Whole No, 2665. READ! READ! READ h \ f f f P 3 P " Is there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, My own, my native land !" A ND now, when patriots look for the ear- J\. ly return of peace and prosperity and a general resumption of business with assur- Hiiee, we are pleased to inform the public that a large, Dew, and carefully selected stock of goods has just been opened at the Old Shind of Jons KENNEDY IT 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 Faints of all kinds, Linseed Oil, Ti-h Oil. Putty and Window Glass, Coal Oil' -and a large assortment of Soai 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, 1862-ly PATENT COAL OIL GREASE. r IMiIS Grease is made from COAL OIL, A and has been found by repeated tests to be the most economical, and at the same time the best lubricator for Mill (■caring, Stages, Wagons, Carts Carriages, Vehicles of all kinds, and all heavy bearings, keeping the axles always eoo' and nut requir ing iheiu to be looked alter fur weeks, it has bean tested un railroad ears, and with une soaking of the waste it has run with the cars, 20.000 miles ! All railroad, omnibus, livery stable and Fxpress companies that have tried it pronounce it the neplus 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 *tand any temperature. I have it in boxes 2} to 10 lbs. Also kegs and barrels from 30 to 100 lbs, for general use and sale. The boxes are mure prefera ble; they are G inches in diameter by 2V inches deep, and hold 2J lbs net; the boxes are clean, and hardly a carman, teamster, expressman, miller or farmer, that would not purchase one box fur trial. F. G. Fit AN CISC US. Lewistown, February 12, 1802. LEWISTOWN BAKERY, We>t llarkct Street, nearly opposite the Jaii. / ION* It AI) ULLRICH. JII. would respect- V_y fully inform his old customers and citi zens generally that he coutinues the Baking of BREAD, CAKES, &c., at the above stand, where those articles can be procured fresh every day. Families desiring Bread, ic. will be sup plied at their dwellings in any part of town, fruit, Bound, Sponge, and all other kinds of cake, of any size desired, baked to order at short notice. Li-wistown, February '2O, 1802-ly AMBROTYPES AND The Gems of the Season. r riIIS is no humbug, but a practical truth. _L The pictures taken by Mr. Burkholder are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS, TRUTH FULNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and DTK ABILITY. Prices varying according to size and quality of frames and Cases. Kooin 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 in the neat est and most fashionable styles. apl9 ■arn sr w A, m us TIIST WARE! C COUNTRY MERCHANTS in want of Tin J Ware will find It to their advantage to purchase of J. B. Selheimer, who will sell thei+a 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. W & KiiL UD OS ssr "C? 2 O* o 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. my 3l 1 00 Coal Oil Chimneys, Wicks, Ay'/ Brushes, &c., for sale at city whole- Bale prices to retailers, by mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS. HAMS —An excellent article at 10 cents pe lb., for sale by MARKS und, as it came a.I i *r the flutter o! feathery win**, And her breiuh* ® Ser " ph kept i i ' ,i.i ' lll ri, y tresses went playing the same As the air in an instrument s strings.' 1 d rn .v wild heart to be still— That the vision was naught bin a dream : ~.? 1 i v " e " " ot that over the amethvst hill ilie teet of my darling had wandered at will On the banks of Eternity's stream . I said to the sanctified bird. 'Oh. why have you come from the West ?' Rv ilwt to'd h°w the leaves of tie- forest were stirred W d t •V 1 "'* 1 - who brought her the word Of the land where the weary may rest. She said she was tired and faint. And her heart was all covered with snow. 1 he angels they heard her unuttered complaint. I hey called her, and brought her the robes of a saint, And she said she was ready to go. I told her the blossoms were sweet In the meadows, tha same as of yore ; but -lie showed me the dew on her sparkling feet Pressed out of the lillies that bordered the street By the sand of the paradise shore. I asked her how long I must wait Before I should meet her afar; And 1 prayed her unfold me the book of mv fate- But she vanished, mid passed through the crystalline gate "She Lad left, iu her coming, ajar. Dear Hugh, there's a battle to-day. And perchance I may happen to fall; It 1 m not at the call of the roll, you may sav A good-bye to the boys in my name, for i uiay Have said, 'aye' to an angel's sweet call. Edited by A. SMITH, County Superintendent. For the Educational Column. The Next Institute. The next County Institute will be held the last two weeks of August, and it seems well, even at this early date, to urge upon all who design to teach next season, the importance of making preparation to attend the Institute, and to reap all possible bene fit from its exercises. As is well under stood by those who have been in the habit of attending Institutes, it is not the object of such a gathering to make any special attempt at display, for the sake of astonish ing the simple portion of the public; nor yet to exhibit striking originality and mar velous wisdom :—but to learn as much as possible concerning the principles, methods, and objects of common school Education ; to gain clearer vision of the real nature, and capacities, and springs of action, of the hu man mind; to become newly inspired with zeal in a cause so sublime and beneficent, as is the right training of children in school for the duties and manifold experiences of life. This is 110 assumed feeling—respecting the real nobleness and sacredness ol' the teacher's work; no person can soberly think of the subject without being deeply im pressed with a sense of the momentous in terests of which the teachers of a country have the care. And teachers themselves should cherish so elevated an idea of their calling as never to boast of it, never to try to awe the public by revealing their inde scribable importance; it should be borne in mind, that teaching is a most useful and noble calling, but a teacher may be a most useless and ignoble member of society. Again, it would be well if teachers could become so covinced of the dignity of their work, as to be unwilling to engage or con tinue in it without suitable literary qualifi cations. A teacher who takes no honest pride in his work, might better follow some other business in which he can feel an hon orable interest; and a teacher, who is proud of being a teacher and yet has no sufficient knowledge for his calling, is an object of pity, and the unfortunate children who are under him are still more objects of pity. Every teacher ought to feel it a burning shame, a wrong not to be forgiven, to offer himself as a guide to others when he knows his inability to guide them aright. He should regard himself as the worst kind of an impostor, as a reckless trifler with the most sacred human interests, if he desires a situation as instructor of those who need wise teachings, prudent guidance, the firm ness of a father's law, the tenderness of a mother's love. It frequently seems as if some persons were perfectly satisfied, if they eould just succeed in getting a certificate, no matter how damaging the list of grades. If they could be well marked, it would be a very short time before they would receive no certificate whatever; for such persons ought to have a distinct understanding that they are not wanted in any school room —unless to learn more. Teachers should aim at securing the best qualifications, and not be content with the minimum that will entitle them to a certi ficate. Here, just at this point, is one of the most fitting places for them to exercise a pride of vocation. In some townships, which are quite poor ly represented at Institutes and—as a nat ural consequence —are very poorly served in their schools, it would be well for Direc tors to insist upon the attendance of the Institute by all those who think of apply ing to them for schools. In this way, by the wholesome pressure of a legitimate au thority, much can be done to give the cause of Education a new impulse, by having on ly teachers who will take all practicable WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1862, measures to render themselves fitly prepar ed for the delicate responsibilities and the ! ' ar ge possible usefulness of the schoolroom. A. SMITH. J 11EEEMIE00X Potecting' Rebel Property. There has been much complaint that the • White House,' a property in the vicinity of Richmond, belonging to a rebel Gener al named Lee, and inhabited by a portion of his family was scarcely guarded by our soldiers, under orders, although, many of ; our sick and wounded were suffering for I just such protection as it and the buildings attached to it, would afford. Even the spring on the property, it is stated, our thirsty soldiers were not permitted to drink from, but had to go to a muddy river to < quench their thirst. In Congress on Mon day a week the following remarks were made on the subject: Mr. Potter, of Wisconsin, offered a reso j lution requesting the Secretary of War to inform the House by whose orders the house of an arch traitor at White House : Point is guarded and protected by U. S. | soldiers and withheld from hospital purpo ; ses ? Mr. Potter said that there was an excel lent spring on the premises, which was re fused to our soldiers, who had to drink the water of the Pamunky river. The pro ceedings in this matter were a mere contin uance of a conciliatory policy towards un thankful rebe s. Mr. Dunn stated that the house was pro tected out of respect for the memory of Washington, and not from a tender regard for Lee, and expressed his surprise that the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Pot- should have insinuated that this pro tection was placed upon the latter ground. The country would appreciate the motive of our Commanding General. Mr. Sedgwick, of New York, said he had visited the place. The house was built within the last ten or fifteen years, and a great many years since Washington was gathered to his fathers. The land is high, and admirably adapted for hospital purpo ses. There are several outbuildings in good condition; and he had been informed by several persons connected with the service that the houses were capable of accommo dating from 150 to 200 men. lie believed that it \\ ashington were alive he would not be influenced by any such sentimentality as that they should not be used for the sick and wounded soldiers of the Union for the establishment of which Washing ton had suffered and c mtributcd so much. On the Secretary of War telegraphing that the houses should be used for hospi tais some one of Gen. McClellan's a my (he hoped it was not McClellan himself,) replied that those who urged the request were enemies wl the war and the country. Mr Dawes, of Massachusetts, testified as to the facts stated by Mr. Sedgwick.— lie was there himself, together with a col league, and was prevented from passing over the grounds in order to reach the steamboat. He was confronted by a bay onet, and informed that there were posi tive orders to prevent anybody from tres passing on the premises. He was also told that a captain was the day before put un der arrest for allowing persons to cross the grounds. The resolution was passed. From the National Republican of June 17. LEE'B HOUSE TO BE MADE A HOSPITAL. —This house, known as the White House, and which the Government has been so frequently urged to transform into a hospi tal, was yesterday made the comfortable quarters, of five hundred sick and wounded soldiers, through an order from Secretary Stanton. The Secretary and President were urged to issue this order, by I)r. Green, President of the New York Medical College, and Gen. P. M. Wetmore and J. Burns, of the New England Soldiers' Relief Association. The President and Secretary said the rea son they did net issue this order when urg ed before, was because Gen. McClellan ob jected to it. The grounds around this residence are spacious, the water splendid, and the rooms admirably calculated to make a fine hospi tal. The President, when first spoken to by the gentlemen above mentioned, urged some objection to the arrangement, saying that Gen. McClellan had had some talk with Col. Lee on a previous occasion, and had promised if the occasion offered, to pro tect his residence against occupation by any United States troops; but when Mr. Lincoln heard how our soldiers were with out shelter, except such as afforded by ne gro huts and barns, and subjected to drink impure water, while the rooms of Col Lee's house was empty and guarded by United States soldiers, he said ' the order must come. If Gen. McClellan has made a promise to Col. Lee which he cannot break, I will now break it for him.' Mr. Burns, editor of the Yonker Clarion, started for White House Landing, at 3 o'clock yesterday, with the official order of Secretary Stanton, throwing open these grounds and rooms to the hundreds of siok and wounded who heretofore have laid in negro huts, open carts, and on the ground. " Occasional" on Toryism. In the campaign that is about to be opened against the Administration and the war, powerful emphasis is to be laid upon the empty accusation that the friends of Mr. Lincoln favor unconditional Eman cipation and Negro Equality. Contempt ible as this accusation is, it is frequently repeated by men who, in their heated part isanship, forget that they are intelligent and reasonable beings. As usual, the name of 1 Democracy' is to be invoked as a cover to this arrant demagogueism. In other days, before the people of the United States were educated by a great war, which overturned old expectations and destroyed old theories, such a ' divertissement' as this have passed current. But, unless our mas ses are indeed sunken into the deepest slough of ignorance, this attempt to seduce them into wrong paths will be fearfully avenged. I have a very low estimate of the leaders who bullied and coaxed the majority of the Democrats of Pennsylvania into the sup port of Breckinridge in 1800, and who, with all the treacheries and corruptions of Buchanan revealed to their eyes and ears, refused to denounce these crimes. The bloody harvest of the seed thus sown should admonish them against another experiment upon the supposed credulity of the Ameri can people. The men in the free States who advo cate Lnconditional Emancipation are very few in numbers. In the Republican par ty they do not number one in five hundred. There is not a traitor anywhere who does not know this to be true, even as he re peats the reverse. As to negro equality, a still more conclusive reply might be made to this silly falsehood. The practi cal amalgamationists are not in the free States. The most infatuated Abolition fanatic rarely carries his free thought into free love. It is only in the atmosphere of rebelliou that negro equality, in its worst phase, has been accepted and illustrated. The social distinction between the races of white and black, in the free States, is as broad and clear as it is in England and France, where, in the face of laws that make no distinction as to political rights, the one preserves its relations wholly inde pendent of the other. But why continue a reply to an argu ment not even believed by those who make it? This war is productive of great and new issues. \V bile it adds to the responsibili ties of the Executive, it reduces the reli ance of the demagogue upon popular igno rance, and to this extent reduces the weight of these responsibilities. It would have b*en worse for slaver)/ if Treason had taken up arms aginst a Democratic instead <>J a Republican Administration. Then the ingratitude of the slaveholders would have been more keenly felt, and more mer cilessly punished. The Democrats, who clamor for compromise new, and are blind to the atrocities of the rebels, in that event would have discarded everything but the sword, and believed anything b it rebel hu manity. Mr. Lincoln's Administration is doing only what, that of Mr. Douglas would have done, and less, had Douglas been chosen President. Results have sadly proved that if Breckinridge had been elect ed } four years would have found the free States without a country save that which was controlled by the institution of slavery. The rebellion of 1861-62 is the voice of the devil proclaiming that, in the event of the election of Breckinridge in 1860, FOUR YKARS MORE WOULD IIAVFI FOUND US A SLAVE MONARCHY! These arc plain lessons. They need no rhetoric to adorn and no witnesses to con firm them. They are facts, and facts are better than history. A Kanaka Community in California. A gentleman who has resided long in the Hawaiian Islands, writes thus from In dian Creek, El Dorado county: I found here twenty four Kanakas, prin cipally Hawaiians, and two from the South Seas; two Hawaiian women, three Indian women, of the 'Digger' race, and four half Indian children. At this I was not sur prised. Hut I was not prepared to find two of the Indian women speaking Hawai ian very correctly, all of them dressing neatly, cutting, sewing, washing, and iron ing their own and their husbands' and children's clothes; to find one of them reading the Hawaiian Bible very intelli gently, as does also the oldest child a girl of eight or ten years; to find two of these 'Digger' women taking part in prayer meetings, expressing regrets of their for mer ignorance, and piety for their ignorant relatives; and to find them all desirous to learn more. I was not prepared to find one of the best of their dwelling houses set apart exclusively for religious worship— floored, seated with backless benches, with a table at one end for a speaker; to find the natives holding early morning and ev ening meetings every week day, besides seven district meetings on Sunday, and on Thursday afternoon meeting; and to find that for a few weeks past they have kept up an afternoon singing school. Most of their dwelling houses were quite rough, but Kenao, perhaps the most substantial Hawaiian Christian in California, I found living in a neat little clapboard house put Up by himself, painted outside and in, and two of the rooms neatly papered. I have "not found a more interesting community since coming to California. Two of the Indian women apeak Hawaiiain altogether. One of them reads it with considerable ease aud correctness, joins in the singing, takes part in the prayer meetings, and prays in secret. She has just been taken down with the small pox. I shall earnestly plead that she may not be taken away now. She is the mother of three bright children—one now at Hilo, Sandwich Islands. The eldest child, a girl of eight or ten years, they say is a good reader. She is fast recovering from the small pox, and acts like a well behaved and thoughtful girl. My heart has been touched by her patience under suffering. They have put a stop to drunk enness among themselves, sending off those who drink and steal. They tell me that after due deliberation, they voted to raise §SOO for a new church, and that it is to be accomplished within this year. After some hesitation as to whether to contribute anything for missionary purposes till they had raised the §SOO for their church, they finally voted, before I arrived, to take up a contribution at every monthly concert. New Remedy for Intemperance. The latest prescription we have seen is the following, which we commend to the temperance speakers on Friday evening next as one likely to prove efficacious.— The society might pass a resolution that each member provide him or herself with a good switch and all hands lay on the back of the first man caught drunk on the streets: A new use of ' the rod' was recently inaugurated in Vermont, a State which has been liberal in its bestowal of'new notions' upon the race. It seems that a drunken vagabond took it into his head to perform the humane act of ridding his family and society of his disgusting presence and burthensome support, by simply drinking an unusually large dose of laudanum. He drank the laudanum; but it seems that his family and neighbors did not appreciate his kind attentions and so determined to foil them. A physician was sent for, who after contemplating the stupefied brute a short time, came to the conclusion that nothing would save him but a sound drub bing. Switches were ordered, and a cou ple of men commenced the work of whip ping the nearly defunct inebriate back in to the bosom of society and his family.— After switching him for a quarter of an hour, signs of animation were exhibited by the patient, and by and by he sat up, and called for brandy. A glass was given him, which he drank, and immediately relapsed into a state of insensibility. Again the switches were faithfully applied, and alter an incredible whipping the patient again showed signs of life. The novel ap plication was continued with unabated vig or, until the patient was fully restored to consciousness and pronounced out of dan ger. It is said that the physician who prescribed this novel treatment of the case is something of a wag, and was determined that his patient should have his deserts at least once in his life, even if he was cured by it. Horrible—Forty Men Singularly Poi soned or Diseased. Some thirty boatmen yesterday morning called at the office of the board of health for medical treatment. They had just ar rived in a steamer from up the river, and had been dreadfully poisoned or diseased through handling certain bags of wheat.— All who had been engaged in stowing the wheat on board, and two or three persons who had simply sat for a short time on the sacks, were affected with large and highly inflamed welts running all over the body. Dr. Grimsfoed, the health clerk, was in clined to attribute the distemper to the prevalence of ' black rot' in the wheat— cereals occasionally becoming infested with a species of terribly prolific animalcul® that disseminate themselves at once by con tact, and whose presence in grain is popu larly designated as ' the black ret.' Some ten others, besides those who visited the health office, were similarly afflicted. Dr. G. instantly furnished the party with ap propriate medicine, and gave such advice as be deemed proper in the case. An opinion among the patients was that the bags had been purposely poisoned, to prevent ants from eating the grain. This appears incredible. Another hypothesis is that the sacks had been in contact with a certain peculiar and poisonous species of oak. It strikes us that these sick ones should have the freight complained of, and the vessel concerned ought to receive care ful and close attention. Certainly steps should at least be taken to prevent others from suffering through handling the nox ious sacks of grain. We cannot learn that even the name of the steamer is known to the health authorities.— St. Louis Demo crat. A Life Thought. I heard a man who had failed in busi ness, and whose furniture was sold at auc tion, say that when the cradle, the crib, and the piano went, the tears would come, and he had to leave the house to be a man. Now there are thousands of men who have lost their pianos, but who have found bet ter music in the sound of their children's voices and footsteps going cheerfully down with them to poverty, than any harmony of a chorded instrument." Oh, how blessed New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 34. is bankruptcy, when it saves a man's chil dren. 1 see mauy men who are bringing up their children as I should briDg up mine, if, when they were ten years old, 1 should lay them on a dissecting table and cut the sinews of their arms and legs, so that they could neither walk nor use their hands, but sit still and be fed. Thus rich men are putting the knife of indolence and luxury to their children's energies, and they grow up, fatted, lazy calves, good for nothing at twenty-five but to drink deep and squander wide, and the father must be a slave all his life in order to make beasts of his children. llow blessed, then, is the stroke of disaster which sets the children free, and gives them over to the hard but kind bosom of poverty, who says to them, 1 work,' and working makes them men.— Bcecher. A Relic of Human Slavery. There is now on exhibition at the Stoats Zeitung office, on Wells street, an iron col lar weighing a pound and a half which was sawed i'roin a negro's neck by Win. Eich elbach, a blacksmith in the Hecker regi ment, and sent to that office by J)r. Wag ner. Upon the collar is rudely engraved 'J. Fennell's slave.' The negro, four years and a half ago, ran away from his master, was recaptured, and ever since has worn this galling collar us a punish ment. Some weeks since he again escaped, and came into the lines of tho Hecker reg iment. The gallant lellows atonce expres sed their love of liberty and hatred of hu man slavery by sawing off the barbarous and torturing collar from the slave's neck, and employing him as a teamster. When J. Fennell, man owner, recovers his prop erty, it will probably be through a thousand bayonets, and when he recovers his collar he will probably know it.— Chicago Tri~ bunc. Sad Incidents. Says the Easton Express : Two sisters who had barely escaped the flood with their lives, at Penn Haven, one having been pulled out of the water by the hair, came to Mauch Chunk yesterday afternoon on their way borne. The father had just arrived in town to see if his daughters were safe, and finding that they were, he started for home. A short time after he was gone, the daughters got into a boat to cross the river, and while they were sitting in the boat a young man jumped in to cross with thein, when the boat upset, and both of the girls were drowned. Their bodies were recovered in a few hours after, and by the time the father had reached home he received the news of the death of his daughters. A woman was found drowned a short distance from Mauch Chunk; she had a child in her arms, also dead. The child was receiving nourishment from its parent, when overtaken by the water, as its posi tion upon the mother's breast when found proved. The complete history of the re.- cent disastrous freshet will never be writ ten. Many a heart has been wrung by it, and many homes rendered desolate by ita ravages. Sharp Work in Canada. A few days since, a dreadful murder wa3 committed in the town of Moateagle, C. W. An altercation took place between two friends, one of whom, named Edwards, had shot hens belonging to the other, Mr. Mon roe. The latter and his son went to Ed wards' house to expostulate with him.— Edwards said he would continue to shoot the hens whenever they came on his grain, and at once took his gun for that purpose. Monroe took hold of the gun, and Edwards, drew a pistol, which Monroe wrenched from him, and tdld his son to take it. At this Edwards' wife came behind Monroe and struck him across the head with a scythe, cutting into the brain. When he fell, she struck again, nearly cutting off his arm. Edwards then seized the pistol and shot young Monroe in the back, inflic ting a mortal wound. The have been taken in custody. A Characteristic act of Benevolence.— CINCINNATI, June 1862. Geo. F. Esq. —Dear Sir: I understand that you are receiving contributions for our suffer ing brethren of the South. Not wishing to have the women and children and poor Congoes suffer for the sins of their lords and masters—the innocent with the guihy —I desire that you will appropriate the accompanying amount to the purchase of provisions for our needy fellow-citizens. By taking the trouble to attend to this matter, you will greatly oblige, yours, &p., N. LONOWORTH. Caution to Boys. —ln Milwaukee, a few days ago, some boys were playing with marbles, which had been bought in the city, and which were nicely painted. The day was very warm and the hands of the boys got moist, in consequence ef which the paint dissolved and attached to their fingers. One of the boys wiped his hands on his forehead, whereby the poison con tained in the pint detached from the mar bles was communicated to the face. In two hours his eyes began to swell, and con tinued to swell, so that after two days he could not see through the swollen face, an 4 it was twelve days before he was able tq use his eyes.