The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, November 5, 1863 Volume 5, Number 6 NEWS Local and Personal The barn of Capt. Wm. R. Hughes, Wilmore, this county, was totally consumed by fire a few days since. Local Correspondence Johnstown, Nov. 2, 1863 Since the election the bustle and activity manifested on the street corners and in fact at all hours and in all places have subsided and we are again the quiet and orderly people we were theretofore. The greatest excitement lately was the appearance of the veritable Dan Rice and his “great show.” Daniel received a liberal amount of the postage tickets and it is reasonable to presume that his patrons got their money back as everybody appeared satisfied with his performances. In addition to the circus, we have had the sleight of hand performer, Anderson, at Union Hall for several days. The “now you see it, and now you don’t see it” arrangement was not very well appreciated as the conjurer conjured but slim audiences. His “spectral ghost” was an exceedingly large humbug. At Post Office Hall we have an itinerant music lecturer, whose lectures are illustrated by music on several instruments. Our citizens do not appear to have much “music in their souls,” as his audiences are also small. Another of those sad accidents which for a moment pale the cheek of the gay and thoughtless, but which to the ardent Christian are but instances of the insecure tenure by which human life is held and the necessity of being always prepared for sudden death, occurred here on Thursday last. A miner, named Peter Murphy, while at work on that morning, was instantly killed by a mass of coal falling upon him. His head was crushed to a jelly and his brains scattered among the coal. It is but a short time since the deceased recovered from a similar accident – the coal falling upon his leg and badly fracturing it. He was much esteemed by his acquaintances and leaves a wife and large family to mourn his untimely fate. A child of David Lucas, residing in Conemaugh borough, was seriously burnt last week by his clothes taking fire at the cooking stove. Before the flames could be extinguished the clothes were almost entirely burned from the child’s back and his face and arms were scorched to a crisp. Hopes are entertained of the little sufferer’s recovery. Ephraim Buck, formerly our post master, and a most estimable citizen, died at his residence on Saturday, after a short illness. In the way of improvements, the most worthy of note is the new Catholic church, which was put under roof last week. It promises to be one of the finest church edifices in the county and will be a credit to the spirit of religion in this city. At another time I may be able to secure the dimensions &c., of the building when I will have a little more to say about it. [Signed] May Leon Sworn In We forgot to mention last week that Mr. E. Glass, our newly elected County Commissioner and Mr. George M’Cullough, Poor House Director, have been “sworn in” and entered upon the discharge of the duties of their respective office. The new Board of Commissioners have appointed Mr. Patrick Donshoe Mercantile Appraiser of this county for the ensuing year. Letter from Our Soldiers Camp, Va. November 1, 1863 Though at present the chilly, wet and dark days of autumn have succeeded that genial sun of a few weeks since, we are still cheerful. The guiding star of our nation’s destiny today shines with far greater luster than it did during the summer days of September. You at home upon whom we have to depend for support have spoken to us and to the world in tones of sympathy and encouragement. You have defined your position and declared yourselves for “conservatism” and not “destruction” – for such did we consider the issue previous to the election, and not a mere party effort. The disunionists or those who assumed the name of Democrats clamored for peace and in their speeches promised the people immediate peace in the event of the success of their principles. A disgraceful, unnatural peace; a base submission to those who are endeavoring to destroy our liberties; a concession of all we have struggled for since the commencement of the rebellion; the separation of the States, anarchy and chaos, sweeping into oblivion at one blow the precious memories of the thousands of brave and noble martyrs that gave themselves a sacrifice to liberty and free government – this is what the peace of the Democracy meant. Away with it! Such a peace is unnatural and debasing, worthy only unqualified loathing. It is incomprehensible to us how men pretending to be actuated by the spirit of American freemen can be so lost to all sense of honor and manliness as to even suggest such a solution of our National difficulties. The victory has been a most complete one and has blasted the brightest hopes of the Rebels, sorely wounded the cringing sympathizers and frustrated the plans of our foreign foes. It has given fresh vigor and confidence to our army and navy, nerved our leaders to firmer and more decisive action, encouraged the timid and diffused a spirit of cheerfulness throughout the friends of liberty everywhere. We have been told by some that the people were tired of the war and wanted peace on any terms; but we did not believe it. We are tired of the war, and want peace, but we can see but one road to the attainment of this object – through victory. The patriotism which dies at the end of six months, nine months or three years, we scorn. Real patriotism continues unabating and unflinching till our country is rescued from the foul grasp of the monster Treason now throttling her. It is more probable that the old regiments whose time expires next spring and summer will all re-enlist – that is to say, a majority of each. Our division, the Penna. Reserves, goes in pretty much as a body, the 53d P.V. unanimously and a large majority of the 91st P. V. The inducements held out by the government for re-enlistments in the veteran volunteer corps are very fair and encouraging. It promises on two-thirds re-enlisting to send each regiment back to its respective State to recruit and organize as also to grant fifteen or twenty days furlough to each member. In addition to receiving the $402 bounty, the unexpired time of his present enlistment will be credited to each soldier upon re–enlistment. How many of little Cambria’s sons are going to join us under the President’s late proclamation? We sincerely hope there will be not a few. Volunteering in old regiments is not expected to be so popular as in new organizations but in the former you will be of vastly more service to the government than in the latter and in these perilous times we should not consult self-interest so much as the interest of the civilized world. We should also consult the interest of coming generations or they may look back and say with just reproach that their fathers lost the heritage handed down to them by the sires of ’76. Where lives the Spartan spirit that prompted the wife to say to her husband – “Trust me to heaven, my husband! This the son, The babe whom I have born thee, must be free! And sweet memory of our pleasant hearth may well Give strength – if aught be strength on earth. God shall be with thee, my beloved! – away! Bless but thy child and leave me; I can pray!” We have long lived in comparative ease and luxury, never feeling the hand of oppression. For these reasons we do not appreciate the blessing of liberty so highly as we should. Had we once experienced the stings of oppression perhaps we would now be awake to our duty. Arouse, fellow countrymen! To the work your God has prepared for you and your children will bless your memory when you are no more. [Signed] X The 300,000 More [extract] The quota of Pennsylvania under this call is 38,268 men. This number must be realized before the fifth day of January coming otherwise a draft will be ordered. The Governor in his proclamation it will be observed, offers neither persuasion nor threats as an inducement to enlist. He relies upon the patriotism and the love of country of the citizens of the old Keystone – a State which has never yet faltered in her devotion to the Union – for a prompt compliance to the demands of the General Government. We hope this reasonable expectation may not be doomed to disappointment. Every loyal man should consider himself pledged to see that the Proclamation is adequately responded to. Let an effort be made – a grand and glorious effort – and the necessity for another draft be obviated. It can be done if all classes unite with one purpose in seeing that it is done. War News Gen. Foster has been ordered to report at Washington and Gen. Butler transferred to Fortress Monroe. From Charleston we have the cheering news that Gen. Gilmore is again turning his undivided attention toward the reduction of that doomed rebel stronghold. He has thrown several shells into the very heart of the city, doing no particular damage that we have heard of, but evidently raising quite a rumpus among the chivalry. Odds and Ends Did I tell you ever, among the affecting little things one is always seeing in these stirring war times, how I saw on the Bull Run battlefield, pretty, pure, delicate flowers growing out of emptied ammunition boxes, a rose thrusting up its graceful head through the head of a Union drum, which doubtless sounded its last charge (or retreat, as the case may have been) in that battle, and cunning scarlet verbena peeping out of a fragment of bursted shell in which strange cup it had been planted? Wasn’t that peace growing out of war? Even so shall the graceful and beautiful ever grow out of the horrid and terrible things that transpire in this changing but ever advancing world. Nature covers even the battle grounds with verdure and bloom. Peace and plenty soon spring up in the track of devastating campaigns and all the things in nature and society shall work out the progress of mankind and harmony of God’s great design. Exemptions from the Draft The following is an abstract of exemptions granted to Drafted Men by the Board of Enrollment of the 17th District, Pennsylvania, during the week ending Oct. 17, 1863, with the cause of exemption stated in each case: Henry Shomo, White, paid commutation Dennis Cawley, Clearfield, paid commutation Joseph Doyle, Clearfield, paid commutation Jacob Witlers, White, disability Jacob Stiger, Carroll, only son, widow Adam Esch, White, unsuitableness age John A. Krise, Chest, unsuitableness age Samuel Kuhn, White, disability David Westover, White, paid commutation John T. Peterson, White, disability David A. Watt, Chest, unsuitableness age Gideon Byers, White, disability Henry Foster, White, disability Daniel Mathews, White, father, motherless child Arthur Wharton, Clearfield, disability Thomas J. Burns, Chest, paid commutation William Cochran, Clearfield, father, motherless children Thomas Burns, Clearfield, only son, widow Michael Waltz, Chest, only son, infirm parents P. M. M’Kenzie, Chest, paid commutation William Wharton, Clearfield, disability John Bardine, White, unsuitableness age David Brown, Clearfield, unsuitableness age John Troxell, -----, non-residence Frederick Ranstead, White, unsuitable age Peter Flanagan, White, unsuitable age James Devor, Clearfield, unsuitable age James Hartzel, White, disability James M. Towle, Clearfield, disability John Conrad, Chest Springs, paid commutation Henry Wagoner, Clearfield, paid commutation John C. Hughes, Clearfield, election by parent Jacob Matthews, White, paid commutation. John T. Burns, Clearfield, paid commutation Michael J. Dunegan, Clearfield, paid commutation N. T. Holmes, Chest Springs, disability G. A. R. Barker, Chest Springs, paid commutation Samuel B. Rutler, ----, paid commutation Ambrose Lancy, Chest, paid commutation W. D. Herrington, Johnstown, paid commutation Hiram Herrington, Johnstown, election mother Sylvester Little, Loretto, disability Henry Fick, Munster, unsuitableness age William Carroll, Washington, unsuitableness age Philip Farren, Munster, disability John G. Kaylor, Munster, father, motherless child Geo. M’Culloch, Munster, paid commutation John H. Kennedy, Washington, disability William Brown, Washington, only son, widow Peter Hellsehein, Chest, paid commutation John Divor, Munster, disability John Carroll, Washington, only son, widow John Steinbiser, Ebensburg, disability David F. M’Cartney, Washington, father, motherless children James A. Brown, Munster, paid commutation John W. Gillespie, Summerhill, disability James Christ, Munster, election by father Samuel F. Noel, Munster, election by father Michael M’Call, Washington, only son, widow Patrick Bradley, Washington, alienage Francis O’Hara, Munster, disability James Myers, Washington, disability Charles O’Hara, Munster, paid commutation John Itel, Washington, paid commutation William Brown, Washington, only son, widow Thomas Lego, Munster, paid commutation James S. Luckett, Carroll, only son, aged parents William Behe, Washington, furnished substitute Henry Shultz, Carroll, furnished substitute John Roland, Washington, paid commutation William Durbin, Washington, paid commutation Thomas Boland, Washington, non-residence Samuel Mowery, Wilmore, unsuitableness age George Dieopp, Summerhill, disability James Skelly, Summerhill, only son, widow William Kick, Summerhill, only son, infirm parents Lewis E. Dilahunt, Wilmore, paid commutation Albert Wilson, Croyle, only son, widow Aaron Sherbine, Croyle, paid commutation Joseph Plummer, Croyle, furnished substitute Daniel C. Morris, Johnstown, paid commutation William Neff, Croyle, only son, infirm parents J. B. Piper, Summerhill, disability Daniel K. Davis, Summerhill, paid commutation Woodburn Benson, Summerhill, disability John Litzinger, Summerhill, unsuitable age William W. Porter, Summerhill, asthma William Smay, Summerhill, disability Michael Skelly, Summerhill, disability William Clossin, Summerhill, disability Michael Hammers, Summerhill, disability Joseph Martz, Summerhill, disability Jesse H. Diamond, Summerhill, only son, infirm parents John Dougherty, Ebensburg, disability Bernard Conly, Summerhill, paid commutation Richard Roberts, Summerhill, paid commutation N. S. George, Croyle, disability Joseph Knepper, Croyle, non-residence John Bomhopt, Richland, paid commutation Daniel Varner, Richland, paid commutation Hiram Shaffer, Richland, substitute in service 3d March David C. Strayer, Richland, disability William Noon, Conemaugh, disability George Huntley, Ebensburg, disability Daniel Bumgardner, Richland, disability Isaac Orris, Richland, disability David W. Harshberger, Richland, paid commutation J. B. Fyock, Richland, paid commutation Charles Helsel, Richland, paid commutation David Stull, Richland, paid commutation Levi Wingart, Richland, unsuitable age Manassas Miller, Richland, paid commutation Peter Follmer, Richland, paid commutation Jacob Grumling, Richland, unsuitable age Joshua Helsel, Richland, only son, infirm parents Levi C. Lehman, Richland, paid commutation John Bumgardner, Richland, disability John O’Harra, Richland, disability Christian Myers, Richland, paid commutation George Fye, Richland, paid commutation Christian Bumgardner, Richland, paid commutation George Custer, Richland, paid commutation John Orris, Richland, paid commutation Samuel Burkhart, Jackson, disability James M. Signer, Jackson, disability Jonathan Wissinger, Richland, paid commutation Samuel Varner, Richland, paid commutation Joseph H. Livingston, Richland, paid commutation David Costlow, Richland, paid commutation Edward Lynch, Richland, paid commutation [Signed] J. D. Campbell, Capt. & Pro. Mar. ---------------------------------------------------------------- MARRIAGES Farnsworth-Lloyd Married in White township, this county, on the 19th ult., by Rev. T. Van Scoyoc, Mr. Henry T. Farnsworth to Miss Lizzie T. Lloyd. (Cambria TRIBUNE please copy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Thomas J. Clay Thomas J. Clay, youngest son of Colonel Henry Clay of Buena Vista fame, died on the 12th inst., at Atlanta, of congestive fever. He was Inspector on Buckner’s staff. Peter Murphy >From Local Correspondence Johnstown, Nov. 2, 1863 Another of those sad accidents which for a moment pale the cheek of the gay and thoughtless, but which to the ardent Christian are but instances of the insecure tenure by which human life is held and the necessity of being always prepared for sudden death, occurred here on Thursday last. A miner, named Peter Murphy, while at work on that morning, was instantly killed by a mass of coal falling upon him. His head was crushed to a jelly and his brains scattered among the coal. It is but a short time since the deceased recovered from a similar accident – the coal falling upon his leg and badly fracturing it. He was much esteemed by his acquaintances and leaves a wife and large family to mourn his untimely fate. Ephraim Buck >From Local Correspondence Johnstown, Nov. 2, 1863 Ephraim Buck, formerly our post master, and a most estimable citizen, died at his residence on Saturday, after a short illness. 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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, October 29, 1863 Volume 5, Number 5 NEWS Local and Personal The Hollidaysburg REGISTER has been purchased by John Dean, Esq., Internal Revenue Assessor for this district, by whom it will hereafter be conducted. Mr. Dean has our best wishes for the success of his new enterprise and we extend him a cordial welcome in the fraternity. We understand that Mr. William H. Sechler of Ebensburg has been appointed Clerk to the County Commissioners of this county vice Mr. John Lloyd. The latter gentleman loves the welfare of his county more than his party – a state of affairs which quickly determined the new Board to cut off his head although he had served the people with eminent ability during the past year. Presbyterian Synod The Pittsburg Synod of the Presbyterian Church met in Johnstown on Tuesday, 20th inst. Over one hundred ministers and elders were present. Dr. W. D. Howard of the 2d Church, Pittsburg, last Moderator, preached the opening sermon, from the text, “For in the last days perilous times shall come.” This discourse was an eloquent one, full of piety and self-sacrifice, avoiding no topic of the day, but setting forth fearlessly the duty of the ministry and the church in these perilous times. The Synod was organized by the election of Rev. Richard Lee of Lawrenceville, Allegheny county, Moderator, and Rev. A. O. Miller, temporary Clerk. A narrative of the state of religion within the bounds of the Synod was read by Dr. Jacobus. The exercises throughout the entire session were of a highly interesting nature. 300,000 Volunteers Called For The following is the President’s proclamation calling for 300,000 volunteers to take the place of those soldiers whose term of service will expire the coming spring and summer: “Whereas, The term of service of part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year and whereas in addition to the men raised by the present draft, it is deemed expedient to call out 300,000 volunteers to serve three years or the war, not, however exceeding three years, now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States and Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy thereof and of the militia of the several States, when called into actual service, do issue this my proclamation, calling up the Governors of the different States to raise and have enlisted in the service, for the companies and regiments in the field from their respective States, their quota of 300,000 men. I further proclaim that all the volunteers thus called out and duly enlisted shall receive the advance pay, premium and bounty as heretofore communicated to the Governors of the States by the War Department, through the Provost Marshall General’s Office by special letters. I further proclaim that all volunteers raised under this call as well as all others not heretofore credited, shall be duly credited and deducted from the quotas established for the next draft I further proclaim that if any State shall fail to raise the quota assigned to it by the War Department under this call, than a draft for the deficiency of said quota shall be made in said State, or in the districts of said State, for their due proportion of said quota, and the said draft shall commence on the fifth day of January, 1864. I further proclaim that nothing in this proclamation shall interfere with existing orders or those which may be issued for the present draft in the Sates where it is now in progress or where it has not yet commenced. The quotas of the States and districts will be assigned by the War Department through the Provost Marshall General’s office, due regard being had for the men heretofore furnished by volunteering or drafting, and the recruiting will be conducted in accordance with such instructions as have been or may be issued by that Department. In issuing this proclamation I address myself not only to the Governors of the several States, but also to the good and loyal people thereof, invoking them to lend their cheerful, willing and effective aid to the measures thus adopted with a view to reinforce our victorious armies now in the field and bring our military operations to a prosperous end, and thus closing forever the fountains of sedition and cruel war. In witness whereof, I have herein set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 17th day of October A. D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States, the 88th. By the President, Abraham Lincoln Wm. H. Seward, Sec’y. of State Exceptions from the Draft The following is an abstract of exemptions granted to Drafted Persons by the Board of Enrollment of the 17th District, Pennsylvania, during the week ending October 10, 1863, with the cause of exemption stated in each case: Patrick Mealey, Allegheny, disability Benedict Hight, Allegheny, disability Anthony Hoffman, Allegheny, disability Gallitzin Christy, Allegheny, disability Francis A. Gibbons, Allegheny, non-residence Michael Vauaner, Loretto, alienage John G. Luke, Loretto, only son aged and infirm parents John Bannan, Allegheny, disability Peter Rispan, Allegheny, only son of infirm parents Philip Downey, Allegheny, non-residence Nicholas O’Conner, Loretto, alienage James Will, Allegheny, disability John A. Storm, Allegheny, disability Martin Waltz, Allegheny, only son of infirm parents Jas. C. M’Mullin, Allegheny, unsuitableness age Jacob L. Buck, Allegheny, paid commutation William Becher, Allegheny, paid commutation Earhart Perrenbaugh, Allegheny, paid commutation Edward Kehoe, Allegheny, only son of infirm parents John Griffin, Allegheny, paid commutation James Bowe, State of Maine, non-residence A. F. M’Connell, Allegheny, paid commutation Michael Fichtner, Allegheny disability Sylvester A. Paris, Allegheny, paid commutation Caleb Douglas, Allegheny, asthma John Shank, Allegheny, paid commutation John Walters, Allegheny, unsuitableness age John Bruce, Allegheny, paid commutation David Koons, Allegheny, unsuitableness age Charles Drass, Allegheny, paid commutation Thomas Pollard, Allegheny, disability Lewis Beecher, Allegheny, paid commutation Jacob Creamer, Allegheny, unsuitableness age Samuel Shart, Allegheny, disability Peter Smegler, Allegheny, paid commutation Martin Beck, Carrolltown, disability Thomas L. Parish, Allegheny, paid commutation Charles Miller, Allegheny, paid commutation Jos. M’Gough, Washington, disability Patrick Moreland, Allegheny, paid commutation W. Tomlinson, Allegheny, paid commutation Henry P. M’Ateer, Allegheny, paid commutation John F. Will, Allegheny, paid commutation William Christy, Allegheny, paid commutation Christ Eckenrode, Allegheny, unsuitableness age Joseph Noel, Blair County, non-residence Christ Carlheim, Carrolltown, unsuitable age Joseph Shearner, Carrolltown, paid commutation Henry Horn, Carrolltown, in service 3d March Patrick Murray, Carrolltown, paid commutation John Yohner, Carrolltown, paid commutation William Wentz, Carrolltown, disability Philip Barnhart, Carrolltown, paid commutation Bernard Carlheim, Carrolltown, paid commutation George Schettig, Carrolltown, disability L. Goss, Carrolltown, unsuitableness age John Campbell, Jr. Carrolltown, paid commutation Sebastian Sibert, Carrolltown, paid commutation Charles Freightner, Carrolltown, paid commutation Clement Fresh, Carrolltown, paid commutation John A. Kennedy, Carrolltown, loss left leg Fred Brininger, Carrolltown, two brothers in service John Bookemyer, Carrolltown, unsuitableness age Martin A. Miller, Carroll, disability Anthony Mothier, Carroll, only son aged parents Henry Staltz, Carroll, unsuitableness age Peter Bertram, Carroll, only son aged parents Casper Smith, Carroll, disability Anthony Litz, Carroll, disability John Nitzel, Carroll, only son aged parents William Nagle, Carroll, disability John Wertner, Carroll, disability Amos Rupert, Carroll, disability Adam Staltz, Carroll, paid commutation Daniel M’Dunn, Carroll, disability Alexander Sinclair, Carroll, paid commutation John M’Hugh, Carroll, only son widow John Paley, Carroll, only son, widow Archibald Smith, Carroll, only son aged parents Martin Seymour, Carroll, disability Leander Strong, Carroll, disability Daniel Buck, Carroll, paid commutation Henry J. Eckenrode, Carroll, paid commutation Christian Luther, Carroll, paid commutation Charles E. Evans, Johnstown, non-resident John Ott, Carroll, paid commutation Jacob Wildman, Carroll, alienage William Day, Carroll, disability Joseph Worthner, Carroll, paid commutation John Shilling, Carroll, paid commutation William M’Nulty, Carroll, paid commutation Justus Apple, Carroll, disability John H. Berkey, Carroll, paid commutation William P. Buck, Carroll, paid commutation Fietus Phiester, Carroll, paid commutation Henry Sutton, Carroll, disability Silas Byrne, Susquehanna, paid commutation Adam Bowers, Chest, disability Peter Beck, Susquehanna, paid commutation Albert M’Cawley, Susquehanna, paid commutation David Keith, Susquehanna, disability John M’Donald, Susquehanna, paid commutation John Buck, Susquehanna, unsuitableness age John W. Leamer, Susquehanna, paid commutation Joseph Hilbrieck, Chest, unsuitableness age Francis J. Baker, Susquehanna, paid commutation Mathias Shortenkerchner, Susquehanna, only son, widow Joseph Wilson, Susquehanna, paid commutation William Gray, Carroll, non-residence Walker Westover, Susquehanna, paid commutation Jacob Glosser, Chest, unsuitableness age Thos. Kirkpatrick, Chest, disability Joseph Towle, Chest, paid commutation Jos. A. Elliott, Susquehanna, disability Osborne A. M’Keen, Susquehanna, paid commutation Levi Nagle, Susquehanna, paid commutation George Yager, Chest, only son, widow James A. Ryan, Chest, paid commutation Levi Blouse, Susquehanna, paid commutation Jacob Jones, Chest, paid commutation Conrad Yager, Chest, paid commutation John D. Leamer, Susquehanna, paid commutation. [Signed] J. D. Campbell, Capt. and Prv. 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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, September 17, 1863 Volume 4, Number 51 NEWS Local and Personal Owing to a physical disability resulting from a wound received at the second battle of Bull Run, Lieut. Rollie M. Jones of Co. A, 11th Penna. Reserves, has been transferred to the Invalid Corps. We did not learn the rank assigned him. In the list of contributions to the United States Christian Commission (army) for the month of August, we notice the Presbyterian Church of this place credited with the sum of $21.00. The money could not have been better invested. Excursion tickets to the Mass Meeting. Do not fail to attend the grand Union Mass Meeting to be held in Ebensburg tomorrow, - Thursday, 17th. With commendable liberality, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company has consented to issue excursion tickets to those desiring to be present, good for two days, the 17th and 18th. Come and bring your friends with you. Owing to a press of business, the examination of the conscripts of this county, we understand, has been deferred for the period of nearly a month – that is to say, until about the middle of October. This fact will necessitate the serving of other notices upon Abraham’s chosen, informing them of the lucky procrastination in their favor. A Card Philadelphia, August 15, 1863 At a stated meeting of the members of the Cooper Shop Volunteers Refreshment Saloon, it was unanimously resolved to tender Mr. James R. Cooper of Summerhill, Cambria county, a vote of thanks for his kindness in forwarding to your institution a lot of poultry and eggs, which were received in perfect order and duly appreciated. Respectfully, Wm. M. Maull, Sec’y. Promoted It gives us much pleasure to announce that Adjt. R. A. M’Coy of the 11th Penna. Reserves, has been promoted to the Majority of the regiment to which he belongs, vice Major Speer, resigned. “Bob” has been a soldier since the very outbreak of the rebellion and has participated in all of the many battles in which the Reserves were engaged. He has always done his duty gallantly and well, reflecting honor alike upon himself and his native county. May his future career, like his past, be upward. On the Muscle A refreshing row occurred in Johnstown a few days since. A recruiting officer, named Sharrer, got into a difficulty with some of the Copperheads of that gay and festive burg concerning the arrest of a supposed deserter by the former. At first the affair was confined to words, but it soon took the guise of blows. A general “pitch in” fight ensued. The recruiting officer’s friends were on the ground in force and the Copperheads were also well represented; so the “pitch in” was on rather an extensive scale than otherwise. Pistols were drawn, brickbats propelled, rude knocks administered and biting and gouging given and taken with a hearty good will. No one was seriously injured, however, in the melee and – all is quiet once more on the Stony Creek. Com’th. Vs. James J. Kaylor The case which excited the most interest at our Quarter Sessions last week was that of the Commonwealth vs. James J. Kaylor, Steward of the Cambria County Poor House. This was an action for assault and battery, alleged to have been committed in June last, upon the person of one Richard M’Williams, the prosecutor, a pauper and inmate of the Poor House. The facts of the case as elicited by the evidence of the prosecutor, we believe to be substantially as follows: Kaylor, for some alleged infraction of the rules of the Poor House on the part of M’Williams, in June, made an assault on the latter, precipitating him to the floor, kicking him in several places, choking him and otherwise doing him bodily harm. Altho’ the province of the Steward to inflict certain descriptions of punishment upon refractory paupers was not denied, this exercise of brute force was thought to transcend his authority in the premises. Accordingly action was brought to determine wither knocking down and dragging out was in order in the Poor House. The case occupied a couple of days in its trial and many facts relative to the inside workings of the Poor House were brought to light, which, if strictly true, reflect no little discredit upon those in power in and about that institution. Eminent counsel was employed on both sides and no stone was left unturned to prove the guilt and innocence, respectively of the defendant. Although the evidence of the prosecutor on some points was pretty full and his story of wrong and oppression confirmed to a certain extent by the evidence of others, still it was thought insufficient for the conviction of Mr. Kaylor. After a retiracy to their private room for about an hour, the jury returned with a verdict of not guilty, but that the defendant pay half the costs. In his charge to the jury, the Judge laid down the maxim that the application by Mr. Kaylor, or any other man, of any unnecessary amount of force to compel obedience to the requirements of the Poor House regulations – all unnecessary or excessive or too finely wrought demonstrations of a physical character – the unmerciful beating and disfiguring of a fellow man – constituted assault and battery – which is not only law but common sense. The evidence against Mr. Kaylor was given principally by inmates of the Poor House. We rejoice that Mr. Kaylor – a Cambria County public official – has thus been vindicated from the charges preferred against him. Had the result been otherwise – had he been convicted on the evidence of M’Williams and the others – then indeed would he have been proven and written down a tyrant – “Whose withering influence ran Through all the influence of the mind, And smote and mildewed man.” >From a Distance The Bedford INQUIRER pays the following merited compliment to a gentleman with whom the majority of our readers are well acquainted: “We notice that our old friend, Capt. Litzinger, of Belsano, Cambria Co., is an independent candidate for Register and Recorder of that county. We don’t know any one that we would sooner see elected than the Captain. He certainly has the qualifications to make a splendid officer. We hope to be able to record his election, although a Democrat, by an overwhelming majority.” >From Our Volunteers Letter from the 13th Penna. Cavalry Their Present Location, Prospects, etc. Camp Curtin Sept. 10, 1863 Inasmuch as some of your old patrons and acquaintances are members of our company and seeing that we have left those behind who are not altogether indifferent to our welfare, I have thought proper to drop you these lines. Some time during the early part of the summer, the War Department issued an order for the consolidation of the companies composing the 13th Penna. Cavalry and for the recruiting of a new battalion. A great many of the mountaineers of little Cambria quitted the peaceful pursuits of home and joined this new battalion, and are now soldiers of the Union in quest of traitors. They are all practiced marksmen and will no doubt do good execution when they are afforded an opportunity to “draw a bead” on the enemy. We will not receive our horses and equipments until we go to Alexandria, Va., from whence we will be immediately sent to the front – where every true soldier wants to be. It were folly for a man to start soldiering for three years without making up his mind to do a little fighting. Our battalion are the only occupants of the camp at present. It is rumored that we will soon take up the line of march, when Camp Curtin, will have become effectually played out. The Cambria boys are all in the enjoyment of excellent health. [Signed] Leander War News Maj. Gen. B. F. Butler has been prevailed upon by the Union State Central Committee to visit this State and address the people upon the issues involved in the pending canvass. The latest and best news is that Maine has gone overwhelmingly Union. Her State election was held on Monday. The Government bounty of $402 now given to recruits entering the regular army will be stopped on the 25th of September. Maj. Gen. Burnside has sent his resignation to the President. It is supposed that he determined upon this course very soon after taking command of his present Department; and having won brilliant and enduring laurels in his campaign in East Tennessee, he finds this a proper time to retire with honor to himself and without especial detriment to the service. Burnside has possession of Knoxville and Rosecrans of Chattanooga. This frees Eastern Tennessee from rebel thralldom and the permanent occupation of these places will be a death blow to the Confederacy. The siege of Charleston progressed favorably. Morris Island has been evacuated by the rebels and our guns now command the city at easy range. The fate of the “cradle of the Rebellion” is settled beyond a peradventure. Loretto Stage Line Wm. Ryan & Jos. F. Durbin This way for Loretto, Chest Springs and St. Augustine. The subscribers wish to inform the traveling public that they are now prepared to furnish them with HACKS, CARRIAGES and every other accommodation in their line of business. They will run a daily hack from Loretto to Cresson, to connect with the different trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Ebensburg and Cresson Branch. They will also run a tri-weekly hack to Chest Springs and St. Augustine on Monday, Thursday and Saturday of each week. This is the only sure conveyance on the road as it carries the mail and will always make the connection. Inquire for Ryan & Durbin’s Hack if you wish to be accommodated. Ryan & Durbin Loretto, August 10, 1863 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MARRIAGES Humes-Fick Married on Wednesday evening, 9th inst., at the Scott House, Johnstown, by Rev. A. C. EHRENFELDT, Mr. James G. Humes and Miss Anna M. Fick, both of Cresson, this county. Our young friends, the bride and groom have our warmest wishes for their future prosperity. May they live forever and their lives be merry as long. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS A Sad Occurrence We clip the following from the Johnstown TRIBUNE: On Sunday morning, 6th inst, a little son of Levi Holland, residing in the part of Johnstown known as Hornerstown, while driving the family cow to the pasture field by a rope around her horns tied the other end of the rope around his body and as the two thus proceeded, the cow from some cause became frightened and ran, throwing the boy down and dragging him for some distance over a rough road. When found he was still tied to the cow and so shockingly mangled and bruised as to be scarcely alive. There are several versions of the cause of the cow’s fright – one that he attempted to ride the cow, another that his hat blew off and frightened her and another that he stumped his toe and fell and thus startled her – but as there was no one with him at the time, and nobody saw the occurrence, and he was unable to speak for himself, the cause or causes leading to it are left to conjecture. The little fellow lingered in unconsciousness until about three o’clock Monday morning, when death relieved him of his suffering. He was aged about twelve years. Fatal Accident A man named William Coulter, a resident of Summitville, this county, was instantly killed near Johnstown on Saturday last by falling off a freight train in full motion. He fell upon the track, several cars passing over him and literally cutting him to pieces. His remains were taken to Summitville on Sunday and interred. 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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, September 10, 1863 Volume 4, Number 50 NEWS Local and Personal We noticed a goodly number of men with well developed “bricks” in their hats perambulating the streets on Tuesday. Whether or not this bad old state of affairs was a consequence of the “Great Democratic Mass Meeting” held that day we are unprepared to say. We might aggravate some of our readers, you know, by telling the truth, the whole truth, etc. Our new Market House was opened to the public on Tuesday of this week, instead of Saturday. Of course it will prove a great “institution.” The Johnstown Iron Company gives notice that hereafter their monthly payments to their workmen will be made in cash instead of scrip. The drafted men of this county have been notified to appear at Huntingdon during the last eight days of the present month for examination. The attendance at Court this week is unusually small. No business of importance that we are aware of is to be transacted. Thrilling Adventure at Camp Meeting Pistols versus Patriotism A little incident, strongly suggestive of the Border Ruffian reign of terror in Kansas, recently transpiring in the extreme northern section of this county, has come to our knowledge which we give our readers as it was told to us. On last Sunday week, at a camp meeting held in Chest township, Rev. A. J. Hartsock, formerly Chaplain of the 133d Penna. Vols., preached a sermon. The sermon was an able effort, attentively listened to by a large congregation and no doubt productive of much good. In the course of his remarks the worthy divine took occasion to touch briefly upon National affairs. He merely mentioned the fact of the existence of a war, expressed sympathy with the cause of Union and Liberty and prayed that the Rebellion might speedily be brought to a close. This, it seems, was not in exact accordance with the peculiar view of six ruffians present, who, so soon as reference had been made to our distracted condition as a nation, each drew a pistol and marching down the aisle to the front of the pulpit, swore that “politics shouldn’t be preached thar, no how!” Their deportment then became most execrable. They brandished their pistols, cursed the “Abolitionists,” denounced the war and generally made contemptible fools of themselves. Rev. H., however, was not in the least daunted by the formidable array of gleaming barrels present at his breast, descended from the pulpit and after reading the cowardly ruffians a severe lecture on the enormity of the offense of attempting to muzzle the preaching of the work of God and of threatening the life of a fellow man, commanded them to withdraw and mar no more the harmony of the proceedings. Completely cowed or else thoroughly ashamed of themselves, they saw fit to comply; and Rev. H. re-ascended the pulpit and finished his discourse without the omission of a single sentiment he had intended giving utterance to in the first place. Thus, by the firmness of one man, assisted by God’s providence, were the counsels of the wicked turned into confusion and a scene of violence and bloodshed perhaps prevented. These six men - we have not their names or we would certainly publish them – had made their threats prior to the meeting that no Union sentiments would be suffered to be enunciated and were fully armed to back up their threats by deeds. Cowards at heart, however, they succumbed to the superior determination of one man unarmed at that and slunk away unabashed. And thus always does Right overcome Might. Improvement Not content with one road to the railroad depot, our borough authorities are now busily at work, or, rather, their deputies are, with pick and shovel, grading Julian street from the Logan House southward. Although the grade to be overcome is extremely heavy, it is supposed this will, when finished, prove a better route to the depot than the other. At least it will be a great accommodation and convenience to the business portion of the people of the West Ward, through which it passes. “Mr. President,” said a Western legislator, when a bill relative to the viewing of a road was before the honorable body of which he was a member, “Mr. President, I am in favor of all roads except – except – except the road to ruin.” So are we. List of Letters Remaining in the Post Office, Ebensburg, Pa., up to September 1st, 1863: Maria Arthur, 2 Joseph Burns E. S. Beatty John Bup Mrs. Sallie Bowen Frank Curry Enoch Davis Y. E. Davis James Davis, Sr. Miss Jane Evans Miss Eliza Evans Miss Catharine Fluke John T. Harris David C. Jones J. Jones Eliza Jones David M. Jones William Jones Mrs. Mary A. Jones Anna Cambill Miss Mattie Lewis Israel Morgan T. J. Nelson Alex Patterson Mrs. Mary M. Rager, 2 Miss Cath. Rager, 2 Mrs. Susana Rager, 2 John H. Refenbarger Mrs. Mollie J. Roberts Hugh E. Roberts D. Rowlands, Miller Elias Rowland A. J. Reese Miss Emma Sheror Leroy Sharp, 2 Mrs. Mary Shoemaker Margaret Thomas Anna J. Wilson Barbara Waner Wm. J. Griffith John A. Kinady John Thompson, P. M. Persons calling for the above letters will please say they are advertised. September 10, 1863 ------------------------------------------------------------------ DEATHS Edward Davis Died on Thursday, 3d inst., at the residence of his parents, in Blacklick township, Edward Davis, aged about 26 years. The disease of the deceased was typhoid fever, contracted in the service of the United States. He had belonged to Co. A, 11th Penna. Reserves, from its organization over two years ago up to within six months since when he was discharged. He bears the reputation of having been an estimable young man and a good soldier. A martyr in the sacred cause of liberty, may his memory live forever. Margaret Jane Jones Died on Tuesday, 1st inst., of diphtheria, Margaret Jane, daughter of David D. and Mary Jones, Cambria twp., aged 6 years, 8 months and one day. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, September 3, 1863 Volume 4, Number 49 NEWS Local and Personal John Brotherline has vacated the tripod of the Hollidaysburg WHIG in favor of Wm. A. B. Satterfield. Both editors, the outgoing and incoming, have our warmest wishes for their material and spiritual prosperity. Since the rains of last week, the dog-days have been at an end. The weather now, especially in the evenings is extensively cool, strongly suggestive of “two in a bed and spoon fashion.” Our old friend, Hen. M’Pike, of Altoona, we notice, has been so fortunate as to draw a prize in the last draft for Blair county. Sympathetically yours &c. Lloyd’s Cemetery One day last week we paid a visit to this spot of “hallowed ground” and were really astonished at the want of improvement and good taste therein manifest. The entire enclosure has been suffered to grow up in noxious weeds and brambles, until now it presents the appearance, almost, of a howling wilderness. About the only features which redeem it from this imputation are the imposing shafts and stones that mark the last resting places of mortals who have put on immorality and the grassy mounds that cover them. All the rest is “disorder redeemed.” This, in a public cemetery – a cemetery within the confines of which many of us expect to be laid for our last rest – is a wrong state of affairs. A decent response for the memory of relatives and friends who have “gone before” should make it incumbent upon us to cause the place to be beautified and adorned. Outward professions and demonstrations may not generally be considered to constitute a very reliable criterion of that which one really practices or feels; but where one beautifies the tomb of a father, or mother or sister or brother, or friend, - wreaths a chaplet or plants a shrub or drops of flowers upon the same – it is strong presumptive evidence that he bears within his bosom a recollection of the virtues of the deceased and of the sorrow of his bereavement. Death, in his most inviting aspect, is repulsive. But his coming may not be deferred. He levels alike at his own good time, the high and the low, the rich and the poor, the learned and the unlearned – all. We can only, therefore, chant a sorrowful song at his each succeeding visitation and put on outward manifestations of grief and mourning. One of these manifestations and a fit, is a proper beautifying of the spot wherein is enclosed the cast off casket of a never dying soul. By a judicious system of adornment, the Cemetery might be made to prove an attraction to draw us, once in a time, from the allurements of pleasure and the perplexities of business, to hold solemn, instructive communion with the dead. And thus, the lesson might be impressed upon our unwilling souls that we, too, some day, must be called upon to become an inmate of some city of the dead – warning us to prepare ourselves for the change from corruptible to incorruptible, “before it be forever too late.” A sequestered spot on a gentle eminence, where the pure winds of heaven kiss the dewy fragrance from off the grassy mounds and the solemn old forest is continually sending forth requiems for departed worth, the natural location and surroundings of the Cemetery are unsurpassable. What is needed is a little artificial aid. Let the weeds and brambles be rooted out; let grass plots and flowers spring up in the stead; let the willow and evergreen be allowed to rear their heads; open out carriage drives and foot walks; give the enclosure a thorough renovation and overhauling - let these and any other improvements which may suggest themselves be performed and then, and not until then, will Lloyd’s Cemetery fully answer the purpose for which it was intended. Inasmuch as these proposed improvements would necessarily involve considerable expense and as the sum total thereof might prove an insuperable obstacle to the perfecting of the same by the association having the Cemetery in charge, it strikes us that a good course to pursue in the premises would be to lift a public collection. No one, at least no one who has a relative or friend interred therein, would refuse to donate a small sum for the purpose herein indicated. A Great Public Benefit It is about finished! The last board has been properly adjusted, the last nail driven in and clinched, the last coating of paint administered – almost: We are speaking of our New Market House. This structure after a couple of months of severe mental and physical labor has been bro’t to such a pitch of perfection that although not yet quite perfection, it has been deemed advisable to open its doors for the purpose of trade and traffic in all and singular the edibles known as beef and butter, poultry and potatoes, country cheese and cucumbers, apples, artichokes, eggs, black and all other kinds of berries, cabbage, green corn, bologna sausage, pennyroyal tea leaves, fresh fish, beans &c., &c., too numerous to mention, but which the palate of an epicure will not fail to properly appreciate – to open its doors to the public, we were going to say, on next Saturday morning. To those who have suffered in sorrow and silence, the difficulties attendant at one time upon procuring a nice cut of beefsteak or a fresh roll of butter or a dozen or two newly-laid eggs – who have trudged from one extreme of town to the other, in doubt and uncertainly, as to the final success of their mission – who have paid double prices at one store by reason of not knowing that the same article was sold cheaper at another – to all such unfortunates this announcement of a grand central rendezvous where all that is required to tickle the palate may be found, prices compared and the pick and choice of the lot accumulated, will in itself be sufficient to cause a deep seated and utterly inexpressible feeling of thanksgiving and rejoicing. We rejoice in common with the rest, for, we are but human. Our bosom boils over with sentiment of intense love and things for our City Fathers in that when their term of office expires and they retire to the shades of private life, they will leave as a monument to commemorate their good deeds, officially speaking, this Great Public Benefit – on wood, painted yellow – the aforesaid Market House. The structure itself which justly lays claim to considerable pretensions to architectural beauty and finish is located on Sample street, immediately adjoining the premises of M. Hasson, Esq. Those journeying thereunto from the West Ward will strike off in a northerly direction at Centre street for the distance of one square then west one square; those from the East Ward will ascend Julian street one square, thence east same distance – arriving, if these directions be strictly followed, at the Market House in due course of time. Of course should any citizen prefer to vary the route here laid down by driving into dark alleys and the like, he is at liberty to do so. When the rules and regulations of the guidance of the concern are made public, we will present them to our readers. In the meantime we tender our congratulations to the public at large at this happy metamorphosis of an uncertainty into a certainty and offer a silent prayer in behalf of the man who first broached the idea of a Market House for Ebensburg. The Union Schools The examination of applicants for the public Schools of this borough was held here on Monday afternoon last by Co. Supt. Condon, resulting in the selection of the following named teachers: School No. 1: Samuel Singleton – salary $35.00 per month. No. 2: Edward D. Evans – salary $28.00; No. 3: Daniel W. Evans – salary $28.00; No. 4: Mrs. Clark – salary $20.00. Seven applicants were examined. The Schools will open next Monday morning, 7th inst, for an eight months’ term. $300 Commutation Money: How it Can be Paid For the information of those of our readers who have been drafted and desire to pay commutation money, we are authorized by Mr. Royer, Collector of the District, to state that he will be at Huntingdon during the examination for the whole District. The money can be deposited in any of the Banking Houses in the District, in the name of the person making the deposit and the certificate will be received by the Collector at Huntingdon in preference to money. Persons who do not intend to stand an examination need not, necessarily, go to Huntingdon. The certificate of deposit can be sent to Mr. Royer’s address at Huntingdon and he will furnish the Board of Enrollment with the necessary receipts and forward the discharge to the address of the person sending him the certificate. Persons intending to stand an examination before paying the money should be prepared with the money or certificate so as to make immediate payment should their application for discharge on other grounds be rejected. Payment must be made in U. S. Treasury Notes. Pottstown Draft Among the peculiarities of the draft in Pottstown, this State, were the following: Five pairs of brothers were drafted out of the forty-six persons drawn. Of the bachelors in town, three, all of them over thirty-five years of age were drawn from the box in succession. The only colored man in the place subject to the first draft was taken. Out of a company of fifteen who had joined together as a kind of draft insurance association, each paying in $100, five were drafted, thus exactly “cleaning out” the company’s treasury. Important Decisions It has been decided by the Second Comptroller that when a pensioner re-enlists he forfeits pay in that capacity and cannot be again put upon the pension rolls except upon surgical re-examination and certificate of his disability. It has also been decided that a woman who abandoned her husband previous to his enlistment and married another is not entitled to the bounty belonging to the first husband if he died in the service. Judge Cadwalader of Philadelphia has decided that minors, under eighteen, cannot be held at all in military service, even with the consent of parents – that there is not anything in the acts of Congress to legalize the enlistment of minors under eighteen years. The Lawrence Massacre Our readers, the most of them, are no doubt familiar with tale of horror of the sacking and burning of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, by that fiend incarnate, the Rebel guerilla Quantrell and the inhuman massacre of its inhabitants. A band of mounted Missouri guerillas, numbering three hundred, under Quantrell, made a rapid and unexpected raid into Kansas week before last, burning and pillaging everything in their way. They reached Lawrence after nightfall, taking the city entirely by surprise. After pillaging the place and shooting down the citizens without regard to age or sex, the incendiary torch was applied and Lawrence - the principal city in the State – reduced to ashes. Many of the inhabitants are known to have perished in the flames. Two hundred and fifty dwelling houses and fifty business houses were destroyed and (to up to the latest accounts) one hundred and eighty-one persons killed! The details of the cold-blooded murder are horrible and almost beyond credence – the heart sickens at the revolting atrocities committed. Upon the departure of the murderers, a small force was immediately assembled by Gen. Jim Lane who gave pursuit to avenge the outrages committed by the death of each and every one of the fiends. Several collisions have occurred between the opposing forces, resulting in the killing of about eighty of Quantrell’s band; and now, the Rebel chief, fearing for his ultimate safety, has disbanded his gang and taken to the bush. Over three hundred horses and nearly all his ill-gotten plunder at Lawrence have been recaptured and the indications are that soon not a man of the gang will be left to “tell the tale.” The following extract from a private letter relative to the subject will be found interesting: Leavenworth, Kansas August 23, 1863 ****Of course you have seen by telegraph and the papers I sent you, an account of the inhuman massacre at Lawrence. I have heard no extenuating circumstances, no features which redeem it from an appearance of the most atrocious and cold-blooded massacre which has ever disgraced the annals of any country or any age. In barbarity it exceeds the Utah Silver Lake Butchery – the conduct of the Rebels can only find a parallel in the savage atrocities of Nena Sahib during the Indian revolt in 1857. Incidents of the murder come in so fast, and are so multiplied by new arrivals from the scene that it is impossible to give particulars. Hereafter the facts and incidents will be collated and published in lasting form, as an evidence of the degradation to which humanity may descend and that mankind claiming to be civilized, are even more barbarous and fiendish than the savages of the Southwest. Men were ruthlessly and remorselessly shot in their own doorways in the presence of their wives and children. They were pursued like beasts in the street and deliberately murdered and their bodies left where they fell to be either consumed in the fire or charred by the heat beyond recognition. A wail goes up from Lawrence today which will reach Heaven’s high throne and call down celestial vengeance upon the accursed destroyers of innocents and that wail will reverberate in the ears of a loyal people, knitting them more firmly in the deep resolve that never while a traitor lives, will they lay down the sword or cease to pursue, attack and destroy. Kansas can protect herself. She can administer like for like and unless the military arm of the Government is successfully interposed to protect her, she will again tie in the strength of her brave and free people, sound the tocsin of war and make in Missouri a track of fire and blood which shall be visible to the world and stand for ages in the record as a specimen of Kansas vengeance. The inhuman and atrocious aggregate bewilders and stupefies the senses and we can only wonder whither we are tending and try to remember when men, formed in the image of God, have been guilty of such infamous violations of the laws and usages of war. Embalming Embalming, which is coming much into practice of late is as follows: “The modern embalmer finds an artery into which he can place the nozzle of an injecting syringe. The artery in the upper part of the arm, called the brachial, or the artery in the neck, the carotid, answers the purpose. Into this artery, the embalming fluid is injected until it permeates every structure. The solution employed sometimes retains its fluidity; sometimes it is so constructed that while warm it is fluid but on cooling it sets and becomes more or less hard. After the injection the artery is closed, the opening through the skin is neatly sewn up and the operation is complete.” Public Sale: Doctor’s Office The undersigned will offer for sale, at the office lately occupied by Dr. John M. Jones in the borough of Ebensburg on Tuesday, September 15th inst., a well selected Medical Library, composed in part of the following works: 1 Vol. Dunglison’s Medical Dictionary 1 Vol. Harris’ Princ. And Practice of Dental Surgery 1 Vol. Richsen: The Science and Art of Surgery 2 Vols. Samuel D. Gross’ System of Surgery 1 Vol. Carpenter’s Physiology -Smith 1 Vol. United States Dispensatory. Wood & Bacher 1 Vol. Dickson’s Elements of Medicine 1 Vol. Mitchell’s Therapeutics 2 Vols. Woods’ Practice of Medicine 1 Vol. Neill and Smith’s Compound of Medicine Wilson’s Anatomy Also, a fine selection of Literary and Miscellaneous books. A full supply for a practicing physician of Medicines, Drugs &c., in labeled Vials, Bottles and Jars. Several dozen of empty vials. Also a full assortment of Dental Instruments. Together with a lot of Office Furniture &c. A Mare and Colt will be sold at the same time. Sale to commence at 1 o’clock P. M. Terms made known on day of sale. A reasonable credit will be given. George M. Reed, Adm’r. Ebensburg, September 1, 1863 --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Rebel Gen. The Rebel Gen. Pemberton died last week at Selma, Ala. The Senate of Alabama but a few days since passed resolutions of want of confidence in Pemberton and Holmes - both are dead. Holmes had been dead a fortnight before the sapient Senators lost confidence in him. Killed A boy about 16 years of age named John W. Plotner, son of Henry W. Plotner of Wilmore was so injured on Thursday the 20th at Wilmore, by the cars, that he lived only about three hours. He had been on the platform of a car when as the engine whistled off breaks he attempted to jump off, but falling under the wheels, the cars passed over his back. His remains were taken charge of by his father. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes where you go. On a PC, on the Web, on your phone. http://www.windowslive-hotmail.com/learnmore/versatility.aspx#mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_WL_HM_versatility_121208

The Draft for Cambria County – List of Names Drawn 25th Sub-District of the 17th Congressional District Allegheny, Loretto and Gallitzin: 204 names in the wheel and 62 drawn William Becker William Christy James Bone Nicholas Hank John Walker Nicolas O’Conner Benedict Hight Sylvester Little Urbanus Rigle Gallitzin Christy Patrick Mealey Jacob Bock James Wills Hugh Dougherty Martin Waltz John Bender Daniel Hanlon James C. M’Mullen John A. Storm William Douglass Michael F. Adams Thomas Rowland Elias Behey Englehart M’Connell Earhart Farabaugh John Gillin Jerome Wills Michael Fechler Francis Gibbins Thomas L. Parrish N. Ardrel Ansom J. Bradley Anthony Huffman Samuel A. Short Edward Kehoe Christian Echenrode John Huffman Jacob Cramer Michael Moore William Delancy Charles Miller Peter Brisband Sylvester Parrish John Shank Caleb Douglas Enos Becher William Levy John Bruce John Will Michael Vausner Patrick Moran Charles Tress John Walters John Bradley David Coons John G. Lake William Tumbleson John Bannan Peter Smelsor Philip Downey Henry M’Ateer 26th Sub-District Carroll Township and Carrolltown Borough 178 in wheel and 53 drawn: William P. Buck Joseph Sherow Alexander Sinclair Daniel L. Dumm Patrick Murray Leander Strong Christ Carlhein John Campbell Martin Seymour Philip Barnhart John Yoner Henry Horn Sebastian Sibert William Vance Joseph Werther Charles Feichner Daniel Buck George Shattick Cryst Luther Justic Apel Martin Beck Landling Goss John Burkey Martin A. Miller Lawrence Koontzman Anthony Meoler Frederick Rininger John Bookamyer Henry Eckenrode John A. Kennedy William Day Evan Abrams Archibald Smith Jacob Steger Phites Fiester John Hines Casper Smith Anthony Lyts Thomas Douglass Peter Wasser Henry Shultz Henry Stoltz Bernard Carlheim John Ott, Jr. Peter Bertram Adam Stoltz John Shilling John Wertner William J. Nagle Amos Rupert William McNulty Jacob Wedy Clemens Fresh John Nitzell 27th Sub-District Susquehanna and Chest Townships 139 names in the wheel and 39 drawn: Albert McCombie Peter Beck John McDonald Jacob Yoner Ambrose Lautzey Levi Nagle Anthony Noel John W. Lamer Adam Bowers David Keith Martin Gray Vincent Platt Peter Helistins John H. Lamer Francis I. Baker Joseph Towle Walker Westover Conrad Yager Henry Sutton George Yager John Beck John H. Lenhart Augustine Sutton Joseph Wilson Joseph Hibbs Mathias Shortenkerchner Charles McKinney Daniel McGlaughin Osburne McKeen Thomas Kirkpatrick William Gray Joseph A. Elliot William Fink Jacob Glosser Silas Byrne James Ryan Levi Blouse Joseph C. Steen John Waterson 28th Sub-District White and Clearfield Townships and Chest Springs Borough 208 names in the wheel and 67 drawn: James F. McMullen Adam Esch Harry Kinsal Dennis Cawley Edward Flanders John Krise John J. Burns William F. Riley James Trexler Samuel Coon John T. Peterson N. T. Holmes Daniel Fogelson Demetrius A. McDermitt John McFall John C. Hughes Gideon Byers James Hartzel John Bardine William Harkins Henry Foster David Westover Patrick Hagan Gideon Williamson David A. Watt Henry Shumo Daniel D. Brand Jacob Mahers Arthur Wheaton David Brown Frederick Ranstead William Frax Jacob Glass William Wharton Bernard Shipley Francis W. Poor Michael J. Dunegan Thomas Lovel Patrick Madden Joseph Troxell G. A. R. Barker John Sawer Silas Adams W. H. Green Daniel Mathers William Cohran Peter Flanagan James M. Towle Philip Edmiston Harrison Dood J. A. Urban Thomas Burns J. Benjamin Beers Andrew J. Hoover Michael Waltz Joseph Doyle James Diver Thomas T. Byrne John H. Stoner P. J. McKenzie James Lanzen Root Alexander Edmoston Jacob Witters John Conrad Henry George Henry F. Wagner 29th Sub-District Washington and Munster Townships and Summittsville Borough 147 names in the wheel and 54 drawn: John Dougherty James A. Brown Otho Biter David McCartney Thomas Bowland James Bane Lazarus Riggle Henry Fick Thomas Lago John Itel of Joseph John Biglin Joseph Sanders William Behey James Christ Stephen Rheuvern John W. Gillespie Thomas Donahoe George Bane William Durbin William Tiley Francis Donahoe John M’Gaughey John Carroll George McCullough Michael M’Call William Brown William J. Burk Samuel F. Nole Francis O’Haro Charles O’Haro Patrick Bradley Henry Conlogne Richard P. Sharp Charles Johnston James Myers John Bowland James S. Lucket Bernard Kerney William Carroll A. P. Miller Philip Farren Matthew M’Hugh George Lago John Dailey John Lily Francis Culliston Joseph M’Gough John Diver Christopher Reiscich F. L. George John H. Kennedy William Brown of John John G. Kaylor Jacob Warner 30th Sub-District Croyle and Summerhill Townships and Wilmore Boro 166 in wheel and 48 drawn: Henry Sharp George Dipp Bernard Connelly James McDunn Samuel Mowery Lewis E. Delahunt Daniel K. Davis Frank Mullin Daniel Longstreth Joseph Weiss Henry Sellers Jesse H. Diamond John McGough, Jr. Aron Sherbine James F. Skelly William Neff M. Lotz Wm. Smay Jno. Shorthill William S. Gillman Joseph Skelly of Michael J. D. Piper Joseph A. Knepper Stephen A. Dimond Sylvester Crum William J. Burke William W. Porter Joseph Plummer Daniel McGough Edward Lynch Woodburn Benson John Litzinger Adam George W. Coulter Charles Studt William Kick Matthew Mullin Augustus Chestnutwood Jesse Hines Michael Skelly William W. Clossin Edward Grew Joseph Martz N. S. George Michael F. Hammers Oliver Crum Albert Wilson Richard Roberts 31st Sub-District Richland Township 144 in wheel and 45 drawn: Charles Helsel Manassas Miller Isaac Orris Daniel Farren David Harshbarger John C. Smith Jacob Webb Syrus Brubaker Jacob Floch Franklin Rose Daniel Bumbgardner David Stull Samuel Horner Mathias Rively Levi P. Lehman August Kibler George Fye Alexander Otto David Cotlow Jacob Wendall Joseph Shirey Christian Bumbgardner Peter Fulmer Christian Mayer J. J. Barnhart John Noon Hiram Shaffer Josiah Helsel James Rose Daniel Varner George Custer John Orris Levi Wingard David C. Strayer Jonathan Wissinger Samuel Ripple John Noon John O’Harro John Bumbgardner David L. Gordon Emanuel Webb Samuel Varner Jacob Grumbling, Jr. John Shank Josiah Livingstone 32nd Sub-District Conemaugh, Taylor and Yoder Townships 239 names in the wheel and 79 drawn: William M’Celvy Henry Moose Philip E. Constable James Gallaher Sylvester Hildebrand John T. Cooney Robert Agey James M’Guire Jefferson Horner Levi Reighard Daniel Rheam Cyrus Griffith Richard Charleton Adolphus Frank William Noon Emanuel Plough Bracket Ayers Wesley Gossart Charles Vickroy William Patterson Thomas Herron Noah Moyers William Otto William Kelley Owen Boyle Isaac D. Plough David Custer John A. Cough Archibald Wissinger Harvey Horner Paul Symons James W. Decker John Burus Charles E. Wilson Samuel Fyock John Finigan Adam J. Strayer Samuel Ream, Jr. Henry Ream Tobias Stutzman John Listere John George Silas Goughnour F. D. Barry John J. Benshoof Levi Marse Ephriam Goughnour William Sherer Jacob R. Miller Jacob J. Strayer Daniel Noon Andrew Campbell John Baker George Heidlingsfelder Johnothan Eckel Christian Strayer William F. Coshun John A. Noon James Kelly David Berry Levi Edwards George Cann William Varner R. T. Anderson Samuel H. Harshberger Benjamin Benshoof John Utzler John E. Smith (colored) William M’Means David Hildeband Abram B. Angus Benjamin Kest Thomas Kinny John Katen Edmond Bishop Peter Adams Henry J. M’Cartney Patrick Murray George Ford 33d Sub-District Johnstown Borough, 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th Wards and Cambria Borough 417 names in the wheel and 144 drawn: Charles Zipp Sebastian Boxler Thos. Leadbeater Westley Wilson George Plitt Michael Fitzpatrick Peter Mullen Wm. Gelishart John M. Brady John Murray Lewis Wolf James Scott David Creed Bernard Keelin John D. Jones George Hoech James Croby G. H. Hite Michael Hevern George Wehn Charles Cartwright Henry Schnable Michael Gallagher Samuel Henry Andrew Glass Hugh McGrory Charles Fluber George S. Brubaker William J. Davis William A. Murray Atty. Jonothan Wolford Hiram Hawk Gale Heslop William Masterson Maximilliam Werdr Josue Foster Patrick Powers, Esq. Gotleip Bantley Augustus Dangers Isaac Ause (colored) William Dugans J---- Folson William Clark Downey Colp Evan Davis Jabes Constable John Murphy Bernard McDonald Roache B. McCabe Archibald Pane Henry Wounell Charles Fritsche John Trezise Charles Bowan Henry Fritz Samuel Kooker Jonothan Horner Philip Wendell William Eantertrout Henry McCloskey Richard Jones John James Patrick Moore John Burket John J. Fisher John Kearney Terrence Hughs George Reese John Cook William Neville Michael Finegan David Davis Godleip Leiberger Peter Mullin John W. Owans Thomas Bishop Patrick Corley Anthony Menelis Robert W. Hunt Douglas Wright William Boyd Henry Shearer John Williams Wilson Herrington Andrew Layton George Fritz Jacob Horner Thomas Scott George H. Wendell James Ford John Frank John Carroll Cornelius McAnany John James Charles Evan Cyrus E. Tittle Hiram Herrington Bernard Ward Henry Adamdofer Even W. Jones William Fritzgerald James Kean Henry Davis Patrick Kelly Benjamin Williams (colored) Henry Smith Harrison Gathagan William Slater Charles Frank Gustabus Boster Jeremiah Beam Adam Miller Peter Randolph Edward Carroll (colored) Henry Miller, Jr. Charles Warner Samuel W. Horner William Gardner Charles Plitt George R. Slick Charles Clayton George Kean Owen McCaffrey Cornelius Harkins Daniel Litzinger John Morphe William Dill John M. Davis Joseph McVey William Richards William Lewis Lewis Leitenbarger William Cadugan Daniel Fariss Richard Hitchings James M. Sinclair Martin Covy Jenkin Thomas David Sinzheimer J. A. Huffman Joseph John Raenhart John W. Morgan Fuches [as listed in the newspaper] David Jones 34th Sub-District 5th Ward Johnstown, Conemaugh and Milville Boroughs 382 names in the wheel and 115 drawn: Reese Edwards John Asquith Victor Voehtly David Hudson Henry Burns William Campbell Sebastian Boxler Adam Kemory Stephen Mackill John Carus Daniel O’Niel Henry Reed William Noland Charles Mahony Patrick Hannahan John Gore Robert Bowen William O’Brien John Crofe Robert Barkley Edward Connery James Downey J. Clark Beam David Livingstone Michael Ryan Patrick M’Cabe John Fry Adam Hemdzman David Kimmell John Purcell Levi B. Homberger Lewis Beauler James D. Clark Patrick Flynn John Sullivan Samuel Small Lewis Williams Andrew Zipp Patrick Duffy John Keiper John Cross John Darby Richard Lewis Frederick Kress George Holfetter John Williams John T. Horam Herman Coleman Frederick Proctor Benjamin Marsh David R. Stutzman Peter Keelan Hamilton P. M’Dowell Jacob Somers Michael Doran William F. Causer Michael O’Brien Patrick Dougherty Thomas Jennings Hiram Swank Leander Vaugh William D. M’Clellan Philip W. Walker Timothy Lanzy Joseph Berkeypile Frank Gilbert Henry S. Smith John M’Ghee John Satterlee James Kelley John Leif William A. Alter Michael Barry Edward Thomas August Zipp Daniel Laulegan George Stork James N. Rea Thomas Gorman John W. Haynes Rev. Peter M’Garbey Edward Dinges Benjamin Reese Joseph O’Brien Josiah Hudson Samuel Rhodes Thomas Judge John Q. O’Brien Bernard Riley John Fagan Casper Hertzburger Daniel M’Ginley Richard Ellis John Douse H. M. Lewis James Conely George W. Kuntz Harman Kleinmier Daniel C. Morris Bernard M’Kiernan Rev. Val. Lobenmyer David Bee Dennis Hartigan Geo. Brown John Sloan Jacob Brawlier George M. Wilson Anthony Preston Thomas Sweeney William Miller Nicholas Holfter George W. Statler Daniel Thomas John Barnett Benjamin L. Agnew 35th Sub-District Cambria and Blacklick Townships 104 names in wheel and 36 drawn: William A. Makin Thomas G. Davis Oliver Reed Richard J. Roberts Robert Litzinger John O’Harro Peter Long Samuel R. Rees William Calor John Fibert William R. Jones Christian Shinafelt Lewis J. Jones Luther Styles Abner Lloyd Amos Rowland Owen Rowland Richard W. Gittings Rowland R. Davis John Hasson, Jr. Elias D. Powel George C. Rager Charles Homan Evan Bennett John A. Jones Morris J. Evans John F. Boring John Shealer John Murray John Flickendoof Richard W. Price William Martz Benjamin W. James David B. Jones Samuel Thomas William H. Davis 36th Sub-District Ebensburg Borough and Jackson Township 121 names in the wheel and 41 drawn: James Hunt James Singer William M. Jones James C. Easily Jeremiah A. Fagan Samuel Burkhart William Purson Samuel Reed John B. Dougherty David McKeen J. Todd Hutchinson Newton I. Roberts Geo. W. Oatman Benjamin F. Williams Israel Dishong David Davis Daniel J. Evans Daniel C. Zahm Henry Onstead Jacob Bracken Richard Griffith William Strayer Jacob Dishong Hugh J. Brennen Thomas J. Lloyd John Steinbiser Abram Biers James P. Perkins Jeremiah Brown Jacob Shoemaker George Huntly Even D. Evans Samuel W. Davis John Galbraith George Varner William H. Paul Jacob A. Stutzman Abram Blain (colored) Alfred H. Constable Philip S. Noon John Rodgers ------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Charles Ellis Charles, son of Mr. C. B. Ellis, of Johnstown and a member of Capt. Ryckman’s cavalry company was killed recently by his horse falling upon him. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. 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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, August 27, 1863 Volume 4, Number 48 NEWS Letter from Our Soldiers Camp in the Field, Alabama August 13, 1863 Thinking a few lines from the Army of the Cumberland - from Co. C, 19th Regulars – might not prove uninteresting to your readers, I take the liberty of addressing you. You are doubtless aware that after the battle of Stone river we lay some six months at Murfreesboro without moving. The orders to march came at last on the 24th June. The morning we left camp it commenced raining and rain was the programme for twenty-two days. This made our situation very uncomfortable, notwithstanding which the boys remained in the best of spirits and were eager for the fray. The roads soon became almost impassible and our trains were greatly delayed, which accounts for Bragg’s escape. You are aware of what took place during the Rebel general’s retreat, so it is unnecessary for me to give particulars. Suffice it to say that in the operation of skedaddling, he lost some five thousand men. If I am not greatly mistaken you may expect some news from this department soon which will cause a thrill of joy to penetrate every loyal heart and give the Copperheads reason to skulk dismayed to their holes. Talking of Copperheads: If these disloyal gentry only knew the true feelings of the soldiers toward them, it would give them but little consolation. But perhaps to men so lost to all feelings of patriotism and principle as to sympathize with armed treason, it makes but little difference what soldiers think! They would soon, possibly, bask in the good graces of Jeff Davis, the Devil and others of like ilk, than have the respect of the loyal and honest. If so, we avow ourselves unable to cope with the difficulty – they are beyond the reach of moral surgery – so we are obliged to leave them to Jeff Davis and Devil. We in the army have some respect for those in arms against us. They at least have the courage to meet us in a fair field. But for those cowardly miscreants who stab their country and its cause in the back, we have none. They are beneath our contempt even. I pity their children; for the words and deeds of their slimy progenitor will be a stumbling block in their path forever. One consolation to us is that the Copperhead fraternity composes but a small portion of the great mass of the people of the loyal States. Abraham Lincoln was constitutionally elected President of these United States – that all men know – as such should be obeyed. When the proper time arrives, if the majority of the American people desire a change of measures and men, they can have it and we will give them our hearty support. In the meantime, we are bound by every dictate of honor and duty to support those in authority over us. There is certainly some difference as regards pleasure, between a soldier’s life and that of a citizen – the difference preponderating in favor of the latter. Now, much as we desire to return to our fiends and homes, I am free to say that, so long as there is an armed traitor above ground, it is our determination to remain fighting for the old flag our forefathers bequeathed us – that priceless emblem of a liberty achieved after eight long years of deprivation and suffering. The Rebellion must be put down at any cost. To see our glorious old banner once more floating over every foot of Uncle Sam’s farm - not a single star of its bright constellation erased nor a stripe obscured – would more than doubly repay us for all efforts directed in that behalf. And these are the sentiments of nine-tenths of the Army of the Cumberland. Yours, &c. [Signed] Thomas Davis Sheriff’s Sales Following is an abstract of the real estate advertised to be sold by the sheriff of Cambria County, at the Court House, Ebensburg on Monday, 7th September, proximo: George Gates, Yoder township, 800 acres, 25 acres cleared with small cabin house. George Gates, Conemaugh township, 300 acres, 100 acres cleared with two story frame house, log barn, spring house and saw mill. Samuel Henshey, Clearfield township, 801 acres and 145 perches with hereditaments and appurtenances. George C. K. Zahm, Ebensburg, piece of ground with one story frame building. Mary Ann M’Kinzie, Chest Springs borough, two lots of ground with large three story plank house and frame stable. Stephen Kerns and Philip Kerns, Summerhill township, parcel of land with appurtenances. John R. Thomas, Ebensburg, lot of ground with two story frame house. Alexander D. Goughenour, Sylvania, Conemaugh township, lot of ground with two story plank house and plank stable. Richard J. Evans (one of defendants) Cambria and Carroll township, 300 acres, 70 acres cleared with log house, frame barn, grist mill, saw mill, dwelling house, stable and blacksmith shop. Eli B. Horner, Conemaugh township, 71 acres, 30 acres cleared with two story plank house and cabin barn. John Ross, administrator of John B. Stewart, dec’d, White township, 49 acres, unimproved. Also: 137 acres and 84 perches, White township, unimproved. Edward Burk, Washington township, 130 acres, 1½ acres cleared with one and a half story plank house and large frame stable. William Cree, White township, 65 acres, 35 acres cleared with two story log house, weather boarded and log barn. George Banfield, Johnstown, lot of ground with two story plank house. Elizabeth Perkins, Perkinsville, Taylor township, 146 perches with one and a half story frame house. Elizabeth Kratzer, Allegheny and Clearfield townships, with 308 acres, 20 acres cleared with furnace building, copper shop, saw mill, twelve 1 1/2 story log houses, three two story log houses, two stables, coal house, two large frame stables, large coal house and large two story frame house. William H. Aaron, Hemlock, Washington township, lot of ground with two story fame house. James Glasgo, White township, 80 acres, 70 acres cleared with hewed log barn. John Miller and Susan Miller, Cambria township, one acre with old house and old stable. Charles Murray, Jackson township, 250 acres, 40 acres cleared with log house. Cambria County Teachers’ Institute The Executive Committee of this organization met at Cresson on Saturday last, and prepared a programme of exercises for the next semi-annual meeting – to be held at Wilmore on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 28th, 29th and 30th, September coming. It is as follows: Orthography: Class drill by Mr. Thos. J. Chapman. Lectures by Messrs. J. F. Allen and W. H. H. Freeman. Reading: Class drill by Miss Julia Wilcox and Miss Sue Magehan. Lecture by Daniel W. Evans. Penmanship and Drawing: Essay by Miss Jennie Sterling. Mental Arithmetic: Class drill by Mr. Henry Ely. Written Arithmetic: Class drill by Mr. J. F. Parrish. Lecture on Mathematics: by Prof. D. B. Mahan. Geography: Class drill by Miss Lizzie E. Roberts. Lecture by S. B. M’Cormick. Grammar: Class drill by Miss Mary M. Swank. Lecture by Mr. S. Singleton. Essays: On the importance of Education to the individual and to society by Miss Mary J. Jones. On the proper method of elevating the science of Teaching to its proper place among the learned profession by Miss Hannah Evans. On the influence of intelligence upon the morality of a community by Rev. B. L. Agnew. On Physical Culture forming one of the branches of instruction in our common schools by Mr. Schwartz. Subjects for General Discussion: Resolved, that public school exhibitions are injurious. What books on Teaching should be read by the Teacher? The understanding of the last Institute was that the next session would be held at Loretto; but this was found to be impracticable by reason that no building of a suitable character could be secured in the village. Wilmore, occupying a central position as regards the county at large, will be found to be a good exchange. Drafted Men Given the Same Bounties as Volunteers There are few who understand that the provision of the conscription act place drafted men on terms of equality with volunteers, giving them the same Government bounty, the same title to pension, the same pay, the same everything. When the statement has been made heretofore, many have discredited it; and to end all questions upon the subject, we quote from the act itself: Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all persons thus enrolled shall be subject for two years after the first day of July succeeding the enrollment, to be called into the military service of the United States and to continue in service during the present rebellion, not however, exceeding the term of three years; and when called into service, “shall be placed on the same footing in all respects as volunteers,” for three years or during the war “including advance pay and bounty as now provided by law.” The Draft On our opposite page we print the names of the persons in this county who were so “Fortunate” as to draw prizes in the late draft. The drawing came off at Huntingdon on Thursday last and was conducted throughout with entire fairness. The manner of proceeding was about in this wise: The names of all those liable to the draft in each sub- district were placed in the wheel; a blind man was then blindfolded, who, after the wheel had undergone a complete revolution, would draw forth a ticket; this ticket was read aloud, spelled, subjected to the scrutiny of the judges and finally passed to the clerks to be entered down. Thus, until the quota of each sub-district had been drawn. The total number drawn from the county was 781, which included the fifty per cent excess to cover exemptions. Four citizens of this county, namely, Messrs. A. A. Barker, Wm. Kittell, C. L. Pershing and John M. Bowman, were present by special invitation to witness and participate in the drawing. In this borough the number drawn was 21, politically classified as follows: 10 Democrats, 10 Unionists, 1 Negro – the latter the only one in town, by the way. Lawyers, merchants, carpenters, laborers - almost every profession and class was levied upon for contributions. No less than three printers were drafted – which is rather a “big thing” on the art preservation confraternity. In the county, four ministers of the Gospel were also “called.” Truly the presiding deity of the draft – stone blind Chance - is no respecter of persons! There was no disturbance nor sign of disturbance manifest at the drawing. On the contrary, everything passed off quietly and in order. It is furthermore noticeable that there is now no talk of “resisting the draft” or obstructing the workings of the law. The conviction has impressed itself on every mind that one of three things has to be done – put on a “Sub,” pay $300 or go. 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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, August 13, 1863 Volume 4, Number 46 NEWS No Paper To allow us to make some necessary improvements no paper will be issued from this office next week. In Town We had recently the pleasure of greeting our friends, Dr. Jno. H. Clarke and family, formerly of this place, but latterly hailing from the “Smoky City,” who were in town to pay a brief visit to their numerous friends in this vicinity. A few weeks rustication with the addition of our refreshing mountain breezes will, we doubt not, be beneficial to our friends, who may then carry back to their city home a grateful remembrance of Old Cambria. May the withering hand of Time ever rest lightly upon them as now. Mr. W. Linton of Johnstown, recently of the 12th Penna. Calvary, illumined our town with the light of his genial countenance on last Friday week. So far from his recent campaign proving deleterious to his health he presents even a better appearance than usual. Long may he wave! Thieves Around On Thursday evening, 6th inst., some scoundrel not having the fear of the law before his eyes, entered the stable connected with the Cresson Springs House and there from feloniously abstracted two horses with saddles, bridles and all the other necessary accoutrements. Although no traces of the perpetrators of this villainy have yet been discovered it is to be hoped that they may not always go “unwhipt of justice,” but that they may receive their full deserts. Letter from Our Soldiers >From Co. A, Emergency Battalion Hopewell to Harrisburg Company Mustered Out, Paid Off and Sent Home “Camp Curtin,” Harrisburg August 8, 1863 In his last letter your correspondent left the “emergency” men sticking in the woods at Hopewell, Bedford county. On Saturday 1st inst., to our great relief, our battalion received orders to report forthwith at Huntingdon. Owing to the non-arrival of transportation however we were unable to do as required until Tuesday following. At 8 A. M., of that morning, we vacated “Camp Mullin,” arriving at Hopewell at 9, where were joined by Maj. Crozier’s battalion of “three months men.” In an hour or so thereafter we all took the rail and after a journey of four hours arrived in Huntingdon. Here we were met by orders to the effect that the “emergency” men should proceed without change of cars to Harrisburg to be mustered out, while the “three months” men were to go into their old quarters at “Camp Juniata” near Huntingdon. It was here given out that our train would start eastward about 5 P. M., thus allowing the soldiers an hour and a half to canvass the town and procure something to eat. In spite of this assurance however the train moved off within thirty minutes after our arrival at Huntingdon, taking with it about half of the battalion, the other half being busily engaged at that particular juncture in circulation through all and singular the streets of “ye ancient village.” Here was a dilemma to be sure! The fugitive train was immediately telegraphed to tie up at Mill Creek Station, four miles below town which reasonable request it saw fit to comply with, remaining in status quo until the arrival of another train, bringing the residue of the battalion at 7 P. M. Here the two parts were consolidated into a whole and the battalion proceeded en route. Not to weary your readers with details, your correspondent would simply say that, after a long and tiresome journey of thirteen hours, we arrived in Harrisburg next (Wednesday) morning at 8 o’clock. We immediately marched into Camp Curtin, where we pitched our tents upon almost the identical ground occupied by Captain Flanagan’s Ebensburg company – Co. F., 133d Penna. Vols. – one year ago. Thursday being the President’s day of general thanksgiving our company in a body attended public services at the big tent of the Christian Commission in camp. The sermon was a powerful effort, and no doubt productive of much good. Honor to those followers of the meek and lowly Jesus, who, leaving friends and the comforts of home, make the dreary camp the scene of their labors. Public service is held in the tent twice every day. Camp Curtain presents a reasonably busy appearance. Some three thousand soldiers are here, the majority of whom are State Militia being discharged. Our battalion comprises all the “emergency” men here. The 171st Penna. Drafted Militia were discharged and paid off a few days ago. A large number of Cambrians were attached to this regiment who have doubtless arrived home. Although the services of our battalion have never been puffed to any remarkable degree, still your correspondent has semi-official assurance for saying that the labor performed by us in the tented field is duly appreciated by the proper authorities. The Governor himself says that, although not called upon to engage in actual battle, we did all that was required of us, the will begin equivalent to the deed. With such recognition of our services, it is with pride we doff our martial trappings and subside into peaceful citizens. Since our arrival here it has been decided by Adjutant General Russell that our battalion (of five companies) is entitled to a Lieutenant Colonel instead of Major. Accordingly Maj. Litzinger has been promoted to the Lieutenant Colonelcy. Justice, though tardy, is always sure. It has been definitely determined that the order removing Col. M’Keage’s command, ourselves among the number, from Huntingdon to Hopewell was a forgery, gotten up as a “goak” by some telegraph operator. It is said the latter individual has been arrested by order of Gen. Couch. If so, your correspondent would respectfully suggest that he be hung to the highest telegraph pole in his immediate neighborhood – as a retaliatory “goak.” What think you? A grand ratification of Gov. Curtin’s re-nomination was had in town on Thursday night. The first thing in order was a torchlight procession after which several speeches were delivered – among them one by the Governor. It was a splendid effort, was the latter, - eloquent, patriotic, convincing – but inasmuch as it has been published in full in the daily papers, your correspondent will not attempt even an abstract thereof. Several thousand persons were present in the Capitol grounds during the exercise and the most intense enthusiasm prevailed. The Governor is a universal favorite especially among the soldiers who will vote for him to a man. Your correspondent must not forget to mention that on Thursday morning on the reception of the news of his re-nomination, three rousing cheers were given for Gov. Curtin by Co. A. Writing in the midst of the confusion necessarily arising from the mustering out process, your correspondent must be pardoned for the many imperfections manifest in this screed. With a soldier, you know, the matter of mustering out is of paramount importance – corresponding, a secondary consideration. Yours, etc. [Signed] “Jay” Since the above was written, Co. A has returned. It was paid off Saturday evening and arrived here Monday evening. The members composing it, without a single exception, are in the best of health, and express themselves unqualifiedly satisfied with their sojering experience. The heroes of the two-months campaign - of an “emergency” the darkest our beloved State has ever known, during the existence of which the bloodiest battle of the war was fought and won, and upon our own soil – they are welcome home. May their laurels bloodless but dear-bought, always remain green and the willingness with which they confronted a desperate foe be long remembered to their honor. [Ed. ALLEGHANIAN] U. S. District Court In the case of the United States vs. Joseph Will, indicted for obstructing the enrollment, which was tried before Judge M’Candless, in Pittsburg, during the past week, the jury found the defendant guilty. A motion in arrest of judgment was made by defendant’s counsel, M. D. Magehan, Esq., on the grounds that the statute under which the defendant was indicted imposed no penalty for resisting an enrolling officer. The matter will be argued at a future day. Misc.: There are fifty vacancies in West Point Academy. It is suggested they be filled with brigadier generals. A Great National Cemetery A grand and beautiful idea has been conceived by our patriotic citizens since the great battles of the 1st, 2d and 3d. It is the proposition to establish a National Cemetery upon the battlefield and gather into it the bodies of our heroes from all the States who fell fighting for Liberty and Law on the bloody field of Gettysburg. There has been two sites selected for this object and contracts entered into with the owners for the purchase of the land at $200 per acre. Which one of the two will be chosen has not yet been determined. The one is the high ground east of the Baltimore Pike and immediately opposite Evergreen Cemetery. The other is the ground adjoining the cemetery on the south west and the very spot where the enemy repeatedly attempted to turn what is known as the left centre of our line and failed with such immense slaughter. The first location from its elevated position would seem to be the most desirable spot of the two. Upon this eminence you command a full view of almost the entire battlefield. The other is not so prominent but has advantages which seem to point to it as the more appropriate spot. Being more secluded, besides a thickly wooded grove and upon the very ground where the hardest fighting occurred and where the tide of battle was turned in our favor and a glorious victory secured. Both locations are admirably adapted for the purpose. The plan has not been fully matured, but we conceive it to be this: In order to secure the success of this noble work, it is suggested that the people of the States to which the heroes who are buried at Gettysburg belong contribute to defray the expense of the enterprise and that Pennsylvania take the lead to secure success. The Governors of all the loyal States have been telegraphed to on the subject and so far as heard from, a favorable response has been received. Eight States have already united with Pennsylvania in this noble work. The grounds will be laid off and each State assigned a separate department. Into this will be gathered the bodies of the fallen from the respective States. They will be decently interred and their graves marked with a headstone and inscription. A list and directory will be prepared for the benefit of visitors and those who may come to seek after their friends. Another department will be assigned to those who cannot be recognized as belonging to any particular State and whose names may be unknown. These will be gathered into one enclosure and an appropriate monument created over their remains. We heartily commend this enterprise to the consideration of the patriotic people of the Union. The men who fell at Gettysburg will need no monument to commemorate their valor. Like the Spartans who fought at Thermopylae, those who struggled at Gettysburg in the cause of liberty, will be remembered while liberty has a friend on earth. But we owe it to future generations that we in some way prove our gratitude to the dead and show that those who survived to reap the reward of the victory at Gettysburg were not unmindful of what was due to their brethren and fellow citizens who fell in that fight. While this object is invested with its present interest, we trust, at least, that the conductors of the press of Pennsylvania will give it their hearty support and that the people will not rest satisfied until all who fell at Gettysburg and whose bones are stills scattered over and bleaching on the vast battlefield are gathered into one enclosure, over which shall rise a monument as proud as their deeds to commemorate their valor and to point as a signal to the blessed abode of the heroes in heaven. [Source: GETTYSBURG SENTINEL] Ebensburg as Seen by a Stranger’s Eyes (The following letter written by a gentleman now adjourning in town, which we clip from the Philadelphia INQUIRER, of the 8th inst., may serve to give our readers a faint idea of “ourselves as others see us.” That part of it referring to the Copperheads is particularly recommended to the observations of every one – especially those accepting the repulsive cognomen as the most befitting which could be applied to them – and may the perusal of it open their eyes and enlighten their understanding): Ebensburg, Penna. August 3d, 1863 Your valued journal being one of the few dailies having any extensive circulation in these parts and as your “Specials” in these war time know little and write less of these peaceful mountains, it occurred to me, as a traveler, to jot down two or three observations which might not be without interest to ramblers like myself, who read the INQUIRER. You must know that this spot is ten miles west of Cresson on the Pennsylvania Railroad, by rail, the cars running twice daily. It is situated somewhat higher than the mountain at Cresson, upon the top of an arm running southwest of the main crest of the Allegheny Mountain; two and-a-half miles west of the springs flowing into the Susquehanna. It is the county seat of Cambria and is chiefly remarkable for longevity, health and good mutton. This place is well supplied with comfortable inns, where one cannot help feeling perfectly at home. The citizens are plain, honest, hard working with but few very rich men among them. The land is well adapted to stock-raising, whilst the mountain abounds in mineral wealth, as yet but partially discovered, such as coal, iron, ore, &c. The springs of water are very cold and of the purest freestone, whilst the air is clear and pure, common in altitudes of twenty-four hundred feet above the ocean and similar to that breathed at the Catskill Mountain House. The thermometer scarcely ever rises above eighty degrees in the shade in midsummer and the nights are always cool enough to sleep under a blanket. Seven miles north and by east is the little town of Loretto, the residence of the late Father Gallitzin, a man of learning and piety, and whose history is familiar to most Pennsylvanian. Here there are excellent springs and baths, comfortable hotels, &c., established quite recently. Some of the Copperhead papers find their way here and instill their poison into the minds of the simple-hearted. I can perceive in my talks with many that they are led to the consideration of false issues by those who call themselves Democratic but who are in reality Copperheads and accept of that cognomen without feeling it to be a term of reproach. Lawyers do much abound here - intelligent, well-educated men – but, I am sorry to say it, the most part of them are of the Vallandigham stamp, rigid constructionists, believing the present Administration to be a military despotism and express themselves as more favorable to the Government of Jeff Davis than to the Union. How the minds of those who rank here as the judicious should be poisoned by the heresy (Secession) totally bereft of every particle of that Amor Patrice, the distinguishing characteristic of the Celtic race is more than I can comprehend. We can only conclude that these poisonous doctrines are inculcated by the devil and Dr. Faustus, a corrupt press working under the stolen name of Democracy. Ye gods, how horrible will it be when these poor benighted dupes behold the hideousness of this veiled prophet when the veil is lifted by Secession and they are told in the language of Tom Moore – “Look, ye, wise saints, behold your light, your star, Ye would be dupes and victims, and ye’are.” Do now, however, understand me as saying that all here are thus. I mean to say there are many more than I expected to find and some of the leaders are doing all they can to obstruct the draft. This county, when the war broke out, was truly loyal and sent more than its quota of volunteer soldiers in the war and many of them were killed on the Peninsula and at Fredericksburg. I hope the brave fellows from this county who survive will rebuke on their return home the dastardly Copperheads who are discouraging enlistments and resisting the draft as they did in Illinois, Indiana, &c. I must close with the devout wish that some more healthy political literature may be sent here by some kind Union League, than much that now finds its way here and is, alas, too much read. Hoping we may yet take Canada and blow the bloody British pirates off the sea, I subscribe myself. The Draft The Draft for the XVIIth District, composed of the counties of Mifflin, Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria will be drawn at Huntingdon borough commencing on next Monday, 17th inst. Cambria county will be drawn on Thursday, 20th. The quota to be furnished by the District is set down at 1,984. Respectable citizens are specially invited to be present and inspect the drawing which will be made publicly. No disturbance is anticipated and of course none will occur. Curtin’s Nomination in Harrisburg Governor Curtin’s nomination was made the occasion for a grand demonstration at Harrisburg in which the great mass of the people took part. Able speeches were made on the occasion by the Governor and others and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. The proceedings terminated with a salute of one hundred guns in honor of the Governor’s re-nomination. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Jacob H. Egner Died at his residence in Philadelphia on Thursday, 6th inst., Jacob H. Egner, in the 48th year of his age. Mr. Egner was well known to many of our citizens and his death will be generally deplored. He leaves a wife and a large family to mourn his early demise. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, August 6, 1863 Volume 4, Number 45 NEWS Letter from Co. A Headquarters Co. A, 11th Reg’t. P. R. C. On the March, Near White Plains July 20, 1863 Observing that you have received an incorrect account of the casualties in our company at the action of Gettysburg, Pa., I thought it but proper to rectify the mistakes and endeavor to give you a hurried description of the part we have been taking in the last month of this campaign. Our fine times at Vienna, Va., came suddenly to a close by our receiving orders to join the Army of the Potomac on the 23d. On that day we joined the Brigade at Upton’s Hill and on the morning of the 24th began a long and weary march. I can not give the details of this march suffice to say that we marched every day about eighteen miles till July 2d, on the evening of which we arrived at Gettysburg, about the time at which the battle was raging the fiercest. We were taken to the left as a support for the first and second Divisions of the Fifth Corps, in line close to the rear of these Divisions where we soon discovered that our services would shortly be required. The Fifth Corps being on the left, had to fight against fearful odds where the Rebels wanting to turn the left and flank our position, threw themselves in overwhelming numbers upon these two Divisions. Although our men fought nobly they were forced to retire. They came back slowly, fighting desperately for the ground they were losing – the Rebels following close upon them. The retreating columns of our troops having passed our line, the Rebels pushed on as if they would meet with but little further resistance but in this they were mistaken, for when they got within about one hundred yards, we fired one volley and were ordered forward; and forward we went, in a manner that did not suit the Rebels, for they fled in the wildest disorder. We lay on the field until the morning of the 3d when we advanced and charged on the Rebels who were sheltered behind stone fences but who broke and fled at the first fire. Having regained all that had been lost by our troops we were halted and remained until noon of the 4th when the Sixth corps moved up and pursued the retreating enemy. The loss in killed in our company was Frederick J. Evans – a brave and noble soldier, whose death the whole company regret. In wounded we had Lieut. D. Jones, slightly; John Keough, Commodore P. Stevens and Wm. Powell. The three latter were sent to the General Hospital. Capt. Burke led the company as he has ever through all our engagements in a manner that elicited the commendation of all. We are now retracing the ground we marched over last fall, after the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, on our way to Fredericksburg. Some suppose we are going there again, but it is only conjecture. We are willing to follow the gallant Meade wherever he leads; certain that under him and with anything like equal advantages, we can always serve the rebels as we did at Gettysburg. Yours, {Signed} “F” Letter from Our Soldiers Departure from Huntingdon To Hopewell Camp “Mullin” An Innocent “Goak” Camp Mullin, Bedford Co. August 1, 1863 In consequence of the report gaining credence that the Rebels as a sort of last dying gasp anticipated making a raid into Fulton county on Tuesday, 29th ult., Col. M’Keage’s command, consisting of Maj. Litzinger’s and Col. Crozier’s battalions, were ordered to Hopewell to keep an eye upon the movement of the greybacked gentry. We left camp at Huntingdon at 2 P. M. of that day, taking the cars on the Huntingdon & Broad Top Railroad at about 6. In due course of time, that is to say, about midnight, same night, we were landed at our destination, sound in mind and members but all very tried and sleepy. Seeing that the distance from Huntingdon to Hopewell is only thirty-one miles and that six hours were consumed in achieving the distance, a person might naturally fail to be favorably impressed, as regards the matter of speed, with the schedule of the H. & B. T. R. R. But your correspondent is credibly informed that the fault in the premises, if fault there be, was not altogether with the railroad. Its regular time, instead of five miles an hour is probably twice that figure. The fact is, we are limited to our snail-like pace simply by reason that it was thought advisable to allow the Rebels, in case they penetrated at all, to penetrate as far as possible into the interior of the State, where we would suddenly and unexpectedly burst upon them, like an avenging angel of destruction, scattering them right and left and “gobbling up” the entire kit and caboodle after the most approved fashion. The story of the raid, however, turns out to have been a canard – a “mistake of the printer” – so the Rebels have saved their precious bacon for the time being, and we, possibly have only our trip for our good intentions. On Wednesday morning we marched out a distance of about a mile from Hopewell where we pitched tents and proceeded to make ourselves comfortable. Our comfort was of short duration, however, for next evening the flood gates of Heaven opened – the rain beat down upon us fiercely – rain! patter! drizzle – Storm King held high carnival for many hours. And we were wet. In spite of woolen blankets and gum blankets, we were wet. Wet thoroughly all over and rubbed in. Situated at the base of a steep hill our camp was thoroughly inundated. The water ran through it in perfect torrents, transmogrifying the pleasant prospect of a couple hours prior into a vast mud puddle where the sole of man in vain sought for rest and refreshment. The next morning, after a disagreeable old night of it, we moved our quarters to a tract of slightly sloping ground, a short distance off where in the event of another “rising of the tide,” we will most likely be better prepared for it. Our present camp is located within seven miles of “Pattonsville Gap,” of blessed memory. May we never see its like again, and as little as possible of Bedford county is the sincere orison of yours unanimously, Co. A. Our camp has been named Camp Mullin in honor of your estimable townsman, Hon. A. C. Mullin, at present Private Secretary to his excellency, Gov. Curtin. This slight token of appreciation and respect is a well merited compliment to Mr. M. who has ever since our advent upon “the tented field,” shown the warmest regard for our well being. His kindness will long be remembered by the “Emergency” men – and more especially those hailing from Cambria county. The order sending us to this point, it is reported, was a forgery – gotten up as a “goak” by some telegraph operator, who has since been placed under arrest. It is needless to aver that, with our high opinion of Bedford county generally, we, the “Emergencists,” eminently failed to see it in that light and regarded the arrest as a fitting finale to his bit of pleasantry. Talking of the Huntingdon & Broad Top Railroad it may be possible that some of your readers have never experienced a jaunt over the same. Located as it is, for the most part of the distance, upon trestle work, a flimsy, rail fence sort of arrangement, one rail fence, rather, built on the top of another, to the number of a dozen or more, the whole reaching to the height of one hundred feet at some points, from which dizzy altitude, on looking down, you can discern no palpable substance whatever whereon to rest your hopes of ultimate safety as to the other side – in view of these facts, let the timorous and faint hearted hesitate before taking the initial step. They may be so successful as to make the landing and again they mayn’t. The former proposition is the probability; still the latter is a possibility. At the very least have your life profusely insured before you commit yourself to the uncertain experiment. Your correspondent is rejoiced to be able to say that Capt. Litzinger has received official notification of the fact that he has been appointed commander of our (emergency) battalion, with the rank of Major and that he will be duly commissioned immediately. He is empathically the right man in the right place. In consequence of this promotion of our Captain, a further advancement has taken place to wit: 1st Lieut. D. O. Evans to be Captain; 2d Lieut. E. D. Evans to be 1st Lieut.; 1st Sergt., C. T. Roberts to be 2d Lieut.; 2d Sergt. D. J. Jones to be 1st Sergeant and so on, in regular procession to the end of the chapter, Richard W. Pryce being appointed to fill the vacancy necessarily created as regards 8th Corporal. That venerable public defunctionary, James Buchanan, Esq., passed through Hopewell on Friday last, en route to Bedford Springs, where he designs putting in the residue of the dog days. Although a large number of soldiers were in town at the time and knew of his coming, still his appearance created the slightest modicum of enthusiasm imaginable. The companies comprising our battalion, five in number, are as follows: Co. A, Capt. Evans, Cambria. Co. B, Capt. Hughes, Cambria. Co. C, Capt. Snyder, Centre. Co. D, Capt. Hutchinson, Centre. Co. E, Capt. Thompson, Bedford. The three months battalion, Major Crozier, is stationed on the opposite side of Hopewell from this point. Our company had the pleasure of a visit from your former soldier-correspondent, Mr. Ellis R. Williams. He was on his way to Philadelphia, to engage in business there, and turned off in this direction to see us. He is a gentleman, scholar and “brick” – is Ellis – and has our warmest wishes for his future prosperity. Your correspondent cannot refrain from mentioning in this connection the name of Mr. Tom P. Davis. This gentleman is our company Post Master and it is to his never-tiring exertions in a great measure that we are indebted for the system which has been infused into our postal arrangements. May he live forever, - at least until the “Emergency” be over even in Bedford county – for, losing him, his place could never be supplied. Direct letters to Co. A, Emergency Battalion, care Maj. Litzinger, &c. Yours, Etc., [Signed] “Jay” Register’s Notice Notice is hereby given that the following accounts have been passed and filed in the Register’s Office at Ebensburg and will be presented to the Orphans’ Court of Cambria county for the confirmation and allowance on Wednesday, the ninth day of September, next, to wit: The second Account of Joseph Gantner, Guardian of the minor children of Peter Gantner, dec’d. The Account of John J. Clivinger, Guardian of the minor children of Daniel Albaugh, dec’d. The second and final Account of Henry Yeagley, Guardian of A. C. Dibert, a minor child of Jno. Dibert, dec’d. The final Account of Solomon Benshoff, Trustee to sell the real estate of Jonas Horner, dec.d. The final Account of John L. Jeffries, Executor of John R. Williams, dec’d. The final Account of John Shoffner, Administrator of Casper Shoffner, dec’d. The sixth Account of John Dibert, Administrator of John Dibert, dec’d. The second Account of Charles B. Ellis, Administrator of Daniel Huber, dec’d. The first Account of Michael M’Guire, Executor of Philip Forepy, dec’d. The first and final Account of George Kehm, Executor of Martin Kehm, dec’d. The Account of Bernard Moyers, Executor of Peter Moyers, dec’d. The third partial Account of William Ryan, Jr., Administrator of Joseph A. Todd, dec’d. The Account of George W. Stutzman, Administrator of Jacob Stutzman, dec’d. The first and final Account of Samuel S. Paul, Trustee to sell the real estate of Jacob Paul, dec’d. The first and final Account of Samuel S. Paul, Administrator of Catherine Paul, dec’d. The first and final Account of Joseph Shirey, Administrator of Martin Wagner, dec’d. The second and partial Account of Edw. Shoemaker, Administrator of Rev. Thomas M’Cullogh, dec’d. The partial Account of J. M. Campbell, surviving Administrator of James S. Clark, dec.d. The Account of William C. Lewis, Administrator, de bones non of Abraham Cobaugh, dec’d. E. F. Lytle, Register Ebensburg, August 3d, 1863 Incendiarism On the night of the 30th ultimo, the Chest Springs saw and grist mills owned by E. T. Nutter were entirely destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at about $7,000, besides one hundred bushels of grain. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary and as there was no insurance it falls pretty heavily on Mr. Nutter. Ohio and Pennsylvania The first rebel campaign in these States resulted very disastrously to the armies which invaded both, to desolate their homes, carry off their property and temporarily to destroy their resources. In Pennsylvania Lee was thwarted in all his plans. He was permitted to penetrate the very heart of one of the richest vallies of the State and when he most believed that his progress would be a triumphal march over the entire commonwealth, he was met, whipped, humiliated and hurled back upon the dreary shores of the Potomac with a force which has certainly impressed him with new ideas of celerity and dispatch. In Ohio the cut throat and robber, John Morgan, was even more summarily dealt with by the loyalists. His army was not only beaten, but he himself was captured and now occupies a criminal’s cell in the Ohio Penitentiary. In one sense Morgan is the first rebel allowed to live and still considered as receiving his just due; and if there was a penitentiary sufficiently large it would be an admirable plan to consign all the rebels to its cells to enjoy the reward of hard labor and solitary confinement for the remainder of their miserable lives. Since the first rebel campaigns in Ohio and Pennsylvania resulted so disastrously to the South, we may safely venture the anticipation that the campaign of the rebel sympathizers in the same States will have a similar result. In Ohio these sympathizers are headed by a genuine rebel. Vallandigham is as ardent a traitor as Jeff Davis. He has done as much as any man whose hands are unstained with blood, to destroy the Union and displace the legal authority of the Government. Without John Morgan’s courage to devastate the fields and desolate the free homes of Ohio, Vallandigham is still as sincere in his desire for the triumph of treason. His soul is in the work of treason and that is as much as any coward can give to a bad cause. But the loyal men of Ohio will deal with Vallandigham as they did with John Morgan; and while Morgan awaits his sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary, Vallandigham will take his trial before the people of that State. We do not doubt the result. Neither do we question the result in Pennsylvania. Here we beat the rebels in an armed contest, such as the world never before beheld. Here we are about to wage an unarmed contest of equal magnitude. Lee came boldly to destroy freedom. Woodward is secretly set up insidiously, to advance and defend the cause of slavery, which is of itself, the essence and the animus of treason. Does any man doubt the result of the campaign against the treason sympathizers in Pennsylvania, after that which followed the traitor? Does any man doubt that after the true men of the commonwealth contribute to the defeat and overthrow of Lee, the same bravery, the same fortitude will not be invoked to overthrow and humiliate Woodward? He who doubts the case in one result after having beheld it in another bears no allegiance to his government and is in sympathy with cause of treason. The country will watch with anxious feeling the progress of the campaign in Ohio and Pennsylvania against the rebel sympathizers. As the first was a victory over the rebels, so, with the help of the truth, we feel that the other also will terminate. It is at least worth struggling for. Let loyal men remember this fact and go to work. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_howitworks_012009

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, July 30, 1863 Volume 4, Number 44 NEWS Local and Personal Capt. Litzinger paid our town a brief visit recently. He reports the boys all in excellent health and well contented with their present location. He does not know how soon they will be discharged. Singular Accident On last Friday a young lad named Alexander Trinkle, son of Mr. Charles Trinkle, was playing on the roof of a small shed in the west end of town, which had formerly been used as a meat house when the timbers, which were somewhat rotted, gave way, precipitating the boy into the room below. Here he was caught upon some meat hooks in the wall, the hooks passing through the flesh and skin immediately above the eye and holding him suspended until his cries brought him assistance. He was speedily released from his perilous situation with no more serious injury than a severe flesh wound. Almost a Fire On last Thursday noon our good citizens were frightened out of their propriety by the cry of “fire.” An examination into the merits of the case, elicited the fact that the chimney of the old log house near the Railroad Depot, now occupied by a negro family, had taken fire and for a few moments blazed at a furious rate. However, owing to the small amount of soot in the chimney and to the fact that stones are generally incombustible, the whole affair in a very few minutes ended in smoke – leaving not even the shadow of an excuse of bringing out the “skwirt” much to the disappointment of the boys. Letter from Our Soldiers >From Co. A, 54th P. V. M. Difficulty Concerning Regimental Organization The “Huntingdon Monitor” Again Outraged Huntingdon The Draft Various Items of Interest “Camp Juniata,” Huntingdon July 26, 1863 Although as stated by your correspondent last week, the ten companies rendezvousing in this camp have been formed into a regiment, it still remains a question open to discussion as to whether they really constitute a regiment. It is positively asserted that an order has been promulgated by the proper authorities nullifying the organization upon the grounds that State forces and United States forces are unable, by the very nature of the thing, to coalesce. The truth of this proposition becomes evident when it is remembered that the field officers of State regiments are elected by the line officers of the companies composing the same, whereas the field officers of United States regiments are appointed by the President upon recommendation of the Governor. As a natural consequence our late election for field officers, wherein not only the State officers but also the United States officers had a voice and vote, - the latter manifestly without legal authority – must be null and void. Besides, the bare idea of officers hailing from militia companies attempting to assume command over troops sworn into the United States service bears upon its very face the impress of an unmitigated absurdity! On the other hand, it is asserted that the formation of the regiment of its present constituent parts is by authority - that the different classes of troops composing it are, and of right, should be on precisely the same footing. Both are called out for the “emergency,” and for State defense. The fact seems to be lost sight of however that the “three months’ men” are called out for a specified time whereas the “emergency” men are not. Meanwhile the 54th P. V. M. continues in “full tide of successful operations,” so to speak, having dress parade very evening and battalion drill semi-occasionally. Co. A retains it old position and its reputation as well of being the best drilled body of men in camp. Whatever may be the result of this imbroglio or misunderstanding or whatever you may choose to call it, your correspondent will not fail to chronicle at the proper time. Col. Miles, formerly commandant of this post, was relieved from duty last week and ordered to rejoin his regiment with the Army of the Potomac. Col. M’Keage is his successor. “Camp Warrior,” mentioned last week as being deserted, once more teems with life and animation. One six months and three or four three months companies are stationed there to form, probably, the nucleus of other regiments. Copperheads and Copperheadism meet with but little favor among the soldiers. As an illustration of this fact, permit your correspondent to narrate the following incident: The HUNTINGDON MONITOR, of last week’s issue, contained a letter purporting to have been written by a member of this regiment, the same abounding with the foulest vituperations and abuse of the Government, of the constituted authorities and of the Union cause generally. Not relishing such stuff and desiring to afford the MONITOR and his anonymous correspondent convincing proof of the unqualified loyalty of the soldiers as a body, a squad of the latter paid the office a visit on Friday night and without ado, proceeded to “gut” the establishment. They were interfered with and dispersed by the patrol guard, however before they had succeeded in doing more damage than that resulting from the “pi-ing” of a couple of cases of type in the street. This, of course, is a mere exhibition of mob law – an outrage upon private property by irresponsible agents – an act worthy only of unmeasured condemnation – yet in it we cannot fail to recognize the in-setting of a tide of public opinion, which will, ere long, overwhelm and squelch all opponents of the cause of our common country. This being the second demonstration made by soldiers upon the MONITOR, that journal has certainly just cause and provocation to arrive at the conclusion that it is destined to the hoeing of a hard row in this life. This is a queer old section of country – is Huntingdon. For instance. The nights, from 9 P. M. till 6 A. M. are extremely cool – unpardonably cold, in point of fact – and bordering immediately on the river, we are usually favored with an unlimited supply of nocturnal fog, cold, palpable, penetrating, moist. So that the frigidity and fog taken together ague is not an utter impossibly and our regulation blankets come by no means amiss. In the daytime however the order of things is reversed. The sun beams down upon us with a fierceness unparalleled – with a fierceness begot of 90 degrees in the shade, causing us to precipitately seek the shelter of our miniature abodes, there, with doffed cap, blouse, shoes, et cetera, to occupy ourselves with futile endeavors to “keep cool.” Futile indeed - for our camp, through a singular lack of foresight on the part of some one is located on the apex of a slight acclivity where the ghost of a tree is by no possibility to be seen, but where, on the contrary, the sun has ample and unobstructed opportunity to draw upon us at the sight for any number of blisters, broils and sunburns. Cool! – except of nights, the word with us has become obsolete. We have an indistinct recollection of balmy breezes and gently zephyrs and various umbrageous delights, but to our minds they now possess only a poetical significance. The realities are unreal - at least not with us or of us, but seen only in the dim vistas of “long agone.” In fact, were it not for the exertions of the obese and gentlemanly proprietor of the “Castalian Garden,” of Huntingdon who runs a wagon load of ice cream up here daily, for sale, it would not be at all surprising were we to melt and run down in to our boots or shoes as the case may be. Wherefore, blessings, unto the man who invented ice cream! Without it in hot weather and in “Camp Juniata,” sojering were martyrdom. Leaving meteorological phenomena out of the question, Huntingdon is a tip-top “settlement.” The town is pleasantly situated in a fertile valley, immediately on the great line of travel and traffic east and west through the state. Its people are patriotic, hospitable, whole–souled – its ladies handsome and intelligent – its industrial resources abundant and well developed. May the two former live forever and the compass of the latter never contract. The draft for the XVIIth Congressional District composed of the counties of Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon and Mifflin will probably be drawn here during the present week. Arrangements looking to that end, at least, are being rapidly perfected. As a specimen brick of camp literature of the poetical persuasion, your correspondent begs leave to submit the following: “He that hath plenty of ‘hard tack,’ And gives his neighbor none – He sha’n’t have any of our ‘hard tack,’ When his ‘hard tack’ is done.” Another box of edibles was received by the company on Thursday for which the good people of Ebensburg have our individual thanks. Boys well as usual. Yours, etc. [Signed] “Jay” 54th P. V. M. Monday, July 27, 1863 The 54th P. V. M. has been disbanded! The official order to that effect was read on dress parade last evening. The “emergency” men, four companies, have been transferred to “Camp Warrior,” (whence your correspondence now writes) to form a battalion commanded by Capt. Litzinger. The “three months” men remain at “Camp Juniata.” Such is life! In anticipation of an onslaught being made by the Copperheads on either the Huntington GLOBE or JOURNAL, by way of retaliation for the recent ridding out of the MONITOR, on Friday night a company of soldiers were detailed to proceed thither to preserve the peace. No disturbance occurred however, [Signed] “Jay” Capture of Morgan The following dispatch from Col. J. M. Shackelford was received at headquarters in Cincinnati yesterday: “Headquarters on the Field, three miles south of New Lisbon, O., July 26 – To Col. Lewis, Richmond, A. A. G.: By the blessing of Almighty God I have succeeded in capturing Gen. John A. Morgan, Col. Clarke, and the balance of the command amounting to about 400 prisoners. I will start with Morgan and staff on the first train for Cincinnati and await the General’s order for transportation for the balance.” Who are the Traitors? The Richmond DISPATCH in an editorial article on Lee’s retreat has the following remarkable paragraph: “There are persons who think and have thought from the first, that the invasion of Pennsylvania was a rash and dangerous experiment, which there was no justification for having undertaken. We are not one of these. On the contrary we believe when the secret history of this war shall have been published, the conduct of the general will be amply justified by circumstances of which we are not and must for a generation remain completely ignorant.” What circumstances? And why must we remain ignorant of them for a generation? Could Northern traitors throw any light on the suggestions of their Southern ally? Can Gov. Seymour say why so much secrecy is necessary? Can Fernando Wood or James Brooks or Vallandigham? It would seem as if this period of mystery were meant to expire with the death of men now on the stage – that not till they were out of harm’s way would it be safe for Gen. Lee even in order to relieve his military reputation from the stain of rashness to say who invited him North, what assurances induced him to venture and on what pledges of cooperation he risked his army is such a campaign. When these questions are answered, possibly we may also learn a little more of the interior history of the recent demonstrations in New York in behalf of the Rebellion; the fruit, as THE DISPATCH says, which the Wood-Brooks peace meeting bore. Why Gov. Seymour exhibited such extraordinary alacrity in stripping the city of its militia just before the riots came on; why those riots did not break out, as was first intended on the Fourth of July; why Vice President Stephens undertook his embassy to Washington at the same moment; why the rioters, whom Gov. Seymour called his “noble hearted friends” cheered for Jeff Davis as well as for his mouth piece on that occasion; why the Governor on the Saturday before the mob rose, sent a messenger to the President to induce him to stop the draft; and finally if Lee had been at Harrisburg and victorious, as was expected on the Fourth of July, instead of being defeated at Gettysburg, whether that would have made any difference in the execution of the Copperhead programme – all these questions. History will ask and will, in one fashion or another, answer. Some of them may even get answered before this generation has passed away; and some traitors, who hide that treason beneath formal declarations of loyalty and who are today the most dangerous enemies of the Republic, because they are secretly and not openly such, may be brought rather unexpectedly to justice. ------------------------------------------------------------------ DEATHS Rev. Richard J. Evans It is with unfeigned regret that we record the death of Rev. Richard J. Evans of Olympia, Washington territory, who died at the early age of 28, leaving a devoted wife, a loving child and a large circle of friends to mourn his untimely end. Mr. Evans graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1856, and received a Diploma at the Allegheny Theological Seminary in 1859. He left this place in February, 1860, for Washington territory, as a missionary under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, where he remained until the time of his death. From the earliest years he manifested a serious turn of mind which seemed to indicate a life of usefulness and devotion, in the church of God. He always expressed a strong desire to devote himself to the missionary work, thus exhibiting his burning zeal for the cause of God and humanity. When the time came for his departure to his distant field of labor, he seemed to “count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.” He tore himself from all the endearments of home and friends and directed his steps to the far west, where he freely gave his life to the work so dear to his heart. He fell at his post, nobly battling with the fiend of darkness; but he fell as the victor falls, covered with glory and calmly and sweetly sleeps in death. While amongst us, his character was irreproachable and his deportment that of a Christian, which won him the respect and confidence of all who knew him. His talents were of a superior order and bade fair to promote him to an enviable position in the church of his choice. During his illness the people amongst whom he had labored showed him every attention, but all their loving care failed to shield him from the arrows of death and he, their beloved, respected minister in holy things, now sleeps the sleep that knows no earthly waking. May the turf press lightly above him and may flowers of beauty bloom over his grave. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/howitworks?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_howitworks_012009

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, July 23, 1863 Volume 4, Number 43 NEWS Personal Information lately received from authentic sources says that the draft in this district will take place next week. We hope there may be no disturbance. On last Friday evening, our young friend, Lieut. J. N. Kinkead, of the 12th Penna. Cavalry made his numerous friends in this vicinity a flying visit. He is looking remarkably well and reports himself as much as ever infatuated with life on the tented field. Success to him! In our last issue we inadvertently omitted to mention that A. J. Rhey, Esq., had returned upon a visit to his mountain home. Two years of close application to business make him appear care worn but a few days at home will rejuvenate him. We are glad to say that in these “times which try’ men’s souls,” Jack has ever proven himself a true and loyal man and is constant in his support of the efforts made for the crushing of the rebellion. Sergt. E. R. Smith of the 27th Maine Vols., returned home on Sabbath morning, after a nine months’ campaign. His general appearance would seem to indicate that soldiering agreed with him. T. P. Fenlon, Esq., and family are in town, enjoying the cool summer breezes. Their residence in Kansas has not materially changed their appearance. Letter from Our Soldiers Letter from Capt. Litzinger’s Company Regimental Organization Co. A, 54th P. V. M. Daily Programme Items Copperheadism Muster Roll for Capt. Hughes’ Company, etc. etc. A regimental organization of the troops rendezvousing in this camp was effected on Friday last, and the following officers elected: Colonel: John M’Keage of Blair county Lieut. Colonel: ----Boles of Centre county Major: Richard Crozier of Blair county Adjutant: -----Crawford of Centre county. The companies composing the regiment, ten in number are as follows: Capt. Litzinger’s and Capt. Hughes’, Cambria Capt. Snyder’s and Capt. Boles’, Centre Capt. M’Keage’s and Capt. Crosier’s, Blair Capt. Hohman’s, Bedford Capt. Davidson’s, Centre Capt. Swope’s, Clearfield Capt. Traver’s, half-Blair and half-Cambria. The first four of the foregoing companies are “emergency” men – the residue “three months’ men.” A regiment would have been formed here a week since, only a difficulty sprung up as to the utility of consolidating the emergency men and the three months’ men. The former, it will be remembered, are mustered into the United States service whereas the latter are only sworn in to State defense. The “powers that be” seem to have determined that the distinction between the two classes is but trivial for the organization of the regiment, as at present constituted, is said to have been by and with the advice and consent of Adjutant General Russell. Our regiment is designated as the 54th Penna. Vol. Militia of which Capt. Litzinger’s company occupies the proud distinction of Co. A. In view of the fact that in the distribution of field offices, the claims of Cambria were entirely overlooked by reason that the latter were not pressed with that unyielding pertinacity characterizing those of some of the other companies, the concession of the post of honor in the regiment to our company is but a simple act of justice. We have been out on dress parade several times already and it is no ostentation to say that the 54th when drawn up in line, represents a by no means insignificant appearance. The men are all well sized, finely developed, hardy, intelligent, as a general thing – patriotic to the last degree - just the material out of which to mould a tip-top Juggernaut to assist in breaking the backbone of the Rebellion. The half company of Cambria county men spoken of above were recruited in the neighborhood of Gallitzin by Lieut. David Mills, who consolidated them with a half company raised by Capt. Travers in Blair county, the former receiving the position of First Lieutenant in the company. To demonstrate to you that we are not permitted to remain entirely inactive here but on the contrary that exercise is afforded us sufficient to prevent our blood coagulating your correspondent begs leave to submit the following programme of one day’s performance in camp: Reveille at 5 A. M.; drill from 7 to 8; and 10 to 11 A. M. and from 3 to 5 P. M.; dress parade at 6 P. M.; tattoo at 9 p.m.; taps half an hour thereafter. The whole pleasantly interspersed with various little duties after the manner of camp and patrol guards, etc. etc. The 46th Penna. Vol. Militia, Col. Lawrence, formerly encamped on an emrence (sic) a short distance from here, was ordered to Philadelphia last week. As a consequence “Camp Warrior” is now deserted There are now no troops at this point excepting our regiment, one company of six months’ men and one cavalry company. Owing to our close proximity to Cambria, we have many visitors from home. Nearly every day some familiar countenance beams upon us in quest of information as to how we flourish. That they are welcome as coals at Christmas it were needless to mention. The other day the company were made the recipients of a mammoth box of edibles from home, all of which proved very acceptable. Those kind friends who thus remembered us have our undivided thanks, coupled with the assurance that we did entire justice to their bon-offering. Of course, your readers, in common with the entire loyal North, have been shocked at the late Copperhead outbreak in New York city. This emeuse (sic) is one of the inevitable results of the teachings of that class of politician who, pretending to uphold and sustain the Government, yet advocate resistance to the constituted authorities in the exercise of the powers vested in them. Would this riot have occurred, think you, had not a certain class of political partisans, for strictly political purpose, openly advocated resistance to the draft? And would the streets of New York have run latchet-deep with gore had not such men as the Woods, Brooks and Seymours, and such papers as the WORLD and DAILY NEWS recommended the criminal measure? No – for the ignorant, prejudiced, ruff-scruff composing a mob are notoriously incompetent and unfit to conceive a project so daring and bold, so fraught with evil results to the Government and benefit to Treason. Other and abler heads conceived – they executed. The proper way to strike at the cause of which this mob is the effect, is, to put down Copperheadism throughout the entire country. Not by brute force unless, thro’ the overt treason of the Copperheads such course may be rendered necessary, but rather by the peaceful workings of the ballot box. When Copperheadism is overcome, treason North is squelched; and when Northern treason falls, the Rebellion goes by default. Let the sovereign people of Pennsylvania, when voting in the coming election, remember these facts – every vote cast for the Union case is a nail driven into the coffin of treason; every vote cast for an adherent of Copperheadism lengthens they war by a day. Choose between the two! Subjoined is the muster roll of Capt. Hughes’ Wilmore company of our regiment – Co. B: Captain: W. R. Hughes Lieutenants: 1st: Adam George 2d: Wm. C. Barbour Sergeants: 1st: R. E. Jones 2d: Gilbert A. Barker 3d: N. S. George 4th: Hartman Barrack 5th: J. F. Chickey Corporals: 1st: H. H. Pringle 2d: D. Morris Kiel 3d: S. M’Monigle 4th: Philip Sherbine 5th: John Wendeboth 6th: John Brown 7th: Emanuel Pringle 8th: Sylvester Crum Musician: Joseph Hamilton Privates: Aronfeld, Fred Ash, B. F. Barrick, John Beck, Andrew Brown, Peter M. Brendlinger, David W. Berkstresser, Daniel Berkstresser, Wm. Burkhardt, Harrison Byers, Samuel Carr, Wm. K. Chesnutwood, Aug. Coulter, David Davis, David Dellinger, Emanuel Ellis, Enos Emigh, Ressler Farber, David Feeny, John Fick, Henry Fish, John Flenner, Henry Grew, John Hamilton, Jas. D. Herlinger, F. K. Stineman, Jacob James, B. E. Johnson, Charles Keachig, John Long, John W. Lower, Elias M’Intyre, Stephen M’Monigle, David M’Monigle, Henry Miller, Martin Mulholland, John W. Nelson, Thos. J. Noel, John Paul, Elias Paul, W. H. Plummer, John Pringle, Jacob W. Scott, David W. Sharp, Hervey Shaw, Theodore Sidman, Wm. T. Stineman, Thomas Stonebraker, Wm. Weaver, John Wilson, Albert Smay, Christian The boys are all well and enjoying themselves. Through the exertions of Capt. Litzinger they are rapidly improving in drill. In a few days, no doubt, they will be perfect. Yours, etc. [Signed] “Jay” -------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Rev. Richard J. 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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, July 16, 1863 Volume 4, Number 42 NEWS A Cambria Typo Wounded In a late number of the New York TRIBUNE we observe that one of their late compositors, named George T. Swank, was severely wounded at Gettysburg. Mr. Swank whose family resides in Johnstown is doubtless well known to many of our readers. He was engaged in the New York TRIBUNE office at the time of the call for nine months’ men but deeming it his duty, he enlisted in the 27th Connecticut Volunteers because he “thought the ‘Yankees’ were actuated by principle in their fighting.” The report says he is doing well and that no fears of his recovery are entertained. Co. A By intelligence lately received from a member of Co. A, 11th Reserves, we are informed that during the battle of Gettysburg, one of their number, whom we have noticed elsewhere was killed and four wounded. The wounded are Lieut. D. Jones, John Keough, John Stevens and Edward E. Davis. Lieut. Jones was very slightly wounded, being able to remain on duty. Of the extent of injuries sustained by the others we are not informed but hope they may not prove serious. Bible Presentation As announced in our last week’s issue, the presentation of the Bible purchased by the 133d Regt. Pa. Vols., for their Chaplain, Rev. A. J. Hartsock, took place in the Presbyterian church on Thursday evening, 9th inst. The meeting was presided over by Mr. John Williams, who stated its object in a brief, pointed and patriotic address. He was succeeded by Rev. D. Harbison, who portrayed in glowing language, the various scenes of conflict and danger through which the Regiment had passed during their nine months campaign and which had served to bring out more strikingly those traits of character which endeared Rev. Hartsock to the men under his care. His labors among the wounded and dying upon the sadly memorial field of Fredericksburg, as well as his care that those of that Regiment, who then and there yielded up their lives a sacrifice to their country, should receive Christian burial, were feelingly alluded to, thereby touching a sympathetic chord in the bosom of many present, who should meet their loved ones no more this side the river of Death. Mr. Harbison was replied to by Rev. Hartsock who most warmly thanked the donors who had, through Co. F, presented him with such a priceless gift and assured them it would ever be carefully cherished as a token of their love and esteem for himself. After a short but comprehensive prayer by Rev. Lemon, the meeting closed. We very much regret our inability to furnish our readers the addresses entire, but the fact that Mr. Hartsock replied extempore, while we had no “short hand” reporter present, precludes all possibility of our doing so. Letter from Our Soldiers Letter from Capt. Litzinger’s Company >From Bedford to Huntingdon Yellow Creek Gap Back to Civilization The Boys Receive their “Fighting Clothes,” etc. Celebration of the 4th of July Dem. & Sent. and Copperheads in General, etc. “Camp Juniata,” Huntingdon, Pa. July 12th, 1863 In conformity with orders received on Friday evening, 3d inst., our company left Bedford borough for Pattonsville, arriving at the latter point after a march of fourteen miles on Saturday morning. Our Captain immediately reported to Lieut. Col. Yarnell, commandant of the post, who ordered us to take up quarters in Yellow Creek Gap, distant from town one mile. This gap is one entrance to the celebrated Morrison’s Cove, a rich and fertile valley teaming with animal and vegetable life. The position is a natural fortification, its merits enhanced by a judicious application of pick and shovel. A hundred men should be fully competent to guard its right of way against a thousand. Saying which, we say about all that can be advanced in favor of Yellow Creek Gap. It is a highly sequestered spot, away from the great throbbing heart of the nation – isolated, alone. Railroads there are none, while telegraphs are viewed in the light of an impossibility. As a consequence news is a rare commodity there. Papers are always a couple of days old when received, scarce even at that, and costing ten cents apiece! To rely upon unreliable rumors, floating hither and thither is a rather indifferent method of becoming posted on matters and things; so it were safe to infer that the Yellow Creek Gap as a general rule are but indifferently posted. Peace might be declared and they fight (provided an enemy chanced to make his appearance) for nearly a week without knowing it! Our camp was situated in the midst of a most luxurious forest. The stately oak, the graceful pine, the grim old hemlock, hickory, ash and laurel, greeted us on every hand and intertwined their boughs and branches so recklessly that a sight of the “ether blue” was a rare occurrence, indeed. Some poet, once upon a time, sighed for “a lodge in a vast wilderness.” He should go thither – the Gap is a wilderness that in point of “boundless contiguity of shade” would most likely suit him. In such case, then would the adage “there’s no account for tastes,” be verified; for, from our part, we could see the “lodge,” but not exactly in an “oh”-ing point of view. On the contrary we preferred civilization. On the following Wednesday, 8th inst., when we received orders to break up camp and march hither, you may be sure it was with no unpleasurable emotions we prepared to obey. We took the pike as far as Hopewell, seven miles distant, where we were furnished transportation on the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad to this point. Arrived here without accident at midnight. Through some mismanagement, instead of being run into town, where we could have obtained excellent accommodations we were “dumped” out about a mile below, across the river on a protracted piece of trestle-work belonging to the road – the latter fact necessitating some very skillful engineering on our part before we were enabled to attain terra firma. The terra firma was found to consist principally of rocks and coal-ashes, upon which we had the pleasure of reposing our wearied limbs until next morning. Your correspondent almost forget to say that all the troops stationed at the Gap, numbering probably four hundred from Chester, Delaware and Cambria counties, under command of Lieut. Col. Yarnell, accompanied us here. With the exception of the Cambria men, they constitute part of the 29th Penna. Vol. Militia. Thursday morning we proceeded to town and took up our quarters in the Court house yard. Soon after, a requisition was made out and we were furnished our uniforms, knapsacks, haversacks, canteens, cartridge- boxes, &c. Whereupon being in proper trim for soldier a la mode, we were marched to our present quarters, about one mile southwest of town. “Camp Juniata” is a very pleasant location with the single exception that, being cleared ground, the rays of the sun are enabled to beat upon our devoted heads with a fury against which our shelter tents are but inadequate protection. There are two other camps besides ours in this immediately locality, known respectively as Camps “Warrior” and “Jackson.” We will most likely be organized into a regiment in the course of a day or two, to be composed of Huntingdon, Blair and Cambria men. Our company celebrated the “glorious 4th” in gay old style. After the firing of a salute and the reading of the Declaration of Independence, Mr. Wm. T. Davis, our worthy Captain and Surgeon was called upon and delivered a thrilling address, brimful of patriotism and love of country. He was rapturously applauded throughout. This, at a point five miles south of Pattonsville. The Bedford GAZETTE of late date in an article denunciatory of the doings and misdoings of the militia makes honorable mention of our company, by saying in effect that throughout the campaign in that locality we acted like gentlemen and scholars. Which nobody can deny. Coming from the source it does – a rabid copperhead journal – would it be improper to consider the acknowledgement in the light of a compliment? En passant, your correspondent must not forget to return thanks to Mr. Joseph Durburrow of the Bedford INQUIRER, for many favors extended to us during our sojourn in his neighborhood. May he live two hundred and fifty years! Has your friend, the DEM. & SENT., as yet arrived at the knowledge of the fact that the Rebel army under Lee has actually invaded Pennsylvania? And has he heard of the battle of Gettysburg? A couple of weeks since, your correspondent noticed that that delectable journal treated the “invasion” as a creation of the imagination – as a humbug – “ big scare” – thereby affording the enemy all the aid and comfort within its power, by deterring men from rushing to the rescue to roll back the advancing tide of treason. Within ten days thereafter, the bloodiest battle of the war was fought – and on Pennsylvania soil, too! A big scare forsooth? - heaven preserve our loyal old Keystone from other scares like unto it! Had Meade and his gallant army been defeated, instead of overwhelmingly victorious in the late battle, we should have seen whether it would have proved a scare or a terrible reality. Our proud old Commonwealth prostrated at the foot of a rapacious and insolent foe, her people subjected to taunts and insults and her wealth and substance squandered, would have fully attested the truth of the latter proposition. Your correspondent may remark, in conclusion, that our presence on the tented field in the present crisis is only one of the fruits of Copperheadism. Had all men in the North sustained the war for the Union, as they should have done – sunk the partizac (six) in the patriot – there certainly would have been no “emergency.” The Rebels never would have advanced north of Mason and Dixon’s line had they not been led to suppose that they would find friends in our midst. So they did, but their friends proved to be poltroons, for they failed to fight for either one side or the other. Yours, etc. [Signed] “Jay” Pennsylvania There have been unnecessarily but not unusually harsh things said against Pennsylvania in regard to her want of preparation for the recent rebel invasion. The distinction should be drawn between the last Copperhead Legislature and the entire action and spirit of the people during the war, from the time when the Pennsylvania soldiers were the first to hurry to Washington at the breaking out of hostilities to the present moment. There is among the loyal States no larger State or aggregation of the smaller States, which has made greater contributions of troops or suffered more in the war than Pennsylvania. Up to the beginning of this year Pennsylvania furnished over two hundred thousand troops not including the fifty thousand militia under the call of 1862. Before the battle of Gettysburg thirty seven thousand Pennsylvanians had laid down their lives for their country! Pennsylvania is the only State which has organized at her own expense a first class reserve force amounting to nearly sixteen thousand men. This organization acted under Major Gen. McCall, Brig. Gen. Meade, Brig. Gen. Reynolds and Brig. Gen. Ord. It was ready for service two years ago; and by the act of the Legislature authorizing its existence (under the Three Million State Loan) it was for the support of the military forces of the State or of the United States. It was soon absorbed by the Army of the Potomac and variously distinguished itself. The glorious death of Reynolds and the glorious work and position of Meade are proofs of the skill shown in the selection of the officers from among the Pennsylvanians commanding the Reserve. Had the Reserve force been allowed to act as reserves, no rebel troops would have invaded Pennsylvania. The Great Vicksburg Campaign Among the reasons for the surrender, we may mention now, that within two weeks the topographical engineers of Gen. Grant’s army discovered a high bluff on the river, which had been strangely overlooked before and which commanded the strongest fort that the rebels had constructed for the defense of the city. This hill was taken possession of by our forces and the guns that were on the gunboat, Cincinnati, before she sunk, mounted on it. From this fact, it is evident that Gen. Pemberton, seeing there was no hope of holding out any longer, at once surrendered. The series of campaigns, the last of which culminated in this great success began so long ago that it is not necessary to review them. Admiral Farragut demanded the surrender of Vicksburg on May 13th, 1862. The surrender was refused. Passing the city with his fleet June 22d, he made a tremendous but unsuccessful attack upon the fortress the ensuing day. The siege was raised on the 24th. The next organized attack was made by Gen. Sherman on the 28th of December. Gen. Sherman was defeated. He withdrew his troops on the 2d of January, 1863. On the 22d, the army under Gen. M’Clernand prepared for siege operations. General Grant arrived and took command Feb. 4th, since which date the operations against the most formidable of rebel strongholds have been under his supervision. He commenced his first bombardment February 18th and continued it against brave resistance with few intervals of rest for nearly a month thereafter. Admiral Farragut again arrived with his fleet, March 21st. Two of his gunboats ran past the batteries on the 25th and six more succeeded in getting by on the 16th of the following month. On the 17th of April, batteries having been placed on the peninsula opened fire on the city. Admiral Porter came up past Grand Gulf soon after, shelling that place on the 29th. Gen. Grant meanwhile being unsuccessful in his operations from above, crossed his army at Milliken’s Bend, marched overland to Carthage, embarked his troops on transports, landed at Bowlinsburg, on the east side of the river, April 30th and moved on towards Port Gibson. Then began the victorious march so comparatively recent and so memorable, which ended in the long siege which has been pushed with such indomitable energy and perseverance to final and complete success. The engagement and victory at Richmond took place on May 12th. The battle at Mississippi Springs ensured on the following day. Jackson was occupied May 14th. On the 16th the battle at Baker’s Creek was fought; and on the 17th the battle of Big Black river bridge. Jackson, taken possession of on the march, was evacuated by our army on the 16th. Gen. Grant pressed steadily onward and on the 18th invested Vicksburg and captured Haines’ and Chickasaw Bluffs. On the 19th Gen. Steele carried the rifle pits in front of the city and Gen. Grant’s whole army assumed a threatening position, its right and left wings resting upon the river. A fierce but fruitless assault was made May 22d. The operations were reduced to a siege soon afterwards, which siege varied occasionally by sudden assaults and approaches, has continued with comparatively little loss of life on our side during the six weeks which have since intervened. We have taken over 27,000 prisoners besides about 4,000 non-combatants, 102 field pieces, 30 siege guns, 50,000 stand of arms, ammunition, locomotives, cars, a few stores, 57 stands of colors. Among the prisoners are Lieut. Gen. Pemberton; Major. Gens. S. Stevenson, Smith, Forney and Bowen, 14 Brig. Gens. and about 130 Cols. There are 5,600 men in the hospital, half of whom are wounded. Only 150 of the garrison are reported fit for duty. The stock of provisions was almost exhausted and for four days numbers had been eating mule flesh. Of ammunition for heavy guns they had a fair supply but of field guns and musketry they were short. Eight caps to a man were allowed. They had an excess of sugar, molasses and rice and these were all the supplies they had, except a little unground corn. The latest advices from the fallen stronghold are to the 5th instant, at which time the prisoners had not been started for their destination, understood to be Talladega, Ala. Many of them are understood to be desirous to take the oath of allegiance and to come North. The latest reports from Joe Johnson are that he is rapidly retreating and General Sherman is in hot pursuit. An offer of assistance has been sent by General Grant to General Banks. Cavalry Fight at Hagerstown Special Dispatch to the N. Y. TRIBUNE The Front, Thursday, July 9 Intelligence has just been received here concerning the cavalry fight of yesterday, which occurred near Hagerstown. The enemy were part of Stuart’s forces, not in command of that officer himself. They were supported by infantry which took up a strong position in the woods south of the town. After a determined resistance on their part, the arrival of Gen. Buford toward night resulted in a gallant charge of our men – the 5th Michigan distinguished themselves particularly upon the ground occupied by the rebel infantry, driving them from the wood, a feat almost unprecedented, considering the advantages of infantry in a wooded country – our force occupying the ground first chosen by the rebels. We lost from 50 to 100 killed. The enemy lost about equally, with the addition of upward of fifty prisoners. Gen. Kilpatrick who is erroneously reported dead, charged the enemy in person and drove them for at least three miles. At least 1,000 prisoners passed through Frederick on their way to Baltimore today, among them several officers. Washington Thursday, July 9 The news from the Upper Potomac is much more encouraging. It is almost certain that Gen. Lee will be brought to battle on this side of the river, and under great disadvantages. It is ascertained that he has only managed to cross his wounded and a part of the Pennsylvania spoils, having, so far as is known, no bridges but a large number of boats. Gen. Meade has been too quick for him and Lee now has his choice of fighting with his whole force or of losing his artillery and at least one third of his army. The two armies were at last accounts not more than 10 miles apart, Gen. Lee’s stretching from Hagerstown to Williamsport, and Gen. Meade’s being upon the march from Boonsboro on two roads toward him. Our telegraph is already 4 miles beyond Boonsboro, our advance being at that point. Gen. Couch is slow at coming up, but there are other forces in a position enabling them to approach the flank of Gen. Lee. Should he manage to cross the river, as is exceedingly improbable, it is not to be inferred that he will escape the victorious Army of the Potomac, which has ample means of following him. Near Hagerstown, Md. July 9 The rebels still hold the line from Hagerstown to Williamsport. It is supposed their main body rests on the bank of the Potomac. Lee is making the most desperate efforts to cross. In the present condition of the river it is believed by the best informed officers of our army here that Gen. Meade will force him to a final engagement before he can possibly escape. In this event the next battle will undoubtedly be found upon or near the old Antietam field within the next 48 hours. Our constant cavalry skirmishes with the enemy reveal his anxiety to cover his rear and avoid a general engagement rather than a desire to give us battle. We have at least a live, a cool, a temperate, vigilant man at the head of the Army of the Potomac who will do all that mortals can to finish the work so gloriously begun. Our officers and men are inspirited with a confidence and hopefulness I have never before witnessed. Special Dispatch to the Philad’a. INQUIRER Frederick, Md. July 8 - 12 M Gen. Meade and staff arrived here yesterday from Gettysburg and left this morning for the front which is now the line of the Potomac and the old Antietam battlefield. Gen. Meade was presented with boquets (sic) of natural flowers by the ladies of Frederick and was serenaded last evening at his hotel by the fine band of the New York 7th regiment. The General sent his compliments to the ladies and apologized for not being able to grant them an interview, as his time was entirely occupied with very important business. He tendered them his thanks for their gift and their patriotic expression in favor of the good cause. Information received here leaves no doubt that the rebel army has succeeded in reaching the Potomac at Williamsport in considerable force and on Monday night and yesterday were engaged in ferrying over their ordinance and wagon trains on flat-boats, canal boats and every species of material that could float a man, a horse or a wagon. In anticipation of this, General Buford’s and Kilpatrick’s cavalry has been sent forward to Williamsport to intercept the retreat and prevent their crossing the river. Early yesterday morning Buford’s and Kilpatrick’s forces combined, arrived at Williamsport and attacked the rebels who had a large cavalry force at hand. The fight was short but severe and our troops, finding themselves outnumbered, retired toward Hagerstown and between Williamsport and Hagerstown, they encountered another large body of cavalry and a division on of infantry believed to be Longstreet’s corps which was quickly brought into position and attacked our troops. Finding his force unequal in to the contest, Gen. Buford withdrew toward Antietam, taking along twenty-five prisoners captured in the fight. The prisoners were mostly from Alabama and Louisiana regiments and they state that their army is all together and well on its way to the river. They arrived in Frederick last evening. It is reported here that our cavalry pickets at Antietam were driven in last night by the rebels indicating that they were in considerable force in that vicinity. This move is evidently with the design of accruing another crossing point at Shepherdstown. Gen. Meade is acquainted with all these matters and is making his movements accordingly, with great rapidity in remarkably good order. Today or tomorrow perhaps at the furthest the two armies will meet each other near the scene of the old Antietam battlefield where a battle will most probably take place, if Lee should feel in a fighting mood and if he should not wax belligerent, Meade will certainly attack him. According to all accounts, Lee’s army is very much disorganized. The result cannot be doubtful. All the fear is that they may escape across the river before Meade can overtake them. At home you must withhold criticism if a large portion of Lee’s army should escape as it was not possible to remove troops from Gettysburg to the Potomac faster than our troops have moved. Not an hour’s delay has occurred, except to provide the troops with supplies, without which they could not move. The rebels fleeing for dear life marched day and night to escape Meade and doubtless by this time a large number of them may have reached the river but its swollen condition will prevent them from crossing over so quickly as they expected. Maryland Heights have again been reoccupied. It has rained almost constantly for three days. The New York 7th arrived here yesterday from Baltimore and has gone to the front. Loudon, July 8 – Noon Eight of Kilpatrick’s cavalry engaged in the fight on Monday evening, near Williamsport, have just arrived. They were cut off from their regiment, the 1st Michigan. Kilpatrick’s Division took Hagerstown with slight loss about Monday noon, leaving one brigade and two guns to prevent being flanked. He pressed towards Williamsport and engaged the troops there on the front while Buford’s Division pushed from Sharpsburg and both were engaged heavily for some time, shelling the town. Kilpatrick’s force, meantime, at Hagerstown were attacked by an overwhelming force of Ewell’s Corps, infantry, cavalry and artillery. They fell back to the main body, losing two cannon. Both divisions of cavalry retired toward Boonsboro on Meade’s infantry. The enemy have two pieces of heavy cannon planted on the south side of the Potomac, commanding the Williamsport Ford. They intend taking the line of battle ground on the west side of the Conococheague. One hundred rebel cavalry came into Greencastle last night, taking away three citizens as prisoners. A scout, just returned from Clearsprings, six miles from Williamsport, says Imboden is at Williamsport with five thousand wagons, guarded by seven thousand men. Sixteen pieces of cannon tried up to noon today to cross the river but they got only three over. Gen. French attempted to get at Williamsport yesterday but failed to reach it, being repulsed. Lee’s headquarters is at Hagerstown today. The Question of Rank The question of rank between the Major Generals of the army has been decided by a board of officers to which it has been submitted by determining the following order of precedence: Maj. Gen. M’Clellan, appointed May 14th, to take rank from the same date. Maj. Gen. Fremont, appointed July 1st, to take rank from May 14, 1861. Maj. Gen. Banks, appointed June 5th, to take rank from May 16, 1861. Maj. Gen. Dix, appointed June 14th, to take rank from May 16th, 1861. The decision is upon two grounds: First that an appointment may be anti-dated by the President as in General Fremont’s case; and second, that order in which the names stood on the list when the appointments were sent into the Senate. It decides the rank between Banks, Dix and Butler without regard to actual date of appointment by the President. ---------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS Frederick J. Evans It becomes our painful duty to chronicle the death of another of Cambria’s brave sons upon the battle field. Frederick J. Evans, who belonged to Co. A, 11th Pa. Reserves was killed in the late sanguinary battle of Gettysburg. The deceased had been a resident of Cambria township but when the hand of Treason was stretched forth to desecrate the fair temple of liberty he nobly went forth to vindicate the honor of an outraged and insulted country. He laid his life as an offering upon the gory altar of liberty, and she has accepted the sacrifice. Mr. Evans was a young man of irreproachable character – warm hearted and generous - he was beloved by all with whom he was thrown in contact. We sympathize with the family and relatives of the deceased in this deep affliction, but feel assured they mourn not as those who have no hope, but rather looking forward to a glorious reunion “where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest.” Thomas Deveraux Died in Cambria township on Monday, 6th inst., Thomas Deveraux, aged about 19 years. About two weeks previous to his death the deceased had been engaged in rolling logs, when the handspike which he was using escaped from his grasp and struck him upon the breast. Several of his ribs were broken by the force of the blow and the injuries received finally culminated in death. The deceased had been a member of Co. F, 133d Pa. Vols., through their nine months’ campaign. He escaped the deadly bullets of the enemy only to find that Death, the great leveler of all mankind, visits alike the palace and the cabin, the field of battle and the peaceful haunts of civil life. May he rest in peace. Sad Accident A man named Peter Wible, residing near Carrolltown, was recently attending to a horse when the animal seized him by the shoulder with his teeth, biting and lacerating him dreadfully. The man then either fell or was thrown down by the horse and trampled upon in such a manner as to cause death to ensue in a short time. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, July 9, 1863 Volume 4, Number 41 NEWS Personal It is with unfeigned pleasure that we announce the convalescence of our friend, Ellis R. Williams, who, as we noticed some time since, was injured by being thrown from a horse. When he again becomes a votary of “the blind god,” and starts in pursuit of “pleasure under difficulties,” we hope he may meet with a more agreeable end to his visit. Local and Personal We are very sorry to learn that the small pox has made its appearance and is prevailing to a great extent in Carrolltown and vicinity. Thus far, however, we are cognizant of but one death resulting from that disease. On last Friday afternoon during the continuance of the heavy thunder shower that visited this vicinity, the barn of Mr. Thomas James, about two miles west of town was stuck by lightening. Mr. J., and two of his sons, who were within the building at the time were stunned by the electric fluid, but providentially sustained no further injury. Educational As the time for opening the country schools throughout the county for the winter term is approaching we would call the attention of Directors to a matter which has long needed reform. We refer to the serious obstacles which a teacher has to surmount in properly classifying his school. In some districts, we are aware, regular series of books have been adopted, but in very few instances has their introduction been effected – every pupil being permitted to use whatever books suits him, thereby subjecting the teacher to untold annoyance. Cannot some energetic Director in each district move in the matter and have a uniform series of text books introduced into every school room in the county. In this connection it may not be amiss to mention Mitchell’s new School Geographies, comprising the Primary, Intermediate and High School works. We have examined these Geographies and also Goodrich’s History of the United States and most cordially recommend them to Directors wishing to introduce good and reliable books into the schools under their care, while the merely nominal price charged, places them within reach of everyone. For further particulars we refer our readers to the Agent, D. W. Proctor, Huntingdon, Pa. Presentation We are requested to announce that the presentation of the Bible purchased by the members of the 133d Regt. Pa. Vols., for the Chaplain, Rev. A. J. Hartsock will take place in the Presbyterian church this (Thursday) evening. Rev. D. S. Harbison has been requested to represent the Regiment and present their gift and will be responded to by the recipient himself. The public are invited to be present. The Bible which is from the establishment of Wm. S. & Alfred Martien, 606 Chestnut st., Phila., presents a splendid appearance, reflecting great credit upon the firm from which it issues. The binding is of dark brown morocco, while the tablet with an inscription portraying the high respect and esteem entertained by the 133d for their Chaplain and also the clasps are of solid gold. It is indeed a fitting tribute to a worthy man. Since the above was put in type we have been informed that the selection of the Bible was entrusted to our fellow townsman, J. Patton Thompson and who displayed even more than his usual taste in purchasing the book. A Card Ebensburg, Pa., July 9, 1863 To My Friends: Having for the past two weeks been confined to my room on account of illness and, during that time, having received many tokens of care and attention, I wish to return my thanks to the loyal citizens of Ebensburg, more especially to the ladies and the members of Company F, for their uniform kindness and consideration. Mere words cannot express my gratitude but, dear friends, your courtesy and generosity shall never be forgotten. [Signed] Ellis R. Williams Letter from Our Soldiers Letter from Capt. Litzinger’s Company “Change of Base” Militia in Line of Battle Grand Review at Bloody Run Bedford Springs The Fruits of Copperheadism, etc. etc. Since your correspondent wrote you last, the militia have made a “move.” On Thursday, 30th ultimo, Pierce’s command – formerly Milroy’s – evacuated Bloody Run, coming hither, infantry, cavalry, artillery, baggage and all, and encamping on the plains adjacent to town. What this move indicates your correspondent is at a loss to know, unless indeed, Cumberland is to be the scene of future operations of the division. Yesterday and today the men composing the various regiments put in the time pleasantly by drawing new clothing so that they now present a neat as well as comfortable appearance. They are all, or soon will be, well clad and well shod. Subsequent to the departure of Pierce from Bloody Run, the militia also took their line of march, bringing up the rear of the forces. From this fact you may know that the retrogressive movement was well and ably covered. Our company, on arriving at their destination, took up their quarters in a neat and roomy barn, situated in the suburb of Bedford while Capt. Hughes’ Wilmore company appropriated the Lutheran church near the centre of town. This morning we received orders from Col. Higgins, commanding the militia to report forthwith at Pattonsville, a small town in Morrison’s Cove, Bedford county, some sixteen or twenty miles hence. Unless the order be countermanded, we leave for that point this afternoon. There are several hundred militia at Pattonsville already so the probabilities are we will be formed into a regiment upon our arrival there. This, at least, is a consummation devoutly to be wished. On Monday evening 29th ult., our and Capt. Hughes’ companies were formed in line of battle near Bloody Run to support a battery which had been planted on the Bedford Pike to repel an anticipated attack by Rebel cavalry. After a weary wait of about an hour, during which time the Rebels failed to make their appearance, we were ordered back to our quarters. Maj. Titus of the 12th Penna. Cavalry complimented us in high terms of praise for the readiness exhibited to meet the enemy. On Sunday, 28th ultimo, Pierce’s forces had a grand review at Bloody Run in which we, the militia, had the honor of participating. Although as regards uniformity of apparel, we did not and could not be expected to cope with the volunteers, yet the various evolutions as performed by us, gave entire satisfaction to the Colonel commanding. To a civilian, uninterested in the performance except as a mere spectator a review may assume the proportions of a “big thing” but the soldiers unanimously vote them an infernal bore. Your correspondent and Capt. Litzinger’s company in general are no exception to the rule. Several of our company paid a visit to Bedford Springs yesterday. They report the celebrated summer resort as being a rather pleasant sort of place - the water possessed of medicinal virtue warranted to cure anything from fits down, the woods luxuriant and shady, the natural surroundings romantic and the hills reasonable. In short, judging of their description, it must be a sort of second edition of your own Cresson Springs. Bedford Springs is one mile and a quarter north of town. There are but few visitors there at present. Your correspondent may be pardoned for mentioning as he passes along that Bedford Springs have obtained their chief notoriety from the association with the name of James Buchanan, that immaculate toughface and tory being in the invariable habit of passing the dog–days at this retreat. Per sequence, the spot should have peculiar attractions for -the Rebels! Bedford county apparently is peopled principally by Copperheads - fierce, virulent Copperheads, who would rather see the Rebels obtain a firm foothold inside their limits than that any of the measures of the Administration for the squelching of the Rebellion should succeed. In proof of this assertion, your correspondent begs leave to say that, although a border county, Bedford has not a single company in the field for the “Emergency!” Like base poltroons or else traitors they appear content to rest their hopes of safety upon the efforts of others. For his part, your correspondent is free to say he would have no particular objections to the enemy making a small raid in this direction, just to show the Bedfordites what they may expect should the Rebels obtain full sway in the North. In that even, Copperhead sentiment would fall below par, don’t you think? The quota of Bedford county under the last call for militia is 540 - all of which, doubtless will have to be drafted. Draft men to defend their very homes and firesides, their wives and children – that sounds nice! We have heard with pleasure that another company to repel invasion is being formed in Ebensburg. Send them down here - their lines will fall in pleasant places; that is to say, they will fall among friends. Our boys are all well and enjoying themselves muchly. They seem to take to “sojering” as naturally as a duck takes to water. When the “emergency” is over, and they return to their respective homes, the folks there are confidently expected not to know them by reason of the great improvement in their personal appearance. Yours, etc. [Signed] “Jay” Letter from Vicksburg (We have been permitted to publish the following private letter, giving an account of the writer’s share in the battles of the West, and which we think will prove of interest to his many friends in this neighborhood): Before Vicksburg, Miss. June 20, 1863 Dear Brother and Sister: Some time has elapsed since you have heard directly from me and indeed, I have had but few opportunities to write to any one during the last two months, for, as you are doubtless aware, Grant’s army has been actively engaged since our advent into Mississippi. A brief sketch by a participant may be of some interest to you. On the 24th of April last our division (Logan’s) with two others, comprising the 7th Army Corps, left Milliken’s Bend, La., by land in the direction of Grand Gulf and after a severe march of five days we arrived opposite Bruinsburg, Miss. On the evening of the 30th, we landed on the “sacred soil” of the chief state in rebeldom, and at an early hour next morning we resumed the line of march for Port Gibson, a town of some importance about nine miles from the river. When within three miles of the town, we met the enemy in considerable force and after an obstinate engagement of about eight hours, we were masters of the field. The rebels suffered severely while our loss was comparatively light. Our regiment escaped remarkably; losing but one killed and six wounded. We captured two hundred prisoners and six cannon. We next met the rebels on the 12th of May, at Raymond, in much stronger force and better position than at Port Gibson. The rebels opened upon us with a heavy artillery fire, which was soon vigorously replied to by our own and for some time it was exclusively an artillery duel. The rebel guns, however, were ultimately silenced, when the rebels, as a last resort, attempted to carry our batteries at the point of the bayonet. This of course, brought forward our infantry and the most terrific musketry fighting that I ever witnessed was kept up for about two hours. Our brigade stood the brunt of the action and our regiment was under fire for three hours. We had fired our last cartridge when two other regiments were sent to our support with the order to charge, which was done in handsome style and from that time until night, we pursed the retreating enemy, capturing trains, stragglers, guns &c. It was a most brilliant but a hard won victory. Our regiment lost in killed and wounded over 33 per cent of its number. Our Lt. Col. was killed, also five line officers and several severely wounded. My company lost six killed and ten wounded. A detail was left to bury the dead and collect the wounded while we pushed on. Although foot-sore and weary, we marched eighteen miles the day following in the direction of Jackson, the capital of the state, where we again expected to encounter the enemy and were not disappointed. Early on the morning of the 14th Grant’s cannons were thundering at the portals of the capital and after a feeble resistance the rebels destroyed its army stores and fled in confusion, leaving the “mudsills” to reign supreme while the Stars and Stripes floated in triumph from the dome of the State Capitol. On the morning of the 15th we evacuated Jackson and commenced our march on Vicksburg and were met on the morning of the 16th, near Edwards station on the Jackson & Vicksburg RR., by Gen. Pemberton, commanding a force of thirty thousand. After another day’s hard fighting the rebels were routed; with an immense loss in killed, wounded and prisoners. The rebel loss in the different engagements, since we have invaded Miss., may be summed up as follows: 6,000 killed and wounded, 12,000 prisoners, 80 pieces of artillery and about 30,000 stand of small arms besides a large amount of supplies, cattle, &c., and the entire rebel army of the Mississippi cooped up at Vicksburg. The rebel fortifications are formidable but Gen. Grant says he can take it and its garrison in the course of a few weeks. We are approaching the works by regular sieges. We have at least 300 cannon in position and if these fail to induce Gen. Pemberton to capitulate, I think the depleted state of his Commissary Department will bring about the desired effect. He has no means of receiving a pound of supplies or ammunition or any re-enforcements. The fall of the city is considered certain. I am happy to say that I have participated in all the battles during the campaign and aside from a slight wound in the left hand, received in the first assault upon the Vicksburg fortifications I have escaped untouched. * * * [Signed] Lieut. R. N. Evans News from Bedford (We copy the following letter of our correspondent, “Jay,” from the Pittsburg DISPATCH of the 4th inst.) Bedford, Penna. Wednesday, July 1 As you have probably been informed by telegraph ere this, Gen. Milroy’s army now commanded by Col. Pierce of the 12th Penna. Cavalry, broke up camp at Bloody Run yesterday and marched hither. From the fact that the artillery and baggage wagons followed it, as well as from various other indications, the movement is supposed to foreshadow an advance into Dixie by way of Cumberland. The “boys” are today drawing a complete outfit of clothing, so that, when they take up their line of march to retrieve the Winchester disaster, they go not as the “rag-tag- and-bob-tail” of creation but rather like unto “well dressed, prepossessing soldiers.” The number of men left at Bloody Run to guard the Snake Spring Valley from invasion, it would be improper, of course, to estimate. Suffice it to say, however, it is amply sufficient for the service in view. At present there are only two companies of militia here – Capt. Litzinger’s of Ebensburg and Capt. Hughes of Wilmore, both from Cambria county. Several companies from Blair county were here for a few days, apparently on “a spree,” but when it was ascertained that the members in order to effect a thorough organization were required to be mustered in, with scarcely a single exception, mizzled, cut stick, vamoused – left for their homes, determine to “strike for their altars and their fires,” at the rate of four or five miles an hour. Those on horseback, of course, were an exception to this rule. They probably effected ten or twelve miles in the same length of time. Bedford county, although a border county, has as yet not a single man in the field for the “emergency.” The citizens of Bedford town held a public meeting last evening to make an endeavor to “do something” in the premises. Their quota under the last calls is 540. Hope the requisite number may be raised without drafting, but scarcely think it will, inasmuch as copperheads are both venomous and plenty hereabout. Don’t you think Messieurs DISPATCH, that a county like Bedford, which refuses to raise an arm in its own defense, although a horde of rabid rebels are on its very confines, should, of right, be left to its own resources – to sink or swim, go up or go down as circumstances may determine? And is it not a burning shame on the name and fame of the aforesaid county that it is content to rest its hopes of political and personal salvation upon the strong right arms of the Cambria county yeomen? Colonel Higgins of Blair county is acting Colonel of the militia - two companies. He is a good man, but rather out of place; a Cambria county man should of right command Cambria county forces. [Signed] Jay _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: E-mail. Chat. Share. Get more ways to connect. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_allup_explore_012009

The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, July 2, 1863 Volume 4, Number 40 NEWS To Our Patrons Owing to the fact that our Publisher, becoming imbued with the military ardor prevalent in our quiet little village consequent upon the calling out of the military to defend our State from the incursion of the Rebel hordes, “buckled on his armor” and accompanied the band of militia that left our midst a short time since, we were unable to issue our paper last week. We have, however made arrangements, which we think will ensure its regular publication during his absence; but should it not present its accustomed workmanlike appearance, we trust our readers will overlook the defections and accept the assurance that we shall do our best until his return. Arrested On Thursday, 18th inst., Deputy Provost Marshal Heyer arrested three men named John M’Kenzie, Jos. Will and David Watt, in the borough of Chest Spring upon the charges of uttering disloyal and treasonable sentiments, of inciting a mob to attempt the life of Mr. J. Varney, the enrolling officer of that district, and of refusing to give the enrolling officer the required information relative to name and age. They were conveyed to Pittsburg for trial. The prompt action of the Marshal in this matter is certainly highly commendable and may be fraught with good results in the community at large in assuring those who will persist in “rendering aid and comfort to the enemy” that they will finally be overtaken by a just and merited retribution. We expect to hear a great deal of prating about “military arrests,” and “small officials aping the example of their superiors in authority,” but do not feel alarmed for the ultimate result, having firm faith in our law abiding and order loving citizens and though mob law may for a while reign supreme, yet in the end Justice will be vindicated. >From Capt. Litzinger’s Co. Our Militia Where they Are and What they are Doing Particulars of their Campaign Up to Date Muster Roll of Company, &c. &c. “Camp Emergency” Near Bloody Run, Bedford Co., Pa. June 27, 1863 As the mass of your local readers are no doubt aware the company of which your correspondent has the honor of being a member left Ebensburg on the 18th inst., in prompt response to the call of the Governor for militia to protect the borders of the State from invasion. The organization was not the result of a painful tedious recruiting process – on the contrary, it appeared to be a spontaneous outburst of the patriotism and loyalty of our rock-girt village. At first we were all disposed to regard the reported Rebel advance as a mere rumor, having no foundation in fact; but when it became apparent that the Rebel army, a portion of it, had actually crossed Mason and Dixon’s line, and were moving upon our State Capital, then a consciousness of danger dawned upon us. Throughout the entire length and breadth of the State, there was a quick and hurried response. Trusty rifles were grasped by willing hands – the plow was left to grow rusty in the furrow – the sickle was exchanged for the sword – and there was “mounting in hot haste” for the different scenes of danger. Cambria county, true to her traditional love of Liberty, did not prove a laggard when heroes are required. Six full companies went forth from her limits within two days from the call of the Governor for men and first among these was the Ebensburg company. Our company is composed principally of members of the old Ebensburg militia company – Co. E, 4th Penna. Vol. Militia – which underwent a two weeks’ campaign in Southern Pennsylvania and Maryland, last September, sharing in all the perils and privations of that bloodless campaign so that we consider ourselves almost veterans against now. Our commissioned officers are the same as then – Capt. Litzinger; First Lieutenant D. O. Evans and Second Lieutenant E. D. Evans – Mexican soldiers to whom the “pomp and circumstance of glorious war” are no new things. To attempt to portray in words their varied acquirements as officers and men would be to attempt to paint the lily. Suffice it to say that they command in an eminent degree the esteem and respect of their men. The residue of the company is composed of the stuff of which heroes are made. Leaving Ebensburg at 7 A. M. 18th inst., we arrived at Altoona by 10 o’clock. There we drew our guns – and nothing else. No knapsacks, haversacks, canteens nor cartridge boxes were given us for the simple reason that there were none on hand to give. We were favored with a plentiful supply of ammunition, however, than which in times of war, there is nothing superior. When we left home it was with the implied understanding that we were to go to Harrisburg. At Altoona, however, we received orders directing us to march hither. This was a sore disappointment to many of us, but we did not grumble. Taking the Hollidaysburg Branch Railroad at 1 P. M. we were shipped to Duncansville, from which point we were obliged to content ourselves with that much safer but not nearly so expeditious mode of transportation, namely, “Walkers Line.” The same evening we marched to Sarah Furnace, three miles further on, where we encamped for the night in an apple orchard. Sarah Furnace is a small “settlement” on the Hollidaysburg and Bedford turnpike, containing a couple of hundred inhabitants and familiarly, or rather, sarcastically known as “Hogshead Furnace,” from the fact that the operatives in the furnace – the feature of the place – were in former years invariably fed on hogs heads instead of the more dainty bits of the porcine quadruped! On the 19th at 2 P. M. we resumed our march. Reached Buckstown, Bedford county, nine miles from Sarah Furnace – at 6 P. M.; encamping over night in the school room of the village. On the 20th left Buckstown at 8 A. M., arriving at Bedford, ten miles distant from Buckstown at 1 P. M. Rested for an hour or two when we again started, reaching this point – six miles from Bedford – the same evening. We have been encamped here ever since, in a comfortable stone barn, doing nothing in particular, except remaining stationary to act as a check against any Rebel forces that might chance to stray this direction. Although there are several militia companies here we have not as yet been formed into regiments. Col. Higgins of Blair County, however is acting Colonel. Hon. S. S. Blair is acting Quartermaster. There are two Cambria companies here – Capt. Wm. R. Hughes of Wilmore and ours. Four Johnstown companies came down thus far with us but on reporting to Col. Higgins, they were told that a large force of Rebels were supposed to be threatening Johnstown; whereupon they about faced and returned home to guard their own hearthstone and fires. At Bloody Run, one mile east of here, Gen. Milroy has his headquarters. He is busily engaged in reorganizing his command, preparatory to once more moving against the enemy. Stragglers from the disastrous battle of Winchester, where our forces fought over four times their number, are coming in by scores daily and our list of casualties by this means is being considerably reduced. But this letter is growing too long and I will conclude by giving you the muster roll of our company. It is as follows: Captain: R. Litzinger Lieutenants: 1st: D. O. Evans 2d: E. D. Evans Sergeants: 1st: C. T. Roberts 2d: D. J. Jones 3d: J. T. Hutchinson 4th: D. A. Jones 5th: Edward Owens Corporals: 1st: Hugh Jones 2d: J. L. P. M’Allister 3d: D. W. Evans 4th: D. K. Davis 5th: Enoch Rees 6th: Erasmus P. Evans 7th: J. Hawksworth 8th: Newton I. Roberts Musician: A. J. Litzinger Mail Messenger: Tom P. Davis Privates: W. H. H. Adams Simon Adams Uriah Brown Wm. Campbell Philip Dolan John D. Davis Joshua Davis Edward D. Davis William T. Davis Aaron Davis T. S. Empfield D. J. Evans Jerry Evans Lemuel Evans Hugh H. Evans Augustine Fink Richard Griffith John Gittings Matthias Hawkins David Howell Thomas J. Hughes David P. Hughes Richard Hughes John Hughes William M. James Daniel T. James Edmund James D. J. Jones, (West) William A. Jones Edwin Jones George A. Wilson Charles Jones Dwight Jones George W. Jones David H. Kinkead Newton Lloyd Frank Leavy J. M’Monigal D. M’Monigal S. M’Monigal William Morgan Alexander Mills Adram L. Makin Oliver O’Harra Frank O. Powell Elias D. Powell Richard W. Pryce William D. Pryce William R. Roberts John D. Roberts Richard J. Roberts Elias Rowland George F. Robinson Edwin Rodgers Luther Stiles Wallace Stiles James B. Singer Adam Shinefelt Samuel Thomas David T. Williams William Williams [Total 79] I will send you the roll of Capt. Hughes’ company for next week. Send all letters intended for us to “Bloody Run P. O., Bedford county, Pa. – Care Captain Litzinger.” We will most likely get them. [Signed] “Jay” War News Dispatches from the army of the Potomac dated June 27th state that it will soon be to the front and north of Baltimore. The heavy rains have made the roads so bad that the movements are necessarily very slow. Harrisburg, June 27: Carlisle was occupied about 10 o’clock this morning by the rebels. Our cavalry force is gradually retiring. The rebels evacuated M’Connellsburg at nine o’clock yesterday morning. On Thursday evening their pickets were driven in by a detachment of the 1st N. Y. cavalry under Maj. Adams causing quite an alarm among them. The cause of their retreat is supposed to the fear of a flank movement - operation for which the country offers great facilities The rebels were about 5,000 strong under command of Gen. Stuart. They retreated in the direction of Chambersburg and will today reinforce their forces that are menacing Harrisburg. A destructive raid was made through the lower part of that county by a body of Imboden’s men. They paid no respect to any kind of property whatever and what they could not carry away, they destroyed. A skirmish occurred in Wrightsville, opposite Columbia on the 28th inst., Col. Frick’s men fought the enemy gallantly till surrounded and overpowered. Over one hundred men were captured and the rest retreated across the bridge. The bridge was then fired by our men to prevent the rebels crossing. The Situation The following article upon the present situation we copy from the New York TRIBUNE of the 29th inst.: There is now no remaining doubt that the rebel army of Gen. Lee, One Hundred Thousand strong, is nearly or quite all, this side of the Potomac. Gen. Meade’s Union army is where it should be to cover Washington and Baltimore and meet him. The rebels occupy most of Western Maryland - that is to say, so much of it as lies between the western slope of the South Mountains and Cumberland and are treating it rather tenderly, being anxious to conciliate its people. They also occupy a considerable section of Southern Pennsylvania, from Gettysburg on the East to a point near McConnellsburg on the West, and are stripping it very clean – of Horses, Cattle, Grain, Flour, Groceries, Dry Goods, Medicines and whatever else they can convert to any use. They are living immensely better than they have done for many months back. In short they find the accommodations so good that they have half a mind to stay. Pittsburg and the West do not seem to be threatened at present which exemption we attribute to the energy and spirit wherewith they rallied to their own defense and set to fortifying, arming, drilling &c. Had Eastern Pennsylvania promptly evinced equal pluck, she, too, would have been safe. The rebels have thoroughly destroyed the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for a distance of sixty or seventy miles, so that it cannot be restored save at a great cost and with a considerable sacrifice of time. They have more recently broken up the Railroad running from Harrisburg to Baltimore, having torn up the rails at Hanover Junction and possibly at York for that purpose. A single line of Railroad – the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore – now connects the loyal States with Washington and the Union Government and the Army of the Potomac. A bloody and momentous collision may be imminent and may occur at any moment. We judge that the rebels have made this hazardous advance under the impression that our chief Army is demoralized and not in fighting spirits. We trust that they may rue this presumption. We do not believe Lee intends to push much further this way at present but rather to take the Union Army, at a disadvantage and beat it, after which he will determine whether to advance to Philadelphia or turn upon Baltimore and Washington. But we shall soon see. Most of Lee’s Army in Penna. Our State to be the Battle Ground Farewell Address of Hooker New York June 20 A dispatch to a Philadelphia paper says the rebels who captured the wagon train consisted in part of Fitzhugh Lee’s brigade, the whole of which was marching to Beltsville, on the B. & O. R.R. Two rebel regiments are encamped at Accotink, ten miles from Alexandria. Captured rebels say Stuart’s Cavalry, with artillery, are marching on the railroad between Washington and Baltimore. The whole rebel army, except Stuart is now in Pennsylvania. Rebel officers say they are determined to make Pennsylvania the future battle field. Headquarters, Army of the Potomac June 28 General Hooker issued the following address: “In conformity with orders from the War Department, dated June 27th, I relinquish the command of the army of the Potomac. It is transferred to Major General George B. Meade, a brave and accomplished officer who has nobly carried the confidence and esteem of the army on many well-fought fields. Impressed with the belief that my usefulness as commander of the army of the Potomac is impaired, I part from it, yet not without the deepest emotion but the sorrow of parting with comrades of so many battles, is relieved by the conviction that the courage and devotion of this army will never cease nor fail; that it will yield to my successor (as it has to me) a hearty and willing support. With the earnest prayer that the triumph of its arms may bring successes worthy of it and the nation, I bid it farewell. [Signed] Joseph Hooker” This was followed by an address from General Meade, dated Headquarters Army of the Potomac, June 28th, 1863: “By direction of the President of the United States, I hereby assume command of the Army of the Potomac. As a soldier in obeying this order, an order totally unexpected and unsolicited, I have no promises or pledges to make. The country looks to the army to relieve it from the devastation and disgrace of hostile invasion. Whatever sacrifices we may be called upon to undergo, let us have in view constantly the magnitude of the interests involved and let each man be determined to do his duty, leaving to an all–controlling Providence the direction of the contest. It is with just diffidence that I relieve in command of this army an eminent and accomplished soldier, whose name must ever appear inconspicuous in the history of its achievements, but I rely upon the hearty support of my comrades in arms to assist me in the discharge of the duties of this important trust which has been confided to me. [Signed] Geo. G. Meade, Maj. Gen. Com. Rebel Spy Capt. Coulter, Provost Marshal of the 21st district, arrested a man named John Lawson at Ligonier, Westmoreland county, on the charge of being a rebel spy. He was arrested on his return from Cumberland whither, according to his own statement, he had been to obtain employment. Capt. Coulter was disposed to disbelieve his statement and accordingly placed him under arrest. He was turned over to U. S. Marshal Mardoch and lodged in the Pittsburg jail to await a hearing. The Invaded Border Towns Chambersburg which is the county seat of Franklin county, Pennsylvania, is pleasantly situated on the Conelockeaque creek at the junction of the Cumberland Valley and Franklin railroads, forty-five miles southwest from Harrisburg with which place it is connected by railroad. It has a fine court house, a large academy, eight churches and five newspaper offices. It is surrounded by a highly cultivated and populous country. There are manufactories of cotton, wool, paper, flour and iron. The population in 1853 was 4,600. Cumberland, also on the west bank of the Potomac, is the western terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and has an extensive trade. It is not surpassed in population by any city in the State, except Baltimore. There are several flourishing mills in the vicinity. The population is about eight thousand. It is one hundred and seventy- nine miles distant and nearly west from Baltimore. Hagerstown, the capital of Washington county, Maryland, is near the west bank of Antietam creek, nine miles from the Potomac river and eighty–six miles from Baltimore. It is the southern terminus of the Franklin railroad, is a well built town and a place of considerable trade. The population is about six thousand. The surrounding country is very productive and thickly settled. Westminster is the capital of Carroll county, Maryland. It is fifty- eight miles northwest from Annapolis and is situated near the source of the Patapseo river. The Westminster branch railroad connects it with the Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad. It contains about one thousand inhabitants. Williamsport, Maryland, is a post village of Washington county, on the Potomac river, nine miles southwest from Hagerstown. The Chesapeake and the Ohio Canal pass through the place. It contains a bank and numerous stores. Hancock, Maryland, is situated on the left bank of the Potomac river and on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal and is one hundred and twenty- four miles west from Baltimore. Romney, the capital of Hampshire county, Virginia, lies on the south branch of the Potomac, one hundred and ninety miles northwest from Richmond. ----------------------------------------------------------------- MARRIAGES Roberts-Swoyer Married in M’Veytown on the 18th inst., by Rev. D. D. Clark, Mr. Howard J. Roberts of Johnstown, Pa., to Miss Mary Swoyer of the former place. Since the days of Long Ago when the injunction that “it is not good for man to be alone,” was first promulgated, man has been acting upon that principle and our friend, Howard, in following the general example has, we trust, done wisely and well. We congratulate the parties and most sincerely hope that their married life may be happy and blessed beyond their expectations and that their bright and joyous anticipations of a happy future may be abundantly realized but should their sky be checkered with clouds of sorrow, may she find that he is, in whose keeping she has entrusted her happiness for life, is, indeed worthy the confidence, while he ever recognize in her a guardian angel “o’er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasure, and his care dividing.” _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™ Hotmail®:…more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_hm_justgotbetter_explore_012009