iltwaa Muhm.
ALTOONA. PA
TUESDAY., JULY 28, 1803
AU Quiet
When ft great actor is upon the stage,
in'some of those soul Stirring acts which
the master , minds of the drama have pro
duced, a breathless audience evinceapts in
terest in the scene, by a silence that can
;• y •' . • ¥
almost be felt, and when the scene changes
a hum and rustle follows, to turn again to
the aame deep stillness in expectation of
something still more startling.
It is so with the American mind to-day,
in the.loyal states. Great and successful
aotpes have been upon the national stage
in the: month 4hat is now fast drawing to
a clone. Fearfully real have been the
tragic scenes that have marked many
dreadfully contested fields. The thunder
ing of a battle in .the east, have been an
swered by the tripled thunderihgs of battle
in the west—true not as deep and full as
that from the east, but with a result per-,
haps as anxiously awaited. The songs of
triumph which have rolled from the fields
oi the old Keystone ritate, have been thrice
retumod from -the Mississippi’s shores.
Wide was the stage, and deep was the 1
plot, in.the tragic scene—the staging the
green carpeted earth, and the paintings
around, those of natures own master hand,
while many of the actors unknown to
fame, have cast a last glance upon the
Stars and stripes floating proudly above'
them, whispered in feble accents a mother’s,
wife's, or perchance a sister’s loved name,
and closed their eyes, to open them no,
more to calls for action upon the stage ot
life.
A world lps been in audience ' while
these scenes have been transpiring, but
pressing:closely around, the loyal heart of
a free and once happy people, has almost
ceased its pulsations, trembling ever and
anon between hope and fear. But another
scene has closed. The bum of exaltation
that followed it has almost passed by, and
the mourning* of the bereaved and grief
stricken: have been somewhat mimed.—
And now, while behind the curtains ol
policy, the lenders plan and prepare for
the next scene, the country is waiting in
breathless anxiety. Ail is quiet, or aftei
what has transpired, seemingly so. Meet
friends wherever you may, upon the streets,
in railway cars, or in the parlor, the ques
tion is ‘‘what’s the news,” and it is inva
riably answered now, “ Ihere is no news.”
And yet three years ago the intelligence
that now fills the columns of our newspa
pers, yvqidd have been considered of tlu
most starring nature. The raid of Mor
gan into the loyal States would then have
been considered a matter of mighty mo
ment, but now it is considered a thing of
only third or fourth rate importance
while its result is a foregone conclusion—
perhaps Morgan may escape, but his band
is broken land scattered, we hope never, to
be collected again.
The skirmishes that from elay to day oc
cur, a few. years ago would have been
called battles, but are now scarcely noticed
by even “ special correspondents” only to
fill op a blank page.
I t is true,' also, that the birthplace, and
citadel of treason is now being besieged by
oflhe South, but as yet no very
deeurre results have been attained, and
perhaps the siege will necessarily be a slow
—-but we trust a sure work.
- Bat haw lung will all be quiet ? How
long till the curtains of uncertainty be
raised ! #ow long till the silence that
precedesthe atom be broken i It may be
bat a day—-but an hour. Before this
reaches the reader the quiet may have
pa«i& and another or perhaps a series of
sooKjS inay have been enacted. God grant
thatibey may be the closing scenes, come
when they may, whether they are at the
distance of days osamonths: and that on
the dpuds that arise from the battlefields
mojMb* written victory in lines so deep that
irciiimtt-a^iLy-never again blurr it, nor be
able lo oibMtcrate a single letter. A vic
toryltyt tfcl* dtmtjuest, but fur law and or
der,ibr foedonaad bumaoity.
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Peter son's Maoazihk.—-This ever wel
come monthly, for August, has been re
ceived; It contains a beautiful steel en
graving entitled ** Charity,” Ijte fashion
and patterns
are given in endless numbers. ■ A wood
engraving, entitled “At wa-shore,” ; g
qn jhe loimorous. J lie literary
the usqal excellent quidity,
and altogtber a ami creditable
production- Terms $2,00 per anntun. —
C- J. Peterson. Philadelphia.
The i Situation.
lip to, this dale we have but Httle of im
portance from the Army of thib Potomac, nl
thought it is evident that Meade is Watch
ing Lee v«py closely, and that the latter
finds,Jiiimelf confronted tit every gup in
the mountains by Gen. Pleassnton’s cav
alry- He will have to fight before be gets
to Richmond. Report says that Lee is.
again turning towards Pennsylvania, but
it is hardly possible that he intends to risk
another invasion
At Charleston our iorces'are still.active,
although meeting with a reverselately,—
Ihe fate of Charleston is certainty sealed
Gen. Gilmore knows what he is about.—
If he does not succeed by dashes, he will
accomplish his work by slow approaches.
A desire to time may have-induced
him to attempt the capture of Fort Wag
oner by storm. He should be reinforced
sufficiently to enable him to do the work
well and quickly.
In the Southwest Generals liosecrans.
Grant and Banks are making good use of
their time by pushing ti.e rebels back
from the Mississippi. Gen. Gherman has
capturbd Jackson, the. capitol of Miss.,
and Bosecrans is pushing into Georgia.
At one pvint 40 locomotives and the rol
ling stock i of three raiVoads were captured.
Ibis the Richmond Enquirer admits to be
an irrepearable loss, as they have not the
wherewith to replace them. A drove of
5000 beef cattle, a great amount of sugar
ant| other articles for the Confederate
army havp also been captured. Mobile
dreads a visit from Gen. Grant who is
moving in that: direction. Ihe Mississippi
river is now open to navigation, one boat
having made the trip form St. Louis to
New Orleans and started on her return.
All transports are convoyed form, Mem
phis to New Orleans by gunboats.;
No further riots have occurred ip New
Vork or elsewhere in consequence |pf <he
conscription, although fears are; enter
tained that they may be an outbreak at
Cincinnati. The authorities being aware
of all that Is going on have taken proper
measures to suppress any insurrection.
Morgan Captcrkd. —The noted rebel
raider Morgan has at last been captured,
together With the balance of his party,
some 500 men. They were captured on
Sunday last, in the vicinity of New Lis
bon. Ohio, by the forces of Gen. Shackle
ford. Morgan’s raid, though daring and
destructive, did not pay. Only about 300
men, out of the 5,000 or 6,000 with
which he entered Indians, have .escaped
The. rebels have learned, ere this; that
raiding through the North is more difficult
than raiding through the South. We are
glad that the West has been relieved from
Morgan's raids, at least for a time. :
From Chari.eston.— The latest from
Charleston is to the effect that our troops
had made a second assult upon Fort Wag
ner, but were repulsed with heavy loss.
Like the fortifications around Vicksburg,
it appears impossible Jo take if by storm-
ing, and if must therefore be reduced by
slow approaches. Wo have no particu
lars of the assault, but suppose the gallant*
76th Kegt. P. V. came in for a.full share
of the causualties, as they were jn the
party. ' ■
The Pennsylvania State Teachers
Association meets at-. Reading, Berks
county, bn Tuseday, August 4, 1868, and
continues three days.
Coolness of Soldiers Under Fire.—His
tory is full of anecdotes of the rernarkafile nerve
iml indifferencedisplayed hy soldiers of different
nations wjten under fire. It is to lx; hoped that
the future historian of the present war will not
omit to chronicle, among other incidents, the
following: paragraph illustrative of the qualities
referred to : “We asked an officer if the toss of life
had l«en great from rebel shell. “ No, ,r saiil he,
“we take them as a Juke; there will be oh<* along
iirectiy arid you can sec. What time is it, Ben 7
•Jlist fifteen minutes since the last— timfe; is up—
oere she comes —hello, old fellow-;" Plash| and
• he shell buried itself, exploded in the ground,-
browing the dirt, over the tent, and some of the
pieces falling within reach of ns—the hole only
twenty feetfromthe door. They laughethheartilv,
why, we could not tell: it is anything bnlamusing
to us. We were about to bid them good day,
when they kindly invited us to stay and:see an
other. "It will not be lung, gentlemen, there will
be another in fifteen minutes; don't hurry.” W<
did not secit in that light, and sped on ,onr ad
vemo ouslryay. Had the ground hem : hard or
nx;ky, tire shell would in all probability have ex
ploded on -the surface, and there would (rare been
two enlighteners shot,
A Revolution in Hair.—The comb is hence
forth an obsolete ■ article in tvshionable circles,
says a late London letter, and ladies are' reverting
to the Lady Godiva style of wealing the 'hair— l
(hat is, letting it flow down over the shoulders.
Little girls having abandoned the once/ popular
net, now have their hair cnmuedatld then allowed
to float lodmly down their back. When the hair
i« of a light auburn or golden hue. it has n ’ pretty
effect, reminding one of early English -maidens
with names Tike Maude and Man*, who; wed to
live in the days of the Bound Table; Older girls,
and young and even middle aged ladies, hare,
however, made a compromise in the matter which
is perfectly frightful. The hair is rumpled up so
at to stand out on (lie head as if it had not been
com lied fora week, and then the bark hair, also
carefully rumpled, isioosejy fastened up byaeomb.
The head is then considered arranged: fur the
Opera or hall root/.
—r* -ft-
The Fulton Ktfiuhliom annouces that du
ring the ItUte visits of the rebels to that place, two
young men 1 froth Bedford, Brim Lorn; son of
William Loyn Esq,- and Mcngel Heed, ; son of
John P, Reed, Esq, enlisted in the cavalry ser
vice, ;
Oermpondenrt of the AHoona Trihmr.,
Letter from “ August Soutag ”
Philadelphia, July L'7th, 1863.— Ah, me I
wh»t hot weather we have in this meiklimi. Phil- ;
adelphia has fairly tamed herself inside oat, like a j
glove, spilling her population out in a stream j
of humanity which winds its way in search of shade 1
and other pleasures of a pastoral nature. “ Private j
excursions,” which are*Th reality nothing but “ Pic- i
nics,” arc all the rage, and; all seem thankful that ;
amid the trials and sorrows brought toevery house
hold by ‘-this cruel war.” v.-o have snll left us our 1
little enjoyments. Almost: everbody visit “ Fair- !
mount Park” now, since it has lieen mode such a i
toveiy spot. For five cents we are at once ain cam- |
paifne amid its walks,, its drives, its flowery lawns, .
its music, its takes, its rivulets, its cascades and its !
secluded nooks which rivals any scenery to lie found 1
in Europe. What a retreat this is indeed, for !
thousands who swelter in dingy streets and half I
ventilated rooms, to escape into the open air, there I
to dance among the flowers, or dining beneath the !
“green arcades” of a minature forest, singing “no ;
one to love, V beside somebody who is pouring out
his whole sou) in terms of temporary affection, tituxi i
be refieshing to.the natures of even the most Inn- :
gtitd and jaded residents of ottr.eity. The Teutons i
espcially enjoy themselves in; this wav, and “go |
in” on their refreshments with a laxaliveness that i
is perfectly startling to a looker on. A. few after
noons ago we visited a pretty son of curtailed
woods on the banks of the Wissalnckon. which
was the scene of a German pic-ttic. .Itscefued
to.me that Ihe whole German )tcretiasion was out :
en masse, and their indomitable resolutions were, j
enjoy yourself without stint and without limitation,
and such a multitude-of children I never saw be
fore. Ido begin to think Or. Andes is correct
his. analysis of lager, for he maintains that the ,
housewife who drinks it cannot help seeing the i
“ Olive branches” cluster all around her domestic 1
table, and that only those who spurn this genial li- :
quid find themselves without " heirs to their gold
and glory. N To my taste lager is an amber colored
modification of soap-suds. With me. therefore, it is
merely r, question whether cue manufacturer fla
vors/«s beverage with “enslile" or another-with
“brown Windsor." 1 think I can shave better with
the former. On rids cycasiotl good manic Was
abundant, and waltzing that fairly kept my head ;
in a whirl for two days afterwards. An 1 can't the :
• Teutons wait: A friend of mine, who flatters
himself that he is some on the waltz, went in with
a madchen of almost nineteen summers, who
weighed over two hundred, had arms like satlpv
wood pillars, and “ (tontoons”- —but no mutter, uiu—
watching him spinning rewind like a too for an
hour, 1 retired, Three hours afterwards I found
him laid out on the grass with a German sitting
on his stomach to put an end to the rotary motion
of his hotly. It took two bottles of “Hock" to
convince him that (te was not a i:eiv inane! and
had to revolve around on his own axis at least
once a second, mean time.
Have von -ecu ’lu' steel enameled 0011111*8
'wristbands for ladies ami gents, “all the go" in
litis city. Titov are the best substitute for the
guillotine ov,-r invented: They decapitate the
male so (jidetiy. so slowly, but with such certainly.
\ ported bis the frenchman would say) one of these
collars for two clays, and 1 protest that I came as
near becoming a suicide as a gentleman of any
suscoptability reams to come without a deuce of a
consideration. The collars are light, of a bluish
complexion. They are made in Sheffield, England,
avlierc 1 perceive they arc sold at about one third
the price asked for them here. The collars are
sold here at one dollar each, and the wristbands at
one dollar and a half a pah . Yankee ingenuity
will probably improve upon the idea, for they am
be improved upon very easily. British enamel
looks dingy. Yankee enamel ,may be put on white
as snow. The edge should' be rounded so as to
take off all the sharpness and leave the wearer
some chance of living out his*regular “three score
and ten years,’ 1 and not send him home as the
, prosperity-man at the Theatre sends Banquets ghost
to Lady ifur.heth'a supper table, with a frightful
gash in his throaVand his head ready to tumble off.
Now I will tell yon what is becoming decidedly
the novvranlc among the ladies,,crimson clonks!--
Yes, sir, red cloaks, when (lie Jog-star is raging!
One would think when Sirius is in the ascendant
that old Sol would he hot enough without having
onr eyes roasted out of their sockets looking on the
crime in such agonizing colors. Oh ! woman, wo
man ! tis. Dr. Sheridan once said.
’•l’ve often tried in v«iu to rind
A tnynile for woman kind—
A fiimil , I mean to lit Vm.
l!i v everj circumstance to hit’em.”
Those whe wear these clonks (they are not gen
erally worn) remind me of a picture {tainted from
Longfellow's poem, called “Evangeline,” which
looks for all the world like the robes which the
pen-nut girls wear to church on Sunday in Ireland.
I cannot call thg cloak unhandsome, but the coloi
is not suitable to the season. It makes me perspire
to coiitemplitp- why >hcy don’t get them up of an
ice cream complexion ?
The long talked of draft has been progressing
quietly in tins city for several days past. There
scents to be no disposition in onr peaceful commu
nity to resist it, and we think it would be idle for
individuals to undertake to resist, even if they v-lje
lieve it to be an imposition, for the administration
is- invested with sufficient power to enforce its
laws. An amusing incident, took place np town
last week. A German had been enrolled twice,
first in the 'ward where he resided, and again iu
another where' he pursued liia daily avocations.—
It so happened in the turn of events the German
was drawn out in both wards.. This puzzled him
for some time, but a lucky i<)ea sttuck him, and
he called a friend aside, and says lie, “ mine
friend, I tells you de vay TyU dis conscription;
I {>ays him three hundred tollers vere 1 worloi; and'
Igo fight vere I litres.” Apro/mt the draft, why
don't ,onr cities draft en matte the thousands of
sinister-eyed, robust garabl -rs find loafers who in
fest the corners of our principal stress. It is a
great pity for the common steal that the “ wheel"
cannot turn up their names before those of better
men. Yours truly,
. AUGUST SONTAG.
No Hope for Peace.—The Richmond En
quirer says there is do hope of peace. . All hope
of a speedy peace depended on a decisive success
ofLie’s army, and that success has not been de
cisive. The capture of Vicfo/bhrg and Port Hud
son by the enemy, and the partial and incomplete
character of our operations in Pennsylvania Sand
Maryland, together with if? ihan’/lonraept of
Middle ’fennessce by the army of Bragg, have
in flamed oflce rooie the war spirit of the Yankee
nation to its highest pilch. Nobody at the North
now speaks of jieacc, save on the terms of sub
mission to the Union. Tlterefore, pence there
can be none.
A Bevlew of thelate Campaign. XelUperiSpfe' &Moralit). I
A eortwpotment (rays the Pittsburgh Olnka'cte) I
gives an interesting review of the late campaign of '" . ' U. 'j ' 1
the Armv of the Potomac, dating fromJtmejuWi G-fIP- Grant a Order
to July i 6,h l * Periods five weeks. jDarinttW* “Gen. Grant 'Km caused, a greet
time it made its longest marches endured its , . . ; . ,7s*
greatest fatigues, and fought its greatest halite amon « dcaters ,n s P ,n ‘ uos from the who fo-
Com paring its fonnemtrhierenients with those of sale merchant down to the barkeeper, by issuing
the Inst campaign, and they sink almost into in- an order that no spirituous, vinous or malt liqohis
significance. The whole march of the Peninsnla wi „ Uereafter to sollth of Cairo,
dul not exceed one htmartid and sevemv miles. , ' ... . . .
The average march of the several annyeorpe, since Consequently thesaloons of steiunoojits plying De
leaving Fredericlcjdmrg, Is two hundred and twen- low are emptied as they pass jhis point. The
tv-five miles. The Peninsular march occupied above which has resulted from the privilege of car
ninetv-five davs: that of the late canmugn thirty- ... . . .-J . . . , ,»
five. • The average distance of each day s march ‘ M » uor » P ,ohabl - v c “‘ ted ' fort . h ,h,a
on the Peninsula, counting the marching days The above is from a correspondent in the Woriel,^
only, was less than six miles; in the late cam- and gives ns some clue to the cause of Grant's suc
pnign it was nineteen. cess. While boldlv approaching Vickburg in front,
(rcnain statements regarding the dispositions oL» . ~ f .V . . .. .
the- armv after leaving Falmouth jrmr be and wa,chin 8 JohnBon ,n A® War, he felt the ne.
now, which would have been improper at the date | ceasity of guarding against a foe, more dangerous
of.their occurrence. It will he. remembered that ! than either, whose deadly work is doneevery where.
General Hooker kept bis heaqnarters in thejnein- i level! ng alike the high and the 16w, without leav
itv ol rairfax Comt House for fujiv a week, and 1 . . , , , .
during this time so disposed hfs farces as to stop j «■« ‘° el,her a laurel wrea,h of f h me or a nan,e ,0
any movement of the enemy upon Washington, i live on history’s pages.
either on the flank through the mountains, or in ; The General knew full well, that this insiduous
front hv way of Warrenton or Manassas These | foe uu#ttcd man fol . , he sacred relations of social
disposition* were: Ihe twelfth and Eleventh i . , .
Cbrtis at Leesburg: the Fif.h Corps at Aldie Gap, i llfe - ,or ,hat l’ 051,,0n where I**“ °“« ht ever ’°
supported by the Third at Gum Spring, half way j abide, that influence is to make man a traitor to
Ist-ween Fairfax Court House and Aldie; the Sec- | himself and his familv. He could, therefore, not
f-ift . Tb " r “ ,, ‘? hfa ™ Ga|, i th . e . on j trust its influence when, and where vig.lat.ee is ; the
Giiilmrd Station on the Hampshire Railroad, sup- , .. . .
porting the Eleventh and Twelfth at Leesburg; the ! price of liberty and success. He could not trust it
Sixth Coips at Fairfax Court House, Centreville |
am) Bristol Station, guarding the rear.; !
All these dispositions were made by tj?e 18th of |
June, i-cndering Washington secure from an at- ,
• ack, and placing the forces in excellent position
either to meet Lee’s advance in that direction or
pursue him into Maryland. It is worthv of note
that for the next week a certain sheet in New York
did not cease to howl at the Commanding General
for not making the very dispositions he hail made
a week before. And here let me correct a popular
misapprehension regarding the knowledge of the
enemy 's whereabouts at this time. Simply because
the public was not regaled every day with bulletins
from headquarters giving the exact location of
Lee’s army, it was generally conceived that we ofj
the Army of the Potomac knew nothing concern- ;
ing the enemy. Never was there a more egregious I
error. Had it not been obviously improper, a com- I
paraiiveh reliable statement could have been given i
almost every day concerning the dispositions of the
main body of the rebel army.
The attempted strategy of Lee at this period hits
never been fully dcsc.ilied. It is not, I believe,
generally known, (hat while Rhodes' division of"
Ewell’s corps was tardily pressing northward, Kur
il 's division of the same corps, was held in ohev
ance on the Potomac, and Johnson's division of
still the same corps was closely camped around
Winchester. The two army corps of Longstteet
and Hill lav for n whole week snugly crouched
down beneath the western shadows of the Blue
Ridge, on the banks of the Shenandoah, vigilantly
guarding Ashby's and Snickers Ga’ps with a heavy
force, and using actively the whole of Stuart’s cav
alry to mask and conceal their position. The first
;cn days of Lee’s invasion was a mere Joint —a
mere diversion—in the ho|je of seeing Hooker’s ar
my swiMy nisii northward itfto Pennsylvania to
stop the* ravages of one small division, while the
mas- of jlm rebel army, pa-sing suddenly down to
Lreshui jt, could, in 1 less than one day’s march,
cross the Potomac at Nolan’s Ford, and place it
self between the National army and Washington.
There is no feature of the campaign more posi
tive than this. was completely out-gener
aied in its attemped execution. And yet die gen
era) who commanded the Army of the Potomac at
.that time has been abused because he diii not obey
the liehest of every frightened (aimer in Pennsyl
vania, and rush to the protection of barnyards and
stables. When Genera! Lee bad failed to induce
Genera! Hooker to uncover Washington, he lost
no time in pushing forward into Maryland. It is
equally true of Hooker that he lost no lime in the
pursuit. Withdrawing his army speedily from its
fan-likc position in front of Washington, he iTi'--cd
the river by the pontoon bridges at Edward's Ferrv.
and in.two days placed if in the vicinity of Fred
erick, an average distance of fifiy-two miles.—
At Frederick, Gen. Hooker's career as Comman
der of the Army of the Potomac came to a sudden
termination.
Arrest of the Leader of the K. G. C’s
I’lmjNew Albany, Ind., Ltvir/er. of tiie tgth.
aigioiniccs the arrest, in that city, of a man named
Geo. \V. L. Biekley, supposed to be the origi-
nator of the order of the Knights of the Golden
Circle, hut who declared that while of the same
name, lie was only the nephew of the original
(General Biekley; He has been sent to the mili
tary prison at Louisville, where his ease will be
attended to. An examination of the contents of
the trank of Biekley, by Major Fay, seems to in
dicate that he is really the genuine Biekley, the
mther of tin l " Knights.'’ His porfqlio contains
letters ftom parties in Mcmfibis. Lynchburg, New
• York, and other points, directed to’Gen. Biekley
as “ Major General’' of the order. Also, a copy
I ol tiie “ Degree Book” of the Order of Knights
iof the Golden Circle; n card, on which is printed
1 ; an explanation of the signs, grips &e., of the
I order; another crod, on which is printed in red
and blue, the Confederate 'flag, with the letters
“ K. G. C.” on each bar, the name “ Gen. Geo.
Biekley" being, primed on the top. There is also
the manuscript of an original piece of poetry, of
. w hich the General claims the authorship, intended
■ to be set to music, in which Virginia is spoken.of
; as “ Queen ot the South,” and Lee, Longslreet
I a »d Hill extolled its her savior* &c. Also a slip
; oat of the Kichmorkl fVVto/ and Mobile Sferrun /,
i (of I 860.) explaining the doctrines and objects of
■ tiie K. G. C. In a memorandum hook was found
what appeared to be a rough sketch of the situa
• lion <>f Louisvjtig, New Albany, Jeffersonville and
• the Falls. liri'he book was pasted a ten cent
; postage stamp, handsomer, by the way, than any-
I thing Uncle Sam can boast of in the same line.
, I’rohahly the most important document found,
1 however, was the following, which the General
j doubtless wrote when in a melancholy mood, or
| when reflecting on the vanity-of human ambi-
I lion :—“ My memory is not qijite so vivid as in
, years |«st, yet I can now' sit down in the shades
; of night and spread out all my boy and manhood’s
| lite like a great chart, with marks ami records of
my ,wondering,s and upon calmly scrutinizing ihat
| charts>f memory’s tablets, lean mojt solemnly say
, every storm that has overtaken nfe, every cloud
that has orershowered me, has resulted by some
j act committed by myself, which at the time did
j not meet my conscientious approval. An orphan
lat an early age, 1 was thrown on the World pen
j niless and friendless, yet with great I
educated myself and rose to eminence in the pro-
I fession ot medicine. I have written manv books
| and great quantities of minor essays on ’all con
j ceivable subjects. I have brought'up practical
i Secession mid inaugurated the greatest war of
’ modern times, yet I declare the real pleasure of
my life is now found in the knowledge of small
i kindnesses done to the needy in adversity and the
j principles of morality and Juunanhy.
I GEO. W. L. BICKLEV, M. I).
Bristol, .'Trail., Dec. 11, 1882.
The True Plan.—A town meeting was held
in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on Saturday, to see if
the town would vote three hundred dollars to each
drafted man. Instead of doing this, the town voted
to pay three hundred and fifty dollars to every man
dialled from that town, not exempted by the'Con
script act, who goes to the war himself or procures
a substitute, but not a dollar for a man to stay at
home. . ■
„. T l !Tl . e3 Easily Acquired.— The * Prince of
v\ ales ts a field Marshal, without ever having
seen a bailie, a doctor of the rivjl hiw without
ever having looked into n law hoolt,«nd now ho Is
both a fishmonger and a merehimt tailor,! with
out ever having sold a fish or got np a pair of
trousers. r if
when, aiid where, the fates of a nation hung per
baps on the issues of an hour. He consequently
placed a picket guard at Cairo in order that the
enemy might not approach near enough that his
pestilent) il breath might be inhaled by his army.
The result has been success—brilliant success. —
We hope that every Union Genera! will adopt the
same system, and vre bad almost said that martial
law might be proclaimed throughout the whole
laud, making the picket lines over' which King al
cohol might not pass, the St. Lawrence on the
North, the Atlantic on the Eaat the Pacific on the
West, and honesty and loyalty on the South. We
might say however, if our utmost,wish were carried
out. -vc- could not wish even the traitor to his
country, anything worse than annihilation, and
would therefore desire the demon of intemperance
to lie uriveiii liack and confined beyond that abyss
wiiicb bounds the place of his conception, and have
-some good angel guard the boundary, that he never
again might tread with his blighting steps, nor
breath with his withering breath upon this green
earth.
The Cousins.
• • what a shabby fellow I his father is a
drunkard.” said Harry, lookingat a ragged boy on
the side-walk Many did not point at the poor
boy. he was too well-bred for tluil. but he did not
hesitate to speak in a very contemptuoutf tone, and
he added. “ I wouldn't lib a drunkards’ boy-would
you ?’’
Harry was showing his cousin Edward, who was
visiting him, all the dry sights; so he did no 1
omit to direct Ins attention to the miserable look
ing object before them.
“ Don't.' - replied Edward in a low voice, ” lie
will bear yon. and it will hurt his feelings."
'Oh pshawf said Harry, “drunkards' boys
haven't any come, the fire-bell is
ringing, and there arc the firemen with their
engine; now yon will have a chance to see a fire !”
and'he glanced patronizingly at his cousin, as if
he had gotten up the fire expressly for his enter
tainment.
After dinner, ns the two boys sat in the’ library
looking over some beautiful new books, Edward
appeared so sober that Harry inquired the reason.
“I can’t help thinking how saip that ragged
little boy looked this morning, and I know he
board what you said, his cheek-i turned so red ; I
tbel sorry for him:” *
“ Anybody would know you lived in the coun
try,” said Harry, shrugging his shoulders, “why,
there arc lots and lots of snch boys in town ; they
aren't worth noticing, it’s only low folks that get
drunk.''
“ But don’t rich men like Upcle Benton drink
too much sometimes and be drunkards?” timidly
asked Edward.
“Oh ! gentlemen like my father drink wine at
dinner, and other times, but they don’t take too
much; I shall drink wine when I am a man.”
“I should think it would be safest not to drink
at all,” said Edwaid, but at that moment Judge
Benton entered the room and they said no’ more
on the subject. '
Thar evening Hurry’s father was to make a
political speech in the city; htit the boys attended
a Juvenile Concert; As they were returning
home they heard a man before them say, “ The
Judge was a-little the worse for liquor to-night.”
“ f should think so,” said another," he was so far
gone he hardlyjtnew what he was about, and he
has gone into Willard’s, and will be worse off be
fore he gets home.”
The boys heard no more, but Harry indignantly
exclaimed it was false, his hither never was intoxi
cated, and never would lie; and hastening home
with gjowing; cheeks, and eyes, sparkling with in
dignation, he re la ed to his mother what they, had
heard. But Harry hung his head with shame
and mortification, when his mother burst into
tears ami-exclaimed, “Oh! 1 fear it is all too
true—l have seen it for a long time! And now,
what will become of us, yon Will soon be ndnmL
ants son, my poor hoy!”
Mrs. Benton was a weak-minded fashionable
woman; she had never urged ; her, husband to
relinqnish the use of the destroying leverage, for
she took a glass of wine herself when ever she
wished it; and had never taught her soil to be
a teetotaler. But that night, when at a late
hour Judge Benton was brought home for the
first tune in n state of intoxication, her eyes were
opened, and she resolved never again to counte
nance the use of spiritpus liquors in any form ; and
exacted a promise from Hhitv never to taste thfe
poisonous cup. Yon may be sure Edward was
very willing to make a similar-promise.
But I will only say that Judge Benton was
very ill for a long time, and when he recovered be
became a temperance man. Harrv and Edward
are now engaged in business together, and Harrv
is not thoughtless and unkind as he formerly was,
for the cousins both do all the good thev can, and
have saved a great' many young men from a
drunkard’s grave. ' .
And would you believe it, that verv same liMte
boy; who was so ragged and miserable, is now
their head clerk, and a very reapectaole man
Youth's Tcin/ienmar- PinVor.
Hexaruxblb Lettkk from a Prisoner.
the following is an extinct from a letter! written
hy a rebel prisoner confined in the Oid ; Capiioi
prison, in Washington, to a. friend in this South :
ins a humiliating: fact that out of the seven hun
dred Confederates captured with me, only throe
hundred remained faithful to our ConfiJdereey
the balance of them having taken the oath of al
kgiunce to that detested Yankee Government—
Ol), how r have urged upon thoscwfelishonored
wretches to pause ere they cngulphetrthemselves
in inevitable ruin, but they answered me; /‘The
Confederacy cannot gain her independence;
\ ickshurg has fallen, and why should-I'longer
waste my life in a useless undertaking?" -
Seventy-six Victims—One of tire New York
papers contains a|ist qf sevcnty-six pereons killed
during this brutal not raised in that city under
the pretext of resistance to the draft; The loss of
life above stated Is RPMtier thkn that suffered by five
regiments of the Bxwclsior Brigade, who were in
the hottest of bmtK* of Gettysburg.
„ T " E Hon. 'ckieb
haii PTBh hn'opiiadh tlme the pavmenfof
»300 exempts a man from miliiarv service for
three yearn. / * * w
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lU*wa Itifam
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rSIBIINE POWER-PRE
pgurriNG office.
(SVIUK. within the pant two year*, made conside
i itiontooor establishment in the way of new
"" Acre* Press; Paper Cutter, Card Culler. RnHnt
■’.i'j'. o*rd Power Frees, and large Newspaper »
(» cot of which we give above) we are now pro
.vacate anything in the line of printing or rail
' ,atfual tot any ostabUshmei. t in the state, a
‘ r 'l‘.'ce equally low. Weean execute, on abort noth
.ivies of
Faddlng, invitation, Visiting, Rail A BuiinosaC
Cirou)la.T», Progratamea, ,
MAMNIOTM POSTERS, SALK Bile
&!HriRlBS^aS/a®B
pamphlets* Pay and Cheek Be
BIjANK books,
MANIFESTS,! AND BLANKS OF A | LL KIN
we is h trinl, filing confident tHel w? <v
if wr h*v* iho opportunity. .
, i-j Lowther's baildiaj, corner of Tirgluiit
street*, oppivlto Superlntenctenl'B o*a-«.
LOCAL items
Important to Those Interested.
,1. Boyw. receiver of computation v money fo
: 7th district, gives notice by handbill dial ha
:ieea authorixei by th« Secretary of War to ra
i.ree hundred dollars from atiy drafted raan i
district desiring exemption from the draft, an
adopted the following regulations: for receivin
'.■ime," Persons who prefer “socking the gr
iiscks" to soldiering, should make note of it;
Ist. The mimey can bo paid at my oCBc
lohnsown, during office boon, from 8 A. M.
. F. M.
2d. The amount can- be deposited with 1
M. Uovd & do , Altoona; Johnson, Jack &
ilollidaysburg; Bell, Garretson & Co.. Hun
ioa; or in the'LewUtown Bank, and certife
of deposit* be forwarded to this office, who
..roper receipts Avill be immediately sent as mt
iirected.
3d. All payment must be made in Govern)
money.
Serious Adcipßsr.—On Wednesday mor
.list, Conrad Kueply; of this place, an eng
■ii one of the freight trains between this place
Pittsburgh, was seriously injured about the
»v being struck by some timber oh s oar stan
~a a side track; inthevicinity of Willmore sta
It appears that Mr. K.. while pasting that p
lad his bead- put of the window of the loicom
aid was looking toward the rear of the train
cc whether all the cars were still attached,
iid not observe the car load of lumber uhfti
him. Seme of the lumber, which was loadni
uirthcr than it should have been, struck bin
hi: side of the head, cutting an ugly, gash
fracturing his skuli. He was broil g
,iis home in this place and now lies in - ,-r
■ondition.
Postage. —-The amended postage law
into operation on the Ist of July. Under its
dsions and tbs instructions of the Postm
veneral, two cents postage is now charged on
-ransieut newspaper—but for that sum tw
more papers can be sent in one package, provi
he whole dose not weigh over four ounces,
package exceeding four ounces in weight but
than eight ounces will be charged four cen
•hese rates to be prepaid by stamps. The po
un all dropt letters has been increased to two ■
hut as no charge is made -for delivering any It
whatever, the charge for draped letters is the
•vs heretofore, except that the cost formerly
-led between the sender and receiver must ik
prepaid by the party mailing.
Hose Wanted. —Theatre company is uoi
plying to our citizens for money to purchase
hose, and we hope they will meet withliben
nations from every property holder. Tbe w:
more hose was seriously felt at the late coafl
ion. Had there been about ISO more feci
in additional fireplug could have been bn
into use, either to supply the engine or to
-thrown water directly on the fire. Every pro
holder has a direct interest in furnishing the
.-any with everything that can add to its eff«
ness at fires,! and we sincerely desire to i
equipped as it; deserves. A few dollars given
may nave hundreds hereafter.
Okoekkd Off, —We learn this morning
he MdNßegt.P. V. M., Col. Mckeage, no,
camped at Huntingdon, together with Cap*. 1
cavsdry company, have been ordered to Me
uelaburg, Fulton county. The recent reports
Cee intends td again invade Pennsylvania,
-he threatened raids of rebel cavalry, doubtlea
■omething to do with the movement. If tb«
diorities would prevent raids they; most takt
propel precautionary measures,«qd it may be
our boys will ! yet git a sight of the reba.
Libct. Morris Dead. —We learn from *
•ate letter received in this place, that Lieut
Morris, of Company M, C2d Heg’t P. V,, di
he hospital at Gettysburg on the Iltfa inst.,
'he effect of a wound received in the battle a
place. He was shot in the head, the ball eni
the left temple and passing obliquely to the
cheek, where it was cut out. He was bur
the soldiers graveyard at Gettysburg.
Head.—We learn from the Lewistown p
that William Henry Snyder, a practical pi
formerly of that place, died in Brooklyn
York, on the 7th of July. A number of oar
ers will remember Mr. Snyder w the psUri
•J>« Regitter, started In this place in the q
1855. Hit, disease was galloping cooamß]
Poe Sale. —Michael McCormick offer*
’•We jffoperfy, on Emma Street, at private
Any one .wishing to secure a comfortable at
renient homestead, would do well to call«
Mr. Me. la desirous of selling soon, with tl
of rentetagj' See advertiseioeiit in aaotl
nmn.
c **n«S.-f-We hard various rmnonin
time faced far the dtpii pad tb
nWof die three modtbs mat* in* v
«ny Ofthrtn.' Botb wO) tai
.first cooriderabiy
•tM#*o-he inforaedoCit,
mmntnxNsd too soon fcr a
\ <*t finale readers.