©sfflo 26 m, J. nam OFFICE or East Market street, Lewistown, adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office the first Monday ch month to spend the week. - my3l DH. J. I. MA2I2CS OFFERS bis Professional services to the citizens ot Lewistown and the surround ing country. Office in the Public Square op posite the Lewistown Hotel. janl3--6m* Large Stock of Furniture on Hand. A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds •of Furniture. Young married persons and others tbat wish to purchase Furniture will find a good assortment on hand, which will he sold cheap for cash, or country pro duce* aken in exchange for same. Give me a call a : V alley street, near Black Bear Ho tel. feb 21 Jaoob C, Blymyer & Co., Produce and Commission Mer chants, LEWI STOW N, PA. BaF-Flour and Grain of all kinds par chased at market rates, or received on storage and shipped at usual freight rates, having storehouses and boats of their own, with care ful captains and hauds. Plaster, Fish, and Salt always on hand. eep2 Lock Repairing, Pipe Laying, Plumbing and White Smithing tJMIE above branches of business will he 1 promptly attended to on application at the residence of the undersigned in Main street. Lewistewn. janlO GEORGE MILLER. imAßsma AND BRAID STAMPING Done on the most fashionable patterns by MRS. MARION W. SHAW- Lewistown, Sept. 23, 1863- Kishacoquillas Seminary AND NORMAL INSTITUTE. THE Summer Session of this Institution will commence on MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1864, and continue twentyoce weeks. Cost for Board, Furnished Rooms and Tu ition in the English Branches, per session, 560. Day scholars, per session, sl2. • Music. Languages and Incidentals extra. In order to secure rooms in the Institute application should be made before the open - ing of the school. For further particulars, address, S. Z. SHARP. Prin. janl3 Kishacuquillas. Pa. Mt. Rock Mills. ORDERS FOR FLOUR, FEED, &c., CAN, until further notice, be left at the Store of S J. Brit-bin & Co., or at the Ilat Store of W. G. Zollinger, at which pla ces they will be called for every evening, fill ed next morning, ami delivered at uy place in the Borough. nolß G. LEIIR. English Lever Full Jeweled, Detached difc t. Cylinder Escapements, and all kinds. War prices, M PATTQN'S. THE MIMITREL THE EAST CHARGE. BT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. Now, men of the North! will you join in the strife For country, for freedom, for honor, for life? The giant grows blind in his fury and spite— One blow on his forehead will settle the fight! Flash fnll in his eyes the blue lightning of steel. And stun him with cannon-bolts, peal upon peal! Mount, troopers, and follow your game to its lair, As the hound tracks the wolf and the beagle the hare! Blow, trumpets, your summons, till sluggards awake! Beat, drums, till the roofs of the faint-hearted shake! Vet. yet. ere the signet is stamped on the scroll, Their names may be traced on the blood-sprinkled roll! Trust not the false herald that painted your shield; True honor to dm must be sought on the field! Her 'scuteben shows white with a blazon of red— The life-drops of crimson for liberty shed I The hour is at hand, and the moment draws nigh 1 The dog-star of treason grows dim in the sky ! Shine forth from the battle cloud light of the thorn, Call back the bright hOur when the nation was born! The rivers of peace through our valleys shall run, As the glaciers of tyranny melt in the sun; Smite, smite the proud parricide down from his throne, His sceptre once broken, the world is our own! [Atlantic Monthly. THE RIGHT MUST WIN. O, it is hard to work for God, To rise and take his part Upon this battle-field of earth, An.i not sometimes lose heart. He hides himself so wondrously, As though there was no God; He is least seen when all the powers Of earth are most abroad: Or he deserts us in the hour The fight is all hilt lost— And seems to leave us to ourselves Just when we need him mast. It is not so, but so it looks, And we lose courage then; And doubts will come, if God hath kept His promises to men. Soldier of God, O, lose not heart, But learn what God is like, And in the darkest battle-field Thou shalt know where to strike. For right is might, since God is God— And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty— To falter would be sin. Army 4. Mr. Editor: —As your numerous read- I ers would perhaps like to know how the soldiers are getting along in these parts, (Fortress Monroe) especially those who have left 44 little Mifflin," I give you a brief account. When we arrived here, began • to look around, and found out how things i were and what they were, we were agreea I bly disappointed. In our imagination, we expected to see a place that looked deso lute and warlike; hut instead of that, it j has more the appearance of a place ot peace j and domestic happiness. Inside of the Fort it looks just like a peaceful country : village. There are many soldiers here, i (officers and privates) who have their j wives and children, with all the necessary i domestic animais, even down to the socia hie rat and unwelcome grey back. We have a fine chapel in which there is preach ; ing every sabbath, sabbath school, and at fine bible class, conducted by the post j Chapl in. They are about to begin a day school for the benefit of the children. This ! is the doings of our noble commander, Col. ! Roberts There is in this command or in I the Fort nine companies. They are a fine ! body of men, such that their friet ds at home need not be ashamed of. The facts j are these: that we fear nothing while j bravely standing behind the embankments and walls of the Gibralter of the western hemisphere, and the rebels keep out of j sight We have fine quarters to stay in In the square they measure 7by feet, and j 4 feet high, with a wedge tout over the i top Four of us live in each mansion Onr j boarding is very good, (all we have to do is to keep thinking so.) The boys, as a 1 general thing, are healthy, joyful, content j ed and happy The 22d, the birthday of the father of i our country, was celebrated as follows : In j the morning at o'clock Hie soldiers turn ed out in full uniform, with their knap ' sacks on. and passed in review. I tell you j they made a fine appearance, and did their work well. The Penna. 3d Heavy Artil lery is a regiment that its friends at home can well be proud of. After the reviewing of the troops preparations were made to tire off salutes, which was done at 12 to. Every duty was suspended the whole day, excepting what was just necessary. In the evening we were favored with a very patriotic Union speech, by a very patriotic j young man, Bowman by name. His posi tion is "high private in the rear rank," and belongs to battery I), 3d Penna. Art I have had the pleasure and privilege of hearing and reading many patriotic speech es, spoken by great men of our land, but I never heard anything 'hat goes ahead of j this. All the exercises were accompanied j by national airs performed by the brass band stationed at this post. A PRIVATE. fIgSGE&MMfIOCfS, CURIOSITIES OF PRINTING. Queer Things Done in Type. The mistakes of printers are often very funny to readers, and exasperating to au thors. A single letter is often of the great est importance, and a small mistake fre quentiy changes the whole effect of an article Souie very funny stories are told of mishaps of this character, and we give below some of the best. Ao English paper once stated that the Russian Gen. iiackinoffkowsky was found dead with 'a long word in his mouth.' It should have been 'sword.' In this case, however, the printer could not have been blamed for leaving out a letter after setting up the Russian name correctly. During the Mexican war ice of the English news papers hurriedly announced an important item of news from Mexico—that Gen Pil low and thirty seven of his men had been lost 'in a bottle.' It should have read 'battle. A lad in a printing office came upon the name of Hecate, occurring in a line like this : •Shsll reign the Hecate of the deepest hell.' The hoy thinking he had discovered an i rr r, ran to the master printer and inquired eagerly whether there was an t iu cat. •Why no, DO you blockhead,' was the re ply. Away went the boy to the press room and extracted the objectionable letter Rut fancy the horror of both poet and publish er when the poem appeared with the line: 'Shall reign the He Cat of the deepest hell.' A newspaper some time ago gravely in formed its readers that a rat descending the river came in contact with a steamboat with such serious iujury to the boat that great exertions were necessary to save it. It was a raft and not a rat, descending the river. In the directions for conducting the Catholic service in a place in France a shocking blunder occurred iu printiug ca lotte, culotte. Now a calotte in an ecclesi astical cap or mitre, while culotte means what would be known in drawing-room English as a gentleman's small clothes. The sentence read, 'Here the priest will take off his culotte EffiUKftLEs? (KSKOTIFSSS IPS^O LETTERS DROPPED OCT. But let a form of type be ever so cor rect when sent to the press, errors not un frequently happen from the liabiltv of let ters to drop out, when the form has not been properly adjusted or locked sufficient ly tight A printer putting to press a form of the Common Prayer,the cin th- following passage dropped out un perceived by him : 4 We shall all be ehamjed in the twinkling of an eye.' When the b >ok appeared, to the horror of the devout worshipper the passage read : 'We shall be kanyed iu ;he twinkling of an eye.' A newspaper recently stated, in a report of a battle, that the conflict was dreadful, and that the enemy was repulsed withgieat laughter (slaughter.) A man was said or.ce to have been brought up to answer the charge of having euten (beaten) a stage driver for demanding more than his fare. The public were informed, some rime ago. that a man was committed for having stolen a small ox (box) from a lady's work bag. The stolen property was found in his vest pocket. In au account of a Fourth of July dinner if was B'ated that none of the poul try was eaten except the owls (fowls.) A 'MAKE LP' BLUNDER. A laughable mistake is shown in the following mixing of two articles—one con eerning a preacher, the other about the freaks of a mad dog—which occurred in a hurried make up' in a printing office : 'Rev. James Thompson, rector of St. Andrew's cfurch, preached to a large concourse of people c n Sunday last. This was his last sermon. In a tew weeks he will bid farewell to his congregation, as his physician advises him to cross the Atlantic. He exorted his brethern and sisters, and after the conclusion of a short prayer, took a whim to cut up some frantic freaks. He ran up Timothy street to the college. At this stage of proceedings a couple of boys seized him and tied a tin ketttle to his tail, and he again started. A great crowd collected, and for a time there was a grand scene of running and confusion. After a long race he was finally shot by a police man.' It is not slated whether the following item, which is said to have been printed once upon a time, was the result of iuebrie ty on the part of the prinler or reporter: ' Horrible Catastrophe. Yesterday morning, at four o'clock p. tn., a small man named Jones or Smith, with a hell in the hole of his trowsers, committed arsenic by swallowing a dose ot suicide. The verdict of the inquest returned a jury that tbede ceased came to the fact in accordance with •his death. He left a child and six small wives to lament the end of his uufoitunate loss. In death we are in the midst of life * THE POWER OF COMMAS. In the Priory of Hanunessa there dwelt a prior who was very liberal, and who caused these lines to be written over his door: •Be open evermore.O. Thou my door, To none be shut, to liouest or to poor.' But after Itis death there suei ceded him another, whose name WHS llaynhurd, as greedy and covetous as the other was bountiful aud liberal, who kept the. same lines there still, changing nothing therein hut one point, which made them run alter this manner: 'Be open evermore, O, thou my door, To none; be shut, to honest of to poor.' The following sentence from a recently written novel slows the importance of punctuation : 'He enters on his head, his helmet on his feet, armed sandals upon his brow; there was a cloud in his right hand, his faithful sword in his eye, an angry glare —he sat down. He had Him that Time. The other day little Sunset Cox felt the spirit move him to say over again his little speech about amalgamation. Notwith standing the Democratic party in the South have manufactured half a million mulattos, Cox persists in charging that amalgamation as a leading tenet among the Republicans. But littie Cox got picked up in bis amal gamation recitations in Congress the other day, which is thus described by an eye wit ness: Little Mr. Samuel Cox felt called upon today to express bis views on the Naval Appropriation bill, by making a speech on amalgamation, which, he said, was the leading dogma of the Administration party. He was especially severe upuo the class of men who were constantly calling the negro a man and a brother. While he was charging amalgamation on the Administration side, Mr. Washburue sought to inturrupt him, but Mr Cox very flatly refused to yield. The moment be sat down M. Washburne got the floor, armed with a small volume, sometimes seen in political campaigns in the Columbusdistrict, known as 'A Buckeye Abroad.' lie said he was delighted to hear Mr. Cox's speech again He had heard it many times he>e, and was always pleased w.th it, but from the late Ohio election he feared he would never have an opportunity to hear it again. In the meautime, although the Administration was not quite willing to go its length on the amalg mation and negro brotherhood as the gentleman had intimated, yet he w.aa very glad to be able to produce another New Series—Vol. XVIII. No. 20. who did. fit* ilieu proceeded in reel fto-i box s hook about his emuti nisou h- H mj :t negro preach in Home, and his delight m finding the prejudices of color dh ippcariiig and the recognition ot the common broth erhood of man. The House was convulsed with laugh'er. amid which Mr ' >x d: his best to e ige in aw r i >l' ex ■■!■■ 'Mosaid >1 r Wash urn\ I w b'ss polite than the geiitk-in m i. 1, declined to yield (o inej 1 decline ui yield to hiru ' .Mr Cox tried to persist, when the Sheak er ordered him to take his seat, and he subsided amid a general roar from the floor and galleries. Things That Make a Patriot Mad To hear men wh" have never read the Constitution, and never heard it read, rant-, ing about its violation. To hear men who never did a day's la bor in their lives howling about the influx of negroes, and its injustice to the white laborers. To hear men rave about the President's violation of the Constitution, who are so utterly stupid or knavish that they have never ascertained that the rebellion is in violation of the Constitution. To hear men who care not for law—for God nor man—and who live in daily viola tion of law, pra:ing about law. To hear men who, were they South, would be treated as the poorest and meanest 'white trash' taunted as 'mudsills,' 'greasy me chanics,' &c., upholding the very men who so degrade labor and despise those who do not own negroes. To hear them justifying Jeff Davis and the South, who have not the manhood and decency to go South and seek a Lome which they like so well. To hear a man who loves slavery more than his country or freedom. To hear a drunken, leprous, thickheaded, gaunt-looking libel upou manhood, belch ing out abolition. To hear a man talking about peace and compromise after ie lias been kicked and spit upon by the Soutji -t -Oswego Tunes. —S W. VVingfield, a noted Secession brawler of Portsmouth, Va., has been ar rested by order of Gen. Butler, for annoy ing a coogregation while the prayer for the President of the United States was being read. The General believes "that a whole sale example is necessary," and therefore turns Mr Wingfield over to Col. Sawtelle, who is to put him to work at cleaning the streets ot Norfolk and Portsmouth for three months. A good idea. —Somo of the Johnstown soldiers exonerated the captain alluded to last week from selling them. It may be all right, but who got the surplus paid by Chester county'! —The Supreme Court of this State it is said has appointed Wallace De Witt, a full-blooded copperhead Pro thonotory. That Woodward ami Thompson should vote for such a fel low is not surprising, but that any republican should do so certainly is. Fellow Feeling—A young doctor counting a m iden's pulse. Notice to Heirs of Will, Fleming, dereased. HEK.EAS, h Writ ut Partition and Val * uatinn has been executed on the real estate of Wm. Fleming, late of Brown town ship, Mifflin county, deceased. you are now hereby notified to be and appear in an Or phans' Court, to be holden at Lewistown, in and for the said county of Mifflin, on the 4th day of April next, to accept or refuse to take said real pstate at the vniuiitii n fixed by the inquest of the Sheriff of said county, or show cause why the same Bhould not be sold. D. M. CONTNEK. Sheriff Sheriff's Office Lewistown, March. 2, 1864. Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congrega tion of Derry township, Mifflin county, i ennsylcunia. OTICE is hereby given that application xx has been made to the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin county for the incorporation of '■ The Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Derry township, Mifflin county. Pennsylvania," in Derry township, Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, and if no ob jections are made thereto, decree of incur- I poration thereof, under the objects, articles and conditions therein set forth and contained, will be made at the next Court of Common PDas of said county, to be held in Lewis town, on Monday, the fourth day of April next. N.C.WILSON. mb9-3t Prothonotary. 30 DOLLARS Fl E W ARE. ESCAPED from the Jail of Mifflin county on Tuesday night, March Ist, JONA THAN BICKET, alias Harrison Lind. aged about 35 years, wore wiskera, had a giey suit, and teeth out in front. Alan, L. BUCH ANAN, about 5 feet 9 inches high and about 40 years of age. A reward of $25 will be paid for the apprehension of Bioket alias Lind, and $5 far Buchanan. D. M. CONTNER, mh9 Sheriff. I NOTlCE.—Notice in hereby _J given to the stockholders ,{ the Lewis town Gas Company that an election will be held at the office of the undersigned, in Lewistown. on SATURDAY, the 19ih day of March 1864, from 10 o'clock a m. t<> three p m for one President and six managers to conduct the busioees of the company f*>r the ensuing year. J. W. SHAW, i mb 2 Secretary.