gr ally inferior cost, and can be sold at low prices on long credits. 17th Interrogator}': IV hfit rate of duties in the tariff will, in your opin ica place yon as a manufacturer in fair competition yith the toreign ma ker of the same commodity? Answer: To put the domestic on a perfect equality with the foreign man ufacturer of iron, in all respects, he should be protected to the extent of the difference in cost of capital and la bor. here and abroad, and all taxes di- [ rect and indirect paid by the Ameri can product, from which the foreign is free. It is conceded by the British iron masters that wc pay three dollars for labor thai costs the English manu facturer but one. The capital neces sary to build and stock iron works, owing to the higher cost of materials and labor and higher rate of inf'rrst, Costs us three times as tnitch as it does him. and consequently, to put us on an equality in these respects, we should be protected to the extent of at least ; two thirds of the actual cost of our' product. It has been shown that the taxes paid to the Government on a ton of American iron is?l6 23; to this add the difference in cost of iabor and , capital in this country, and you will find the amount necessary to put the American " manufacturer in fair com petition with the foreign maker. 18th Interrogator}*: What is the cost of making pig metal in England, ; and what in Scotland ; also rails, coin mon bar, &c., as far as you know ? Answer: I can only judge of the cost of some of those articles by the j extremely low price at which they are sold, and the mammoth fortunes accu mulated by the manufacturers At present cost of labor, Welsh rails are not costing the manufacturer over ?25 ; per ton. The cost of Scotch pig is hard to es timate, but as it is now selling from $13.50 to 514, arid is understood to pay a large profit to the maker, it cannot cost more than SIU to sll, and proba bly less than that The English manufacturers are wise ly cauti uis about disclosing the secrets t of their business, or the cost of their ( product, and in all the publications I have been able to sec there is not as much given, leading to a correct esti mate of the cost ot making iron, as I have given you in answering these in terrogatories. Yet I find it admitted by some of them that pig metal can be profitably made in certain districts of i England at £2 per ton. 20t'n Interrogatory: What will be the effect upon the wages of laborers j and operatives, if gold should come to 1 par without an increase of duties on i foreign goods? Answer: There must be a corres j ponding decline of wages, or manufac turing must cease. The latter is most I likely to occur—many thousands will j be thrown out of employment, and much suffering will ensue. 21si Interrogatory : If any general j decline in prices of American manu factured commodities shall take place, can the present rate of wages be main tained ? Answer: So far as the manufacture of railroad iron is concerned, I would answer emphatically no. THE GAZETTE. IiEWISTOVVN, PA. Wednesday, September 5, 1866. j G. 4 for his MeClel lan friends. fey" The Selinsgrove Times naturally comes to the rescue of Messrs. Ross and Ivearns, who it insists are, like itself, dem ocratic, and winds up an article on the Gazette as follows: 44 The Gazette still has 44 soldier on the brain," with which it will doubtless be troubled till after the election. We are not afflicted in that way, though we have quite a goodly number of soldiers' names upon our subscription book who will all vote for Clymer and a white man's gov ernment at the next election. Nor do honorable soldiers endorse a party so mean that will submit to their members in Con gress voting themselves $3,000 extra pay for a few months service and to the sol diers only SIOO for three years /" In the first place, more democratic votes, in proportion to numbers, voted for an increase of salary than did republicans; and all the Johnson members voted for it. Secondly we acknowledge to have 44 soldier on the brain" all the time; and had the soldiers as a body been wise, they would have secured two-thirds of all the civil offices in this State for many years to come. But led 011 by designing offi cers, many privates were induced to join Clymer clubs as soldiers, thus giving countenance to one who during the war had no voice in their favor, and who vo ted against increasing their pay, while his opponent WJIS not only a brave and gallant soldier but in every respect the equal, if not superior, of Clymer. In do ing so, the privates threw away their own chances of civil promotion, and will, as they did in the war, do the hard work, while those who misled them will reap offices and greenbacks. Had they conic back, organized as a body of Union men, and put forward their claims, the Gazette would have raised no word of objection to any nominee of character and standing, no matter what his political antecedents might have been. Sale of the Democracy. On Thursday last the Legislative con ferees of the democracy that was met the Johnsonites in this place, and consumma ted the intrigue and bargain of selling the democracy to the new party by adopting Mr. Miller of Huntingdon and Mr. Wil lis of Lewistown as candidates for the Legislature. If any one still has doubts, the following editorial article front the Washington Star of Friday bust, one of Johnson's organs, ought to satisfy him: The National Virion Party." —The name adopted, as above, by the great na tional party which has arisen for the sal vation of the country, is accepted every where as one exceedingly felicitous and appropriate. It correctly designates the purpose had in view; it is as broad and comprehensive as the nation itself; and while rallying all patriots to a common standard, has no tint or rust of old partv names or shibboleths. Fall in, old democrats! here's a fine chance for your services as hewers of wood and drawers of water to give a few men office who'll thank you for your votes, hut don't care a for vou otherwise. An Apostate's Picture as Drawn by Himself. In his speech at the St. Cloud Hotel, in Memphis, accepting the nomination for the Vice Presidency, Andrew Johnson thus urged the necessity of a rigid fran chise law in Tennessee: "I say that the traitor has ceased to be a citizen, and in joining the rebellion has become a public enemy. H< forfeited his right to vote with loyal men when he re nounced his citizenship and sought to de stroy our Government. We say to the most honest and industrious foreigner who comes from England and Germany to dwell among us and to add to the wealth ot the country, 'Before you can he a citi zen you must stay here for five years.' If we are so cautious about foreigners, who voluntarily renounce their homes to live with us, what say to the traitor who, although born and reared among us, has raised' a parieidal* hand against the government which alwavs protected him? My judgment is that he should f>e subjected to a severe ordeal before he is restored to citizenship." And yet this man in a speech sometime ago, had the impudence to ask what prin ciples and promises lie had betrayed? fifesF' We suppose you know all about it, as you were in the —really we forget— what corps was it? The 300 or the disa bility ?— Lcwistown Gazette. "The $300." Now, what corps did you and your progeny serve in? Do tell!— Ifollulaysburg Standard. So far as the senior is concerned, being over age, we served in the Relief Corps, where we believe it is generally admitted we did our duty, having like most pri vates received a good deal of abuse and little pay. Our eldest son, who is in the ministry, shouldered a musket during Lee's invasion, was for some time under rebel surveillance, and in a good deal more danger of life than some folks who enter ed the army. Our junior, in addition to local service, volunteered during Lee's in vasion and was at Gettysburg until regu larly discharged. He again enlisted, and was twice rejected, much against his wish es, under the military regulations, when he returned home. Another member of our family, a nephew and a minor, was in the nine months service, where he con tracted a disease which no doubt caused the loss of one of his lungs. Nos3(Xt was or would have been paid by our progeny. Rules for Pension Claims. Claimants for an increase of pension under the law granting to widows two dollars per month additional for each child under sixteen years of age", will be required to prove the dates of birth of such children in the manner required in the case of an application on behalf of mi nor children, as prescribed in previous forms and instructions. This explana tion is now published by authority of the Commissioner of Pensions, lest the in structions under the act of July 2oth, 186K, should be misconstrued on account of the omission of this requirement from said instructions. ffl*suThe New York Evening Post, in its admiration for Johnson, lately suggest ed the formation of a second party. Here is the answer it got from a subscriber: " It is absurd for you to urge that a sec ond party, a Republican party should be organized in the Southern States. Noth ing of the kind would be tolerated, and it would only make mischief to attempt it. If a man should attempt to make a Re publican speech in the town near my plantation, he would l>e shot down at once." An Alabama paper speaks of General Sheridan as a " blue bellied Yankee Irish man, a vulgar ditcher, whose high rank was not the reward of merit but the re sult of fortuitous circumstances." Then it goes oil' as follows : "This is really too bad. We have henceforth to aeknowledge these Yankee hybrids as countrymen, and it would lie gratifying to Southern gentlemen to know that some of them had just claims to de cency and respect. But one by one the leaders of the Northern army show them selves to be only blackguards and brag garts, and now one of the small fry, a short tailed slimy tadpole of the latter spawn, the blathering disgrace of an hon est father, an everlasting libel on his Irish blood, the scorn of brave men and the syn onym of infamy, Major-General Phil. H. Sheridan, has added his name to this list of- outrages upon humanity by the issue of General Order No. 14, Military Divis ion of the Gulf." The Indiana Democrat received at this office is about half black. Is it turn ing abolitionist? \Y. Kay, who died near Newbern, left Iris property to two former slaves. Three English ladies recently tum bled over a precipice in Switzerland and were killed. feljf-The Philadelphia Loyal Conven tion met on Monday last. The attend ance is large. EffY, The creditors of Culver, Penn A Co. and H. Culver have compromised their affairs. The assets are represented as exceeding the Pabilities. The Fenians arc once more putting the Canadians to trouble, and we may ex pect every day to hear of war and rumors of war in the direction of the Provinces. gfctr" \ gentleman who lately arrived from thesotith, and who had lost the hang of politics during the past year, was rather staggered to find every secessionist a John son man! ££&. Gen. James Nutria, of Schuylkill county, who served with distinction in the Mexican war and also in the war against the rebellion, died at his residence in Pottsville on August 22d, of lieart tH sease. Augusta (Ga.) Constitutional ist speaks of the Stars and .Stripes as a " fiag all over befouled with wrong, and a black guard despotism that daily affronts God by the villainies it does his poor and persecuied people." Colonel Seville, late of the Confed erate army, last week received an appoint ment as a Captain in the regular army. He was formerly a notorious lire-eating secessionist. Verily we are progressing under Johnson, the loj/cd! HFSS. The shifts to which men resort while groping in the dark, is well exem plified by a neighboring Johnson paper asserting that the President has no pow er to punish traitors! How did he try Mrs. Surratt ar ty at Delmonico's, New York, was the most elegant and expensive affair of the kind ever enjoyed by so large a party in this country. Dinner for two hundred and fifty was ordered, and the cost was $25,000, or one hundred dollars for each plate. There were eight different kinds of wine, costing from ten to twenty dol lars per bottle. Ibis was a Ji'/uocrufjr dinner, and is therefore we suppose all right in a city where the Democrat latelv complained that soldiers were starving. * In addition to the mutilation of Gen. Sheridan's dispatch published by Johnson's administration, which entirely changed its meaning as to the New Or leans murders, it Ints been discovered that another entire dispatch was omitted from the published official correspondence. The mutilated dispatch was in Johnson's hands, and the infamy of the dirty act rests between him and the New York Times, edited by that Raymond who fig ured so conspicuously at the Philadelphia Convention. The Democrat is hard run forsoine thing to say when it alleges that Gen. Couch has " left the disunion Forney par ty,".as Couch was run ;is the cop candi date in Massachusetts a year ago. Who ever noted his military doings in this State during the war, has no need to ask what his politics were. Another cop pa per also alleges that somebody left the Columbia Spy on account of a disagree ment in polities. As the Spy is a neutral paper, this gammon may be easily estima ted at its true worth. A MYSTERY IN MOBILE.— An unknown man was found dead in a room in a house near Mobile, Alabama, on the 13th ult.— He had retired, and remained in his room so long that his landlady became alarmed and sent for the police, who beat the door open. They found his headless body lv ing on his bed, the blood freely flowing from it. At first it was thought he had been murdered, but a letter was found written apparently by him, which ran thus: " I have put an end to my own life —I was tired of existence in this ungrate ful land and I left it at mv own will.— There is money in my drawer sufficient to pa\ my funeral expenses. As to my name try not to discover it. To prevent identification, I have hidden my own head where you will never find it." The matter remains a mystery. EoT" A few men met in New Orleans under a call sanctioned by the Governor' ! to discuss public matters/and nearly four hundred persons arc killed and wounded by the police and rowdies under preu nce that twenty-six men .so as-.,, rs of Snake Swallowing, who lately gave an Exhibition of their Skill in the famous temple of jugglery, in Philadelphia known as the Wigwam—at which tim> and place a few hundred thousand lj V (. copperheads if is said were swallowed j„ the incredible short space of two d.-r.-s has concluded to start business 011 Us own hook in this place, and hereby an nounces to the public that he is at "ill time- ready to swallow any tiling in the shape of Snakes, whether preserver! in tin* extract of corn or whether in their natural state. Venomous copperheads, preferred. He will practice this business hut for a limited season, as it is impera tively necessary that he should leave this for a watering place somewhere near the tributaries of .Salt River on the evening o*' the9th proximo. Pupils from Ji.n.ata and Mifflin county will be instructed in tlie art. Those who have heretofore in dulged in the innocent practice of carrying snakes in their hat have been found to be the most apt scholars. Ali such -<> re- M nested to m ike early application to "the Secretary''of the Lewistown Brum hof the great American Snake Swa I lowers Association, Mr. Doo-Littlo, president BILL J ILL IS. Lewistown, Sept. 4, 1866. J ETTERS remaining unclaimed in the ! < Pot Offlce at Lewistown, Pa., on the -hh of September, 1860. Alexander Jas P McKee Mrs Nancy Bea! <'< W McCormick Thomas Beck dor Joseph Petennan Mary Everhart Mr.- Mary Roads Mr* Sarah Eppley J A It— Miss Marv Gordman Miss Liz Roths Jas Harris W H Scholl H A Kingerlee Joseph Seele Job? MetMintic It \V 2 Solifelt Kate McGok Mary Yearich Maggie sepo. E. C. HAMILTON, P.M. VEW PHYSIOGNOMY. or sSiens ...f Uhar:i •C-V'M - manifested throu-h Temperament and External 1-cnns and especially in the "human face divine"— one elegant volume, with nearlv l • rwi llln-tnitions Rj S R. Wells. "EditorVhr. - ~j oa j Journal. Price, post paid. $5. Addres- K. v"r A \\- :u. ,\o. js. Broadway. N'.-w rerk • New Physiognomy"' is eminently praeivtii fully i'iiistrate.l. and well suited to tiie want.-' ofall. Iu the sf'itfv oi "tn** f.icH the reader soon lenrti-4 fn read each and CV.TV feature. Noses are cU,siiU,i ,he Roman, (.reek. Jewish. Snub and Celestia The eye* spcalrall language*. whether Ma-k. I.b>. I .-own 01 hazel, in alike manner.eheeks.neck. ear-, hands fret. walk, voice, laugh, etc., nre shown to b- -i/.n. of ® In no other tvnrk much ?i;h! ?t • the <•ht.rt.cmr and destiny of tnttnkiiid n- m the distinctive fr .Its nat ons an ,j tribes V,, ciwa.p..lnt el ..ill, Portraits of distiinguished persons ofancient and modern times, with hiogrjtphieal slo •"lie-and delineation • ( ehnra<-ter. are given, Orators Statesmen. Harriot*. Artists, J'oets Philosophers. Invar tore. Sitrpwns, D'swcrerg, Actors. Musicians, etc.. are inciiiied. It wan "En<\ nlopjecJia" of hio&rapliv.ac quainting t hf* reader uirh t!- and cliaraeterof iruiny mm :n'l ;r*iuvri ••! pa• to work. IHustr;.- -d Circulars free. Agents named. 1 iSeral disoiint allowed No consignments made. t ddress EMPIRE s. M. co_ .16 Broad war, New rk " sepo'btj-ly LEWISTOWN ACADEMY. riIHIS INSTITUTION will be opened L September 17th, and it is the desire of the Principal to render it worthy of the 3 patronage of the community. Male pupils prepared for entrance into college. I'nr ticultir attention paid to B O C> K - K E E P I X Cr by double entry. A record of attendance, recitations and deportment will be kept I daily, and furnished to the parent or guar dian as often as thev may desire. Price I of tuition as usual in institutions of this el t J. H. NO ERSE, aula Princ'l Male and Ucma! • Dept. 1 Farm for Sale, ONE-HALF mile cast of Lewistown known as the Banks place. It con tains 130 ACRES, and will he sold together or divided to suit purchasers. For further particulars, call on or address the subscriber, residing I on the farm. aul'>-3t BUTTON MADDEN. A 3NT T X>, A Small Tract of Lard, EROM 5 to lb acres, with or without 1 improvements—though the latter pre ferred—on the Juniata river, not more than six miles from Lewistown. State .* price per acre, cash, and address GEORGE P. MILLER, aug22-3t* Altoona. Claims for Bounty, Pensions, &c., T> ECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION .LA by the undersigned at his offlce op posite the Red Lion, Lewistown. aug22-3ni T. F. MeUOY. r JMIE well known and desirable J AMI* JL SON Ploww and Points for sale by aug22-4t. p. J. HOFFMAN DR. JCHIT J. DAHISIT, Practicing Physician, Belleville, .111(11 In County. Ma. I ill. DA HI,EN lias been appointed an Examining If Surgeon for Pensious. Soldiers requiring exam ination will lind hiin at his oflice in Belleville. Belleville, August 22, 186C.-y