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