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Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1864-07-12
From the Front.
NEAR PETERSBURG, July :

NEAR PETERSBURG, July !.
We are in sight Of Petersburg, getting
closer, aud are better prepared to resist
attacks We are impregnable, as the
Rebels learn to their sorrow. Gen. Will
son, about whom We had some feurs, came
in this morning, all right, and had done
good service. We are getting some large
guns in position, aud then you will hear
from us in thunder tones. Best OF spirit
prevails throughout the army, aud all are
satisfied that We will win. 1t will take
time, bat be not alarmed.
IL is dreadful hot, here--no rain for
over month pss,-our soldiers suffer, and
many get sick, when we send them North.
Ny friends must excuse me for not
writing to thenl-fOr | have not time.
You have no idea Of the amount of
good the Sanitary Commission is doing,
everywhere-iu cur spitsls, in the field,
yes, their agents even 20 up to the very
r,h. pits, in sight Of the enemy, and dis
tribute their lemons, pickles, tomatoes,
sourkrout, onions, &c., by the thousand
posuds We could not do without the
Commissions. | speak from experience,
when say they are doiug nobly for our
sick and wounded. T. sc.
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HEAR THE GOVERNOR !
EXECUTIVE CHAMBER,
Harrisburg, Pa, July 10, 1864.

To the Reop'e IF Pnnsyiconia.
refer to my recent Proela nation, cal!
ing for troops, aud the requesition OF the
President. You are not responding freely
The enemies of our Government axe act,
i've in deterriug you, and efforts have been
made to dissuaie you from the belief that
any considerable Rebel force Is in your
vicinity, and many of our most loyal
patriotic citizens have been thus deceived.
Similar efforts were too successfully made,
last year, at the moment when Lee arm =
was actually on your borders.
Dispatches have been this morning
received, establishing the fact that Gen
Wallace, with ten thousand 90, ,000) men,
was yesterday compelled to fall back from
Frederick. He is believed to be in retreat
towards Baltimore.
The communication between this point
and Baltimore was cut, this morning by
the Rebels, below Cockeysvile.
The authorities Of the United States, at
Washington, are SO impressed with the
necessity of immedilte Efforts, that they
have this morning, by Telegraph, author
iz.d men to be mustered il by companies
which they had yesterday peremptorily
refused.
1t is my duty to state to you the fact
that your Country requires your immedi-
CITE service, and the safety of your own
Soil and Of our good neigbbors 10 Mary
land, may depend on your promptness.
RecOlect that the mode Of enlisting
mems at the discretion of the Government,
and is the duty of all to obey this reoli.
sition. 1t would be disgracetu to YOU
TO waste time in ofjectiDg to matters Of
form and detail, or to profess that you
would 60 if called in some different way.
Those who want an excuse for skulkinp.
may do so, but all who desire to do their
duty to their country, will scorn such
subterfuges
Turn, therefore, deaf ear to all mis-
chievous suggestions from any quarter.
DO not lend yourselves to a betrayal of
your country. Come forward, like men,
10 aid her. The Rebel forces will be easily
defeated and driven away, if you do your
DUTY, and | pray God so to eulghten YOU
that the honor Of the Commonwealth NAV
w "A'n'i'hed. a. G. CURTIN.
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Hs will not Run.

For time, ULYSSES 5. GRANT suffered
from the praise Of suspicious politicians
men who hiudered our government much
as they could, yet professed an anxiety to
make the governments ablest warrior, .
candidate f)r Presideut-proDiie1 tha, be
continued successful, and proOidc4 they
had no hope with candidate of their own
stripe. Their only principle is, "anybody
to beat Abe Lincoln aud get the Offices"
OF late, they have changed their tune :
they cease to praise Grant-they say he
has dOne nothiug-that Lee is greatly his
superior-aud beiittle him all they can.
The reason of this is the fact, as alleged,
that he has positige,y rgused to be their
canditate-he will be no ones candidate
for anything until Rebellion is crushed
Least of all will he run againot his friend
and patron, Abraham Lincoln
Patriotic man! Goa that line" single
eyed, ho "moves on the enemy's works"
until they are made harmless With no
personal OF partizan malice-regardless of
self interest-how immessursbly be towers
above such "soreAeads" as Mcclellan, Ere.
mont, Cochran, and Buel
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Honorary Substitutes,

The Government proposes to give ladies,
and gentlemen not subject to military
duty, chance to enrol themselves, by
proxy, among the defenders of their
country. Every one furnishing sUBsTI-
TUTE, under certain terms, to have an
engraved certificate of that fact, as last
ing memorial of their efforts.
In Lewisburg, in Union county, oil
over the North, are men and women who
can procure one or more substitutes, for
this object Committees might proceed
10 the States in rebellion and enlist oon.
trabands, or men disposed for service at
home may be engaged. 1t seems to US
this is practical aud attractive mode Of
aiding the great cause in this crisis.
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TO An..HIS !
TO Arms again

The danger of invasion, against which
our Government warned Us, was not
groundless, and men are needed
Last Thursday night, the ddoance of
the Rebel army was met at Frederick,
and, after three attempts to enter it was
gallautly driven back to :he shelter of the
mountain between that city and Hagers-
town. On Friday aud Saturday, however
the Rebel force IA .fadl. Concealed before)
came on, driving cur men before then,
and taking the way towards Baltimore.
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Reserves 9 months men. Dis
charged Volunteers

You best understand the use Of arms, and
how to instruct new recruits. 10 you the
country looks for leaders iu this emergency.
Every man must Judge for himself whether
he can and shall go-but the quicker the
rally, from town and from country, from
mountain and valley, tie better
One thousand men with their own
horses) are wanted, Immediately, at Har-
risburg.
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FfOfuse Expenditures.

The German Reformed Messenger, ol
Chambersburg, has timely article on the
prevailing esprit Of Speculation and
Reckless Expenditure" 1t very correctly
says that the prevalence of money in
some quarters is merely that of borrowed
fands-in other words, 1t is a debt FIR our
Posterity 70 pay. 1t is necessary for the
patton to obtain means to pay for lis exis-
tence. But we must pay for it, and
should not abuse that obligation.
Speculation proper is always Of ques-
tionablc morality, and these gold specula.
tors are a,rocious gamblers, who should be
excluded from churches and Stunned by
oil good society.
Reckless living is also improper. If
honest money flows in, use it for charita-
bic and benevolent purposes, and not for
vain show, or by bad examples to tempt
others. So dispose Of all means as to be
of real present and future benefit, to your.
selves aud to others. Lat pyofcssed Chris
tlans, in all these matters, be worthy Of
the name Of "lights iu the world"
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OUR RAILROAD CUT.

Saturday, no tram went Southwark from
Harrisburg, and it is evident the game
of 1861 is attempted-to isolate Balti,
more and Washington. The rairoad at
COckeysville is in the hands of the Rebels,
who will come Northward as fast and as
far as they can-(unless they have NOR.
tai fear of another GETTYsBvEG.)
A bold Game-Calch them
Oar attack upon their Capital, the
Rebels deem it necessary to countoract,
and thus they attempt this desperate
move, in order to call away Grants army.
it is now, evidently, our chance, by falling
upon their rear, to cut cti this large Rebel
force. They should never get back to
Virginia. Let the East pour into Balti-
more by rail and by seattle North, to
Harrisburg and Chsmbersburg-an and Gen.
Hunter and the West into Gun berand- -
and there seems fair chance to surround,
exhaust, and capture this forlorn hope Of
Rebeldom. 1t is evident, also, that they
need supplies for their armies, from the
way they plundered iagerstUwn and else
where
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nr, - " I
ou, io'ces nave evacuated Frederick.
retired 10 this direction, and now oceun y
q position south of the MonOcacy.
The rebels occupy Frederick, but in
what force is not positively known. Re.
ports say II 900, and that they are com
manded by Breckinridge .
There are reports that another Rebe
force has crossed the Potomac near Ed
wards Ferry, and have moved 10 the di
tee'ion OF urbanna, but in what force i.
not knO~n' This is supposed to bo 81
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KeaY-Sar-ge,

with accent on the sdr, is the highest
Of the u White Mountains within the State
Of New Hampshire. Of Indian origin,
the euphonious name is dOubly honored
by being bestowed upon the Yankee built
and Yankee manned vessel which sunk to
oceans depths, in fair fight, the pira,ical
A'aLama. The latter was English built
and English manned, but oficered by
Rebels, who had eowardly assailed unar-
med vessels only, and only came out for
trial CT strength because the French
government refused longer to shelter the
perfdiOus wretches in her bar5o.. The
English vessel, Dserho,al, was alongside
the eAiabarla-spparently as an ally-and
having assisted Semnes and his comrades
10 escaping, the question arises whether
those men are not really our prisoners, to
be delivered up on the demand of our
government The clean and complete
victory, within sight of the English coast,
was great damper to Rebel sympathizers
(who, however, feastei Semmes, helped
him over to France, and promise him
new ship Honor to the Kear-sAR ge!
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Ae'-on the 9th inst, the Warriorsmark
'-"'es gave sumptuous dinner, in grove
lear the edge Of town, to the returned Co.
- 9th ia Reserves. The spectators we're
numerous, there was martial mns;c s;,,
ing BY the ladies, and welcoming speeches
from Rev.J A. Demoyer, Rev. G 60 Guyer.
Mr.. Thsd. Stevens, and DR.. Harvey.
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Edwin D. James is an estimable citizen
OF Philadelphia, who seeks and holds no
Office, and whose name even is not connsc-
ted with The business firm Of which he is
member, 10 his absence. friends voted
h'm tins splendid Union Vase q tho lsts
Central Far.
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PHILADELPHIA, July 9-The Bulletin
has special from GeH. Hancock, stating
that EWelPs, Breckiuridge's and Rhodes
corps are on this side of the Potomac
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,B-We learn of quite number OF
recruits coming forward, in our county,
under tho late alarm, but can not say
positively when they will leave for service.
Let no one, inclined to 60, wait to bs
called on, but make fox some hesd-qusrter
as soon as may be.
P.S. CsptM'Call expects to start this
tuesday, morning with full Company.
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Andrew Kennedy,
United States Claim Agents.

4 LICENSE having been granted to the
n undersigned TO carry on the business Of
United states Claim Agents IN Union county
thew will attend promptly TO the collection oI
back pay and bounues and the procuring Of
pensions for soldiers or their legal representa-
lives, and the prosecution Of claims againS
the, United States.
JAMES F. * JOHN b. LINN
IewIsbuIe, March 80, 1864
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Troops have reached Baltimore from
dtsnts army, doubtless.
Nothing fam Harrisburg up 10 noou Of
A'nisy
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DIR. Tobias Venitian Liniment.

MORE TESTIMONY This is 10 certify
Nl that for the last five years ! have used
in my family DIR. Tobias celebrated Venitian
Liniment, and in every instance have found
1t equa! to his recommendations. ] have
found it 10 give almost instantaneous relief
in cases Of toothache, Group, bilious collie,
sore throat. pain in the chest and back, and
rheumatism. ! cheerfully commend It's trial
to every one afflicted with any Of the above
named diseases. JAxKs H. WARSER.
Hartford, Conn.,, Oct. is, 1861
Sold by all Druggists. Office-56, Cortlandt
street. New York
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and for sale a full supply Of his superior
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the line of Canal or Railroad can have theiv
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Address ROBERT VALENTINE,
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TESTIMONIAL.
We do certify that we have used the above
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Works, and take pleasure In recommending
it 10 all persons in need of good article.
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zemiabur9 Marketa


A Rebel force reached Msgnolis, II
miles east of Baltimore, and destroyed two
passenger trains going east from Baltimore
to WILMINGTON and Philad. Gunpovder
Bridge is reported o. burnod yesterday
Rebels four miles from Havredegrace. 1t
seems communication is closed North and
East Of Baltimore.
The Rebels burned the house Of Gov.
Bradford, within four miles Of Baltimore,
Mayor Gunther protests sgsinst ~ \
city regiments leaving
The people srs waking up generally, 10
w.uy places, to tho dsnSes aud tbs duty
Of the hour.
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rm. Misses Belle Worse and Eliza
HoughtOu started, yesterday morning, %
nurses to the Nashville Hospitals.
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DteU,
In WomelsiorE Berks Co, Pa, 7h Inst, Of diptheria
ANNIE FORRY, daughter Of Rev. c. II. and Harriet NJ
LEiNBACH, late Of LewisbuEg, aged yrs and ms.
In Milton, I'd inst ALICE, daughter Of Jacob and Ca
r. SHIPMAN, of Suntusy, aged y, m, II d.
In Phisdelphia, eth inst, BALDY, son Of Charles NJ
and Hannah Mary HALL, aged months and days
buried In Lexisburg Cemetery, 10th inst.
In white Deer Valley, Sd inst, Sol. ROBERT r.
MCCORMICK, aged So ysars.
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MARRIED,
TtcU,

By RevJ.A Kirk patrick, 4th inst, EDM. W. PAsSELL
and MARY JANE MEREDITH, both Of Lock Haven.
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I1rWs ere told Cherries Crotzsr 10 not
Among the captured Of lSi!h T. '.
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From Port Hudson.

NEW YORK, July A.
Advices from Port Hudson show that
the rebels have been active in that vi
cinity, and have eedeavored to establish
themselves on the banks of the Missis
sippi at Turnica Bend and Fort Adams.
Gen. Ullman had been placed in COM
mand of all the colored troops in the
Department of the Gulf comprising some
thirty five regiments of all arms, head
quarters at Port Hudson.
Gems. Sickles and Reynolds lately Wis
tied Port Hudson. The troops there are
in excellent health.
1t is reported that the rebel Gen. Dick
Taylor had crossed the Atchafayla River
on the 9Th of June, AID an engagement
had taken place, but no particulars or
confirmation had been received
Gen. Candy expected to visit Port
Hudson by the 1st of July.
Among the plumber recently secured
by some rebel guerrillas at the capture
of the Pest House, some distance from
Port Hudson, was a large amount oil
clothing intended for the flames, which
had been used by small pox patients.
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The Rebel Raid.

BALTIMORE, July 5.
The telegraph is still working to
Frederick. Up to noon no rebels made
their appearance at that city. The ex-
element had abated, and it was believ-
ed the Provost Guard at that place could
efectually protect the city from all reb-
els that had appeared in the vicinity of
Point of Rocks up to this morning.
Sigels and Mulligan's forces reached
Maryland flights about four O'Clock last
night
No doubt is entertained of our forces
being able successfully to repel any at
tack the rebels should make.
Requirements are on the way to
Maryland Heights.
Max Weber, who commands the Post
has given notice to the people of Har-
pers Ferry to leave, as oe intends open
ing his guns on the town, to drive the
rebels out.
The rebels are all on the Virginia side
of the town busily engaged in their
work of plumber, and occasionally send
ing shell over this side.
The pontoon bridge which crossed the
river at the ferry has been successfully
removed and a span of the railroad
bridge on the Virginia side has been
destroyed to prevent the rebels from
crossing.
On Monday Mosby who has force OF
cavalry opposite Point of Rocks, fired
into train passing that point causing
great excitement among the passengers
No one was injured except the fireman
of the engine who was shot in the arm
LATER.
This evening the rebels were about tc
attack Maryland Heights, where Sigel'!
force was concentrated for defence.
Up to 9 this evening Sigel holds the
Heights, for Railroad trains loaded will
Government supplies, as well as mai
Train all worked through to Baltimor,
to-day without the slightest loss.
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THE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD, THURSDAY JULY T. 1864

ed through this ordeal Of suffering and trial the
same genial quiet and cheerful KAN that he was
when in the full enjoyment Of health But his
family and numerous relatives who were devo-
tedly attached to him, have this consolation, that
he died christian he wanted TO live, yet he
calmly and peacefully resigned himself TO the
will of his Heavenly Father. Cox.
BARBER.-At Campbell Hospital Washing
ton, ID. o., on the nth Of June, from wounds re-
eeived in battle, VIM, b. Barber, Of Hampton, N.
", aged SO. The deceased was First Sergeant OF
Co. i, 9id N Y. regiment, in Second army corps,
Haneoek's division, and was wounded in the
ankle on the 2Sd 81 May while crossing the South
Anna river. lie entered the Hospital on the
10Th OF May following and had his leg amputated
soon after. Gaugreen set in and second ampu-
taton became necessary, which he submitted 70
but died on the nth, He was brave officer and
has left numerous friends TO mourn his loss.
ATWOOD. In the Army OF the Potomac, Nov.
27th, 1853 Marcus Atwood, OF PittsfoId, member
Of 90. O, 10th Regt, Vt. Vols aged Il years an d
months.
BLISS.-In North Poultney, June 18th, Rob
ert X. Bliss, aged 40 years months and Is
DAYS.
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SINKING OF THE PIRATE
ALABAMA.
Particulars of the Affair.
NEW YoRK July |

NRw York, July 8.
The City of Baltimore arrived at $50
A. NJ. The pirate Alabama left Cher
bourg on the 18th to engage the Kear-
sage. The engagement lasted an hour
and forty minutes. Both vessels made
seven complete circles, maneuvring at
distance Of one-quarter to one-half
mile. The Alabama then sunk. The
pirate Semmes and part of the crew
were saved by the English yacht Deer
hound. Semmes was slightly wounded
in the hand. Before going out, the pi-
rate left all his chronometers, six in
number specie and ransomed bonds at
Cherbourg. Further details, but moth
ing additional of moment relative to the
Kearsage and Alabama fight are given.
The whereabouts Of the Kearsage Is
doubtful. One rumor places her at Os-
tend. Semmes declined dinner at
Southampton, and has gone to Paris to
report to the Confederate Commissioners.
Three of the officers and six OF the crew
were landed at Cherbourg from the
French pilot boat also several from
the British ship Acton.
The pirate Semmes, publishing an ac-
count of the recent engagement, says he
had nine men killed and twenty-one
wounded, and charges that the Kearsage
continued firing after the Alabama had
struck her colors.
A note from the American Consul in
Liverpool, dated June %, states that no
one was killed on board the Kearsage,
and but three of the crew slightly injur-
ed. The vessel is but very little dam
aged.
A Paris correspondent of the London
Globe says the Alabama made two at
tempts to board the Kearsage, but her
commander out-maneuvered Semmes,
and finally sent projectile right thro'
the Alabamas boiler, then seeing what
had been the result, he brought all his
guns to bear on the pirate in concen-
trated broadside from starboard, and
made a breach four yards in length un-
der her water mark when she began to
sink rapidly.
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SIR JAMES CLARKE's FEMALE PILLS.

This well known medicine is no imposition, but
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although powerful remedy, it contains nothin 3
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In all cases of Nervous and Spinal Affections,
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Whites, these Pills will effect a cure when all
other means have failed and although apower-
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Full directions in the pamphlet around each
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For full particulars, get pamphlet, free, Of the
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n. B.-sl and six postage stamps enclosed to
any authorized agent, will ensure bottle con-
tanning over so pills by return mail.
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PIice q per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
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ID T. A + III =


SHERMAN Lieut. Merritt H. Sherman, Bat
terry O. list Artillery, 18th VT. Vols, of Claren-
don Springs, VT. aged p years, fell June %,
Petersburg, Va, another victim to this war.
He was young, brave, and efficient officer,
highly respected and esteemed by all the officers
and men OF his regiment. In him we have lost a
kind friend and a noble, brave hearted soliier.
He followed in the path of duty despite all dam
gers.
He left College in 1851 to fight for the preserva-
ton Of his country. HIS prospects for the future
were very bright, and doubtless if he had lived,
would have made his mark. He was an excel
lent scholar and thorough going man in every
thing he undertook but in moments time as
sh OF down by the ruthless hand of an inreterate
foe. He was shot through the head and died in.
stantly and now lies buried in a soldiers grave.
We ali deeply sympathize with his parents and
friends in their irretrievatle loss-but they may
| be assured he died nobly at his post. His years
| were few, but well spent. He has fought his last
| fight and now trust he rests in peace and qsiet,
removed from the noise and din of the battlefield.
| CoMRApE.
| BARRETT.-1n Midiletown, June %, 1864,
1 Stephen Barrett, aged 81 years.
| MIR Barrett diei Of chronic disease of the
| stomach aud bowels. But few men ever lived and
/ died who suf red more than he did, His disease
| commenced its work years ago, and steadily bu.
surely progressed until death came to his relief
No, Wi, hs'apd NJ the painful ard distressing ma
tule # hi disease, he latieAtiy endured il from
the fir ages OF il, 10 the moment of its DEPART
| ure, the te tmGny Ct his family and friends ID
that not mnfmur eecaped his hps-that he pass