NEWS: Items from The Alleghanian, 18 Dec 1862, Cambria County, PA

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The Alleghanian, Ebensburg, Pa.
Thursday, 18 Dec 1862
Volume 4, Number 12

Note: This edition of the newspaper is faded to the point of being 
totally unreadable.  

Important to Volunteers 

It has been decided by the authorities at Washington that if a 
soldier is discharged before he has served two whole years or to the 
end of the war, if sooner ended, he forfeits his $100 bounty.  The back 
dues for wages and fifty cents for each twenty miles traveled from the 
place of discharge to the place of enrollment, he is entitled to on the 
pay certificates from his nearest paymaster.  If a soldier is killed or 
dies of disease before the end of two years or of the war, he has, 
under the liberal construction of the law, served to the end of the 
war, so far as he is or can be concerned. Congress intended by the 
provisions of the law that no one should have the bounty until the end 
of the war.  The $100 bounty by this law will be immediately paid as 
soon as audited.

Under an order and rule of the War Department there can be procured 
for the wives of a soldier imprisoned in the South the monthly wages of 
the soldier to the date of allowance, except the last month's wages, 
which the government reserves. If no wife, the minor children by their 
guardian are entitled.  If the soldier is unmarried, his widowed mother 
is entitled. 

An important decision has been made by the Secretary of War and the 
Paymaster General in effect that a soldier is entitled to pay from the 
day he enlists and that he is not to wait until his company is full or 
the formal muster of the regiment into Government service.


New Officials

Joseph M'Donald, Prothonotary; Philip S. Noon, District Attorney; John 
Campbell, County Commissioner; Irvin Rutledge, Poor House Director; and 
Henry Scanlan, County Surveyor – all of them newly elected county officers and 
all of them of the Democratic persuasion – have been "sworn in" and entered 
upon the duties of their respective offices.  May they individually and severally, 
flourish luxuriantly!


The Last Chance

Kratzer, the picture man, requests us to say that he leaves for Loretto during the 
present week. Those of our readers, therefore, who desire to secure excellent 
likenesses of themselves or friends, should drop in on him forthwith.  While at 
Loretto, he will stop at Myers' Hotel where the people of that section desiring an 
unapproachable picture will please call.


Johnstown Items

Mr. James S. Ramsey, connected with the Army of the Potomac as a Sutler, was 
captured recently during the advance of our forces and carried to Richmond 
where he has since been confined in Libby Prison.  His stock in trade also fell 
into the hands of the Rebels at the same time.

Five boys, neither of whom was over 12 years of age were arrested a few day 
since on the charge of abstracting money to the amount of fifty or sixty dollars 
from the counter drawer of Storekeeper Wehn.  One of the youthful offenders 
acknowledged his participation in the theft and implicated some half dozen 
others, all of whom were subsequently arrested and held to bail for their 
appearance at the next term of our County Court.  

The above items are condensed from the Johnstown TRIBUNE.