Centre Democrat. [volume] (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1848-1989, 1861-10-17


EG- Private Information has recently
been received from the rebel army which
renders it probable that their strongest posis
ton is about mile and quarter in the
rear Of Manassas junction. where the entire
available reserves of the South are being
collected. This information comes from
person who has recently, ia the interest of
the Government, visited all the principal
points from Richmond to Leesburg. lie full.
ly confirms previous reports of the dissatis-
faction and Generalization which exist in
the rebel army, increased in great extent
by the recent national victory at Hatteras.
and by the ill-saceess of Floyd, Wise and
Lee in Western Virginia.
bG- A large RiHed Steel Gun, manufae-
tured at Pittsburg, was tried there recently.
Three rounds were fred with very satisfac-
tory effect, but fourth round with double
charge, burst the bfeech plug bands, disa-
bling the gun The ball, however, was erl-
ven completely through an eighteen inch tree
traversed some distance beyond, and was
buried four feet in bank. The protective
is elongated in form, with a band of lead
countersunk near the base, and turned in
cylindrical grooves on the surface. This
DduQ dtsCE ufiBSs vas pbOWn " udfC DOCh
perfectly riaed by the grooves in the barrel.
sE- Lutheran Emigration to the West by
the Mich. Central Railroad, ia said to be very
large now. More than twenty-five hundred
Norwegans, passing through Liverpool and
Quebec, to the Northwest, travelled over the
road named during the last tvs weeks.
DANGEROUS PETs.-A monkey owned by
an Edinborough shopkeeper, lately snatched
from its mothers arms a baby, II months
old, and with lis teeth and nails neasly tore
the child to pieces before it could be res
cued.
BGr The State of Ohio has in store, within
sixty miles of CINCINNATI over eighteen tons
of mueket and cannon powder, of the very
best quality that can be manufactured
This is being held for any emergency that
may occur.
ga- j. Knox Walker. of Tennessee. who
was the Private Secretary of President Polk.
is dead He was Colonel of the Second reg.
iment of Tennessee. His disease was con-
gestion Of the brain.
RG- The work of mounting guns on the
Notifications around CINCINNATI has COM
menced. One twenty-four FOUNDER and two
thirty-two pounders were put in position on
the lst., on Prices Hill.
BG- A Locomotive exploded its boiler at
the junction station of the Renssaler and Sar-
atoga Railroad on Friday morning, iniuring
the engineer, the iremen, and breakesman,
but none of them fatally.
HG- The citiz,ns of Westm IRELAND coun-
ty, Va, have invited Johr G. Breckinridge
t, make his home among them. They prom
ise that he shall there be properly apprecia-
ted and cherished.
| sGr The printers IN Richmond, Va, in
consequence of the high prices of every arti-
ole of consumption, have raised their prices
from thirty to thrty-fye cents.
R6S- There is oftsn but slight separation
between woman's love and her hate. Her
keen teeth are very near to her sweet lips.
pGr The buildings of the Taunton Mass. J
Oil-clot company were destroyed by fire on
the lst inst. Loss $4,000.
R6r The Union Hotel at Concord, N. H.,
and other property. valued at SIS, 900, had
been destroyed by fire.
EGT Nineteen. thousand dollars worth OF
old postage stamps were consigned to- the
flames in CINCINNATI Oh the lst inst.
R% Gen. Henry A. Wise is by this time
! in Richmond. He was to repors to The re-
bel War Department in person.