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County Offices.
President Judge,
Hun. S. S. Woods, Lewistown.
Associate Judges,
Ba Ilijah Morrison, Wavue township.
" Jaiuea Turner. Lewistowu.
Sheriff,
tJ. C. Stanbarger, Esq.
Deputy Sheriff,
D. D. Muttlierabongh, Esq.
Prothonotory, Clerk of Common Pitas, tic.
Henry J. Walters, Esq.
Myisttr and Pseorder and Clerk of Orphans' Court,
Samuel Barr. Esq.
Treasurer,
Robert W. Pation, Esq.
Coram iss loners,
Uicheaon Bratton, Esq., Bratton townabip.
Samuel Brower, Esq., Decatur township.
John McDowell, Jr., Esq., Armagh towuahip.
(Jjinmistioner't Clerk —George Frysinger.
Deputy purveyor,
George H. Swigart, of Oliver township.
Coroner,
George Miller, Esq., Lewistown.
Mercantile Appraiser,
John L.Porter, Lewistowu.
Auditors,
Henry Snyder, of Graurille township.
Abratw Uurver, of Oliver "
H. C. Yauzant, of Decatur "
Pennsylvania Railroad.
Trains leave Lewistown station as follows:
WESTWARD. K.\STW.IRD.
Through Express, 5 19 a. m. 11 1 p. us.
Fast Line, 5 45 p. in. 3 24 a. ui
31 ail. _ 330 p. ni. It) 41 R. m.
Local Freight, 5 50 a. in. 5 10 p.m.
Fast Freight, 111 p.m. 2 28 a. in.
Through Freight, 9 30 p. m. 9 50 p.m.
Express Freight, 10 25 a. in. 2 55 p. m.
Coal Train, 12 40 p. in. 7 10 a.m.
D. E. KUUKSO.S, Agent.
Galbraith's Omnibuses convey passengers to
and front all the trains, taking up or setting them
down at all points within the borough limits.
KME)*
4 S the action of the Relief Board does nt
/\ seem to he fully comprehended, frequent
applications for relief being made in person
or by letter to the undersigned, he deems it
proper to state that payments will be tern
fiurarily renewed to tbose formerly on the
iet on presentation of certificate signed by
not less than three known taxpayers, stating
ing that the applicant has not received suffi
cient from her husband or other support, to
eu.iblc her, together with her own industry,
to make a living for herself and family, and
giving reasons for such inability. This is
intended for the beuefit of all really in need,
and for no others.
The orders issued under this Regulation
are continued only until the troops are again
paid off.
Blank certificates can be procured from
those who have heretofore distributed orders.
GEOIiUE FRYSIXGER,
Secretary of Relief Board.
Lewistown, June 18, 1862.
GEO. 7r. ELDER,
Attorney at Law,
Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at
tend to business in Mllflin. Centre and Hunting
don counties. my 26
Kishacoquillas Seminary,
AND
NORMAL INSTITUTE.
UPHE third Session of this Institution will
JL commence April 24, 1862.
Encouraged by the liberal patronage receiv
ed during the previous Session, the proprietor
has been induced to refit the buildings and
grounds to render them most comfortable and
convenient for students.
He has also secured the assistance of Rev
S. McDonald, formerly tutor of Princeton
University, and well known in this part of
the country as an able scholar and devoted
.Christian. A competent music teacher has
also been engaged.
mh26 S. Z. SHARP, Principal.
Jaoob C. Blymyer & Co,,
Produce and Commission Mer
chants,
LEWISTOWN, PA.
teg-Flour and Grain of all kinds pur
chased at market rates, or received on storage
and shipped at usual freight rqt£s, having
storehouses and boats of their own, with care
ful captains and hands.
Stove Coal, Limeburners Coal, Piaster, Fish
and Salt always on hand.
Grain can be insured at a small advance on
cost of storage. n022
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 aßa complete assortment of READY
MADE CLOTHING for men and boys, at
ap3o GEO. BLYMYER'S.
HAY Forks, Rope and Tackle Blooks, at
my7 F. J. HOFFMAN'S.
SUGAR, Butter and Water Crackers by the
barrel, for sale by A. FELIX.
EI3HITJ IKPOHTAITT
TO
-A. 3FI 3VE E3 JEI JS !
T ON., stone, rue] pope, recommendations
i ,jP account. lam at preseut enga
ged in building 1
FELTOJT.S PATENT HORSE POWERS,
. siz<,ti ' on * for f,,u r it rid one
815 horses. It is supposed to
:iff l )! 'tter than any other kind
sSsrase^s in!U j e l|p re or elsewhere. I have
obtained from the patentee authority to make
and sell in nil of Pennsylvania west of the I
•-usquehanna, and to prosecute a'l those who j
make, use, or vend to othera to use, in the
district described. Those interested will take
notice of this. I expect so, nto huil.l a
NEW THRESHER,
which will thresh 40 bushels of wheat per I
hour, or 80 bushels of oats. Please call and
examine for yourselves before you buy from !
others. I also continue the
is mr^mrs
of any kind of machinery of Iron, Brass or
wrought Iron, as usual. Having a large lot
of patterns, and a first class pattern maker
at work in the simp, I am prepared to fill al-
DiOßt ftny kind of an order, either for castings
or patterns.
HULL PLOUGHS,
aide, hill and bar share Ploughs, THRESH
LKS with Shakers, Horse Powers, Saw Mill
(.-ranks, and various other castings on hand
ready for sale.
Ail work sold as good, which proves defec i
tive, to be made good. THOMPSON & STONE
authorized Jo sell. JOHN R. WEEKES, j
Lewistown, July 30, 18G2. Agent.
NATHANIEL KENNEDY'S
T O 2E3L jEO ?
In the Odd Fellows' Hall.
A Very Choice Assortment of Old Liquors.
10l FKII for solo all the liquors, late the |
stock of John Kennedy, dee'd., embracing
prime French Brardy, Cherry Brandy, Gin,
\Y ines, Jamaica Spirits, and Scotch Aie. Ho
tel keepers are requested to call.
BQL.Physicians can always obtain a pure
article Jur the nick.
ALSO,
Foreign and Domestic Dry Goods, Groceries, '
Queensware, Stoneware, Hardware, Cedar
ware, always on hand; Shoulders, Hams, Fish, i
Herring. Shad, and Mackerel ; Dried Beef of i
a most excellent quality; with Boots and Siiues
in great variety. All the goods will be sold
very low. N. KENNEDY.
Lewistown, January 15, ISGI.
The Old Blymyer Corner.
.\Lti GOODS ARRIVED J
©so:L<E3
HAS just opened a choice lot of Rich
styies of Silk Grenadines, Black &
White Check Silks, cheap Plain and Fig
ured Black Silks, &o.
Persons wishing to purchase a good silk at j
a low price, would find it to their advantage !
to examine his stuck. Also,
Black Slef/a Sluiuls i:it'i Broehr Borders,
Bares, R Hughs, St rate and Millinery
Goads, Collars, Under sleeves,
Gloves, u'c'., Ladies' Bine.il
Cambric llandkerchiefs.
Also, just opened, a small lot of White j
Plaid French Organdies, a very scarce and
desirable article, suitable for evening dresses, j
Lewistown, April 30, 1862-tf
WILLIAM LIND,
has now open
A NEW STOCK
OS
Cloths, Cassimeres
AND
V E S T I NCS,
which will be made up to order in the neat
est and most fashionable styles. apl9
B E S WAt IB IB 8
I"I3Nr XV -<fA- R. 3ES!
CIOUNTRY 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
(he eastern cities. Call and see his new stock
Lewistown, April 23, 1862-ly.
~ him
Z3D US hEdf "O 1 12 =£3 "CP =.
OFFICE on East Market street, Lewistown,
adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware
Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office
tbe first Monday of each month to spend the
week. my3l
NOTICE!
Til ALL WHOM IT MY CONCERN.
HEADQUARTERS for Brooms, Buckets,
and Fish.
100 dozen Brooms, 100 dozen Buckets.
25 bbls and half bhls Shad.
75 " " Herring.
50 " No. 2 Mackerel, assorted packages.
40 " 1
25 " 3 " "
Wholesale and Retail.
MARKS & WILLIS' Steam Mill.
Lewistown, May 7, 1862.
CARPETINGS, comprising every style o
the newest patterns and designs in Brus
sels, Tapestry Brussels. Imperial Three-ply,
and Ingrain Carpeting. Also, Stair Carpet
ings, Hag Carpetings, Floor Oil Cloths, Mats,
Rugs, &c., at GEO. BLYMYER'S.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1862.
The Family Soap Maker!
A LL Kitchen Grease can be made into good
SOAP by u.vin<j SAPONIFISR.
accompanying each box.
Soap is as easily made with it, as making a
cnp of coflec. Manufactured only by the
Patentees—
Pa. Salt. Manufacturing Co,
feblii ly No. 127 Walnut street Phila.
NATRONA COAL OIL!
WARRAN TED NON-EX PLOSIVE.
and equal to any Kerosene.
ATniY bug an explosive oil, when a few
T T cents more per gallon will furnish you
with a perfect oil?
Made only by PA. SALT MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY,
No- 127 Walnut Street, Phila.
February 12, 1862. ly
KolJock's Dandelion Coffee.
r |Ml IS preparation, made from the best Ja
-1 va Coffee, is recommended by physicians
as a superior NUTRITIOUS BEVERAGE
for General Debility, Dyspepsia, and all bil
lious disorders. Thousands who have been
compelled to abandon the use of coffee will
use this without injurious effects. One can
contains the strength of two pounds of ordi
nary coffee. Price 25 cents.
KOLLOCK S LEVAIN,
The purest and best BAKING POWDER
known, for making light, sweet and nutritious
bread and cakes. Price 15 cents.
MANUFACTURED BV
M. K. KOLLOCK, Chemist,
Corner of Broad and Chestnut streets,
Philadelphia,
And sold by all Druggists and Grocers.
February 20, 1802-ly.
LEWISTOWN BAKEBY,
West Market Street, nearly opposite the
Jail.
/ 10NRAD ULLRICH, JR. would respect
V_y 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
short notice.
Lewistown, February 20, ISG2—ly
ASsiBROTYPES
AND
.513 4 511 SI 3 'lll
!Lhe Gems of the Season.
r |MILS is no humbug, but a practical truth.
X The pictures taken by Mr. Burkholdcr
are unsurpassed for BOLDNESS TRUTII
FULNESS. BEAUTY OF FINISH, and
DURABILITY. IT •ices varying according
to size and quality of frames and Cases.
Room over the Express Office.
Lewistown, August 23, 1800.
E. FIIYSINGEIt,
LEWISTOWN, PA.,
Corner of Harfcet and Brown Streets,
RIGHT OPPOSITE FRANK'S STORE,
Always has on hand for sale,
CIGARS, TOBACCO, SNUFF, PIPES, TOBACCO
BOXES AND MATCHES,
Which he feels satisfied he can offer at prices
which cannot be beat.
Tobacco has advanced, but he is still able
to sell the
Dog Leg at 60 cts per lb.
Celebrated Union Congress 56 " "
Twist 56 " "
Navy Cavendish 56 " "
Dewberry Cavendish 50 " "
Sun Fish 50 " "
Patrick Henry Congress 41 " "
Sauen Cavendish 35 " "
Cut and Dry, No. 1 24 " "
" " " No. 2 20 " "
Killikinick 40 " "
Lynchburg 36 " " |
Cigar Shorts 12 " "
Matches, 25 cents per gross.
Call, examine, take a chew, and if you don't
like the goods or find fault with the prices
you need not buy.
N. B. Pipes from 2 for a cent to 50 cents
apiece.
Lewistown, August 13, 1862.
Large Stock of Furniture on
Hand.
A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds
•of Furniture. Young married persons
and others that wish to purchase Furniture
will find a good assortment on hand, which
will be sold cheap for cash, or country pro
duce taken in exchange for same. Give me
a call, on Valley street, near Black Bear Ho
tel. " feb 21
1 TAYk DOZEN Coal Oil Chimneys, Wicks,
lUU Brushes, &c., for sale at city whole
sale prices to retailers, by
mhl2 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
PRIME Sugar Cured Hams—the Excelsior
Hams, for sale at A. FELIX'S.
THE NTHITILT,
"SEND TIIEM HOME TENDERLY J"
[Tho following was written on the occasion of the
who°f .M ? a h , r i h re r nd r m ? wonl tha t,ie inartvrs
in hands of the rebvl iuob in that Jitv
would be sent to Massacliusetts.J
Send them home tenderly,
Guard them with care,
Eager eyes tearfully
Watch for them there;
Home hearts are mournfully
Throbbing to know—
Gifted and manly sons,
Stricken so low!
Send them homo tenderly,
To the fair sod,
First by the martyr-souled
Puritans trod.
Blue hills and ocean wars
Echo the prayer;:
Send them home tenderly,
Love waits them thare.
Send them home tenderly
Poor breathless clay—
Vet what high hopefulness
Bore them away.
Hand to hand clingingly,
Linked in brave trust—
Tenderly, tenderly,
Bear home their dust.
Send them home tenderly—
Think of the sire,
Struggling with mighty sob*
By the low fire :
Think how a mother's heart
Hourly hath bled—
Tenderly, tenderly,
Bear home her dead.
MARCHINC4 ALONG.
The children are gath'ring from near and from far,
The trumpet is sounding the call for the war,
The conflict is raging, 'twill be fearful and long,
We'll gird on our armor and be marching along.
Marching along, we are marching along,
Gird on the armor and be marching along,
The conflict is raging, 'twill be fearful and long,
Then gird on the armor and be marching along.
The foe is before us in battle array.
But let us not waver nor turn from the way,
The Lord is our strength, be this ever our song,
With courage and faith we are inarching along.
Marching along. &c.
We've listed for life, and we'll camp on the field,
With Christ for our Captain wo never will yield;
The -'sword of the spirit,"' both trusty and strong,
\\ e i! hold in our hands as we're marching along.
Marching along, Ac.
Through conflicts and trials our crowns wc must win,
For here we contend "gainst temptation and sin,
But one thing assures us, we cannot go wrong,
it" trus'ing our Saviour, while marching along.
Marching along, Ae.
AAIEEMMONL
The Central 'American Colonization
Scheme.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. —Senator S C.
Poineroy, of Kansas, has, by request of the
President, consented to organize emigra
tion parties of free colored persons for set
tlement in Central America, and been
commissioned accordingly. This gentle
man's former success in organizing emi
grant expeditions for the settlement of
Kansas and Colorado, affords a guarantee
of a happy consummation of his present
plans. The Government proposes to send
out the emigrants in good steamships, and
provide them all the necessary implements
of labor and sustenance until they can
gather a harvest. The following address,
prepared by Senator Pouaeroy, has been
sanctioned by the President;
TO TIIE FREE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES.
The hour has now arrived in the history
of your settlement upon this continent
when it is within your own power to take
one step that will secure, if successful, the
elevation, freedom and social position of
your race upon the American continent.
The President of the United States has
already signified his desire to carry out
fully, in the letter and spirit of the late
Act of Congress, the desire of the National
Legislature, which made an appropriation
to facilitate your emigration and settlement
in some favorable locality outside of these
States. And at his request I have con
sented and agreed with him to aid you in
organizing this emigration, and in select
ing a locality that will be valuable and at
tractive to your people in itself, as well as
give the promise to you and us that it shall
be a suitable location for a great, free and
prosperous people.
I now address you as one awake to this
momentous revolution in American history,
and alive also to your interests in this con
flict of arms, whereby you are led to hope
that in thus unsettliug established institu
tions your people may go free. This then
is the hour to make an earnest offort to
secure your own social position and inde
pendence, by cooperating with those who
now reach out their hands to aid you. I
ask you to do this by the pride you may
have for your struggling and oppressed
people now among us, as well as by the
hopes you may indulge of making smooth
and prosperous the pathway of coming
generations.
I propose, on the first day of October
next, to take with me one hundred colored
men as pioneers in this movement, who,
with their families, may equal the num
ber of five hundred souls, and for whose
benefit the appropriations in the act of
Congress referred to were made. The
1 resident will provide for means of trans
portation and the protection of the settle
ment Being familiar with organizing and
settling the early emigration to my own
State (Kansas,) I indulge the hope that
that experience may be made serviceable to
you. lam earnest for the welfare of your
people, present and prospective. I want
you to consider this as an auspicious period
far you. It this travail and pain of the
nation becomes the birthday of your free
dom, let us plant you free and independent
beyond the roach of the power that has
oppressed you. Consider this an opening
by the wisdom of Divine Providence, when
you arc called of God to go with me to a
country which your oppressed people are
soon to receive for their inheritance. I
propose to examine, and if found satisfac
tory and promising, to settle you at Chir
iqui, in New Grenada, with the approval
of the Government, only about one week's
sail from Washington, 1). C.
All persons of the African race, of sound
health, who desire to take with me the
lead in this work, will please send their
names, the number, sex and ages of the
respective members of their families., and
their post office addressed to me at the city
of Washington, D. C. No white person
will be allowed as a member of the colony.
I want mechanics and laborers—earnest,
hones', and sober men; for the interests of
a generation, it may be of mankind, are in
volved in this experiment, and with the
approbation of the American people, and
under the blessing of Almighty God it
cannot—it shall not fail.
S. C. POMEROY, U. S. Senate.
Death of Admiral Read.
Rear-Admiral George Campbell Read,
of the United States Navy, died last week,
at the Naval Asylum in Philadelphia, of
which he was Governor. As an old and
esteemed eitigen of Philadelphia, and as a
brave and able officer of oar navy, his death
will be sincerely lamented, though he had
reached an age when greater length of years
was scarcely to be expected. His illness
was short, and he has been out until quite
recently, looking well and vigorous
Admiral Head was a native of Ireland,
and his age was about seventy-five years,
lie entered the infant navy of the United
States as a midshipman in the year ISO 4.
We have no minute particulars of his pro
fessional career, but wc know that in 1812
he was third Lieutenant under Commodore
Hull, on the Constitution, in the glorious
battle with the Cuerriere, and that he com
manded the boat which boarded the cap
tured frigate. He served throughout the
war with Great Britain, and just before its
close was assigned to the command of the
Chippewa, one of the vessels of the 'flying
squadron' organized lor service under Com
modore Perry, but which wa9 never active
ly employed because peace was declared
before it was ready. He was commissioned
a Captain in 1825. For a number of years
after that he was actively employed, and
at one time he commanded the squadron
on the coast of Africa. His total sea-ser
vice has been about twenty-four years. In
1855 he was put upon the Reserved List.
In 18G1 he was appointed Governor of the
Xuval Asylum. On the 30th of last month
he was selected by the President, under a
new act of Congress, from ' among those
Captains who have rendered the most faith
ful service to the country,' for the rank of
Rear Admiral, on the Reserved List, his
name being nest to that of the veteran
Stewart, lie lived to enjoy his new honor
only twenty-three days.
Brigadier General Bohlen.
Philadelphia has lost no nobler soldier
in this war than Brigadier-General Henry
Bohlen. who was shot through the head,
in a skirmish on the Kappahannock. Al
though a European by birth, his heart
was devoted to this country, and his mili
tary instincts led him to offer his services
to it whenever there was fighting to be
done. As a volunteer staff officer in the
Mexican war, he developed the traits of a
soldier, aud he acted with courage on all
occasions. When the Southern rebellion
broke out, he hastened home from Europe
and received authority to raise a regiment.
By great energy, and the expenditure of
probably not less than $20,000 of his own
private means, he soon had a fine regiment,
the Seventy-fifth Pennsylvania, and pro
ceeded with it to Virginia. It was attach
ed to Blenker's division. Bohlen was soon
made an acting Brigadier, afterwards was
nominated for Brigadier-General by the
President, and, after some delay, was con
firmed by the Senate. In the battle of
Cress Keys he behaved with great gallant
ry. On the re-organization of the army
j in Virginia, his brigade was attached to
the corps of Major General Sigel. It oc
cupied the very front of our lines on the
Rapidan, and in the falling back across the
Rappahannock, it acted as the rear guard.
In one of the various attempts of the enemy
to cross the Rappahannock, which Sigel's
men so successfully resisted, Bohlen fell.
He was a true soldier and a thorough gen
tleman, and his loss will be felt in the army
as well as among his numerous friends here
and in Europe.
New Series—Vol. XVI, No. 44.
[From the Columbus (Ohio) Statesman ]
Terrific Adventure with a Boa Con
strictor.
One of the most thrilling incidents which
has ever come to our knowledge, occurred
a few days since in a 1 side show' with Van
Amburg & Co.'s Menagerie, were two enor
mous snakes—an anaconda and a boa con
strictor—are on exhibiton. Both of the
huge reptiles are kept in one case with a
glass tcp, opening at the side, and the
keeper was engaged in the act of feeding
them when the event occurred. The lon
ger of the snakes, the boa constrictor,
which is some thirty feet long and as largo
around the middle as a man's thigh, had
just swallowed two rabbits when the keeper
introduced his arm and body into the cage
for the purpose of reaching a third to the
anaconda, at the opposite corner. While
in this position the boa, not satisfied with
his share of the rations, made a spring,
probably with the intention of securing
the remaining rabbit, but, instead, fastened
his jaws upon the keeper's hand, and, with
the rapidity of lightning, threw three coils
around the poor fellow, thus rendering him
entirely helpless. His shouts of distress
at onco brought several men to his assis
tance, and among them, fortunately, was a
well known showman named Townsend, a
man of great muscular power, and what
was cf much more importance, one who
had been familiar with the habits of theso
repulsive monsters all his life, having
owned some of the largest ones ever brought
to this country. The situation ot the
keeper was now perilous in the extreme.
The first thing to be done was to uncoil
the snake from around him, but if in at
tempting this the reptile should become in
the least degree angered, he would, in a
second, contract his coils with a power
sufficient to crush the life out of an ox.—
A single quick convulsion of the creature
and the keeper's soul would be in eternity!
This Townsend fully understood; so with
out attempting to disturb the boa's hold
upon the keeper's hand, he managed by
powerfully yet extremely cautious move
ments to uncoil the snake without exciting
him, after which, by the united exertions
of two strong men the jaws were pried open
and the man released in a completely ex
hausted condition. The bite of the boa
constrictor is not poisonous, and although
the bitten hand was immensely swollen
the next day, no serious results were ap
prehended. A more narrow escape from,
a most horrible death it would be difficult
to imagine.
A Political Mountebank Rebuked.
F. W. Hughes, self-appointed chairman
of the so-called democratic State commit
tee, who has been endeavoring to stir up
party feeling in this State, lately had the
impudence to send his addresses to Secre
tary Seward. We give the following ex
tract from Mr. Seward's reply, which may
be read with profit by all engaged in fos
tering a spirit of opposition to the General
Government.
You will allow rae to say that this nation
is now engaged, not in a political canvas be
tween opposing parties about questions of civil
administration, but in a civil war, carried on
by opposing armies on an issue of national
life or death.
If the revolution prevail there will be no
questions of administration left to settle.—
If it fail there will be time enough to sottlo
all such questions.
I am not to dictate a course for others to
pursue in this crisis. But I must say for
myself, that neither as a public officer, nor
as a citizen, can I know with favor or disfa
vor. parties among the supporters of the
United States, any more than 1 can make a
distinction between factions which unite in
aiding the Rebellion.
A nation, like an individual, can do only
one thing effectually at one time. It cannot
wisely turn aside from the chase of the fear
ful demon of disunion, to pursue any inferior
demon, whether imaginary or real.
I think that the wrangles which occurred
among the Crusaders about their respective
creeds, when they sat down to the siege of
Jerusalem, were just as rational and just as
wise as disputes about Abolition would now
ho in the Army of the Potomac in front of
Richmond. What is unwise in the camp at
such a moment cannot be wise in tho Cabinet
or in the assemblies of the people.
I am occupied here either in mediating be
tween differing parties and jealous sects,
or else in watching and counteracting the in
trigues of traitors in Europe. But I some
times think that if, instead of being charged
with these duties, I were at liberty, as you
seem to be, to serve the country in my own
way, I could make an appeal to Democrats
and Republicans, Abolitionists and slave-hol
ders in behalf of our distracted country that
would bring the whole people at once upder
arms, and send treason reeling back into the
den of darkness from whence it sprung. I
do not know how this would be, but Ido
know that if I were in your place, I should
try.
I am very respectfully, your obd't servant,
WILLIAM H. SKWARD.
We also find in the Cambria Alleghanian
the following card addressed to Hughes
SIR —You may talk of the success of the
Democratic Party. Whilst in power, why
did it refuse to send a force to Charleston to
crush the Rebellion in its infancy, instead of
fostering up Jeff Davis and Floyd to do as
you say in yours of July 20, viz, allow the
Government to " fall into the abyss of anar
chy, or else upon its ruins a despotism be
beared" ? Take and bury Politics, so that
it will raise its demon head no more, for it