Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-07-30


to be given to the campaign. and be followed
by important movements
! The Official accounts received at Washing
ton place our losses during the seven days
battle" before Richmond at about sixteen
thousand in killed, wounded and missing.
| Dispatches from Boston state that the en-
listing excitement is on the increase in that
/ city. From present appearances Massachu-
sets will soon have her old regiments filed
up, aud the new ones called for organized and
in the field
Gen. Cass spoke briefly at meeting in
Detroit few evenings since, urging the ne
cessity of giving the Government all the aid
it desires. His health is very feeble.
The Chicago Board of Trade have appro-
priated ten thousand dollars for the estab-
hshment Of company Of mounted artillery.
to be called the Chicago Board Of Trade Ar
| tillery.
Gen. Lewis Partridge, ex United States
Marshal for Vermont was arrested few DAYS
! since on the charge of treason and was taken
to Windsor, where the United States Circuit
! Court will sit ON his case in !; week or two.
The evidence against him is said to be very
strong. This scoundrel is one of those who
has been bowling abolition, constitution"
&C.
The British steamship Tubal Cain, laden
with arms and ammunition was captured by
the gunb0at OctorOra, and has been sent to
New York for condemnation. She was run.
ing towards Charleston when captured
HsA.The enlistments of nine months men
will cease on the 10Th of August.
despatch from Fortress Monroe says:
On Friday evening the rebels crossed over
the river little above Harrison's Landing,
and took q captain off schooner and burned
the schooner, and then went and drove away
five hundred cattle belonging to the army Of
the Potomac, and these cattle were said to
have been ut least a mile within our picket
lines. Owing to this loss, no beef could be
obtained at Harrison's Landing for the oun-
ded on board the steamer State of Maine.
Night before last, company of rebel cav
airy came down on Gloucester Point, oppo-
site Yorktown, and seized and carried off a
lot of contrabands that had gathered at that
place, and also forced into the rebel army all
the male Inhabitants that could be found there
capable Of bearing arms. They then set fire
to lot Of ship timber, and taking with them
their trophies, took their departure.
Rebel Raid on the Tennessee River.
Cairo, July 25.-The steamer Evansville.
from the Tennessee river, brings news of
rebel raid at Florence, Alabama, on Tuesday
last. They entered the city, burned all the
warehouses used for commissary and quar-.
Sta nd al in, tbo
vicinity. They also seized the United States
steamer Colonna, used for conveying army
supplies, t ok all the money belonging to the
boats and passengers, and then burned the
vessel The property destroyed is said to
have been of great value. small detach
ment of General MitcheiPs army was captur
ed. The rebels then proceeded down the
Tennessee river to ChckaSaw, Waterloo, and
the vicinity of Eastport, and burned all the
warehouses which contained cotton. Anoth'
er band Of forty rebels attacked wagon train
near Pittsburg Landing, and captured sixty
wagons conveying commissary and quarter
masters stores.
Rebel Raid on the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad.
NASHVILLE July 27.-The Tenth Ohio reg
iment, whilst Guarding the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad between Decatur and
Courtland, attacked yesterday by
large force Of guerillas under STAINS and
Ward, and some thirty or forty of the regi /
ment are said TO have been killed The road /
was considerably damaged, but not so much |
as to cut off communication. 4 large rebel |
force is reported to be near Tuscumbia, and |
Col. Forrest is reported to be at Carthage, |
with the object, it is supposed of making |
descent on the Louisville Railroad.
Richmond Provision Prices.
from the Richmond Examiner, July I9I
THE MARKET YESTERDAY.
The following table of prices Of the meats |
vegetables &c, offered in the market yes
terday, will show what the head of fami-
ly has to pay for dinner in these times !
1t will be interesting if cut out, framed !
and hung up among the cabinet of curl
osities of the war for future reference and
for edifcation Of coming generations Beef, !
pork and mutton thirty and half
cents per pound ;shoat, fifty cents per pound;
chickens, seventy five cents to one dollar
apiece ducks, one dollar to one dollar and
a half apiece; goslings, two dollars pull
lets, one dollar and a half eggs, seventy
FIVE cents to one dollar per dozen butter,
seventy-fve cents to one dollar per pound.
Vegetables-beets, fifty cents per bunch
onions, fifty cents per quart or one shilling
apiece for the largest size) cymlins, one
dollar per dozen cucumbers, one dollar
per dozen; string beans, two dollars per
peck; cabbage, fifty and seventy-fve cents
per head; Irish potatoes six dollars per
bushel; pears, fifty cents per dozen black
berries, twenty five cents per quart; whor-
tleberries, thirty-fve cents per quart; plums,
fifty cents per quart: peaches, one dollar
per dozen. But we tire Enough.
Commenting on the above the Examiner