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Whole No. 2660.
READ! READ ! READ !
IMMMM
" is there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
My own, my native laud 1"
A ND now, when patriots look for the ear-
JX ly return of peace and prosperity and a
generul resumption of business with assur
ance, we are pleased to inform the public
that a large, new, and carefully selected stock
of goods has just been opened at the Old
btuml of John Kenxedv <I Co., comprising
a general assortment of
Pry Goods, Groceries, Stone and
Queens ware, Willow and
Cedar Ware,
I uA, Suit j Ham, Shoulder, SI itch and
Dried Beef,
Cheese, Sugars, Syrups, Coffee, Teas, Spices,
Soaps, Tobacco, Segars, Dried Fruit, Turpen
tine and Paints of all kinds, Linseed Oil
Fish Oil, Putty and Window Glass, Coal Oil*
and a large assortment of
Coal Oil Lamps and Chimneys.
Our Stuck will be sold at a small advance
to Country Merchants. As we buy fur cash
and in large quantities, we sell LOW.
Country Produce taken in Ex
change for Goods.
Kemember, one door below the Black Bear
Hotel. JOHN KENNEDY, Aet
April 10, 1862-ly * '
PATENT
COAL OIL GREASE.
Grease is made from COAL OIL,
and has been found by repeated tests
to be the most economical, and at the
same time the best lubricator for Mill
Uearing, Stages, Wagons, Carts, Carriages,
V ehicles of all kinds, and all heavy bearings,
keeping the axles always cool, and not requir'
ing them to be looked after for weeks. It has
been tested on railroad cars, and with one
-oaking of the waste it has run, with the cars,
2u,U00 miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery
stable and Express companies that have tried
it pronounce it the tie plus ultra.
it combines the body and fluidity of tallow,
beeswax and tar, and unlike general lubrica
tors, will not run off, it being warranted to
stand any temperature.
1 have it in boxes 2f to 10 lbs. Also kegs
and barrels from 30 to 400 lbs, for general
•jse and sale. The boxes are more prefera
ble; they are 0 inches in diameter by 2$ inches
deep, and hold lbs net; the boxes are clean,
and hardly a carman, teamster, expressman,
dler or farmer, that would not purchase
one box for trial. F. G. FRANCISCUS.
Lewistown, February 12, 18C2.
LEWISTOWN BAKERY.
Vest flarkct Street, nearly opposite the
Jail.
/ 10XRAP ULLRICH. JR. would respect
fully inform his old customers and citi
zens generally that he continues the Raking
of
BREAD, CAKES, &c.,
at the above stand, where those articles can
be procured fresh every day.
families desiring LI read, &c. will be sup
[bed at their dwellings in any part of town,
fruit, Pound, Spunge, and all other kinds of
cake, of any size desired, baked to order at
short notice.
Lewistown, February 20, 1802-ly
AMBROTYPES
AXD
The Gems of the Season.
' ?° humbug, but a practical truth.
*_ The pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder
are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS TRUTH
FULNESS, BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
DURABILITY. Prices varying according
to size and quality of frames and Cases.
Room over the Express Office.
Lewistown, August 23, 1860.
(Sk&S&nDISSS' g)ll3l§Si2;|So
IIIA \ E on hand some very choice garden
seeds, embracing the earliest vegetables
grown, such as Peas, Cabbage, Cauliflower,
* c - F. G. FRANCISCUS.
PLOWS ! PLOWS !
800, Subsoil Plows. McVeytown Plows,
W ings, Shares, &c., for sale by
F. G. FRANCISCUS.
A OOZ. Coal Oil Lamps—all sorts and si
tf\Jzes, from 31 cts. to sls 00 each.
h\ G. FRANCISCUS.
BRILLIANT Gas Burner, and a large va
riety of Parlor and Room Stoves, {QX
at very low prices, by
F. G. FRANCISCUS.
Hames and Traces.
AGON Hames at 50 cts. per pair. Tra,-
aii CC8 ' Chains, <ic., at 75 cents per pair.
Ail kinds of Chains usually sold in hardware
stores, sold at low r *tes, by
mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
PULTIVATORS, Cultivator Teeth and
W Points, at reduced prices from past seas
ons, for sale by F. G. FRANCISCUS.
APPEAL
p OR MONEY AT INTEBEST.
jV GTICE is hereby given that the Commis-
A " sioners will meet at their office in Lew
"Jown, oa MONDAY, May sth, when and
_^ ere all persons who clam to have lifted
assessed as at interest, are required
attend, and make their appeal.
"y order of the Board.
. GEORGE FRYSINGER, Clerk.
~ewistown, April 16, 1862.
THE HIHSIfiK,
[Published by request of a Soldier's mother.]
A MOTHER'S PRAYER.
Fathmi! in the battle frav.
shelter his dear head I pray i
iwn? ' S - v 'r"u g arm w,UI the might
Ot Justice. Liberty and Right.
Where the red hail deadliest falls,
ivi! ere s^ eru dut >' h'Udly calls,
vv here the strife it heree and wild,
at "er. guard, oh 1 guard my child 1
Where the foe rush swift and strong.
Madly striving lor the wrong;
Where the clashing arms men wield
King above the battle-field;
the stifling air is hot
with bursting shell and whistling shot
rather! to my boy's brave breast
Let no treacherous blade be pressed!
Father! if my woman's heart—
r:rail and weak in every part—
- anders trom thy mercy seat
After those dear roving feet.
Let thy tender, pitying grace,
*f-rery selfish tnought erase;
if this ui other-love be wrong
Pardon, bless and make me strong.
For, when silent shades of night
Shut the bright world from my sight-
When around the cheerful firo
Gather brothers, sisters, site—
There I miss my boy's bright face
From his old familiar place,
And my sad heart wanders back
To tented field and bivouac.
often in tny troubled sleep—
Wak'ng—wearily to weep—
Often dreaming he is near.
Calming every anxious fear—
Often sta-tied by the flash
Of hostile swords that meet and clash,
ii i i e , a " not 's' smoke and roar
Hide him from my eyes once more
Thus 1 dream—and hope and pray
All the weary hours away;
But I know his cause is j-ust,
And I centre all tny trust
In thy promise: '-As thy day
So shall thy strength be''—a'lvray !
Yet I need thy guidance still!
Father! let trie do thy will!
If new sorrow should befall—
If my noble boy should fall—
If the bright head I have blessed
On the cold earth find its rest—
Still, with all the mother-heart
Tom. and quivering with the smart.
I yield him, tjeath thy chastening rod,
To his Country and his God.
MO RAG# RELIGIOUS
Profanity.
It is not the oaths and blasphemies of
the vile sot through the streets which ex
ert an influence upon the young minds for
evil ; because in the character and appear
ance of the wretch who utters them, they
behold a fit commentary and a warning, all
in accordance with their views of nature.
But it is the oaths and blasphemies of the
respectable and otherways virtuous that do
the injury. I would rather a child of mine
would hear the whole vocabulary of oaths,
with all its transpositions and variations,
from the lips of a vile abandoned outcast,
from whose person he would shrink with
loathing, than to hear a single oath front
one of you who have a character and influ
ence in society. I am aware that it is a
practice thoughtlessly acquired, and often
continued by the mere force of habit. It
is simply a repetition of the same act so
often that it no longer excites attention,
and thus the heart becomes an overflowing
fountain of corruption, sending forth its
poisoned streams to kill and destroy.
to the grave of buried love, and
meditate. There settle thy accounts with
thy conscience for every past benefit unre
quited —-every past endearment unregarded,
of that departed being who can never—
never—never return to be soothed by thy
contribution ! If thou art a child, and
hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a
furrow to the silvered brow of an affection
ate parent; if thou art a husband, and hast
ever caused the fond bosom that ventured
its whole happiness ir thy arms to doubt
one moment of thy kindness and truth; if
thou art a friend and hast ever wronged in
thought, or word, or deed, the spirit that
generously confided in thee; if thou art
a lovor, and bast ever given one unmerited
pang to that true heart which now lies cold
beneath thy feet—then be sure that every
unkind look, every ungracious word, every
ungentle action, will come thronging back
upon thy memory, and knocking dolefully
at thy soul —then be sure that thou wilt lie
down sorrowing and repentant on the grave,
and utter the unheard groan, and pour the
unavailing tear —more deep, more bitter,
because unheard and unavailing.
Edited by A, SMITH, County Superintendent.
jFor the Educational Column.
The Causes of ttfre War. No. 2
In assigning the principal cause of the
present war, it is difficult to speak so as to
avoid giving offence to some well-meaning,
but narrow minded persons. Let me be truth
ful, however, aad state what, by the confes
sion of the Rebels themselves, was tha origin
of the outbreak against the government. —
They affirm that it was negro slavery ; Vice
President Stephens, one of the most able and
candid of all who have taken part in urging
on the rebellion, frankly avowed that the ob
ject of the Recession was to found a govern
ment whose corner-stone should be Slavery.
The testimony of others of the Rebels, in
whose word any trust can be reposed, is only
confirmatory of this assertion.
It is claimed by them, and by their apolo
gists and secret well-wishers at the North,
that their special rights had been violated,
that they were in danger of being thrust into
ruin by the spirit of Abolitionism. But Judge
Douglas, wham all will admit as a reliable wit
ness on this point, only a short time before
his death declared that the rights of the South
had not been violated to any extent justifies-
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1862.
Tory of rebellion ; that the Constitution would
be interpreted by the present Administration
so as not to interfere with any of the institu
tions ot the South more than with those of
the North.
Let it, tlien, be everywhere understood ami
confessed that this most terrible war is the
direct outgrowth of the spirit of Slavery ; let
U be frankly acknowledged by us, as it is
universally recognised by foreign nations,
and as it will assuredly bo'written on the page
of History,
But why is it so important that our chil
dren be informed of this ? Just for this rea
son: they are soon to become the active, con
trolling influence of the country : into their
hands must soon pass the power to make and
administer the nation's laws, to fashion its
institutions, to determine its destiny. And
the future character of the land we love is to
be moulded by those whose minds and wills
are now plastic—ready to be impressed with
gonerous sentiments, ennobling truths and
high resolve. Hence we ought to set forth
with unmistakable vividness this new illus
tration of the truth that Righteousness alone
exalteth a nation, while sin is not only a re
proach hut an imminent peril to any people.
It is of the utui >st importance that the ris
ing generation leara and heartily believe that
'the one sacred thing beneath the cope of heav
en is man and that a wrong done to hu
manity, even if done to the poorest, the weak
est, the least lovely, is a sin against Him who
made and who loves all. This simple but
most comprehensive truth is true, and will for
ever remain true, in spite of the sneers and
opposition which prejudice and blind parti
sanship can marshal against it: for it is found
ed on the immovable rock of Christianity; it
commends itself to the heart, judgment and
conscience of every noble man. The signs
of the times are full of prophecies that this
truth is last becoming recognized, and that it
will enter largely into the institutions which
shall hereafter give this Republic a name as
pure and commanding as the most ardent pa
triot can covet for it. Freedom of body and
soul; growth in knowledge and virtue; enjoy
ment of whatever privileges minister to the
happiness and elevation of human beings;—
these must be won and securely held, and
faithfully transmitted to those who shall conic
after us. I hen no war like the present cau
ever again shroud our country in so sad a
gloom. g
HOW HARRY FELL Iff LOVE.
15Y JAMES 11. DANA.
All the girls in Flowcrvale were in love
with Harry Vernon ; that is to say, they
admired him excessively, and were ready
to fall in love, if lie should lead the way.
Fanny .Soiuers, the little witch, was the
only exception. Merry, dancing and pret
ty as a fairy, it was a question whether she
had ever yet thought of love; if she h .d,
she never talked of it
Harm's father was a Senator in Congress,
and he himself was a young lawyer of' bril
liant talents, finished cdim ation and hand
some fortune. It was known that his fa
ther wished hi in to marry, and did not, as
is often the case, insist o his selecting an
heiress. The now gray-haired statesman
had made a love-match in his youth, and
still worshiped the memory of his wife he
had too early lost. 'Let your heart choose,
nay son,' he said. 'Marriage, without true
affection, holds out but a poor show for
happiness.'
Most of those, not directly interested in
the event, thought that Isabel Fortescue
wou'd carry off the prize. She was decid
edly the belle of the village. Having re
ceived her education at a fashionable Sem
inary, there was scarcely an accomplish
ment of which she could not boast. Resides,
the families of Vernon and Fortescue had
been the leading ones in the county for two
generations ; and gossips said that the union
of the two fortunes and of the united in
fluence, would give Hurry a position almost
unrivaled.
Certain it is, that Harry visited Isabel
very often. Those who envied her accused
her of manoeuvering to win him. 'Throws
herself in his way continually,' said one.
'Did ever anybody,' cried another, 'see a
girl make love so barefacedly ?' 'She ought
to get hina, I'm sure,' sneered another, 'for
she has tried hard enough.' Nevertheless,
as honest chroniclers, we must record the
fact, that some of these very young ladies,
such is the infirmity of human nature, did
their very prettiest to out-manueuvre Isabel
and get Harry for themselves.
Harry had not seen Fanny since she was
a child. It was only a month since she
had left school and returned home again ;
and the first time she joined in the village
social circle was at a picnic. Here her
blooming complexion, graceful figure and
ringing laugh had been the theme of ad
miration by the beaux, the envy of the
belles. Harry had been her partner in a
dance or two, and, in common with others,
felt it would be only civil to call upon her.
So the morning after the party he sallied
forth to make the round of the village girls.
He first visited Isabel. She was reclin
ing in a feanteuil, charmingly dressed, and
reading a novel. All she could talk about
was her fatigue. Yet, she looked bewitch
'ng'y> was incontestible, in the subdued
light of that sumptuous parlor, with ele
gant pictures on the walls, boquets of flow
ers all about, and an atmosphere of exqui
site refinement around. Never had Harry
felt so much tempted to be in love. He
staid nearly an hour, when he had intend
ed to stop only for a few minutes; and
would oat, perhaps, hav* gone then, if oth
er gentlemen had not dropped in.
From Isabel's he went to several olher
houses. Everywhere he found the young
ladies dressed to receive company. Some
were reading novels; some had 'a book of
poetry open before them ; and cdc, who had
a pretty hand, was coquettishly kuittiog a
purse. Not one of them appeared to have
anything serious to do. Most of them af
fected, like Isabel, to be quite languid, and
talked as if the fatigue of the day before
; had nearly killed them.
W lion Harry reached the pretty, but un
pretending cottage where Fanny resided
with her widowed mother, he found the
hall door opened to admit the breeze, and
so just tapping at the parlor entrance, he
entered bowing. In the shaded light of
the cool fragrant room, lie could no°for a
moment see; but he noticed immediately
that no one answered his salutation, and,
d.rcctly, he beheld that the apartment was
empty. Just then, however, a fresh liquid
voice, merry as a bird's in June, was
heard warbling in an inner apartment.
Harry listened awhile charmed; but find
ing that his knocking was not heard, and
recognizing, as he thought, Fanny's voice,
finally made bold to go in search of the
singer. Passing down the hall and through
another open door, he suddenly found him
self in the kitchen, a large, airy apartment,
scrupulously clean, with Fanny at the end
opposite him, standing before a dough
trough, kneading flour and carolling like a
lark
! It was a picture an artist would love to
. paint, fanny s face was seen partly in
profile, showing to perfection her long lash
! es, and bringing out in relief the pouting
I lips and round chin. The breeze blew he'r
brown curls playfully about, and occasion
ally (juite over her lace, at which time she
would throw them back with a pretty toss
of the head. Jler amis were bare, and
rounded whiter or more taper arms never
were ; they fairly put to shame, with their
rosy pearlness, the snowy flour powdered
over theia. As she moved with quick
steps at her task, her trim figure showed
all its grace, and her neat ankle and deli
cate foot twinkled in and out. For a while
she did not observe Ilarry. It was not till
she turned to put down the
that she behold hirn.
Most of our fair readers, we suppose,
would have screamed, and perhaps run out
of the opposite door. Fanny did no such
thing She blushed a little, as was natu
ral, but having no false shame, she saw no
reason to be frightened, merely because a
handsome young gentleman had caught her
at work. So she curtesied prettily, laugh
ed aac of her gayest laughs, and said, hold
ing up her hands :
'I can t shake hands with you, Mr Yer
uon, you see. Mamma was kind enough
to let urn go to the picnic, yesterday; and
put off some of my gmrk; and so I'm doing
double to-day, to make up for it. If you'll
be kind enough to wait a minute, I'll call
mamma.'
'No, no,' said Ilarry, charmed by this
frank innocence, and unceremoniously tak
ing a well scrubbed chair, 'l've only a few
minutes to stay. My call is on you ; I came
to see how you bore the fatigues of yester
day.'
fanny laughed till her teeth, so white
and so little, looked behind the rosy lips,
like pearls set in the richest ruby enamel,
'fatigued,' why, we had such a charming
time yesterday, that one couldn't get tired;
even if she had been a hundred years old.'
'\ ou il never grow old !' said Harry, sur
prised into what would have been flattery,
if he had not sincerely thought it; and his
countenance showed his admiration for the
bright, happy creature before him.
fanny blushed; but rallied, and answer
ed, laughingly : 'Never grow old ! O, soon
enough ! What a funny sight I'll be, to
be sure, bent almost double, and a cap on
my head like granny Horn's!'
Ilarry laughed too, so ludicrous was the
imago; and thus he and Fanny were as
much at home with each other at once, as
it they had been acquainted for years.
1 he intended five minutes imperceptibly
grew into ten, and the ten into half an
hour. Fanny continued at her household i
work, pleasantly chatting the while, both !
she and Harry mutually interested so as to ;
forget time and plaee alike. At last the j
entrance of Mrs. Somers interrupted the |
tete-a-tete.. Fanny was a little embarrassed !
when she found how long she and Ilarry
had been alone; but the easy-of-course man
ner of Harry, as he shook hands with her
mother, restored her to herself.
If the elegaut refinement about Isabel I
had tempted Ilarry to fail in love, the
household charm which surrounded Fanny
forced him to be so whether or no. He
went away, thinking to himself what a
charming wife Fanny would make, and how
sweetly she would look in her neat home
dress, engaged in her domestic duties. Nor
is Harry the only bachelor who remembers
that a wife cannot always be in full dress, .
and who naturally wishes to know how she ■
will look in a kitchen. 'A wife ought as
to know how to manage her house,'
he said to himself, 'as a man to understand
business. I don't wish a wife of mine, in
deed, to be maid of ail work; but I should
like to have her oapable of overseeing her
servants—and domestics discover very soon
whether their mistress is competent, and
obey or disregard her accordingly. Besides,
l'anny looked bewitchingly this morning.
Ah, it I had such a dear little wife, how
I'd coai her to go into the kitchen occa
sionally, that I might seo her at work 1'
It soon became apparent that it would
be no fault of Harry's if he did not have
l'anny for a wife. Never was a man dcop
er in love, nor did he make an effort to
conceal it. Ilad Fanny been a foolish flirt,
she would have played with his feelings, as
vain girls will when secure of a lover. But
she was too frauk and toe good for this,
and only hesitated long enough to be cer
tain of the state of her own heart, when
she made Harry happy by accepting him.
Two persons more fitted for each other,
in fact could not be. Though always mer
ry, because always happy, Fanny was ami
able, intelligent and full of sound sense.—
She had read and thought a great deal;
especially for one so young, her heart ran
over with 'unwritten poetry.' Had Harry
sought for a lifetime, he could not have
found a wife so companionable and so suit
ed in every way to him.
hat a talk the engagement made when
it came out. The haughty Isabel, who,
without being half as capable of sincere
love as Fanny, had made up her mind to
have Harry, and whose vanity, therefore,
was piqued, even degraded herself so much
as to call the bride-elect 'an artful and in
teresting puss.' Other disappointed beau
ties had other hard names for Fanny. But
though when our heroine first heard of
these slanders she shed a few tears, she
soon dried her eyes, for, with Harry's love,
nothing could make her long unhappy.
It was not till the young couple had set
off on their wedding tour, that Harry told
his wife what had first made him fall in
love with her.
'Every other girl I visited that morning,'
he said, 'was playing the fine lady; and
that, while as I well knew, their mothers
were slaving in the kitchen. I reasoned
that the daughter who would neglect her
duty to a parent, could scarcely be expect
ed to be less selfish toward a husband. Be
sides, it is a common error with your sex,
now-a days to suppose that it is debasing
to engage in domestic duties. To a man
of sense, dearest, a woman never looks more
attractive than at such a time.'
B©„A clergyman in Scotland, being en
gaged in catechizing a number of his pnr
ishoners, asked a man by the name of Pe
tcr : 'How many years did the children of
Israel sojourn in the wilderness?'
To which he replied, 'Forty.' 'But can
you tell, sir;' said I'etcr, 'how many knives
the children of Israel brought back with
them from Babylon to Jerusalem V The
clergyman stopped and pondered, and was
at length obliged to confess that he could
give no answer. 'Well,' sai<l Peter, 'they
just brought back tycnjty nine knives : you
will find it stated in Ezra, first .chapter,
ninth verse.'
A lady asked a pupil at public ex
amination of a Sunday School: 'What was
the sin of the Pharisees ?' 'Eating camels,
inarm,' quickly replied the child. She had
read the Pharisees 'Strained at gnats and
swallowed camels.'
TEE GAZETTE.
Nominations for State Officers.
The Lewisburg Chronicle, in publishing
the call for the People's Convention, makes
the following proposition, which, for one,
we should like to see adopted. It says :
In proof of our willingness to voto for an
upright Douglas Democrat, we propose lion.
JOUN IIOWJE, of Franklin county, as the Union
Republican candidate for Surveyor General.
All parties have ever awarded him personal
integrity and ability for that station, which
he once filled by election as a Democrat, while,
as the Union speaker of the House, last ses
sion, he demonstrated that he hud no sympa
thy with Secession or its allies. His nomina
tion and election would be as politic as just
to the thousands of honest Democrats who
despise the Breckinridge leaders who broke
up their party and apologized for causeless
Insurrection of the Aristooracy.
For Auditor General, we presume Hon.
THOMAS E. CGCHRAX will have no serious op
position. He has been a most faithful officer,
as far as we have heard—and if so, it is the
highest interest of tho State to retain one of
bis experience and trustworthiness.
Why Not Tax Cotton?
The New York Evening Post has a con
vincing article in favor of the amendment
of Mr. Kellogg, of Illinois, (voted down in
the House) to the tax bill, laying a tax of
three cents per pound upon cotton. "It
is," says the Post, "a tax which will be
easily collected; against the justice of
which no one can bring good reasons; which
will cause the very class who brought on
the war to pay a share of its expenses.—
We are informed that a tax of one cent
per pound on the cotton crop will produce
eighteen millions of dollars; three cents a
pound would yield us fifty-four millions.
The cotton planters cannot complain, be
cause one of the first acts was to lay an ex
port duty on cotton; the tobacco planters
of the border slaves States will complain
if cotton is not taxed, when their staple is
to be very heavily taxed, and when, too,
New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 28
tobacco is by no means a monopoly, as cot
ton is. And the farmers of the Northwest,
whose sons have fought so bravely in this
war, will not be cooteuted to pay taxes on
almost every product of their land, and let
the great product of the South go-clear.—
The fear expressed by Mr. Morrill, that if
we lay a tax on cotton other countries will
at once undersell our planters, is ground
less. llow well the planters can bear a
tax of lour or live cents per pound, even if
they were to get ouly the usual prices lor
the staple, will appear from the following
facts: It is established that an average
year's cotton costs the planter, to raise, not
more than six cents per pouud. Planters
and others who have carefully examined
this question assert that, with good new
lands at twenty dollars per acre, and slaves,
taking the run of the plantation, of both
sexes, between the ages of iburteen and
sixty, at a:i average of eight hundred dob
lars, if the planter can be assured of six
cents per pound for his cotton he will make
a greater profit on his crop than is yielded
by any of the great agricultural products
in any parts of the country. In a lecture
on cotton, delivered at Liverpool last Sep
tember, by Mr. Beazlcy, a well known cot
ton spinner aud member of Parliament, he
stated that one of the largest planters in
Louisiana had told him that he could grow
cotton profitably at six cents per pound;
and no well informed southern man will
deny that cotton sold at six cents on too
plantation is a more remunerative crop than
either sugar, rice, hemp, or corn. But if
we look at the prices which have ruled in
Liverpool for the middling grades of New
Orleans cottons we shall find the average
in 1854 eleven cents, in 1855 twelve cents,
in 1850 twelve and three quarter cents,
in 1857 sixteen cents, in 1858 fourteen
cents, in 1859 fourteen and a half cents,
in 1800 fourteen cents."
Our Financial Condition.
Not the least surprising feature in pub
lic affairs is that with pretty brisk impor
tations, money is down to four or five per
cent in New \ ork, in fact, begging for
profitable employment, and United States
six per cent bonds are above par. They
crossed the meridian more than a week ago
amid the cheers of the Hoard of .Brokers.
\\ hat will Mrs. Grundy of the London
Times say of the fact that at a time when,
according to the rule in the old world, wo
ought to have been paying three per cent,
a month for money, and been uuable to get
it at that ?
This rise in value is, of course says tho
New \ork Commercial, mainly due to po
litical eveuts. All doubts as to the per
manency of the Union are now removed j
and the people have the utmost confidence
in the ability and good faith of the Gener
al Government to pay its citizens the loans
that it has been contracting. Everybody,
indeed, is interested in preserving the na
tional honor, since failure to fulfil its obli
gations would entail pecuniary losses prob
ably crjual to the entire national debt.
We arc aware that such a sudden infla
tion may be attended with danger in lead
ing many to rush into unwise speculations
at a moment when funds appear to be so
abundant. The possibility of this should
never be lost sight of for an hour Still, as
our financial calamities visited us so exten
sively about the outbreak of the war, it is
reasonable to hope that with its termination
the shock will not be so severe as it was
twelve or eighteen months ago.
But is it not marvelous that the money
market should be in such a condition now ?
What other nation can produce such a rec
ord of improvotoenjt in its finances during
a period of active hostilities ?
WILLIAM LIND,
has now open
A NEW STOCK
Of
Cloths, Cassimeresi
AND
VESTINCS,
which will be made up to order ia the neat
est and moet fashionable styles. apl9
ffi H SJ W ii m IKS
TIN WA.HE3!
COL NTRY MERCHANTS in want of Tin
Ware will find it to their advantage to
purchase of J. B. Selheimer, who will sell
them a better article, and as cheap if not
cheaper than they can purchase it in any of
the eastern cities. Call and see bis new stocfc
I-ewistown, April 23, 1862-ly.