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

The Gazette, with flourish Of figures ohaiued from
p Ittie boy, essays - show that its circulation 3~
greater than ours. Now, II Is hardly worth while 70
prove the coutrzr. yet here once az cisllenge
The Gazette the test Is; That we have the largest
number of bona de subscribers within the cuTeuli "i
the deliver OF ihe Lewstown po~t-oficc. 2i. That
have the largest number ia MlIilp county. ID.
~e have tl.e largest number az tod
,arested persons each publisher under OATH. pointing
out his 6yna fs subscribers. # the tfazett. si
cePt this proposition aui We do not establish tie
three several claims, agree tte crowd TO
the oysters Come uoS. Messrs. Gazette let have
no qub6ling but meet this challenge squarey, else
forever hereafter hold your peace--Dca.5craf,
The editor Of the Patent Democrat
has been squirming about his circuia-
ton ever since loyal people set their
feet Oh his sheet, and to keep up his
courage files away copies enough to
supply all the Libraries in the county,
gires his paper to all yearly advertisers,
continues to send it where it is not
wanted, finds pretext for abusing
every man on firm that discontinues
it, and We have no doubt would now
sccear they are all 5ono tide subscribers,
though we here give him notice we
shall test that if he toes his own mark.
Many people on reading the above,
might suppose he is in earnest, and
yet his whole object is the publication
Of the list Of letters-for which he suD-
poses he has chance, but how blindly
will be made to appear if he does not
find q snake hole to creep out-for he
knows full well that his statements are
all bosh. Now we name J.. J. EI
berty as one Of the referees, with this
addition only that each of US place
500 with Wm. Russell Esq, with
written authority directing him to pay
over TO the Ladies' Soldiers Aid Asso-
citation said 500 on failure Of either
party, first, to carry out, without sub
tertuge or equivocation Of any kind,
his own proposition; or secondly, on
failure of either party to publish con-
spicuously, without note or comment,
under the head OF the paper, for four
weeks, the circulation Of both papers
IN detail in the Borough of LewistOwn
and at all the post offices in Miffiin
county-the circulation in the borough
to be verified by the carriers lists
and their oaths, and that at the
various post offices to be procured bv
the referees by certificates from the
different postmasters, stating what the
circulation was III the beginning Of
March and what it is now. As any
one can readily see, this will proce tie
books, which sometimes contain many
graveyard names.
And further, il there is a good cop
perhead in Miflin county, who still
places any confidence in what the
Patent Democrat says, we Will put up,
at any hour called upon, from $3.50 to
5000 against half the amount, or tcro
dollars to one, that we will prove before
any justice ofthe peace in Lewistown,Jy
the hands an tod Offices uho ,cet do,cn the
poper and printed it, and who Of course
know what quantity was reguIarlyused,
that at the time said boast was made
the edition Of the Democrat was a few
sheets over 81 quires, and that ours
was 80 quires and y sheets, or7S more
than the Democrat. That edition left
US no extra papers.
We will add that since the lst { f,
January between fifty and sixty vol
untary new subscribers have been
added to our list, and during tire pres
ent month We have averaged nearly
one for every working day.
The Quota of Pennsylvania