letter from Gen. Grant.
HB W #Ww , The following is an extract from a let
j ter written by Gen. Grant to Hon. E. B.
Washburne:
| i state to all citrons who Tint me that all we
waut to insme an early restoration of the Union,
is a determined aenti'ment in 'the North. The f
Rebels hare now id their ranks the last man..—
The little boys and old men are guarding prison- ‘
ets and railroad bridges, and forming a good part :
of their garrisons for entrenched positions.
A man lost by them cannot be replaced. They
have robbed the cradle and the grave equally to ,
get their present force. Besides what they lose
in frequent skirmishes and battles they are now ;
losing, (tom desertions and other causes, at least
one regiment per day. With this drain npon them :
the end is not very! far distant, if we are only trite
to Ourselves. Their only hope now is in a divided <
North. This might give them reinforcements |
from Tennessee, Kentucky, Maryland and Mis
souri, while it would weaken ns. With the draft
quietly enforced, they would become despondent,
and would make biit little resistance. I have no
doubt the enemy are -‘Very anxious to bold out
nntil after the presidential election. They have
many hopes from its effects; They hope for a
convention revolution. They hope for the election
of a peace candidate; in fact, like Macanber, they
hope for “something to turnup!” If our peace
friends expect peace from separation, they are
much mistaken. It would be but the beginning
of war, with thousands of Northern men joining
the South, beca ise of our disgrace in allowing
separation with peace on any terms. The South
would demand restoration of the slaves already
freed ; indemnity for losses, a treaty which wotiltl
make the North a siave-himter for the Sooth, and
pay for the restoring of evoiy slave escaping to the
North. tours truly, . U. S. GRANT;
ALTOONA, PA.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10, 1864.
Th® Democratic Nominee for V. P.
We have published extracts from the
speeches of Gov. Johnston, the Union
nominee for Vice President, and we deem
it no more than doe that we should give
onr readers a few extracts from the
speeches of Mr. Pendleton, now that he
is a nominee for the same office. On the
18th of January, 1861, in the House of
Representatives, at Washington, he made
a speech, which he carefully revised and
published in the Appendix to
gremonal Globe. The following is a single
passage:
“My voice to-dAy is for conciliation; myvoice
ii for compromise, am) it is bni the echo of the
voice of my constituents. I beg yon, gentlemen,
who with me represent the North-West; you who.
with me, represent the State of Ohio; yon who,
with me, represent the citv of Cincinnati. I beg
yon, gentlemen, to hear that voice. If yon trill
Opt; if yon find conciliation impossible; if your
differences are so great that yon cannot, or will
not reconcile them, then, gentlemen, let the
imcedino States depart in peace ; let them
ESTABLISH THEIR GOVERNMENT AND EMPIRE AND
WORK OCT THEIR DESTINT ACCORDING TO THE
WISDOM WHICH God HAS GIVEN THEM.”
Further along in the same speech he
says
u If these Southern States cannot be reconciled,
sod If yon, gentlemen, cannot find it in your
\hearts to grant their demands; if they mast
the family mansion, / t could signalize their
departure by tokens of love; I would bid them
farewell so tenderly that they would forever he
touched by the recollection of it; and if in the
vicissitudes of their separate existence, they should
destre to come together again in our common Gov
ernment, there should be no pride to be humiliated;
there should be no wound inflicted from my hand ,
to be healed . They should come and be welcome
to the place they now Occupy
It is the boast of Mr Pendleton, that,
as Representative in Congress, he has
voted steadily against granting a, dollar
or a man for prosecuting the war to put
down the rebellion. Are the people of
the loyal States ready to adopt such senti
ments? Sherman’s late movements say
“No!”
Prayer and Thanksgiving.
We are glad to observe that the Presi
dent is ever ready to acknowledge the hind
of an overruling Providence in the affairs
of the Nation, and that he has set apart
a day for a general acknowledgment of,
Divine interposition in our great struggle
for the life of the Nation. We hope it
may be properly responded to. The re
quest of .the President we append below:
- luctinvi Mjlnsiok, Washdcotor Crrt, Sept.
3.—The signal success that Divine Providence has
recently vouchsafed to the operations of the Uni
ted States fleet and anhy in the harbor of Mobile,
and the reduction of Port Powell, Port Gaines
and Fort fflprgan, and the glorious achievements
of the a nttf under Major-General Sherman, in
the State 6f Georgia, resulting in the capture of
the city of Atlanta, call for devont acknowledg
ment to the Supreme Being, in whose hands are
the destinies of nations. It is, therefore, requested
that on next Sunday, in all places 1 of public wor
ship in the Unified States, thanksgiving be offered
to Him for His mercy in preserving our national
existence against the insurgent Rebels, who so
long have been waging a. cruel war against the
Government of the United States for its over
throw, and also that prayer be maide for the Di
vine protection to our brave soldiers and their
leaders in the field, who have so often and so gal
lantly periled their lives in battling with the ene
nw, and for blessing and comfort from the Father
of Mercies to the sick and wounded and prisoners,
and to the orphans and. widows of those who have
fallen in the service of their country, and that He
will continue, to uphold the Government of the
United States against all the efforts of pnhiic ene
mies and secret foes.
ABKAHAM LINCOLN.
Democratic Convention. —The Demo
erode Convention, of this county, met in
Hollidaysbarg, on Thursday of last week.
After electing Congressional Conferees,
and instructing them to support the nomi
nation of E. L. Johnston, Esq., of Cambria
county, and Senatorial Conferees, and in
structing them to support the nomination
jof Dr. E. W. Christy, of this county, it
Iwas
Ruohtd, That this Convention deems it inex
pedient to nominate Candidates for Assembly and
Ooonty offices.
. |i, It seems there are no men in the party
Ilf this county who desire the empty hon
oits of a nomination without a chance of
an election.
, Congressional. —Three counties in this
district, viz: Huntingdon, Blair and Cam
bria, have instructed for B. JL. Johnston,
Esq-! of the latter county, as the Demo
cnitie nominee for Congress. Mr. J. is a
vejty clever and agreeable gentleman, with
philosophy enough in his composition to
lake a defeat in the proper spirit, as un
doubtedly such a fate awaits him.
WHon. Lewis Gass is announced as j
lifviqg pronounced tlie platform recently :
adopted at Chicajgo an ignominious sur- Hon. Xhadeug Stevens has been
fender to the Rebels, and that he cannot' nominated for re-election to Congress
• u H Kkrt tt* jfrom the Lancaster District.
jK?” There isa great deal of the article
called “ buncombe” being used at the pres
ent time by both political parties, but in
neither is it more apparent than in the
resolutions of the party which opposed the
Amendment to the Constitution giving the
soldiers in service the right to vote. Now
that the soldiers have a right to vote, and
their votes will count as fast as those cast
at home, they are very anxious to prove
themselves the friends of the soldier, in
words if pet in acts. The soldiers, we
think, will appreciate their eulogies. The
claim that the party are their friends be
cause some of its members voted to in
crease their pay, and to pay in gold, is all
bosh. The men who labored to pass the
law requiring specie payment were actu
ated more by a desire to embarrass the
Government than to benefit the soldier.—
They knew that if the Government was
required to pay in specie, the price of that
article would at once go up, and the ex
penses of the war be trebled if not quad
rupled, and they would have a fine chance
to cry “ruination!” “bankruptcy!” etc.
The soldiers do receive increased pay, but
not in a manner which would ruin the
country. The men who voted agairet
allowing the soldiers the right to vote, can
hardly fool those same soldiers into believ
ing them to be their friends, by passings a
few “buncombe” resolutions.
'Exchange qf Prisoneks. —In our last
issue vye published a statement of the con
dition of the Union prisoners in the vile
pens of the Confederacy. As yet we have
noticed no action, on the part of our au
thorities, looking to their relief. This is
too bad. Every effort at all consistent
with national honor, should be made to
release those men. We have a great pre
ponderance of prisoners, and can exchange
man for man and still have enough left
to hold as hostages for the colored soldiers.
For the sake of humanity let the exchange
be effected as speedily as possible. We
know there is no honor about the Rebels,
and that they will not exchange on equal
terms if they can possibly swindle in any
way, but still we want to see
fellows at Andersonville liberated. The
statement that the Bebs make a difference
between white and black prisoners, should
have weight in deciding this matter. We
hope the or (Gen. Sherman
may open ihe door to their relief soon. ;
tar The' news from Mexico is interest
ing. The rumor that Doblado had aban
doned his country’s cause is indignantly
refuted. The campaign of the French
against Monterey, 1 the headquarters of
President Juarez, was about to commence
and the Mexicans were preparing to give
their “civilizers” a far from civil recep
tion. Generals Porfiria, Diaz and Riva
Palacios hod inflicted a severe drubbing
on the imperial troops sent against them.
Diaz is keeping his word to leave nothing*
but lire and ashes in the track of his ene
mies. Gen. Diego Alvarez also inflicted
severe losses on the French in four battles,
the son of “the old lion” “sailing in”
with all the his father.”
j At last accounts flour was selling in
1 Mobile from $250 to $3OO per barrel;;
I bacon from $3 to $5 per pound, according
jto quality. Spool cotton was selling at
!$6 per spool; ordinary calicoes were sell
ing at from $12.50 to $l5 per yard; an
ordinary pair of shoes from $l5O t 0.5175;
cavaliy boots were selling from $250 to
$BOO per pair; nails were selling for $4
per pound, an inferior article at that;
ordinary cotton shirts (worth from $2.50
to $3) were selling for from $5O to $6O
each. , '
GeH. SnKKMAK TO BE REINFORCED.
One-half of the 16th Corps, under Gen.
A. J. Smith, are on board of a fleet of
steamboats going up the Missiseippi, Ohio
and Tennessee rivers to reinforce General
Sherman. They may stop by the way to
dear out the raiders under Wheeler and
Roddy, who are destroying the railroad
between Nashville and Chattanooga.—
This timely reinforcement;of ten or twelve
thousand men; will enable Gen. Sherman
to extend his operations and strike heavier
blows at the enemy.
The other half of the 16 th Corps, we
presume, will remain in Western Tennes
see, with head-quarters at Memphis, for
the protection of that district. Only
roving bands of guerrillas remain either
in West Tennessee or Mississippi. Eveiy
available Rebel has been sent to Hood’s
army.
W From Sheridan’s department, in the
Shenandoah Valley we have little that is
exciting. His cavalry have had a num
ber of engagements with those of Early,
but the latter always fall back in time to
save themselves. The intentions of the
Rebels are not yet known. Sheridan has
been watching and waiting for an attack,
but as it; does not seem likely that one is
to be made, he is preparing to assume the
offensive and push matters to a crisis.—
We hope he shall be fully reinforced and
that bis movements may be onward from
the start.
The Vermont Election. —Burlington,
Vt, Sept. 7.—The returns from the State
come in very slowly, but indicate large
Union gains. Smith’s majority for Gov
ernor will come up to nearly 22,000, a
gain of 5,000 since last year. Wood
bridge, Baxter and Morrell are elected to
Congress by overwhelming majorities.—
The Senate is immensely Republican, and
the House will not contain Over twenty
Democrats.
KT The N. Y. World announces that
Gen. Fremont is about to withdraw from
the Presidential canvass, and that his let
ter will appear at an early day.
Items for Hasty Readers
More law-suits than lore-suits are brought
on by attachments.
tST It is stated that the Government will de
rive $3,500,000 of revenue from the stamps on
friction matches.
(ST When the loyal Dutchmen at Mobile heard
the guns of our fleet at the mouth of the bay, they
smiled, and said.- “Dat is Farragool !” — N. O.
Timet.
tV" The Chicago police, a few nights ago, wit
nesed strange sight of a young boy and his grand
mother being on a spree together, rambling about
the streets drunk.
VS* It a French translation of “ Hamlet" the
passage, “Frailty, thy name is woman,” is trans
lated.” Mademoiselle, Frailty is the name of the
lady.”
0»A locomotive on the North London Rail
way recently exploded at the Camden Station.—
Its whole weight was twenty tons, but it went over
the telegraph wires into an adjoining street, and
alighted on its wheels. (
VS" John Tylot Wood, the commander of the
Rebel Firate Tallahassee, is a grandson of Presi
dent Taylor, and was formerly a lieutenant in the
United States Navy, from which he was dismissed
in April 1861.
VS" Delicious!—An editor up in Minnesota
says that he was never happy but once in his life,
and that was on a warm summer’s day when he
lay in the laps of two blooming maidens, being
fanned by a third and kissed by all three. Gosh 1
tS" The folks in St. Louis are having a lively
dance of terror just now. Seven anacondas, late
ly imported from the East, escaped from the tank
in which they had been kept, and, after a three
days’ search, had, at last accounts, not been cap
tured.
C7* According to a statement in the New York
World , more than one-third of the newspapers in
United States, published four years ago, have sus
pended publication. The aggregate circulation of
the remainder has much diminished. The price
of all printing materials has doubled and trebled,
and of paper has almost quadrupled.
Fort Morgan originally cost the United
States Government, in its construction and arma
ment, about one million five hundred thousand
dollars, and is capable of mounting one hundred
and thirty-two guns, and of garrisoning seven
hundred men for siege operations. The rebels
made but a pusillanimous defence of it.
W The new badge of the 10th Army Corps
(Gen. Birney) consists of a fonr-bastioned fort.
The badge will be cut from red cloth for the first
Division, white cloth for the second Division, and
bine doth for the third Division, and will be worn
on the top of the cap or the side of the hat by all
the officers and enlisted men of .the corps.
Bedford Springs are gaining an unenvia
ble,reputation. A New York correspondent says
of one class: —The other class consists of a shabby,
irresponsible and low order of Philadelphia and
Baltimore Secessionists, either by blood or sympa
thy. The latter came here less to imbibe their
sulphur water than to hold a reunion of friends to
treason.
exchange says there is now a com
pletc organization of the miners thronghont Illi
nois, Ohio and Pennsylvania, under the style and
title of “The American Miners’ Association.”
The Association will hold an anual convention at
Cincinnati on the 7th of September. hey have
an organ, the Weekly Union, at Belville, 111.
The London Athenoeum contains an exten
ded and very unfriendly review of the pirate Sem
mes’ book, recently published in London and en-
titled “ The Cruise of the Sumter and Alabama.”
It says:—“ln the commander of the Sumter and
Alabama, a person whom some of ns hare been
trying to convert into a miniature Cochrane, wc
find no trace of either heroic deed or heroic though t. ”
English carrier pigeon lately took antes
sage from London to Exeter, one hundred and
seventy-one miles, in five hours and twenty
minutes.
BA.lt is not generally known that the salery of
the Governor General of India, which is the high
est in the gift of the English crown, is thirty
thousand pounds, in all two hundred thousand
dollars a year.
B 9" A country fellow came to town to see bis
intended wife, and for a long time could think of
nothing to say. At last, a great show falling, be
took occasion to tell her that his father’s sheep
would all be undone. “ Well,” said she, kindly
taking him by the band, “111 keep one of them.”
At a recent railroad dinner, in compliment
to the legal fraternity, the toast was given ; “An
honest lawyer, the noblest work of God but ah
old farmer in the back part of the hall rather
spoiled the effect by adding, in a louder voice,
“And about the scarcest.”
The rebel General Hood, who has command
at Atlanta, is described by a person who has re
cently seen him as a “white-headed, homelv,
spindle-shanked fellow, about thirty-two years of
age, and over six feet tall; had been pretty well
hacked to pieces; one leg gone, an arm useless, a
lot of braised ribs, and a broken collar-bone.”
ties'An intelligent contraband made the fol
lowing sagacious statement: ‘ ‘Well, you see honey]
do Lord has two great keys in his hand ; one is
de Dar-Key, with that he unlocked the Union, so
all de niggers, ns you call ’em, will come out fme;
de other is the Yan-Key, and- with that the good
Lord will lock the Union up again.”
O' Horace Greeley telegraphs to the Tribune
from Syracuse as follows : “ I have the most ch. er
ing reports of recruiting throughout our State.
Everywhere the best of spirits prevail. The men
going forward are mainly hardy and strong far
mers’sons, intelligent and resolute patriots. Very
little exertion will be required to fill our State
quota by the middle of the month."
BgL. Three regiment? of infantry, two squad
ron? of cavalry and four batteries of artillery are
to lie recruited in Pennsylvania without delay, for
service on the Southern border of the State. The
term of sendee is to be for three years, and if not
recruited within thirty days, a draft will be resort
ed to. Preference is to be given in recruiting tii
those not liable to the United States draft.
While General Butler was in New York
the other day, sundry prominent citizens called on
him and asked him to speak on the prospects of
the war and the pending political issues. His re
ply was characteristic ; “Open a recruiting office
and I will be with you; - 1 will speak for hours, il
you give me five hundred volunteers in return.”
Tr.ereupon the sundry prominent citizens inconti
nently skedaddled.
B@- In the county of Surrey, England, a fire
has been raging to an unparalleled extent, so that
several thousand acres were burned over. The
soil being chiefly composed of peat, the tire has
penetrated the eaith to the depth of two or three
feet. The forest, once celebrated for its red deer,
has been completely devastated, and thousands of
stately firs and other trees, together with a Ijirge
quantity of game, destroyed.
During the recent raid of Gen. Stoneman,
three men ot the lllh Illinois were captured
while wandering alone, and nothing was known
of their fate. Shortly after a large party of the
same regiment were riding rapidly through the
woods, and came suddenly upon a squad of rebels
who had just drawn up the three men in line to
shoot them, and taking them by surprise, captur
ed the w hole party and liberated their companions.
A Union officer, lately released from pris
on at Macon, 6a., gives a vivid description of the
desperate measures to which the rebels have re
sorted to reinforce Hood. Beside* conscripting
everybody they have put into ranks all the unarm
ed employees, including even hospital stewards.
To supply the place of the latter, women have
been conscripted ; and every home in Macon has
had a certain number of sick and wounded billited
upcn it.
If is thought the Government will extend
the time volunteering as enlistments all over the
country have been steadily increasing. Pennsyl
vania has surpassed every Slate in the Union by
the promptness with which she has responded to
the last call of the President. Notwithstanding
the desire that the draft should be delayed, we see
no reason why u should be, and we have no inti
mation from head-quarters that it will be. On
the contrary, everything points to aflpeedy resort
to the wheel to fill deficiencies.
er The Washington Star deplores the profane,
dissipated character of the present Sunday amuse
ments of that city, as follows “We have now
Sunday papers, Sunday dress papafies; Sunday dis
plays of cyprian equestrianism and baronch exer
cises, Sunday suburban “free and easys,” and lat
est and fastest of the fast and fnri ous^amusements
of our modern Sunday, carnival are the Sunday
down-river excursions, where the gay and festive
—those sufficiently sober to stand npon their fist
—can trip on the light fantastic toe to the music
of the Marine Band."
Straits op the Rebels. late desperate
military order of- the Governor of Georgia com
pelled all white male persons in the State between
the ages of sixteen and fifty-five to enlist in the
ranks at once or be arrested. Bat the Governor
of Mississippi goes one better. He has issued.a
proclamation, under date of the 12th inst., calling
upon all white males from “fifteen to fifty-five”
years of ago to assemble at given points and take
up arms; and those failing to repot will be arres
ted and tried by cnort-martial. Soldiers of fifteen
years cannot be vprv dreadful chaps.
I'h® scarcity of cents continues' to he the
subject of complaint, although they are being coin
ed at the mint at the rate of $lOO,OOO a month,
and are distributed as fast as coined. It is rarely
that our inerchants and shop-keepers have suffi
cient pennies on hand to change a five cent cur
rency note. A few days ago an old woman stop
ped at one of the police stations, in Philadelphia,
to inquire where she could get the highest premi
utmfor cents, and exhibited a moderate sized bas
ketful!, wh,ch she said she had gathered at an ap
pie stand in a few months. We have not the least
doubt that hoarding pennies for premiums is prac-
Used in this place, as we have seen the nickels
come fprth from a far.corner of the till when pur
chasers refused to receive anything else.
State Guard
Ueadqcabtkbs Peb. Mirin*.
' Habbisbubo, August 30. 1864.
GENERAL ORDERS)
No. 1. {
In conformity, with the provisions of the acts of j
Assembly of the 22d and 25th of August, 1864,' j
and the act to which they are supplements. !
It w ordered. 1 t
1. That the raising of the corps of fifteen regi
ments, to be called the “Pennsylvania State Guard,”
provided for in said acts; he forthwith commenced.
2. As the first portion of that corps, three lini
ments of infantry, two squadrons of cavalry, and
four batteries of field artillery, shall be recruited
without delay. These regiments, squadrons and
batteries, it is intended, shall be composed of vol
unteers, to wit: Of veteran soldiers and of able
bodied persons between the ages of eighteen aod
fifty, giving the preference to those who are not
subject to draft under the laws of the United
Elates.
; 3. The forces, thus to be raised, will be com
manded by company officers elected by the men,
and who have been in the service of the United
States, and been honorably discharged therefrom.
The field and general officers will be appointed
by the Governor and mastered into the service qf
the State. The forte Ml only be need for the de
fence of the State. It will while in service, be
clothed, equiped, armed, subsisted, disciplined and
paid as provided for by law for similar troops in
the service of the United States.
4. Persons qualified by service for the position
of company officers in this corps, will, on applica
tion to the State Inspector General, at Harrisburg,
receive authoftly to recruit companies and squads,
and, if afterwards elected as company officers,
will be commissioned accordingly.
5. The said corps shall be enlisted in the ser
vice of the State for three years, unless sooner
discharged, and shall be liable to be called into the
service of the State at such times as the Governor
may deem their services necessary. ,J
6. A camp of rendezvous will be established at
Harrisburg, under the charge of competent milita
ry and medical officers, and transportation for
troops thereto will be furnished to persons recruit
ing companies, and squads of not less than eight
men, on application to Col. M. S. Quay, Harris
burg, Chief ot Transportation and Telegraph De
partment.
T. Should the regiments, squadrons and batter
ies, specially herein provided for not be recruited
within thirty days, the deficiency will be supplied
by draft.
8. Brig. Gen. Lemuel Todd, State Inspector
General, is charged with the execution of this or
der, and all the details under it.
By order of A. G. CURTIN.
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
A. L. Rcssel,
Adjutant General Pennsylvania.
What is Sauce for the Goose is Sauce
for the Gander.
The London Times having received the intelli
gence of the peace negotiations at Niagara Falls
some time before it heard of the Ktrke & Jaquess
mission to Richmond, and its results, thus refers
to the former.
It was a request that four of their public men
might have a safe-conduct to Washington,- in or
der to negotiate, not for any definite and one sided
sreposition,5 reposition, bnt for peace, which both profess to
esire. The reply to this was in Abraham Lin
coln's curtcst style, to the effect that he will not
permit the approach of anybody who does not come
authorized to agree to the integrity of the Union
and the abandonment of slavery That, qf course,
is submission, and means that the Cabinet at Wash
ington will not hear of peace unless upon its own
terms. As this is not the temper which the les
sons of ages have taught us of the Qld World, we
cannot be expected to sympathize with il. We
shall be more apt to observe that “Pride comes
before a fall,” and to anticipate that the Republi
can despot will show on a new stage the fate of
bis Legitimist models.
Now, since the development of the latter mis
sion, and the still later Circular of the Rebel Sec
retary Benjamin, we should like to know what the
Times think of what Jeff. Davis said to Colonel
Jaquess :
“Say to Mr. Lincoln, from me, that I shall at
any time be pleased to receive proposals for peace
on the basis of our independence. It will be useless
to approach with any other.”
Does not that mean submission, and that the
Cabinet at Richmond “will not bear of peace nnless
upon its own terms,” and will the Tunes not be
“apt to observe that ‘pride comes befoie a fall,’
and to anticipate that the Rebel despot will only
show on another stage the fate of his legitimist
modele.” Surely Araham Lincoln as, the Constitu
tionally elected President of the United States,
has at least the same right to choose the term son
Which he will receive proposals for peace, as the
despot who insists on sacrificing the people of the
South beneath the wheels of the great Juggernaut
of independence, based upon a federation of States
who claim to have the right to impose slavery upon
human beings.
Value of Atlanta.
'
The value of Atlanta can best be understood by
the desperate efforts the enemy have made to hold
if> and by the earnest remarks respecting it that
have appeared in the rebel journals since the com
mencement of the campaign. In April last the
Georgia papers nrged upon the rebel Government'
the necessity of holding the Southwest, and as our
armies have advanced so have they daily called
upon the rebel army to defend Atlanta to the last
The orders to Hood were explicit on that point,
and only on condition! that he should hold the
place was he given the command. He certainly
endeavored to do so, bat he has found bis match
in Sherman. The following extract from the
Columbus, (Ga.), Timet of April 22, will be found
interesting at this time
I he co ptnre of Richmond would prove of greater
importance to our enemies in a political point of
view than any other sense. -With our capital in
their possession, we would find additional influence
brought to bear against ns abroad; but as a mate
rial loss its fall would in no manner compare with
the disadvantages which would result from a de
fpt of General Johnston, and the occupation of
Georpa that would follow. The first point is near
Tv. r i^ nn l et -' meS ’ ‘he second is our great center.
To lose the one would be a terrible blow at our
most vital point.' This we must admit, and onr
enemy knows it. ■
w „. „ „ . j .. -ring places where Pi tree had been
i What w liiononx Abroad.— An eminent cit- i CQtm « a but without coming up with his
costly, offbreign birth, »nd now j game
‘‘LetWnmincton V S I" ‘ te “f r ’ tbe * e word ": | 00 Sullda 7 !»**. office re Whitney and McKin
the cotton lmn in Dp °. r destroyed, so that 8 “7 were in the Weddell House, id saw the fu
bfow and Scifedefare ’’P 08 "® its last 8 Pierce comfortably esconsed at that firet
solon sfnk down itl v“T m Euro Pe will class hotel, living as a man of wealth should do.
of our nawTreS-rri 0 f° reat a P“ rt i T he - V !* roke "V °" his dreamB of felicity with a
th(e victory* at Mobil? w” 1 5n tl,e Gulf by j 6 J iar P £ a P on *ho shoulder, and Temovtd him to the
an S f S? w that « have so ! hotel kept up at the expense of the county.
w» have no dembt tha? 8 */ 1 * Ten . neBBde Rt - ferdnty, e f e ' da . v corning Mr. Rice arrived, and was de
mlr.gmn wdll case of Wil-; ted to meet his old friend PiSe once mom.
I'L ‘ f ttend . ed to - r Eh f two out at once for Memphis, where the
ton army only achW» Wr “ eS: • Let ~ he Un- i matter between them, will be arranged ac
ydu will find'that nut r tW ° ■ reat . v,ctor ies, and •' sc ?J d l n * to “ tbe statnte in that case made andpro
*** change in I * , “ B,,,ri,in *
*^ le Government crooertv bu , * *
moved back from Mobile into «Tlt is stated that the linked State* Treasu
ng *“* ‘ h ey expect to evacuate the eitv I? "Hf* ,n twe, ’ re d *. VB » bare a sufficient amount
i® l° n 8- '' .of 100117 raonev to pay off everv man in the Uni-
ted States service.
TUX FALL OF ATXAHTA
GREAT BATTLE AT JONESBORO,
Spadal Oomaixwdeac* of ths ttMberg CoaowreM.
Chatwioooa, Sept, s
We left twenty-tiro miles beyond
Atlanta, about ten o'clock on tiro evening of the
2d, and travelled, oader tbe pnteetkm of a caval
ry escort, via Atlanta, Howls army was then in
retreat,, with Sbermaa'a army hanging on his rear.
The head of his column was skirmishing with the
rebel rear, near Fayetteville, some: six miles from
Jonesboro. The fighting around Jonesboro has
been very severe and the ene my has been rented
at all points, On the 30th nit., the Fourth and
Twenty-third Corps struck the Macon line some
five miles beyond East Point Junction. Mean
time the Army of the Tennessee and Kilpatricks
cavalry were skirmishing briskly with the onemv
on oar right, driving them across the Flint River,
towards Jonesboro. Lagan’s Dtviasoß, of the Fif
teenth Corps, took possession of a prominent hill,
which was the key to the eaemy’s position.
The other divisions formed on bis right and Mi.
The Sixteenth Corps formed the extreme right
with the Seventeenth on Logan’s (eft. The Four
teenth and Twenty-third Corps forming a connect
ihg line, and. extending beyond the railroad no
the left. TbeFiftcenth Corps spent the night in
entrenching, and the next day, before the right
and left flanks had succeeded in taking' np their
advanced position, the enemy burstin Turn on
the Fifteenth Corps, hot were steadily and reso
lutely met, their repeated assaults being repulsed,
they losing several general officers, including Maj
Gen. Anderson, mentally wounded. Col. Williams
and Maj; Burton, . killed, five Colonels, Majors,
See., wounded and taken prisoners, besides near
.1,000, rank and file, killed, wounded and captured.
Onr kiss was slight as we fought behind our works.
The brant of the fight fell oa Logan’s division,
which captured two flags. \
Next morning, September Ist, the Fourteenth
Corps marched along the Maoon line destroying
the track for several miles, and about fonr o’clock
look up a position on the left of the Sixteenth
Corps, which / had now formed in fine of battle.
The enemy had entrenched 'themselves in front of
Fourteenth Corps, which was ordered to assault ii
with cavalry and infantry -and steadily advanced
under a surging fire of mnaketryand artilery, and
after a most desperate conflict of two hoars dura
tion succeeded in driving the enemy from their
works, capturing two batteries, oae of them Loomis'
celebrated battery taken from ns at Cbicamauga,
of five guns, and another of four guns, some battle
flags and a large namber of prisoners. They also
took General Garven and his adjutant General.
Brigadier General Cummings, of L. D, Lee's
corps, was mortally wounded. It is said an Ar
kansas brigade was captured with Garven. This
swells our list of prisoners to near two thousand.
While the 14th corps was thus nobly, and fiercely
engaged the army of the Tennessee and the 4t‘h
corps were vigorously pressing the enemy on the
right. Early in the night Lee’s Corps moved
noiselessly away with the intention of forming a
junction with Stewart's Corps, which bad remain
ed in Atlanta, besides 6,000 militia whom Hood
stationed in Atlanta to watch Sherman’s move
ments, which seemed to confound him. The com
mand in the field therefore devolved on Hardee,
who retreated along the Macon railroad.
Hood finding his situation desperate in Atlanta,
also retreated, first burning np nearly 1,000 bales
of cotton and 86 wagons laden with amnnition,
chiefly cartridges and rannister.
At the break of day, when Sherman found that
the enemy bad retreated, be put his whole army
in motion, and followed in hot pursuit, his object
being to get between Hood and Hardee, and thus
ent off either party. Though he may not succeed
in this, as they had an ail night start, be will cer
taniy harass their rear, cutting off and capturing
large numbers. The defeat bad a most paraliz
ing effect on Hood's army, for soldiers and militia
were breaking for home. On all sides we heard
the roar of exploding ammunition at Atlanta and
Jonesboro. Gen. Stocnm, who was guarding a
communication and trains along the Chattahoo
chie, sent forward detachments from Ward’s
George’s, and Williamsons, on a reconn oisance.
They advanced to the city and fronnd it evacu
ated, and entered about if o’clock on the morn
ing of September 2nd. They were at once met
by a deputation comprising the Mayor, High Sher
iff and citizens who made a formal surrender of
the town to Gen. Ward, simply making the fol
lowing request for the capitulation of the town.
Atlanta, Ga., Sep*. 2.
Brig. Gen. Ward, 8d Div., 20th Army Corps.
Sir;
The fortunes of war have placed the city of
Atlanta in your hands. As mayor of this city I
ask protection for non-combatants and private
property. ' Jas. M. Calhoun,
v Mayor, of Atlanta.
Attest, Wm. Scott, Capt. A. D. C. A., M. Tip
petts, Capt. A. D. C., T. B. Thompson, and
Postmaster.
The abovce and Colonel Cobnrn, commanding
the 2d brigade, 3d division, where the first offi
cers to enter the city. The required protection
was freely granted ; at the same time a detach
ment from Wilder's division, the 11th Pa. and the
60th - New York, of General Geary’s division,
which had entered the town simultaneously with
Ward’s, hoisted the Stripes and Stars from the
Coart House, amidst a peel Of cheers. Yankee
Doodle followed, and thus was consnmated the
fell of Atlanta—the backbone of the rebellion in
the Southwest. ''
General Slocum arrived soon after and took
formal possession of the town, and some property,
four engines, and eleven pieces of artillery, chiefly
64-pounders, which the rebels had to abandon.
The town is much Most of the in
habitants have left.
We have files of rebel papers from which it is
evident Hood was completely ignorant of Sher
man's movements. Sherman’s movements were
made with his whole army, with fifteen davs’ sup
plies, except the Eighth Corps, which had fallen
back to the rear compactly on parallel roads, and
passing around the left flank of the enemy cros
sing the Montgomery line and flanking for Jones
boro. Theroadrf were good, the weather favor*-
ole, everything combining to facilitate onr success
in the charge of the Fourteenth Corps.
A $lOO,OOO Thief Caught. —Early in Febru
ary last, a mao named W. D. Bice, of Memphis.
Tenn , was anxious to ihrest his snrplns funds in
cottod “away down South in Dixie,” for the pur
pose of transporting it North and reaping a hand
tome profit. He met With one Thomas Pierce, of
Helena, Ark., who knew where cotton bales hu
around thick, and was willing to pick them up for
a constderanom Bice entrusted him with *lO,OOO
and told him to “go-in.”
Pierce “ went in” but forgot to come out. In
other words he bagged Bice’s funds and gave him
the sack. Bice was out $lO,OOO. He gate chase
to his de&ultwg agent, but Pierce had a good start
and ptenty of money. He followed his man to
New Orleans, Arkansas, Tennessee, back to New
Orleans and around to New York; risited all the
fashionable waterit -ilv There P'
itifetui
L OOAi v ITEMS.
pror. Mm'[
' Holßdaysborg, Sept-3, 1864. >
> will bo accepted and counted on
c ““°p ,o ,ho ,ast
4a the drafted men are accepted t
moment bej TowM hip* an d sub-distr
at lad their quotas, are urged to
whlchh** B fojne that can possibly be gi
Stowed, but tih drgft will commence
*’‘ioort6* Of September as possible.
r£Si» will be given and government boa
Gtaen ~ djpt; Mar. 17th Dist. Pa
Bote a* Bwroa lavasCmiAP.—The pres
prices of *ll the necessaries of life developes a v
of ecotfomlcal resources that have hen
fore reftained Unknown. Choking a dog to de
with bntter is teid not to be the only way in wh
he may be kilted i but those who desire to esc
such a death may follow 'he plan of the odito
ihe Kindorhook Rough -Vote*, who says:—•(
nutter and milk, since we have reduced the th
!o a ivtteni, only costs ns 28 cents a week !
use a pint of; qidk a day, for which we pay f
cents. The milk Is skimmed twice a day, i
the cream thus obtained is sufficient to give l
churnings a week. The batter, properly mould
is put on a plate, and every meal-time a par
mime is gone through with representing the ac
taking butter and spreading it. What bnttci
left over at the Tend of the week is taken to
store and sold nt 45 cents a pound."
Pautnn. Accident.—The Lewistown Lhi
vnit taj* that on Thursday aftcrnoou last Alb
Long and Kirk H., M’CUntic, the former aged
and the latter 11 years, were oat on a gunti
exctfsipn iß.ihqfigWpt «jrt oMoipt.; .As pit
hare been' expected; (bays of that age rarely
ing capable of exercising the caution so neces*
ro guard against accidents,) Long tired at a pigt
at the very moment that M’Clintic happened to
within range of his gun. The consequence w
the latter received nearly the whole charge of s
in the back part of his head. Strange to say,
was able to run to the nearest house, but there
exhausted. He was brought to the residence
hi s father, and his wounds were dressed by 1
VanvaUah. The skull, though badly bruis
was not fractured, and it is believed none of
shot passed through the bone. i^e.lay in a v
critical condition for several days, but is n
rapidly recovering.
Kitad Accident.-—William Ullery, braken
on the Emigrant Train on the Pennsylvania Ri
road, was instantly killed on Saturday morn
lasi. It appears that he was standing on to|
the cars as the train approached Petersburg, t
not observing the bridg^.which crosses the tr;
at that point, his head was struck by the ' iimb
with .such force as to cause his almost inst
death. His remains were brought to the reside
of his brother-in-law, Major Bw M. Morrow, in t
place, and were buried in the Jackson gravey
on Monday. Deceased was abont 25 years
age, and was a son of Mr. John Ullery, of B
township, this county.— Standard.
How am Too, Habby ?—Sherman has flan
Hood, split his army and “licked him," as
b’hoys say. Maj.-Gen. John Morgan has b
met by his match, got himself beautifully whip
and killed. All this has happened within
past ten days, and within the same length of t
Harry Tuck has replenished his storey in
place, with a large assortment of ready-m
clothing art gents’ famishing goods, for fell
winter wear, all of which will be sold at reas<
ble prices. He does not profess to undersell i
rybody else id his line, but be promises to
everybody the worth of their money in well-m
clothing.- Call at his store, on Main street,
see for yourselves.
i
Robbery. -7- A neat operation was performet
some expert thief at the Provost Marshall’s Of
in Hollidaysburg, last week. A volunteer i
Lewistown had been sworn into the service f
Mifflin county, and his bounty, $BOO, was hat
to Captain Lloyd, who enclosed it in an enve
to be delivered. The Captain laid the enve
on the table and turned round to attend to s
business. Scarcely an instant of time elaf
when the Captain reached for the money, b
was gone, and net the/thief nor money has s
been heard of. '
Bowling Green, Ind., correspon
of the Cincinnati Commercial writes ad folios
a hard shell Baptist down that way: Old I
C ■U of tho hard shell Baptist persnasii
otherwise know as the forty gallon Bap
Uncle Elias is a farmer, and a preacher. If t
is anything thal Uncle Elias does 'delight in, 1
in expotmdihg the Gospel. But his congregti
have | thelf own peculiar views abont the prop
ofsitting trader the droppings of the Sanctuary t
Sunday,: and listening to the endless repedtio
the same sermon, and prefer the attractions
squirrel-hunt or a horse race. Undo Elias i
dueed to the necessity of shrewd expedients fo
curing a congregation, and occasioijly indt
in the pious fraud of causing it to bo “ non
around that some brother from “ fnrrin p
will elucidate the knotty points of the Baptist
ology on the ensniqg Sabbath. The fo
preacher does not come, and after the congi
non assembles,' the inevitable Elias arises
quests Jackson to “ lead off with that ere 1
he learn’t down in Quango County,” and pro«
to inflict upon the nnwilßng-hearere the saint
sermon. ■ ‘
We bear that daring tbe late visit o
"W to Hagerstown, Md., they pioceeded «
«mnty jail and released therefrom ParkCr
who wasconfined there ior deliberately sh,d
JfctoT Wright doting a quarrel Wreeh the
tie* about a woman kept by the latter. V
the rebels left Hagerstown they took Cramer
™®i hut on 'reaching Williamsport he des
“•h* and returned to Hagerstown, where he
*>nt6Q himself at'the jail to the county shcrif
™Cd to be recommitted, assorting that he v
.“d d—d If, he would go with such a set -f
He was accordingly assigned to h
a«*l in November will be tried npo
frlfP jif murder.— Washington Star.
.dO" A Wiscunsin exchange, on the faith
letter, says that times are awful hs
Canada. No business done, wages not soffi
to I»y hoarl, and almost impossible to get
The country is overrun whb
«jwmers from the United States, and thoasai
Canadians: are leaving far the States to pi
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