SttMii Srifont*.
ALTOONA, PA.
THIWtSMY, FEBRUARY 27.1862
CT General Price has been driven from
bie at Cross Hollow, in Arkansas,
and compelled to abandon his sick and
wounded and his provisions. “ The op
pressed Union men of that State will soon
be delivered from the dominion of the Se
cession tyrants.
9*The March number of the Atlantic
Monthly is before us. It contains quite a
number .of masterly productions which
will prove valuable acquisitions to the lit
erature of this country, among which we
may notice the following, viz:—“The use
of the Bide,” “The Southern Cross,” “A
Baft "that no man made,” “Taxation,”
“ Voyage of the good Ship Union,” Fre
mont’s Hundred Days in Missouri,” to
gether with other contributions from the
best authors in the country. Price §3
per annum. Ticknor & Fields, 135 Wash
ington St., Boston.
Well Known Prisoners Released. —
A steamer 'from Fortress Monroe has
brought to Baltimore fourteen United
States officers, who were released by the
rebels, including Colonel Wood, of the
New York Fourteenth regiment, who was
wounded at Bull Bun, Colonel Lee, of the.
Twentieth Massachusetts, taken at Ball’s
Bluff, Colonel Coggswell of the Tammany
regiment, and Captain Keffer of Baker’s
regiment. Colonel Wood was on parole,
and had liberty to move about the city of
Richmond. Previous to leaving he was
present, out of curiosity, at the inaugura
tion of Jefferson Davis, on the 22d mat.,
and says that no enthusiasm whatever;
marked the occasion. Hardly a cheer:
could be raised during the ceremonies.
Poor Jeff; “and there was none to cry
God bless him.”
Too Good to be ■ True.—-The Cincin
nati Commercial of Monday last says:—
' Oar special dispatches states that Gen. Grant
and Gov, Harris of Tennessee had an interview,
natter a flag of truce, on the Cumberland river,
between Clarksville and Nashville, and that Harris
offered to raise the stars and stripes on all the for
tifications in the State, if given three days (suspen
sion of hostilities. Whether Gen. Grant's reply
was similar to that given Buckner, is not known.
There has been a queer incident near Columbus,
Kentucky. A portion of our flotilla proceeded
toward that place apparently with the purpose of
shelling it, when the enemy sent out a flag of truce,
aadiftqr a long interview the flotilla returned to
Cairo, This seems to corroborate the rumors of a •
purpose on the part of the rebels to evacuate that
.place and abandon Tennessee.
We have reason to believe that part of
the above is not too good to be true. The
latest despatches from the West say that
onr troops have taken possession of Nash
ville without opposition, the rebels flying
fts usual. The report that Gov. Harris
had. ordered all the Tennessee troops to
lay down their arm? and go home, is con
firmed,* A deserter from the rebel army
says that the rebels pretend to be concen
trating 200,000 men at Murfreesboro, in
tending to give battle there. It is reported
that white flags are flying at Memphis.
England , and America in 1813.
•The following is from the London
KnNPj of March 13th, 1813.
- “Thepublic will learn with sentiments which
we shall not presume to anticipate, that a third
British frigate has struck to an American frigate.
This is an occurrence that calls for serious reflcc
tkn>^—this and the fact stated in our paper yester
day,, that Loyd’s list contains notices of five hun
dred: British vessels captured in seven months, by
the Americans. Five hundred merchantmen and
three frigates, (aye, and three sloops of war)!—
Cap' these statements be true, and can the Eng
lish people hear them unmoved? Any one who
had predicted such a result of on American war
tide time last year, would have been treated as a
maAmnn or a traitor. Hfe would have been told,
rif fill opponents bad condescended to argue with
him, that long ere seven months had elapsed, the
American flag would have been swept from the
sea, .the contemptible navy of the United States
aon3ulated, and their maritime arsenals rendered
aheap of ' nuns; yet down to this minute not a
•ingle American frigate has struck her flag. They
Unfit us and laugh at our wont of enterprise and
yjglir. They leave their ports when they please,
' apFrstom to them when it suits their convenience.
'Tfiey ; traverse the Atlantic; they beset the West
litpa. Islands; they parade along the coast of
nothing chases, nothing inter-.
' eepts, and nothing engages them but to yield
them, triumph.*'
With such fads on their own records,
yß|l t-alk of the inefficiency of
otn'blockade of the rebel ports?
jftprrnm thkir ETBS OPEN. — Every item Of
we receive from the South con
trihotee fresh evidence of the hopelessness of the
rtbai cause. At a supper given by the citizens of
VfcT to Mr. Faulkner, late United
to France, but now a prominent
' that he.considered it
for contend any longer; that
tJonfederacy could not stand, and
’rad the sooner the war was ended the better'it
wrtddha&rthepet^ieof the South. Tbisdecla
kram asaid to &te. created great excitement, as
r, *l @ijf filfri a person of Mr. Fanlk
ns?» irfuenoe. --
PEM AMD BOISSOHS.
O-Tho “ Confab" have come to the conclusion
that Donelson is not their forte.
'■ 43r*The practicsTjoker is one who thinks yon
are a fool because you don’t know he is a knave.
fsfA lady advertises in a Glasgow paper, that
;she wants a gentleman for “bed,'breakfast and tea.”
(5y The rebels may attribute their defeat at Fort
Henry, to the fact that ow gun-bdats wouldn't go off!
long, narrow stretch of land lying cast o
Roanoke Island, bearsthe euphonious title of “ Kill
Devil Hills.”
Cy The city of London, Canada West, is ad
vertised to be sold at Sheriff’s sale. Uncle Sam
ought to buy it.
Hughes has been suffering with
severe illness in Paris, where he has been sojourning
for "several weeks.
(SJ*T)ie question—are our street-crossings too
low, or the streets too high? It is hard to tell
t’other from which.
(3"At the battle of Fort Benny the Chicago
Journal had one reporter killed, another had one
leg shot off, and the third escaped unharmed.
©“The teat of war on the Potomac is said to
be threadbare and cold, but the rebels have bad it
well warmed for them in Kentucky and Missouri.
. C3*A Dublin paper observes that a bahdbill an
nouncing a political meeting in that city-, states,
with boundless liberality, that “the lodise, without
distinction of sex, ore invited to attend. ;
©"Said Kell to Tom, mid matrimonial strife,
“Cursed be the hour I first became your wife!”
“By all the powers,” said Tom, “that ii too bad:
You’ve cursed the only cinTTionr we ever had!"
E3* General McClellan, hot long since, replied
to some questions about the future, that “when the
storm began, the people would hear it thunder all
around!” The phrase was graphic and prophetic.
tyTakc courage, little women—a cotemporary
says that the smallest woman may fill the largest
heart. That's so, for we have known ■Some little
women that filled two or three hearts nigh unto
bursting.
Jeff Davis was to be inaugurated: President
of the Southern Confederacy on the 22d inst., to
serve for six years, unless providentially: prevented.
Uncle Sam, assisted by Providence, will most likely
relieve Jeff of his charge inside of six months.
®*The Portland (Me.} Transcript says that a
young lady, residing in a country town in that
State has knit one hundred pairs of mittens for the
soldiers, and furnished the yam herself! Can
any young lady show a more patriotic record than
this?
Kaples correspondent of the London
Times, in his letter dated January 28th, states that
the Italian Government has given orders to its na
val officers to sink the “Spinter.” if met with in
the waters of the Mediterranean, in case of a re
fusal to give herself up.
10- A regular broadside—that last round the
Register gave the Whig. By way of retaliation,
the Whig promises to pick off the Register’s gun
ner next week. If the gentlemen are bent on ex
termination, we shall soon see whose fortifications
are (he strongest, and whose guns have the longest
range.
late able military reviewer at Richmond
writes: “Gen. McClellan holds onr great army at
Manassas in a vice.” Thus, by the enemy’s own
admission, onr Potomac army has not been use
less. It has paralyzed the' largest, bravest and
most ably commanded army that the Rebel States
have ever gathered.
iSrWe are glad that irar victory oh theßumber
land, which has a name that will live, is an im
provement on the previous nomenclature, of the
war. We ore pleased that it is not Pig Point, or
Bull Neck, or Goose Creek.; The fort was named
f .
after General Daniel S. JDonelson, of Tennessee,
a rebel officer of some note.
S3* Gen. Buckner has been handed over to the
C. S. Marshall of Kentucky, and will be tried for
treason, by the Supreme Court of that State. If
he gets his just deserts he will never again com-’
mand a rebel army. He should be hung, not
alone for treason, but for the misery and nun he
has brought upon the people of that State.
Southern prints had their own fun out
of the panic which seized some of out exhausted
troops-after the battle of/ Bull Run* and drove
them in double-quick tiipe towards Washington.
The distance they made was about twenty miles.
But Zollicoffer’s men beat those who retreated
from Bull Hun, by long odds. Some'of them, it
is said in a Nashville paper, did not stop from the
Somerset fight until they reached Lexington, Ten
nessee, which is seventy-five miles front,the battle
field! -
Toe Pennsylvania Rail Road.— The Phila
delphia Press of a recent date has ah article on
the earnings of the Pennsylvania Kail Road ns
compared with those of the New York Central,
from which it appears that though the latter is over
five hundred and fifty miles in length, while the
Pennsylvania Central is but little over three hun
dred and fifty, its receipts ard hut $9,011.11 higher.
The New York Central earned during the year
18151, from all sources, $7,309,012-06, and* the
Pennsylvania Rail Road daring the same time,
$7,306,000.95. The net earnings of the. New
York road for the year were $181,120.01, and of
the Pennsylvania Central, $3,016,938.19; showing
a balance in favor of the latter, of $2,102817.15.
The increase of receipts, from nil sources, on the
New York Central were but $351,801.05 while
those of the Pennsylvania Bail Rood were $1,307,-
299.17, exhibiting in favor of the Pennsylvania
line the handsome sum of $1,015,198.12. These
statistics, brief as they are, are sufficient to show
that the Pennsylvania Rail Road is in the right
kind of hands, and that tho Company has good
reason to feel proud of the prudence and judgment
of its officers.
Directinc tho Western Battles.—General
McClellan sat by die telegraph operator at his head
quarters, Sunday; Gen.- Buell did the same at s
Louisville, and Gen. Halleck at St. Louis, and die
circuit being made complete between the three,
they conversed uninterruptedly for hours on the
pending battle at Fort Donclsou, and made all the
orders and dispositions of forces to perfect the vic
tory and pursue the broken enemy. : The battle
was fought, we may say, : almost under the eye of ■
Gen. McClellan. So remarkable on achievement
has seldom adorned science. Will not the New
York Tribune and the Cincinnati Gaxelte, however,
be vexed to leam that Gen.McClellan is not con
fining his attention exclusively to the army of the
Potomac. The Congressional warriors, who have
been neglecting legislation, in their fretfnl desire
to direct the movements of the army, find them
selves suddenly left far in the rear by Gen. McClel
lan. They will now, perhaps, stop carrying on the
war and. devote their attention to the Tax Bill,
and other matters more pertinent to- their presence
in Washington.
A Visit to the Battle-field.
A correspondent of the Chicago Times,
witing from Port Dondson, Tenn., under
date of Feb. 17th, says;
I was invited on Sunday morning, by General
McClemand, to take a ride over the battle-field.
It would be difficult to describe, in a few words,
the scenes which have met my view. The battle
ground was chiefly confined to the space outside the
rebel fortifications, extending up the river bank a
distance of two miles, to the point where General 1
McClernand's force rallied from the retirement |
which they were at first forced into by the impetu- •
ous charge of the enemy. It must be remembered i
that it was here that the grand sortie was made by
the rebels up the river bank, with the intention of
turning our right fiauk and cutting their way out.
Some ten or twelve thousand men' composed the
force scut out lot this purpose. They advanced
under cover of a deadly fire of artillery, and steadily
drove General McClernand’s force before them a
distance of fifty or sixty rods. Our troops here
made a stand, and, being reinforced by one or two
regiments, began the assault before which the en
emy were forced to retreat. The ground was con
tested with desperation, and the slaughter ou both
sides was immense. Tire whole space of two miles
was strewed with dead, who lay in every imagina
ble slinpe and form.
i'edcnils ami rebels were proihiscnously mingled,
sometimes grappled in the fierce death-throe, some
times facing each other' as they gave and received
the fatal shot or thrust, sometimes lying across one
another, heaped in piles which lay six or
seven I could imagine nothing more terri
ble than the silent indications of agony that marked
the features of the pale corpses which lay at every
step. Though dead, and rigid in every muscle, i
they still writhed and secured to turn to’ catch the
passing brbeze for a cooling breath. Staring eyes,
gaping mouths, clenched hands, and stangely con
tracted limbs, seemingly drawn into the smallest
compass, as if by a mighty effort to rend asunder
some irresistablc bond which held them down to
the torture of which they died. One sat against a
tfec, and, with mouth and eye wide open, looked
np into the sky, ns if to catch a glance at its fleet
ing spirit. Another clutched tfic branch of an
overhanging tree, and hung half suspended from the
ground. The dther band grasped his faithful mus
ket, aud the compression of the / mouth told of the
determination which would Irave been fatal to a
foe had life ebbed a minute later. A third clung
with both hands to a bayonet which was buried in
the ground, in the act of striking for tire heart of
a rebel foe. Great numbers lay in heaps, just as
the fire of the artillery mowed them down, man
gling their forms into an almost undistinguijhable
mass. Many of our men had evidently fallen vic
tims to the rebel sharpshooters, for they were
pierced through the head by the rifle bullets, some
in the forehead, some in the eyes, others on the
bridge of the nose, in the cheeks, and in the mouth.
This circumstance verified a statement made to me
by a rebel ofiicer among the prisoners, that their
men were trained to ahoot low and aim for tire
face, while ours, as a general thing, fired at ran
dom, and shot over their dreads.
Tire enemy, in their retreat, carried off their
wounded, and a great many of their dead, so that
ours far outnumbered them ou the field. The
scene of action had been mostly in tire woods, al
though there were two open places of an acre or
two where the fight hod raged furiously, and the
ground was covered with dead. All the 'way up
to their entrenchments the same scene of death
was presented. There were two miles of dead
strewn thickly, mingled ‘with firearms, artillery,
dead horses, nml the paraphernalia of 1 the battle
field. It was a scene'never to be forgotten—never
to be described.
Capture of Clarksville.
CL.uiK.avn.LE, Tens., Feb. 20, 1862.
To the-Hon. Gideon Welles,\Secretary of the Navy
We have possession of Clarksville. The citizens
being alarmed, two-thirds of them have lied, and
having bxpresccd my views and intentions to the
Mayor and Hon. Caye Johnson, at their request I
have issued a proclamation assuring all peaceably
disposed persons that they may with satoty resume
their business avocations, requiring only the mili
tary stores and equipments to be given up, and
holding the authorities responsible that this shall
be done without.reseryation.
I left Fort Douelsou yesterday with the Con
nestoga, Lieut; Commanding Bryant, on an armed
reeonuoisance, bringing with me Col. Webster of
the Engineer corps, and Chief of General Grant's
staff, who, with Lieut. Commanding I’lielps, took
]K)ssessiou of the principle fort, and hoisted the
Union flag at Clarksville. A LTiion sentiment
manifested itself as we came up the river.
The rebels have retreated to Nashville, having
set fire, against the remonstrances of the citizens,
to the splendid Railroad bridge across the Cumber
land river. I return to Fort Donelson to-day for
another gunboat and six or eight mortar boats,
which I propose to proceed up the Cnmberland.
The rebels all have a terror of the gunboats.—
One of them a short distance above Fort Donelson
had previously fired an iron rolling mill belonging
to Hon. John Bell, which had been used by tlie
rebels.
A. H. FOOTE, !
Flag Officer commanding the naval forces on
the Western waters.
What Our Boys Had to Contend
Against.
The taking of Fort Donelson, says the Louis
ville Journal, was a truly prodigious work. The
Confederate military authorities did not believe it
could be done by any force that could be brought
against them. Their confidence, in its supposed
impregnability made them willing to risk every
thing'on the issue. They had just as many heavy
guns as they wanted, some of them, it appears,
128 pounders, hs heavy soige guns as have ever
been used upoh this continent. The, Fort was
constructed upon the most scientific principles,
everything being done in and around it that a
large army, working under the direction of the
best civil and Military engineers, could accomplish
bv the unceasing labor of weeks. Deep trenches
■were dug at proper distances in front of the high
and formidable embankments, thousands and
thousands of ticcs Were drhgged untrimmed and
whole and placed thick together considerably ip
front of the trenches, so that no foe should be able
to penetrate, even to the first trench, without be
ing detained long enough to be slaughtcred-by the
murderous tire, of artillery and thousands of rifles
from points of comparative security, and all the
other obstacles were created that ingenuity coidd
devise, and numbers and industry execute. Add
to all this, these terrible defences ore said to have
been defended by an army of twenty-five or thirty
thousand men fighting under the black flag, of no
surrender and no quarter. Wc-do not know of an
instance on record where such a powerful work, so
powerfully manued, was carried by an army ex
cept after long investment and slow and scientific
approaches. .
The News in Camp.—We.have glowing ac
counts of the manner in which the intelligence
of the recent victories was received in the various
encampments about this city. At Hall’s Hill, in
Virginia, where General Martindale’s Brigade is
encamped, the General himself read the official
dispatches, on Monday, about 2 o’clock, in the
presence of about 4,000 of his command. A
breathless silence pervaded that large army of
brave men while the brilliant conduct of their
brothers in the West and South was beiug an
nounced to them. But when the General gave
the word, “Now let it go, boys!” such a scene of
enthusiasm as followed was, perhaps, never before
witnessed. Four thousand caps were swinging in
the air, and four thousand stentorian lungs sent
cheer after cheer over the hills and valleys of the
“sacred soil" in honor of what has been done.—
The predominant sentiment of the army of. the
Potomac is an impatient desire to win similar
laurels in their own field.— Washington Republican.
The Lamentations of the Duped. Rebel Gunners in the Late Fight, j
The Richmond Examiner , of a recent date, which "The man who planned the fortifications at Fort |
correspondent, contains an “editorial leader - t h e u,h. He wascaptain of the water battery,
which commences with the following words: j About the fourth shot from the 8-inch shell-gun
“Prom the valiant Senator down to the timid ; of the St. Louis struck one of his guns, breaking
seamstress, the question on every tongue in Rich- j it, and esminga heavy fragment of it to suite
mond is, whether tilfe enemy are likely to penetrate j him on thb head. Probably there are no better
with their gunboats to this quarter ?” [ gunners in the United States thun worked the
It is very obvious that the vigor of thO recent ; different batteries at Fort Donelson on the day of
militan- and naval demonstrations of the Govern- I this memorable engagement. Two of the batter
ment lias produced “a panic terror” throughout ies were commanded by French officers of great
the ranks of those who, in the seceded States, have ; practical experience in the art and science of war,
heretofore been most forward in .promoting the and especiMly that branch of it. at which they
proiect of disunion. The complaints of the press, were then employed. Indeed, it is the boast of
at once loud and bitter, are visibly aimed, in many : many of the rebels; “You Fedefals can beat us
cases, at tbe authors of the war, though uttered in ; in marching soldiers, but you can't touch us when
the guise of criticism on tbe “ imbecility” of its j it comes to shooting at a mark with the big guns,
conduct by the Confederate authorities. j We never let a man fire one of these big pins uu-
As in Richmond so also in Memphis, ,at the I less he has bad some experience.” The idea that
latest advices from that city. And if there were ! prevails too commonly in the North, that Southern
murmurs and lamentations before the fall of Fort, ; artillery men arc not experts, ivas rapidly dispelled
Henry and Donelson, we may easily calculate the • from themjnds of all who witnessed the accurate
popular dissatisfaction likely to ensue in the pres- | direction of the 64 and 128-pounders aimed at the
euce of the impending calamities; brought on the. | gunboats on that day
people by the Secession agitators.' The following
extract from the Memphis Argus of Januaiy sth
is very significant under this head;
“We spoke and speak of the ill conducting of
this war, which has now taken from our homes
some three or four hundred thousand of our best
and bravest, which has Jhiraltzcd all business, save
that which puts the money we can so illy spare into
the pockets of the creatures of said President and
Cabinet. Of this war we spoke -when we said so
much might have been done in it; that • has been
left undone. I'hose at the head of affairs were
leaders to the war. We ask how they are leading
THROUGH iff"
Or. the following jeremiad from the same num
ber of the same paper:
“We have been made to stand still and take
such cuffs aud kicks as the Northerner chooses to
give, when and where ho pleased. We have
heard our Generals blamed for not doing what it
appears they were not permitted to do; The
smothered report of Beauregard has made that
truth clear enough. We have for months aud
months been told that. England would do our
lighting for us on the seas.”
Aud the Memphis Appeal is equally despondent
with the Memphis Argus. The former says:
“ The blockade is unbreakable by us yet. In
one word, we re hemmed in. We've allowed the
moment of victory to pass. We were so anxiously
watching the operations of England that we
stand aghast vu turning our eyes homeward again
to find ourselves tenfold worse off than we were
ere the commencement of Brice’s last forward
march, and that accursedly used sensationism, the
arrest of Messrs. Mason aud Slidell. Day follows
day, and, in lieu of being weakened, we find the
Federal armies at all points being strengthened,
almost every article of manufacturing and domestic
necessity quadrupled in price, and our money will
soon be exceeding scarce for lack of paper and
pasteboard wherewith to make it."
If this was the condition of Tennessee before
the recent disasters, what must it be to-day ? Aud
the question recurs what has Tennessee or any
single Southern State gained by die act of Seces
sion? What can be gained by persistence in the
infatuation which prompted that suicidal policy ?
Cannon not so Deadly as Wine. —Wendell
i’hilips in his address at the Music Hall, some
days since, said: “ I know a soldier in the army
of the Potomac who was picked iip in the streets
of Philadelphia one year ago a complete wreck, a
confirmed inebriate, but who was, by the love of a
soldier and the charity of a Boston home, placed
once more on his feet. He was at Ball's Bluff,
and three times with unloaded musket 'charged
upon the enemy. He was one of the six who he
roically defended and brought away the body of
» the failen leader of that bloody fight. The Cap
tain of the company to which he belonged died in
his arms, receiving the last words of consolation
from his lips. He was afterwards conspicuous in
the conflict until the orders were given for each
one to seek Ids own safety. Removing some of
his apparel he plunged into the inhospitable river,
and after great exertion landed on the opposite
bank, seven miles belo # w the encampment. Nearly
exhausted, chilled, half-clad, half-starved he. fi
nally reached the camp. The Captain of the next
Company to which he belonged; kindly said to him,
pouring out a glass of wine: ‘Let me give you
this; you will perish without it.’ ‘I thank you
sir,’ said the soldier, ‘but I wquld sooner face all
the cannon of the enemy than taste that glass of
wine.' ”
A Month's Good Wobk.— Between the 19th
of January and the 16th of February the Federal
armies have made the following records:—Battle
of Mill Springs, battle of Firt Henry, battle of
Roanoke Island, capture of Edcntou, Hereford and
Elizalxith City, North Carolina; evacuation of
Springfield, Missouri, and Bowling Green and
Russellville, Kentucky; capture of Fort Donelson,
and reported capture of Savannah. General Zol
licofler was killed, and Generals Lloyd Tilghman,
S. B. Buckner, Bushrod Johnson and Edward
Price captured, besides a score Or two of Colonels,
commissioned officers by the hundred, and privates
by the thousand. Between twenty and thirty
thousand small arms have been taken or destroyed,
nearly two hundred cannon raptured, over four
thousand horses and mules, and immense quanti
ties of commissary stores tiud camp equipage
seized. All the rebel gunboats in Pamlico Sound
and on the Tennessee river have been destroyed,
and a number of valuable prizes captured by the
blockading fleet. It has a mdnth of glorious vic
tories to the army and navy. ' •
B.vkkinq cp the \VitoNG Tp.ee. —On Thursday
during the Ft. Donelson fight, three of our cavalry
were picked off by some of therobel sharpshooters,
who were so concealed in the tops of some large
trees, that it was a long time before their ambush
was discovered; and when it was discovered a
plan was speedily fixed upon for securing them
all. A squad of our cavalry, by a concerted move
ment, so quickly surrounded them that they had
no opportunity to get down from the trees. One
of our men, more expert with the rifle than the
rest, was detailed to kill the whole lot, eighteen in
number, while the rest prevented their escape.
Gen. Scott Going to Mexico.—Washington’s
birthday-, was chosen for the nomination to the
Senate of Gen. Winfield Scott hs Minister Extra
ordinary to Mexico, with, as is said, functions such
ns he exercised in the pacification of the North-
Eastern Boundary Question. Accompanying this
nomination, the project of a treaty went into the
Senate, whose principal feature was substantially
the assumption of the Mexican debt due to Eng
land, France and Spain. The interest on this
amounts to three millions a year. The treaty guar
antees the payment of it for five years. It is very
doubtful if the Senate will favor the scheme of buy
ing off England, France and Spain for five years
or for life.
Negro Valuation.—A Mississippi paper says;
At, a meeting of the citizens of Carroll county,
Mississippi, to consider the war tax and property
valuation, it was resolved to be the sense of the
meeting that No. 1 negro meh ought to be valued
nt $1,000; No. 1 negro wotnen at $BOO, and
younger and older ones in proportion. It was fur
ther resolved that real estate - and other taxable
property should be given in to tho assessor at one
third less than the same property was worth eigh
teen months ago.
Glajj to Hear it.— The New York Post says
that reinforcements have been sent to General
Burnside, which will increase his force to 40,000.
This will enable him to manage the troops with
drawn from Manassas. We trust the same strength
has already been given to Sherman and Dupont.
We have plenty of good and tried men to spare
from before Washington, and then Savannah and
Charleston would both be ours.
A Foreign Ball. —There was picked np on the
Donelsoa battle-field a peculiar cartridge which
was used' by tire rebels. It is neatly gotten up,
and stamped “ Ely Bros., London.” The ball is
shaded like the common Minie ball, bat is. hollow,
and is tilled with a yellowish powder. If it should
turn out to be a jxrisoned ball, this would be an
other instance of John Bull's affection for the Nc
gro-ocracy.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Militauy Unifoejib.—There is, perhaps, no department
of military business in, which there has been a more
marked improvement than in the clothing of soldiers.—
Not many years since, officers and private! were clad In
garments which were almost skin-tight. They wore leather
stocks, which were worthy of the name, for they kept the
wearer in tribulation; while th-ir padded breosta and
tight sleeves piado volition n matter of great difficulty*.
During the present war, such of onr volunteers as pro
cure'their uniforms at the Brown Stone Clothing Hall of
Rockhill 4 Wilson, Nos. 693 and 806 Chestnut street above
Sixth, Pliiladelphia, obtain clothing that is perfectly easy,
substantial and becoming. The firm named hrve gone
largely into the business of making. Military Clothing,
and their.facilities enable thkm to fill <he largeat orders In
the (shortest possible time. J
A Card to the Suffering.-
The Rev! Wm. Cosgrove, while laboring as a missionary
in was cured of whenall otheriaeans
bad failed, by a recipe obtained from; a learned physician
residing in the great city of Jeddo. This recipe has cured
great numbers who were suffering from Consumption,
Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Coughs and Colds, and the debility
and nervous depression caused by theye disorders.
Desirous of benefitting others, I will send this recipe,
which I brought homo with me, to all who nood-U, fres of
charge. Address
KEY. WM. COSGROVE.
43d, Fulton Arcrnic,
. Brooklyu, N.T.
99** Those exposed to Bilious attacks caused by miasma,
as well as those already suffering from them, and particu*
larly those convalescent, should at once have recourse to
Prof. Wood’s Restorative cordialaud Blood Renovator. It
is a pure healthy tonic Cordial, and will at once be felt ip
all parts of the system, exhilarating and permanently
building it up, and thus not only cure, but render the
constitution invulnerable to the further progress of dis
ease, as well as prevent those uew developments to-which
in a weakened condition we are so liable. See advertise
ment in another column. j • .
ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that Letters of Administra
tion have been granted to the undersigned on tile .Estate
of MATHIAS SMITH, late of Logan township, deceased.
Ail persons knowing themselves Indented to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment, and those hav*
ing claims against the same will present them duly au
thenticated tot settlement.
Jan.2s, 1562.-«
TiLaastitt V. Rhoads,:. Cn Musts Sailob
IEIHIVEXUS HOUSE,
(late eagle hotel!)
; Third Street, above Race,
PHILADELPHIA.
RHOADS SAILOR, Proprietors.
TEEMS, $1.25 PER DAY.
March 7,1861-ly ‘
WM. S. BITTNER,
H>ental Surgeon,
rWICE IN MASONIC *SSS&
\ / next door to the Post
Teeth extracted without pain by the Current Electro*
.Magnetic Machine.
iDEisrTisTißrsr.
T IRVIN STEEL, D. D. 8., HAV
tI • INOlocatcdpermanently la Altoona,respectfully
offers his services iu the different dspartmentelof
Surgical and Mechanical Dentistry.
Office nearly opposite C. Jaggard’S Store, Virginia »t..Al
toon a, Pa. [May 16,’61-tf.
TIMBER' AND FARM LAND WANTED.
(|? Q AAA —Ageneralasaoirtinentof
jgAiiS^s
amount, of all colors, SXY~ahd is OIL, wei
suited for Country Trade, will be exchanged for Real
Estate, at wholesale prices. Improved property preferred
121 North Twelfth street, Philadelphia.
Nor. 7,1891.-6 mos.
NOTICE.— The business heretofore
carried on under the name, style and title of
WOLF 4 BROTHER, will, from thla date, be carried on
by A. S. DECKHART—he haring employed! U. Wolf to
act aa hie Agent. A. 8. BEOKQART,
per M. Wol», Agent.
Altobna, December 28th, 1861. ; [Jan 2-6t]
J. G. ADLUM,
IST otary 3?ublic,
;; ~ ALTOONA, BLAIR CO., PA. :•
Can at all times be found at the store of J. B. Bileman.
October 1,1867.
s2s] EMPLOYMENT! [s7s
AGENTS WANTED I
Wowlll pay from $25 to $75 per month, and all expen
ses, to actfre Agents, or give a commission. I Par Honiara
sent free. Address Erls Sewing Machine Company, B.
JAMES, General Agent, Milan, Ohio. ■
Jept. IS-ly,}
ONLY FELSPAR A Tlos
rok STATESMEN, JUDGES, CLERGYMEN,
Ladle* nd Gentlemen, In Ml parts of tile world
the efficacy of Prof. O. J. Wood** Hair Restorer*.V»s
gentlemen of the Press are maraUnon* in iu praise. lb*
testimonials only can be here given; aee circular for»cw
. and It will be Impossible li»r yon to donbt.
47 Wall street, New York, Dec. 20, U4*
Qixnncxx:—Your note of the 15th inat., bin bets r*.
ceived, saying that yon had board that I bad been
fitlod by the use of Wood’s Hair Restorative, and rsqouT
log my certificate of the fact If I had no objection to si yet*
; J award it to yon cheerfully, because I think it doe. Mv
age is about 60 years; the color pf my hair auburn, tad
Inclined to curl. Some five or six years since it begtat!
turn gray, and the scalp on the crown of my bead to lo*
its sensibility and dandruff to form upon it. Each of th*.
disagreeabiHties increased with time, and about 4 mouh!
•ioce a fourth was added to them, by hair, falling off tiu
top off my head and threatening to make me bald.
In this unpleasant predicament, I was induced to trr
Wood's Hair Restorative, mainly to arrest the failing off
of my hair, for I bad really no expectation that
could ever b« restored to its original color except fro*
dyes. I was, however, greatly snrprla»l to find after the •
use of two bottles only, that not only was the felling 0 J
arrested, but tbo color was restored to the gray hair*
sensibility to the scalp, and dandruff ceased to form on ay
head, very much to tho gratification of my wife, at ark*
solicitation I was induced to try it.
Foe this, among the many obligations 1 owe to her mx
I strongly recommend all husbands who value the adatk
ration of their wives to profit by my example, and use ft |f
avowing gray or getting bald. Very rwpeclfolW.
* J BEN. A. LAVENDjft
To 6 J Wood * Co., 444 Broadway, Now York.
My family aro absent from the city, and 1 am noloßji
at No. 11 Carroll IMace.
To Prof. OJWood: Dear Sir—Your Hair Reatoratin
has done my hair so mnch good since 1 commenced tin
nso of it, that 1 wish to make known to lb* PUBLIC of itr
effects on the hair, which are great. A man or wok**
may bo nwtrlv deprived of hair, and by a rceorl to rum
« Hair Restorative,” the hair will return more beautify
than ever; at least this is my experience. Believe Uail:
Yours truly. ' WM. H. KKNELY.
P. B.— Yon can publish the above if you lika. By pab.
lUhiag in our Southern papers you will get mors pttroa
age south. I see several of your certificates in tbs Mobih
Mercury « a strong Southern paper, : W H KxxtM.
WOOD'S HAIR RESTORATIVE.
Prof ; OJ Wood: Dear Sir—Having had the miifortun
to lose the best portion of my hair, from tbs effects of th
yellow fever, in New Orleans in 1861, X was Induced t>
make a trial of your preparation, and found it to sniv*
as the very thing needed. My hair is now thick and glouj,
and no words can express my obligations to you in gi T i n .
to (he afflicted such a treasnre. FINLEY JOHNSON.
The Restorative is put up in bottle* of three eixes, rii;
large, medium, and’small; the small holds U a pint, ui
retails for one dollar per bottle; theixhodiamholds stlevt
twenty per cent, more In proportion!:than the small, retails
for two dollars per bottle; the largo bolds a quart, 45 p*
cent, more in proportion, and retails for $3.
O. J. WOOD * CO., Proprietors, 444 Broadway,
York, and 114 Market Street. St. Louis. Mo.
. For sale In Altoona by A.ROOSH andO.W.KESSLBIL
Agents, and all good Druggists and Fancy Goods Dtslerv
July Ist, 1861-lyeow
JANE SMITH, Adm’rx.
JOHN SMITH, Jdn'r.
WORTHY Of
UNIVERSAL CONFIDENCE ANDPATRONaq*.
Siamaston, Ala., July 30th, ISM,
THOMAS W. EVANS & CO.
Invite attention to their LABOR, VARIED and UAXb
SOME assortment of
NEW FAtL GOODS,
Embracing all the NEWEST STYLES in SILKS, DEE 33
GOODS, CLOAKS. EMBROIDERIES, ud
FANCY DRY GOODS. ,
Also, a full assortment of MOD KM Mi GOODS, 'WIIITI
GOODS, HOSIERY, GLOVES, HITS, Ac.
43P-Tbis stock Is principally T. W EVANS k CO.'S i
OWN IMPORTATION, baring bwn selected inthilnt |
European Markets, expressly for their own Retail Trade, I
ami will be found unsurpassed fur Style, Quality, aid 1
reasonable pricks. I
NOS. 818 AND 820 CHESNUT STREET, I
BELOW CONTINENTAL HOTEL, |
PHILADELPHIA. I
N. B.—Wholesale buyers will find it adTmt*|»u le |
examine this Stock. [Oetll-ta.] 3
ON HAND AGAIN —WE HAVR I
THE pleasure of announcing to our covtomcnui g
all others, that we arc on hands again with alargiud S
varied stock of 11
FALL GOODS; |
and aa our old stock was heauiifyXly cleaned oki, tfeoM wbo s
feel inclined to patronise us Will bare the adraßUgtof ||
selecting from an almost entirely -r|
NEW AND FRESH STOCK i
of goods, which we feel confident will be laldaiefaMpH l|
thechespeet. VTe particularly invite our lady bieafcn B
call ami Examine our splendid line ol g
DRESS GOODS, I
which we think cannot fail to plea*?. ?|
J. <t J. LOWim m
Altoona, Oct. 9th, 1861-3 t. s 3
REFORMED
AMERICAN PRACTICE
GO AND SEE THE
Root and herb doctor, wb
cun be consulted at Mr. WOODS’, ia Altoona, on Iki
9th of January. Alau, the 10th of February. Al*o, Ik
7th of Marsh.
Kb treats all disease* that flesh is heir to. He inrt*
all females that may be coffering with diseases peculiar
their sex, to call and examine his new mode of treatßrat
as thousands have been restored to health who baT* twa
abandoned by others, lie is in possession of perfect la
struinents for sonudiog the lungs and chest, and i* there
fore able to determine the exact condition of the nw
organa—consequently can treat such complaint! *i»
greater safety and certainty than it is possible for Iky
who guess at the disease and experiment for iti cere. Hi
beliores that for every malady, there is found in oarwfli
sure and never*Jkiling remedy.
Patients can receive treatment for $5 ptr boe ; 1
except in casoa of Cancers and Tumors, they varying fr*
$lO to $lOO- Examinations free. See handbilla.
Dec. 19,1861.] DR. W. LEYINGSTOX.
CONFECTIONERY
AND OYSTER SALOON,
THE- SUBSCRIBER WOULD tt*
I FORM tho citizens of Altoona tod vicinity tlji S»
OOXFECTIONEUY, NUT tod PItCIT STORE,M".”
impelled with tho very best articles to be had, iid»F*
variety. He has also »n
. OYSTER SALOON
attached to his store, in which he will serve up OT3TM*
in every style daring the season.
FRESU’BAKED BREAD <t /VftfaZuHiyi on Uni
110 is at all times prepared to supply cakes,
or pic-nics and other parties. lie invites a share of P®
fatrouage, believing tbat'hc can render ftill aatiitt* lls
Remember, bisstoro and saloon is on Virginiastt**'** 1
doorsbelow Patton’s Hall. OTTO 80-S •
Altoona, Oct. 10,1661-t f
S. ARMY. —WANTEiTTmMJ;
• DIATELY, FOR THE TWELFTH
V. S. INFANTRY, REGULAR SERVICE »
bodied men, l»etwecn the ages of eighteen wd “ J
Pay ranges from $l3 to $23 per month. i;^ r
rank of the soldier. Each man will b« ttomawj* _
equipments, ample clothing and snbsUtenee. w '
fuel, and medical attendance free of charge- P*
each soldier commences as soon as he i» enlist™*
By an act lately passed, the term of enlistment m
changed from five to TUREB YEARS, and enry »•
who serves that time is entitled to
$lOO bounty
from Ul9 Government. Attention is drawn W
that tho Government has wisely commenced w r
soldiers from thd ranks. Advancement ia» there!
For farther Information apply at the
on Virginia street opposite Lowther’e Store.
Lieut, J. S. vA5if D *, .
12th Infantry, 0. S. A. B«rni|ingOfi___
GW. KESSLER—PRACTICAL
• DRCGGTBT, respoctfoily » nn , ,>oM
to tho citizens of Altoona and the public
ernlly, that he still continues the Drug bosltwj*
on Virginia street, where he keeps constantly mb
on hand, for side. Wholesale and Retail, ml
MEDICINES, CHEMICALS, OILS, VARNISH*
ES and DYB-STCm, s
By strict attention to business, and a deejp to
isfnction to all as regards price and quality,
merit and receive a share of public pstronag®* vj #
Physicians and merchants supplied on rjjjjjjjj
and all orders from a distance promptly attcna
Physicians prescriptions carefully comp 0 ” 00 *”'
GORELITE BASE - Havi ” p Jrs
chased tho right to manufacture the -gd*
BASE for ARTIFICIAL' TEETH, I am
put up dentures on this new »nd
which Is far superior to tho etd style, en •» Vd*® 1
it will not corrode or discolor. It cent*j e gtl*
substance, and of course there is no gsjr
whereby metal plate* often become obD °, °~i
wishing a line oetof teeth will please call
specimens. W. . kW*
Jan. 2,1992-tf] Office in Masonic Ternfl*
T UMBER FOR SALE. ' ' u
XJ 80,000 SHINGLES.
ndd <Ol kinds of BUILDING MATEBIALB,
lowest, tor Cush. Apply to JOHN BBW
Hair, hat, toothTsP' 0 ' 6
Paint, Sub and Tarnish gSßSj^ji
QPEOTAOLBS AHP BYE Pg§?
Uooaa iti
local ite
l. Boaooon Klkctios.—
Jfi testilt of tie election, held <*
Officers. It will, be i
ut nominated at the -Cittsens*
gteJ, with one exception, that of
Xhe names of the Citizens’
is Roman, Union candidates in
marked thus *. Those
n op both tickets:
CUs/Boryess. E.W., W.W.,
kq Allison, 77 i 5
T. CbktoeM* . 39 SO
jWWo/th/te*.
Conrad, 41 47
hi JFi Burnet, 42 31
m. U. Percivnl,* 62 16
'fotcnCbuncit.
hn London,t
cob Hesser,
i». B. Bytart,
Constable.
aeph K. Ely, 126 83
hcaner J. 6latk* 18 11
School Directors.
. C. Dern.t
is. Lowther,
. 11. Maxwell,
Attestor.
aniel Trice, f
Assistant Assessors.
oshua Kelly,t ISO 80
icob Wagner, t 110 88
Auditor.
. A. Nichols, 83 9$
E. Springer, 86 10
Jndqegf Elections, E. 14’.
ohn Warfel, 76
toleaum Boyer, 82
Inspectors, E. IF.
iVm. Rodamcr, 63
lohn Hickey, 39
Sonus/ Shat, 21
Mge of Elections, N. IF.
John Shoemaker,
Bobert Messina-,
Inspectors, iV. IF.
Alexander McCormick,
[Robert Green,
.Sonus/ Black,
Wo have not been famished w
election officers in W’est Ward. Wc
that the following persons, on C
were elected, viz:—Judge of Klej
Clabaugh; Inspectors—George W
Bowman. {
m ss
66 74
46 81
129 91
67 65
66 33
120 95
Altoona, February 22. —Our
of life to-night, a grand illuininn
light procession being in progress
public buildings and stores are
flags are flying in all directions,
procession Is now marching throu
streets, and making a grand dlspi
nets and transparencies. This evi
guns were fired on the bill in Bast
Dispatch to the Philadelphia Inqua
If the person wbo furnished tin
that it shO'tdd be understood ironic
the credit of being a pretty fair re
intended otherwise, we would di
scholar of Tom Pepper. We w
on the evening in question, but c
that our Borough was more “1
usual, and as for the “grand i
torch-light procession” wo think i
the eye and down the throat of tb
ter. We did diet observe a siugl
ness place illnmiaatcd, and the fia
observed “flying in all direction
a hallucination produced by . the b
sions. True, there were quite a
flying throughout the day, but i
been hauled in before dark. O
procession we hardly know how
a most magnificent failure, eithc
burlesque. It consisted of aom. 1
carrying lamps used by the “ \
“Minute Men,” in the campaig
small transparency, Altogethc
“ Salt River procession” much i
castration in honor of the recen
the arms of the Union, or a conn
birthday of the “Father of his
last sentence in the above report
reel one. Those who had charge
fulfilled their part of the program
tially redeemed the character oi
of the evening. May we never 1
again.
A. M. L. &R. R. A.—At i
Altoona Mechanics'- Library aiA
Association, on Friday Evening
offered by T. P. Sargent, Esq.,
ing the President, General St
Chief Engineer, of the Penns
Company, honorary members o
•The following gentlemen w
members;—Prof. John Miller, I
D. J. Neff, L. Stewart, T. J. G
George F. Huff, Charles Weis
man.
An informal report from the
standing Does was made, and i
Resolved, That all money oh;
as Is actually necessary for a fe
—should ati once be applied to
books. >
The following periodicals a:
been subscribed for, for the yea
Magazines —“ Rebellion Ret
Franklin Institute,” “Atlantic
tic Magazine,” “ Harper's Mon
LadyVi Book."
' Daßg Newspapers —“ Form
and “New York Tribune.”
Wvkb/. Newspapers- —“ I
“Scientific Amentan,” and
Some interesting donations
Minerals of the Association
and the Board adjourned.
Si. VaiMitsE’s Dai.—W
cord that St. Day
year without attracting attend
of thoee unsightly carricatnrc
the feelings. The feet that al
now be pee-paid has ondoubto
to break down the-iletestabk
gaged in by the low and
Wat or expensive valentines
W hositancy in paying post
“»dI” U «Q taken out of the r
„to pre-pay postage. The day
| honored ip the breach (ban tl
i«WW* mm to than this year.
| ,\ f *• <hr to Kubvtujs!"— l
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