The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-12-19
O UILL-D Riv E S .
n@. Genial-the weather.

live in glass house. We woHld simply re-
mind him that he lives in GLASS Office
What difference!
gea, The Huntingdon Globe calls our friend
of the D. & S. ''the Ebensburg beauty"
Distance often lends enchantment to the
view.
ng- The D. & S. began a new volume last
week.
Pity the editor of the D. L s. wouldn't also
''turn over new leaf"
Ea The editor of the D. s S. hopes that
the Postmasters of Cambria county Will do
him justice, etc.
If so, they will treat him as a ''dead letter"
EGT The d. S s. has been considerably re-
duced in size. This has been done, no doubt,
to make it correspond with its editor, who is
generally regarded as a very small man.
gsa- The Presidents Message was first an
nounced to the public at noon on Tuesday.
On Thursday morning following, it appeared
in the San Francisco, California, papers,
Great is telegraph
sea.. The paper will contain as much, if
not more reading matter, as heretofore
Dem. & Sent
Punkins says that may be very good Eng
lish, but he thinks he has seen better.
sy- The D. & s. says the Democracy will
always find it efficient organ. A stammer
ing friend of ours, now at our elbow, says
they viii always find it an F-fshy organ,
too.
pGa. Gov. Curtin presented one of the
State flags, authorized by the last Legisla-
ture, to Col Maxwelrs regiment on Satur-
day. The presentation ceremonies took
place at Camp Curtin.
gsa- We hope our readers viii agree with
us in the opinion, that what we have done is
a change for the 5etter.-D. & S.
We have no doubt they will so agree with
you, for it would be impossible for you to
make a change for the soorse.
sG- 1t is at length fully proven by the re-
bells themselves that Mason and Slideu did
carry dispatches, and that they given
to other parties On board the Trent, who Sc
creted them, and they arrived safely in Lon
don. This brings the case more fully with
in the line Of precedents for seizure than it
would otherwise have done.
ga Col. Kerrigan, of the 25th N. Y Regi-
ment, has been court martialed on no less
than nine different charges, the most impor-
tant of which is that of visiting and giving
information to the enemy. The court mar
tial is now in session at Washington, and the
friends of Col. Kerrigan are confident that
he will be able to prove his entire inno-
cence.
Eayn The editor of the D. g. S. calls the
4Heghanicn a smut machine.
AS the title is very appropriate we accept
it.
We have. it is true,
Been putting him through,
To see if we could
Get anything good
But we're forced to say,
Howe'er it may cut,
The milling don't pay
He's nothing but smut.
nsa. VIM. II. Johnston, of Louisiana, but
recently from New York, enlisted in August
last in the Union Army. He deserted on the
4th inst, and coming, as he supposed, upon
a squad of the enemy, but in reality Federal
soldiers, he gave them large amount of in :
formation respecting the Federal strength.
He arrested, court martialed and senten-
ced to be shot. On Friday last the sentence
was carried out, and the poor wretch met the
traitors fate in the presence of II, 900 sol
| diers, drawn up in line, and a large concourse
of civilians.
esA- Our good Devil furnishes us with the
following, and says he will be responsible for
| it in any way or manner becoming a gentle
man OF his standing. To wit:
One evening last week, as | CHANGED to be
going up street, was brought to dead halt
by the rather unceremonious meeting and
greeting Of two individuals on the sidewalk
near me, one of whom | Immediately recoc-
nized as DiZzard of the D. & S. The other
was an elderly gentleman from the country.
whom,. for my present purpose, / shall call
John Dizzard was going one direction
and John the other, when by some strange
fatality Dizzard stag gered and came into col
lision with John, with such force as to knock
his (Dizzard's) hat off. The following lacon-
ic colloquy thereupon ensued so soon as order
was restored, and mutual explanations of
fered:
JOhn-What are you driving at these times.
Dizzard?
Dizzard-O, well, (hic) I'm clerlin' for the
Commissioners, (hic) and attendin' to Barker,
(hic) (hic.)
JOin-Well, how are you making out?
Dizzard-0, bully (hic) I'm maxim (hic)