“ 7 *”* V*"” I ™-. *? pwctanantao, to extend *?*"** PMtidwed in the ex w*rBßß^~r£»l &. 8> * ttl «#pa«.-thereof—: |im*w and sWMsffr-aupaswßh eneeptfoos. and at 4 j? ”l 3 *l «?P°»«toM of! the pardon inj; where**, with reference to Mid rebellion the President of the United States has issned sev- teith provisions in regard to •hohbwaiioo er slaves, and whereas, it is how de *oßWl>fr*»» heretofore engaged in said rebellion to resume their allegiance to the United States, and re-inaugnmte loyal State government* within and for their respective States, Tlmefo'e l, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do proclaim, declare and math ' known to all persons who have directly, or by im plication, participated in the existing rebellion, except as hereinafter excepted, that a full pardon IS greated to them and each of them, with restore* tion of all rights, if third parties squill have inter- and upon the condition that every such person shall take and subscribe an oath, and thencel forward keep and maintain said oath inviolate, and which oath shall be registered for permamentpres ervation, and shall be of the tenor and effect fol lowing, to wit: Ld° solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I faithfully support, pro* tect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Union of States thereunder, and that ! will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed,daring the ex ists rebellion with reference to slaves, so long andjso fares not repealed, modified or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court* and that-I wjil, in like manner, abide bv and faith fully support all proclamations of | the' President* raadfe daring the existing rebellion, having refer ence, to slaves so long and so far as not modified; or declared void by decision of the Supremo Court, So help me Gop. Tire persons excepted from the benefits of the' foregoing provisions, are all who are dr shall have been, civil or diplomatic officers or agents of the so calhld Confederate Government; ail who have left, jndicial stations under the United States to aid the rebellion; all who are or shall have been military or naval officers above the rank of Colonel in the army, or Lieutenant in the navy;,all who left; seats: in the United States Congress to aid in the' rebellion ; all who resigned their commissions in' the anny and navy of the United States and after wards aided the rebellion,"*and all] who have en gaged in any way in treating colored persons or white persons in charge of such. Otherwise than lawfully as prisoners of war, and < which persons may be found in the United States service as sol, diors, seamen, or in any other capacity. And I do further proclaim, declare and make known, that Whenever in any of the States of Ar kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee,; Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina and North Carolina, a number of persons, not less than one-tenth of the number of the votes cast in such .State: at the Presidential election of the year of bur Lord 1860, each having taken I the oath afore said, and not having since violated jit, and being a qualified voter by the election laws of the State, existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others,! shall be cstab- ' lished a State Government, which (hall be Repub lican,, and in no wise contravening said oath,— Such shall be recognized as the true government of the State, and the State shall receive thereunder the benefits of the Constitutional provision which declares that the United. States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of gov eminent, and.shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the!Legislature, or the Executive when the Legislature cannot be con vened, against domestic violence. | And I do further proclaim, declare and make known that any provision which may be adopted by such State Govermcnt in relation* to the freed people of such State which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom and provide for iheir education, and which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement wi’th their present condition as a‘ laboring, landless,! and homeless class will not bo objected to by the! National Exe cutive. i And it is sbggftsted as not improper that in con structing a loyal State Government in any State, the name of the boundary, the Subdivision, the Constitution, and the Federal code of laws, as before the rebellion, be maintained, sudject only to modi fications made necessary by the conditions herein before stated, and snch'others, if airy not contrave ning said conditions, which may be deemed expe dieot by those framing the new State government To avoid misunderstanding it may be proper to say that this proclamation, so far as it relates to State governments, has no reference to; States wherein loyal State governments have all| the while been mantained. And for the same reason it may be proper to farther say that whether members sent to Congress-froin any State shall be admitted- to scats, constitutionally reals exclusively with the respective Houses, and not to any extent with the Executive. And still further, that this proclama tion is intended, to present to the people of the Staten wherein the national authority has been suspended and loyal State governments have been subverted, a mode by which the national aqthority; over every loyal State government may be esta blished wifhin said States or any of them. And while the inode presented is the best the Executive can suggest with his present impressions, it must' not be understood that another! possible mode! would not be acceptable. Given under my hand, at the Cily of Washing ton, the Bth day of December, A. D., one thousand eight hundred apd sixtv-three, and of the inde pendence* of roe United States of America the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the,President: Wte.‘H. SXWABI), Secretary a/State. Atrqoious Decision of the Hebei Au thorities. J Baltimore, December 18, The following dispatch wan received this morning: Foiipr Moxbob, December 12, 1863.— T0 C. C. f titan, Baltimore.— Please give notice that the Confederate authorities decline receiving any more packages or provisions for the Union prisoners, so that parties interested may refrain from forwarding any more goods to this point. Benjamin F. Butler, Major Genera) Commanding. Bev. Mr. Florence, who went to City Point with Dr. Clement C. Barclay, returned this morning. He bad an interview with Captain Batch, who was sent from Richmond to meet him. Uo informal him of the above decision of the rebel Government, and gave, as a reason therefor, what they alleged to he an imputation of their honor hy the press and the Government authorities, that they were nut delivering goods forwarded in good faith to the prisoners, and he asserted, Tif his.own knowledge, chat the officers in Libby prison, from the immense supplies which they bad received, could set a.table from their stores on band equal to any hotel in the United States. He admitted that there bad been seam irregularities in supplies at one time, but the officers who had been guilty of : neglecting the liriaewm> Had been promptly removed'ancLpunished. As »o the bad condition of the prisoners returned to Atmapoba, he said that they were extreme cases of consumption, and that it was a .grave error on the pajrt of the authorities to have relieved such persons to return. For the present nothing would be received bat letters and enclosures of money, »i>d that Southern maney had better be sent. AMOTBER I>ISI>ATCH. jiteci 13.—-Clement C. Barclay and Bct- Mr. Torrence, who went on Bag of truce boat, to go to Bichmond to alleviate the con dltiojt pf the Union prisoners, were refused per- Wiwfen to do so by the rebel authorities,' and re tnrn^it,.Mr» Barclay to Old Foint (where he will Mr. Torrence to Baltimore. Tbe;l«bels MMed to receive any more provis- SiiMt p?ppte ■id 'prvwies ’ miriepresenf |be facts appertaining thereto, Wrwk of th« Woohovkn. South Aiuuno Squamon, Mobkib Island, S. C., Dec. 7, 1863.—F0r some time post nothing of infpxest has, occurred at this point. We have had a few days of cold 011$ nights of .jfihezmg weather. Yesterday, there occurred to die fleet the wont disaster of the siege. The famous iron clad Weehawken, so gallantly ronght bv Captain John Bhgers, dad recently hyComtoanderCalhonn, has sank off Morris Island. ;■ On (Saturday, the 6th in«t„ we had a calm sum- ! mer'sday. About midnightithe breeze sprang up from the northeast and blew a gale. The vessels . that rode at their anchors so quietly on Saturday, now plunged fearfiiUy. The, Ironsides lav about two miles from Sumter; the Montauk was on : picket j the Naham was to the northeast about j two hundred yards and die Weehawken to the |} sonthwcst, about a hundred: yards. Commander/ Calhoun luui been sent home, unfit for duty, A short time previously. Commander Duncan’/of the Paul Jones, took charge Of the Weehawken on Saturday, the 3th inat.* 7 During the forenoon of sunday, Commander Duncan, visited the flag-ship, and’whil/tbere the Weehawken shipped a heavy sea, which entered the forward hatch and filled the anchor room. This anchor room is a water-tigh/corapartment with a valve under the cabin; doo/to let the water aft to the pumps, hut at this time it, mast have been out of order, as the water could no( get aft. The cabin door was closed,.yet the bars that were to hold it in its place (so/(’ to keep the water in the anchor room) could not-be' found. The officers and men, inured to dafigmof this kind, seemed to care but little for What was going on. They went below and quietly partook of their dinner, but soon after they wire astonished at the rapidity with whieli the water was gaining njron them. The executive officer commenced to pay out chain, but the hawse-pipe was soon under water, and a six , inch stream-came pouring in.— The paying mil of the chain did not relieve the ill-fated vessel. John Rogers was not there.— Presently the wy “she sinks’! resounded through the vessel, and signals of distress were mode to the flag-ship; boats were lowered from all vessels knowing the signals, hut before they could reach her she sunk how first in five fathoms of water, carrying with her twentyrsix men and four engi neers, including men in irons and men sick : also men at work in the engine-room, supposed the whole jvatch on duty at the time. It is presumed that when the water reached the forward part of the boilers it made steam so sud denly as to suffocate ail bands in the engine-room, as not one who was there escaped. The vcoman was picker) up, but died soon afterwards. ‘ Much | credit is due Captains Amraen and Bradford, df ; navy, for their great exertions, made to save the perishing sailors. A charge of want of proper care would seem jo rest npoq the officers of the Weehawken. Spine, however, have advanced the idea that the forward overhang of the lost vessel has broken off; hut Mr. Hughes, Inspector of Iron-clads, thinks that cannot be the ease. If the Weehawken is ever raised, if will then be known where the blame, if any rests. The Wee hawken had but recently returned from Port Royal, and had an unusual quantity of shot and shell' 6n hoard, which probably settled her too far in the .water. It is calculated that when these vessels are under water.but fifteen inches, that two hundred tons wqnid sink them bodily, consequently a much less weight would carry them down bow first. New orders are now enforced in this department; one compels any one coming here for business or pleasure, to pay twenty-seven dollars. . Since the arrival of conscripts gambling has been carried on extensively. One of these, of the New Hampshire Third, deserter!. Ail the vessels were searched, but he was not to be found. One cold evening there came a man in Georgian costume (had necktie and a pair of stockings) into the camp of fhe Ninth Maine Regiment, at Block Island, claiming to be a deserter from the Rebels at Seces sionville. He wits clothed and taken before Gen. Terry, to whom he told an excellent stoiy of Bragg’s defeat, with items of Charleston and Rich mond news. No one doubted his story, and he was sent to the Provost. Marshal at Morris Island to await orders from Gen. Gillmorc. While at the Provost Marshal's he was recognized as the deserter from the Third New Hampshire by one of his own company. He was placed under arrest and Iras been tried by oonrt-mnrtial, and in all probability his performance will cost him dear. While on shore a day or two since, 1 learned that thd health of all the soldiers on Morris and jKolly Islands was good; there is very, little sick ness of any kind The prospect is that a move; will soon be made here and new victories achieved. All things art* working well. The Commanding General is as busy keeping his own counsel as raanv arc in an- ticipating his movements. As to the navy, it is to be hoped that the Admiral will not let the vessels make their bed with the Keokuk and Weehawken, but will keep them and ail upder him at work.— Boston Traveller. Army News in Church.—A Piqua (Ohio) correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette , writing on Thanksgiving day. tells the following story of a fighting parson : “ The glorions news from Chat tanooga this morning cheated Rev. Col. Moody out of the opportunity of delivering his Thanks giving sermon. We had met pt the Green Street Methodist Church, in accordance with the Presi ; dent’s proclamation, had sung the “ President’s ; hymn, ’taken up a collection of about sixty dollars | for the Sanitary Commission, and . our fighting jpreacher.had scarcely got through his introduction, when the Gazette arrived, was brought into the and handed to him bv our patriotic sexton. jThe preacher stopjied paused a moment and then ‘’glorious pews." He then feail the hand lings of the telegraphic news afld said : “ The con gregation will all rise. Now, three cheers for* the £ood old Stare and Stripes.” ; They were given with a will and the walls of Green Street rang with the shouts of sturdy old stewards and leaders. “Now sing, all sing—‘Praise God from whom all jessing flow.’” The congregation all joiuedinthe Singing. “ Now,” said the preacher, “ I have too pinch good seuse to think you would rather hear me*preach than hear the news,” So he read all the dispatches with the editorial, which was fre quently cheered by the congregation. Then follow - ed some excellent remarks by Dr. Whcelock, of the First Baptist Church, aiid the exercises were Cloned by a* benediction—the congregation, by " a Hsmg vote, agreeing to meet in the evening to Hear the Thanksgiving sermon, and take another Collection for the Sanitary Commission.” | What Longslkeet has Accomplished —The Richmond Ezaauner, ot December 8, says : We have to-day only one piece of news of interest, and that relates tfl the present position of Gen. Long street. We are at last able to inform qur readers where he is. An official dispatch was received from him yesterday, dated “Rutledge, December 6." Rutledge is thirty miles northeast of Knox ville, on the Road to Bristol, and one hundred miles from the latter place. At the date of his dispatch he had. halted at Rutledge, but he will in evitably fall Irnck to Bristol on'the approach of the enemy. In bis present position he is liable to an attack in frontfrom Burnside, in flank from Cum l erland Gap, and in the rear from the pursuing • trees of Grant, who, the telegraph informs ns, are making their way towards hte rear by the same nute by which he himself proceeded against Burn side. Noth withstanding:' • his ’apparently critical position, ivc thfnk we may regard him as safe.— He has die shortest route before him to Jfouth western Virginia, and a clear start of his pursuers. What Longstreet has accomplished in Bast Ten nessee may be summed up in the word nothing. I Thu Gommutaxiok Cx,adBe. —It is said that Senator Wilson, Chairman of the Senate MillUary Sommittee, is averse to any alteration of the con ription act, but Vrovost General Fly will recommend 1 the repeal of the three hundred dbllats commutation clause, which makes : each drafted than go or find a subsitute. There will be strenuous opposition to this, as the Secretary of War and others believe that high bonmie* will bring men. atid volunteers are worth more, than conscripts. j jptvinui iritotiw. ALTOONA, PA WEDNESDAY, DEC. 17, 1863 A telegram from Cincinnati announ ces that Gen. Foster has taken charge of the army previously commanded by Gen. Burnside, and that the latter is on his way to Cincinnati. #&“The Government, which had not half a million of muskets in all the ar mories at the commencement of the re bellion, now has, in addition to the million and a half placed in the hands of the men of our armies, enough remaining to equip eight hundred thousand men. There are accoutrements enough for eighteen hun dred thousand men. It is not likely that, as a nation, we shall" ever hereafter be caught unprepared for war, for our present necessities have developed all the resources which are required to supply the materials of war. ffSf" Godey’s Lady’s Book for January is on our table among the first, as usual. Punctuality is peculiar to Godey, and he never forsakes those who do not neglect him. This No. is brim full of fashions, fun and fine engraving. We know the ladies are all in love with Godey. No one can please them half so well. He knows their wants better than they know them themselves. Notwithstanding the advance in nil arti cles connected with Magazine publishing, Godey has not increased his prices as the following terms show : One copy, one year. §3. Two copies, one year, $5. Three copies, one year, $6 Four copies, one year, $7. Five copies, one year, and an extra copy to the person sending the club, $lO. Eight copies, one year, and an ex tra copy to the person sending the club, $l5. Eleven copies, one year, and an extra copy to the person sending tire club, $2O. The Commutation Clause. —lt is pro posed that Congress shall abolish the clause in the enrollment law which allows a drafted man to commute for service by paying $3OO. This clause, says the Led ger, has been the subject of considerable misrepresentation, and it has been used to array the poor man against the law. But the law as it stands is really a protection to the poor, for without it the price of substitutes will raise so high that only the rich could afford to escape service in the army. It: matters not much to a rich man if he has to pay $l,OOO or $2,000 for it substitute. But how many persons work ing for wages or salaries that yield only a living, could afford to pay such a price ? An industrious mechanic making $lO a week at his trade, could afford to give $3OO to release him from a service of, three years, equivalent to only $lOO a year out of his wages, and still be pecu niarily a large gainer, comparing his wages with the amount the Government gives in pay, bounties, &c. Repeal the exemption and compel him to give $l,OOO for ai Sub stitute, and not one out of a thousand would be able to pay it. If the purpose is to drive these men info the army, a repeal of the $3OO exemption would do it. The commutation fund, according to a dispatch from Washington, has yielded, up to the present day, $12,000,000, which, divided into bounties of $3OO, ought to have produced 10,000 men for the army as Government substitutes. This is as many as was obtained directly by draft ing, according to the report of the Secre tary of War. It is doubtful if as many men for the army could be got out of the same draft, if the price of substitutes was considerably increased over $3OO. Un willingness to serve in the army, and the heavy cost of being relieved ot the service, j would add largely to the number of de- | sections or attempts at escape or secretion. Letters with Fictitious Addresses.—Post masters throughout the principal cities of the country are very much annoyed with the receipt of letters addressed; to fictitious parties, mainly in consequence of newspaper advertisement, soliciting “correspondence’' with young ladies. The evils of such advertisements are manifold, and the public papers have already recorded instances in which silly girls have been enticed from their homes and ruined in reputation by designing scoundrels. The postmasters have an effectual legal remedy in their hands, which is now generally applied under the following clause in the post office law; “ Letters and packages addressed to fictitious : persons or firms, or to no particular person or firm, not being deliverable according to the regulations, are to be returned at the end of each month to the Head Letter office, Correct, Cop.—The Chambemburg Repository gives veot to the following which is. alas! too true in regard to country papers, and we doubt not the initiatory step taken by the Rjpotitoiy will be fol lowed by in cotemporanes:-4-“It has been the custom of all associations and mdividaals to im pose noon country editora the publication s reso lutions, obituary notiocs,.adverftsements of benevo lent enterprises, and various; other articles of limited or individual interest,'without charge. We have done quite our share of that sort of if associations consider it due to deceased members to puss resolutions testifying to their virtues and condoling with their relatives, they must hence forth consider it due to publishers to pay for them : and if literary, school and'othfer associations can not exist without gratuitous printing, they must be too slightly prized to promise substantia] benefit to their members. Until we tindteachers who teach gratis, butchers who famish steaks and roasts with out charge; lawyers who counsel without fees; farmers who donate their wood and produce, 4c., we piust decline being in the list of printers who print without compensation.” ; Beware of Reduced Gas Lights.—ln the Fire Marshal’s report for New York be says : "Many persons have a habit of lowering the gas light in their bed rooms to a faint jet at night.— This, to say nothing of its pernicious influence upon the health, may be productive of serious accidents. When the gas is reduced so low, a very slight cause—the buzzing of a fly even—will serve to put it out, and the sleeper is left to inhale a poisoned atmosphere, or to incur the risk of an explosion should any one chance to 611101 the room with a light. Where gas lights are thus lowered, a glass should always be used as a protection to them.— Many fires have occurred in consequence of the dim light, not noticed after sun rise, on the window being opened by the occupant or servant;' the curtain is Mown against i the burner and a fire ensues. Denunciation of Jeff. Davis. Fortress Monroe, Dec. : 13 —The steamer New York arrived last evening; from City Point, in charge of Flag-of-trnce Officer Major Mulford. General McDowell arrived at Fortress Monroe this morning, via Baltimore, and had a lengthy interview with Major-General Butler to-dav. In the Rebel Congress, December Bth, Mr. Foote expressed great indignation at the course pursued by Jeff. Davis. When Pemberton dishon orably surrendered Vicksburg jo the enemy the President made him his companion and carried him to Bragg’s army, where, ns he rode along, soldiers were heard to say "There goes the traitor w ho delivered ua over at Vicksburg.” The President never yet visilfed the army with out doing if injury, never yet that it was not fol lowed by disaster. Ho was instrumental in the Gettysburg affair; he instructed Bragg at Mur freesboro' ; he has opened Georgia to one hundred thousand of the enemy's troops, and laid South Carolina liable to destruction. I charge him with having almost crushed the country, and will meet his champion anywhere; to discuss it. Would to God he would never visit the army again. &c. A certain Commissary- General, who was a curse to our country, is in vested with authority to control the matter of sub stence. This monster, Northrop, has stealthily placed our Government in the attitude charged bv the enemy, and has attempted to starve the priso ners in our hands. From the Ist to 26th, meats were furnished the prisoners very irregularly and in a meager manner. For twelve days 1 the supply was inade quate, and for eight days they had none at all.— This Commissary-General, says Mr. Foote, was a pepper doctor down in Charleston, and looked like a vergetarian, and actually made an elaborate re port to the Seeratary of War, showing that for the subsistence of a human Yankee carcass vegetable diet was the most proper. For the honor of the country this Northrop should be rejected at once. Address of Mr. Colfax Gentlemen of the House of Representa tives : —To-day will be marked in American his tory as the opening of a Congress destined to face and settle the most important questions of the cen tury-, and during whose existence the rebellion which has passed its culmination will, beyond all question—thanks to our army and navy and Ad ministration—die a deserved death 1 Not onlv will your constituents watch with strictest scrutiny your deliberations here, bat the friends of liberty in the most distant lands will be interested spectators of your acts in this greater than Rbtnan formns. I invoke you to approach these grave questions with the calm thoughtfulness of statesmen, freeing your discussions from that acerbity which mars instead of advancing legislation, and with unshaken re liance on that divine power which gave victory to those who formed this Union and can give even greater victory',to those who are Iseeking to save it from destruction from the hands of the parricide and traitor. I invoke you, also,|to remember that sacrol truth which ail history verifies, that “ thev who Title not in righteousness shall perish from the earth.” Thanking yon with a grateful heart for this distinguished mark of your confidence and re gard, and appealing to all for tjbat support and forbearance, by the aid of which! alone I can hope to succeed, I am now ready toi take the oath of office, and enter upon the duties you have assigned me. Eastern and Western Soldiers.—The Chi cago Tribune considers the late battle in front of Chattanooga the most complete ahd decisive of the war, and speaks of its results as follows : Thus, from beginning to end, it was a brilliant affair— Hookey's magnificent scaling of Lookout ; Sher man’s hard work near the mouth of the Chicka mauga, and Granger and Paliner’s carrying of Mission Bidge. The battle yieldsfruits. It gives us ground not only, but ground which is wanted —ground that is strategic, commanding East Ten nessee and Northern Georgia and Alabama. It gives us guns amf prisoners, and restores the vrts t!ge and at a small expense. The Confederacy has scarcely received a harder blctw. It is worth the while in another point of view'. Eastern and Western troops fought side by side and witli equal good conduct and almost equal success. It can hardly fail to check that small jealousy which lias now and then dropped out since Hooker came upon the ground. The Western meu can afford to let the Eastern take a little more care of their clothes than themselves, to think.soft bread and a cup of tea, 1 with a piece of butter, not to be despised, even in Ithe field, if they can be had; and the Eastern can afford the West ern some latitude in their freer Wajys—if both fight well when the pinch comes. Gallant getion must beget natural respect. The Nashville Union says of the Eastern troops : They fought with as much spirit, endurance, and success as ahy troops on the field. Cheers for the gallant bovs from the East ern States! j; . What Maximilian is Doing!— The Trieste Gazette, of November 19, contains Ith'e following: “Contrary to the frequently repeated assertions of foreign papers, that his Imperial ! Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian intends to leave for Mexico in February, and willshonly resign his post as commandant of the Austrian fleet, we are in a position to declard tuat the situation created by his Impend Highness’s address to the Mexican deputation is in no way changed. T No alteration will take place in the position of the Archduke untd the conditions then laid down; are fulfilled.— Now, ns formerly, his Imperial Highness is de voting his cares to the navy. He will not re linquish, save, unwillingly and at the last moment, the task he has undertaken of powerfully develop ing the forces of the Austrian mnrihe," The Terri#* Treatment of Union Prisoners at Riohmord OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF RELEASED SURGEONS. • * r*.' • The following statement, by Surgeons jhat re turned from the Libby Prison, of the treatment received by oar prisoners at Richmond, has been presented, to the War Department .- sc Washington, I). C., Nov. 27th 18*3. We. the undersigned Surgeons of the U. S. A. and recently prisoners in Richmond, Va., consider it out duty to publish a few (acts that came ft> our knowledge while we were inmates of the hospital attached to Libby Prison. We enjoyed for several months daily access to the hospitals where the sick and wounded among our Union soldiers received treatment. As a re sult of our observation, we hereby declare our be lief that since the battle of Chickamauga the num ber of deaths per diem has averaged fully r 50. The prevailing diseases are diarrhoea, dysentery and typhoid pneumonia. Of late the per centage of deaths has greatly increased—the result of cau ses that have been long at Work, snch aa insufficient food, clothing and shelter, combined witli that depression of spirits brought on so often by, long confinement. It may seem almost incredible, when we affirm of onr personal knowledge that in the three, hospitals for Union soldiers the; average mortality is near forty per day, and upon the most reliable testimony we are forced to believe that the deaths jo the tobacco factories and upon the island will raise the total mortality among all the Union prisohers to fifty per day, or 1.600 monthly ; The,extremely reduced condition of those brought from the Island argues that hundreds quite sick are left behind, who, with us, would be considered fit subjects for hospital treatment. .Such, too, is the fact, as invariably stated by scores we", have conversed with from the camp.' Tile same, to a degree, holds true of the prison ers in the city. ’ It would be a reasonable estimate to pul the number who are fit subjects Cor hospi tals, hut who are refused admittance, at five hun dred. A thousand are already under treatment in the three hospitals, and the Confederate Surgeons themselves say the number of patients is only lim ited by the small accommodations provided. Thus we have over ten percent of the whole number of prisoners held classed as sick men, who need the most assiduous and skillful attention. Yet in the essential matter of rations they are receiving noth ing but com bread and sweet’ potatoes. Meat is no longer furnished to any class of our prisoners, exceptito the few officers in the Libby Hospital, and all sick or well officers or privates are' now furnished with a very poor .article of com bread in place of wheat ■ bread. This is very unsuitable diet for hospital patients prostrated with diarrhoea, dysentery and fever, w say nothing of the balance. Startling instances of individual 'suffering and horrid pictures of death, from protracted sickness and semi-starvation, we have had thrust upon onr attention. The first demand of the poor creatures from the Island was alwas something to eat. Self-respect gone, hope and ambition gone, half-clad, and cov eted with vermin and filth, many of them top of ten Iteyond all reach of medical skill. In One in stance the ambulance brought sixteeu to the hos pital, and during the night seven of them died.— Again, eighteen were brought and eleven of them died in 21 hours. At another time fourteen were admitted, and in a single day ten of them died.— Judging from what we have ourselves seen and do know, we do not hesitate to sty that, under a treatment of systematic abuse, neglect and semi - starvation, the number who are becoming perma nently broken down in their constitution must be reckoned by thousands. We leave it for others to say what is demanded by this state of things, The confederate daily.papers in general terms acknowledge the truth of ail We have affirmed, but usually close their abusive , editorials by de claring that even speh treatment is better than the invading \ unkccs deserve. The examiner, In a recent article, begrudged even the little food the prisoners did receive, and the boxes sent to us from home, and closed by eulogizing the system of semirstaryiug and exposure, as well calculated to dispose of us. All this is true, and yet cold weather has hardly commenced. - Wc are horrified when we'-picture the wholesale misery and death that will come with the biting frost ef winter. Recently several hundred prison ers per day were being removed to Danville.: In two instances we were standing in view of them as their ranks filed past. It was a sad sight to see the attenuated features and pallid faces ofmen a few months since robust and in vigorous; health. Numbers were without health—-numbers were without shoes—nearly all without blankets or overcoats and not a man did we see that was well? and fully clad. But the credit of the prisoners in Richmond, of all ranks, be it recorded, that all along they have shown heroic fortitude under suffering, and spurn ed the idea that the government had forgotten them; they have hold fast their confidence! in : the final and speedy success of our cause. In addition to the above statement, we wish it to be distinctly understood that the Confederate medical officers connected with the hospitals refer red to—Shrgeona Wilkins, Simmons and Sabal, and the Hospital Steward, Hallet—are not in i any way, so fair as our observation has extended/ re sponsible for the stale of things existing, there; but, on thp other hand, we are bound in jnstice to bear testimony to their kindness and the faithful performance of their duties within the limited means at their disposal. Daniel Meeke, Surgeon U. S. Vote. i tl. T. StsiPEßs, Asst. Snr. G’h Ind. Vote. it. L. Brown, Asst. Stir., 116th O. Vol. Inf A. M. Parker, Asst. Sur. Ist Me. Cat, How the 300-poundeb Parrots are Worked. —A correspondent on Morris Island writes:?; As there is no mahoal laid down for the 300-pounder Parrott, I subjoin that in nse. The piece isUp its carriage and “from battery.” Implements, np two to be in the same place anil no one in Its (super place. ;The instructor gives the, command, “load her up/’ At;this command the gonher siivs "some of you fellows bring a shell,” and “John bring a cartridge.” Some of the “ fellers” tike a small hand-barrow and bring a shell. Gunner says,; “ stick in that powdet.” “ Now, boys/ hold on till I get out a fuse.” “Stick it in.’”‘All hands; by hard heaving, got«the shell to tbs em brasure, Gunner says,; “ Swab her ont." She is swabbed Out. “ Now, heave and haul, and in it goes. ’ It goes in accordingly. “Now, ram it down. It IS rammed down. “ Now, run her in ” She is run in, “Screw down the recoil bands”— They are screwed down. Gunner aims. “Slew her round a little.” “ All right.” Where’s that primer?” “Now, get out of the way, even-body " All go to windward; and Ho. 3 steps round a comer, so as not to be hit if the gun bursts. ; Gun ner says, “ Blaze way. ’ She blazes away, Re mark of the gunner on returning to the gun, “How are you, IjJnmter ?” Repeat. ! More Bebel Pirates from England.— The l.anaila brings news that the steamer Bappahan nuck, under the Confederate flag, 'and pierced for ****** BuUcd { ? r Sheer ness, England, on the •ifith alt., in an unfimkh state, having a gain of carpenters on board,. and arrived at Calms'the same day. Thq vessel was at once seized by the French authorities, but; was not long etmiied, and her captain luvs peemission to leave port whenever he pleases, the Rappahannock was formerly her. Majesty’s steam sloop Victor, and sbtd with three other steamers a few: weeks ago. The three latter are English war steamers and are reported to be fitting out iu the Thames for Confederate privateers. The Confederate steamer Georgia had gone into dock al Cher- Ixmrg to repair some minor damages. i IV kw STOCK OF BOOTH & SHOES i. 1 tor Men and Boys, fsutlu»nil Mlucs, Jttet rMUat’ ‘ ; ■ > hADOHMAIS^ A SOTIIER; LARGE LOT OF THE T„ t , .0001)5*. H.L woafdinsspc, ntui; v , %£^&£ST it, '' mn * K “’- FILL AND WINTER Goo:, s whljßli, for mjlß. quality and prion caim.d k„ thlf. oock of country. Hie Mock in much Hi , V " heretofore, end a* Ik is quite an abject. In tin' w«r times, for »ve r y oa» pi purchase wldt**’ il, - v ; The Best Goods and at the Lowest IVi.v, hr would say Out he 0.0 end will sell ~ t . „. ■ ''' httlo lower than any other hoiue in this place n, , , all to call and ««e hia stock before piitt-Winc elw, ‘ ' a< he feels cnuMant he CM offer Inducement. 1 d»*fy oomjictlticjn. His stuck oonoitt* of ' ! ' LADIES’ OkESS GOODS of everv MENiAND BOYS’ WINTER WEAR.' I. A DIF. 8 AND MISSES’ DRESS Sll.jk. MEN AND BOYS’ BOOTS AND ;,n,)Ks • , - - «W»’B UaLK WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ WOOL HOSE HATS AND CAPS. BLEACHED AND UNBLEACHED MU. they a m SAVE THE THREE HUNDRED in a short time. They have Just received a large and ,„n selected stock ofDK< GOODS AND ' ' they are selling for Cash at the lowest living mice, A latge assortment jjf LADIES’ COATS AND limn LARS, ranging ui price from *4.50 to *l2 oo The attention of the public U particularly drawn to n, fwt that they are eelling Brown and White Muslin (r -.i 18 to 45 cents; Calicoes from 121.. to 25 ets -n. iJ. from 18 to 36 cents per yard. ■ * p * They bare al wars on band a hirttD niwnritiKinc nr m v \ AND BOYS’ CLOTHING. HATS,: CAPS, BWITS Slloy. and. in f«ct, everything kept In A flm-ola*-, Altoona U)ct. 7, IvV). £ Victory AV'on! r r*HK Subscribers would respectfully i. amiouucp to citizen* of Altoona ami vicir.til that they baTe just returned from the Kiwt with their PALL AM) WINTER STOOK oi HATS & CAPS, BOOTS Sc SHOES Their fttoek of. HATS v uvi weather and saving health Thankful to the public for their very liberal ji.»tn-riu . heretofore, they l»<»pe to merit a coutitiuaiioo of Mh -:uid Store on MAIS ST. uexl door to. Bowman's Hotel. . . SMIT4 A Mann Altoona, May VJ. Isd3. SAVE THE PER CENTA( iV. BY BUYING YOUK CLOTHING FROM FIRS'! HANDS ETTINGER & TUCK, Manufacturers of and Wholesale and Retail dealer l * in lu-ndv-nu-b Clothing, would respectfully invite the attention of tl,. public to the following facts in reference to their -siocl. lt*t. We manufacture our own penal.-. They are m.* n up in our iwn Store, in Philadelphia, under ourliumediat supervlslon, and we know they ar** well made aud can >- warranted EQUAL TO THE BEST. and superior to the largest quantity of Ready-made dot!: Inc in the market. 2nd. We buy our Cloths directly from the Importer, aiei Manufacturers, consequently we save the per ccin.-nc- i■ ' on by middle men. 3rd. We sell our Clothing at a reasonable percfHUtr over the cost of our Cloths, thereby saving the purchaser of Clothing the percentage which must be added bv rli.ts. who buy from second hands to self again. We retail .m Clothing at the same price which othut merchants pat for theirs at wholesale, consequently those who buy frurii u« get their g*»ot' M’CUNE & WILSON, ■Corner ot Clara and Virginia Streets, ip the, eton* r»' 'o known an Johnston Moore**. Wgheet cash prices will be paid for Flour. Feed. all kinds of country produce. Altoona, Pa., Nor. 4th, 1863. YTAEUABLE PROPERTY for SA I. K ■ The subscriber offer* at Private Sale U a valuable property, titrate on Branch St, «MK|. M“h^,o%. im,n,,di “ teiy ° pp “ i ‘* auii Yhe house is well built amt nearly and conuios Fifteen Rooms with Good Cellars. It Is calculated for THREE FAMILIES, and at the me-t reasonable terms will brin? *SO per month rent. Then- i* a well of good water In the yard. Terms easy. „ W)L“ MJCHAEL WYROCOH. on the premise*. r to JAMES KEARNEY, at hi- store. In Eset Altoona July 28, 186R-tf. ' r I' , EAS! TEAS I TEAS!—FRITCHEV J, is selling Teas superior to any ever offered ’ii -*!• toona. They an? freo of adulteration, coloring, or mix* tare of any kind. - BOSTON CRACKERS—A LARGE ««PPly of th«Mt) delklou* crackers just received and for sale by VMTCHKI. HARDWARE OF ALL PESGKIP tions just received and for sale by <** l»tfl J. B. MILKMAN 17XTKA FAMILY FLOUR, FROM -■--■the Cove. alwav, on hand and fcr sale as Tot. «. the lowest by FRITCHEV. J. MILES M’CTXI ALBERT WILSON t [3 m.) AltofHfl PmMi w €w|Mk HH TRIBUNE PO i L 2 PRINTING ifctviKfto within the put two yi to.onr in .’dcrow Fee*, Paper Cutter, t Cac£ ItowwvKreea. aud h» Pry-Wt C* W&ich we give *b*y anything in ti«* line i to any eatabiißhnMu low. Wecaa eae^B ddtog, lartUUon, Visiting, 1 Circulars, Pro* MAMMOTH POSTIftI muL. m® titiiir pamphlets. Pay and • BLANK B< manifests, and blank \II wtf adk Ina trial* tVvliog cum UfcotJoo If we hare the Opporti ; ffHce l»i t*Dwttier*M boiMitg, cor o^pwls»£opeHn|*of the Misses Hickey hud a litti ’he house, barely made theft taken out of ah upstairs windd sewing machine and a few arti were saved. It will be ten Misses Hickey were burned out July last, when Flack and 1 were burned. We understand insured. ■Oca Quota. —According to ‘jHexfisier, the following will be different sub-districts in this c< draft;— : Sab-divisions Qi tot) Allegheny township 31 Uollidaysburg and Gaysport. I- Tyrone and Ennkstown t|«. 31 Tyrone Bor. and Snyder tp. 3; Viartinsburg bar., N. Wood- berry and Taylor tps 4 'itthanne, Huston & Wood- beiy tjs Ulalr and Juniata tpa A1t00na.................. Logan, township........ Antis township. Gtnanfieid and Freedom tps.. . Total... Mtmux. Paonscuos.—W e meqting of Hotel and Boarding held on Saturday evening last, forming an association to'pro i the Band practised ujSn them bj Tfie meeting"adjourned to i A mode Hotel on Saturday >9th,lB6a, at 7 o'clock. Anil tpall engaged in the business specified. Basic o* d«ftod that the requisite cap Widtiilt rim First National Ba •*6jS|w*d |»ti|ie place a» «oo Vtatlggawnu can be made. megtad President.