51 v <£:. W. ECS Witt AIV. NEW SERIES. Gclcll p QctvJ. J - _ . " . . ... • - : I While Tis Daytime Let us Work. c F.vry mortal ha- his mission In this world of active strife, Whether in a hiu'n position Or a lowly walk of life. i ) i He it is, who, now fulfilling . | Every duty day by day, Shows the mind am! spirit willing To perform its onward way. Life's a bark upon the ocean. Tossed and rocked by every gafe ; Now sends oil with speedv motion", Now with rent and tattered -ail. Life's a bright and simny rnorninjtt. With some light refre-htng showers, Followed by dark cloudy warning Of the storm that o'er lis lowers. Life's the cord of silver, binding Man ill contact with his kind ; Death is but that bond unwinding, Setting tree the earth-bound mind. Life's the pitcher of the fountain • Whence immortal rills rle-cenri; 'Tis the fragile wheei surmounting Cistern where pure waters blend. Life's the day for deed and action, Death's the rest, the time ot night; lie v/bo works with satisfaction, Uoiks while yet the Lour is light. Forward, then! the day is waning. Westward sinks the setting sun; Onward ! on ' without compluning, Woik, while yet it may be done. SnDvxkKtion Co I Sac ADJUTANT GENERAL'S REPORT. His Excellency , Wii.i.utt Binr.et:, Governor of Pennsylvania: Sit: :—I have the tumor !•> submit to your i Excellency I lie following report of the condi tion of the militia ot the Commonwealth lor the J year 1854. 1 reerel, bnwever, to have to state that it is bv no means as fuii ami accurate as it should he, owing to the fact that whilst some of the officers upon whom the duty devolves of i making return to this department of govern ment, have totally failed to petfortn it. others have only discharged it in part. By reference to otiieial papers, I find that my able predeces sors, Generals It.wix ami Kkkxax, were simi larly emharrassed in making their reports, and hence it is evident that ftuther legislation is ne cessary to secure a faithful observance of the' laws peiiaiiiing to the militia. The act of IS 19 repe-al-d the existing militia ; laws, and the law which the Adjutant General ' was directed to submit to the next Legislature was not only not adopted, hut no other was sub stituted (or it. The law of ISA' 2, was, in its genmal outline and conception, a good rote : and, at I> list, had in i view, a desire to confirm to the ">!;t dislei" tit of a uniformity it) the system as contemp'at ed by the constitution. With -i. • tnodilica- j lions, it could, in my opinion, he adapted to the j present wants of out State. With all the conflicting news and opinions that exist upon this subject, it may he difficult | to have any law passed that will much improve , the old rum in its main provisions , not that J : do not think that it could be improved. Those who are voluntarily willing to "plav j soldiers," should be required also to subject themselves to the performance of ail reasonable military duties, and should not, with impunity, be allowed to turn t lie system into ridicule, as is too frequently the case now. Limiting the punishment of those in commission to no greater than that of being cashiered, there should he no I objection to an officer being arraigned before a court (consisting of his brother ofiic> rs,) for any ' x -ti'gleet of duty," for "unob'icer-like conduct," j or for "disobedience of the lawful orders of his superior," and this should not be confined to | "rhtn the command to which he. may b:-/onrnied that ttie State had been regularly credit ed with its apportionment from 184-7 to 1853, inclusive, upon the basis ol the report of 1547, alluded to above. Cur quota amounted to: For 1847, 2,085 muskets.! " 1848, 2,958 " " 181(5, 2,011 " 1850, 1.9(5(5 " ! " 1851, 1,825 " 1852, 1,752 " 1853, 1,551 " If Will be perci ived that there has been a re- < gular and gradual falling off in the annua! ap portionment. This is owing to the fact of (in coming in of new Slates ami territories and to the changes in ttie aggregate of tlie militia force returned by others. In making ny requisition upon the General Government for tlie quota due for ISu-i, 1 was iKi!ilied bv tlie proper officer, that Pennsylvania wa> entitled to draw hut cighty-l wo muskets (or their equivalent) for the year 1553, being the actual quota as based upon the latest reported number of militia, (thirteen thousand one hun dred ami fifty,) bringing the State in debt to the end of 1853, in the number of one thousand six hundred and eighteen muskets, (overdrawn,) which it would require nearly twenty years to repay. In otiter words, that we could draw no more arms or militaiy stores fur a period of twenty years ! J discovered at once, that the error consisted in reporting oniv the an ij armed militia as the strength of the State, of winch fact I succeeded in convincing the department, as will tie seen by the reply of the head of the ordnance office, in which he snvs: "Your explanations respec ting ilte uiniinii.'itd number of militia reported bv your immediate predecessor, are satisfactory, and the apportioning ot arms to the State of Pennsylvania will accordingly be made upon the basis of the return ot 184-7 consequently I was enabled to draw fur the present year, sev en hundred ami ten muskets and two hundred and fifty rifles, with accoutrements complete, one hundred and fifty light artillery sables, arid two hundred extra setts of infantry accoutre ments, to he is- tied with repaired guns, nearly all of whirl) have been disposed of to tfios* en titled to receive them: not, however, being more than one-half enough to supply toe de mand. 15v the second section of the supplement to the act 0f'1849, each assessor is required, un der a penally of twenty-five dollars, to make return to the inspector of the proper brigade, Oi all illinauent militia men in his district: and vet, notwithstanding I directed a circular to all the brigade inspectors in the State, calling their attention to this fact, not more than about one third of the delinquents have been returned to this office. As will bi seen by the laule annex ed, the uniformed militia number, 1b,(5(53 Delinquents, 90,294 Making, 10(1,957 I have made an abstract of this report to His Excellency, the President of the T nited States, as required by law, and requested hint to direct that our next quota tie based upon three .hun dred thousand, as the strength of our force, as suring him that future legislation would jKiiiil out some mode hy which this fact can he dear ly demonstrated. To base our quota upon a less uurnbe than that reported, in 18 5-7, would he manifestly unjust to the gallant citizen sol diery of Pennsylvania, w ho so manfully respon ded to the call of their country, during the late war with Mexico; and who now stand ready to promptly obey nnv call that may be made upon them by authority of law. I have visited all the State arsenals, and found the Sri'Fiti\T\!•:dknt> faithfully discharging the duties devolving upon them. During the past summer, the Hurrisborg and ."Vbadvilie ar senals have undergone slight repairs, and are now in good condition. The arsenal at Phila delphia having been s.!-! to the Central railroad coo.panv, ami thev being desirous to appropri ate the building, as well as the lot,to their own use, made it tH-cess.itv to remove the stor> s, there deposited, to s.ur.e other place : conse quently, under the advice ot your Excellency, and experienced uiilitai v gentlemen iri the city, a temporary building was rented in \ iue street one d >or west of Seventeenth, at an annual ■ cost of §lO9. On the north and west sides c l this building, ate located carpenter shops, and on the east, a grocery, making it rather an 'in safe depository for tlie public stores, it) the ab sence of any insurance. The $30,000 appropriated to purchase a lot and put up an arsenal, is altogether insufficient for the purpose intended : and, alter twice visi ting Philadelphia on the subject, and consult ing a number of military gentlemen, it wa deemed advisable to postpone th* purchase of a lot until it could be ascertained whether or not the authorities of the consolidated city would I not make a liberal appropriation, to lie added to I the State approptiatmn, in order that a build ing might tie erected that would do honor to J the Commonwealth, and so constructed as to af i hard protectioTTTo the city in case of riot or in vasion. It w ill he m cessary, however, to come ! to some determination soon, and if the city rie i dines to appropriate, I would respectfully sug gest that the $30,909 be applied to the improve ment of the arsenal at flatrisburg, with the | view of removing lite arms and stores now de ! posited in Philadelphia to that place, thereby dis | jjetising with an arsenal in Philadelphia ;.'!•)- I get her. During the months of June, July and August ; last, general, field, regimental and company ol ! ficers were elected to serve lor five years; and jas many of thern are "fresh from the ranks of j the people," and not " booked " in their duties, 1 more than ordinary difficulty has been experi enced in getting full and accurate returns from their several offices'. Tins difficulty, however, will be obviated in a short time. There is a commendable military spirit itt the j Commonwealth at present. New companies i are organizing in different parts ol the State, whilst several fine companies, now uniformed, are destitute ofarms, which has caused many complaints and much dissatisfaction. The im i pressioo seems to be very generally entertained that the A jutant General has it in his power tt) , furnish arms, &.C., whenever asked fur, not with ! standing he has .only the command of about ! thirteen hundred muskets annually, or their ♦- ; quivalent, which, when divided among tlie cav alry, artillery, infantry and title forces, give hut a small amount to each. This year we had but nine hundred and sixty rifles and muskets to issue to the volunteers of the entire State. I BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEB. 16, 1855. mention this fact distinctly, in order to draw the especial attenlen of our citizen soldiery to 1 the limited means placed at the disfiosal of the s Adjutant General. r 1 think it would State Legislature should appropriate something' more for the encQUrntreme.nl of volunteers, than i the mere pittance now given-to companies lor ; i armory purposes. The entire surplus military fund should, at least, he appropriated to main- t ta>.i an organization which is the pride of the i Commonwealth in time of peace, and our sure. : t defeats in time of wur. j ; I have made no sales of old arms, he., during j j the year, but have directed several brigade in-i I spectors to make sale, with instructions to ac- i count for the same in tie* settlement of their ac- 1 counts with the Auditor Genera! and State | Treasurer. t For statistical information, I would respect- i fully refer your Excellency to the accompany- i ing tables. | J Very respectfully, \ our obedient servant, GEO. IV. now MAX, Jhlj iinnt General, P. ./. ( A PI >'TA XT GRXERAI/S OFFICII, ) Ifedford, Dec. 30, t ' i < - Translated from the French fnr Home Journal. i 1 \ CIULMAYT WELDIXG. A wedding was recently celebrated a La Ms- • i deline. Numerous equipages were stationed at the doors of the church during the ceremony. The curious, the fluneurs , crowded in among ; the invited guests. All were desirous of be holding the bride, and to scrutinize the newly married couple. Ordinarily, such questioners gain nothing but commonplace gossip ; hut in : this instance curin-.itv bad been much excited. The espousals which had just taken place was the finale of a comedy, which produced a Jive- j Iv interest-.in lite Fauxbotirg Saint Honore. — j Tiie title to this historic draina ought to be "A Woman's Vengeance." The la !y in question was not a widow, as : one might suppose from the facts disclosed, which denote a woman well accustomed to the vici..u will readily con ceive that the lady di I not-lack admirers who were anxious to win her favor. And, indeed, there were half a dozen from whom she select ed one. A vnuoff gentleman, whom w*e shall call M. r.'4nj: that his Christian namjy ha f the good tor', line to inspire her with an ar dent pasi >n, which seemed to he recipiocssted. or rather was really s>: but the stability of which was not proof against circumstances which afterwards occurred. The fortune of M. Felix was- very moderate, barelv siillicient to enable biin to sustain a posi tion i;i the fashionable world. This, to one of a sentimental turn of mind, was rather incon venient. No hope of act s-ion gilded the hor izon— no splendid inheritance awaited him : judge, then, if the happy lot which was tender ed him—a union with a beautiful woman, lov ing and beloved—was rejected ! I3nt this peaceful happiness was disturbed hv an unexpected occurrence. The horizon of his hopes, hitherto s i gloomv, was so id-u.lv illumi nated, and a brilliant future suddenly dawned i upon him. He ! -■ came heir apparent to an im mense fortune. An uncle who had long lived i:i tile greatest poverty and obscurity, upon a small annuity, by sudden turns of fortune ami : tuckv accidents, had become exceedingly rich. Now this fortunate individual was sixty years old, and not a relative in the world, save this nephew. M. Felix, therefore, was considered ius heir to estates producing a v< arly rent of forty or fifty thousand livres, and was duly in stalled in that position. The mind of the forturate M. Felix was inuch elated with this extraordinary change in his circumstances, and he launched forth on the s.-a of dissipation and extravagance without re serve. The tranquil pleasures of matrimony lost their charms; all ..is firmer plans were abandoned ; and he gave himself tip to a life of, gavty and frivolous pleasure, breaking his en- j gagement without the least scruple,and leaving his affiance;! bride to console herself us best she might. , And how did the deserted lady receive the desertion of her lover 1 What sentiments filled low bosom at this cold blooded abandonment ? We shall not at this time disclose her feelings. The sequel will sufficiently describe them. Alter this rupture with her unfeeling admi rer, the lady appeared in society more charm- j ifig than ever ; she met him without the slight- , est apparent emotion, and becoming introduced ! to the uncle, she put forth all her powers of • pleasing—ail the graces of wit and beauty—to captivate the sexagenary millionaire. In this sh was completely successful. The old gentle- ! man became a wiiling captive. Mademoiselle became the consort of the uncle of M. Felix. Three-quarters of his estate was settled upon her by the contracts of marriage, and for trie residue, the chance of inheritance by M. Felix is very slender. Such are the facts gleaned by the curious, who thronged the entrance of the church of La Madeleine, on Monday last. A NEW PHASE OF ROBBERY.— WE learn the follow ing facts respecting a recent robbery committed on hoard the cars of the Central Eail roaTt". On Friday last a young woman took the cats for the West, at a station a shoit distance j beyond Utica. Her baggage was checked for j Buffalo. After proceeding a short distance up- j on the journey, a woman who was a fellow pas- ! s.-nger, affecting a desire to relieve the loneli ness of the voting laiiv, took a seat with her, and her ame very sociable. She was, in fact, quite . attentive, and, among other marks of larniliari ly, offered her protege her bottle of smelling,; Freedom of Thought and Opinion. salts, which was accepted and used. Soon af ter inhaling the pungent odor of the vinaigrette she became povverfuliy affected by the influence of some subtle soporific agent which it contain ed, and fell asleep. She remained in this uncon scioirs condition t>r some time, and on recover ing from her stupor discovered t hat she had been robbed of her purse, baggage checks, fxc. On arriving at the Clyde station, she made known the facts to the conductor, and the raiiioad men marie up a sufficient sum to take her to her des tination. This circumstance developes a nnv and dangerous scheme lor the robbery of unsus pecting persons on the railway trains. Doubt less the female adept had caused her victim to inhale the vapor of chloroform, and thus had her fully in her power while she perpetrated the robbery. If they carry on their operations to the extent of taking baggage, also, it is a still more serious business. Let every one be cau tions about encouraging the approaches of plau sible strangers 0:1 the cars.— llochater jJrneri am. A Capital Hit. John Rowan, Esq., of Kentucky, having been called upon from several quarters to become a Democratic candidate for Governor of that State, declined to assume the position for reasons alleged in a letter to the Louisville Times. He says: "I am unwilling to peril the fair prospects of the party bv becoming their standard bearer in the next contest, for tie* simple reason thai IIIV Wife IS ,i Catholic. 1 see that U highly re spectable Whig paper (Hie Commonwealth) esti mate.-, the number of Know-Nothings in Ken tucky at fifty thousand: and as I have been in formed bv good authority, that 110 man who has a Catholic wife can he a member of that society, it is fair to presume that they would not vote tor a man so circumstanced. If tins be true, fil tv thousand citizens of Kentucky would say to me, "What though vou are a native ot Ken tucky, and vonr ancestors were among the pio neers of this fair land: what though your grandfathers, Lvtle and Rowan, lost the earn ings o| their lives—the first by the torch of the Indian, tlie last bv Hie moneys of the Continen tal Congress—what though they did toil on lighting the Indian and 1- fling the forest, and under ail these difficulties educate a portion ol their families, and that p-ution not unknown or undistinguished in the histories of Ohio, Ken tucky, and tiie nation : and what though you may be qualified to discharge the high duties of the office you aspire to: we, fifty thousand citi zens of Kentucky, living happily around our hearthstones, won fur us by the daring of such ""tnett as you sprung from, are determined that you shall not become Governor of Kentucky, Mr. Rowan, because vcur wife, exercising tlie privilege guaranteed bv the Coustitution ol the I "nited States, and tlie constitution of every State in the Confederacy, to worship God as she pleases, is a Catholic. It matters not to tis that the ancestors of that wife were of those who landed with Lord Baltimore, and established the good old coluttv of Maryland, (to this hour the home of ret":nenient and hospitality.) the first to invite the Religionists of Christendom to come and worship God according to the dictates of their own consciences." THE Kill! AAD THE LOOK. IVh ■ll I compare together different clasps, as existing at this moment in Hie civilized world. 1 cannot think the difference between the 1 icb and the poor, in regard to mere physi cal suffering, so gieat as is sometimes imagined. That some of the indigent among us die of scan ty food, is undoubtedly true : but vastly more, in this community, tit" from eating to > much than Iron; eating too little; vastly more from esc-ss tl a:t from starvation. So, as to clothing, many shiver from want "I defences against the cold : but there is vastly more suffering among th- 1 icb from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than "among the poor from deficiency of raiment. Our daugh ters are oftetu-r brought to the grave hy their rich attire, than our -beggars by their nakedness. S i the poor are often overworked/, but they suf fer less than many among the rich, who have no work to c!<>, no interesting object to fill up lif", to satisfy th" infinite cravings of man for action. According to our present modes of ed ucation, how many of our daughters are victims of our envoi ! —a misery unknown to the poor, and more intolerable than the weariness < f ex cessive toil. The idle young n an, spending the day in exhibiting his person in the street, ought not to excite the envy ol the overtasked poor ; and this cutnberer (-f the ground is found exclusively among Hie rich.— Cbanning. Loot' I Joint,!. The following are the directions of Dr. Gadd for this disease, and we regard them as the best we have seen on this interesting subject to eve ! iy (firmer, few of whom are acquainted with this important knowledge, 'f he shoer, howev er, has much to do with this disease ; for in tnanv cases he can produce it by improper shoe ing : and can cure it, in its early stages, hy pro -1 per shoeing. Many horses are injured in their feet, some of them for life, by unworkmanlike shoeing, and how few owners of horses know ; it ?— Ed. Ger. Tel. "In all cases we must endeavor to give tlie frog a beat ing upon the ground : and in order to do this the shoe ought to he removed. A dry, brittle, and contracted hoof may be improved by repeated poulticing with soft soap and rye | meal, applied cold. So soon as the hoof softens, let it he dressed, night and morning, with tur pentine, linseed oil, and powdered charcoal, equal parts. Yet, after all, a run of grass in a soft pasture, Hie animal having nothing more than tips 011 his feet, is the best treatment. A very popular notion exists, that cow manure has"a wonderful effect on a contracted hoof:but it is the candid opinion of the author, and no doubt the reader will coincide, that filth and dirt of every kind are unfavorable to healthy action. Such remedy, aside from its objection on the score of decency, savors too much of by gone days, when live eels were sent on ar. er rand down horse's throats to unravel their in testines. If any benefit belongs to such an ob jectionable application, it is due to the property i it possesses ot retaining moisture : therefore cold j [iciiftices and water are far superior. Clay arid j moist earth, placed in the stall for the horses to ! stand on, are far superier to a stuffing of wet ; oakum, which can be removed at pleasure. In j order to keep it in contact with the sole, we have only to insinuate two strips of wood be tween the sole and shoe , one running length wise and Hie other crosswise of the loot. It af fords considerable pressure to the foot, is cooling and cleanlv, and is far superior to the above ar ticles." A Hatty Re-U.nion. —An interesting inci dent was related to tis yesterday by a friend, ! which we.-consider worthy of making a note of. j A voting man named Samuel Cline, son of] Henry Cline, a resident of Elizabeth township, reached his father's dwelling on Wednesday of j last week, having been absent frotn home about • a year. He was one of the crew of a pair of eoal-b'-afs which left this city, and were sunk in the Mississippi, in January. 1854, at tiie time so many fatal accidents occurred, burying in a watery grave a number of our laboring cit zens. Tiie crew consisted of twenty-one per sons, only three of whom reached the shore— the pil"t, and a gentleman whose name we did not learn, beside himself. The two former have since died—tlie pilot, two hours alter gaining the beach. The other succeeded in reaching liis home, in Lawrentwiile, but survived scarce ly a week, the hardships he experienced being too much for his constitution to endure. Young ( fine had been at the mercy of strangers from the period of the disaster until reaching home, being sick tlie greater portion of the time, and unable to procure sufficient means to pay bis fare hither. He states that he was seven hours in the water, and floated down the river eleven miles. The story is- too long and heart-rending to relate. The anxious father had received no intelligence from his son din ing his absence, and j ' had nearly given him up lor lost. His almost- j broken heart was filled with joy when Samuel j stepped into the house, and the lad was so over- • come with gratitude that he had bet-n permitted to gaze once more on the smiling faces of those most near and dear to him—the aged father,' kind mother, and loving sisters and brothers— and to sit beside the old homestead hearth again, that he was unable to restrain his ertiotion.— The pleasure of the re-union is partly oVrshad -owed, however, as the voting man shows indica t ions or" not long remaining a member of tlie family circle.— Pittsburg Union. A TRAIN ViLLIKED ON THE FEAIRiKS Advices were received, says the Chicago Journal of the 29th tilt., last Saturday evening, to the effect that the train which left for Spring field earlv last week, 011 board of which were the Speaker of the Ibmse, the men.hers of tiie Legislature from this county, and almost a quo rum of other members, the clerks ol the two Houses, were in imminent peril. About forty miles from Wilmington, it ap > pears that tiie train came to a snow drift, about ' fifteen feet deep. The locomotive being nearly 1 out of water, the engineer \md conductor pro ' ceeded to the next station to get a supply, when, ■ 0:1 arriving, the tank was I >und to be frozen, so thai the erigim could not return, and the pas - sengers—2so in number—were bit to pass the night. Being out of" fuel, the first onslaught 1 was made upon the emigrant cars, the seats of • which answered the purpose. Next th" wants ' of the inner man claimed attention, and an at ! tack was made upon the expre.-s car, which ■ very soon fell into tfie hands of tiie victors, ' yielding a substantia! share of spoils in the shape ' of oyst-rs, en route for the crtisine of his Excel lency Governor Matteson. When morning broke, the party found them ■ selves alone upon the deep, but spying a house ' some four miles distant, an able bodied corps of ' sappers and miners were despatched for a little aid and comfort. The house proved to he the residence of a ? woitbv farmer, who forthwith loaded his team 1 with fuel and provender, and took off tiie wo ' men and children. A couple of gentlemen took ' a conveyance across the Morris, twenty miles distant, where they struck the rock Island train ' —some few others started 011 foot for J'onliac, ' t"is nub s- distant—but a greater share remained at the scene of disaster. When last heard from, the Speaker of the House, axe in hand, was presiding over a wood ' pile—the Chairman of Banks and Incorpora l tions had under consideration a snow-bank 15 - feet deep and 20 miles in extent—clearly a ) bank of "deposit." The Committee on infer nal Improvement were dispatched after mmce pies and sandwiches, while tlie lobby, "my 1 Lord Coke" m the Chair had resolved itself into " a Committee of the Whole on the State of the - Country. r Mr. Farnham, on learning of the circumstan ces, despatched a locomotive from Juliet, with provisions to the train, but we do not learn whether it reached them or not. The depth of snow, if on a level, would be j from three to three and a half feet, although the > drifts range from fifteen to fifty feet in depth, , all through the country, with what results to I the railroads we give elsewhere. A terrible accident took place on Friday , last, on the Dixon Air line, to one of the oper atives employed in opening tlie way through a , monster drift. A track layer, by the name of i Porter, one of the most active, energetic and • efficient men upon tlie whole line of the road, l had volunteered his services to help the train through the'snow, and was standing on (beside I platform of the locomotive when the hitter was TERMS, SQ PER YEAR. VOL XXIII, NO. 27. put in motion. A borlv of snow striking against him caused is ft to slip from the platform.— It was caught by the driving wheel in such a way as to wrench the leg entirely ofi' at the knee-joint. The poor man fell backward over the railing of tlm platform, while his leg with the hoot still on, fell upon the track beneath the locomo tive. Porter was taken up and carried as quickly as possible back to Dixon, when the remaining portion of bis limb was twice ampu tated ; first, just above the severance from the leg, and afterwards still higher up, on account ot the bone being shattered. When our inform ant left Dixon, Porter*was regafded as likely to recover from his awful wound. From the Pittsburg Gazette. Horrible Sulfering. Four families, consisting: of four mpn, four women and thirteen children, left (Jermanv lor the New World. On Ihe voyage two of the women died. On landing in New York, a por tion of the largp partv of emigrants on the ship were sent back as paupers. The four families, having a small amount of money, were allowed to land. Having acquaintances in this region, they determined to reach Pittsburg. During their journey hither, they had a scan ty supply of food, and clothing altogether in sufficient for the inclemency of the season. The emigrant cars were oftentimes poorlv heated, and in changing from one train to another, they were frequently compelled to stand shivering in the frosty air for hours, like so many beasts. The women, we are informed, had neither cloaks, shawls, nor under skirts. Jt is not won derful, therefore, that w hen they arrived at this city they were all sick, half-naked and hall starved. Their acquaintances, who weje also extremely poor, received them into their houses in Allegheny, where the ladies ol the Benevo lent Society found them. Tite children were the most severely affected !>v the sufferings which they had undergone.— Their heads were swelled to tw ice their natur al !-;>*.e, and it was at first thought they were at tacked by the measles. Jt proved, however, to he art eruptive disease, caused solely by cold and starvation. Their limbs were frost-bitten, and there they lav in agony upon the floor, without clothing, food, bedding or fuel. The men were also groaning with pain, having denied them selves food, in order to divide what morsel they hail amongst their children." The women were suffering too—their breasts and shoulders be ing perfectly raw and bleeding with the intense frost. In this condition the ladies referred to found them. Every effort in their jwwer was made to telieve them. Physicians were called, ted ding, clothing, food and fuel obtained, arid a room rented where they would be more comfor table. The services of proper attendants were also procured. Hut the delicate forms of tlre lit t It- sufferers had experienced too severe a shock. On Sunday, the 28th, two of them were buried. Another day of last week saw" two more laid in the silent grave. Thanks to the exertion of tile physicians and others, the rest have been spared, and are now in a fair vvav of recovery—excepit one of the men, who seems most heroically to have deprived himself of food during his journey from New York, in order to supply the wants of his little ones. He has been taken to the Western Pennsylvania Hospital but his recovery is doubtful. Tlip remaining nirs- children have been adopted by different German families residing in the neighborhood. The condition of the western and southern roads is desperate on account of the snow.— There has been no communication with Saint Louis tor eleven days. Seventeen Locomotives are either frozen or buried on the Chicago and Mississippi road. FIRI: AND LOSS OK LI I n.—The Harrisburg Herald has been informed that on Saturday night, week, the house of Mr. John Criim, of Dauphin county, was destroyed by fire, and that the owner perished in the flames. The gener al supposition i< that Mr. Crum was killed for his money, and the house fired by the murder er. Mr. drum's daughter was away from home on Saturday night, and theie was no one else in the house. writer in the Jioston Journal thinks that of three hundred thousand children in this country who dip under ten years of age at least one hundred thousand might survive hut for the effects of saleratus. lie relates a story of sick ness in a hoarding-house at Williamstown, Mass., caused hy eating biscuits, puddings, is.c., full of salaralus. Out of fifteen boardeis, thir teen were taken sick, and were confined a long time: two of them died, another barely escap ed death, and the others recovered alter severe sickness. Prof. Tat lock and Rev. Mr. Craw ford, who ate but little of the food, escaped ill ness. Jllilitary. —The Adjutant General of New York lias announced that the Commander-in- Chief will not disband, at discretion, any u.ili tarv organization, hut only in rase he is ex pressly required by law to do it. The Adjutant Genera! also reports that the records of his of tice supply no means of discovering whether n nv regiments, battalions, or companies, are or ganized in violation of law. Scdpen Death. — We learn that on the morn ing ol the 24-th of January, Mr. Francis Friend, | ,c ho resides in the Accident district of thiscoun tv, left home on business which detained liirn till next dav. Cn his return, on opening the door of his bouse, the first object that met his sight was his wife lying dead upon the floor, with her child, about two years old, lying by her side, nearlv frozen to death. Mrs. F. was in perfect health the day before. A jury of inquest w as summoned by Truman West, E>q., who came to the conclusion that the deceased died of 3|Hp|ex y.— Cumberland .'UL^hnninn.