The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1863-07-16

quarters, about one mile southwest of
town. Camp Juniata" is very pleasant
location, with the single exception that,
being cleared ground, the rays of the sun
are enabled to beat upon our devoted heads
with fury against which our shelter
tents are but inadequate protection: There
are two other camps beside ours in this
immediate locality, known respectively as
Camps "Warrior" and jackson"
We will most likely be organized into a
regiment in the course of day or two, to
be composed of Huntingdon, Blair and
Cambria men.
Our company celebrated the "glorious
4th" in gay old style After the firing of
a salute, and the reading of the Declara-
tion of Independence, Mr.. VIM. T. Davis,
our worthy Chaplain and Surgeon, was
called upon, and delivered q thrilling ad-
dress, brimful os patriotism and love of
country. He was rapturously applauded
throughout. This at point five miles
south of Pattonsville.
The Bedford Gazette, of late date, in an
article denunciatory OF the doings anc
misdoings of the militia, makes honorable
mention of our company, by saying, in
effect, thatdhroughout the campaign in
that locality, we acted like gentlemen and
scholars. Which NOBODY can deny. Com
ing from the source it does,-a rabid
copperhea6 journal would it be improper
to consider the acknowledgment in the
light of a compliment?
En- PEASANT, your correspondent must
not forget to return thanks to Mr.. Joseph
Durburrow, of the Bedford Inquirer, for
many favors extended to US during our
sojourn in his neighborhood May he
live two hundred and fifty years!
Has your old friend, the Dean. d. Sent,
as yet arrived at a knowledge of the fact
that the Rebel army, under Lee, has act
ually invaded Pennsylvania !? And has
he heard of the battle of Gettysburg? a
couple of weeks since, your correspondent
noticed that that deleotabie journal treat
ed the s'irvasion" as creation of the i'm
agination-as hunbug-"a big scare'-
thereby affording the enemy all the aid
and comfort within its power, by deterring
men from rushing to the rescue to roll
back the advancing tide of treason. With
in ten days thereafter, the bloodiest battle
OF the war was fought-and on Pennsylva-
MIA soil, too! A big scare, forsooth =
heaven preserve our loyal old keystone
from other scares like unto it, Had
Meade and his gallant army been defeated,
instead Of overwhelmingly victorious, in
the late battle, we should have seen
whether it would have proved a scare or a
terrible reality. Our proud old Common
wealth PROSTATE. at the foot of rapacious
and insolent foe, her people subjected to
taunts and insults, and her wealth and
substance squandered, would have fully
attested the truth Of the latter proposition.
Your correspondent may remark, in
conclusion, that our presence on the tented
field in the present crisis is only one OF
the fruits Of Copperheadism. Had all
men in the North sustained the war for
the Union, as they should have done
sunk the partizan in the patriot-thore
certainly would have been no "emergency.
The Rebels never would have advanced
north of Mason and Dixon's line had they
not been led to suppose that they would
find friends in our midst. So they did
but their friends proved to be poltroons
for they failed to fight for either one side
or the other.
Yours, etc, GAY.