Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1864-03-30

JET Davis has appointed Friday,
April Sth, as 4 day Of fasting, &c.
Hon. Henry d. Moore was elect
ed State Treasurer on Wednesday
evening, 10th inst, by vote of 66 to
56 for VIM. Y MGrath, the present
Democratic incumbent.
Mrs. Quarry, an inmate of the
Huntindon County Poor House. and
said to be partially deranged. was late
~ burnt to death Two beds were
consumed by the fire before the flames
We're subducd
The house of Eli Miller, residing
three miles east of Mifiintown, in
Walker township, was totally destroy
ed by fire with all its contents on Fri
day a week. The fire originated from
Il stove pipe passing through the roof
If Bucher and his brethren were
in favor Of the amendments allowing
soldiers to vote, why did he set in his
seat and not vote when they were fl
nally passed, after the Senate was or
ganized according to their own logic?
The vote for constable in Lancast-
cr township, was as follows: Hciny,
republican, 81; James Buchanan. cop
perhead, 10; Manchie, moderate cop
perhead. !. Old Buck is evidently be-
low par ut home.
The selection of Generals War
ren, Hancock, and Sedgewick, as com
manders Of the three corps into which
the army is consolidated, meets with
universal approval. Major General
Warren has established his headquar-
ters at CUlpeper Court House.
Polite eliterature--The Democrats :
five columns of standing patent medi-
cine and sewing machine advertise
ments last week all too with the
exec 0tiOn Of one, rejected at the Gazette
office They are however in the right
place, for we know of no set Of men
in the world more in need of being
purged than the copperheads Of whom
that paper is the organ.
A man named John Winters was
found lying between the railroad tracks
in front Of WehrIy's saloon, Hunting
don, on edncsday week--dead-
He had been about town for sever
al days, drinking, and when last seen
at a late hour en- Tuesday night, he
was very much intoxicated
"A fire in Cincinnati on Wednes-
day evening consumed two blocks
fronting on the levee, including Penn
bently 4 Woodward's Novelty Works,
the Quartermaster's building, carpen-
ter shop, and number Of stores. The
loss to the Government is estimated at
from $4,000 to SIS, 900. The official
papers were saved. The total loss was
from s65, 900 to $4,000.
AS we eXpected-The two col
umns Of patent medicine advertise
ments zone of them more than three
tourths of a column blank rejected
at this office, appeared in the Patent
Medicine Advertiser last week. Yet
the fellow has the effrontery to talk
about a few displayed advertisements
Of our home citizens in the Gazette,
displayed too at their request.
The steamer America, arrived at
New York, brings foreign advices to
the 10th The London Times saws
there is good reason to believe that the
Conference in relation to the Dano-Ger-
man war will assemble In the House
Of Commons Mr. Roebuck had made
violent speech on American affairs,
declaring that he would be glad to see
the Federal commerce swept from the
Mn iSg osht oh af a, za1 ha
speech as unworthy of a member of
Parliament The Archduke Maximil-
han was visiting Queen Victoria So
soon as he assumes the crown of Mex
leo, he will agree upon treaty with
the Emperor Napoleon. The pirate
Florida had put into Madeira, and af-
ter receiving twenty tons of coal, and
provisions, was ordered off. The Uni
ted States steamer Kearsage was at
Deal on the 18th.