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Notice tc Teachers.

THE Boa I'd of School Examiners of Asbl., a
l. County will hold the following examinations
duringthe r 1865 at Ashland viz:
The 4th Saturday ofJanuary,
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SUBSCRIPTION AGENT, ),
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A Family Jar.

att would seem something of the curse
he came 10 bestow upon Others lighted
upon his own (DahlgreD's) carcase, when
it fell riddled by avenging Southern bull
lets. Stripped, robbed of every valuable
the fingers cut off for the sake of the dla'
mond rings that encircled them, when the
body was found by those sent to take
charge of it, it was found in field stark
naked, with the exception of the stock
Jugs. 1t was dogs burial, with
out coffin, winding sheet or service. -
Richmond E'cdminer.
COLONEL DAHLGREN.-Tha abolition
papers made much, ado about the reported
barbarities perpetrated upon the remains
of the Col DshlgreD. 1t turns out to we
contrary, that his remains were carefully
attended to, and sent home for iuterment. ="
-lSunJury Democrat
Now here is conflict Of evidence by
parties whose Influences assist the same
cause; which are we to believer The
Southern traitor gives straightforward,
detailed, and doubtless truthful account
as the circumstances attending the death
of young Dahlgrep, and we do not know
that anything could be gained to the re-
belion by false statement-and even
rebels do not lie unless they expect to
gain something by it. Their Northern
ally, however, appears TO think 1t rather
strong meat for this market, and wishing
TO offer an analogy. hatIy coutradicts tie
whole story, and accuses the "abolit:on-
lists" of inventing i: Compared with
the slavery -worshiping Democrat, the
Ecaminer may seem little of an 'abo.
litionist," but it vii! no doubt be aston.
ished to find itself catalogued with that
party. When Copperhends boldly refute
such statements for the purpose of de-
Tending the ghouhsh character of the
Rebels, is it necessary to ask which cause
they adhere to? Hardly.-Le~isJnrg
Chronicle.
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THE HORRORS OF LIBBY PRIsoN.-
Capt. L. A. Mass, Of the 8Sth Pennsyl
vauia regiment, writes as follows to the
Reading Times
"Iudependent of starvation We have
been subjected TO all common indignitles
The windows of the prisons are barred
with iron SO close together that man
can not possibly get his bead out, ano
vet The guard is Instructed to fire on al!
officers locking out a! the windows. Or
Sunday last Lieut. Morgan KuPp made &
very narrow escape of his life. The
guard fred at an officer standing near one
of the windows, and buckshot entered
she lower part of the cheek of Kupp
passed up just under the $ kin and out at
fhe forehead. The ball struck one of the
iron bars, and due siivcrs cut his face IN
rs many places. Fortunately 1t hurt him
but very little. A week ago Lieut.. Ham
anond was shot through the ear. Eycry
truce boat takes to Richmond from twenty
to forty tons of boxes f5r our prisoners
and yet but about seventy boxes have
been delivered 10 the past three months,
and these have had all the sugar ahG
coffee stolen out, and had been kept on
haad SO long that what was left in the
boxes was coated with 8n inch Of mould,
and consequently everything spoiled
One box belonging to Lieut.. Frank Moran,
73d n. Y. V, actually contained nothing
but tin plate and fork, aud yet they had
the audacity to compel him to sign a re-
ceipt that his box lad been deliver9d.-
4 large warehouse opposite the Libby
contains today at least twelve hundred
boxes that are being robbed daily, and
what the rebs do not want may be de-
livered when all is spoiled. On the 9th
of February 10 officers made their es-
cape from prison fifty we're recaptured,
among whom was Capt. E. l.. Smith,
10Th u. s l.; be was out seven days,
and suffered very much from cold and
hunger, was confined ten days in dun
geoa on his return, but is well and in good
spirits"
Such is the treatment our soldiers re-
ceiye at the hauds of the rebels, and
yet we have men in the Ncrth who sym.
pathisc with and do everything in their
power 10 ombarrass the Government and
aid the rebsls. We hear them every dag
lsnding JEFF. Davis as patriot, and calling
Lincyin traitor and william, pretending
at the same time TO be "CoasiitutiOnar
UniUn men.
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PERSONAL AND PoLITICAL.-The IRE
pressible Parson Brownlow has again
turned up at Nashville He draws the
following striking contrast, in letter to
his paper, under date of March 2: Two
years ago this ,ceek I came down this
same railroad, my last trip until now, but
uuder ve.y different circumstances. |
was a prisoner guarded by rebel bayonets,
and called for at every depot, by malicious
aud blackguard partisaus of the rebellion.
Tie cry usually was, "bring out the id
old traitor. and let US hang him on linlb." "
These scoundreIs we're cot in attendence
at the depots as | came on this time
some of them had fed the country, aud
others had gone the way of all the earth !!
| was met by different class Of men on
this trip, and in different spirit. | was
taken by the hand most cordially, con-
graduated, aud occasionally called on for
a speech, but had to decline on account
of my feeble health. The vile wretches
aud unp,incipled traitors who thronged
the depots aud stations, rejoicing over my
Punishment, have iEgloriously fed from
their homes, and are now outcasts from
civilized society.
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NBw HAMPsnIRE-We regard the
result of the election in New Hampshire
as most important harbinger of the
future. This magnificent victory is the
forerunner aud the symbol oil that grand,
est Of natioual triumphs, which will
result, next fall, in the crushing out Of
the rebellion, the suppression of factous
partzanship, the vindtcation Of the maj
esty Of the law, and the tull estab-
lishment of an indissoluble regenerated
Union; for if tie Opposition could not
carry that State with all their appeals to
the Chase and Fremont men to allow
them to triumph thai Lincoln night be
defeated, where is the State they eau
hope to carry next Fall? There is,
therefore, in this election, that which is
pregnant of hope and cheer to every
TREND of this country. and all shouid take
courage and work for ccrtain victory.
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WAR NEWS.

TIE Richmond Examiner Of the 18th
Of March charges that the Rebel Govern
Deut has treated john Morgan with jeal-
ousy and injustice. ~fHe Eramiaer says
that two of Morgan's regiments, every
man of which was recruited by himself
in Kentucky, and for special service under
himself, have been transferred to the
command of Gen. GrIgsby, 4 special pet
of Jeff Davis. Morgan is therefore left
with a command of only about 800 men.
The Eraminer has also an editorial be-
rating JEFF. Davis and tie Cabinet for the
alleged intention of receiving Butler un-
der a flag Of truce 10 treat with him with
regard to the exchange of prisoners. The
Eraminer treats of the enactment with
drawing one thousand millions of Con-
federate paper from circulation, and thinks
If this astonishing achievment 10 fnan-
ces" is feasible, enabling the South TO
continue the War indefinitely, the North
will pattern By the Southern policy 'ln
this as it has done in other particulars,
and become able 20 protract its aggression
indefinitely" Tie Eransiner, however,
comforts itself with the belief that the
Northern people will not staud the adop-
iion of any such hnancia! measure. Rob,
ert Tyler advertises in the Richmond
papers for the recovery of $4,000 Con-
federate coupon bonds, stolen frem TIE
Registers bureau. In The Wilmington
IN. c. Journal there is az advertisement
Offering $4,000 reward for the detection
Of the persons who set FIRE te the cotton
stored ID that city on the Sth Of February
4 Rebel letter Ono date given) says that
eight UDiOn vessels are lying Of Fort
Powell and ten off Fort Morgan.
Two steamers left Fortress Monroe on
Thursday to bring away from Richmond
ali the Uuion officers and soldiers con,
fined there as prisoners. They are SAID
TO number about 1000.
There is significance IN the general or
der just issued BY Gen. Grant. from the
headquarters of the Army Of the Potomac
i directs that public aud private prop
erty for which transportation is not fur
uished by existing orders shall at once
be sent to the rear; that all suffers abG
private citizens shall leave the army By
The 10Th inst. that oaly members of the
Sanitary or Christian Commissions anc
registered newspaper correspondents car
rsnain. All furloughs and leaves of ab
sencc are stopped, and all officers and mer
doing duty 10 other corps than their owl
are ordered to return. to their regiments
Gea. Grant visited the extreme front Q
the lines on Friday. He made clos
obversation of the regiments aud brigade
IS he passed along, expressing himsel
highly grati6ed with their condition. H
also made careful reconnaissance of tn
enemy's defensive gorks on the Rapidan
and returned Co his headquarters the sam
evening Heavy rain was falling all da
Saturday, and tie roads eoptinue il
very tad c:1ii:ioa and tie Streams higt
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Mr. Ju11AN. of Indiana. has prepared

Mr.. JULIAN, of Indiana, has prepared
with great care bill to ''secure to per.
sons in the military service and naval
service Of the United States homesfeads
on coD6scated or forfeited estates in iD-
surrectionary districts" 1t has been re-
ported to the House from the Committee
on Public Lands, and, as its title in
dicates, it is an important and IN some
respects a new measure The first and
second sections provides that all con-
tiscated lands, and those which have been
sold for the payments OF the government
direct tax, shall be considered as "public
lands" The third section provides that
these lands shall be surveyed and divided
"as Dear as may be- into forty-acre lois
or tracts. The foarth section secures to
manned and disabled soldiers and sailors,
who have been honorabley discharged
from the service, eighty acres of these
lands, aud to all other soldierd and sailors
who have been in the service, forty acres
The bill contains numerous other proris-
ions, but these are the most important
aad novel. A clause OF the bill provides
that no distinction of color shall be per
uitted in the appropriations Of these
iands-the colored soldier and sailor
standing upon the same footing with
the white.
This proposition comes better late than
never But it ought to be made more
sweeping. All the lands and other prop
erty of rebels in the seeding States
should have been declared forfeited long
ago, and provisions made for bestowing
them upon the officers and men serving
in the Union armies The "forty acre
tracts is on rather a picayune scale.
Mr.JULIAN's bill should be amended SO
as to make an equal division of the con-
fscated estates among the soldiers,
whether it amounted to Hundred or a
thousand acres par share.
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CONNECTICUT ELECTIoN-The elec.
tim, on Monday week, in Connecticut,
says the Tribune, was all on one side.
There has been no SO sweeping triumph
for any party in that State for thirty years.
The Copperheads tried the ''stiIl hunt"
dodge but it was of no use. The people
had made up their minds that the rebel
lion must be put down, and they veted
as they thought would clearly Indicate
that determination. That is the whole
story. There was good work ou the right
side, but not nearly SO much Of it as in
1860. when the Republicans carried the
State by 1000 majority, or last year,
when the other Seymour was beaten by
2,599. Now, the Union majority on State
ticket is probably something over 5000,
and the new Legislature as right as a
book. The State is overwhelmingly foT
the Union cause and for The candidates
who Internationally uphold it.
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annual Tdres tor 1861.


TIME attention Of taxpayers is hereby
l. called to the provisions Of the United
States Excise Law relative to the assessment
Of annual taxes.
By the sixth section Of the act Of July l,
1852, it is made the duty of ali persons, part
nerships, firms, associations, or corporations,
made liable TO any annual duty, license. or
tax on OR BEFORE THE FIRST MONDAY OF MAY
IN EACH YEAR, to make list or return 10 the
Assistant Assessor of the District where To-
Gated Of the amount Of annual income, the ar
titles or objects charged with a special tax,
and the business or occupation liable to pay
any license.
Every lerson who shall fail to make scch
return by the day specified will be liable 20
be assessed by the Assessor according to The
best information which he can obtain and in
such case the Assessor is required to add
fifty per centum to the amount of the items
of such list.
Every person -7ho shall deliver to an Asses
sor any false or fraudulent list or statement,
with intent to evade the valuation or enumer-
alton required By laws subjectto fneo Of FIVE
hundred dollars and in such case the list
viii be made out by the Assessor or Assistant
Assessor. and from the valuation and enuner-
alton there car be no appeal.
PAYMENT of the annual taxes except those
for licenses, will not be demanded until the
thirtieth day Of June.
The appropriate blanks on which to make
return, and all necessary information, will be
furnished BY the Assistant Assessors of this
DESTRUCTION their respective Divisions, to whom
the returns should be delivered at their Offices
on or before the first Monday of May.
GEORGE BOAL.
9. S. Assessor, 18th District Pa.
Assessors Office,
EcaIsh1rg, Mar / 80
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A few days ago the steamer Mission
ary, on the Cumberland river, had hel
fues blown out. and suspicious led tt
the examination of the wood, which re-
suited in the discovery of several piece:
containing internal machines. Futhel
investigations led to the belief that there
is regularly organized band of amnesty
Federal oath takers and rebel sympa
thisers, whose object is the destrQctior
VI reads and engines.
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E@A desire to damage the credit Of
the nation, seems to have engaged 4 con-
cenfrated effort on the part Of the Copper
head press Of this and other States. 1t
is impossible to open a tory organ, with
cut being confronted by column and
even page cf matter on the subject of
the financial condition of the Govern
meut. This condition is not fairly dis
cuSsed. 1t is not stated that the re-
sources Of the country are immense, that
the wants created by the var have created
additional demands for labor-and that
ever the necessity for the vast expend-
itures Of the Government contempt plates a
future of peace aad prosperity that must
make ample amends for the suffering and
the burdens of thr present. If the tory
papers were TO treat the subject in this
manner il would increase the confidence
of the people in the Government, and
thereby strengthen tie influence Of those
in authority OF course such a result
would be at variance with the object Of
the tories. What is desired is the com.
plete destruction Of the nations credit,
and this can only be cone by continually
exaggeratlng the national debt aud de-
preciating the nations currency No
longer able to justify rebellion, the tory
press is compelled to change its tactics in
order to render the assistance necessary
to aid their traitor allies. Hence their
attacks on the credit and currency OF
the country.
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mantf0.
VOLUNTEERS ATTENTION !
$500 Go. Bounty

The Commissioners of Potter County
will pay to each Volunteer under the last
cali OF the President the sum of THREE
HUNDRED DOLLARS, in the follow
ing manner:
800, Cash, as soon as fEsrn into the
United States service.
500 in Bond, bearing interest, pay.
able one year from date, in Cash, and
500 in Bond, bearing interest, pay
able two years from date, in Cash.
These Bonds will be paid in Cash,
when due and no orders will be issued
upon them in any event, so that they can
not but remain par until paid. This in
connection with that offered by the Gov
ernmeut makes Bounty of S602 to aew
recruits and S702 to veterans.
L. S. ROBERTSON,
G. p. KILBoURNE,
r. L. NICHOLS,
Commissioners.
gCAPr. l. Fl. KINNEY, Recruiting
Agent for this county is prepared to en-.
list men and furnish transportation.
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s@A female VAN pire vas discovered q

B~A female vampire vas discovered a
day or two ago in St. Louis 1 young
Swiss woman, from the Canton Of Berne,
afflicted with what she called "a dancing
of the heart" was so superstitious as to
believe that the blood Of man who had
been hanged would cure her, and hearing
that one Abshire had been sentenced TO
death By court-martial. she applied to the
jailor to assist her. The murderer, how
ever, had his punishment eonnuted, and
Mrs. Mud rept away discsDsola's.
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DEATH OF THE LIBRARIAN OF THE
STATE SENATE We. regret to an-
nounce, this morning, the death Of Cap,
tain William p Brady, for many years
the Librarian of the State Senate. The
deceased had, few days since. injured
one of his hands, which resulted in au
attack Of the erysipelas, terminating in
his death This announcement will ere
ate wide spread regret, as Captain Z.
was largely acquainted with the poIiti,
clans aud legislators of the Common.
wealth having been an officer of tie
Senate for many years.
We have no means of giveng the age
of the deceased. A soldier of the war oi
1872, he had, Of course, reached an age
at which men look for death; aud yet
had the old hero not met with the accl.
dent referred to, he might have lived fol
many years. He was, We believe, cit
izen of Mif1in county, to which his re-
mains are to be remoYed.-HarrtS6urS
| Telegraph. 9Th
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COMMITTEE,

Mr.. and Mrs. j. S Mann, Mr. and
Mrs. Cha's s Jones, Sir. and Mrs. D. G.
Larrabee, Mr. and Mrs. c. H. Armstrong,
Mr.. 2. A. Stebbins. jr., and Miss G. A.
Metzger. j. VI. HAMILTON, Chm.
To that end we make an earnest appeal
to the people of Potter County to mani
fest their mpathy for the soldier and
their willingness to sacrifice something
of time and means for his comfort and
safety, by at once giving their personal
attention to the collection Of contributions
for the Soldiers Fair.
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Great Central Fair-U. s. SAN
itary Com m fsSiOn.

The undersigned, being appointed q
County Committee for the purpose of
soliciting contributions frem the citizens
of Potter County IN behalf of the Great
Ceptral Fair of Pennsy iyania, Delaware
and New Jersey in aid the United
States Sanitary Commission to be held at
Philadelphia the FIRST WEEK OF JUNE
next, and TO adopt such other measures
as MAY be calculated to advance the cause.
hope to enlist the active and jealous CO.
operation of all by systematic effort. 1t
is desired that each person TO whom this
address is sent should act at once aud
with energy as the time is short, not con-
fning their efforts to their Immediate
vicinity, but so acting harmoniously y
together as to ensure that each resident
of the county shall know how he or she,
individually, can aid in the cause. Al
though our county is comparatively new
and weak, yet we can aud will do some
thing to show that we sympa;hiSe with
our brave soldiers in the field to whom,
under God, our nation looks for a contin-
uance of its existence. How this can be
done is, perhaps, best said ir the woi ds
Of the Executive Committee. "We ask
every clergyman to announce 1t to his
people and TO urge them TO act. We call
en- every workshop, factory and mill for
a specimen VT the best thing 1t can turn
out Oh every artist, great and small, for
one of his creations; on all loyal women
for the exercise of their taste aud indus
try; on farmers. for the products OF their
fields and dairies ; the miner, the natur-
a!ist, the man Of science, the traveller,
can each send something that can at the
yery least be converted into blanket
that will warm, aud may save from death,
some soldier whom Government supplies
have failed to reach Every one who
can produce anything that has money
value is invited 70 GIVE a sample OF his
best work as an Offering to the cause OF
national unity Every working man, ne
chanic or farmer, who can make pair Of
shoes, a bunch of shingles or pan of
sugar, or raise barrel of apples, is called
on to contribute something that can be
turned into money, and again from money
into the ucans of ecouomisiug the health
and the life of our National soldiers, as a
work of christian charity and intelligent
patriotism.
Please report to the County Committee
the progress made from time TO time, and
also the contributions thct may be offered
or preparing, with the address of the
donors, that arrangements may be made
for forwarding them to the Executive
Committee.
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ENGLISH OPINION OF THE SANITARY
CoMMIssIoN.-Th Lond0n Spectator
pays this high compliment to our noble
Sanitary Commission "ln every way we
cannot help thinking the existence and
success of this Commission is most cred
liable to the American people 1t shows
not only with what q resolution they
entered into this struggle, but with what
a fund of good sense they are endowed.
We doubt whether even in England a
voluntary society could be entrusted with
SO much power, and yet SO carefully
abstain from trenching on the province
and duties of the executive. In America
they can Go these things, and the same
Cabinet Minister who originally gave the
Sanitary Commission six months span Of
life. now admits that it has been of the
greatest service to the country that Ii
has occasioned none of the evils expected
from it, and that it has lived down all
the fears aad misgivings of tie Govern
ment."
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North West Portage Railroad

u OTICE is tercby given that books for
" subscription to The Capital Stock Of the
North West Portage Railroad Company will
be opened nj the Land Office of Sobieshi Ross.
in the borough of Coaderspor;, Potter county,
Pa, at 10 o'clock 4. N F.. en- the 5th day OF
May, \. D. 1864, at which time the under
signed Commissioners appointed by the Leg
i>lature of Pennsylvania will oe in attendance
to receive Subscriptions and orgauizc said
roDnnap-
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Administrators Notice.

VA THEREAS, letters of administration on
w the estate of David D. Smith, late OF
Oswayo township decd. have been granted to
the subscribers. all persons indebted 10 said
estate are requested to make immediate pay-
mcnt and those having claims against The
same will present them duly aathentica ed for
settlement to MARY B. SMITH, and
WILLIAM DEXTER,
OsWIyO tp., Apr. l3. 64-6t. Admsrs.