Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-06-21

were required. Tory prop'rty 'heo, was
contiscated, aud large rewards offered for
guerillas. Traitors were expa'riated, or
hung neutrality was 4 crlme: lip service
was insufficient: they must endure "the
spelling of their goods joyfully, ard be
50 true as not TO be even IuuJtcd. la the
Cbambersburg Presbyterian church books
a specification against certain member,
then under discipline, was, that " he is
strongl; suspected Of not being sincere in
his Professions of attachment to the cause
of the Revolution" out from the church
With him if SO If such man had lost
horse, his own assertion that he was a
true man Ill triaPs hour would not have
compelled ttoee stern old Scotch Irish TO
tax themselves extra TO make good his
loss they would probably have given to
him leave to hunt bis horse but never to
return. One gentleman told US that on a
day during the last raid there were on one
road on the Cum beriand county side three
solid miles of cattle waiting their turns to
get upon the Dauphin side. No cases Of
real, protracted sutferngs, are intimated.
Now if the poor forefathers, elsewhere as
we'll as here, in their sparse settlements,
could endure as they did the exhausting
ravages of repeated Indian invasions-of
q seven years war against England, when
even their national money became worth
less in their hauds-if no repars,ion was
made for the devastation and burning Of
Hampton, Washington, Black Rock, &c,
in the War Of lSl3-certainiy this rich
Valley, after eighty years OF uninterrupted
prosperity, and of iavcrs from both State
and General Government, could spare that
forced loan Of fractional portion OF Its
great wealth, without feeling 1t seriously
Exceptional cases could and should be
made endurable by local aid, as Circum-
stances aud opportunities may point out,
aud as the individuals may merit in the
1dgment Of those who know them best
individuals here and there may have suf-
tered, some of them severely, as they may
suffer anywhere by sickness, thieves, fires,
trUsts, famines, hurricanes, earthquakes,
nifty generally are not affected and in FIVE
years Adams aud perhaps other counties
will be the rOher for the Invasion. Aud
if an attempt were made to recomrense for
the extra ravages of war, it should begin
where the war bcgan-in kansas-and it
should be first given to the true Union
sufferers there, Ia Missouri, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and other Slave States, and to
the Free States last. The National Con-
gresS Is the proper authority to perform
such a distribution. The amount should
be graduated solely by the sum that may
be raised from the coDf-cation of Rebel
property. Loyal people are not to be taxed
for the accidents or mutations OF property
IN rebell!ous or scini-traitOrous sections
nor should the State usurp the powers of
the General Government in dealing with
a question of this kind.
THE CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD,
Through this Old, fertile, Furnishing land,
is kind Of "city Passenger or "accom-
modatlon" matter, 1t stops SO frequently, at
the lower end at least. L, has an eligible
route, and seems we'll managed. 1t ought
to be extended through to Washington, so
We might 60 to our National Capital iude- /
pendent Of Baltimore. am told a road
from the latter city has been built, NV,
we'll through Carroll county, on towards
where this road now ends
success in finding some mountain pass for
the completion of the iron chain