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American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11
An Act.

A further supplement to an Act to provide
for the payment of bounties to yolun-
teers in the county of Butler.
SECTION L. BE Il enacted By the Sen
ate and House Of Representatives Of The
Commonwealth Of Pennsylvania an GEN
eral assembly met, and Il Is hereby eaac-
te1 by tie authority Of Me same, That the
provisions of the act entitled an act to
provide for the payment of Bounties to
volunteers in the county of Butler, ap-
proved fourteenth day of April, Ammo
Douipi, one thousand eight hundred and
sixty-four, and also the supplement thereto
approved the twenty-second day of Au-
gust, Ammo Domni, one thousand eight
hundred and sixty-four, be, and the same
is hereby repealed, so far as the same re-
latcs to the townships Of Marion, Mercer,
Oakland and Jefferson, and the Bcroughs
Of Millerstown and Harrisville.
SECTION q That the property of re-
turned soldiers, or those who have paid
communication or furnished substitutes, and
not liable to the draft; also all the prop
erty Of all soldiers now in the service and
credited to said county also Of widowed
mothers of soldiers who died in the SER
vice is hereby exempt from taxation for
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11

ate 25 States are now represented by 80
Unionists aud IL Democrats. Accord
ing to the party division that existed be-
fore the war the House stands 140 Union
lists to Al Democrats Should all the
Southern States now without representa-
ton, whose senators and members are yet
to be elected, choose candidates opposed
to universal suffrage, and should they all
be admitted the Senate will stand AZ
Unionists to 27Democrats ;and the House
100 Unionists to 90 Democrats. This is
eonsoliug information for the Copperhecds
Prominent Democrats who are here fig
uring with the sontherners say that there
will be majority of ten in favor of ad-
mitting the southern members who will
come here prepared to take the test oath.
1t is very doubtful if any of them be ad-
mitted under any consideration whatever
during its coming session.
The Provost Marshal officers of Alex
andria, Fairfax Court. House and Fort
Albany have been abolished and the rec
ords of the same turned over to Col. In
graham.
To-day expires by limitation the order
of the Government authorities prohibit
ting the disinterment and removal North
of the bodies of the Union soldiers who
are buried in the difcren. cemetries in
this vicinity. A great many bodies will
undoubtedly be removed by relatives and
friends during the fall months.
The Christian Commission closed bu-
siness yesterday turning over to the Freed
mems Bureau the stock Of goods remain
ing on hand. The Christian Commission
has been noble and agreat institution.
With hundreds of thousands of dollars
less than the Sanitary Commission it has
done much more and efficient work 1t
is held in much more esteem by the sold
iers. The Sanitary Commission Is also
about to close its labors 1t is not so lib
eral with the goods remaining on hand,
prefering to sell them off at auction and
raising cash fund. 1t has now over
$4,000 in money. 1t isa query what
will be done with this surplus money on
hand. AS the war has ended it is no
use keeping up a lot Of high salaried Of
6cers.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
gomez to Indiana on two weeks leave.
Our city is very dull. No trade or
business Of any kind in operation. And
yet the Hotels are as much crowded as
if Congress was in session There is
scarcely a room to be had. Four.fiths
of all the guests are Southerners aud
manyof them have engaged rooms already
for the whole winter.-7-franhI'n Reposi-
torn .a Islt JfyH aI 84 4HE
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The Wirz Trial.

WASHINGTON Cry, Sept. 81, 1865.
Nothing new in the Wirz trial has been
brought to light during the past week
Though the defense have used all sorts of
strategy and summoned all sorts of wit
nesses to their aid nothing yet has been
educed very favorable to the prisoner
Thus far the main point of the defense
has been to prove that Wirz only acted
as directed by his superior officer, Gen.
Winder, and he is responsible and not
Wirz This has been done to some ex-
tent, but not sufficient as yet to clear
Wirz of any ef the inhuman cruelties
proved against him. We learn that reb-
ell official documents have been discover
ed of great importance, tending to give
much light on the modus operandi of
working that diabolical prison pen, Let
ter press copies of original letters and
documents fix the crime of many of the
worst cruelties there piactised on high
rebel officials. Yesterday subpenas were
issued and an officer dispatched to sum
mon before the Court Gen, Lee, Joe
Johnston, Howell Cobb, Robert Ould,
Ex-Governor Brown, of Georgia, and
other noted rebel leaders The testimo-
ny of these persons will be looked for
with interest, and will no doubt be very
lengthy.
Yesterday the White House was again
besicged by applicants for pardon, both
male and female. Such vast number
of applicants had accumulated that the
President ordered stamp facsimile Of
his signiture, by which means he can
rush through pardons at the rate OF a
thousand per day should il be necessary If
all applications are granted, which from
present appearance is quite likely. These
rebels are generally all prepared to swear
any and everything, first to get pardon,
and then to get an Office Several rebel
soldiers applications for clerkships in
the Departments have been received and
a few it is said have been appointed
Hundreds of noted secesh women are
seeking clerkships in the treasury depart
ment.
Ghe complexion of the next Congress
is matter of considerable gossip among
the southerners now here. In the Sen
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11

To an Actio Proglde for The payment Of
6ounties to Volunteers IN the County Of
Butler
SECTION L. BE it enacted by the SEN
ate and House of Representatives of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Gen.
eral Assembly met and it is hereby en-
acted by the authority of the same,
Thet if the board of school Directors,
or majority of them, in any of the town
ships or boroughs of said county, shall
neglect or refuse to levy and collect a tax
under the provisions of the first section
Of the act to which this is supplement,
and a majority of the qualified electors OF
any of the said townships or boroughs
shall have petitioned the said directors in
favor of said taxation, then the Court OF
Common Pleas of said county shall, on
petition of any ten of said electors and
upon due proof of all the facts, have
power to proceed by mandamus TO compel
the said board of directors, to discharge
the duties imposed upon them by this act,
and the act to which this is supplement
tary.
SECTION 2. That if any Of said Boards
of School Directors, or majority of them,
shall neglect, or refuse, to levy and col
lect tax, under the provisions of the
third section of said set, then on due
proof Of all the facts in the case, the
court aforesaid, shall have the power to
proceed, by mandamus, to compel the said
deiaulting boards of Directors to discharge
the duties SO imposed upon them by said
! act. 1890 @ lit
SEc. s. That the word g taxable" in
the second section, and the words sun
derstandng, or" in the third section. and
all, after the word ''whenever," in the
sixth section, are hereby stricken out of
said act, to which this is a supplement.
SEC. 4 The said boards of School Di-
rectors in making the Exhoneratlons ana
Exemptions, provided by tho act to which
this is supplement, shall Exonerate and
Exempt the property of all persons who
have lost two or more sons in the service;
also, the property Of those who now have
two or more sons in the service, without
having received any local bounty; also,
the property of all widows and fam-
lies, whose husbands or fathers have
fallen in battle, or died in the service
Henry G. JOHNSON, ~
Speaker of the House of Reps
JOHN P. PENNY,
Speaker Of the Senate.
Approved the Twenty second day Of Au-
gust, Anno Domini, One Thousand
Eight Hundred and Sixty-three.
'aar A. G, CURTIN.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11

old ruling class absorbed or exiled ''all
the talents 2 and those men who would
naturally aspire to represent the poor
whites are not yet sure how the political
chess. board stands In other words, they
are on the fence, and do not know on
which side of it the Federal loves and
fishes will be stored. Hf
1t will not be possible for the Freed
mems Aid Societies to educate the poor
whites even if they were disposed to do
So because tie existing prejudices Of the
people would prevent them from working
harmoniously with both classes. They
would be obliged to neglect one or the
o,her 1t has beed proposed to establish
National Bureau which shall superin-
tend the educational interests of the ma
ton. The South made nothing of the
National Government, and now there is
disposition to make everything of it
Buckle has demonstrated by the records
of other countries that the less govern
ment does for science the better for it !;
and our own national interference with
the science of agriculture-as one illus
tration-does not show that VIC have i'm
proved on the method of Europe. The
English historian says that the right men
seldom get the offices or the rewards; and
that when thes do, this protective spir-
it, as he calls it, prostrates individual
enterprise and ends in the downfall of the
interest it was designed to foster. Any
attemet to "run the schools" by the ma
ton would result in fierce sectarian con
tests and put back the cause, by these
and other quarrels, for a quarter Of cen
tury Already we see specks of this dan
ger in the management Of the Freed
mems Aid Societies; and if tt snmetimes
shows its head iu voluntary Organizations
it would inevitably leap, armed cqp-opie,
into national Bureau of Education.
Our suggestions is that voluntary asso-
Citations be formed for the secular educa-
tion of the poer whites, and that at the
same time, lecturers be sent among them
to explain the true character of our Gov
ernment, its origin and history the heresy
of State Sovereignty in its Southern in
depreciation, and the various questions Of
living interest which now divide, or will
soon divide, the great political parties.
Hitherto, the poor whites have neyerheard
other than the Southern version of all
our controversies, and hence came alieua-
tons which can only bepermanently over
come by the utmost diligence on our part
now. Let thi, plan be tried in the mean
time and, when the Southern Constitu-
tions are submitted to Congress, it may
be pertinent then to discuss and decide
whether any State shall have the Gre
served right to neglect she education of
any portion of its people.--N. Y. Tribune
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11

after lose one son in the service, and one
remaining in the service: also the prop
erty of those whose only son died, or may
hereafter die in the service, or whose only
son is in th3 service, or may hereafter Ell,
ter the service also The property of wid-
ows and families whose husbands or faith
ers have fallen in battle or died in the
service, P-ocided, That the fourth section
of an act supplement to an act to provide
for the payment Of Bounties to volunteers
in the county Of Butler, approved twenty
second day of August, Ammo Doniini, one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, is
hereby repealed
A. G. OLMsTED,
Speaker Of the House of Reps.
WV. j. TURRFLL,
Speaker Of the Senate
Approved the twenty-third day of March,
Ammo Domini, one thousand eight hum
dred and sixty fye.,
A. G. CURTIN.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11

The correspondent Of the (Londbn)
Times has re- enforced his original state
ment of the atrocities committed by the
Rebels on our prisoners, by another let
ter, summarizing the evidence on the Wirz
trial. The Times, with characteristic
meanness, tucks his communicationiaway
on the inside Of the paper aud prints it
solid. but the effect of such testimony is
not to be overcome in that way. The
written word abides. The sneers of the
Tory press. the pleas in avoidance of Mr..
Benjamin, and the inventions of other
less known partisans Of the Rebellion will
not hold their ground in England against
the reiterated assertions, backed by facts,
of such letters as the American cores
pondent of the Ttmes3has lately written.
The trial of Wirz, he admits, shows that
&c the bitter feeling which has been excl
ted in the North by stories of barbafity
practiced in Southern prisons is founded
on sense, reason, and indisputable evil
dence. 1t is incidentally bring
ine out nroof of the. fact which when 7
80 !. III 10 ,tron,,oot ov;domno ho
'''''' = '''' f''
fore me, was peremptorily and instantly
den1ed-thc fact, namely, that the Con-
federate Government hncso of the misery
and death which reigned supreme at An
dcrsonyille." Elsewhere this correspond
ent says . s
.But, whatever the result of the trial
may be as, regards Wirz, it is as clear as
MONDAY that awful atrocities were com
lniolcu isa'nss 'no uin"PPy t,or.io'n soiI
would be M answer ovcn IF n c6nnterl
charge of cruelty could be proved against
the North. But it cannot. Let those
who say 1t can bring forward their evI-
dencc, as 'ne uoVerht'cne mere is uoins
10 not. leu nefcsay oe scs asaiu'e sm2fn WI,
tes.linony W no' 'I' wi,a' 9ie 'c man ''.'g
Seisn against wha1 ho''u'eus {e@ ~ wen
az wen ~ saw, "a asaiu ''ia' sile paF,
.'''"as eIi NJ - = .'o.,ei' ~
oou'nein pe"S r,. n''s tiio I'of'lc.n peoPie
WIN anger. ms Is no, an op'hio'' Da'
iac'. wnich every hhsiishiilisa 40" iras- "
eiin5 10 'nis country e,, cau csAiiii' Proy,- :i
eed ms ni'hu 70 nos Aiieo y anu cnoNeu WIN
iorsoue conclus'I's ~ +. % niay see ~ ~ u
every street, anu near !. N every nouse.
HIS letter Is fllled with extracts from
the testimony Of different witnesses on
the trial condensing it with a point and
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shall be exempt from the provisions OF the
General Bounty Law, approved Twenty
fifth March, Ammo Domini, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-tur Wher-
ever said provisions are inconsistant with
the provisions of this act
Et HENRY G JOHNSTON,
Speaker of the House of Reps.
JOHN 2. PENNY,
q aaot 12dici Speaker of the Senate.
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11
NUMBER 43.

The Saturday Pecie,c and other Anglo
rebel Journals with large funds invested
IN the Confederate cotton loan had better
abandon their case. 1t is not Of great
consequence what England may think on
such matters, except SO far as the change
OF opinion abroad foreshadows the fnal
verdict of history. i'sf
American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1865-10-11
A supplement.

10 an Actio proade, for The payment Of
6ounties to Foltu,teers IN the County Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1865-01-18
FROM PORT ROYAL, SC.

Movements of Secretary Stanton-The
Charleston - Mercury on the War-A
Cry OF fermentation and Despair-Disgust
for Jeff. Davis Foolery-BraIns and
Nerve are Wanted.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-THE steamer Star of
the South.from Port Royal on the litn instant,
has arrived.
The New South contains an editorial from
the Charleston Mercury OF the 18th instant,
which says:
"The condition OF this military department
Georgia and South Oarolina) is any thing but
than the general commanding the depart
ment.
"This department has been newly turned
into his hands and many OF the troops are new
TO him and to the department. They came to
him under command of imbeciles. He has re-
What has been done to eradicate this fatal
evil we shall not stop to inquire; time has been
too short to do much, and the forces have been
very much scattered, but the very last mo-
ments are arriving when all must be done that
is to be done.
"The enemy does not intend to wait upon
our leisure, and there is much to do The path
we are now travelling is straight to destruc-
ton. The crisis of the Confederacy has ar
rived In fatal earnest. The result OF the next
six months will bring the Oonfederacy to the
ground or will reinstate Its power
must be no more Of JEFF. Davis foolery, but
brains and nerve.
"There must be reform in the shooting and
cashiering order, subordination among the SOL
diers, not runaways, ragmuffins and ruffians."
Secretary Stanton, Generalsi Meigs, Town
arrived at Port Royal on the 9th, and left for
Savannah Immediately. They were expected
to leave for Washington on the Western Me-
tropolis on the 14th.
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The First Corps-Nottce to Veterans.
HEApsUARTRRs FIRST CORPS, ]


WASHINGTON, ID. c., Dec. 81, 1864.
Veterans desiring to enlist in the LIST Army
Corps, should report IN person at the Office OF
Col. y. F. johnson, Soldiers Rest, Baltimore
and ohio Railroad Depot, Washington, ID. @.
Any Veteran who has served two years, has
been honorably discharged, and is physically
qualified, may enlist in the Corps for one, two
or three years.
Those enlisting will receive from the Gov
ernment a bounty Of $500 soon as they are
m mustered in, and, in addition, the regular in
stalments from the Government. in proportion
to the period of enlistment as follows: 500 for
one years service, one-third paid on enlist.
ment $500 for two years. service, one third on
enlistment; 1850 for three years service, one
third on enlistment.
They will be credited to the quota OF the
district in which they or their families may be
doniciled and will, therefore, be entitled to
local bounties.
Free transportation will be furnished them
to Washin gton by any Provost Marshal.
The best arms in the possession OF the
Government will be furnished these troops,
and they will be allowed to retain their arms
when honorably discharged.
Headquarters Major General Hancock :-15S
Office of the Board for the Examination of
Officers :-Brigadier General John r. Brooke,
president, 1S3 q street, between 10th and Goth
streets.
BY order Of Major General Hancock.
FINLEY ANDERSON,
dec 27.tf Assistant Adintant General.
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TRAVELLERS DIRECTORY.
~ WASHINGTON, December l3, 1854,
4H II - = -.

~ u - -: - - -
On and after Sunday December ls. 1851. P..ssn.
Ger Trains between Washington and Baltimore
D &c TRAINS MovINa NORTH.
RIsBURG TRAIN-Lesys washingt rs A. n.
Arrive at Baltimore s:0OA.A.
Ne 2,NEw YORK & PHILADELPHIA Ex,
Phiadslphi. lsa6 NJ, New York $50 P. NJ. No
No. s-BtLTIMogE Il WESTERN TRAIN
Leave Wash n gton SIS A. n. stopping at way
stations connecting at Relay eth the Mail Trtin @
No 4-NIw YORK KMAILTRAIN-Lesve Wash
In gtoD 11:i3 A. N. Arrive at Baltimore at 12:45
p.h., Philadsl phis 5:37 P. NJ, New York 1000
No. 5-BALTIMoRE TRAIN AND WAY STA
ins st Rrisy With FredsrSt train RAIN Arrive At Bal
No. RAnTIMcRE coMMUTAr!oN. AND
PHIIADELPHIA TRAIN-Les Washiu gton
traib stopss' Bladensburg, Beltsville, Laurel and
AnDspolis Junction only.
PRESS TRAIN-teave Washin gton 900 P n.
Arrive at New York 400 A. NJ Mails and Psssen.
ard West. No P6iladelshia or Baltimore tieEets
Government orders to insure the mails.
No s-BALTIMORE & HARRISBURG TRAIN
Leave ngton 6:45 P. NJ. and arrive at Balti-
No e-NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA. AND
WESTERN TRAlN-LeaV6 washington at :3U
M: stopping al Re ay House far Western passen-
gers 10 take Express Train for Grafton, Wheeling,
Parkersburg. and all points in the West. Reaches
New York at 6:i An.
FOB ANNAPOLIS the connections will be made
With the e:l5 A N. and the 3 aHd 4:30 p. M. from
washng gton No trains to or from Annapolis
Sunday.
SUNDAY TRAINS.
THE ONLY TRAINS From WASHINGTON
for passengers on Sunday are the Sis and 1f:15
A. N. and P. N. for baltimore, and 1;30 P. NJ;
for Bati more, Philadel phis, and the West. and
The P N for New York ONLY.
THROUGH TICKETS o the West, as we'll IS to
hiladaiphis, New York, or Boston, can be had at
TIE Station Ticket Office at all hsurs in the day,
well as at Office in the American Telegraph
Building, Pennsylvsnia avenue, between 47a and
9Th streets
BAGGAGEwil be checked at all hours,-also for
thrangh points, to save trouble and confusion at
fhe d. parture of be trains. -.
AILPAssEa GERS. " he ther soldiers or citizens,
are poitely but earnestly requested to respect thes
rules of the Line. establish for the general ad
vartsse such 8 the keeping of one or more cars
exclusively for ladies and their attendants and the
prevention of smoking in any but the smokers
cars and also to make cheerful compliance
Hyith the decisions of the agents or conductors
regard to their seats, tickets etc.. especially in
the hurry of starting the trains
L NJ. COLE. General Ticket Agent. dee ~
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FROM EAST TENNESSEE.

Vaughn still at Bristol - Breckinridge
Somewhere in VlrsinIa-General Tilssn
in Command at knoxvllle-Resisnatt
of General Ammen.
LOUISVILLE, Jan. I7.-Rebel deserters who
came into Knoxville on the 18th instant, state
that Vaughn, with seven hundred men, all
that he has left, was at Bristol on the 4th.
Breckinridge, with his command, had gone TO
the valley of Virginia, and 1t was thought
would not return.
report was current that the rebels had
commenced repairing damages done to the salt
works by General Stoneman.
The most perfect quiet now exists throughout
East Tennessee.
Rrieadier General Ammen has resigned.
Brigadier General Tilson is now In command
at Knoxville.
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The Secretary of War to the President.

A Bright Summing Up-The Fall Of Fort
Fisher-Partieulars of the Attack-Har-
mony between the Land andNaval Forces
Explosion Of the Forts Masazine-20O
or 800 Persons Killed or Injured-Sher.
mans Army again Movins-Enemy
Abandoning Strong Works-Condition of
guilty Prevailing-Sea Island Cotton
Captured.
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OF FiCIAL.
To the Consular Officers Of the United
States in ContermiRous British
Provinces.
TCIRCULAR No. SIS.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, !
Wa aShinnfnn Ian Ii 1CkS {


DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington Jan. IA, 1865.
Consular officers in territories conterminous
with the United States, on their northern and
northeastern frontier, are hereby authorized
to receive United States currency in payment
for passports, so long as the order OF Dsce Der
II. 1851. shall remain in force, bearing in mind
that the law requires five dollars as fee for
issuing passport, which amount Is payable
into the United States Treasury, and in foreign
countries consular fee of one dollar in addl-
tion. The existing regulation, by which con-
sular agents were forbidden to give passports,
is hereby rescinded for the period above men.
toned. Ii any person shall have been charged
more than the legal fees. as they are herein
mentioned, the excess will be refunded to him
by the consul to whom the sum was paid, ard
such repayment will be reported to this de-
partment. A uniform rate of charge Is ex-
pected and enjolned. Passports to enter the
British provinces will be promptly issued by
this department, on application, in accordance
with the passport regulations.
VIM f. SEWARD
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