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OLUME 8.
nLUAM KITTELL, Attorney t
,L,3vj - - tDl
Uuarj
24, 1S67.
tffNLON, Attorney at Law,
j. Office opposite the Bank. jan24
0BGE M. READE, Attorney at
" Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
Office in Colonnade Row. jan24
p. TIERXEY, Attorney at Law,
l.pr.sbure Cambria county, Pa.
t-Office in Colonnade Row. . jan2-i
1VSTOX & SCAN LAN, Attorneys
atl-a-w, Ebensbntg, Pa.
V-nfico opposite the uoun uouoc
4;obsston. fjan24
J. . SCAKLAX.
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v,o F.bensbunr. Pa.
t. wpot nf Foster's TIo-
.cecums. , -
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UlES cTeASLY, Attorney at Law,
OrroJI.'own, (Jaruona county, a a.
Architectural Brewings and Specifi-
aJe. Uau-
J. WATERS, Ju-tice of the Peace
and Scrivener.
Office adjoining dwelling, on Tleh tt.,
burg, lf7-6m
K1NKEA T Justice of the Peace,
nr. ! Claim Airent.
p0!fice removed to the office former!.
td by M. Hasaon, tsq., on niKu sirrc.,
U; tJan31-fim
"aTsHOEMAKER, Attorney at
Law, Ebensburg, Pa.
.icular attention paid to collections.
U5:ce one aoor east o. - .
7IM.T sivr.T.KTnN. Attornev at
law. beniburp, Pa. Offica on High
f west of Foster's Hotel.
I practice in the Court3 of Cambria aad
coucties.
Attends also to the collection of claims
iers against the Government. jan24
OKGE V. OAT MAN, Attorney at
Law and Claim Agent, Ebensourg,
.county. Pa.
Pensiass, Rack Pay and Bounty, and
...tfv CIaim3 collected. Real Estate
Book Accounts, Xotes, Due Bills,
ic, collected. Deeds, llcrtga
:reeuents, Letters of Attorney, Bonds,
ally written, and all leal business
s aueiiuea to. j tusiuus tuvimacj,
iialized Bounty collected. jin4
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rur f'een appointed Uzamiriny Sur
hf prepared to tiarr.iae all Pension-
i replicants for Pensions who may
is services.
Oilca on Ilieli St., three doors east of
harth. in oice formerly occupied by
ieg. Resldenco iniuiediately uljo:u-
J. LLOYD,
Successor cf R. S. Lunn,
Dealer in
DTHTGS AND MEDICINES, PAINTS,
, a;d dve-stuffs, perfume
v and fancv articles. puuc
:S AND UilAXDiRS FOR MEDI-
m'OSES, PATENT MEDICINES, &c.
C ir. Vote I'upers.
I'ciie', Peuc'.li. Superior Ink,"
AnJ otbtr articles kept
by Drujrprists generally.
i' prescriptions carefully coiiipovndtd.
e on .Vr.:n Street, oppOaite the Juoun
ae, Ebensburg, Pa. jau24
.
The undersigned, Graduate cf the B;.1
Coileee of Dental Surgery, respectfully
i- profe3sional servicf3 to the citizens
-iturg. He has epared no means to
:"- acquaint himself with evt-ry im
in his art. To many year3 of per
'ptritnee, he has sought to add the
i'txptru uce of the highest authorities
; Science. He simply asks that an
-'ty rr.ay be given for his work to
v-s owa praise.
I SAMUEL BELPORD, D. D. S.
Fm: Prof. C. A. Harris : T. E. Bond.
ii.ndy; A. A. Blandy.P. H. Au3-
r Ea.timore College.
"il be at Ebensburcr on tlie fourth
7 of each month, to stay one wjek. --7
24, 18GT.
i'l & CO., Bankers
FBEvsnrTtf!. Pa.
Gold, Silver. G
lj-cMit bought and sold. Interest
jfl on lime Deposits. Collections made
a : .
fccessiDle points in the United States,
general Banking Business transacted
Ury 24, 1867.
M. LLOYD & Co., Bankers
1 . . Altoona, Pa.
I'.0? the Frin.C'Pal cities, and Silver
. . uiuue, lon-
ycd on deposit, payable on demand
merest, or upon time, with interest
Mil AM BLAINE, Barler
i. Ebbksbcbo, Pa.
F n7i Suamnooinr-. nnd IIir-1raec;n
i,.
th. :r .."' r. "s
, mwai urusilC style
aoa directly opposite the "Moun-
K-OR LEAVE.
fce for sale, at Lilly's etation. or
i . ' r ousnci or car . load.
onu, a 8town-' Ebensburg, or any
o the Ppnno i?.; in a J
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mjock P. Q., Cambria co., Pa.
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. JP stairs, third door back.
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WEITTX3
OJC HEAHIX8 TUB BELI.3 SI0 TOtt
THE DBATH OF 6LAYE2Y.
It is done I : ; . r -Clang
of bell ani roar of gun
Send the tidings up and down. - -How
the belfries rock and reel 1
How tbe great guns, peal on peal.
Fling the joy from town to town.
Ring, O bells I :
. . Every' stroke exulting tellj
Of the burial hour of crime. '
Loud and long, that all may hear,
Ring for every listening ear
Of eternity and time 1
Let ua kneel: .
God's own voice is in that peal, :
And this spot is holy ground.
Lord, forgive us ! What are we,
That our eyes this glory see,
That our ears have heard the sound !
For the Lord
On the whirlwind is abroad ;
In the earthquake he has spoken ;
He has smitten with nis thunder
The iron walls asunder, f
And the gates of brass are broken.
Loud and long'
Lift the old exulting song;
Sing with Miriam by the sea,
He haa cist the mighty down j .
Horse and rider sink and drown;
He hath triumphed gloriously 1
Did we dare,
Ic onr agony of prayer,
Ask for more than He has done T
When was ever His right hand
Over any time or land
Stretched as now beneath the sun?
How tkty pale,
Ancient myth, and song, and tale,
In this wonder of our days.
"When the cruel rod of war
Blossoms T.hite with righteous law,
And tho wrath, of man'is praise;
Blotted out t
All within and all about
Shall a fret1, er life begin ;
Freer breatho theuniverse
As it rolls its heavy cur39
On the dead and buried sin.
It is done !
In the circntt of the sua
BIiaII the sound thereof go forth.
It shall bid the skJ rejoice,
It Bba.ll give th 2 dumb a voice,
It shall belt with joy the earth I
Ring crid swing,
Bells of joy 1 On morning's wir:
Eend the song of praise abroad !
With a sound of broken chains,
Tell the naticm that He reigns,
Who alone is Lord r.nd God!
There is an antique ftrcrt in Florence
which boars tli? tilla ot Via. della Llorta
Street or the Dead. The original came
of Va utlla Campanile was changed-to
Via della Morta to commemorate the re
euscitation of the beautiful (iicovra, who,
haviDg scaped from the tomb, waudcrcd
through the streets by riht, eeekicf- that
shelter which tho terrors cf euperotitioti
lonicd her.
Thcstory of Gincvra; even more thril
ling and rotnantio than, that of-Ii-omeo and
Juliet, can hardly be called a tradition or
legend. It is", beyond question, a truo
history, and has been chronicled by vari
ous reliable Italian historians.' "
Toward the close of tha fourteenth
century, the young Antouia lloudinelii
became enamored of Giuc-vri Alaiiera, a
lady of high lineage. Count Bernardo,
the father of Giscvra, a stern, hard,
grasping man, was at variance with the
Rondinelli family. The youthful Gi
uevra warmly responded to the passion
which her charming person and lovely
character had kindled ; and, notwithstan
ding the division betwe-m the families,
the trusting lovers basked in the delicious
hope that they would be one day linked
together in closest ties. .
Antonio bought Bernardo,' and, in spite
cf a frigid and frowning receptionboldly
avowed liU aflectioa for Ginevra, and
prayed that the diicord between ; their
houses might be melted into harmony by
her fair hand clasped before the altar in
his. The father repulsed him rudely,
and forbade . all intercourse between the
lovers. Then Giuevra, gaining courage
through her dismay, rwent to her, father
and implored him to hear her, told him
of her love for Antonia, and besought him
not to separate them. Her fatber turned
an obdurate ear to her pleadings, and
drove her from his presence. Ginevra
inouroed and piDed for her banished lover
without attempting to disguise her Kor
row. Coum Bernardo augured from this
open grief that she cherished a hope that
he would be moved to revoke the sentence
of separation. I Ta dispel such; an. illusion,
he determined to give her in marriage
without delay. '. :
Francesco Agolanti was one or the most
opulent men in Florence. . 'From certain
facts related by historians, however, it
may be interred he was a3 miserly aa he
was wealthy. He, too, sought the hand
of Ginevra j but she, fur from listening to
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAN PRESIDENT. Hkkry Clay.
'pBENSBTJRGPTmUDAT. MARCH
his wooing, turned from him with uncon
cealed aversion. But this did not pre
vent Agolanti demanding her hand of her
father, who promised it willingly..
When her approaching betrothal" was
announced to Giuevra, 6he made resolute
resistance, , and conjured her imperious
father. not to add this new affliction to the
on6 which had already bereft her of her
happiness. His reply was to hasten the
preparations for her' nuptials. "When
Ginevra found her struggles fruitless, she
fell into a state of deep dejection and list
less apathy. She no longer seemed to
tiotico.. what passed around her, and was
led to the altar unresistingly, as though
her faculties had become torpid as if
she was no longer capable even of the
sensation of pain.
After her marriage, this inert and pas
sive condition became confirmed. She
moved about like a being whose soul was
absent, and went through the ordinary
routine of life mechanically, almost un
consciously. She seldom spoke and never
smiled. Soon, she was attacked by an
hysterical affection, which induced long
swoons of frequent occurrence. The
physician who attended her pronounced
her disease consumption.
At the end of four years, she one day
fell into a swoon, from which all. efforts
to revive her proved ineffectual. The
medical men, after having exhausted their
skill to that end without result, declared
her dead.
At sunset on the evening of the same
day, she was carried with great pomp,
upon an open funeral car, to the family
vault of Agolanti, in the cemetery of the
cathedral. Here, according to custom,
her fair body wa3 laid upon a shelf among
the mouldering skeletons of her husband's
ancestors. The month was October. The
moon was shining brightly that night.
The stone placed at the mouth of the
tomb had not been re-cemented. The
masons were to perform the work on the
morrow. Through the aperture left by
the loosened and ill-fitting stone, the
moonlight streamed in and lighted up the
dismal vault.
Giuevra from her long swoon had sunk
into a deep trunce, but life was not ex
tinct. In the middle of the night, she feebly
stirred, end slowly recovered conscious
ness.: . At first, in her .half awakened
btatej she thought herself oppressed by a
frightful dreaoi.
But, as her penacs fully returned, she
eat? the hkeietcu forms with which she
was holiicgconipanionship,and attempted
to start up, but fell back powerlcs, and
in great eflr'ght, for she now discovered
that her hands and feet were bound.
Then fur the first time she beheld the
grave clothes in which she. was attired,
and knew by iheui and her bandaged feet
atid hands that she must have been sup
posed to be dead and had been buried.
Fear lent her. pew strength, and, aftr
mauy despairing, efforts, she succeeded in
Ioo-enicg the bandages, and disentangled
hereelf from the swathing iulda of her
long shroud. She stood up, trembling
a::d appalled. But, guided by tho moon
light, she staggered lo tho five step"
before the entrance and crept up to the
stone which barred her exit. To remove
it with those delicate and feeble hands
seemed impossible; but at such uiomentf
the frailest, natures are. endowed with
superhuman strength. Alter several fu
tile attempts, which with every failure
increased her horror, the stone was rolled
over, and she stood in the moonlight-, iu
the open cemetery, freed saved from a
living tomb, probably from a death of
maddening terror.
With feeble st?ps she hurried through
the streets, her long shroud trailing on
the ground, her white drapery floating
around her, and her ghastly face looking
unearthly in the moonlight. She -was
seeking her home -the home from which
she had that evening been borne a corpse ;
what wonder that the midnight stragglers
who met her thought that they saw au
apparition, and fljd affrighted. - ' - '
At last she reached Francesco Agolan
tiV house, and, knocking, sank upon the
threshold, crying out to her husband to
admit her quickly, The window of
Aoluti's chamber opened upon a balcony
which commanded the front entrance.
lie heard the knock and thft pleading
cry, and hastened to the balcjny. Gi
nevra looked up and called to him with a
feeble, imploring voice. .He recognized
the grave-shrouded form, the white face,
the plaintive tones, and was seized with
frantic alarm, for he believed himself
visited by the ghost of his buried wife.
Makinir the sigu of the'eross repeatedly,
and with great rapidity and vehemence,
he.1 bade her depart and leave him in
peace, promising that' abundant masses
should be said for the rest of her soul.
Ginevra, in an
cgooizea
voice, replied
that she lived, and entreated to be admit
ted. Her husband, more terrified than
ever rushed into his chamber, closed the
window, e prate into bed, and covered his
head with the bed-clothes to shut out the
terrible isoum! of that low, piteous plaint,"
reciting his prayers1 until all was silent
again.
The hapleps Ginevra rose from the
ground with difficulty, and with tottering
steps dragged herself to the door of her
father's house. - Again she knocked," and
prayed to be allowed to come in ; but when
her summons roused the domestics, and
her father himself, she wa3 again mista
ken for an apparition, the door was closed
upon her, and her father and his servants
retreated in alarm.
Ginevra lay upon the cold steps almost
insensible, and in despair. All who .saw
her fled terror-stricken from herprescuce.
She had returned from the grave, and no
one would grant her earthly shelter.
.No one? Was there not one who
would grant her earthly shelter?
No one? Was there not one who
would never bid her depart, even should
he imagine that she had come to him
as a spirit ? With that thought she once
more struggled to her feet and made her
toilsome way through the deserted street
fitha house where dwelt Antonio Iton
dinelli. Antonio still loved her with unabated
ardor, and had taken a vow to be constant
to her memory, and never to marry. The
tidings of her death had reached him, and
he had not sought hi3 couch that night.
He was sitting, weeping and thinking of
his doubly lost Ginevra.
Her strength was so far exhausted that
she could knock only very feebly; but
Antonia heard the sound, and, passing
out on his balcony, saw the grave-clad
figure and the upturned, colorless face of
Ginevra. She faintly murmured his
name He, too, believed it to be a spirit
but it was the spirit of hU beloved, and
the sight and sound filled him with
transport.
Quiokly and joyfully he descended, and
throwing open the entrance door, ho stoop
ed and raised the cold, shrouded form that
lay prostrate at his feet. What painter
could picture his amazement and ecstasy !
Ginevra lived and was restored to him 1
lie summoned his mother, with whom
he resided, and assembled his family to
rejoice with him, and to listen to Ginev
ra's tale. Then Antonio bound them all
by an oath to silence, and sent a faithful
servant to replace the stone upon the
opening of the vault, and to remove every
trace of the fugitive's footsteps.
Meantime, the exhausted Ginevra, now
indeed almost dying from the uegleet and
hardships she had ecdured, was laid in a
warm bed, and was tenderly ministered to
by the mother of Antonio. For four
days, Ginevra's life geemed like a flicker
ing candle, which a breath might extin
guish. On the fifth day, she gradually
revived, and before long was able to rise
and hold converse.
She pondered deeply and sadly upon
the only honorable course thai was left
to her, and at last, with gentle firmness,
announced to Antonia that, as she could
never return to her brulal husbar.d'a pro
tection, she felt hersulf compelled to cu
ter a convent.
Antonio, hurled from the summit of
his sudden happiness into an abyss of
despair, implored her to revoke this ciucl
decision :cruel uot tj him only, but to her
H:lf. He brought forward manifold ar
guments to convince her that the tie
which bound her to Agolanti was dissolv
ed by a death and burial which all the
world believed to be real, and entreated
her to become the-wife of one who had
never loved but her, and had claimed her
for his own before she was sold to Ago
lanti. His mother and family joined their
prayers to his, and Giuevra,
iisteiiioe
to
them, and to the pleadiogs ot her own
heart, slowly conseutei.
It is recorded thst Antonia and Ginevra
were privately united by the public nota
ry, who was bound to aecresy.
Meautime, all Florence was listening to
descriptions of the ghost of Ginevra,
which so many persons had beheld pas
sing through the streets, and which her
husband testified had appeared to him,
while her father declared it had al.-io vis
ited his door. The two families ordered
a bountiful number of masses to be said
for the iepose of the unquiet spirit.
Agolanti now offered the jewels and
wardrobe of Giaevra for sale. His great
wealth did not prevent his evincing this
lack of reverence for, her memory, im
pelled as he was by a sordid love of gaiu.
Rondinelli, as soon g a he heard of the
proposed barter, hastened to the residence
of Agolanti and purchased every article
his newly-made wife had possessed, pay
ing the most extravagant prices, to pre
veut the smallest object which bad been
cousecrated by her us.e from passing into
the bauds of srraogers.
For some months, Ginevra lived in
entire seclusion, her existence unknown
to any but her husband's family and a few
trustworthy, domestics. But neither she
nor her husband was satisfied with this
mode of life, llondinelli saw no reasou
why he should not appear before the world
as the proud husband cf so fair and be
loved a wife. Ginevra, too, detested the
constant-stratagems to which they were
obliged to resort, and resolved to go forth
boldly into society. In the revivifying
atmosphere of calm happiness and satis
fied love, she had risen out of the passive
inertness which bad paralyzed her facul
ties during the four miserable years which
she had passed under the roof of Agolan
ti, and her character reassumed its genu
ine traits. Frank, urdeut, and confident,
hating dissimulation, aud: haviug firm
faith that the etep she had taken wai
fully justified," she exhibited neither faar
nor hesitation, and was ready to bravo the
ordeal of public opinion.
14, 1807.
,; Accordingly, one morning, Antonia
and Ginevra were seen in the streets of
Florence. Ginevra was leaning on her
husband's arm, his sister accompanying
them, and a servant following. They
encountered friends, whose amazement
rendered them almost speechless. But
Ginevra, whenever she saw she was rec
ognized, paused and courteously addressed
her former acquaintances. She told them
that her husband had not only hastily
buried her alive, without the proper in
vestigation, but that when she sought his
door and that of her father, after resusci
tation, she had been rejected by both;
and it was not the fault of husband, fath
er, physician, or priest that she was not
in reality dead, for dead she must shortly
have been but for him who stood beside
her, who opened his door and hi3 heart
to receive her, whether she came in fle6h
or spirit and therefore it was to him her
life belonged, and to him it bad been con
secrated. France3CO Agolanti soon heard of his
wife'B reappearance, of her defiaut words
and her new marriage. Finding that the
tale was true, he made an appeal to tho
courts of justice, to induce them to restore
Giuevra to him, her rightful husband.
Ginevra and -Antonia were summoned
to appear before the Ecclesiastical Court,
over which the Archbishop presided.
The excitement ran high throughout
Florence, and the Court was surrounded
by an indignant populace, who denounced
Agolanti and Bernardo, and openly de
clared their sympathy for Antonio and
Ginevra. Before the tribunal, Ginevra
told her tale bravely and with great feel
ing, and made known her determination
to resist her former husband's efforts to
reslaim her, after he bad twice placed her
life in peril, had shut her up in the
grave, and had closed his doors against
her; adding that it she should be separa
ted from Antonio, she would take refuge
from Agolanti in a convent.
The cause was ably argued on both
sides. But the judges, in those times,
hardly dared to gainsay the outspoken
verdict of the many-mouthed public, which
was apt to decide for theia what was jus
tice, and to enforce that justice, when
not summarily dealt out, by - riot and
bloodshed.
The decision given will seem almost
incredible in our days. The marriage
between Agolanti and Ginevra was de
clared null and void, through htr sup
posed death and nctukl burial ; and the
court decided that she was free to form
other tie3 according to her good pleasure,
and that the ties she had contracted were
legal ; and that she was now the lawful
wife of Antonio llondinelli!
Drawing Seals iu Congress.
The members of the new House of Rep
resentatives, on the 5'.h inat., drew for
seats lor the session. The fcight was a
novel one. All the members were obli
ged to go outside the range of seats and
stand until the ceremony had been per
formed. Each member's name was writ
ten upon a ilip ot paper, and the slips
placed in a box on the Clerk's desk. A
pugs was blindfolded, and drew forth the
names. When a member's name was
drawn, the Clerk called it out, and the
member took his choice of a seat. Thad.
Stevens, Elihu B. Wadhhurne aud Gov.
Thomas were, by unanimous consent of
the House, allowed to retain their old
seats. The first name called was that of
Fernando C Bearnan. He was congrat
ulated on his good fortune. Judge Spsl
diug's name was the fourth culled, and,
having heretofore had a seat on the Dem
ocratic side of the House, much laughter
was excited when he took up his trap
pings and selected a seat on the Repub
lican side. Kelley was the next called,
and be took Morrill's old seat, behind
Stevens. Butler was next, and he took
a seat next Kelley. Strangely enough, a
uuuiber ot the most prominent Radical
members got seats together. Stevens,
Butler, Shellaberger, Kelley, Allison,
Wilson of Iowa, Schenck, Williams of
Pa., Garfield, Ashley, Woodbridgej and
Sidney Clarke are all together iu a trian
gle. When the call had proceeded about
an hour, those whoe names had not been
called commenced to grow restless aud to
despair of getting good seats. This was
especially &o with the Republican mem
bers, who, seeing all tho seats, on the Re
publican side occupied, felt chagrined at
being compelled to take seats with the
Democrats. Among these unfortunate
Radicals who had to "rake up" with Jim
Brooks, Fernando Wood, John Morris
sey & Co., were Gen. Logan, Ben Loan,
Gen. Faine, Gen. Farnesworth, Bingham,
Poland, Ames, Welker, Egglestou, Ward,
Griswold, Baldwin, Price, aud moat of the
Missouri members.. The new inembcie
that are to come are rather meanly served,
aud, having no choice, will be compelled
to take back seats.
On the wbolo, the scene was exciting
aud amusing, 'reminding one of the first
day' at the begiouing oi a new term of a
country school.
Mayor M'Michael haa ordered a
census to be taken cf all the children in
Philadelphia between the ages of C and
18 years, without regard to color, in order
to show the number of eaeh age that at
tend school.
12.00 IX ADTAXGK.
NUMBER 8.
To Pennsylvania. Soldiers.
The undersigned, appointed to prepira
a -History of Pennsylvania Volunteer and
Militia organizations, having discovered
many imperfections in the muster-out rolla
of the compauies, desires that each soldier,
who served in any organization from thU
State, would furnish information in hit
personal history pertaining to the follow
ing points, Yiz :
1. "Wounds. If. wounded, give tha
date; in what engagements received;
nature of wounds; result of wounds ; na
ture of surgical operations, if capital, and
by whom performed.
2. Imprisonment. If a prisoner, givo
the date and place of capture ; where
imprisoned; nature of treatment; and tha
date and manner of escape or release.
He also desires that the relatives or
companions in arms of deceased soldiera
would give the cause, date, place of death
and place of interment of each, and any
facts in his history touching the subjects
above referred to.
Wrrite at the head of tha pago the nama
of the person to whom the information
pertains, the number of. regiment and
letter of company to which he belonged.
Write in conpise terms, in a plain hand,
on letter paper, and but on one side of a
leaf.
The undersigned also desires to make
collection for present and for future usa
of
1. Complete files of all newspapers
published in the State from the beginning
of 18C1 to the close of 1865, to be bound
and permanently kept in the arehives of
the State. Will the publishers or any
friend possessing them furnish such files T
2. Discourses commemorative of fallen
soldiers; pamphlets pertaining in any
manner to the rebellion or its causes t
articles published or in manuscript con
taining historical facts.
3. Published histories or sketches of
regiment?, batteries, or companies; printed
rolls and descriptive matter.
4. Diaries of soldiers ; letters illustra
tive of military life, containing informa
tion of permanent historic value, or
descriptions of interesting incidents ; plana
of battles, sieges, forts and of naval en
gagements. 5. Complete rolls of students and grad
uates of each college in the State who
were in the service.
6. Card photographs (vignette) of each
officer, of whatever grade, who, at any
time, acted as commander of a regiment,
battery or independent company, inscribed
with his name, number ot regiment, &c,
dates of period during which he hcid
command, with his present post-omoa
address. The relatives of deceased officer
are requested to forward the photographs
cf such officers inscribed above. No use
will be made of these photographs without
the express permission of the senders,
fu.ther than to arrange them in albums
for preservation.
Much of the matter called for under
these several heads may not be needed for
immediate use, but the day will coma
when it will be invaluable, and the present
is regarded as a favorable time for com
mencing the collection.
Let every true son of Pennsylvania
respond promptly to thin call, and there
by rescue from oblivion many memorials
of her patriotism and her power.
S. P. BATES, State Historian. .
Haruisbukq, Feb. 22, 1867. "
New Anecuotes of Mr. Livcolx.
Mr. Ilcrndon, the law partner of Mr.
Liucolo, in a recent conversation, repeated
one sentence of the President's before his
departure for Washington that is memo
rable 33 showing hia purpose. "Billy," '
he said, "I hope there will be no trouble,
but I will make the South a graveyard
rather than see a alavery gospel triumph,
or successful secession lose this Govern
ment to the cause of the people and rep
resentative institutions." To th"i3 Mr.
Herndon added, "Mr. Lincoln wa? merci
less, in the abstract. Battles never moved
him unless he rode among the corpses.
He would have carried on the war forever,
or as long as the people entrusted him
with its management, rather than give up."
And this of Mr. Lincoln's last visit to -the
old law office : "At last he came to ;
his . office for the last time : 'Billy ha
said, 'we must say good-bye Both of
them cried, speeciuosfdy. 'You shall keep
up the firm nnme, Billy, if it will be of
use to you. I love the people "here,
Billy, and owe them all that I am. If
God spares my life to tho end, I ehall
com6 back among you and t spend. .tho
remnant of my days lie never returned
to Springfield till glory brought him
home under her plumes, a completed !ifef
and the prairie, like a neighbor,, opened
its door to take him in."
nis Position. In September, 1SG0, '
the eleotors of Tennessee were addressing
a mass meeting at Nashville in favor ot
Bell and Everett for President and , Vic
Prcidbnt. Gov. B. delivered a flowery ,
speech. Col. P. was next called. Ho
stepped upon the platform, raised his
hands to an angle ot forty-five degrees,
aud said : "Now, gentlemen, I will show
you my position on this great question!'
Aud taking a step backward, to get room
J to spread himself, ha went over and off
the platform, and fell flat on his back1.