The Altoona tribune. (Altoona, Pa.) 1856-19??, February 27, 1862, Image 2
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, . 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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 i rStb iheladiea needn't rea.