Railroad Statistics. —The carninge cf the
Pennsylvania CeDtral Railroad Company in
each of the last two years, from October 1,
has been as follows :
1854-55. 1855 56. j
October, $333,236 38 $474,134 56
November, 277,457 13 410,850 78
December, 210,110 49 434,559 09
Januarv, 293,77 il6 298,109 33 j
February, 191,014 22 298,442 16
March, " 377,432 97 520,188 76
April, 355.849 29 610,969 11
May, 325,711 94 403,58G 25
Juno, 302,176 79 344,291 55
July, 397,516 34 322,672 99
August, 397,628 09 367,718 68
September, 440,182 86 415,949 98
$3,822,593 96 $4,951,473 84
Increase, 1,128,879 88
The tonnage of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company for the month of October, 1856, was
as follows:
Tons of through freight—East, 5,068
" " " West, 5,536
" local " East, 22,003
" " " West, 10,409
Total, 43,016
The following is a statement of the receipts
for the month of October:
Month ending Oct. 31, $428,148 12
Same month last year, 474,134 56
Decrease, 45,956 44
Front Jan. 1 to Nov. 1, 1556, $4,060,0(6 93
Same period last year, 3,469,924 22
. Increase, 590,152 71
The continued low stage of water in the
Ohio river and the incomplete character of
the Southwestern railroad connections, which
will be remedied in the course of a few months,
are the causes to which the decrease of re
ceipts during this fali are to be attributed.
mule race came off on Thursday on
the Centreville Course, L. 1., for a purse of
SSO; mile heats, best three in live. Four an
imals were entered; they exhibited their nat
ural obstinacy. One fellow was pitched head
over heels; one mule baulked, and could not
be induced to return to the track; another
paid a visit to the interior of the bar, and
smashed decanters and glasses. A fellow
called Eastern Jack won the three last heats,
uud the rider took the purse.
EajKl'ae Second Presbyterian Church, in
Stillwater, Minnesota, which was just being
finished, was destroyed by fire recently. A
large new bell which bad just been put up,
was destroyed. The "Rice lEuse" in St.
Paul was also recently destroyed by fire.
•i -Man Meeting his own Funeral.—
A singular incident occurred in New York
last week. A man, killed by a railroad
accident at Tarrytovvn, was reported to be
Patrick Burke of New York, and his wife
at once proceeded to the spot. On arriv
ing she saw the body, and having her
mind made up for the worst, without noti
cing deceased's face, concluded that he
was her husband, and forthwith made ar
rangements for the funeral. The suppos
ed Patrick was brought to the city in a
neat mahogany cotlin, the expenses and
luxury of an old fashioned wake was in
curred, five carriages were hired, and as
the funeral was about to cross over the
\\ iiiiamsburg ferry on Thanksgiving day,
the real genuine Patrick llurke met his
bereaved friends and in full health—as
Mrs. Burke, on her testimony, expressed
it, to their utter -dismay." The mourn
ers now began to think they had been
badly hoaxed, and unceremoniously hur
ried the bogus Patrick to the Bellevue
Hospital dead house, while the genuine
Burke rode home in a carriage by his wife.
Mysterious. —On Saturday, whilst Mr.
Ellis Askey was hunting on the head wa
ters of Montgomery, in Pike township,
this county, he found a small tin-box and
aw ooden leg, m a dense thicket, four miles
from any habitation. On Monday Mr.
Askey and others proceeded to the place,
where they found all the bones of a man,
except tiic skuil. In a Testament found
in the were written a couple names,
which were m..de out to be R. V. Right
bone and R. B. Charles, Engisnd—besides
these, on a piir of spectacles was epgrav
cd Kobt. Wright. The bones are suppos
ed to be those of a travelling tinker, an
Englishman, who had a wooden leg, and
was going through the country about five
months ago, and it is supposed that he
either lost his way, and becoming entan
gled in the thicket where the bones were
found, was unable to extricate himself aud
perished from fatigue and starvation, or
that he was destroyed by some wild ani-"
mal.— Clearfield Journal.
Benedict Voder, of Conemaugh
township, .Somerset county, was found in
one of his own fields, on the 17th ult.,
with the entire upper part of his head
blown off. A double-barrelled pistol, with
both barrels discharged, was found by his
side. Mr. Yoder was a highly respecta
ble young man, only 20 years of age, and
no cause is assigned for the rash act. An
inquest was held by J. 11. Howard. Esq.,
and a verdict that he shot himself with
his own hands was returned bv the jury.
CZr'Vhe following extraordinary bet is
said to have been pendiqg between two
gentlemen of New York in regard to the
complexion of the Presidential vote of the
St •" of New \ r ork: A Fillmore man,
si. .ig of course in the belief that his fav
orite would carry the Stale, agreed to give
an equally positive Freroonter one cent fur
every vote the Republican electoral ticket
had in excess of that polled for the Amer
icans; while, vice versa, the Eremonter
agreed to give one cent for every vote that
the Americans had over the Republicans.
It is verv certain that Fremont's plurality
over Fillmore is little if* any short of 150,-
000; consequently the too-sanguine Amer
ican finds himself in for the nice little sum
of fifteen hundred dollars.
THE GAZETTE. I
LEWISTOWN, PA.
Thursday Morning, Nov, 27.
Notices of New Advertisements.
A Teachers' Meeting will be held iu the
Town Ilall on the 26th of December.
Mons. Guerin will lecture in the Town Hall i
on next Tuesday evening.
A meeting of the Mifflin County Agricul
tural Society will be held at Mc\ eytown on
the 9th of December.
The Kishacoquillas Turnpike Company has
declared a dividend of" 4 per cent, for the last
six months.
Adams Express Co's office has been remov
ed to the office of the Penna. Railroad Co.
A grand exhibition of Dry Goods, &c., is
to be seen daily at the People's Store.
NATIONAL POLITICS.
In some counties the Fillmore and Repub- i
lican papers arc still keeping up a war of
words, berating each other with idle epithets, j
and this with as much zeal as though the fight
for victory lay between them, instead of being
with a third party hostile to both. The j
straightout Fillmoreites are also engaged in i
defining their positions, proving Fremont a
Catholic, or apostrophizing on tho bright !
prospects of their future!
None of these parties we fear, or perhaps !
more properly their political leaders, seem as
yet to have realized tho full extent of their }
late defeat, and perhaps will not until anoth
er election takes place, when their eyes will j
probably open to the suicidal policy that has j
been pursued. Thousands who have hereto- {
fore been active and influential politicians are
now either lukewarm or have abjured the 1
business altogether, while others having bro- i
ken through the ice by voting for Mr. Bu
chanan will support him if he at all answers j
their expectations in his course. All this, it
is idle to conceal, has given the democratic
party a strength it never before possessed—a
unity so sadly lacked by the opposition—and
which will enable it to control this State for
years to come, though grosser mismanage
ment than has been wont should characterize j
some of its doings. It is true, there may be
seme disaffection on account of appointments
to office, but this will be but a drop in the
bucket, for most of them will rather "grin ;
and hear it" and live upon renewed promises i
with a party in ascendancy and in power than
ally themselves with a " divided house."
The only hope we can see for the opposition
to hang a thread upon is in the course Mr. j
Buchanan may pursue. Should he take to :
his counsels the threateners of disunion, the
advocates of fillibusterisni, or slavery propa
gandists, or engage in wild schemes of annex
ation, h would rouse to Activity a ela.-s whose
support lie received in this and other States
as a conservative man rather than as the nom- ;
iuee of the Cincinnati Convention, who might
give the party much trouble. But of this
there is thus far no evidence. Though Mr.
Buchanan declared on his nomination that he
was no longer James Buchanan but the plat
form, the immense vote cast in favor of Fre
mont and Free Soil in the Northern and Mid- |
die States may have influence enough to in
duce Mr. B. to become (or at least make the j
trial) the President of the People instead of j
the partj*. Conscious that he owes hiaeleva- !
tion to the SI.AVE VOTE— for take its represen- ;
tation in the electoral college away, and Mr. j
Buchanan is iu a woful minority—he must
feci and know that an extension of that sys- !
torn which enables the few to govern the ma
ny, a minority to overwhelm a majority, is j
not in consonance with the principles of our ;
forefathers, but at war with our professions ;
. . . 1
and opposed to human rights. His Cabinet
will probably foreshadow the future: should i
such fanatics as Wise, Rhett, or others of that
school be taken in, the Republicans will at
once spring into renewed life and by 1860 i
wield all the free states by overwhelming ma- j
jorities; hut should moderation characterize
i his selections and appointments, we do not
look for much excitement in politics for some j
years to come. Such is our view of the po- j
litical field at present, aud we think events .
will show we are not far wrong.
The Foreign Fob-.—The Gettysburg Star j
and Banner, (a Fremont paper,) convinced :
that Buchanan carried the State only by the
aid of Foreigners naturalized within the last |
year, desires to have the proof ol' it in an au- j
thoritative shape, and requests that the exact ;
number naturalized between October 1855
and November election 1856, in the several j
counties, be obtained from the l'rothonotaries ;
thereof, and published. The following are
thus far reported:
Adams county, 19 j
Blair, " 315 J
Dauphin, " "7
Centre, " 42
Mifflin, " 30
An exchange, in enumerating the
"bleseings" Mr. Buchanan's election has so
cured, has the following additional plank in
the platform :
" It has hurled from the lap of the nation
the rubbish of sumptuary legislation, prescri
bing what wc shall eat, what ice shall drink, j
and wherewithal we shall be clothed."
So, whiskey is to be free under the new ;
administration! That accounts we suppose '
for the copious draughts taken by many du- ,
ring the campaign who had better kept sober. !
jfeajy The Clinton Democrat, lately published
by J. W. McEwcn, lias been purchased hv
Dieffenbaoh and Martin.
8t5k560,000 in notes were paid into the
Lancaster Bank on Friday, Saturday and
Monday, thus discharging liabilities to that
amount.
Condition of the Lancaster llank.
The stockholders of this institution held a 1
meeting on Saturday, when A. llerr Smith,
the newly elected President, stated that a
careful investigation had been made, the re
sult of which was submitted to the meeting
in the following classified form :
COOP. ASSETS.
Due by banks and bankers, $70,121 71
Notes and checks of other banks, 10.851 38
Specie, 12,040 Sti i
Konds and mortgages, 16,114 (X)
Ranking house, 13,280 85
Rills discounted, 684,4*1 80
• $806,890 79 :
DOUBTFUL.
Jlills discounted, 221,796 89
DAD.
Factory stock, $74,000 00
Westchester Railroad stock, 6,500 00
Rills discounted, 237,288 00
$1,349,484 68
LIABILITIES.
Notes in circulation, $724,869 CX7
Due to individual depositors, i 36,069 30
Due to banks, 65/121 95
Due to dividends unpaid, 5,675 11
— $932,726 36 '
Mr. Smith further remarked that if time
was given, much of the assets set down as
doubtiul and bad might be made available.
1 hey would therefore recommend a mild, pa
cific course—not that some men have not been
guilty of wrong—but a violent course may !
injure those who have been already sufficient
ly injured. XV e must first save ourselves, and
thea it will be time to take such a legal course I
as may be deemed necessary. Mr. Smith
then submitted and recommended a proposi
tion similar to the plan that had been pursued !
some years ago by the Girard and Penn Town
ship Banks, which ho thought could be car
ried out in this case with equal advantage. I
Judge Long moved tiiat a committee of five
be appointed to wait upon tho stockholders
and depositors to ascertain their views and
solicit their acceptance of the proposition
submitted by the Board of Directors, as read
by the Chairman, which was adopted and the
following gentlemen appointed:.l. E. lleister,
Patrick McAvoy, John Hatz, J. M. Long and
Thos. S. Mcllvaine.
Mr. Brown offered the following resolution,
which was adopted:
Revolted, That a committee of five stock
holders, who have not been connected with
tho Bank as officers, be appointed tcrmak© a
: thorough investigation of its condition, and
make report to an adjourned meeting of the
stockholders, which report shall embrace as
follows:
1. The condition of the bank, whether sol
i vent or insolvent.
2. If found insolvent, to report the cause
! or causes of its insolvency, and the manner
I in which such insolvency was produced.
3. The time or times when the losses were
incurred, which have rendered it insolvent.
4. The names of the officers and directors
i under whose administration the insolvency of
the Bank occurred.
This resolution was adopted, and the Chair
: appointed W. W. Brown, Jacob B. Tshudy,
Joseph Konigmacher, E. 0. Reigart and D.
|O. Swartz, the Committee under it. Mr
I liester expressed his conviction that the Bank
can be made solvent—its debts and liabilities
discharged—but this would require the most
cautious management. If they were to re
sort to an assignment he was apprehensive
| that tho assets might not cover the notes in
circulation. Meeting adjourned to December
6 th.
Foreign News.
Gone—The man with forty grammars.
Weather—Variable as the Fashions.
| Missing—Porter's Spirit of the 15th inst.
Bf*L.Rev. John J. l'earcc is out in a card
I denying that he voted for A. White for Con-
I Z™* 3 -
from Kansas Ultimate that
! Gov. Geary is getting into trouble with the
I Misseurians.
g£%,The run on Die Farmers Bank of Lan
-1 caster eountv aud Lancaster County Bank
j has in a measure ceased.
|@k.Therc is said to bo a township in Lou
' isiana, colonized by free negroes, who all
voted for Buchanan. The only white mail in
it voted for Fillmore,
i fc£?-The Democrat puts up the mune of
Ephraim Banks, Esq., for Governor, on the
principle we suppose of rotation—i. e. rotat
; ing from one office into another.
fey-Tickets were issued for a ball at tho
Lewistown ou Tuesday evening, but bad
weather arid perhaps a want of "hoops" pre
; vented it from coming off.
Drugged and Robbed.— David Daughen
. baugh, who had just sold his farm for SBOO,
' was drugged and robbed of tho whole sum,
i in Pittsburg, Pa., last Thursday.
fcay-Baudridge C. Williams of Eutaw, Ala
bama, killed seven grown turkeys and wound
ed the eighth one at one shot —all on the
I wing at that.
; Extensive Sale. —The Sheriff of Centre couu
i ty advertises about 18,000 acres of land, in
J forty-two tracts, situate iu Taylor township,
| to be sold at Bellefonto on the Ist December,
' as the property of James Wilson, deceased.
Burglary and Robbery. —The store of Peter
Baldy, Jr., in Danville, l'a., was entered by a
! back window, on Saturday night last, and
■ robbed of silks, broche shawls, &e., amount
| ing in value to more than SSOO.
Eire. —The Farmers' and Mechanics' store
! at Enow station, Ohio, on the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne and Chicago Railroad, was destroyed
by tiro on Wednesday morning. Loss, $lO,-
000; insurance SSOOO.
B*3L.Tlic Philadelphia City Council aic
talking of swapping away $150,000 Pa. Ruil
-1 road stock for tho same amount of North l'a.
I Railroad bonds—the former paying 8 per
: cent., the latter nothing. The fools arc not
all dead yet.
For sale—Both the Tyrone papors. It
wouldn't be a bad idea for the editors aleug
the Juniata to buy the material of one estab
lishment, and keep it for tho especial accom
modation of "traveling jours." As they av
erago about one a week the year round, the
paper might be edited, set up, worked off and
distributed by each in turn, and thus afford
ttu unequalled variety iu the way of editorials,
j selections, &c.
LOCAL AFFAIRS
W?X,The Lecture on Fashion delivered by
Park Benjamin, Esq., in the Town Ilall on
Saturday evening was tolerably well attend
ed, and elicited so much admiration that it
augurs well for the continuance of these in
tellectual treats. We have no doubt at all
when our citizens once come to appreciate the
! benefits resulting from attending public lec- I
turea, they will be quite as ready to spend
their quarters for the gratification of them
selves and children as many of them now arc
to spend that sum to take them to a circus.—
A little reflection will teach them that although
young folks are principally attracted to a
show by a desire to enjoy themselves, yet it
, is apparent from their after attempts to inii- ;
tate the performances that they are observant
of all that takes place. Now why not extend
this to fl lecture? If they can be induced to !
go, not for the purpose of moping, but to ob- '
serve, they will learn more of elocution in a
single season than a long course of study
will give them. They will also learn to use
and appreciate the beauties of our language,
and thus in a short time take as much pleas
ure in listening to an able lecturer, in critici
sing Lis language, and noticing his style of i
oratorical display, as most of them now do in
criticising the performances of a circus. Such
a lecture as was delivered by Mr. Benjamin !
i is probably best adapted to bring the system j
i into favor, as it abounds in all the versatility i
i of our language, from the highest moral to
the most biting satire—is at once adapted to ;
almost every taste —and delivered in a fault- :
| less style.
The next lecture will be delivered by Mous. 1
Guerin on French Characteristics on Tuesday j
evening next.
i
"Jaxatiok. —>Y bother "well-governed" or
not, the citizens of our borough have at least
uo reason to complain of nut being " well
taxed." To pay for the new jail the county
j rates for the ensuing year will be 8 mills; the :
> school directors will probably lay not less than
5 mills, (and if they conclude to go on with .
the proposed new building, 10 or 12 mills,) |
; which, with the borough and state levies, will
; make quite a respectable tax, to wit:
County, 8 mills,
State, 3 "
School, 5 "
Borough, (probably) 3 "
Total, 19 mills, |
making in the aggregate sl9 in the thousand. i
From this it will be seen that a man or worn- I
an rated at SSOOO will pay a considerable rent <
in the way of taxes, his or her share being
$93, a sum sufficient to draw out the eye
teeth of some men. The taxable property in
the borough amounts to about $600,000, so
that our citizens will have to pay some $12,000
next year for the support of the State, county,
schools and borough ! In this piping age of
hard times, high prices, and broken banks, it
; is almost a blessing to have little property
and less money.
Canal Appointments. —The democracy
having discovered at the last election that it
was a positivo saving to their pockets to con
f tinuc Major Kisenhise as Supervisor, no op
position of moment was made to his re ap
pointment. A. G. llarvey, Esq., has also
j been continued as collector. On the Upper
Juniata Division Major Leet, who is said to
i have been an attentive business man, lias
been shoved aside as Supervisor to make room
for John Gadd. Gen. Calohan, Superinten
dent of the Portage Railroad, has also walked
; the plauk, Cambria county having proved too
. powerful in the Board for Blair. James
i Bryden has been appointed in his place.
•
B*3L.T!io County Commissioners, we under
stand, have appointed Rosweil D. Smith
• Clerk for the ensuing year. As there were
no less than nine applicants, all willing to
I serve the county to the best of their ability,
the commissioners had no lack of material
i from which to make choice. Mr. S. we think
will make an excellent clerk. Mr. Walters,
who has held the post for a number of years,
| will take charge of the Prothonotary's office
! on the Ist December, to which office, as our
I readers are aware, he was lately elected.
BGX-Tiik Express Office has for the pres-
I ent been removed to the office of the Railroad
Company at the station across the river, and
1). E. Robeson, Esq., appointed agent in the
place of J. M. Cogley, resigned. Its removal
i will be of some inconvenience to our citizens,
but we presume, should business require it,
| an office will again be established in town.
For Die l.ewistown Gazette.
PUBLIC LECTURES.
Mr. Editor—lt appears that our citizens
i are at last becoming awakened on the subject
; of establishing a literary character for our
town. The first lecture of a course came off
in the Town Hall on Saturday evening last
by Park Benjamin, Esq. The lecture seems
to have pleased every one who heard it, and
everybody else is pleased with the glowing
! descriptions given by those who were so lor
tunate as to bo present. "Fashion, that ru
ling power of this Christian nation, was his
subject. Its follies were ridiculed with all
the scorn and satire our language is capable
of. The whole system was torn up and its
! votaries exposed in all their naked deformity.
j Same of the wit was exalted and elegant,
j while other passages were decidedly low and
commonplace. lam a friend of lectures, and
I believe in tho powers of the living voice. I
I also believe that a course of lectures delivered
here would greatly instruct and elevate our
people; but at the same time we ought not to
forget that we have men of literary attain
ments in our midst who are worthy of our
! regard and attention.
1 had the good fortune to attend the Lu
theran Church on thanksgiving day, and
I heard a discourse delivered there by Rev. C.
M. Klink on the " Prosperity of the Ameri
can Republic, its dangers and the remedy."
Those of our citizens who are lovers of liter
ary treats, certainly lost by not being present.
The train of thought thrown into the subject
waa of an elevated and patriotic character,
and the delivery truly eloquent and effective.
No lover of his country and its institutions
could go away from that house without thank
ing God that he was an American citizen, and
resolving anew to use his influence and his
power to arrest the dangers which threaten
to destroy the fair fabric of our Republic.
Such lectures are of immense value to the
people; they enlighten and instruct while they
encourage and make indelible impressions
that fill the mind with patriotic determination
to assist in perpetuating our liberty by spread
ing wide the principles of the Gospel, in which
alone our civil liberty is secured.
There were also discourses delivered in all
our other churches, which were no doubt pre- ,
pared with care, and delivered with thatabil
ity which characterizes the several gentlemen
in charge of the different pulpits.
VKIIO.
Holloway's Fills invaluable to persons af
flicted with diseases of the Liver and Stom
ach.—The virtue of these Pills, having been
tested in all parts of the civilized world, par
ticularly by the citizens of the Union, renders
it needless to expatiate upon their merits: the
thousands who have derived benefit from j
them in each and every one of the States, :
being sufficient to convince the most incredu
lous. All those who are afflicted with liver
and bowel complaints, indigestion, sick head
aches, and dizziness, cannot make use of a
remedy so certain in its results as Holloway's
Pills; for termination of blood to the head, j
their effect is equally positive. They are also j
an unfailing remedy for asthma, if used in '
conjunction with Holloway's Ointment, which j
must be well rubbed into the chest night and
morning.
Married.
On the 11th inst., bv Rev. Win. J. Gibson,
D. IX, GEORGE 11 ANA WALT, Esq., of
Mifflin county, and Miss CAROLINE Mc j
KKE, of Walker township, Centre county.
On the loth inst., by David Schwenk, Esq., '
IIENRY HARBIN of Middleburg. to CATJI
AKINE STEININGEK, near that place.
Oh the 6th inst., by Rev. J. P. Shindle,
MICHAEL IvLINE to ELIZABETH HAS- 1
SINGER, both of Beaver township, Snyder
county. \
On the 13th inst., by the same. JACOB
REAM to SUSAN L. \ UTTER, both of He- I
catur township, MifHiu county.
Died.
At his residence in Patton township, Cen
tre county, WM. B. HENDERSON, Esq.,aged
58 y ears. j
On the '2sth ult., in Potter township, Cen- .
tre county, WM. BART/.ESS, one of the \
early settlers of George's Valley, aged 83
years, 1 month and 22 days.
THE MARKETS.
LEWISTOWN, NOV. 27. 1856. .
Lewistown Flour, per 10U lbs. >4 00
Superfine 375 1
Freedom " 3 50
| Barley 60
j Rye, £? bushel, 62
Oats, do. 33
| Corn, do. 50
| Cloverseed. "pUbushel, GSO
Timothysecl, " 250
Butter, good, j* lb. 20
Eggs, f 4 dozen, 15
: New Potatoes f bushel, 40
S The Lewistown Mill is paying $1,33 for
! red wheat, 1,50a0,00 fr white wheat, accord
i ing to quality.
JBtaJf" Alfred Marks, at the new Steam Mill,
j is paying for White Wheat 1,50a0,00, Red
| 1.35.
N. B.—5V heat taken on store, with privi
lege to the owner to sell or ship by boat.
Philadelphia Cattle Market.
Xuv. 24th. —The Cattle Market, during the
; past week, has been quite active, and the
j demand for all kinds of stock very good.—
The animals at Wm. L. Torbcrt's Avenue
Drove Yard amounted to 580 beeves, G. 400 ;
sheep. 500 hogs, and 100 cows and calves.— '
• Beeves were sold at from $8 to 950 100 j
j lbs., and some at from $3 50 to 4 50, gross. !
f Sheep were quite brisk, at from $2 75 to 4 {4
; head, and lambs at from $3 to 4. Hogs sold j
■ briskly at from $7 75 to 850 "j -4 100 ths., and
• cows and calves in demand, at from $25 to 80.
j The total stock in market was 950 beeves,
; G,400 sheep, 2000 hogs, and 150 cows and ;
j calves. 80 herses were also sold at Torbcrt's,
j for good prices.
PI our, Grain, &c.
; Flour and Meal —The market for Rread
j stuffs, generally, has been dull under the ad
| vices from abroad, and prices favor the buyer.
: There is only a limited export inquiry fur
i Flour, and some holders in order to meet the
| views of a few buyers, have submitted to a
| slight decline on last week's rates, sales reach
| ing some Sa9ooo bbls, in lots, at $6 621a0 75
j for mixed and straight brands; G S7A for bet-
I ter brands, and $7 for extra, including sever
-1 al lots of the latter on terms not public: and
' about 1500 bbls extra family also at a private
i bargain, the market closing quiet at the above
| figures. For home use prices have ranged at
: from $6 621 to 7 for common and choice re
! tailing brands; s7a7 25 for extra, and $7 3lJa
8 25 p 4 bbl for extra family and fancy lots,
as to brand, with a moderate business only. I
Rye Flour continues scarce, and 20300 bbls
have been taken at $4 25a4 50 $ bbl, which
is an advance. Corn Meal remains quiet,
and only about 500 bbls l'enna Meal have
| found buyers at $3 25. The inspections for
| the week ending the 20th inst. are 15,105 bbls
Flour, 484 half do do, 74 do Rye do, and 1478
I do Corn Meal.
Grain —There has been a fair inquiry for
' prime Wheat, which is scarce, while other
kinds have been neglected, and only about
| 35,000 bu have been taken for shipment, and
: milling at 150a155c, for fair to choice reds,
! principally at 153a154c, and IGOalGoc for
white, as in quality. The demand is princi
pally for tho latter description, for shipment.
Rye comes forward slowly, and some 4000 bu
i new Penna hayp been taken, chiefly by the
i distillers, at 800. Corn is less active, and
rather lower at the close. Rut about 50,000
bu have been disposed of at G7aG6c for prime
i Southern and Penna yellow, afloat, GGaGoc
for lots in the cars and from store, 66aG4c for
white, and GGc for new yellow. Oats are
i nearly steady, with sales of 14a15,000 bu
Southern and Penna at 41a44c, as in quality,
chiefly at 43c for priino Delaware afloat.
Seeds —There is a steady demand for Clo
verseed, and all offered, some 12a1500 bu
have been disposed of at $7 25 "p 4 bu. About
400 bags have also been taken from second
hands to go out of the market, on terms not
pablie. Timothy is dull, and a few small
lots have changed hands at $3 p 4 bu. Flax
> seed is rather firmer, and domestic is selling
at 210 c {8 bu.
TO THE TEACHERS
And Friends of Education in
Mifflin County.
4 MEETING will be held in the Town
/A Ifall, Lewistown, at 10 o'clock, A. M.,
of FRIDAY, December 2Gth, 1850, to organ
ize a permanent County Association and make
other arrangements to improve our Public
' Schools. A full attendance is earnestly re
quested. MANY TEACHERS.
Public Lecture Association.
MONS. T. GUERIN, an exiled Frenchman,
and an ex-member of the "French
Chamber of Deputies," has been engaged to
Lecture on "FRENCH CHARACTERIS
TICS." at the TOWN HALL, ON TUESDAY
| EVENING, DECEMBER 2d. Mons. Gue
rin's prominence as a French Statesman, and
his connection with French politics during
the Revolution of 1848, enables him to mako
his Lectures highly instructive.
Single tickets, 25 cents. To admit one
gentleman and two ladie9, 50 cents.
GEO. W. ELDER, Pres't.
D. W. WOODS, Sec'y. n027, 'SG.
Agricultural Meeting.
V MEETING of the Mifflin County Agri
cultural Society will he held in JleYev
town on the Second Tuesday of December.—
Suljects for discussion—
1. Advantages and disadvantages of Guano
and other fertilizers.
2. Improvement of Horn Cattle in Mifflin
county.
} A punctual attendance of the member? is
i requested. JOHN STINK.
GEO. 11. CALBRAITH,
GEO. MITCHELL, Jr.,
JOHN ROSS.
DAVID STINK. Jr..
A. HARSUBAKGEK,
Committee of Arrangements,
McYejtown, Nov. 27, 185 G.
"
NOTICE.
r | MIE Stockholders of the Lewistown and
JL Kishaooquillas Turnpike Company are
hereby notified that a dividend of FOUR PER
' CENT, for the last six months, payable on
and after December Bth. 1850, has been de
clared M. BUOY, Treasurer.
Lewistown, Nov. 27, 1850.
i mm m on
OFFICE
HAS BEEN
REMOVED
for the present to the office of the
Penna. Railroad Company,
D. E. ROBESON. Agent.
In {dace of J. M. Cot:i.KV, resigned.
Lewistown, Nov. 27, 1856.-4t
ail AIR)
r.\ i i m sat.
rpilE elections being over and the excrement
T attending theru passed away, and it being
considered dangerous nowadays to kepp on hand
! bank notes, the proprietor of the People's Store
would again invite attention to hi* magnificent
depository for replenishing the outer man and
woman on the scientific principle of saving
money, which accommodating establishment is
| in East Market street, and can readily be
] distinguished from all others by its piles ol
j beautiful goods and wares and "thai sign."
which, like the Star spangled banner, is fanned
jby every breeze. The Ladies.gentlemen,mer
| chants, traders, farmers, laborers, and all oth
! ers are therefore invited to a grand displuv (,td
j mission fee) of a most extensive, beautiful, and
: cheap stock of Staple and Fancy (foods. The
j cxhibition will remain open every morning, af
| ternoon and evening until further notice, and
• all concerned are requested to call early an.!
; procure good seats. The performance enm
j mences early in the morning with an exquisite
| meio-drama entitled
DIIY GOODS.
comprising in part Broche Silks. 75 cents; Ginz
S hams from to 25 cents; While (foods, such
as Swiss, Victoria, Lawn, Bishop Lawn, India
! Book Muslins, Brilliants. Swiss and Jaconet
Kdgirr's and Insertions, Flouncing*., Collars and
j Sleeves, Challeys, Bareges, Mohair .Mills, Siik
and Kid Gloves, Hosiery, and hundreds of oili
er articles in daily use.
j Scene second will open with a grand displa'
of Stella, Crape, Cashmere, Delaine, ThiX
and numberless other
S K A 7f L S j
1 (Crape Shawls from $6 up. t which for beauty,
neatness, fineness, finish, cheapness, ai d all the
other etceteras, exceeds anything of the Kir.
before displayed to the ladies. This scene •
the admiration of all who have seen it, boll,
from town and country, and alone is worth a
tisit from the extreme ends of the county.
Scene third will be an unrivalled exhibition ot
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERES,
, all colors, shades, and prices, of exquisite ma
. terial, and so beautiful when made up, that t
young lady of our acquaintance had for several
| days an idea of setting her rap fur a handsonn
gentleman she had seen across the street, thu
dressed up, when she discovered it was her old
beau!
Scene fourth will be a display of a choice se
lection of
j intended exclusively for family use, comprisitg
j every article usually sold in that line, and 0!
! course cheap, whether quality or price be cot
; sidered.
An intermission of some time will here 6
I allowed in order to give the audience an opp r
tunity of examining an extensive stock of
READY-MADE CLOTHING,
1 well made out of good material, :jnd cut out
scientific principles.
The fifth scene will present a rich andvari;
stock of *
Queensware and Glassware,
j with side views of Boots and Shoes, Cutlet
Ladies' Gaiters, and sundry other matters pk
sing to the eye and purse.
The sixth scene is a rare spectacle of
BOHETB AVI) BOAAfET TRI.V7!I*S,
which always produces a marked sensati
among the ladies, and is frequently encored.-
This is really fine.
This is the general routine of the exhibitic
but the scenes are often varied by the intrude
tion of other articles, useiul, ornamental a
pleasing.
| The performers in this exhibition, from t
manager down, are all unrivalled and celebr
ted far and wide for their politeness and atte
tion to their numerous customers, and bless
with the most unvarying patience, which isdi
ly exemplified in their taking pay either in go
silver, bank notes, or country produce.
JOS. F. YEAGER, Manager.
Lewistown, Nov. 27, 1856.
i X/ i COAL BUCKETS, different siz
U/V * aud pattern*. 100 Coal Sieves, Pokers. Shot
dec. Fire Bricks, Cylinders, &c , for sale bv
oct9 F. G. FRANCISCUS.