iItODM Iritom*. ... I : tacked the rebels at Tnsonmbia, Ala., on the_ 22d, *— ( •eapMijaUg twojttmdred prisoners, one ptece of ar | tiHerjf,-* provision train, commissary stores, See., and investing the tom. The Mississippi river pilots gay that the Lake Providence canal, when finished, will be a com plete' meeess. Vicksburg i* likely to fhllby ih i vestment and starvation. A special from Murfreesboro says there is no prospect of an' immediate advance. Gen- Van Dorn’s force occupy Columbia.. The health of opr army is improving. Yesterday the Republican members of the In diana House of Representatives w ithdrew, Iteeattse of an attempt to pass a bill stripping the Governor of all military power. It will probably put-an end to further legislation this session. The Kentucky House of Representatives, yes tcoiav, passed Soaos-Rights resolutions, re-aftirm ing Kentucky'sjoyalty; making a distinction be tween the Administration and the Government; protesting against the Proclamation as ujtconstitu tional ami void; declaring the suspension of the habeas corpus as unconstitutional: hailing the ev idence of a conservative North with delight, recom mending a National Convention and a Mississippi Valley State Convention, with the ■ view of pre serving the «iAo/e : govemroent,.&c. The rebels have disappeared from the Blue Grass Region, Kentucky, and the Kentucky Central Rail road is running as usual. There was and is no serious invasion pf Kentucky. Nkw York,. February 28.—The steamship Africa, from Liverpool on the 14th, via Queens town on the loth has arrived here. The Timm ridicules the laud Mayor tor bringing Mason into prominence, and shows that the affair was without significance. It says that Mason’s, remarks about an early recognition gofarohead of the facts; that when theFoderals find themselves obliged to leave the Confederates,i(n quiet possession of their States, it will be time to, discuss the question of recogni tion ;,aod that Mason has received no assistance, or encouragement, except from irresponsible person*. Liverpool, Feb. 14.—A mass meeting to adopt an address of sympathy to Lincoln is fixed tor the 19th. The French Minister, writiug from Wash ington, enforces, as a necessity, a continued culti vation of cotton.; Peace roast become probable before the end of ;■ March: otherwise cotton culture Will cease, and it,is impossible to say when it may be resumed. Polish insurgents show continued activity. Austria prohibits arms and warlike stores crossing her frontiers, New York, March I.—Special despatches from Cairo of yesterday's date contain tne following items: ALTOONA. PA. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1863 A. Boost to* Small Pox.— The German Beformed Metumgtr, published at Chambersbnrg, has received A private letter from a friend in China, in which i» stated a great discovery is re ported to have been recently made, by a Surgeon of the English army in China, in the way of an ef fectual curofor the terrible and lokthsome disease of small pox. The mode of treatmenfua* fellows: When the preceding fever is at its height and just before the eruption appears, the chest is robbed with croton oil and tartaric ointment. This causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body, to the relief of all the rest. It also secures a fell and complete eruption, and thus prevents the disease from attacking the internal organs. This is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the English Army in China by general orders and is regarded as a perfect suc cess. As this disease now prevails in different parts of our country, it would be well for our physicians to put this remedy to practical test, and if found as successful here, as it is to be in the .Enliah Army in China, it will certainly prove a great blessing to the community in general. An Illinois Faesc.— The largestfann in Hli noif is that of Isaac Funk, whose speech to the Illinois Legislature, has created considerable at- tention, on account of its severity upon the traitors wjf that Assembly. Mr. Fnnk resides near Bloom ington, McLean comity. The total number of acres occupied and owned by him is thirty-nine thousand—one {arm of twenty-seven thousand acres, said to be worth thirty dollars per acre, and three posture fields containing, respectively, eight thousand, thirty-nine hundred and one thousand acres. Hiatgreat drop is core, aU of| which he consumes at home, and is thus able to market about seventy dumsand dollars worth of cattle per year at New York. His stock on hand of horses, nudes, bogs and fat cattle, is said to be worth one million of dollars. Killed in a Coal Minf. —A miner named Patrick Jones, was killed, on Saturday afternoon last, in one of the Cambria Iron Company’s Coal Mines, at Johnstown, by the premature discharge of a blast. The unfortunate man’s head was al most entirely blown from his body, and he was otherwise terribly mangled. He leaves a wife and tour:small children without aid or protection. Sev eral others of the workmen were more or less in jured. ' fjjf We have many tiroes been placed under ob ligations to Capt. J. K. Findley for copies of the New Sooth and Free South, papers published at Hilton Head, S. C. We were in error, a few weeks since, in stating that the New South had been merged into the Free South. The Captain has, we believe, sent ns regular copies of both pa pers since the commencement of their publication. O*oodey’s Lady’s Book for March is punctu ally on our table, with varied embellishments and reading matter. “ The, Expected Letter,” is reduced from an original $l6 engraving, and is a very suggestive, pleasant picture. The Boofc and the TVifcwte will be «ent for one year (or $3,50. Deafness ,and BumdNESS.— Dr. Jones of N. Y., th« celebrated Eye and Ear Doctor, has pro ..kNjjißd- his/tay at the St Charles Hotel, Pitts i bmgh, till April Ist 1863.: Dr. Jones will visit no other place in this State—therefore, all who . need his sendees most visit him at Pittsburgh. Bataliation Prom the free South, of the Tth'ult., we copy the following item, showing the manner in which Gen. Hunter is disposed to.deal with the rebels in his department. He has the firmness to meet them on their own ground, and it only requires his retaliatory measures to bring tltem to their senses. If United States officers are to be .pun ished with death for their supposed interference with slaves,' let examples. equally severe be made of those'who fall into hands of our forces.— Eight the devil with fire: Gen. Mercer, commanding the Confederate forces at Savannah, forwarded a request last ,Sat urday.by a flag of trace tip Gen. Htmter, for the release of one D. McDonald, of Melmosb County, Ga., who is now in confinement at Hilton Head. He based bis application upon the ground that the prisoner was a non-combatant and hii'family greatly neieded his services. By Ibis same flag of truce there came also a letter from Lieut. Virgil H. Cate, of Co.C, Seventh Regiment New Hamp shire Volunteers, representing that he had been captured by the enemy’s pickets, near St, Angus tineJFla., early last month, while riding in the suburbs of the town, and was then in confinement in Charleston jail. Cate also staled that jhe had been notified by Gen, Beauregard, that being a commissioned officer, he was not subject to ex change, but would be turned over to the civil au thorities of the State of Florida, for trial under the statute of that State, providing for the punishment by death, of -prisoners engaged in inciting negro stares to insurrection. Under these circumstances Gen. HOder replied to the rebel officer, that sup posing the.decision in Cate's case to result from the declaration made by Mr. Jeff. Davis in his re cent message to the Confederate congress to the efinet that '“hereafwt. nnless congress deem jpme other epurs* more expedient, be will cause all commijetioned officers of the U. S.. Army, token as wiMMis of war, to be turned over for punishment to Authorities of the State in which they may bef|inr.’ , hr should not comply with the request (or MMlonald's release. He also, gave Gen. Mercgr to undentand in explicit terms, that if this in violation of all rales of civilized warfare should be carried oat in a single instance, be was determined- that all commissioned officers in the rebel service now prisoners nr hereafter falling into his hands, should ho kept in close confinement and -held ansyrerable with their lives for the safety of his officers who .are prisoners. Hereafter, then, so long as the enemy adheres to the rules of. In dian warfiue, no citizen of Booth Carolina or Gem* whojW be capWwd in this diriment, will be' exchanged, as * hostage. There is nothing like fitting Satan with his own After kll- Cairo is full of startling rumors. It is said that on the 2t>th the -Vicksburg “cut off" was com pleted, the digging machines' being at work far several days. ; It. is asserted that the have gone throngb, and tbetransports arc preparing to follow after. ... The rebel batteries at Warrentorriare reduced. The whole force .is to he sent against Port Hud son.. It is also stated tliat the small gunboat fleet have reached She Yazoo river via Uuion lake, and ore playing mischief in the rear. It is also reported tliat the baits have got into Red river via Lake Providence. There are re ports of serious disasters to the Union troops and of some of onr forces and gunboats being captured, but these are not credited. How the Germans Talk. We most heartily wish that all Americans would set the same glorious example of unswerv ing devotion and loyalty to their ualiiv. which Germans do to their ado/iteJ country. It is rertllv bcautiful to see with what-unanimity they uphold the Union and detest treason. We observe that at the celebration of the 22d in Carl Selmrz’s di vision. the German officers, speaking for their sol diers, have written a letter to the President, from which we take an extract or two. We have learned, sir, with the deepest concent dial efforts are made in the loyal States to de moralize the consciences of the people by false rep resentations, to undermine, the sympathies of the masses with the great cause which is the subject of this conflict, to embarrass the government in the prosecution of the war, and thus to deliver the Republic into the hands of her enemies. We can not find language strong enough to express our abhorrence of the factious men who cany on thebe treasonable machinations. They have taken advantage of certain measures the Government adopted for the purpose of putting down the rebellion, and, as just in themselves, wc hail the measures as evidences of that energy and determination which alone can lead us to victory. We are as ready as ever to fight, suffer and die for the sacred cause of the Union, which is the cause of human liberty and progress, and more ready than ever th punish traitors at home just as well as the rebels in arms. Wehope toseea day of reckoning between those who went into the field willing to sacrifice their all for their country, and those miserable hypo crites who at the commencement of thewar cringed before the majestic uprising oif popular enthusiasm, and now avail themselves of an hour of misfortune and danger to defeat our efforts, to barter away the great future of this Union, and to trifle with the Wood of the people. On ns, sir, yon can rely. By the memory of the illustrious patriot whose.birthday we celebrate, by the blood of the many brave men whom we saw dropping from our ranks on the field of battle, we renew to-day the oath we once have taken, and will fight against the enemies of theconntry, North and South, to the bitter end. Whatsoever hard ships and privations the war may bring upon ns we will endure, we will think of "no peace but the peace.which will spring from a final and complete triumph of onr arms. Cambria Colnxv. —Destructive t~m.~On Fri day evening of last week, at about midnight, tjiie extensive planing mill establishment of Mr. JBery. F. Williams, in the western end’of Ebensbiifg, by some means caught fire, and in a short time was reduced to a smoldering mass of raids. It is sup posed to have been the .work of an incendiary. Besides the planing apparatus, the mill also con tained a flouriug-miU and corn-corh crusher, ro tated by steam, both of which were destroyed.— Carpenter tools lo the value of about/!j2OD, the property of Mr. Thomas Rodgers, also fed the .flames. Mr. Williams’ toss is estimated at $5,000 —insured fpr $3,000,; Melancholy 4 ccijeal. —On Saturday )apf£ a man named M’Combic, resident in the northern section of this county, met with a stiddep death under the following cir cumstances: He was coming to Ebensburg, with a wagon-load of lumber, by way of the Ebensbnig and Susquehanna plank road. When some ftnir miles oat, .the wagon ran oyer an embankment, precipitating him from the top of the load and overturning/ the lumber upon him. . He was U&- ribly bruised, and survived but a few minutes. The Mexican, - Invasion of Texas. —Our Government has been officially informed of the action of,the Mexican Government in relation to the invasion of Texas by bands of Mexicans. The Minister for Foreign Affairs has instructed the Governor of Tamaulipas to make solemn declara tion to the rebel, authorities that such incursion? are not only discountenanced by the Mexican Government, but meet with their stern condemna tion; and the Governor is farther required, as far os possible, to prevent such invasions ofthe neigh boring soil. Should the Texans, or other rebels, retaliate, by in turn; invading Mexico, as is threat ened, they are to he treated as bandits, while those from the Mexican *|dc, passing into Texas, are to forfeit all protection of the Mexican Government Large Sale or Coal./— Coal is going down in price, in spite of the gold rise. There was an auction sale in New York on Wednesday, of 30,- 000 tons, at $5 70 to $5 92 for stove size, and $5 10 to $5 15 forlumpcoal, The coal was from the Scranton (Pa.) region, and the prices obtained were $1 7S@s2 per ton less than th&sSEtlie coat sold for in December, ” _ Bipsecrans’ Official Report Gen. Rosecrans, publishes a lengthy official re port of the battle of Stone River, or Murfreesboro, in which he makes the following statement of the forceaengaged and the amount of ammunition expended on our side : } “It may be of use to give the following general | : summary of the operations and results of the series ; of skirmishes, closing with the battle of Stone , river and occupation of Murfreesboro'. *We moved on the enemy with the following 4 force**;— . Infantry Artillery Toml. 41,421 I Cavalry We fought the Ixittle with the following- forc-s ; Infantrv 37.977 1 Cavalry 3,200 Artillery ....... 2.223 Total •We lost in killed : Officers. Total 92 | Enlisted men We iost in wounded :—'• \ Officers I 384 ] Enlisted men ' Total, , 7,245 ’ Total killed and wounded 8.778 . Being 20.1)3 J# cent, of-tlie entire force in !• action. Our loss in prisoners is not fully made ont, but the Provost Marshal General says, from present information, they will full short of 2,800. If there are many more bloody battles on record, considering the newness and inexperience of the troops, both officers and men, or if there has been more true fighting qualities displayed by any peo ple, I should be pleased to know it. As to the condition of the fight we may say that we o|ierated over an unknown country against a position which was fifteen per cent. I let ter than our own, even' foot ot ground and ap proaches being well known to the enemy, and that these disadvantages were fatally exhumed by the faulty position of our right wipg. ■The force we fought is estimated as follows: We have prisoners from 132 regiments of infantry (consolidations counted as one), averaging from thpsclin Gen. Bushrod Johnston's Divisions, 411 each, say, for certain, 350 men each, will give : 132 Regiments Infantry, say 350 men each 12 Battalions Sharp-shooters, say 100 - men each 23 Batteries of Artillery, say 30 men each 2‘.) Regiments of Cavalry, and) 400 24 Orgauizatious of'Cavalry./ 70, Their average loss,- taken from the statistics of Claybum. Breckinridge and Withers’ divisions Was about 2080 each : this, for six divisions of in fantry, and one of cavalry, will amount to 1 +.660 men. or to ours nearly us 15.5 to 100. Of 14,500 Rebels struck by our missiles, it -- esti mated that— -20,000 rounds of artillery- hit 728 men. 2,000.000 rounds .of muskerty hit 13,832 men. Averaging 27 cannon shots to hit one man. 145 musket shots to hit one man; our relative loss uli as follows: Right wing, 15.083, musketry £ artillery, loss 20.72 Centre. 10,8(!(>. musketry and artillery, loss 18.4 Left wing, 13,288, musketry & artillery, loss 21.0 On _ the whole, it is evident that we fought superior numbers on unknown ground, inflicting much more injury than vve suffered, were alwavs superior on equal ground with equal numbers, and failed of a most crushing victory’ on Wednesday by the extension anti direction of out right wing. The Cargo of the Princess Boyal. The prize steamer. Princess Royal, says the Philadelphia Ledi/er, lias beet) unloaded, and most of her cargo is in store ready for sale Besides the guns and ammunition and ordnance stores, the cargo consists of coflee, tea, dry goods, shoes, steel iron and a very valuable assortment of drugs.— Twenty-seven days after the capture the cargo had been removed, 500 tons of it having been taken out of the hold m twenty-four hours. The three Whitworth guns which were on board the steamer, unlike those found in the Bermuda, are boxed up. ttnd are accompanied with carriages, slides, handspikes, .rammers, worms, sponges tie., all complete, and ready for immediate use. The guns are all rifled, and each weighs fiOOff pounds, the estimated value of each bojng $2,500. The shot and shell. designed for these guns are in boxes, and consists of 300 shell, 250 square and rifled' shot, and 150 steel pointed shot, rifled also. The conical shot are sixteen inches long, five and a half in diameter, and weigh seventy-six pounds. The shell ate twenty-two incites long and five and a in diameter. They ore not rifled. Thtre is altout an >nch of steel upon the pointed shot, which were evidently designed to be used against our iron-dads. The guns were for the iron-clad rams at Charleston and Savannah, and the'steam engine on board, with all. the necessary maphineiT. was also intended for one of diem.— In order that the guns might not lie valueless when : the shot and shell were expended, a lathe was sent over to turn the shot upon, and it was boxed up, with some of the shot fixed in the lathe so as to give an idea of the manner in which they are brought to the required shftpe. Bars of iron were also sent to make the shot with. The lathe, like tlnl other machinery, is of superior manufac tory. The guns and ‘shot and shell will be hand ed oyer to the Navy Department at their appraised value. Cromwell ox Destructive Conservatism.— In a speech to Parliament in 1656, thy Great Protector, defending his administration, - touched upon a doctrine which is-popular just how with the friends of secession and the enemies of the na tional life, and exposed its fallacy, almost as if by amicijiatiori-! “if nothing should ever lie done,” said he, “hut what is “o txordini) to'hw" the throat of the nation may be cut while we send for some to make a law! Therefore, certainly it is a pitiful beastly notion to think, though it he for or dinary government to live by Jaw and ride, vet if a government in -extraordinary circumstances go beyond the law even for self preservation, it -is to be clamored at, and blattered at. When matters of necessity come then, without guilt, extraordi nary: remedies may, he applied. And I must say 1 do not know one action of this government, no not one, but it liath-heen in brder to the peace and safety of this nation.” A East Blood.— Prince Paul Dcmidoff is a : wild young man, well known about town in Paris for IN intrigues, duels and extravagance. He is now in possession not only of the enormous for tune of the Dnmidoft family, but also, besides other; gems of price, of the celebrated diamond Jcnowii as the “ Sancy, ’’ of historical repiite, and estimated at 2,000,000 francs. Recently ho ap peared at the Count De Persigtiy’s and Count , Walewski’s fancy balls with this matchless stone fastened in front of a velvet cap. The sensation produced when the “Sancy” was discovered to have dropped from its conspicuous position, until it was again fortunately found under an arm chair, may be easier conceived than described. Uniox Cavalry Raid.—Copt. Sumner, of the ' First Alabama (Union) Cavalry, recently made a liold movement from Corinth full ninety miles into Northern Alabama, with about sixty men, and ! relumed in safely with over thirty-prisoners. The ; services of these citizen soldiers ate indeed valna- j ble. Added to their intimate knowledge of the country, they have knowledge of the men, and an : experience of tire practical working of rebeldom, j' which brakes them the best of soldiers. They are ■ joining the Union standard quite rapidly, and. it j only needs an. opportunity for hundreds more in i Northern Alabama to join us, ! ®TThe entire immigration last year into the i United States was 114,475. nearly 100,000 ar- ! riving at New York, and over 2,300 at Balti- I more. ■■ ‘ The New York Herald in commenting upon the rise in gold says:— - ' ' Gold rose yesterday to 171. In other words, one hundred imd seventy-one dollars in paper money were required to pnrctiase one hundred dol lars in gold. Many people, reading this qnota tion on the bulletins or in the Herald, •fmjwT up their mouths, elevate their eyebrows, shake their heads, and walk away with hearts depressed and a general feeling and air o f what a shrewd physi cian calls " goneness ?” But wltat of it ? What if gold is atl7l ? Wall street is not the nation l»y' anv manner of means. 3.25)6 If yon ask any Wall street broker n-lnj gold has risen to a premium of seventy-one cents,on a dol lar, he will probably tell you that it is because of our depreciated currency. If he tells you that, he talks nonsense. The rise in gold dies not in dicate accurately yhe depreciation of the currency. The currency is just the same to-day as it was a week ago, when gold stood at 153. Cold has risen heewtse Wait street lias been disrounting the future again. Congress may pass the Finance bill, hundreds of millions more of paper dollars may be issued, and then the currency will He awfully de preciated, says Walt street —and then up goes gold, hot because the currency has depreciated, but be cause it mag depreciate at some future period.— This is speculating in specie and probabilities. Wall street seldom deals with solid faces, but gen erally with wishes, hopes and promises. Who wants to buy any gold at a high premium ? Very few people beyond' those who buy it to sell again when it rises higher. But even these dealers in gold seldom handle the substance.— They biiy and sell the shadow of gold on paper. Out of the millions of gold bought ami sold weekly in Wall street, not one million of dollars’ worth is ever seen or owned by the seller or the purchaser. Paper fakes the place of gold in these transactions as in the currency. If the United Stales received its custom duties in its own money, instead of in gold, there would be no demand for the precious metal except in a very few cases, whore persons arc obliged to send money abroad. In all ordinary transactions gold and silver are unneessary, and the jjeople get along very well without them. The rise in prices hurts everybody more that the rise in gold. The quotations from Wall street no longer show ns what gold is really worth, hut only at what price the speculating, gambling money changers are buying and selling if for their own aggrandizement. 4(1.1)40 40,400** 1,441. 1,533 0.861 46 000 1 200 1 840 Goon Amin; on Sindry Sonniers.—Never cut .1 piece out of a news]iiper until you have looked on the other Mile, where [xirhaps you mar find something more valuable than that which you first intended to appropriate. Never put salt into your soup before you have tasted it. We have known gentlemen very much enraged hv doing so. Never burn your fingers if you can help it. I ’co llie burn their fingers every day. wli-n they might have escaped if they had been careful. Don't pul your feet upon the table. True, the members of Congress do so. hut you are not a mcmlier of Con gress. If you form one of a large mixed com)mny, and a different stranger enters the room and takes a seat among you. say something to him. for heaven s sake, even although it be only, •• Fine evening, sir I" Do not let him sit bolt upright, sufleriug all the apprehensions and agonies of hashfnlness, without any relief. Ask him how he lias been ; tell him you know his friend, so and so —anything that will do to break the icy stiffness in which very decent fellows arc sometimes frozen on their tklmt before a new circle. 13 250 62,490 !‘er n-ut •* No Stomach for the Fight." —Several da vs ago one Thomas Black, a deserter from the 196th regiment, was arrested at Pittsburgh by the provost guard and placed ill the guard house pre vious to his removal to Harrisburg, but attempted to escape, and was so badly injured that he had to be sent to a camp hospital for treatment. After remaining a few days there he broke away, got drunk, was picked up again by the provost guard, and locked up for safe keeping. The following day. while on g visit to the water closet; and al most in view of one of the sentinels, he forced his way through a lioard partition, and connived, be fore his absence was discovered, to make his escape. The provost guard were again put on his track, and found him at his house, when? he was once more arrested, securely Itandcuffed, and sent east on the afternoon train, lint, when near Johnstown, he jumped off the car, and though the train was hacked to the sjait where he mode the leap, he was nowhere to be found. &3!“ The New York Utrald says; — “ Since the introduction of Sewing Machines, several of the New York houses confine a great deal of their attention to the making up of fine shirt trimmings almost exclusively, nnd arc, by the aid of the machine, enabled to do the work much cheaper and with greater uniformity then could otherwise be done; as, for instance, while one female operator on a machine, such as is generally used by shirt manufacturers [Wheeler & Wilson's]'; can with ease stitch from two to three dozen shirt bosoms per day, the same woman, although she might be an extremely good nnd quick hand at the needle, would have great difficulty, by constant w ork, to stitch three of the same kind of bosoms in the same time, if indeed she could do it at all." 11. A. O. Kerr, of this place, is agent for the sale of these machines in Blair and Huntingdon counties. See advertisement. Affairs at V icksbcbo. —lt seems probable that the rebel connections with Louisiana arc interrupted by the Indianola, and that the Vicksburg garrison is consequently suffering greatly from scarcity of food. A corresiiondent of the Chicago Journal, writing on the loth, describes the passage of the Indianola by the Vicksburg batteries on the morn ing of the preceding day. She started about one, while it was still very dark and raining. The rebels opened fire but at irregular intervals, the Indianola returning the fire from the U-ineh gun in lier turret. She was not struck by any of the shots, 'flic rebels seemed confused nnd bewildered, and did not fire dnefourth the number of shots that they did on the Queen of the West. A Vicksburg correspondence qt the Mobile A Jnertiser writes on the 4th that the presence of our mortar fleet had rendered the place untenable by nou-cbm batants, and that most of the private property has been shipjied away". A Nbcessaby Work.—General Hooker is about to have thirty deserters ahof. He will un doubtedly shoot them if the President does not in terfere, and recently the President is not so tender hearted as he was. He begins to perceive that was is an ugly business, and that discipline in an army demands the enforcement of severe penalties, without any'squeamishness about it. It will bo necessary to shbot a good many deserters, and we might as well begin now. One life thus lost may save the life of the nation. 1 Another Steech.’ —Mr. Bright has made an other remarkable s|ieeeh at Rochdale, England, in the course of which he said the rebellion hail arisen tluongli an infamous conspiracy against the rights of human nature pit principles such as could not be found in the pages of any heathen writer of olden times, or in the practice of savage nations in our limes. It was the doctrine of devils and not, of men, and all mankind should shudder at the guilt which the conspirators have brought upon their heads. s3*The Richmond Whiy urges that not a plant of tobacco be raised this year in Virginia or North Carolina, as, to support their armies in those States, it is absolutely necessary to cultivate the whole tillable area of each in breadstuff, &c. •aPSome of onr pickets in front of the Rappahan nock have been in (lie habit of trading negroes with the enemy for sheep’. This contraband trade in wool has been stopped. Bise in Gold. A Letter Which Explains Itself. Of ftp*, ,\RHX OF TFK CUMBERLAND, \ T<>nii t Ffih 19. i . Gks, Jos. E. Jhoxstos, O. S. A.— Central— Yours of the 12 Inst., dated: at Tnllahotna, by tliS flag of trace, isjtwt received. I very much regret that you have not the power to redress the out rage and punish the perfidity which compels me to ovojd communicatmg with Gen. Bragg by flag of truce. I was it; hopes, hv onr \ joint efforis, we should have been able to pm the sacred claims of justice and humanity high above pqssion and revenge in the estimation of the troop’s of nur respeciive arums. and thus reduce the terrible amount of human suffering to the necessities of a state of war, and those resulting from individual acts of crime and outlawry. I know that no success would compensate for the degradation and shame that I should feel, in allowing my troops to sneak in behind a flat; of trace to make a capture ; or allowing them to go into battle dressed in your uniform and carrying your coldrs; or in robbing yonr sturgeons of their private property, all of which was done by General Bragg’s troops before and at the battle of Stone River. Inclosed is a copy of a list of thirtv-eight (38) medical officers robbed. Inclosed, also, is the statement of the Rev. Chaplain Gaddle, showing that under the tacit, if not active sanction of Gen. Wheeler, a hospital hdat, loaded with desperately wounded and sick soldiers, was fired into by mus ketry and artillery. 1 Now, General, rhy difficulty is, that while- these outrages acMiallv occur, it seems from the official statement of your officers that the different reports come to them. Thus .Gen. Bragg, in one of his voluminous epistles to me, complains that yonr prisoners were robbed of their clothing. I did not think it projier to say to him, but I do to yon, that in all my experience I have neither seen nor heard of any ihing of the kind. They have- seldom if ever imd blankets or clothing enough, and have been provided with such things by my order, when possible. I only ask what I. feel hound and resolved to observe, tliat which is right and humane, accord ing to the usages of cival ized war. I appeal to you and i (trough you, if you have not the power, to your superiors to know if ray efforts and wishes in this matter can not be met in a spirit of frank ness and cordiality? ; Hoping that in all official intercourse we may preserve mutual respect and feelings of personal kindness. I remain General, your obedient servant, ’[signed] W. S. Hosecranf, Maj. Gen. ••Tikkev Dave,” of Tennessee. —Times, writes a Corinth correspondent, of.en make or dev elope the-men needed, lieliel iron rule in East Tennessee, in disarming Union men—driving out those who would not join them, and in hanging and ii--assinating all that stopped their ; rogivss, hits no; only sent thousands of recrai s into the ranks of the I nion army, hut has raised within then midst a fearless troop of avengers. A man by the name of Beattie, but heifer known its ••Turky Dave,” is the leader of aliout 600 fearless men. They drop down on Morgan's guerrilla b inds mid wipe them out as quietly as the nngvl of death. 1 have heard the opinion- expressed, that rebel cavalry will not agaimventurc into the coun ics of Fentress ami Barton. Those who have done so recently have not ictumed to give an account of their exploits. ‘'The devil must be fought with his own weapons,” is the maxim of a certain class of warriors, and the kind of warfare encouraged by the rebels during the last year is fast raising up a class of men who will meet them on their own ground; and, with better weapons, will give them mountain, rock and bush fighting to their beans* content ! At present, I am not l«‘i ini;ied to say anything more bn this topic, but you will hear again from “Turkey Dave.” What has uken Pair to Uaieroads.—A letter from the Secretary ot War, in'answer to the House resolution of January 18, shows that there has been paid for transportation, since the reltell ion commenced, to railroads connecting Washing ton with New York, $2,922,048—viz : Bal i.nore & Ohio. $ 1,213,601); Camden & Amlioy, §'.18,- 576 :■ New Jersey, $377,914; Ohio, Philadelphia, W. & Baltimore Railroad. $202,392: N. Central, $203,77.1 ; Pennsylvania Central. $192,427; New Jersey Central, $189,632, and about $B,OOO to Expresses on the same routes. There has been paid $123,673 to the New Jersey Central, which is not designated, exclusively for transportation over the New York line. There are claims by the Philadelphia, W. & Baltimore Railroad Company for $36,019 that is not yet added. A Word for Our Soldiers. —A correspon dent of the London Daily News, commending the British Government for honoring the New York relief ship with a public salute, proposes to recipro cate onr expression of friendlv feeling by sending luck the Griswold with a load of medical stores for the federal army. The writer says: “ The honor done thus to the American nation is not more thf j it deserves. lit time of deep distress thus to overflow with bounty is a public testimony as to ibeir deep seated generosity. Can nothing be done to send back the Griswold latjened with medical stores, for the benefit of the fedcal soldiers, now fighting against the very impersonation of evil—slavery ?" Firf,. —On last Saturday morring about one o’clock, Ragle Foundry, the property of Mr. J. W. Scott, about three miles from Broad Top City, was di- ject to the order of the federal government. R. A. 0. KERR, ALTOONA, PA., Agent foir Hlair & Huntingdon Counties r pHKSji MACHINES AUE .v.OiiT -1 to be tjie best ever offered to the public, ; . superiority -ii satisfactorily established by th»* £««: tiitt i the lust cl*.bt years. OVER 1,400 MOKE of these Machines have becu sold than of'any other auu iifactured. aqd more medals have Imen awarded the pro prietor* by different Fairs and Institutes than to anv oth ers. The Machines are warnmted to do all thatisoUiiaii for them. They aif now In use in several families in Al tana, and in every case they give entire satisfaction. The refers those d«*siiiog information as the su periority of Che Mach ices, to Col. John L. k’iper. Kev K B Clark, tivorge'lhiwkenwortfa. IV-aj. T. Rn>-e. aud t. U. Turner, Kmjr*.. The niacbjueii can be seen and examined at the store c. the Agent, at Altoona. I’rici at No. 1 Machine, silver piutui, glass toot an n-» stylo lli-mmcr —s6s. No. 2. ornamental bronze. gU-= fooi Htnl new style Ileumier — sss. No, U, plain, with oil styb llcnmier—Jjts. - [March 31, ISOI ti. FOR OR EXCHANGE! A VALUABLE GRIST MILL SIT UATS on Black tick creek, three* fourths of a:m ile from Black Lick Stntion, '4 on the Indiana Branch. P. R. R„ pro* pelted bj- patent Iron water wheel!, ran of barfs and one first quality flint. two smuUers and screens, 3 holts and a com breaaer. rU in good running order. Alan* first rate water SAW MILL, also SEVEN HOUSES AND LOTS wiih outbuildings; cns of said houses containing a good STOKE ROOM. Al t'ched to the shore property are SIXTY ACRES OP LAND finder f-nce; also a timber tract afijoi -ing. containing 17e acres more or less, nnimpnived. The above will be sold at s great bargain or exchanged lor a good farm. Apply on ihe preaiiaes. SAMUEL M'CAKT.NKY. ' Peb.SMt.* - FOR >SALE OR EXCHANGE! THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS for sale, or exchange for property in Al tomia. ahonse and two lots of gruqnd. sit nate in tlH> village of New Waaliingtmi. HI, J lli I ndiana comity, Kg. The home la a TWO- Mle }cK STOKE FRAME BUILDING. 19 by 30 feet, fronting on two streets, with stable and other out bnUdlngsf There is also a variety of FRUIT TREES and SHRUBBERY on the premises, tc gether with a well of excellent water at the door. Ihe lota are fiO feet Inmt by 190 feet deep. Possession given at auy tfme.; Anv further iafbnuatiou can be had by apply -1 X to. Juba Biandon, of Armagh, or the a LscritMT. at AI t(X ’ D t • L.IWESNXK P. WORK. THANKS. — The undersigned, being aUmt to remote from Altoona, .deelrea to reimc hi* titankf to the cillxens of the town'and vicinity wbo »*> liberally ]«truui2M( and piotnptly paid him; and be would *l*4*? in thfi public manner* rrturn biucero iliaukt to M«*sr«. ; John-Hickey, John Mcßride. Thomas Farndi. Thomas j Lynch. Wm. Boychm, Wm. A. Buyden, John Hrhlte, Georg© McDonough Patrick Pawley and wifi;. Widow McConnell. Adam Gleaius. Conrad KisseL. Can* ’ ICeigel, Bernard Kuvtx and brother* and others, for aiwn tlou during protractedsickness in my family. 1 desire; all persona indebted to m*, whether much of little, to dead the »iuoant to me. at Johnstown, or jwv ii M<**r4 Oeie A Oh, within two .months from this d lp > and they will thereby save cuato. Feb. 24* 1563-2t* THE COMMERCIAL LIST iSS LETTER-SHEET “P|UCE CURRENT. are publi-hed every Saturday, by STEPUgN X. MIN SLOW. No. 2*2 Gold Street, Pl.liaJ » Biographical sketches of the MERCHANTS i MAN UKACTURKHS ( f* Philadelphia. the opulent and Indipet.t, SECRET OF TBKIK SUCCESS AND ADVERSITY, will he con tinned Feb. 24.8t*] RENT.—Thei basement of Work’s new bnOdlng. on Virginia street, adjoining Kessler’* property, is offered for rent. Possession, given Immedi ately, Bor further information, apply to j _ LAWRENCE P. WORK- Feb. 24. l8«B-tf RENT.—M’Cormick’s store room, A in North \t ard, la offer®,! for rent: Possession glee* l at any tinie. For farther particulars apply to K. H. MCCORMICK. Feb. 2t. 1563-tf. INSTRUCTION IN MUSlC.—iboon deraigjned offers his services as an instructor on sll musical inktruiaeuta except the piano. For further infor mation a;iply:at Kegiey’s llotel. Fell. 17. 18«3-3t.« , JOHN KRETCIfMi \ ROOM INAL SUPPORTERS, Tru •°d Sho,Uw ‘' 1 /seculars. Programmes, UhMOTH posters, sale bills, r"i a* AKS® Lmnhiets, Pay and Check Bolls, BIaANK- books, .-vests, and blanks of all kinds. I n w trial, te«H«(t confident that we can give *?■ n if wn have the opportunity.' L,:,tr.rti,'D f’, UuilJlug, curlier of Virginia and *o- [opposite Superintendent's Offi.o. * S)CAXf ITEMS. boLOUiss’ Mosmuort Eosd.—A meeting of L Committee of the | AUoooa Pair View Cemc r Association, and the Committee appointed a I Iretiug of 'he citizen* of the borough, to act it; [function with that: of the Cemetery Associa te was held this (Wednesday, Fo,b. 25,) evening, [4e Good Will Engine House, for the organise- L ( ff a Board of Trustees of the Soldiers' Monn lat Fund. ' j v H. Maxwell wal elected President, ~i. \Vip. B. ef-cted Secretary, 'i F. Bose, was ejected Treasurer. >n motion, Resolved, That ft committee of three, U appoim ,,,« prepare By- Laws for the government of the ustees. 1 ' Hie President appointed B F. Bose, A. A „,ih and William Boyden, said committee. An motion. That a Standing Notice be kept in the L nata Tribtatr, that contributions for l hi* fund [, 0 at anv time lie made to the Treasurer, B, F b and'that the amount contributed be pulilish- L neckly. Resolved, That the Secretary and Treasurer pro lix- suitable hooka for projierly recording the Lnssctioua and finances ofthe Board of Trustees. ,m motion, adjourned to meet at the call of the . .idem. A. H. MAXWELL. Prvs't. w. K. Fixm-wr, See’e/. ihe Treasurer reports the. following contribn- L, s «p to and including Saturday, Kei>. 28, ■a I rxeeds of Exhibition by pupils of Prof. Mm Miller’s Academy, $lO9 CO Mis-; Lizzie McCoy, collector pf Ladies' ViJ Society . A-iuoua Division, No. 311, Sons of 'l'em crance siDrt 07 B. F. ROSE, Treasurer. I-U-afness and Busiinks-. —Or. Jones of k v York City, the skillful Eye & Ear Doctor, I - jjiolonged bis stay at St. Charles Hotel, Pitts p:;rgh. until the 22ml of March. He has been in liu.-al to do so on account of the great number of 1 eicnts who flock to him from far and near. All ► . need the services of a skillful Ooculist and li. risi, will do well to. call immediately. Dr. [i nos is a graduate of the Old and the New School pti iiieal Colleges, and of an Eye and Ear college, lb' diplomas from the same hang in his office.— In J. straightens cross eyes in one minute. He I stales for Catenet,' Club Feet, Hate-lip, Hernia, I iypus in the nose and ear. He inserts artificial ■ m move naturally. Hecnres stuttering in a hour. He introduces artificial ear drums f '-li improve die hearing immediately where the [' 'mat organ is destroyed. He cures discharges pi 'lie ear, and noise,in the Read, and partial deaf ■> and blindness, weak and sore eyes, and ncr- I ns diseases and those diseases of the organs “• p ' se, ic., which are not‘successfully treated by I- oily physicians. He performs all difficult opera f "is in surgery. Office St. Charles Hotel, Pitts '"ifh. Consultation free. "'TAMPS os Promissory Notes. —As the sca ► m for sales of jiersonal property is approaching, 'J.rn large numbers of promissory notes are exe "ited, it'may bcinleresting to the public to know scale of stamp duties which the law of 1862 •m posed ugpn such notes. ! It is as follows: prom $2O to $lOO .. “ 100 to 200 . 200 to 350 .... ■ 350 to 500 I " 500 to 750 .'. f 750 to 1,000 1,000 to 1,500 1.500 to • 2,500 to 3,000 .......... fhe penalty for violating the law is $5O, and ' r,K instrument is rendered invalid and of no avail. 1 " se stamps can always be-procured at W. M. ‘•loyd’s Banking Bouse, Altoona. AcctDKJiT. —A serious accident oc l,rred to ibe Expcess Train Westward, yesterday ""ming, at. the end of the mooiuiiin between 'l'pcico and Perrysville station, in Juniata "uaty. A portion erf the end of the raoun alu slid down upon the track, after the watch man had passed and before the train came along. 1 i*'' consequence was, that the engine, express car, ; '““Usage car and one passenger car were thrown i '"-“ r •be embankment and into the river, leaving i:l;m perieet wrecks. Strange as it appears, the r x l>ress messenger and baggage master escaped “"injured. . One; passenger, by the n tn' of I John Shearer, from Greensbnrg, Pa., was kill * ’ engeiuasly we believe. The Engineer, Jacoi er, was baby scalded about the legs, but tb< 1 •> r eman escaped uninjured. a Sk-Cabbage if aluxuiy this season, and sou riH, t “ not in moat bilk of fore. Our old tuck er Toy Metxgnr, froui Sinking VaJlej 1151 have found out that we were eating our pots Jav i*”*' wit|ioutcaWjage, consequently, on the ft I*l 1 * 1 w **k he presented us with a couple < ,'finest heads he could And In the valley. “bi i n ° W 8 Wber * to tnrkeyt, fre* Utte bnt .u^, 6 brings to market nothin of r * be * t> W k* n we get onr Market House w U 1 have plemj of customers/ . a 1 07 25 00 $ 05 10 15 20 30 40 60 1 00 i 50