Communications
For the Gazette.
THE POOR HOUSE.
" Justice" of the Press having discovered
that " side issues" do not pay very well,
avers his determination hereafter to stick
to the text, which is I believe " Broth for
the Poor," or, vulgarly rendered, " Broth
for Somebody." f feel disposed, on this
understanding, should no more competent
hand occupy your columns, to say a few
words, as I have always regarded personal
applications with as much aversion as ipe
cac, fly blisters, and nauseous doses in gen
eral. Going hack then to the publication
of the medical card, i find that my friends,
the doctors, proposed to charge $2OO for
attending the poor house alone and the
usual rates for all out-door cases; or make
two visits each week and as many more as
might be necessary, at $1 per visit. Such
is the sum and substance of their official
proposition. Any one can figure out that
8120 is more than $2 per week, so that the
inference is plain they did not consider the
whole sum previously received for attend
ing the poor house and seven miles around
it, embracing about three-fourths of a cir
cle, the mountains to the south and south
east circumscribing that part, sufficient for
attending the poor house alone, leaving the
most populous part of the county under
employ-whom-you-plcase system, a privilege
1 think that would lead to much abuse.
But say they, in their communication, we
would have been willing to compromise and
guarantee it should nut cost the county over
§250. It is clear from this that my medi
cal friends omitted to furnish the Directors
with one resolution, which must have read
or ought to have read as follows:
"Rcsolced, If we cannot get §5OO, we'll
take 8250."
Had you done this, gentlemen, the Di
rectors would have understood you, and
probably taken you up at your offer, for as
a taxpayer I here avoir my sanction, fa Vy
and unequivocally, that the Commissioners
shall ncj t year enter into a contract with
you to pay 8250 per annum, you giving a
written guarantee that the charges shaft not
exceed that sum in any one year. The
"broth" can then be divided to your liking,
and as the public has confidence in most,
or it will matter but little to
the peopled ho gets the lion's share.
With these remarks I come to the bust
communication of Justice. He labors hard
to show that the poor house farm is not
•only unproductive, but a losing concern,
and brings to his support a number of fig
ures. Jdo not believe the farmers of this
county calculated on the poor house farm
paying sis per cent, on its cost, for their
own experience has shown them that noth
ing but a heavy crop and unusual high
prices will pay such a dividend on lands
intrinsically worth from 850 to 8100 per
acre. assumption therefore that
the county is losing is only partly true, be
cause I suspect there is not a farm in the
county that has paid six per cent, for some
years. Any one who will take the trouble
of walking over the farm need not he told
that there has been something wrong with
its cultivation, for the evidence will meet
his eye wherever lie may look. The pres
ent occupant has already put a different
lkce on it, and if he continues a year or
two more the farm will be in good condi
tion, and of course grow crops, for most of
the land is good and tillable. Its sale and
the purchase of a smaller farm might per
haps he sound policy, as advocated by Jus
tice, hut what assurance have the taxpayers,
it it is done, that other items of expendi
ture will not take the place such removal
would obviate.' Take the poor away some
six or eight miles from town, and what will
the doctors say as to their attendance?
Will they continue at the sum above pro
posed, or establish new rates? Take it to
the valley, and who will then he the phy
sicians' i'hese are hut few of many <pies
tions that iuight he asked, so that on the
whole f do not see a removal in the advan
tageous light Justice holds out. Enter
taining wayfarers is another objection held
up by the writer, fu this 1 differ from j
iiim. It is a part of the system designed '
by the law, and if the present location re
lieves the greatest number, private charity
is relieved in a proportionate degree. Lew
istown and the townships around it have
enough of the poor and needy on whom
those who have the will and ability can
exercise the noblest attribute of man and
woman, the handmaid of religion and a
balm of healing even to wounded hearts—
an UNOSTENTATIOUS CHARITY —without
being called upon to relieve those whom
the public ought to relieve. If the farm
is too large, sell off all that is riot wanted,
pay oft the debts, and with the residue
commence to put the present buildings in
more fitting condition, or. rect an additional
one as a hospital where the crippled and
debilitated may be better taken care of than
they can be now
Although grossly mismanaged a great
portion of the time, the present system is
still cheaper than the old one-r-a fict here
tofore entirely overlooked by all engaged
in this " broth" business, f have no data
at hand from which to give the actual fig
ures, hut from recollection of my poor taxes
before the present system wa,. adopted. T
am satisfied that the poor rates, in any one
year under the old system, were far above
the highest sum Justice now sets down as
the annual cost of the poor house. To re
trench the expenses in the manner pro
posed so as to bring them down to 82800
or thereabouts, is an Utopian scheme. If
it is done one year, it will be at the expense
of the next; or if an economical steward
should succeed in doing so, some hungry
cormorant of party will envy his place, get
him turned out, and then go it on the old
State robber system.
All that is wanted, big farm or little
farm, near Lewis town or far from it, is
proper management. With good it will
get along here, with bad management, no
WHERE. A TAXPAYER.
For the Oazette.
With many others I nave scanned the
course pursued in the Press against the
late Poor Directors, and was pleased to see
a well-merited castigation bestowed on Jus
tice, a name adopted more for show than
truth by the writer. The strangest thing
however to me in the whole proceeding
was the attack of the young man who has
the nominal control of the Press, in charg
ing John Peachy, Esq.,—for his reference
to an Old Student's friend in the valley,
can mean no one else—with having bribed
the writer with a fee of five dollars to de
fend him. The newspaper press is useful
in various ways, but this affords another in
stance of how much it may be perverted
when in the hands of ignorance or incom
petency. Mr. Peachy, it is well known is
a member of the Ornish persuasion, com
posed of men of unquestioned integrity,
honesty, and fair dealing —men who
as peaceful and order-loving citizens stand
second to none in the United States —and
even a distant insinuation that one of his
standing would be capable of offering a
bribe for such a purpose as is ascribed to
him in the Press, is an insult to the whole
society. As a friend of Mr P., I passed
over the insinuation first made as a piece of
folly on the part of the editor, but as he
has hashed and rehashed his Jive dollar
stony until he possibly believes in its truth
'and may induce others to believe it, it wiU
he as well to remind him that John Peachy
has not lived through a long life of integ
rity withot securing friends, lie is now
absent, but on his return this matter ought
to be called to his attention; and although
the Ornish are under their rules of govern
ment, averse to all law suits, 1 think this
is a case in which they ought to right one
of their most respected members. As the
truth can be given in evidence, the Press can
call on the gentleman to whom it ascribed
the authorship of An Old Student, as a
witness, and either establish his charge, or
stand confessed a base calumniator. This
is due to the cause of Twin 11.
Dcitv township, May, 18.)$.
For the Gazette.
Failure of the J.aucaster Hank.
During the recent session of the Legis
lature, Titos. H. Burrowes, George Darsie
and J. V. James were appointed a com
mittee to investigate the condition of the
institution and the causes of its failure.
From their report, a copy of which is now
before me, k appears that Longcneckcr and
Bachman managed the bank to suit their
own views, and in most of the cases were
adroit enough to obtain the sanction of
the directors to the most shameful proceed
irgs. As our citizens lost severely by this
failure, the annexed extracts from the re
port of the committee will perhaps prove
of interest to your readers :
The capital of the bank was four hundred
and three thousand nine hundred dollars in
May, 1851, when the present charter went
into operation, and was nominally the same
till the failure. It closed its doors on the 18th
of November, 1556, when its apparent condi
tion, as per weekly statement of November 22.
1856, was as follows:
I.! ABd.iT! ES.
Capital $403,900 00
Discount and interest 2,867 60
Profit and loss 51,765 62
Dividends unpaid 5,875 11
Notes in circulation 1,106,1c3 00
Individual deposits 136,060 30
Due to banks 65,921 95
$1,772,573 58
ASSETS.
Bills discounted $1,236,064 17
Bills receivable 17,440 00
Bonds and mortgages 63,106 50
Stocks 80,500 00
Lancastes Bank stock 34,980 00
Banking house 13,280 85
Notes and checks of other banks 10,851 38
Specie 12,040 96
Due by banks, and bankers 304,202 95
Expenses 106 71
$1,772,573 58
This was the apparent condition of the bank
at the failure. Its assets, as per inventory
and appraisomentmade under the assignment,
February 3, 1857, were nominally nine bun
dred and eighty thousand three hundred and
seven ty-fourdi dlars and sixteen cents, and were
appraised on that occasion at five hundred and
forty thousand eight hundred and ninety
five dollars and eighty-six ceuts. This last
sum is not, however, to be taken as their ac
tual value. Up to this time oue hundred and
forty-seven thousand eight hundred and fif
teen dollars and sixty-nine cents have been
realized ; and though it is believed that some
thing considerable will still be recovered, yet
it will fall far short of the appraisement.
Of the notes in circulation at the date of
the failure, four hundred and sixty thousand
and twenty-four dollars have been received by
the bank in payment of debts due to her,
leaving still outstanding six hundred and
forty six thousand and twenty-five dollars,
from which is to be deducted three hundred J
and ninety-six thousand nine hundred and ;
ten dollars redeemed by the Girard Bank, as j
agents of the Lancaster Bank fur this pur
pose, and on which a balance of about thirty
seven thousand dollars is due the Girard Bank,
but secured by collaterals.
Assuming that the capital was whole in
May, 1851—the question arises, what lias
become of it?
In attempting to reply, the first thing that
attracts attention is the fact that not a dollar
seems to have been abstracted from the bank
without a nominal equivalent. If the paper
and securities on hand could he converted in
t-> cash at pur, the bank would be solvent.
Hut most of them are worthless, and the bank
is broken—the process of its ruin being
squally certain and fatal as if effected by
bold theft, though more adroit and impercep
tible. The means employed were various,
and may be thus classed :
1. Ibo discounting of doubtful or worthless
paper by the officers—a practice which com
menced under the former charter and contin
ued till near the failure. It is in evidence
dt'.[f, J hi. 0 ".\ J halfof "' e iisol,untin e ~
It would be as useless as tedious, were it
possible to specify all the cases of this kind.
of th ® largest operations will be given:
E. F. Sbonbergsr notes $3O 000
John Sterrett notes & dfle '210,000
VV. L. lielfenstine notes 70 090
A. R. Fisk notes 10^214
Michael Barry A Co. noteo 69^00
Thomas Baumgarduer note 44,300
James Moore note 12,000
F. A. Vandyke, jr. & Co. cert. & note 30,942
R. P. Remmington note 10,483
Wm. Riehle, treas.Phila.
& Sun. R. R. Co. note 20,000
H. Longenecker and J.
D. Bachman notes 32,948
B. C. Bachman notes 8,715
Wm. H. Irwin notes 10,079
8565 833
Of this amount a small portien has been
collected by the assignee, as appears by his
detailed statement on the subject, and more
may still be recovered. But taking into view
the whole of this class of irregularly dis
counted paper, it is sale to assert that the loss
upon it will fully equal the whole capital of
the hank.
According to Mr. Rathvon, 828,000 of
Stcrrett's has been paid, of), 000 secured on
mortgage, and 4000 by endorsement, and
some compromise made 1 believe between
the parties. Of Irwin's 88000 has been
paid. None of the above arc to bo blamed
for getting all the money thoy could, but
the officers of the bank who gave it ought
to have been punished, and the directors
who suffered themselves to be deceived in
so credulous a manner, ought at least to
have suffered some.
X.
For the Gazette.
TOBACCO CHEWING.
For some time past the cause of temperance
has engaged considerable attention in various
parts of the country, and there being many
who seem t regard total abstinence from the
use of intoxicating liquors as constituting
temperance , we beg leave to offer a few hints
dn that subject. To confine the import of the
term temperance to menu alone abstinence
from the use of intoxicating liquors is a gram
matical impropriety, since reputable usage He
fiues the word as meaning the "moderate in
dulgence of the appetites or passions hence
it signifies more than simply abstinence froin
the use of intoxicating liquors.
Tried by this definition, there are a number
of filthy habits into which many have fallen
which are at once destructive to health and
happiness, one of the most striking of which
is ihe habit of chewing tobacco. Why a be
ing possessed of sound reason should bog:::
"a practice at once so unreasonable and dis
gusting," is an inexplicable mystery to us.
Boys at the age of fourteen or fifteen years,
and sometimes even before they arri eat that
age. will practice this health destroying habit
as well as men of all classes. We know that
indescantingon the subject of tobacco chewing
we are treading upon delicate ground, as men
of acknowledged respectability and high stand
ing in society are addicted to this habit; but
perhaps ninety nine out of every hundred of
these feel that it is a great evil and one from
which they would gladly be freed.
The census of 1850 informs us that the pop
ulation of the United States in that year
amounted to 23,191,876 inhabitants, and it
also gives the number uf puunds of tobacco
raised that year at 199,752,655, being more
than eight and a half pounds for every man,
wmnan, and child in the United States, or
more than fifty pound- for every family of six
members in our country. Of course Brother
Jonathan don't rat all this tobacco himself,
for he would declare this to be a "clean beat,"
but he kneows licow to dew. He chews as
much as he pleases and the remainder he sends
aero an the "jiving deep" to his uncle Johnny
Bull, tr to somebody else. But no matter
where he sends his tobacco—it is tobacco
still.
It destroys health, and thus brings misery
upon him w ho thus pampers his depraved ap
petite. and moreover if he is poor in die goods
of this world he will he under the necessity
of occasionally lightening his purse in order
to furnish himself with tobacco, with which
to destroy his health, just as if he could find
no other method for doing so.
Hut there are tobacco chcwers who boldly
assert that they " care something" about their
health, and yet they will persist in the use of
tobacco, even if you toll them it will under
mine their health. But why should they re
gard health any longer? Why fear sickness
any longer? Look at the state of the science
of medicine at the present day—take up a
newspaper —read the advertisements about
Dr. Snakeroot's " All-healing Ointment," the
"Balm of Immortality," or the "Resurrection
Pills." Here we will leave those tobacco
chcwers who say they *' care something" for
their health. They vnay depend for a resto
ration of it on a few external applications of
Dr. Snakeroot's "All healing Ointment."
There arc other things however, besides
health, connected with tobacco chewing, which
those who are addicted to that habit would do
well to ponder over carefully. Let every to
bacco chewer ask himself seriously, " How
often have I rendered myself disgusting to
others by my continual chewing and spitting?"
Let him ponder well in relation to the influ
ence which his example may have exerted
over many. How many boys and young men
eommeuce this habit for no other reason than
simply from seeing their seniors addicted to it
they have got the idea that it looks big, and
wishing to become men as sson as possible
they commence this vulgar habit, under the
false impression that it looks manful. Now,
if no tobacco chewers were in existence, such
characters would not be likely to begin this
disgusting habit at all, hence the influence of
the tobacco chewer's example. But he does
more than this. Why is it that thousands of
acres of land which might yield some useful
productions are annually planted with tobacco?
It is to satisfy the hankerings of the tobacco
chewer's depraved appetite.
It seeins to us that the intelligent tobacco
chewer who persists in this habit, must do so
under the belief, Ist. That he is undermining
his health. 2d. That he is rendering himself
disgusting to others by this vulgar habit.
3d. That he is spending his money for an ar
ticle that will probably silently bring him to
a premature grave. 4th. That by his exam
ple he is instrumental in inducing others to
use tobacco also, and thus to incur the same
evils themselves and in turn instigate them
in others. If this is not " paying for the
whistle," we do not understand l>r. Frauklin.
We have endeavored briefly to allude to a
fete of the evils of tobacco chewing, but lest
some deluded tobacco ehewer should blanic
us with partiality, if we close without saying
something on the other side of this "question,"
we would simply say that if wo can find
another side to it wc may have something to
say on it Ijereafter. JONATHAN.
Lewistown, May, 1858.
BSuThe mail robber, Tuckerman, has been
conveyed to the Connecticut State Prison, to
begin his term of 21 years' imprisonment.
o@-Gen. Twiggs has been found guilty of
insubordinate conduct by a court martial, but
the President has remitted the sentence.
THE GAZETTE.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
Thursday, May 20, 1858.
Notices of New Advertisements.
Ueorftc Miller, plumber, will attend to the putting In of
new hydrants, repairing old ones, or anything In his line
of business, on reasonable terms, and at short notice.
John Clarke has commenced the shoenmking business In
the rooiu adjoining the post office.
Capt. T. F. McCoy will attend to legal business In this
and adjoining counties. Office on West Market street.
Smith k Sibley have opened a gift book store in the room
lately occupied by Soult k Co.
A lot of mackerel have been received at Felix's Grocery.
Kennedy, Junkln A Co. want wool—See Hoffman's advts.
IQrWe yield considerable space to-day
to correspondents who treat on quite a va
riety of subjects. We do this the more
readily, as we have felt but little inclina
tion during the past week to examine our
exchanges for news on account of neuralgia
above the eye, which renders it painful at
times even to read.
GOOEY'S LADY'S HOOK for June, is al
ready on our table. Its attractions are many
and varied in their character. Plates, Pic
tures, Literature, &c., all evince a degree
of care, and a wish to please its many read
ers. The next number commences a new
volume, which subscribers to the Gazette
can procure by handing us 82.08.
Hurlingamc on Doughfaces—His Tribute
to the Douglas Men.
Mr. Burlingauie recently made a speech
j 011 Kansas affairs. It is short but cracks
I like a whip over the heads of' the dough
laces, and gives hack fire to the fire-eaters,
j Ilear liirn on the Northern tools of thead
. ministration :
We shall boat you like a threshing floor.
We shall hereafter have a majority in this
House. We shall strengthen ourselves in the
Senate, and we are to-day tilling all the land
with the portents of your general doom in
IhCO. And I say, in the presence of this
| state of things, that our first d'J'y to God and
| our country is to devote ourselves to the po
litical destruction of dough faces, who sav
one thing at home, arid come hero to vote
another; and who fawn and tremble, and fall
down, in the presence of the Administration.
No wonder that you, Southern men, call us
slaves, judging us from these specimens ol
the people. But L tell you they do not rep
■ resent the are and flint of the grim and grizzlv
North. They are hut our waiters on Provi
dence, our Macsycophants; they are our Uriah
Heeps ; they belong with Dante's selfish men,
of whom he said, Heaven would not have
them, and hell rejected them. I tell you,
Southern men, I am ready to strike hands
with fire eaters, and exterminate the race.
It is becoming extinct. Look in their faces
for the last time; they are fading away—|
fading away. Oh ! for an artist to take their i
features, to transmit them to a curious and :
scornful posterity. Do it quickly, for the j
places which now know them shall soon know
them no more forever.
He thus honors the Anti Lecompton Dem- i
ocrats:—
I think it is the first duty of republicans
to extinguish the doughfaces, but I hold it
also their duty to bear testimony as to the
manner in which the Douglas men—and they
will pardon me for giving them the name of
their gifted and gallant leader—to bear testi
mony to the manner in which they have borne
themselves. They have kept the faith ; they ■
have adhered to the doctrine of popular sov- j
ereignty ; they have voted it in this House,
and they have not fawned and trembled in j
the presence of a denominating Administra !
tiun—in the presence of that great tyranny '
which holds the Government in its thrall at j
Washington. They have given flash for flash
to every indignant look ; and when a gentle
man from Virginia, the other day tauntingly
told them that certain language which tlsey
tisc-d upon the floor of this House was the
language of rebellion, they shouted out through !
the lips of the geutlcman from Indiana, (Mr. j
Davis,)" it was the language of freemen."]
I say that it is due to them that we should
say that they have borne the brunt of the bat
tle —aud that they, whether from New York,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois, have
kept the whiteness of their souls, and have
made a record which has lain in light; and if
my voice can have any weight with the young
men of the country where those men dwell,
I should say to them stand by these men with
all your young enthusiasm, stand by them
without distinction of party ; they may not
agree exactly with you, but they have stood
the test here, where brave men falter and fall.
Let them teach this tyrannical Adininistraion
that if it is strong, that the people are stronger
behind it.
Senator Iligler Vindicated by Senator Cam
eron.
In the debate on the Fishing Bounties,
in the United States Senate, on the 12th
inst. Mr. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, opposed
the proposition before the Senate, and
moved an adjournment. Mr. Cameron re
quested that he would withdraw the motion
ibr a moment which was done, and he then
described his colleague's tariff views as
follows:
Mr. Cameron.—" I desire only to say a
word in vindication of my colleague, and I
think in justice to him and myself I should
he permitted to say that word, for you know
I do not often occupy much of the time of
the Senate. It is that I atn satisfied he is
acting in accordance with his well known
principles. He is, 1 believe, a freetrade man,
if 1 can judge him from his acts. I remem
ber that at the close of the last session the
reduction of duty on our great staple, iren,
was made, if not by his motion, at least by
his vote. He agreed to it, and was perfectly
satisfied with it. The result has been to break
up every iron master in Pennsylvania who
had not an immense fortune beyond his busi
ness in trade. Every man who was at all in
debted in his business has been destroyed.
The iron business of Pennsylvania, about
which gentlemen speak here, is no longer an
interest. No man, unless he has a fortune J
that he has inherited or obtained from sources I
beyond his business, is capable of conducting !
a furnace for a day.
"It may be the policy of my colleague, and j
it may perhaps be a wise one, to break down
all these intorests, so that after a while we i
shall stand upon a common level, when wc
shall be compelled again to return to that
protective American policy which our fathers
instituted, and which took care of the country.
If we were to destroy the duty on salt now.
as proposed by the Senator from Rhode Island, j
j I believe after a little while the salt interests i
would help the iron interests; and if we take
off the sugar duty from gentlemen down in
I Leusiana, I think after a while they will come
to our ground; and if we should repeal the
law returning fugitive slaves, all the gentle
men in the 'nigger' interest would soon help
! us to take care of our iron. So, if you run
around these interests, and strike them down,
I when we are all so low down together that we
cannot take care of ourselves, we shall begin
to feel as members of the same great country
ought to feci, each one willing to serve the
I other.
" I thought this statement was due to my
! colleague. I thought that it was due to him,
coining from my own State, that I should
! make this explanation."
Not desirable—" More rain, more test."
Getting up —the corn that wasn't washed.
Ditto—Some brats that ought to undorgo
; that operation.
JKSrThe trestle bridges on the Catawissa
! Railroad are to be filled up with earth.
B?®„,Lumber is selling at Wrightsville at
' one third less than last year.
80UA good deal of ill feeling has been
1 created by British cruisers in the West Indies
] searching American vessels on the high seas.
B£&Politicians are beginniug to talk of
| forming u new party by uniting the opposition
j to Buchanan ism.
B®,Xeura!gia above the eye, according to
our experience the past few weeks, is about
as painful and provoking a complaint as we
could wish any one to be afflicted with.
ffcyf-The latest democratic invention is sel
ling at half price the remaining State works
i to reduce the jmblic debt, and making the sale
1 of whiskey free to raise revenue!
BGk. Andrew Romig, of Penns township,
j Suydcr county, had his log broken some weeks
i a K° by a log falling on it while helping to
raise a barn for one of his neighbors.
IS>A special law for Clinton county, pro
tecting hunting dogs on condition of paying
j a poll tax f $1 for each, passed the last legis
i lature. Hunting deer with dogs ought to be
prohibited altogether in this State.
fitaJ"lt is the hairy side of leather that
cracks—harness aud all other such articles
therefore ought to be made with the hair side
next to the horse or animal on which they are
i used. ;
ftgyAmong the numerous advertised med
icines fur sick headache and debility, none
can be found so efficacious as the Oxygenated
Bitters. They produce the most agreeable
and invigorating effects.
B^,Major Elbow wants to know which is
the most orthodox—to pray for the poor er
relieve them ? tVe think the left hand ought
to pray, an : u:o right relieve, though that's
no answer to his question.
Benevolence is now defined as the giv
ing away of other people's money; charity,
supplying your wife with a barrel of Hour ;
and open-heartedness, giving your girls hoops
with the necessary accompaniments.
iQTAlmust every paper we have opened
for the last two weeks has an article from the ■
Ledger stating that *' money" was a drug in ;
Philadelphia. We don't believe a word of
such stuff. It may be a drug among note
shavers and speculators, but the middling and
laboring classes are daily more than ever ex
perienoing the want of it.
Youikj Men'a Christian Association of Phil- j
udclphia. — Parents and guardians are a flee !
(innately requested to give letters of common- i
dation to their sons and wards on leaving |
home, to the " Committee on the Entertain- '
ment of Strangers" of the Young Men's ■
Christian Association. Those already resi 1
dents of Philalelphia will he waited on by
the Committee if their addresses are sent to i
the Chairman, J. F. Selelonridge, care of Geo. i
11. Stuart, Esq., 13 Dank street, (President
of the Association.) Editors favorable to the
prosperity of young men wi 1 please copy.
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
tgkJJy the breaking of a bridge on the
Lafayette and Indianapolis Railroad, a train
was precipitated down an enbankment, kill
ing the conductor, fireman and engineer, j
The name of the conductor is given as !
JAMES IRVIN. A young man of that name <
from Oliver township, in this county, has !
been connected with a railroad running from >
Lafayette, and we fear the conductor re-1
ferred to above is him.
4
B*%,.John A. Sterctt, Esq., was elected 1
a manager of the water Company on Tues
day evening, to fill the vacancy occasioned :
by the death of Francis McCoy, Esq.
JQHJharles Snowden, a colored boy em
ployed in Griffith's barber shop, had his
finger cut off on Tuesday evening by a ra
zor. It appears he was jumping in the
stable of the National Hotel, with a razor
in his pocket, which fell out while spring
ing forward and opened—he falling on it. I
Dr. VanValzah planted the part cut off'
where it originally belonged, where we
suppose like other vegetables it will grow
in this growing weather.
fifeas"*We would advise our readers to keep
their hogs penned up for some months to
come, on Sundays as well as other days,
or there may be some disagreeable change
of ownership. The proper officer has hereto- i
fore given more time to redeem them than :
the law required, but as the lock at the J
pound has been broken on two different oc- '
casions, and the hogs turned out by those j
who had a fellow feeling for them, we
learn that he intends hereafter to take up I
hogs and sell them within a much shorter !
time thai, heretofore. So look out!
llolloway's Pills.- Itl all
well-meaning but too officious f ° f
a variety of remedies.
with the beginnings of disease p t:
thing like experimental trektnT Ject 2
upon Holloway'g Pills, the ml?? 1 U
fourth of the human race
age, which has the sanction
found scientific men in Eurone ,
under trial for a quarter of <!,' J ki "U
a single failure. All diseases *2
stomach, the bowels, the live
either directly or by sympathy I'
this great remedy without enfeehi;
tern by over purgation. Tim p'
mineral or corrosive ingredient
Oxygenated Hitters i„V
The editor of the Montreal
teuiber 5, 1850, says -.-There J' i of! S
wo take so much pleasure in
to our friends as Dr. Green'sfir "H
ters. Unlike most proprietory
does not profess to euro "all
heir to," but simply Ityspsp,!™';
dant symptoms of derange m , nt^;!
ach. 11 hxs long been held in f a , r fc
first medical men, some of wham 4 *
backward in awarding merit wherein >
Its success m our city has givenV. %
tion surpassed by no cther%i mi ij
tion. Our attention has been rlii !
subject by a young man in
been suffering for some weeks et i
indigestion, loss of appetite &c |
entirely relieved in a few days b,
these bitters There are hundr^,?, s **
read this who need such a raw j-.
would use it if they had half the
in it we have. - ,R tBe a(|
None genuine unless signed I v
the wrapper. R
SETH W. FOWLE A CO., 138
street, Boston, Proprietors. Sold I v
Ritz, Lewistown, and their agents ev.'rTu
teff-Thc Elixir" prepared by l, r .
W llhanis, for the cure of
nothing but Dyspepsy. (asadvertised?
or column,) has by it, own merit-12
for itself s high a reputation it.
that physicians acquainted with its nr ? *
arc using it the:,.- Ives and prescribi?*
their patients, convinced by observant
great efficacy in restoring the disonW -
gestive organs to a healthy function*
raerous cases of dyspepsy of the mov'iJ
yated character, which were abandon?
ineuraole by some of the medical iLJH
have by the use of this Elixir be,- ' - v
to perfect health, as attested certificated
fy. For sale by Cl.arles Ritz. Lewistown
A CARD TO THE i.ADlis,
Vr UVP OA-CO'S 001.DKX FKM.ILE F/ n
infallible in removing stoppage, or irresniami,, ~ *
menses. These pills are nothing new, hut hwetectart
by Hie Doctor f- r many years, both m France id
ca, with unparalleled success in everymw, attp
tire.- ! by many la.ii.-s w ho hue used thr n, tn
i. lis public for the a leviathm ..f those suffcrier fret
irregularities whatever, as well as apreveiunei i...
ia lies whose health will not permit an increaseofUuk.
Pregnant females, or those supposing
cautioned against tuirig ilie-p pills, as tlie juogrwe.
sutnes no responsibility after the above a<!inoiiit,. i .
though their mildness would prevent .ttiviniuryl sujv
otherwise th se pills are reeoiumend-d hirettsn*
company each box Price f a„id iclvirtulrmmi
by F. A. UAftUT Ac CO., General Agenisf
Mifflin • < Uuty. Ia., and also age; is f„ r Jt!lr viile.Xiao,
ReedsvFle, Alienvitie, tc. They n il suppl; t
the proprietor's prices, and -end the pills to I ;
JentUily) by return mail t" any part of cit v or trace,
on receipt of f 1 through the la-.vistowr p. rj
particulirs gel circular of agents. that et 'a
has mv signature. .1 |>rPt!\(,
j> 3o Broadway post oiti,.. >,.* Vad.
FLUMHING.
/ 1 EORGE MILLER iuf.>rms dtuts
" Xof Lewistuwn that ho base, mnioieedi
above business in connection with Is'Si
as Superintendent of the \V;.rcr (.VIMMJ,
and is now ready to put in NEW lIYISAH*
11AKF. KEI'AIRS AT OLD OIK'S, Or do MLVT!I:9
work pertaining to the 11'stMs
gos will be reasonable, and pr inj.t a."-i
given to orders.
Lewistuwn, May 20, I SOS—3m
T, F. McCOY,
VTTORNKY AT LAW, Lewistom, Jtf
flin county, l'a., will attend to thecd
lection of accounts and other legal basins
in Mifflin and adjoining counties. i
Office on West Market street, two <h
below the True Democrat Office. inv2b-3j
Gifts for the People!
Fine Gold Watches & Jewell
FLOUR AND COAL,
Given to purchasers of
BOOKS
At the time of the sale.
4 GIFT worth from 25 cents up tojld'.j
AJI Orders from the country solicited, lb
will give a SI book and prize t any one who
will get up a club oi eight purchasers.
Persons ordering by mail must send 5
stamps to prepay postage.
Sales ltootn, F.ast Market street, sign®
the red flag.
Catalogues sent free.
P. S.— Ladies will please call in the sStr
noon. SMITH & SIBLEY,
my2o-tf Lewistuwn, P*-
To the Public.
S-rf. The subscriber would
HK N. his friends and the public th*' •
opened a shop in pat' ol
rootu formerly occupied by M. Montgen>t<7j
adjoining the Post Office, where he is
to make to order Ladies', Gentlemen?
Children's
ffiootfl, SJiors .V caitf'
of all descriptions, of the best quality, if" *
reasonable prices for cash, and fro® ha
perience in the business, and deter®®
to please, lie hopes to give satisfaction to
who may favor him with their orders.
Done in tho best manner. A share of P°
lie patronage respectfully solicited.
my2o—tf JOHN CLAK^
JUST RECEIVEDand on band
and quarter barrels of Splendid • 4 '
EREL ; for sale cheap for cash ** ~-my
my2o FELIX'S GROCER
\\TOOL WANTED.-Wanted, attbe?**
VV of the undersigned, East MarjfC_l
Lewistown, 10,000 POUNDS OF "-j
whioh the highest market price wjil t
in trade. KENNEDY, JUNKIN
Lewistawrn, May 20, 1858.
CfORN CULTIVATORS.- A good j'
/ for sale by FJ.£o/^
"IX TIN DOW CURTAINS, Kj
W soi'tmcnt of Shades, Y' a P e l. I
tains, io. r 1 *