No newspapers were published on August 15 1861, August 22, 1861 or August 29, 1861 The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, August 8, 1861 Volume 2, Number 51 Returned Soldiers On Saturday, Lieut. Wm. Linton, George W. Brown, Samuel Goodwin, Joseph Wherry, Thomas Jones, Robert Marlett and John C. Murray, all of whom belonged to various companies of the three months’ volunteers and who were discharged and paid off at Harrisburg last week, arrived at their homes in this place. They all look hale and hearty and give it as their unanimous opinion that “sojering’ is decidedly the thing for these degenerate times. Their only regret is that being in General Patterson’s division they were not enabled to measure strength with the Traitors. Adjutant J. C. Noon, of the 3d regiment also arrived home on Thursday. Since his return we are sorry to say, he has been prostrated by an attack of sickness from which we hope he may soon recover. We forgot to notice last week that our friend, Peter L. Linton, who was also connected with Gen. Patterson’s division, had returned. He looks well as ever. Welcome back, all. Burglary On Thursday night the store of Mr. William Davis in the eastern part of town was burglariously [as typed in the paper] entered by some person or persons unknown and loose specie [as typed in the paper] to the amount of about four dollars abstracted there from. The entrance was effected by prying open the doors. Local and Personal Hemlock, August 5, 1861 The Washington Rifles (Co. G, 10th Regiment) arrived home safely on Saturday. They were received at the station by a large concourse of friends who had met to welcome them back. Capt. Behen’s Home Guards were to have acted as escorts, but through some misunderstanding this part of the programme was omitted. The volunteers all look exceedingly well and say they never experienced better health in their lives. To judge from appearances, camp life suits them exactly; and a large number express their determination of re-enlisting “for the war.” They are determined to have a brush with the enemy and to use their own expression, would have had one before now only “the cowardly miscreants wouldn’t stand fire.” They had many stirring stores to tell concerning events that transpired during their sojourn in the enemy’s country, none of which surprised me more than the report that the ladies in that section are all opposed to Union! Our quiet little town, as you may well imagine, was in a high state of excitement until about 10 o’clock in the evening when the crowd dispersed, our citizens to dream of friends and relatives returned and the soldiers to enjoy the luxury of a feather bed once more. By the way, our friend, “the clerk,” is on hand again, looking well as usual. He will enter upon the duties of his arduous and responsible office immediately, I believe. I understand that Major White arrived home on Saturday morning, but I have not yet seen him. He has not enjoyed very good health for some time. Signed: XX _________________________________________________________________ Want to do more with Windows Live? Learn “10 hidden secrets” from Jamie. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!5295.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_domore_092008