(&© S3 c&o 280 Whole No 2880. I Poor House Business. The Directors of the Poor meet at the Poor : House on the 2 • >. Smith and S. I>. Byram. Agents for Pennsylvania ami assigtiers to I'. ' F" Foop. Shop and Tow nship Rights willt'o sold by | I*. F. Loop. All wishing to avail themselves of this j new and desirable toot, which is at least twenty-live i per cent, of an advantage to the wearer over the old. j can do so. hy writing to P. F. Loop. Call and see. June lU, lSfiC. COACH MANUFACTORY. .g—g _ II AKT MAN PHIL l' s continues to mam: fa. Sulkiest sj.;msr Wagons, 4c. j *.wiflrw.i liilßk i.''3fegc: iiis oi l -trmd. in V" g. r\ vni. on the Be! efonte and Lewistown i urupike. •'! mile from I. -wi-town. of a quality superior, an i at prin s lower than elsewhere in the"county. A varied stock of neat and durable work is always kept on hand, j from which purchaser- may select, and any article 111 his line will ho made to ortier a; tile shortest notice. All vi rk warranted to be of first quality and of the most approved and recent patterns. Repairing done with neatness and dispatcii. Yeagertown. May 23, ISBC-6m ISL* TT M: B 33 .n . I UST received, at the Lumber I ard of Win P.. Hotf tf man .t Sons, a full supply of Dry Lumber, inelu- I ding , PLASTERING LATH. PALING, BOARDS, PLANK, JOISTS AND SCANTLING. Doors and Sash always on hand. Also, 25.000 two-foot sawed Shingles, till of which will be sold for cash. — Yard back of East fhird street, Lewistown. jel3-y REMOVED. J A. & W. R. McKEE HAVE removed their Leather Store to Otll Fel lows' Hall, where they will m-tantly keep j 011 hand. Sole Leather. Harness. Skirting and Cpper Leather. Kip-. American and French t alf Skins. Mo roccos. Linings and Binding.-, and a general assort ment of Shoe Findings, which they will -"!! cheap for cash. Highest market price paid in cash for : ides. Calf Skm- and Sheep Skins. wanted, for which the highest market price will be paid in Cash. ~ • apdtf MRS. M, E. STEWART, TPZL West Tlarkt t St., Lewistown, LADIES 4 GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING GOODS, Sacks. Cloaks, Hats. Bonnets. Ladies Fine DRESS GOODS and Trimmings, j Patterns of .utest styles always on h m>l. Millinery and Dress-ffiaking executed in the most approved style. Lewistown, April IS, Istitj.tf 2500 COEDS CHESTNUT OAK AND 11 KM LOOK HAHK, Delivered at the Tannery of IJ. SFAHCSLE & 3C. } LEWiVioWN, For which the highest market price wiil be paid in CASH. Lewistown, marl4-ly NOTICE! I )ERSONS in general, and especially those about going to housekeeping, will take notice that A. Felix is still manufacturing all kinds of iißMTiin;, and has now on hand a large assortment of goods suitable for housekeeping, such as So fas, 'fetes, Spring and Cane Chairs, Windsor Chairs, Lounges, marble top Tables, with a general assortment of well made furniture of all kinds, and at low prices. We wish to draw the attention of purchasers to call and examine the stock. In connection he can furnish persons with Crockery, Queensware, Butterbowls, Churns, Tubs, Buckets, Wash boards, Tucker's patent Clothes Wringer best machine to save labor and clothing. Hair, husk, and Excelsior Mattresses, Ward robes, Settees. Extension Tables, on hand. Bargains ctn i e had by calling at A. Fe lix's Store or Furniture Warehouse. jan3l A. FELIX. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1866. PO E T E "Y _ Two Translations from the Hungarian Poet, Petofi. BY JOHN BoWßiXti. I. O Youth! Thou art a whirlwind! Thou In thy swift circling dance Droppest a flowery garlaud on our brow, Which shines in the sun's glance; And suddenly there comes another gust, Which, with unfriendly breath, Carries away the wreath, And leaves no trace upon the lorehead bust: We feel that forehead cold and hlauk and bare, j Inquiring: '-Was the garland ever there?" 11. A dream Is Nature's kindest gift; it opens wide Those fairy palaces where glance and gleam Sweet fancies, never seen at waking tide. In his blest dreams tlie boor Drives coid and thirst and hunger from his door, Wears purple garment- dwells amidst perfumes, Spreads softest carpels on bis glided rooms, And laughs at tyrant kings, and walks erect In the proud liberty of self respect. 11l dreams the youth whom the coy maid lias chased, Sleeps with his loving arms around her waist; And 1, poor dreamer! in my vision see. That my weak breath has made my country free! MISCELLANY. Correspondence of the Gazette. WASHINGTON, I). C., July,'GG. MR. EDITOR: —After viewing the capitol building tuid admiring the wis dom of its architect, we are ready to listen to t he deliberations of Congress, but are informed the session fur the day will not open for several hours, affording us the opportunity of visit ing the Botanical Gardens on the south of the Capitol. These gardens contain many acres, are well laid out, and to the lover of the beautiful in nature, as well as to the botanical student,afford great pleasure. Turning to the left as we enter, we notice a large plot of ground devoted to the cultivation of evergreens of every variety; next we behold other kinds of ornamental trees, native and foreign, all kinds of vines and all manner of hedges arranged in logical order. Then there are the flow ers, various, numerous and beautiful, arranged around the outside and along the walks in the most tasteful manner. In the centre of the garden area nuui ber of greenhouses filled with exotic | plants and flowers collected from ill- | most every country on the globe. Here we meet the fan-palm with its broad leaves, the date-palm with its delicious fruit, the baobab, bending its branches to the ground, forming a wide spread ing forest, together with every variety of cyeas, cactus and ferns In another apartment all around the sides of the walls, arranged on shelves, are flowers of every hue and variety, enchanting like a fairy's hower. We pause as we enter, not knowing but that we are treading upon enchanted ground or en tering the palace of some fairy queen. We visited several others of a similar character, passing by the gardener - cottage which sits among the flowers like a hummingbird among the honey suckles. A few minutes walk brings us to the Senate chamber. We as cend to the gailories, place ourselves in a finely cushioned seat feeling like a Republican in the Capitol of the Re public. which means quite at home. A glance around us satisfies us there are similar seats lor one thousand more, with reserved seats for the diplomatic corps. The chamber is lighted entire ly by windows above. We casta look beneath, and what a scene 1 The ses sion has just opened, and one half of the members are reading the morning papers, while the other half, except two or three, are writing letters, frank ing pamphlets and speeches, sending them home. Whenever one is sealed the Senator claps his hands, when a boy comes and carries it to a side chamber. This clapping of hands is so constant that, should a member rise and speak, he would seem to be ap plauded all the time. While all this is going on bills are passing with the greatest dispatch. The process is something like this : The bill is read by the clerk, the chairman addresses the Senate, and calls for the yeas. Xo one responds. lie then calls for the nays ; still no response, and the biil is pronounced passed, apparently by the chairman alone, as no one else seemed to notice it at all. This procedure, however, is only adopted when the bill is an unimportant one. The most important man in this chamber is oi course Mr; Foster, who presides with becoming dignity, and does his business with dispatch. He is a fine intellectual man, and would grace any position. First among the Senators we notice Mr. Doolittle, of \Y iscousin, a man who has done too much to aid the cop perheads and support " my policy." — Little ho dreams how his constituents hate him. Beside him is .Mr. Cowan, ofPenna., whose name should be Cow ard for the treacherous part he is now taking. Before him sits Mr. Fessen- den, one of the finest speakers and smartest men in the Senate; near him is Chus. Sumner, as calm and serene as though no earthquake were shock ing our Republic. His name will be associated with liberty and justice as long as our institutions live Air. Mor rcll, of Maine, is in his seat as usual, getting up some new bill; he is the working man of the Senate, and rich ly earns his eight dollars. Beside him is Reverdy Johnson, whose appearance is not near so reverent as his name. — He is the strong man of the Demo cratic party, and the able defender of Airs. Surratt and of treason and mur der generally. Mr. Saulsbury, of Del aware, one of the ablest speakers ol the party, now takes care of the South ern interests, and gallants Airs. Jeff Davis to church. From what we cuuld observe, we give it as our decided opinion tl at the tendency among the several factions at Washington, is to glide into two great parties. The democrats and Southern traitors have already in one solid phalanx attached themselves to " my policy," and ex pect by their numbers to obtain all the public offices, while the conservative Republicans, who, in the hope of keep ing their two factions linked together, sympathized with the President, but seeing the impossibility of a reconcili ation. many have boldly avowed their intention to stand by their Congress and their country. More anon. SIGMA. THE MEMPHIS RIOTS. Report of the Investigating Committee. HEART-RENDING DISCLOSURES. WASHINGTON, Jul}' 25. —The report of the committee appointed to investi gate all matters connected with the Memphis riots and massacres, was made to the House this evening. It is signed by Representatives Wash burne, of Illinois, and Broom all, of Pa The other Representative, Mr. Shank i iin. of Kentucky, dissents. They say the outbreak of the dis turbance resulted from a collision be tween some policemen and discharged colored soldiers, and was seized upon as a pretext for an organized and bloody massacre of the colored people of Memphis, regardless of age, sex or condition, inspired by the teachings of the press and led on by sworn officers of the law composing the city govern ment, and others. The whole evidence discloses the killing of men, women and children, the innocent, unarmed and defence less, pleading for their lives and crying for mercy ; the wounding, beating and maltreating of a still greater number; burning, pillaging and robbing; the consuming of dead bodies in the flames; the burning of dwellings ; the attempt to burn up whole families in their houses, and the brutal and revolting ravishing of defenseless and terror stricken women. The report gives a circumstantial account of the commencement ot the difficulties, the renewal of the distur bances, shooting negruus. brutal mur ders, what the riot was, the coward ice ot the mob, burning ot the Lincoln Chapel, and other features of the mob, and recapitulates the number of color ed persons killed at forty-six, and of whites two. Wounded, 75; rapes on colored women, 5; maltreated. 10 ; rob beries, 100; houses and cabins burned, 91; churches, 4; school houses, 12 Value of property destroyed, 5109,0-sl. The committee say, in their several conclusions, that from the testimony taken from personal observation, and from what they could learn in regard to the state ot feeling in Memphis, and indeed throughout that entire section of the country, they are of opinion that there is but little loyalty to the Government and flag. The state of things in the city of Memphis is very much now as it was before the break ing out of the Rebellion. Many of the same newspapers pub lished there then are published now, and by many of the same men, men who, during the war, were in the rebel armies, fighting for the overthrow of the Government. Professing to ae eept the situation, they seem inspired with as deadly hatred against the Gov. eminent as ever, and are guilty of the same incitation to violence, persecu tion and oppression toward the men holding opinions obnoxious to them that were held towards the men who were well disposed toward the Union in 1861. They believe in the principle and doctrine of secession the same as ever; though they have been beaten by arms they assort and maintain that the principle is the same, and hope for its vindication hereafter in somo way. In view of the fact, the state of public sentiment is such in Memphis that it is conceded that no punishment what ever can be meted out to the perpetra tors of those outrages by the civil au thorities, and in view of the further fact that the city repudiates any liabil- iLiswns'SFaDWSfo ipjßSJsyo ity for the property both of the Gov ernment, and individual, destroyed by the mob, the committee believe it to be the duty of the Government to arrest, try and punish the offenders by mili tary authority, and also by the same authority lay a tax upon the citizens ol Memphi -efficient to cover the loss es of all p: i, . destroyed. Captain Scott's Dog. The celebrated Mirtin Scott was a friend of Gen. Marcy, who in his new hook. "Thirty Years of Army Lite,' gives many interesting anecdotes about him. Captain Scott was at onetime, while stationed at Prairie du Ohien. in pos session of a wonderfully sagacious dog —a cross of the setter and pointer The captain would for example, while sitting in his quarters at the fort, with his dog at his feet, say, " Mark, I want you to go over to the island and ascertain if there are any woodcock there, and come back and tell me ' The dog would instantly go to the riv er, swim to the island, and if he had found birds, run up to his master, then to the gun, wag his tail, and make other demonstrations of joy, which made it perfectly apparent that lie had been successful. Scott would then tell the dog to get the canoe in readi ness, and strange as it may appear, he would take the cushion in his mouth, carry it to the river bank where the boal was moored, piaee it upon the seat, return lor the puddle, carry that to the canoe, then go back to Scott, and look up in his lace with an ex pression which indicated that all was ready. The captain had at the same time another dog, which lie called Turk. — These dogs, from their first acquaint ance, had never been on friendly terms, and they had many severely contested encounters, which finally resulted in Turk's gaining and retaining the mas tery. Mark was emphatically a van quished dog, and by bis meek and sub missive demeanor in the presence of bis adversary admitted as much. Upon one occasion Turk had gained possession of a bonne bouebe, in the form of a beef's bone, which he was quietly enjoying by himself upon the parade ground, when Mark chanced to pass that way and scented iho choice morsel. The longing, anxious look which he cast upon the bone told how desirous he was to participate in the feast, but his experience had taught him that an attempt to contend with his powerful adversary would only re sult in his own discomfiture. lie therefore prudently resolved to resort to strategy in order to accomplish his ends. Accordingly he ran furiously outside the stockade inclosure and set up a tremendous barking as if some thing extraordinary had occurred, upon which, as usual, all the dogs in the fort hurried out of the gates to see v\ hat was the matter, and among them was Turk, who in the excitement of the moment, abandoned his bone. As soon us this was done Mark very quietlj slipped back, seized the prize, and car ried it to a hiding place, where he could enjoy it at his leisure. Mark was by no means a dog of reg ular habits, and would often steal away from home and pass the night among bis canine companions. For this be was invariably punished, bis master compelling him t<> stand on bis hind feet, with his fore paws resting against the wall, while castigation was admin istered by a cowhide. In one instance, after having absented himself all night, lie returned home with a dejected and penitent air, and, seeing his master looking very angry at him, he imme diately went to the wall, placed him self in the position he had been requir ed to assume when he received hispre j vio. s punishments, and at the same | time turned his head around and louk j ed at Scott, as much as to say, u I am j ready." ! In the course of time-Mark waxed ' in years, and was no longer able to : endure the work required in hunting, | and Captain Scott took him home to Bennington to pass the remainder of his days in quiet retirement, and here lie continued to make himself useful even in his dotage by going to the pas ture every night and driving home the cows. It certainly appeared as if this animal was endowed with something beyond mere brute instinct, as he seem ed to comprehend ali the relations ex isting between cause and effect. Captain Scott was so very fond of : his dogs that I have known him. upon the death of a favorite one, to walk his room in great apparent distress of i mind during the entire night, and af terward place the body in a coffin, and, ' with his boy Jack leading his hunting horse draped in black, follow it to the I grave, and bury it with as much care and ceremony as if it had been a child. fctf We sometimes bring hurt upon ourselves by trying to injure others. I So did Haman of old. Vol. LVI. No. 30. Horrible Death—A Sleeping In/ant Killed b>/ Hot a —The Pittsburgh Ga zette of yesterday says: We have just received the particu lars of a horrible occurrence which transpired a few days ago on Huberts street, iw the Seventh ward, it ap pears that a young married lady placed her sleeping infant —a little cherub three months old—in a cradle and lett. the room. Five or ten minutes after wards she heard a piercing shriek from, the little innocent, and immediately rushed to its side. She arrived in time to see a large rat jump from the cradle and escape through the open door.— Upon raising the infant she found it cold in death, the rat having bitten through the lip and cheek, producing spasms, in one of which the baby had died. The eoprse was laid out in the parlor, and being left unguarded a few I minutes, a swarm of rats entered and I attacked it; devouring nearly the en ! tire face and arms before their pres j ence was discovered The house in , question is literally swarming with | large, ravenous Norway rats, which frequently attack grown persons, and are a source of terror to the occu- I pants. Sleep in;l in the Moonshine. —A little boy, 13 years of age, named Henry Lowry, residing near Peckhamrye, England, was one night, lute, expelled from his home by his mother lor some trifling misdemeanor. He at once ran away to a cornfield close by. and on lying down in the open air fell asleep; lie slept throughout the night, which was a moonlight one. Some laborers on their way to work, seeing the boy apparently asleep, aroused him; the lad opened his eyes, bukdeclaring he could not see. He was conveyed home and from thence to a'n ocular institu tion, where medical advice was ob tained. The surgeon affirmed that the loss of sight resulted from sleeping in the moonlight. The boy is totally blind, and few hopes arc entertained of bis ultimate recovery. Buryiny Alive. —On Monday last a lady named Mrs. Hanncy, living at Morrisania, on the outskirts of Now York city, was taken ill, and soon af ter, to all uppeara. s, died. Prepar ations were made for the funeral on the following afternoon, although two doctors had expressed their belief that she was not actually dcad. As they were about to bury the lady her brother ar rived, and the coffin being opened to permit him to take a last look at his sister, he too declared that she was not dead, and refused to allow the inter ment to proceed.. This state of things continued until Thursday evening, at ' whicfo time there were no signs of re vival nor of actual death. Sad Case of' Drowning. —On Saturday last Mrs. Marston, of East lladdam, Ct., took her daughter and the child of a neighbor to the river for a bath She sat on the bank watching the children, when suddenly her attention was attracted by their cries, and she found that they had got beyond their depth. With motherly in stinct she plunged into the water to rescue the little ones, and was herself carried under. All three soon appear ed at the surface, struggling for life, but the effort was unavailing, and they finally went down to a watery grave. The Stolen Child. —The following is a description of the little girl, Lillic Da vidson, who was abducted from her home in Cincinnati, on the 15th of April, and who has not yet been found: 'She is between four and five years of uge; rather stout in stature; light com plexion; light brown hair, cut short; full gray eyes; two moles on the side of her face, one near the temple, tho other near the top of her ear.' Two thousand dollars is now offored for the recovery of the child, and amount has been placed in the hands of the Mayor of Cincinnati. A Fact Worth Printing. —At a Second class hotel in Frankfort, Ky:, a few days since, a little girl entered the bar room and in piteous tones, told tho bar-keeper that her mother had sent her there to get eight cents. •Eight cents?' said the bar-keeper. 'Yes pir.' ' What does your mother want with eight cents? I do not owe her any thing.' 'Well,' said the child, 'father spends all his money here lor rum, and we have had nothing to eat to-day.— Mother wants to buy a loaf of bread/ A loafer suggested to the bar keeper to kick the brat out. 'JST o,' said the bar-keeper, I'll give her mother the money; and if ber fa ther comes back again I'll kick him out/ Such a circumstance never happened beforo, and may never happen again. Humanity owes that bar-keeper a vote of thanks. Beware of strong drink