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Couiity__Oliices.
Pre*i<i*nt Judge.
lion. S, S. Woods, Lewtstuwn.
Associate Judge*,
lion. Eiynh Morrison, VV'ayuo township.
Jain* Turner. I.ewistown.
Sheriff,
•C. C. Stanbarger, Esq.
Deputy Sheriff,
f. I>. Mutthersbongh, Esq.
J'rulhotiotary. Clerk of Common Pleas, 16c.
Henry J. Walters. Esq.
itsjistei and Rteorder and Ct:rk of Orphans' Court,
Samuel Barf, Esq.
Tr easts) er,
Robert W. Patton. Esq.
Commissioners,
Itichssou ilratton. Esq.. llrutton township.
Samuel Brower, Esq., Deeatur township.
John McDowell, Jr., Esq., Armagh township.
CoMttnsstonsr * Clerk —George Frvsiuger.
Depu'y Sui segor,
(icorge H.Swigart, of Oliver township.
Coroner,
George Miller, Esq., LawistoMn.
Mercantile Appraiser,
John 1.. Porter, Eewiscown.
Auditors.
Ilenrr Snyder, of Granville township.
Abrana Garver, of Oliver "
11. C. Vanzant, of Deeatur '•
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Trains leave Lewistovru station as follows:
WKSTWAKO. l:.\t>rW4K.
Through E ipress, 5 10 a. in." 11l p.m.
last Line, 5 47, p.iu. 3 24 a. m.
Mail, 3 :tr, p. m. lu 41 n. ni.
I.o<*ut P roight, 5 50 n. m. 5 10 p. tn.
Fast Freight, 111 p.m. 2 28 a. m.
Through Freight, 9 3up.ui. 9 50 p.m.
Express Freight, 10 25 a. in. 2 65 p. rn.
Coal Tram, 12 40 p.m. T 10a.ua,
D. E. ROHKSOX, .4 jest.
!tSy*G*llraith' Omnibuses convoy pn.ssongers to
and from .all the trains, taking up or setting them
down : all points within the borough limits.
TAi asus*
4 is the actinn <>t the Relief Bn-ird does rot
iJL seem to be fully comprehended. frequent
applications fur relief being made in person
or by letter to the undersigned, he deems it
proper to state that payments will ho torn'
porarily renewed to those formerly on tho
list on presentation of certificate signed by
imt less than three known taxpayers, stating
that the applicant has not received sulli
.icut from her husband or other support, to
s;, . it her, together with her own industry,
:• make a living for herself and family, and
giving roaaons for such inability. This is
intended for the benefit of nil really in need,
a.i l for n.j others.
The orders issued under this regulation
arc continued only until the troops are again
pai l off.
Blank certificates ean be procured from
ihose who have heretofore distributed orders.
GEORGE FRYSIXGKR,
Secretary of Relief Board,
Levristown, June 18, 1862.
SEC. 7f. ELiDEE,,
Attorney at Law,
"(lice Market Square, Lcwistown, will at
tend to business in Mifflin. Centre and Hunting
don counties. my2G
KishacoquQlas Seminary,
AND
NORMAL INSTITUTE.
r | MIE third Session of this Institution will
J_ commence April 24, 1802.
Encouraged by the liberal patronage receiv
ed during the previous Session, the proprietor
has been induced to refit the buildings and
grounds to render them uioat coipfortable and
convenient for students.
He has also secured the assistance of Rev
S. McDonald, formerly tutor of Princeton
University, and well known in this part of
the country ns an able scholar and devoted
Christian. A competent music teacher has
also been engaged.
mh26 ~ S. Z. SHARP, Principal.
Jacob C, Blymyer & Co.,
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
4®*Flour and Grain of all kind* pur
chased at market rates, or received on storage
shipped at usual freight rates, having
storehouses and boats of their own, with care
ful captains and hands.
Stove Coal, Limeburners Coal, Plaster, Fiajh
and Salt always on hand.
Drain can be insured at a small advance on
ost of storage. n022
CLOTHS FOR GENTS' SWTS.
SPRING Style Cassimeres,
Fashionable Vesting*,
Tweeds and Cassimeres for boys,
Fine Black Glotbs for Coats,
Doeskins, Finest Blacks,
Linen and other Shirt Bosoms,
"'-■ well as a complete assortment of READY
ADE CLOTHING Tor men-and boys, at
p3O * m ' GEO. BftYMYER'S.
T — r~ —————
IAY Forks, Rope and Tackle Blocks, at
my7 ■' F. J. HOFFMAN'S,.
Butter and Water Crackers by the
J barrel, for sale by A. FELTX.
Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent.
For the" Educational Column.
The New Camcaiga.
The rest and relief of the summer vaca
tion, must now give way to the duties and
cares of a new campaign against ignorance,
in this warfare there are constant victories
to encourage, unceasing advances to stimu
late hope and effort, and richest prizes to
inward toil and faithful endeavor. Fortu
nately, Educatioa is so great and manifest
a good that no one whose intelligence fits
him to be ranked among civilized beings,
doubts its exceeding worth or requires to
be convinced of its desirableness. Yet ve
ry many think it is so good it can help it
self ; they have the friendliest regard for
it, but do not seem to consider it as having
any claim upon them for aid. It is not ex
aggeration, to say that probably a majority
of the people of this County actually sup
pose they have nothing to do with the pub
lic schools personally, that matter is all en
trusted to the wise and fatherly care of
Directors; the delicate responsibility of see
ing to the intellectual training of their
children and to the moral influences to
which they arc subjected, is laid on others
shoulders, and they feel happily free.
r This is a common, yet a most sad mistake.
\ou, parent,, cannot lay on another the mo
mentous responsibility" which Heaven has
imposed on you; you cannot innocently
neglect to interest yourself to secure for
your child the best possible mental and
moral training; Heaven will hold you to a
strict account in this important matter.
Ihe condition of the country just now
is not brightly auspicious for Education; it
if easy to be despondent, if one has not
faith that out of seaming evil, real good
will bo educed. It is natural that some
should think it almost useless to try to do
anything, at least to attempt any improve
ment, in educational affairs, when the coun
try seems to be poised on the very ve.'ge
of anarchy. J jet the fearful step aside ;
let the despondent avoid the schools; and
let the hopeful and courageous have room.
The children are as ready to bo taught as
ever; and, certainly their need of wise in
struction has never been greater than now.
Though the country's present be dark, we
expect a tranquil, sunny future ; at least
some sort of a future, which will be ren
dered more endurable or more glorious by
the intelligence and moral vigor which the
present children shall carry with them into
that future from the good schools we labor
to secure now. So, the most far-sighted
patriotism coincides with the fondest pa
rental affection in urging the adoption of
measures to render our schools yet more
thorough and generous in their teachings
and influence than they have hitherto been.
So the faithful teacher may justly feel that
he deserves well of his country, even though
he be not on the battle-field, nor at the post
of lonely peril.
In the new campaign there is room for
considerable improvement upon the last;
that was good, but this can quite easily be
better. It were pitiful if a year's experi
ence could teach us nothing, unless wc had
already attained perfection. Individual
teachers who succeeded well last year, now
feel that they are oji the path to sure rep
utation and will naturally endeavor to add
to the good name they have hitherto won;
and those who had but moderate success now
have another opportunity to retrieve their
character as teachers; they know wherein
they failed before, what were the weak
points, the almost fatal errors in their man
agement, —and. having carefully studied
these over and learned well the important
Lesson they teach, arc desirous to make an
other attempt to become successful teachers.
To all such, I hold out a helping hand ; I
sympathize with them in the solicitude they
naturally feel, and cordially wish them the
glad success which generally crowns intel
ligent, faithful, persevering effort. And
to those who are now commencing to teach,
before whom the session stretches as a land
of promise not unmixed with vague fore
boding, I bid a hearty welcome. You will
find plenty of work, not a few unanticipa
ted troubles, a large variety of cares and
perplexities; but you will not fail of reap
ing a rich reward, if you enter on ths labor
with the right spirit and continue in it with
a cheerful heart.
With this spirit in all. the schools of the
County, the coming session will be more
prosperous than any that has preceded it,
and in spite of the nation's calamities, the
vital, permanent interests of this commu
nity will be surely promoted. S.
Undertaking
STILL carried on. A large assortment of
Coffins on hand. Funerals attended to at
any distance in the country, at short notice.
Thankful for pae.t favors hoping a continu
ance of the same. A. FELIX.
Lewistown, Feb. 2, Ifi&JL.
LADIES' DEESS TRIMMINGS.
I invite the attention of buyers to my large
and well selected stock of Ladirs' Dress
and Mantilla, together with a good line of
sta pie Trainings.
*p>3< GEO BLYMYER.
COME and buy Queen, Glass and Stone
Wares, Segars, Tobacco, Cheese, Dried
Beef, Hams and Bacon, at
ie2s ' JOHN KENNEDY'S.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1862.
rat IMHHBK,
MRS. LOFTY AND I.
fVI-BLKasD BT BEQUEST OF MILIJE.]
Mrs. Lofty keeps a carriage,
3o do I;
She has dapple grays to draw it,
None have I.
She's no prouder of her coachman,
Than am I;
Of my blue-eyed laughing baby,
Trundling by:
I lutle his face lest she should see,
My cherub boy, and envy me.
Her fine husband lias white'fingers,"
Mine has not;
lie could give his bride a palace,
Mine a cot;
Her> comes home beneath the starlight,
Ne'er cares she;
Mine comes home beneath the twilight,
Kisses me,
And prays to Him who moves life's sar.d,
To hold the loved one in his hand.
Mrs. Lofty has her jewels,
So have I;
Site wears hers upon her bosom,
Inside I;
She will leave her's at death's portals,
By and by;
1 will bear my treasures with me,
When I die :
F<>r I have love, and she has gold;
She counts her wealth—mine can't be told.
Site has those who lore her station,
None have I;
But I've one true heart beside me,
Glad am I:
I'd not change it for a kingdom,
No not I:
God will weigh it in the balance,
By and by;
And then the ditt'ercnce Ile'll define
"Tu ixt Mrs. Lofty's wealth and mine.
THE LITTLE CiIRL, THAT MEETS ME.
There's a little girl that meets me,
And with laughter ever greets me,
And to kiss her oft entreats me,
As I stray
'Long the path of life, so dreary.
Where the saddened heart, and weary,
(Shades the sunlight, shining near me,
On rny way .
She has eyes as blue as heaven;
(Only aged about eleven;)
But unto her God has given
Such a heart,
That forever she is singing.
And her sweet voice ever ringing,
Beauty o'er the. rapt heart bringing.
Sweet as art.
With her sunny hair, so curly;
. Wljji her teeth, so white and pearly,
I have met her, late and early,
By the way,
And I take her hand, and press it
In my own. just to caress it—
■•Pretty little hand —God bless it:"'
I do say.
May the world smile kindly on her,
Benedictions fall upon her,
Angels be her guard of honor,
As she goes
Through this world of ours, singing,
Peace to troubled spirits bringing,
No grief her pure heart wringing
With its woes.
May the sweetest harp in heaven—
Brightest crown that e'er was given,
Where the waves of life are driven
Past the throne—
Echo to her dainty finger,
'Pon Iter pure brow ever linger,
While each angel be a singer,
Calling home!
A Foraging Party in Virginia.
KENTUCKY CONSERVATISM.
A humorous writer in the Sunday Mer
cury gives this amusing illustration of con
servatism :
Upon quitting the Strawberry Festival
I returned post haste again to Paris, where
I arrived just in time to start with Capt.
Bob Shorty and a company from the Copic
Section of the Mackerel Brigade on a for
aging expedition. We went to look up a
few straw beds for the feeding of the Anatom
ical Cavalry horses, my boy, and the con
servative Kentucky chap went along to see
that we did not violate the constitution nor
the rights of man.
4 It is my opinion, comrad,' says Capt.
Bob Shorty, as we started out —it's my
opinion my Union ranger, that this here
unnatural war is getting worked down to a
very bue point when we can't go out for
an armful of forage without taking the
Constitution along on an ass.' 4 1 think,'
says Captain Bob Shorty, 4 that the Consti
tution is as much out of place here as a set
of fancy harness would be in a drove of
wild buffaloes.'
Can such be the case, my boy—can such
be the case ? Then did our revolutionary
forefathers live in vain.
Having moved along in gorgeous cavalcade
until about noon, we stopped at the house
of a First Family of Virginia, who were
just going to dinner. Captain BobShoity
ordered the Mackerels to stack, arms and
draw canteens in front of the door yard,
and then we entered the domicil and salu
ted the domestic meeting in the dining
room.
* We come, sir/ says Bob, addressing
the venerable and high-minded chivalry at
the head of the house, I to ask you if you
have any old straw beds that you don't
want, that could be used by the cavalry of
the United States of America.' '
The chivalry only paused long ! enough
. (■: f s \ 'i - I ! ; U- . ■- ■' •* %
to threw a couple of pic plates ct us, and
then says he:
'Arc you accursed Abolitionists?'
The Kentucky conservative chap step
ped hastily forward, and says he :
No, my dear sir, we re the conservative
elements.'
The chivalry's venerable wife, who was
a female Southern Confederacy, leaned
back a little in her chair, so that her lit
tle son could see to throw a teacup at me •
and says she :
' You ain't Tribune reporters—be you?'
We were all noes aod no ayes. Quite
a I'euture was that in social intercourse, my
bov.
THe aged chivalry caused three fresh
chairs to he placed at the table, and bavins
failed to discharge the fowling piece which
lie had pointed at Captain Bob Shorty, by
reason of dampness* in the cap, he waved
us to seats, and says he:
' Sit down poor hirelings of a gorilla
despot and learn what it is to taste the
hospitality of a Southern gentleman. You
are Lincoln hordes,' says the chivalry,
shaking his white locks, ' have come to
butcher the Southern Confederacy : but
the Southern gentleman knows how to be
courteous, even to a vandal foe.'
Here the chivalry switched out a cane
which he concealed behind him, and made
a blow at Captain Bob Shorty.
•See here/ says Bob, indignantly, ' I'll
be
' Ilush !' says the conservative Kentucky
chap, agitatedly, 'don't irritate the old
patriarch, or the future amicable reconstruc
tion of the Union will he out of the ques
tion. He is naturally a little provoked
just now,' says the Kentucky chap, sooth
ingly, ' but we must show him that we are
his friends.'
We all sat down in peace at the hospi
table board, my boy, only a few sweet po
tatoes and corn-cobs being thrown by the
children, and found the fare to be in keep
ing with the situation of our distracted
country —I may say, warfare.
'ln consequence of the blockade of the
Washington Ape,' says the chivalry, pleas
antly, 'we only have one course, you see;
but even these last year's sweet potatoes
must be luxuries to mercenary mudsills
accustomed to husks.'
I had just reached out my plate, to be
helped my boy, wheu there came a great
noise from the Mackerels in the front door
yard.
' What's that ?' says Bob Shorty.
I Q, nothing,' s lys the female Confeder
acy, taking another bite of hoecake, 'l've
only told one of the servants to throw some
hot water cn your reptlp hirelings.'
As Captain Bob Shorty turned to thank
her for her explanation,and while his plate
was extended to be helped, the aged chiv
alry fired a pistol at him across the table,
the ball just grazing his head and entering
the wall behind him.
'By all that's blue!'says Captain Bob
Shorty excitedly, ' now I'll be '
'Be calm, now: be calm/ says the con
servative Kentucky cluip, hastily, ' don't
I tell you that it is only natural for the
good old soul to be a little provoked! If
you go to irritate him we can never live
together as brethren again.'
Matters being thus rendered pleasant,
my boy, we quickly finished the simple
meal, and as Captain Bob Sborty warded
off the carving-knife just thrown at him by
the chivalry's little son, he turned to the
female Confederacy and says he :
' Many thanks for your kind hospitality,
and how about that straw bed ?'
The Virginia matron threw the vinegar
cruet at him, says she:
' My servants have already given one to
your scorpions, you nasty Yankee.'
'Of course,' says the venerable chivalry,
just missing a blow at me with a bowie
knife, ' of course your government will pay
me for my property !'
' Pay you!' says Captain Bob Shorty,
hotly : 'now I'll be—'
1 Certainly it will, my friend,' broke in
the conservative Kentucky chap, eagerly,
' the Union trcops came here as your friends
and they make war on none but traitors.'
As we left the domicil, my boy, brush
ing from our coats the slops that had just
been thrown at us from an upper window,
I saw the chivalry's children training a
fowling piece from the roof and hpisting
the flag of the Southern CQnfederacy on
one of the chimneys.
And it will be possible to regain the
love of these noble people again, my
if we treat them constitutionally? We
shall see, my boy—we shall see.
A Buddhist Temple-
A traveler writes to the Straits Times
an account of a journey through Siam, in
which he describes a gorgeous Buddhist
temple at Aynthia, the old and now ruined
capital: 'The temple itself was very grand,
of immense size and height, marble pillars
supporting the roof, the walls literally GOV
ered to the height of about twenty feet with
small gilded niche- containing figures of
Buddha. have been thousands
of these little idols, and the value may be
judged on reflecting that all these images,
from the largest, measuring sometimes 120
feet in length, to the very smallest, are
made of clay incased in copper, and that
again covered with a layer of pure gold.'
Of another he says; 'lnside and out-
side, the bui'ding iteeltyou would say. was
made of gold and precious stones; but the
articles of ornament which you find inside,
there is no mistake about. There is a mas
sive silver mat of nearly half an inch thick
entirely covering the floor, with vases of
solid gold, chandeliers, images of Buddha,
all made of pure massive gold; the curtain
surrounding the shrir.e is cloth of gold;
the walls themselves, plated with gold thick
as ships' yellow metal, form a splendid con
trast to the flimsy gimcrack decoration of
the smaller temples, which line the banks
of the river ' We fear such wealth as this
may prove too much for French cupidity.
Already the French in Saigon have had
a diplomatic dispute with the Siamese
Kings as to the possession of part of Cam
bodia.
THE GALLANT BEAD
MAJOR GENERAL PHILIP KEARNY
Major General PHILIP KEARNY, who
was billed at Qhantilly, in irginia, in the
night of Monday, the Ist instant, was a
native of New Jersey. He was educated
for the profession of the law, but, always
being imbued witli a strong military spirit,
he joined the army in 1837 as Lieutenant
in the United States Dragoons. He serv
ed through the Mexican war, during which
his squadron was the pride of the service.
At the very gates of the city of Mexico
his left arm was carried away by a cannon
ball. For his gallantry in that campaign
he received the highest commendations.
After the war he travelled awhile, and dur
ring his stay abroad he took a hand in the
Algerian war, and was an aid-de-camp at
Solferino to a French marshal. He resign
ed his commission in our army in 1851.
When the present war broke out Gen.
Kearny was in France. He returned at
once and tendered his services to the Gov
ernment, which created him a Brigadier
General of Volunteers on the 17th of May,
18G1. A few weeks since, however, he
received the commission of a Major Geiier
al, having fairly won it on the bloody fields
of Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, White Oak
Swamp, Cross Roads, and Malvern Hill,
and having proved his title to it by his
more recent achievements on the Potomac.
In many of the celebrated actions of this
war General Kearny has been especially
conspicuous and distinguished. On the
peninsula his splendid division was in al
most every fight, lie always led his men
in person, and never allowed the front of
the battle to get much ahead of him. A
splendid officer, a fighting general, a brave
soldier, a patriotic citizen, his name will
live in the gratitude of the people of this
country, in support of whose integrity he
has so nobly fallen.
GENERAL ISAAC IN GALLS STEVENS.
Gen. STEVENS, who also fell in battle
at CI antilly, near Fairfax Court house,
Virginia, on Monday night, the Ist instant,
was a native of Massachusetts. He gradu
ated at West Point in 1839, taking the
highest rank, and entering the army as
lieutenant of engineers. At the commence
ment of the Mexican war he was Adjutant
of the Corps of Engineers, distingushed
himself by the most daring courage, sound
professional skill, and was
twice breveted for meritorious conduct,
lie was severely wounded in the attack on
the city of Mexico. At the close of the
Mexican war Major Stevens was attached
to the Coast Survey as principal assistant
•o Professor Bache, and had charge of the
Coast Survey office ir. Washington from
1849 to 1853. On the accession of Gen
eral Pierce to the Presidency in 1853,
Major Stevens resigned, and was appointed
Governor of Washington Territory, then
newly organized. He was elected to repre
sent the people of the Territory in Con
gress, which he left to join the army at the
breaking out of the rebellion. After the
death of Col. Cameron, at the battle of
Bull Run, he was appointed to succeed
him as Colonel of the Seventy-ninth New
York Regiment, (Highlanders.) He took
part in the expedition to Port Royal, as
General of a brigade, and participated in
the attack at James's Island, for the re
sults of which he was not reaponsible.
Gen. Stevens was soon afterwards ordered
with his command to reinforce Gen. Mc-
Clellan on the peninsula. He returned
with him to Alexandria, in the division of
Gen. Fitz John Porter, and was appointed
to lead the advance. He fell fighting at
the head of his men, and his Joss at this
time can be but badly spared by his coun
trymen.
GENERAL RENO.
In the death of General Reno the Army
of the L'uiou has lost one of its brightest
ornaments and ablest commanders. Gen
eral Reno was born in the State of Virgi
nia, and was appointed as a West Point
cadet from Pennsylvania in 1842. He
graduated in 1846, in the same class with
Major General McClellan ; was breveted
Seoond Lieutenant of Ordnance; went to
Mexico, and participated in every engage
mcnt from Vera Cruz to the City of Mex
ico. He was breveted First Lieutenant on
the 18th of April, 1847, for gallantry at
Cerro Gordo. In this battle, as at Cbe
pultepec, he commanded a bacteiy, and in
' the latter action he was wounded. For
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New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 47.
gallantry at Chepultepec he was breveted
captain, September 13, 1847.
After the close of the war he was, for
| six months. Assistant Professor of Mathe
j maties at West Point, and for 18 months
afterwards Secretary-to the Artillery Board,
during which he was engaged in testing
heavy ordnance and compiling tactics for
heavy artillery. Various employments
succeeded, in all which he brought to bear
judgment, good scientific attainments and
industry. He wis for a time on theCoist
Survey, and then on topographical duty in
the West; for a year engaged in buildiug a
military road from Big Sioux river to St.
Paul, Minnesota. From 1854 to 1857 he
was stationed at Frnklort Arsenal, near
Philadelphia. He was afterwards Chief
Ordnance Officer to General Johnston intho
Utah Expedition, and remained there till
1859, when he was detached and sent to the
Mount Vernon Arsenal, Alabama. He
was afterwards stationed at Leavenworth,
Kansas, where he was when the rebellion
broke out.
He was one of the officers selected by
General Burnsidc himself to accompany
him in his expedition, and approved by his
unvarying gallantry and conduct the choice
of his superior General. He was appointed
Brigadier General of Volunteers Novem
ber 12th, of last year, distingu : shed him
self at Roanoke and Newborn, and was con
sidered one of the bravest and most prom
ising officers in the service. When Burn
side's army was brought up from North
Carolina, Reno was put in command of a
division, and in the battles before
ington so distinguished himself that his
name is among the foremost of those hon
orably mentioned in reports, lie sought
the advance again in the march on the re
bels in Maryland, and, alas! we now have
to mourn his loss.
A younger man than Kearney, he bade
fair to lecome as splendid a soldier as that
lamented General; and in his death the
rrmy and the country lost one whom wo
could not well spare.
General lleno's father and mother and
two sisters reside in lowa City. One bro
ther lives in Chicago, another in Maren
go 111., while a third brother, Frank, was
upon his Staff.
GEN. MANSFIELD.
The death of General Mansfield, which
the telegraph records as one of the sad re
sults of the battle of Porterstown, will prove
a national loss, and excite a national feeling
of regret. Joseph K. Fenno Mansfield was
a native of Connecticut, and was about fifty
eight years of age. He was appointed to
West Point Academy from that State, in
October, 1817, and passed through the re*-
gular course of studies in that institution.
He entered the service of the Govern
ment on the Ist of July, 1822, as a second
lieutenant of engineers, and afterwards
rose to a higher position, as his merits be
came appreciated. In March, 1832, he
was made first lieutenant, and in July,
1832, became captain. During the Mexi
can war (in 1846-7) he rose to the position
of chief engineer of the army under Gen
eral Taylor. lie was brevetted major for
gallant and distinguished services in the
defence of Fort Brown, May 9, 1846. In
the stormiDg of Monterey ho.received no
less than seven wounds, several of which
were most severe; and for gallant and mcjv
itorious conduct in those conflicts he was
honored with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
His gallantry at Buena Yista won hie;
his colonelcy. *
In the war for the Union his services,
however, have been equally conspicuous, and
they are still sc fresh in the public memory
that it is needless to recount them here.
On the 14th cf Mgy, 1861, he was com
missioned a brigadier general in the regu
lar army, in recognition of his distinguish
ed worth, and his subsequent career, down
to the day when he sacrificed his life to his
zeal for the cause, is a noble testimony that
the trust reposed iu him by the Govern
ment was not misplaced. The death of
General Mansfield is a serious loss, not to
his immediate command alone, but to the
war bureau, and to the whole eouDtry.
And $0 Forth. —There is a young man
in the army, who was born July 4at 4
o'clock p. m . at No. 44, in a street in Boston,
1844, a 4th child, has 4 names, enlisted
into the Newtcn company which has joined
the 4th battalion, 44th regiment, 4th com
pany, and on the 4th of September was ap
pointed 4th corporal, and is now going forth
to defend his country.
iuarge Stock of Furniture on
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A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds
•of Furniture. Young married persons
and others that wish to purchase Furniture
will find a good assortment on hand, which
will be sold cheap for cash, or country pro
duce taken in exchange for same. Give me
a call, on Valley street, near Black Bear Ho
tel. feb 21
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PRIME Sugar Cared Haras—the Excelsior
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MAGNETIC Tack Hammer—just the
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