#s Sltwnu gmfoinf socthees i *£■> TWESTY, HQSTBB LN BEBEL PBISOSS: 7 ALTOONA, PA. SAmDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1865. Tbt Draft—And Our Quota. Win agoix beg leave to call the attention of binr citizens to the importance of the most energetic measures and efforts to avoid the draft, which will surely take place at tb« date fixed upon- We must not be de ceived by dying rumors of peace. They ■te sll humbug. We must address our setves seriously to the work on hand. We hope had trust our efficient Committee, which has accomplished so much for the town, in times past, will leave no means outlied, now, to raise our quota. Our State Quota has been very greatly reduced, owieg mainly to «the exertions ot CoL H«ll This reduction has brought the quota of our town to a limit which affords a reasonable hope of filling it. We bope noafforts will be wanting on our part to do it. Every badness man in town is in terested in this matter, whether he be lia ble to the Draft or not,' PEACE. THirt** 1 * to Pittsburgh Commarcisl. • Wabbdkjtos, February 3 Xhe following is the faU text of a double leaded laager in this morning's Cbronicie, supposed on aff hands to be from Colonel Forney, and to be semi-official: *®>erei*. so much disunion about the proposi tion* of peace between tbe'Government of tbe { Catted States and tbe disappointed leaders who have compelled a large portion of our people to t«k» arms against it, that we should be indifferent to our own frequent, early, and recent expres sion* qB the subject, if we did not take some little part in the debate. The saijject itself is so vast, that jt taxes the greatest and appeals to the smal lest -minds. Transcending ordinary topics and 11anrarqinr frfl : r~ i* demands tire attention of every one who thinks, or talks or writes upon it.— We can best understand bow they feel who have tdfeod the fearful punishment of rebellion against ihe Imitations of onr common fathers by remem bering bow much we commisserated them, even ! with the sense of their dreadful crime before our cyda.' “Pride, passion, and a bangbty sense of refusing to Repent, have been tbe trifling cause of hatred antdog the familiea of men, as among the families oflMffiaaa. But we eannot, before God we dare nt*,deny that it is hard to say 1 am penitent, it is easy to lay I forgive. How mysterious is tbe philosophy of the human heart? How fall of pathd*'asd instruction the! prodigal son? Who evpr neaa the Vicar of Wakefield without shed ding a tear, unless, indeed, he attempted to out rage nature by showing that be had no feeling. “We'know not there are Cornmisaicraert from ! the seceded or revolted Stales, in this same city of Washington, bat we hope they are on the gronnu. Tbe more distinguished or authoritative they are, tbey shoold bo welcomed. The terms of reunion are ;frw |tnd briefly told, Tbe revolted States are dot sought to be returned as captives, or as inferiors, or ns degraded members of the National family. There is only one condition of restora tion, it is the aboiitkw of slavery. To that! ' both rifle* bare at last agreed—the one because it desired, the other, because It could not help it. That condition is, that tbe Union shall be restored.” Xosday, at eleven o'clock. President Lincoln , Uft Washingtoo, by a special train, for Annapolis, - to join Secretary Seward at Portress Monroe or City Point, to' bold an interview with the- rebel Messrs. Stephens, Homer and-Camp iwi accompanied by one of the attacbees of tbe White House. ' ftiMcirisry Seward left here on the early train yesterday morning, accompanied by Mr. Robert I. Chew, oftbe Stfite Department. When the Fresi fifpittfi hare the commissioner* had not arrived wiUds onr lines, and htsdestination was Annapo lis. From, the tact o t bis going on to Fortress iSowfftf pr. City Faint, color is given to the report fl, Vghel deputation had been allowed to enter 00 fines, is Understood that'they are now at Fortress Monroe. " It It believed that the rebel Commissioners wili be requested, as a preliminary toany discussion of peat* propositions, to show that they have authori lytopresentas a bad* cf negotiation, and all pro- Jen jaadmiasablc than that of cooffder- Taaourr ax WasHraoToa. —On Monday eve- 1 nillg abort half-post four o’clock as Mr. Burrows, 1 Jpe. Controller’* office, in the Treasury Department, was coming down the stairway in thecal and of the building, be was shot by Miss Mss.fijuris, iff Chicago, one ball passing through bis body, penetrating hit heart. He tank upon tbe stept, and, without uttering a word, soon died. : Mitt Haiti* walked ont very de&herately and started doirn towards the avenue, when she was overtaken by one of the door-keepers, and without any redstuiee taken back, and soon afterwards wm ibwiti •way' by a police officer. She is very yonog aad handsome, with long black curly hair, and of very prepossessing appearance, There are osuiy conflicting rumors as to the catsd of drbotißg, but all agree at to' the point of biftbering been very intimate with Miss Harris, end having promised her marriage, she visited him once here last winter, but he postponed the ruftvrfrffi, and Anally married another; She says that lm refused her die position she had a right to, nad but one! dung remained for her. Atnagis, to Beau Savamraa.—The steam ship Suva Nada, from Savannah and Hilton Head OP the ,29th oil., arrived at this port to ■iglUui Among her passengers are^Mi^or-General 27th adisastrous confla grttlon ut Savannah, destroying consid erable properqv bat there was no loss of life. 'Qh of the 28th another fire broke destroying two squares in the third district. Buildings weflt torh down to prevenf the spread of the flames, as the wind was blowing strong from Jim yap t ■ gome fiend bad placed a keg of powder at the sldeoPtte! anenah is located at the corner Of fork and Walter streets, undoubtedly for the purpose of blowing up the city, as the arsenal con tained soine thirty tons of powder. The keg, with Us top ialten off, was secreted behind si*, ThSsheUhdt design is attributed to the Bebel Sympathisers, who are;in anything butan amicable mood, inridwof their condition, , Wadiliig yuur grocsr iet your motwhu •Mgirtnus bo*mem." : ■ b.:i'<,q * p. ; ;> m'STEMATIC_SXAJIVATTOJS. TERRIBLE TALE OF HORRORS. W amnaoToat, Jan. 20.—ThfifcOoiriBg testimo ny writ given to-day before thje Committee on the Conduct of the War,' by Attest I>. Kichanisoo: —; lam « Tribune rtwrespondent; wa* captured by the Keheis, May 3, 1863, at midnight, on a bay bale in the Mississippi Hirer, Ofixmte Vickabufg. After confinement in six different prison*. was sent to SaCsbory, S. C., Feb. 3, l&A, rj»d kept there until Dec 'ife, lotii, when X escaped. For several months jSaUsbury was tite most end arable Bebei prison I had seen. The six hundred inmatrsex erctsed in the open air, were comparatively well fed and kindly mated. Bat early in October ten thousand regular prisoners of war arrived there, and h immediately changtslJmo a acene of tv and nor; ore. it was densely crowded; rations were cat down and issued very irregularly; friends outride coold not even fond in a pia« of food; the prisonen suffered constantly and often intensely for want of water, bread and shelter. The Befael authorities placed all the prison hos pitals under charge of my two journalistic comrades and myself. Oar poritions enabled os to obtain exact and min are information. Those who had to Jive or die on the prison rations always suffered from hunger. Very frequently one or more divis ions of a thousand men would; receive no rations for twenty-four hoars; sometimes they were with out a morsel of food for forty ylght hours. The few wbo bad money would pay-frora five to twenty dollars Kcbei currency for a Stile loaf of bread.— McttWprisoners traded the but ions : from their blouses for food. Many, utotjgh the weather was very inclement, and snows -frequent, sold coats from their bocks and shoes from their feet. Yet I was assured, on authority entirely trustworthy. teat the great commissary ; warehouse, near the prison, was filled with previsions: that the com missary found it difficult to obtain storage for: his flopr and meal: that when A subordinate asked the Poet Commandant, Major John H. Gee, “Shalll give the prisoners fail rations?" h“ re plied, ‘*Ko, than, give them quarter^ rations.” I know from personal observation, that corn and pork are very abundant in the region of Salisbury. For several weeks the prisoners had no shelter whatever. Tiny were ail thinly clad. Xhuns ands were barefooted. Not one in twenty‘bad either overcoat or blanket. Many hundreds were withont shirts, and hundreds more without blouses. At last one Sibley tent and one "A" tent were fur nished to each squad of one hundred. With the closest crowding these sheltered about one-half of the prisoners. The rest borrowed in the ground, crept under buildings, or shivered through the nights in the open air, upon the frozen, muddy or | snowy soil If the Kebels, at the tune of their i capture, had no; stolen their shelter tents, blankets, I clothing and money, they Would have suffered little from cold. If the prison authorities had permitted a few hundred of them, either upon parole or under guard, to cut logs within two miles of the garrison, the prisoners would have gladly built comfortable and ample barracks in I one week. But the commandant would never, in | a densely wooded region, with the cars which I brought it passing by the walls of the prison, even { furnish half the fuel which Was needed. The hospitals were in a horrible condition.— By crowding the patients thick as they could he upon the door they would contain six hundred inmates. They were always full to overflowing, with thousands seeking admission in vain. In the two largest wards, containing Jointly about two hundred and fifty patients, there was no fire whatever; the! others had small fire-places, bat were always cold. One wind, which held forty patients, was comparatively well furnished. In the other eight the sick and dying men lay upon the cold and usually naked floor, for the scanty straw famished as soon became too filthy and full of vermin for use. The authorities never sup plied a single blanket, or quilt, or yiillow, or bed for those eight wards ; we could not procure even brooms to keep them clean, or cold water to wash the f rr** of the inmates. Pneumonia, catarrh and diarrhoea were the prevailing diseases; bat they were directly the resalt of hanger and exposure.— More than half who entered the hospitals died in a very few days. The deceased, always without coffins, were loaded into a dead-cart, piled upon each other like logs of wood, and so driven out, to -he thrown into a trench and covered with earth. I TTheitebel surgeons were generally humane and ! attentive. They endeavored to improve the shift ing condition of the hospitals, but the Salisbury and the Richmond authorities both disregarded their complaints and protests. On November 25»h many of the prisoners had been without food for forty-height hoars. Despe rate "from hunger, without any matured plan, a few of them said, “we may as well die in one way as another; let ns break out cf this horrible place. ' Some of them wrested the guns from a relief of fifteen Hebei soldiers just entering the yard, killing two who resisted, and wounding five or six.— Others attempted to open the'fence, but they bad neither adequate tools nor concert of action Before they could effect a breach every gun in the garrison was turned upon them ; the field pieces opened with grape and canister, and they dispersed to their quarters. Five minutes from the begin ing the attempt was quelled, and hardly S prisoner to be seen in the yaid. My own quarters were a hundred snd fifty yards from the scene of the in surrection ; in our vicinity; there had been no par ticipation at all in it; and yet, for twenty minutes after it was ended, the guards upon the fence on each side of us, with deliberate aim, fired Iqto the , tents upon helpless and innocent men. They killed in all fifteen and wounded sixty, not one tcclhof whom hod token port in the attempt; many of whom were ignorant of it until they beard the gnns. Deliberate, cold-blooded murders of peaceable men, where there was no pretence that they were breaking any prison regulation, were very frequent. On October 10, Lieutenant Davis, of the one hun dred-asd -fifty-eighth NeW York Infantry, was tiius shot dead by a guard who, lhe,day before, had been openly swearing that hc would “kill some Yankee yet.”' November 6;. Luther Conrad, of the Forty-fifth. Pennsylvania Infantry, a delirious patient of the hospitals, was similarly murdered. November 3, a chimney in one of the hospitals fell 'down, crushing several men under it. ‘ Orders were immediately given to the guard to let no one approach the building, on the pretext that there might be another insurrection. Two patients from that hospital bad not heard the or der, and were returning to their quarters, when I saw a sentinel on a fence, within twenty feet of them, without challenging them, raise bis piece and fire, killing one and wounding the other.— Major Gee, at the time, sms sanding immediately beside the sentinel, who most have acted under his direct orders. December 16, Moses Smith, of the Seventh Maryland (polbrcd) Infantry, while standing beside my quarters, searching for scraps of food from the sweepingsqf the cook-house, was shot through the head. Mlere were very many similar murders. I never knew any pretence even made of Investigating of. punishing diem. Our lives were never safe for (me moment. Any sen tinel, at any hoar of day pr night, could deliber ately abpQt down any ptUioner, or into any group of prisoners, black or whins, and he would not even be token off his post for it. Nearly every week an officer came into the prison to recruit for the Rebel army. Sometimes be pffitred bounties, always he promised good clothing and abnodant food. Between twelve hundred and eighteen hundred of oar men enlisted in two moaths. I was repeatedly asked by pris oners, sometimes with tears in their eyes:— “What shall I do? 1 w| W-t to starve to death. I am growing wfeoker daily. If I stay here I shall follow mjf comrades to the hospital aui die dead-house. If >1 enlist I may, live until T con 'escape.” ’ I had charge of the d&foff left by. the dead I diatnbuted orti. , , C »xwromt> Cocxtt BxSX BoXSEKT.-The Cli-,r ele* of dodting to more than twotiwamndjaiwo- J* I IWiniß THUapnint ___ ford Journal euetaaw a losgaad interest tr m, bet wkeß l oafed there were fnlfr are boo- The lon* .meant » over The enchaoimentha* A yu»rt Aock of an earthquake was fcit epdttof the attest aad enofearirai of Cte« H dred wttfaoot * shoe or. stocking, »d more yet TT»to«*«oay “«*»• A " , N - Y _ morni „rf the 29th alt. Drtr, the book-keroer of the torak. Bv h - - with no garraem above the waist except one bhmae ; been broketo Sow we can safe without ttaart at Btfaio, > *•* **“* moTOin * °*** ■ fo**** appears thai he fcad no .. »-. or one shin. Men came to me fmpeaiiy ojwo sof gnoulu£c eoßcanices, of dr boosted (r . lt is tpeited that the iawma* ! what xeqasK&tbe vwk of two or three whom the BehcK when they coptered them, had eofthehewe," Thehtftcr Him “safer motete* wffl secure cofmnbbd peace sby h im- He imfiLstened the windows ana - left nothing whatever except a light cotton ahirt 1 . . .._ . * . , lftnr ] while the cashier. Mr. Otter, waa at *m*r,' i/-.- and a pair of tight, ragged cotton panialoona. . bia not Ae k»Mt- .. bqe,fter - .£ m safpcc. while Mr. O. Waa. tmmSag&L:,-,.-- The hooka of ail the hospitals were kept, and t On Tuesday last, the rote Igr which the hbsmo- What ereatare took the smallest amoaw* hrearried the her «MtaMMK the bonds «*- ..... report* made npnnder my i ment to Article 13th of the Canxdtatmn of United ■- fcg«*age aknt when he entered the ark ? The posited ft in iebskdeirMp Goins; <«: ropenision. Dwngthe 1 States was lost at last nasioo of Congress, was re- ' nmh him front door, he walked threiagt? iheiiler to ;w %?££ £££ and A Hepehhosn lk period w»e fully 1500, or twenty per«*““ Toted M * d e “ ned * •***■ | „ «, ft** negroesptinted *h.h*«fc«by : dinfelU the box to one of ** otr-iiahd^ whote. 1 brought attar the names of moretfaxn The rwtdntkm andamendmeat reaAaa taUmw ; ■; btofe it openu and disposed trf tweire hundred of the i»d, some of the remainder | B( ü by the Senate and House of Re- : mrs«*ke “face negtoea ; stated *>medaTs since. The hkteacedf the hows, were netrer reported, the others I coold noc procure | prejenatiTes of the United Stases of America in ; • a Wssfaingtoe theatrical crijoc sars For- ; J-jjs 000 worth.' was found sewed in his pantafeoo.. cm the day or my escape Congress assembled, two-thirtisof both Hotaestxm- j r his bead, and that when a ; between the lining and otadde doth. The f.r>; c km. As the men grew more debilitated the per- That the following articles be proposed to : m ““ ~~ . , . ciream-taoce wiTsh naerf smwekm cm, D,-r , . cemage cf deaths the dieBt«e. « i tree his nodxe he canned be m remaining m the gamsoo, December 18th, and ment m the Consticotiaa of the United States, a§d. tereadtng.” nonding with that used in tearing down th- • . tbey_ were then dying a; the areiage rare rwen- when ratified by thren-foanha of said Tsyslatares «■ A short time since the Crawford Coontr i Spe. His ccodact since, and has sadden determl ty-eight a day or tbmden jw rem. a dtall be ralid to aU inientt and purposes as a pan "f A T_h", « Lrion to leare theS confirmed the The ample truth is that the JUbel aqthnntiea ot the said Constitntion, rix:— Bank was robbed rf m Gorerament Drer haa heretofore u“ .- are murdering oar soleicm at Srhabnry by cola Abticlb 13.—Section 1. Neither alarery nor Bonds, in conaemsenre of which ianolfw fell beiow j ~H> is now confix ' with ample food and tael. They me aomg im* enme, whereof the pwtr &bkll.have beat daly con- \ , i i ' systematically, and I btliere are killing intention- Tjeted, shall exist within the United Stales, or any the bonds rwwrered. ally, for the purpose of either forcing oar Gorern- object to their jurisdiction, ment to an exchange or forcing our prisoners into Pterions to the rote being taken remarks were p™, made br almost ereiy member of the House. The The following cs the testimony before the Lom- - * ■ mittee, of Junius Henri Browne : following remarks made by the member from this lam a journalist by profession; hare been since district, we copr with prfte. the breaking out of the war an army correspon- 'Mr. McALLfeTER said :—When the subject dent of the New Fork Tribune ; was captured in was before the House on a former occasion, I rosed that capacity in the middle of the Mississippi Biter, against the measure. 1 bare been in favor of ex whiit running past the batteries of Vicksburg, on hausting all means of conciliation to restore the the night of Slay 3d, 1563, our expedition having Union, and utterly opposed to Secession or the dis horn destroyed by the Rebel siege guns. 1 was solution of the Union in any war or shape. The held prisoner some twenty months, haring in that j result of fill the peace missions, and especially that time been an occupant of seven Southern prisons, of Mr. Blair, hits satisfied me that nothing short the last being the Salisbury (North Cariiina) pen- of the recognition of their independence will satis itentiary, where I was kept with my co-laborer, fy the Southern Confederacy. Ir must therefore Albert 1). Richardson, for almost eleven months, be distroyed ; and in voting for the present mea makiog my escape therefrom in bis company, on sure, 1 cast my rote against the cornerstone of the the night of December Id, 1£64. Southern Confederacy, and declare eternal war The treatment of our prisoners was bad enough against the enemies of my country, everywhere, but it was s% barbarous and inhuman The rote on the joint passage of the resolution at Salisbury for two months pterions to my escape, Uas follows : that I deem an exposure thereof a duty I owe to YEAS—Messrs. Alley [Mass.], Allison [lowaj, the thousands who there. Ames [Mass.], Anderson [Kyi], Arnold [III,], Early in October from nine to ten thousand of Ashley [Ohio], Baily [Pa.], Baldwin [Mich.], our enlisted men were sent to Salisbury from Rich- Baldwin [Mass.], Baxter [Vt,), Beaman [Mich.], mood and other paints, and as they bad been rob- Blain [Me.]. Blair [W. Va.], Blow [Mo.], Bom bed of their clothing and blankets and received 'veil [Mass.], Boyd [Mo.], Brandegee [Conn.], very little food or shelter, mortality among them Broomali [Pa.], Brown [W. Va.], A. W. Ciarke became almost immediacy widespread and alarm- [N. T.j. Freeman Clarke [N. T.], Cobb [Wis.j, ing- Coffrotb [Pa.], Colfax [lnd.], Cole [Cal.], Ctess- Every tenement within the prison limits waa well [Md.j, Davis [Md.], Davis [N.-T.], Dawes converted into a hospital, and I offered my ser- [Mass.]. Deming [Conn.], Dixon [B. L], lion vices as medical dispenser and assistant to the nelly [Minn.], Driggs Dumont [lnd.j. Rebel surgeons. I soon made daily visit, to the Eckley [Ohio], Elio; [Mass.English [Conn.], sick who could not obtain admission to the over- Fardsworlh [lll.]. Frank [N. Y.],G*nson [N.Y.J, crowded hospitals, lying in tents on the ground Garfield [Ohioj, Gooch [Mass.], Grinned [lowa], without covering, and with very scant raiment. Griswold [N. Y.j, Hale [Pa.j, Herrick [N. I.], where ther had crept for protection from the cold Hjgby [Cal.], Hooper [Mass.], Hotchkiss [N. V], rains, the snow and the biting winds, and perfor- Hubbard ' L lowa], Hubbard [Conn.], Halburd medsneh poor service as'tay in my limited power. Y.j, Hutchins [Ohio!, Ingersoll [HI.], Jenks Their condition was distressing in die extreme. I.], Julian [lnd.], Kascon [lowaKelley Jra.l. They had no means of keeping warn except by Kellogg [Mich.], Kellogg [N. Y.], King [Mo.], fire* of very green wood, that filled the nide sbel- Knox Littlejohn [N. Y.J, Loan [Mo.j, ters with bitter smoke,' and which added to the Longyear [Mich. ], Marvin [K. ’ Y.], McAllister carbonic acidized atmosphere from so many breaths, [Pa.], Mcßride [Oregon.], McClung L Mo.], Mc and the emanations from unwholesome and un- Indoe [Wis.], Miller [N. Y.y, Moorhead [Pa.], washed bodies, packed together like figs, entirely Morrill [Vt.], Morris [N. Y.j, Amos Myers [Pa ], poisoned the air, and destroyed the health of al- Leonard Myers [Pa.], Nelson [N. Y.], Norton mest aU who inhaled it. ‘ [III.], Odell [N. Y.j. NTfeill [Pa.j, Orth [lnd.Jj The sickness and mortality in those outside Pattetson [N. H.J, -Perham ]. Pike (Me- j, quarters, as well as elsewhere, continually increas- Pomeroy [N. Y], Price [lowa]. Radford [N. Y.], ed, and the marvel was that any survived. Star- Randall [Ky.], Bice [Mass.j, Rice [Vie.], Rollins ved and freezing, with hardly water enough to [N. Hi], Rollins [Mo.], Schenck [Ohio], Scho drink, ntneb less to wash their persons or the scant field [Pa.], Shannon [Cal.], Sloan [Wis.], Smith clothes thsr wore, the poor fellows naturally and [Ky.], Sroitbers [Del.], Spalding [Ohio], Starr necessarilv despaired, and not a few of them were [K. I-], Steele [N. T.], Stevens [Pa.], Thayer anxious to die, to escape from the slow torture of [Pa.], Thomas [Md.], Tracy [Pa.J Upson [Mich], thei' situation. Van Valkenbnrg [N. Y.], Washburn [HI.], Wash r . j u n, , . burn rMass.l. Webster fMd.jv Wbalev f\V, Va.j, n 1 f kn , oWmg - d ,u 15 “5 Wheeler [Wis.], Willhuns [Pa.]. Wilder [Kan firmest belief thtO oat of e.ght or nine thousand Wil^n Wind L [Minn.], Wood pnsoners at Sal.sbury there were not at any time [Vt.], Worthington [Nevada], Teaman five hundred of tnem in sound health; an opinion 'r o tai 119 L J in which.all the Rebel soldiers to whom ! express- I James C. Allen (lU-), Wm J. ed it tally coincided, the dearinv during the hut (1110 , Ancona (Pa .), Bliss (Ohio), Brooks two months I passed at Sahebuty ranged (jj y \ Brown (Wis.), (N. Y.), CUv from 2o to io per day-dtarrhoea dysenterj-, \ KvO /cox ( m O lc n rebs(lni.),r)nw SO i(Pn.i catarrh, pmemnoma^ and typhoid fever, all engen- bidum'(W), Eden (lU-). Edgerton and.), dered by scarcity of food, shelter and raiment— EUri(]ge (Wis.), Finck''(Ohio), Grider (Kv.), being the principal diseases. I have no doubt if Hal , Harfing (Kv.), Harrington find.), tte - (M ; d ) Holman '(lnd.), Johnson (Pa.)! oners of war in the North are 10 the best of my Johnson (Ohio), Kalbfleisch (N. Y.), Kernan (N. knowledge and information mortality ( 1 \) Lug (Ohio), of Salisbury would not hare been more than eight jj^Jj orv Miller (Pa.), Morals (Ohio), Mor of what it was. risen fill.),' Noble (Ohie), O’Neill (Ohio). Pen- The capacity of >he so-called hospitals, nine in dleton (Ohio), Perry (St. J.), Prnyn (N. Y.), number, which were without any of the comforts Randall (Pa.), Robinson (111.), Boss (111.). Scott or concomitants of those institutions, were not lo (Mo.), Steele (N. J.), Stiles (Pa.), grouse (Pa.), the fullest over five or six hundred patients; and Stnart (ni.). Sweat (Me.), Townsend (N. Y.), the number of prisoners who ought to have been Wadsworth (Ky.), Ward (N. YV), Chilton A. inmates thereof was at least as many thousands, white (Ohio), Joseph W. White (Ohio), Winfield The hospitals merely afforded some protection from pp. y.)\ Ben Wood (N. Y.), Fernando Wood (N. the cold and rain, and furnished rather better re- y.j Total, 56. tions than were given to the men who were sup- absentees or those not voting are Messrs, posed, bya transparent ficjW,Yb be in good healih. i lixe^T Blond (Ohio), Marcv (N. B.). Hardly any one would go to the hospitals so long McDowell (Ind.), McKinney (Ohio), 'Middleton as he conld help himself, or induce any one to ™ j.j Rogers (N. j.), Voorbees. (Ind). help him, the daily spectacle of ghastly and hide- 1 -* - dus corjees going therefrom to the dead-hoose jjlltng all beholders with horror, and inducing the soldiers to believe that all who entered these filthy and piesliferous tenements were doomed. The prison limits of Salisbury revealed a scene of wretchedness, squalor, despair and suffering such as 1, accustomed as I am to army life and the horrbrs of military hospitals and battlefields, had never before witnessed. The prison authori ties, especially after the massacre attending the attempted outbreak of Novembet. 15th, appeared not only indifferent to the miserable condition of the men, bat to be actuated by a brutality and malignity towards them that I conld not reconcile with my ideas of human nature. They permitted the guards to shoot prisoners whenever they pleased, without the least pretext or explanation ; and no man* life was safe for a day or an hour. The air was full of pain and pestilence, and all the horrors of imagined bells seemed realized in that most wretched place,*of which I. shall never think without a shudder, and a lessened faith in the possibilities of humanity. Use of the Arms in Walking The first time you are walking with your arms at liberty, stop moving them, and hold them by your sides. You will be surprised to find how soon your compqpion will leave yon behind, al though yon may harry, twist, wriggle, and try very hard to keep np. Ope reason for the slow walk among girls is to be found in this practice of carrying the arms motionless. Three miles an 'hour, with the arms still, is as hard work as four miles with the arms free. - I have seen the queens of the stage walk. 1 have seen a few girls and women of queenly bear ing walk in the street and drawing-room. They moved their arms in a free ahd graceful manner. Could this habit become nnivenal among girls their chests would enlarge and their bearing be greatly improved. Bee that girl walking with both bands in her mufia How she wriggles and twists her shoulders and hips 1 This is because berarnisare pinioned. Give them free swing, and her gait would soon become graceful. You have seen pictures of our muscles. Those of the upper part of the body, you remember, spread out from the shoulder, in all directions, like a lap. How, if you hold the shoulder still, the muscles of the chest will shrink, the shoulders stoop, and the whole chest becomes thin and ugly. But some girls will say, “Swinging the arms must be very slight exercise," True, it is very slight if you swing the arms but once or ten times, but if you swing them ten thousand times,* in a day, you will obtain more exercise of the muscles of the chest than by all the other ordinary move ments combined. Indeed, if I were asked what exercise I thought most effective for developing the chests of American girls, 1 should reply at once, swinging the arms while walking.— Dr. Dio Lewie. What Sherman is Doing. A Savannah letter of the 20m alt., contains in teresting information relative to Sbebmax’s new campaign. A portion of the letter has been sup pressed as publishing contraband news. We Stake an extract: Thousands hare rejoined their corps, every steamer from the North bringing down a cloud of men and officers from furlough, hospital and detached service. His army is, therefore, ma terially larger than when it started on the immor tal jaunt from one corner of Georgia to the other. A steady min set in yesterday, and continues, to the detriment of the ned campaign inaugurated two or three days ago. The advance of the column that left Savannah is about twenty miles away, and the progress on the treacherous roads is slow. The column from Pocotaligo bag ad vanced a few miles, and has comparatively a fine country. The object of the new movement is evident to 'any one who looks over a good map. Augusta and Charleston are within comparatively easy reach. The impression is that the army will advance di rictly on Branchville, and seizing and holding that point, cut off both cities from railroad communi cation. The report has been prevalent here lor three days, that Charleston was being evacuated. This is not improbable. If the enemy attempt to garrison Charleston they mast employ a heavy force front the main army to oppose oar advance, and Sbebman would have no difficulty in seizing the Charleston and Augusta Railroad, (hereby isolating whatever troops are left in 'Charleston. Charleston is not defensible at this juncture, save by an aggressive army. If the rebels defeat Sher maw south of Branchville it is safe; if not, they cannot hold the city at all. By the seizure of Bianchville, Charleston foils of itself, and Augusta cannot be long defended. And no one can doubt the ability of Shebmae, With his splendid veteran army, to accomplish all this. He gave the country Savannah for a Christ masgift ; possibly he may reserve Charleston as a valentine ; and though it is not customary to send eatfeauz on the birthday of the Father of his Coun try, the city of would not be an unaccept able touvenir, nor an unappropriate one, on that anniversary. With such an enterprising General, what a pity onr hollidays are so few. In every essential {articular, the army is organ ized for the new movement, the same as on the late Georgia march—one baggage wagon only to a regiment, and the men are permitted the same foraging privileges. It is not expected that the country will be as bountiful as Georgia, but such ’ accomplished surveyors will not make a dinner of herbs in the scantiest country. The troops, with al, are eager to be well on the way. Tired of eat ing oysters and feeding their horses with rice, they desire to relapse to turkey and sorghum, and to the traditional sweet potatoes, which Marios feasted off, in these self-same swamps, when he was fighting for a nationality hit descendants hare sacrificed everything, including honor, to render a DiwraUejwt. Short Items. ggf A Udr skater in dhiladelpfclia lately lei] j ‘-The official and sems-ofßesai papectgive up a: upon the ice, withhands extended > break the last that the condition of the Ctafcfcng K .. ~ i - r ' w»rattv and thev* bare got orer cainog - &U, just as a swilt skater was gloltng past- He through Georgia a "foreed retraa"On • could not check his speed, and one of his skates i contrary, they admit his march to be one of cut off three of her fingers. , : i| most extraordinary feats in military history, si. j ' ! pat him down in the list of the great General |&» J. B. Daria, identified at Ntiwark, Ohio, the world/’ some days since, as the keeper of the Anderson- j rille, Georgia, prison, and who confessed on his ! arrest being bearer of dispatches from Richmond | to Canada, has been sentenced to bebnngat John- ' son s Island, February 17th. ; \ Ah ’ sighed Waiter, what a sublime and petrolemic study is cyphering, —when hie learned that the compound interest of oqeichnt from the beginning of the world to this day would equal in value 4,(140,000,000 globes of solid gold, each as big as this earth. Save your pennies, little boys. 0* General George B. McClellan, lady and child have sailed for Europe in the steamship China. Mr. August Belmont, the well-known banker, and Chairman of the Democratic Nation al Committee, accompanies the distinguished party, the intention being an extended tour throughout Europe, principally for the benefit of Mrs. McClellan's health. gy Some of the merchant princes, and million aires of New York are contemplating a magnifi cent project. It is nothing more nor less than to relieve the nation of its debt by pitying die whole amount ($2,OuO,O0O,CO0) themselves. It is pro posed to make the gift in 200,000 shams of $lO,OOO each, of which A. T. Stewart, Wm. B. As tor, and others, will each take fifty shares, making up at least a quarter of the while amount in New York. The realisation of such a pgijecl would; place both government /and citiieo in a prouder position than ever government or citizen occupied before. MIL. Daring the recent occupation of Hunts ville, Ala., Rev. Mr. Bannister prayed for the “President of the Confederate State*," bat has since refused to offer up any supplication in be half of Mr. Lincoln. Col. Hofney, of the 18th Michigan, who is now Provost Marshal of Hunts ville, gent for him, and demanded an explanation of bis conduct. He said the canons of his church, required him to pray for the President of the Con federate States. “Very well, said the Colonel, “the cannon of our army require you to pray for the President of the United States, and if yon re fuse to do it yon will leave our lines. He got ten days to pack up. Emploihent for Disabled Soldiers.—Peti tions have been put m circulation in nearly all the Eastern cities, and are being signed by the leading citizens, irrespective of party, asking Congress to take some action by which honorably discharged soldiers may obtain government employment in preference to those who have for to many years been subsisting on Government “pap.” There are large numbers of patriotic young men who have been honorably discharged from the army on ac ;of wounds, sickness, imprisonment, etc., who are unable to work at their trades or, any bard labor, have no means of subsistence ex&pt that famished by charity, and who are perfectly competent to fid almost any civil appointment or clerkship. Let onr citizens try mid further this noble cause—it would be but a small return for the gallant services [ rendered liy our soldiers. 1 IS* A well-informed writer expresses himself concerning the future trade with Georgia, as fol lows : “In Georgia, including Savannah, I do not think there are 20,000 bales of cotton. You will bear in. mind that General Sbennoncame through the heart of Georgia, and for a breadth of forty miles destroyed every bale of cotton, all the gins and gin houses, took eveiy mule and horse, and nearly all their hogs, cattle, &C-, and destroyed mast of the agriculture. As to the future of the South m relation to trade. It js im mediately very gloomy, 'There 1 wiff be very little cotton planted the coming spring, as, even if we ore likely to get peace, it will bn too late for that. True, the planters ore all out of debt, having paid them off with a currency worth TOm five to fiftv cents on the dollar at the time of payment, bat they have little cotton and nothing else to buy with, and few are worthy of credit.” The commisioner of Internal Revenue has decided that dead men cannot be taxed. The case in point is that of one Mr, Geo.; Thompson, who died July 20, ISfif. Before his death a return ■ was made by him of his income for the year 1863. A tax of five per cent, was afterwards levied and paid open iu Mr. Blake, the Collector of the Seventh Sew York District, noW claims the right to impose and collect another tax of five per cent, upon the same income, now in the hands of the executors of the deceased for distribution, The Commissioner decides that this cannot lawfully be done. Rumored Removal'©? Gem. Meade.— A dis patch from Washington states that General Meade has been removed front the command of the Army of the 'Potomac, and that the two armies of the James and of the Potomac have been consolidated, and PhlL Sheridan has teen selected to command them. Gen. Meade, it has been said, has been assigned to another command. Another dispatch from Washington says; “The rumors of General Meade being relieved from the command of the Army of the Potomac are denied by him.' He is said to have in hi* pocket a copy of a letter from General Grant, endorsing hnn as tee of the ablest commanders in this war. and in kll respeets a thor ough soldier. He says that the Senate may reject his nomination if it sees fit; that he and his chil dren can stand on this letter forever. Important Order.— We are reliably informed that Provost Marshal Lloyd has received an order from the WarDepartmehtdirecting that the names of all those who paid commutation in I8«t shall be put in the .wheel-in the approaching draft. The same department, not many moons since, announced officially that those'who paid com mutation in 1864 were eUa~ of the draft. Bnt that was before the election, paid voces were yran- men art needed, not r«e».: How are you three irimdred ddttaA t- ftnwferd. ■ ‘ i tSh A Paris letter, by the lost steamer. •»« STILL IN THE FIELD EXCELSIOR Hat & Cap Store. The ukdeksigked would in 70KM tbe pebiic that be hii takes charge of «* tab&iufeent. b«r«co&ce cvaed by Jtam Stuitiu wLere &• ba*acm oc ******* • large aad wied'MMtaut ctt FASHIONABLE STYLES OF HATS, CAPS, MISSES AND CHILDREN’S FLATS Hi* stock bx« beeti with *r«u car* »c 3 *ar ra te* etetj color, ihiK qoaiiJJ* fcf *be acc«mm.a of or icxr. oM oryoim*, rich or fe**. A faU «~*rk*of Ladie* aod Hi*** For* of all*:*:***.. W»JF# o* h*u4_ . , ~ All be wii is *o «*oun*t>on of hi* «*>ck. seeling *■.*• that he oka please th* cwtt fii*Lkbc>ofc. J*n. 14, STOVES, TINAND SHEET-IRON WAKE. mHE UNDERSIGN EH WOULD RE, J_ SPK*,TffULLY “ Bounce to tht citizen- Altoona and ▼kinity t he ha» taken the at and atop recently occt pi«i ty John Sht>emakf on Tirptmu xtrwA. Lh the McClellan Hdu< where he haa on hand large supply of STO v of aU rocl Cook. Per lor, and Shop Stove*, which be will veil-at the seoet reasonable price*- A large •-> ply will be kept on bend. 'Tiy AXD WaJLZ* U pact *ar always os turn i. ROOFING & SPOUTING pctcp on short notice. H« haa alio attached a copper-nmitfaiaj: roc« to b;* establishment and will keepoo hand au UKrtatc: of cc> per and fcrawi kettles. Jtc. Ail kinds cf job work prosaptly attended to. Jaaoary 14, IStt.-df JjTJtPHEN WISTXRI r SAYAXXAfI TAKES! Xew Firm in an old Stand WOLF & PETERSON Beg leave to inform the citizens of Altoona and vicinity that they have c barge of tin GROCERY & PROVISION STOKE I lately occupied by Rifkahangh A PiUersoD, and t>merly *1 occupied by Jo*. Btrkowilz, where they will keep coo- $ atantly.on band a larige stock ofGroceriea, PrnTi*:cn-. &s 4 . Fitd, comprising Superfine, Extra, and Extra '.*? Floor. Bacon—Hams Plain and Sugar Cured. RibUd *3 and Plain STde*. Shoulders. Ac, Dried BeeC Mackerel and Herring by the Barrel. fcU.f Bari el and Quarter Barrel. COFFEE—EXO AND EAST INDIA. Sugars—Cn»b«L Granulated, New Orleans, and P,-r..» Jlic*. Homy and Golden Sympa,'Xew Orleans and Su,rar House Molasses. Black, Toong Hyson, and Teas. Sperm. Adamantine. Star, and Mould Caudles. Pa!-. Rosin and. Fancy Soaps. Nary. Span KoiL l>-». and Cot mod Dry Tobacco, Cigars. Also, a i meat of Brooms. Buckets, Bed Cords, andQueenbvare FEED AND PROVISIONS. Corn—Shelled and in the Ear, Data, Corn and Oats. acu Wheat Chop, Ship Stuff, Corn Meal, Silked and Unsifted Also, Clover and Flax-Seed. BUTTER, EGGS AND LARD. Please gire us a call and save expenses. Dec. 17, lS6t— tf WOLF A PETERSON H. A. CAMPBELL WOULD INFORM THE CITIZEN? of Altoona and vicinity that he has this •:*? opened up a new BOOT, SHOE AND GROCERY STORE On Julia Sirttt, Sail Altoona, opposite the Episcopal Parsonage, formerly known as the Conrad corner. I shall' say nothing in regard td prices, 'hot request A small share of the public patronage,weliog confident that after an examination of my stoek aod pri ces, my customers will be satisfied. X' Please give me a call. Small favors will be thankfully, received. Altoona, Jan. 10,1565. MUSIC INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN ON THE PianoPbrte and Melodeon, by Mias MARIA SHOE MAKER. TERMS SIO PER QUARTER. Residence on Emma street, three doors below Annie *t No allowance.will be made, for the neglect oflrssoni te «the loss of the teacher, except in case of sickness.. r Jan. 21,18fi5-ly. TTALUTABLE HOUSE AND LOT FOR * SALE.— 7Tb© nnderßignbd.intcnding'to remove the town, offers, at private safe, bin house mod lot, siici'? oh slain street, Altoona, a few doors above CAiharir* street, and adjoining the “McClellan House/* The h vv-* is a well bmlt two-story frame, containing three r«x.x» and a ball and a store or office room, on first floor and £** rooms on second floor. The lot is well enclosed an* La.* on it a stable and other conveniences, Possession ei*t )> April first.' Jan. 7.1865-tf. A. P. CAfrDKRWOOD A DMINISTKATOR’S NOTICE. No- AlLtice is hereby given that letters of Administration c:. th© estate of John Horning, late of Altoona, Blair rt inctedibkj i^ww-B***^!****^ at f ittslmrgb. A few by Dr. J. M.‘ Gemmill, asamplj .oiled to paper thickness. acvetJ be had received by letter, from all foa tbro* cents postage: The dap waa p^obW®® 4 a * c Ul ' ne^J roUeA as might be supposed, bot. «n tb elastic, allowing “»de folded v arid opened out again without 1] the samples was an imitatiotrof and appeared to possess aU the d tide. AS sample* of the perfcj manufacture of iron, in brought, they are worth seeing. D. \T-ALS a. a smith iat«otta i &=> -i-. . ' tOCAt "Wttiuts Soaw. IGo j serious question with quite a n J ertv holders, who have roceivedl lonia a “notice to quit” on the I Notwithstanding the number oi ted, the supply i# far short of lJ families arc now occupying muj apartments, tlian they, woulanj be had. “TO Lef'cannot be fori is only two months until “ttitttafl eomplainta of the same stale j towns. A number of persons d leave town, and others to stay i son that they cannot get places] Constable.—ln another coj the card of Capt. John M. Cla as an Independent Candidate* ongh Constable, at the ensuing Capfc' Clark is a veteran, havit try for three years. He descr ccivo, the unanimous vote of tl not heard any other candidates the office is worth something likely there Will he others. 1 scWring, we think one who hi country on the battle-field sn who honor the soldier give the tiaouso-floo Pat.— The I ruary,- is wbat is known as G | On this eventful Jay : the go I come forth from his hole, an I stand. l,fthe day if cloudy. [ lii.shadoWr he returns with [ the cold blasts of winter are j approach??* a delightful spr [ be clear, he ret uni a for anotb | and sixty days of cold weal I came forth in this locality. I day, he saw his shadow, an I look for sixty days more of Skatiso.— Ouif neighbors mg “a high oldtimo” ska tin have organised a Skating C of Sl,oo <_n each member fo hig.tbe ice clean, flooding it not sofloie of our enterprising ting pond in rids place. Thi yui;d a doubt, from the fact t to tc found within six miles she town, j Stuns or the Taws.— which s volume might he it j, our intention only to' taut lAeai'Mjftt, and that i new SA-Ttbriai-' (Gbocebt, Russ i Posdcwwt, on Virfi ariuq. It is ft signof, prc| tile street and the building place where yon can buy / -cash. VVookded,—Wm. A. f ■Calvert, Esq., of Logan T the'77th Pa. Vol., receive! in the grra, daring the halt Hood, atFrankjin, Tenn. be came near bidding to t reached him. iWe are pi father that he is how rape t/ef~ Tl\o dwelling hoe Allegheny township, this < it* contents,\ including tl govertiment'bonds, was hi Monday morning last. L dollars.— Standard. A, M. L. &. R.R. A.l meeting of the board of 1 'Mechanics Library £ Re. ■will Be held on Honda o’clock, in the rooms of attendance is requested. CoauKOitost.—'VVe bn hem which we copied fi week, in reference to Jat ratio, being ittUpyp the incoi rect, and that he Is , <9T Oar neighbor of t slightly incorrect inhU »ersy. Personalities nr •qaently, no{ to opr “Ijki «. Hon. L: W. H. !Pntidehi of the Penney ■(•y, to represent this diet ■ -The Amrst-rtss or following is a copy of tv men on picket at the f.< Garruesß; Then apd I want; that is a fw know me fay having Stmt I have hot got m WiHhjMia pieketlij-mc aorite. Toa most not tb ingnwhen yon Speak. Wm 1 wish the pm ■> toaptle’ conclosi I p fSjljwand those front fa ; &*? Anytime *