Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1865-01-18

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Fowler & Wells, $50 Broadway, New York
F. 2. Blair was at Richmond last
week, but whether on private or public
mission is unknown.
Among the exempts in Lake City,
Mimi, we notice the name of NJ. Johns,
formerly of this place.
Edward Everett, the distinguished
statesman and orator, died last week quite
suddenly.
The New York Herald speaks quite
favorably of Capt. Dick Parker of this
place, who is mastering officer in that
city.
Missouri has become a free State.
Tennessee has also in convention abolished
slavery, and Brownlow has been nominated
fer Governor.
"A democratic exchange thinks it wo'd d
be as well if no democrats were in Con
gress or the Legislature, as the msjority
does as it pleases. From this it would
seem it is no longer democratic for the ma
jority to rule.
Maj. Gen. Butler has been relieved
from his command and ordered to report at
Lowell, Mass. We have no knowledge as
to the cause, and for one we read the news
with regret, for We have always regarded
him as scourge to the rebels, and withal
an ardently loyal man.
In the Senate Mr.. Hall is on the
Committees on Federal relations, Judiciary.
Estates and Escheats; Mr.. Haines on EIee.
ton districts, Public printing, New coun.
ties, and County seats. In the House Mr..
Balsbach is on the Committees on Rail
roads, to Compare Bills, chairman ON Pub
lie buildings; Mr.. Swoope on Military af
fairs, Claims, Accounts, and New counties.
and County seats
Boyer from Clearfeld the same we
presume who had such good memory
when he wanted to make it appear
that Gen. Cameron had attempted to
bribe him, showed by his attack last
week on the Harrisburg clergy that
his "memory bump" is rather small.
Verbum sat-
The Senatorial Election an Dorchester
County, Md.-We are informed that at
the election for State Senator. in place
OF Holland, resigned, the candidates
being DIR. Carroll, Union, and DR..
Green, opposition, Carroll was elected
by 225 majority. This gives a Union
majority in the Senate, a result which
smoothes the way for much needed
sound legislation in the State.
During the past year a company
has been engaged in putting a well
down in Chicago In search of oil. The
result was that on Wednesday last
they struck subterranean lake of
water at the depth of seven hundred
and two feet, which has since been
running over the top at the rate of four
hundred gallons per minute. 1t has
produced great excitement in Chicago.
The Selinsgrove Times has q
mournful article, copied from New
York rebel sheet, on the cruel treatment
the rebel prisoners are receiving from
our government. Starving Union
prisoners no doubt is all right with the
Times, but not to feed rebels with tur-
Key, chicken, oysters stewed, fried or
roasted, pound cake, &C., is horrible
= The newly elected copperheads in
the Senate of this State, headed bv
Hester Clymer of Berks, attempted
the OLD game of not recognizing the
Speaker elected at the close of the last
session, and wanted protest entered
before they were sworn. The majority
OF the Senate however very properly
decided that they were not members
until sworn in, and therefore had no
right to speak or offer business. This
summary way of disposing of a con-
perhead idea rather took the snakes
abaek, and they took the oath.
Sad Family A67ictions.-severaI sud
den deaths lately occurred in the FAM;
y OF Peter Levan, ofLocust township
Columbia county. On Thursday aweek
Two OF bis daughters-one nearly
grown up, the other smaller, took and
denly sick and in a short time were
oead' On Saturday his wife and anoth-
ef chlid were taken with similar
symptoms, which likewise proved fatal
Ia lew hours. The family of VIM,
ana Rebecca Earhart, of North Codo.
rus township, York county, has been
painfully afflicted with diptheria. In
the short space of nineteen DAYS, four
OF Mr.. Els children have been swept
into eternity.