©iSffio sffiißnsyi&snß <ss g®sr a iKnmjasanßißSs Whole No. 2758. Rewistowu Post Office. Mails arrive and close at the Lvwietown P. O. as follows : ARRIVR. Eastern through, 5 33 a. m. 44 through and way 4 21 p m. Western 44 44 44 ' 10 38 a.m. Bellefonte ' 4 44 44 2 30p in. Northumberland, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, " 6 00 p. in. CLOSK. Eastern through 8 00 p. m. 44 and way 10 00 a. m Western 44 44 330 p. m. Bellefonte 800 44 Northumberland (Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays) 8 00 p m. Office open from 7 30 a. m. to 8 p. m. On Sundays from Bto9 am. S. COMFORT, P. M. I,ewlstown Station. Trains leave Lewistown Station as follows; Westward. Eastward Baltimore Exoress, 4 40 a. m. • Philadelphia 44 5 33 44 12 20 a. m. Fast Line, G26p. m. 350 " Fast Mail, 10 38 44 Mail, 421 44 Through Accommodation, 2 35 p m. Emigrant. 9 12 a. m. Through Freight, 10 20 p. m. 120a m. Fast 44 3 40 a. m. 8 15 44 Express 44 1 1 00 44 H 35 p. m. Stock Express, 5 00 44 9 05 44 Coal Train. 12 45 p. m. 10 38 a m. Local Freight, 645 a. ni. 626 p. m. Omnibuses convey passengers to •n.i from all the trains, taking up or setting them down at all points withifl the borough limits. SEC. W. ELDER, Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at tend to business in Mltfiin, Centre ami Hunting don counties ny26 J. iUfLI-L L£-> o OFFICE or East Market street, Lewistown, adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office the first Monday ah month to spend the week. " my3l DR. J. Z. MARZS OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens of Lewistown and the surround ing country. Office in the Public Square op posite the Lewistown Hotel. 4 janl3-6m* Large Stock of Furniture on Hand. 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 ftkeo in exchange for same. Give me a call .1 : Valley street, near Black Bear Ho tel. " feb 21 Jacob C. Blymyer & Co. } Produce and Commission Mer chants, LEWISTOWN, PA. •©"Flour and Grain of all kinds pur chased at market rates, or received on storage and shipped at usual freight rates, having storehouses and boats of their own, with care ful captains and hands. Plaster, Fish, arid Salt always on hand. sep'2 Ijock Repairing, Pipe Laying, Plumbing and White Smithing fIMIE above branches of business will be J. promptly attended to on application at the residence of the undersigned in Main street. Lewistown. janiO GEORGE MILLER. AND BRAID STAMPING Done on the most fashionable patterns by MRS MARION W. SHAW- Lewistown, Sept. 23, 1863 Kishacoquillas Seminary AND NORMAL INSTITUTE. r |MIE Summer Session of this Institution 1 will commence on MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1864, and continue twentyone weeks. Cost for Board, Furnished Rooms and Tu itioo in the English Branches, per session, SOO. Day scholars, per session, sl2. Music. Languages and Incidentals extra. In order to secure rooms in the Institute application should be made before tbe open - ing of the school. For further particulars, address, S. Z. SHARP, Prin. j at >l3 Kishacoquillas, Pa. Mt. Rock Mills. ORDERS FOR FLOUR, FEED, &0., CAN, until further notice, be left at the Store of S. J. Brisbin & Co., or at the llat Store of W. G. Zollinger, at which pla ces they will be called for every evening, fill ed next morning, and delivered at any place in the Borough. G LEIIR. BEST Note and Letter paper at march 2. SWAIN'S. TIE Jill M IL "TIS SW KEr TO BR REMEMBERED." BT FIDEUTX. 'Ti svepet to be remembered. When joys are falling fast, When friends are near unnumbered With love on us to cast. ! Tis sweet, oh yes, 'tis sweet. 'Tis sweet to be remembered, When sickness on us falls, When time and mind are cumbered By sorrow's bitter palls. 'Tis sweet, yes, then 'tis sweet. 'Tis sweet to be remembered, When the cold hand of death Parts those whom we have numbered Ours, till our latest breath. Remembered then, 'tis sweet. 'Tis sweet to he remembered. When fortune's scales are turned, When left uubenefactored, By those toward whom we yearned. How sweet, oh, then, how sweet. Oh. sweet to he remembered, When vile tongues in their zest, Foul calumny engendered. To mar the virtuous rest. Humanity! then 'ti*eweet. Sweeter to he remembered, When God sees fit to smite With a loving hand ; tendered To bring us to the right. Christians! then 'tis sweet. 'Tis sweet to be remembered, By Thee, oh! Christ, my Love; When we by Thee are numbered, Among the blest above. My Saviour, oh! 'tis sweet. In pitying love remember We mortals poor and blind, And help us to remember AU stages of mankind. Our Father's love is sweet. TALES' & SKETCHES The Pastor's Lieutenant. STORY FOR BUSYBODIES IN GENERAL. Miss Jellaby rose at six one beautiful August morning, and throwing open her I chamber window, snuffed once or twice, at the fragrance coming up from the g-rden below. Then she hunted a moment for her spectacles upon the bureau, and put ting them on, looked eagerly at Randall cottage over the way. A very modest, pret i ty little house it was, with roses and syriDgas growing under each window, and wood biue and jessamine climbing over the door; but M iss Jellaby was not admiring its | beautv just then. She looked up at the front window, on the second floor, and gave a vieious snort. 4 As I expected ! She isn't up yet, and here it is six o'clock ! And where is she L wonder?' Before she had time to answer the question, as it was asked—mentally—the front door of the cottage opened, and Miss Jellaby shrinking behind the curtain, saw a handsome, sunburned man come out, and go down the garden walk, with a ci gar in his mouth. It was easy to see by the slight roll in his walk, that he was a sailor, though for the matter of that, his bearing, handsome face, and frank hearty manner, would have told the tale, if he had not stirred a stt p With his handb ill his pockets, he sauntered among the roses, bending down now and then as if to say good morning to the fairest, and al ways removing his cigar when he did so. ' He couldn't do more if he was speak ing to a woman,' said the spinster, apply ing her eyes to a hole left purposely in the white curtain • The man is mad about flowers, I do believe, and she is a touch beyond him, if such a thing can he Ah, there she comes—and dressed in blue gingham, too '. I wonder what her morn ing gowns cost her a year ? Andherslip pers— oh, mercy, there they go right through the wet —well, tl ere ' \\ ords failed the worthy spinster.— i Meanwhile the owner of the slippers and very pretty little affairs they were—bronz ed, laced, rosetted with a spangle that shone like a dew drop—tripped down the walk so liehtly that the gentleman did not hear ler step, and coming upon him as he bent over a hod of vio ets, gave him a punch that sent him on his face among them. * To see her laugh—to see him blunder up and chase her through the al leys—to see him kiss her when he prison ed her at last in his strong arm—and to see her pretend to box his ear.- for it— was a sight for a loving heart ro watch — but Miss Jellaby, over opposite, fainted away with horror. She rang her bell vio lently, and a square-faced, sour looking woman, who had lived with her for years, made her appearance. * Susan ?' ' Well,' said the amiable domestic briefly. Before M iss Jellaby could speak, the uncooscious pair in the opposite garden transgressed against propriety again. ' Walking up and down in broad day light, with his" arm around her waist— just look at her, Susan ! Do you mean to stand there and tell me that that man is only her brother ?' ' Dear me, ma'am—how oan I tell ? I only know that they look alike, and that they have the same name, Helen and l'hiiip Graham, I was told.' WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1864. ' Humph! Its tuy opinion that some one ought to speak to Mr. Fullertoa.' 4 The minister ? What for ?' 4 Are you such a fool, Susan, as not to see what it ail means ? They are no more brother and sister than you and I are.' ' Well, what are they then ?' ' That remains to be told—the w Glob es ! Hut Mr Fullerton will soon set them to rights. I shall go and see him alter breakfast. I don't know what the poor man would do without me.' ' Have some peace. I suppose,' mutter ed vSusan, under her breath, as she follow ed Miss Jellaby down to the parlor. Breakfast being over, Miss Jellaby sail ed to the parsonage. 1 he clergyman was a quiet peace loving man, somewhat timid withal, and the spinster always overpowered him with her arguments, when she attempted to do so. She stayed nearly half an hour with him; at the expiration of that tiuie people who were on the lookout saw her conveying the unhappy parson in the direction, and at last, through the very gate of Randall Cottage. A tidy looking old servant admitted them, ushered them into a pleasant nur sery room, and said she would go and rell her mistress of their arrival. Mr. Fulller ton sat on the edge of his chair, very un easy in mind, and wishing with ail his heart that he was at home again. Miss Jellaby strode up and down the room like a dragon, eying everything about her, and making observations in an under tone, which, however, he could not help hear ing. * Such extravagance ! Look at the car pet, now—ail roses and lilies, and strag gling green vines. Why can't they be contended with a drngget, as lam ?' • She took another turn. 1 And a guitar! Spaniards, I don't 1 doubt; or Italians; and the rest follows as a mater of course. Mr. Fullerton I be- I lieve these people are heathens !' 4 Hardly, I think, or they never would have come to church last Sunday.' ' Oh, you don't know that; perhaps ! they had some private end to gain by it,' j said Miss Jellaby. The spinster's unreasonable suspicions • tickled Mr. Fullerton beyond measure— I She saw bini laughing and grew indig- I nant. 4 Let those laugh that wio, 1 say, Mr. ! I'ullerton; I don't doubt you will feel more like crying before this business is i settled,' 4 Not I,' said the minister, with a rueful ! look. 4 A crucifix, as I am a sinner,' she mur mured a moment afterwards. There, Mr. Fullerton, what did I tell you ! hanging on the wall here in broad daylight* Shall I pull it down ?' 4 Are you beside yourself, Miss Jellaby ?' I said Mr. Fullerton, springing up and ar resting her hand just in time. The sound of voices and laughtef in the garden prevented her giving him what she called, u 4 piece of her mind.' There , was a race up the broad path, that sober i ed into a walk when young couple i neared Ibe windows, followed by the old j servant, who had been in the grounds to eail them. They entered the room together, flush ed with their frolic, but looking happy and pleased to meet the clergyman. 4 Siri wears a different face from that,' he said to himself, as he shook hands with them They torned to the spinster, who ! had bolstered herself up against the chim- j ney piece, and stood eyeing them with sour ; disdain. 'Your neighbor, Miss Jellaby,' said Mr Fullerton, adding in a low whisper to her, as they sought about the room for easy chairs. 'lt's all a mistake, my good creature —there's nothing wrong here. I'll have nothing to do with the matter. •Say nothing, and let this pass as a morn ing call.' 'Say nothing, indeed! Mr. Fullerton, I am astonished at you !' was her reply, too audibly made, however, for Mr. Gra ham heard it, though he was too courteous to look surprised 'l'ray take this easy chair, Mr. Fuller ton, said Helen, who wondered inwardly at the strange behavior of her quests. 'No, my child,' said the clergyman kindly. 'Sometime I hope'to come again L can only express my sorrow having been persuaded against my better judgement to enter these doors on such an absurd errand >—and leave you.' 'My dear sir, forgive me if I do not quite understand !' exclaimed the captain, while Helen made up her mind that both her visitors were mad. 'I will tell you at another time,' said. I 1 ullerton, nervously. 'X will only say in explanation of this intrusion, that it has been caused by a ridiculous mistake. Miss Jellaby, will you allow me to accom pany you home.?' Miss Jellaby folded her arms, loooked at them all viciously, a*d thundered out— ' No!* 'ls she mad?', whispered Helen to the clergyman. 'What does all this mean?' Miss Jellaby heard her. 'lt means this, madam, this and noth ing more, that if Mr. Fullerton is to be ensnared by a pretty face, and frightened out of doing his duty, I am not I'. 'Was there ever such an unfortunate piece of business! Miss Jellaby, I can riot allow yu to commit such an act of folly, or to insult these young creatures. I command you, as your master, not to speak.' 'I take no orders from a man who . shrinks from his duty,' said the spinster 1 loftily. 'My dear sir, (turning to the captain,) it seems I cannot spare y u the infliction, i so 1 may as well tell you what this good ! lady means. .She lives opposite you as you already know ' 'And she has seen you time and again, ; when you thought yourselves quire alone— remember that. chimed in the sharp voice iof the spinster. # 4 l>o be quiet, my dear Miss Jellaby. As she says, sjie has often seen you ' 'Kissing! exploded from her iips. 4 Miss Jellaby, either you or I must be silent. From these things she has drawn her own conclusions, and I am ashamed r o say that for a brief p<ice she persuaded me into believing therein. I need not add that from the instant you entered this room, my suspicions vanished, and I would readily stake my life, this moment, upon * your perfect integrity.' 4 Hut, my dear sir,' said Captain Ora ham. smiling, 'of what does this lady sus , peet us?' ♦ 'Tell them, Miss Jellaby, I will not.' 'l'retty behavior, I am sure, to leave the worst part to me, Mr Fullerton. However, no one shall say 1 shrunk lrom my duty !' J "VV e are wai ing to know what heinous I crime we have committed,' said Gupf-iin : Graham, drawing the bewildered Helen clo.-e to his side Miss Jellaby gasped at the caress; then it seemed to give her fresh energy 'Hefore my very eyes, sir!' 'What do you mean?' 4 I suppose you will kiss her next.' 'Well, now you mention it —1 think I will And he did ! Miss Jellaby nearly ! fainted away with horror. 'Mr. Fullerton, how can you stand there so quietly, and watch this Yhamcless I conduct? As for you, sir,' she added, I turning to the good humored captain, 'you : need uot think every one will tolerate your I audacious—' | 'Take breath, my dear Miss Jellaby.' 4 lt is infamous,' shouted the enraged | spinster. **'Hrother arid sister, indeed! j You are no more her brother than you are I mine, Captain Graham, i 'I know it—l never said I was !' Mr Fullerton looked rather puzzled. Miss Jeilaby was triumphant. 'Well, you are brazen abo it it, I must say. This town v#ll soon be too hot to : hoid you, depend upon it.' ' 'I never knew it was a crime not to be a woman's brother before,* said the cap I tain quietly. 'However, there is a rela tion between us, if it pleases you any bet ter.' 'What is it' •I am her cousin—the ward of her fa ther, and have always lived with her fami ly in England.' Oh!' ' here was a world of meaning in that simple ejaculation. 'Also I have the honor to be—' ' Her husband !' Mr Fullerton uttered a most unclerical hurrah, and shook hands with the young couple over and over again. 'lier husband!' faltered the old maid. •1 —L never thought of that!' 'Allow me to hope, madam, that you will have your wits about you before you try to ere .te another scandal,' said the captain suavely. 'I have the honor to wish you good morning.' lie held the door open as lie spoke— she could hut take the hint, and rushed out of the house, and into her own, in a state verging upon distraction. Staying to be laughed at and sympathized with, was what she could not endure—the cot tae was shut up next day, and she and Susan were far away Miss Jelluby had tbund her match, and the village has known peace since her departure—for the first time. ** •_ MIIEELMMEOOI, Who First Armed the Negroes ? The so called Democratic press and bla tant orators are daily asserting 'that at the outbreak of the rebellion they heartily and vigorously sustained the President in the prosecution of the war until be turned it into an abolition war, and armed and or ganized negro regiments.' Now without stopping to prove the entire falsity of the above, we give below an abstract from a speech delivered in Carlisle, Kentucky, on the 25th of June last, by Col. Bramlette, afterwards elected Governor of that State : 'You object to negro soldiers. Who began this business? Who raised the first negro regiment? Did Lincoln? Don't you know that in the beginning of this strife in New Orleans they heralded abroad that they had already organized two negro regiments to fight the Yankees with ? Don't you know that the first act in the Tennessee liebel Legislature was to au thorize the organization of free negro reg EffEIFaPILESy inients ? Don't you know it to He a fait ! furthermore that they h.ive regiments of Indians in their service. to tomahawk and ! seaip our women and children ? And ye? none of you here I will venture to say, has heard these constitutional Union ; men object to their u-ing negro regiments to fight us with. Yor never heard one of | them onjeet. to enlisting the Indians against us. Why is it that you have grown so • terribly repugnant to negro aid ! You are willing if should be employed against us, hut now that it is being employed to help us you are terribly disturl ed The rea son seems irres'stahie that when they were fighting on the side you were anxious should win, all was w t li ; lut as soon as they are employed against that side, you object. 'Suppose one of you were assaulted by robbers, who threatened to burn your bouse and murder your family if you did't give up your money ; that your neighbor came running to your assistance, and with him one or two stout negroes with clubs and axes and guns; that while you are engag ed in a close hand to-hand conflict with one of them you should see that brawny negro hewing one of thetn down, would you say, 4 Hoid on, I don't want any ne gro to help me. Here, Mr Robber, I am not going to succeed in driving you off' by any such aid as that; you may burn my house and take my property.' Is this what any sane mar would do? But it. is just in this way that Southern sympathizers— Constitutional Union men—talk They would have us, t ecause the President does not use such weapons as they think prop er, say : * Here, Jeff Davis, take all we have, and slay us as soon as you please; not another man or another dollar can we give till Lincoln quits fighting with these things.' Present Prospect of the Presidential Election [Correspondence New York Evening Post.] In July*. 1860, for the soke of amus ing some friends, I printed an estimate of the Presidential election ol that year. In that estimate I gave Lin coln 179, and Breckinridge and compa ny 1-1 electoral votes; the actual re sult was 180 fiir the former ticket, and 1-3 for the latter. As another election is approaching, I venture on another guess, although earlier in the season, and the contingencies perhaps greater. The electoral votes are according to the new appointment, and include the new .States of Colorado, Nebraska, and Nevada. If East Tennessee is admit ted as a separate State, two addition al electoral votes to repiesent the two United States Senators should be ad ded to the Union column. # P. S. Union. Opposition. Arkansas 5 New Jersey 7 California 5 Kentucky II Cnloradii ?> Connecticut * 6 18 Delaware 3 Doubtful Illinois 16 I Missouri 11 Indiana 13 low a 8 Sol Voting K.insas 3 Alabama 8 Louisiana 7 Florida 3 Maine 7 Georgia .9 Maryland 7 Mi-sissippi 7 Massachusetts 12 North Carolina 9 Michigan 8 B>>uih Carolina 6 Minnesota . 4 Texas 6 Nebraska 3 Virginia (part) 5 Nevada 3 New Hampshire 5 53 New York 33 Ohio 21 Necessary to a Oregon 3 choice, (if a majority Penrisy vania 26 of the entire electoral Rhode Island 4 vote is required.) 161 Tennessee 10 Necessary to a choice V eruaojit 5 (if only a majority of Virginia (part) 5 those voting is requir West Virginian 5 ed) 134. Wisconsin 8 288 The Lake and Mississippi Canal- Tho President lust week communi cated to Congress the report of C. B. Stewart, consulting engineer, upon the improvements to pass gunboats from tide-water to the Western Lakes. The engineer assumes that upon the connection of those lakes with tide water depends our common defence as well as general welfare, and that the Mississippi river should likewise be connected with the lakes. He urges that the great food-producing region uses this chain of lakes for transit of exports and imports, which is a line of communication at present utterly de fenceless, leaving the lake cities to des truction by English gunboats on a declaration of war by Great Britain, thus inflicting damage to which the cost of the proposed improvements would be utterly insignificant. He makes various recommendations, and gives as total estimates for improved gunboat locks for the Erie, Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga and Seneca canals, with seven feet of water, over 818,000,000, and with eight feet of water $20,500,000, and the cost of a canal around Niagara Falls at from ten to thirteen millions of dollars. —The next wedding on the tapis is said to be a tall chap down street and a girl with blue-black eyes, dark hair, Ac (sairsOTSTs ikkj New Series—Vol, XVIII. No. 23. Southern Aristocracy. Here is nit account ol the 'rise and pro gress of sonic oi ilic 'superior race Gen Forrest was once what is called in ♦be Southwest a 'river shark;' that is a I steamboat gambler From this he pot to |be a riegro trader, and became rich (Jo the breaking out of the war be received a commission in the rebel army, and is now | oi their most distinguished Major Gen erals. H J'he 'Aeklin estate,' near Nashville, is one oi the ut >st 'aristocratic' properties in that region. I.' wis owned by 'Joe Aeklin,' lately deceased, who is described as a 'low fellow, ol no account' fill he married the widow of the late Isaac Franklin, whose money, made by her first husband in sel ling negroes, converted him into a nabob and made him one of the chivalry. Exceeding the F'airvue and Aeklin es tates in aristocratic pretension is that of Gen. Harding, also lying within a few miles cf Nashville. It embraces 5,000 acres of land, a large and well stocked deer park, and other feudal appurtenances Gen Harding was u member of the Jocky Ciul, a leader in the Agricultural Society, and a member of the rebel Hoard of War Gen. Harding is the 'son oi old John Harding, the negro trader.' That is his genealogy and famly tree, a- it. was given to me. Another baronial estate near Nashville is that of Mr John 'I honipson? It contains about 1.500 acres of land, au imposing mansion, and finely laid out grounds, and its ownership places Mr Thompson among the men of consideration in rebeldom He is a negro trader, worth half" a million of dollars. Another rebel establishment, well known in Nashville, though it is not distinguished by pretension, is that of W. W. Woodfoik, lusq 31 r. Woodfoik is the son of a inau ol the same name, who raised himself from proverty and jpbscarity by successful trade i n negroes. Beginning in a small way, fie accumulated money enough to start his sons Joseph and Austen in the negro bus iness in Baltimore. There they bought up 'vagrant and term of year' slaves, and sent them out to the old man in Tennessee, who disposed of them. Buying these 'term of year and vagrant' slaves at prices little more than nominal, and selling them at the high rates which such property com manded in the South west, a fortune suffi cient tor the whole family was soon accu mulated. if any one should think that in this statement 1 do the \\ oodfolks injustice, let him turn to the 'Peter Sleeper' case, published in the '\erger Reports,' and see for himself. [lhe Austen Wood folk spoken of above we remember well, having fre quently seen him wh ; le residing at Bal timore thirty years ago. His den was on tance from the then city limits, and was generally regarded with horror, it be ing nothing unusual to hear t he clank ing of chains, the sobs and wails of men and women, aye, and shrieks too, of those whose only crime was that that thev were born with black, tan nev, or yellow skins, and their ancaa tors torn from their homes by violence and consigned to slavery—all, accord ing to the uevv sect of Christifins , with the sanction of God and the Scrip tures I—Ed. Gazette.] —The Cincinnati Enquirer lavs down the "principles" of the Ohio "Democracy" in this wise: "There can be no war under the Constitution for the coercion of a sovernign State. | The Democracy stand by the Constitu | tion, and insist that such a war can not be prosecuted for any legitimate or just purpose, or in any just man ner." On this platform the Ohio " De mocracy" name George B McClellan. —James P. Parrot -has been ap pointed Flour Inspector at the port of Philadelphia. Mr. Parrott was Adju tant of the Corn Exchange -Regiment, was wounded at Hhoppnrdstown in a skirmish which took | lace immediate ly after the battle of Antietam. Adju tant Parrott behaved himself with great courage. He was taken prison er at Sherppardstown, and suffered greatly in the prison dens at Rich mond. —A soldier lay in a lady's house, badly wounded. A Major-General rode to the door. His orderly took his horse. He got off, went in, and sat down by the dying man's side : Taking out a little book, he read from it: 'Lot not your heart be troubled,' &c. Ho then knelt down and offered up a prayer to God for that dying soldier. Arising from his knees, he bent down and kissed him, and said: 'Captain G , we shall meet in Heaven.' He then rode off. That General, was Major-General Howard. The returns of the election in xsTew York on the question of amending the Constitution to allow soldiers to vote are complete. The result is as follows; For the Amendment 258,795 Against the Amendment 48,079 Majority 210 71§
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