THE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, I'A.
Wednesday, April 9, 186*2.
§1 per annnm in advance—sl.so at end of six
months—s2 at eud of year.
Papers scat out of the County must be paid for in
advance.
KtyTUe subscription of those out of this county to whom
this paragraph cotnes marked, has expired, and unless re
newed will i.e discontinued.
We hate also set a limit in MiCtin county, beyond which
we Intend no man in future shall owe us for subscription,
t hose receivmg tin paper with this paragraph marked,
v ill therefore know that they have come uuder our rule,
and if payment Is not made within one month thereafter
* shall discontinue all such.
Flag of the free heart's only home,
r By angel hands to valor given!
Thy etuis have lit the welkin dome
And all thy hues were born in heaven:
Forever float that standard sheet:
Where breathes the foe but falls before us
With freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And freedom's banner streaming o'er us.
The Democrat makes a very lame
defence of Mr. lloss's course in the Legis
lature. It of course does not let its read
ers know that he pronounced the bill as all
right, nothing wrong in it, &c., while Hop
kins, Scott, Williams, and others regarded
it in the light of an attempt to legalize the
act of last winter; and that sucli was the
opinion of inauy others may be inferred
from the fact that the committee, to whom
the subject was referred, reported the bill
with a negative recommendation.
E@_We learn from the Telegraph that a
bill passed the House last week authorizing
the Governor to appoint a persou to keep a
roll of honor of the Pennsylvania volun
teers. It provides that the Executive shall
appoint "some suitable person, whose duty
it shall be to prepare, from reliable data,
and carefully preserve with the archives of
the State, a 'roll of honor,' upon which
shall be inscribed the name of each and
every officer, private and musician who has
volunteered from this Commonwealth da
ring the present war, and who has honora
bly served therein, and has fallen in battie,
or died in hospital, military prison, upon
the field, or at home, or in transit to or Iroiu
his or their homes, from wounds received
in battie, disease contracted in the service,
or from other casualties resulting from con
nection therewith, &c., with such other
particulars as may be accessible, and deem
ed important and of interest as a matter of
record; and that the Governor shall annual
ly cause a copy thereof to be published in
the report of the Auditor General of this
Commonwealth, and thus communicated to
the General Assembly."
A Little Singular
A few months ago, says the Lebanon
Courier, when semi-secessionists at the
North received rough treatment atthe hands
of an assemblage of people who had been
outraged by their treasonable sentiments,
the Breckinridge editors had much to say
in depreciation of mobs. Last week, Wen
dell Philips was mobbed at Cincinnati by a
set of rowdies hired for the purpose, and
the same editors seemed to be rejoiced
thereat. Mobs, in a free country, are al
ways dangerous, and we must condemn
them, whether the victim bo a traitorous
Breckinridger, or a faDatica] abolitionist.
We believe with Thomas Jefferson that
Error need-not be feared so long as 'Truth
is left free to combat it.' The best way to
treat objectionable sentiments, whether ut
tered by a fanatical pro-slavery or a fanati
cal anti-slavery man, is not to listen to them,
unless you design exercising them by the
arguments of Truth.
A Subject for General Consideration
.The Pottsville Journal says that, if slavery
U abolished, the negroes will remain in the
south whore the climate is more congenial,
and at least one-halt of the negroes now in
the north will go south. Jiut if slavery is
.maintained, the hundreds of thousands of
contrabands who will become tree, during
the progress of the rebellion, will be com
pelled to come North, the same as njanv
slaves now do. This is a subject worthy
of great consideration, particularly among
the working classes of the north. At least
a half million slaves have already been de
clared tree by the aets of CoDgress, and
they will all be driven out of the south if
slavery is permitted to exist after the war
has terminated—.but if it should ba abol
ished, they will remain south.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.—Every per
son elected to the office of Justice of the
1 cace or Alderman is required within thir
ty days after the election, if he intends to
accept said office, to give notice in writing
to the prothonotary oi the proper county:
otherwise tbe commission will not be issu
ed. See pamphlet laws, 1859, page .592
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS
The Senate on the lt adopted a resolution
directing the Co mm it tee on the Conduct of
the War to collect testimony as to alleged
barbarous treatment by the rebels of the bod- :
ies of Union s ddiere killed in battle, and al-
BO as to the employment of Indians by the
rebels. The bill fjr the abolition of slavery j
in the District of Columbia was taken up.—
An amendment was adopted making the
amount for each slave freed SSOO, one half of
which is to be paid to the slave on condition !
of his emigration to some foreign country.— !
An amendment submitting the question of;
emancipation to a vote of the people of the
District was rejected, ayes 13 nays 24. An [
amendment was also adopted declaring that
no one who had borne arms against the Uni
ted States or rendered aid to the rebels should
bo compensated for his slaves.
Iu the House Mr. Hutching submitted a
resolution in relation to the attempted arrest
of fugitive slaves in Gen. Hooker's division.
Mr. Calvert, of Maryland, objected and the
resolution was not received. The considera
tion of the Tax bill was then resumed.
Tha Senate on the 2d passed the House
resolution—ayes 32. uay 10—suggested by
the President, declaring that the United States
ought to Co operate, by giving pecuniary aid,
with any State which may adopt the gradual
abolition of slavery. The resolution is as
follows:
" Ittsolved, That the United States ought to
co-operate with any State which m ty adopt
gradual abolishment of siaverv, giviug to
such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such
State in its discretion to compensate for the
inconveniences, public and private, produced
by such change of system."
The vote stood—
Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Browning,Chand"
ler,"Clark. Collanior, Davis, Dixon, Doolittle*
Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hale, Har"
lan, Henderson, Howard, Howe, King, Lane
of Indiana, Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Pome
roy, Sherman, Sumner, Ten Eyck, Thomson,
Trumbull, Wade, Wilkinson, Willey, Wilmot,
Wilson of Massachusetts—*32.
Nays—Messrs. Bayard, Carlile, Kennedy,
Latham, Xcsmith, Powell, Saulsbury, Stark,
Wilson, of Mo., and Wright—lo.
Absent or not Voting—Messrs. Cowan,
Harris, Johnson, McDougall, Pearee, Bice
and Simmons.
The bill fur the abolition of slavery in the
District of Columbia was further discussed
but no vote taken.
The House passed the bill to assign the
command in the field without regard to sen
iority in rank. An order was issued for the
arrest of A. Iliggins for refusing to testify
before the Committee on Government Con
tracts. The fax bill was further considered
in Committee of the Whole.
The Senate on the 3d adopted a resolution
appropriating $25,000 for testing plans and
materials for rendering ships and floating
batteries invulnerable. Mr. Willey introduc
ed a resolution of inquiry in relation to the
Harper's Ferry Armory. The bill providing
for administering the oath of allegiance to
American citizens in foreign countries was
passed. The bill abolishing slavery in the
District of Columbia was taken up and passed
—ayes 29, nays 14.
Yeas—Messrs. Anthony, Browning, Chan
dler, Clark, Collamer, Dixon, Dooiittle, Fes
sendon, Foot, Foster, Grimes, llale, Harlan,
Harris, Howard, Ilowe. King, Lane of Indiana,
Lane of Kansas, Morrill, Pomerov, Sherman,
Suuiner Ten Eyck, Trumbull, Wade. Wilkin-
Sun, AVilmot, Wilson of Massachusetts—2'J.
Nays—Messrs. Bayard, Carlile, Davis,
Henderson, Kennedy, Latham, MoDongall,
Nesmith, Powell, Saulsburv, Stark, Willev,
Wilson, of Missouri, Wright—l4
It has yet to go to the House, but will no
doubt be passed by that branch of Congress.
Iu the House a bill was reported for the
reorganization of the Navy Department.—
The consideration of the 'fax bill was then re
sumed in Committee of the Whole and vari
ous amendments adopted. The bill will prob
ably be finally acted upon in the House on
Monday next.
The Senate was engaged on the 4th with
bills relating to the District of Columbia.—
Senator Trumbull gave notice that he inten
ded to press the Confiscation bill from day
to day until it was acted upon.
The House further considered the Tax bill
in Committee of the Whole and reported it to
the House. It was ordered to be printed and
made the order for Monday. No other busi
ness of any importance was transacted.
In the House, o.n Monday, Mr. Voorhees
(Ind.) offered a preamble, setting forth that
the tariff bill passed during the extra session
is unjust an.d oppressive to the agricultural
portion of the community, and concluding
with a resolution that the Committee on Ways
and Means be instructed to report a bill at as
early a day as practicable repealing the said
law, and substituting therefor a system found
ed on the principle of yielding an adequate
amount of revenue, and not of that protecting
the manufacturing interests of the country.
Mr. Stevens moved to lay the resolution on
the table. Carried—yeas 88, nays 35.
The House then proceeded to definitely aot
.on the amendments to the tax bill, heretofore
reported from committee of the. whole on the
state of -the Union.
1 he followiug are among the amendments
.concurred in by the liouss :
The duties and taxes to be assessed in pur
suance of this act shall be a lien upon the
property subject to the duty or tax from tha
time of assessment till fully paid.
The sum of over nineteen thousand debars
appropriated heretofore for the legislative ex
penses of Nebraska for the year ending June
1803, is to be applied as that territory's por
tion of tbe taxes.
Tennessee is to have till the first of Decern
ber to assume her portion of the tax.
Distillers of apples and peaches may take
out a license for that business for the space of
three months on the payment of twelve dob
lars.
There shall be exempt from restraint the
tools or implements of a trade or profession.
One cow, arms, household furniture and
' provisions kept for use, and the apparel ne
cessary for a family.
The license of wholesale liquor dealers to
be increased from SSO to SIOO.
Any person who peddles jewelry shall pay
$25 fur each license.
Photographers, ?10 for each license, when
their receipts do not exceed $500; when over
?500, and under SI,OOO, sls; when over sl,-
000, $25.
Agents for procuring patents and claim
agents, shall pay $lO license.
Proprietors or agents of all exhibitions for
shows not enumerated shall pay $lO.
Taxes on all articles manufactured and sold
in pursuance of contracts, bona fide, made
before the 30th of March, 1802, shall be paid
by the purchaser thereof.
On anthracite coal a tax of 15 cents per ton,
and on bituminous coal one eighth of a cent
per bushel.
This amendment was agreed to by a vote of
86 yeas to 39 nays.
The proviso thereto that this tax on coal
' shall not take effect till the expiration of the
reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, was re
jected—yeas 41, nays 86.
The House also concurred in the following
i amendments:
On spirits, rectified and mixed with other
! liquor, or prepared in any way, to be sold as
I whiskey, 15 cents per gallon. To be sold as
brandy, rum, gin, wine or by any other name,
not otherwise provided, 30 cents per gallon on
the basis of the first proof, and so on in pro
portion for any greater strength than first
proof.
On railroad iron and other iron, according
to the 6tate of manufacture, a tax of one to
two dollars per ton, and on steel from four to
i ten dollars per ton
The House non concurred in the amendment
| that all distilled liquor now manufactured or
| that may be manufactured before the Ist of
May next, iu the United States, shall pay the
same per gallon, when sold, as provided by
this act upon distilled spirits manufactured
from and after that date.
The amendment imposing a tax of one cent
per pound on cotton, on and after the Ist day
of May next, but exempting all cotton held
aDd owned by any manufacturer of cotton
fabrics on and prior to that date, was concur
rod in—yeas 75, nays 53.
WAR NEWS.
A special order was issued on Saturday
from the War Department, as follows: Col.
D'Utassy, of the Garibaldi Guards, New York
Volunteers, and all the officers of General
Blenker's division who are now under arrest,
are hereby released from arrest, and will join
their regiments without delay and resume
} their respective commands.
Violating the Laws of War.
Edmund Ellis, publisher of the Boone
j county Standard, was tried before a military
commission at Columbia, Missouri, on two
charges, viz:
First Charge.—The publication of in for
mation for the benefit of the enemy, and en
couraging resistance to the Government and
laws of the United States.
Second Charge.—Violation of the laws of
war by the publication within the lines of
| the United States, in a public news paper, of
I articles and information intended and design
j ed to comfort the enemy, and invite persons
1 to rebellion against the Government of the
j United States.
One of the criminal publications was styled
I " Letters from the Army another " Riot
j Abe or Die," and the third, "News from Gen.
! Price."
The commission found the prisoner guilty
j of the charges and specifications, and sen
I tenced him "to he placed and kept outside
the lines of the State of Missouri during
| the war, and that the press, types, furniture,
and materials of the printing office of the
I Boone County Standard be confiscated and
| sold for tlio use of the United States.
Gen. Haileck approved the finding and sen
| tence, and directed the printing to remain in
| charge of the quartermaster until further or
ders; that the priscnor be placed outside the
i; State of Missouri, and that, if ho returns
| during the war, without permission, he be
• arrested and placed in close confinement in
the Alton Military Prisoii.
The proceeding being returned to the War
Department, they were approved by the Sec
[ retary of War, and an order issued that the
i form of proceedings should be adopted, in
like cases, by the commanding officer of all
! military departments.
Skirmish at the Chain Bridge.
On Saturday afternoon, a detachment of
i Stewart's Virginia cavalry made a dash at
the residence of a Union lady named Ten
nant, who lives about a mile and a half from
i Difficult creek, aud about six miles from the
| chain bridge.
While engaged in ransacking and pillag
. ing the residence of Mrs. Tennant. they were
discovered by a portion of Col. Bayard's
I Pennsylvania cavalry, who at once charged
; down upon them, whea quite a sharp engage
: ment ensued, which resulted in the hasty
flight of the rebel cayalry, but not before they
, had secured Mrs. T. and her daughter, whom
j they conveyed into Mr. 'Pennant's buggy, in
i to which "they had previously harnessed the
liorsc for that purpose.
The only causality to Col. Bayard's cavalry
in the skirmish was the wounding of one sol
dier, who was conveyed to Washington the
samo night. The logs of the rebels could not
bo ascertained, although i,t is supposed some
; of them must have been hit-
Mrs. Tennant has lost a husband and son,
who died in fighting for our flag, and now
herself and daughter will have to suffer the
horrors of Richmond's loathsome prisons,
! and the insults of rebel soldiers, while their
i remaining property is exposed to all the de
vastations of war.
Gen. Rosecrans' Farewell to His Sol
diers.
Gen. Rosecrans, cn transferring his com
-1 mand to Gen. Fremont, has issued the fol
! lowing order:
j Companions in arms: In this vaqt de
partment of mountains and forests, in the
! rains of summer, the cold and storms of win-
I tar, for nine months, I have witnessed your
uncomplaining zeal and activity, your watch
ings, your marchings, and your combats.—
Under God, to your bravery and good con
duet it is due that not a single reverse has at
tended our arms in all these vast regions.
Wherever I go, I shall bear with me the
remembrance of men who, leaving home and
its endearments against the force of all for
mer tastes and habits, have undertaken to
inure themselves to the toils, privations, hard
ships, aud dangers of a military life, and hare
succeeded.
But, comrades, proud as I am of the manly
eceigy you have thus displayed. 1 am proud
er still to bear testimony to the pure and lof
tj patriotism which has called it forth.
No mean and sectional spirit, no low truck
ling to reckless leardership, no blind and ig
norant fanaticism has animated you. By
your intelligence, your magnanimity, and
forbearance towards those whom the rebel
lion has misled, you have shown that you
entered into the conflict with a conviction
that the interests of free government, and
oven of human treedom itself, opposed by ar
bitrary aud despotic will, by rebellion in favor
of despotism, lay in the issue, and that you
fought for the liberties of all, both North and
South.
Such men deserve to be, and will be, free
themselves ; or, dying, will bequeath liberty
and a glorious name to their posterity.
1 hat it may be your happy lot, in the Union
and the Constitution and the laws, to be free
and happy yourselves, and to bequeath free
dom, happiness, and a glorious name to your
children, is my cherished wish and hope.
W. S. ItoSECRAXS,
Brigadier General United States Army.
One Hundred and Tenth Pennsylvania—
Col Lewis.
The following is a list of the killed and
wounded in the above regiment at the battle
of Winchester :
Killed —Philip P. Croft, John Ferguson,
John Dawson, Joseph Cooper, Seibrick,
Samuel Everly (wounded iu groin, since dead,)
Corporal John Murphy (from wound).
Wounded —John Ilipplc, in wrist; C. T.
Horn, leg; James Yallance, hand; John Mar
tin, left arm ; Win. A. Callagan, left breast
and hand; Anthony Ivimlen, fractured mid
dle fema ; Theo. Rocky, thigh ; Thos. McIF
vane, neck; Michael Jacock, fracture left
fema; Silas S. Anthony, through left buttock;
Serg. Major W. Cunningham, flesh wound,
ankle ; private Jacob Svrartz, thigh ; Jacob
I reach, heel; David Price, thigh; Samuel
Kimley, arm ; Alfred Burn, scalp; corporals
Charles Whoatley, foot; John P. Altert, flesh;
sergeants Win. P. Ramsey, right thigh; S.
McCune, flesh, leg; ord. serg. W. Roberts,
contusion, right knee ; privates T. Gloster,
lower jaw; John Dougherty, slight in abdo
men ; John C. Foreman, David Gardner, left
| great toe; D. 3. Baker, flesh, left leg; Ira
Horn, calf, right leg; G. Slean, flosh, left arm;
David Brown, flesh, thigh; Jacob R. Hooper,
ditto; John Berden, scalp and hip ; Joseph
Cooper, Thomas M. Sloan, in throat; J. W.
College, breast; W. 11. Stall, hand; W. 11.
Kockersperger, fracture arm.
The Palmetto soldiers recently illustrated
their chivalric disposition by planning an at
tack of three battalions of five hundred men
each, against three companies of the Fifty
fifth Pennsylvania Regiment, stationed at
North F.disto—the odds being ten to one. It
chanced, however, that only about thirty of
our brave men were surprised. They kept at
bay, for more than an hour, five hundred of
the enemy, and after protracting this unequal
contest until five of their number were killed,
and five escaped, the South Carolinians, it is
supposed, captured the remaining twenty, of
whom a considerable number were wounded.
The intelligence from Fortress Monroe is
exciting. Gen. McClellan has telegraphed to
the War Department that lie had thoroughly
examined the rebel fortifications, and found
them very formidable, especially their water
batteries. The place will have to be besieged,
but its ultimate fall is certain. Gerj. Wool
says that there are 30,000 rebels behind the
entrenchments, under the command of Gen.
Magruder.
Affairs on the Mississippi, in the neighbor
hood of Island No. Ten, are coming to a de
cisive point. Two of our gunboats have run
the rebel blockade, and arrived safely at New
Madrid. A ferry boat, also, has reached the
same point b}' a new route around the swamps.
Under cover of these Gen. Pope crossed the
river, and landed on the Tennessee shore. —
No doubt, ere this, lie has cut off the rebel
retreat by land, and perhaps attacked their
batteries.
Tin: news from General ?>lcCie!lau's army
is meagre, bu' enough is known to warrant
the belief that a desperate battle is impending.
Shipping Point, and a number of other places
not named in the telegraph have been occu
pied by our forces. Several skirmishes have
lately taken place, in which three of our men
have been killed and six wounded. All of
our men are represented to be in good spirits
and eager for the coming conflict.
The official despatch about the occupation
of Washington, North Carolina, has been re
ceived. The expedition consisted of two gun
boats and eight hundred men from a Massa
chusetts regiment, but no opposition was made
to their taking of the place. Many of the in
habitants were found to be loyal, and large
numbers express a willingness ,to enlist and
fight for the Stars and Stripes.
General Sickles' command have had a skir
misli at Stafford Court House, on the Lower
Potomac. Six rebel prisoners and a number
of horses, important letters, etc., were captu
red by our forces.
A portion of General Buell's army have
reached Shelbyville, fiiy nine miles southeast
of Nashville and about fifty miles from the
Alabama line. The troops were enthusiasti
cally welcomed by the inhabitants.
The " Situation" in the West.
The St. Louis Republican has the follow
ing description of the " situation" of the
Federal and rebel armies in the West. 'The
Republican says:
Events are thickening in the West. A
tremendous array of the best soldiers in the
country is now forming for an attack on one
side and defence on the other, in the neigh
borhood of Corinth, Miss. By this time the
main forces under Gen. Buell's command
have placed themselves in support of the col
umns of Gen. Grant at Pittsburg and Savan
nah, and a great conflict is impending. Gen.
Lew. Wallace with a sufficient force, has iso
lated Gen. Johnston from his western com
munications. and cut off all rebel reinforce
ments in that quarter. We hear that Gen.
liaileek is to take the field in person,
and, placing himself at the head of his gal
lant soldiers, direct the movements soon to
exercise so vast an influence upon the dura
tion of the war.
The plans for the coming operations are
grand and magnificent, and, if they should
only nartially succeed, we will be abl9 to
chronicle most important results. Meanwhile,
nobody will be hurt in feeling if the rebels
remain with their ten or fifteen or twenty
thousand men at Island No. 10, and Com.
Foote will probably continue to treat them as
tenderly as he can, while making a show
tight, so as not to drive them off. If we re
gard Island No. 10 as the right wing of the
Confederate lice, the left of which rests at
Corinth, Jackson and Humboldt would be
the centre; but with Pope below, with an
impassible blockade, Jackson and Humboldt
are really the left, which must be protected
in order to save Forts Randolph and Pillow.
The military maxim is not to attack two
flaDks at the same time, but to turn either
the right or left, or break through the centre.
So, considering Island No. 10 and its sup
porting fortifications either as the leit wing
of the rebels or as an independent position,
such as Johnston's now is at Chattanooga, it
would not be good policy to more than men
ace No. 10 whilst the operations are going on
below Thus, if Grant, Buell, Smith, and
the other Federal commanders under llalleek,
succeed in overpowering the enemy at Cor
inth, compelling a capitulation, Memphis will
at once fall, and with it the whole defences of
the Mississippi river, including Island No.
10, Forts Randolph and Pillow, and every oth
er fortification and battery above the Tennes
see commercial capital.
Of matters in Arkansas, little now can be
said, botli contending belligerents not being
in a condition to fight—the rebels have to re
organize and recruit, and Gen. Curtis having
to await supplies and reinforcements to ena
ble him to pursue.
Thus stands the " situation," from which
it will appear that earnest work is on hand
in various quarters, and that the antagonists
are marshalling their forces for severe and
decisive conflicts We cau afford to be pa
tient and confident, for the signs of the times
are full of promise.
LATEST NEWS.
From General Banks' Division we have uc
counts of the advance of our troops across
Stony Creek, driving Ashby's cavalry before
them with considerable 1 >ss. The enemy is
evidently falling back, and Ashby's cavalry
are covering their retreat.
Latest from Gen McClellan's Army,
near Ycrktown.
WASHINGTON, April S.
- From the scat of war in Lower Virginia,
private information up to Sunday noon,has
been received. Gen. McClellan's army
then confronted the enemy's line of defence,
which extended across the peninsula from
Vorktown to James river, embracing three
batteries and several mill dams.
An artillery engagement had occurred
with Magrudor's battery at Winn's Mill,
near Jauies river and another with the bat
tery at Lee's Mill, two miles from Vork
town. The battery in the centre had not
been attacked. The peninsula at this point
is six miles wide.
The first sheli from Nfagruder's battery
killed three men in the Seventh Maine Reg
iment, but two hundred shells afterwards
thrown did no injury whatever.
Vorktown waa seen to be in flauias, and it
was conjectured that the rebels had tired
the town, perhaps with an intention of
evacuating their position. The place, it
was supposed would be taken and occu
pied by Gen. McClellan on Sunday night.
So far there has been no infantry engage
ment.
SURRENDER OF ISLAND NO. 10
Flay Steamer lienton, off Island No. 10, )
April B lh, 1802. j
To lion. Gideon Wells, Secretary of the
Navy :
My telegraph three hours since informs
the Department that Island No. 10 has sur
rendered to the gunboats. Capt. l'helps
has this instant returned, after having had
an interview with the late commandant.
I have requested Col. Buford, comman
ding the troops, to poreeed immediately, in
company with two of the gunboats aud take
possession of the Island.
The batteries on the Tennessee shore
have been hastily evacuated, where we shall
find, no doubt, in the morning, large quan
tities of munitions of war.
1 communicated immediately with Gen.
I'ope, who has, under cover of the two gun
boats, which gallantly run the blockade in a
thunderstorm, crossed the river in force, and
was ready, ?.s well as the gi;n and mortar
bints With Gen. Buiord. to have made a si
multaneous attack on the rebels, had they not
so hastily evacuated the Tennessee shore, and
surrendered Island Mo. 10.
A fail repo •: will bo made AS soon as we
can obtain possession ox the land batteries,
and I aip able to conimanieate with Gen.
Dope. A. 11. FOOTE.
•ST. LOUIS, April B. —(en. llaileok has just
telegraphed to the War Department that Is
land No. 10 was abandoned Ly the eneiny last
night, leaving all tlx ir artillery, baggage sup
plies and sick.
despatch has just been received
stating that (jeneral Bud's army has driven
the enemy from Corinth, Mississippi.
Remarkable Rescue of Four Drowning
Children—Thrilling Scene.
Last Saturday four small boys, from five to
ten years old. visited the sea shore at Dor
Chester, Mass., and heedlessly stepped upon a
piece ol floating ice. The tide was just then
on the ebb, and floated the boys off some sev
enty or eighty rods from the'shore, into deep
water, before their perilous condition was dis
covered. The Boston Traveller says ;
The alarm being given, several of the neigh
bors ran to the beach, but on their arrival
they found the boys too fur off to be rescued
without a boat, and there was no boat near
enough to be made available in season to save
them. The little piece of ice on which they
stood, being not more than five or six feet
square, was rocking by the force of the water
and the uneven balancing of the boys' weight
upon it. In this emergency, Mr. Joseph S.
Hilliard, father of one of the boys, arrived
upon the beach just in see two of the
smallest slip from their position on the ice
into the water. "With admirable presence of
mind and equal fortitude, he threw off his
coat, and with a stable door taken from its
hinges for the purpose, he pushed it before
him and swam to their relief. While on his
way he directed the two boys who were still
standing upon the ice, to extend a stick which
they had—it boiug merely a small rattan—to
the two boyB who were in the water to catch
hold upon. In this way one little fellow,
probably 5£ or G years of age, grasped it and
was thereby aided to regain bis position on
the ice.
The stick was then extended to the other,
and he caught hold upon it and was drawu
partly out of the water, when, losing his hold,
he foil back again. This was Mr. Milliard's
son. Let the reader imagine this thrilling
scene—this terrible trial to that father's af
fectionate heart in witnessing his little son
only 6ix years of age, sinking the second time
into the water under such painful circum
stances.
But Mr. 11. was equal to the crisis ; still he
cautioned and counselled the boys while
swimming to their rescue, telling them to keep
perfectly quiet, and again reach out their
stick to his little boy, which they did; and
again the poor, chilled ana almost exhausted
cbi d grasped it, and was thus sustained with
only head and neck above water, until reach
cd by his father. 3lr. 11. then by means of
the door and the piece of ice, kept the bovs
out of water suuie half an hour or more, when
a boat was obtained and took them all safe to
land.
Sorrotrj'ul Death. —Saturday afternoon,
22d ult., Sam! Couldren, of Lower Augusta,
Northumberland Go., was drowned in Penns
creek, a short distance below the Log Gro
cery. Two ladies had crossed the creek from
this side, and drifted down stream some dis
tance before they succeeded in landing the
boat. Cauldron, in attempting to get into
the canoe to take it to tho usual place of
landing, fell into the creek, and whilst oner
of the ladies was securing the canoe, he.r
linquished his hold on the boat and after
some struggling disappeared. Search irat
immediately made for his body, but it has.
not been recovered. lie leaves a wife and
five children.— Selinsyrce Dost.
Extraordinary Bank Robbery
One of the most barefaced bank robberies
we ever heard of took place at St. Louis, Mo.„
on the 27th of March. The chief actor was
a boj named Redman. The city being under
martial law, and a very sharp lookout being
kept after Secessionists, the youngster forged
an order of the Provost Marshall, asking a
military officer in command of the city for a
squad of six men to aid in the arrest of Mr.
Hammer, of the firm of Hammer & Co., bank*
era, on a charge of disloyalty to the Govern
ment. Not being satisfied altogether with the
aspect of the Provost Marshall's signature to.
the request, the officer applied to, refused to
detail the men. Another forgery enabled
Redman to procure the services of a squad of
men from a Wisconsin regiment, who accom
panied him to the banking house, which is
situated iu one of the most crowded thorough
faros of the city. Stationing the guard at the
door, Iledman entered and informed Mr.
Hammer that he was a prisoner. Mr. Ham
mer asked an explanation. This was rofused
him, and he was told to go instantly with the
guard. The banker began to put up his bills
and gold, but that was what the young scoun
drel did not want above all things, and ifccor
dingly he forbade it. Resistance only brought
the guard with their bristling bayonets, and
Hammer, at tho risk of impalement, threw
what he could easily catch up into the safe
and locked it. On being ordered to open it
he refused, but was obliged to give up the
key. The lock beiug a combination one,
Redman poult} qpen it, although he tried
very hard. Hammer was commanded to un
lock the safe, but that he absolutely refused
to do, and was given over to the guard, who
took him to a place of custody. Meanwhile
Redman gathered up what money was left—
soma $2,250 —and pocketed it. He then
made his way coolly through the crowd
around the door and effected his escape.—
While the aet of plundering was going on, a
partner in the bank ran to the Provost Mar
shal, to learn the cause of the sudden and
uniu.-t arrest of the head of the firm, when
he discovered that no order had been issued
for Mr. Hammer's urres^.
Died,
On the 3d inst , Mrs. MARGARET SIl'E,
aged 70 years.
In OLver township, February 2Gth, 18G2
after a lingering illness, MARY ELLEN,
wife of Samuel 11. Swigart, aged 23 years
and 8 months.
Another evffin lid lias shut down upon a
young wife and mother, leaving three deap
little ones to breast the storms of life with
out a mother s lovo. Another name is en
tered ,m the roll of immortality. Another,
hearth stone is vacant; the silent cities of
the dead contain another inhabitant, another
heavenly mansion is filled, and another voice
swells tho eternal anthems that shall forever
roll up from around th* throne uf our Fath
er in Heaven. She is gone. She entered tbo
dark valley of the shadow of death with a
linn and unwavering hope of redemption
torough the bloou ot a crucified Redeemer.
Sorrow may weep her sad tear-, but the green
myrtle will flourish on her resting place.—
Sweet hope will bring comfort to the stricken
hearted, and faith cast hor anchor into the
soft waters of Shilo's biock which flowed hard
by the oracles ol God. She leaves a hus
band, aflectionate parents, brothers and sis
ters to mourn her early departure. Our loss
is her infinite gaiu. 11. C. D.
In Armagh township, near Milroy, on the
14th ult , ROBERT BELL, son of Geo. Bell,
esq., in the 2Gth year of his age.
1 bus lias one of the noble young men of
the Valley fillen ; and one win displayed in
ail his actions a true christian character, and
was truly an ornament to the church of Christ.
His heart was tilled witl; tho noblest feelings
that could fill the heart of man, and fnm it
flowed those characters which entwine one's
affections, who came in contact with him.—
But he has left his name endeared to all who
knew liim, and truly he has left an aching
yoid in the hearts that surround the family
circle of home, which can never be filled.
But Robert has gone, and his father and
mother have lost in their declining days a
strong arm to lean upon, and sisters have lost
one of the best of brothers. 'The musical
circle has lost a leader—the young men a
welcome companion, and we hear the cry
coming from tho V 7 alley, Oh ! how we will
miss Robert! 'llien let us who know him live
so that when we are called to leave this world
it will be said of us as it was of bim—"Ohl
how we miss him." A. P, B.
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.
"VTOTICE is hereby given that the Commis-
A.a sioners of Mifflin county have authoriz
ed the Collectors of State and County taxes
to make a deduction of
5 PER CENT.
on all taxes paid on or before the first day of
June next, and THREE PER CENT, on
those paid after the first day of June and on
or before the 15th July—aftor which the full
amount will be claimed.
By order of the Commissioners.
CEO. FRYSINGER, Clerk.
Lewistowp, April 9, 1862—tj
BAKING BUSINESS.
Frederick a. neupert respectfully
informs his friends that he has opened a
linking Establishment next door to Graver's
tatern, and directly opposite the jail, where
B ™ ly kee P on hand FRESH
BREAD, CAKES, PRETZELS, &c, and
will also bake to order cakes of any size or
kind. Bread delivered in all parts of town.
As his experience in the business is well
known, he trusts to receive a share of public
patronage.
Lewiatown, April 9, 1862-3t.
MAGNETIC Tack Hammer—just the
thing wanted by all housekeepers—for
sale by E.G. FRANCISCI'S