THE GAZETTE. | LEWISTOWN, PA. Wednesday, May 21, 1862. $1 jer aannm in advance—sl-50 at end of six months—*2 at end of year. Fpers sent out of the County must be pa.d for >a advance. We tinv.. -il*o *e! 3. limit la Miain ccrcatv, bcyc.B 1 which we R. J NO II.AU In futore ETIELI OWE U* for tttcrlpri">:3. Those r i .W 0 ibe jup- r with thle paragraph marked, •" thc-'fore know tha* they have conae under our r.le, i -.o If p.-ijnieat is not m;< ie within one month thereafter v -*baJ dDoofttinae all aach. Flag of the c (heart's ou'y heine, Hy angel hands to vaior given I Thy -tars have- lit the welkin dome And r.R thy hue? were born in heaven; Forever float that standard sheet! Wi: re breathes the foe but fall." before us W.th freedom's -oil beneath our fee;. And freedom's banner streaming o'er us. THE PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION. THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, WHO DESIRE cordially to unite in sti-Uiinifig the NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION in its patriotic efforts to sup press a sectional and unholy rebellion against the VNITY OF THE REPUBLIC. and who desire to sup port. by every power of the Government, one hun dred thousand heroic brethren in arms, braving dis ease perils of the field to preserve the Union cf o:r Fathers, are requested to select the number of Delerales equal to the Legislative Representation of the State, at -UCii times and in such manner as will t>esi re-pond to the spirit of tms call, to meet in STATE CONVENTION at HARRISBURG. on THURS DAY, the SEVENTEENTH DAY OF JULY next, at 11 o'clo< k, on said day. to nominate Candidates for the offi en of AUDITOR GENERAL and SURVEY OR GENERAL, and to take such measures as may l>e deemed necessary to strengthen the Government in this season of common peril to a common country. A. K. MeCLURE, Chairman People's State Committee. GEO. W. II IMMEP.SLR,) A .J. „ JOB* M. SVLLIVAV, Y Secretaries. For Auditor General, Hon. THOMAS E. COCHRAN. Sotiws of New Advertisements. J. B. Selheimer has opened a new Hard ware Store—F. G. Franciscus has opened a new stock, of course cheap—public sale of the Seceder Church —dividend—Billy Johnson. CaiF*The Baltimore American says it has the best authority for stating that on the 1 19th inst. the national debt was five hun- 1 •dred and sixty-five millions, with twenty millions floating liabilities. Nearly one hundred millions was a legacy left by Buchanan's locofoco thieves. This dispo- > ses of some more patent democratic lying. Query —What was the use of an inquest, when there were several eye witnesses to the accident?— Democrat. An inqwesfc, we should judge is intend ed to put upon record judicially the facts ! as they occurred, and the more eye wit- ! nesses to such an occurrance the better.— ! "Take, for example, three or four men work- j ing on a roof, one of whom falls down and is killed, is it not better to establish the fact by eye witnesses at the time, than to wait for years until two of the workmen Wight quarrel, and one in his anger charge the other with having pushed tlve unfor tunate man down ? The "eye witnesses" would then perhaps bo scattered or dead, and au uuiust imputation rest upon the living. Any number of similar cases might be supposed, and we therefore be lieve it perfectly proper in all cases of vio lent or accidental deaths that inquests should be held and the finding of the jury put upon record. eST-11. Krysinger, " one of the editors of the 1 lemocrat," hac at last found out that the office of clerk to the Town Council is elective, but still sticks to his origiual false hood! lie also invents another programme, not very creditable to those referred to— namely that a few wire pullers controlled the members elect as well as two others of the council, and made these dance to their .music. Now as John Cubbison was elect ed on one ticket and Jacob Bcarley on the .other, these poteut wire-pullers, according to the Democrat, controlled the nomina tions at both meetings, and inoculated all •the candidates with but one motive, name ly, hostility to the editor of the Gazette holding a $25 a year office which he did not ask for! One of the editors of the Democrat must have a high opinion of Messrs. Bcarley and Cubbison in thus creat ing them puppets to be bandied by skulk ing rope layers and wire pullers, a class generally composed of broken down politi cal hacks, destitute of everything except ji lust for office. For our part, we know nothing of Mr. Cubbison as councilman, but having been associated with Mr. Ja cob Baarley for a number of years in bor ough business, we will say for him that so far as our observation extended, he has al ways had a mind of his own, independent of such vermin. *®riiat editor of the Democrat who ..Could see no disuniouiaqj in Yancy when he waa an undisguised advocate of disun ion, might have resided at Washington more than six years, and neither seen nor heard of slave auctions uor slave pens ! The President and the Slavery Question. We give below an important document from the President in reference to the pow ers of commanding officers on the question of slavery, which ought to set aside all doubt and cavil as to his course, and at once hush up the cry of abolitionism, still occasionally indulged in by the Lrcckin ridge democracy. His own powers as Com mander in Chief he reserves, subject to future events, and then admonishes the Southern People in a strain of simple elo quence that they now have the choice of doing much good by following the wise precepts of all civilized countries, or of doing much harm by continuing to advo cate an acknowledged evil fraught with wrong and injustice. Bv the President of the Tolled States of America: A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, there appears in the public prints what purports to be a proclamation of Major General Hunter in the words and figures to wit: Hi'.Wjr AßT vp_". Htltov If r \r>, S. C., J .May 9, IS<?2. / GENERAL ORDER, \ NO. 11. ) The three States of Georgia, Fiorida and South Carolina, comprising the military department of the South, having deliberately declared themselves no longer under the protection of the United States of America, and having taken up arms against the same, it becomes a military necessity to declare them un der martial law. This was accordingly done on the 2tih day of April. 1562. Slavery and martial law in a free country arc altogether incompatible. The per sons in these three Suites. Georgia. Florida and South Carolina, heretofore held as slaves, are therefore de clared forever free. (Official.) (Signed) DAVID HUNTER, Major General Commanding. EHWARD AV. SMITH. Acting Assistant Adjutant General. And whereas, The same is producing some excitement and misunderstanding: therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, proclaim and declare that the Gov ernment of the United States had no knowl edge, information or belief of an intention, on the part of Gen. Hunter, to issue such a proclamation, nor has it jet any authentic information that the document is genuine, and further, that neither Gen. Hunter or any other commander or person has been author ized by the government of the United States to make a proclamation declaring the slaves of any State free, and that the supposed proclamation now in question, whether gen uine or false, is altogether void so far as res pects such declaration. I further make known, that whether it be competent for me, as Commander in chief of the Army and Navy to declare the slaves of any State or States free, arid whether at any time, in any case, it shall have become ane cessity indispensible to the maintenance of the Government, the exercise of such supposed powers arc questions which under my respon sibility I reserve to myself and which I can not feel justified in leaving to the decision of commanders in the field. These are totally different questions from those of police rela tions in armies and camps. On the sixth day of March last, by a special message, led to Congress the adop tion of a joint resolution to be substantially as follows: Resolved, That th<* t'niteJ State* toco-operate with any State which tnay adopt a gradual abolish ment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary act to be used by such .State in it* discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences of public and private losses produced by such change of system. The resolution in the language above quo ted was adopted by large u ajorities in both branches of Congress and now stands an au t'nentic, definite and solemn proposal of the Nation to the State and people most immedi ately interested in the subject m itter. T-> the people of those States I now earnestly np peal. Ido not argue. I beseech yon to make the argument for yourselves, you cannot if you would bo blind to the signs of the time-. I beg of you a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging if it may be far above per sonal ami partizan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a cotnm n object, casting no reproaches upon any. It act' not the phajosee. The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of Ileavcn. not rending or wrecking any thing. Will you not embrace it? So much good lias not been done by one effort in all past time, or in the providence of God, it is now your high priv iloge to do. May the vast future n>t have to lament that you have neglected it. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Dune at the city of Washington this nineteenth dav of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty six, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-sixth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President. WILLIAM 11. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Death of Brigadier General Keim. We regret, says the Ilarrisburg Tele graph, to announce the death of Briga dier General Wm. 11. Keim, which occur red at the Brady House in Ilarrisburg about 1 o'clock on Sunday afternoon, afjer several days' illness of typhoid fever. Gen Keim was identified with the military af fairs of the State for the last twenty years, and at the commencement, of the .rebellion held the commission of Major General of the Fifth Division Pennsylvania Militia, as well as the office of Surveyor General of the State. When a call was made by the President for volunteers, he was among the first to offer his services, and issued a general order to his division to hold itself in readiness for immediate service. He served with distinction as a Major General of \ oluntecrs in the " three months' cam paign," by virtue of a commission he held from the State, and at the expiration of that term of service, after a few months' recuperation with his family and Jriends at home, he was honored with a commission as Brigadier General of volunteers. Hav ing accepted the appointment, he resigned the office of Surveyor General, and was assigned to the command of a brigade in Gen. McDowell's army, in which position he served with much credit until a short time ago, when he was attacked with the illness which terminated in his death as above stated. WAR NEWS, OPERATIONS AT NEW ORLEANS. Official Report of Gen Butler. HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GCLF, \ j Forts Jackson and St. Philip , April 20. j , Hon. K -V. Stanton, Secretary of JFhr: SIR —I have the honor to report that, in obedience to my instruction?, 1 remained on the Mississippi river, with the troops named in my farmer despatch, awaiting the action of the fleet engaged in the bombardment of Forts Jackson and St. Philip. Failing to reduce them after six days in cessant fire, Flag Officer Farragut determined to attempt their pas-age with his whole fleet, except that part thereof utider the immediate command of Capt. Porter, known as the mor tar fleet. On the morning of the 21th ult., the fleet got under way, and tweive vessels including the four sloops-of war, ran the gauntlet of fire of the forts and were safely above. Of the gallantry, courage, and conduct of this heroic action, unprecedented in navai war fare, considering the character of the works and the river, too much cannot be said. Of the casualties and the details of its perform ance the flag officer wiil give an account to the proper department. I witnessed tiiis dar ing exploit from a point eight hundred yards from Fort Jackson, and unwittingly under its fire, and the sublimity of the scene can never be exceeded. The fleet pressed on up the river to New Orleans, leaving two gunboats to protect the quarantine station, five miies above. In case the forts were not reduced and a portion of the fleet got by them, it had been arrauged, between the flag officer and myself, that I should make a landing from the gulf side, at the rpar of the forts at the quarantine, and from thence attempt Fort St. Philip by storm and assault, while the bombardment was continued by the fleet I immediately went to Sable Island with my transports, twelve miles in the rear of Fort St. Philip, the nearest point at which a sufficient depth of water could be found for them. Capt. Porter put at my disposal the Miami, drawing seven and one half feet, be ing the lightest draught vessel in the fleet, to take the troops from the ship as far as the water would allow. We were delayed twenty f>ur hours by her running ashore at Pass a l'Outre. The 26th regiment Massachusetts volunteers, Col. Jones, were put on board her and carried within six miles of the fort, where she again grounded. Capt Everett, of the 6th Massachusetts Battery, having very fully reconnoitered the waters and bayous in that vicinity, and fore seeing the necessity, I had collected and brought with me some thirty boats, into which the troops were again transhiped and cjnveyed by a most fatiguing and laborious row some four and a half miles further, there being within one miJe of the steamer only two aDd a half feet of water. A large portion of the passage was against a heavy current through a bayou. At the entrance of Mameel's canal, a mile and a half from the point of landing, rowing be came impossible, as well from the narrowness of the canal as tRe strength of the current, which ran like a mill race. Through this the boats could only bo impelled by dragging them singly, with the men up to their waists in water. It is due to this fine regiment, and to a portion of the 4th Wisconsin volunteers and 2lst Indiana, who landed under this hard ship without a murmur, and their labors should he made known to the department, as well g£ to account for the slowness of our operations. The enemy .evidently considered this mode of attack impossible, as they had taken no measures to oppose it, which might very eas ily have been successfully done. We occupied at once both sides of the riv er, thus effectually rutting thorn off front ail supplies, information, or succor, while we made our dispositions for the assault. Meantime Captain Porter had sent into the bayou, in the rear of F >rt Jackson, two schooners of his mortar fleet, to prevent the escape of the enemy front the fort in that di rection. In the hurry and darkness of the passage of the forts the i'iag (officer had overlooked three of the enemy's gunboats and the iron clad battery Louisiana, which were at anchor under the walls of the loft. Supposing that all the Rebel boats had been destroyed (and a dozen or more had been), he passed on to the city, leaving these in his rear. The iron steam "battery being very formidable, Captain Porter deemed it prudent to withdraw his mortar fleet some miles below, where he could have room to manoeuvre it if attacked by the iron monster, and the bombardment ceased. I had got Brigadier General Phelps in the river below with two regiments to make de monstrations in that direction if it became possible. In the night of the 27th, learning that the fleet bad got the city under its guns, I left Brigadier General Williams in charge of the landing of the troops, and went up the river to the flagship to procure light draught trans portation. That night the larger portion (about two hundred and fifty) of the garrison of Fort Jackson mutinied, spiked the guns bearing up the river, came up and surrend ered themselves to my pickets, declaring that, as we had got in their rear, resistance was useless, and they would not be sacrificed.— No bomb had been thrown at them for three days, nor had they fired a shot at us for three days. They averred that they had been im pressed and would fight no longer. On the 28th the officers of Forts Jackson and St. Philip surrendered to Captain Porter, he having means of water transportation to them- While he was negotiating however, with the officers of the forts under a white flag, the Rebel naval < fficers put all their muni'ions .of war on the Louisiana, set her on fire and adrift upon the Harriet Lane, but when opposite Fort St. Philip she blew up, killing one of their own men by the fragments which fell into tha,t fort. I have taken possession of the forts and find them substantially as defensible as be fore the bombardment —St. Philip precisely so, it being quite uninjured. They are fully provisioned,well supplied with ammunition, and the ravages of the shells have been de fensibly repaired by the labors of the Rebels. I will cause Lieutenant Weitzell, of the En gineers, to make a detailed report of their condition to the Department. I have left the Twenty-Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers in garrison, and am now going up the river to occupy the city with my troops and make further demonstra tions in the rear of the enemy now at Corinth. The Rebels have abandoned all their de fensive works in and around New Orleans, including Forts Pike and Wood, on Lake Ponchartrain, Fort Livingston, on Barratari* Bay. They have retired in the direction of Corinth, beyond Manchac Pass, and aban doned everything up the river as far as Don aldsonville, some seventy miles beyond New Orleans. I propose to BO far depart from tho letter of m v instructions as to endeavor to persuade the flag Offieer to pa-s up the river as far a the mcuth of Red river, if possible, so as to cat off their supplies, and make there a land ing and a demonstration in their rear as a diversion in f ivor of General Buell, if a de cisive battle is not fought before such move ment is possible. Mobile is ours whenever we choose, and we can .better wait. I find the city under the dominion of the mob. They have insulted our flag and torn it down with indignity. This outrage will be punished in such a manner as in my judii rnent will caution both the perpetrators and abettors of the act, so that they shall fear the , " stripes" if they do not reverence the " stars' of our banner. I send a m irke 1 copy of a New Orleans paper containing an applauding account of the outrage. Trusting my action may meet the appro bation of the Department. 1 am, most respectfully, your obedient servant. BENJAMIN* F. BCTI.ER, Major General Commanding. From Gen Geary's Command. WASHINGTON, May 17.—The following is extracted from a despatch to the Secretary of War, by Gen. John W. Geary, dated Rector town, Virginia, May 16: " A company of infantry of my command was yesterday ordered to Linden, to remain stationed there. A detachment of seventeen men, guarding the company wagon, reached there a short time before the maiu body of the company, which was on a train, when they were attacked by a body of cavalry var iously estimated at from three hundred to six hundred, coming upon them from four direc tions. "Our men resisted them, keeping up a sharp firing under shelter of the depot, which was riddled with bullets. My meu were over powered. One was killed, and fourteen taken prisoners, three of whom were wounded, when the enemy hastily retired, under fire, and with some loss. " I have been informed that a portion of General Shields' commaud had a skirmish with them. " JOBS W. GEARV, " Brigadier General Commanding." The following is a list of the killed and captured referred to: Killed—Corporal Sneath. Captured—Corporal E. Baker ; privates W. Glazier, J. Salkeld, T. White, G. Bauer sacks, J. M. Funk, W . Cane, G. Snyder, A. Miles, S. Ilenard, C. Maxwell, Co. M, and three privates of the first Michigan cavalry, Cos II and I. Two Rebel Steamers & Twenty Scboon ers Destroyed. HEADQUARTERS WHITE IIOCSB, 1 May 17, 1862—10 30 P. M. J T>> the Hon. K. M. Stanton, Sect, of War; A corn Wined army and naval expedition, under Capt. Murray, United Statasnavy, with the troopo and artillery under Major Wiliiard and Capt. Ayres, ot the artuy, went some twenty tive miles up the Pamunky riyer to day, and forced the rebels to destroy two steamers and some twenty schooners. The expedition was admirably managed, and all concerned deserve great credit. We have advanced considerably to day. The roads are now improving GEORGE B. MCCI.EU.AN-, Major General Commanding President's Proclamation. WASHINGTON, May 13. The following proclamation has been issued by the President: WHEREAS, by my proclamation of the nine teenth of April, one thousand eight hundred and -ixty one, it was declared that the ports of certain Slates, including those of Beaufort, in the State of North Carolina, Port Royal, in the Stale of South Carolina, and Xew Mr •cans, in the State < f Louisiana, were, for rear ms therein set forth, intended to be plac ed under blockade-; and win teas the said ports of Beaufort, Port Royal and Xew Orleans have cince been blockaded ; but as the block ade o! the same ports may now be safely re laxed with advantage to the interests of com merce : Now, therefore, be it known that I, ALRA HAM LINCOLN, President of the United State?, pursuant to the authority in me vested by the fifth section of the act of Congress, approved on the 13th of July last, entitled "An Act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes," do here by declare that the blockade of the said ports of Beaufort, Port Royal and New Orleans shall so far cease and determine, from and after the first day of June next, that commer cial intercourse with those ports, except as to persons and things and information contra band of war, may, from that time, be carried on, subject to the laws of the United States, and to the limitations and in pursuance of the regulations which are prescribed by the Sec retary of the Treasury in his order of this date, which is appended to this proclamation. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twelfth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty two, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-sixth. IL. S.j ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: WILLIAM 11. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Gen. Wool's Official Report. The following was received at the War De partment to day : FORTRESS MONROE, May 12, 1862. To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War: On the 9th of May (Friday afternoon) I organized a force to march against Norfolk.— On the 10th of May (Saturday morning,) the troops were landed, under the direction of Col. Crane, at Ocean View, and commenced to march towards Mansfield and Weber, who proceeded on the direct route, byway of Tan ner's creek bridge ; but finding it on fire, they returned to the Cross Roads, where I joined them, and took the direction of the column. I arrived by the old road, and entered the entrenchments in front of the city at twenty minutes before five, P. M. I immediately proceeded towards Norfolk, accompanied by the Hon. Secretary Chase, and met the Mayor and a select committee of the Common Council of Norfolk at the limits of the city, when they surrendered the city agreeably to the terms Bet forth in the reso lutions of the Common Council, presented by the Mayor, W. W. Lamb, which were accept ed by me so far as related to the civil rights of the citizens. A copy of these resolutions have been already furnished you. I immedi ately took possession of the city, and appoint ed Brigadier General Egbert Viele Military Governor of Norfolk, with directions to see that the citizens were protected in all their J civil rights. Soon after, I took possession of Gosport and P<nmouth. The taking ■ f Norfolk caused the destruc f tion of the iron clad steamer Merrims -. which 1 was blown up by the rebels about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 11 th of May, which fact was soon after communicated to you and the President of the United States. On the 11th I visited the navy yard, and found all the workshops, storehouses, and cth ; er buildings in ruins, having been set on fire by the rebels, who at the same time blew up the dry dock. I also visited Craney Island, and found thirty-nine guns of large calibre, most of which were spiked: also a large number of i shot and shells, with about 5,000 pounds of powder, which, witb the buildings, were in good order. As far as I have been able to ascertain, we have taken about 200 cannon, including three at the Sewell's Point batteries, with a large | number of shot and shells, as well as many ; other articles of value stationed at the navy | yard, Craney Island, Sewell's Point and oth i er places. JOHN E WOOL, Maj. Gen. Commanding. j I A Rebel Song Captured. Capt. Boggs stated at the Astor House that the.Rebel melody beginning j •' Picayune Butier has com? to town" has almost ceased to he sung by the Seces sionists of New Orleans. Our men, however, j have caught it up ; the camps of the Federal . ! army are alive withiit, and it can he heard ; of a moonlight evening on the vessels ascend- j ing the Mississippi. The Destruction of the Merrimac. One of the gunners of the Merrimac brings the details of her destruction. When the evacuation of Norfolk was decided upon, i ! Commodore Tatnall convened a council of ! ; war on board the ship, in which it was deci : I ded to lighten her so as to enable her to go ; up to Richmond. This proving to be impos- j sille after throwing out all her ballast and most of her coal, be determined on her des- j truction. She was fired, and blew up after burning two and a half hours. Tatnall, in ] I . . the meantime, had gone " on to Richmond" ! in hot haste. LATEST NEWS. Our accounts of a recent engagement on the James river, in which our gunboats were repulsed before tiie liebel Fort J>ar- i ling, are as yet incomplete and unsatisfac- I tory. The only two vessels that engaged the battery were the Monitor and the Ga- j lena. The former could not give her guns } elevation enough to reach the Rebel fort, located on a bluff two .hundred feet above the river, and was therefore useless. The armor of the Galena did not prove proof against the heavy missiles of the Rebels fired from such an elevation, and of twenty eight shot that struck eighteen pierced her iron plating. The Monitor still maintained her impregnability. The fight took place on Thursday last, and not on Friday, as was first stated. On Friday Commodore Goldsborough started up the river with a ' number of gunboats and took possession of j the deserted Rebel batteries at Pay and j Ilardey's Points, securing their ordnance. When last heard from the fleet was pro ceeding on toward Fort Parling, and that Rebel stronghold has no doubt ere this been subjected, to a much heavier fire than the Galena, unaided, was able to throw in to it. The obstructions placed in the river are reported to he of the most complete character, vessels laden with stone being first sunk, and tlie Rebel gunboats York town and Jamestown sunk inside of this barricade. The Fort once silenced, the means and ingenuity necessary for the re moval of these obstructions will quickly be provided. The Naugatuek's gun burst in the begin ning of the fight, killing a number of her ores', ajid the Galena was penetrated by IS or 20 shot, also kiili-..g and wounding some of her crew. Pensacola has been evacuated by the rebels, first destroying the Navy Yard and forts. The Xewbcrri Progress states that Gov. Clark, of North Carolina, has refused to furnish any more troops to Jeff Davis, and has recalled all the North Carolina soldiers now in the Ptebel aruiy. North Carolina has held a convention ol its citizens, and pronounced against giving further aid to the rebellion, thus virtually returning co the Union. In reply to the demand of Jeff Davis for additional troops and means of transportation for his army to and through the Cotton States, Governor C ark said thai Davis had received all the aid from North Carolina that he could expect, and that hereafter no more troops would he permit ted to leave the State, and has ordered all the North Carolina State troops home Governor Clark also informed the Rebels that they could use the railroads in retreat ing homewards, and that they would run their own risk of being intercepted by a Union force in any part of the State The latest from General Halleck reports a general advance of our army towards Corinth, with heavy skirmishing along the whole line. General Sherman had driven the enemy from Russell's House back into their works, and held the position, which was gained with the loss of forty-four killed and a number wounded on our side. Some of our skirmishers were within three hun dred yards of the Rebel breastworks. The military telegraph has been carried forward to the advance of General McClel lans army, fourteen miles from Richmond. General Curtis' column of troops were, at last accounts, between Searcy and Little Rock, Arkansas, and rapidly moving on the Capital. Searcy is in White county, and about twenty-five miles from Little Rock. NOTICE is hereby given thai at a meeting of the President and Managers of the Lewistown and Kisbacoquilias Turnpike Road Company, held on Monday, May 12, 1862, they declared a dividend of fuor per cent., payable on and after June 10th. 1862, at my office. M. JBUOY, m 7 -1 Treasurer, F 1 -A. R. TVT E H. S AND 83)333233?3a3 JOHN B. SELBSXME& BEGS leave to inform the citizens of Mif flin and adjoining counties that he has just opened in his new store room in Market street, LewiFtown, a few doors east of the diamond, a full stock of HARDWARE, comprising everything usually kept in a" Hardware Store, and which will be sold at & lower profit than goods of this kfnd have ever before been offered in Lewistown. The fol lowing classification embraces the leading ar ticles on sale : 3>®3i 6 A general assortment of Carpenters' and Joiners' Tools; a large lot of Hinges, Screws, Door Locks, Bolts, Axes and H-atchets, Door Bells, Chalk, Twine, Tacks, Trowels, Gate Hinges, etc. Butchers' Tools, consisting of Patent Saws, Spring Balances, Cleavers, Knives, Steels, etc., eta. Scythes, Sickles, Rakes, Forks, Shovels, Hoes, Sandboards for Scythes. Trace amF Halter Chains, Currycombs, Cards, etc. FOR HOrSEkEEPERS AID OTHERS: An excellent assortment of Fine Cutlery comprising Knives and Forks of varied styles Dessert, Tea and Table Spoons, Scissors, Ra zors. etc. Also. Buck Saws, Cedar Spiggots, Andirons, Shoe Brushes, Mouse Traps, coarse and fine Sieves. IRON, NAILS, &o. All sizes of Nails and Brads, very low by the keg; nail rod, bar, round and hoop Iron; Steel ; Iron Wire, Carriage Springs, Wagon Boxes, etc., etc call is respectfully requested, as I am confident that my goods and prices will not fail to please. JOHN B. SELHEIMER. Lewistown, May 21, 1802. PUBLIC S-^ILIEL VT~ r ILL be sold at public sale, in the Lor v v ough of Lewistown, on Friday June 6, 1862, A-MBA A House and Lot of Ground, in jJ J A the B >rough of Lewistown, gajf I ll known in the general plan i t Borough as lot and lati • ly occupied by the Seceder Congregation as a place of worship. A deed in fee simple will be made to the purchaser. Sale under act of Assembly au thorizing the subscribers to dispose of the same. DAVID BLOOM. ABM. S. WILSON. FRANCIS McCLIiiE. Lewistown, May 21, 1862. TIFT WABJL VFL" LL and large assortment ol Tin Ware comprising everything manufactured by a Tinsmith, made in the store, from the best brands of tin, for sale lower than at any house in town. F. G. FRANCISOUS. 3P.&IKEB S JUST receiving and fur sale over 1.000 new pieces Wall paper, comprising some new and elegaht styles. Persons wanting paper will do well to call and examine our stock be fore purchasing elsewhere. may 21, 1862. F. G. I'RANCISCL'S. COAL OIL ! COAL OIL ! r |THE be.-t No. 1 Ci>ai Oil. at 0 cents per JL quart, ly F. G. FKANCISCUS. 4 FI LL assortment of the celebrated Ilar- LV risburg Nails in store and fur sale at $3,40 per keg, by their agpnt may 21, I?G2. F. G. FRAXCISCUS. HAY ELEVATORS, Ropes. Pulley, te., at reduced prices this season, bv may 21, 1862. F. G. FR AXCISCUS. PERRY County Grain Cradles and Leedy's (Clinton county) Grain Cradles, for sale by F. G. FR A NCI SOUS. DARLING'S Grass and Grain Scythes at reduced prices, at may 21, 1802. F. G. FRAXCISCUS/ CI HI LDREN'S Carriages, the cheapest price J and neatest styles in the market, for sale by F. G. FRAXCISCUS. CIULTIYATORS with wheel, very low at / may 21. F. G. FRAXCISCUS.' lIAIX RAKES, Hay and Straw Forks, T Sovtlie Stones and Scythe Rifles. &e. t at may 21. 1862. FRAXCISCUS.' YI/INDOW SHADES, paper, Gilt and Oil v f Curtain stuff, and all kinds of Car tains, for sale by F. G. FRAXCISCUS. KIT BARM! IT lIE undersigned is prepared to furnish _ his customers with Boots and Shoes of all kinds, at prices to suit the times, and as Goods in general are higher than usual it is gratifying to learn that boots and shoe? are cheaper than they have ever been before in Mifflin county: No mistake! Call and exam ine for yourselves, and you will be surprised to find men's shoes selling at 90c to $1 65, Men's Kip and Calf from $1 25 to 1 87 " Boots, " 225t0 300 " .Calf • " 275t0 390 Boys' Shoes " 50 to 1 35 All the above work at those prices is war ranted. We still have cheap work on hand which is not warranted. Women's Gaiters at $1 00, and very dear at that; some at ?1 50, which are something better. A full stock of Eastern Work kept on hand, the greater part of which is warranted to give satisfaction. Manufacturing of all kinds neatly and promptly attended to at all times without de lay. A large stock of trunks constantly on hand, which wiH be sold very low. But above all things bear in npmd that qur terms are strict* ly Cash, for at our prices we cannot afford to charge. All goods to be paid for before taken away, and in all cases where they do not eui' the money will be refunded, should they be returned in good order. my2l BILLY JOHNSON- MAGNETIC Tack Hammer—just the thing wanted by all hopsekeepers-rfo l sale by F. G. FRANCISCPS
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