Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-05-27
wholesale Denunciatlon of our Citizens.

dG IatterSOuJ CnaG Tie SHOPS, &C. at tnaC
place were to be removed to Lewistown
Station. The Juniata Register of last
week, in its anxiety to defend the twin
cities below the Narrows, published the
following Characteristic production
"The idea of the removal of the shops from
Patterson to Lewistown, suggested IN the
Democrat, originated with the editor, In whom
no doubt, the " wish was father to the thought.
Although there is not one word OF truth In
the above information" yet so firmly is 1t
believed in Lewistown that all the old ladies
are wearing new caps on the head OF 1t. III
the Democrat. in the fnllness of its informa
tion had stated few of the Several reasons"
which make the removal of the Machine
Shops necessary, it would have been more
satisfactory to the public, and might have had
the appearance of truth; as 1t IS, the only
reason assigned, the " insuficiency of ground
for buildings" appears laughable and ride
ulous to all persons except those who see eve
rything through the magnifying influence OF
"wild cat' bank The location of the
Machine Shops at Patterson has long been
terrible eye-sore' to cold town" and since
the Commonwealth has disposed of her ca
nails and public Improvements, 1t is essen
TALLY necessary" to the existence of the "dI-
lapidated village" that she derive bread, but
ter end support from the Railroad Company
or rag paper factory. Indeed, the anxiety
to obtain the shops ut the most desirable
point between Harrisburg and Pittsburg" has
been so great in the " desirable point" as we
have been informed from credible source,
that it was proposed to the Z. II. X Co. that
if they would remove the shops from Patter
son, the new buildings and improvements
ba Oh la Il Irgb
free Of all cost and expense to the Company,
and that the next Legislature would remove
the Tonnage tax. The proposition Of a 'one-
horse town" on the Juniata to put up shops
/ and improvements at cost of over half a
million dollars, when it has not money enough
! to build deceht pig pen, is decidedly the
I richest Joke of the season. If the runner be
true, and we believe it, that subscription is
now Daing taken for that purpose, we sug
gest for the credit of the '' concern" that the
money be applied to the payment of honest
debts, in the redemption of bank notes, and
the balance, Il any there be, TO postpone the
inevitable bankruptcy that must ensue in
case the weevil should again visit the wheat
! Of the Big Valley. The climax Of brazen i'm
| pudence was certainly reached when the offer
/ was made to take the o0ntract for the reno
val Of the Tonnage tax. They ought to
/ -
all the "augers," "borers" and pumps" in
| the State of Pennsylvania, they couldn't en-
| gineer a bank bill through the Legislature.
| There is one thing certain, that if the p X
! r. Co. want the Tonnage tax removed, they
| will never 90 TO Lewistown for assistance.
| Last Winter when the Lewistown bank bill
/ was before the Legislature a friend of the
measure approached member of the House
and asked his vote and influence in behalf Of
| the bank bill The member replied that he
| did not intend to support it, Why" said
| the friend ''the bill is good one-note hol.
! ders secured by State stocks and real estate
| Have you examined it" The memb, said
| that he had not and did not intend to exam
inc it, for the name and place would kill it."
With all that relates to the Democrat we
have nothing to do, but with the wholesale
libel of our citizens by this 'Fpig-pen' gen
| tleman and his "cowstable" brother of the
Sentinel, we have so much to do that we
shall at least make known that the former
is BS~ Adant j. Greer, an apostate politi-
clan who has gone through the chrysaline
stages of whig, knownothing, repub-
lican and edmouthed locofoco in the
space Of four years, and is therefore fit
representative Of that rare class who, to
crafty some petty malevolence will revile
many citizens OF his native county with
low and ungentlemanly abuse The Sen
tinel has an article so similar in tone, mere
ly substituting "cowstable" for Greer's pig
pen that the conclusion is almost irressti-
bic they were cOncocted at one and the
same time in just two such places. The
latter We do not know, and as he has shown
his aptitude for being one of the black
guards of the profession, have no desire to
know.
Our town, it is true, has suffered much
from the depression of business incident to
the times, from the failure of the Lewis
! town Bank, and more recently by the crash
| Of the Lancaster, and we have undoubtedly
had, and still have, what is denominated
hard times; but this is by no means con-
fined to the town, as the agricultural com
munity in reality suffer more from the want
of money than We do here A few failures
have taken place, but the combined failures
hardly amount to recent single one in
Juniata county-and Notwithstanding the
assertion Of these hireIings of our poce,.ty,
applications for money loans by citizens of
Juniata county arc by no means {" few or
far between" Besides our one-horse pop
ulation is so much greater than the mag
nlfcent village with more gravestones on
its hillside than inhabitants, that the ordi-
nary business of day here causes circu-