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sistant. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately
m 10 o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the
evening. Sabbath School at 'J o'clock, A. M.
prayer meeting every Thursday evening, at 7
o'clock.
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Ii3tor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
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.Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
meeting on the first Monday evening of each
month ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
each month.
Culvinistic Methodist Rev. John Williams,
Tastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and 6 o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock,
A. M. Prayer meeting every Friday evening,
at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock.
Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach
iujf erery;Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.,?
Particular Baptists Rev. David Jenkins,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
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Services every Sabbath morning at 10 J o'clock
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town. &c, arrive on Thursday of each week,
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COUXTY OFFICERS.
Judjcs of the Courts President, Hon. Geo.
Taylor, Huntingdon ; Associates, George W.
Euslcj-, Richard Jones, Jr.
J'rothonotary Joseph M'Donald.
lleyisler and Recorder Fd;vard F. Lytle.
Sheriff. Robert P. Linton.
Dejmty Sheriff. William Linton.
District Attorney. Philip S. Noon.
County Commissioners. Abel Lloyd, D. T.
Btorni, James Cooper.
CUrk to Commissioners. Robert A. M'Coy
Treasurer. John A. Blair.
Voor House Directors. David O'llarro,
lliihrcl M'Guire, Jacob Horner
Poor House Treasurer. George C. K. Zahm.
Poor House Steward. James J. Kaylor.
Mercantile Appraiser. II. C. Devine.
Abators. Henry Hawk, John F. Stull.
Johr. S. Rhey.
County Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy.
Coroner. James S. Todd.
Superintendent of Common Schools. James
M. Swank,
eii KxsniRc lion, officers.
Justices of the reace. David n. Roberts
"arrison Kinkead.
Jivrycss David J. Evans.
7W Council Evan Griffith, John J. Evans,
William D. Davis, Thomas B. Moore, Daniel
Evans.
Clerk to Council T. D. Litzinger.
Borough Treasurer George Gurlcy.
Weigh Master William Davis.
School Directors William Davis, Reese S.
Lloyd, Morris J. Evans, Thomas J, Davis,
Hugh Jones, David J. Jones.
Trtnturer of School Hoard Evan Morgaa.
Constable George W. Brown.
Tax Collector George Gurley.
J lye of Election Mesha Thoma.
'Vectors Robert Evans, Win. Wil!innis
Author Richard T. Davis.
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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1861.
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Patriotism.
BY WALTER 8COTT.
Breathes there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
"This is my own, my native land!"
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand?
If such there breathe, go, mark him well!
For him no minstrel's raptures swell.
High though his tiles, proud hi3 name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch concentred all in self,
Living-, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence ho sprung,
Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
SEVENTY-FIVE WILES AN HOUR.
I had spent a night in a stage, a day
in the saddle, a night in a sleeping car,
half a day doing business, half a day in
bed, and was, after supper, enjoying a ci
gar and a newspaper, in the reading room
of the 11 House in F , Indiana. The
newspaper was uninteresting, or else I
was rather sleepy and I guess it was a
little of both, so that I soon neglected it,
to watch the fantastic curling of the smoke
from my fine flavored Principe. I didn't
feel much like talking, and felt still less
like reading; but I did feel as if I would
like exceedingly well to hear a good
story.
I had barely come to this conclusion
and commeuced wishing for some one of
my acquaintances to amuse me until the
time was up for the train, which was to
take me to G , when I recognized in the
person who sat next to me, a fellow trav
eller in the sleeping car of the night
before.
lie was a very agreeable looking little
man, with a clear, gray eye, light hair,
sandy whiskers and smiling mouth. In
deed he had so much the appearance of
the man that I would like to hear tell a
story, that I thought Dame Fortune had
smiled upon mc, when he recognized me
with a genial :
"How dy'e do, Stranger?"
I returned his salutation, and asked
him some common-nlace question about
how he had enjoyed the ride we took to
gether. lie said something in reply about the
running being too fast for the poor track ;
and from this the conversation ran upon
fast traveling in general for some time.
At last I remarked that sixty miles an
hour was the most speedy traveling that
I Kad ever done. "Whereupon my friend
informed me, with a pleasant but knowing
smile, that he. had traveled considerable
faster than that, and, in fact, faster than
he had ever heard of, beside.
Of course I was anxious to know where
when and how he had done it ; and after
the modest assurance that he feared his
tale would not be interesting, my friend
relieved my anxiety by relating the fol
lowing story :
"I am a railroad cng:ncer. In fifty-seven,
during the great panic, I was running
on the F. &. C. 11. 11. The railroad com
panies were growing tender in all direc
tions. Every day we heard of new fail
ures ; and quite ofteu in a quarter where
we least expected it. Our road was looked
upon as one of the most substantial in the
nation ; nobody seemed to have any great
fear that it would fail to survive the gen
eral smash up. But yet I did not fully
share in the general confidence. "Wages
were cut down; arrearages collected; and
a great many other little matters seemed
to indicate to me that the road had got
into rather deeper water than was agree
able, all around. Among other things,
the master mechanic had told me in the
Spring, that the company had ordered
four first quality Taunton engines for the
Fall passenger business. The road was
put in the very best condition, and other
preparations were made, to cut down the
time, and put the trains through quicker
than was ever known before, when the
new engines should come. Well, there
was but one of the new engines came.
"I said there was but one engine came,
and she was, in my opiniou, altogether the
best ever turned out at the Taunton
Works. And this is as much as could be
said in praise of any engine. She was
put in my charge immediately, with the
understanding that she was mine.
It was Saturday when she came out of
the shop, and I was to take a special train
up to Y . The train was to carry up
the president, and several of the other
officers of the road, to meet some officers
of another road which crossed ours there,
and arrange some important bmdncss with
them. I had no trouble at all, making
forty miles an hour going out. The en
gine handled herself most bautifully.
We were just holding up at Y , when
Aldrich, the treasurer, who had come out
on the platform to put the brake on, slip
ped and fell. As we were yet under good
headway, he was very much injured, and
was carried to the hotel insensible.
"According to the president's directions,
I switched off my train, turned my engine,
and stood ready to start back to C - at a
moment's notice.
"Aldrich's presence was of so much
importance, that the business could not
be transacted without him. So all those
I had brought out, except the president
and Aldrich, went back to C , on the
three o'clock express train. This was the
last regular train which was to oass over
the road until the following Monday.
'Early in the evening, I left the ma
chine in charge of my fireman, and went
over to an eating house, to see if I could
not spend the time more pleasantly than
on my engine. The hours dragged them
selves away slowly. . I was taking a game
of dominoes with the station agent, when
in came Roberts, the president, in great
excitement.
"Harry' said he to me, "I want you
to put me down in C at 12 o'clock."
"As it was near 11 o'clock, and the
distance was seventy-five miles, I thought
he was joking at first ; but when we got
outside the door, he caught me by the
arm, and hurried me along so fast that I
saw he was in earnest.
"Harry." said he, "if you don't set me
down in C by twelve o'clock, I am a
ruined man, and this road is a ruiued
road. Aldrich is dead ; but he told me
before he died, that he had embezzled
from time to time fifty thousand dollars
of our money; and his clerk is to start
on the 12 o'clock boat, from C to Can
ada. If we don't have that money on
Monday morning, to make some payments
with, the road goes into other hands, and
if you put me down in C at the right
time, so that I save the, money, you shall
have five thousand dollars. Understand
it, Harry ? Five thousand dollars !"
"Of course, I understood it. I sae
now the reason why the wages had been
cut down ; I understood it all, and my
blood boiled. I felt that I would save
the road if I lived, and told ltoberts so.
"See that you do it, Harry," he replied,
as he climbed up the steps of the coach
which was coupled to my engine.
"I sprang up into the foot-board, got
up the switch tender to help my fireman,
opened the throttle, and, just as she com
menced moving, I looked at my watch
it was just eleven o'clock, so that I had
one hour to make my seventy-five miles
in.
"From Y to C there were few
curves in the road ; but there were sever
al heavy grades. I was perfectly acquain
ted with every rod of it, so that I knew
exactly what I had to encounter; and
when I saw how the engine was moving
I felt very little fear of tho result. .
"The road, for tho first few miles, was
an air line, and so smooth that my engine
flew along with a scarcely perceptible jar.
I was so busy posting myself up, as to the
amount of wood and water aboard, etc.,
that we danced by the first station almost
before I was aware of it, having been five
minutes out, and having five miles accom
plished. "You are losing time !" yelled a voice
from the coach. I looked around, and
there stood Koberts with his watch in his
hand.
"I knew very well that we should have
to increase our speed by some means, if
we carried out our plans of reaching C
by midnight, and looked anxiously around
to see what I could do to accomplish that
purpose. She was blowing off steam fiercely
at one hundred and ten pounds, so I turn
ed down the valve to two hundred, fori
knew she needed it all to make some of
the heavy grades which lay between us
and C .
"It was three miles to the next station.
With the exception of a few curves, the
track was as good as the last. As we
darted around what commonly seemed to
be a rather long curve, at the station, but
which was, at our highspeed, short enough,
I looked at my watch, and we had done it
in two minutes and a half.
" 'Gaining,' I shouted back to Koberts,
who was standing outside ou the platform
of -the coach.
" 'Look out for the heavy grades " he
replied, and went inside the car.
"Tho next six miles rose gradually from
a level, the first, to ten and a half feet
grade, the last which lay between us and
the next fetation. My fireman kept her
full ; and now she began to get hot. The
furnace door was red and the steam raised
continually, so that she kept her speed,
and passed the station like a streak of
light, in five minutes.
"Now came nine miles like the last,
over which she kept pace with her time
and passed the station iu sevcu minutes.
"Here, for ten miles, we had a twenty
foot grade to encounter ; but the worst of
it all was, at this place wc would have to
stop for wood. I wa.4 just going to speak
to Koberts about it, when I looked around
and saw him filling the tender from the
coach, with wood which had been placed
there before starting, while he was gone
aftur me.
"I believe he would have made his ten
miles at the same speed as before; but
through the carelessness of the fireman,
the fountain-valve, on the left hand side
f the engine, got opened, and the water
rose in the boiler, so far as to run tho
steam down to one hundred points, before
J discovered where the difficulty lay.
1 "At first Koberts didn't appear to notice
the decrease of speed, and kept at work at
the wood as if for dear life. But present
ly he looked up and seeing that the speed
had decreased, he shouted :
"Harry, we are stopping!"
"And then coming over to where I was,
he siid :
"Why, herewe have been ten minutes
on the last ten miles, and I believe we will
borne to a dead stand, if something is not
done. The speed is continually slacken
ing. What, is the matter ?"
i "I explained the cause. He was appa
rently satisfied with my explanation, and
after having tied down the safety valve, he
climbed back over the tender, exhorting
me to put her through, for God's sake, or
we are beggars together !
"Just then we passed the next station,
having taken nine minutes for eight miles.
We were now more than half over the
road, and Ave had lost nearly ten minutes
time, and had left only twenty-seven min
utes to do thirty-four miles in.
"I had shut the water off both my
pumps a little back, where I discovered
what was the matter, and she was now
making steam finely down a slight grade.
From less than one hundred, with which
we started over that ten miles' stretch she
had two hundred before we finished it ;
and as the gage indicated no higher than
that, and the valve was tied down, I could
Lot tell how much over two hundred she
carried, but she certainly carried none less
tie rest of the journey. And well might
she carry such an enormous head of steam ;
fr after passing over that ten miles in
eight minutes, there lay ten miles of a five
teet up grade, and fourteen miles of twen-tr-to-the-mile
depression between us and
0 , and it was now eleven o'clock and
fcrty-seven minutes.
! ".Now the engine was hot in earnest.
The furnace-door, smoke-arch and chim
ney, all were red ; while she seemed to fly
onward as if the very evil one himself op
etated her machinery.
i"Six minutes carried us over that ten
ntiles, and we darted by the last station
tlat had lain between us and C . Now
wo had fourteen miles to go, and my time
rhowed eleven o'clock and fifty-three min
utes. " 'If I live said I to myself, I will
make it and wc plunged down the twen
ty feet grade with all steam on. Persons
who saw the train on that wild run, say
that it was so soon after they heard the
first sound of her approach, when the
strange object, which looked as if it was a
flame of fire, darted by, and then the sound
of its traveling died away in the distance,
that they could hardly convince themselves
that they had seen anything. It seemed
more like a creature of a wild dream than
a sober reality.
"And now let me tell you that no engi
neer ever beat the time we made on those
fourteen miles. Those great wheels, elev
en feet in diameter, spun round so swiftly
that you couldn't begin to count the revo
lutions. The engine barely seemed to
touch the track as she flew along, and al
though the track was as true as it could
be, she swayed fearfully, and sometimes
made such prodigious jolts that it required
considerable skill for one to keep his feet.
No engine would hold together if crowded
to a greater speed.
" Well, just as I came to a stand at the
depot in C , the big clock boomed out
twelve, and the steamboat was getting her
steam on. Koberts got ou board in time
and nothing to spare."
"And he saved the money, did he?" I
asked, when I saw that my friend had fin
ished his story.
"Yes; he fouud it hid away in some old
boxes, as Aldrich had directed."
"If you are a passenger for G ' said
the waiter, the 'bus is ready."
. So I thanked my frieud for his story,
and bade him good-bye
iaf We say to young ladies: "As
you prize your beauty, as you value your
future prospects, go to bed early. Look
at Cinderella. Whenever she went to a
ball, she- was bidden by her godmamnia
to leave off precisely at twelve. And
what waa her reward ! Why 6ho married
a Prince I Punch.
Senator Uaker.
THE COLONEL OF THE CALIFORNIA EEGIMEXT :
.JlIS EVKXTFCL LIFE AND UNTIMELY DEATH.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer, Oct. 23.
The country will be profoundly affected
by the intelligence that the Hon. E.D.
Baker, Senator from Oregon, Colonel of
the California Kegiment recruited in this
city, and commander of a brigade mostly
made up of Philadelphia regiments, was
killed in battle yesterday, near Leesburg,
Virginia, while gallantly leading his men
into the fight. A more noble and patri
otic statesman and soldier did not live,
and it is a sad, sad task to chronicle his
untimely death.
Senator Baker's life has been almost a
romance. He is an old Philadelphian,
and of Quaker lineage. His ancestors
were English Friends. Col. Baker him
self was born in England, but was brought
to Philadelphia when an infant, where he,
with a younger brother, were left orphans
soon after their arrival.
This calamity left them no resource but
to work their way through the world with
their own hands. For a while young
Baker, the present Senator, worked as a
hand-loom weaver in a small manufactu
ring establishment near Thirteenth and
South streets, where the loom upon which
he labored is still standing. It is likely,
now, to become an object of interest. Be
fore he reached manhood, he paid some
attention to the study of the law, and left
Philadelphia for the Great West. His
purse being light, he and his younger
brother crossed the Alleghanies, and went
through Ohio and Indiana, all the way on
foot, until they reached the Wabash river,
which they descended in a canoe, and at
last found themselves on the broad prai
ries of Hlinois. In this State, Col. Baker
took up the study of the law in a regular
way, and 60on made for himself a name,
even at the bar of Springfield, where h
met sometimes as colleagues and some
times as adversaries both the deceased
Douglas and President Lincoln.
Being of active mind, he took part in
the politics of Illinois, but as he was a
Whig, and in a strongly Democratic State,
he did not appear in public life until 1845,
when he was elected to Congress. Short
ly after this, the Mexican War having oc
curred, he raised a regiment in his State
and went out to re-enforce General Taylor.
Returning home as a bearer of despatches,
after several months' service on the Rio
Grande, he resumed his seat in Congress,
but almost immediately resigned and re
joined his regiment. He participated in
the seige of era Cruz, and in the bloody
struggle at Cerro Gordo, and after General
Shields received his apparently mortal
wound at the latter battle, Colonel Baker
took command of the brigade.
After the war was over, Col. Baker was
again elected to Congress from Illinois,
where he served with distinction during
the sessions of 1849 and 1850. In pur
suance ot a contract with the Panama
Railroad Company, he raised, equipped
and led to the Isthmus four hundred men,
with whom he surveyed and cleared much
of the track of that important highway.
Here, in common with many of his labor
ers, he was seized with the deadly Panama
fever, and nearly lost his life. He re
turned to Illinois with both health and
fortune impaired, and in 1852 went with
his family to California. In San Fran
cisco Col. Baker soon took a front rank in
his profession of (he law, and acquired a
most lucrative practice. His fame as a
lawyer and orator penetrated every part of
that remarkable State. But he was fa-,
mous also as an orator, and his panegyric
of Broderick, over the body of the mur
dered Senator, is said to have been one of
the grandest exhibitions of fervid elo
quence ever seen or heard on this conti
nent. But little more than a year ago, the
spirit of progress being in full vigor in his
breast, Col. Baker removed to Oregon.
His character and fame had preceded him,
and almost immediately after his arrival,
he was elected to the Senate of the United
States for six years. True to his instincts
as a patriot, he a second time, under almost
similar circumstances, laid aside the robes
of tho legislator for the armor of the sol
dier. At the outbreak of the rebellion, he
raised a regiment called the California Reg
iment, mostly enlisted in this city. Sub
sequently, he added another battallion to
it, also of Philadelphians. Not satisfied
with this, he undertook to organize a bri
gade, which he successfully accomplished
out of several Philadelphia regiments. It
was at the head of oue of these that he
yesterday lost his life, falling in defon.se
of his country's life and honor.
AS KXTttAORDINARY PRESENTIMENT.
Mr. George Wilkes, iu a biographical
sketch of Col. Baker, published ic the
New York Trilunc, gives the following
NUMBER 0.
characteristic reminiscence of the departed
hero:
"It was our good fortune to know Col.
Baker well, and we had the honor to en
tertain him as our guest at dinner, on an
afternoon in the month of August last.
On that occasion, when we expressed (in
view of the recent disaster at Manassas) a
natural concern as to the deportment of
his troops, he said : Wilkes, I have some
peculiar notions as to the part I am desj
tined to play in this extraordinary war ;
and I want you to bear in mind that what
I now say to you is not the result of any
idle fancy or vague impression. It is
doubtful if I shall ever again take my
seat in the Senate !' To the look of sur
prise which I turned upon him at this ex
pression he replied, 'I am certain I shall
not live through this war, and if my troops
should show any want of resolution, I shall
fall in the first battle. I cannot afford,
after my career in Mexico, and as a Sen
ator of the United States, to turn my face
from the enemy !' There was no gloom or.
depression in his manner, but it was char
acterized by a temperate earnestness which,
made a deep impression on my mind.
"Lo ! before October has shed its leaves,
his sword lies upon his pulseless breast,
and his toga has become the cerements of
the grave.
" Good friend 1 brave heart ! gallant
leader ! hail and f arewel V n
HONOR TO TBS MEMORY OF A HERO.
The following General Order was is
sued, at Harrisburg, immediately on re
ceipt of the intelligence of the death of
Colonel Baker :
"It is with great pain that the Governor
and Commander-in-Chief has learned of
the death of Col. Edward D. Baker, upon
the field of battle. Although not a citi
zen of Pennsylvania, he had been elected
by many of her sons as their commander,
and he met his death while gallantly lead
ing them into action. The same feeling
which inspired his soldiers to regard no
State lines when our common country was
in danger induced the Commander-in-Chief
to recognize hiro, while living, as a
Pennsylvania soldier, and inipels him now
that he is dead to bear public testimony
to his gallantry and worth.
"By command of A. G. Ccrtin."
A Veteran Soldier.
Among the men enlisted with Capt.
William?, of the regular infantry, iu
Johnstown, is an old soldier who has al
ready seen nineteen years and three months
service having served nine years in the
British service, ten in the United States
service, and three months in tho recent
volunteer service as a member of the band
of the 3d regiment of volunteers from
this State. He has also four sons enlisted
in the United States service two in Col.
Campbell's Cambria County Regiment
and two in Capt Williams Company.
The name of this veteran soldier is Elisha
C. Benuett. He is over 45 years of age,
and last week married a second wife halt
his age, who will accompany him in the
campaign upon which he will soon enter.
During his term of service in tho British
army he visited the West Indies and Can
ada. Hisfirstenlistmentin the U.S. service
from 1S39 to 1844 was spent princi
pally in Maine and Rhode Island, at
Newport Barracks. During his second term;
he passed through the Mexican war, in Gen
Taylor's division of the army, participating
in all old Xach's battles, from Palo Alto
to Bucna Vwta, and received his dis
charge at Newport Barracks, Kentucky,
in 1849. His entire nineteen years and
a quarter's service was put in as a musi
cian, but he entered the public service
for the fifth time as a private in the ranks
We are pleased to say, however, that sino.
his enlistment with Capt. Williams he
has been assigned the position of 2d
Serjeant, and will remain among us for
some weeks yet on recruiting service for
the Company. We question whether a
similar instance of faithful and persevering
public service and devoted patriotism cau
be found in the laud, even in this most
prolific era of patriotic examples. Pans
around the name oC Elisha C. Bennett
the man who has already given niue years
to the country of his birth, ten to that of
his adoption, and now gives himself, wife
and four sons for three years more to the
support of the government. Cambria.
Tribune.
ISaF Three important poiuU have been
cfFctually gained already this month by
the Union forces, viv: The BigKarfawha
Valley and the whole of Western Virginia
have been cleared of rebels; Kentucky- m
no longer a question of doubt, and tho
rebel hordes in Missouri, according to all
accounts from that quarter, are demoral
ized and in full flight.
Man without money is poor ; luaa
without anytbiug cLe is poorer btill.