THE GAZETTE.
G. & G. 11. FRY SINGER, Editors.
LEWISTOWN, PA.
Wednesday, May 29, L 867.
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Notices of New Advertisement*.
See advertisement of Forney's Press in
to-day's issue.
Don't forget the big Show on Monday
next.
P. T. Barnuin has invented an elastic
strap and buckle for Pants, Vests, Drawers,
Ac. See advertisement.
Thomas Stroup is selling the celebrated
cucumber-wood well and cistern pumps.
See Franciscus's advertisements.
Soldiers' heirs should read the adver
tisement of \V. H. Woods, U. S. Author
ized Claim Agent, Huntingdon.
Estate and Auditor's Notices, Ac,
More Patent Democracy,
Wirz to be a Democratic Saint!
One of Wirz's counsel named Loui-
Scliatie, being on the point of going back
to his native den in Europe on a visit, and
no doubt feeling much braver than lit
did at any time during the war, issued ;;
lniuifesto in favor of the great brute, iti
waich our soldiers, our otlieers, our gov
ernment, and people are denounced just
as one might expect a Jef Davis bootblack
to denounce them. This choice produc
tion is very strangely finding its way in
to "democratic" papers, among others tin
Democrat of May 15. On the trial, num
bers testified to his cruelty, but all these
men, with thousands of others, are not
to be believed, but a bought attorney and
foreign scoundrel who came to this coun
try to aid the rebels in destroying our
government, are all truth !
These efforts of Wirz's counsel, to white
wash the memory of the Andersonvillc
jailor, has brought out some strong testi
mony from an eye witness of his cruelties.
Mr. L. J. Perry, of the Waupacea (Wis
consin) Criterion, who served as a non
commissioned officer in the 2d Wisconsin,
in the Army of the Potomac, was taken
prisoner, and confined at Andersonvillc
writes in his paper as follows:
"In the war we had the misfortune to
be captured by I he rebels, and served as a
prisoner twenty months, during the great
er part of which time we were in the hand
of the demon whom they (the Democratic
papers,) led by Sehade, are making
martyr of. During that horrible blank it
our life we saw this man knock down ami
stump upon sick Union prisoners, who
were too weak to get out of his way; wt
saw and heard him order a rebel guard t<
tire at a group of Union prisoners, whir]
order was obeyed, by which meausa Union
soldier was maimed for life by the loss or
a leg; we saw him once manacle two men
together, and then whip one of them with
a riding whip, until the man could not
stand; we saw four men shot dead, coolly
and deliberately, by rebel guards undei
his orders, who were murdered without
cause; we saw, during the twenty mouths,
not less than fifty dead bodies of brotlie.
Union soldiers so murdered; we liavi
heard Wirz, at Richmond, order, anc
even urge his guards to kill every prison
er they could, plausibly; we heard him
say more than a hundred times that every
d —d Yankee prisoner in the South ought
to be hung; we know that his watchwords
were Kill, Slay, Destroy; and last, but no!
least, while those thirty thousand wretch
ed beings were literally starving at An
dersonville during the" months of July
and August, 1804, his expressions of dc
moniac delight were often heard. Wt
heard him say at that time, if the North
could be whipped by starving prisoners,
he could put a quietus to thirty thousand
in short metre.
All this, and numberless other acts
convinced us all that lie was a cruel,
relentless, bloodthirsty man, ami that hu
man suffering and privation were that he
lived upon."
It is something strange if all these sol
diers should tell a series of uniform false
lioods respecting the keeper of Anderson
villc prison!
Democratic Laws.
The whipping post and pillory still ex
ist in democratic Delaware, and after
nearly every term of Court the entcrtain
tnent of whipping and pillorying the con
victs is afforded the public. From tin-
Wilmington Commercial we learn that a
number were scourged at New Castle, on
Saturday week. The Sheriff lias to in
flict the punishment. The prisoner i
tied up in a conspicuous place, with his
body hare to the waist and his arms pin
ioned, when the blows are laid on with a
" cat-o-nine-taiis," each blow making
nine swelling welts. We copy from the
Commercial its account of the whipping
of two of the convicts on the occasion re
ferred to, there having been seven in all
and the performances being similar:
"A white convict was brought out,
stripped. He was bound to the post, se
curely. It was evident the Sheriff was
using but little force with his terrible
whip. The first blow barely made a
mark, but as the successive ones fell, red
marks began to appear, livid lines of
bruised and mangled flesh were drawn,
the muscles rose in knotted cords, and the
whole of the naked body showed a livid
purple color. Faint and staggering with
even his mild treatment (?) the prisoner
was covered with an old blanket, untied,
and let away. If this was the effect of
twenty lashes, lightly laid on, it may be
supposed that sixty blows were terrible.
The prisoner, Saunders, trembled visibly;
his knees tottered and he east a pleading
and frightful iook upon the preparations
for his torture. We have seen men bear
the sight of their gallows with more forti
tude, for the fatal swing is but an iusUtnl
pain, and there is no lingering degrada
tion. In this ease it was evident no sucli
kindly favor wielded the cat. Its nine
thongs drew each a livid mark at the first
blow, and very soon large purple welts,
ridges in the flesh, began to appear. A
cry of pain involuntarily wrung from the
clenched lipsof thesuflerer, followed each
lash, and it was evident that everyone
grew more and more painful. The nerves
twitched, the skin swelled, and though j
bruised, did not break, so that the blood
j instead of running,-gathered in visible j
blotches beneath the surface. Thirty— j
Forty—Fifty—Fifty-five—times the man's '
j back has !>eeu struck with the nine scour
ges. Fifty-six—fifty-seven—fifty-eight—
fifty-nine dxty. The blanket is thrown
over the torn body and he is led away." i
We venture the prediction that the day
Republicans would obtain power in this
benighted democratic State the whipping
post and pillory would disappear. How
ever, if democratic poor men-can stand
such treatment from laws made by drunk
en Saulsburys, we guess republicans can.
Otitis and Ends.
> The Canadian authorities prohibited
i the secessionists from giving Jef Davis a
' public reception.
•Scott, the recently elected democratic
Judge of Baltimore city, it appears at
tempted to evade his oath of office. Nice
Judge!
The Supreme Court of this State lias de
cided that the act creating a new court of
! over and terminer in the Schuylkill dis
trict, is unconstitutional.
Surratt's trial has been postponed for
; i two wteks. Since the great hyena has
been unloosed, nobody cares to see cats or
, | dogs bung. Perhaps however Surratt
i may know some tilings somebody at
Washington don't want to he known.
The First National Batik of New Or
leans numbers among its debtors Gen.
Beauregard 572,01>0; Gen. Dick Taylor
' ->'>7,so'i; <ion. Hays, *20,000; Col. Nixon,
Gen. Wade Hampton, and other rebels.
No wonder it broke.
The Cambria Freeman says that the
Hurrisburg Patriot and Union "never
fails to pour hot shot into the camp of the
radicals." To this the Alieghaniiui re
■ j plies that " it never poured much hotshot
1 into the camp of the rebels."
The Walnut street Baptist Church of
Louisville, Ivy., recently refused to admit
to membership an exemplary christian
lady, when it was discovered she was
j teaching a freed men's sehool. Old Nick
i knows wiiere to hit tiie chivalry.
The copperheads would like to make it
appear that Greely and Butts are the re
publican leaders. The only real leaders
republicanism lias arc Education, Intelli
gence, and Convictions of Right. It re
quires no whisky to keep their ranks in
i order.
Both legs, both arms, and the whole
upper part of the head of a young man
I named Alexander Shoupe, aged is years,
! Acre almost instantaneously cut oil' by a
i circular saw, in the village of Homer, In
diana county, on Friday a week.
Joseph Martin, a breaksinan, late of
i Blairsville, was instantly killed on a
i freight i rain at Millwood, two weeks ago,
j and John Ash bang h, was bail ly injured
!oy a train while bantling a letter to an
; engineer.
i Six years ago, Jef Davis approved and
promulgated an act of the Confederate
oitgress fur)lidding Southern debtors
, from paying their Northern creditors,
,; and compelling payment instead into the
i rebel treasury. Now we turn Davis loose
MI nominal bail, and are feeding our re
pudiated debtors.
Coi. Burke, the Fenian, was sentenced
i<> be hung, beheaded and quartered to
day at Dublin, Ireland, for doing tiie
hundred thousandth part of what Davis,
Breckinridge and others did here. Brit
i-h justice and copperhead sympathy are
■ j very different when applied to rebels here
; ind rebels in Ireland.
Telegrapiiac Dispafciteii.
I (UI .tIEAIC O.
I Emperor Maximilian Captured.
WASHINGTON, May 27. —The following
; dispatch was communicated to the Stale
. Department to-day, announcing the cap
ture of Maximilian, Mejia, Costilla and
Miramon. The dispatch is dated from
San Luis Potosi, on the 15th inst., and is
; communicated via New Orleans, yester
day. It says:
Uueretaro has fallen, by the force of
arms, this morning. Maximilian, Mejia,
i osiiila and Miramou are our prisoners.
.Signed, B KNIT A JUAREZ.
4 .Man .llitlaken and Shot for
Game.
About two weeks ago two brothers,
by the name cf Webb, were engaged
01 turkey hunting, on Spring creek, in
Early count}', when the unfortunate
man, Allan Gay, Jr., together with a
Mr Evans, entered the same hammock
liroin another direction—also engaged
with their fowling pieces in the tur
; key hunt. Both Gay and Webb be
i ing experienced in the search for this
j valuable game, they were enabled to
(imitate the peculiar noise of the tur
koy to perfection. The thickness of
the under growll> prevented their dis
covering each other, and each mistak
ing the other for game, cautiously tip
preached the decoying noise, lit tic
thinking of tlie imminent peril of their
respective situations. A portion of
Mr. Gay's clothing was at length seen
through an opening in the brush wood,
and the other, excited with the pros
pect of a line haul, instantly fired at
the supposed game and ran toward the
object in order to get a surer shot when
it flew up.
But on reaching tiie spot, he found
his friend and neighbor shot directly
through the throat From the nature
of the wound, Mr. G. was unable to
talk, hut with pencil and paper told
where his horse was, and that lie tho't
ho could reach home, which ho did,
with the aid of his friend. Medical
aid was called in, hut little hope was i
given for his recovery. Near night,
on the third day alter the accident, he
iiad gone into an adjoining room, and
j seeing the great grief of his family,
Look his pencil, and writing, urged
t hem not to grieve, that he was pre
pared to die, willing to go. In a vety
short tin e alter this he returned to
his bed, in the other room, laid down,
and in a lew moments expired The :
dec' Used was an industrious and good
citizen, highly esteemed by all who
knew him, and his untimely demise is
deeply deplored. He leaves a grief
stricken wife and five or six children, i
—Daw ton ((fa.) Journal.
Clippings.
Population of New York, 1,000,000. j
Best. There are in store at Chicago, 2,-
056,000 bushels of grain.
pfqy* 1600 bags of wheat arrived in New
York on Thursday, from Liverpool.
Sir Archibald Alison, the Histori
an, is dead.
£!•£?"' Idle steam rain Dunderberg, lias!
been sold to tiie French government for
*3,000,000.
A French frigate litis been ordered!
to New York, to escort the Dunderberg i
;to France.
An apothecary killed a poor man j
iu Pittsburg on Friday, by giving iiiui
morphine in place of quinine.
B®. The Massachusetts Liquor License
law was defeated in the lower branch of!
the Legislature of that State, by a vote of
161 to 64.
fcC The United States gunboat Ashue
-1 lot has bonilmriled a town on the island
j of Formosa, in retaliation for tiie murder)
by the natives of some shipwrecked
American sailors.
StS-Mrs. Dinah Vick, aged 102 years,:
i visited the United States Revenue Office
|in Nashville, Term., and drew her pen- j
-ion as the widow of Joseph Viek. who
was a private soldier in the first Revolu
tionary war iu America.
881a. Two old men got into an alterea
i tion at Madison, Indiana,on Wednesday,
when one drew a revolver, shot the other
(mortally, went home, and overcome with
j remorse, fired a bail into his own breast
. with the same-weapon, and died the next
day.
l&vg. Major-Gen era 1 Pope lias districted
tiie States of Alabama and Georgia, ami
i placed a freed man on every Board of Reg -
; istration. He tilso requires Registrars t>
i to take the iron-clad oath, and explain to
all persons their political rights and priv-
I ileges.
Ida Lewis, daughter of the keeper
of the light house at Lime rock, It. 1.,
I rowed out to sea several miles and re.--
jelled a man who for four hours had been
! lying upon the rocks, wet from the storm
and exhausted in botiy, his boat having
been eap-ized. and there being no means
of escape possible.
1177 t Cherry Balaam. —The memory of
Dr. Wisiar is embalmed in the hearts of
; thousands, whom his Hat-arm of 1177.7
i Cherry has cured of coughs, colds, con
sumption, or some other form of Pulmo
nary tlisease. Ii is now over forty years
I since this preparation was brought before
the public, and yet the demand for it is
; constantly increasing.
Horace Greeley and John Minor
Botts have both made public-explanations
about their.signing Jeff. Davis' bail bonds.
The former said lie did it because the
i counsel for the prisoner deemed it impor
i tant, though he docs not know their rea
sons. Mr. Botts wanted to exert a har
monizing influence and show his magna
nimity toward Davis, who had thrown
him into prison without cause.
6ssr General Pope has shown his un
derstanding of the cireuinstaiu-e* attend
ing the late riot in Mobile, ly deposing
the ex-Rebel General Witliers, who held
the office of Mayor. This action proves
that (icneral Pope having investigated Un
ci reu instances attending the disturbances,
believes that they were premeditated, and
that the Mayor took no care to preserve
peace.
Letters SYoni tiie People.
PERSONAL.
Messrs. G. A. G. It. Frysinger. Dear
Sirs. Since I am one of those who hail
with delight any improvement or addi
tion to our town, allow me t<> express to
you my gratification not only iu the in
creased size of the Gazette but more par
ticularly in tiie clean appearance of its
; entire contents. I am pleased to see you
men of enterprise and push; but you'll
please now, not push the Big Oolite Pot
Sign out of your columns any more,
while the people are anxiously waiting to
learn where they can buy the cheapest
goods, and I'll promise to bespeak for you
a place in every family circle; but I'll re
serve the front seat for the BigUoflee Pot
Sign. Yours, Ac., J. IRVIN WAI.MS.
Go and Nee it.
Farmers are all invited to ii. Frvsing
er's Agricultural Implement Agency, to
see a new patent Double Shovel Plow.—
The frame is all wrought iron-very light,
and strong and the shoveis easily adjust
ed. Price SO. All who see it will he sure
t > buy.
For Sale. —A large lot of ground in the
western end of town, with a small dwell
ing, fruit trees, Ac., thereon. Price SSOO.
this would make a cheap home, inquire
at Gazette Office.
Wonderful but True
MADAME REMINGTON, the world
renowucU AxtrolngUt and Somnambulistic Clairvoyant
white in a cUirvoj am state, delineates the very features j
•A the person you are to marry, and be the ni l of an in-'
strumeut of intense power,known as the Psychomotrope. 1
;; las unices to produce a perfect and life-like picture of the
future husband or wife of the applicant, with date of uiar-
occupation, leading traits of character, This is
no ioiposiliou, as testimonials without number can assert.
By stating plnce t* birth, age, disposition. Color of eyes
and hair, and ciu si fry cents, and stamped envelope
addressed to yourself, yon will receive the picture by re
turn mail, together with desired information,
text" Address In cond ience, .MADAME UKKTRI.DE HEXING*
" 7. P.O. Box 297. V Troy, N. V. g] r
Hit MARKETS.
LEWISTOWN, May 29, 1867
Wheat, red, per bushel $3 00
white 11 3 10
Corn, old, 90
O.tts " GO
■ Eggs per dozen 15
Butter per lb 20
Flour 18 retailing at the following prices:
Lewistovrn Extra Family per cwt. 7 50
Superfine 6 50
Extra Family per bbl 15 00
Superfine 12 00
Buckwheat per cwt. 5 00
lMkiliMlt-ifiliin Marketu.
There is no demand for Flourexeept for
small lots for the supply of home consum
ers; sales of Northwestern extra family at
•512.00a1-1.25; some Penna. and Ohio ditto
sold at .filial-). Rye Hour steady tit 8.50a
: 8.75. Com meal nominal. Wheat—Not
much coming forward, and prices droop
ing; sales of fair and prime iVnna. red at
j 83.00a3.25. Corn —sales of 4,000 hushelsof
yellow, afloat, at $1.20, and 18,500 bushels
white, afloat, at sl.lß. Oats—sales at 82c
! for Pennsylvania.
CATTLE MARKET.
Piiii.adki.phia, May 27.—The cattle
i market is active for all descriptions at 14-
a 10c per pound as to quality; about 800
received. Cows and calves move slowly
at fiOa80, and springers ats4sa7o. Sleep
■ are inactive at a decline; sales at 61a71c
| per pound; gross receipts 10,000 head.
I togs arriving freely, and free sales making
at 810a 10.50 per 100 pounds net.
Drexel Co. quote Government Bonds
as follows:
C. 8. 6s 1881, 111 if? 1 llj
V- Ls - 5 * :20s ' 108|('c 109*
New U. S. 5-20.-, 1804 10.5 pT 100
New '• " May & Nov. 1805, lOOjrh 100|
New " " July A Jan. 1865, 108 < 10SC
10-40 Bonds, p M) '
7-30s, August, 106 f 1061 !
I'®*' June, lOoi&lOof
<;3os, July, 1054(8} 105}
Gold . 187'fel37*|
LOCAL AFFAIRS
County Committee Meeting. —The Union
Republican County Committee held a
meeeting on Saturday last, and appointed
D. 1). Mutthersbough of Lewistown, Jo-j
sepli Siglor of Decatur, and R. L. (iambic,
of Newton Hamilton, Senatorial Confer
ees; and Win. Creighton ofDerrry, Reu
ben Smith of Lewistown, and Xer Thomp
son of l.oeke's Mills, Representative Con- ;
terecs, with instructions to vote tor Dele-'
gates favorable to JudgeLinuforSupreinc
Judge.
First Class Machinery.—We lately paid,
a visit to the Foundry and MachineShojis
of Reese Slagle in tliis place, and must
express our jileusure and gratification at
the variety of extensive machinery found
there. The hands had just set up the
thirty-live horse power Stationary Steam
Engine, built under the supervision of
Owen it. Da vis, foreman of the shops, for
the Freedom Iron and Steel Co. This
piece of machinery, so elegant in its con
struction, would do credit to a city man
ufactory; almost noiseless in its motion,
every connection perfect, and constructed
■>! the best material, it cannot fail to give
satisfaction. We were particularly struck
with two massive castings, one ally wheel
used at a lathe, weighing34oo pounds, the
oilier a cog, weighing27oopounds, perfect
in all their parts.
Minerals. —The discoveries of ochre and
subsequently of gold quartz rock near
Newton Hamilton, has induced many
people to look around and examine things
they had passed a thousand times without
a thought that they might be of value. — |
'l'iie latest discovery was made a few days
ago by Jacob Coon, on the tract of land
owned by Mr. Buchati, (the old Miller;
place above town,) where a spring is evi
dently disgorging a white mineral like
thick milk, probably containing a large!
portion of magnesia. It is to be analyzed.
The Middle Creek Railroad—A meeting
of the directors was held on Saturday last,
at which it was determined to proceed
with its construction under the contract
made by the late President, Mr. Thomp
son. The minority of the Hoard, includ
ing the President, it is understood, were
in favor of first making a final effort t<>
realize the amount of subscriptions which
had been determined upon and then hold
ing a public letting. The latter would
probably have been the wisest course, and
perhaps the safest for the stockholders;
but if its action will make the road the
public will not care much how or by
whom.
.. 11. W. Junkiu has just received a
fine lot of Methodist, Presbyterian and
Lutheran Hymn Books, different styles
and bindings. A general assortment of
Jewelry, Notions, &e. on hand. He has
also enlarged his stock of clocks, plain
and fancy, at low prices. Those in want
of a good meerschaum can be supplied.
Price from $2.00t0525. Silver and Plated
Ware clieap.
Books. —John Swan has added to his
Confectionery and Toy Store a book de
partment. Novels, Song Books, Dime
Novels, <£e. can always be had. He is
al.-o agent for the Hoyt Novelty, by which
you can purchase articles of all kinds at
-uch low prices as to astonish the Jews.
Call on him, and he will give you partic
ulars.
Queer Produce. —Some of our storekeep
ers now and then meet with strange things
in the line of business. The other day a
roll of butter was cut in half in a certain
store in town, in the centre of which was
lodged a large sized cucumber pickle. At
another grocery a 101 l was found to eon
tain lard. But the last heard of was filled
in with mashed potatoes. Some of these
people must have taken lessons in magic
from the Fakir of Vishnu. We can im
agine the • ciitiments of these butter maids
to l,e i
S.i Id the i le Tr.,r1.l wag as it will,
IVople will buy 11 for butter still.
Cheap.-At Patton's Jewelry Store, Bank
Row, you can buy good Plated Ware
cheap. Go and see his fine stock of goods
of all kinds. If you want a first rate time-.
keeper, he can furnish it. Give him a <
call.
Accident.—A young man named Harry
Si pies, in the employ of Reese & Slagle,!
while assisting in loading an engine on
Friday last, was struck by a projecting i
part of the machinery 011 the lower jaw, j
seriously fracturing it.
A large quantity of rain fell on Sunday
{last.
W 111. 15. Hoffman !■ Son have received
an extensive stock of lumber of all kinds.
| Boards, scantling, paling, sash, doors, &e.,
at from 10 to 20 per cent, lower than for
mer prices.
Quite an excitement was raised in Mar
ket street the other day by discovering
that the pavements and cellar doors were
| covered with a strange substance like
down. Whether proceeding from the
tannery, from the furnace, or from trees
in bloom, lias not yet been decided.
Jerome Hetrick, of Juniata county,
and i. M. Lttley, of Millliacounty, were
elected patent democratic delegates to the
Hop, Step and Jump State Convention,
with instructions to support Hon. James
11. Graham, of Cumberland county, for
Judge of tlic Supreme Court.
A passenger car has been attached to
the evening freight train going east, for
the accommodation of local travel, stop- 1
ping at all the stations in this county
when signaled. It arrives here about 20
minutes past Bp. m. The local travel is
now pretty satisfactorily arranged for all
parties (except trout fishers) the Emi
grant going west at 10.58 a. in., and the
mail at -1.00 p. m.; while the Way Passen-;
ger east arrives at 10.17 a. m., and the
train spoken of above at 8.20 p. m.
(Jet a Bartlett —The Bartlett Sewing;
Machine advertised in this paper, is a deeid- '
ed success. It is a low-price article, but does !
the work as well as the §55 machines, and
is in every respect equal to them. It can be
seen at the Agricultural and Household Im
plement Agency of 11. Frysingkr, who is
sole Agent for this part of the State. Only I
§25 for a good Family Sewing Machine ! i
Surely everybody can now buy one.
Tt:-SL. Of the many Cosmetics and Toilet
Articles now advertised, but few prove to
be what they are represented. Messrs.
BKRGKR, SIIUTTS & Co., Chemists, of
Troy. N. Y., are advertising extensively
several articles that have proved them
selves just as represented, for which they
are acting as agents. We believe them to
be perfectly trustworthy, and that parties
using their preparations will find them
fully up to the recommends given. See
their advertisement in another column of
this paper.
For the Gazette.
MARYVII.LK, E. Tenn., May 22, '67.
M u. EDITOR: —Since my last, I exam
ined the Valley of East Tennessee nine
ty miles farther down, stopping oft'at va
rious points and taking notes of the
country, its soil, minerals, productions,
inhabitants, anil general inducements
held out to northern settlers.
As 1 am seateil here I ran see the long
range of the Cumberland- mountains on
my tight, extending from north-east to
south-west, its numerous peaks resem
bling a row of huge hay-stacks, to the
tops of which the blue vault of heaven
seems gracefully to bend. Five miles
south-east, and parallel to the Cumber
land, extends the Clinch mountain, whose
outline is barely visible over the undulat
ing country before me. Between Cum
berland and Clinch mountains lies How
ell valley, drained by Clinch river. It is
as fine a valley as 1 ever saw, if not the
finest. Looking toward the south-east I
behold the towering peaks of the Alleglia
nies, here called Smoky Mountains. They
are exceedingly picturesque,-consistingof
an irregular succession of peaks rising
above and beyond each other, forming
numerous little coves or vallies, watered
by streams dashing down the steep moun
tainsides with mad impetuosity and form
ing many beautiful cascades. The breadth
of the entire valley between the Cumber
land and Smoky mountains is estimated
at sixty miles, the whole of which, and a
considerable distance north and south may
be taken in at one view, but to describe
its beauty will require an abler pen than
mine. I know not how this view may
Strike others, but for myself I must con
fess 1 am almost enchanted.
The healtlifulness of climate of this
country is unrivalled, California and Or
egon not excepted. The inhabitants are
not subjected to either the rigor of winter
or excessive heat of summer. The citi
zens assure me the mercury scarcely ever
rises above Its degrees during the hottest
days.
Maryville, the county seat of Blount
county, lies sixteen miles south of Knox
ville, and in a short time will be connect
ed with it by a railroad which is already
graded. It was a handsome village be
fore the war, of six hundred inhabitants,
but now containing but half that number,
and lying in a most lamentable condition.
What was once a street of fine brick resi
dences is now an open common strewn
over with debris. It is the seat of Marys
ville College, which before the war hail
from two to three hundred students. An
academy and a female seminary are also
located here. Nine miles south of this
place and twenty-live from Knoxvilleare
Mont Vale Springs—the Saratoga of tiie
South. These waters are said to produce
astonishing effects upon dyspeptics, and
are regarded by prominent men as the
must important mineral springs in the
United States, if not in the world.
The mineral resources of East Tennes
see require special notice, which we will
give in a future article. SIGMA.
/ <ssi:ti!iv sei:i:ks.
vv 20 dozen Cherry .Seeders. These Seed
ers will Seed a Bushel of Cherries in 2U
minutes. For sale to traders at Manufac
turers prices,
in ay 20 F. G. FRANCISCUS, Agt.
/ < l i/V HS SLSV SHADES.
VJ Plain and richly Gilt, at 1.60 per
pair at F. G. FRANCISCUS'.
OORG 321 >1 1! Ai lH VEEV
IO of all kinds, on hand
may2o F. G. FBAN Cr SO US, "A gt.
/ I.4RPET SWEEPERS,
V Best in use, for sale hv
inay2'> F. G. FRANCISCUS,
"T |j|| REDUCTION in prices of
i>).WU COOKING STOVES.
myi:o F. G. FRANCISCUS.
eC*" ""iiFOll Children's Carriages. A
vO.t'v/ new stock just received,
tnv2o F. G. FRANCISCUS.
QORCiHITJI AND BROOM CORN
>0 SFFD on hand.
my 29 F. G. FRANCISCUS.
LUMBER LUMBER!
Great Fall in Prices'
I)OARDS, from &2 and upwards.
) PLAST. LATII. 3.75 to 4 25 per M.
W. P FLOORING, 3 75 per 100 feet.
Hemlock do 3 35 do
SASH, 8 x 10, 7 cents, and other down in
proportion.
PANEL POORS down 10 per ctu
A full assortment of FRAME LUMBER,
SCANTLING. &c.
may 29 WM. B. HOFFMAN & SONS.
U. S. AUTHORIZED
War Claim Agency.
Soldiers Heirs, Attention,
riIHE Act of Congress approved March
L 2, 1807, gives to heirs of soldiers who
died prisoners of war, commutation for
rations for the time the soldier was so held
a prisoner, at the rate of 25 cents per day,
to be paid in the following order: First,
to the widow if unmarried; second, to the
children; third, to the parents, to both
jointly if they are living, if either is dead
to the survivor; fourth, to the brothers
and sisters.
1 lie Act of February 28, 1807, provides
for the refunding of the S3OO commutation
money where the same person was again
drafted and was required to enter the ser
vice or furnish a substitute.
l)iseha ryed Soldiers.
1 he Act of March 2, 1807, also makes
provision for the payment of the SIOO,
additional bounty to such soldiers as
have accidentally lost their discharges.
All persons having any claims under
any ot the above mentioned Acts, or any
other kind of claim against the United
►States or State Governments, can have
them promptly collected by addressing
the undersigned. Information and advice
cheerfully given to soldiers or their
friends free of charge.
W . 11. WOODS.
Authorized Army and Navy War
Claim Agent,
Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co., Pa.
May 20, 18G7—3t.
\ EDITOR'S XOTICIL—The un
dersigned, Auditor, appointed by the
Orphans' Court of Mifilin county, to dis
tribute the tund in the hand of John Hoyt,
jr., Administrator of Chas. C. Parker, late
of Brown township, deceased, will attend
to the duties of the appointment at the
Register's office, in Lewistown, on Fri
day, the 14th day of June, next, at 10
o'clock a. m. Those interested are reques
ted to attend.
my 29 W. P. ELLIOTT, Auditor.
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A LOT OF TUE CCLEBUAIED
Cucumber-wood Well & Cistern
PUMPS,
'liin h aiiiApnu'j
IN THE COUNTRY
THOS. STROUP.
Lewistown, Ma/£9, 1867-tf.
Estate o!" Martha Mc< rid. (lrt'd.
VOTKTI IS hereby given tliat letters
PI testamentary on t he estate of M A KTMA
SEC HI ST, late of Newton Hamilton, Mif
flin county, deceased, have been granted
to the undersigned, residing in same place.
■All persons indebted to said estate are
hereby notified to make immediate pay
ment, and those having claims, to pre
sent them duly authenticated for settle
ment. S. W. NORTON,
may29-6t Executor.
P. T. BARNDM'S Patent
ELASTIC
STRAP & BUCKLE,
For Pants, Vests & Drawers.
: 'PHIB linie in veil lion is just out, and as
L it is no -humbug" is meeting with n rapid sale. It
j c:m he applied in a moment to any garment, by any
person, causing it to tit perfectly.
Its elasticity prevents tearing the straps and btiek
! les oil the chithes. arid also allows perfect freedom ol
i the body while working or taking exercise,
i Eor sale by tailors and the trade generally. Send
23 cents, for strap, circulars, terms to agents and the
1 trade, to the
BARMAI E. S. & B. COMPANY,
650 Broadway, NEW YORK.
tto~ Agents Wanted in every eounty.'tit).
May 29, ISoT—Cm.
FOR SALE
FRYSTNGER'S
Agricultural ami Hinisdiuld Implement Agency,
Lewistown, Pa.
1. The WORLD'S MOWER, warrantod the
lent in the world.
2. The WORLD'S COMBINED REAPER
| AND MOWER, complete, that will work easier
than any other, and last a life-time.
3. Two styles CORN PLANTERS—oId patents
■ and well known to do the work right
4 A $3 HAND CORN DROPPER, very con
} venient and rapid
5. Two t'ai itsi il< r a liny Rakes, viz. SHIRE.
MAN'S SELE-DHOHARWIM. HORSE RAKE,
and the SAIIIN K ID-USE RAKE.
6. The FARMER'S CORN SHELTER, the
best hand shclkr known, and can he worked by
hurte-power.
7. A new PATENT CIIERN, which a child six
: years old can work with ease.
8. The Genuine DARTLETT SEWING MA
' IIINE, acknowledged to be equal to the high
priced machines, vet costs only $23 and s3>.
9. The EMPIRE SHUTTEECKANK MOTION
SEWING MACHINE, the neatest, speediest, and
bat sCl< machine made.
Sweet Potato Plants.
)A AAA Sweet Potato Plants for sale
4U,UUU by F. G. FRANCISCUS.
Lewistown, May 22, '67.
X\T ASTED, SHOE JOURS.—Good
YY workmen can get employment at
good wages. Call at
mj'22 P. F. LOOP'B.
jXEte.sc stEE.—The undersigned
j I will otter for public sale, at the Acade
my, in Lewistown, on
SATURDAY, May 25. 1867,
at 10 o'clock, a. m., the following person
al property, to wit:
Cook Stove, Gas Burner, Cottage Set,
Bedsteads, Bureau, Walnut cased Melo
deon, Wheeler A Wilson
SEWSNC MACHINE,
pair of Indian Snow Slices, rich speci
mens Lake Superior Copper, Walnut Ex
tension Table, Clocks, China Ware. fce.
myß-3t J. H. STOURSE.
nEMKIHLL I'IIOPEHSi I'OBt
S A EE.—The subscriber otters at pri
vate sale his FARM, situate in Wayne
i township, Miillin county, near Atkinson's
Mills, containing
270 .A. ORES,
a good part limestone, 130 of which are j
under cultivation, well fenced, with run-i
ning water, balance in good timber. The j
improvements consist of a]
MiTiT!* two story and basement Stone j
■Wq HOUSE, nearly new. Log I
Barn, andotlieroutbuildings; j
an old and young Apple Orchard, cherries, |
peaches, and pears. Neighborhood good !
—1 of a mile from schooliiou.se, 1 mile
from store and mill. The above is otter
ed cheap and on accommodating terms, j
ap24-3m GEO. ROTHIiOCK. j
DISSOEi TiO\.—The copartnership
heretofore existing between S. O. M'-
j Curdy and Felix M'Clintick in the Mer- :
j can tile business known as S. O. M 'Curdvj
it Co., is tliis tlay dissolved by mutual;
i consent, the firm having sold their inte
rest to S. A. M'< Tintick. The liooksof the
| late firm will tie left with Felix M'Clin
tick for settlement.
S. O. M'CURDY,
FELIX M'CLINTICK.
The business will be continued as here-*
tofore at the same place, under the style
and name of S. A. M'CLINTICK.
Siglerville, May 14, 1367-3t.*
/7J. OOD CHEESE, Crackers. (Groceries,
\J Dried Emit and Honey at A. FELIX'S J
WHST3EY & CO'3
CONSOLIDATED SHOWS
CIRCUSES
—AND—
M E N ACER IE8!
The Largest, Exhibition in the WOrld !
V ill. s Model an w.,ni,.!. te
31 K IV _V !•: tt 1 E
And a Contf>?Vjtlo > the leadin? Talent embraced ia
OIHOUSBS.
"'re-Jv -imi nK-r- liare and Animai< I:itert?*ting
ir sand h't, t- rk .tini • m.rc Varied ati N. vel !Vr
-1 rmai.it? than in any r-merr- i America. A
lu-j.r portion t,j the
lOOLOGICAB SPECIMENS!
liave been j it imported. Among tin? features uro
THE BABY ELEPHANT,
"IjT jTJX JAU , '
An Calf. First A Pi-m F cp v a \ m-r rsp
turu !. Yo and Vnul .t rvt A ( <v la
ns .: > . v t*tidt 2-i i.igii a v iglw
o■ > pounds* ni t! <* \r Tidcrftii Frrforiutn,'
' rained Monster,
' L jEi Als X3:l3ir 33 , 5
A CL iOisai Asiatic.
c,ABY ELEPHANT,®
ton m*l to t**rvl on f-iM, V ;'l pot 1 " lh"Wa lu
tl.c Jura le, tut vui be ; er!trmei in the liiuf .it nach
£xltibiti.*n
PBOF. FORBFikWaH,
The Anire.• \ Conqueror, v.ill at each Fxhibition,
! nirr tlie D*n, coMihitßf TI'iFRS. I.FOP-
Aiili \\l) " \!MF!{<; and giv<? * Thrilling
I'crforiiLt Kierco ax;J lavage
Muiißten
The Free I)i>p!.y of WILD AXIMAT/Und th
: £ED!? ! G GF THE W.LD BEASTS
V\ ill l.egiven in c >i ju ct'.on vixh tbo
: CONTINUED AND VARIED
E NTERTAINMENTS.
j The Dens will contain :i Mafrnifn i'Ut J9 brr : n
! Ostrich, Whi-e Plinii'4. Si-v-n FVot
; liah; three Alristin Linn (Six Months ol<l)
-.ittHiis d ties I ami pretllest fj oirmn- in :.nr
! tenaeerie; (sacred t'oxv t-nd t :Uf; I.onjr Lit •
j > d H iiid,>.i-':iu Dears only Animals of thekiad
: .iiow ll toexi t; The Kreb'ns or.l ei lilark Lien;
! ' D.imiiiiijiie Alp.n ea ; t! " M i|> f tlie Des.
j rt"'—:t Inuinntlary of (-nlisra ; lil'ick, /ilnrau
•ud Asiatic Lions aid I.ionessee s Heng.-tl Tl.
; -a-s; Seiipfp.', 1 mid South American I-eopards,
| flick, Grizzly :md f 'inncmnn Hears; t triji. ,i
i -d --potfed Hvenas ; F.!k; fallnwanii >|ioc i
•e--: i 'anion-re Wolves; Paßihei ;
' x, - ; CHUIO; I rich: einiio: -: • 'oniourii ;lb n-
J' inc. ; r \ it frit I'viirie Hops. Ac.,
:i 1!' I r. A V I A R V (iV HI K I>Bl. and all !tie
J i o .*. ii \ll iciy o- L .bi.oti.-tinJ llooki y>
THE C IRC US TROUPE I
Cm aifiU of K)K I Y I'K F V<*l H.A L Al;ri-JF<\ among
who -re MX \ K I.Al)ll>'. tnoie tJan iiave tvur
i.een engaged i i one KQUEMIiiA.M iliOW.
>l*ll Carlotssi Wli-tbt y,
i a S'ftit.t i ouitc,
>1" 'it Margnretta, LeMoyne.
M'lb- Klvira,
,Jon nt t to
and M'. c ( lemcnc Fil> ier.
Tw . Good Clowxis.
' o kin A Chas. Morgan.
.1 -iiia f in klin,
• Aih.tit and Litiiiiun UaJi -iiaj.ipuUtor.
J If liaVHlf'Z,
Cha.. , i r. iiare fcac*. liider
O-n* i* I/iUov/e, Silver
i HUT. K i :t i lou. Piei r. Korb*
r-: l>iii l.nr Mon? F-rsitu*. W. Kicliardson,
i-u i iiutl Mr. ii. Whitbey,
i t titers, furnishing aU th t i-; Astounding anj
•Staiiilard in the Equestrian Act.
J "GRTANDTROOESSION
ill be ramie it pun tie Kntreo into Town
AY AT TJTTJ O'CLOCK, A. M.,
Consisting of
BAoSiVc Ttn/iPLE. uF MUSIC,
_ T.VY Y '
11 "" II
• v.-nby Sixteen A.rtbtrtn Horses, containing
RITN'ER'S PHILADELPHIA COR
NET BANT.
. Y.'LNTY SUIMIRP, DEN'S,
::::: TEAM OF ELEPHANTS,
Au imiaonse stock oi
:: .jiicc. Blooded Circus Ilorseo
And a
-CLu LINE Or vVAGON3, CAES, &u
Ji* whole formine: r I* AR AL>K, vrortli
a day * JOUITH. y luwitue^.
*.!! the M- ivpor e- .* r<l < ircusos un.Vr One
. ur t 'HI* Mu; le i'rh e of Admission.
I 'wo Poriormnnces,
Leraoca L Evening, at 2 Cc 7 1-2 o'clk.
Do rs open one hour previous.
cc.is for all v. ho come. l'lcuty of Room.
ADViSSTCN. - 50 CENTS
Children, under IDyears, - 25 Cents
Tills Mammoth Show will
Exhibit at
"IFI"LIYTOW\, Saturday,
June Ist, IS6T.
Lewistown, Monday, June 3rd.
HLLLEt IEEE, Tuesday, June 4.
Come and See the
biggest Show in the
World!