Whole No. 2661. BEAD! READ ! READ f M4M M M •' Is there a man with soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said, My own, my native land !" AND now, when patriots look for the ear ly return of peace and prosperity and a general 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 Stand of Jons KENNEDY & Co., comprising a general assortment of Dry Goods. Groceries. Stone and Queens ware, Willow and Cedar Ware, Fish, Salt, Ham, Shoulder, Flitch 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 Stock will be sold at a small advance to Country Merchants. As we buy for cash, and in large quantities, we sell LOW". Country Produce taken in Ex change for Goods. Remember, one door below the Black B>*ar Hotel. JOHN KENNEDY, At April IG, 1862—1y PATENT COAL OIL GREASE. Grease 13 made from COAL OIL, x and has been found by repeated tests to be the most economical, and at the same time the best lubricator for Mill Hearing, Stages, Wagons, Carts, Carriages, Vehicles of all kinds, and aF heavy bearings, keeping the axles always cool, and not requir ing ihera to be looked alter for weeks. It has been tested on railroad cars, and with one foakiug of the waste it has run, with the cars, 20.000 miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery stable and Express companies that have tried it nrouounee it the tie phis 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 2\ to 10 lbs. Also kegs and barrels from 30 to 400 lbs, for general use and sale. The boxes are more prefera ble; they are G inches in diameter by 2} inches deep.- and hold 2! lbs net; the boxes are clean, arid hardly a carman, teamster, expressman, miller or farmer, that would not purchase one box for trial F. U. FRANCISCUS. Lewistown, February 12, 1862. LEWISTOWN BAKERY, West Market Street, nearly opposite the Jail. rtOXRAD ULLRICH. JR. would respect- V_; fully inform his old customers and citi zens generally that he continues the Baking of BREAD, CAKES, &c., at the above stand, where those articles can be procured fresh every day. Families desiring Bread, &C. will be sup plied 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 jfcart notice. Lewistown, February 20, 1862-ly AMBROTYPES A XI) The Gems of the Season. HIS is no 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. WILLIAM LIND, has now open A NEW STOCK OF Cloths, Cassimeres AND VESTI NCS, which will be made up to order ia the neat est and most fashionable styles. ap!9 ® as? w ii ai ib 3 TIN WARE! (COUNTRY MERCHANTS in want of Tin J Ware will fiod 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 his new stock Lewistown, April 23, 1862-ly. WaTIwiT <-£j 'O 1 £2 "O 1 c OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown, adjoining F. 0. Franciscus' Hardware Store. P. S. Dr. I ocke will be at his office the first Monday of each month to spend thi week. my3l 1 A A DOZEN Coal Oil Chimneys, Wicka. -IV/ \J Brushes, Ac., for sale at city whole sale prices to retailers, by mhl2 F. O. FRANCISCUS. Hams —An excellent article at 10 cents pi *h., for sale by MARKS A WILLIS. lewistown, April 90, J862. ffagsmsgi Agiß ismsmtsig ffiß?sna(&ais 8 im<msmims 9 uouhhus? twwsnre# THE KIHSTKKI. THE OLD GRIST M 11.1,. Half hid by drooping willows, V - At ., t,ie tyol of the wood-crowncd hill Nestling in quiet beauty Is standing the old grist-mill Its roof is green and mossy, And plasterless are its walls: Silent and still is the old water-wheel- All clasped m Time's enthrall. Slimy and green is the penstock. And covered with nettles rank; w 'be tortuous mill-race Crevasses cleave its banks, i he willow's dolorous branches Are kissing the glassy pond. With its spiatterdocks and floating flocks Ana the thick-lined shore beyond. Back to the days of my boyhood My thoughts fly on memory's wities; I see the old mill in its glory— " Bright spray the huge water-wheel flings. As it tramps through the foaming water, \V ith a merry pattering sound ; And what merry peals the 'counter-wheels' (live forth as they whirl around. Hark ! how the mill-stones rumble. As the golden grain leaps through, List to the rattling -damsel' Shaking the aguish -shoe!' Swiftly is gliding the belting. The cogs whirl around in amaze. As with mute surpise in mv juvenile eyes, I wondering, stand and gaze. There stands the miller musing On the ups and downs of corn : His form appears bowed down with years. And the weighty sacks he's borne. Dust wraps him round as a halo, Napless and dinged is his hat. An honest old man was the miller, I ween, Though, on dit, his swine wore fat. Weighing out quarters of flour- Measuring bushels of feed— Plenty of grist work his dower— Plenty of water his need. Tolling from morning till even. • •rinding the golden grain— When Death, one day, chanced over that wav. And heave ward jogged the swain. So now the ghost-like miller No more at his post is found: From his haunt he is missed, he's ground his grist And the miller's grist is— ground. Wei! -toll'd' they say was his grist-work, Well told were the yarns he spun. Well toll'd was the bell at his funeral, After his work was done. And now the old Mil! standeth. Cheerless and silent and old; Bats and owls, through the windows, Are flying, fearless and bold. Time and the rats are gnawing At ral'ter and beam and floor, And soon the old Mill, so dreary still, Will crumble, to rise no more. Oh. what i< the world but a grist-mill. Where Kight is ground down by Power, Where fashion is grinding its minions Into very indifferent flour! Where Vice is crushing out Virtue, Where the Rich are grinding the Poor. Where grists of Cares, and Hopes, and Fears, Pass in and out at the door! Oh. what is the earth but a Mill-stone, Turning around each dav. Grinding the lives of its children Slowly, but surely away! Grimly, remorselessly gliding, Stifling each panting breath. Who is that skeleton miller! Who, but the scare-crow Death! When will the Mill and Mill-stone, Moulder to dark decay. And Time's keen scythe make the miller writhe, And hear him from hence away? Oh God. how we gaze and wonder On the great unveiled TO BE; Forever condemned to ponder On nn awful Mystery! K.lit-'J by A. Sum!, County Superintendent. For the Educational Column. Manliness, A disturbed state of society develops a want which is felt more or less in all other social conditions, a want of men. Though the number of tbose who have gained a re spectable degree and kind of intellectual culture is always too small, yet it is almost incalculably greater than the number of men whose manliness can be utterly relied on, whose personal integrity and disinterest ed patriotism render them towers of strength. Perhaps this want is not really more striking now than it has been in ev ery political or moral storui that has agita ted the world of mankind; but we feel it more deeply, and the inquiry is altogether pertinent, —what kind of training is best adapted to foster that vigorous, sterling manliness which seems to he a nation's last hope, save the special favor of Providence? Helps, in his 'Friends in Council,' says: 'What a man has learnt is of importance, but what he is, what he can do, what he will become, are more significant things. Hook learning is mainly good, as it gives us a chance of coming into the company of greater and better minds than the average of men around us; individual greatness and goodness are the things to be aimed at, rath er than the successful cultivation of those talents which go to form some eminent membership of society.' It seems to me there is some excellent milk in this eocoanut, and it is not at all difficult to get at it. The idea that any amount of book learning, however great and accurate, makes its possessor a full man, fitted for every station of public life, pre pared to assume local and national respon sibilities, is entirely absurd though unfor tunately oommon. To be sure, this learn ing does not disqualify a man for such sta tions and responsibilities, it is of signal benefit to him; but it is only auxiliary, not of the first importance. The grand requi site is manliness, or in the words of Helps, 'individual greatness and goodness.' But how to acquire this wonderful boon? It is needful in the first place that its de sirableness be distinctly appreciated, that its great excellence be comprehended, and that its attainable character be assured. In other words it is necessary, at the start, to think,—- to think calmly, persistently and cheerfully. The inevitable result of such thinking upon the subject will be to excite a more generous disposition toward those WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1862. agencies by which genuine strength and purity of character are developed. There will be no thought of curtailing the pres ent educational facilities or of casting aside the studies which are now pursued in the schools, —rather will the result of such thinking be to enlarge the present streams of public instruction, at the same time giv ing to them a change of direction. The tendency is, to give too exclusive attention to the training of the purely intellectual faculties, to render scholars proficient in what the books communicate and to instruct them in sciences whose interest and benefit lie outside of humanity,—not uninteresting or useless by any means, but not of neces sity imparting to scholars that hearty man liness which fits them to speak words and perform deeds that 'come home to men's bu siness and bosoms,' and inspire men with higher motives than love of scholarship, of money, of conspicuous station, of noisy fame. The teachings of our schools need to be extended beyond the common routine of text books, and to include the funda mental principles of all manly character, — a sense of honor that cannot be sullied, a love of truth that will be satisfied with no popular lies, a devotion to country that leads to hearty effort to reform existing evils, and to defend its sanctity even to the outpour ing of life, a reverence for humanity that no wickedness can diminish, and a trust in Heaven that buoys up the spirit under all adversities and fringes every cloud with a silver lining. This must flow from the fullness of man ly life and excellence in teachers, rather thau be communicated through books; but no good citizen can fail to wish that it may yet be accomplished. S. From the Philadelphia Press. Horrible Tragedy in the 20th Ward. A Man Shoot* Himself and Wife. — About a quarter before eleven o'clock on Monday morning a shocking domestic trag edy occurred in the 20th Ward, which caused an intense excitement throughout that section of the city. The affair occur red at the house No. 1,420 Prospect street, above Master, occupied by a German nam ed Peter Cherdron, aged about 45 years, and a tailor by trade. The other occupants of the house were his wife, Mary Cherd ron, and six children. Yesterday morning Cherdron, while en- I gaged at work at home, went suddenly out ! to procure some cotton. In a short time j he returned and came into the kitchen with j his hands folded behind him. He asked ! his wife to come into the front room. She j followed him, when he raised a six barrel- j ed Allen revolver and shot one load at his wife. The weapon was loaded with a ball, which entered her stomach, producing a mortal wound. She immediately com menced vomiting blood, and made her way through the rear part of the house to the residence of a neighbor, where she fell ex hausted. She was placed on a settee, and I>r. Lindsay was summoned to her aid.— lie pronounced her iniuries mortal, the hemorrage being internal. The unfortu nate woman remained conscious of her sit uation, and desired the presence of a con fessor. A German priest was sent for, who administered to her the offices for the d y in s- . . The husband, having shot his wife in this manner, immediately rushed up stairs to the third story front room, where, with the same weapon, which contained five re maining loads, he shot himself in the right temple. The ball passed into the brain, causing instant death. The second report of the pistol, coupled with the fact that the wife had been seen running into a neighbor's house, covered with blood, threw the whole neighborhood into consternation. People flocked from all quarters and made their way into the house of Cherdron. — Blood was seen on the first floor, and, on goiDg into the third story, the husband was found lying on his back with a large pool of blood beside him. The police un der Lieut. Jacoby, of the 20th Ward, were soon on the spot, and allayed, as far as pos sible, all excitement. The cause of this sad tragedy is said to have been jealousy. The only one who could give any idea of the facts and cir cumstances of the horrible affair was a son of the unfortunate couple, aged about sev en years, who was in the kitchen at the time. He tells a straight story, and cor roborates the statement given above. From those residing in the neighborhood we learn that not more than half a minute elapsed between the two reports of the pis tol. The wife said when first shot that her husband had done the bloody deed.— The husband is represented as a hard work ing journyman tailor, and had been em ployed for some time by a firm doing busi ness near Second and Vine streets. He always finished his work at home. He was occasionally subject to fits of jealousy, and at one time, while melanoholly, at tempted to hang himself. He was discov ered in time to save his life. At another time he threatened to shoot his wife and children. A large boot and shoe operator, in Boston, has just absconded, leaving liabili ties to tbe amount of 8175,000 unprovided for. The Great Fire in Troy, New York. We glean from the troy (N. Y.) Whig the following items in reference tructive fire which occurred in that city on Saturday a week : At 12 M. it broke out in the root of the wooden bridge belonging to the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad Com pany, over the Hudson river. It was speedily in a sheet of flames, and a violent gale blowing at the time caused its rapid destruction. Attention was then turned to the property in the neighborhood. The cinders were carried in every direction, setting fire to dozens of buildings. For most of the time the fire raged from west to east, and til the efforts of the firemen failed to check its raging until hundreds of buildings and millions of property were consumed to ashes. From estimates made, and as accurate as possible under the circumstances, it is prob able that the aggregate losses will approx imate 83,000,000, and the aggregate insur ances about 81,400.000. The bridge and depot cost some 8365,000; the Sixth Street Presbyterian Church near 850,000; the Fifth Street Baptist 815,000 to 20,000. — The Union House cost 840,000, and the furniture 830,000. A large number of public and charitable institutions were des troyed—including the Troy Orphan Asy lum, the Church Asylum, the Warren Fe male Charity School, the ltenselaer Poly technic Institute, the Troy Academy, and the Free Chapel. The shipping in the riv er narrowly escaped, as the large burning fragments of the bridge floated down among the vessels, and kept all hands busy warding them off. As far as ascertained, nine persons were burned to death, and a larger number were more or less burned and otherwise injured. Five engines were sent up from Albany, New York, and others arrived from West Troy and Landisburg. Governor Morgan visited the city on Sunday, and a public meeting was called for Monday evening, to take measures for the relief of the suf ferers. The Whig, remarking upon the impres sion which had gone abroad to the effect that Troy was ruined by the conflagration, winds up with the following encouraging view of the matter : 'We can say to our friends elsewhere, that however much our citizens have suf fered in individual losses of houses and furniture, and asniall number of merchants and manufacturers in their business concerns we assure our friends abroad that nothing has occured to damage the general trade and manufacturing interests of the town. These will go on as usual. With the ex ception of half a block on each side of Riv er street, the main business portions of the city remain untouched. Congress street did not lose a building. In Eulton street and Broadway, about the Union Depot, and half a block down River street from the Bridge, are the main business portions of the town which suffer. 'The sentiment among our citizens is that we shall recover from the fire all in good time. Many portions swept over will soon be built up better than ever. There is not the slightest iuclination anywhere to ' say die,' or to lie down under the dis aster.' Nigger lovers and Abolitionists. Col. Leonidas Metcalf, of Kentucky, lately made a speech te the Union men of Carlisle, Nicholas County, in that State, in which he paid his respect to those negro loving secessionists, who, when hard run for an argument, will cry ' Abolitionist,' as if it was only necessary to fix the stigma of abolitionism upon a man to ruin him for ever. This out-spoken Kentuckian draws the portraits of these cringing dastards with the pencil of a Limner. We take an extract for the edification of these puny souled creatures: I had started to pay my respects to the nigger lovers of the South. There has been no election since I can remember but the cry of nigger was raised. A constable, coroner, judge or president could not be nominated but the same old tune was ground. Law after law was passed to tighten the tenure by which we held them. State laws, fugitive laws, territorial legisla tures might legislate a man to the devil if they chose, if he had no nigger ; but lawa were passed to prevent them from legisla ting on the subject of niggers. A Repub lican Congress passed laws to prevent them selves from legislating on negroes in the territories, sti 1 the cry was more security, more concessions, until they require all to kneel to Gesler's cap, or else they are not the Simon Buckner pure. They swear that it is God's institution, and that in bis sublime wisdom he instigated the trader to the pious oalling of catching and chaining the wild African in the bold of some gloomy ship to transport him from his na tive hills where his soul is in, danger, to the cotton fields of America, all for the glory of God and the increase of his king dom ; that thsir pursuits and pleasure in Africa are loathsome to God; but when they are transported to the cotton fields and learned to raise six bales to the hand, great is his reward, for be now pleaseth the Lord and shall have a seat in Heaven; while the traitors who have so long been protected in making black angels, quietly pocket the proceeds of the cotton. To aft this you must solemnly promise and swear or you are an Abolitionist. And some of these traitors are helping to populate Heaven with angels only half black. This is no joke ; all this has been preached from the pulpit by the said sooty-winged nig ger satellites. They do not stop at insul ting man, but blaspheme God with their obsequious dallying and pandering to a set of corrupt, fly-blown jackasses, who cannot see any other aim or object on earth through which pleasure or happiness can be secured but nigger; no other road to Heaven but on a nigger's back. They must have the Missouri compromise, or they will break up the government. Then the Missouri Compromise must be repealed, it ain't fair, or they will knock all the underpinnings from under Uncle Samuel. The cry of Abolitionist is the whip that j is continually held up to scare the ignorant into the Democratic, and now the secession ranks. It'you look at things with common sense, you are an Abolitionist. If you are for country, and for the majority ruling, you are an Abolitionist. It is time we put a stop to these insults. They cannot listen to reason. The only thing yoa can beat common sense into them with is a green sycamore club that will not bounce, or a bullet. A few wholesome truths may be bitter, but nevertheless true. The accu sation is very common that the North favors amalgamation. Now, to tell the truth, and shame old Nick, it is practised to a fearful extent throughout the South and Kentucky. Go into any of our towns and see the different shades, and colors. Jet black, buff, and brown Mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound. Hut we will not speak loud on this.— Somebody might be listening. You can know every traitor in the land as plainly as you can your hogs, by the ear marks.— They have a pass word, by which you can know them as well in the night as in the day time —that word is, ' Abolitionist.'— That is the sum total of all their argu ments. An Elephant in a Morass. The monster elephant Hannib il, belong ing to Van Amburgh & Co's Menagerie, came near losing his life, a few days since, while traveling from Keyport to Freehold, in New Jersey. Ilis keeper had taken him off the road, in order to avoid an un safe bridge, when, in crossing a tract of swampy land, the ground gave way beneath him, and the enormous animal sank up to the middle of his sides in the yielding mud, where he floundered away for some time without being able to extricate himself; his struggles, on the contrary, resulting in rendering his situation, each moment more dangerous, until it was feared it would be impossible to save him. The heavy shack les with which he was fettered, preventing a free movement of his limbs, made his position still more critical until help arriv ed, when, by placing timbers in front of and around him, he was enabled, after a short time, to extricate himself. At first he was very much frightened, trumpeting loudly, and struggling wildly, but after the timbers were placed within his reach he went to work more systematically, and ex hibited much intelligence in his subse quent operations, depending principally upon his tusks to raise himself. When exhausted by his exertions he would throw himself over on enc side, in order to gain all the buoyancy possible until he became somewhat rested, when be would resume an upright position and go manfully to work again. His efforts wore finally crown ed with success. Progress of the New Monitors. The three iron gunboats of the Monitor model, which were ordered by the Govern ment immediately after the engagement of the Monitor with the Merrimac, have been commenced at Greenpoint, near New York. They are to be built very much like the Monitor, except that they are each to have two revolving shot proof turrets instead of one. The model is also slightly altered so as to make them better sea-boats and to give them greater speed. Like the Moni tor they are to be propellers, the deck be ing but little above the water line. Their length is to be three hundred and two feet over all, with a breadth of beam of forty one feet, and a depth of hold of twelve feet. The armor is to be six inches in thickness. There are at present but two of them commenced, but the blocks have been laid for the reception of the keel of the third. The work is well along on the first one, however. The frame which is entirely of iron, is up, except at the bow and stern, and the work of putting on the first layer of iron plates has already com menced. The iron ribs and the plates sre forged in a separate workshop, but small forges are set up all along each side for heating the bolts. As large a crew of men as can work with convenience are busily engaged in riveting the plates. It will be at least four months before the first boat is launched. Elected —Colonel Isham G. Haynie, just elected by eighty-two plurality to succeed General Logan in Congress, from Illinois, is a staunch Union Democrat —a man who goes for prosecuting the war with due en ergy, to the end of conquering the restor ation of the Union. His two competitors, S. S. Marshall and Josh. Allen, ran as Peace (. c Secesh") Democrats. New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 30 -.1 Snake in the Crinoline. —A remark able escape from almost certain death, oc curred a few days since to a female at Wa terloo Estate, near Sydney. A women and her husband had been taking a walk in the vieinity of a lagoon, and had sat for some time near the edge of the water.— On rising to return home, the woman fan cied she felt something at the back of her dress, but as nothing could be 6een there, no further notice was taken of the matter for souie time. On passing a friend's house, however, at a short distance, she stopped to speak to one of the inmates, and while doing so, again felt a movement as if something alive had got between her gown and petticoat. Becoming alarmed, and placing her hand on her dress, she was horrified to perceive a snake drop to the ground from beneath her garments. It proved to be a death adder —the most ven omous of all Australian reptiles. The deadly intruder was soon dispatched by the husband by a blow on the head. Her es cape under the circumstances is truly won derful. A Printer Boy in Battle. —ln the bat tle of Pittsburg Landing, young Martin Been of Alton, Illinois, scarce eighteen years old, was a sergeant in the 13th Mis souri, having entered that regiment as a private. On that fatal Sunday the color bearer was shot down at his side; he caught up the flag and carried it through the day, and slept >hat night with its folds around him. The next morning the cap tain appointed hiui a second lieutenant jpro tempore. The first volley killed the first lieutenant and Martin took his place.— Soon after the lieutenant colonel fell, and the captain of Martin's company acted as major, leaving this young hero to carry the company through the battle, which he did most gallantly, and escaped unharmed. Young Martin Been was in a printing of fice when the war broke out. Suicide for Love. —A young woman by the name of Marv Dunham, drowned her self on Saturday last, at Union Mills, near Calais, Me., all for love, it is said. She walked from the house where she was liv ing, which stands on the bank of the river, first informing the inmates that she was going to drown herself, which elicited from them only a laugh of derision—went down to the river, took off her hoop skirts, walked into the rushing current about up to her waist, in the presence of several of her companions, male and female, who stood looking on, and took the fatal plunge and was soon carried beyond the reach of human aid. One of the spectators, when he saw she was earnest, rushed in to res cue her, but was too late, and came near being drowned himself. young girl, belonging toarespeo table family in reduced circumstances, four years ago learned to operate sewing ma chines, and then went to Peru to teach the art to the Spanish girls and to establish the business in that country. She has since enjoyed uniform good health and has realized between three and four thousand dollars a year beyond her expenses. About a year ago she married a wealthy old Span iard, who, dying, bequeathed to her u for tune of eighty thousand dollars, and thus placed her in very comfortable and inde pendent circumstances. She now writes to urge her relatives to emigrate to Peru, and share her good fortune. Suicide. —George Kimberlin an honest hard working citizen of Bethel township, living near Lemuel Hill's Store, deliber ately committed suicide on Sunday night the 27th ult. It seems that he had reasr on to suspect the fidelity of his wife, and that this preyed upon his mind until he resolved to 4 shuffle off this mortal coij.'— That the act was deliberate it proved by the fact that he made arrangements ir. re gard to bis property. He left the house at night, and was found in the morning with a rope around his neck attached to a limb of a tree in tront of his house, and with his feet resting on the ground- H a <r he straightened himself up to the usual height, it would have been impossible for him to have strangled himself, but being bent upon splf destruction he was able to accomplish his purpose under fuvorahlg circumstances. The deceased was about 45 years of age, and much respected by those who knew him.— Fulton Democrat. —- The Hog Crop —The export# of cui moat# to all foreign countries trow Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Portland ana Baltimore, from N° Tein ber 1, 1861, tq April 16, 1862, and the corresponding time the previous season, were as follows : 1860 61 1861 62. 57,682,292 lbs. 151.370.325 lbs. 57,682,202 Increase this season 93,688,123 The exports of lard for the correspon* ding periods were. 1860 61 1861 62 23,443, 750 lbs. 81,411,550 lbs. 23,443.750 Increart tbjs season 57.443J5Q WALL PAPERS, Wm4o W Blind*, Queensware, putlery, Wi} : low and Wooden Ware, as usual, at ap3o GEO. BLYMYER'S.
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