Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-02-17

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the Rebel army. He is extravagant in his
eulogiuns of the Rebel soldiers who have
re enlisted-in the face of a wholesale
Conscrlption act that would have forced
them back into the army-and contrasts
their action with what he terms the halt
ing and reluctant service of the merce-
narles who are purchased by the enemy,
at the price OF higher bounties than have
hitherto been known in war; He saws
that the brave battle. cry of the Southern
legions In the coming spring campaign will
ring through the land of the enemy and
will silence the vainglorious boastings of
their corrupt partizans and their pensioned
press, and will do justice to the calumuy
by which they seek to persuade deuded
people that you are ready to purchase dis.
honorable safety by degrading submis.
slon.' These are big words, the like of
which we used to hear early in the rebel
lion, when the rebel army was to march
to New York and dictate terms of peace.
Part of it is merely bnncombc, but there is
/ undoubtedly an intention on the part of the
| rebel leaders to make their final and des-
perate Struggle in the coming spring, and
1t behOoves US to be promptly and fully
! prepared to meet it,
Colonel Strelght, who with one hundred
and nine other Union officers recently es
! capped from the Libby Prison at Richmond,
h4s safely got within our lines. A despatch
from General Butler states that Colonel
Streight, with seventeen of the officers who
escaped with him, had arrived at Williams
burg, where our forces under Gen. Wistar
are encamped.
Dispatches from Vicksburg state that the
town of Jackson and Yazoo city are in the
hands of General Sherman This move
ment is understood to be In connection
with movement at Chattanooga.
The steamer Fulton, arrived at New
York, brings advices from Port Royal to
the 9th and Charleston bar to the 10th. An
expedition had gone to Florida, its object
being to capture Tallahassee, the capital of
the State. General Gilmore had left Port
Royal for Florida. The British war steam |
er Petrol had been refused permission to
communicate with the British Consul at
Charleston, by Admiral Dahlgren. The
SAVANNAH Republican gives gloomy ac-
count of rebel affairs, and states that only |
one months subsistence is in possession of |
the rebel Commissary. Admiral Dahl |
green had also gone to Florida
The rebel guerillas on the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad are proving
themselves accomplished highwaymen and
practice pocket-picking on an extensive
scale. On Thursday night the express
train going west was stopped beyond Har
per's Ferry by throwing the engine off the
track. The rebels then took possession
of the cars and robbed every passenger
on board who had anything worth taking.
Money and watches were principally look
ed after, but even smaller articles, such as
pocket knives and tooth-picks, were not
overlooked Oh, the chivalry. |
A letter from Morris Island, S. c.,
states that the Rebels at Charleston
recently attempted to send one of
their torpedo steamers out through
Beach Inlet for the purpose of destroy
ing the gunboats Housatonic and Nep-
sic, which were lying off Maffit's Chan
mel. The steamer, however, sunk,
down eight of her crew.
A late Richmond paper says - We
that the military author
tiles felt warranted osterday, acting
upon information disclosed through an
anonymous correspondence, in adopt
ing extraordinary measures to prevent
an uprising of the Yankee prisoners
of war held on Bell Isle, such a de-
being limited at as on the
tapis.
A Correspondent in the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing from Nashville, says
that some little time will elapse be,
fore the army can move, but when it
does there will be a crash The veter-
an regiments in General Grants army
have already begun to return to the
field, and are largely recruited. The
66th Ohio arrived at Nashville 103
stronger than when it went home, and
the Sd Wisconsin returned full
A despatch from Memphis says that
on the 9Th instant General ?. G. T.
Beauregard through his agent, paid
his United States tax on property in
that city, amounting to over Sl00.
This indicates that, even if he has
faith in the establishment Of South
ern Confederacy, he has no expecta-
.ion that Tennessee will constitute a
portion thereof
The iron-clad gunboat Chickasaw
was launched at Carondolet, No, on
Wednesday morning. A sad accident
marred the occasion. A coil of rope
attached to the anchor spun out SO
,apidly as to carry overheard daught-
or of Captain Eads, three other ladies
and son of ex-Mayor Filley. All
we're rescued save one, Mrs. Bradley,
who was drowned.