(&IS©O SIB <2s S@s3s> 2FIS2BSj2BIEnEI£Ss Whole No. 2790. ILewistcwn Post Office. Mai's arrive and close at the Lewistown P. 0. as follows: ARRIVE. Eastern through, 5 48 a. m. " through and way 421p m. Western " " " 10 55 a. m. Bellefunte " " " 2 30p. m. Northumberland, Tuesdays, Thursdaysand Saturdays, 6 00 p. nr. CLOSE. Eastern through 8 00 p. m. " • and way 10 00 a. in. Western " " 315 p. in. Kellefonte 8 00 Northumberland (Sundays, Tueesdavs and Thursdays) 8 00 p. m. Office open from 700 a. m. to 8 p. m. On ■ Sundays from Bto9 am. S. COMFORT, P. M. Lewistown Station. Trains leave Lewistown Station as follows: Westward. Eastward. I Piitsburgh and Erie Express, 313a. m. 914 p. rn. ■ Baltimore Express, 4 48 a. m. I Philad'a Express, 548 a. in. 12 18 a. m. I Fast Line, 610 p. m. 526 " I Mail 421 " ■ Fast Mail, 35 I Harrisburg Accom'n. 3 44 p. m. I Emigrant, 10 4i a. m. 1 Through Freight, 10 20 p. m. 120a m. I Fast " 350a. m. 930 " I Express " 12 10 p. m. 12 4 WlS3l£ias& Real Estate Agent, Collector and County Surveyor, LEWLSTOW \', FA. OFFICE in the Court House, opposite the Commissioners' Office. sep!4-tf GEO. W. EL2E3,, Attorney at Law, office Market Square, Lewistown, will at tend to business in Mifflin.Centre ami Hunting- : don counties myiti Lock Repairing, Pipe Laying, Plumbing and White Smithing r IMIE above branches of business will be 1 promptly attended to on application at the residence of the undersigned in Main street, Lewistown. janlO GEORGE MILLER. TO PROFESSORS OF MUSIC, AMA TEURS, AM) THE MUSICAL PUB LIC GENERALLY. P. A. WUNDERMANN, Foreign and American Music Warehouse, 824 BROADWAY, HAVING on hand the largest stock of Foreign Music in New York, which he exports from Europe expressly to meet the taste and requirements of the American lov ers of Music, respectfully calls attention to j tiie fact, that he is now supplying Music of j every style at a reduction of twenty Jive to JiJ' ! t'J per cent, less thau any other house in the ; United States. Private families can be supplied (post free) j by forwarding the cash to the above address. ; should the amount of cash forwarded exceed ! 'he cost of the Music, the balance will be promptly returned in postage currency. DEALKR B and Professors should not neglect j opportunity; tbey will be liberally dealt X. B.—Any and every piece of Music, vo Cl *l or instrumental, published in Europe or America, will be supplied to order, if accom panied by the cash. Remember the address P A. WUNDERMANN, foreign and American Music Warehouse, 50p21.3m 824 Broadway, New York. THE iIIMITML THE WORLD TO COME. , I If all our hopes and all our fears, i Were prisoned in life's narrrow bound; If travelers through this vale of tears, We saw no better world beyond, Oh : what could cheek the rising sigh? What earthly thing could pleasure give ? Oh! who would venture, then, to die— Or who would venture then—to live ? Were life a dark and desert moor, Where mists and clouds eternal spread Their gloomy veil behind, before, And tempests thunder over head; Where not a sunbeam breaks the gloom, And not a floweret smiles beneath, Who would exist in such a tomb— Who dwell in darkness and in death? And such were life without the ray Of our divine religion given? 'Tie this that makes our darkness day, 'Tis this that makes our earth a heaven! Bright is the golden sun above, And beautiful the flowers that bloom, And all is joy, and all is love, Reflected from the world to come. For the Educational Column. ! The Relation Existing between the Tea cher and the Civil Government. . i Certain public spirited citizens of this ; State have been instrumental in haviug a bill introduced into tbe Pennsylvania Le- j gislature, which designs appropriating a j portiou of the public money lor the sup- J port of aged and superannuated teachers. | As the writer of this article has not I seen the details of the bill, he does not .. . i i presume to give an opinion on the merits 1 0l its individual features. Yet he does 1 j not hesitate to venture the assertion that many of those who have noticed the intro i ductiou of the bill have, from the first, been opposed to the idea of teachers be- j coming the objects of puolic benefaction. The eyes of such have either been blinded by fears of increased taxation, or they have | failed to comprehend the relations existing j between the teacher and the civii govern ment. The faithful public school teacher is a | ! public benefactor, and as such, has a right j to look to the government lor support, alter he has spent all his euergies iu the ser vice. The downfall of nations, together with the detection of those influences which, ; either directly or indirectly, produced their i overthrow, is perhaps one of the prolound- i I est themes presented for the investigation ' of man. To detect those causes which are j secretly and insiduously, though powerful , iy and effectually, sapping the foundations i of civil government, bullies the discern- j • ment and skill of even the shrewdest phi losophers. So various and intricate are their workings, that it is often impossible ! to discover them until they have culuiina | ted in the overthrow of government. Yet j there are certaiu general principles which , it is evident cannot be disregarded without | serious consequences, while there are cer tain influences which are indispensible to | the perpetuity of government and its insti tutiuns. Tbe stability of a republican form of government depends greatly upon j the degree of intelligence disseminated • among the masses. It is the only real safe- j guard against the insidious power of polit- ' ical corruption. If men are intelligent, it is presumed they will act intelligently. In a democratic government the power is lodged in the hands of the masses, and the masses alone are responsible for its use as well as its abuse. They alone are account able lor the results, when those elements of social discord, which must eventually prove the overthrow of national existence, are permitted unmolested to pursue their work of destruction. These truths are so | plain that it is presumed no one will lor a ; moment call them in question. But how and by whom are the masses to be educat- : ed and fitted to become intelligent A uteri- i i can citizens, if not through the influence I of those teachings imbibed from the lips of those whose special mission it is to fit them for the highest usefulness in the State and ! Church? The stability and perpetuity of our republican institutions depends greatly ! | upon the spirit which animates those who | coutrol the education of our youth It is i a commonly received opinion, that the truths imbibed in early youth make the most lasting impressions, and the teach ers of the public schools of our country, operating by both precept and example up on the minds of our youth, are moulding the future destiny of the American repub lic. We hold that it is the duty of every ; faithful teacher to instil into the minds of ; his pupils correct views of the principles jof republican government. Nay, more. The teacher who neglects it, is unfaithful : to the trust committed to him ; and he who I misrepresents the genius of our institu j tions, is positively disloyal. In a word, it | is the special mission of the teacher to pre- I pare the youth of our country, by means of : the elevating and expanding power of ed ucation, to take enlarged and comprehen sive views of the duties of an American citizen, and to fit them to discharge those duties intelligently and faithfully. With an educated and intelligent citizenship, the republic is sale lrom the power of all civil dissensions, and the incursions of oil ex ternal foes. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1864. If, then, as we have endeavored to show, the teacher exerts a mighty and unlimited power in developing those influences which | are the only last ; ng bonds of civil society —if he disseminates those truths which are the most powerful in perpetuating the in stitutions of civil government —is he not a I public benefactor, and as such, has he not a right to claim the support of that gov | eminent alter he has spent all his energies i in its service ? V. iMM & SKEKHEI I A HEART'S HISTORY. He said 'lie loved me,' and the doubts and fears that had made another chaos of my soul for weary months were at once j dispelled by the uiagic cf this little sen | tence. And light aud joy were once again the creation of a new born existence, and being as of old, when God said 'let there be light,' and there was light. Yea, what glory beamed upon me when this whisper ed conflrmation of my dearest hopes was breathed in my but too willing ear by the lips I hold the most precious of all the earth ! And oh, how I revelled in this second Paradise, forgetting, alas, in my wild | mental delirium, the serpent pernicious touch should wither the fairest flowers of j my budding heart, wreathed now so bright, ! , and seemingly of immortal planting. But a change came in the spirit of my i dream, and he who was the sun of my ! life's tiny universe, and who should have I cherished me with the fondest and constant devotion; alas, that his hand should be the , destiued one to strip ail of my beauty and fragrance from my late blissful existence. I have not told you that nature had al most entirely neglected ine in her distribu tion of personal charms; but such, I must 1 confess, is tbe to me sometimes huuiilia- j ting truth; and yet why should this fact, I one trivial when exhibited in its true char- i acter, cause us one moment of mortification : or regret! when the law of compensation ; mercifully vouchsafes us who are deprived i of physical attraction the inner, but more ! lasting beauty of the intellectual. But, I my distribution of the seemingly essential | requisite of outward loveliness made me , feel indeed 'poor in spirit' when he came ! j praising the soft lustre of my eyes, and the regal beauty of a brow, which did not bestow j a tithe of mental grandeur and grace tmy [ I else plain and uninteresting countenance ! And I believed him, and thought that 1, ! ' even I, though homely aud unattractive to j others, might experience the untold happi I ness of being beloved. But, alas, how j vain and fleeting was this delusion. For j l a brief while, everything seemed propitious, j and my hungry soul was indeed full of re- ! pletiun, until an opposing dark but beauti i i'ul shadow, in the shape of a fascinating j but unprincipled girl, came too near the brightness of uiy soul's life. | 'Twas on a warm sunny afternoon in ' June sweet and rose crowned, that 1 walked with my affiauced, my dear, but j alas, my perjured Walter ro the landing, , where I expected to meet an old school j mate of mine, Luta Langdon, by whose side I had conned, in days gone by, those i great exponents of the mind of man | books of miscellaneous and erudite charac ter. It was several years since we parted ou the old school verandah, she, to wend her way to her beautiful Southern home, and I, to return to my less imposing but no less dear country fire side. We had been corresponding during our separation, and upon my making a request lor a visit from her, the same met a prompt accept ance, and this afternoon was the time de signated for its fulfillment. Well, to be brief, I would say she is here, and we are now retracing our steps, talking joyously in our gratification at ' experiencing this long anticipated excur ! sion. How shall I describe her, whose puny hand was to be potent in seeking my des ; tiny—the beautiful glittering, but subtle and designing Luta Langdon. The fervid kisses of her native sun had left their j shadows on her check, and the fires of her warm southern nature blazed iu her dark almond shaped eyes, and bloomed bright as the promegranatc on her lull, pouting lips, which disclosed, when parted, ti eth of the purest lustre and beauty. Her DOSO was ol the Grecian type, and her crowning glory consisted in a wreath of jet-black hair which nearly veiled a lorm of nature s most perfect handiwork. llow humiliating then to human nature, that a casket of such unrivaled splendor, should contaiu a spirit so fiend-like as hers proved to be. Methinks its hateful influence should have scorched all that was divine and lovely in her outward appearance; but alas! such indications of a Judas like spirit were not revealed, to tell to us beware. We passed the evening of her arrival agreeably; having made our respective toilet, Luta looked bewitching in black lace and scarlet japonicas, whilst I, being rather pale, wore white muslin aud pink roses. I Walter was with us, and he seemed j nobler aud dearer to me than ever, as he stood leaning over Luta, who was scanning a Photographic Album of my shadowy treasures. Having finished their survey and explanations, Walter proposed 'musio/ and as this was Luta's particular 'forte,' she manifested no disinclination to comply. He escorted her to the piano, and he seemed spell bound, as her rich soul-thrilling; voiee poured forth liquid melody. Did 1 not fear the feyren s spell in those witching strains.'' Oh, no; my love for my betrothed was of the most unselfish nature, and I | was gratified in beholding his enjoyment, for he was an ardent enthusiast in this most sublime of the arts, and I unfortu nately, possessed not the power of im parting this exquisite pleasure. So I dreamed on, unconscious of evil, sitting bv I the open window, whilst their united voi ! ces —for he had now joined her—were borne to me on the sweet breath of even ing. 1 bus it was from day to day, and from evening to evening, they seemed only to live tor and in each other; the flowers that were once mine, as tokens of a fond devo- I tion ail my own, now shed their sacredness j on another bosom, and brighter, darker locks than hers, whom he once fondly styled his dear, majestic Mildred. And how do you think one so sensi tively constituted as myself, bore this de i throneu ent from a heart where I had so lately reigned supreme! At times, I felt, as though my reason would of necessity succumb to the cruel burden that was pressing my very life out. Oh, I shall never forget those weary, anxious days, | and tortured nights; their burning fingers have made indelible lines upon my soul, which time, with all its waves, can never, ! no never efface. All this time, however, i I manifested not the least sign of the in- j ward struggle that was literally killing me day by day. For pride, as c.f old, still holds Iter despotic sway over the ruins of ; a blighted heart, and no one, not even those who were most intimately concerned in the change, was couscious of the volcanic fires that seethed beneath my apparently calm, yet I know, fearfully pale exterior. ' But all in this world, fluctuating and yari able, be it of pleasant or fearful character, must have an end, and accident kindly ; effected what my feeble heart shrunk from j in denouement. We were occupying one morning the i little room in my home, which I had play fully dubbed 'the library.' It contained a I small collection of library treasures in an : old fashioned mahogany book-case, and as I at odd times patronized the muses there, I do not deem the above dignified appella : tion misapplied. 'Twas also the favorite I sitting room of the family. Luta was half reclined on a lounge, and beautifully at j tired in a pret'y pink morning wrapper, to ; all appearances engaged in a book. I was finishing a sketch I had taken on a recent ' ramble, when we were interrupted by the | entrance of the mail-boy. There were two letters —one for Luta and the other for me. ; I seated myself to glean over the contents : ot my own, when I was startled by an ex clamation from my companion : 'Oh ! Mil ired, this letter is from my betrothed, and he is coming to take me home, so 1 must do ruy packing immediately, and you may l tell \V alter, when he returns from the city, j that I am much obliged for his delightful | 1 entertainment this summer; and, that i hope j he will meet some one yet, who will be to ! him what 1 never cou d!' The heartless ness of her conduct was exhibited in every tone thus shamelessly uttered, and outraged hospitality and friendship overflowed in the following upbraidings, and I saiu : 'Very well, I will assist you in your pre Durations, but you have forever forfeited Mildred May's confidence and regard. You have, merely to gratify a little persoual vanity estranged one, who was mine by the decree of heaven and the soul, and who, had he never came under your dire influence, might still be the guiding star of my exis tence. Go then, vain aud unprincipled girl, and may yiu never experience the just retribution of a crime so repreheusible as thine; yes, go, and may the memory of this unfriendly act lead you to repentance, and a purer life.' To day she left us, but the shadow of her blighted presence still remains, and when Walter comes, he will find me no longer the Mildred of old: my heart seemes petrified, and I know his image can never again be reflected on its broken j surface. Well, he has been here, and his unfeign ed anguish and remorse it seems should awake my torpid spirit: he says he loves me still, and that he never nally cared for Luta, but was without volition bound tern porarily by her coquetish wiles. But all j his loving and agonizing supplications are powerless to break the lethargy of my soul And now he leaves me, while darkness once more rests upon the face of the deep, and my spirit shall never be resurrected, until the light of Divine love illuminates my I shadowy life. flfcg"" If a woman could talk out of the two corners of her mouth at the same time, there would be a good deal said on both sides. B@u Why do hens always lay in day time ? —Because at night they become j roost-ers. is a cow's tail like a swan's ! bosom ?—Because it grows down. WaT-What tune does the ocean sing? i .Neptune. aguThe rich widow sometimes cries ; with one eye. MEWHSS2£ I @WSJ ! , EEEHHWBT to become their victims, merely as a frivolous piece of human trumpery, with whom it may be well enough to wile an hour or two now and then, when nothing better in the way of amusement offers. President Lincoln's Speech on Wednes day Morning- On Wednesday morning, between two and three o'clock, a number of Pennsyl vanians, finding tbat the President was at i the War Department, repaired thither with a band and serenaded him. Mr. Lincoln acknowledged the compliment in the fol lowing remarks : Friends and Fellow-citizens—Even he fore I had been informed by you that this compliment was paid me by loyal citizens of Pennsylvania friendly to me, I had in ferred that you were of that portion of my countrymen who think that the best inter ests of the nation are to be subserved by the support of the present administration. I do not pretend to say that you who think so embrace all the patriotism and loyalty of the country. Put Ido believe, and i trust without personal interest, that the welfare I of the country does require that such sup port aud endorsement be given. 1 earnest ly believe that the consequences of this day's work—it it be as you assume, and as now seems probable—will be to the lasting advantage, it not to he the very salvation |of the country. I cannot at this hour say what has been the result of the election; hut whatever it may be, I have no desire to modily this opinion, that all who have labored to day in behalf of the Union or ganization, have wrought for the best in ; terests of their country and the world, not i only for the present but for all future ages. L am thankful to God for this approval of the people. Put while deeply grateful for this mark of their confidence in me, if I know my heart, my gratitude is free from any taint of personal triumph. I do not impugn the motives of any one opposed to ! me. It is no pleasure to me to triumph i over any one. Put I give thanks to the Almighty for this evidence of the people's resolution to stand by free government and the rights of humanity." A Warlike World. i The Opinion Nationale of a recent date ' gives this dismal picture of the present belligerent condition of the world: 'lf there be a dead calm in politics as well as business amongst us, it is not the ' same iu all parts of the little planet we ' inhabit. Three quarters of humanity, in fact, are living in the barbarous state of war. 'There is war in Poland. 'War in Algeria. 'War in Tunis 'War in Mexico 'War in the United States. 'War in Peru. 'War in New Zealand. 'War in China and Kacbgar. 'War in Japan. 'War in Afghanistan. 'War in twenty countries in Africa. 'This is, unfortunately, enough to dis courage the friends of universal peace; and who can say they will not meet with still greater disappointment next year? Italy, Hungary, Poland, Denmark, and the Sla vonian populaticn of Turkey, are not, it must he confessed, iu the most pacific hu mor; and to those who study the general ■ situation of our continent, it is quite evi dent that the general situation, instead of | getting better, goes on from day to day getting more and more complicated.' H*3X- A traveler, near the close of a weary day's drive over a lonely and muddy road, came to a little log cabin in the forest, and asked for a drink. J A young woman supplied his wants, and afterwards, as she was the first woman he had seen in several days, he offered her a dime for a kiss. It was duly taken and paid for, and the young lady, who had never seen a dime before, looked at it with some curiosity, and asked what she should do with it. lie replied, what sho chose, as it was hers. •If that's the ease,' said she, 'you may tako it back and give me another kiss.' ! ■ ■ | !■— mum I Mil H II IMB 3n Estate Catharine Ramsey, deceased. is hereby given that letters of XI administration on the estate of Catha rine Kauifoy, late of Armagh township, Mif flin county, deceased, have been granted to, the undersigned, residing in said township. Ail persons indebted to said estate are re i quested to make immediate payment, and those having claims to present them duly au thenticated fur settlement. WM. H. RAMSEY, CUAS. P. RAMSEY, octl2* Administrators. STOVES. A LARGE assortment of Cooking, Parlor and other Stoves, always on hand, at the lowest prices, at | - J. B SELIIEIMER'S. I FOUND out tbat Hoffman's is the place for Groceries.