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VOLUME 4.
DIRECTORY.
UST OF POST OFFICES.
Post OiJice. Pot Masters. districts.
" . . i- .lnpnli CraliAca. i Oder.
tthol Station tuocu neesc,
Blacklick.
Vjirrolltowu, wiuiam n. ouu.
'Chess Springs, Danl. Litzinger
X.,n. Wm. W. oung
William M.Jones, Carroll.
Chest.
Washint'n.
Ebensburg.
White.
tJallitzin.
Washt'n.
Jolinst'wii.
Loretto.
Conem'gb.
Muuster.
Cresson,
Ebcusburg.
Y alien Timber,
GallUzin,
Hemlock.
Jolmstown,
T.o'rcUo, .
Mineral Point,
Mun-ter,
Perilous, "
Phittsville,
Roseland,
St. Augustine,
S-jalo Level,
Soatua.ii,
S.i'n-.aorhill,
S:i:u:alt,
Wti.nore,
John Thompson,
l3aac Thompson,
J. M. Christy,
Win. M'Oough,
I. E. Chrvn ller,
V. fchielda
E. Vissiner,
'A. Darbin,
'Francis Clement,
Gonera'gh.
Andrew J Ferrul, Susq'han
G. W. Cowman, White.
Wm. Ryan. Sr., Clearfield.
George Conrad, Richland.
R. M Colgan, Washt'h.
Ii. F. Slick, Croyle.
Miss M. Gillespie, Washt'n.
Morri3 Keil, S'merhill.
CSirXICIISS. .11IXISTERS, &c.
'"..?,,;.(-Rev. D. Uabisox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning if
o'clock, and in tne evening
b.UlI School at 1 o'clock, A. M. Pmyer mect
3.rr eWv Thursday evening at C o'clock.
' "iLrho-lixt Episcopal Ciiurct Rev.S.T. Snow,
Preacher in charge. Rev. W. Lono, Assss
tvit Mehing every Sabbath, alternately
iit 1 j I V-lock in the morning, or 7 in the
.-vei!iagT Sabbath School at : o'clock, A. J..
ITayfJlfacetiug every Thursday evening, at .
o'clock. T T,
V.',-'ch In hp :ndent Rev Ll. R. I owell,
lntur. Preaching every Sabbath roornuigat
Pi oViock, and in the evening at G o'clock.
SilJi-ith School tit 1 o'clock, P. M.! Pmycr
mjKiii ' on the first Monday evening ot e.ich
lujalh 1 and on every Tuesday, Thursd.iyand
' Friday evening, excepting the lirit wee; in
each month.
CaU-intic Methodist Y-v.. Jons Y illiams,
I'mor Preachin-JT everv Sabbath evening at
''a:id 0 o'clock. Sabbath School at 10 o'clock,
V M Prayer meeting every Friday evening,
"at 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock. .
Dhciplo Rev. W. Lloyd, Pastor Preach
ing everv Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular Papists v. . Davio Jenkins.
I'.Utor. Prenchirijr every .-abbath evening at
3 o'clock. KabbathSchool at at I o'clock-, P. M.
Catholic Rev. M. J. .Mitchell. Pastor.
Services every Sabbath morning at 1 OA o clock'
aad Vespers at 4 o'clock in the evening.
GRCXSRl'KG MAILS.
MAILS ARRIVE.
E ist-rn,
dailv, at 10 clot-K,
M.
M.
M.
M.
cslern,
at y o ci jc n.j
M 1LS f'LOr..
at o'clock.
Eastern, daily.
Western. " at a o cioCiv,
r.rThfrn-iilstVom P.;it!er.In.l::ir.a.Strongs
to.vii. ic.. arrive on Thursday of each week,
at l j o'clock, 1'. M.
Leave Ebensbarg on Friday oi each week,
til a A. M.
CriS-TIic mails from Newman's Mills. Car-rbton-a,
ic. arrive on Monday, Wednesday
fta 1 Fri liy ot" each week, at 3 o'clock. P. M.
Leave Ebeiiiburg on Tuesdays, Thuiodnys
and Saturdays, at 7 o'clock, A..M.
CRESSOX STATION
V.'est Express Train leaves at
Fast Line
Mail Train '4
8.31 A.
F.jO P.
7.3." P
7.4- P.
12.17 P.
M.
Ea t Express Train
' Fast Line "
" Mail Train
at
M.
M
C . ' 0 A.M.
WILMORE STATION
V.'est Express Train leaves at
Fast Line 4'
Mail Train "
East Express Trair "
' Fust Line "
" Mail Train "
0.13 A.
t'.lS P.
8 U0 P,
7.20 P.
11 55 P.
M.
M.
M.
M.
M.
C.lo A. M.
COrXTY OITJCERS.
.-;. of the Courts President, ILn. Geo
Taylor, Huntingdon; Associates, George W
E.i-ley, lleury C. Devine.
J'rvtkonotary Joseph M'Donald.
lleyiiter and Recorder lid -ard F. Lytic
Sheriff John Ruck.
District Attorney. Philip S. N'oon.
County Cumiiuationtrs D. T. Storm, James
X.'oopcr, Peter J. Little.
Treixurer Thomas Callin.
Voor Ijtne Directors Jacob Horner, Wil
liam Donglass. George Delauy.
J'oor House Treasurer. George C K. Zahm.
Poor House Steicard. James J. Kaylor.
Mercantile Appraiser John Farrell.
Auiitors John F. Stull, Thomas J. Ntl
on, Edward R Donnegan.
Coa,ity Surveyor. E. A. Vickroy.
Coroner. James S. Todd.
Sup't. of Commo:i Schools Wm. A. Scott.
ERrAS!llT.G ISO!!. OFriCKRS.
Justices of the Peace. David II. Roberts
Harrison Kiukead.
Jiiirgess George Huntley.
School Directors E., J. Mills, Dr. John M.
Jones, Isaac Evans.
EAST VAPI.
Constalle Thomas Todd.
Town CouncilWin. Davis, Daniel J. Dari,
E. J. Waters, John Thompson, Jr., David W.
Jones.
Ixrpectors John W. Roberts, L. Rodgers.
Judye of Election Thomas J. Davis.
Assessor Thomas P Davis.
WEST WAIIU.
Constable M. M. O'Neill.
Toicn Council AVilliam Kittell, II. Kinkead,
R. L. Johnston, Edward D. Evans, Thomas J.
IViUiaius.
Inxpcc.toT J. D. Thomas, Robert Evans.
Jodyt vf Election John Lloyc.
Aetor Richard T. D.ivis."
Select Poet VI).
Autumn Rain.
BY THOMAS HKNZtY BACON.
Dear to me the constant plashing
Of the rain drops falling fast,
And the dripping leafless branches
Waving in the autumn blast
When the withered summer flowers
Dead and cold are strewn around,
When the autumn leaves are lying
Black and wet upon the ground,
Then I wander through the forest
Then I haunt each dark retreat,
But the leafy carpet never
Starts an echo from my feet.
I have listened to the murmur
Of the quiet autumn rain,
As ii fell with ceaseless palter
On the tinkling window jane.
I have stood to hear the mudc
Of the quiet autumn rain, .
As upon the spectral darknes
Floated by the sweet refra'n.
And I love the gentle whispAf
, Of the patter on the pane,
For I feel the spiiits near rae
When 1 hear the autumn rap.
Godiy's Ladyt Hook.
T3ic Old 'Tiencli Barlur."
We shall never forget, am! alwys feel
proud of the fact, tliat we knew s great
mi everyday l'latQ ?3 J)av' Ciocku. Had
the old Colonel never uttered a'Letter
idea than that cverlastinjr ood nytto
'e sure you're right, then go abad I"
his wisdom would stand a jretty'good
wrestle with tide and time, befort hi
standing as a man of genius would fits to
oblivion he washed out in Lethe's W;,ers.
We remember Inuring Colonel Ctekct
relate, during a "speech," a short time
before he !o-d his life at the Alamo, Ta,
a little incident of his being taken in
New Orleans one night, by a jnd Z' ne
lugged to the ca'.aboose, aud kept tUrc
as siiout and out "hard caec," not bcg
able to find anybody, hardly, that. nW
him, and beiirg totally unable to rcconci
the thief of police to the fact that lie w;
the identical Pavy Crockett, o,- anybody
else above par. "if you want to find youiV
;Vt:-
in riiituTVti . wsk nn some liioriiinir.
T f 1 -
-.2-,
noon cr niht. where nobody knows you:
- - rr i
said the Colonel, "and if you ever feel so
essentially chawed up, raic, as I did in the
calaboose, the Lord pity you."
There was a "modern instance" of Col.
Crockett's "wise saw," in the case of a
certain Philadelphia millionaire, who was
in the habit of carting himself out in a
Cly uuciiia tiiu tiirani-i) onu.'j o c'
which, in cuns-cquence of its utter igno
rance of the stable boy's brush, sponge or
broom, and the hospitalities the old con
cern nightly offered the hens was not
exactly the kind of equipage calculated to
win attention or marked respect for th6
owner and driver. The old millionaire,
one day in e;irly October, took it into his
head to ride out and see the country.
Taking an early start, the old gcutleman
and hia old bob-tailed, frostbitten-looking
horse, with the same old shabby cig, about
dusk fyuud themselves under the swing
ing sign of a Pennsylvania Dutch tavern
in the neighborhood of Pleading. As
uobody bestirred to sec the traveller, he
put his very old-fashioned face and wig
outside of the veh'cle and called :
"Hollo! llos-e-lar '. Landlord !"
Leisurely stalking down the steps, the
Dutch hos-tler advanced towards the queer
and questionable travelling equipage.
"Ycl, vot you want, ah '!"
"Yot sal 1 vant 't 1 sal vant to put oup
my boss, viz za stab'l, viz two pecks of
oats and plenty of hay, ho e-lar."
"Yaw," was the laconic grunt of the
hostler, as he proceeded to unhitch old
bald-fico from his rigging.
"Stop one little," said the traveller.
"I see 'tis very mosh like rain to-night;
put oup my gig in ze stable, too."
"Boosh, tooner and blitzen, der rain
cannot hurt your old gig !"
"I pay you for vat you sal do for vnc ;
mind vat 1 als say, sair, it you please."
The liosthir very surlily led the travel
ler's weary old brute to the stable ; but,
prior to carrying out the orders of the
traveller, he sought the landlord to know
if it would pay to put up the shabby old
concern, and treat the old horse to a real
feed of hay and oats, without making some
inquiries into the "financial condition of
the old Frenchman.
The landlord, with a country lawyer
and a neighbor farmer, were at the bar,
one of those old-fashioned salted coops in
a corner, peculiar to Pennsylvania, discus
sing the merits of a law mlt, seizure of
property, kc. of a. deceased tiller of the
soil in the vicinity. Busily chatting and
quauiug mcir touuy, me tuiuuvt u iue
n- .1 . 1 . 1 . ll .
EBENSBTJUG, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 18G2.
poor old traveller was scarcely noticed,
until he had divested his old, many caped
cloak, and taken a seat iu the room. The
hostler having reappeared, and talked
a little Dutch to the host, that worthy
turned to the traveler :
"Good eve'ns, travell'r."
"Yes, sair," pleasantly responded the
Frenchman, "a little."
"You got a Loss, eh ?" continued the
landlord.
"Yes, sair ; I vish ze hos-e-lar to give
mine boss plenty to eat plenty hay,
plenty oats, plenty watair, sair."
"Yaw," responded the landlord, "den
Jacob, give'm der oats, and der hay, and
der water;" and with this btief direction
to his subordinate, the landlord turned
away from the way-worn traveller to re
sume his conversation with his more appa
rently influential friends. The old French
man very patiently waited until the
discussion should cease, and the landlord's
ear should be disengaged, that he might
apprize him of the fact that travellers had
stomachs, and that of the old frenchman
was highly incensed by long delay, and
more particularly by the odorous fumes
oi roast lowls, ham and ejrgs, &c, issuing
from the inner portion of the tavern.
"Landlord, I vill take suppair, if you
please."
"Yaw : after dese gentlemens shall eat
der guppers, den something will be pre
pared lor you."
. "Sair !" said the old Frenchman firing
up ; "I vill not vait for ze sheutlemen ; I
vant my supper now, directly right away;
I net vait for nobody, sair."
"If you no like 'em, den you go oiT out
mine house," answered the old sour crout,
"you old barber I"
"Uar-bair I" gasped the old Frenchman,
in suppressed rage. "Sair, I vill go no
where I vill stay here so long, by gar, as
as as I please, sair."
"Are you aware, sir," interposed the
lecral gentleman, "that vou are rendering
gross ami oflensire, malicious and libel
lous, scandalous and burglarious language
to this gentleman, in his own doiuicil,
with malice and pretense forethought,
and "
"Pooh ! rooh ! voolt l for you sair I"
testily replied the Frenchman
"Pooh Y To me sir ? JL'e sir!" bullying
echoed Blackstono.
"Yes, sair pooh pooJt ! von geese,
tIT. ... .....
.CO i r
pair. it were vain to try to depict tne
rage of wounded pride the insolence of a
Vavclhug barber had stirred up in the
ry face of the man of law, logic and
al lore. lie swelled up and strutted
aut like a miffed gobler iu a barn yard.
j tried to cool down his rage, but it
bitted forth :
Vou 3'ou you infernal old frog-cat-inoap-and-lather
you ! You smoke
driA poor old wretch you ! If it wasn't
tor y'3 sate, I'd have vou taken up and
put the county jail for vagrancy, I
wouUyon poverty-stricken old rascal V
"J'Jdi," bawled the landlord to his
suo ng out der old boss again, before
he diciat the crows in mine stable
Now, y 0ld fool, you shall go vay pout
your bisiis'j rai ncssin to eat in it your
liOSS, Ui(' sajj the landlord, with 'Hi
evident! Vh of blood and beer to his '.
head. - . j
wii, m veil, patiently answered the .
i renenmas "very veil, sir, I s
al fro
but," shaklf- Jijjj finger s iiruiflcanf ly at
the landlordnd lawver, "L com pack to
morrow moL,g, I buy dis propertee ;
you, sir, sal lc (e Joed in 1113' name
I kid
.n. ju sair, ito me lamuoru,;
you to Q lawyer) I sal like the
booh! J
and
y-oose
W itli this, t poor Frcuchman started
for his gig, amf.1,0 "Haw ! haw ! haw!"
and "Ila ! ha !j he!" 0f the landlord
aud lawyer. .
"That's for yoy .id the Fren dinar.,
as he gave the .Vty hostler a real half
dollar, took the djy ribbons, aud drove
off. (
Now the farmerne 0f the spectators
present, had quiet hatched the proieeJ
ings, aud being gifrelvvith enough iulicht
into human naturoWe SOJ1icthing Pore
than an "old Freifh lW.Cr" the person
aud manner of t - hUeler, and bfcng,
moreover, intcred irthe tavern yop
erty, followed thl Frenchman. Overta
king him, he attlCe offered him the
hospitalities of hisbmicU, not far diuit,
where the travelepassed a most cot fkr-
table night, his lit finding out inlthe
meantime that he is entertaining nolcss
a pecuniary niiratl of his time thai
Stephen Girard.
Early next morig, old Stephy, iuhis
shabby old gig, acnpanied by his eiier-
taincr, rode over t
he uower of
the hv-
ern property ondlith them sought
lawyer. The decihf transfer were .f.on
maue out, the o Frenchman pav
tnirteen tnousanu jiars lor the propd
drawing on his owbank for the amoi
nt.
He gave the fan
teu years' lease
upon the place, paid the lawyer for his
trouble, and, the latter worthy accom
panied the millionaire to the door and was
very obsequiously bowi.ng him out, old
Stephy turned atound on the steps and
looking sharply at him, said,
"Sair! Pooh; Pooh! 7W"
He next rode to the tavern, when the
landlord was notified to leave in double
quick ; and being thus fully reveuged for
the insult paid his millions, old Stephen
Girard, the Philadelphia financier, rode
back to where he was better used for his
money, most likely- better satisfied than
ever that dimes and dollars are a mighty
institution wnen urougnt to bear upon
material objects.
Horrible f'crsecutlon of Union
3icn in Kentucky.
From the Cincinnati Times.
We are permitted to publish the fol
lowing private letter, from a member of
the Semite of Kentucky to a friend. It
is a plain statement of the awful barbarity
of the Kebels from a irentleman whose
veracity none dare dispute :
Cincinnati, Oct. 8, 18G2.
L. W. Hall, It tvana, Portage County,
Ohio Pear Sir: In great distress of
mind, I will attempt to recount to you the
misfortunes aud troubles I have recently
had to encounter iu Keutucky. I am now
a refugee. The torch of the incendiary
Ilebel has been put to my mills, my store
and my dwelling. All is consumed ; the
labor of nearly twenty years is destroyed.
On last Wednesday night the Ilebcl
Cavalry of John H. Morgan, to the num
ber of SOU, encamped within two miles of
my place. Through the whole night they
were momentarily expected to come upon
us. Every person left the road and hid
in the woods. I could not do so; my wife
was near her confinement, and my anxiety
for her kept me near my dwelling, but to
alia' her fears for my safety I had to
appear to be absent. Nothing occurred
during the ni-irht. As the morning dawn
ed, I went further from- my house, and
took a view of the premises and the roads
leading to them. I could see no Rebels.
and 1 determined to see my. wife, cost
what it might. As I was near my door,
eight rebels suddenly appeared before me,
with.tueir guns presented at my breast,
and took me prisoner. Soon the whole
rebel band was upon me. 31 organ cursed
the meu foi taking me prisoner, saying
that ho had ordered them to shoot me
down on sight. lie then opened my
store doar, and told his men to rifle it of
everything they desired and then set fire to
it. I implored him not to do so, as it
was so near my dwelling that it wo'd also
be consumed. I informed him of the con- J
dition of my wife for myself I asked
nothing, but I begged of him, in common
humanity, not to destroy my wife and lit
tle children. He answered with a fiend-
i ish oath, that he intended to burn every
thing I hau he would p.ut fire to my
house and burn my wife and childreu up
in it he would wipe out the whole Abo
lition concern. This threat wasapplanded
by many of his men, who said they went
in for killino- n,pn womnn and rli:hlrpn
1 was then placed upon a horse, without a
saddle and conducted to the front of their
column, and orders were given to shoot me
down 11 nrsd upon P' Imsnwnackcrs, as
tehy styled them. I assured them they
wo'd be tired on if the people had any spir
it, and I believed they had. When they
saw the conflagration of their homes, they
would waylay and fire upon them, e.ven if
their number was ten times greater. After
firing my property, he (Morgan) rode past
me arid said, pointing to the flames, "You
find 3'our loyalty to your Abolition Gov
ernment pretty expensive, don't you ?"
Before we reached the woods, the cap
.tain of the meu that teok mc prisoner re
moved me from my position iu front, and
placed me in his company, near t'le rear.
Immediately upou eutcriug the woods
they were fired upon. I was surprised
that I was not shufc Morgan rode past,
aud demanded thay. json 1 was not shot
as he had ordered.i'hcy said they had
not heard the order. He told them, it
fired upon again, to shoot the prisoner.
1 hey then amused themselves by pointing
their guns at me, and saying they wished
they could hear a gun tili they could have
the pleasure of shooting me. After some
time we were ordered to advance, aud were
soon again fired upon. I heard the guns
click behind me, and felt sure-my end was
right then at hand. Their captain- John
'J Williams, ordered them not to fire
that it was cold-blooded murder. He said
that his men had taken mc piisoner that
he was not yet mustered into' the service,
and did not belong to Gen. Morgan's
command, and would not obey him in this,
buf would take me to West Liberty
and put me iu jiil till further orders.
This was some relief to ate you may be
assured. Thus we proceeded for nearly
twelve miles, my friends the bushwhack
ers emptying a saddle every few minute?,
and my captors setting lire to every
Union man's house as they went.
At last they commenced falling close
around me. My guardian friend, the
Captain, said he could not save me much
longer. I soon took advantage of the ex
citement prevailing, and jumped from my
horse and fled to the woods unobserved,
and made my escape. I reached where
had Lecn my home at dark. I found my
wife had been carried by some kind ladies
to an unoccupied house, and a physician
was with her, who said he would stay
with her. It was not more than twenty
minutes till Morgan s guerillas were again
upon me. I escaped through the fields to
the woods, making my way to Portsmouth,
o5 miles, my nearest point of complete
safety, where I arrived the next morning,
without food, sleep or rest. I immediate
ly came to this city, where there was
owing me about 875, with which I will
purchase a Ballard rifle and return to the
vicinity of my iamily, hide in the woods
and caves, aud pick off every Butternut I
see, until I can get my family away to
some place of security, and then and
then 1 will not make peace with them.
Why is all this persecution of me '! It
is because I condemned this wicked rebel
lion, urged a vigorous prosecution of this
war, and in my place in the Senate of
Kentuc-Ky opposed the temporizing policy
of my own party. Fyr this I am burned
cut aud hunted out of Kentucky. nm
now unequivocally for confiscation, sid Jura
tion, extermination, and hell and damna
tion !
Yours, respectfully, W. C. GRIER.
Wonderful Tenacity of Ufc.
A letter from Rev. A. M. Stewart, Chap
lain of the Thirteenth llegt., published in
the United Prcslyterian, relates the follow
ing remarkable instance of tenacity of life
which came under the writer's observa
tion. The warm humanity which impelled
the writer to care so tenderly for the
dying man is a characteristic trait, recog
nized by all who know him :
On the afternoon ot Friday, while walk
ing through a beautiful open wood, where,
as seen by the uniforms of the dead, a
New YToik regiment and the 'rebels had
met in fieroe and deadly encounter, I stop
ped for a moment to gaze upon a group
of seven or eight Union and rebel soldiers
lying close together, and all seeming still
in death. One of these, a rebel, as known
by his dress, and apparently about twenty
one years of age, had something more
lifelike about him thau the others. In
terested in his appearance, T went near
aud discovered tliat he was stilKreathing;
felt his pulse, and found it linu and regu
lar. Though so sadly and strangely fa
miliar with mutilations of every possible
form, with sudden deaths from wounds, as
well as great tenacity of life, yet did this
case excite, not only my deepest curiosity,
but downright astonishment. Life, lor
days together, uuder such conditions, had
never before been witnessed. A union
of soul and body for so long, with such a
wound, had not been supposed possible.
A minnie ball had struct the young man
on the right temple, just in the edge of
the hair, and passed directly through the
hea J, coming out on the opposite side near
ly iu the position as in the right temple.
A hole was made through the head suffi
ciently large to have pushed the forefinger
along the course of the bullet.
The poor fellow was evidently lying in
the precise position in which he fell three
days previous. A handful of brains had
oozed out from the ghastly wouud. I
called upou two men iu citizen's dress and
a straggling soldier, who at the time
were near, to help remove him to an old
church or school house not far distant.
We spread a blanket, laid him on it, -and
ea; i: one taKiii a corner, carrieu iiui iu
the old waste, b ie buii ling, all . riddled
with .-dieli and Dill during the late battle,
pulled twy tK-i.ches together, took an old
Lnyii! ior a pillow, and laid him on the
hard bi-d. With water from my canteen,
the blood and gore were washed from his
head and late, water poured on his parch
ed lips and into hi mouth. In a tew min
utes he so revived as to 1)3 able faintly to
speak.
By this time our regiment was in' mo
tion, and lest i:s course and future posi
tion might bo misred, I wa- compiled
hastily to rejr,.! it ; for in the marching
and - iiinteriaarchiug, the frequent chau
nes in p!;:ejt j a hundred thousand men,
un aul tic-ar a battle fudd, should one lose
his regiment, he might readily spend a
whole half djy in fruitless efforts again to
find it That night we camped between
Shuvpsburg aud the Potomac. The next
day (Saturday) we were ordered to Wil-
liauiport, twelve miles distant, and our 1
way led ucross the muie Hold, u nen 1
opposite the old building, I ran aide,
NUMBER 4.
while the column moved on, to look again
after the poor young rebel. Just as left
the preceding day he was lying, no one
seemingly having been there in the mean
time. He was still alive and breathing
more freely. At once recognizing my
voice, he answered intelligently a few
briefquestions. Notwithstanding an effort)
to refrain, aa his head and face were again
bathed, my tears would flow down to
mingle with the water. A piece of hard
cracker, the only food at the time in jny
haversack, was broken fine, moistened
with water, and put into his mouth, which
he tried to eat. In reply to my question :
"Do you think of anything else I can,
now An fnr rnn V" f rm .1 r .7
"No." Commending him to the care of
a merciful God in a few words of. prayer,
I turned away and left him, with, feelings
of indescribable sadness.
Execution of'KSusIiit hackers."
Extract from a private letter dated
Fort Leave.nwoktu, Mo., Oct. 10, 1862."
One of those horrible tragedies illustra-
tivc of the times occurred hero to-day
the "military execution" of two Missouri
bushwhackers. They had murdered an
old man and his son, aged about 17 years,
in cold blood, and after completely quar
tering their remaius, had burned the house
of the "old patriot. Information of the
outrage was immediately sent to the Fort,
from where a squad of soldiers was sent
in pursuit of the miscreants. They were
captured across the river, about two miles
from here, and brought to this post to re
ceive the doom they so richly merited.
The exe'eutioners were of the 3d Wiscon
sin, and numbered twenty men. On
reaching the field, the troops formed in a
hollow square, with the prisoners, the
executioners, and the commandant of the
Fort in the centre. The prisoners were
then blindfolded, and marched to an open
ing in the ranks left for them. This
done, they were required to kneel beside
their rough coffins ; when the Chaplain,
Mr. Stone, stepped to the front of the two
men and addressed the Throne of Grace.
His prayer was the utterance of a pitying
heart brief, " eloquent, impressive. It
1 1 "
was an earnest appeal ior paruoning mercy
to those who had shown no mercy, and
who were now about to step into the pres
ence of their Maker. Then came the
closing scene in the imposing drama. Tho
prisoners remained kneeling, with twenty
muskets leveled at their palpitating hearts.
A fearful pause and ah ! how brief ami
the messengers of death sped on their
mission. hat a change ! A moment
before the criminals had stood before us
in the perfectiou of manhood what and.
where are thev now ! The lip is dumb-'
the eye is dimmed, the beam ot intelli
gence faded out from their countenance
forever. Swift exit from time.to eternity !
May this lesson prove a warning to the
huddreds of misguided men that are still
hunting down the loyal people of Missouri
and Kansas' with the ferocity of wild sav
ages.
Volunteering in the Kegui.au Ar
my. 1 he ar Ucpartment lias issued the -
following order in relation to volunteering '
in tne regular service:
. .
The commanding officer of each regi
ment, battalion and battery of the Regular
Army iu the field will appoint one or more -recruiting
OiHoers, who are hereby author-'
ized to enlist, with their own eouseut, the
requisite number of efficient volunteers to
fill the ranks of their command to the lc-'
gal standard.
The enlistment will be made in the
usual mode, and for three years, or for tho
remaiuing portion of the period which thd
volunteer has yet to serve, if he so prefer.
The recruiting officers will furnish to
the commanding ofScers of companies to
which volunteers whom they may enlist
belong, lists of such volunteers, exhibiting
the dates of enlistment of each ia the reg
ulir service. .
All the men upon such lists will be re
ported as hmorably discharged the day
previous to tue uaie 01 tneir euusimeni,
on the first subsequent muster-roll t their
company.
As an inducement to volunteer to en
list in the Regular Army, it will be re.
membered that promotion to commission,
therein is open by law to its meritorious;
aud distinguished non commissioned out-
cers, ar.d that many have been already
promoted.
Gen Stewart the rebel horse thief,
who lias lately made t-uch a dashing rai4
into this state, completely circumventing
the army of M'Clelhn, and dazzling aqy
tiling that any cavalry force ever attempt,
cd before, was at ouu time iu comma-nd at
Carlile Barracks, He was selected for .
this daring e;;terprie because - be is well-
ccqu -tinted with the topography of Y
country, , iam;i:.-ir witn every roaq, 1
acquainted with every mountain pa,, ,