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Kidnapping at Dubuque.

Inc Dubuque correspondent ot the Chi
cago Times relates the following:
On Sunday last, the Deputy Proves. of
McGregor brought down on tue boa. two
1rishmen from Clayton county, charged
with refusing to give their names to the
Enrolling Officer They were landed at
the evee, in irons, and escorted to the
county Jail by voluntary posse of Union
Leaguers. where, by direction of the Pre-
vost Marshal for the district. the republi,
can Sheriff confined them. 1t seems that.
on piece of railroad work in CLAYTON.
some difficulty had been experienced in
obtaining names,-the workmen. many
of them being !a.e arrivals in the country,
refusing to treat with a number Of self
announced agents Of the government
Desirious of impressipg the inhabitants
with an approximate idea of the power
Of the administration, the Deputy Provost
got together about one hundred Of bis
Jealous friends, armed them with a varie-
ty of weapons they knew little about, and
made raid in lumber wagons on the
railroad employees. The employees afcse-
said had vamosed ; but the patriotic Pre-
vost, unwilling to return as he went. Ar
rested bihulous Irshman, too drunk TO
have a name to give, and another who
was a resident Of Wisconsin and already
enrolled on the charge of recus4ncy and
obstruction of the plain paths of paiiiorir
Prov6sts. So down to Dubuque came
the two Irishmen. followed bv their wives
and children,--t examples of official zeal
and stern, but loyal, determinations.
On Monday the democrats Of Dnhuque
procured the issuance Of a writ of haJeds
corpus at the hands of Judge Hempsieal
| nipped in the bud an intended examina-
ton of the "culprits" before commits
sioner. and finally, after deal of oi.jec-
ton on the part Of swarm of conscrip-
ton agents. procured their discharge
Judge Hampstead decided that the
prisoners were held by the sheriff without
the authority Of law, and that the refusal
to give ones name to the enrolling officer
was not a crime according to the act itself
Messrs. Wilson, O'Neill, Mukhern
knight, and others volunteered a. at.or-
neys for the complain ants, ard when the
decision was given, were rewarded by :
hearty brace Of cheers from the well salts
fed audience. But more:
Brown, the deputy provost marshal whe
made the arrest; Congor, the deputy U
S. marshal of the district W. J. Gilbert
Jealous union Lacquer, who assisted ii
conveying the prisoners to Jail, were a
| once arrested for the violation Of the state
law against kidnapping, and waving ex.
animation, were held in bonds Of $4,000
each, by Justice ChapIine, TO appear at The
| next term of the district court. The JUS
tice, on being requested to pnt the bond
at 81 600 each, replied. "No, kidnapping
is grave crime, and the law though made
for niggers, should be punctiiiously OBJ
served when white men claim is protec
tion ~
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Good Counsel.

Bishop Timon, Of Buffalo, N. Y, has is
sued an address, full Of wise and timely
patriotism, urging hi. !aity "to abstain
from all resistance to law. from all tumnl-
tu"us gatherings, from all violence" lie
tells them that should there be draft,
fewer men will lie drafted than would,
probably, be killed in an unholy struggle
against law. Ard if any of YOU are draft
ed, We will try to protect and aic friends
vii! protect, aid, and bless, in more ways
than We know or dare name" This ad-
dress is required to be read in every Cath
olic Church on the Sunday after its reGep-
tion.- Mlwaukee Sentinel.
1t is TO the credit of the Roman Casho-
lie clergy that, while they have kept stu
diously aloof from the agitatlons which
have brought about this "cruel war;" they
are now employed in endeavoring to check
the disorder and riot in some Of the East
ern cities. Nearly every priest in New
York ard Brooklyn, on Sunday last, ex-
horted his flock to keep the peace and
obey the laws. Their influence and exam
PIE will be more effective in putting stop
to riotous proceedings in the future than
a brigade Of soldiers. We wish We could
say that all clergymen were as praisewor-
lhy IN this respect as the Roman Catholic
clergy are.
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More Light Wanted.

The Milwaukee Meas propounds the
following pertinent enquiries:
There are various questions relating to
the draft tp which the public are anxious
for an answer from the federal authorities.
Among them are these
What is the total number of men which
tie administration has determined shall be
drawn by the pending ccnscripton
What is the quota Of the several states,
congressional districts and counties!
Bv what rule is the number for the sew
eral districts, counties and town. deter
mined?
What opportunity will be afforded the
people of the several towns for correcting
the enrolled lists, that the chances may he
equalized
Will the money paid in for Communication
be applied to securing volunteers toward
the whole number required for the war!
Most Of these questions should have
been answered by public announcement in
advance. 1t is not unreasonable COR the
people to desire this information, and
much i'll feeling might have been aliay ed
by making it public
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Draft Insurance Company.

Tho meeting at the Court House on
Monday evenipg-a call for which was
published in last weeks Pilot-was very
numerouslv attended. Hen. JOSEPH VI
LAS was elected Chairman, and HARVEY
F. HuBDARn, Esq, acted as Secretary
Mr.. Villas explained the objects of the
meeting, and S. A. WooD, Esq, in few
pertinent remarks, advocated the forma-
ton of Company for mutual protection.
Mr.. w. was appointed Chairman of a Com
mittee to draw up contract for sigma
lures, which he reported to the meeting,
and which was unanimously adopted
The main points Of the agreement are that
each person joining the Company, and
paving $50 into the fund, will be entitled
TO pro rata amount Of the whole sum in
the Treasurer's hands, not exceeding $500,
in case he is drafted. Mr.. Villas was
elected Treasurer by acclamation, aftc.
which twenty persons signed tba contract.
Another meeting will be held Oh Friday
evening, and those persons who wish to
become members snould be prepared at
that time. Ia the meantime, Mr.. Villas
is prepaied 10 receive money and sigma
turcs at bis store. The books will be kept
open for only few days, as an order for
Draft is daily expected. Persons from any
town in the county are admitted as mem
bers.
As An instance Of he benefits which are
likely to accrue to those who Join the
Company, we cite the following fact which
occurred in Doylestown, Pennsylvania -
Two members of club Of twenty, organ
lied by each member paying $50 in order
to tighten the exemption fee, were drafted
Each of the twenty bad deposited his quo
ia in the boy lestown Bank-making a to-
tai of 81 900. The s400 which will re-
main Of the fund, after the two conscripts
shall have been paid for, will be equally
divided among the eighteen members.
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The $500 Clause.

The New York Times thus protests
against one Of The decisions at Washington
concerning the conscript:on act:
"Tbere has been another decision re-
Gently promul gated which is even less de-
fensibie and more imPolitic than the fore
going. We have been gravely informed
that the payment of three hundred dollars
exemp's the person who pays it Z" for thss
drott," and yet we are told in the same
breath that the money thus received is to
be religiously applied by the Government
to the purchase Of substitutes to take the
p|rce of those who thus escape. But if
this is the case,-if when A pays the ex>
emptlon fee, the War Department uses
the money in getting B to volunteer in
his stead, We should reilly like TO know
upon what principle; A is to be called upon
to pay another .nree hundred dollars in a
second drati., when b may be actually ser
Wig ID the ranks or may have been killed
or wounded in the field! If the money,
II. short, is spent in securing substitutes
for those who pay it, they are both, in
justice and common sense. exempt for the
period for which they would have served
had they not paid it. There is no other
Interpretation Of the statute which is not
the sheerest absurdtv"
Hon. CALEB CUsnlNG has given an opin-
ion sustaining the construction of the
Times, and opposing that Of Provost Mar
shall Fry. Mr.. CUSHING maintains ,hs:
the payment of $500 e1empts man for
three years, and that person cannot be
required to furnish substitute or pay the
Communication money before being exam
ined. In the latter particular the instruc-
tions of the Provost Marshal General have
already been overru!ed.
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Catholic Priests Drafted in Pennsyl-
vania.

The Pit,sburg pennsylvania Catholic
states that several Priests in Bishop
WOODS diocese .'have been lucky or un-
lucky enough to have been drawn in the
draft. At the Cal e1rsl the three assist
ants, Rev. J Hcky, Rev. James Holland,
and Rev. Walter Burke; at St. Philome-
ra's, Rev. F. Swlckart, G SIS. r.; at the
Seminary. Rev. F. Tobin and Rev z.
Bush; a. St. Mary's, Lawrenceville, Rev.
A. Gibbs, pastor; at St. Michaels, Bir-
mineham, Rev. Father Vincent. pastor; at
Holy Trinity, Pi:tsburg. Rev. J. NJ. Bierl
pastor; at st. Jame.'s, Temperanceville,
Rev. NJ. Carroll. pastor; at st. Peters,
Aleghany, Rev. 7. O'Farrel, have been
drafted into the military service Of the
United States In all cases in which the
reverend gentlemen were not exempt by
law the congregations TO which they were
attached promptly contributed the amt
necessary to relieve them from the service,
from entering on which they were forbid
den bv the laws Of the church"
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From Port Hudson.

Headquarters Department nf the Gulf
18th Army Corps, Port HUDSON July 10Th.
SIR-I have tie honor to inform you
that with this there fell into our hands
over ). 500 prisoners, including one Maj.
Gen. one Big. Gen, 20 pieces heavy arr
tilery. five complete batteries numbering
81 pieces fold artillery, a good supply OF
projectles for line and heavy guns, Al, 500
pounds cannon powder, 5000 stand Of
arms $50 600 rounds small arm ammuni-
ton, besides a small amoun: Of stores Of
various kinds. We captured also two
steamers. one Of which is very valuable.
They Will be Of great service at this time.
Signed,
n. T. BANKS, Mai. Gen.
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New ENGLAND SoLD,ERs.-The Hart
ford Conn Times informs US that the ex
emptions Of drafted men, By surgeons Ger
'ificates, in various parts Of New England,
since the commencement Of the federal
conscript;on. amount TO the enormous pro-
portion Of about 73 per cent. It is, in,
deed, estimated by many that the exemp-
ton will reach so per cent. But We will
call it 49, Of the balance it would seem
that, as a general thing, about 25 out Of
the p have Ted to parts unknown, and
the strong probability is that, in most Ca
ses, the fugitiYes from their own homes
will make good their escape, in spite OF
the activity Of the Provost Marshals, leav-
ing net resui. Of at the most ten men
ous Of every hundred drafted, who will be
mustered into the service
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From Virginia.
w ashin nton, july &C

W ashln gtOn, July 20
1t is generally believed Lee Is now NOV
ing rapidly toward Staunton hy the ehsn
andoah Valley, Smokers aud Ashley's
Gaps, but found a st ong Union force al
ready there. At tho two las: named pla-
ces he was driven back with loss. At
Chester Gap our cavalry recaptured 100
cattle stolen by the enemy. Several
hundred sheep and a large number Of hor-
ses have also beed recovered.
Several brisk skirmishes have taken
place. With the exception Of cavalry, the
principal fight occurred Thursday even
ing, between Linden and Port Roval. in
which brigade of rebel infantry, probably
Les rear guard, was driven through the
town.
Mosby's small but energetic band has
alone given Us trouble, principally iu cut
ting Oft foraging parties and messengers.
1t is impossible to conceive the poverty
Of the country through which the enemy
has passed. With the exception of Lon
don county there is nothing to harvest ex
cept few acres Of whea. and corr, and
this must be done by manual labor, as the
country has been entirely stripped ofstock.
The railroad is now in running order to
Warrenton.
New York, July &c.
The Herazd's Washington specials state
that it is believed that Lee has succeeded
in escaping with bis army and was at Cul-
pepper or Orange Court House or Satur
IL
supposed to have been with his rear guard
Baltimore, July oG
Tho following dispatch was received on
Saturday p. IN. at headquarters Of the mid
die department:
HEADQ'A's ARMY OF PoTOMAC.
Front Royal, Va. July %. -
The Major General Commanding di-
rec,s me to inform you that he engaged
the enemy at this place yesterday. This
morning the enemy appears to have with
drawn, and his whole army i, undonb'ed
" en- route to Culpepner and Orange
Court House, and probably his rear has
passed the Shenandoah at this place and
StrasburC,
(signed,) A A. MATTHEW'S,
Colonel and Chief Of Staff.
The following Information was received
at headquarters in this city today, BY
Gen. Schenck. It is from Brig. Gen.
Lockwood : .sa.
The ensmy ha, disappeared from our
front entirely, and is nowheta north OF
Winchester. Our cavalry was in Charles
ton yesterday. Friday aud scouts out to
the distance of ten miles in every direc.
ton without any signs Of the enemy.
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McCLELLAN's GHosr AT GErTYsRURe -

McCLELLAN's GHosr AT GETTYSBURG -
4 officer Of the Army Of the Potomac, Of
undeubted veracity, has written Il private
letter from which the following is an ex-
tract:
"Let me tell you that General McClel~
Ian was reported TO our troops July l as
commando in place of Gen Hal
leck. 1t was received by the troops with
the most enthusiastic cheering and beat
ing Of drums on the march that evening
toward Gettysburg. They fought with
,ha! impression at Getty ysburg, and officers
say McCIelan's ghost fought the battle OF
Gettysburg"
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Important from Mexico.

BY the arrival Of the steamer Roanoke
at New York, we have dates from the city
Of Mexico to the 10Th. 1t appears the
courcil Of notabilities declared that the
Mexican Nation through them select an
Empire as the form of Government, and
proclaim Maximi!ian of Austria, Emperor.
Should he decline the throne, they implore
the French Emperor to select person in
whom he has full confidence, to occupy
the throne. This proclamation was irnme-
diately made public, and a courier posted
to Vera Cruz, whence it was sent by a
French steamer to Havana.
The French seem to be getting along
quite rapidly in their .ul,jugation Of the
Mexcaus, but they may fird the job of
holding their conques:s quite another mat
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FROM THE WAR.-Major HENRY BET

FROM THE WAR.-Msjor Henry B4ETz
nd Lieut.. Orro TRGMrL, of the 26h Reg
linen. s.vtiyed home last Thursday. Both
receivcd se,e,-,a wounds az the Gettysburg
battle, and have come home to recruit
their suffering heath.
Major OLAsrrD, of tie 27th, reached
here on Tuesday. He has been very Sc
verely i'll at Columbus, Ky, and Is yet an
invalid. We understand the Major does
not look much like his former self, having
greatly dwindled away in flesh
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The Facts of the Gettysburg Battles

The war correspondent of the Spring
field Republican, writing after the battles
and repeating the gasconadng stories
about our sweeping the enemy from the
field" SAYS:
=, The first day, Wednesday, July 1, we
were advancing, indeed, and may be said
to have attacked the enemy, but his num-
bers were overwhelming, and we were
driven back mile or two, quits through,
the village and this side of it to strong
position, whose front WAS Cemetery Hill.
and the contested ground was left in the
possession Of the enemy, and our wounded
and large numbers of prisoners And the
battles of Thursday and Friday were, with
some exceptions and diversions. attacks OF
the enemy on our ground, a strong eleva-
ted position, sometimes at one point and
sometimes at another but always without
success. We drove them down the Hill
again with tremendous loss and held our
position. Our bows sailed out a little way
to pick up and bring in the prisoners and
the wounded, but we retained our position
and the rebels retained their original posi-
ton. There was 10 advance of our lines
in any place ;has am aware Of
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Morgan Captured.
Cincinnati, July 90

Cincinnati, July 26.
The following has oeen received at
headquarters
Headquarters in tha Field, two Miles
South of New Lisbon. July 26th, 1868.
To Col Lewis Richmond, A. A. G.. -
By the blessing Of Almighty God, I
have succeeded in capturing General John
II. Morgan, Col. Cluke, and the balance
Of the command, amounting to about
1000 prisoners.
will start with Morgan and staff on
the first train for Cincinnati, and await the
Generals order for the transportation Of
the balance
(Signed) j. SHACKLEF0RD.
Colonel Commanding.
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WEIGHTS AND MEAsUREs.-Mr WITT
MANN, Clerk of :he Board, has received
the standard Weights and Measures from
Madison to which the county has so long
been entitled. For many years efforts
have been made 10 obtain them bv other
county officers, but 20 Mr. WITTMANS is
the credit due Of fna success.
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The new Dodge Of the Party in Power

The new Dodge of the Party in Power.
The New York Irish american thus ex-
pains the bitter attacks of the radical
press upon the Irish population of that
city, and their attempts to stigmatize them
as rioters and ruffians:
1t is evident now that the Republican
wire-pullers. having involved the country
in disastrous inIernecihe feud, and by
their corruption and mismanagement kept
the nation in the tolls OF war ever since
they came into power, s1uandering and ex-
hausting the treasure and blood so lavishlv
devoted TO purpose 10 which they have
dishonesty failed to apply lit is evi-
dent, We repeat, tina. they feel the ground
slipping from uLder their feet, and in the
desperate desire to retain their hold on the
reins of power, they make these efforts to
excite sectarian animosite in the hope OF
'aIying 20 their aid the faratical and in>
tolerant. Such design could only be
conceived at the present moment, when
citizens Of every persuasion and from eve
ry nationality are giving their lives for the
defense of the republic, 5y men utterly de-
void Of principle and integrity, vampires
who thrive and fatten on the disorders of
the social system. We are convinced,
however, that the good sense and just
judgment Of the bulk of the American peo-
r!e will reiec. their pcrnicious counsels,
and that thei: nHhallowcd schemes will
recol on the heads Of those by whom they
have been concoctei. But, in the mean-
time, we warn our fellow>countrymen to
be upon their guard against the unscrupu-
lous foe; and to remember especially the
maxim Of O'Connell: "The man who
commits crime gives strength to the Ell.
emy'
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One HUNDRED AND Six KILLEp.-.The
New York papers put the number Of killed
during the DRAFT riots in that city, last
week. at one hundred and six. The fifty
thousand killed, wounded and missing, on
both sides, at Gettysburg, created less sen.
ss.lop.
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EIGHT CoMMANDERs IN TwEETY-FoUR
MoNTHs. The Grand Army Of the Poto-
mac has had eight commanders in twenty
four months, VIZ: Gen. Scott, Gen. Nc
DoweIi, Gen. Mcclellan, Gen. Pope, Gen.
Mcclellan (agair), Gen. Burnside, Gen.
Hooker, and Gen. Meade. This is at the
rate Of new commander every three
months.
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A DAY OF THANKsGIvING.-Pres
LINCOLN has issued proclamation recon-
,nending that Thursday, the 9th day OF
August next, be observed By the people o:
the United States as day Of national
Thanksgiving, Praise and Prayer to the
Almighty God, for the victories which
have recently crowned the armies Of the
Union:
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~ Captain CUrrs who has been found
guilty Of the charge of peeping into a la
as bedroom while she was undressing,
is the same fellow who acted as tie tool
Of the Administration in the prosecution
of VAL.ASproH.M The Administration
seems to know vii It is tina! is best cara-
BILE Of doing its dirty work.
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ONLY One MAS Mustered N.-Out Of
several hundred men drafted at Provi-
dence, r. 7, only ore man has thus far
teen mustered in. MI the res. Paid the
$500 and got off
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J. CR1rTENDEx died At Frankfort, Ken
tucky. or the 26,h inst, aged II years.
He was the author of the Crlttenden
Resolutions which, if adopted by the Re
publican members of Congress, would
have saved US from this unhappy war.
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Es- There should he no encouragement

~
given, IN or out Of the army, to the idea
that the fact of being conscrip'ed attaches
a stigma to the conscrip,. The soldiers of
Napoleon were conscr;pts, and they bore
the French eagles from Cadiz to Moscow,
and from :he Baltic to the Pyramids -
And our conscripts from the Eastern
States have already Tough. bravely in this
war.
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Ee- Gov. SEYMOUR in his Proclamation
to the people of New York has taken the
only sound position in relation TO the con-
scrintion act. If the law be constitution al
it must he submitted TO, If not, it must not
be enforced No one can find fault with
this nnsifinn
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ry a San Francisco dispatch aDnouh,
,es that the election in Washington Terri.
Iory has gone largely Democratic.
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VEGETABLEs.-Messra. p. J. PIERCE
and BRYAN Mason will receive our thanks
for bag Of early vegetables Of the choic>
est kipds-new potatoes included. s ..
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DiED.--iu this village, on the Both inst,
MARY, daughter oI GEORGE and CARoLIxE
EpwARDs, aged 3 years and ! month,
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~ Read the new advertisements on
the last page of the paper.
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The Draft in New York.

Some Of the Washington papers having
intimated that Gov. SEYMOUR had knowl-
edge that the Draft would be made in that
State at the time it was, the New York
Journal Of Commerce says the reverse is
true. Gov. SEYMOUR never received any
intination from the u. S. government in
relation to the Draf. in this city, nor the
numbers TO be drawn, the quota Of the
State, or any other point; and repeated
applications from him to know what the
quota Of the State would be, have always
remained, and still remain, unanswered
1t was stated some time ago on the author
ity of Gov. MORGAN, that statement on
this latter subject would be furnished from
Washington. Senator MORGAN has exert
ed himself to obtain it, but failed entirely.
DELEGATEs.-Me IRA CLARK and 2.
j. PIERCE have been elected Delegates to
the Democratic State Convention from the
Second Assembly District.
Messrs. II. S. PIERpoST and JoHS c..
EGGERs have been elected from The Third
District.
In accordance with the suggestion of
the Senatorial Committee, the several
Delegates Of the county have held a meet
ing. and have unanimously selected Hon.
JosErH VILAs to represent the Manltowoc
county portion Of the 19th Senatorial Dis
trict in The State Convention.