Newspaper Page Text
JUL 1 X : I' 4. Editor and Proprietor. j.i-)l0 UVTCIIIXSOX, Publisher. j v.t:x f I "WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Hekbt Clay. .. TEBlis-2'00 pEn AKKV3I. ; . : i J ; - i . i S (h ti i H If f VOLUME 6. D UUXJTORY. 5,1 ST OF POST OFFICES. r.,.t "0S. P.i Masters. Districts. 3eihel Station Enoch Reese, ,vn!!tm-n. Joseph Behe, Blacklick. Carroll. Chest. Taylor. . ft ess Springs, nenry Nutter, CaemAugh, A. tx. vroows, Washint'n. r John Tbompson, Ebensburg, r Timber, Asa II. Fiske White. oek. vm iiicrtJr., naoJin. V 11 T 1 . . JJ " r 'i II i . r . a , n Acueauerger, - u-jreiio. ...-T-1 Point,, u. wissinger, uoncmgu. ir.. ;. ,. A. Durbin, Munster. V iHsvilie, Anurcw j a-errai, r;u3ii nan. ...,v;nj It. w.iowman, tvuiie. Augustine, etan. narton, uicrirneia. Level, George Berkey, ltichiand. n n 15. .ti voignn i asm n. II- V i U X 1 I i "- y,'7kaore, Morri3 Keil, S'merhill. CsrtJKCSSES, MINSTERS, Sic. pr(S:.y;triin Rev. D- ITaubisos, Pastor. .. cverr Sabbath morning at 1CJ "V'orH, ia tuc evening at 6 o'clock. Sab 'tli'a School at 1 o'clock, A. M- Prayer mect iiir every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. "'diCidisl Fp'.sccpal Church Rev. J. S. Lem x;"s. Treacher in charge. Rev. W-ILM'Bride, AisU:nt. Preachmgevery alternate a;Jatil cor-iirs, at 10 J o'clock. Sabbath School at uC:il.a, A. li''J-' -""D w-v triui3', at 7 o'clock. ;'t'r.t Independent Ret Lt.. R. Powell, pjjtyr . ?reacliiiig every Sabbath horning at lo'ci :k, ard in the evening at 6 o'clock. I'j.itii ochool ht 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer c.-ttin? on the first Monday evening of ech . !. -'.Tti.i on everv Tucsav, Thursday and fr.Jay' evening, excepting the first week in iith rnonta. C.'.dnhtic 'lethodisi Rev. Jons Williams, pi,-, 7rpq,-liin'r every Sabbath eveninr t ird 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at K o'clock, i. M. Tiayer meeting every l naay evening, c 7 oVl ock. Society every Tuesday evening it" o'clock. . - ij-hlcsRzv. W. Llotp, Pastor. Preach tv'M v Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock, fjr-.-.rv.r JJaptists Rev. David Jkxkivs, p-.;v -.r TVon hirsr every ir'abbath evening at 3 ..io-k. Sabbath School at at i o'clock, P. M. Choiic Rev. M. J. XiTcaELL, . rastor. ? rvL-s every Sabbath morning at 1 0 o'clock tA Y-pera at 4 o'clock, in the evening. EDESSSISG MAILS. MAILS ARRIVE. Eis'trn, daily, at 114 o'clock, A. M. VTcitern, " at ll o'clock, A. M. MAILS CLOSE. F.tftern, daily, at 8 o'clock, P. M. fft-tprn, " at , 8 o'clock, P. M. tVThfi mails from T3utler,Indiana,Strongs-.:-.7a. arrive on Thursday of each week, t: 5 o'tlfrk, P. II. Leave Ebensburg on Friday of each week, u 6 A. II. SThe maila from Newman's Mills, Cr rlltjwn, Lc, nrrive on Monday, Wednesday 12 i Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M. Leave Lbcnsburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M. RAILROAD SCHEDULE. CRESSON STATION. est Bait. Express leaves at 8.18 A. M. P. M. A. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. A. M. A. M. A. M. " Fast Line ; " Pbila. Express " Mail Train Emigrant Train East Through Express " Fast Line " Fast Mail " Through Accom. it 9.11 9.02 7.08 3.15 8.38 12.36 7.08 10.39 CI It ( (I II II COU?JTY OFFICERS. J nines of the Courts President, Hon. Oeo. " jbr, Huntingdon; Associates, George W. Ett'ey, Henry 0. Devine. Prithonotary Joseph M'DonaH. Register and Recorder James Griffin. Sheriff John Buck. bisirict Attorney. Philip S. Noon. . Cuuntv Commissioners Peter J. Little, Jno. Campbell, Edward Glass. treasurer Isaac vv ike. Poor House Directors Georco M'Cullough. George Delany, Irwin Ratledge. ioor House Treasurer George U. K. ianm, Auiilors William J. Williams, George C. K. Zahm, Francis Tiorncy. County surveyor. Henry bcanlan. Coroner. -William Flattery. Mercantile Appraiser Patrick Donahoe. Sup't. of Common Schools J. F. Condon. ESEXSBiRG BOR. OFFICERS. AT LARGE. Justices of the Peace David H. Roberts HarriBon Kinkead. Burgess A. A. Barker. School Directors Ael Lloyd, Phil S. Noon, Joshua D. Parrish, Hugh Jones, E. J. Mills, David J. Jones. EAST WABD. Constable Thomas J. Davis. Town Council J. Alexander Moore, Daniel 0- Evans, Richard R. Tibbott, Evan E. Evans, William Clement. : Inspectors Alexander Jones. D. O. Evans. Judge of Election Richard Jones, Jr. Attestor Thomas M. Jones. A'tittant Assessors David E. Evans, Wm. 3- Davis. WE8T WABD. Constable -William Mills, Jr. Town Council John Dougherty, George C. Xahm, Isaac Crawford, Francia A. Shoe ktr, James S. Todd. ' wpectott G. W. Oatmanj Roberts. Evans. Judge of Election Michael Hasson. Attetsar James Murray. ,, . t 'Want Assessors WiUiana Barnes, D.an 'l . Zahm. Letter from Gen. SMx Some thing for Democrats to Re fleet On II end I The following letter. was addressed by Gen. Dix, to the Union Demonstration' in Philadelphia, Saturday evening last i T New Yobk, October Cth, 1864"' ' Gentlemem : I " have received your invitation to add?es3 the mass tnceting' to he held in Independence Square on Sat urday; The duties incident to the active command of a military department render it impossible for me to attend public meetings or make political speeches. But I accede with pleasure to your request to write you a letter. There 13 but one question before the country in tha approaching canvass: Shall we prosecute the war with unabated vigor until tho rebel forces lay down their arms ; or shall we, to use the language of the Chicago Convention, make "Immedi ate efforts for a cessation of hostilities, with a view to an ultimate convention of all the States '(" &c. Believing that the latter measure, for whatever purpose adopted, would lead inevitably to a recognition of the inde pendence cf the insurgent States; and be lieving, moreover, true policy, as well as true mercy, alvriys demands, in the un happy exigencies of war, a steady and unwavering application of e!1 the means and all the energies at command until the object of the war is accomplished I shall oppose th measure in every form in which opposition ia likely to ba effective. General M'Ciellan, tho .candidate of the Chicago Convention, by force of his position, must be deemed to approve all the declarations with which he was pre-, sented to the country, unless he distinctly disavows them. Unfortunately, he is silent on the only question in regard to which the people cared he should speak. He does not Buy whether he is in favor of a eescaticn of hostilities, the measure an nounced by thoee who nominated him, as the basis for action in case of his election, or whether he is opposed to it. He does not meet the question with manly frank ness, as I am confident he would have done if he had taken counsel of his own instincts, instead of yielding to the eubtle suggestions of politicians. Tho Chicago Convention presented a distinct issue to the people. As the nominee of the Con vention, he was bound to repudiate or accept it. He has done neither, and whatever inference may bo drawn from his eileuce, either the war Democrats or the peace Democrats must be deceived. In calling for a cessation of hostilities, the members of the Chicago Convention have, in my judgment, totally misrepre sented the feelings and opinions of the great body of the Democraoy. The policy proclaimed in its name makes it so far as such a declaration can what it has never been before, a peace party in war; degrading it from the eminence on which ic has stood in every other national con flict. In this injustico to the country and a great party, identified with all that is honorable in our history, I can have no part. I can only mourn over the re proach which has been brought upon it by its leaders, and oherish the hope that it may hereafter, under tho auspices of better counsellors, resume its ancient ef fective and beniflcenfc influence in the ' administration of the Government, i ? Doos any one doubt as to the true cause of our national calamities? I believe it to be found in the management of the leaders of both principal political parties during the last century. In 1840 the great men of the Whig party Webster, Clay and others men of universally acknowledged ability and long experience in civil life, were thrust aside, and Gen. Harrison, a man of very moderate capacity, was se lected as its candidate for the Presidency. Tho principle of availability, as it was termed, was adopted as the rule of selec tion, and the question of fitness became obsolete. The concern waa to know,' not who was best qualified to administer the Government, but who, from his compara tive obscurity, would be least likely to provoke an embittered opposition. This was the beginning of a system cf demor alization, which has ended in the present distracted condition of the country. It reversed all the conservative principles of human action, by proscribing talent and experience, and crowning mediocrity with tho highest honors of the Itepublic. In 1844 the Democratic party .followed the successful" example of its opponents in 1840. It put aside Van Buren, Cass, Marcy, and its other eminent statesman, and brought forward Mr. Polk, a man of merely ordinary ability. Parties which have neither the courage nor the virtue to stand by their greatest, and best men soon fall into hopeless demoralization. This system of retrogradation in all that is manly and just has continued,' wfth BURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1864; two or three abortive offorts at reaction, for twenty-four years. It has driven pre eminent talent out of the paths which lead to the highest political distinction; and multitudes with a simplicity which would be -ludicrous were it not so deplorable,' ask -what has become of our great men? The inquiry is easily answered., They arq in the learned professions in science,. lit erature and art, and in the numberless; fields of intellectual exertion,' which are opened by the wants of a great 'country in a rapid career of development. The intellect of the country is neither dimin ished in the aggregate nor dwarfed in the individual proportions. Tho political market, like the commercial, under the inflexible law of demand and supply, i3 furnished with tho kind of material it requires. It calls for mediocrity, and it gets nothing better. .The ' highest talent goes where it is a passport to the highest rewards. It withdraws from a field in which the chance of accession to tho first civic honor is in an inverso ratio of emi nence and qualifications. Thus under the rulo of the inferior intellects which party management has elevated to the conduct of public affairs, the peace, the prosperity, and the high character of tho country have gone down. If the great men of the Republic had con trolled the policy and action of the Gov ernment during the last quarter of a cen tury, we should have had no rebellion. Distraction within invites aggression from without, and we aro enduring tho humili ation of seeing a monarchy established in contact with our Southern boundary by one of the great Powers of Europe, in contempt of our repeated protestations, and another of those Powers permitted Rebel cruisers to bo armed in her ports to depredate upon our commerce. Upon 6uch a system of political man agement no Governtment can last long. I know it is not easy to change what such a lapse of time has fastened upon us. Po!itfcikn3 have the strongest interest in placing in the chair of state feeble men, whom they can control, instead of men of self-sustaining power, to whom they would be mere subordinates and auxiliaries. But the time may come:: it ma7 sot be far distant when the people, tired of voting for men of inferior capacity, thrust upon them through the machinery of conven tions in which they have no voice, will rise in their majesty, and place the con duct of their affairs in more experienced and capable hands. If such a change is not speedily effected, it is my firm belief that our republican institutions will fall to pieces, and an arbitrary " government rise upon their ruins; for, unless tho tes timony of all history is to be discarded, no political system can be upheld except by giving to its administration the benefit of the very highest talent and the largest experience. Till this revolution shall come, my ad vice to the great body of the people is to hold fast to' their traditionary principles and good came by giving an earnest sup port to the war, and to scan with the se verest scrutiny the conduct of those who control party movements. . Many of the men who are most prominent in conven tions have personal interests to subserve. Even thoEO who are comparatively disin terested aro not always the safe advisers. They have lived so long in the turbid atmosphere of party excitement and "party traffic that they have contracted morbid habits of thought and action, which like chronio diseases in the human system, it is hard to alleviate and still harder to cure. Tho only hope left to us lies in the patri otism and disinterestedness of the great body of the people of all parties who are facing the enemies of their country on the battle-field, with a heroism unsurpassed in any age, or who, at home, amid the pre vailing tumult and disorder, are working out, in the quiet pursuit of their varied occupations, tho momentous problem of the public prosperity and safety. When they shall send out, fresh from their own ranks, new men, to consult together for the salvation of all that is most precious in Government and society, there will be cause for hope and faith in our redemption from impending evils and dangers; bear ing, in the meantime, as well as we can, the heavy burdens which havebeen cast upon us by a quarter of a century of po litical mismanagement and public misrule. It is time the people should understand these truths. No one, perhaps, can tell them with more propriety than myself, having been, much of the period referred to, in public life, fruitlessly, contending against party contrivances which have in volved tho country in all the evils of civil strife. I am, very respectfully, yours, JOHN A. DIX. James H. Orke, Esq., Chairman, &c. , fiST General Early is passionately fond of fightin;, but General Sheridan, it is thought, has at last given him. his Fhil.of it. ' Jeff. Davis';. Speech at Macon, i Ga.A Rebel Wall.- : Herewith : we ; present, the : celebrated speech delivered by Jeff. Davis at Macon, Ga.', Sept. 23, 1864. It reads like the Wail of a broken heart : :; Ladies and Gentlemen, Friends and Fd Iota- Citizens: It would have gladdened my heart to have met you in prosperity in stead of adversity. But friends are drawn together in adversity. The son of a Geor gian who fought through the first revolu tion, I would be untrue to myself if I should forget the State in her day of peril. What though misfortune has befallen our arms from Decatur to J onesboro, our cause is not lost. Sherman cannot keep up his long line of communication. Sooner or later ho must retreat; and when that day comes, tho fate that befell the army of the French Empire in its retreat from Mos cow will be re-enacted. Our cavalry and our people will harass and destroy his army as did the Cossacks that of Napole on ; and the Yankee General, like him, will escape with only a body-guard. How can this be the most speedily effected ? By the absentees of Hood's army return ing to their posts ; and will they not? Can they see the banished exiles ; can they hear the wail of their suffering coun trywomen and children and not come? By what influences they are made to stay away it is not necessary to speak. If there is one who will stay away at this hoar, he is unworthy of the name of Geor gian. To the women, no appeal is neces sary. They are like the Spartan mothers of old. I know of one who has lost all her sons except one, of eight years. She wrcte that she wanted me to reserve a lace for him in the ranks. The venera te General Polk, to whom I read the let ter, knew that woman well, and said it was characteristic of her ; but will not weary you by turning asido to relate the various incidents of giving up the last son to the cause of our country, known to me. Wherever we go, we find the hearts and hands of our noble women enlisted. They arc seen wherever the oye may fall or the step turn. They have one duty to per form to buoy up the hearts of the people. I know the deep disgrace felt by Georgia at our army falling back from Dalton to the interior of the State. But I was not of those who considered Atlanta lost when our army crossed the Chattahoochie. I resolved that it should not; and I then put a man in command who I knew would strike a manly blow for tho city, and many a Yankee's blood was made to nourish the soil before the prize was won. It does not become us to revert to disaster. Let the dead bury their dead. Let us, with one army and .one effort, endeavor to crush Sherman. I am going to the army to confer with our generals. The end must bo the defeat of the enemy. It is said that I abandoned Georgia to her fate. Shame upon such falsehood. Where could the author have been when Walker, when Polk, and when Gen. Ste phen D. Lee were Bent to her assistance ? The man who uttered this was a scoundrel. He was not a man to savo our country. If I knew that a General did not possess the right qualities to command, would I not bo wrong if he were not removed ? Why, when our army was falling back from Northern Georgia, I even heard that I had sent Bragg with pontoons to cross into Cuba. But we muse bo charitable. Tho man who can speculate on tho misfor tunes of his country ought to be made to take up his, musket. When the war is over, and our independence won and we will establish our independence, : who will be our aristocracy ? I hope the HmpiDg soldier. To the young ladies, I would say that, when choosing between an empty sleeve and the man who had remained at home and grown rich, always take the empty sleeve. Let the old men remain at home and make bread. But should they know of any young man keeping away from the service, who cannot be made to go any other way, let them write to the Executive. I read all letters sent me from the people, but have not the time to reply to them. You have not many men between eighteen and forty-five left. The boys God bless the boys ! are, as rapidly as they become old enough, going to the field. The city of Macon is filled with stores, and sick and wounded. It must not be abandoned when threatened, but when the enemy come, instead of cal ling upon Hood's army for defence, the old men must fight ; and when the enemy is driven beyond Chattanooga, they, too, can join in the general rejoicing. Your prisoners ar6 kept as a sort of Yankee capital. I have heard that one of their Generals said that their exchange would defeat Sherman. I have tried every means, conceded everything, to effect an exchange, but to no purpose. , Butler, the beast, with whom no commissioner of exchange would hold - intercourse, - had; published, in , tho newspaper's .that if .we .would consent to the exchange of negroes, all difficulties might be removed. This ia reported as an effort of his to get himself whitewashed by holding intercourse with gentlemen. If an exchange oould be effected, don't know, but that I might be induced to-recognize Butler. But in the future, every effort will be given, as far as possible, to! effect the end. We want our soldiers in the field, and we want the sick and woun ded to return homo. - It is not proper for me to speak of the number of men in the field, but this . I will say, that two-thirds of our men are absent, some sick, some wounded, but most of them absent with out leave. The man who repents and goes back to his commander voluntarily appeals strongly to . Executive clemency. But suppose be stays away until the war ia over, and his comrades return1 homeland when every man's history will be told, where will heshild himself? It is upoa these reflections that I rely to make men return to their duty; but after conferring with our Generals at headquarters, if there be any other remedy, it shall bo applied. I love my friends, and I forgive my ene mies. . - - - I have been askedto send reinforce ments from Virginia to Georgia. In Vir ginia, the disparity in numbers is just as great as it is in Georgia. Then I havo been asked why the army sent to the Shenandoah Valley was not sont here. It was because an army of the enemy had penetrated that valley to the vory gates of Lynchburg, and General Early was sent to drive them back. This he not only successfully did, but, crossing the Poto mao, he came well nigh capturing Wash ington itself, and forced Grant to send two corps of his army to protect it. This the enemy denominated a raid.. If so, Sher man's march into Georgia is a raid. What would prevent them now, if Early were withdrawn, from taking Lynchburg, and putting a cordon, of men around Rich mond ? I counseled with that great and brave soldier, General Lee, upon all these points. My mind roamed over tho whole field. With this we can succeed. If one half the men now absent without leave will return to duty, we can defeat the en emy. With that hope I am going to the front. I may not rcalizo this hope, but I know there are men there who have looked death in the face too often to despond now. Let no one despond.-. Let no one distrust. And remember that, if genius is the beau ideal, hope is' the reality. m m m " ' Dr. Breckinridge on an Armis tice. The veteran Rev. Dr. Breckinridge, in a recent speech at Lexington, Kentucky, said: I cannot now go into a consideration of the platform in detail. But their great cry is an armistice and a convention of tho States. What after that ? They may not make peace, and then what is to be done ? But, first, how is the convention to be called ? lit requires , two-thirds of Congress to vote for such a call, which call must be ratified by three-fourths of the. States; and these votes you never can get. What chance ia there of getting three-fourths of the States to go for a convention for the purpose of bringing us under Jeff. Davis, or dividing the Union J The thing is. absurd. If it cannot be done, what then ? Then we are in favor of any other peaceable remedy. Dear, blessed souls 1 - Any other peaceable rora edy nothing that is not peaceable.; Now, for God's sake, and for your own country's sake, look at it. Here wo arc, after be tween three and four years' war; after spending two or three .thousand millions of dollars ; after spilling the blood of a million cf our brothers, and oonsignlng five hundred thousand of them to their graves; after conquering an extent of ter ritory 1,500 miles in length by 600 in breadth ; we have an army in every State of the Confederacy, and the majority of them under our own control ; we have every stronghold taken from them except Mobile and Charleston and Richmond; and notwithstanding all this we aro asked, as if we were a set of poltroons, to disgrace ourselves to the latest generation of man kind, to sacrifice everything we have fought for and that is worth living for, and make all. tho world say free govrn ment is worthless that it cannot take care of itself. God Almighty in Heaven grant that every mau .who utters such a thought be choked, until he becomes ,a penitent and a better man! ' . No, 8irl n6, sir 1 We will never do any such thing. We love poace love it for its own Bake.' They love peace because they are afraid we will first whip the. reb els and then punish . them. They want peace that they may mako.ncw conspira cies, and the peace, they propose, is dis -UMBER;. union peace, which means, separation of the States and endless ruin to the whole country. Ten thousand times better wo'd it have been for us to have acquiesced at first, and'never shed a drop of blood, than under theso circumstances and at this time to make such a peace as. that. . ... Slavery. 1 Theodore' Tilton, of New York, at a recent Union meeting in Latimer Hall, Brooklyn, said : As other gentlemen havo spoken on other topics, let me advert to Slavery. I regret that so many voices, speaking for the Union cause, are Filent on this ques tionpushing it aside as irrelcvent Have they forgotteu the Baltimore Platform ? It stands on two pillars the overthrow of the Rebellion, and tho prohibition of Sla very. Therefore, when Republin speak ers make the War question their only topic, burying the Slavery question in silence, they aro not faithfuLto the banner they bear they tear it iu twain, and lift only half. The Baltimore Platform lays fully before the people the Slavery ques tion. If, therefore, this question is to bo lulled to rest in Republican meetings, touched tenderly, called secondary, passed over as a theme on which the less said the better, then one great. purpose of the Bal timore Platform is already defeated before the day or battle in November. If the Presidential issue is only a War issue, what will the victory mean, when gained? It will mean simply no cessation of hos tilities. That is all. But that is s not enough. The November vote must be made to mean, not only a settlement of the War question, but of the Slavery ques tion. It is lamentable to notice how many influential Republicans arest)cakin" and writing as if we ought, for prudential reasons, to thrust out of siht the nobler half of the.-. Baltimore Platform. : The Constitutional amendment i. nr.t ntrirri its due share in the canvass. It is avoid ed 89 a subject which, too freely handled, may endanger the election may frighten away some voters who mean to votewith us only on condition that tho election when gained shall mean nothing. Let the Democratic Darrv. if ther wilf n!,. -don their platform, but let us beware of aoanaonmg ours : The .Democratic party, expecting to be defeated, tan well afford to change their ground,, if only for tho sake of entrapping us into changing ours. Nothing will, so please the Democrats as to silence '.Republicans on the Slavery question'. ; Our enemies will havo every thing to gain by that policy we, every thing to lose. This slighiiugof tho main question is dangerous, unmanly and cow ardly. , Every' Union meeting in great halls, in wigwams, in canvas tents, in the au tumn woods, " every where ought to ring echoes to every bell.of.Libcrty struck a Baltimore ! ; Every . campaign audience ought to be set cheering the grand prin ciples of the Union platform. : This they would do gladly, boisterously," eloquent ly tneir. speakers were not afraid to risk the experiment of treading on doubt ful ground. The American heart, once a rock ta the Slaverv ouestion. nmv.iflf snv manly stroke, willyield a fdaiitaiu of swee't waters. Let. the pens . and tongues of Union men declare to the people,. "Wo menn to redeem' tho pledge put forth at Baltimore. We mean to keep -steadily in view our purpose, not only to conquer tho rebellion, but to eradicate Its chujc. We summon every Anicricau who wishes the question settled to come, with his vote in November and "settle it." -' ' Gen tlemen, our ballots are yet tin cist. Let us give fair warning as we cast them, say ing, "This is for the Baltimore platform, every jot and tittle this w for the over throw of the rebellionthis is for tho death and burial of Slavery this is for a Constitutional amendment set' upon' its grave to watch against its resurrection I" I propose to you, therefore, for your loud est cheers, as a sentiment expression the true duty ol tho hour, "No parley vith the rebellion in the field ; no compromise with Slavery in the ro-aJjustment 1" Great applause, j ' ' ' - ' 3 - f i , m m i i . Si&rA man named Foley had a ball gWen to him in Boston last; Saturday, for the benefit of his sick family.' On going home from the ball wjth the proceeds ($284) in his pocket, he was robbed and murdered.' J i .' ..i A young fellowonce offered fo kiss a Quakeress.: VFriend.'f said she, "thee must not do it." "Oh,-by Jove, but I must," said the youth. "Well; friend, as thou hast sworn, thee may do it, but thee must not make a practice of it!"r ' - 1ST Presideut Lincoln - has furnished a substitutQ to the army iu the person of John Summerfield Staples, a native ot Monroe county, Pennsylvania, . I:: i'i" J ', ! "J i.; ; nr ir