Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17

Pope Already is confidence inspired. |
n see it, ] read it in the countenances OF men
m What I said before to you, repeat-Loo6
Cd oat for neaosi [ never saw as much actiV-
S; ity and life as see now. Thousands ana
tens of thousands are crossing the Long
W Bridge-and if not as famous, or infamous
pi as the Bridge of Sighs at Venice, IS certain
to become as famously historic The new
leyies look well, and are exceedingly
IN well clothed and equipped, but | fancy
- months marching and countermarchlng IN
the mud and rain will considerably tarnish
!. their fine t0yqery Weli let the boys have
it their own way this time One severe
battle will show up the elephant The
: wounded are still arriving by hundreds
from the scene of the late battles-Manas-
f sas, and also Fairfax-the last being night
N attack Here Kearney fell; here Stephens
i perished The former the son of Mars,
the latter something of speaker, and per-
haps no less brave. | saw him here en-
| balmed-glorious even in death. He must
a have fallen dead from his horse and died
= instantly. The Minnie ball entered his
di head through the temporal bone, but did
not pass through. There was severe
confusion on the left temple, made by the
!. fall Both were among the bravest of the
IT # army-both perished for the Republic [
10 have seen Kearney often. His looks be-
b, spoke the man. Poor Fletcher Webster.
10 It is but short time since | saw him march
tf through here at the head Of his regiment
in perfect health, thinking well. His broth
Z er Daniel died in Mexico, in the army.
il Both were sons of the great statesman.
D. Many l saw march through here on that
u day, buoyant in life, are now cold in death.
u ! Liberty is a costly thing, and should be
!; dearly priced indeed. Shall human blood
: always be necessary to preserve, to perpet-
uate its life. Let us hope not With the
!, millenial days we shall have liberty with
luI % out hecatombs of human victories. Under
: the old law, without sacrifice there was no
remission-the shedding of blood was de-
- clared necessity When the gospel asserts
D, its empire let US fondly trust the shedding
20 of blood, or the necessity for it, will have
Al passed away forever.
an Last night the Rev Mr.. Hopkins, one
of our chaplains, with true zeal, went down
with train of ambulances to Manassas, to
III CLEAN the field of battle Hundreds are
St still Observation-Disclosures actu-
b, ally starved to death in their bloody gar
ments 90, tempora p as the book has it
an in the response, Good Lord deliver us On
no Friday night, and oh, such night, for such
a scene-the silver moon shone out in re-
{ splendent beauty, as if to behold the man,
gled forms of men. On Friday night |
witnessed the arrival in wagons of FIVE
hundred more victims of the famous Man
assas. AS the wagons went rumbling over
Al Il, flo;r
truly distressing. Every motion of the
wagons opened up their gaping wounds
and created intense misery. One poor fell
low had both his feet shot of, and one arm;
he was a cannonier; he groaned bitterly.
As a general thing all the soldiers lear
their sutferings with heroic endurance, new
er murmuring, never complaining; so
much so, it has become commonplace re-
mark One man Of the n. Y. 5th, Zou-
ave, died last night from lock jaw. The
ball cut off the tendo achillis, Cor the tendon
Fl of the heeD and lodged in the metalarsal
bones, anterior to the external malicious,
- from whence it was cut. He was wounded
= one Saturday and died the next Saturday
6 night. Symptoms came on with pain in
Y the back, back part OF the head, and stiff
ness of the jaws Remedies all failed,
~ though chloroform soothed his dying hours
Y He will be committed to his mother earth
at p m, with general escort, in the
i soldiers grave yard, which may be called
the house or place of death.
The 49th Pa, Col Irwin, marched
ri through and out of town yesterday, but
:. whittier | know not. A skeleton of reg
iment, the 107th, are encampod near Falls
90 Church; this regiment lost number Of
etc men at Manassas Under the command of
= their gallant Col. (McCoy) they were in
the front line on the extreme right. Col.
i Mccoy who has quarters at the house of
sSq' Mrs. Remington, in this city, is recover
'e ing. He is under the charge of Surgeon
Worrall, and will be able to join his regt.
in week. He speaks of his men in the
y highest terms
This morning the ambulances are again
moving down for more wounded The
government is doing its utmost to relieve
the sufferers, but alas, with all its power
and philanthropy can do, there will be q
/ world of suffering still. Sympathy is well
is noble-but sympathy in its god-like
lspirit cannot remove the agonizing wound
les, or cement the fragments of the shattered
j bone. | beheld from the hospital root
clouds of dust afar of, created by moving
columns
81 see them their winding way"
a There is considerable excitement this
Go, morning. Report has it forty thousand
Ha rebels have crossed the Potomac into Mary
kin land. Will they ever return?
Tho hnll ic tollino for nhurob o1uaro r.