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X: A. fc. C5CS8 Jt Vf. W. DATIS, n ooaTircTio tbb vnamrf MromcmiiiT o raa uu EDITOVJ AS PROPRIETOR, VOLUME XVIII, NO. 40, MIFFLINTO WN, JUNIATA X PENN'A. JANUARY 11, 1865. WHOLE NUMBER, 840. groffSSional Card. DR. P. C RCSDIO, orrattenw, fa.. Irishes to inform bis friends ud pa trons that he has removed to Bridge Street opposite .Todd & Jordan's Store eprtt-tf tQMB STOXE9. fcECBZN CAVESEY, Manufacturer of Tomb Stones, MeAlisterville and Mifflintown. All Work put up in the most tasteful and sub stantial manner. Utve mm a eau. pril 13-64tf. 1All A5D EXAMINE J our St ' Stock of Ready Made Clothing before on Purchase Elsewhere, you will find on hand a good assortment for Men and Boys ware, which wiil be sold cheap for eaph or Sountry prodnee. MICKEY 4 PESKELL. an 1-tf Patterson, Pa. K. 0. PTEWART, ATTORWEY-AT-UW, ir-.- . r . f - rj Offers his professional services to the pub lic. Collections and all other business will eeelve prompt attenticn. Office first door Perth of Bo'.ford's Store, (upstairs.) JEREMIAH LYONS, ttarneir-at-aiu, Mifflintown. Juniata Connty. Pa., Office a Mala street South of Bridge str et. w IXUAM U. ALMSOS. Attorney el Law, Wttl attend to all business entrusted te his . OlBoe ea Main Street, Mifflintown, Pa. MILITARY CLAIMS. 'T'irS undersigned will promptly attend to L the collection of claims against cither the Ptate or Kalioual Government, Tensions, Back Pay, Bounty, Extra Pay, and all other claims erUing oat of the present or any other war, eeHetteeV JEREMIAH LTOXS, Altorney-at-Law. KimtowB, Juniata Co., Pa. feblO OY-EZ! OY-EZ I VIARB BBderaigned residing in Orecnwood L township, Juniata county, baring taken a a license ae Auctioneer, respectfully of fers his servioee to the public. All letters ad dressed to bim at Liverpool, Perry county, or leaVurslowa, Prry scanty, will be promptly extended to. JAMES COX. renwood, May 12. 'pve CHEAPEST and BEST place to get m Indies'. Misses', and Children's Boots, bees, Blippors and Oaitora is at 11. D. WELLER's, Wain Street, above Cherry Street, Mifflintown. fcf. A good assortment always on band. , TERMS CASH. H. D. WELLKR. jan 1-tf DR.FRED'K SORC, Homeopathic Fhytician. SXftee ia Thompsontown, Juniata Co. Pa. tg Pr. Sorg practices the Homeopathic tystem of Medicine, which has so often proTen f e apsrieriiy to the common Drug Practice. Be respectfully offers his services to the eit. r of this county. Charges moderate. Kb. 25, 'C3-tf ' Pensions ! Tensions ! XL PKRSO.VS WHO UAVB BKEJf IIS- ii ABLKD DURING THK PRESENT WAR ARB ENTITLED TO A PENSION. All per sons who intend applying for a Pension must all on the Examining Surgeon to know welh e their Disability is sufficient to entitle them to a Pension. All disabled Soldiers will call en the undersigned who has been appointed tension Examining Surgeon for Juniata and "iieln.DZ Ceootiee. P. C. HUNDIO. M. D.. Fatteraon, Pa. Bee. , 18V3.-tf CHAIR MANUFACTORY. Omci or tub Jcfiata Contrt Agkiccltcbai. Socistt, rcrrysTille, Oct. 16, 1868. ) WB do hereby certify that the Committee en Manufactured Articles has awarded to Cbauxbs W. Wbitesl the First Premium for the most substantial, neatest made, and best takehed sett of Chairs. G. W. JACOBS, Trtat'r. fnuta Hsircn. Sc'y. janlS JOHN M. POM EROY (Late Paymaster, U- 8. A.) Ko. 204 SOUTH FOURTH STREET. PHILADELPHIA. Alt IIND8 OF MILITARY AND, NAVAL CLAIMS ADJt TEI, COLLECTED ASD NEGOTIATED. PEWSIOWS, BOUNTY" AND BACK PAT PROCURED. 5o Charge anless Successful. Applications by Mail attended to as promptly as if maae in person ef references given. The best raV-A .CfoMfl M.at ftalAwlythy sorrow; in the quiet hush M. aw ' " " ; the BEST advertising medium ; Choice tyattq. THE CONSUMPTIVE'S fflll- BT GEOROK D. PRXNTICE. Tes, dear one, I am dying. Hope at timt lias whispered to me, in ber syren tones,. . But now, alas ! I feel the tide of life Fast ebbing from my heart. I know that soon The green and flowery curtain of the grate Will close as softly round my fading form . As the calm shadows of the evening boor . Close o'er the fading stream. Oh ! there are time When my heart's tears gush wildly at the thought That, in the fresh, young morning-tide of life, I must resign my breath. To me the earth I rery beautiful. I love its flowers, It birds, its dews, it rainbows, its glad streams, Its Tales, its mountains, its green-wooing woods, . Its moonlight clouds, its sunsets, and its soft And dewy twilights ; and I r.cedg mast mourn To think thnt I shall pass away And see them nevermore. But thou, the lored And fondly cherirhed idol of my life, Thou dear twin-spirit of my deathless soul, 'Twill be the keenest anguish of my heart To part from thee. True we hare never loved With the wild passion that fills heart and brain With flame and madness, yet my love for thee Is my life's life A deeper, holier love Has never sighed and wept beneath the stars, Or glowid within the breasts of saiats in heaven It does not seem a passion of my heart, It is a portion of my soul. I feel That I am but a softened shade of thee, And that my spirit, parted from thine own, Might fade and porisa from the universe Like a star-shadow when the star itself Is hidden by the storm-cloud. Ay, I fear That heaven itself, tbo' filled with love andGed Will be to me all desolate, if thou, Dear spirit, art not there. I've often prayed That I might die before thee, for I fell I could not dwell without thee on the earth, And now my heart is breaking at the thoug Of dying while thou livest, for I feel. My life's dear idol, that I cannot dwell Without thee in the sky. Tel well I know That love like ours, so holy, pure and high. So far above the passions of the earth, Can perish not with mortal life. Ia heaven 'Twill brighten to a lovely star, and glow In the far ages of eternity, More beautiful and radiant than when first 'Twas kindled into glory. Oh ! I love, I dearly love thee these will be my last, My dying words upon the earth, and they Will be my first when we shall meet in heaven And when ten thousand myriads of year Shall fade Into the past eternity, My soul will breathe the same dear words to thine : I love Ihee, oh ! I love thee 1 Weak and low My pulse of life Is fluttering at my heart, And ssan 'twill cease forever. These faint words Are the last echoes of the spirit's chords, Stirred by the treath of memory. Bear me, love, I pray thee, to yon open window now. That I may look onee more on Nature's face, And listen to her gentle music-tone, Her holy voice of love. How beautiful. How very beautiful are earth and sea. And the o'erarching sky to one whose eyes Are soon to close upon the scenes of time ! Yon blue lake sleeps beneath the flower- crowned hill With his sweet picture, on her breast; the whit And rosy clouds are floating through the air Like cars of happy spirits ; every leaf And flower are colored by the crimson hues Of the rich sunset, as the heart is tinged By thoughts of Paradise ; aud the far tree Seem as if leaning like departed souls. Upon the holy heavens. And look t oh, look ! Ton lovely star, the glorious evening star, Is shining there, far, far above the mists And dews of earth, like the bright star ef faith, Above our mortal tears I I ne'er before Beheld the earth so green, the sky so blue. The sunset and the star of eve so bright, " And soft, and beautiful ; I never felt The dewy twilight breeze so calm and fresh Upon my cheek and brow ; I never heard The melodies of wind, and bird, and wave, Fall with such sweetness on the ear. I know That heaven is full of glory, but a God Of love and mercy will forgive the tears. Wrung from the fountain of my frail, young heart By the sad thought of parting with the bright And lovely thing of earth. And, dear ene, bow I feel that my poor heart must bid farewell To thine. Oh 1 no, ao, dearest I not farewell, For oft I will Be with thee on (he earth, Although my home be heaven. At eventide. When thou art wandering by the silent stream, To muse npon the sweet and mournful past, I walk with thee, hand in hand, and share Thy gen tlet noughts and fancies; in thy grief, When all seems dark and desolate around Thy bleak and lonely-pathway, I will glide 1 Like a brisht shadow o'ar thr until and nkirn Of theadeep night, when t i thy dear head is laid rpeartj Rn:o:.ad thy .fit Communion with my spirit, I will To nerve thy heart with strength '7 ' 'Jmtv. " f.j .?yy?TSbt lite the idea, of accommodating a T.ika the unit kimcs of the southern cm Dim Stealing o'er bowers of roses ; when the wild. Dark storm of life beats fiercely on thy hid. Thou-wilt behold my semblance on the elotd, A rainbow to tby spirit ; I will bend 't At times above the fount within thy soul, '; And thou wilt see my image in its depths, .Gazing into thy dark eyes with a emile As I have gazed in life. And I will come To thee in dreams, my spirit-mate, and we, With clasping hands and intertwining winji, Will nightly wander o'er the starry deep. And by the blessed streams of Paradise, . . Loving in Heaven a w have loved on each. - - , THE FEDERAL CHAMELEON . Aa Interesting Itorr. One evening, about an hour after the Sun had gone down, a couple of stout sen dressed in soiled rebel uniforms, and tach holding in his hand a good Austrian rifle, rapped at the door of a small frame bailJ ing, near the C road, in Virginia. The knock was answered by an old wo. a a man whose face was almost concealed by the tacgled mastics of her grey, uncombed and disheveled hair. "And what may ye wanl, heih J" she exclaimed, ae ber deep-set eyes flashed on the two men. "I haven't the smallest hit of Johnny cake in the house, to offer yet for it was all " No, no," interrupted one of the soldiers, "we don't want anything to eat ; but we want you to tell us, and that in quick time, too, whether or not you've seen a slight but strong looking slip of a man go by here of hte." 'Dressed in blue and carrying a double barrelled rifle," added the other. "Iley ! hey !" cried the hag, lifting her hands, and speaking in a sharp, angry voice, "If ve hadn t interrupted me A reckon you a a ncara me speas oi mm dm, lore now, as mat waa me vary man w came here and bought all toy cakes. was about two honrs ago, and "Which way did he go after he left you V inquired both men, eagerly. "Before I answer that question you must tell me who he is," said the old wo man, with the curiosity natural to her sex. "lie's a celebrated Union scout whom we call the "Federal Chameleon" because he changes his uniform so often. Some times it is blue, other times gray, and he has even been seen wearing the. disguise of an old farmer. lie has shot more oi our men than is pleasant, and we have a roving commission from our colonel to go on a hunt after him and capture him, if we can, either dead or live. And now as we have replied to you," continued the speaker a little impatiently, "we demand that you answer our question, and " "Demand!" interrupted the hag in shrill, piereing tones. "Is that the proper way to speak to a woman, and an old wo man at that ?" Come, come, answer us if you please," cried the soldier in a milder tone. "I meant no harm it is only my way of speaking." "Well, perhaps I may forgive and per haps not." said the old woman, shaking her head. " How far is your camp from here 1" "What is that to you? What las that to do" " There yon go again with your accur sed incivility ?" shrieked the hag, fierce ly; "but yu shall answer my question before you get a single word out of me. Now, then, how far is your camp from here, and how many men have you in and around it ? Ilntend to carry yoar fntlAWM wnA 4-VTk stir Am A Wfi naA nil T want to know the number of mouthithaW?" head m? S00 womi, unttl yott I have to cook for." an "J "Oh, in that case," said the rebel, fJ bl i"e answered one of donotseeany reason why I - 5 " good aoldter alway. on las satisfy you. Our camps, then are aboL c ," ', ,. , A. ' ,'. r e , v t. n .f-. Aye, aye 1" replied the old woman but five miles from here, near the Croel. ' ' . ,. ... , , . vvi he should know how to distinguish be roads, and our number may be about fiveJ .. . , thousand." - "That will do," cried the old woman with a grin of satisfaction " yes, that will do. And now you are sure that -the man who came here to buy a supper is the' one you are after?" "We are sure of it, for although we have never seen the man's face, we'd know him by his double-barreled rifle as nobody else in the Yankee army car- Iries a weapon of that kind." " Ay, ay, it's the right one, tbeo," said the hag. 'Aftr ht had finished and paid for hi meal, 'he Bay to me, "Friend I jahonld like to pat np here for the night if '.-.n liave no ol)fftoBm.Hii mm 1 MA i Vjjg! have no otJeflfloa.7"jBjt as X ' eJMWe? at i i t Yankee any more than I could help, I told him there waa no room for him as I expected visitors before many hours. Well, then says he, 'can you tell me of any place where I can pass the night a little comfortably. 'You see,' he added, looking toward his big double-barreled rifle 'I don't like to camp out, as it looks like rain, and this piece might be hurt by it. I know of no placo, I answered, 'short of four miles from hero an old barn which is tight enough, 1 think, to keep off the rain.' 'Four miles is a pretty long distance,' said he, 'and as IJ have been tramping about considerably to-day, I don't feel much like carrying this heavy load so far,' pointing to his knapsack as he spoke. 'Will yon be kind enough to let it remain till morning V 'Well yes,' said I, hesitating a little and throwing a significant glance at the well tilled pocket book in his hand. lie un 4ratood the look and gave me a green back dollar. 'All right, 'said I, and he then departed, saying he'd call for his luggage in the morning, after he should waken from his sleep in the barn. 'Now then, continued the woman 'which will ye do go after him at once, or wait in ambush for him until morning?' The two 6oldiers drew back a few paces and held a short consultation, after which they again advanced to the side of the old woman. "We will go now," said the one who had spoken first, "that is if you ean de scribe to ns the exact position of the barn." "I don't think I could describe it so that you eould find it in the dark," replied the hag, "but as I am willin' to do everything in my powet for the eonfederaey, I will go with you to ehow you the place That ig right ,niWered the rebel lnd - . ,j..t oa rcwtrded for vonr leal." ' "I don't want any reward for helping my eountrymen," replied the other. "I am always ready to help along the causa.' With these words she disappeared into an inner room, but came forth in a fe minutes with a gray blanket thrown over her shoulders. "I took this out of the Yank's knap sack," said sho, with a short, dry laugh ; don't you thinks it becomes me 7" "Aye, aye, my good women, very much But lead on if you please, for we have no time to loose The hag then closed the door of the house. "Forward march !" she exclaimed, im listing the voice of a man with strong lungs. "Forward march ! Close np I close no I" And she moved alone; the road at the following tottering pace natur al to a person ot her age. The night by this time had become very dark. The sky was obscured with thick driving clouds, and the wind screamed and roared among the tall pines that towered upon each side of the road. Occasionally a heavy branch wrenched from its native trunk, would fall into the road with a terrific crash, and more than once the reb els started back and cocked their pieces in the belief that the din was caused by the discharge of some Yankee rifle'. "-"Hal hal hal laughed the old hag upon one of these occasions, "it seems to me that you are easily startled. Don't you think your commander might have picked out a pair of bolder hearts than yours for this expedition ?" "You'd better keep a silent tongue in inns uic cfaeuiug v& vicwvu . u ring of a rifled musket." The rebel did not relish the noise made by the load, sharp tones of the female 'guide, and, in order to put an end to the conversation, he controlled . himself suffi ciently not to reply to her last remark. The narty then continued their way in si lence which was not broken by either of them until the7 had gone about three miles, and aloud clear challenge suddenly startled the rebels. "Halt! Who come there ?" "Friend I" answered the old woman, in a ringing voice; "friend with prisoner V MW Tjrtfaywd yHe4 he eonrpem- lou, and, even as the words passed their lips they were surrounded by a dosen Fed eral soldiers, one of whom carried a lan tern. ; As the rays of the light flashed upon the hag, the rebels saw the gray hair, the blanket, and the female apparel drop to the ground, revealing the slight but iron like frame of a Union soldier in the prime of lifel "It is he, by I" exclaimed the pris oners, simultaneously, as their glances wandered to the long double barrelled rifle which he now held in hand; "it ia ie the scout -.the -Federal Chameleon I" - "Aye, aye 1" answered the latter, as he leaned upon his weapon, with quiet smile "You are trapped, sure enough, thanks to my disguise, which is only one of the many that I carry in my knapsack. Al low me to express my thanks to you for the imformation you gave me regarding the position of your camp and the num ber of your men. I have already swot a message to my Colonel in relation to the matter, and I perceive that he has com menced to act upon it And as he spoke he pointed down the road where the dark outline of troops forming into line might be faintly extin guished. They were soon in motion, and in the course of half an hour the booming of cannon, the rattling of musketry, and the cheers of the Federal troops proclaimed that the combat had commenced. The din continued tor about an hour, when the prisoners learned from others who were brought to share their quarters, that the Southern troops had been surprised and totally routed. UNION PYRAMID. OHIO IOWA MAINB KANSAS OREGON NEVADA ILLINOIS INDIANA MISSOURI VERMONT B1ICIIIGAN LOUISIANA TENNESSEE WISCONSIN MARYLAND MINNESOTA NEW YORK CALIFORNIA CONNECTICUT RHODE ISLAND WEST VIRGINIA MASSACHUSETTS NEW HAMPSHIRE PENNSYLVANIA freemen, cheer the LIXCOLX TREE, In storms it boughs still shelter thee ; In glory let its branches wave 'Tis planted on the REBEL'S grave I" Pyramid of Little Mnckerala. DBIAWAYB KENTUCKY THE JARS EYS THE MARRIAGE' RITE, RIGHTEOUS. A right-down eynic, named Writencr, from Wrightstown, Write county (out- West,) a millwright by trade, is perhaps upright enough by nature, but is most unrighteously wry-necked about women. Writing about woman's rights and the rite of matrimony, he writeth thus : "It is so seldom ladies do write what is right about that rite, that it may be written as never rightly done. If this writing be not right, then Writener is all wrong. rARSo.f urownlow thus compares his family record with that of Prentice, of The Louisville Journal'. '.' My two sons entered the Federal army, and one of them is now at home on crutches, because of wound received in leadine his reeiment of cavalry in a charge upon Wheeler's forces, in Middle Tennessee. My other son ia in General Gillem's command, and waa in the figat when the great Kentucky horse thief, Morgan, was killed, under whom and icith whom your ton hate been fighting against the Government upon tchoie bounty their rebel mother and contract-hunting father are living. One of your sons waa killed in Kentucky, while on a hone-stealing expedition under rebel officers. Your other son ia now on trial in Virginia, for the murder of a brother rebel by the name of White. Your wife is an avowed rebel, and ought to be sent South by the Federal authorities ; and you are out one degree removed from a rebel and a trai tor, having completely played onr. LIST 0? JURORS- - . . a snnSnaaSnhwsBsiai mm m or t tO. 3erm, rdU9. Frederick Cramer; Susquehaasa, Jacob Koons, Turbett, John McLaughlin, Turbett, Jacob Hlbbe, Milford, Daniel Kloss, Walker, . Alex. McClure, Sr., Tuscarora, Wm. Bratton, Walker, Elijah Clair, Deleware, Samuel Stroup, Greenwood, Enoch L. Anderson, T as oar or a, Joseph Marks, Monroe, Samuel Files, Lack, Wm. Robinson, Turbett, Daniel Con, Spruce Hill, J. J. Rhine, Fayette, Wm. Okeson, Beale. Feter Swarti, Monroe, Daniel Beshoar, Fermanagh, Samuel Buck, Perrysville, Samuel Adams, Walker, John Sherlock, Beale, Thomas Harris. John Miller, Monroe, Hugh Hamilton, Walker, PETT1T JUBOBJ. Benjamin Walla, Lack, James Kerlm, Patterson, Abraham Whitmer, Susquehanna, David Sellers, Delaware David Miser, Susquehanna, Lewis E. Rapp, Delaware, George W. Snyder, Lack, J. R. Wirt, Walker, George Speakman, Delaware, Joseph Dysinger, Walker, Ierael Wetxler, M G. 51. Graham, Perrysville. John Thompson, Spruce Hill, Cyrus Hench, Turbett, Alexander Wallace, Tuscarora, . Lemuel Ramsey, Lack, James H. Simons, Mifflintown, Uriah Guss, Walker, Andrew WiiJoughby, Beale, Daniel Hostler, " John Hummel, Susquehanna, Amos Stoufier, Walker, John Detrick, Delaware, Henry Wynn, Tuscarora, Peter Mingle, Fermanagh, George Hart Tuscarora, Samuel McMeen, Turbett, Wm. Deluck, Walker, Samuel Buck, Fermanagh, James Fitigerald, Spruce Hill, S. R. Notestiac, Patterson, John Robinson Sr, Milford, N. A. Elder, Mifflintown, John Anderson, Pattcnon, Isaao Kurts, Fermanagh, John Patterson, Beale, G. W. McAllister, Fayette, Charles Marley, Milford, Hugh Palm, Tuscarora, Samuel McMeen, Walker, John Sieber Sr, Fayette, Elias Tilton, Mifflintown, Hecry Stouffer, Fermanagh, K. J. Nangle, Patterson, James Kirk, Mifflintown, Robert Robison, Lack. John Hench Jr, Turbett, Jacob Smith, Fayette. Ioxorance. A Union Chaplain in Arkansas asked the woman of the heuty if there were any Pretbyteriant in those parts ? Hesitating a while, finally "aha guessed not her husband hadn t killed any since they lived there." She thought them some sort of game. Eld. David Jones, near one hundred years ago, inquired of an old New Yorker where he could find some Baptittt f The aged citizen shook his head "he'd lived there ail his bornd days, but never heare of any body following that occupation." When the cholera was raging along the ' Mississippi, a colporteur inquired of a poor white family if they ever had the Gospel there? The head of the house said " he 'lowed not but they had it atcutty down at New Orleana 1" Tbk President's enviable faculty of statement was happily illustrated in his re mark to the wife of a rebel prisoner on Johnson's Island. In answer to her last appeal, to liberate her husband because he waa a religious man, he said : "You say your husband is a religious man ; tell him, when you meet him, that I say I am not much of a judge of reli gion, but that, in my opinion, the religion that seta men to rebel and fight againat their government, because as they think , that government does not sufficiently help some men to eat their bread in the sweat of other men's faces, ia not the sort of religion upon which people can get to heaven." J9An old criminal waa asked what was the first step that led him to ruin. He answered : "The first step was cheating the printer out of two yeara' snbscrip tins. The devil bald him after that." St