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ALTOONA, PA.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14, 1863.
THE ELECTION.
Below we give all the returns of the
election, held yesterday, which have pas
sed over the wires up to the hour at which
we go to press, 1 o’clock A. M. They are
~ considerably after' the jug handle style,
and indicate that Curtin has carried the
State % 40,000 or 50,000 majority.—
BLAIE COUNTY.
Altoona, West ward, Woodward 12 maj.; E.
Ward, Woodward 62 maj.; North Ward, Curtin
5 maj.
Hollidaysbnrg, West Ward, Woodward 20 maj
East Ward, Curtin 3 maj,
Antis township, Curtin 177 maj.
Allegheny township, Curtin 34 maj.
Blair towhshift Woodward 3 maj.
Catharine township, Curtin 24 maj.
Freedom township, Curtin 33 maj.
Franks!own township,' Curtin 173maj.
Gaysport, 23 maj. for Woodward.
Greenfield township, 36 maj. for Curtin.
Logan township, 166 maj. for Curtin.
Snyder township, 68 maj. for Curtin.
Tyrone, 46 maj. for Curtin.
N. Woodbeny tp., 34 maj. for Woodward.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY.
Wilkins tp, Curtin 339 maj, being a Union gain
of 160 ovrf last year JUnion gain in Pebbles and
Collins «tpe over last Governor’s election 49.
Gain for Curtin in ten districts 400.
Curtin’s maj. in Allegheny city is 1816—a gain
of4oB over his rmy. in 1860. His maj. in Pitts-
burgh is 1784—a gain of 403 since 1860. The
county will give about 9,000 maj. for Curtin.
JUNIATA COUNTY.
Curtin has 96 maj in Delaware tp, six districts
heard from Curtin gains 130 over Cochran’s vote
of last year. Patterson Borough, Woodward 45
maj. Mifflin, Woodward 1 maj.
PHILADELPHIA,
Ist, 7th, 9tb, 10th, 13th, 14th and 16th Wards
give Curtin 6367 may. 20th ward, Curtin 500
maj. 10th ward Curtin 1275 maj. 24th ward
Curtin 400 maj. This is a democratic ward and
is a large gain for Curtin.
CAMBRIA COUNTY
Curtin’s majority in Wilmore is 30—a gain of 15
over the vote of 1860. Washington tp, Wood
ward 169, Curtin 139, Johnston, Curtin 169 maj.
Conemangb, Woodward 136 maj. Millerville,
Curtin 108 mqj. Cambria City—Woodward 163
maj; Union gain over last years vote in Johns
ton, Conemaagh, Millerville and Cambria city,
176. Snmmerfaill tp, Woodward 30 maj. Union
gain 12.
MIFFLIN COUNTY.
r 'Woodward 14 majority in Wayne tp, McVey
town gives Woodward 5 maj. Oliver tp, Wood
ward 36 maj. Bratton tp, Curtin 21 maj.
W. Ward, Lewiitown, Curtin S 6 maj. Derry tp,
Woodward 20 maj. Brown tp. Woodward 35
nuy. -
WESTMORELAND COUNTY
New Florence, Curtin 89, Woodward 88, a
gun of 12 for Curtin over vote of 1860. Fair
field tp. Curtin’s maj., 96, a gained 62 over Coch
ran’s vote -last year. Latrobe, Curtin one maj.,
being a union gain of 16. Youngstown, Wood
ward 88 ingj., a union gain of 3. North Hun
tingdon tp., Curtin 74 maj. Greensbnrg Bor
ough, Hemphill and Lndwick townships give Cur
tin 81 maj. Deny tp., 29 mty. for Curtin, being
a union gain of 19 .
MISCELLANEOUS.
' Cmtin gains'l76 in Snnbny as .compared with
his vote in 1860.
Curtin gains 117 in Valley tp, Chester county,
over his vote in 1860.
Erie county gives Curtin 3000 majority'.
New Brighton,' Beaver county, gives 300 maj.
tor Curtin.
The probable maj. for Woodward in West
morland county is jBOO.
Lancaster county gives abont 6,000 maj. for
Curtin.
Dauphin Coeixt. —Harrisburg gives Wood
ward 82 maj. The county will give Curtin 120&
'maj, ‘
Pnsnr Codktv. —Newport borough, and Oliver,
Howe and Miller tps. give Curtin 22 maj. Bar
nett, for the Legislature, 20 maj.
Returns -indicate that -Cnrtin will have 2500
nug. in Chester county—a gain of 800 over 1860.
West dispatches from Johnstown place Wood
ward’s majority in Cambria at B®.
. Curtin's majority in Philadelphia will be about
9,000.
FROM OHIO.
The returns from this State indicate the
election of Brongh, the Union candidate,
by 40,000 migoi^ty.
Prize Claims. —lt was wise that Con
gress, at its last session, passed a law
prohibiting speculators from buying up
- the prise-claims of sailors. It is said that
a single speculator of this hind bus in bis
hands half a million of dollars worth of
which he probably obtained !
ofsailonfbr fifty thousand. Under the
pceeent law he cannot obtain a dollar of
the departuteot, and should not. A heavy!
lobby ildefest is growing up to secure the i
repeal of the Jaw. As itnow is, the sailor;
alwe obtainfi the money due him, and no
ope ban cheat hi® out of it in advance.
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Rebel Cavalry Confessed Inferior.
The Richmond Whig, oif Oct. 2d, comes
down in r the following style in reference
to the superiority of the Federal cavalry
over the boasted cavaliers of the Confed
eracy: v
A special dispatch, dated Orange Court House,'
Sept. 22,1863, says; “A considerable cavalry fight
occurred to-day, beginning near Madison Court
House. Our forces fell bade some three or four
miles.” Tree, in this instance, “we captured 70
Yankees,” and there may have been good reasons
for “falling back.” But this tune of “ Our Cav
alry Fell Back,” is becoming i too familiar in the
Army of Northern Virginia. Nobody expects
“our cavalry” how to do anything but fall back;
Time was when Stnart’s cavalry was the pride of
the country. It was never dreamed that the clum
sey Yankees, unused to horseback, could rival,
much less surpass it. But such is the lamentable
fact. Since Kelly’s Ford, and the great review at
Culpepper Court House for the benefit of the la- v
dies, our cavalry has gone under, and we have been'
forced to the shameful admission that Yankee tai
lors and shoemakers on~ horseback are superior to
the cavaliers of the South. Certainly the cavalry
engagements of the last six months have ended
with the same old songs, “ Our Cavalry Fell
Back.” ,
The cause of this deterioration is unknown to
us. It‘is alleged that the enemy’s horse is invari
ably supported with artillery and infantry ; but this
js denied by competent authority in regard to the
most famous cavalry “fall back” of the war—that
from Middlebnrg to Ashby’s Gap. But be that as
it may, we alsohave artillety, comprising some of
the best batteries in the service^connected with
our cavalry, and the artillerists fight bravely—so
much so, indeed, tliat their gnns are captured for
want of support.
If this painful state of things be not past cure,
we suppose the commanding General will apply
the necessaiy remedy without delay, else our cav
alry will become a disgrace to the country and be
scoffed at by the people os they now are by the in
fantry. What makes our mortification over these
i .Docent “failings back" tenfold more acute is the
fact that the vast majority of the cavalry are Vir
ginians. It has been long since we heard of any
thing brilliant achieved by our cavalry-, and now
would be a good time to give the country a pleas
ant surprise.
As apropos to this subject, we quote
the following extracts from a letter to the
Examiner, dated Abington, Va., detailing
the results of operations in the vicinity of
Bristol, Tenn.: ,
Straggling parties of our glorious cavalry, with
out gnus, pistols or sabres, are now slowly wending
their way to the front—a mighty good sign there
is no dangerin that direction. They are the laugh
ing stock of the women; but the farmers who be
hold them tremble for their hogs and cornfields.
At Bristol there was not a Confederate soldier, ex
cept the flying cavalry, who inspired pity and con
tempt rather than confidence. Under these cir
cumstances, any resistance on the part of the citi
zens would have been worse than useless, as, being
hopeless, it could only have resulted in the certain
destruction of the town. Had the Confederate
authorities made any show of fight, the citizens,
almost to a man, would have stood by them.
Tim uninitiated may think that the panic at
Bristol, and the desertion and destruction of prop
erty there are new things—unusual circumstances.
Not so, unfortunately. These same panics, mad
flights of caVahy and Government officers, with
their lamentable consequences, have occurred in
hundreds of places where the Yankees have ap
proached, but there has been no one to tell the dis
graceful tale.
Mqjor Annie E- Jones.
Shortly after the Department of Washington
was formed, there appeared at the headquarters'of
General Stahl, a woman, or rather a girl, who
gave her name as Annie E. Jones, and wfro pro
fessed to have just emerged from a boarding
school in the good city, of Boston. She was a
flippant talker, and ingratiated herself into the
favor of the general, and recived an honorary ap
pointment as a member of his staff, and rejoiced
in the subrjqnet of “major,” and, as “Major
Jones,” became on institution in the army. She
eat with the general, rode with the general on all
his hazardous forays, chatted with the general,
nursed the general when he was sick, fought the
general’s battles when she heard him aspersed bv
jealous understrappers, and when night drew the
starry flog over the heavens, she slept with her
beloved colored maid in the neat little , tent which
the general had assigned to her. She thus lived
and florished. Her orders were wont to be
obeyed, because she was recognized as a staff offi
cer. She always had the countersign, and could
pass the pickets at pleasure. She was said to be
a girl of great dash and daring, and would fre
quently. venture out beyond our out-poats and for
days, watch! the movements of the enemy, and
bring in whole budgets of information from the
rebel camps as proof of her shrewdness. Evety
one new Major Jonesj officers would doff their
' hats, and privates would stand at a full “ present”
as she rode by in military" femenine dignity.—
The visiting officers from other, commands were
introduced to Annie and admired her, and
she reigned supreme as the “ she major of cav
alry.”
When General Hooker marched into Maryland,
and Stahl was -relieved, Miss Major Annie joined
her fortunes with the young and gallant Custer, with
whom she remained, retaining her rank and title,
until a general order from headquarters rendered
it necessary for him to despehse with her valuable
services, and the major was compelled : to search
for a field of usefulness elsewhere. For a few
days she wandered about the catmts, havjng no
paitiediar abiding place until Colonel Sharp, then
acting jprovdst marshal general, thought the in
terest of the services required that she should he
removed to Washington.
Accordingly a pass was granted her to travel
as far as the military railroad would carry her.
and a sergeant of the 93d New York was detailed
to accompany her, to guard against any accident
on the way. Arriving at Washington she stopped,
at the Kirkwood House, where I met her sonic
two weeks ago. I was then cn route for New
York, whether site said she was going iti the same
traiq which was to convey me. She left New
York the next day, since which time I had not
seen or heard from her until yesterday, when I
learned shd had again visited the army, and after
perambulating abont the camps had been brought
up at Gpn., Patrick’s guard house, charged with be
ing a rebel spy, and it is said the proofs against
her are most conclusive.
Foreigners in the United States.—
It appears by census tables (not yet prin
ted) that Ithe entire population of the Uni
ted States, bom in foreign countries, was
in round numbers, in 1860, four millions
one hundred and thirty.gix thousand.—
This aggregate was distributed in States
and territories, in round numbers, as fol
lows:
Alabama, 12,000; Arkansas, 4,000; California,
146,000; Connecticut, 80,000; Delaware, 9,'b00;
Florida, 3,000; Georgia, 11,000; Illinois, 324,000;
Indiana, 118,000; lowa, 106,000; Kansas, 12,000;
Kentucky, 59,000; Louisiana, 81,000; Maine, 37,-
000; Maryland, 77,000; Massachusetts, 260,000;
Michigan, 149,000; Minnesota, 68,000; Missis
sippi, 8,000.; Missouri, 190,000; New Hampshire
20,000; Ngiv Jersey, 122,000; New York, 998,-
000; North! Carolina, 3,000; Ohio, 328,000;-Ore
gon, 5,000; Pennsylvania, 430,000; Rhode Is
land, 37,000; South Carolina, 10,000; Tennes
see, 20,000 ; Texas, 47,000; Vermont, 32,000;
Virginia, 86,000; Wisconsin, 276,000; Colorado,
8,000; Dacotah, 2,000; District of Columbia,
12,000; Nebraska, 6,000; Nevada, 2,000; New
Mexico, 6,000; Utah, 12,000; Washington Ter
ritory, 8,000.
Letter from “ August Sontag.”
Niagara Falls, Oct. 12, 1863.
Siriotis had ascended the Eastern hills'- and'
dawned upon ns, the the temporary residents -of
the “-Forrest City,” with a new lustre, while
breakfasting at the “ Angier House,” and contem
plating an eight mile drive along the baric of the
lake, via Enclid street. Breakfast was disposed
of in the manner characteristic of a Mohamoden
going to prayer—on a “ double quick"—and then
little “ Blossom” donned the Solferina Garabaldi,
with her shawl of the Stewart Tartan, while Son
tag assumes the garb of the “ Grand Sultan,” and
drew the reins upon a grey-matched team that
would do honor to a Penn’a E. E. Fast Line on
a down grade.
visited the Hon. T. W. Morse, escorted bv
his son, Thed. G. Morse, and his kind and most
estimable lady, with whom we have whiled away
so many pleasant afternoons in the city of
“ Brotherly Love,” and around whose family board
we hope to see the “ olive branch” cluster. T
W. Morse owns one of the largest vinyards in the
Northwest. He grows, annually, from 40 to 80
tons of grapes, and manufactures Catawba wine
which competes with the best brands of Cincin
nati wines, or even the famous “ Heidsick.” His
enclosure contains 200 acres, which is beantifully
laid out with ■ mounds, arbors and serpentine
walks, decorated with evergreens, and a residence
in the centre that excels any mansion to be found
in the East, in point of architecture and location.
We heartily endorse the opinion of our little
“ Blossom” when she says ‘‘ it is the Eden of
America,” and concludes by asserting that she
‘•would not be at all surprised if Sontag would
be completely captivated by the grandeur of the
suburbs of the ‘‘Forest City,” and come here,
sometime, not far distant, to live out his three
score and ten years with she and little “ Sun
shine.”
We now, very reluctantly, bid adieu to this
pleasant family and returned to the city by wav of
the late Commodore Foote’s plantation, where his
brother still resides, just in time to step on board
the good steamer “ Morning Star,” the evening
boat for Detroit, The bells are ringing, passen
gers hurrying up the gaug-plank, luggage being
wheeled and trundled on board at the forward
gang-way, and the promenade deck was thickly
enough scattered over with temporary residents to
indicate that come sunshine or-storm, moonlight
or thick heavy set darkness, the lake is to have a
host of admiring travelers skimming over her
broad bosom. The ‘‘calliope” is sounding—that
singing tea-kettle of the Titans—that mad giant
of music—playing polkas, schottisches and waltzes
with the'nimble grace that a polar bear may be
supposed to exhibit while dancing to such musical
compositions. Back on the promenade the music
of a harp is tingling, and marvellously well-han
dled, sounding the preparatory notes indicative of
promenade music while on the passage ovar the
lake. “All aboard! In with the gang-plank!’
shouts the Captain, who is a modern Fallstaff in
person and somewhatAjf a wag, and we arc off,
narrowly missing a barge that comes in at the
wrong moment, and that seems to have had an
idea of trying conclusions with the steamer, but
thought better of it. Only a few turns of the
wheel and the North-west wind comes up' freshly,
and there is occasion for drawing our cloaks and
wrappers close around us to shut out the cool
breeze, for the boat is springing at once into a
flying speed. We feel somewhat anxious to as
certain the age of this steamer, but it being an
impertinent question to ask in regard to a ladv, it
may also be considered impertinent concerning a
steamboat, so we will, at present, defer the ques
tion ; but in the event ot this boat blowing up
an occurrence which we do not for a moment an
ticipate—would I ever be able to obtain the for
giveness of my devoted “Blossom,” or that of
merry “ Sunshine” for my timidity ?
Quiet and almost complete loneliness are some
times necessities to him who would study the
language of the waters, and drink in their sooth
ing and sublime influences, yet we prefer our
present situation, for isolation is always tiresome
as its opposite. The glimpse of a sail vanishing
into the distance, and the sensation it causes, is
yet more sad and lonely than utter isolation.—
Then we think of separation 'from friends and
associations, long absence and the hope of return,
and the thousands who watch to catch the lust
glimpse of the white sale as it speeds away, car
rying with it the dearest ties of earth, and vanishes
into the darkness of the deep. We remember
with what perfect fascination we once hung upon
the lips of a friend while he related the incidents
of a day he had spent upon the rock-bound coast
of Terra del Fnego. He had loft the boat, in
which he landed with his companions, miles away,
and wondered on alone until he stood where' no
human foot had ever before pressed, with the
bleak, bare rocks rising three thousand feet above
him, a narrow ledge a few feet from the water
upon which lie kept bis perilous footing, a cove of
rocks curving around for a mile at his side, with
the heavy surge beating around them with a
thunder like the basso of an organ upon which the
hand of omnipotence hud played since the dawn of
time.
As we glide around, the bow of what was a
'stout vessel comes to view, with the waves placing
upon it ns if in triumph over the wreck they had
made months ago. All else of the vessel is
hurried in the treacherous sand. A fallen war
rior on a battle-field is scarcely a sadder sight
than a broken wreck on shore. 'There is the same
suggestion of broken pride and ruined strenth—
the same reminder of a conflict long sustained
but given up at last. We feel the same grief !
over wasted capabilities—the same hopeless pitv :
when we know that they cannot be revived and I
fill ttyeir plaaes'as of old; and: the man who can
pass a shiveied wreck, with the waves heating over
it in cruel mockety, and plank after plank swept
away by succeeding storms, and fee! no sensation
Of sorrow, is heartless, and we should not care to
trust him with a hold of the heart strings of
those we love, nor wish him a watcher bv our
bedside when we die. r
, Daylight has. gradually faded while we have
been musing upon the wreck and the fatal shore,
knd when we look again the waves on the horizon
and the skv are almost blended into one. It does
not grow dark, however, for the stars come out i
one bjf one, and as the night has fairly set in, little
“Bldssom," who has thrown hey arms affection
ately around ray neck, points ont a thousand white.
Spectres that start into being and ride in on their*
ghostly coursers, glimmering through; the gloom
with a strange wierd beauty, add then shatter into
thin air With the shock of .their coming. How
naturally the grand and romantic grows upon ns
here, Al| tjiat history has known of the glorious ■
and fascinating—all that has been romantic of our i
past lives—come back to us. - Our conversation |
loses die frivolity of common librand settles into !
a deeper channel. We gather the hues that be- I
longed to earlier youth from the winds that have
scattered them over a thousand waste places, and
they dwell with us for the time, as bright as if they
had not faded. And to all this the deep-voiced hike
makes undertone, ever harmonious, ever grateful,
and the evening freeze bears pleasantly away—
where? we neither ask or know. ' ■ r
Bnt another change is coming, the sky that has ,
for some time been so blent with the color of the
lake, grows light now, and the dark line looms up
almost against it, the stars grow pale as the blue
of the sky is tinged with silver, and we know that
the moon is coming. Nearer comes the light,
and the gloom on the water lightens ip the re
flection of the silver sky, and the glare dies out
beneath it. A little longer and the whole broad
lake lies calm beneath the flood of light, bathed
in the liquid beauty that belongs to that place and
hour. Then comes fitful phosphorescent gleams
from the water, and starry eyes, as if myriads of
water spirits sparkle up to ns. Then the white
rider of the wave of an hour before, becomes
clothed in a harness of gold. Calmed by that
glorious light, soothed by the gentle mnrmur of
the waves, shut out from all the world, and all at
peace, what wonder that the sweetest slumber of a
lifetime descends upon us, as we sink away to
rest with these thoughts lingering on our minds
and sealing our lips in a delicious silence.
Six o’clock, and we are landed in Detroit, i a
beautiful city which presents many attractions ito
strangers whether on pleasure or on business..—
The streets are well paved, and shade on each
side—not unlike our famous “ Quaker City
with elegant and handsome dwellings, cottage
style; and on Fort street the gothic residences!
Gen. Cass can be seen. The General is now well
advanced in years and we notice that he has dis
posed of his congress wig, which adds much to
his personal appearance. He has, for some years,
turned his attention to collecting specimens of the
fine arts, which have already cost him more than
$lOO,OOO. One of his most costly specimens of
sculpture represents Venus, and was originally
taken from the ruins of Pompeii. As a general
thing we are well pleased with Detroit. We will
not tire your patience, dear reader, with a des
cription of our return over the lake, or say much
in regard to the lake shore route from Cleveland
to Buffalo, only that it is well managed and the
conductors are kind and gentlemanly, and speedy
in their attention to passengers.
“ 1, that should have been Niagara, am Buffalo!”
quotes “Sunshine” of the name of the city, as she
goes to bed, after horrifying the guests at the
American Hotel with a series of performances on
a valetudinarian piano. But she had quite for
gotten Curtis’ fancy of why the waves moan so
heavily against the break-waters at the mouth of
the harbor, when her morning namesake breaks
brightly over the wide streets of the town, and she
sallies out, dragging lazy Sontag with her, very
much after the manner of Dickens’ little human
steamtug “ Pancks,” for a few moments view of
the harbor and the commercial part of the town,
before nine o’clock sounds and the train on the
Central Hoad steams away toward Niagara. It is
indeed but a few minutes, but what views the
young eyes catch in that short time, of that part
of Buffalo lying at the edge of the lake—of the
entrance of the Erie canal, with its wilderness of
canal boats lying idly in the basin—of the iron
bridges which seem to be scattered hither and
thither, and one to be travelled over every two
minutes—of the high-sided and heavy lake pro
pellers looking so unlike anything on the Eastern
waters—of the immense grain elevators, ready to
scoop out all the grain from a thousand lake
schooners within the next half hour, and transfer
it to the holds of the canal boats waiting to bear
it away towards tide-water. All these, with
glimpses of the blue lake and its light-houses, the
young eyes see and the little bead stores away for
future reference; and then the bell sounds and we
hurry to the depot and skim away down the bank
of the lake Niagara-wards. " '
It seems that all the way to Niagara new omens
are to be solved and new features of the route
to be discovered. “ I would not ride this route
daily for the revenue of a queen,” says “Blossom,”
with a sod look coming into her eye, and a pout
playing upon her arched lip. “And wbv?” we
asked with some eagerness, as we have seen no
thing more objectionadle than dust and cinders,
“ Because those dead trees would keep me always
out of spirits,” answers the little one, pointing to
the long, bare white trunks that stud thedields on
evety side, lifting their splintered and ragged
points to the heavens, the ghosts of living trees
that once waved their branches in the summer air,
and made welcome shade for the earth and pleas
ant refuge for bird music. ' “ How could one help
being melancholy with these tombstones of nature
standing all around ?" and with a low, sad voice,
yet sadly sweet, she murmured this quotation from
words long ago breathed over “A Dead Tree in
the Graveyard—
“Above the graveyard, desolate and bare.
It stands a withered monument of death,
Telling a story to the summer air,
Of those who slumber iu the graves beneath.
And speaking in a voice of lonely grief, 1
Of hearts whose bleeding ceases not with years.
Of Hainan bosom and of fallen leaf
Whose cheerless borrow this lone aspect nears.
There is no blossom at returning spring
Upon the branches, and no summer ruin
Comes back our withered memories to bring
Or bids the perished beds to bloom again.
Yet on the leafless branches at eventide
A lone bird pours its sweet and mellow song,
Such as our hearts sing over those who died
Beneath the world’s unkindneas and its wrong.
And may we in after years forget
That o'er our naked heads the blast sweeps by,
And like the bonghs so sear and leafless yet J '
Point up through storm and sunshine to y tho pky.
Right, dear “ Blossom a dead forrest is not
a cheerful thing to look upon, so we will dismiss
the thoughts as we glide on down .the 'road, pay
ing little attention to Grand Island, stretching its
wooded length in the lake, or to Navy Island,
smaller bat more important, when the moment
ous events of the Canadian Rebellion and the
burning of the ill-fated steamer Caroline, at
Schlosser, are considered. The attraction docs
not now lay along the dull waters of the lake but
ahead where the great fall thunders; and here as
always and everywhere the one leading attraction
dwarfs all others. Half-past ten, and we arc in
the crowd of carriages and loungers at the iViagara
•Falls depot, and the Ultima Thule of our pilgrim
age is reached. The Cataract House is about
full, for who ever knew that portentious rival of
the International to he otherwise from May to
October. So, when we have washed the dust and
cinders from our eyes, we hasten out u)Km the
balcony to muse upon the landscape and the Up
per Rapids. Yours truly, 1
A UGUSTUS 50N 7.1 <; .
i de3truc *' on of transport steamers on
j the Mississippi is increasing at an alarming rate.
<Ve have lietore us a list of eleven already burned
by the Rebel incendiaries, viz The Imierial
Champion, Chateau, Campbell, Ruth, Majestic,
Uoiie, Post Boy, Courier, Chancellor, Forest
tiueen and Catahoual. Some ef them were large
' essels, but the chief loss and damage to the ser
vice was in the destruction of their cargoes
amounting to millions. The burning of the
Chancellor was not effected until a second attempt
was, made, and then involved two others, and
threatened a large amount of surrounding pro
perty afloat and on shore at St. Louis. There is
no longer any room to doubt that all this Work is
dope in execution of a Rebel plot, and now that
some of the perpetrators are caught, they should
be executed, as part of a Union counterplot. It
would be a monstrous perversioh of clemency to
treat such scoundrels as prisoners of war.
New York correspondent of a London
journal, in a receni letter, tokos in hand the rebel
aristocracy and ignorant white trash of South Caro
lina, in the following style :
‘‘ The part of the population which is familiar
either w> h the usages of good society, or evTn of
civilised life, dose not exceed tweenty Ses
? ho .™ e ‘ h % cul ‘ ure ™>i refinement to Lr ahUt'u
£ °'m N . UW E "S land f ‘‘tmer £
Caffre or a Maon to an English jiarisb clerk.” 1
FROM EUROPE.
Speech; of Sari Bussell.
The steamer Columbia, with Liverpool dates to
the 29th ult., has arrived at New York. Euro
pean politics are unimportant. The latest reports
show that Earl Russell made a speech at Gwnri,
in Scotland, on American affairs, which was on the
whole conciliatory and friendly to the North.—
He referred at considerable length to the Ameri
can question, and justified England in recognizing
the Confederates as belligerents, and answered
some of the imputations brought by the people of
the North, particularly the speech of Senator Sum
ner. He also replied to the compliment Of the
South in regard to the recognition of the blockade,
and asserted that although self-interest demanded
that England should break it, she prefers the
course of honor, as it would have been infamous
to break it. He showed that the Government
bad not sufficient evidence against the Alabama
to deny her until after she sailed, and explained,
the difficulties in the way of interference with
such cases. He drew a lino between ordinary
vessels, equipped for way purposes, and steam
rams, which are in themselves formed for acts of
offense, and might be used without ever touching
Confederate shores. The Government was ready
to do everything the duties of neutrality required—
everything that is just to a friendly nation, and
such as they would wish done to themselves, but
would not yield one jot to the menace of foreign
powers.
He complimented the Federal Government and
Mr. Seward upon the fairness with which they
have discussed the matters of difference, but said
there were others, including Senator Sumner,
who had acted differently. He denounced the
efforts of those who sought to create trouble be
tween America and Europe, and with expressions
of friendship towards America, asserted that all
his efforts would be to maintain peace. Speaking
of Poland, he defended England’s position against
that of Russia, but did not think England should
go to war on the subject. As regards Mexico, he
thought that if the Mexicans approved of what
was being done for them they should be allowed to
do so. The London Times, referring to the with
drawal of Mr. Mason from England, suggests the
grounds which have probably prompted the gov
ernment at Richmond to address themselves at
least wholly and exclusively to France. The in
ferrence is that the withdrawal of Mr. Mason is
preliminary to some action on the part of
France. The presence of Mr. Mason in London,
making an unsuccessful appeal to the Angol-
French alliance, has no doubt been considered by
the Confederates as unfavorable to the South. It
appeared so to two powers, and it would not bp a
matter of surprise that one of them should hesitate
to decide what course to pursue without the other.
Now things have changed. One of these powers
has taken a position on the American Continent
which actually enables this poor, hurrassed, unno
ticed Confederacy to confer a favor. The South,
a new neighbor to the distant neutral State to
which Slidell was sent two years, is now a govern
ment of a neutral ally with a common antago
nism to the Federal poWer. Can it be a wonder,
then, that the Confederate politicians desire to
free the French Einperor from any shackle that
may repress his liberty of action ? The appeal of
the Confederates is to France also as proprietor of
the Mexican monarch, and a bold challenge of
Federal supremacy on the American continent.
The Paris Journal Memorial Diplomatique
writing On the Polish question, denounces strongly
the course of England and Austria, and speakes
in tones of strange hostility. The Journal ties
Debate also points to the possibility of France be
ing left to settle the question alone by the sword,
and points out that England and Austria would
have pledge themselves to friendly neutrality.
The Times says that Earl ’Bussell, in his
speech relative to the Confederate vessels in the
Mercy, is interpreted as meaning that the vessels
will be detained, even if the existing law is in
their favor, so that Parliament may be called upon
to pass measures for the purpose. The Directors
of the Great Eastern have issued a report, show
ing that more capital must be provided, or the
company Will be disolved.
Lutherap Church on the Rebellion
The following preamble and resolutions were
passed, without a dissenting voice, by the clergy
men and laymen composing the Allegheny Synod
of the Evangelical’Lutheran Church recently held
in Williamsburg this county:
Whereas, Our country is imperiled bv armed
traitors, whose avowed purpose is to overturn the
fabric of free government, bequeathed to us by
our Fathers, and, in lieu thereof, rear another,
whose great statue is tbqt capital shall own labor ■}
and.
Whereas, We -hold such purpose to be a
crusade against God and man—civil and religious
liberty, whose success would be barbarism in poli
tics, and atheism in religion; and,
Whereas, We believe that to crush this in
famous conspiracy is the will of God, and the mis
sion of our nation; the work which, when done,
will break yokes and fetters from the necks of
slaves and become the 'terrible argument of the
religious Lord against all oligarchies, aristocracies
and slave powers—the_, seed which, under the gospel,
is to grow up through the ages into bloom and
beauty of millenium ; therefore.
Resolved, That we as ministers in Synod as
sembled, do ploge our hearty support to the Presi
dent of the United States for the suppression of
this most atrocious beseeching him to
use the whole nation, money and men, blackmen
and white, bond and free, tor the nation’s defence.
Resolved, That, believing Slavery to. be the
cause, animus and power of this rebellion, we re
gard the Proclamation of Freedom as the “ axe
laid to the root of the tree,” and rejoice in it not
only as a measure of war, but as an act of eternal
justice which a Christian nation owes to the slave.
Resolved, That wc believe in the use of negroes
us soldiers, not from the mean spirit that now
obtains, that they shall be employed to save white
men. but because, in the divine providence, it
educates them into a noble manhood and compels
tlie respect of the nation that has hitherto enslaved
d hem.
Resolved, That much as we deprecate war, we
will still pay for the triumph of principle, truth
and liberty, though they come through the path
ot Mood ; that we despise forever any compromise
w - ith an insolent slave power, that we desire the
end of this war also to be the end of slave!y here,
and the knell of its doom in all the world, so that
the devil of discord being cast out and destroyed,
God may grant us permanent peace—the peace
that cat; only come of justice and mercy and dwell
with the people who are willing to be merciful
and just. v
b ree Speech. — In his elopuent address at the
gt-rat Chester county meeting, Major-General
Butler said :
“ It is complained that the President suspended
the habeas corpus. Now, tho suspension of the habeas
v °rt‘«* is essentially a Democratic idea. It never
was recommended to be suspended until by
Ihomas Jefferson, in the Burr rebellion. Who
actually dii suspend it? General Jackson; and
he was a good Democrat. General Jackson not
only suspended it, but arrested the offender and
imprisoned the judge. [Applause.] The suspen
sion is therefore, according to Democratic prac
tice. But, without stopping to defend it upon that
ground, how can we get rid of it ? End the ro
bellion. Do not interfere with the government.
If it is feeble, give it your strength; if it is weak,
give it your power, if give it your pa
triotism. Go with me and end the rebellion and
there will be no further Suspension of the habeas
corpus. End the rebellion, and all our woes are
ended. There will be no further drafts, no more
increase of taxation, no more infringement of the
liberty of speech,”
<WBe pure but not stern, have moral
excellencies, but don’t bristle >vith them.
Prom Missouri
‘J'f • Oct, 10. Blnnt w a .
by three hundred Rebels wearing the Unity's,' klM
uniform. near th<? encampment of
Pond; The escort broke andont of one l" S
men seventy-eight were killed. All w .‘l» T* *
through the head evidently after thev w otTl
titred. Major Curtis was' thrown from M, i,” 1 ’
and was found with a bullet through his ,
Undoubtedly he was murdered aftT r
prisoner. Lieut. Pond’s camp was attaek«| .i**"
the same time, and four men were killed an.l "
wounded. Gen. Blunt succeeded in
meeting reinforcements pelow Fort Scott* nd
command of them and started in pursuit
trell. Lieutenant Faar, of the Third
Regiment, was killed. Captain Todd
master’s Adjutant, came to Lieut. Pond's . r
and ask for an exchange of prisoners. It ls lam| ;
that a number of Rebels were wounded
them Colonel Shelby. Quantrell’s fortes
from Cowskin Prairie, McDonald's
Missouri.
A letter from Fort Scott, dated the sth lu „, m
says:—A Rebel force burned Carthage tbi, mon "
General Schofield has telcgrashed to Lenv
worth that from sixteen hundred to eight .i*"'
sand Rebels, under Quantrell, Coffey, Gordon!u,'i
Hunter, are marching on Fort Scott, and tha' I
has ordered Colonel Weir to move with all t| f
force he can raise to the relief of the post h
A Couxtbt of Paradoxes. —One of the a
curious features of Japanese life is the
contrariety of some of the customs of the iieonlc r
those of the Western nations, which is thus
antly hit off by Sit* Rutherford ; ' "
“Japan is essentially a country of j (Vra j, (
and anomalies, where all, even familiar ila n „''
put on new faces, and are curiously revered-
Except that they do not walk on their head. i ns i eH ,
of their feet, there are few things iu which u lt . v [■
not seem, by some occult law, to have !*«, ‘j, “
polled in a perfectly opposite direction and i
versed order. They write from top to bouon,
from right to left, in perpendicular instead ofh un '
zoutal lines, and their books begin where oun.cn.l
thus furnishing good examples of the niri„u
perfection this rule of contraries has attained
Their locks, though imitated from Europe, arc all
made to lock by turning the key from left'to right
The course o: all sublunary things appears reversed
Theii day is for the most part our night, and thi
principle of antagonism crops out in the hum
unexpected and qizarre way in all their moral being
customs, and habits. I leave to philosophers th,'.
explanation—l only speak to the facts. The,.,,
old men fiy kites while "the children look on : ih,.
car) renter uses his plane by drawing it to him, ami
their tailors stitch from them ; they mourn then
horses from the off-side; their horse's stand in dm
stables with their heads where we place their tail,
and the bells to their harness is always on
hind quarters instead of the front; ladies hhu t
their teeth instead of keeping them white, ami
whitewash their shoes instead of flacking them
their ami-crinoline tendencies are carried to dm
point of seriously with grace
oi movement, but with all locomotion, so t;.-;,-,
are the lower limbs, from the waist downward,
girt round with their garments.”
Tpk Dahuoeex and Gillmokk QiauntL _
A well-informed Washington correspondent th.i.
writes concerning the quarrel between Dalilgr™
and Gillmore:
“It is well enough understood here— and no
where bettor than at the Navy Department—that
the feeling between the two commanders could
not be worse than it is, without an 01*11 outbreak
Dahlgren is understood to represent to the Xu..
Department that there is an immense amount of
bragg about Gilimore's artillery [lerfnrtuanees.
that it is all gammon about Sumter being reduced!
that several of its heaviest guns are -till in p.-i
-tion and effectively manned, and that he dare me
run up his iron-dads.to remove the ol.structi.in
in the channel, because, to do so. he would have
to place them under these guns at short rang,,
and insure their being sunk. Meantime Gilliuon
claims to have' reduced Sumter, and asks if the
navy cannot muster force enough to overpower the
handful of men kept there to hinder us from taking
posession.
London Bread. —-London bread, judging from
the manner in; which the bakeries are kept, can
hardly be the most palatable or the most whole
some food. Hr. Treemenheere has lately made a
report on the Condition of the bakeries, which i
iikely to create a strong distaste against shop
bread. A London paper writing of the shop bread
says “it was prepared in a loathsome, under
ground den, reeking with filth and vermin; tin
hands with which the dough was mixed were
dirty ; and the exertion of handling heavy
of leavened flour in a close, unventilated bake
house caused the prespirition to roll oft - the ami'
and face of the workmen in streams into the
trough. The Loan! on which the dough was laid
preparatory to its being fashioned into loaves, had
served but a few moments before, with a filthy
sack thfiow over it, as a temporary couch of a jour
neyman baker, to w-hom personal ablution wu> u
stranger/* To fill up this picture of horrors, there
is one bakehouse at the West End in which the
space between the kneaking-trough and the wall
was used for a nameless purpose.
How the Rebels Treated oite Wursoun.
—-Indianapolis, October 7.—Dr. Clippengar.
who recently visited Chattanooga, in charge of flu
surgeons who were sent by the Government the
day follo.ving the battle of Chickaniauga, has re
turned. He reports that they were the first p r
sons who went to the front from Nashville alter
the battle, and arrived at Chickamauga four day*
in advance of die Surgeons from any other State.
Their arrival was most opportune, most of the
surgeons of Indiana regiments having been taken
prisoners. Only six of them have returned so far.
and thirty-two still remain and are doing good
service. The wounded recentlv paroled and re
turned to our lines by Bragg, had remained sygbf
days upon the field without having their wound'
dressed. Our surgeons, who were prisoners, were
not allowed to touch one of our wounded during
the entire time they were there. The enemy bad
no supplies, and many of our men suffered terribly.
Rosecrans* Situation. —Lookout Mountain,
from which Bragg endeavors to tambani Ru*-
crans, is eighteen hundred feet higher than Chat
tanooga, three miles distant by wagon road, and
less than two miles in a direct line;
Missionary Ridge, where the rebel disjatrlies
are dated, is one thousand feet high, three miles
from Chattanooga by road, and two miles by air
line.
Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge nearly
encircle Chattanooga, which lies in a basin formed
by the mountainous ranges around it. Bragg has
an Open railroad communication with Home, forty
miles, and Atlanta, one hundred and thirty-six
miles, whence he can bring up the heaviest siege
guns cast at both of those points. The Etowah
shell works are sixty miles from Chattanooga, also
connected therewith by railroad.
Arrested and Held to Bail.—Jno R. Foivst.
post-mastea at Perrine, was, iu connection with his
wife, arrested on Monday last, on complaint of S.
B. Row, Government Detective and Special Agent
of the Post Office chargad with de
taining letters passing through the office and taking
from the same money and other articles. On
search, various packages of .letters were found in
the house, and upon subsequent examination letters
containing nearly $l5, among which was. two I
dollar bills marked by Mr*—Bow, and mailed »
s J lort since at Franklin, purposely to discover
the omce where money was being abstracted.
Upon hearing before ’Squire Hubbard, the parties
word held to bail to the amount of $1,750 each.
■The evidence clearly shows tliat the parties have
been opening and robbing the mail for some time
P^t. —Mercer Disjmteh,
%ltmM iritom
friststl m CwjWTi “Csutry Pnn.”
TRIBUNE
PRINTING OFFICE.
*l*ving» within the past tyro year*, made considers
i.litioo to our establishment in the way of new. In
* Screw Prt«t» Paper Cutter, Card Cutter, KuUag
'•hiiws Card Power Preiw, and large Newspaper Po
(a*eot of Which we give above) we arc now- pre{>*
, anything in the Hue of printing or ruliuj
'style equal to any cstablishmeut in the .state, am
equally low. We can execute, on short notice
'tvMof
Redding, InvlUlion, Visiting, EallA Business Car
Circulars, ProgrammeH,
MAMMOTH posters, sale bill
®oul, ami® iurinnicB“i>aiA®B
pamphlets. Pay and Check 80l
BLANK BOOKS,
MANIFESTS, and blanks of all kino
Ai) we ask Is a trial, feeling Confident that wo can (
, it idflkctlon if w« have the. opportunity.
' (iffit'e la IfOwther’a building, corner of Virginia ami
, streets, oppoaito Superintendent’s Office.
local items.
M. L & K. R. meeting of
li.uird of Directors of the Altoona Mechanics'
l, r „rv and .Reading Room Association was h
. (etcher stlf,. ,1863. Present, Messrs, Lambo
Ueiily, Keller, Kessler, Savory, Irons, Reibena
llofecker and Elder.
The report of the Treasurer showed a balat
~i $36,43 iu the treasury-.
On motion, ;Mr. Isaac Worrell was uuanimot
lv elected to fill office of Librarian, until t
next Regular Annual Meeting of the Associltt
The following gentlemen were proposed a
elected to active membership, viz; Messrs. Dan
liilchrist, Chus. McCormick, J. N. Postletlnvn
,I, MeKechun,; Samuel Lloyd, J. Pringle ami
Moore.
The Corresponding Secretary was, instructed
write to the publishers of the Evenimj Eii/letin a
~rder that the sending of the i«|ier to the Lib.
r. Ik! discontinued.
On motion, !t was ordered that the Comitlitt
.m Library Room be required to furnish the nn
with spittoons—expenses to be paid out of In
i,.r furnishing room.
On motion of Mr. Keller, an order on the Tr..
nrer, for $2O, Was granted to the Chairman
Committee oni Books and Publications, for t
in.rckase qf new books.
On motion, adjourned.. E. ELDER, Sec'y
October.— r Welcome golden month of rev.
. ing years. The cquinoxial storms have swy
over the land and their purifying effects have pi
l«ircd the atmosphere for the lovely days of tl
loveliest sister of the twelve. Nature i.- nuwel.a
•-'ing her robes of green and decorating Iturselt
h. atiteous hues of russet and crimson. In tin
l.alray days wo would roam over the fields a
run template the lessons which nature leaches, rat
rr than drag oltt the hours wearily in a |>em
l.rintcrs’s den, amid the clatter of presses, whi
-eldom ceases in this establishment, -the cry
• copy," when every exchange is filled with ele
inmeering falsehoods, and the petulant demun
of every jobbing patron that his job be done fin
I u the reflecting mind this glorious month says
imple language: Man, thou art like the rollt
'ear— meny Spring-time is the youth, the bn
Summer is thy season for industry m the drama
life, and the golden Autumn of which October
'lie queen, represents thy maturity, when loan
with the experience of youth and middle age. th
inayest well be-honored for the position which tii
.iost occupy. Learn further also that Autm
represents the evening of life in which thou should!
■lothc thyself in sober garments and to look t.
w ard with joy towards the setting sun.
Errata.—The price, per mouth, of tuition
die Altoona Academy, is $2.50 instead of $2,0
■ |s heretofore published iu advertisement
dim institution; It will be found correct in ai
dier column.
Han Rick Still Lives.— The distinguish*
naveler, Dan Rice, is to visit Altoona on Sato
day, Oct. 24tlt, with his great show. The repi
ation of this institution is thoroughly establish*
the best traveling exhibition in the world.-
Ihm appears at every performance and iutroduc
d*e wonder of the ag*, bis Blind Talking Hon
I’xcelsior,. which is admitted by all to be the im;
r, *markable exhibition of animal instinct eversee
1 lie educated mules still hold a prominent [to?
rum in the' great show. Mr. Rice will appear
bis usual happy style, hh the American Hnmori:
and drive dull care away. The great show w
W at Tyrone Oct. 23d, Altoona, 24th; John
'own, 20th ; Greenshurg, 27th; and close its s«
'“ii for 1803 at Pittsburgh.
€3* A fine lot of ladies’ purses, port monaie
photograph albums, pen knives, sjjectacles, wale
guards and all kinds of notions going cheap j
Uoush’s Drug Store.
Provision Store.—We don't like this tbit
"f chronicling the departure of so many of ui
"wst enterprising citizens. Of course we desii
>licir prosperity, yet we are sorry that they find
neeesaaiy to leave our town to secure it. Anna
the late departures is that of our old townsum
j T. Dill, who yesterday morning left for Ch-v
•and, where he goes into the beef and pork pae
I lu B business, rln this Tie is in company with A
IM. Lloyd, of-, this place. 1 They intend opeuin;
| large provision store in Cleveland, and also c
I 'a this place; which they will keep supplied w
I cv ery thing fo- the prevision line, and sell ai
I ttl#st reasonable prices.
well selected stock ’of tobacco, cig;
P'pes, &c., at Rough’s Drug Store.
WT We acknowledge ourselves under obli
” 0D * to our Sinking Valley friend, old Joe M
J**’ ** >r 9*r*(ral yards of excellent sausage,
■ M on Saturday morning .last. Such tr
y* not hard take. The sausage was excell
Rrav y Pltjnty, and all we lacked vraa the hi
cat cake*.| We hope to secure a supply of
«l«nt in tljaie to eqjoy the next present of
m ' WfchjS she nexi customer.
| ■■ I' I Mil II S
• hair oil fancy soaps and H:t
* extract* Belling cheap at Roush’s Drug St