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Le Claik, Iowa, Dec. 19, 18G4.
" For, in such war, the conquest s black."
It would seem that the Fates are
against us. The greatest part of the past
year now closing, has been the timely
recorder of more than bloody events.
Never has there been such hosts of hu
manity marshalled for deadly conflict as
in this years military campaigning.
Commencing with the early spring
time, the Administration opened out, on
a gigantic scale heretofore uneaualled a
series of war movements, that, in effect
were to " crush out the rebellion" in
three months or less time as the case was
expected to be. " Why, it is the easiest
job in the world to clean the Kebs out of
Richmond, and end the war, when Gen.
Grant pets ready !" said the croaking be
lievers in the war, and the Abolition.
To begin with Grant, (and no chief
commander in the war, had the backing
up in every way than he), made a grand
preparation, commensurate with the ex
tent of the job on hand, and the means
which were furnished without stint :
which had "Right" made " Might" in
our ease, success would have been sure :
but in the sequel is the disclose made, in
which we have signally fatled, yes, igno
viittioiisty failed ; for have we not boasted
of our svjycrioi-ity in every point ? in men
and money ; and ot course superiority ;
" for the Lord is on the side of the right ?"
(Now, as might makes right, ice arc to
conclude that the Lord is aluitti on the
hide of the right and of neeessit' lie
iiiu:t bs with the rebels when they thun
der down on our army, He leading in the
expulsion a He did the armies of St.
.Michael apainst Satan and Kin hovt when
they wared in the heavens.) How is that?
Remember, right makes might. As the
rebels have had their own way and in the
majority of cms, come off with the best
end of the bargain and, to-day hold
morv advantages than ever they did since
the war began. Humph Yes! the Lord
cn t fir side cf the Christian and the hu
man and philanthropic negro-freedom
fanatics of r.ur "Government !" Guess
not ! Them fellows down there are only a
handful in comparison to the force we can
muster against them, and the language
we have heard timf? and again from the
lips of the " believer " and the " loyal "
in oc.r midft.
H ick again : Grant, when- fully pre
pared a gram! forward movement of the
whole combined armies in the Eaet was
made direct for th'j Confederate capital.
Thus ugn.n the bombastic butcher, and
t k-ep things highly expectant and
charmingly coniident in the rear, he made
th-J immediate announcement, his deter
mination to " right it out on this line."
That lino every one must be acquaint
ed with by this tinn was tln route direct
to Richmond from V;il.ingtoii.
How did Grant make out on that line ?
lie very soon rnulj a discovery a "hil
de:t mi.kel battery" a something that
busted under his nosa which caused him
to " smell a mice," and a "retrtatin
food order" to follow: a discovery, wfcich
was made and openly declared to the
nation and the world, that that " line"
wouldn't hold water ; made to by several
practical Generals : men, who far exceed
ed the present man in sound, practical
military science ; as Gen. M'Clellan docs
that brag and liar Pope.
Rut that did not make a particle of dif
ference: "Grant can doit." How he
has done it will bj seen by his change of
operations from the Fredericksburg route
(or " light it out on this Una ") to the one
by the Peninsula and the Wilderness,
there to make a double-and-twisted crook
of the line, 'tvay around to Petersburg.
Now let us lok upon the map, and it is
certainly astonishing to see what a woe
fully disappointed line," or something
else. I think about that time there were
quite a disappointed crew, consisting of
its principals Grant, A. Lincoln & Co.,
and a great ortion of the people.
Or.e fellow in particular seemed the
most indifferent, and not the least sign of
disapointment chased over his countenance
because he kept his end of the " line "
all straight. That was Gen. Ixje.
And this is almost the last day of the
year of sorrows, of woe and suffering of
toil and danger, with a threatening tem
pest all along our future horizon one that
will engulph in its seething, boiling flood,
thousinds that comfortably sit by their
firesides with tho fairest hopes and fondest
recollections, enjoying the comfort of home
and family, at tho close of the year 1864,
(closing as it is in a scene of carnage, of
death), and e'er come around again an
other New Year, the same dark pall will
cover our evil-stricken land and the soil
of the "sunny South" will be heaped
upon the form si thousands of brave
men whoso grave never will be known to
loved onr, widows, orphans nnd friend-
EBENSBURG, PA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
less but quiet and alone the lone sentinel
at midnight will guard "the foe "o'er
their grave, and as lie paces his weary
rounds and watches till the orient liiht
strays along the eastern sky he halts : a
flutter among the over-hanging branches,
and he sings in the chorus
Listen to the mocking-bird !
Listen to the niockin"-.bird !
Listen to the mocking-bird !
Singing o'er his grave."
The New Year is about to be ushered
in, and yet Grant is taking Richmond,
contrary to previous intentions : as it was
proposed that he take his Fourth of July
dinner in Richmond as he had dons in
Yicksburg. It seems that General Lee
chose to take the dinner in Richmond, and
leave it to General Grant to take Rich
mond without the dinner.
In every attempt on the stronghold has
proven a failure, and a most wanton des
truction of brave men, and will still con
tinue so, though they muster in an army
numbering millions.
Gen. Clusseret, a practical military
man and editor of the Xeic Nation, in
following up Gen. Grant's campaign, ha3
shown how futile is the attempt to take
Richmond over the fortifications : con
sidering it the height of folly. His criti
cisms are just, and elose, and as far as I
have observed, are facts proven by the
stern nature of events.
He terms Grant the greatest humbug
of the war. Clusseret proposes to throw
an army around the beseied place, cut
off all communication, thus in time forcing
Ia?c io come out of his fortifications, and
then by point of numbers overwhelm nnd
destroy his whole army. We are disposed
to think the General is right, it it can be
taken at all
Rut Grant Ptiii hangs about Petersburg,
and occasionally, for amusement, ('twould
seem), butts his army up against impreg
nable barriers that prove a mere guilotine
to our soldiers, and thus will he, as long
as the people will permit, keep an army
of men in that unfortunate, deadly posi
tion, till it can bo said of them :
" The Furi' s stood on hillr,
Circling the place, and trembling to ?ee
men,
Dj more than they ; whilst Tiety left the
field.
Grieved for that fiUe, that in so bad a
cause
The' kn'.'tv not what a crime their ralor
was.":
I think Grant has made an ass of him
self throughout, both in his declaration,
after more than six months trial of strength
against Lee and his own defeat in every
Ciise, that the Confederate Government
had to rob the cradle and the grave to
make an army. And O, just think of it,
what a mere "fuss and feathers" a Gen
eral must be, to allow himself to be de
molished by such a poo, miserable, little
and old an excu-e of an enemy. All the
more to his shame, to make such a state
ment. I can toil you that darn'd " shell," has
a good deal of " bust " about it. I must
say what I think these men that talk so
careless and disrespectful (there, that's
treason, but I can't help it,) of an eneirry,
who have stood to the mark as well as
the South in this war ; arc the most will
ful of liars, dishonest at heart and traitors.
N O KT J 1 W KST.
EFFECTSOF WArT
A French historian gives the following
horrif ing picture of the effects of war :
War brings on famine, pestilence,
and this in turn reduces famine. The year
in which the massacres of Paris took
place (1318,) wretchedness, fright and
dispair brought on an epidemic which is
said to have carried off, in that city alone
80,000 souls. They died in such num
bers and so fast, that it was necessary to
dig large trenches in the burial grounds,
into which they were cast by thirties and
forties, packed like bacon, and scarcely
sprinkled over with earth In 1419 there
were no harvests gathered in. The hus
b indnian were dead or had fled. Pro
visions rose to a fearful price. All over
Paris were heard the pitiful lamentations
of little children crying out " I am dying
of hunger." You might see on a dung
hill twenty or thirty children, buys and
girls, perishing of cold and hunger. In
1421 a like and severe famine. The
men employed to kill the dogs were fol
lowed by crowds of poor, who, a3 they
killed, devouring ail, flesh and guts.
Flocks of wolves secured the fields,
scratching UP lne corpses. They entered
Paris by night. No fewer than 20,000
houses were untenanted, lieggars out
numbered the other persons. In the
country laborers abandoned the fields,
and said among themselves : " let us fly
to tho woods with the wild beasts fare
well wives and children lot us do tho
worst we can kt us give ourselves to the
deviL"
DISTRIBUTED ALIKE. UPON THE HIGH AND THE LOW, THE RICH AND
The Drait.
The following is the list of men drafted
at Hollidaysburg, Ulair county, on the
22d of Deceniler.
CONEMAUGH E0R0UGU.
Benjamin Hinchman, Henry Miller,
James C Clarke, Henry E Hudson, John
Smith, CabelJones, John Fritz, Michael
Burns, John Fisher, Herman Klinemyer,
Christ Kriegar, Wm C Smith, Henry
Ilesselhine, Win Ort, Jonathan Feriier,
Swis Ilciber, John McGee, E hv Brady,
John O'Neil, Andrew Taylor, Ferdinand
Varnick, Henry Belty, John Lynch, Robt
Glodfelter, George ik-lty, Charles Ern3t,
P J Biaddock, Oscar Graff.
1IILLVILLE L'OEOUGIL
Geo Holsman Lawrence rlchoe, John
James John Ilouh, William Noland, Edw
Quinn, Wm V Williams, Edw McBride,
John Hughes, Emanuel James, Hugh
Crossan, Fred Norris. John M Roberts,
Benj Bennett, Thos P Potts, Robt Morris,
John Ilaney, Johr. Bannon, John Oates,
Win Miller, John Jones, John Atkinson,
Michael Gleason, Thos Taj lor, Samuel
Black, Arch Noland, Peter McCann, Jno
Pugh, Thos Evans, liernard McBride,
Cornelius McGinley, Daniel Evans, Chas
Trainor, Wm Lakin, Dennis McCarty,
Pat Driseole, Christ Myer, David Roberts
John Looney, Isaac Berringer, Patrick
Ilagan, Evan Roberts, John Stork, John
Berringer, Chas Whittle, James Darley,
Joseph Karnes, John Hardman.
BLACKLICK TOWNSHIP.
Samuel Braliier, Thos Duncan, Isaac
Makin, Thomas Mahan.
YODER TOWNSHIP.
John A Pfarr, Georgo Martin, David
Ilarshberger, Wm II Thomas, Georgo
Croyle, John E Smith, Josiah Gough
nour, Charles Hoffman, Geo Ream, John
John Bch-ner.
CAMBRIA BOROUGH.
Chr.s Kelly, Geo W Atkins, Michael
Lee, John Heidcr, Geo Speaee, Dennis
MeVeiprli, Anthony Cjirrnll. IWIr-Unol
Kritzer, Geo. Allbarter, Lawrence Baug
hamer, Rodger Dougherty, Joseph Khng,
John Brown, Henry McCIoskey, Joseph
Brindle, Michael Rodden, Owen McCaf
fery, Andrew Fogle, John C Marsh Jos
Reeckey, John Berringer, John Nicht,
Simon Boyer, Charles Warner, Michael
Gilbert, Jerry Blimel, Philip McCall,
Patrick Ket'on,
CARROLL TOWNSHIP.
I,eo J Parrish, William Gray, Peter
A Weakland, James J Kirpatrick, David
Wetzel, Joseph Kruiuaeher, Paul Short,
. t- u . I 1..!,., n-:i
V.eorge .iemei, uuuii ira.ui.un, .u-
j liani Riehter, James Douglass, Joseph
Frcfch, Francis Kilpatnck, illiaru Ba
ker, John J Detriek, John Weber, Leon
ard Mangold, James i lames, Samuel
Smith, Peter Kane, Thomas Buck, An
drew Miller.
TAYLOR TOVNSIIir.
James Wise, Peter Burkhart, Jr.,
John M'Comey, Richard Fox, John Col
bert, Benjamin Stutzman, John W Miller,
Thomas Strayer, Valentine Smith, George
Knabble, Andrew Reinbolt, Patrick Dins
more, Samuel Stutzman, Patrick Mchan,
John Teeter, Domenick M'Cue, John
Utzler, Joseph S Paul.
CROYLE TOWNSHIP.
M S George, Isaac W Pringle, Her
man Paul, John Knepper. John Wintrode,
John Brown, Christ B Weaver, Airwine
Pcth, William A McGough, Joseph
Weiss, Conrad Moyers, John Popp, John
Schlossa, Thomas M'Gough.
SUMMERHILL TOWNSHIP.
John M Barnes, George W. Emigh,
Michael Gates, Levi Plummer, Cornelius
Sellers, Hugh Farrcn, William O'Connell,
Michael M Dunn, Bernard Little, Henry
G Conrad.
CONEMAUGII TOWNSHIP.
Hiram Ribblett, Valentine Ripple,
Philip Stuart, Daniel Goughnour, George
Hildebrand, Charles Von Leunen, Jona
than Roam, Johu Sh river.
WHITE TOWNSHIP.
William H. Gates, Absalom Gibboney,
David Cree, Jr., James II Vallance,
Charles Brown, Abram Cornelius, John
Matthews, Jacob Kuntman.
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
Fredrick II Miller, John Biglin, Vitus
Pheester, James Hagans, Sylvester Smee
der, Patrick Dougherty.
MUNSTER TOWNSHIP.
John S- M'Gaugbey, Joseph fyere
4, 1865.
Joseph O'Harra, William Garret, Francis
Itel, Matthew M'Cugh.
GALLiTZIN.
Frederick Miller, Jacob Fassler, Ed
ward Patterson, George Eckley, Albert
Bender, James MeCullough.
BlCn LAND TOWNSHIP.
Lewis B Dimmyer, Elias Ream, Sam
uel Rose, Emanuel S. Paul, William ii
Morgan. James Mowery.
WILMORE.
Rev J Hacket, John M'Colgnn, J M
Ilorabaugh, William IC Carr.
ALLEGUENY TOWNSHIP.
John Walker, John Crook, John Fitz
Gibbons, John Kane.
CHEST TOWNSHIP.
Martin Thomas, Martin Detriek.
A Xcxr Auecdoie of Washingtou.
A SCENE IN" CONNECTICUT IN
1789.
Ills Visit to lit 1Vidour of Colonel
Scth Warner.
It it well known that Col. Seth War
ner, of revolutionary memory, who with
his noted regiment of Green Mountain
Boys, as rear guard of St. Clair's re
treating army, alter the evacuation of
Ticonderoga, beat back a whole brigade
of the hotly pursuing British, in the bat
tlo of Ilubbardtown, and thus saved,
probably, that luckless general's entire
forces, hurrying on just in front, from
rout or capture who came down like a
thunder-bolt on the flushed foe in mid
battle at Bennington, and secured the vic
tory for the wavering and half beaten
Stark, and who finally was everywhere
known as one of the best looking, most
heroic, and accomplished military officer
of the Continental array that Colonel
Warner was an especial favorite of Gen
eral Washington.
This preliminary, however is here in
troduced less on account of any particular
pertinency most of it may have to the
subject than for the purposes of explana
tion, and securing a readier appreciation
and credence of the interesting personal
anecdote which is about to be relxited,
and which, it is confidentially believed,
has never liefore appeared in print.
One son of Colonel Warner still sur
vives, or was surviving a vcw j ears ago,
and unpretending resident of Lower
Canada, from which though then seventy-five
years old, but very active, and in
lull possession of all his strong native
faculties he came to the Capital of Ver
mont with the object of petitioning the
Legislature for compensation for some
lands formerly granted lo the heirs of
Colonel Warner, but unwittingly trenched
upon by subsequent grants ; and it was
there and then that the writer of this
reminiscence was introduced to him, and
held several very interesting conversations
In one of these conversations, while
speaking of the private affairs of his
father, Colonel Warner, he frankly said
that the Colonel was very thoughtless
about pecuniary matters ; that he not
only expended in tho cause of the country
or a'ded ths nedy families of tiis soldiers,
all his available property, but contracted
many dtbts, which finally compelled him,
a short time before his death., to place a
mortgage on his homestead, amounting
at last to over nine hundred dollars, and
causing the family a great deal of de
pression and uneasiness. But of this
depressing load they were at length sud
denly relieved in the occurrence of a most
unexpected incident, and one which form
ed, as well it might, quite an era in their
family history. But we will let Mr.
Warner, whose Christian name, we be
lieve, was that of' his father, Scth, relate
the memorable incident in question in his
own language ; which by the aid of the
minutes before us, we know we can re
peat substantially, and we think very near
Ii erally, as he made use of it.
" It was," he said " in the month of
September, 1789, the fall that General
Washington made his tour throueh the
Eastern States'. We had kept ourselves
tolerably well posted about the progress of
this tour, and heard that he was to be in
New Haven or Hartford, Connecticut,
somewhere near the time at which the
event I ara going to relate to you took
place. But as either of those places was
quite a number of miles from Woodbury,
where we lived, we had no more idea of
seeing him than the man in the moon.
My elder brother, Israel l'utman Warner,
then a man grown, and myself, a lad of
twelve or thirteen, were both living with
my mother at the time-. And at the par
THE POOR.
VOL. 11 NO. 51.
ticular time of the day I refer to, Israel
was in the yard grooming father's old
war horse which he had been compelled
to go with father through all his campaigns
to take charge of ; for the fiery and proud
old fellow would never let anybody but
master, the Colonel, and his son Israel
mount or come near him, though he now
got so much tamed down by old age that
he would behave quite decently with ma
or am body. I was in the. Louse with
mother, who happened to be unusually
downcast that day, and was brooding
over our family embarrassments, and had
just been saying:
44 No, no, Seth, I can never pay, nor,
with our means hardly beain to pay this
dreadful mortgage. And as I hear it is
about to be foreclosed, we must now soon
be driven from our pleasaut home, wheia
we have lived eo long, and, until your
father's death, so happily. My husband,
the Colonel, fought as well as the bravest
of them, and did all he could,"and more
than his part, for the good causo, they all
are willing to allow ; and I know very
well that he wore hiinself out in tho ser
vice, and was thus brought to a prema
ture grave. And yet here is his family
almost on the verge of beggary.
Tears here started in Mother's eyeJ,
which so touched me that I rose and wenl
and looked out of the window ; when, to
my surprise, I saw entering the jard two
well mounted strange gentlemen, whom,
from something about their general ap
pearance, I took to be old military offi
cers of pretty high rank or at least one
of them, who was laree and had a very
commanding look. Having significantly
beckoned mother to my tide, she eagerly
gazed out at the new confers a moment
in silence, when she suddenly gave a start,
and, with an excited air, exclaimed :
Seth ! just take notice of that nolil
looking one ! Why he looks ever so
much like the picture I once saw of
But no ; that surely can't be !"
44 Well, at any rate, mother, he must
be a man of some consequence ; for, soo !
brother Israel, who acts as if he knew
him, is swinging his hat from his head
clear away at arm's length, and bowing
lower thiin lie would to u king! Israel
is quite too stiff-necked to do that for any
common man. But they are beginning to
talk, I will just open the door here a litth
and perhaps we can hear what they ar
saying."
I did so, and the first words I distin
guished were those of the personage who
had so attrccted our attention, and who,
addressing my brother, and pointing U
the horse, by the side of which ho was
standing, asked :
44 Is not that tho horse Colonel Warner
used to ride in the war!"
" It is, Excellency," replied Israel,
again bowing low and verj' respectfully.
44 Ah yes, I thought so," resumed the
former, turning to his companion or at
tache, and pointing to the old war steed
with that interest with which he was
known ever to regard fine horses. "I
thought it could be no other. Just glance
at his leading poiets shapely head,
arched neck, deep chest, haunches and
limbs. I have seen Colonel Warner ri
ding him on parade, when I noted him as
a rare animal, and that the horse and
rider, taken together for Warner was a
model of a figure, and several inches
taller than I am made a military ap
pearance second in the Continental army.
But my business is with your mother, my
young friend, and I will r.ow, if vou will
take charge of my horse a fotv minutes
go in at once to see her."
Hearing this announcement, mother
and I hastily retreated to our former
seats, and, with the curiosity and excite
ment with what we had witnessed natu
rally raised in us, silently awaited thst
entry of the expected visitors. Wo had
been thus seated but two or three min
utes before he came in, and, bowing gra
ciously to my mother, said:
44 1 take this to be Mistress Warner,
the widow of my esteemed friend, the
late Colonel Warner, of the Continental
army ?"
44 It is sir," she replied tremulously.
44 Will you permit me to introduce my
self to you, madame ?" he resumed, with
that winning sort of dignity I had noticed
in him from the first; 44 1 am General
Washington. And after I arrived in this
section of the country, a few days go, I
made and I hope you will pardon m
the liberty I took with your private alT'tr
I made some inquiries about you and
tho situation of your family; when learn
ing, to my deep regret, that your lat
husband, in consequence of his long con
tinued abscenco from his home and busi
ness, while in the service of his country,
and Id subsequent battered health, re
sulting from the hardships of war, left
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