"S3 3-A333T3. LOCAL AFFAIRS OUR SCHOOLS. —The following ap pointments of teachers have been made for this district: Ist Male School —R. H. MeCord. 2d " " —Jane A. Kerr. Ist Female " —Mary MeCord. 2d " u —Mary S. Shaw. 3d " " —Mary A. Miller. 4th " u —Phebe Rittenhouse. sth " " —Sadie Irwin. Gth over creek—Kate E. Stauber. 7th Logan street—A E. Thomas. Bth " " —R Lawrence. 9th Col. School—Tillie Ohles. Schools will open on Monday next, 12th instant. B©,Mr.Harslibarger informs us that the Juniata Vineyard is in splendid condition, us more pains have been taken to tnake it truly a oin yard; and also that the grapes are in great abun dance. An opportunity will be afford ed all desirous of visiting this place — which is worth seeing—as arrange ments have been made for persons as to lodging and boarding, and the house will be open from the 20lh September to the 20tfi October. We have no doubt many part ies will take advantage and visit the place during the allotted time. SERIOUS ACCIDENT. —AIbert Long, eon of Arthur 8., and Kirk MeClintic, eon of R. li., while out gunning on Thursday last, met with a mishap which resulted in seriourly wounding the latter in the head. The boys it appears had been out gunning the day before, and meeting with a little suc cess determined to to try it again the following day. Having but one gun, they agreed to shoot turn about, and while Long was in the act of drawing the trigger MeClintic jumped up in range of the gun and received most of its contents in the back ot his head, lie was conveyed home and medical aid promptly procured, but even if ho survives, it is doubted whether he will ever fully regain his health and strength. Mrs. Mary Miller, daughter of our neighbor il. Burk, reached home last week from \ ickshurg, where she had been emploj'ed for some time in the hospitals. The st< amer on which she took passage up the Mississippi was attacked by a large force of rebels and guerillas, and quite a number of passengers and crew killed and wound ed and also fifteen mules, but the boat kept on her way and escaped. Mrs. M. was slightly wounded on the arm by a minnie ball. The boat was fairly riddled with cannon and musket balls, and it seems almost providential that any one escaped. PEACE ME F.TING. —In obedience to the cessation of hostilities plank in the Chicago platform, the peace democracy held a meeting in the Town Hall on Saturday evening. Rather strangely for war times they were called togeth er by the warlike notes ot the drum and file, and a peace committee on tire crackers also made a warlike demon stration towards frightening nervous people. Ihe usual preliminaries prac ticed by the party since the Polk, Dal las and the tariff of '42 swindle having been put through, Tom Uttley spread himself on the issues, but whether he was for peace or war, your Reporter is unable to determine, as he squinted both ways. Certain however it is, he had a great deal more to say against the Union administration than the re bel. He gave way to Col. W. H. Ir win, who having kindly undertaken to release Hens. Burns Ross and other old stagers trom managing the patent democracy, proceeded to deliver a gen eral laudation of wlnt Gen McCleilan did do, didnt do, and a great deal more of what lie would have done hadn't some "spook" been in the road Your Reporter, Messrs. Editors, remembers reading a book called " Conduct of the Bar,' which gives ample testimony under oath by the best officers in the army of what could and ought to have been done had Gen. McCleilan used his forces half as judiciously as did Grant or Sherman. To give credit to Mc- Cleilan whenever he was successful, and throw the blame upon the admin istration whenever unsuccessful, will not answer, as the record can be pro duced. I hat shows the President re quired but one thing, and that was a sufficient force to protect Washington; in all else McCleilan had full authority to make his own arrangements. No interference was made until General McCleilan ordered away the troops in tended to protect the capital, when the President wisely put a stop to it, for there is but little doubt the rebels would have taken it by a coup de main had he not done so. Let us retrospect a little. Did not McClellan take with him the best equipped army, number ing by the documents 158,000 men. that ever 101 l Washington ? Was not time frittered away after their arrival at Williamsburg in digging over the " sa cred soil of Virginia," when they ought to have been on the march to Rich mond ? Did no' thousands thus fall victims to disease ? Was it the admin istration's fault that different corps were left to contend singly with double and treble their numbers, or the gene ral's in command ? Could not Rich mond have been taken on different oc casions, had the commander said the word? Every distinguished general officer there said under oath it could W as not so much time given the rebels that the)* concentrated nearly all their forces against our army? Were not 70,0(J0 men lost in killed, wounded, prisoners and by sickness in that cam paign ? Did not MeClellan's costly preparations, from the time he com menced organizing that army until his return from Harrison's Landing, create more than Hoe Hundred Millions of our public debt ? millions of which were spent in idle reviews, on thousands of bands of music, and a host of officers who could be found by the hundred in every large town or city, and by the dozen in every smaller one through the land, idling away their time, while a private could hardly get leave of ab sence at all. Such facts are of too re cent occurrence to be gilded over by glittering generalities. x. LOST. —A pocket Photograph Album containing 11 pictures and one vacant place, was lost between Lewis'own and the Poor House, on Friday morn ing last. A suitable reward will be paid on leaving it at the Lewistown Tunuery CoNCERT BY THE BLIND. —Prof J E. Pigiiter, a graduate ol the Institu tion for the Blind, respectfully announ ces to the people of this place and vi cinity that he and Prof. T. E. Wolver ton will give a grand concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music, in the TOWN HALL, this \V EDNESDAY' evening, September 7,1864. In connection with the Concert Prof Wolverton willfully explain the mode of instructing the Blind as followed by the i'a. Institu tion at Philadelphia. A choice pro gramme will be presented. Admission 25 cents; children under 15 years 15 cents. Doors open at 7 —commence quarter before 8. OUR SOLDIERS. —Jacob P. Haiuakcr was elected Captain of the one year s company from this place. John Swan Ist and Henry Printz 2d Lieut. Th" regiment we hear has gone to Wash ington. Captain Selheimer's hundred day men were at or near Monocacy, guar ding the railroad. Charles E. Thomas of this place was in the fights which resulted in the cap ture of the forts below Mobile. He describes the bombardment as an im posing scene. Among the Union prisoners who have died in the loathsome rebel pris ons at Andersonville, we find the name of a former Eastonian, Henry K. A1 gert, brother-in-law of E. Swain, esq., of Lewistown. Mr. A. was captured, with many others of his regiment, the 54th Pa., while guarding the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and taken to Rich mond, from which place lie was trans ferred to Andersonville, Ga. His pa rents reside at Mt. Bethel. ITEMS.— Five regiments ot the fifteen authorised are called for by Gov. Cur tin. C. M. Shult is recruiting a com pany. The naval credits at large will reduce the quota of this borough about four, leaving three to be furnished, though it the amended report is on hand we are more than full. There seems to have been culpable carelessness in this matter in the Provost Marshal's office at Harrisburg. Swain has received anotl er splendid Goshen cheese. Call at once for a slice or you'll not get a mouse's nibble. McClintic'ssorrel we hear was taken to Hollidaysburg by the thief and sold to a Mary lander. Coal, Ac. are now transported on the new railroad to near Freedom Forge l£lat'kiiiitliw, llliti'ksiiiillis. 'IHIE Blacksmiths say Selheimer keeps the I best Iron and Steel in town. He doesn't niy keep th Lest but he keep* tb° largest assortment, icd sejjs the cheapest (Jo to J. b. oELiiELMER a. PRINCE & CO'S. Well-Known MELODEONS & HARMONIUMS. introducing the effect of pedal bass on everv instrument ERNEST GABLER'S Raven and Bacon's and Hal'et Davis & lo's Celebrated PIANOS, FOR CASH, AT A LIBERAL DEDUCTION. JAMES BEL'LAK. eole^ Agent, 279 and 2SI South Fifth St.. above Spruce, up 13. '64-ly Philadelphia. J CHIT ZSJDER, X E Corner of Walnut and Second Streets, PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturer, Importer 3 & iiSJjailili DlllJK l\ GUNS. FISTiLS, FISHING TACKI.E FINE CUT LERY, AND FANCY SPORTING ARTICLES, Agent fur the "Dead Shut'' Powder. B£3%,Or C. f HFKICFS• 1 Nintli street. ULHUS - I CLEVELAND. OHIO, I No. 1 Lyman's Block, • Y£ ? "Si vr'.vnN V • ALIV-TF -I LJ V| | ; ? • T ' 1 1 'V -V AND COLLECT Pensions, Bounty, Back-Pay, Prize .loney, Discharged and Resigned Officers' Pay, and all other W a R CLAIMS THE SIOO BOUNTY RTTIE SNMWS DISEHARYEII FOR WOUND* RECEIVE.I IN HAT LIE, EOILI-CT. IL WITHOUT DKLAV. WO P N OSPERIJIL ATTENTION TO CLAIMS IN WHICH OTHER ATTOR iivya Ikivc TAILED, OR HICH HAVE HREN SUSPOUDETL, 01 WHICH THERE ARE TENS OF THOUSANDS. WE HAVE AIREA TV COLLECTED AND PAID OVER TO SOL TIERS AND THEIR HEIRS OVER $5(10,1)00, AND ARE jAiymq THOITSAN LS DAILY. WE SEEURE PENSIONS FOR TEN • oil.ns, and collect Bounty and BacK-Pav for ten percent., and no pay tintii after we have succeeded. I'HR. AILMV II OH ALD IS TIUBLISHED MONTHLY, AND IS DE *OT-D TO TIT - IVTEN-TS OF THE SOL-TIER AND HIS HEIRS—TO U. 10:11 IT IS INVATUALITE. WRITE US AND WE WILL SEND YON A • opv ire.-, or lor ttiirlc rents we will s*tid you by return ut mail a title engraved tinted Liken- ss (Album sltte) ot Lt. Gen. Grant, an I tie A not 11 raid for one > ear. Topersons seiidinq a elub of -Voir, we will send as premium, an addi ft nal Likeness and Th- IL rald for one v ar, an ; tor ~a . additional subscriber an ad.iiihtual l.::;-t.e-> to tit- TIN OL IHE CHIH. SO TTNO A PERSON SEN TINE NS A 1 HIT. ITT:. F.T, A LII OE ..TILLED I", REC F. . HIM.— IF, : 1.1 TIES A.l . . THE ARMY I!- R IL 1 FE- ONE , .-A , AN., LOR ANY OTB R NNTNBI - IT, LIE. SAME RATIO. it iPibit Washington, I>. C., April 15, IS6-J. We take pleasure in saying that C. G. Bruce, esq , has complied with the Act of Congress authorizing certain persons to ACT as Army and Navy Agents tor the collection ot War Claims, against the Government, and to recom mend him to all persons that have Claims thev wish col lected promptly. U. S. Senators—Benj. F. Wa.le, John Sherman. Members ot Congress—E. It. Eckley, Win. Johnston, Wm. B. Allison. Jel-tf Lycoming County Mutual ESTYBMSIIEI) IN 1840—CAPITAL *3 *OO.OOO- ! ML'I DAL Oil CASH RATES—IHARTER PERPETUAL. r I r HIS company allows no debt to aceunio- J. late against it. It is economical in all con tingent expenses, and prompt in the adjust utent of all honest claims Amount of losses settled and adjusted for the ye r ending June 10. 1864, $101.644 80. and the whole amount of losses paid up to June 10, 1864. is $1 387,747.75. JOHN A. STERETT, jy 13 Agent for Mifttin County. For li.tt-, jiitt uuatlies, Aiu*. u HOFFMAN. Levuaiuwu, August 3, 1&64. U. S. 7-30 Loan. jjuHE Secretary of the Treamry gives notice that J subscriptions will be received for Coupon Treasu ry Notes, payable three years from August 15th, 1564, with semi-annual interest at the rate of seven and three-tenths per cent, per annum—principal and in terest both to be paid in lawful money. 1 hese notes will be convertible at the option of the holder at maturity, into six per cent, gold bearing I Ootids, payable not less than five nor more than twen ty > ears from their date, as the government may elect. 1 hey will be issued in denominations of $50,1100, SSOO iluGO and s6ooo,,and all subscriptions must be for fifty j dollars or some multiple of fifty dollars. 1 he notes will be transmitted to the owners free of transportation charges as soon after the receipt of the original Certificates of Deposit as they can be pre , paled. As the notes draw interest from August 15. persons making deposits subsequent to that date must pav j th interest accrued from date of note to date of de j posit. Parties depositing twenty-five thousand dollars and upwards for these notes at any one time, will be al lowed a commission of one quarter of one per cent., witich will be paid by the Treasury Department upon the receipt of a bill for the amount, certified to by the officer with whom the deposit was made. No deduc tions for commissions must be made from the de posits. SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OF THIS LOAN. IT IS A NATIONAL SAVINGS BANK, offering a higher rate of interest than any other, and the best security. Any savings bank which pays its depositors in U. S. notes, : considers that it is paying in the best circulating me- i diurn iu the country, and it cannot pay in anything better, for its own assets are either in government securities or in notes or bonds payable in government paper. It is equally convenient as a temporary or perma nent investment. The notes can always be sold for within a fraction of their face and accumulated inter est. and are the best security with banks as collaterals for discounts. Convertible into a 6 per rent. 5-20 Bond. In addition to the very liberal interest on the notes for three years, this privilege of conversion is now worth about three per cent, per aununi. for the cur rent rate for 5-20 Bonds is not less than nine per cent, premium, and before the war the premium on six per cent. U. S. stocks was over twenty per cent. It will be seen that the actual profit on this loan, at the pres ent market rate, is not less than ten per cent, per an num. lis Exemption from State or .Municipal Tax ation. But aside from all the advantages we have enumer ated, a special Act of Congress exempts ali bonds and Treasury notes from local taxation. On the average, this exemption is worth about two per cent, per an num, according to the rate of taxation in various parts j of the country. It is believed that no securities offer so great in ducements to lenders as those issued by the govern ment. In all other forms of indebtedness, the faith or ability of private parties, or stock companies, or separate communities, only, is pledged for payment, ! while the whole property of the country is held to se cure the discharge of all the obligations of the United States. While the government offers the most liberal terms for its loans, it believes that the very strongest appeal w ill be to the loyalty and patriotism of the people. Duplicate certificates will be issued for all deposits. The party depositing must endorse upon the original certificate the denomination of the notes required, and whether they are to be issued in blank or paya ble to order. When so endorsed it must be left with the officer receiving the deposit, to be forwarded to the Treasury Department. SUBSCRIPTIONS WILL BE RECEIVED by the Treasurer of tin- United States, at Washington, the several Assist ant 1 reasnrersand designated Depositories, and by the First Naiiual Bank of ihiladripiiia, Pa. Second National Bank of Philadelphia, Pa. Third National Bank of Philadelphia, Pa. First National Bank of Altoona, I'a. First National Bank of Carlisle, Pa. and by all National Banks which are depositaries of public money, and ALL RESPECTABLE BANKS AND BANKERS throughout the country will give further information A AFFORD EVERY FACILITY TO SUBSCRIBERS, j August 10,1864-3 m Tuscarora Female Seminary. Academia, Juniata Co., Pa, CIOMMENCES its Summer Term May 4th, / 1864. For circulars address Mrs. O. J. FRENCH. Principal, or ANDREW PATTERSON, Proprietor. ap6 1864-ly SADDLES, HARNESS, Ac. The subscriber having now on I hand one of the best and largest stocks between Philadelphia and • Pittsburgh, in order to accom- j modate business to the times, offers for sale complete assortment of Saddles, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Trunks, Whips, Haiues, lalises, Carpet Bags, which are offered for sale low for cash, or ap- ; proved credit. Among his stock will be found some high ly finished sets of light Harness equal to any manufactured, Let all in want of good articles, made bv experienced workineu, give him a call. JOHN DAVIS. : Lewistown, April 19, 1860. A GREAT BATTLE Is Expected to take Place in Virginia, BUT notwithstanding this the people must have and we would respectfully set forth our claims to public attention, first, because we keep a large and well assorted stock of Boots aud Shoes fot men and hoys. Gaiters, and all other kinds of shoes for women and children. We are prepared to take measures and complete work of all kinds at short notice. Repairing done at short notice, at E. C. HAMILTON'S, Wpst Market street, a few doors west of CJ..I Butler's, and nearly opposite Daniel Ei- j senbise's Hotel. mh3o-'64 j VALUABLE ! At Public Sale. "VI r ILL be offered at public sale, ou the j V premises, on Saturday. September 10, 1864. : a valuable farm, situate in Menno township Mifflin County, adjoining lands of Joseph King. Yost King's heirs. Yost Hartzler. Ben. llartzler and John Peaehey, consisting of ioe ACRES, i neat measure, cleared and under cultivation, and 30 Acres of Mountain Woodland. The improvements thereon ■M553" J ! ! jL erected are a two story FRAME i SP't'ffi DWELLING HOUSE. LARGE R ARX, with other outbuildings. ' Good att-r with pump in well on the prem ! ises. and running water about half the year. An indisputable title will he given, i Sale to commence at I o'clock p. m , pre j cieely, when terms will he made known. SAMUEL ZOOK. Menno township. August 31, 1864-2t* OF lio ACRES ITU ATE in Wayne township, Mifflin co., O adjoining lands of Judge Seine, John 64. and cou tinue the usual period as heretofore. M. E. PROCEUS. Lewistown. August 17, 1864. Flax! Flax! r |MIE subscriber is prepared, with improv- A ed machinery, to break flax that has been properly rotted, at about 1 cent per lb., taking out about two thirds of the shove, and leaving the broken flax in a condition to be readily scutched by band. The tangled and short straw can also be broken so as to be spun f.r bagging, carpet chain and other j purposes. F. J HOFFMAN. Lewistown, August 3, 1864. Instate Isabella Campbell, Deceased. Y OTICE is hereby given that letters testa : it mentarv ou the estate of Isabella Camp bell. late of Union township, Mifflin county, deceased, have been granted to the under singned residing in said township. All per sons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly authenticated Rr settlement. JOHN 0. CAMPBELL, aug24-6t* Executor. Estate of William fouden. deceased. j 1^" OTICE is hereby given that letters of j i. x administration on the estate of William Cowden, late of the Borough of Lewistown, Mifflin county, deceased, have been granted to the undersigned, re.-iding in said Borough. All persons indebted to said estate are re quested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly au thenticated for settlement. C HOOVER. Adtur. Lewistown, August 31, 1864. R. P. ELLIS. OF the late tiim of McCoy and Ellis, has just returned from the city with a choice assortment of DRY GOODS & GROCERIES, j -elected with care and purchased for cash, xliicb are offered to the public at a small ad vance on cost. Spring & Summer Goods, suitable for ladies, ger.tlemen and children, with many new patterns, llis GROCERIES comprise choice Sugars, Molasses, Coffee, Su perior Teas, Pure Spices, Ac. Also, QI'EENSWARE, GLASSWASE. and all other articles usually found in Stores, til of which his old cu.--i.