©3 & ©0 So SP^&IK&ISISIBBs Whole No. 2914. Poor House Business. The Directors of the Poor meet at the Poor House on the 2d Tuesday of caeh month. BSSbdxot & GC., BANKERS, LEW ISTONVN, PA., Collections and remittances promptly made. Interest allowed on time deposits. jau23-ly. GEO. W. ELDER, Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at. tend to business in Mlßlin. Centre and Hunting don counties ua\26 H. J. CTJ EERISCrr, Attorney at Law, LEWISTOWN. PA., OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Mililin county. Office with D. W. Woods, esq., Main street, below National Hotel. iny2 LYCOMIXC COUNTY Mutual Insurance Company. Capital, $2 ~100,000. THIS Company continues to issue P -licies of Insur ance on Buildings and Personal Property, in Town or Country, at cash or mutual rates. JAMES KAA'KI-V, President. JOSHUA BOWMAN, Secretary. JOHN HAMILTON, Agent. janl6'67 Lewistown. Pa. DR. JO HIT J. DAHLBW, Practicing Physician, Belleville, Mifflin County, Pa. DR. DAHLKN has been appointed an Examining Surgeon for Pensions. Soldiers requiring exam ination will find him at his otlice in Belleville. Belleville, August 22,1866.-y D E NTISTBY . J. SMITH KESPECT FULLY inform the citizens of Lewistown and vicinity, a few doors from the Town Hall, in Main street) that he is prepared todo all kind of work in the line of bis profession in the most snentihr nian jier—in Whole Sets. Partial -Sets, ur Mngle I eeth in serted on Gold. Silver,or Vulcanite Base, in an elegant and workmanlike manner, and on the most reasona ble terms. He guarantees his work, or no P a > - Particular attention paid to the extracting and fining of teeth in the most approved manner. nov7-l>m Teeth Extracted. Without Pain! By M. R. Thompson, D. D. S , By a SEW PROCESS, > without the use of Chloro form, Ether, or Nitrous Ox i by no near Eisenbise's hotel, LEWISTOWN, where he can be found for professional consultation lrom the first Monday of each month until the fourth Monday, when he will be absent on professional busi ness one week. s. pl-j-tt^ DENTIST, OFFERS his professional services to the citizens of Lewistown and vicinity. Ail in want of good, neat work will do well to him a call. three He tnay be found at all tunes at doors east of H. M. s R. Pratt's store, \ alley street. apl9-ly DENTAL CARD 3r. CG->' r yC^CSi-ic> Wo (^hobh3SS) MFRCRANT TAILOR, has removed his shop to the ImildihK formerly known as the "green house, at the intersection of Valley and Mill street, adjoining ii M k R prtt' store, where he cordiall> inTite. all ti- w. iv. i ™ Goods and Trim- EX£?ui. , g hor lo ..ic,.d..r.„bl. prices. WILLIAM LIND, has now open A NEW STOCK OF Cloths, Cassimeres AND VESTI NCS, which will be made up to order in the neat est and most fashionable styles, apl J MNM XI A A THE NEW YOBK Mica ROOFING COMPANY, (established ! 1865) are manufacturing under Letters Patent the j Best Article of Composition Roofing ever Offered to i the Public. It is adapted to every style of Roof, steep i or flat, and can be readily applied by any one. The U. S. Government, after a thorough test of its utility, have adapted its use in the Navy Yards, and i upon Public Buildings. The Roofing is put up in rolls, and has only to bo j nailed to the Roof to make a Durable Fire and Water-Proof Covering. We particularly recommend its use upon Buildings, Stores, Churches, Faetorics. Machine Shoj s, Steamboat Decks, &e. MICA ROOFING PAINT, For coating TIN, IKON, or SHINGLE ROOFS. It forms a < Hody Equal to Three Coots of Ordinary Paint. Xo Roof can rust under it, and old leaky Roofs may be j made permanently water-proof and durable hy its use. j The Paint requires NO MIXING, but is ready to be up- ; plied with the ordinary paint brush. Prict. 81 per gal- I lon. which will cover two hundred square leet. Also manufacturers of Black Lustre Varnish, Tarred Felt and Roofing Pitch. Discount-to the Trade. Circulars and Price List fur nished. Rights for counties sold at low rates. Address TIIE MICA ROOFING COMPANY, 104 Broadway, N. Y. Frank Humphreys, 61 Royal st., N. O.; Schofield Williams k Co., Augusta, Ga.; Baldwin H. Woods Montgomery. Ala.; i hos. S. Coates. Raleigh, N. C.; F. A. Tucker. Richmond, Va.; Henry Wilson, Petersburg, Va., Agents. jan23 TEAS! Teas for the People. -Yo more Enormous Profits for Consumers to Pay. Fifty Cents to One Dollar per Pound Sav ed by Buying your Teas direct from the Importers. T. T. KELLEY & CO., Importers of Teas. In connection with tlirir large wholesale business, have determined to introduce their Teas directly to consumers at importers' prices, thus effecting a saving to the consumer o! 40 to 60 per cent. Families can now club together tor any kind or qualities of Teas, in packages ol one pound and upwards, and we will send them a superior article of Tea at 5 per cent, above the cost of importation. 1-et some energetic lady or other person in each neighborhood call upon her acquaintances and take their orders for any of the folio ing named Teas, and when a cluh of ten. twenty, or more is obtained, send to lis and we will send the Teas put up in separate packages, with the name of each person marked on It. all enclosed in one box. As a plimhkr tNnucEMEjrr to the person getting up the club we will send for his or her services, an extra complimentary package on all or ders of S3O and upward. )t is perhaps not well understood wht we can sell teas so very low ; but when it Is taken into consideration that besides the original cost of impor tation, the Broker, Speculator, Jobber, Wholesale Dealer ami Retailer, lias each to reap a large proilt ami the innu merable Cartages, Cooperages, Insurances. Storages. Ac., which teas have to pass through before they reach the consumer, will readily explain this. We propose to do awav with seven-eights of these proiits arid expenses,and it now remains with ihe PEOPLE to say whether they shall save 50 cents to SI.OO per pound on every pound of Tea they purchase, or he compelled to give their earnings to a host of useless go-betweens. I'xoLAits and Small Dkmjcrs wishing Teas to sell again, can be accommodated with small packages to suit their trade, but no reduction can be made, as these are our wholesale prices. PRICE I. IST Oolong, (Black) 70, SO. 90, SI.OO, $1 10. best $1 25. per pound. English Breakfast. (Black SO. 90. $1 00. best $| 25, per lb. Young Hyson. (Green) 85, 95, SI,OO, extra $1.25, superior $1 50, per pound. Mixed, [Green and Black] 70. 80, SO, best SI.OO, per pound, imperial, [Green] $1.30, best per pound. Japan, $1 sl.lO, $1 25. best per pound. Gunpowder. (Green) $1.30, best $1 60 per pound. COFFEE DEPARTMENT. We have lately added a Coffee Department to our estab lishment, and although we cannot promise the consumer as great a saving as we can on Teas.(the margin lor profit on Coffees being very small,) yet we can sell Coffees fully 25 per cent, cheaper than retailers charge. Our Coffees come direct from the Custom House and we roast and grind them perfectly pure, put up in I or more pound packages, at an advance of 2 cents per pound. Our Wholesale Price—Ground Coffees—Pure Itio, 25, 30 cents per pound. Best Old Government Java, 40 cts. Best Cevlon, 40 cts. SENDING MONEY.—Parties sending orders for less than S3O for Teas or Coffees should send with their order a P. O. Draft or the money, to save the expense of collecting by Express. But large orders we will forward by Express and collect on delivery. We shall he happy at all times to receive a call at our Warehouse front persons visiting the city, whether deal ers or not. T. Y. KELLEY k CO., Late Kellev k Yought. Jan 23 3m 56 VESEY STREET. NEW YORK. I) re iv' s I-* a tent FOR CUTTING- BOOTS TO'JIDJPI OR SIDE SEAMS. THE greatest improvement of the age. in this line of trade. Ist. It does away with the wrinkles on the instep, also, with the welted side seam which has injured so many feet and ankles. 2d. It makes the easiest sitting and best fitting hoot ever worn. This hoot is now inanaftictnred by P. I*. Loop, who holds the right of use for the county, and is prepared to fumi-ii all who wish to wear this boot. A liberal dis count to dealers who wish to deal in these boots. Or ders filled at short notice. Prices greatly reduced on all goods at P. F. Loop's Shoe Store. feb6 20,000 MAJORITY! To the Voters of Central Penna ELECTION is over and it has been decided by about 20,000 majority that the Tobacco and C igars sold at Frysinger's Tobacco and Segar Store cannot be surpassed, either in Quality or Price. Look at the Prices, get some of the goods, and com pare with all others, and you will be satisfied that you get the worth of your money at Frysinger s. try singer's Spun Roll only i 1.00 per pound. Frysinger's Navy Frysinger's Congress " " Frysinger's Flounder " " J Wi'llett Navy Oronoko Twist " ' ~ And other Plug Tobacco at 40 and 0 cts. per lb. Cut and Dry, 40 nd 50 cts. Granulated Tobaccos at 60 cts.. tiO Cts , 80 cts.. SI.OO, $1220. and $1.50 per lb. Fine-Cut chewing, at $1 40 and $1.20. Cigars at 1, 2. 3. 5 and 10 cts. each, Pip-s in great variety; also Cigar Cases, Tobacco Pouches and Boxes, Match Safes, and all articles usually kept in a first-class Tobacco and Cigar Store. To Merchants. I offer the abovegoods at pneesthat will enable them to retail at the same prices that 1 doand fealize a fair profit. FRYSINGER. Why Shiver With Cold, When you can Buy Knit Undershirts and Drawers SO CHEAP jan3o At BIIISBIN'S. FARM of HO ACRES FOlt SALE, SITUATE in Wayne township, Mifflin county, on turnpike road, within \ of a mile of Atkinson's Mills, store, school blacksmith, &c., and within miles of Penna. It. It., about <0 acres cleared and the balance in excellent timber, prime oak, &c. This property will he sold very low and to suit purchaser. Persons wish ins; to examine the premises will eau on J. Glasgow, esq., or C. N. Atkinson, near premises, and for price and terms see or address A. J. ATK IN. O- , oct24tf Lewistown, Pa. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1867. BEAU TY. Auburn, Golden, Flaxen and Silken Curls. 1) RODUCED by the use of Prof. PEBREUX' FRI - SER EE CHEVEUX One application warranted to curl the most straight and stubborn hair of either sex into wavy ringlety or heavy massive curls. Has been used by the fashionables of Paris and London, with the most gratifying results. Does no injury to the tiair. Price oy mail, sealed and postpaid sl. De scriptive Circulars mailed free. Address BERGER, SHU rrs & CO., Chemists, No. 28: River St., Troy, >'. Y. Sole Agents for the United States. feb6-ly WHISKERS AND MUSTACH ES I T FORCED to grow upon the smoothest face in from three to five weeks bv using Dr. SEVIGNE'S RES TAURATEUR CAPILLAIRE. the most wonderful dis covery in modern science, acting upon the Beard and Hair in an almost miraculous manner. 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A few ignorant practitioners have as serted that there is nothing that will force or hasten the growth of the hair or beard Their assertions are false, as thousands of living witnesses(from their own experience) can bear witness. But many will say, how are we to distinguish the genuine from the spurious? It certainly is difficult, as nine-tenths of the different Preparations advertised for the hair and beard are en tirety worthless, and you may have already thrown away large amounts in their purchase. To such wo would say, try the Reparator Capilli; it will cost you nothing unless it fully comes up to our representations. If your druggist does not keep it, send us one dollar and we will forward it postpaid, together with a receipt lor the money, which will be returned you on applica tion providing entire saiisfaotion is not given. Address W.L.CLARK &. CO,Chemists, feb6-ly No. 3 West Fayette st., Syracuse, N. Y. There cometh glad tidings of joy to all. 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Write plainly the day of the monlhand year in which you were bom. enclosing a small lock of hair. Address MADAME H. A. PERRIGO, jebfi-ly P. O. DRAWER 293, BCFPALO, N. Y. RUSHES at Hoffman's. CEDAR-WARE at Hoffman's, CORDAGE at Hoffman's. SHOE FINDINGS at Hoffman's. SOLE LEATHER at Hoffman's. POCKET CUTLERY at Hoffman's. TABLE CUTLERY at Hoffman's. BUILDING HARDWARE at Hoffman's. O E T KL "Y . The ISurial of Mrs. Judson. Mourtifuily, tenderly, bear on the dead; Where the warrior hath lain* let the Christian belaid; No place more befitting. O rock of the sea, Never such treasure was hidden in thee! Never such treasure was hidden in thee! Mournfully, tenderly, solemn and slow! Tears are bedewing the path as ye go- Strangers and kindred are mourners to-day— Gently, so gently, O bear her away 1 Mournfully, tenderly, gaze on that brow— Beautiful is it iu quietude now; One look, and then settle the lov'd to her rest, The ocean beneath her, the turl to her breast. So have ye buried her;—up and depart. To life and to duty, with undismayed heart; Fear not, for the love of the stranger will keep The casket that lies in the rock ot the deep. •Mrs. J. was buried on the Isle of St. Helena, where Bonaparte died. IVE ISCELLANY. REMARKS OF IIOX. I.oris U. HALL, SPEAKER OF THE SENATE, In favor of a Free Railroad Law, and against the amendments made to the bill by the Railroad Com mittee of the Senate. Mr. HALL. Mr. Speaker, I did not intend, when I made a few remarks on this bill the other day, to oc cupy the attention of theSenateany further in regard to it. When repeated votes showed from eighteen to twenty in favor of it, and from eleven to sixteen against it, I supposed thatthe minds of Senators were made up. and that we would not be warranted in taking up time to the exclusion of other matters of legislation And I should not now, had it not been for the remarks ofinv friend,the Senator from Bradford [Mr. Landonj I do'not rise to reflect upon any railroad corporation —certainly not upon the Pennsylvania railroad. 1 have had quite as inueh to do with that corporatior as the Senator from Bradford, and am quite as fami) iar with the region of country traversed I>V that grea railroad. lam well aware that it has greatly enrichec Central Pennsylvania—that its value has been increas ed to ten times, yes twenty times, what it was befori that road was constructed. I have never lent mysell either directly or indirectly, to any effort that wa calculated to crush this railroad or impair its useful ncss I have never opposed or sought to thwart anj legislation calculated to strengthen and encourage it when such legislation tended to the public welfare.— But with all due deference to my brother Senators, must say that any one who knows the popular senti ment must know that the people of Pennsylvania are determined to have a free railroad law. But the peo ple do not want a railroad law so loaded down and clogged with restrictions that it will be impracticable even to construct a railroad under it. Let the Sena tor go to his constituents, and I think he will find that they, as well as my constituents, are in favor of a tree railroad law. But they do not desire such a law as will be practically inoperative and a nullity. I hold in my hand the inaugural of General Geary, and the las t message of Governor Curt in, in which they say the people demand a free railroad law. Such I found to be the unmistakable sentiment of the people of Brad ford county, where I addressed a portion of them last fall, aud 111 no part of the State did I find a more de termined and earnest feeling in favor of the move ment than in Northern Pennsylvania, where the peo ple gave their majorities by" thousands for General Geary. Believing, as 1 do, that such is the general sentiment, and that the wants of the people must be heeded by their chosen representatives, in view. too. of the speech just made by the Senator from Brad iord. 1 challenge the supporters of this so-called free railroad bill, who so imperatively demand its passage, without a single alteration, to discuss its merits. I opposed the free railroad bill which was introduced last winter by my distinguished friend, the Senator from Erie [Mr. LowryJ, and I gave satisfactory rea sons, the other day. for my opposition thereto. It is not necessary to repeat those reasons now. What I demand, in the name of the people, is a liberal rail road law; not one in name, simply, but in reality. Is it not deluding and cheating the people to call that a free railroad law which requires fifteen thousand dol lars of capital stock for every mile of road to be sub scribed and paid in before anything can be done? — Senators know that this clause will have the effect to embarrass railroad companies, and to retard and pre vent the development of the country by internal im provements ; in short, that no railroad would ever be built under such a law? At least I fear not, aud is it not better to strike out such provisions? You have also interpolated into this bill a most on erous condition in the shape of an individual liability clause, which is intended to intimidate persons and prevent them from taking stock. The Pennsylvania railroad, that opened up and developed Central Penn sylvania, and to which the State is indebted in such large measure for its wealth and prosperity, and which is admitted to be the greatest and best managed road in the United States, has a special charter. It con tains no individual liability clause, and why should such a provision be embraced in this bill? When it was proposed to pass a law similar to that of Ohio and New Y'ork, it was voted down, and no sufficient rea son has been or can be advanced to warrant such ac tion. And now when an amendment is offered to this bill, which would tend to promote and encourage the building of railroads, the arguments advanced against it by its opponents are equally futile and empty. And when it is proposed to add a section, in the New \ ork law. simply allowing corporations to connect their roads, and to embrace in this bill the provisions of a law voted for by the Senator from Bradford in 1861, we are told it is wrong to do this—but why ? Simply because nineteen Senators say the bill shall not be changed. A convincing reason. Let a law be passed allowing people to build rail- roads wherever they choose, provided they pay for them as they go, subject to reasonable restraints, and these are contained, as far as 1 think it necessary to go, in the provisions of the act of 1849. A liberal rail road law is not demanded by the people of Pittsburg alone, but by the people of the entire .State. A law so liberal that charters can be obtained, that capital will be invested anil railroads constructed under it with out the corporators being obliged to come tothe Leg islature. it is plain to me that a majority of the Sen ate differ with me in my views, My votes on the bill in committee of the whole as well as in the Senate, have uniformly been ior what I thought was the most liberal policy. We of the minority have briefly aud explicitly as possible stated the reason for our votes. We see and ktiow that one-third cannot vote down two-thirds. Aud when the bill, clothed in the precise language that it came from the Railroad Committee, not changed m letter, word or line, is about to pass, we are taunted that we have been able to give no good reason for our votes, and that our efforts to amend the bill, as it came irom the Railroad Committee, have only added increased strength to the majority and added a renewed determination on their part that the bill shall pass unamended aud unchanged, either in the sections voted on or in those which are to follow. The Senator from Bradford [Mr. Landonj desires that the issue shall be made, so that the people shall un derstand it. The Senator is clever as well as bold; and as he thus declares that the bill as reported by the Railroad Committee is perfect as it can be made, per mit me to point out what I think are striking defects in it. ... i Kirst. I think the amount of capital stock per mile required is too large, and that it may tend to discour age the construction of railways. I can see no reason why the amount should be larger than is now required in the generul law under which railroad comjianies are organized in Pennsylvania. If there is any good reason. 1 would be glad to hear it. Second. Whilst 1 think it is very possible there should be some individual liability clause, for the pro tection of laborers and mechanics, I apprehend the stringent wording of tho section might restrain the construction of railroads. I am aware that under the general railroad law of New Vork stockholders are liable to the amount of their stock not paid in, and also for the wages of labor, for a period not exceed ing thirty days. This provision of tho New i ork law was offered as an amendment to the section as it now stands in the bill, by the Senator from Indiana [Mr. White.] And although I voted lor it, it was voted down bv a decided majority, the Senator (rom Brad ford [Mr. Landonj being one of that majority. 1 here is no individual liability clause in the charter of any railroad now iu existence in Pennsylvania, that 1 know of. And I respectfully submit to the Senate, it is neither liberal or wise, in this beginning of a new sys tem, to test that system by sections so stringent in their character. There is nothing of the kind in tho act incorporating the Pennsylvania railroad company. And I have heard no reason in favor of it now. save that the bill must pass as it came from the Railroad Committee, without the erasure of a word or the ob literation of a line. Aud this is the hat as well in the sections that are to be voted on as in those on which the Senate has acted. I cannot think, Mr. Speaker, with all deference to the views of my brother Sena tors, that this is liberal, or that it will full} meet tho wishes of the people whom we represent. Third. 1 believe the time allowed for surteys and filing maps is too short. The survey is to be com menced within thirty days, aud to be completed with in six months. This is too snort- The history ot the railroad litigation of the State shows this. Ana yet the majority decline to change it. aiswnsTOWSTa smrcmss' ipssysjo Fourth. The power which the Legislature reserves (in section thirteen), by special of general act, "to amend, change, modify or repeal the charter ot aD> corporation organized under tins act as the same was provided for iti the thirteenth section o* the act reg ulating the construction of lateral railroads, approved the sth day of May, 1832," is. in my judgment, botn unwise and unconstitutional. Unwise, because, I tear ' it will discourage investments. Unconstitutional, be cause the present Constitut on of Pennsylvania, as amended and adopted in 1838. six years after the pas sage of the lateral railroad law referred to, expressly declares that the Legislature shall only have the pow er to alter, revoke or annul any charter of incorpora tion hereafter conferred, by or under any special or general law, in such manner that no injustice shall be done to the corporation ! Will the capitalists of Pennsylvania and of the country subscribe their mo ney to build railroads under this bill, with this provis ion hanging over their heads? Would the Senator from Philadelphia [Mr. Ridgway], who is a man of means and a successful manager of one of the best passenger railroads in the State, invest his money in building a railroad under a lawgiving any such power to subsequent Legislatures? Mr. RIDGWAY. Certainly. I have the utmost con fidence in tins Legislature" and would be willing to invest my money, with that clause hanging over it. Mr. HALL. Well, it is really strange that the Sen ator, who has been here several years, never had any thing of the kind inserted in any railroad bill before. Mr. RIDGWAY. I was never requested to do so. Mr. HALL. Surely not, and why? Because it takes money to build railroads, and men generally are not such fools as to invest when the Legislature may re peal the law. and they thereby lose the whole or a part of their investment. 1 also olaect to other clauses in the Vail as it came from the Railroad Committee, which it is not neces sary for me new to refer to. The people understand this question. They can neither be deceived nor tri fled with. If I have chauged my views, it is because I desire to vote in accordance with the will of my con stituents. aDd in accordance with what I believe tube the wishes of nine-tenths of the people of Pennsylva nia. I have voted, and shall continue to vote to make this law as liberal as I can get it. I trust the Senate may yet strike out some ot these objectionable claus es. If not, and the bill passes both branches ol the Legislature, as it came from the Committee on Rail roads, that it may be amended by subsequent Legis latures. and thatthe system of making and construct ing railroads in Pennsylvania may be as broad and liberal as in any other Stale in the Union. New Jersey has lately, through her Legislature, adopted a free railway system. New York and Ohio, on our north and west, have liberal general railroad laws, and although it is true that Maryland refuses to permit trade and travel to pass through her borders, even to go to our National Capital, untaxed, yet this great ana growing State will surely not wait for Mary land to act. I have nothing more to add, Mr. Speaker. I favor a tree railroad law because the people expect and de mand it, and because I trust it may aid in the further development of our great aud grand old State. Dc.itli of Dr. Livingstone. News lias been received in England of the murder by savages, in South Africa, of Dr. David Livingstone, one of the most famous of African explor ers. The extraordinary length of the period which had elapsed without news of him gave rise some time since to fears for his fate, and this final intelli gence is the first that has made its way to Europe since. Wo are puzzled to know what can have stirred up the natives to this butchery of a man from whom they never had anything but just and kind treatment, and who had alwavs before had eminent success in his dealings with them. David Livingstone was the son of a Scotch small farmer, and was himself born on his patrimonial acres, a fow miles out of Glasgow, in 1815. Ho was bred to be a cotton spinner, but with the indomitable pluck common to the Scotch peasantry ho educated himself before the ago of nineteen, so that he was able to at that time to sink the shop and attend at the Uni versity at Glasgow the lectures in medicine and divinity, with the idea of going afterwards to China as a med ical missionary. His project was spoiled by the outbreak of a war be tween Great Britain aud the flowery kingdom by the time that ho was pre pared with the necessary degree of licentiate of the faculty, but his idea of travel was only diverted, not des troyed, and he pitched next upon the south of Africa, which has been the theatre of his exploits since, and with the history of the exploration of which his name is linked as indissolubly as that of Mungo Park with the central deserts of that oldest, and yet worst known, of the grand division of the globe. There was, indeed, a singular series of coincidences in the career of the two. Both were Scotchmen, of the sons of tho Lowland tenantry, both left their country immediately for Africa, on the completion of the university curriculum; both made sig nal contributions to our knowledge, and now we are forced to add that both met the same fate, though tho interval was sixty years, from a population which they had always before managed with successful address. Dr. Livingstone was more fortunate than Park at the outset of his labor, for in the year 1841, just after his ar rival in Africa, that is, he succeeded in domesticating himself among the Bechuanas, one of the most benighted of the southern tribes, and for six years he labored thore in his double vocation of physician and priest. In June, 1849, he set out on his first ex ploring expedition, and tho ensuing August reached Lako Ngami, as un known then as it since has been made familiar. In 1851, after several more expeditions of less importance, he made one in which ho reached tho Zambesi. In 1852 he had a casual glimpse of civ ilization again for, the first time in twelve years, on a trip to Capetown, undertaken for the purpose of sending his wife to England. Mrs Livingstone, bo it said, was the daughter of a mis sionary in Africa] her husband had met and married hor in Africa, and it was there that she mot her death some two years since, after a participation in nearly all the hardships of his life. In January, 1853, Dr. Livingstone loft Capetown on the journey out of which he made his first book and the Vol. LVII. No. 14- fame therefrom accruing. In this journey he went through with very notable pluck as many difficulties and discomforts as would have sufficed to' discourage a dozen ordinary men. and ho ended it in May, 185(5, four years after he started, at Quilimane, on the Indian Ocean, having traversed the continent from ocean to ocean, a dis tance of nearly nine thousand miles, with (and without) all conceivable kinds of conveyance. He found a British gunboat at Quilimane,and made the passage in her to the Mauritius and so homo by the overland route.^ — He arrived homo in Decemer, 1856, i and was, of course, made a lion of. Numerous public meetings were held in his honor, at which he found that his ! long absence and the disuse ot his mother tongue had made him so un skilled in it that he was unable to ex press himself in it to the satisfaction lof himself or his audiences. His book came out in 1857, carrying his popu larity throughout Great Britain and America. Dr. Livingstone turned his back on iiis successes, and sailed for the second time in March, 1857. The government had given him the consulate at Quili mane, and he made this place the point d'appui for his next important expedi tion, in which he was accompanied by a party of savans. The course taken was up the river Zambesi, and the re sults of this voyage are recorded in his second book, which he returned to England again in 1862 to put into shape and publish, and which is in everybody's library. Last year he returned the third time to Africa, and the last heard of him was atN'Doude, at the confluence of the iiovuma and Xeudo. Here he met with kindness, hut found the land desolate by the slave traders supplying the market of Zan zibar. We have information that lie proceeded further west to 'Mataka,' a Miao chief, who gave presents of cat tle and food. At this point the Indian i Sepoys remained behind, and have since returned to Zanzibar. From Mataka to Alake was eight days' march. , On crossing a wide water in Canves, they followed the border of the lako for several days, and then struck in land. They were suddenly attacked in a bush country, about nine a. m., by a band of Mavite. Dr. L. killed the most forward of the attacking party, but was surrounded and cut down by ono blow of a battle axe, which cut half through his neck. Beyond this wo have no dotails, for those who re turned were the first to flee. Almost all who stood near Dr. L. were killed, ■ although they seem to have done con : siderable with their rifles. This hap pened about October 25, 1866. Of Dr. Livingstone's qualities as an explorer, the bare recital of what he has done tells enough; and it only re mains to say that in his private capac ity ho has always been reputed the model of a citizen and a Christian mis sionary. WHAT'S ALL THIS ? Why the Grain Business is ReYived at Mc- Coy's Old Stand. IT HE undersigned, having rented the large and commodious Warehouses formerly occupied by Frank McCoy, esq., is now pre pared to purchase or receive and forward All Kinds of Grain, for which he will pay market prices. Also, he will keep for sale, Salt, Plaster, Coal & Fish- He returns thanks to all his old customers for their former patronage, and shall feel grateful for a renewal of past business rela { tions. .Merchants will find it to their advantage to give him a call. marl4-y WM. WILLIS. Brown's Mills. rpHE undersigned aro prepared to ; buy all kinds of Produce for cash, or receive on j store at Brown's Mills, Reedsville, Pa. We will have on hand PLASTER, SALT AND COAL. i We intend keeping the mill constantly running, and have ifiiaaa, ilia, tor sale at the lowest Market rates, at all times. tftf-The public are requested to give us a call. se P 27tf H. STRUNK & HOFFMAN'S. Paper, &c. ON HAND, a fine assortment of Cap, Letter and Note Paper. Also, Fancy i Colored Paper and Envelopes in variety, at jan 30 F. J HOFFMAN'S. BRISBIN, [Near the Jail,] "ITT ILL SELL from now till the Ist of V T March the following GOODS at Greatly Reduced Prices: j LADIES' SHAWLS. BREAKFAST CAPES, and MISSES WOOLEN HOODS, FRENCH MERINOS and WOOL PLAIDS. 001) TEAS at reduced prices, §I.OO, T $1.50 and SI.BO cents per pound at marts A. FELIX'S,