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JIKHWIN * 00, , , Sole Proprietor*, :U |Ubtnr Street, New icrk. eu.ghtlT* I*''; 1 *''; CEOFUFK. i****** OtmAmm YonEVott UUCAn. ieUMnealt of modem eUeear ■tai Ma u entirely sew ten* irnepectiwe cf *#»• oU; Mad by the ■KXt untMntßWd felh prn»omniiligJt»aha«f *mat Swui ' - < nl’MbQttrJ 7 . r£UMHf rflgMMcatSM. CTtowatlp fcU .ofJlUVOjtaiKr. i . •■■ % \ . tos* du«k. , mte etUts. - . [tltmij ftnat, .T«nPfc >U*B* COATED RKGULATOB, jPr«SBJW M^awwa*.- t , s£.* , v/ V, i,, - •■ - K J~. .J. UieKUM & DEBN, VOL. 9 THE ALTOONA TRIBUNE. .' u , rRUM . - - - H.C.DBftN, *. **«««■ 0 „ ~t « - mojumom. ■ | .. „„, fnenble tnvurixbl.r in adnoee,) *i *0 at the expiration of the fiae pal.l tor. ntMS vr iDYEETmi-rr,: | N I insertion 2 do. 3 do. ,11r i' llCS ** * *l 00 On. 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