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Sqnare, (8 line. , 110 1 60 2 00 T*» *■ I" 1 60 2 00 * 60 three weeks andtee than three month., 26 cj.nts per so.oare for each liwertion e months. 1 year. ’* ..* 1 60 * 3 00 2 6 00 Six Hum or low 2 60 4 00 f 00 One saosro ■•••• 4 6 00 10 00 Twn “ 6 00 8 OO 1* 00 Three ■■••;. fi 00 10 00 1* 00 Bonr v:;•■> , 10 00 14 00 30 00 Half a column 14 00 35 00 40 00 sss^srte^.!: I*ruf*«ittOMror not exceeding 8 lines . dffi. wi« be continued till forbid and cbmped five cenSper line for stmt insertion. notice, exceeding ten lines, fifty cents a.q^r. skmt ftotog* THE MASKERS BY. .T. T. THOWHRUM'.K Yesternight, as late I .-travt J j Through the orchard '> mottled shade Coming to the moonlit alleys. Where the sweet south wind, that dallies ; All day with the Queen of Roses, j All night on her breast reposes — | Drinking from the dewy blooms. Silences, and scented glooms Of the warm-breathed summer night, Dong, deep draughts of pure delight Quick the shaken foliage parted, j And from out its shadows darted Dwarf-like forms, with hideous faces, dries, contortions' and grimaces. Still I stood beneath the lonely. Sighing lilacs, saying only— • Little friends, you can’t alarm me ! Well 1 know yon would not harm me I" .Straightway dropped each painted mask, Sword of lath, and paper casque. And a troop of rosy girls Han and kissed me'through their curls. Caught within their net of graces, I looked round on shining faces. Sweetly through the moonlit alleys Hang their laughter’s silver sallies. Then along the pathway, light With the while bloom of the night. I went peaceful, pacing slow. Captive held in arms of snow. Happy maids ! of you I learn Heavenly maskers to discern! So, when seeming griefs and banns %ill life’s garden with alarms, Through its inner walks enchanted I will ever move undaunted. Love hath messengers that borrow Tragic masks of fear and sorrow, When they come to do us kindness— And bnt for our tears and blindness. We should see, through each disguise, Cherub cheeks and angel eyes. | THE FEDEBAL PBISONEBS AT ANDERSON VILLE. - S Fearful Hardships and Sufferings . j A ; Sworn Statement by exchanged Pris- oners. The Sanitary Coimnission Bulkin 1 contains the following exceedingly 1 u unresting statement regarding the condition and treatment of our pris- 1 oners confined. at Anderson vile, 1 Ga. It will be observed that it is verified finder oath by three or four > soldiers, who were exchanged An g, , 10, and were appointed by comrades as a deputation to wait upon President Lincoln and make representations regarding their con dition and sufferings. Originally, six commissioners were, appointed by the prisoners, but two of them were returned with the twelve 'who failed to secure an exchange at Port Royal, and of the four-who came through, one—E. W. Boats, the chairman—is confined to his bed in New York, unable to accompany the commissioners to W ashington. A strange delay in forwarding the papers 'granting these men a fur lough has prevented them from going to Washington as promptly as they desired ; but their ’ story, some parts of which are too revolt ing for publication; has by this time been laid before the president.- The statement in the Bulletin is mainly as follows ; ‘ I I I am a private in the 82d Jfew York regiment of volunteers, |Co, G; was captured with about .800 Federal troops in front of Peters burg, on the 28d of .J une, 1804, j we were kept at Petersburg two days ; at Richmond, bn Belle Isle, three days ; then conveyed by rail to lomchburg inarched 75 miles to Danville, thence by rail jto. Anjder- aonville, Ga ; during the six days by rail to .A-ndersoiiville meat was given us twice, and; the daily ration was four crackers. : On entering the Stockade Prison wefound it crowded with 28,000 of our fellow soldiers.— By crowded I mean that it was diffi cult to move in any direction .with out jostling and being jostled. The prison is an open space,, sloping on both sides, originally 17 acres, now 25 acres, in the shape of a parallelo gram, without trees or shelter of any kind. The soil is sand over a bottom of clay. The fence is made of upright trunks of trees about twenty feet high, near the top of which are small platforms, where the guards arc stationed. Twenty feet inside and parallel to the fence is a light railing, forming the “dead line,” beyond which the projection of a foot or finger is sure to bring the deadly bullet of the sentinel.— Through the grounds, at nearly right angles with the longer sides, runs or rather creeps a Stream through au artificial channel, varying from five to six feet in width* the water about ankle deep, and near the middle of the iuclosure, spreading out into a swamp of about six acres, tilled with refuse wood, stamps, and debris of the camp. Before entering this emdosure the stream, or more prop erly sewer, passes through the camp of the guards, -receiving from this source, and others farther up, a large amount of the vilest material, even the contents of the sink. The water is of a dark color, and an or dinary glass would collect their thick sediment. This was our only driuk and cooking ; water. It was pur custom to dlfer it as best we can, through our remnants of haver sacks, shirts and blouses. The new comers,.' on reaching us, would egclaim, ‘Tsj tins hell yet they soon’ would become callous, ami enter unmoved the horrible rot tenness The rebel authorities never removed any filthy There, was seldom any visitation by the officers in charge. ■ Two surgeons were at one time sent by President Davis to inspect the camp, but a walk through a, small section gave them all the information they de sired, and we never;saw them again. The guard usually numbered about sixty-four—eight at each end, and twenty-four on; a side. On the outside, within three hundred yards* were fortifications,, on high ground, overlooking and j. perfectly com manding us, mounting twenty-four 12-pound Napoleon parrots. We were never permitted to go out-side, except at times, in small squads, to gather our fire-wood. During the building of the cook house a few, who were carpenters!, were* ordered out to assist. Our only shelter from the sun, and rain, and night dews was what we could make by stretching over us our coats or ■ scraps of blankets, which a few had, but generally there was no attempt by day or night to protect themselves. The rations consisted of eight ounces pf corn bread, (the cob being ground with the kernel,) and gener ally sour, two ounces of condemned pork, offensive in 'appearance and smell- Occasionally, about twice a week, two table-spoonfuls of rice, and in place of the pork, the same amount (two table-spoonfuls) of i molasses was giveii us about twice a month. This ration was brought into camp about four o'clock ?, ai., and thrown from the wagons to the ground, the men being arranged in divisions of 270, , subdivided into squads of nineties; and thirties. It was the custom to consume the whole ration at 6nce, rather i than save any for. the, next day. The distribution being often unequal, some would-lose the rations alto gether. "We were allowed no dish or cooking utensil of any kind. On opening the camp,in the winter, the first 2,000 prisoneirs were allowed skillets, one to fifty men, but these were soon taken away. To the best of my knowledge,v information, and belief, our ration was in quality a , starving one, it being either too foul to be touched or too raw to be di gested, , , The clothing of the men was mis ■ erable in the extreme. Yery few ( had shoes of any hind ; not 2,000 i had coats aqd pants, and those were . I late comers, Mt>re than one half ALTOONA, PA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1864. were indecently exposed, and many, were naked. The usual punishment was to place the tneu in the stocks outside, near the* captain’s quarters. If a man was missing at roll-call, the squad of ninety to which he belonged was deprived of the ration., The '“dead-line” bullet, already referred to, spared no offender. One poor fellow, just from Sherman,s army, his name was Roberts, Avas trying to wash his face near the “dead line” railing, when he' slipped on the clayey bottom, and fell with his head just outside the fatal border. Wo shouted to him, but it was too late— “another 1 guard would have a fur lough,” me men said. It was a common belief among our men, arising from' statements made by. the guard, that General Winder, in command, issued an order that any one of the guard who should shoot a Yankee outside of the “dead-line” should have a months furlough, but there probably Avas no truth in this. About two a day AA r ere thus shot, some being cases of suicide, brought on'by mental depression of physical misery, the poor fellows throwing themselves or madly rushing outside the “line." The mental condition of a.large portion:of the men was melancholy, beginning in despondency, and tend-' ingto a kind of stolid and idiotic indifference. Many spent much time in arousing and encouraging their fellows, but hundreds were lying about motionless, or stalking vacantly to and fro, , quite beyond any help which could be given them within their prison walls. These THE PHENOMENA OP THUNDEB, cases were frequent among those AND LIGHTNING. who had \ been imprisoned but a Silent lightnings, whether they short time. There were those who appear in a clear or clouded sky, were captured at the first Bull Run, are usually explained by the suppo- July, 1861, and had known Belle gitiou that they are the reflection of Isle from the hi st, yet had preserved lightnings which issue from clouds their physical and mental health to below the horizon, and so distant a wonderful degree. Many were that the thunder which accompanies wise and resolute enough to keep them cannot be heard. It has been themselves occupied—some in cut- ou the other hand,' objected, that ting bone and wood ornaments, the splendor of ligbtnihg is not making their knives out of iron sufficiently intense to cause a re hoops—others in manufacturing ink flection so bright as the silent light from the rust from these same niugs, and that a reflection inferior hoops, and with rude pens sketching brightness to lightning itself in or imitating bank notes, or any the same proportion as twilight is to sample that would involve long and the brightness of the sun, would patient execution. not be visible. To this objection Letters from home very seldom M. Arago replies by'the following reached us, and few had any means f ac ta : - T of writing. In the early summer a Cassina and Lacaille, when en large batch of letters five thousand „. a u. e( j making a series of experi we are told—arrived, having been men (- 8 ou the velocity of sound, in accumulating many mouths. These t j ie ear saw the light produced were brought into camp by an tj ie discharge of a piece of ord officer, under orders to collect ten nance afl aced at the base ofthelight ceuts on each ;ot course most were bouse ' G f Cette; although at the returned, and we heard no niore of gta^on they occupied both the town them. Qne ot my companions saw and light-house were concealed among them taree from his parents, -j i u terveiiiug hills, but he was unable to pay the charge. > ioco v 7 v • i According to die rule. of tammSs- Zach gave signal, on don of letter* over the lines, these the Brocken (» monutom of the letter. man have already piid ten Ham range,) by exploding six or cent, each to the Rebel govern- seven ounce, of gun powder. The 0 light produced by this was seen by i ‘ . v. , , .. observers stationed on Mount Kel- The proportion of deaths from i en berg, at adistance of nearly three starvation, not including those con- lea ue ® f rom the Brocken. Since sequent on the diseases originating a d j rec f; view would have been ren in the character and limited quau- dered impossible by the convexity tity of food, such as diarrhoea, dys- 0 p earth, the light must have entery, aud scurvy, I cannot state, been seen by reflection. but to; the best f That this mode of Explaining information and *e 0 j igll 'tning may not toke the scores every month.. Wecould at cWct « of C p^e 9 ture, it will any time ,pomt ou wnaij , be necessary to show that distant such a iate was mevite , } are actually visible when layorfeeblywalked,meres ee s, thunder which accompanies whose emaciatum exeeeded. the £ inaudible . Two unexcep amples given inL k, 1 • ti enable observations are adduced for June 18, 1864. I<or example, ] in nurnose some cases the inner edges of the; P P , two bones of the arms, between the j On the night between, the 10th elbow and the wrist, with the inter- j and 11th of July, ltB3, the weather mediate blood vessels, were plainly | being calm and the sky mnclouded, visible when held toward the light. . Saussure, stationed at the Hospice The -ration in quantity was perhaps , of the Grimsel, lookmg m the dwee barely sufficient to sustain lite, and j tion of Geneva, saw on me horxzpn the cases of starvation were generally 1 some streaks of clouds from which those whose Stomachs could not bghtmng issued, but no thunder was retain what had become entirely in--; heard It was afterwards^ ascer ! digestible tamed that at the moment tins oc- Tor a man to find ou waking that | curred; a storm broke over Geneva his comrade by his side was dead i the most terrific that the; people of was an Occurrence too common to ; that country ever witnessed, be noted. I have seen death inOn the 21st of July, 1813, Mr. almost all the forms of the hospital Luke Howard observed at Totten aud battle-field, hut the daily scenes ham, near London,' in a clear sky. inCamp Sumter exceed in the ex- lightning,' such as is called heat trepiityof tnisery all my previous lightning, appear toward the south experience. ; * east. It was afterward ascertained The work of burial is performed ' that a violent storm at that moment by our own men, under guard and raged in France, which extended orders, twenty-five Bodies being in .from Calais to Dunkirk. This l a sipgle pit, without head-boards, lightning, above fifty leagues distant, [independent IN EVERYTHING, j and the sad duty performed with indecent haste. Sometimes oar men Were rewarded for this work with a few sticks of fire-wood, and I have known them quarrel over a <jead body for the job. Our men especially the mechanics, were tempted with the ofter of lib erty and large wages to take the oath of allegiance to the Confeder acy, but it was very rare that their patriotism, even under such a fiery trial ever way. I carry this message from one of my companions to hie mother : “My treatment is killing me, mother, but I die cheer fully for my country.” Some attempts were made 0 to escape, but wholly in vain, for if the prison walls and guards were passed, and the protecting Woods, reached, the bloodhounds were sure to find usom. Tunnelling was once attempted on a large scale, but on the after noon proceeding the night fixed on for escape, an officer rode in and announced fo us that the plot was discovered, and froni our huge pen we could see the hill ahov r e us and the' regiment just arriving to strengthen the guard. We had been betrayed. It was our belief that spies were kept in the camp, which could very easily be done. The number in camp when I left was nearly 35,000 and daily in creasing. The number in hospital was about 5,000. I was exchanged at Port Royal Feriy,' August*l6. Prescott Tracey, 82d Regiment, ,N. Y. V. was visible in the atmosphere' of London. ' .r ■? / tt nimst then be admitted as proved, that silent lightnings may be and sometimes are produced by the reflection in the atmosphere of lightning of which the? i thunder is top distant to be heard. ■, But it does not, therefore, follow that such ap pearance most be and always is pro duced by that cause. On the con trary, heat lightningej frequently present appearances, ] to explain which it would be almost impossible to admit the hypothesis of distant storms. Thus it frequently happens that when the whole visible Arma ment is unclouded, the lightnings will play fop entire nights on every; side of the. horizon, and will extend even to the zenith. If distant storms* were admitted to explain such phe nomena, it would be necessary to suppose that portion of the atmos phere visible from a single placq clear and serene, yet surrounded on every side by a rim of clouds, throughout which storms rage.— The improbability of such an hy pothesis is apparent. Thunder unaccompanied by light ning, is explained by M. Arago, by supposing two strata of clouds at different heights, j of ■ which the superior stratum is the ; seat pf the thunder-storm, and of i which the inferior stratum is sufficiently dense to be impervious to the light which precedes the thunder. Nevertheless, the density of the inferior cloud will not at all impede the transxdission of sound through it, and the thunder will consequently be heard while the lightning is invisible; ' From the observations which have beeii recorded of the time between the flash and the thunder, it appears that although in one instance this interval amounted to i seventy-two seconds, it usually does not exceed forty-eight seconds. Itfpllows, then, that the greatest distance from which the atmosphere explosions which produce thunder are heard is about ten miles. If the single re corded observation of an interval of seventy-two seconds- ckn be relied on, it would follow thaj; in that par ticular case thunder was heard at the distance of fifteen'ihilesi Evidence - still more direct and convincing cdn be adduced, that beyond the distance of eight or ten miles thunder is inaudible. When the steeple of Lestwithiel in Cornwall was struck by lightning, on the 26th of January, 1757, and almost entirely destroyed, the thun der was terrific ; yet 'Smeaton, the engineer*. who was then within thirty ’miles of the place, heard no thunder. Muschenhroeck states that thunder at the Hague is inaudi ble at Leydon and at Rotterdam, the distance of thej former being ten, and the latter twelve miles. There are also examples of violent storms breaking over Amsterdam which were inaudible at Leydotf, the dis tance being about; twefity miles. The rolling of thunder has by some been ascribed to the effect of echo. That echo hajs in cases a share in the production of the phe nomena cannot be doubted by any one who has ever witnessed an Alpine storm. A multitude of cau ses affecting the [loudness, the re verberation, and the continuity of the peals, are quite apparent. The question is whether echo is the only cause of the rolling thunder. It has been shown that the dura tion of the thunder roll amounts sometimes to forty-five seconds.— Whether the echoes of any sound ever have such duration, can only be determijned by observation. The example of the often reiterated echo at a certain island on the lake of Killarney, is known to all travelers. Mr. Scoresby, observed on a par ticular occasion its duration, and found it about thirty seconds. The original sound is usually produced by the discharge of a small piece of cannon. It would seem! that; on the occa sion of Mr. Scoresby’s observations, a pistol was used. It is argued by Mr. Arago, that if a cannon bad been used, the wbuldLave been much greater, and probably equal to the continuance of the longest roll of thunder. ' ( ■ During the experiments, made to , determine the velocity of sound, in 1 June, 1822, M. M. Humboldt Bou vard, Gay-Lussac, and Emile de EDITOHS AND PBOFRSBTOBS. Laplace, beard the echo of a gahnou discharged near them during-twen ty-tive seconds.. Mariners state that thunderheard at sea is marked by roltingas long continued as on land, although nope of those causes which are generally supposed to produce echoes, such as walla, rocks, woods, hills, or moun tains, are present. Unless the sur face of the clouds reflects sounds, no meansr of procuring an echa can exist under such circumstances.— Although it might seem, that the clouds would be as little capable: of reflecting sound as the Sir itself, the£e appears to be soihe reason to judge otherwise. Muschenbroeck states, as the result of his own obser vations, that a cannon, which, being discharged, when the heavens were unclouded, produced only a single report, had its sounds several times reverberated when discharged in the same place under clouded sky. In the course of the experiments made in 1822, to determine the velocity of sound already referred to, the same observation was made. A JDLL Y TEMPERANCE FAMILY Joe Harris was a whole-souled, merry fellow, and very fond of a glass. After living in New Orleans many years; he concluded he would visit his uncle who lived in Massa chusetts and whom he hud not seen for several years. Now, there is a decided difference between Now Orleans and Massachusetts in regard to the use of ardent spirits, and when Joe arrived he found the people running wild about temper ance ; he -felt bad, thinking with the old song that keeping the spir its up by pouring spirits down, was one of the beat ways to make time pass, and began to fear indeed, that he was in a ‘pickle.’ But on the morning after his arrival, the old lady came to him and said : “Joe, you have been living at the South, and no doubt are in the habit of taking something about 11 o clock. Now, I keep some for medical purposes, but let no one know it, as my husband wishes to set the boys a good example.” Joe promised, and thinking he would get no more that day’ took as he expressed it a “buster.” : After he had walked to the stable who should he meet but his uncle. “Well, Joe,” said he, “I; expect you are accustomed to drinking in New Orleans, but you find ua-tem perance men up here, and for the sake of my sons, I ddVt let them know I have any brandy ; but I keep a little for my rheumatism ; will you accept some ?” Joe signified his consent, and took another good horn. Then continuing his walk, he came to where the boys were hauling rails. A fter conversing awhile, one of his cousins said : : ! . “Joe I expect you'would like something to drink* and as bur folks ate opposed to liquor, we keep some here to help on with our work. Out came tJnT bottle and down they sat, and he said by the time he got home to dinner, he was as tight as he could be, all from visiting a “temperance family.” Every woman .shou|d be marned to an excellent man., — Marriage, it ia true, brings and wear ; put it is the riugtnatiswQrn that keeps bright, and the watch that lies unwound that gets' out of order. The sweet sympathies! in volved in the family relation the new energies developed by new responsibilities.; the, new compen sation for all outlays of strength, bring about a delightful play upon the heart ah(J intellect, ydac|i,j in their reaction upon the body, pro- • duces an effect that 4s nothing less than preservation. Then there is a higher power than this—one wbibh we speak of soberly and reverently. No one is completely armed against the encroaching ills of .life who, has in his heart no place for religion.— The calmness, the patience, apddlie joy abd hope that are in pqssesliou of that woman whose heart Is right in its highest relation, can never fait to preserve and heighten every personal power and charm that she possesses; ■ ’ ■ ’*: ; - I The heart retains its impressions when those oftbe brain IblveJ been 1 erased. u-4 **'■ -os,?* I “ ''~v NO- 27 t y;n„«
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