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EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1867.
A MILLIONAIRE IN THE RANKS.
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No army, I suppose, ever contained
such a variety of characters and conditions
as that of the United States during the
late war. There were men in it of almo?t
every race and color; men of every rank
from French princes lineally descended
from Henry IV. to the plantation slave ;
men of every degree of moral worth and
unworthincss from the patriot-hero giv
ing his life for his country, to the plun
dering bounty-jumper," who has since
found a suitable home in a State's prison.
Among other characters, the strangest,
perhaps, was a private soldier who pos
sessed an income of two hundred thousand
dollars a year. Upon the staffs of Major
Generals, at the heads of regiments, there
were several millionaires ; but the gen
tleman of whom we speak, Elias Howe,
Jr. the inventor of the sewing-machine
served in the ranks of the Seventeenth
Connecticut, and refused every offer of a
commission, alleging as a reason that he
was ignorant of military affairs, and could
render no effective service to his country
except as a private. Having had occasion
recently to gather information respecting
the orign and progress of the sewing
machine, I heard the story of Mr. Howe's
establishment and service from the officers
of his regiment, and now avail myself of
the inventor's absence from the country
to repeat it.
lie enlisted in July, 1SG2 the second
year of the war. The country, as we all
remember, had put forth prodigious efforts
to repair the calamity of Bull llua. An
immense army bad been assembled on the
banks of the Potomac, which, alter a long
winter spent in drilling it, had been
swiftly conveyed to Virginia and success
fully landed at Yorktown. That proved
to be the end of its success. Stopped for
a month at Yorktown, until lliehinond
wa3 ready to withstand it, that mighty
host of devoted men came within sight of
the steeples of the Confederate capital;
whence, after a succession of mishap?,
reverses, and defeats, it was driven back
to the James, and was soou after ordered
back to its old position on the Potomac
Nothing in the history of the war seems
to me so remarkable as the high spirit
and unshaken resolution of the peop!
after the disasteis so terrible, so unexpec
ted, and so peculiarly calculated to dis
hearten a nation so unused to war.
It was July, 1SG2. The army was still
on the James, protected by the gunboats
of the navy. A new levy of troops was
ordered. Until this time, men hadnothung
hack, and new regiments had come in
about as fast os they could bo equipped.
But, in July of this year, when the ripen
ing harvest called farmers to their Pelda,
and the tidings of defeat gave pause to
those inclined to enlist, the forming regi
ments filled tlowly, and there were vague
rumors in the air of a possible draft. Then
it was that it occurred to some gentlemen
of Bridgeport, Connecticut, to raise a
county regiment, the several companies
ot which should be composed of friends
and neighbors. It wa3 an excellent and
fruitful thought. The sanction of Gov
ernor Buckingham wa3 obtained, and a
public meeting was called for July 17th,
to begin the work.
The public anxiety as well as the patri
otism of the people of Bridgeport caused
this to be one of the largest and most
earnest meetings ever held in town. Sir.
Howe attended it, and sat upon the plat
form as one of the Vice Presidents.
When the meeting had been organized, it
was addressed by several speakers, who
raised the enthusiasm of the crowd to the
highest point. Money was liberally sub
scribed for the expenses of the. proposed
regiment Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson
heading the Hit with five thousand dollars,
and Elias Howe following with one thou
sand. The whole sum raised was twenty
five thousand dollars. This was encour
aging, and it was then to be seen how
the citizens of Bridgeport would respond
to tho call for services more perilous and
more necessary than the subscribing of
mono)'.
When the time came for inviting men
to enlist, Mr. Howe to the astonishment
of his friends, for be had never before
addressed a public meeting rose to bis
feet and spoke somewhat as follows :
"At such a time as this, cverv man is
called upon to do what he can for his
country. I don't know what I can do
unless it is to enlist and serve as a private
in the Union army. I want no position.
In fact, I know nothing of military mat
ters, but I am willing to learn and do
what I can with a musket. At any rate,
I mean to go. I have in my hand apiece
of paper for the names of those who wish
to en'ist to-night, and my nam: is at the
head of it."
With these words, he laid the paper
upon the chairman's table. The excite
ment produced by this announcement can
neither be imagined nor described. Mr.
Howe was known to every person present
as one of the wealthiest men in the State,
whose residence at Iranistan was as pleas
ant and attractive a. scene as could be
anywhere found ; and to exchange this
for the privations of the camp beemed to
the audience a most remarkable evidence
of patriotic! principle. Cheer upon cheer
expr-essel and relieved tho feelings of the
excited multitude.
The next incideut that occurred was
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT THAKpRESIDENT. Hihby Clay.
ons in which the comic and the pathetic
were blended. The coachman who had
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attracted by the continued cheering with
in the hall, had hired a boy to hold his
horses, and had entered the building to
witness the proceeding?. He was a warm
hearted Irishman, named Michael Cahill,
and was past the age of military service
as defined by law. Upon hearing his.
employer's speech, he rushed forward,
and clamberiDg upon the platform, cried
out :
"Put down my name, too 1 T can't
bear to have the old man go alone !"
So down went the name of Michael Ca
hill, coachman, next to that of Elias
Howe. Laughter and cheers, mingled in
about equal proportions, followed the an
nouncement of "Mike's' intentions.
Other names now came in with great
rapidity. A large number of men were
obtained that night, and such zeal and
enthusiasm were- created in the county
by the events of tho evening, that in
twenty days the Seventeenth Connecticut
had upon its rolls the names of one thous
and men. It was commanded by Col. II.
II. Noble, one of the leading lawyers of
Bridgeport.
A difficulty arose when Mr. Howe had
to be examined by the surgeon of the
regiment, Dr. Hubbard. All his life, the
inventor ot the sewing-machine has been
troubled with a hereditary lameness. In
deed, it was owing to the extreme fatigue
which his daily labor as a journeyman
machinist caused him, in consequence of
thig lameness, that he set about inventing
something by which be hoped to earn his
living less laboriously. The probability
is, that if Elias Howe had two good legj,
ho never would have invented the sewing
machine. When Dr. Hubbard hesitated
about accepting him, and told him he
could net march :
"No matter," said the inventor, "you
must pass me. I am going!"
Bo'h the officers and men of the regi
ment soou discovered that to have a man
in a regiment who is both rich and gen
erous is exiremely convenient. To some
of the field officers he gave horses from
his stable, and to otherd he lent them,
and whenever there was delay or difficulty
in procuring an article necessary for tho
regiment's speedy departure, his purse
was always open to supply the deficiency.
Early in September, the regiment started
on its way to the eeat of war, and went
into camp near Baltimore.
When the camp was organized and the
regiment entered upon its routine of du
ties, Mr. Howo discovered that the doctor
was right; he could not march with a
musket in his hand, even to the extent of
standing sentry. But determined to be
of service, he volunteered to serve tlje
regiment as its postmaster, messenger and
expressman. Sending home for a suita
ble horse and wagon, he drove into Balti
inora twic every day, and brought to the
camp the letters and parcels for the regi
ment, which he distributed from his own
teot with his own hands. He 6erved, in
short, as the father of the regiment.
Going home, occasionally, to Bridgeport,
where he was then building a large fac
tory, he always gave notice of his inten
tion, and made his journey with a small
cargo of letters and bundles forjhe fami
lies of his comrades, and took unwearied
paina in performing every commission
entrusted to him. As ons of tho officers
said to me, "He would run half over the
State to deliver a letter to some lonely
mother anxious for her soldier boy, or
bring back to hitn ia the camp a favorite
pair of boots, which he needed during ihe
rainy winter of Maryland."
I once heard Mr. Howe relate a curious
anecdote of one of these journeys. He
was sitting in the cars, behind two wild
secessionist?, who were conversing eagerly
about the war. One of them said to the
other :
"Yes, sir! the whole thing was got up
for the purpose of giving fat contracts to
thed d abolitionists. There's old Howe,
the sewing-machine man, worth his mil
lions : thev hare actually uiven him the
contract
for carrying the mail to the
army.
"You don't ay so V said the other.
"'Tis a fact," rejoined his friend. "I
saw Howe myself riding in one of the
mail carts yesterday."
Mr. Howe smiled, but said nothing.
Another sto;y of his warlike experience
is related by Co!. Stephen A. Walker,
paymaster of the division to which Mr.
Howe's regiment belonged.
For four months after the Seventeenth
Connecticut entered the field, the govern
ment was so pressed for money that no
payments to the troops could bo made,
aud, consequently, there was great suffer
ing among the families of the soldiera,
and a still more painful anxiety was
suffered by the men themselves. One
day, a private soldier came quietly into
the paymaster's office in Washington,
and, as. there were several officers already
there to be attended to, he took his scat
in the comer, to wait his turn. When
the officers had been disposed of, Col.
Walker turned to hiiu and said :
"Now, my man, what can I do for
you
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"I have called," said the soldier, "to
see about the payment of the Seventeenth
Connecticut."
The paymaster, a little irritated by what
heLsupposed a needless and impertinent
interruption, told him, somewhat bluntly,
that "a paymaster could do nothing with
out money, and that until the government
could furnish some, it was useless for
soldiera to come bothering him about the
pay of their regiments."
. JJ know," said the soldier, "the gov
ernment 13 in straits, and I have called to
find out how much money it will take to
give my regiment two month's pay, and if
you will tell me, I ara ready to furnish
theamount."
The officer stared with astonishment,
and asked the name of the soldier, who
wa3 no other than Elias Howe. On refer
ring to his books, Col. WTalker found that
the sum required was thirty-one thousand
dollars. Upon receiving the information,
the private wrote a draft for the sum, and
received in return a memorandum certi
fying the advance, and promising reim
bursement when the government could
furnish tho money.
Two or three days after, at Fairfax
Court House, the regiment was paid, and
there were a thousand happy men in
camp. When Mr. Howe's name was
called, he went up to the paymaster's desk,
received twenty-eight dollars and sixty
cents of his own money, and signed the
receipt therefor, "Private Elias Howe,
Jr." We cannot be surprised at some ot
the officers of neighboring regiments send
ing over to inquire if they could "borrow"
this private for a while from the Seven
teenth Connecticut.
During the winter, Mr. Howe was
twice prostrated by sickness ; first by dys
entery, and afterwards by fever. It was
proposed to convey him to the officers'
hospital ; but he insisted on being taken
to the hospital of the privates, and to be
treated in all respects as a private soldier.
There was no difference, however, in es
sential point", between the hospitals for
officers and those for private soldiers.
When the spring came, and the regi
ment was about to enter upon active ser
vice and to make long marches, it became
clear to Mr. Howe that he could be noth
ing but an encunfbrance, and, therefore,
after rendering all the service which a
man in his physical condition could reoder,
to vhi..taritly asked a discharge and re
turned home, lit a y tn ihe sol
diers..: ' .Uvcgot to leave you, boys. I'm of no
ue here; but never mind; when your
time is out, come to me at Bridgeport.
I'm building a large sewing-machine fac
tory there, and I shall have plenty of
work for those who want it.'"
Many of his comrades took him nt his
word, and are now at work under him in
variou? capacities. Honest "Mike," after
faithfully serving out his term, went to
his old home, and has advanced from dri
ving Mr. Howe's carriage to driving his
own horse and cart, whicli he is still doing.
Mr. Howe's enlistment to serve in the
ranks of the army was due to a genuine
patriotic impulse.
An officer of his regiment related to me
a conversation which he had with him one
gloomy day in camp, when bad news was
coming in from the West.
"Well," said the officer, "what do you
think the trash we call our property will
be worth when this is all over ?"
"So that this thing is settled right,"
said Mr. Howe, "I don't care a copper.
As for me, give me three acres of ground,
and I can earn my living upon it, and
that's all I want." James Par ton.
Address of Hie Bin ion Republi
can State Cent. Committee.
Committee Booms,
Harris burg, Aug. 27. 1S67. )
To the People of Ptumyhani :
Fellow-Citizens: In a recent address
from this committee, your attention was
invited to sundry issues and principles
involved in the pending canvass, and also
to the political opinions and judicial de-
:;or,e f nnrtTA Sharswood. A short-
review of the principal occurrences since
the last State campaign i3 now considered
proper. The contest of 1SGG was fought,
in the main, upon the amendments pro
posed by Congress to the Constitution of
the United States. These were national
issues ; and on the one side were arrayed
the Union llepubliean party and the
"Boys in Blue," and on the other Presi
dent Johnson, the Democratic party, and
all the rebels and their sympathizers from
one end of the Union to the other. On
these momentous issues Pennsylvania ral
lied in her strength, and polled over one
hundred and forty thousand more votes
than at her preceding annual election.
Among the results were the triumphant
election of Major-General John W. Geary
for Governor, and the endorsement of
Congress by the return of a delegation
more unanimous for the'right than ever
known before in the history of the Com
monwealth. Other loyal States united with us, and
the insane and wicked "policy" of Presi
dent Johnson and of his new friends and
allies was overwhelmed by the unprec
edented and magnificent popular majority
of four hundred thousand votes ! Every
State which had been faithful to the Na
tional Government and the cause of the
Union during the war approved the pro
posed amendments. Every rebel State,
except Tennessee, rejected them; and
under tho rebel provisional governments
created by President Johnson, rebel power
resumed its authority and became domi
nant io their executive, legislative, and
judicial departments. Vagrant and labor
laws virtually re-enslaved the freedmen.
Loyal men were outlawed and tramp!ed
under foot, and the revived spirit of the
rebellion was everywhere triumphant.
Riots, murders, outrages, and assassina
tions were the order of the day, and secu
rity for either the livei or the property of
loyal men was nowhere to be found.
Treason had front seats, loyalty had boen
made odious, and traitorous conspirators
against the life of the nation wero vindic
tive and rampant.
Kuch was the condition of public affairs
in the South when Congress convened in
December, 1866. This nation had .sol
emnly resolved and voted that the Union
shouid be restored on tht ba?is of loyalty
and justice, and to thi3 end was the For
tieth Congress elected. Hence were
passed the reconstruction laws, in execu
tion of the recent popular verdict. The
President vetoed them, refusing to accept
or abide by the decision of the people, to
whom ho had so often and so vauntingly
.appealed. Congress re-enacted them over
the vetoes by more thao the required two
thirds, and they are now the laws of the
land. Under them, including the amend
ments of last session, reconstruction i3
rapidly progressing, and would doubtless
ere long be successfully accomplished but
for the ptrsistent obstructions by the
President, in defiance of Congress and the
popular will. Justice is being done ;
loyal men, white and black, have been
protected from the malice of defeated
rebels ; treason, in a measure at least, has
"been made odious," and traitors have
been compelled "to take back seats," as
Andrew Johnson, in a lucid interval, de
clared they should. Even the better
portion of the rebels admit the justice of
these reconstruction laws, and cheerfully
acquiesce in their provisions. General
James Longstreet, a distinguished rebel
officer, in a recent published letter from
New Orleans, expresses himseif as follows :
"I shall set out by assuming a proposi
tion that I hold to be self-evident, viz :
The highest of human laws is the law t hat
is established by appeal to arm. The
great principles that divided political par-
uta l- n-ow fhnrmiMilv
discussed by our wisest statesmen, u hen
compromise - was unavailing, discussion
was renewed and expedients were sought,
but none could be found to suit tho emer
gency. Appeal was finally made to the
sword, to determine which of the claims
was the true construction of constitutional
law. The sword has decided in favor of
the North, and what they claimed as
principles cease to be principles and aro
Decome law. The views that we hold
cease to be principles because they are
opposed to law. It is, therefore, our duty
to abandon ideas that are obsolete and
conform to the requirements of law. The
military bill and amendments are peace
offerings. We should accept them as
Euch, and place ourselves upon them as
the starting point from which to meet fu
ture political issues as they arise."
Jeff. Thompson, another rebel general,
in a late letter to George D. Prentice,
Esq., endorses the reconstruction laws of
Congress thus :
"The Confederate Government wiped
xut States' rights the first year of its ex
istence, a bloody war wiped out slavery
and wiped out the Confederacy, so jhey
are obsolete ideas, and the plain question
now presented is : 'Will you accept citi
zenship under our terms as contained in
this law?' and I emphatically answer, yes !''
It is greatly to be regretted that terms
which are so acceptable to the fighting
rebels of the South should be so distaste
ful and cause so much clamor from their
non-combatant sympathizers in the North.
The enemies of the United States having
been finally defeated in battle, united their
efforts to elect sympathizers from, the
North, and to procure the admission of
enough rebels from the Suth to enable
them, through Congress, to attain what
they had lost in the field. This pro
gramme was frustrated by the loyal people
at the ballot-box ia the election of the
Fortieth Congress.
Defeated in open war, and again in
Congress, these baffled conspirators, as a
last resort, are endeavoring to save "the
lost cause" through the courts. They
deny that anything has been settled by
the war, and boldly proclaim thnt "all
these grave, pending questions" must be
decided, "just, in fact, as they would have
been decided had they arisen eight years
ago, or had np war takeu place." (Phil
adelphia Age, July 8.) They not only
deny the constitutional power of Congr.s
to impose terms upon tho rebel States or
people, but deny that Congress itself is a
lawful body, because the rebel States are
unrepresented. Hence, tho recent appli
cation to the Supreme Court of the United
States for injunctions to nullify the recon
struction laws of Congress in Mississippi,
Georgia, and other rebel States. In the
same interest, and of the same character,
is the uouiir.ation of George Sharswood, a
well known and life-long State-rights man,
for the Supreme Cocrt of Pennsylvania.
He judicially denies the power of Congress
to issue paper money, or to give it value
by making it a legal tender. (Borio vs.
Trott, Legal Intelligencer of March 18,
18G1, page 92.)
tsa.OO IX ADVANCE.
NUMBER 33.
Judges Thompson and Woodward, of
the same court, not only announce these
same doctriues in the case of Mervine vs.
Sailor et al., Legal Inlelliaencer of June
16 and SO, 1SG5, pages i8S and 205.)
but in the case of Kneedler et al. vs. Lane
et al. (9 "Wright's Reports, page 238,)
denied the power of Congress in time of
war to draft men into tho military service.
The principles declared in these "decision
were as hostile to the national existence
and perpetuity as any assault ever znado
by General Lee and his armed legions at
Gettysburg or elsewhere. It requires no
argument to demonstrate that if thesa
decisions on currency and the draft had
prevailed and become the established law
of the land, success ic the war would have
Dcen more impossible than if the rebel
army at Richmond had teen reinforced
with half a million of men. Is it safe;
therefore, to place another man, entertain
ing these opinions, on the Supreme bench
of the State?
Forewarned should be forearmed.
These Superior Courts are now the "huk
ditch" of the rebell ion ; and the country
calls upon the "Boys in Blue," and every
loyal voter, to rally once more to the rescue.
Complete your county and township
organizations without delay. With thU
thoroughly done, victory is sure; without
it, there is danger. Revive at onse every
where the loyal leagues and associations
which proved of such vast service duriog
the war. Let every patriotic man feel
that he has something to do in the good
work, and proceed forthwith to do it with,
all his might. Exclude all side issuei,
local quarrels, and personal aspirations,
and labor only for the public good. Be
not deceived by the stale clamor about
negro equality and negro suffrage.
These worn-out hobbies were supposed
to have been ridden to deata'at our last
two annual elections, when, as no-, they
were declared by cur enemies to be the
great issues of the content. They are now
raised up and brought upon tho track
again, mounted by the same riders, and
destioed to the same ignoble end. Bo
not discouraged by the vain boasting of
our adversaries. They have been inglo-
riously defeated in every contest for years,
and cannot now prevail against us. The
loyal and patriotic people of the State
have heretofore nobly sustained uJ
the cause ot me tuuui.j, , inc heavy
pressure and discouragement of drafts,
taxation, bereavement, and carnage, and
wheu nothing but an abiding faith in an
overruling Providence and in the justice
of our cause enabled us to see the end.
Surely there can be no faltering now,
when the goal is almost reached, and when
one more united rally for our principles
and our flag will enable us to secure the
ripe fruits of the late dreadful civil war,
and to garner them safely for ourselves
aud our children.
We stand over the ruins of a gigantio
rebellion, the niot formidable enemy ever
encviuutered by republican institutions.
We stand close to the graves f three
hundred thousand of our noblest men, who
counted their lives well spent when offered
freely for Liberty and Union. In the
presence of their speechless but eloquent
dust ; in the presence of the doubting and
sneering enemies ot our free Government,
at home and abroad ; in full view of tho
oppressed millions, who from beneath
crushing despotisms watched our flag,
with tears and hopes, and prayers, through
out the four long years of bloody conflict;
before the rapidly coming millions of the
future; before a God of justice, and ic
the name ot all that makes faithfulness to
Him, and honor among men, we stand
pledged to secure and maintain forever
the principles for which our brothers died.
By order cf the committee.
F. Jordan, Chairman.
Geo. W. IIamersly,
J. Robley Dunolison, Secretaries.
TnE Indiana Messenger Bays that somo
months ago a company was organized in
Punxsutawney for the purpose of boring
for oil in that vicinity. The proper bo
ring tools were brought into requisition,
and a well put down to the depth of six
hundred feet, when a vein of salt water
was tapped, which, on withdrawing the
drill, ro.-e rapidly to the surface, and now
flows up in a swift stream, rising, in the
air about ten feet above the mouth of the
well. The oil project was abandoned,
and the well was permitted to flow unin
terruptedly until about twj months since,
when the citizens took charge ot the well,
weatherboarded the derrick, which had
been left standing, and made other im
provements iu the immediate neighbor
hood, and are now in the enjoyment of a
very excellent bathing-house. The la
dies ol tin vicinity are permitted the
privilege of bathing from I) a. in., till
4 p. m , after which lime the male portion
of the community ars allowed the oppor
tunity of enjoying the use of the water.
An enthusiastic friend, whj has been on m
visit to that place, -declares that the
healthful purity and cleansing propertie
of the water- are not surpassed by any
bathing establishment iu the country ;
that it leaves the flesh clear and brilliant ;
invigorates the entire system in a won
derful manner, and altogether decides it
one of the institutions ot tho times.
Queen Victoria was born in 1819,
and is therefore 48 years ld.