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Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Confederate Manipulation.

Intermittent war, bilious financicring,
typhoid huxterlng, peace armed to the teeth,
rash attempts at intervention and a system
of general armament OH a war footing has
been the policy Of jeff. Davis government
from its earliest inception at Montgomery
to its more advanced period of desperation
at Richmond But progress has been the
watch word with the Confederacy all the
time, and we have observed its movements
critically Their liabilities have doubled
every SIX months, their taxes waxing heav-
Ter every half year, coming bankruptcies,
private and public, the total extinction OF
the freedom of debate, of thought, of the
liberty of holding public meetings, of the
liberty of the press, and of conscience, in
the worship of God, are some of the bless
jngs which have marked the progress of this
rebellion in the South. Candidates for Con-
gress and the Legislature, wholly unaccep-
table to the people, have been forced upon
them at the point Of the bayonet. The
freedom of speech, the right Of suffrage,
and the privilege of bringing out candidates
for office, under this Southern reign Of ter
rOr, have all been turned into government
monopoly, and the people have been required
to despise liberty and worship militdryism
1t has been their pleasure to 90 further
than even this. The most worthy and hon
orabe citizens have been committed to pris-
ons upon the information by an irrespon-
sible, low-fung Confederate spy, that they
were not true to the South Good men
have been publicly executed for their Union
sentiments Men loyal to the Federal gov
eminent have been robbed of all they had
and given so many hours in which to leave
the kingdom of jeff. Davis The secresy
of private correspondence has been violated
ever since the rebellion commenced, all pri-
waite intercourse has been interfered with,
personal liberty has been made sport of, and
the boosted liberty of America dead, as it
were, for all but few cotton-lords having
the confidence of JEFF. Davis, this is the
balance sheet of the Confederacy!
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Knoxville, Saturday, Jan. 80, 1864.
Personal.

Forty years ago we were in our 18th
year, and being an orphan boy, we were
bound out to learn the ''profeSSion" of a
house carpenter, and served out a regular
apprenticeship. If we ever had lazy bone
in our body we were not aware of it; and
we think our friends and foes alike will bear
testimony that we have been an active la
borer all our life long. We have never tied
on to any of the hateful cliques of the
aristocracy of the South, based upon the
virtuous, intellectual, and indistructable
foundation of the everlasting niger"
With these preliminary remarks we may
be allowed to speak few plain words to
the mechanics and laboring men in Knox
vile. Work is wanting, and daily called
for, of every descripti0n-high prices are
freely given in "greenbacks," but no one
seems willing to work lick. The mechan-
les and day-laborers stand on the sidewalks
of the streets and enquire Of every man
passing-"what is the news ?" Some tell
long-winded tales about their losses by the
rebellion, who never had anything to lose.
The truth is, these men expect the Federal
authorities to set them up in business, or to
support them in idleness They will find
themselves most agregiously mistaken, if
we understand the purposes of the Federal
Government
For those who have suffered, for the poor
and destitute and for the sick and needy,
who try to help themselves, we stand ready
at all times to lend helping hand, and will
go as far as any man to urge the claims Of
such before the authorities
Many are leaving for Kentucky, Illinois,
and Indiana, and for Ohio. We have been
through those States, and have infinitely
watched the movements Of the people
They are an industrious people, and work
for their living. The man, therefore, who
goes North and stand upon the streets with
his hands in his brooches pockets, enquiring
after the news, will find himself as greatly
mistaken in his calculations as the lazy
Southern negro who goes there expecting
to be furnished with small farm and one
years supplies!
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30

health OF the whole army, and many beds
are being vacated in the hospitals daily.
A large number of the Veterans from the
army in and around Knoxville are here
waiting for transportation.
Fourteen rebel women and half dozen
rebel surgeons were sent South under flag
of truce on Friday morning last
Generals Grant, Buttertield and Cook ar
rived here few days ago.
The bridge-builders are engaged in build
ing bridge across the Tennessee at this
point.
A new steamer and new terrv-boat are
upon the stocks here, and it is said that they
will be in running order in six weeks.
The Central Hause is running rs a hotel.
but can assure you that it is queer place
for the accommodation OF either nan or
beast
The Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
Is in prime running order and the mails
arrive here daily. Yours truly,
Fast TENNE>SEEAS.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Negroes Working on the FortifcatiOns

The Lynchburg Republican STATES that the call ofthe
Secretary Of War for f,rtv-fvc hundred negroes. to
work on the f,rtacations about Richmond, is being
promptly responded to, and the slaves forwarded To-
the scene Of their lahor-. The Southside carry
down a number daily, and the quota called for has
nearly been flled.-Greaada ARpeai,
The foregoing specimen of rebel Boosting
is from the Grenada Miss Appeal for 1862,
and contrasts admirably with the grief of
those whose modesty is shocked because the
Federal Government proposes to make use
of the negroes Of rebels to put down the re
bollion. The concern Of these tcndcr-footcd
patriots is, and has been all the time for the
bleeding constitution of our country. 1t is
constitutional to use negroes to dig bitches
throw up entertainments drive wagons, take
care of horses. cook and wash. and even
man cannon, in uphoIding the rebellion, and
for the purpose Of numbering loyal men,
but it is savage AMI barbarous for the Fed
craI authorities to use the SJme mems to
prevent these outragcs. The negroes of
these Southern lovers Of refined civilization
used to guard and insult Us and our Union
comrades in the Knoxville jail. and from
that day to this, it has appeared to Us to be
constitutional to Use slaves to weaken the re-
beIlion, and to embarra,s the rebel army.
Gen. TILI.soS, an able officer, Is here as
chief of artillery, and in charge Of the torti-
fications of Knoxville, Loudon and Kings
ton. We hope he Will gather up the hun
dreds of rebel slaves in the country and use
them against the rebellion and its corrupt
and guilty authors. The niger, the ever
lasting niger, is all they talk about, all they
claim to be fighting about, and We now pro-.
pose to give them their I'LL OF the niggcr>
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30

bers of the Methodist Church, not to say
any thing more against, or,&busive of the
Methodist Church, South, as there were
many good men in it. We replied, that we
had but commenced upon the corrupt or
ganization, and that we intended no affilia-
ton with it, OF its corrupt leadeTs-its lying,
drinking tory preachers, or those
who were in sympathy with them. And
that we represent the sentiments and pur-
poses of all real, out-and-out Union mon,
in the South, and especially in the border
States, we have no doubt.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
A Filthy Town.

We doubt most seriously if there is a
more superlatively filthy town than this
now is in all the exhausted territory, cor
rupt range, debauched and filthy dominions
of jeff Davis. Filthy easements, filthy up
per stories, filthy streets, dead mules, horses,
hogs and dogs, meets the eye at every point.
Filthy clothes, and filthy sleeping apart
ments, are the order of the day. The IN
sides of beeves and hogs are strewed all
over the town, and spoiled meat and bones
are thrown out without any regard to where
they fall. The Small Por is all over the
place, and is daily on the increase. And to
all these evils may be added still! more ac-
cursed stencil and horrible pestilence, arts
ing from the presence conversation, corrup-
tions and influence of as vile pack Of male
and female rebels as ever followed in the
Infamous footsteps of Aaron Burr, Benedict
Arnold, JEFF. Davis, or any other hell-born
and hell-bound traitors
The approach Of warm weather will slay
us all, in this state Of affairs, at more
fearful rate than would grape and canister
from rebel guns. But we can do nothing
but sound the alarm. The remedy is with
the civil and military authorities Will
they apply it?
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Indian MaSSacreS of 1862.
Editor of the Knorrille Wig

The Indian massacreS of 1852, in Dakota
and Minnesota, were the ideas and otf-shoots
of the Southern Rebellion. And if there had
been no Southern war, there would have
been no such massacres. The whole batch
of Indian Agents among the Western tribes
at the time the rebellion was commenced,
were Breckenridge Democrats, and they taught
the half breeds and influential characters to
hate the Federal authorities, and to look to
the South for friends.
We expected the Indians to pitch in all
round our Western frontiers, for the rebels
in the South boasted before the war began,
that when the worst came to the worst, they
would turn the Indian tribes loose upon the
Yankees and aboltiOnists The rebellion
itself is crime so out and out against ma
ture that it could only be the act of the most
corrupt and despicable men on earth. It's
fruits in the South, such as hanging, shoot
ing down, whipping to death, and imprisOn-
ment show this. Hence we insist that men
who could initiate and carry on this mon
strous, wicked and causeless rebellion, would
avail themselves of any means, and Of the
most atrocious barbarities to carry it out
After initiating the rebellion after their
abandonment of religion, the defiance of all
law, and their utter contempt for all obliga-
tions of honor, and the plainest dictates of
humanity, nothing they could do, and no
means they could resort to, would surprise
US. Repulsive and horrible as the idea may
be to civilized christians, they must, never
theless. entertain it-that is to say, the So
called Confederates and their agents We're
directly responsible for the murder of wo-
men and children in Minnesota in 1862.
In Arkansas they employed Indians in
the field against the United States troops,
and only dispensed with their services when
the drunken savagcs began to murder and
scalp their own soldiers. The experiment
was costing too much In East Tennessee
they had a murderous gang Of Cherokees
from Western Carolina, who are terror to
all Union men. One of these bloody sava-
ges spent day and night with loaded
musket on his shoulder seeking to find us
in KnOxvillc--frst he would march around
our printing office, and then around our
dwelling. We were cautioned against him.
because of threats he had uttered and en-
quiries he had made for us And strange
to say, the villainous SecessiOnists who
prompted all this and more arc shocked at
the idea of Yankees seeking to excite ne
groes against them These North Carolina
Indians were run out of East Tennessee last
week by our cavalry, under command of
Co.'s. PALMER and BRowNLow. They are
the scoundrels who brought Union scaIps
into Greenevillc. Fit associates for South
ern rebels.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30

not expose him because he is absent, but /
publish the facts in his case that / may still
further disgrace him in the eyes of even his
brother traitors
aa Not content with putting up my posters
and with taking the hide off of the villain,
i'll the hearing of three large congregations,
among whom were his brethren of the legal
profession, Iwrote out the speech, published
it, and circulated it throughout East Ten
nessoe. l therefore leave the reader to de-
termine who retired to corner, like the
venomous insect, and wove his web at his
leisure" He even hid behind a degraded
editor, and drunken beast, j. 4. Sperry
who had been whipped in Pennsylvania for
stealing gold watch Representative,
these, of the Confederacyl
W. G.. BROwNLOw,
Editor of the KaorviLLe Wig
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Butler and Exchanges.

In reference TO the exchange ofpri,oners
the Richmond Enquirer Of the 10Th says
Butler is an outcast, and can never be
recognized as entitled "a the privileges ac-
corded foe taken n lawful warfare Yet
it may become a question whether Our Gov
eminent should not consult the feelings OF
the Confederate, soldiers now lingering IN
Northern dungeons, and take the earliest
practicable opportunity Of releasing them
Treating with Butler should not release
the pitiful wretch from the ban OF outlawry
pronour ced against him Wewii still hang
him when we catch him; but catching i
before hanging. He could, however, be
executed, and doubtless viii, by the Confed-
crate officer into whose hands be may chance
TO fall.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
Military Review.

By invitation of Gen. HASKELL we at
tended the dress parade, or review, of the
I04th Ohio Col. Riley on Monday, near
College Hill. The weather was fine, the
music was better, and the presence of the
ladies 'lent enchantment to the view" The
officers and privates were well dressed, and
showed by their performances that they
were a regiment of well drilled veterans.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
INVINCIBIE BANNER.

Invincible Banneri the flag of the Freel
OF nere reads the foot that would fater for thee
Or the hands to be folded till triumph is won,
And the eagle looks proud, as of old, to the sum-
eive'tears for the parting-a murmur of prayer
Then Forward the fame of our standard to shared
With welcome to wounding, and combat and scars,
And the glory of deathor the Stripes and the Stars
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
A NEW PAPER.

Tennessee will soon have another new
Union paper, as Mr.. Hood, our postmaster,
intends to revive the Gazette, a paper
which he edited in this town at the COM
mencement of the rebellion. He and his
paper, may be You will recollect, was soon
..suuelched" when the JEFF. Davis machine
got well to running Mr. Hood is now
North buying his type and press, and will
issue his first number on or about the 10Th
proXimo.
ITEMS IN BRIEF.
There are signs Of an improvement in the
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30
THE RELEASE OF DOCTOR HUNT.

Surgeon Hunt, of the 9th QoyaD Tennes
see regiment, has been released from
prison, and returned here a few days ago.
Maybe, however, you are not aware that
he was captured. But he was, at his home
at Cleveland, whittier he had been permitted
to 90 by General Thomas, for the purpose
of removing his family. He. and several
other Union gentlemen, left for Nashville
yesterday The doctor wore into the rebel
lines his surgeon coat, with his insignia Of
rank. and this, no doubt preserved his life.
Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-30

There are signs Of an improvement in the
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-08-04

tics of the gentleman. Our only object
is to impress upon the minds of our County
Commissioners (who are all Democrats)
that this proposed recruitment Of our
armies in the seeded States is matter
of vital Importance to us. Who will say
otherwise when it is known that for every
volunteer obtained from that section, even
though he be a "buck niger" one of onr
own citizens is exempted from military
service? And in order to render it as
effective as possible, it becomes their
bounden duty to recommend for appoint
ment as recruiting agent for such service
a man who is thoroughly imbued with the
idea that the Union must be preserved
that the rebellion must be put down-that
peace must be arrived at only through the
utter and irremediable discontinue of the
traitors who commenced the fight. Such
a man would prove of avail as recruiting
agent-a Copperhea1 could not and would
not.
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-08-04
Wanted: Some other Man.

The Harrisburg Patriot DC Union is the
central Copperhead organ of Pennsylva-
MIA. If it is noted for anything, it is for
its fierce and determined opposition to the
Administration and the war. When it
speaks of Mr.. Lincoln and his Cabinet,
which is not seldom, it is to call them
tools and knaves; and it invariably desig-
mates the war as an inexcusable crusade
against slavery. In fact, such is the gen.
eral unenviable reputation of the Patriot
d; Union in matters pertaining to the
current politics of the country, that it has
been dubbed the "7ory Organ," by which
title it is hailed Car and wide One of
the editors thereof is Capt. j. K. Hite, of
Johnstown, this county.
It is understood that our County Com
missioners have returned the name of this
Editor j. K. Hite to the Governor for
confirmation as the agent for Cambria
county to recruit in the seeded States
We know Mr.. Hite to be a good man
personally and socially, but we submit
with his political antecedents that it would
be positively injurious to the interests of
the county to appoint him to the position
designated. Holding the views he does
with relation to the war, how is it possi-
BILE for him to acceptably serve his con-
stituents as recruiting agent? Is it to be
expected that he would try even to deserve
success in obtaining volunteers or substi-
tutes to fill our quota? To serve at one
ard the same time God and Mammon is
an impossibility:-it were equally impos-
sible for Capt. Hite, or any other man, to
prove an available recruiting agent so Iong
as he allows himself to remain an oppo-
nent of the Cdr.
We have no fear that Capt. Hite will
accept the nomination. He couldn't do
so consistently. Neither do we write
this in dispraise, particularly, of the poll
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-08-04
Volunteer Regiments for One
Wear.

The War Department has granted the
State Government of Pennsylvania author
ity to raise new regiments for one year,
the men thus recruited to 90 to the ac-
count of tn, quotas on the draft for five
hundred thousand troops, according as
they are accredited to each locality by
themselves. The number of regiments
thus authorized to be raised, we believe,
is not limited.
The importance of the authority grant
cd the State government caonot be lightly
estimated. 1t viii enable many districts
to fill their quotas. with one year men, that
otherwise would have been unable to do
so. And the volunteers, unlike drafted
men, instead of being scattered through
skeleton companies and regiments, will
constitute new organizations, officered by
men with whom they are familiar, and
ii, whom they have confidence The in
ducements, under this system, to volun-
teer, cannot fail to ELL up the quotas of
large majority of all the districts in the
State, SO that by a proper display of ener-
gy, the draft may be dispensed with in
such localities.
As soon as the necessary instructions
are received from the War Department,
the Governor will issue his proclamation
and it is presumed that the same resu-
lations fixing heretofore the quotas upon
which commissions were issued, will gov
ern and apply to the pew organizations
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-08-04
A n ORDINANCE

N 1t is hereby ordained and enae'IC " Coun1
the authority of the Burgess and low reg
Gil of the Borough of Ebensburg, Una. lso limits
ular Market be established within ta Ln' 'uarkej
of the said borough, to be held al vi .hs marI
House, in the said Borough; tha' Usaturdav -
ket days shall be on Tuesdays ana 90 o%,a a.
of each week, the market to be op'M thsI
no 9 marhetns d Vsha hall IL be exposed to sale ;o
bartered. or luekstered within the B B0I0ps or j
on Mondays and Fridays OF each week. 0f ID
said market days before 10 o,clOGS,d Ga1,dinsnc| n
and that all persons violating thiS oiS the BCrI
shall be liable to forfeit and pay TO ,or ~ mOr|
orgh fine of not less than one me- nv of th|
than Ten Dollars, ut the discre'ioSs o1seS1
Burgess CPassed 5th September,
A true extract from the minutes, -,ess.
a; orstsrp a. Dn (jysS,ss
The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-08-04

EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE.
Gov. Curtin has just issued the follow
ing proclamation, convening the State
Legislature on Tuesday, 9th inst. - !.
Whereas, An extraordinary occasion
requires that prompt legislative action be
had, to make the military power of the
Commonwealth Immediately available for
State and National defence,
Therefore /, Andrew G. Curtin, Gov
ernor of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl.
vania, by virtue of the powers vested in
me by the Constitution, do hereby con-
vene the General Assembly of this Com
monwealth, and require the members of
the Senate and House of Representatives
to meet in their respective houses, in the
capitol, at Harrisburg, on Tuesday,, the
Ninth day of august, 1864, at twelve o.
clock, noon, of that day, then and there to
deliberate upon, anG adopt such measures
as may, in their wisdom, be demanded by
the exigencies of the occasion.
"A. G. CURTIN.
HARRISBURG, August /, 1864.