We have a Civil Wat on our hands---there is no use in looking away from the fact. For this year, the chief business of the American people must be proving that they have a government, and that Freedom is not another name for Anarchy.
A civil war has actually commenced between the sections of this once glorious Union. The heart of every patriot bleeds at this solemn truth. The true men of the country have now a great duty to perform. The preliminaries are over--revolution has taken arms and proceeded to the last extremity--and now every man who reveres the memory of Washington must use his efforts and devote his wealth, his personal services, and his life, if necessary, in defending the integrity of the Government which the patriots of the revolution handed down as a PERPETUAL BLESSING to their posterity.
LITTLE CAMBRIA IN MOTION---THE VOICE OF HER PEOPLE.
On Wednesday evening, an impromptu public meeting of the citizens of Ebensburg and vicinity was held at the Court House, to give utterance to their sentiments as regards the National Crisis through which we are now passing. Although but brief notice of the meeting was given, the room was packed full, and the patriotic enthusiasm there displayed we have never seen equalled. All---ALL---were desirous of proving their loyalty to that Government to which they owe so much, and of testifying their devotion to the cause of Freedom. Little Cambria is fully aroused, and the glorious Stars and Stripes will find many and brave protectors from among the gallant "Frosty Sons of Thunder."
RESOLVED, That Cambria county , who in her infancy sent her soldiers to encounter the enemies of her country in the war with Great Britain; who decimated her population in the war with Mexico; will not be backward when "traitors take the field" at home; and whilst we cheerfully tender to the South all her rights, as we have heretofore done, we are entirely unwilling to sustain her in resistance to the Federal Government.
The company tendered their services to the Governor on Tuesday, are accepted, and notified to be in readiness to march at an hour's warning.
The company is the "Cambria Guards". An election for officers was held on Tuesday evening, and the following result was had:
Capt. ROBERT LITZINGER
1st Lt. ANDREW LEWIS
2d Lt. R.A. McCoy
3d Lt JNO SCANLAN
We will publish the entire muster roll next week.
JOHNSTOWN --Last week was a busy week in Johnstown. The news of the commencement of hostilities between the Government and the Traitors created the most intense excitement, and business was suspended for the time being. On Tuesday morning the requisition for the military companies (three in number) was received. Recruiting immediately was begun, and in a short time the companies had received their several complements. On Wednesday the Johnstown Infantry and the Zouave Cadets left for Harrisburg, and on Thursday the Citizen's Guard took up their line of march for the same point. The Johnstown Infantry numbers 81 men; Capt. Thomas H. Lapely; 1st Lt. Jacob M. Campbell; 1st Sgt. Robert P. Robison
2nd Sgt. John J. Mills; 3rd Sgt. James Moore. The Zouaves number sixty-seven men: Capt. John M. Power; 1st Lt. John P. Suter, 2nd Lt. A.K. Babcock; 1st Sgt. John Downey; 2nd Sgt. D.N. Jones; 3rd Sgt. J.E. Fry; 1st Corp. J.H. Gageby. The Citizens; Guard number--men:
Capt. John P. Linton; 1st Lt. Hugh Bradley; 2nd Lt. James C. Noon; 3rd Lt. John Cox.
Besdies these, three or four other companies are rapidly being organized. One of them, commanded by Judge Easly, we understand, left for Harrisburg on Tuesday.
The Johnstown troops, after duly armed and equipped at Harrisburg, took the cars (trains) for Washington city on Sunday morning, where they arrived safely and are now on duty. They passed through Baltimore without any trouble.
Our young fellow townsmen, William Linton and George W. Brown, left town on Saturday night for Harrisburg, They go to join the ranks of their country's defenders.
As an instance of the enthusiasm prevalent here, take the following: A young man from Richland Township was sent to town by his parents on Wednesday to sell a basket of eggs; he arrived here; disposed of his eggs; enlisted in the Infantry; and by the time his parents were expecting him home, he was on his way to Harrisburg!
The intense patriotic feeling of our citizens will not permit Treason to show its hydra head among us. A man was stoned, knocked down, and otherwise roughly dealt with, for his supposed secession proclivities. Another was very quietly but earnestly admonished to leave town for the same cause; and it is needless to say that he complied with the request.
It appears that we were slightly premature in saying last week that the Cambria troops had got through to Washington. They took the cars (train) for that point at Harrisburg, in company with several other regiments, on Saturday night, 20th ult., but proceeded only as far as Cockeyville, fourteen miles east of Baltimore. Here they found the railroad bridges destroyed, and further progress impeded. They were preparing to force their way through the city, when they received further orders from headquarters. They encamped at Cockeyville until Monday night, when they returned to York, where a permanent camp has been established. They are yet at that place, in good health and spirits, and "spiling for a fight."
Our military company, the "Cambria Guards," now number some 90 men.--
They are a noble, good-looking body of men, and will do honor to Little Cambria in the "tented field." They drill daily,and are already become quite expert in the exercises. The company expect marching orders in a day or two.
JOHNSTOWN,--A correspondent of the Pittsburg, DISPATCH, writing from Johnstown, says; "Four companies of volunteers have gone from this place. There are four more enrolled. The talk at present is that there will be an encampment located here. It is only about thirty-six hours' march from the Virginia line to this place."
OUR BOYS ABROAD,-- Lt. James C. Noon, of the Citizens' Guard, has been appointed aid to Col. Minier. Wm. Linton has been elected 1st Lt. of a company formed from the overplus of other companies, at Camp Curtin. G.W. Brown is serving as corporal in Dick White's Rifles.
The Johnstown Zouaves, Infantry and Guards belong to the Third Regiment, composed as follows: Six companies from Blair, three from Cambria, and one from Allegheny--of which Minier, of Blair, is Colonel, and Pwer, of Cambria, Lt. Col.
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