to DAVID MONVEN and AiltYl. Latlß, who
have commenced the butchering business in
this place, for a quantity of choice beefstake.
They are supplied with fine eittle and are
worthy of being liberally patronized,
FARM S.:M.D.-Mr. Gr.ottar. SUMMERS ,
Jr. has purchased of' Frederick Foreman,
the farm near this One, formerly. owned by
the Rev. Ahrm. Stamy, for the sum of.one
hundred and fifteen dollars per acre. Mao
a tract of mountain land at sixty dollars per
WATERFALLS.—The ladies' waterfalls are
undergoing a visible inflation. vigorous
competition is evidently in progress to see
which can wear the heaviest and—ugliest.
The Harrisburg Telegrapla expects to soon
find them wearing sacks of flour on the back
of their heads.
STRAWBERRY PLANTS —Persons cri.s
to set out Strawberry Plants are role
the advertisement of D, 11 Para. i'• in' a
nother column. The variety whic , ' Mr. F.
has for sale has been highly re•immended
by the New York Tribune an , other city
papers as being superior to most varieti4s
iIOW cultivated.
DAtintrtv IttutsTra.---We have' received
the .first number of a paper established at
Lykens, Pa., by Messrs. SAMUEL 13. COLES
& GEO. W. Fs:v, entitled The Uper•Dau
phin Register." The Register is a spirited
sheet, Union in sentiment; and handsomely
executed mechanically. Wo cheerfully en-
ter it upon our exchange list and wish the
publishers success in their undertaking.
, STATE TICKET.—The Uoion State Con-
Vention assembled at Harrisburg on the 17th.
Maj. Gen JOEtN F. lIARTRANIV, 3f Mont
4gomery county, Was nominated for Auditor
General, and Col. JACOB M. CAMPBELt, of
Cambria county, for Surveyor General.
PLOWING WELLS.-..ACCording to a state
ment in the.last .Bedford inguirer the Oil
Creak and Gordon's Rap Petroleum Com
pany had two wells on their territory flow
ing oil and water. A few days would &d
-eem to finish thiwork of tubing and deter
tnino the character of the wells. The pros
pects wore most encouraging.
'w Coalsz.--Accouata from all parts of
the country speak most enconryingly of the
prospects for the coming corn crop.
PorA.roEs.—The choicest varieties of' .po
tatoes are now retailing at 50 cents per bnoh•
'el, which is a tallieg off of $1 pee bushel in
a few weeks. The season throughout has
proved an nuasud one for the growth of
'vegetables generally.
Comma Elomn'.---The 77th Pernsylvas is
rigituent, for some time past stationed is
Texas, is now en route for Harrisburg, to be
paid cif and mastered out of the service.
• Thevaibovo report is pronounced
ipedirnei tip tire Efaririebarg TetegrtrA.'
Editor and Proprietor.
reencas
1)01V in
`The National Teachers Association,
assembled in Harrisburg last week. About
five hundred delegates, including representa
tives from all the loyal States and Cartada,
were present. Governor Curtin welcomed
the delegates to the capitol of Pennsylvania.
Governor Bradford, of Maryland, 'Alm brief
addressed the convention.
GAPES.--A writer in the New York Tri
bune, who has traveled extensively in the
Western Staten, says that grapes in Ohio are
rating by the ton. The Oatawbas and lea
belles mostly are gone, and tire Concords are
also suffering badly. Os .the Ohio Lake
Sher* many limbellas were badly mndew.
A WORD to SOLDIERS.--Tfie Hagerstowu
Herald says &ere are some parties in Wash
ingttini and other cities; who are buying up
Eirery soldier who values his
utvn inteßeets will keep his discharge. It is
'confidently expected that Cdngreseivillpake
an appropriation of land to • every soldier
who haebeen honorably discharged. It is
also rumored, in high' quarters, that Con
gress will provide for the payment of the
8800 in full to all soldiers who enlisted for
one, two, or three years, on or after July
4th, 1864. The Attorney General' decided
th . .t
.the soldier, when mustered out, should
received a bounty proportionate to the titne
he had served. There was much dissatisf i ed.;
tion about this matter, and it is confidently
asserted that Congress . will give the lull
bointy promised. ' •
' his of the greetest importance,, then that
every soldier sheuld . keep his discharge. If
these appropriations are made he will be
ready for them, if not, no harm will be done.
—BowsTlime-Ntiv:---We-eall-attentien-to
the advertisement of the Duplex Elliptic or
double Spring Skirt. Though a recent in
vention, it has becalm very popular,•and is
_rapidly_obtaining_the—preforence over-other
'rinds in use. The rod 3 in it are eomposed
each of two delicate and well-teMpered steel
springs, which are ingeniously braided to
o - • • • dge; -- the - lower rods heavier
and having a double covering. This peculi
arity of construction makes this skirt very
strong and durable, and also so exceedingly
flexible that it readily adapts itself to the
form of the wearer, and allows of any amount
of doubling and crushing imithout - injury to
its shape. These skirts are unquestionably
the lightest, most desirable, comfortable and
economical ever made. These are advanta-
ges-which - ladies, who have experienced the
discomfort an d inconvenience o f single
epriugs will duly appreciate.
ENCOURAGE HO 'ME .—Encourage home
institutions, home manufactures, borne news
papers, and home itself, Don't run after
foreign goods just because they are foreign,
and•when •ou can bu' 'ust as well and
cheaply at home. Sell your produce, your
chasers. Patronize - your own mechanics,
craftsmen ani professional men, and don't
be hangers on and dependants on other
places. Take your home newspaper. It at
least informs you of home interests, in which
you are immediately interested, and by giv
ing it a liberal support you enable the editor
to give you a better paper. In short; spend
you money at home and assist in building
up your own city and section of country.
If you' don't patronize home institutions,
don't grumble if home institutions don't pat
ronize you.
MAD Doris ABOUT.—A number of mad
dogs have recently made their appearance in
this vicinity. One was despatched near
Pleniant Hill School House, on Monday by
David Snively and D. F. Gordon. From its
appearance it had been running come time.
There is therefore no telling what number of
doge in the neighborhood have been bitten.
Those known to have been'bitten have eith
er been killed or confined. We make this
announcement that "the publio may be on
their guard. Boys for the present should
be kept off ou r streets, especially after
night. •
flow TO CURE A FELON.—As we often
see friends suffering with these very troublq
some things, we' publish the following cure
for them, as taken from the Petersburg
Index and which is highly recommended:
"As soon as the part begins to swell, get
the tincture of lobelia and wrap the part af
fected with cloth saturated thoroughly with
tincture, and the felon :s dead. An old phy
sician says he has known it to cure in scores
of oases and it never failed if applied in sea
son,".
•iIONTRLY —T. Metcalfe, one of the firm
of Metcalfe BT, Iliteshew, is now in the city
buying goods. They will have their new goods
open on Satulday when all are invited to call
and examine. Every font weeks they will
have a fine stock of uew goods, as they visit
the Eastern cities monthly.
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LITTLE ComPoitA.L.-:•-•We have read the
first two numbers of The Ville Corporal, a
a now child's paper, edited and published by
Mr. Alfred L Sewell,'Chicago, Illinois,—
Judging from the appearance of the two num
bers which aro now I before us, The little
Corporal is destined to become the great
children's paper of America. The portrait
of our late President, Mr. Lincoln and his
son Tad; which is presented to each subscri
ber, is a fine steel engraving, and generally
acknowledged to be the best of the many
likenesses of Mr. Lincoln.
. correspondent oftbe go*
York Afferaid who has boon-on a visit to the
regions" gii , es the following diseription
of this remarkable city:
Pithole City is the growth of forty dap.
It contrails over. three hundred buildings of
goodly sizo and appearance, and has a popu
lation of two thousand white males, eleven
females stud one colored person. The Uni
ted States Hotel is the principal hotel at
present. It was built . •as a storage house for
oil. Now it feeds perhaps a thousand -.per
-sons & day, and lodges ,as many as can bo
packed within its walla like • inartins in a
box. •
All the town lots were lensed!), month ago - ,
at prices varying from 81U0 to $2OO per year,
for three years, by Messrs. Prather k Dun
cani,who purchased the property for $25,-
000, and bare since Made a present of $75,-
000 to its former owner. I believe the pro.
perty has lately beets' stocked by the same
gentleman. All these lots, have been re-leas.
ed at bonuses of from $l,OOO to $7,000.
The size of the lots are 83 by 100 to 140.
The site of the new hotels nearly completed
by Mr. Patebeh, of Rouseville, Holmden
street, and Captain Vandergift on First street,
leased for $5,000. and $7,000 each, Captain
will immediately construct, in connection
with his hotel, Wtheatre, concert and billiard
saloon, &c. His hotel is to be called the
"Aletripolitan." The Captain has just paid
182,000 for three acres on Rooker farm__
• to so ' businesses are being opened,
the principal ones being the sale of liquors
and leases.
A telegraph line is in operation, and stages
carry-people- in every direction. A horse
railroad will reach here from Titusville be
fore long.
Board in a rough unfurnished bitilding is
three dollars per day, and more applicants
than can be accommodated. Provisions in
Pithole are fifteen per cent. higher than they
are in Titusville or Oil City, Pithole was
thus named in consequeuEa of atfeztraordin
ary pit or cavern that exists' about three
miles from the city. In this pit stones are
throws, but they are never heard to drop.—
Its depth has_not as yet—been—fathome - d.—
The whole country between here and Planter
is believed to be cavernous.
rrOn Monday the Military Commission,
of which • Major General Wallace is Presi
dent, and Colonel Chipman, Judge Advo
cate, assembled in the Court of Claims Room,
at the Capitol, 'Washington, for the purpose
of trying Captain Henry Wirz, the keeper
o the Andersonvitle prison pen. The charg
es and specifications were read by the Judge
Advocate, although the counsel for the do
fence, Judge Hughes, objected against read
inc: them since neither be nor his client had
yet had a proper opportunity of examining
them. The first charge not only arraigns
Wirz but also Lee, the Winders, Stevenson,
Moore, Seddon, Northrop, and others un•
known for conspiring to injure the health
and destroy the fifes of Union soldiers, pris
oners of war within the - so called Confeder•
ate States. The second charge arraigns him
personally for murder and the violation of
the laws of war. The specifications are very
full, and give statements of the treatment of
our prisoners at indersonville—long ago fa•
miliar to the public.
THE PRESIDENT'S AMNESTY.—Many sup
pose that returned rebels having taken the
amnesty oath of the President are restored
to all civil rights under the State as well as
Geceral Government. It is alleged that
State acts disfranchising rebels who have
taken the amnesty oath, aro Unconstitutional
and void.
AU we have to say, is . that such is not
President Johnson's own view of Iris procla
mation, as lie.distinetly ordered Gov. Brown
ies, to be sustained in enforcing the election
laws of Tonnesee which disfranchised all
who had been- in the rebel army. -
The dreaded Asiatic cholera, our read
era are aware, commenced a short time since
in the East, as it did some years ago, and is
making groat ravages there. It is now on
its way westward with rapidity as then.—
There is great uneasiness in Europe at its ap
proach; and the different Governments are
taking measures of precaution to' protect
themse:ves. Onr Government recieved in
telligence on Fx.iday from the U. S. Consul
at Port Ma - hort; that the cholera bad made
its appearance on the coast of Spain. From
,its rapid advance westward the past few
weeks, fears are appaehendcd that the dis •
ease may again become general.
,COUNTERFEIT CURRENCY.- There is no
end to the amount of counterfeit currency
now in circulation. They seem to be nearly
as numerous as the genuine. The fifty cent
notes are in such bad repute that some per
sons refuse to take them, being unable to dis
tinguish the genuine from the counterfeit.
BR CERAM:Y.-A great deal of fever is
anticipated, especially typboid, during the
latter part of the summer and fall, when the
rank vegetation begins to decay. Each one
should see to his own premises,.and 'prompt.
ly remove all filth and decaying vegetable
matter. A thorough renovation 'will serve
in a great measure to protect public health.
fterThe Demeeratie State Sovereignty
Convention of Ohio assembled at Columbna
on the 17th instant. Alexander Long was
nominated for Governor, and Chariton •A.
White for Lieutenant Governor. Resoitt
dons of strong State sovereignty were adopt
ed.
ifirThe Oil City Naps gives the number of
Oil companies at fourteen hundred and fifty
seven, with a total capital of eight hundred
and sixty-nine millions five hundred and
*ollow thousand dollars.
SWEET POTATOS at the new Groeory.
THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE.
Th6lr Condition—Many Actually
litarvinWeath.
General if C. Baket; Special Provost Mar-.
.steal of the War Depaitthent, who has recent.
ly.returued from a trip through a portion of'
The Southern Staten, whither he went on
official business, confirms the report of the
titter destitution of the Southern people,and
of the desire to cheerfully submit to the wish
es of the Government. The' sufferings of
these unfortiinate beings are almost indes
cribable. With a few exceptions—all of
which ;Income' within the 120,000 olause
of President's ;Johnson's proclamation—the
people are actually starving In crowds they'
come to the tines of the railroads , in the hope
of picking up something from the pulsing.
trains, wish which to hold body and soul to
gether There they live in tents, huts, and
mud-houses, and even in many cases in the
woods, without shelter Of any kind, They
have no money.
A 'planter who lived near Andersonvilic
and owned, before the war, two plantations
and forty-seven negroes, declared that he
could no longer make a living in the South.
When_the rebellion .commenced he sielded_
to the persuasions of his wife, and sold his
negroes and mule& But he invested the
proceeds in Confederate bmids, bearing eight
per cent interest. lie fellt perfectly com
t II as • Dg_to_do;_aud i _Lbeing—be ,
gond the age_when-he-could - be conserifited,
reposed on his laurels, and took life easy.—
One
day he heard that "Mr. Sherman," as
al! the negroes called that dashing general,
was coming, and he tried to sell his Confed
erate bonds. To his utter dismay, nobody
would buy them at any price, and, ih an hour,
he found himself penniless. lie had, how
ever, a pateh of corn and a few hogs. He
thought he would try to raise a little pork;
"But," said lie, "I fed them just as I did be
fore the war, and I'm if I could-'fatten
them. They were bound to keep lean. I
can't fatten a hog any longer in this South
ern country, and if anybody will buy my two
plantations, I_ will_go-North;and - try - to - mitlie
u living there."
General Baker stopped at a log cabin to
get something to eat. The inmates were
just upon the verge of actual starvation.—
There was a young woman of about this ty
years of age—she looked fifty—her mother,
and two chi!dreri. The mother was slowly
dying of consumption. The daughter was
scarcely clad enough to hide her 'nakedness:
Her dress consisted of gunny bags sewed to
gether, fastened around her neck and reach
_in,2•_ to her knees and even this miserable a-
pulogy-fbr raiment was frayed and tattered
to tazs.. Two little children were mooing
about as sake. as they .were corn.
young'woman said: "We were always poor
folks, but we could always get enough to eat.
Now-we-have - nothing s 'aad — de not - know how
we are to live from aaj , to day. But we are
as well off as the rest." ' A good many of
the people about there had died, and the on
ly cause was absolute starvation.
The whole country was desolated. Gen.
Baker gave this poor woman five dollars, and
she begged that he would allow her "old
inan'to go on his train up to Atlanta to buy
something to eat. The old man, on being
produced, was found hardly able to drag one
after the other—he was weak hum hun
aer. tie west to Atlanta, was furnished
with transportation back, and gained for him
self and his family a week's renipite from fain.
ine.
General Baker questioned almost every
person he met as to his feelings in regard to'
Jeff. Davis. The feeling of bitterness against
him and all the leaders of the rebellion was
universal. Durinj the whole trip he found
but one man who was friendly to the Presi
dent of the late Oonjedertrey. Everybody
was either indifferent to his fitte or . hoped he
would be executed. The evidence accumula
tes rapidly to show, that
_paring the last two
years of the rebellion, Davis exercised a des
potic sway over a people who were ready to
give up the fight and abandon the Confed
eracy It is known that many who are now
considered to have been among the leaders
of the rebellion were opposed to the obsti
nate and persistent course of Jeff Davis.—
After Gettysburg, 'Vicksburg:, and Chatta•
nooga, they recoi,roised their failure to es
tablish a nation' on the foundation of human
slavery. They considered the fight hope
less, and were anxious to stop the further
effusion of blood, and prevent the inevitable
impoverishment ,of the country The South,
as well as the -North, recognizes in Jefferson
Davis the prime mover of the.rebelliorq , and
the responsible head of the cable which rug•
ed the unfortunate destinies of the Confed
oracy.
SUDDEN DEATH,—Ve regret to announce
the sudden death, of Judge. James Smith,
formerly Provost Marshal of this Congres
sional District, from apoplexy, on Monday
morning last. He was In the enjoyment of
hie usual good health, and was out riding
and dropped from hia horse whilst passing
through the' streets of Cumberland. The
deceased was elected Judgo of the Circuit
Court of Allegany county last fall, which
position he filled with much dignity and a
bility. Ho leaves a host of Mends in this
city to mourn his premature death.--Exant
incr.
SEW-Me deceased was a brother to Mr
Monads Smith of this place.
The health of Joff. Davis is reported to
be good. Singular, ain't it. for a man with
so much of other people's blood charged to
his guilty soul.
LOST.-A small black silk cravat with
gold-anchor Breast Pin. A liberal reward
will be paid the finder on leaving it at this
office.
litirliannible Hamlin has been appointed
by the President, Collector of the .Port of
Boston.
Six thousand five hundred dollars havo
been subscribed by Washington secessionists
to Mrs. Jeff Davis testiniouial.
Benjamin, the rebel' thief and Kirby
Smith, the rebel out-throat, are detained in
Havana for waqt of funds to leave.
Punch says this isby a brace: Wby is a
beard like common sense? Because no woman
possesses it. •
A man sat in a window In alatel in Col
umbus, Ohio, to put on his boos, fell out,
and was' killed. - .
Brutalities to the Freedmen.
Nnw YORK, August 24.—The Southern
Christian latelligencen , 'of August oth,,says,
if one-tenth part. of the reports are,!,true,
which are coming froth ail parts of the South
thicker and faster, a Most shocking state of
Alin exists. From localities .where'there
are national toopfroome reports ._that unfor
tunate creatures, the negroeri,are eing hunt
ed down like dogs and despatched without
ceremony, The newspapers •in ' the Stiiith'
are filled with a:couots of the e brutal mur
ders, which toot up . to an aregate of sev
eralhundred deaths per day which is, doubt
less, only a small portion of tho number no
ticed. An Alabama paper's ys this business
c !
has become AO extensive an common that
some planters even boastihe could'enanure
their land with the dead caresses of the ne
groei. If negroes can be shot down daily
in garrisoned towns where the authorities
are unable to stop this state of things, it is
very reasonable to suppose that this - brutal
work is carried on more extensively 'where
the blacks have no protection. This whole
sale murdering of human beings'is, we feat,
the practical working of the conspiracy to
exterminate the colored race, which is revolt
ing to the Christian , age.
The-Raleigh--(4,-0.-)--Progress-of-the4dth
lust, learns from Cal. Lawrence, commandant
of the post at Goldsboro, that six negroes
were killed at or near Warsaw two weeks ago.
Their former owner left on the approach of
..ei.Th:" —T.
Atin-army—TEte — rie - groes, remaining,
went to work a6d made a crop. Their for
mer owner returned recently, and ordered
them to . leave. The negroes refused, and
the proprietor of the place, getting some
neighbors together with arms, orde red them
off again, and on their refusal attacked them,
killing six. A company of soldiers•was sent
up front Wilmington to investigate the af
fair.
The Last Murder by Rail.
BRIpOEPORT, Corm., August . .I.s.—An
extra freight train was sent up the nous
tonic Road this afternoon. By an accident
to the sylinder_ of--the-engine, - the freight
train stopped on the_ track,—near - thrropeT
mill at Trumbull, about three miles from this
city . . A flag was sent back on the track, by
the conductor of the freight train, to warn
the passenger train of the danger. When
the latter train came up it hitched on to the
freight,ind was slowly drawitiA it,back_to- 1
Bridgeport at the rate of about eight miles
an hour. When near the Vectuennock mins
the train was wet by a new locomotive, com
ing up the frock on a trial. At a curve on.'
the road the new engine came suddenly in
collision with the train backin, down.
Several of the care were entirely demol
ished the eo_ioe Loin_ literati. throw:h the
rear passenger car. Seven persons, t ree o
thew ladies, were instantly killed and twenty
wore fatally wounded, andeeveral more slight
ly wounded. Very many were scalded by
the steam - issuing from the locomotive boil-
er.
The'engine cut straight into the car, tear.
lag and rending all before it, and stooping
almost at the extreme forward part of it.—
One man, unknown, was impaled through
the bowels on some portion of the machinery
and wedged so tightly in this horrible situa
tion on the hot engine as to render it impos
sible to remove him, Of course he was
dead. The escaping steam scalded a num
ber of the wounded passengers horribly.
The scene at the plate of slaughter is de
scribed as horrible. The car and engine
were a complete wreck, from which the
wounded and dying were taken in a helpless
condition. The only house near by was a
small one belonging. to a German. The
wounded who could help themselves or be
helped were taken to the shade of the woods
close at baud. At about noon a wrecking
train was dispatched to the scene of accident,
conveying Drs. Hubbard, Nash and Durrett,
to attend to the injured. We hope there
will be a ' rigid examination into the causes of
this murder, for itis nothing else, and on
the bead of some person or persons rests the
responsibility of this fearful crime. "No
body to blame" will not answer now. The
accident is the result of criminal and culpa
ble carelessness.
AN EXAMPLE.—Rev. Dr. Palmer, of New
Orleans, is celehrated for a sermon he preach
ed there at the beginning of the war, stating
that "their mission was to extend and con
serve slavery as far as God and nature would
permit." This sermon was extensiVely cir
culated in this city. A correspondent of the
Boston Post says:
"Sunday Dr. Palmer frankly 'told his peo
ple that they had all been wrong, and he
the 'chief of sinners;' that they had been
proud and haughty, disobedient, rebellious;
that he himself bad been humbled before
God, and received merited chastisement;
that they bad been taught a• good lesson of
obedience to civil authority, and be hoped
it would finally be received by them as the
children of Christ, and laid up in theitheart
of hearts. Bois address was very touching,
and dutifully received by the people, with
whom he has great influence, and I have no
doubt a mad so strong as he, who is thus
thoroughly subdued in the faith, has a great
and good worli'before him."
Major General Kilpatrick has written a
letter to a gentleman in New York, endors
ing the course of the Raleigh. Progress, and
the course of the loyal representatives of the
Northern press, in exposing the evil inten
tions of the disloyal leaders in the State,
which the General says represents the true
condition of affairs, not only in North Caro
lina, but in all the other insurrectionary
States and that those facts' twilit! pot, be
smothered up by the friends of the. Govern
ment but should be generally known, that
the people may learn the correct state of
things us they now exist in the south, which
will enable them to act understandingly, and
with justice to all concerned. The. General
is now taking a trip through the State.
Mir The Freedman's Commission Agency
of Chicago have advice!' from a responsible
party at Mobile that rebels' in Alabama are
killing the blacks by wholesale, and barn
lag their homes and Churches. The lie
grces are fleeing to the woods for safety.
Twentylye Mississippi planters are under
arrest at Vicksburg on the charge of mal
treating or killing their fotmer slaves.
They ate to be t ried by a military commis
sion.
The Flesh which Philadelphia consumes
in's week, consist of five thousand cattle,
twelve toftfteen hundred sheep and lambs,
and a proportionate amount of pork, veal
and poultry.
A PrddiOtion .Verifted,
10 . 1860,whets Jeff Davis was threatening
destruction. to the au 'the result of se-,
cession, heOme day, in in animated conver
sation with Gen,pbon Cameron, elm w ine d :
"When the 'Sehth' secedes, -such partilysia
will fall upon Northern enterprise, that the
grace will grow in the streets. of your North
ern cities ! The retort was instant; General
replied: "Mr. Davis, if the Southern States
seed°, titter rain Will fall mi year Section s
Your slaves will be liberated, and will assist
in your destruction. The North Will hot be
ruined, but'l-will, with my own betide, plant
corn in the streets of Charleston, the cradle •
of treason." True to his • promise, ill: the
siring of this year,_when Gen. • Crimerbn
vis
ited the South be did,plant the corn, hired
a soldier to attend it, AUfi had just received t
the crop with the foll Owing note from Major
General Hatch, commanding our •forces in
Charleston::
Cumwesrciet, S. C., , July 21, 1865.
HON. Stmos• C4ittoacitv—Decir - ; SI&
ship today, by Adams Express, fourears of
corn, the produot of the grain planted by
yourself, in the early part of April.
It is poor corn at the best, probably owing -
to the soil: It received every care from the
ardner-et-the-hespitali-whose - name - is - giverr ---
below. Very respectfully, Your obedient
servant,
M. P. HATCH,
,
DAVID FITZ IiMION, •uaracier,'
Orphans' Asylhat, tharleston, S. C.
WO have been preseatea-by the General
with an eat of the corn; which we will be•
glad to exhibit to visitors.—Harrisburg Tel
egraph. '
DEATH OF A MINISTER.—ReV. F Rahn
ser died, recently, in Pittsburg. Deceased
was pastor of the Getman Refortned Church
in Harrisburg, from 1816,t0 18-1 a; when he
removed to Charchersburg, and remained
there until 1836—a peroid of seventeen
years. He then went to Tiffin,
_performed—pastoral duties in the German.
Reformed Church, - until 1854, since which. ,
time he resided in Pittsburg, with his son.
He lived to the ripe old age of eighty-three.
THE ATLANTIU CABra.—The steamer
Terrible has •arrived at Heart's-Content, and, •
re a orts that the Cable. a. lett—en—the-2rd—
• ; stT --4 .fUi great eastern attempted( to-recov
er it but failed. She has gone back to England.
in order to get stronger grappling irotis,•for
the purpose of raising the Cable, which is,
burried in one thousand fathoms of water,.
Respectfully, •
A.-C. Jones,-Operator—
the other da
en Mo
In 11,
rebel--but partially reconstruoted—e utere•
a saloon, and ordered a lieutenant to take• his
blouse offias be-did - not - like - bluecoats. The
officer, refusing, the rebel fired upon him,
and in three minutes was dangling from the
limb of a tree past all. hope of reconciliation.
It was stated, at the tear . perance convert-
Lion at - Saratoga; that the names of thirteen
hundred rich men's daughters, in New York,
are on the list of applicants for admission to
the Asylum for Inebriates at Binghamton, in
that State.
A smart chap, who formerly peedled pa
pers in the Army of the Potomac, is now
worth $100,000; and is one of the• Directors
of the Second National Bank, just estabish
ed in Richmond.
An Irishman in Burlington, Vermont, at—
tempted to hang himself on the Sd, in a
drunken fit, but when the rope begin] to
choke him he yelled. 'niurther' and was roe
cue4.
Fox Rudd, of Kutztown, Pa., now 89 years
old, lost nine sons in the war. Eight were
killed in battle.
The latest novelty in this region, says
the Carbon County Donoerat is foot-racing
by women.
rrspitlNG AND SUMMER STYLES FOR
1865.
Are now ready at I.lpilegraff's Hat Store a great
variety of HATS and CAPS for Men, Boys and
Children's wear. Silk Hats,Cassimere Hats,Cloth
Hats on Fur Bodies, Plain Cloth Hats, Fur Hats,
Wool Hats, 'in Black, Whit; Grey, Brown and
mixed colors, Guyaquille, Panama, Leghorn, Can
ton, Braid, Straw and Pam Leaf Hats, &e.ice•
from. 16 cents up. "Cheaper than the cheapest,—
Better than the Brat."
Wholesale and Retail at •UPDEGRAFF'S Hat
Makers, Opposite Washington House. .'
Ap 21 1865. - Hagerstown,
Gold, Gold, Gold, Gold
Bright, yellow, hard and cold,
For less than Filly it is sold,
• To get the 4 Divy" you are told
To call at I.II ) D4GRAFI."6 Practical Nat Ma
kers, wherq you can be supplied with all the New
SprinOtyles of HATS and CAPS for 1865, at
prices that clearly establish the fact that the precious
metal has declined. Ap 21, 1865.
'TIMM .211.3r-a'XI.A.3EL. '3
On the 22ad inst., by Rea, J. H.S. Clarke,
Mr. DAVID CUININU-HAM, to Mrs.
ANN .E; TAYLOR, both of Quincy Town
ship.
In Greencastle, on the 17th inst., by Rev.
Wm. F. Eyster. Mr: JAMES F. 6110 K.
to Miss CELECISTILNA DOUGHERrY, both
of Washington Co., Md.
In Buckeystown, Md., on the 3d inst., by
Rev H. G. Bowers, Mr GEORGE NV BLES
SING, to Mrs. VALETTA S. T. WAG
LEY, all of Frederick county.
WCP3tICX3.
In Greencastle, on Monday night, Aug
14, Miss SALLIE' E. 1101,14 AR, in the
25th year of her age.
In Greencastle on Tuesday, Aug. Bth,
JOHN BYERS, in- the 29th year of his
age.
CI q-Ali
PHILADELPHIA CATTLE MARKET, August
21—The arrivals and Elates of Beef Cattle at
Philips' Avenue Drove Yard are larger this
week than they have been for some time
past, reaching' about 1,800 head. The mar
ket, in consequence, is very dull, but prices
are without any Material change. -First qual
ity Western and Pennsylvania steers sold at
151®16ie; fair to good atl4®l6e, and com
mix' at from 10®13e lb, according to
quality.
Sheep continue dull;' 6,000 head arrived
and sold at s.l®6te lb, gross.
ilosts are with° t tihange; 180 head'sold
at from $:5 . up to 880, ift head as to (Virility.
Et returned