The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1861-05-16
News Etessl 5.

pugilist, Is dead.
MAJOR ANDERSON has been promoted
to Colonelcy in the u. S. army.
THE mammoth steamship, Great East
ern, arrived at New Y York on Saturday.
The regular passenger travel is now
open from Harrisburg to Baltimore over
the Northern Central Railroad
MAJOR (now ColoncD Anderson passed
over the Pennsylvania Railroad westward
on Tuesday. lie was en- route for Louis
vile, Ky.
THE question is often asked, what is
"stand Of arms 2" Properly speaking, it
is complete set of arms for one soldier,
which would include the bayonet, musket,
and its appurtenances.
TwIGGs, after sacrificing his honor and
his conscience, has been contemptuously
thrown aside with commission OF Briga-
diar General, which Davis knew he could
not accept. He has sunk too low for scorn.
His degradation can excite no feeling but
pity.
LIEUT. MAURY's TREAsoN.-An ex-
amination OF the records at the Observatory
discloses the fact that Lieut.. Maury has
for several months past impressed upon
the minds Of scientific bodies abroad that
the Government would not last three
weeks after the Inauguration Of Mr.. Lin
coln.
EVERY man who offers his services to
his country II the present crisis, and IS
mustered into the service, will be entitled
10 Land Warrants, in addition TO his reg
ular pay, even if the war is closed in thir-
ty days Priyates viii receive $50 acres
each /; officers larger tracts, in proportion
to the rank they hold.
Will Make BONE BUTTONS OF THEM
One Of the Massachusetts volunteers
when in Philadelphia, was asked what he
thought Of the threat of the Cotton States
TO plant the Confederate flag upon Fanu-
ell Hail. He replied, "Let them come
and try it-we'Il send them back to their
friends in the shapezof bone buttons"
WE are happy to state that John 4.
Washington, who shaved our patriotic la
dies so oabominably in the sale Of the bones
Of the Great Washington, is an officer in
the traitors army. If they ever catch
man in the patriot army stealing the Cruel
OF the wounded, or picking cents off the
eyes of the dead, he vii! match John y
Washington.
The following is the way they raise
volunteers in Atlanta Georgia: \ young
man stood in the hotel with book TO take
the names of those who had not yet ioin-
ed themselves to a military company, and,
as the morning papers proposed, that any
person who refused to enlist should be
driven from the city, he had no difficulty
IN filling his list.
TO ARM, equip, and provide well ap-
pointed force Of one hundred thousand,
including, camp equipage, artillery, horses,
munitions, &c., and two months provisions,
will cost twenty-five millions of dollars
and this for five hundred thousand men
is one hundred and twenty-five millions.
For six months service, including trans
portation, this sum must be doubled
SEcEssIoN.-THE THIRTY YEARS Con-
sPIRACY.-ENery American citizen should
be familiar with those words Of Rhett, of
South Carolina
''The secession of South Carolina is not
an event Of day 1t is nothing produ-
ced by Mr.. Lincoln's election, or by the
non execution Of the fugitive slave law
1t has been matter which has been gath
ering head for thirty years" :"
A CoMPANY OF MoNKs.-The Rev. B.
Wiener, Abbot Of the Monastery of ST
Vincent, Westmoreland county, has or
Ganized a company of eighty men, made
up principally from among the members
OF his confraternity. His company has
not yet been accepted, but he expects to
get ii into service ere long in which event.
1t will no doubt be shown that men can be
good christians and good soldiers at one
and the same time Chronicle.
MASONIC SEoEssIoN.-At a convoca-
ton Of the Chapter of Royal Arch Ma
sons. Of the State of Georgia, which closed
its session in Augusta on the Goth ult.. the
following resolution was unanimously adop
ted:
ResolUed, That the connection hereto
fore existing between the Grand Chapter
of Royal Arch Masons of the State of
Georgia and the General Grand Chapte,
OF the late United States of America be
and the same is hereby dissolved.
TENNEssEE.-Thcp people, by MAORI.
ty of 10000, voted against convention
--and yet the Legislature, like that of
Maryland, would vote the State out of the
Union, and have passed an ordinance to
that effect. Hon. L. A Il. Nelson and
Andrew johnson say they willfght against
1t under the Stars and Stripes, and spill
their last drop of blood for the Union.-