NEWS: The Alleghanian; 14 May 1863; Ebensburg, Cambria Cnty., PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Patty Millich Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cambria/ _________________________________________ The Alleghanian Ebensburg, Pa. Thursday, 14 May 1863 Volume 4, Number 33 Local and Personal The Cresson Springs establishment will be opened for the accommodation of visitors on or about the 10th of June, coming. Kratzer, the picture-taker, is in town again. Fully prepared to execute all manner of photographs, ambrotypes, &c. Give him a call at his room, above E. Shoemaker's store. Capt. James D. Hamilton of Huntingdon has been appointed Provost Marshal under the Conscription Act for the counties of Blair, Cambria, Huntingdon and Mifflin. Mr. Mathias S. Harr of Ebensburg has been appointed Commissioner to superintend the draft within said district. A Surgeon is also appointed, but we have forgotten his name. Our Soldiers Co. D, 115th Penna. Vols., - recruited principally in this county – was fully engaged in the terrible fight of Sunday week and lost largely. Lieut. Evan Davis, commanding the company was wounded early in the engagement while rallying his men. Another report says he was killed. As yet his fate remains uncertain, as, living or dead, he fell into the hands of the enemy. Some six or eight others of the company are reported missing. By letters received from Co. F., 133d Penna. Vols., it appears that none of the members of that company were injured in the fight. The Market House The contract for building our proposed market house was awarded to Mr. James Myers by the Borough authorities on Saturday last, his bid of $285 being the lowest offered. According to the provisions of the contract, the building is to be finished inside sixty days. Pardoned Joseph Shoemaker, formerly landlord of the Cambria House, Johnstown, and sentenced to a term of years in the penitentiary for counterfeiting has received a full pardon from President Lincoln. Coming Home! The term of service for which Co. F., 133d Penna. Vols., enlisted has about expired, and our boys will probably be mustered out of service and furnished transportation home during the present or coming week. In view of the eminent services they have rendered our common country – by the memory of the bloody field of Fredericksburg where nearly one-half of their number fell, killed or wounded, by the bullets of the foeman – let them have a glorious reception. Let us demonstrate to them that despite the efforts of a handful of Copperheads to the contrary, a grateful people love and honor them and hold in grateful remembrance their deeds of daring in behalf of our free institutions. We merely throw out the hint, confident that our citizens will act upon it forthwith and see to it that they secure a reception commensurate with their just deserts. The Cambria Iron Works These extensive works have been greatly enlarged during the past year. The old building is 650 feet in length and 100 in width with two wings each 150 feet long, in which there are eight engines and fifty- six furnaces with any number of rolls, both for the manufacture of merchant and rail iron. For the rails they use double or three high rolls, an invention of Mr. John Fritz, formerly Superintendent of the works. The new mill is situated about thirty feet from the old one, is over 300 feet in length and 100 feet in width, contains eight heating furnaces and several sets of three high rolls for the manufacture of bar and rail iron. The engine to be used is one of great power, the fly-wheel for which, lately cast at their own foundry, is one solid rim, is sixty-three feet in circumference, sixteen inches square in the rim and weighs twenty-three tons. The roof is what is called "Howe's Truss Roof," and is covered with slate. When both mills are in operation they will be able to turn out one hundred and fifty tons of rails per day. Thus Cambria county has within its limits one of the largest, if not the largest, rolling mills in the world. The Situation in Virginia War news being contraband, we are unable to give this morning authentic accounts of the various army movements in Eastern Virginia for the last few days. [NOTE: Remainder of article is a series of 'guesses' from the newspaper editors as to what the forces might be engaged in. Since these are not facts from reliable war correspondents or dispatches I did not transcribe them]