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JJaflsmaa's Journal
BY SAMGEL J. ROW.
CLEARFIELD, PA., JAN. 22, 18G2.
HON. JOHN PATTON.
1 1 In the present extremity of the coun fry, the
people of the "Wild-cat' District" have good
reason to be . thankful that they have such an
efficient and reliable Representative in Con
gress, as the one whose name heads this par
agraph. At Washington , City, Gen. Patton
enjoys an enviable reputation that of being
an active, energetic, straight-forward man,who
means work, not talk, and who has accom
plished more than any new, and quite as much
as some of the old Members. . On ' the great
question of the day, be has no concealments
to make. The preservation of the Union and
the maintenance of the Constitution he regards
as paramount objects. In the language of an
eminent and popular military officer, he fiolds
that "the Government must go on, and what
ever is in the way of its progress must get out
of it or abide by the consequences." The
milk-and-water, so-called "conservative" pol
ticians, will doubtless descry him as an ultra
ist; but the time is not distant when every
Representative who takes this position will re
ceive the commendations of all who are truly
loyal citizens. Brave, unflinching spirits are
needed at present, and among these Gen. Pat
ton occupies no secondary position.
, British Soldiers Landed in Maise. By
permission of Mr. Seward, the steamer Ilibcr
nia landed her cargo of Brit ish soldiers at
Portland, Maine. This policy on the part of
the Secretary, says the Chester (Delaware
cennty) Republican, is wis and prudent, and
will redound to his credit among all right
thinking men. It shows that we have no ani
mosity against England. The ten or twenty
thousand men sent by the British Government
into her ewn provinces, on this side of the
water, can do us no harm. We number our
soldiers by hundreds of thousands, and we
have no feara that England will offer any in
dignity to us, with the handful of men she
may send to Canada. Mr. Seward was right
in permitting the landing of these troops on
oar shores, and his action will strengthen the
hands of the friends of onr Government, now
in Great Britain, who have strenuously urged
upon those in authority there the fact, that
we have no unkind feelings towards the peo
pie of that country.
Fight at Fort Pickens. The Confederate
batteries at Pensacola having repeatedly fired
at our small vessels, Fort Pickens opened on
the Confederate steamer Times, which was
landing stores at the Navy Yard, on the 1st of
January. The rebel batteries responded, and
firing was continued till evening, Fort Pick
ens firing the last shot. The robel guns were
well aimed, and most of the shells burst be
side the Fort. . Only one man was wounded,
however. One of our shots made a larg6
bread in Fort Barrancas. In the ' evening
our firing set Warrington on fire. The confla
gration continnod all night, and the place was
still burning on the evening of the 2d, when
the Rhode Island left. The firo was seen at a
distance of 85 miles at sea.
. Confiscation Bill. Mr. Trumbull's bill to
confiscate' the property and free the slaves of
the rebels, reported a few days since in the
Senate by the Judiciary Committee, will prob
ably bo adopted as the most feasible of the sev
eral plans now before Congress. The bill au
thorizes the President of the United States
to make provision for the transportation, col
onization and settlement in some tropical
country beyond the limits of the United
States, of such persons of the African race,
made free by the provisions of this act, as may
be willing to emigrate, having first obtained
the assent of said country.
The Rebels Abroad. It is reported on
what is considered good authority, that the
Southern agents in Franco and England are
proposing to negotiate for recognition on the
basis of commercial treaties highly favorable
to the interests of those Powers, and the grad
ual abolition of slavery in all the States of the
so-called Confederacy. . How much longer
such proposals will be refused on the other
side of the Atlantic, may depend much on tho
activity or delay of our army.
; A New Railroad.' It is stated that engin
eers are now making surveys for a railway
route, between Washington and some point
on the Northern Central Railroad, the intcn
tion being to construct this as a portion of a
new line from New York to the Federal capi
tal, avoiding the cities of Philadelphia and
Baltimore. . , -
Rebel Boat Bcrned. The Mount Vernon,
stationed off Wilmington, N( C, arrived at
Fortress Monroo and reports that on New
Year's night she burnt a light ship which was
being fitted out for a gunboat, under the guns
of Fort Casswell.
' Cholkra. This disease ; is making great
ravages In India. The natives are the princi
pal victims at Caunpore, aud eight thousand
are said to have died at Kandahar in days.
Confirmed. lion. E. M. Stanton, was con
firmed as Secretary "of War by the Senate;
and Hon. Simon Cameron aa Minister to Russia.
A Chance in the Cabinet. The Hon.
Simon Cameron resigned the position of Sec
retary of War on the 14th and Hon. E. M.
Stanton was designated ' by the President as
his successor. In referring to the resignation
of Mr. ' Cameron tho Harrisburg Telegraph
says t "The report created great sensation in
political circles, but among tho immediate
friends of the distinguished ex-Secretary of
War, it is well understood that he occupied
that position with great reluctance, and that it
has been his determination lor a long time to
retire from that Department as soon as he had
accomplished all the good in his power, for
the immediate organization of tho army and
the future success of the struggle to crush re
bellion. These ends having been accomplish
ed, Gen. Cameron felt constrained to return
hid port-folio to the President, and ask to
be relieved of the immense labors and respon
sible duties of the War Department. Before
that resignation was accepted, President Lin
coln pressed on the acceptance of Secretary
Cameron, the post of Minister to Russia,
made vacant by the resignation of Cassius M.
Clay. In consideration of the manner in
which the position was tendered, and f he wide
field it presented lor the exercise of great a-
bilitics and experience, we understand that it
has been as cordially accepted by Mr. Came
ron as it was tendered by the President."
Of the appointment of Mr. Stanton the Tele
graph says : "The appointment of the Hon.
Edwin M. Stanton as the successor of Gen.
Cameron in the War Department, must become
very popular, notwithstanding Mr. Stanton Is
so little known to the mass of the people. He
is a man of the most commanding ability, of
the largest and most comprehensive views
and opinions, and in every respect fully capa
ble to administer the War Department with
the success and the vigor which distinguished
its details during the past nine months."
Mr. Stanton is a lawyer by profession. He
resided for some time at Steubenville, Ohio,
but for many years past he has been a resident
of Pittsburg, in this State. He was called by
Mr. Buchanan, at the close of his Administra
tion, to the office of Attorney-General, and
was superceded on tho incoming of the new
Administration, by the appointment of Judge
Bates. He is classed among the Union Dem
ocrats, but has been little known as a politi
cian, having devoted his life almost entirely
to his professional calling.
The Indians. The Cherokee Indians having
become equally divided on the question of loy
alty ana rebellion, are now fighting among
themselves. The loyal party headed by John
Ross, who has for so long a time been their
faithful chief recently gained two victories
over the rebels. The Cherokees at first en
vinced a strong desire to remain neutral in
regard to the present disturbances, and the
Government was disposed to allow them to
maintain such a position, but some wicked
and unscrupulous emissaries of Jeff. Davis
went among them, and succeeded in getting a
large number to forswear their allegiance to
the Government that has fostered them, and
the result is that they are now engaged in
slaughtering each other.
New Yore Legislature. Resolutions were
reported in the Assembly, in favor of Congress
levying a direct tax to defray tho interest of
the entire indebtedness of the National Gov
ernment, and that said tax be made permanent
and be increased yearly, whenever an increase
of the national debt is duly authorized by law ;
that the people of the State of New York will
cheerfully co-operate with her sister loyal
States and the federal government in willing
submission to all burdens necessary to be in
curred, and that by adopting the policy here
Indicated the government will commend the
confidence of all persons having money to
lend, and be able to obtain all the fiscal means
needed for a vigorous prosecution of the war.
Lost Caste. Lieut. Maury who was so long
under the pay and patronage of the Govern
ment and who then used his opportunities to
aid our enemies and ruin his country, was not
long since proposed as a candidate for the
somewhat coveted honor of being chosen a
corresponding member of the French Institute.
His claims were referred to a Committee of
eminent savans, who reported unanimously
that the public reputation of Mr. Maury was
not such as to entitle him to any such distinc
tion. This reminds us that Benedict Arnold
was regarded with contempt and scorn, even
in England, after the war was over. So with
traitors always.
The Richmond Examiner says thatthcro are
brokers in Richmond who arc quietly using the
underground railroad to make collections in
Richmond on Northern account, in defiance of
law, and hints that a prominent financial indi
vidual of that city is likely to be detected in
the business of collecting interest on State
bonds in his own name for Northern parties.
The Examiner threatens to "blow" if the
business gees on.
Alarmed. The Richmond Dispatch says that
a large part of the Confederate troops were
enlisted for six months, which term is about
to expire, and that it is a "trick to which Mc
Clellan looks for their destruction," to let
their time run out and their places be filled
with raw recruits before he moves. Thereup
on a frantic appeal is made to the "heroes of
Bethel, Bull Run," and the like to re-enlist.
The United States Agricultural Society has
repudiated National Exhibitions.as interfering
with State Societies, and has prepared a pre
mium list for cotton, flax and hemp crops in
the Middle and Northern States, the awards
to be mado in each State by the Society.
From statements made, it is certain that large
quantities of cotton will be grown in the Mid
dle States next year.
The Right SriaiT. The lata Grand Jury of
Pittsburg, In their presentment delivered to
the Court of Quarter Sessions, says tbat "tho
tax which may be created by this" unfortunato
rebellion we will most willingly bear, even un
to the last shilling of our hard earnings, rather
than be conquered or seo our constitutional
rights Invaded by traitors." ' '
Hjiat's so. A sensible Manchester politician
suggested to tho Duke of Newcastle that it
would be cheaper for tho English government
to ship all the unemployed cotton factory
hands to the south of Europe and feed them,
than to fight America. , The Duke's reply is
not given., . ' ;;
There are said to be sixty-seven rebel fam
ilies at the Donegao House, Montreal, and on
the receipt ol the first news from England,
concerning the seizure of Mason and Slidell,
so joyful were they that a supper was given by
them at the bouse, coatiDg $1,000.
SPEECH OF HON. H. L. DAWES,
OF MASSACHUSETTS.
. On Monday the 13th, in the House, Mr.
Dawes from the "Committee of Investigation
on Government Contracts," made the follow
ing remarks :
Sir : I have not failed to notice, and I be
lieve the Committee of which 1 am a member
have not failed to notice, in common with the
whole country, that for some unaccountable
reason, the charges upon the National Treas
ury, at this time of war, hare been such as to
reach nearly the bottom of the public chest.
During the investigation, startling facts have
come before the notice of the Committee, and
to;the Jnotice of the whole country, touching
tho mode and manner of tho expenditure of
the public money.
.. Some of these items I propose to call
public attention to, and then to ask gentlemen
the plain question, when they propose to meet
this question, if at all, and if so, how, when,
and where ? The very first contract entered
into by this Government, after the troops had
left their homes to come here, in April last,
to defend the Capital, by which they were to
be fed, ivas a contract entered into for cattle,
it was not made with a man whose business it
was to supply cattle to the market, not with a
man who knew the price of beef in the mar
kets of the country, but was entered into by
tl,e Government here with a man well known
in this, and in the other branch of Congress,
for the last ten years, as an old stipendiary
one of the class of men, who, in times past,
made their money by such operations as buy
ing the certificates of members for books at a
discount, aud then charging the full amount.
This contract was made so that the first twenty-two
hundred head of cattle furnished was
charged at a rate which enabled their original
contractor to sub-let it in 24 hours after to a
man in Nw York who did not know the price
ol beef, so that he put into his pockets, with
out stirring from his chair, $82,000, and the
men who actually furnished the cattle in ques
tion put in their peckets S2G,000 more, so that
the contract under which these 2,200 head of
cattle were furnished to the army was so made
that the profit of 58,000 were realized over
the fair market price. It takes a longer time
for a thousand head of cattle to reach this city
troni the States were they are purchased than
it takes the army to consume them. I ask
the House, at this rate, to consider how long
the most ample provisions of the Treasury
would be able to meet the simple demands for
the subsistence of the army. Sir, poerly as
the army is shod to-day, a million of shoes
have already been worn out, and a million
more are being manufactured, and yet upon
every one of these shoes there has been a waste
ol seventy-flve cents. Three-quarters of a
million of dollars have been already worn out,
and another three-quarters of a million of dol
lars upon shoes is now being manufactured.
In the department of the Government con
tracts have been so plenty that Government
officials have gone about the streets with their
pockets filled with them, and of which they
made presents to the clergymen of their par
ishes, and with which were healed old politi
cal4sores arid cured.political feuds. Even the
telegraph has announced that high public
functionaries have graced the love-feasts
which were got up to celebrate these politi
cal reconciliations, thus brought about while
the hatchet of political animosity was buried
in the grave of political confidence, and the
national credit was crucified among malefac
tors. We have reported to us the first fruits
of these contracts. A regiment of cavalry
lately reached Louisville, 1,000 strong, and the
board of Army Officers there appointed have
for the purpose, condemned 485 out ol the
1,000 horses as utterly; worthless. The man
who examined those horses declared, upon
his oath, that there was not one of them that
was worth $20. They were blind, spavined,
ringboned, afflicted with the heaves, with the
glanders, and with every disease that horse
flesh is heir to. These 485 horses cost the
Government, before they were mustered into
service, $58,200, besid. s more than an addi
tional $1,000 to transport them from Pennsyl
vania to Louisville, where they were con
dem ned and cast off.
Mr. Mallory (Un., Ky.) asked what regi
ment those horses belonged to, and who fur
nished them.
Mr. Dawes They belonged to Col. Wil
liam's regiment of cavalry, and they were pur
chased in Pennsylvania, from which State
they were forwarded to Louisville, where they
were condemned. There are 83 regiments of
cavalry to-day 1,000 strong. It takes $250,-
000 to put one of these regiments on foot be
fore it moves. Twenty millions of dollars had
thus been expended on these cavalry regiments
before they left the encampments where they
were mustered into service, and hundreds of
these horses have been condemned and sent
back to Elmira, and to Annapolis, and to this
city, to spend the winter. Any day hundreds
of them can be seen round this city, chained
to trees, where they were left to starve to
death. Gangs of two hundred horses in va
rious places, have been thus left to die and
rot, till the Committee of the District of Co
lumbia have called for a measure of legislation
to protect the city from the danger to be ap
prehended from these horse Golgothas. An
ex-Governor of one State offered to an ex
Judge of another State $5,000 to get him per
mission to raise one of these regiments of cav
alry, and when tho ex-Judge brought back
the commission, the ex-Governor takes it to
his room at the hotel, while another plunderer
sits at the keyhole watcbtng like a mastiff
while he inside counts up $40,000 profit on
the horses, and calculates $20,000 more upon
the accuuterments, and on the other details of
furnishing these regiments. In addition to
the arms in the hands of the 600,000 soldiers
in the field, there are numerous outstanding
contracts, madewtth private iudividuals not
made upon advertisement, not made with the
knowledge of the public, but made by ex-members
of Congress, who knew no more of the
difference between one class of arms and an
other than does a Methodist minister. There
are outstanding contracts for the manufacture
of Springfield muskets, the first one of which
cannot be delivered in six months from this
day. There is a contract for the supply of one
million and ninety thousand muskets, at twenty-eight
dollars apiece, when the sarao quality
of muskets are manufactured at Springfield for
thirteen and a half apiece ; and an ex-member
of Congress is now in Massachsetts, trying to
get machinery made by which he will be able
to manufacture in some six months hence, at
twenty-one dollais apiece, those rifled mus
kets manufactured to-day in that armory, for
thirteen dollars and a half. Providence, be
fore six months, will dispose of this war, or
He will dispose of us. . Not one of those mus
kets, thus contracted for, will be of the slight
est service in this emergency, or before the
Providence of God, whether for good or for
evil, will dispose of it. I ask my friends from
the North and North West how they expect
to benefit by an armory at Chicago, at Rock
Island Kand at Quincy, when 1,092,000 muskets
will, according to this contract, be thrown up
on the country, and that after tho war is over,
and at such an enormous price, in addition to
other outstanding contracts for the manufac
ture, some time hence, 272,000 Enfield rifles 1
Besides, there are 75,543 sets of harness, to be
delivered by and by, at the cost or $1,978,446.
1 have not time to enumerate . all these con
tracts. When we appropriated at the last ses
sion of'UoDgress, for this purpose,$20,000,000,
thirty-seven millions and some thousand dol
lars had been already pledged to contractors
not for the purchase of arms for the men in
the field, not to protect them in fighting their
country's battles in this great emergency and
peril, but for some future use, for some future
occasion, or to meet some present need ot the
contractors, I dont know . which at this mo
ment. And not only the appropriation of last
session has been exhausted, but $17,000,000
put upon It. The riot of the 19th of April, in
Baltimore, opened this ball, and on the 21st of
April, in the city of New lork, there was or
ganized a corps of plunderers of the Treasury.
Two millions of dollars were intrusted to a
poor, unfortunate, honest, but entirely incom
petent editor of a paper in New York, to dis
pense in the best manner he could. Straight
way this gentleman began to purchase linen
pantaloons, straw hats, London porter, dried
herrings, and such liko provisions for the
army, till he expended In this way $390,000
of the money, and then he got scared and quit.
Laughter . There is an appropriation, also,
lor the supply of wood to the army. This
contractor is pledged the payment of $7 per
cord for all the wood delivered to the differ
ent commands wood collected after the la
bor of the soldiers themselves had cut down
the trees to cloar the ground for their bat
teries, and then this contractor employs the
army wagons to draw it to the several camps,
and he has no further trouble than to draw his
$7 for a cord, leaving the Government to draw
the wood. Laughter. It costs two millions
of dollars every day to support the army in
the field. A hundred millions of dollars have
thus beeu expended since we met on the 22d
day of December, and all that time the array
has been in repose. What the expenditure
will increase to when that great day shall ar
rive when our eyes shall be gladdened with a
sight of the army in motion, I do not know.
Another hundred million will go with the hun
dreds more I have . enumerated. Another
hundred millions will be.added to these before
the 4th of March. Whit it may cost to put
down the rebellion I care very little, provided,
always, that it be put down effectually. But,
Sir, faith withoutworks is dead, and I am free
to confess that my faith semetitnes fails me
I mean my faith in men, not my faith in the
cause. When the history of these times shall
be written, it will be a question upon whom
tho guilt will rest most heavily upon him
who has conspired to destroy, or upon him
who has proved incompetent to preserve, the
institutions bequeathed to us by our fathers.
It is no wonder the public treasury trembles
and staggers like a strong man with too great
a burden upon him. A strong man in an air
exhausted receiver is not more helpless than
to-day is the Treasury of this Government be
neath the exhausting process to which it is
subjected. The mighty monarch of the for
est himself may held at bay the fiercest, might
iest of bin foes, while the vile cur, coming up
behind him and opening his fangs, gives him
a fatal wound, and although he may struggle
on boldly and valliantly, the life blood is si
lently trickling from his heart, and he is at
last forced to loosen his grasp, and grows faint
and lalters and dies. The Treasury notes is
sued in the face ot these immense outlays,
without a revenue from Custom-IIouses.from
land, from any source whatever, are beginning
to fall in the market. Already have they be
gun to sell at six per cent, discount at the
tables of the money changers ; and at the very
time, too, that we may here exhibit the singu
lar spectacle of fraud, and a struggle with the
Committee of Ways and Means itself, in an
endeavor to lift up and sustain the Govern
ment of the country. Already the sutler that
curse ot the camp is following the Paymas
ter, as the shark follows the ship, buying up
fer four dollars every five dollars of the wages
of the soldiers, paid to them in Treasury notes.
I have no desiro to hasten the movements of
the army, or to critiscise the conduct of its
leaders, but in view of the stupendous drafts
upon the Treasury, I must say that I long for
the day of striking the blow which will bring
this rebellion to au end. Sixty days longer
of this state of things will bring about a result
one way or another. It is impossible that the
Treasury of the United Stales can meet and
continue to meet this state of things sixty
days longer; and an ignominious peace must
be submitted to unless we see to it that the
credit of the country is sustaiued, and sustain
ed, too, by the conviction going forth from
this hall to the people of the country that we
will treat as traitors not only those who are
bold and manly enough to meet us face to face
in the field of strife but all those, also, who
clandestinely and stealthly suck the life-blood
from us in this mighty struggle. Whatever
measures may eminatelfrom the Committee on
Ways and Means to meet and retrieve this
state of things, they will but fall like a dead
pall upon the public unless they give this as
surance, that these extraordinary and extreme
measures to resuscitate, revive, and replenish
the Treasury, are not made to fill further and
longer the already gorged pockets of the pub
lic plunderers. How, then, aro we to con
tribute in this matter to revive public confi
dence in our public men here, if it be not
when these appropriations como up that we
probe them, that we ascertain whether there
be anything in them that at this moment can
bo spared. Our pressing duty now is to pro
tect and save the Treasury from further whole
sale or other system of plundering. In con
clusion, he argued against paying for printing
the Treasury notes, on the ground that the
contract was improperly obtained.
Lord Lyons lives in royal style at Washing
ton. He is unmarried, and only forty-five
years of age. His bachelors hall is one of the
best furnished houses in the city, and his plate
is more costly by half than that used in the
President's honse.
The rebels brand their deserters with a hot
iron on the left hip, impressing deep in their
skin the letter D. They then shave their
heads, give them fifty lashes on the baro back,
and drum them out of camp to the tune of the
Rogue's March.
A factory girl at Manchester, New Hamp
shire, commitied suicide upon receiving in
telligence of the death of her sweetheart, who
had enlisted in one of the regiments from that
State. Poor girl she was only seventeen
years old.
The supply of turpentine having been cut
ofl by the blockade of the southern, coast we
sue it stated that efforts will be made in some
of the pine-growing regions of the northern
States to commence its manufacture in the
Spring.
The Charleston Mercury recommends the
shooting ot slaves who refuse to follow their
masters. That would be constitutional,-we
suppose. Those rebels are great sticklers for
constitutions.
Modest. The Rebel Congress has adopted
a resolution to the effect that peace should not
be concluded with the United States until
Maryland is added to the Southern Confedera
cy. ; .
The duty on tobacco in England, amounts
to seven times the first cost price. As a con
sequence it is extensively adulterated with
rhubarb leaves.
Sorghum. Over a million dollars worth of
sorghum syrup and sugar was manufactured in
the State ol Iowa last year.
-PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
. Washington, Jan. 14.-ln the House, the
bill making an appropriation for the exhibi
tion of American articles at the World's Fair,
was laid on' the table by a , large majority.
Oh the same day, the country was relieved of
a heavy burden. The House passed a vote to
destroy the franking privileges, and as the
Senate had. once taken a similar step, there
can be no doubt but that the resolution will
go through that body as smoothly as through
the other.
Jan. 15. In the House, on motion of Mr.
Corning (Dem.) of New York, a resolve ema
nating from the Committee of Ways and Means,
was adopted pledging Congress to levy Inter
nal Taxes, which, with the Duties on Imports,
should produce an aggregate revenue of $150,
000,000 per annum, being at least $75,000,000
more than can be and $100,000,000 in are than
onght to bo required lor the support ol Gov
ernment in time of peace. The levy ot such
taxes ought to make U. S. Six per cents worth
at least par, and Treasury Notes convertible
into such stocks at the pleasure of the holder
available as currency. The vote by which
this resolve was passed 133 to 5 should
leave no doubt of the determination of Con
gress to do whatever is needful to sustain the
public credit and invigorate tho prosecution
of the war. The Tax bills will. soon bo re
ported and passed. In the Senate, much time
was occupied in debato on Gen. Lane's plan
for promoting the efficiency of the Kansas
troops, and with regard to the Kansas contested
seat; no result was reached. M r. "f rumble of
Illinois, from the Judiciary Conimittee repor
ted an original bill in lieu of all those which
had been referred to that Committee. The
new bill simply and bluntly decrees thai the
property of rebels shall be confiscated and
their slaves made fiee. The bill with a few
verbal alterations may likely go through both
Houses and become a law.
Jan. 16. In the Senate, the bill forbidding
army or navy officers to return slaves was de
bated at some length, but no result wn reached.
Mr. Saulsbury of Delaware moved an amend
ment, in the form of anew section, to the ef
fect that no officer or soldier shall decoy away
any tdave from his master. This was not fa
vorably received, and will probably be killed
ou the first opportunity. The Kansascontested
election case was settled in the Senate, by
confirming Gen. Lane in his seat, and sending
Mr. Stanton away. The General will shortly
leave Washington to take command of bis di
vision. The bill introduced by Senator Sher
man this morning enacts that all the printing,
engraviug, lithographing, electrotyping, and
binding, of whatever description, and all
blank-books and blanks of whatever kind and
character, required by either House of Con
gress, Executive Judicial Departments, Coast
Survey, and Court of Claims, shall be done at
the Government printing-office ; and provides
for the publication, by trie Superintendent, of
the Congressional Record, to contain the de
bates and proceedings of Congress in full, in
place of The Daily Globe. This last provision
is based upon a calculation that the same a
mount of printing as is contained in The Globe
for the 31th Congress can be executed at the
Government printing-office at a saving of
$84,000. The bill contains voluminous details
carrying out these provisions. The House
Committee on Lake Defenses has had but two
meetings. It will recommend the erection of
fortifications at the Straits of Mackinaw, and
probably also at Fort Gratiot, which commands
the St. Clair River at its narrowest part.
Other points may be suggested, but there is a
feeling in committee rooms that in "wooden
walls" vo are so much stronger on the Lakes
than oar Canadian neighbors, that few land
works are required. The House Military
Committee, at their meeting this morning,
authorized Mr. Olin to report a bill reducing
the numberof Chaplains to one toeach brigade,
and establishing Hospital Chaplains. This
reduction has been asked for by many Chap
lains and clergymen,as well as hosts of officers.
INTERESTING WAR NEWS.
A flag of truce took to Norfolk on the 17th a
number of released prisoners, and then pro
ceed up James River, about nine miles above
Newport News, and met the steamer from
Richmond with 150 released prisoners. Two
others had escaped from prison and got aboard
the boat and were concealed by their comrades.
One of them evaded examination by jumping
the guards, whilst the other was detected and
taken back. All of tho prisoners were conval
escents from the hospital. About twenty had
crutches, and a dozen had to be carried on
board, some on cots. All had been wounded.
Dr. Iligginbotham accompanied them, and
the men were loud in their commendation of
his uniform kindness to them, and after cor
dially grasping his hand gave him three cheers.
They then saluted the old stripes and stars
with a burst of enthusiasm that brought tears
to the eyes of many, waving crutches over
their heads on their way back. The wharves
and embankments at Newport News were
thronged with people, greeting them with
cheers, also the Cumberland and Congress.
A gentleman, formerly of Linn, Mass.,
reached Chicago from New Orleans on the
17th. He had passes from Georgia to pass
the rebel lines at New Madrid and Columbus.
The general opinion was that our troops,
were bound for the Tennesso river, and the
people In many sections expect the direst ca
lamities to befall them in the coming strug
gle, but as far as possible take no sides.
A heavy reconnoisance was made on the.
16th by Gen. Grant and staff, with Osband's
cavalry, resulting in getting reliable informa
tion ot all the routes leading out of Columbus
towards Blandville and other towns. The
party went within six miles of Coiuw.bus., but
no rebels were seen. They travelled oyer 40
miles in six hours.
A gentleman from Colnmbns reports that a
U. S. war steamer fired into a French war
steamer which was trying to run the blockade
at New Orleans. Onr steamer fired 12 shots
into the French vessel. "She was afterwards
taken to Ship Island, and was loaded with 200
bales of cotton.
' The President received a private dispatch
on the 19th, confirming the report -that the
rebels had abandoned Roanoke Island in Al
bermarle Sound, and that they bad also aban
doned the city of Yorktown.-
Four deserters arrived at Cairo from Colum
bus on the 19th. They report 40,000 rebel
roops at Columbus, Kentucky.
TWO NEW ONE-HORSE SLEIGHS, fw.
by KKEtEAVER 4 &
f YRONE CITY HOT Ejt,
TYRONE, BLAIR COUNTY, PA.
A. P. OWENS, Propriety.
Also Oysters, Wholesale and Retail jee-j
F ARM FOR SALE. Th e following dcMriV j
fanii. situated in Decatur township.CleartVj
Co., Pa. two miles and a half west of l'bilip.borr
on.theGlen Hope road, containing one htiHli,,i
and ticriity-one flTMod allowance. There ar
about eighty-Are acres cleared and under a reel
state of cultivation ; with a Urge, well nnUd
frame 6ank bafn. a comfortable be wed lor ho-'
and a well finished frame dwelling nouae a J
other out buildings erected thereon, never fai'inr
springs of water at the buildings, and a large 5
well selected assortment of bearing frait tr,
The wood land being well timbered and nodtr
laid with a four and a balf foot vein of (tone coal
The above farm affords rare inducement to pur
chasers. For further information euquire ef
R. D. SHOW ALTER, Fhilipburz
Oct. 23, 1861. fun. Centre. Co.
A New Lot of Goods.
THE UNDERSIGNED having taken the ,tnn
of merchandise of the late firm of Ptt(,a
Hippie A Co., have just added a fresh supply 0f
SEASONABLE WOODS,
comprising Groceries, Drugs, Queeniware,
Boots and Bboei, Clothing, Muslins, Pe Lai an
Prints, FattfueU,. Flannels, etc,, which
they offer at low prices
FOR ,tSil OR READY PAY.
Grain, Porx, fungltf and Board, taneo in ej.
change for goods. We fep:tfuliy ass a attar
of patronage. Call and esatufne our trn
Curwcnsville. Dec. 11. lflfTLK i FAl'ST.
N B. The accounts of Patfxu. Hippie A Co.. ar
in our harrd. ami we hereby notify person bat
ing unsettled nccofrut. to-call andyettie tbet.ima
us we desire to Kave'tte bwosn Cio.eif.
December 1f tS$l. HIITLE & FAUsT.
J M PORTA X I AAJVOl'NCEMENT
A Fact Worth KiioAvinu:!
The undersigned inform hi old friend?an4 the
public generally that be has- jirrt received and o
pened, at his old stand in Bradford township.
JfE W AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF
SEASONABLE GOODS,
consisting of Dry Goods, Hardware, (j'-jfeenswari
Groceries, and all other articles usually ept in a
country store, which he will dispose of at as low
rates as they can be purchased in the county, anl
of as good quality, if not better. He respectfnllf
solicits all to give him a call and examine hi
stock before purchasing elsewhere, and he fee!
certain that they will buy from him.
jyU MATTHEW FORCEE.
EW FIRM AND NEW GOODS!
JOHN & JERKED F. IRV1K.
The undersigned give notice that on the 13th A
pril tbey enterod into pnrtnership in the mercan
tile business in Curwcnsville. and that hereafter
the business will be conducted by them jointly un
der the name and firm of John A J F. f rvin.
They inform their customers and the public ia
general that they have received from the East and
opened at the old stand, a large and varied stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER
DRY-GOODS, GROCERIES, QUEENS
WARE, HARDWARE, JkC, AC,
specially adapted to the wants of the eomrannity.
and will sell the same at the lowest cas-h prices.
Also, a large assortment of Boots. Shoea. ilati
and Caps, ef the latest styles and best quality. x'A
of which they intend to sell at reasonable rate.
Also, an extensive stock of the most fashionable
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
at prices to suit tho t'mcs. Now is the time to
purchase. Call in aru examine bur stock before
you purchase your gnds, and we feel confident
that we can supply yon with all kinds of good
at as low prices and on as reasonable ternm a vu
can procure then elsewhere. Give us a trial-
JOHN 1RVIN.
May 30, ISf.O. JERRED F I RVIN.
N. B. Persons indebted W the olJ firm are re
quested to calf aad settle. may 30.
FURNITURE EOOMSE
Benner & Barrett,
Respectfully announce to the public that they
have completed and are now occupying their ne
FURNITURE WARE-ROOMS,
fronting on the Market I6t and nearly opposite the
Court House. Cabinet making will be carried oa
in the vpper story of the same building, in all it'
different branches. All kinds of furniture will
be kept constantly on band, and sold cheap fur
Cash, or exchanged for country produce or lum
ber to suit the business Their stock will consist of
PARLOR. ROCKIXG AND ARM CHAIRS,
SPRING SEATS, CAIJ BOTTOMS, Ae.
Parlor, Sofa, Centre, Card, Dining, Extension nd
Breakfast 1 able
Sofas of all Kinds, Varieties and
Patterns.
Bureaus, Sideboards, Book Cases, 'Wardrobes, le
Bedsteads Jenny Lind, High Posts, Cottage
French Posts, Ac.
Mattrasses Hair. Hair top, Cotton top, and Cora
husk, of the best materials.
Looking Glasses of all sorts and sires. Also glas
ses for old frames. Also, What-nots, Wash-sUDd
Work-stands; Hat-racks, Ac.
COFFINS made to order on short notice, and
Ilenrse furnished.
Poplar, Cherry, Maple and Lin wood Lumber
taken in exchange for work. Oat. L23126L
Furniture ! Furniture !!
JOHN GUELICH,
Desires to inform his old friends and customers
that, having enlarged his shop and increased kif
facilities for manufacturing, he is now prepare
to make to order such furniture as may be oM,r"
ed, in good style and at cheap rates for cash.
mostly has on hand at his -Furniture Room,
a varied assortment of furniture, among which if,
BUREAUS AND SIDEBOARDS,
Wardrobes and Book-cases; Centre, Sof. Parlor.
Breakfast and Dining extension TaUes
Common, French-posta, Qottage, JHi
ny-land and other Bedsteads.
SOFAS OF ALL KINDTS, WO.RK-STAND!?, HAT
IACKS; WASH-STANDS, Aa.
Rooking and Arm Chairs,
Spripg-seat, Gain-bottom, and Parlor Chairs ;
And common and other Chairs.
LOOKING-GLASSES
Of every dejoriptioo on hand, and newglas1
oid frames, which will be put in on very
reasonable terms, on short notice.
Ho also keep on hand, or furnishes to order. Hir-Corn-husk,
Hair and Cotton top Mattresw
COFFINS. OF EVERY KEND.
Madp tq order, and funerals attended wi-n
Hearse, whenever desirable.
Alsq, House painting done to order.
Tho above, and many other articles are- ftrrBub
to customers cheap for cash or IcbD8edp,;r
proved country produce. Cherry,
Lin-wood and other Lumber suitable for
ness, taken in exchange for furnituro.
Remember the shop is on MarKeHtreeV . .
field, and nearly oppose the; Ittl.
December 4. 1311 JOHN uU-Llti