<&0 (2s c&o 2£o IK£*ffß2lS!&3sffi&s> IFMMI£IaIIS2£Sk Whole No. 2901. Poor House Business. The Directors of the Poor meet at the Poor House on the 2d Tuesday of each foonth^ £2O. • ELDEJtj Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown will at-i tend to business in Mifflin.Centre and Hunting don counties mv 26 E. J. CrULBEStTSOIf, Attorney at Law, LEWISTOWN, PA., OFFERS his prufesswnalserYicestothenhiensof DSL JOHN J. DAELEU, Practicing Physician, Belleville, Mifflin County, Pa. > T) U I,AH n requiring oxanrf fauftind ffi - hjjofflc ia BellevUle . Belleville, August 22, IBW. y DEN T I ATBY. J. SMITH |\ and a i redto do B u kind ol work MainHtxeet) tha •]P • •_ must sclentdie man th?n' Whole'set". Partial Sets, or Single Teeth in-- of teeth iu the most approved manner. nov7-wn Teeth Extracted Without Pain! By M. E. Thompson, D. D. S.,> By RT NEW PROCESS, .aIA Without the use of Chloro form. Etner, or Nitrous O xide, and is aUended by no danger or bad effects. w l ;'. 41 office went Market street, t .j-jr near Eiscnbi&c'f hotel* LEWISTOWN, where he ean be found for professional from the first Monday of each month "nbUhe fourth | Monday, when he will be absent on professional bus, ness one week. seplU-U ©SSKSO ©O hpbiI,U®IEIWBJB DENTIST, OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Lewistown and vicinity. All in want of good, neat work will do well to give him ft call. He may be found at all times at his office, three doors east of 11. M. A B. Pratt's store. \alley street. apl9-ly* DENTAL CARD. l=t_ IVI- KEEVER, SURGEON DENTIST. TEETH Extracted WITHOUT PUN ICSS 3 * h the uat , ol NITROUS OXIDL or Laughing Gas. Teeth inserted on • 1 t he different styles of I>ases. Teeth filled in the most approved manner. Special atten tin g'iven to gunii*. All work warranted. Terms reasonable. _ „ . , Office at Episcopal Parsonage, Corner of Main and Water Streets. J* 18 NEW STOCK. it- The subscriber has just received and will KB] keep on hand a select stock of Men's, Boys' fm} ami Youth's Boots, Ladies'. Misses and Ohtl- Boots and Shoes of various kinds and styles, to which he would invite the attention of his friends and the public generally. As it is his intention NOT TO BE UNDERSOLD by any dealer in the county, those in need of winter Loot.< or tdioes are invited to call and examine the above stock, which will be sold at very small profits, but for cash only, at the sign of the BIG SHOE, next door to F. J. Huffman's store. „ scpl9 JOHN CLARKE. To Purchasers of Furniture. R. H. McCLINTIC, AT HIS FURNITURE WAREROOMS, West Market St., Lewiitown, HAS complete CHAMBER SUITS of Walnut, Var nished and in Oil. Also, COTTAGE & PARLOR SUITS, together with a large assortment of Fashionable and Plain Furniture. CHAIRS, MATTRESSES, &c. Call and see his stoek before purchasing elsewhere. N. U. Meialic and Wood Burial Cases constantly on hand. Coffins also made to order, and Funerals attended with a fine Hearse, at short notice. Lewistown, June 27, 1R66-6mos MRS. M. E. STEWART, FAITCrY STCB.E, MR West Market st„ Lewistown, LA LIES A GENTLEMEN'S uURNISHING GOODS, Sa. ks, Cloaks, Hats, Bonnets, Ladies Fine DRESS GOODS and Trimmings. Patterns of latest styles always on hand. Millinery and Dress-Making executed in the most approved style. Lewistown, April 18,186etter. are lighter, more elastic, more durable, and ically Cheaper, than any other Hoop Skirt in the market. The springs and fastenings are warranted perfeei. F.VKRY LADT should TRY THRU' — They art- now bring extensively sold by Merchants, throughout the Country, and at'B'AoAwue bums have the reputation ol being superior in beau > ty and durability to any others. Card Photographs of Generals, Statesmen, Actors, etc., etc. Our catalogue embraces'over FIVE THOUSAND - different subjects, including reproductions of the most celebrated Engravings, Paintings, Statues, Ac. ' Catalogues sent on receipt of stamp. Photographers and others ordering goods C. O. D., will please remit 26 per cent of the amount with their order. aS-The prices and quality of our goods can- not fail to satisfy. jel3 ly WILLIAM LIND, has now open A NEW STOCK OF Cloths, Cassimeres AND YEBTINGB, , which will be made up to order in the neat est and most fashionable styles. ap!9 WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1866 :P o E T ir, "ST . THEY ARE GOING ONE BY ONE. BY I. AUGUSTUS JONES. They are Roiue one by one, The friends I fondljr love; They are going to their home In a brighter world above. There is sorrow in my heart, And the tear-drops'dini my eyes, As I watch them nil depart To their home beyond the skies. They are going one by one, The young, the fair the brave, Their work on earth is done— Their rest is iu the grave. We see the vacant chair— We hear their voice no more— We miss their love and care, And their early loss deplore. They are going one by one. The father and the mother, The wife, the child, companion, friend, The sister and the brother. But we shall meet again When life's ties are riven; Nor Borrow, sickness, death or pain. Can mar our joy in Heaven. ANORY WORDS. Angry words 1 O let them never From the tongue unbridled slip; May the heart's best impulse ever Check them, e're they soil the lip. Love is much too pure and holy; Friendship is too sacred far. For a moment's reckless folly Thus to desolate and mar. Angry words are lightly spoken; Bitterest thoughts are rashly stirred; Brightest links of life are broken By a single angry word. -A- GOOD STORY. THE SILEIT DEACOM'B OPIN IO*. When the next summer comes, with its heat, and dust, and languor, and the tired spirit, fainting by the way, cries out for the wings of a dove, go up to W , among the hills made sacred to Natare, where the hurry and anxi ety of commerce are unknown, and the silent Sundays are never broken by the whizzing of machinery, or defiled by its smoke and steam. You will see no Newport belles, no Belmont equip ages, nor will you be bidden to any ' hops' —they don't ' hop' there —but you will be taken into a holy, calm rest, such as the pilgrim found in the chamber which was called ' Peace.' It you have toiled hard enough to de serve rest, you will find it in W ; if not, you will seek it anywhere in vain. It is the most silent place in the world; and were it not for the farmer turning his furrows, or casting his seed, you might imagine yourself ul ready where 'Sabbaths never end.'— Perhaps it is only because Nature reigns with such calm dignity, and echoes back every sound so lovingly, that W seems silent in compari son with other places. Entering the neat, capacious church, fatherly and motherly faces meet your eye on every hand, and you will soon forget that you are a stranger. Yonder, in the square pow sits Dea con Lee; you would know ho was a deacon if he had not told you. Some men are born deacons—what a pity that some should entor the holy office who are not! Deacon Lee was not a native of VV , but wont there to till a farm left him by an aged relative some twenty years ago—-about the time Deacon Bell died, leaving a sad void in the church and the parsouage—for he was a pillar in Zion, and a strong arm to his pastor. After seeking long to fill his place, the mind of the church united on the new-comer, who, by his solemnity, piety, and zeal, seemed cre ated for the place. He was a man of few words, rarely ever talking; BO that the boys called him at first 'a grum old man.' But they soon changed their opinion; for he set apart a tree of summer sweetings and one of hell-pears for their express benefit, as they went to and from school, and surprised them by a fine swing, which lie had hung for them in his walnut grove So the verdict of that and each succeeding generation of boys was, that although the deacon never talked, he was a kind and genial man, and a lover of children. Every boy, for twenty years hack, had been his shepherd, his watchman, or his assistant farmer; feoling it a high honor to hitch his horse on Sunday, or to drive his manure cart on Monday; and all because they saw, through the thick veil of reserve, the love that burned and glowed in his heart. Deacon Lee's minister trusted in him and the church felt her temporal affairs safe in his hands, and the world honored his stern consistency. There was a serpent in Eden, and a Judas in that thrice-blessed band who walked and talkod with our Redeemer on earth, and who saw his glory ming led with his humanity; why, then, need we wonder that one man. subtile and treacherous, hid himself in the calm verdure of W crawling out ready to spring upon them with his poisoned fangs? Upright, faithful, and oarnest as were the people, they were not proof against flattery and decep tion. There camo among them one quite unused to their unostentatious way of serving God, and ambitious, as he said, 'of seeing them make some stir in the world ' Wo know from God's Word that 'one sinner destroy oth much good,' and yet wo are often annoyed at the wide" results of ono man's evil work in the church. One may sow tares which a hundred can not pluck out; and therefore doos it become God's children to stay the en omy in his efforts. He who aimed at the life of the Gos pel Church in W was 'dead, while he had a name to live.' lie scorned many of the humble ones whose crown is waiting them on high. He hated the humbling doctrines of the Cross, and desired to see man glorified and exalted; he rebelled against tho ' iron bare' which he choso to call tho bond of love which separate God's chosen and obedient ones from tho world that lieth in wickedness. Ho declared that tho millcnium could never dawn till all Christians were as one—by which ho meant that, for the sake of union, right must yield to wrong—as if he were of the number who loved and longed for the appearing of Christ! — He began stealthily to sow his poison ous seeds among tho j'ounger and weaker of the flock, and when he saw the first token of their taking root, he grow bold, and began to cast them in on the strong high hills. But here he found resistance; the soil which had borne such rich harvests of graco re pelled his seed from its bosom; and be came to tbe mad resolve to assail the deacon, and try how he would receive it. If he, with his piety, zeal and in : opened his bosom to it, the end was easily attainod. The minister was not worthy consideration in the mat ter —ministers are so readily put out of tho way if thoy do not yield to un godliness. If he proved a dead senti nel, he would not molest him; if alive and jealous of his Master's honor, one bullet would settle him for ever. In pursuance of his ' liberal views' and his deep-laid plan, our valiant re former rode up and fastened his horse before the unpretending dwelling of Deacon Leo. Ushered into the neat ' keeping room' to await his coming from the harvest-field, his restless spirit was almost awed by the silence which reigned there The tall clock in the corner, with its ever sailing ship, tick ed painfully loud; and even the buz zing of the few flies on the panes an noyed him. He suffered much the same oppression as do those who wait long in a silent, darkened room the coming of a minister to a funeral. He wished for, and then dreaded the good man, being not quitefwure of a warm reception. He had just decided on a clandestine flight, when the door open ed and the deacon entered, as calm and neat as if toil had never ruffled his spirits or soiled his garments. After the usual greetings, and a dead, awful pause, tho visitor began —think of the wiles of Satan !—by lamenting the lovv state of religion, asking tho good man why his church had enjoyed no rovi val for three or four years! What cared he for God's set time to visit Zion ? Ho was far more deeply into rested in the opening of a new stage road to the Summit, and in gotting up stock in the projected hotel there. ' Now what do you think is the cause of things being dull here? Do you know?' he persisted in askiug. Tho deacon was not ready to give his opinion, and. after a little thought, frankly answered, ' No, I don't.' ' Do you think the church is alive to tho work before them?' 'No, I don't.' ' Do you think the minister fully re alizes the solemnity of his work ?' ' No, I don't.' A twinkle was seen in the eye of this troubler in Zion, and, taking cour age, he asked. 4 Do you think Mr. B. a very extraor dinary man ?' ' No, I don't.' ' Do you think his sermon on ' Their eyes were holden,' anything wonder fully great?' 'No, I don't.' Making bold, after all this encour agement in monosyllables, he asked, ' Then don't you think we had better dismiss this man and 'hire' another?' The old deacon started as if shot with an arrow, and, in a toue far loud er than bis wont, shouted,'No, I don't.' ' Why,' cried the amazed visitor, 'you agree with me in all I have said, don't you ?' ' No, I don't.' 'You talk so little, sir,' replied tbe guest, not a little abashed, ' that no one can find out what you do mean.' ' I talked enough once,' replied the old man, rising to his feet, 'for six praying Christians; but thirty years ago, I got my heart humbled and my tongue bridled, and ever since that IVe walked soflly before God. I then made vows solemn as eternity; and don't you tempt me to break them !' The troubler was startled at the earnestness of the hitherto silent, im movable man, and asked, ' What hap pened to you thirty years ago ?' 'Well, sir, I'll tell you. I was drawn SEGHFiM® ©(OiUBIFJs JHBSJSJo into a scheme just like this of yours, to uproot one of God's servants from the field in which He had planted him. In my blindness I fancied it as a little thing to remove one of the 'stars' which Jesus holds in his right hand, if thereby my ear could he tickled by more flowery words, and the pews filled by those who turned away from the simplicity of the Gospel. I and the men that led rao—for I admit that I was a dupe and a tool —flattered our selves that we were conscientious. We thought we wero doing God service when we drove that holy man fron. uis pulpit, and his work, and said wo considered his labor ended in B , where I then lived. We groaned be-" cause there was no revival, while wo' were gossipping about and criticising, and crushing instead of upholding by our efforts and our praj - ere, the instru ment at whose hand we harshly de manded the blessing. Well, sir, lie could not drag on the chariot of salva tion with half a dozen of us taunting j him for his weakness, while we hung on as a dead weight to the wheels; l.e had not the power of the Spirit, and could not couvert men; so wc hunted him like a deer, till, torn and bleeding, he fled into a covert to die. Scarcely had ho gone, when God came among us by Xlis Spirit to show that he had blessed the labors of his dear, rejected servant. Our own hearts were broken and our wayward children converted, and I resolved at a convenient season to visit my former pastor and confess my sin, and thank him for his faithful ness to my wayward sons, which, like long-buried seed, had now sprung But God denied me that relief, that He might teach me a lesson every child of his ought to learn, that ho who toucheth ono of His servants, touchcth the apple of His eye 1 heard my old pastor was ill, and taking my oldest son with me, set out on a twen ty-five mile's rido to sec him. It was evening when 1 arrived, and his wife, with the spirit which any true woman ought to exhibit towards me who so wronged her husband denied mo admit tance to his chamber. She said, and her words were as arrows to my soul : 'He may bo dying, and the sight of your face might add to his anguish!' 'Had it come to this,' 1 said to my self, 'that the man whose labors had, through Christ, brought me into llis fold, whose hand had buried me in baptism, who hud consoled my spirit in a terrible bereavement, and .vho bad, till designing men bad alienau d us, been to me as a brother -that this man could not die in peace with my face before him. God pity me !' I cried, 'what have I done !' I confessed my sin to that meek wo man, and implored her for Christ's sake to let mo kneel before His dying servant, and receive his forgiveness. What did I euro then whether the pews by the door wero rented or not? I would gladly have taken this whole family to my home forever as my own flesh and blood, but no such happiness was before mo. 'As I entered the room of the blessed warrior, whose armor was just fulling from his limbs, he opened his languid oyes and said, 'Brother Lee ! brother Lee!' I bent over him and sobbed out, 'My pastor, my pastor!' Then rais ing his wiiite hand, he said in a deep, impressing voice, 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm !' I spoke tendorly to him, told him I had come to confess my sin, and bring some of his fruit to him, calling my son to tell him how he found Christ. But he was unconscious of all around; the sight of my face had brought the last pang of earth to his spirit. I kissed his brow, and told him how dear he had been to me; I craved his pardon for my unfaithfulness, and promised to care for his widow and fatherless little ones; but bis only reply, murmured as if in a troubled dream, was, 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.' I staid by him all night, and at day break I closed his eyes I offered his widow a house to live in the remainder of her days; but like a heroine she said: ''l freely forgive you. But my chil dren, who enter deeply into father's anguish, shall never see me so regard less of his memory as to take anything from those who caused it. He has left us all with his covenant, God, and He will care for us.' 'Well, sir, those dying words sound ed in my ears from that coffin and from that grave. When I slept, Christ stood before me in ray dreams, saying : 'Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.' These words followed me till I rea lized fully the esteem in which Christ I holds those men who have given up all for his sake, and I vowed to love them evermore for His sake, even if they I are not perfect. And since that day, sir, I have talked less than before, and Yol. LYII. No. I- havo supported irty pastor, even if he is not UII 'extraordinary man.' My tongue shall cleave to the roof of my mouth, and my right hand forget her cunning, before I dare to put asunder what God has joined together. When a minister's work is done in a Elace, L believe (rod will show it""4o im. 1 will not join you, Ml*, in the scheme that brought you hero; and moreovor, if I hear another word of this from your lips, I shall ask my brethren to deal with you as them who cause divisions. I would give all I own to recall what 1 did thirty years ago. SCbp where you are, and pray God, if perchance the thought of your liwfrrt-SlliyJb© forgiven you.' This decided reply pSLjil! eed to tho newcomer's efforts to get a iW. :^iSi2 r who could make more stir, and left him free to lay out roads and budd ho tols. There is often great power in the little word 'no,' but sometimes it re quires not a little courage to speak it as resolutely as did the silent deacon. List of Cairn for Trial, at January T, 1867. No. T. Year 1 W. J. McCoy for use vs W. Wakefield's adm'r. 65 Jan. 1860 2 W. J. McCoy for use vs G. H. Calbraith, 79 Aug " 3 Johnston Bros. & Co. vs F. It. Sterrett et al. 49 Nov 44 4 Bogles ex's vs J. M. Sellers. 88 Aug 1863 5 J. Stoneroad's ad. for use vs G. H. Calbraith. 13 Ap'l 1864 6 Wheeler & West vs J. Winn 67 Aug " 7 BenedietvsM.AC.co.lt. R. 63 Ap'l 1865 8 J. EtnigvsS. B. Hainesetal 23 Aug " 9 G.Bheesley vs Jacob Stine 23 Nov " 10 A. Reed coin. Ac. vs Abner Thompson et al. 45 4 4 44 11 Bogle's exsvsM 'Coy etal 47 " 44 . 12 A. Craft vs Burgess a Town (Vumcil of Lewistown, 31 Jan 1866. 13 W. F. Fleming vs P. It. It. 32 " " 14 Butler's ad'r vs Benedict 32 Ap'l " 15 W. H. Weber vs P. R. R. 69 44 " 16 J. W. Miller vs J. Ross 73 " " 17 G. Blymyer vs J. Ruble 136 " " 18 P. Kelly A Co. Endorsees vs J. Burns, Endorser 109 Aug 44 19 11. Snowden vs J. T. Lane 126 " 44 20 J. A. Cumingham'sadm's vs Roe well 1). Smith 131 " 44 21 E. E. Locke, Jr. vs R. Gallaher et al. 2 Nov 44 22 H. M. M'Kee vs P. R. R. 4 Jan 1867 W. H. BRATTON, Proth'y. Prothy's Office, Dec. 12, 1866. SHERIFF'S SAFES.— By virtue of sundry writs issued out of the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflpi county and to me directed, will be exposed to. sale, by public vendue or outcry, at the Court House, in the borough of Lewistown, on N. 4 - t <. DAY, January fttli, 1867. A u.i of ground in Lewistown, on the south sine of Kishacoquillas creek, bound ed on the south-west by Wayne street and extending along same lifty-four feet, more or less, on the north-west by an alley, run ning along the creek 72 feet, more or less, on the north-east by lot formerly owned by John A. Sterett, and on the south east by lot of Wm. R. Graham and Sam uel Morrison, with a slaughter-house,