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M'Colean, B. F. Slick, Croyle. Mis3 ii. Gillespie Washt'n. . Morris Keil, S'mmerhill cnvncuES, ministers, &c. Presbyterian Rev. D. Harbison, Pastor. Treaching every Sabbath morning at 10$ o'clock, and in the evening at 3 o'clock. Sab bath School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet ing every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock. Methodist Episcopal Church Rev. S. T. Show, Preacher in charge. Rev. J. G. Goglev, As sistant. Preaching every Sabbath, alternately at 10 o'clock in the morning, or 7 in the evening. Sabbath School at 9 o'clock, A. M. Prayer meeting every Thursday evening, at 7 o'clock. Welch Independent Rev Ll. R. Powell, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10 o'ciock, and in the evening at G o'clock. 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. Calviaistic Methodist Rev. John Williams, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at 3 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 t 7 o'clock. Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor. Preach ing every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock. Particular Baptists Rev. David Jenkins, Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at 3 o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. M. Catholic Rev. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor. Services every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock and Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening. EDEXSBl'RG MAILS. MAILS ARRIVE. Eastern, daily, at 12 o'clock, noon. Western, 44 fit 12 o'clock, noon. MAILS CLOSE. Eastern, daily, at 8 o'clock, P. M. Western, " at 8 o'clock, P. M. TTh mails from Butler,Indiana,Strongs town, Ac., arrive on Thursday of each week, fct 5 o'clock, P. M. Leave Ebensburg on Friday of each week, at 8 A. M. XSf The mails from Newman's Mills, Car rolltown, &c, arrive on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, at 3 o'clock, P. M. Leave PJbensburg on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A. M. RAILROAD SCHEDULE. WILMORE STATION. West Express Train leaves at 9.44 A. M. 41 Fast Line 44 Mail Train East Express Train " Fast Line Mivil Train 10.09 P. M. 4.45 P. M. 8.25 P. M. 6.30 A. M. 10.34 A. M. 9.22 A. M- it t t CRESSON STATION. West Express Train leaves at 44 Mail Train " Cast Express Train 44 44 Mail Train " The Fast Lines do not stop. 4.16 P. 8.53 P. 11.04 A. M. M. M. I COUNTY OFFICERS. Judges of the Courts President, Hon. Geo. Taylor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W. 'Easier, Henry C. Devine. Prothonotary Joseph M'Donald. Register and Recorder Edward F. Lytle. 'Sheriff John Buck. District Attorney. Philip S. Noon. County Commissioners D. T. Storm, James hooper, Peter J. Little. Treasurer Thomas Callin. Poor House Directors Jacob Horner, Wil Tiam Douglass, George Delany. Poor House Treasurer. George C. K. Zabm. Poor House Steward. James J. Kaylor. Mercantile Appraiser John Farrell. Auditors John F. Stull, Thomas J. Nel son, Edward R Donnegan. County Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy. Coroner. James S. Todd. Sup't. of Common Schools Wm. A. Scott. EDEXSRIRG BOR. OFFICERS. Justices of the Peace. David H. Roberts Harrison Kinkead. Burgess George Huntley. School Directors E. J. Mills, Dr. John M. Jones, Isaac Evans. EAST WARD. Constable Thomas Todd.. Town Council Wm. Davis, Dariel J. Davis, E. J. Waters, John Thompson, Jr., David W. 'Jones. Inspectors John W.Roberts, L. Rodgers. Judge of Election Thomas J. Davis. Assessor Thomas P. Davis. WEST WARD. Constable M. M. O'Neill. Town Council William Kittell, h. Kinkead, I Williams. Jnfpeetoit J. D. .Thomas, Robert Evans. I Jwlge of Election John Lloyc. -Assessor Richard T. Davis. I t Btkd ftoctrg; The Cumberland. Magnificent thy fate t Once Mistress cf the seas, No. braver vessel ever flnr.g A pennant to the breeze. No bark. o'er died a I?ath so grand, Such heroes vessels never manned ; Your parting broadside broke tho wave ' That surged abovo your patriot grate ; Your flag, the gamest of tb game, Sank proudly with you not in shame But in its ancient glory : The mem'ry of its parting gleam Will never fade while poets dream ; The echo of your dying gun Will last till man his race has run, Then live in Angel story. Generals of the West. Gen. Henry Wager Halleck is one of the four Maior Generals of the regular army of the United States He is about forty-two years of age, -and was born in Weston, Oneida county, New York. He entered the Military Academy as a West Point cadet in 1835. He has published some able military and scientific woiks and is a good lawyer, in lcQi ne wa3 .appointed Captain of Engineers. He was created a Maior General by act ot Uod- gress last August. 3Iajor General UJysses fe. lirant was born at Point Pleasant, Clairmont county, Ohio, April 27, 1822, and entered West Point Military Academy from Ohio in 1839, where he graduated with honors in 1843, and was attached as brevet second lieutenant to the. Fourth Infantry. He was promoted second lieutenant at Corpus Christi, in September, 1840, and served as such through Mexico. In 1854, when he resigned, he was full captain in the Fourth Infantry. In the present war he nas served in juissjuri ana jxemucKy with great credit. General Don Carlos Buell, the comman der of the District of Ohio troops in the field, is a native of Ohio, and is about for ty years of age. He entered the Military Academy at West Point as a cadet in the year 1837, and was brevctted second lieu tenant of the 1 hud lnlantryJuly 1, 1841. He served through Mexico, attaining the rank of Assistant Adjutant General. He was confirmed a Major General in March, 1862. Major General Charles Furguson Smith, commander of the Second Division, is a native of Pennsylvania, and son of the cel ebrated Doctor Samuel 13. Smith. He entered the Military Academy as a cadet in 1821, and graduated in 1820, standing No. 19 in his class. On the 1st of July of that year, he was made a Bccond lieu tenant of the Second Artillery. In 1829 he was appointed the Assistant Instructor in Infantry Tactics at the Military Acad emy. He served through Mexico, and in 1855 reached the .Lieut. Colonelcy ot the Tenth Infantry. He was made a Major General March 21, 18C2. Major General John A. M'Clernand has not, previous to the present war, been particularly noted as a military man. He is a man of about forty-three or forty four years of age. He has always been noted as a Democratic politician, and took an active part in leading the Douglas fac tion in opposition to the Lecompton Con stitution of Kansas. He was an active leader of the Douglas party in the House of Representatives of 1800, and also in the Charleston and Baltimore Democratic Conventions. He was made Major Gen eral in March, 1862. Major General Lewis Wallace was for merly the Colonel of the Eleventh Regi ment of Indiana three months volunteers, better known as the Indiana Zouaves. It will be remembered that this regiment was stationed, in June last, at and near Cumberland, Maryland, and that on the 11th of that month, the Zouaves, headed by the Colonel, made a dash upon Roni ney and routed the rebels at that place. He re-organized his regiment for three years, and was made a Brigadier General. His gallantry at Fort Donelson gained his Major Generalship last March. Brig. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden, com manding a division under General Buell, is a native of Kentucky, and eon of the noted loyal Kentuckian, Hon. John J. Crittenden. His brother is the noted rebel General who was in command at Mill Springs viz : Major General George B. Crittenden. When the rebels took up arms in Kentucky, Gen. T. L. Crittenden was empowered to take command, and at the head of the Home Guards started for Muldraugh's Hill, and effectively checked the advance of the rebels on Louisville. EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL Since that time he has been actively en gaged in the field under Gen. Buell. Ilia commission of Brigadier General dates from Sept. 17, 1861. Brigadier General William Nelson, commanding a division under Gen. Buell, is a native of Mason county, Kentucky. Having been educated in the Navy, and having obtained the rank of Lieutenant, he was detailed last spring (1861) to com mand the Ohio river fleet of gunboats. He entered the Navy in 1840, and was two and a half years at sea as a Lieuten ant. Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman is a native of Ohio, and entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1836. He graduated in 1840, standing No. 6 in his class, in which were Gener als Van Vliet, Gen. H. Thomas and oth ers of the Union army, and General Mo I Cown of the rebels, recently a comman der t Island Ko. 10. Un the 1st ot Jn ly, 1840, he was promoted to a Second Lieutenantcy of the Third Artillery, and on the dUth of November, 1841, was fur ther promoted to a first lieutenancy. He gained a Captaincy in the Mexican v ar, and resigned in looJ. lie was made a Brigadier in May, 1861. Brigadier General Stephen A. nurl- burt is a native of South Carolina, but a citizen of the State of Illinois, from -which State he was appointed to a Brigadier Generlship of volunteers, he having been connected with the militia force of Illi nois. He served during the earlier trou bled in Missouri, and, under Gen. Fre mont, held charge of the liannibal and St. Joseph Railroad. Brigadier General B. M. Prentiss, who is reported to have been taken prisoner at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, is a na tive of Illinois, or, at least, has lived there from his early boyhood. His previous history, until the. Mexican War, was un marked by any very important event j but on that occasion he volunteered as a Lieutenant of the Illinois troops, and was selected by the unfortunate J.J. Harditi to act as his Adjutant. General W. H. L. Wallace, who is re ported killed at the gallant action at Pittsburg Landing, was formerly one of tho earliest three years volunteer colo nels in the service. He held command of the Eleventh Regiment of Illinois volun teers, which was organized at Camp Har din, Pulaski county, Illinois, and joined the depot at Cairo during the early stages of the war. General Albert Sydney Johnson one of the most crafty and competent in the rebel service, and who was killed at the battle of Pittstmrg Landing was born in Mason county, Kentucky, in 1803. He was educated at the Transylvania Uni versity, Lexington, Ky., under President llolley, graduated at the United States Military Academy at West Point, at the age of twenty-three, and entered the army as Second Lieutenant, in the same year. His first service was with the Sixth In fantry, -with which he was ordered to the West. During the Black Hawk War he acted as Adjutant General, President Lin coln at that time serving as a Captain of volunteers. At the clote of the war he went to reside first in Missouri and then in Texas. When war broke out in this latter State, he resigned his commission in the United States Army, and rushed to her aid, alone and unknown, and enter ed the service as a common soldier. He soon made the acquaintance of Gen. Rusk, commanding that division, who at once promoted him to a command he rose'to be commander-in-chief was Secretary of Wr under President Lamar fought the battle of the Neches, defeating seven hundred Cherokees. At the breaking out of the Mexican War, at the urgent request of General Taylor, he again en tered the service as Colonel of the First Texas Regiment; when this was disban ded, General Johnson became Inspector General of General Butler's division, and served as such in the glorious battle of Monterey; he was in the hottest part of the fight, and his horse was three times shot under him. After this he retired into private life until, in 1840, the Uni ted States Government bestowed upon him the appointment of Paymaster in the army. In 1855, he was appointed to the command of the Second Regiment of Cav alry, with the rank of Colonel, and in 1857 was appointed to command the ex pedition to Utah, and in 1858 was pro moted to the rank of Brigadier General. He started on the expedition to Utah un der orders in September, 1857. A Proper Presentation. Comman der Worden, of the Monitor, has received an elegant snuff-box for his bravery in the cheese-box. This is all right; for he has proven that he is up to snuff, and good at a pinch. Signs oi the times Countersigns. From the Cambria Itegiiueiit. Great Cacapon, Ya., Bait. $ Ohio RR.t April 8, 1862. Correspondence of The Alleghanian. It has been some time since I wrote you last, but I have by no means forgot ten you. My last epistle was dated from Camp Campbell. Since then, we have taken the notion that, like all good Penn sylvanians, we would have to make-a move about the first of April. So we moved, and are now posted as guard along the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. We had a very tedious time of it from Camp Camp bell until we got ourselves located by companies at nine stations along the road. The B. & O. RR, was once one of the principal . thoroughfares for freight and passengers from east to west and vice ver sa, but Secesh took the liberty of making it one grand track of wild desolation as far as they had means and power so to do. Bridges, houses, locomotives, cars, aUy have been destroyed ; the track torn up and carried far away into the interior, and in fact everything that could possibly be rendered usclest passed through a fiery ordeal. The government, I believe, has built trestle work over the ttreauis where once were handsome bridges, and these we are charged with the protection of. It requires us to bo vigilant to prevent the Secesh from applying the torch, for the country arcund is full of Rebels who are ever ready to do any act of violence that would be of the least beneht to their unholy cause, or of the least disadvantage to the rederal Government. From my o wn personal observation, and from conversations I have had with many persons here tiuctured with fcecession pro clivities. I find cross ignorance of the causes of the war and the intention of the government toward the Rebels. I used to regard the newspaper stories about tho ignorance of these peoplo as bosh, but I can now vouch for their correctness. In fact, I have beea told even by intelligent persons here that tho South had always been heavily taxed by the North that the North made all the money, whilst the South furnished the material. "The South raises the cotton ; it is then taken North and manufactured, and after sent back to the South, and we have to buy it, said an intelligent Southron to me a few days since, "and this Li one cause for Secession !" -Well," said I, "why don't you build your own cotton-mills aud man ufacture your own geeds ? This you co'd have done easier without Secession than with it. As to your being taxed heavily, all the taxes you pay go into the treasury of your own county and State; and be sides, we of the North have to make up your postal deficits, which amount to a very large sum every year." All this is true. The South would have been a thousand times more able to have built their cotton-mills before they entered upon a terribly exhaustive war, which has beggared thousands of them, than they will in any event be for twenty years to come. As to their postal deficits, every intelligent man knows- that the North really keeps up the post-office in the South. And again, as to their being so heavily taxed by the North, how very shallow the assertion ! how childlike the lie ! But these are indeed the flimsy ar guments used by Jeff Davis and his crew to lead a people into a suicidal war upon a government the most beneficent in the world ! Poor, misguided mtu ! when will ye learn that you have been duped, and blinded by men whose only object in leading you into this war is to gratify their own selfish ambition ! The further we penetrate into the South the more arc we convinced that the great mass of the people are entirely ignorant of the cause of the present war and the designs of our Government in waging it. And, as step by step our forces sweep over the South, and the people see for them selves the manner iu which the Union troops demean themselves, there will un doubtedly be a revulsion of feeling which will grow stronger and stronger until it eventually breaks out in an unconquera ble rebellion agaiust the Rebels. More powerful indeed than Northern bayonets and bullets will be this tide of popular feeling in working the downfall "of Trea- son. jeiore tue xoeman oi constitu tional liberty will pale, as dues the silvery light of the slowly sinking moon before the bright rays of morning. Then will this Union be once more united as firmly as the polar star is fixed in the firmament above us. Ashamed of their past folly, the people of the South will be more de voted to the Union than they were when they scouted the very idea of tho New England States seceding, in the earlier days of the Government. Attached to our regiment tor the pres ent, assisting in delending the railroad, are four companies of the First Maine cavalry. Thej are all well armed and .24, 1862; equipped. Their horse are those brought with them from Maine, and are vastly su perior to most cavalry horses in the II. S. service. They are for the most part of the celebrated "Morgan" and "Black Hawk" strain. The company stationed at our head quarters is under the command of Capt. Cilley, son of the lamented Jonathan Cilley, the talented member of Congress from Maine, who fell in a duel at Bla densburg at the hands of Greaves. The murder of Cilley, for such it has always been accounted, was accomplished thro' the instrumentality of the notorious Gov. Wise, of Virginia, now in command of a portion of the Rebel troops. Would to Heaven that Captain Cilley could be op posed to Wise on the field of battle, that, by taking the life of that notorious Rebel, he might, after the lapse of many years, become the avenger of his parent's mur der. Capt-gCilley is a lawyer by profession, and, juaging from a slight acquaintance with him, is yet destined to take a promi nent place in the galaxy of intellect in his native State. His noble father fell whilst the Captain was a mere babe, and h9 has worked his way through life un aided by a father's protection and counsel. May he long flourish, and meet success in his every effort ! Since the above was written, we have received orders to remove our headquar ters to Sir John's Run, Bait, and Ohio Railroad, to which place all coinmumca tions intended for us should be addressed. When anything of interest transpires, you will hear from Horace. m m m The Rew Congressional Appor tionment. The following is the act for appor tioning this State into Congressional Dis tricts, as passed by both Houses of the Legislature : An Act to reorganize the Congressional Districts of Pennsylvania, in accordance with the act of Congress, approved March 4th, one thousand eight hun dred and sixty-two. Sec. 1. Be it enacted, 6e., That, for the purpose of electing Representatives of the the people of Pennsylvania, to ?erve in the House of Representatives, in the Con gress of the United States, this State bhall be divided iuto twenty-four districts, as follows : I. Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eleventh wards in the city of Phila delphia. II. First, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth wards in the city of Philadelphia. III. Twelfth, Thirteenth, Sixteenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth wards in the city of Philadelphia. IV. Fourteenth, Fifteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-fourth wards in the city of Philadelphia. V. Twenty-second, Twenty-third, and Twenty-fifth wards in the city of Phila delphia, and the county of Bucks. VI. Montgomery and Lehigh counties. VII. Chester and Delaware counties. VIII. Berks county. IX. Lancaster county. X. Schiiyfltill and Lebanon counties. XI. Northampton, Carbon, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties. XII. Luzerne and Susquehanna coun ties. XIII. Bradford, Wvoming, Sullivan, Columbia, and Montour counties. XIV. Northumberland, Union, Snyder, Juniata, and Dauphin counties. XV. Cumberland, lork, and Perry counties. i XVI. Adams, Franklin, Fulton, Bed ford, and Somerset counties. XVII. Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon, and Mifflin counties. XVIII. Centre, Clinton, Lycoming, Tioga, and Potter Counties. XIX. Erie, Varren, M Kean, Forest, Elk, Cameron, Jefferson, and Clearfield counties. XX. Crawford, Venango, Mercer, and Clarion counties. XXI. Indiana, Westmoreland and Fay ette counties. XXII. Allegheny county south of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers, including Isevil island. XXIII. Allegheny county north of the Ohio and Allegheny rivers, and Butler and Armstrong ccuntics. XXIV. Lawreuce, Beaver, Washington and Greene counties. On a String. In an article upon the Irish element of the Union army, the Boston Saturday Evening . Gazette pays "the name of Corcoran touches a chord in every heart." On reading this, the gen tleman who atteud3 to our shillelagh de partment said that "the name of Corcoran will yet put a cord round many a traitor's Windpipe, be the powers !" NUMBER 31. Gen. 1'orter In a llaloon. The exciting event of the day has been, a baloon reconnoisance by Gen. Fitz Jobri Porter o"n a scale of rather larger magni tude than was intended. At 5 o'clock irk the morning 11th inst. Gen. Fitz John Porter took his place in Professor Lowe's ballon, before the entrenchments at York town, Va. He supposed the usual, hum-, ber of ropes were attached to it, whereas there was only one, and a place in this as was afterwards ascertained, had been burned by vitriol, used in generating gas. Taking his seat in the car. unaccompanied by any one, the rope was left out to near ly its full length the length is about nine hundred yards when suddenly snap went the cord and up went the baloon. This was an unexpected part of the progaam me. The men below looked up in astonishment', and the Gen. looked down with equal be wilderment. "Open the valve," shouted one of the men below. "I'll manage it," responded the Gener al. ... Up went the baloon highe-,. higher. 7 It rose with great rapidity ; its huge form lessened as it wildly mounted into the re gions of the upper air ; it became a speck in the Eky. The wind was taking it ia the enemy's territory. By this time every staff officer and hundreds of others were looking at the moving speck. It is im possible to describe the anxiety felt and expressed for the fate of him, the central object of thought, in that far away moving speck, every moment becoming less vis ible. It is seen to move in our direction; the countenances cf our men brighten with hope. It passes over our heads. Soon it begins to descend, but with a pidity that arouses renewed apprehensions. Quickly a squad of cavalry, led by Cap tain Locke, Lieutenant M'Quade, of tho General's staff, plunge spurs into their horses and daiih away in the direction of the descending baloon. The rest of' the story is as, I received it from the Gener al's own lips. While the rope was being let out he had his glass in readiness for his proposed view of the enemy's territo ry. A sudden bound of the balloon told him in a moment that the rope had given way. He dropped his' glass, heard the call, "Open the valve," made the response given above, and set about looking for the valve. He was sensible of being flighty (the General loves a pun as well as the next one,) but was not at all. ner vous. He saw the wind had taken him over the line of rebel intrenchments. -Having no wish to drop in among them he let the valve take care of itself, and proceeded to take advantage of his posi tion to note the aspect of rebel objects below. Crowds of soldiers rushed from the woods, and he heard their shouts dis tinctly. Luckily he was above the reach of their bullets; so he was not afraid on this score. The map of the country was distinctly discernable. He saw Yorktown and its" works, York river and its windings, and -Noifolk and its smoking chimneys. A counter current of air struck the balloon, and its course was reversed. Its retreat from over rebeldom was rapid. He open ed the valve, the gas escaped, and down he came. lie could not 6ay how fast he? came down, but it was with a rapidity ha would not care to have repeated. The car struck the top of a shelter tent un der which, luckily, no one happened to be at tho time knocked the teut into pii and left him enveloped in a mass of col lapsed oil silk. He crawled out and found himself in the middle of a camp, not onq hundred rods from Gen. M Clellan s head quarters. A Model Boy. A Director of the Little Miami Railroad relates the follow ing incident : A boy, fifteeu years cf age, called at the Company s Mops and, informed him that, seven years before, he bad been induced, by bad companions, to steal from the Company'?, premises, scraps ot iron to the amount cf twenty-five pouuds. That, at tb 0 time, he did not know that it is wror.g to commit such an offenee ; but that, .'for fonio time past, it had greatly troubled bim. aud that ttie only way he thought he could get reWf was by paying v hat they coueiilswj yJ value of tbe str len propey. little boys, on a cold winter wormfcg, what " T i- V V 1 nc tJ hesita ted a httle, when th. master said, "What sir, can t you 111 V 44Ye?, sir," said the boy, "I have it at my finger's end." "Pat, j-ou are wearing your stock ings wrung side outward." "Och, and don't I know it, to be sure there is a hole tho other side, therj 1 11
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