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The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-26
THE RECENT VICTORIES PAR. or
GEN. McCLELLAN,S PLANS.

ere new influences were brought tc
bear on the campaign, and the names
OF new candidates for public favor
misused by the partisan press nearly
three months ago Gen. Mcclellan un.
folded to Mr.. Lincoln his plans (Mc.
''Clellan's-let no one seize his laurels!,
OF the gigantic concerted movement
which is now smothering the enemy to
death. The President gave it pro.
found attention, and with admiration
equally profound, indorsed its length
and breadth. Both Mr.. Lincoln and
the Cabinet, with the popular impa.
tience and the danger Of foreign inter
vention pressing upon them, then wish.
ed to know the limit of delay prior to
the commencement of the real cam
paign. Gen. Mcclellan, putting him
self into close communication with
Halleck, Buell., Butler Wool, Sherman
Burnside and others, found that an at
tack from every quarter could be made
ION or before the 22nd OF February.'' -
All promised, himself including, to get
ready for their several allottments of
the programme on or before this date.
You know what has been done. The
whole country rings with it. I doubt
not but that each Genenal who has
not struck his blow is quite as ready
and as able as those who have.
know that still greater news will spec
Oily reach you from the mouth of the
Mississippi River. You can also rest
assured that, # the enemy has not en-
tsreIy evacuated Manassas before an
other aoeek has closed, his retreating
troops will not only be hemmed in on
the north and east, as hitherto, but also
on the south and west, And thus the
|pIans of Nc cClellan cannot be rendered
abortive.
Who, then, can help admiring the
firmness with which the Commanding
General, during this last terrible or
dcal-the last trying fortnight--has
refused to move his column without
positive ORDERS? He has resisted, in
patient scorn ofall the contumely heap
ed upon him by the same tickle mind
ed partisans who have, within year
ruined an army, impeded the adminis-
tratlon, and are now casting all their
chances Of regaining lost popular con-
fdence upon the throw Of single
die.
l am yet a believer in McClellan's
star. He has a noble head a coun-
tenanco as honest and as loyeable as
lis lineaments are full Of concentrated
thought. All the lines of his face
converge to the space between the
eyebrows, thus giving him that far
seeing, much embracing aspect which
has ever stamped the visage ola great
commander. We thought this, and
more, as, sitting yesterday in the House
gallery, we marked the double score
of epauletted brigade and division
Generals at whose head he entered the
hall. People seemed to gaze at him
as never before. Each phase of his
features was scrutinized. And from
all his compeers, though shorter than
many by head, he would have been
chosen as the kiugliest, like SAUL ".
y World.
The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-26

. CARD-PLArISG.-.Te To dribbls away
life" says Sir Waiter Scott, s. in ex-
changing bits Of printed pasteboard
round 5 green table for the paItry con
Germ of : few shillings, can only be ex-
cused in folly Or superannuation. ],
is like riding on rocking horse, Ehers
your utmost exertion neveT1carriss you
- foot forward it is : kind Of mental
|treadmill, where you are psrpetually
climbing, bnt can never raise - inch.
The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-26

APuFF--A Big TnNG.--We copy the
following model puff for new patent
Shovel persuader," from the chatfeltl
Democrat:
PILLS. We were handed a few DAYS
ago box of "double-back.action Wild
Flower Sugar Coated Pills." with a re-
quest to notice. These pills are now a
big thing-inlroduced to the public
quite recently. From the Almanac &C
companying the box, we learn that this
great medical discovery was purely
accidental-the inventor having been
shipwrecked on the coast Of lower
California, while an infant, was washed
ashore in the basket in which he was
sleeping, and taken prisoner by she
" grissley' and by her sucked until he
was twenty-one years of age. While
with his bear mother, being a close
observer, he saw what herbs and roots
the I" "grissley's'' resorted to when they
felt uuwell and thus the Eruka was
found. After the inventor became of
age he took up his abode among the
Flat Head Indians, in which country
he discovered an immense cave, in
which he put up his labratory, and is
now engaged in compounding these
great pills, in limited quantities, FIVE
miles under ground by the light of a
diamond. The Flat Head Indians
have been using these Pills for some
time with suceess---not more than one
in ten living twenty-feur hours after
taking adose. For sale by Druggists
evarywhere----through by daylight
fare as low as by any other route"
The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-26
THE SONG OF THE CAMP.

The following exquisite poem, relating to a
well known incident, was written by Bayard
Iaylor, during the protracted siege of sebas-
topol. 1t is one Of the finest things in the
language:
The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1862-03-26
HEATH 3 NAGLE,
BLACK s. NIT as.
BUSH STREET. REp WING. MINI.

BUSH STREET, RED WING, MINI.
"AGONS, Plovs and all kinds Of farming
:" implements neatly and substantially,
repaired, Horses and Oxen shed, and al
Kinda OF blacksnishing neatly done.
niA nisvS:3n
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
NGlslSlL1N COUNTY, PA,f
v series---Vol. XVI, No. AZ

enemy heavy reinforcements having reached
him on Friday afternoon and night he began
to mass on his right for the purpose of crush
nag our left and occupying the road to Cen
treTllle In our rear His heaviest assault was
about o'clock in the afternoon, when, after
overwhelming Fitz John Porter and driving
his forces back on the centre and left, mass
after mass of his forces were pushed against
our Left. a terrific contest, with great slaugh-
ter, was carried on for several hours. our men
behaving with trmness and gallantry under
the immediate command of Gen. Mcdowell
When night closed, our left had been for.
ced back about half mile, but still remained
firm and mistaken while our right held its
ground.
Gen. Franklin with his corps, arrived after
dark at Centrepille. six miles in our rear,
whilst Sumner was four miles behind Frank
In. could have brought up these corps in
the morning in time to have renewed the
action, but starvation stared both men and
horses in the face, and broken aud exhausted
as they were, they were in no condition 10
bear hunger also. / accordingly retired TO
Centrevllle that night in perfect order
Neither on Sunday nor on Monday did the
enemy make any advance upon US. On Mon.
day sent to the army corps commanders for
their effective strength, which, all told, inclu,
ding Sumner and Franklin. fell short Of sixty
thousand men. Instead of bringing up thir-
ty thousand men, Franklin and Summer uni
ted tell short of twenty thousand, and these,
added to the force had, already wearied out
and much cut up. did not give me the means
to do anything else than stand on the defense.
The rebel attempt against Cincinnati has
met with signal failure. The papers of
Saturday bring us accounts Of the retreat of
the enemy, rapidly and in confusion.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
Our Danger.

The recent events on our border show
.hat Pennsylvania must rely on her own
resources for defence. Had the rebels in
tended raid into this State, or exhib tied
half the audacity they did in Maryland,
no man who has any knowlc lyc of the
country along the line, can doubt that both
the Pennsylvania and North Central rail
roads could have been seriously injured
Where these points are it is unnecessary
to state, but the fact that rebel cavalry were
within four hours gallop of the North Cen
;ra, aud within days ride of an impor-
tant point on the Pennsylvania, with no
troops tchateUcr at one and but few scat
tered guards at the other, ought to impress
upon our rulers that the Potomac ought
never to be suffered to be crossed by the
rebels, and if the military genius's at Wash
!nSton cannot prevent it, let Pennsylvania
and the loyal men of Maryland do It. Our
own State we verify believe can easily fur
Alsh 10000 patriotic men who will in turn
take three months tour of duty in that
region.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
Died.

At Locke's Mills. on the 9th September. @
dyptheria, SARAH NJ. N, infant daughter
of Samuel and Rebecca lille, aged | year,
months and IL days.
In this place, on the 7th inst, ELLEN
BRATTON MARSD0N, daughterof William
and Martha Bratton, aged years and mos
At Reedsvlle, en- the 4th inst, of scarle
fever, LkTlTlA, youngest daughter Of Mr
Shirk, aged about 2 years.
Far tie Ga,.stts
The session Of the Presbyterian church in
Lewstown, MifHin county, Pa, feeling and
deploring the loss of their fellow member
Samuel Barr. Esq died on the 8th September
instant in the sixty eighth year of hi age,
desiring to show their respect for his memory,
as worthy man and christian, place upon
,heiT minutes and publish the following rea
tive to his life and character.
lie was native of Miffiin county above
mentioned, had the advantage of early chris.
ti1n education, became q teacher Of youth in
early manhood, and plember of the Presby
terian church about the same time. lie
taught in the west end Of Kishacoquiilas Val,
ley when the late Doctor Woods ministered to
the congregation in Waynesburg, aud fre
quently walked with and without members oI
his young family some seven III lies to heaa
the preached word, having to cross Jack (
mountain twice daily in thus attending
His business as teacher of youth caused him
to remove to several places in the valley men
toned, and thence into Decatur township
same county, where be taught, was commits
stoned justice of the peace, and elected
county commissioner. No matter what hi
other occupations were, he kept the sortice
his Saviour steadily in view. Being in /!
neghborhood almost destitute of preaching
and too tar away from the church of Littl.
Valley, of which he was a member and ha,
become an elder, be Interested himself and
was mainly instrumental in inducing hi
eighbors-thOugh few Of them at the tim
were members Of the ohurch--to Join him
erecting a house for worship at BelltowI
where they have since had worship statedle
He afterwards moved to Lewistown. was re
ceived as a member and elder in the churc f
and so conducted himself as to command til
respect of all who made his acquaintance
About two years ago he was elected Registe-
Recorder, and Clerk of the Orphans Court
the county for three years, which offices ls
held at his death.
No man in the church or out of it live
more correctly as a man and christian in a.
the relations of life, and few In the church
any came higher to the injunction ''Do iu,.
tice, love. mercy, and walk hum bly, with tia
God." He raised a numerous family of sol1c
and daughters, and lived long enough to 81
and know that they were all members of I'll
church-his son. the Rev. John c. Barr. ist
minister in Bureau county, Illinois. Fros
the time his youngest son, now in the arm.
Joined the church, he rejoiced that he h.
lived to see the day, and that his eyes in this
mercy had thus seen more of the salvation of
sinners. He lived in constant submission to
the will of Him who is the resurrection and
the life, and died welcoming death as kind
messenger, in the confidence of joyful res,
direction at the last day.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17

ITThe Delegates to the l'eo-
PIES Union County Convention
will re-assefnble in the Town
Hall, Lewistown, On Saturday,
2OIh September, at one O'Clock
P, H., for the purpose of nomina-
ling candidate for Register and
Recorder.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17

hs2-Although we are within few days
march where rebel hordes are endeavoring
70 overthrow our liberties and despoil our
property, the Office hunting hacks of party
continue their foul trade. To-day, when it
would be far better for all capable of
bearing arms to be acquiring skill to defend
Their homes than to listen to political har-
ahgues, a democratic mass meeting is to
assemble in Lewistown We shall see
What kind of "mass" it will be, and we
snail see too who at this time attends such
gatherings.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17

Stranger in T6,on.-We have been gratifed
by call from Frederick Aver, Esq, the bu-
sineas man Of the firm of j. G. Aver & Co.,
Lowell. A short acquaintance with the gen
tleman convinces us that not the Doctors skill
in compounding his medicines is alone con-
cerned in the consumption of them; but
that it takes business talent of no ordinary
measure to pass them around the world. Mr.
Aver, man.festly, has these abilities and the
success of his house shows that he uses them.
Memphis Whig, Tenn.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
Married.

On the I'd inst. at Mount Union. by Rev.
j. L. Holmes, SAMUEL 5. STRONG to Miss
LEAH STRUNK, both of this county.
On the llth inst. at the residence of the
brides father, JOSEPH BRENNAN to Miss
MARY SETTLE, both of this county.
On the 10Th nit, by Rev. Buhrman, CuAS
l.. WABEAM, of this place, to Miss ELIZA
9. KERLlN, Of Milford township, Juniata
county.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17

@A-We are compelled this week to issue
a half sheet, having now but one hand left
In the Office, or fail in furnishing paper
"day. Our readers however willfnd as
much news as usual.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
Support the Government.


Tor office, and we would therefore simnlv
impress upon the minds Of voters that hy
lar the safest course for all patriotic men
to pursue is to put those in Office who give
the most hearty and most uneuuivocal sun
port to the National and State Adninistra-
tons. As remarked by Messrs. Dickinson
and Hcnry-the former democrat of un.
questioned integrity aud the latter sound
Union man-WE MUST SUPPORT TIE GOV
ERNMSNr, or Ne may look for still greater
troubles than have already afflicted our
country, To suppose that men, however
honest IN purpose, who affiliate and act
with the Fallandigham class of dema.
goSues, will giys as hearty support to
President Lincoln and the war as those who
have stood by him without cquivocation in
the terrible ordeals he has passed through
since Buchanan and his traitorous crew alb
dlcated the government, is to surpose a
moral improbability, for these men, with
here and there honorable exceptions, trW
act as party men, aud under pretonce of
"the constitution as it IN and the Union as
it was, the stale and infamous cry Of ..ab
olltiOn,' or some other oatchwords so indus
triously taught then for years by the now
rebel leaders, may do incalcQlsble injury.
Our readers will bear Us witness that We
have more than once predicted that if the
Buchanan demaf ogues persisted in their
mad schemes of patty, that Pennsylvania
would yet become the battle ground of con
tending armies, and how near this came to
be realized the history Of the past few
weeks will tell Their act3 and conversa.
ton have afforded induJitaJ!e evidence
that their sympathies and feelings have been
with the rebel leaders-that they we're will
ling to restore them to power for the sake
of party-and that if they are apparently
more patriotic than formerly, it is because
the loyalty Of the masses Of the democrat
ic party has driven them into such posi-
ton.
TO entrust these men, and those whom
they Sc sedulousIy support as party caa}t,
dates on the ground that p4rty must Le
kept up, is at best an experiment and put
ting in jeopardy our existence as a n4tion
Let any well meaning citizen ask himself
the question what the effect would be in
Europe if the news shoull forth that
Pennsylvania hal, by majority Of voters,
given expression against the war measures
Of our patriotic President by clecting u,a-
jority to the State Legislature aad to Con-
gress of party men who had openly
opposed his administration Would not
France and England think it time to rec
ognize the Southern Confederacy, and would
not recognition mean armed intervention
Would not rebeldo4 ring with shouts
that Abraham Lincoln, the man whom they
most hated, together with his efforts to pre-
serve our nationality, had been condemned
by the great State Of Pennsylvania? Most
assuredly such would be the effect, and we
say to him who has been and still is stir
ring up party strife, let him beware of the
hour when that consummation approaches,
for in our opinion, and it is ne not lightly
formed, IL tcW be the deati kneU Of this na-
ton and Of this government
R@%The Democrat has sundrY slurs at
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
IRWIN WALLIS
ScreW-top, Alright Fruit Can.
PATENT PENDING.

'ENHIS Can, after being thoroughly tested,
- Is now conceded by ali who have used ii
to be the best Can in market. 1t has proved
itself perfectly Air tight in every instance,
and the Gum being en- the outside is there
fore free from q great objection. This wear
have not only remodled the top, which is
now much neater, but it is so Constructed
that you can apply wrench that give with
the Cans to screw and unscrew, which can
be done with esse. Also, other Sealing Cans
and Glass Jars. Sold Low for cash. only at
THE BIG COFFEE POT sign.
Lewistown, August 6, 1862.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17


gallantry at Chepultepcc he was breyeted
captain, September 13, 1877.
1 After the close of the war he was, for
six months, Assistant Professor of Mathe.
MATES at West Point, and for 1S months
afterwards Secretary to the Artillery Board,
during which he was engaged IN testing
heavy ordnance and compiling tactics for
heavy artillery. Various employments
succeeded, in ali which he brought to bear
Judgment, good scientific attainments and
industry. He was for time on the Cost
Survey, and then on typographical duty in
the West; for year engaged in building
military road from Big Sioux river to St.
Paul, Minnesota. From 1854 to 1857 he
was stationed at Frankfort Arsenal, near
Philadelphia He was afterwards Chief
Ordnance Officer to General Johnston in the
Utah Expedition, and remained there till
1883, when he was detached ard sent to the
Mount Vernon Arsenal, Alabama. He
was afterwards stationed at Leavenworth,
Kansas, where he was when the rebellion
broke out
lie was one of the officers selected by
General Burnside himself to accompany
him in his expedition, and approved by his
unvarying gallantry and conduct the choice
OF his superior General He was appointed
Brigadier General Of Volunteers Noyem-
Der 12th, Of last year, distinguished him.
self at Roanoke and Newbern, and was con-
sidered one of the bravest and most prom
Using officers in the service. When Burn
sides army was brought up from North
carolina, Reno was put in command of
division, and in the battles before Wash
lngton so distinguished himself that his
name is among the foremost of those hon.
orabiy mentioned in reports. He sought
the advance again in the march on the re-
bells in Maryland, and, alas! we now have
to mourn his loss
A younger man than Kearney, he babe
talr to become as splendid soldier as that
iamcnted General; and in his death the
army and the country lost one whom We
could not we'll spare.
General Reno's father and mother and
two sisters reside in Iowa City. One bro
ther lives in Chicago, another in Maren-
go Ill, while third brother, Frank, was
upon his staff.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17

ind So Forth.-There is a young man
in the army, who was born July 4 at 4
o'clock p. m, at No. Al, in street In Boston,
1874, 4th child, has A names, enlisted
into the Newton company which has joined
the 4th battalion, 44th regiment, 4th COM
pany, and on the 4th of September was app-
pointed 4th corporal, and is now going forth
to defend his country.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-09-17
GEN. MANSFIELD.


The death of General Mansfield. which
the telegraph records as one of the sad re-
suits Of the battle of Porterstown, will prove
national loss, and excite national feeling
/ ofregret. Joseph K. Fenno Mansfield was
native of Connecticut, anc was about fifty-
eight years of age. He was appointed to
West Point Academy from that State, in
October, 1917, and passed through the re-
gular course of studies in that institution
He entered the service of the Govern
ment on the lst of July, 1922, as a second
lieutenant of engineers, and afterwards
rose to a higher position, as his merits be.
came appreciated In March, 1882, he
was made first lieutenant and in July.
1882, became captain. During the Mexi-
can war Gin 1860 he rose to the position
of chief engineer of the army under Cen
eral Taylor. He was brevetted major for
gallant and distinguished services in the
defence OF Fort Brown, May 8, 1916. In
the storming Of Monterey he received no
less than seUen aooHnas, several of which
we're most severe; and for gallant and mer,
ltorlous conduct in those conflicts he was
honored with the rank oflieutenant colonel.
His gallantry at Buena Vista won hin,
his colonelcy
In the war for the Union his services,
however, have been equally conspicuous, and
they are still SO fresh in the public memory
that it is needless to recount them here.
On the l4th cf May, 1861, he was COM
missioned brigadier general in the regu-
lar army, in recognition of his distinguish
ed worth, and his subsequent career down
to the day when he sacrificed his life to his
Zeal for the cause, is noble testimony that
the trust reposed in him by the Govern
ment was not misplaced The death of
General Mansfield is a serious loss, not to
his immediate command alone, but to the
war bureau, and to the whole country.