Whole No, 2664.
READ! READ! READ'
HtM M M
" Is there a man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
My own, my native land !"
A XD now, when patriots look for the ear-
J\_ 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
Xlaiul of JOHN KENNEDY & Co., comprising
a general assortment of
Dry Goods, Groceries. Stone and
Queens ware, Willow and
Cedar Ware,
■FUi, Salt, Hum, Shoulder, Flitch and
Dried DeeJ\
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 Bear
Hotel. .JOHN KENNEDY, At.
April 10, IFG2-Iy
PATENT
COAL OIL GREASE.
r FIIIS 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
Rearing, Stages, Wagons, Carta, Carriages, j
Aeliick-s of ail kinds, and all heavy bearings, i
keeping the axles always cool, and not requit
ing them to be looked alter for weeks. It lias '
hen tested on railroad cars, and with one
soaking of the waste it has run, with thecals,
2U,()Ot) miles ! All railroad, omnibus, liverv j
stable and Kxpress companies that have tried ;
it pronounce it the neplus ultra.
It combines the body and fluidity of tallow, j
beeswax and tar, and unlike general lubrica- i
tors, will not run off, it being warranted to j
stand any temperature.
1 have it iri boxes 2] to 10 lbs. Also kegs ;
and barrels from 30 to 100 lbs, for general j
use and sale. The boxes are more prefera- i
ble; they are 0 inches in diameter by 24 inches !
deep, and hold 21 lbs net; the boxes are clean, |
and hardly a carman, teamster, expressman, ]
miller or farmer, that would not purchase *
on.- box for trial. F. G. FKAXCIbCUS.
Lcwistown, February 12, ISG2.
LEWISTOWN BAKERY,
West Market Street, nearly opposite the
Jail.
/ tOXRAD U LLUICII. JU. would respect*
V_/ fully inform his old customers and citi- i
zens generally that he continues the Baking |
of
BREAD, CAKES, &c.,
at the above stand, where those articles can j
be procured fresh every day.
Families desiring Bread, &c. will be sup j
plied at their dwellings in any part of town. |
Fruit, F.o.iid, Spunge, and all other kinds of i
cuke, of any size de-ired, baked to order at
short notice.
Lcwistown, February 20, ISG2-Iy
AMBROTYPES
AND
The Gems of the Season.
UJMIIS is no humbug, hut a practical truth.
JL The pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder
are unsurpassed for BOLL)NE>SS, 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, 18G0.
WILLIAM LIND,
has now open
A NEW STOCK
OF
Cloths, Cassimeres
AND
VESTINGS,
which will be made up to order in the neat
est and most fashionable styles. apl9
U Sf W &IE 313
TIN WARE!
COUNTRY MERCHANTS in want of Tin
Ware will find it to their advantage to
purchase of J. B. Selheimcr, 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.
m* j. mm*
L£J 'CP 12 613
OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware
Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
the first Monday of each month to spend the
week. my3l
I/ 1A DOZEN Coal Oil Chimneys, Wicks,
I " /\J Brushes, &c., for sale at city whole
sale prices to retailers, by
mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
HAMS—An excellent article at 10 cents po
m.. for sale by MARKS & "WILLIS.
Lewistown, April 30, 1862.
imnKgaia siamwa<sms 9 gnrowmg <maxws 9 B>A.
THE HIS I REE,
THE lIAPPY SOLDIEH,
I am tlicr boy that's always happy
At home or on the battle field.
And because I low my eonntrv.
J have buckled on the shield. "
*<> let the people say what they will,
I am ttie happy soldier still.
Happy soldier, happv soldier,
I am the happy soldier still.
Then here I am a fighting soldier,
r ightiug for mv country's cause
It they will but lead me onward,
Onward still without a pause.
So let the people say what they will
1 11 be a fighting soldier still, '
Fighting soldier, fighting soldier,
I It be a lighting soldier still.
Vf.V so Uthern sunny deserts,
I II he marching onward still.
Like our fathers did before us.
At Lexington and Bunker Hill.
Then let the people .-av what they will,
I II be inarching onward still.
Marching onward, marching onward,
i II be marching onward stiil.
I 11 bear tlie T nion standard safely,
I >v r the rugged hills and dales.
\\ here Heeesh's must die forever,
And lie buried in their graves.
yg,',", let the people say what thev will.
1 II lie tor the I nion still.
For the Union, for the Union.
I'll lie for the (' nion still.
He aven hath its joys and blessings.
And earth has hcr'teils and cares.
In the North we II be gav and happv,
W len the south will be lead in snares.
.So let the Secesli sav what they will,
The I nion is the safest still.
For in the Union we shall see,
The gay. the happy and the free.
Jv.lio-.I liv A. SMITH. Comm Superintendent.
For the Educational Column.
Scenes in a School.
One fine morning in April, while I was
enjoying the delightful scenery of a beau
tiful valley in the eastern part of this
State, I was met by a young gentleman
about twenty years of ago who was walk
ing along energetically with a basket un
der his arm. As he was quite talkative,
we were soon engaged in conversation,
when he proved to be a pedagogue,—the
teacher at a schoolhouse which stood close
by. 1 accepted an invitation to see his
school.
The opening of school is a very impor
tant part of the day's proceedings. The
teacher's looks and manners, as he meets
his pupils in the morning, at once exert xn
influence over them that is likely to mould
the spirit and temper of tho school during
the entire day. The teacher who meets
his pupils in-the morning feeling displeas
ed, discontented, and irritated, may rest as- j
sured that
- W.-tl - in;-tnii'img tri-mblcr-le vix dla tr.u-c ]
*l'ti- (i A - in his morning fai-e."
If, on the contrary,' he he cheerful, earnest !
and hopeful, his pupils will catch the in- j
spiration of his own enthusiasm and ini i
part life and interest to every exercise. j
Thoughts like these led me t<> think 3
should now have an opportunity to learn
something more of the art of opening
school well, and I was not disappointed.
We arrived at the schoolhouse at the
time for opening school; about a score of
youngsters had preceded us and were hav
ing some fine sport. But the floor must
he swept yet, the teacher must brush his
boots, and attend to various other little
things before beginning the regular duties
of the day. In a short time the command
' get your hooks' was proclaimed from head
quarters. The pupils soon took their seats.
Two of the hoys having a greater thirst
for water than for knowledge a<kcd leave
to ' bring a bucket of water.' It was gra
ciously granted. 'We have singing at the
opening of the school,' said the teacher
blandly. It is rather natural for one who
has a few impractical ideas remaining in
his head to expect a hymn to be sung; but
utility was the rule here. 'We'll now
sing the multiplication table,' said the
teacher. It was sung, or rather screeched
at the top of the voice. At the close of
this performance quite a number of hands
were up. 'John,' said the teacher address
ing one of the boys; John responded 'The
Grave of Washington.' 'Martha;' Mar
tha responds 'The Graves of the House-,
j hold." Sallic says ' Little Things;' 'Tom
my,' ' l)o they miss me at Home.' ' All
in" favor of'singing The Grave of Washing
ton raise hands,' said the teacher. A few
hands went up. 'Well, sing the Grave of
Washington.' This is a piece of music whose
name alone would indicate that it should
be sung rather softly; but this teacher is a
unitarian who evidently believes in vigor
ous physical exercise, especially exercise of
the lungs and throat. It was to be ex
pected, then, that the singing would be
vigorous, and so it was; it was uproarious,
each pupil seemed to be anxious to outdo
all the others. A hymn was then sung in
a similar style, a portion of the scriptures
was read, after which the teacher offered
a prayer. In the midst of this exercise
the two boys came in with a bucket of wa
ter, and being not particularly oppressed
with feeiings of veneration, they thought
it would be best to finish the job on hand;
go the water was carried the whole length
of the schoolroom and put in its place on
the platform beside the teacher's desk; af
ter this tbey took their seats, showing by
their gait that they had a wholesome faith
in that part of the First Header which says
' Our feet were made to walk.' ....
A subsequent performance, dignified by
the teacher as an exercise in elocution, des
erves notice. Imagine a self-confident ped
agogue with a stick in hand, sundry letters
WEDNESDAY, JUNE
on the blackboard, and sundry youngsters
scattered promiscuously through the room.
| Give the sound of A' says the teacher.—
this was followed by a combination of nas
al and guttural sound so stunning that it
kept sounding in my ears—or my imagin
ation for a week more or less. 'Now
give the second sound of A.' Another
tremendous explosion. 'The third sound
of A.' Another combination of screams
which would undoubtedly have been more
fierce had the power of the human throat
permitted.
1 he reader may think this an over-drawn
sketch, but T can assure him it is not.—
Two more ludicrous scenes than the open
ing of this school and the exercise in elo
cution—more appropriately an exercise in
yellocution—l have never witnessed in
any school. They were utterly destitute
of the nice order and good taste that
should characterize every school exercise.
At the close of my visit the teacher in
formed rne that he did not intend to make
teaching his business; like hundreds of
others who have disgraced the profession,
he was only making teaching ' a stepping
stone to something higher. J. K. 11.
MSttAMOIIJ.
Interesting Correspondence.
A Tstter from a I?ebel Prisoner to his T/jyal
Unde—the Uncle's lieply.
MCDOWELL'S COLLEGE, Feb. 6.
DEAR I NOLK GEORGE: I suppose you
have heard that I was taken prisoner at
Milford, a short time since. We were
brought to St. Louis, and are now confined
in this place. To-morrow, I understand,
we are to be sent to Alton. 1 write you
to use your influence to get me out on my
parole (>f honor, as I am very anxious to go
home and sec my family, and especially
my wife, who, 1 have heard is very sick.
If you will procure my release, 1 pledge
you my honor I will religiously observe
and keep my parole until I am released. —
I know that you and I differ politically
upon this question. Ido not know how it
affects you. I have always entertained the
highest respect for you as a frieud and rel
ative, and my feelings are still the same.
I do not know how you feel. I see your
office is in the l'rovost Marshal's office. I
know you have great influence, and will
be under lasting obligations, if you will
procure my release on my parole. I am,
very respec.fully, your friend and relative,
8 D. MARTIN.
UARXUM'S iioxKr,, Sr. Los is,)
February 10, 1802. j
Dr. Solon J). Ahtrtin, Alton, 111. :
Pit. Stii,ox : Vours of ihc Gth i-'ebru
ary was handed to mo this evening upon
my arrival here. 1. had heard with deep
regret that you were a prisoner, taken in
arms against the lest Government on earth. I
L regret to say, after reading your note,
I cannot see any signs of repentance on
your part. The crime that you have com
mitted is the highest known to the law.—
The coldest blooded assassination the law
regards as of less turpitude than treason,
and justly so, too. In the one case, only a
single victim suffers; in the other, whole
communities, States, and a nation is filled
with assassinations and all the crimes of a
lesser grade.
Society is destroyed; law disregarded.
The torch of the incendiary, the knife of;
the assassin, wi'.'i every other crime, reigns
supremely throughout the land, llad you
said in your note that you had been duped,
deceived, betrayed into this rebellion, and
that you repented, heartily repented, of
the course you had taken, and that now you
were ready to peril life, fortune, and your
sacred honor, in defence of the Govern- j
inent your grandfathers toiled for through
eight long and bloody years of privation
and suffering to establish, then I would
have labored for your release, and I doubt
not I could have accomplished it. This
you have not done, and it is now too late;
you can never have my aid. This, to you,
may seem harsh, cruel—be it so. If you
were my son, instead of my nephew, I
would never suffer you to darken my door ;
until you could do so as a patriot and as a
loyal citizen of your Government.
Have you ever thought of the conse
quences of your course upon me? The
party with which you associated are my
bitter enemies and seek my lite. I have
already had to fly from my home, and my
house surrounded by an armed band of cut- j
throats the night I left. What was my
crime ? Loyalty to my Government —pa-
triotism, your grandfathers would in their
day have called it. For this, you and your
party to which you have joined your for- j
tunes, think men ought to suffer death.—
What is the history of the leaders of this
rebellion ? It is written in one word: In
famy. They have now added to their
blackened souls, (if, indeed, they can be
blackened,) the crime of murder. Think
of the thirty thousand widows, the cries of
the orphans for bread, the unavailing re
grets of more than one hundred thousand
friends and relatives, and then tell me if
you are guiltless. Have you not contribu
ted, so far as your influence goes, to bring
this wail of woe which now goes up from
this whole community? Suppose you
could secede, and your independence be
established, who do you suppose would be
18, 1862,
the leaders and prominent men of your
Government? Those who now are at the
head of this rebellion—men who for years
were plotting treason against the very Gov
ernment they were sworn to with
perjury upon their souls. I know your
surroundings, 'litis to some extent owing
to your age, may excuse or palliate your
crime.
You have committed a crime that for
feits your life j the leniency of your cap
tors, or those in power, may let you so free.
This, however, docs not change the turpi
tude of your crime. You will be spared,
if spared at all, because the Government
is disposed to be merciful and forgiving.
1 have written, I fear you will thinkrharsh
ly and unfeeling to you. I doubt not it
will appear so. I was early taught, by an
old revolutionary father, to coun
try. From him I learned the first lesson
of patriotism ; from him I learned to de
test an Arnold and a Hull, lie was your
grandfather. Would"that you had inheri
ted more ot his teachings—you would not
now be where you are. You might be con
fined in a prison in Dixie, but not by fed
eral authority. What can you hope to ac
complish ? Your party is in hopeless mi
nority. One southern man has not, as
your friends said he could, whipped five
northern men. Indeed, they have fallen
very far short of whipping man for man.
Their gassing did very well until the thing
was tried, and now the sad realities (to
those who then boasted) have demonstra
ted they are not a match man for man.
Let me tell you, this war will last for
ever, unless the south lay down its arms
and submits to the laws, and every day it
lasts the submission will have to be more
unconditional.
You have rushed into this rebellion to
save slavery. llow many, think you, the
leaders in this rebellion had ? llow is it
with you? Are your rights to your slaves
more secure than they were before? The
Government has not brought on this War,
but the Government will end it —if it has
to be at the sacrifice of Slavery.
If any thing I have said will bring you
back to your Government and make you
a loyal citizen, I shall be amply compensa
ted for this hastily written letter. That
you may see the error of your course, 1
earnestly pray.
Respectfully, G. R. SMITH.
Signature of the Cross.
How many of those who daily see X ap
pended to a document of those who arc un
able to write, ever take flic trouble to dis
cover its signification. The mark which
persons who are unable to write are requir
ed to make instead of their signature is the
sign of a cross, and this practice having
formerly been followed by kings and nobles,
is constantly referred to as an instance j
of the deplorable ignorance of ancient j
times. This signature is not, however, in- j
variable proof of such ignorance anciently, j
The use of this mark was not confined to j
illiterate persons, for amongst the Saxons '
the mark of the cross, as an attestation of j
the good faith of the person signing, was !
required to be attached to the signature of
those who could write, as well as to stand
in place of the signature of those who could
not write. In those times, if a man could
write or even read, his knowledge was con
sidered proof positive or presumptive that
he was in holy orders. The word clcricus
or clerk was synoymous with penman ; and
the laity, or people who were not clerks,
did not feel any urgent neccessity for the
use of letters. The ancient use of the
cross was therefore universal, alike by those
who could and by those who could not
write; it was, indeed, the symbol of an oath
from its holy association, and generally the
mark. Ou this account Mr. Clias. Knight,
in his notes to the Pictorial Shakspeare,
explains the expression of' God save the
mark' as a form of ejaculation approach
ing the character of an oath. This phrase
occurs three or more times in the plays of
Shakespeare; but hitherto it has been left
by the commentators in its original obscur
ity. With these associations clustering
round it, the sign of the cross should not
be made a subject for ridicule but rather
be treated as having important meaning
when appended to a document; being at
once a signature and an affirmation to the
truth of what is there written.
Cures for all Maladies.
For a fit of Passion—Walk out into the
open air; you may speak your mind to the
wind without hurting any one, or proclaim
ing yourself a simpleton.
For a fit of Idleness —Count the ticking
iof a clock; do this for an hour, and you
will be glad to pull off your coat and work
like a negro.
For a fit of Extravagance and Folly—
! Go to the workhouse, or speak with the
inmates of a jail, and you will be convin
-1 ced
Who makes his bed of brier and thorn,
Must be content to lie forlorn.
For a fit of Ambition —Go into the
churchyard and read the grave-stones ; they
will tell you the end of ambition. The
grave will soon be your bed-chauiber, the
i earth your pillow, corruption your father,
and the worm your mother and sister.
For a fit of Despondency. —Look on the
good things which God has given yuu in
this world, and to those He has
1 promised to his followers in the next. He
who goes into the garden to look for cob
webs and spiders, no doubt will tind them;
while he who looks for a flower may re
turn to his house with one blooming in his
bosom.
J - or ail lits of Doubts, Perplexity, and
hear, whether they respect the body or the
mind—whether they are a load to the
shoulders, the head, or the heart—the fol
lowing is a radical cure which may bo re
lied on, lor I had it from a Great Physi
cian : Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and
lie will sustain thee.'
For a fit of Repining—Look about for
the halt and the blind, and visid the bed
ridden, the afflicted, and the deranged;
and they will make you ashamed of com
plaining of your light afflictions.
Beating Down Prices.
Some people pride themselves on a cer
tain sharpness in making bargains. They
buy everything a trifle cheaper than their
neighbors because of a certain tact in beat
ing down prices.
It may turn out in another world that
this is very short sighted economy, for as
Mr. Gough says, it leads many sellers to
vicious courses. Mr.Gough said in one of
hislectures upon information derived person
ally from English convicts, that not a few
of that unfortunate class of persons had
formerly been venders of vegetables, fruit,
matches, and such like small wares, and
by that humble means had tried hard to
gain an honest livelihood. And they as
cribe their failure and fall to the fact that
their customers were so persistently in the
habit of beating down their prices that
they found it impossible to earn a living
by lair and honest dealing, and were at
length tempted to a course of double dea
ling, which led thcui step by step into
lying, cheating, stealing and finally public
degradation and prison.
We think that there is more than a
grain of truth in this. At all events, one
of the minor morals is to give a poor man
a fair price for his labor or his wares.—
Beating down is wholly inexcusable. If
the price asked is too high in itself or too
much for your pocket, leave the article
and try another dealer
Minute Machinery.
A correspondent of the Times, writing
from London, says:
The most extraordinary machine in the
exhibition is beyond question the one for
microscopic writing. This enables a per
son to write in the usual way, and to du
plicate his writing a million times smaller;
so small, indeed, that it is invisible to the
naked eye, yet with a powerful microscope
becomes so plain that every line and dot
can be seen. The inventor claims that
with this instrument he can copy the en
tire Piblo twenty-two times in the sp>aee
of an inch. The Astor Library, I presume,
could be transferred to a sheet of note pa
per. Practically it will he of great service
in preventing forgeries. With one ofthese
machines a private mark can he put on
bills so minute and perfect that the forger
can neither perceive nor imitate it, but the
hank clerk or broker knowing where to
look cau at once detect that the bill is gen
uine. The machine is the invention of a
Mr. Peters.
Fate of a Traitor.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing from Iluntsville, Ala.,
says : Walking through one of the most
pleasant of Iluntsville's beautiful streets to
day, the bare and blackened walls of a once
splendid house presented themselves to my
view. The gentleman at my side remarked,
there is a sad history connected with those
ruins. The man who owned the property
was a few weeks since second in influence
to no one in the South ; with a lovely fam
ily, a thorough education, and great wealth.
It seemed that nothing was lacking to com
plete his earthly happiness, In one short
month he was hurled from his pious position
of influence in Jeff. Davis' Cabinet; his
two young sons were lying dangerously
wounded in the Corinth hospitals ; his city
and country mansions laid waste by an in
cendiary torch; an exile from his home,
houseless, wifeless, Pope Walker is turned
adrift upon the cold charities of a people
whom he had been instrumental in deceiv
ing into a cruel rebellion. How emblem:
atic of General Walker's fortunes are these
desolate walls!
Ask Your Enemies. —lf you want to
know your faults, ask your enemies what
they are, and you will be told. If there is
a broken place in your coat of mail, they
will discover it and thrust in a spear there.
They will pierce you between the joints of
your harness. Perhaps some people think
that one must needs be very wicked to have
enemies No, no; there is not a good man
or woman on earth, (unless they are hap
pily good—persons of no force of charac
ter,) who has not at least one enemy. It
is no credit to a man to have it said of him,
' He has not an enemy in the world.' —
Such a sentence would do very well to en
grave upon the tombstone of an infant or
an idiot, but it is far from being compli
mentary to a man.
B^,Martin Van liuren is the only man
who held the offices of President, Vice
President, Minister to England, Governor
of his own State, and member of both
Houses of Congress.
New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 33
Sad Misfortune.
11l \Y est Newbury, on Saturday, as the
wife of Mr. John 0. Oarr was stepping
down from a chair, her head came in con
tact with a two foot rule in the hand of her
husband with such violence as to destroy
the sight of her only remaining eye, the
other having been destroyed about ton
years since by coming in contact with the
rein hook inside of the chaise in which she
was riding, in consequence of the horse
falling down. The accident on Saturday
renders her totally blind.
I njortunatc. —The Atlanta Confederacy
calls Win. Gihnorc Siimns, the novelist,
one of the most unfortunate men of the day.
lie lost all his property and sources of in
come by the disruption ot the country, the
publishers and holders of bis copyrights
residing in the North. He had fourteen
children. Lately he buried nine of them;
and ajfew days ago his house and all his ef
fects were consumed by fire. Nothing was
saved from the general ruin but his library.
B@r„Thc smallest baby in the world, per
haps, is now at Barnum's Museum, to be
entered in the baby show. The little fel
low is eight months old, and weighs one
pound and seven ounces —one ounce less
than he weighed when he was one month
old. The child is well formed and quite
healthy ; its hand and arm up to the elbow,
and its loot and leg up to the knee can be
passed through a man's finger-ring. Dr.
J. O. Kohn, of Cincinnati, furnishes a
certificate of the age, health, and perfect
formation ol this littlespecimeiYof humanity
which is at times very lively and playful.
The child is accompanied by its father and
mother, and their daughter, a fine looking
girl of eight years. The prize for th
smallest baby is §I,OUO.
From Gen. Hunter's Division.
The Camp Kettle, a small paper published
by the 100 th Pennsylvania (Roundhead) Reg
iment, contains the following items of intel
ligence :
Regiments of Contrabands.
General Hunter, pursuant to instructions
from the War Department, has resolved to
organizo two regiments of contrabands for
the purpose of relieving the Union soldiers
from many duties that can be quite as well
performed by the blacks as by the Northern
troops, with the effect of preserving many
lives to the army for more responsible duties.
If the rebels use the blacks against us, the
rule may work in the other direction as well,
and just, possibly, better. We shall see.—
Who was it said ' the world didn't move?'
[Special Orders iVo. 24.]
sale of all intoxicating drinks, wheth
er spirituous or fermented, is absolutely pro
hibited in the town of Beaufort and within
the limits of the command. All persons found
violating the order will be immediately sent
beyond the limits of the command, and their
goods confiscated.
Free Labor.
The trial of free labor in South Carolina is
progressing steadily and satisfactorily.
Many of the deserted plantations are sbow
ing signs of a new civilization, Under the
benign rule "of Gen. Hunter the slave fails
very naturally into a free man, and the ex
slaves themselves say that twolve " freo nig
gers" do more work for pay than twenty slaves
did under the lash. Northern enterprise, un
der the supervision of competent men, is giv
ing intelligent direction to the dark mind of
the servile race of this hotbed of rebellion,
and it would seem as if a just retributive
Providence was about to demonstrate on the
soil of South Carolina the greatest prohlem
of the age, viz: That slavery is not necessary
to the production of cotton, even in South
Carolina.
A Colony of Bees.
One day last week a colony of bees " swar -
med" upon a bush beside one of our picket
posts, and a couple of the boys seeing they
were " Secesh," captured them, and " swore
them in" to an empty keg, and gave therrr to
the Colonel, who has them located on the up
per piazza of his quarters, under the folds of
" the old flag," aDd the little Republicans
seem to thrive very well under " Yankee"
rule in " Dixie."
NEW REMEDIES FOR
STERMATORRH (EA.
HOWARD ASSOCIATION, PHILADELPHIA, A
Benevolent Institution established bit njeecinl Entice
ment, for the Relief of the Siekant)l Distressed, afflicted rcrtk
Virulent and Chronir Diseases, and especially for the O* rc
of Diseases of tie Sexual Organs.
' MEDICAL ADVICE given gratis, by the Ac ting Sur
geon.
VALUABLE REPORTS on Spermatorrhoea, and oth
or diseases of the Sexual Organs,and the NEW REM
EDIES employed in the Dispensary, sent in sealed
envelopes, free of charge. Two or three stamps for
postage acceptable. Address, DR. J. BKILLFN
HoUOHTON, Howard Association. No. 2S. Ninth SV.,
Philadelphia, Pa. jeo
Undertaking
OTILL carried on. A large assortment of
Coffins on hand. Funerals attended to at
any distance in the country, at short notice
Thankful for past favors hoping a continu
ance of the saine. A. FELIX.
Lewistown, Feb. 2, 1861.
HAY Forks, Hope and Tackle Blocks, at
my7 F. J. HOFFMAN'S.
CLOTHS FOR GENTS' SUITS.
SPRING Style Cassimeres,
Fashionable Vestings,
Tweeds and Cassimeres for boys,.
Fine Black Cloths for Coats,
Doeskins, Finest Blacks,
Linen and other Shirt Bosoms,
as well as a complete assortment of READY
MADE CLOTHING for men and boys, at
ap3o GEO. BLYMYER'S.
PRIMS Sugar Cured Hams—the Excelsior
Hams, lor sale at A. FELIX'S,