15V tfEO. W . BOWMAN.
SEW SERIES.
-let t }) 0 C t Vll .
I \si:R\ TEAKS.
tears arc like a river.
..pnnains front the mountain high;
I : .!):•• nois'es?- flowing ever
Ifili ten from the gazing eye:
S i:emay mark the tear-'lrop starting
[.'rum affltc'ion's bitter smart —
Vine may heed the hope departing,
From the broken, bleeding heart.
When alone, in silent sadness,
Comes the heart-felt gushing tear,
Q Ut .n tiing every ray ot elatlte'ss—
every anxious fear;
Ti . indeed, we feel the sorrow,
Bin sting from a soul of woe—
v.idow of the gloomy morrow,
Growing darker a. we go.
Heart-felt anguish is retiring
Frn.ri the world's unhallowed eye;
Solitude to grief's inspiring,
Freeing every strnggl ng sigh.
Thus the spirit bears rhe winging
Sorrow brings in dreary tone.
U iiile our ceas-|e<s cares are bringing
Countless fears, because alone.
"['is within the soul'- recesses.
Deep and hidden from the view,
IVhere the bearf-pang closely presses,
Smiting ever vital through,
When raging flame of sorrow
Boils the caldron of the heart,
Scalding tears will reach the furrow.
And the eyelids feel tile smart.
Could we see the inner weeping
('. the dark de-pairing soul,
[ i nk you we'd neglect the keeping,
Oi in,heed our biother's call?
hut. a Us! the world is telling
Startling things of human woe,
While ten thousand hearts are dwelling
On 'lie griefs but ONE* can know.
i AM NOT HAPPY.
Foil think I have a happy heart
Because a smite 1 wear,
i: if none can tell the bitter grief
i'hat's da.ly gnawing there.
O! once I had a happy home,
Aid friends ami parents dear;
But now they all are passed away,
And left me wandering here. •
But yet 1 would not wish them back,
I mis tni.e world of care;
But rather would I leave this earth,
And rise to meet them there.
I. too. like them, am passing on,
Death -oon will -eai my fate;
Nor do I care how soon he conies,
,\or mourn he stays so iate.
N'or do I heed, though frowning wealth
May >corn my form To see,
\Vte*re they are soon I 'nope to rise,
Where 1 am they most be.
But 1 will strive my talent here
To improve as God ha- given,
That I may ri-e at lust above,
To share the j,,j - o! Heaven.
A Carious Will.
T; e "Worcester (Mass.) Transcript gives the
Liro of the v t; of the hit** s-e W. Good
rich oi that city, u>ll known as a strong advo
t ienfthe t'ri.pers.nce cause. The document
'self covers fifty 8.-'.io pages, and there is a cod
ii c* dairting sixty-three double columned pa.
2-s of printed rmrft-m. Among the bequests
are, a Copy of the H ilv Bible to each (this
r : : er , sisters, ex-ecotors, &.c., sixteen in a!!,
'villi successive (iv ner is to sign a family teeto-
Ui pi- ige that tlu'v will neither make, but/, self,
rnr . y . or use any kind of'alcoholic or intox
icating liquors, either for rlrinkiny, cuUinary,
i'heinat, surgical, or Sacramento] purposes,
n r any tobacco, for the purpose of either chew
ing, smoking or snuffing, and that by precept
and example, and i:i a!! other suitable ways, at
all times and places, to discountenance all such
Uses. Other provisions of this curious will are
thus given—
"lfo then orders his executors to subscribe for
one copy l t each of themselves, and his rela
tives, of some £"<> d temperance j aper, advoca
ting the d*s >se of to! acco, and fi-gal and moral
suasion combined for the suppression of li
quor, thirty copies in ail for twenty-one
years.
"Me then bequeathed two hundred dollars (o
each of Lis living sisters: provided they, each of
them, wit| in one year, sign th" family and tee
total- pledge.
"He then divides his property, subject to all
olhr bequests, among his relatives, payable ev
ery fifth, tenth, fifteenth and twentieth year,
provided that at th" expiration of each period,
'bey -hall make affidavit that they have kept
the anti-liquor, and s.Yti-tobacco pledge in its
full extent."
KKV. DB. KALLOCH.— Lord Byron awoke one
morning and found himself famous. Mr. Kal
' >ch bad the pleasure of the same experience,
and profiled greatly thereby. His notoriety is
hot confined to bis own country; it has got a
broad and made a stir in Europe. Le JV 'oad
newspaper printed in Belgium, publishes the ac
count of the Reverend gentleman's adventures
with his parishioner's wife, and comments ap
propriately thereon. It considers the pious ju
ry who pronounced upon the law and evidence
in the case, a proof of "the inherent corruption
and hypocrisy oi New England society," and
says;
"How well it becomes the New England
States after this, to stigmatize tin* institutions of
the South, and especially what they term their
immorality."
TV lint is Deiaiorracy t
31- * DEMOCRACY represents the great
ipri nciples of progress. It is onward and out
ward in its movements. It has a heart for ac
tion and motives for a world. It constitutes the
i principle oi diffusion and is to humanity wit at
the centrifugal face is" to a revolving orb of a
universe. What motion is to them, Democracy
is to principle. It is the soul of action, it
conforms to the providence of Cod. It has
i confidence in man and an abiding reliance in
i his high destiny. It seeks the largest liberty, .
| the greatest good and lit" sut< st happiness. It
aims to build tip the great interests of the many,
to the least detriment of the few. Il remem
bers the pas', without neglecting the piv.vnt.
It establishes the present, without fearing to
provide far the future. It cares for the weak,
wfiile it permits no injustice to the strong. It
conquers the oppressor, anil prepares the subject
oftyianny for freedom. It tie-Its the bigot's :
h< art to meekness, and reconciles his mind to
knowledge. It dispels the cloud of ignorance!
and superstition, and prepares the people for in- j
struction and seif-respect. It adds wisdom to
legislation, and improved judgment to govern
ment. Is favors enterprise that yields to many, j
and an industry that is permanent. It is the !
pioneer of humanity—the conservator of nations, j
IT FAILS oni.V WIIBN IT c:bases To EE ti.rt: TO
ITSELF.
The above paragraph contains, in a few words, the
main features of the Democratic l'aity, and to these ;
principles the Ticket which follow- stands pledged, ,
as wet 1 by their own personal feelings as by the re
solutions o; Ihe Convention which placet! them in no- j
ruination. Who would not stand upon such a plat
form as this?—and what democrat would break a •
link in the glorious chain that unites ti- simply he- 1
| cause be holds a little ill-will toward- some one oi
I the candidates personally? We Tru-t, for the honor j
| of our great cause, that nonesuch will be found, but
• that all will rally under the motto, "Principles, not
1 men."
Democratic State 2Ct?minaticna.
GOVERNOR:
' Gtn WEST. F. Packer,
Of Lycoming Count}-.
CANAL COMMISSIONER:
Hon. Mric ksanil,
Oi Chester County.
SUPREME JUDGE:
EZOEI. WHS- Mroag,
Of Berks County.
S2n. .JiiiEies
Of Erie County.
COR.VRI' TICKET.
Prothouotarv—SAME. H. TA ! E, Bedford.;
Sheriff—WM. S. I LUKE, M. Wodbeiry. ;
i reinsurer— SA.ML. DAVIS, Bedford. ' j
(.' >nimissK>r.er—C. EV \ NS, E. Providence.
Director—GEO. SMOI SE, \V. Providence.
Auditor—JOHN \V. CRIMMAN, St. Clair.
Having given The Democratic Platform arid the
Democratic Ticket, fairly and honorably -elected,
we now proceed to give the Platfotn s and the i iek- !
e!s of the motley opposition—and it must he borne j
in mind that they have two distinct STATE Tick- *
ets it! the held warring each other to the death am!
the county ticket will find it d.iik-ult to ride both •
nags with safety !
Wis:;: is H. ?1. Aiiiencatsisjti i
FIRST DEGREH—(IRRIGATION.
"You and each of you, ofvonr own free will and ae- i
cord, irt the presence of Almighty God and these ;
witnesses, your i ght hand resting on thi- HOL\
BIBLE am! CKt >ss. and your left hand rai--djovvar
Heaven, in tolc i of your .-incerity, do solemnly pro
mise and S\ VEAR that you wii; not make known to
' any person or persons, any ol the signs, sectets, no >•
teiie- or objects ol this otgartiy.afion, unless it be to
tbo-e whom, after due exauoi ution, or lawful i:•/or
maiion, von shall find to be members of this organi
zation in good standing : 1 L-'t you will not cut,
carve, print, paint, stamp, stain, or in any way, di
rectly or indirectly, expose any ot the secrets or ob
ject- ot this Order, 1101 softer it to be done by oth
ers, it in your power -to prevent it, unless t* he for
official in-troction. That -o long a yon are connect
ed with thi- orgnnizution, if not regularly di-missed !
irorn it, you will, in all things, jwlitiral or social, si j
iar a- tin- order is concerned, comply with the will
of the MAJORITY when expressed iii a lawful man- j
ner, though it may conflict with your personal prefe
rences, go long a- it does not conflict with The grand, j
state, or subordinate constitution, the constitution j
of the United Mates of America, or tat of the Mate
in which you reside, and that you will not, under a
ny circumstances whatever, knowingly recommend
an unworthy per-on for initiation, nor stiller it tj be j
done if in vour power to prevent it. You further- ■
more prom -e and declare that you will not \Ol E j
nor give vour mtluence lor any man lor ANI Or - ;
TICK in the gift of the People unless he be an A- ,
MIRK AN-BORN citizen in favor of AMERICAN'S- i
j BORN ruling America, nor ii he be a ROMAN OA- j
I HOI.K", and that you will not. under ANY (TR- !
CUMSTANCES, expose the NAME of any member •
of tins Order, nor reveal the existence oi such an or
ganization! To all the foregoing you bi d \oui- •
selves under no less a penalty than that of Being ex- !
•! pelted from the Order, and of having v our name pos
; ted ant) circulated throughout the different Councils i
• of the Cinted States a- .1 PERJURER, and as a trai- i
I tor to GOD and your COUNTRY; as a being unfit tr.
be employed, entrusted countenanced or supported in i
any business transaction; a- a person totally t.nuor- ,
thy the confidence of all good men, and as one a!
whom the finger of SCORN should ever lie pointed,
ao help you God." [Tins is admitted to be the oath
<lm ■ -ten dby the Know N-rD'ii <r. Their -' I ami
"d obligations are still mote blasphemous and fear- !
| 'ttl.j
The subjoined Ticket stands square upon the a
bove platform:
• ! Governor—lsaac Hazlehurt, Philadelphia.
Canal Commi-sioner—J. F. Linderman, Berks.
; Supreme Judges—Jacob Broom, Jasper E. Brady.
T * :
The annexed Ticket adopts this platform with the j
additional plank that a dissolution of 'he Union i
i preferable to allow ing the institution of slavery to '
exist 111 the South—and that negroes should enjoy all
i the privileges of the white race, social and political:
Governor—David Wilmot.
Canal Commissioner—William Millward.
Supreme Judge-—James Veech, Joseph J. Lewis.
The Ticket which follows, is the child of a "Us,
NION" ot the above elements:
Pro'honotorv—JOHN ALTP.
Sheriff—J. S. BECK WITH,
ri Treasurer—GEOßGE OSTER.
j Commissioner—D. SPAItKS.
Director—THOMAS J.MLER.
I ~r—GEORGE STt'CKEY.
The True Way i Live.
i he true way to live, says tlie prudent econ
omist, is to pay as we go; and this rule is of
thousand fold application. If we wish to real
ize our existence, we must pay as we go, not
only our debts to the body, but what we owe to
; our higher, purer, (Mti r and more ideal nature,
or we may are mutilate a heavy debt that drags
us down in alter life. Some people form a ini
tio!) that they can devote live, ten, fifteen or
twenty years to the accumulation of means to
ptiichas** enjoyment, ami then sit down coin
iurt.ihly and enjoy i[. [Jut tile order of nature
i entirely averse to any such investment of
time; she permits nothing of the sort. I'ay as
you go, says Nature : clear up accounts every
day with your good genius, and cheerfully
subscribe something to vour ideal life to your
taste for the beautiful, to your domestic hap
: pin ess: or when the ten years are past you
may find yourself with a large account at the
bank, hut with very liftle capacity to enjoy
; anything that your money can purchase,
j it is not for ourselves aiune, hut for the sake
ofoi.tr children, that vie should love to make
j our homes whether they he villas, cottages or
1 leg-hous s, beautifully and well. Men and uo
i m -n can go abroad and take their pleasures else
where : they can gratify their desire tor variety
and excitement in a hundred different ways, but
the young people art* mostly at home. It is
their store.!i m-e tor amusement, Ibmropportu
! nity tor relaxation, their main rescource ; tints
: they are exjKised to its influence f>r good or
j i-vil, unc asingly : their unplftibfe, susceptil.-le
i minds lake in its Whole expression with the fui
i lest possible force, and with unerring accuracy.
; They soon learn Ihnn uglily to erijov every pos
i sihility cf enjoyment it possesses; and llieu un
spoiled instincts for the good and true, are per.
, petuaily seeking in il for a gratification of their
i innocent perceptions of the beautiful. It is only
ihv degrees that the voting, hungry soul, horn
J and bred in a hart!, unlovely home, accepts the
| fate to which, not the poverty, hut the indilFer
' once of parents condemns it. I ! is many, many
years b. fore the iirej r ssible longing becomes
utter!}- hopeless. Perhaps it Is never crushed
i out entirely, hut it is so stupefied bv slow de
i grees into despairing stagnation, if a perpetual
' recurring blank surround it, that it often seems
jto die, and to make no sign. The imager, j y.
less, torpid home atnr-sphere in which it is
! forced to vegetate absolutely starves it out :
1 and thus the good intention that tin* ail-w.-e
Creator had in view when installing :r desire
j f.r the heatttifol into (!:■• i-nianl, i- ; imtuijy
1 trust rated. It is frequently from this cause,
jand from this alone, that an impulsive, togh
! spirited, light-hearted bov, will dwindle
[ grees to a sharp, shrewd, narrow-minded and
selfislr vonth, thence, again, into a : ud mt,
; hard manhood, an ! at last into a cov< tons, tiri.
loving and unlove*] •• !,! age. The -ing! • e.xpla
; nation is all-suffici. t.t—he never lord a j ha ant
j home.
.'si 'NC.
Thank God fir a > ml wich can drink in its
harmonies. The pulse leaps wildly to the stii
! ring numbers, w fuel ■ like the foot la lis ol armed
1 men. awaken the fiery impulses oi the slumber
ing |> art. Or its low wail i- answ :ed i>v " -
and the eloqu* nee ol lis plaintive so .nt.--, w tio
The btig'e and t!>e drumbeat sltr tile blood
like red lightning trt the veins. ]: t! rr is in-
I Cm-nce which would make the timid heart like
j iron, and drive it madly to battle, it is tints ot
I martial mtosic. Often ill childhood have we
watched the columns of soldiery, and toiimi a
tear upon the cheek at the emotion stirred
Lv the tossing plume, the flaunting banners,
ami the diumbeut pulsing regularly through
the whole mass iik" one common footfall upon
the beaten sward sending the thoughts surg
ing through the soul. And yet, aias! ti.,.t
j music should he made the mighty stimulus
which drives is st against host in Lie battle
, shock.
We once stood by the side of a friend in the
■ great procession which followed one hundred
j thousand petitions up to the State Capitol at
jA I an v, demanding the Maine Law. As the
det ce mass of j" ople, like a mighty n nst' r
• moved by one heart, wound through the city
■ and lapped around the Very Capitol itself, the
emotions swelled to the throat. Ihe music ot
\ the bands r-tse and fell on the wind, and the
ground seemed to shake under the tread ot the
j people. "Glorv !" *j ten later! a friett I by the
j side ofiis, -I could march to the Mis-issippi
I to that music, and hack again without eating or
i sleeping." He was not the only one who
' was that hour chafing under the wild estacy of
I music.
; A few moments -ince, a shadow —one of
! those which w ill drill without warning into ev
il t-ry skv—lav gloomy upon our h>art. Hut it
j vanished as it came ! A trmnd touches a gui
tar, and the first waves of a touching melody,
1 filled the world and heart with sunshine. The
chafing ?j irit t- s FO thed and lulT-d, and tlie
I gentleness of childhood steals in w here the un-
I worn will. was sullenly fretting in the worn
frame. The soul rises oti the tub* ot a new e
i motion -like a freed bi d, and the melodies
j there garnered, gush up and chime out with the
airs of the shell.' A summer sky is now above
j us.
How much of holy music there is in the
' chitt.ing of church bells! Tremulous with su
verv sweetness, they rise and tall upon the
■still Sabbath air. stealing along until, like toe
j faint sounds of a waterfall, they drop down
into the heart, where it is ever moist with
tears.
Napoleon wept as he listened to tlie chiming
of the distant cathedral bells of Ibirg-s. I here
were places in his heart which had not
burned over bv the meteor blaze of ambition. —
The echoes of Chimes heard in childhood were
Utrr.d by the distant peal, find tor the moment
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
FRIDAY UOKNINf;, BEDFORD, PA. JILY 31,1857.
he forgot his dream of glory and gazed tearfully
back.— Cnyugn Chief. |
ELOPEMENTS.
As a general rtile we agr-*e with tlie writer
of the following remarks on "Elopements."—
Still titer** may be some peculiar cases in which
a life's happiness depends on a moment's viola
tion ot the rigid proprieties ot life. We con
ceive, however, that these cases are so rare as
to he the exceplionw
Runaway matches s< em to he marked with
Divine displeasure, j have never heard of a
happy one. Not far from cs resides a widow
laay wfi > eloped from an * \cVflent mother, when
young, with a worthless young man. Sin* is
now the m !her of three grown daughters', every
one of which has eh>p.'d an t left h**r—the
youngest only last June, at fifteen years of age
an*! she was left desolate and broken hearted. 1
Tims is the example of Ihe mother follow ed by
tlie children: and who can sit*' blame hut her
self? But the worst remains to h** told : iLP ,
eldest has already been deserted hv her husband,
who lias gone to California, and site had to seek
shelter in th" home of her childhood : the sec- ;
on*l daughter is suitig for a divorce though she
had not been thirteen months rnirri-d.
Ah, girls ! n> ver in an uniieeded hour, [!acp
vour hand in that of a voung man whef would
rr
Counsel you tints to leave vour paternal home!
Jt is cruel to deprive those who have nourished
you, and with sweet hope looked forward to the
dry of your maniage beneath th-ir own roof:
it is their bl'ssed privelege to bless your union,
to witness your own and \ our husband's j. y.—
How can you rob them of their participation trt
that Aous bridal, towards which they have i
bpeft v i many years looking forward? Daugh
ters who elope wrest from their parents that
crowning joy of a father's and mother's life—
the gratificatir no! seeing their daughters mar
ried at their own fireside. A bridal elsewhere
is unnatural, and God's blessing will not follow
it.
A Coy IVI;o Broke Lis .11 other's Heart.
. . _ j
I went into the "Toombs," or Sew York
City prison vtslerday, and saw a great many I
t tugs to make m • t. rv sad : but no that <
cited my sympathies m rre titan a poor weeping '
woman who sto i i okit g int • one of the ceils
containing three or f air boys from nine to t welve !
vears oh!. One of tl: *? i os was her own
and ei . st son ; she was aw idovv and her bus
bar. ! who was a sailor, had been d-.n l sev*. :a!
y ea is.
I sj. )!:*• to this heart stricken tnot"!;er. and in- j
q'; ire*, iYA• - ti. cause < i her sorrows. "Oh, sir,"'
said she, "rrr. In v is in re in piison for stealing. ,
Oi ~if h>- Writ* d* ad ;t: lin his t tiin; I cotthi
i ;*r it : i **t to have Him here in a felon's cell
teaks il v heart. J tried to keep him in but he :
\ itiid go out into the streets, and there be got
into lad con | any : 1 warned and entreated t
hi:.. . •:? he v. r t .!•* T wanted !:Irn to, and
now he i< here in this dreadful place!"
N wonder ti at his mother wept : no won- ;
*! i that she ciitild in tbe comforted. Here in a
horrid ; rison, in which were men and hoys, was j
!. r own chi!-l, the !;:; *■ that she bad a tl. tusand
ti'in'S r eked t . sb-ep singing a lullaby : 1-r
v.: -he i id i:i sickness vratcfod and wept
and s|ej *. r- t.and to cb-t'ie and f, ■ had m w - ji
til! midnight liotir- ! ro.'::c. That balie, in ■
t igs and di-grac-, ■ mild not be spoken to only
thi ugh an iron grating, even by hi - rnotl * r.— j
I' t woman 1 p.ti d* her. I vve[ t w it!) her, i
i d tii' d to soothe her anguish.
L> l me ask those w I:u read this story, how it |
is with V"ii? Are vou kind and r.bedient to \
vour mother? J) , you mind Iter quicklv and j
pleasantly when uhe speaks to you! Do you l
ever d ••>!: v het' Or are vou like the h.-\-
who f.roke his mother's heart? N * matter how j
i. : ! vou are, he rorrfn', O, be rrry careful tr--' \
tlont lu-pnk pour ?nol ',.rs heart.' Y>u will)
r*e\-er kn*w in this world how much vou owe j
vour mother—how much site has endured an i i
si tiered for v* c. Hut if vou are spared to live :
until vou are gr* wn, and t! at dear shall
live for v'i to but v her, if vou are unite, and
c!i- liirii -ntto her now, how will you when
\ .it come to kiss her cold face fur the last time
h* fore you cover !-r from vnf sight! \Vh* n
I see a !oy or girl dis hedient and unkind to a ;
*: • a t:: • r , [ great I v far they will come to some |
w retched end. Child's paper.
The S-::;S?r and !!:e Toad.
A ft cots IMOIM'XT. —The following sir.gn- ;
lar relation is furnished bv a correspondent of j
the I! -! -n Jean It' tr, as having been witnessed
by a per? n n ov living, though occurring more
than forty wars a*go. about sixteen miles from :
this <if v: The narrator said, tl at while walk- j
ing in the field lie saw a large black field spider,
< ■ n>'uh led of the rr.i'-t v.-nt-m* us sp*'< 1 •> conten
ding with a comn rm siz -d toad. The spid.-r
being vi rt quick in its movements would get
on the bach of the toad and bite it. when the ;
load with its fore paw would drive off' the s[ i-i
!er. It would then hop to a plantain, which
grew t --ar bv, and lite it, and then return to
the sj ider. Alter seeing this perpretr3ted sev
eral times, and noticing that each time the toad
was bitten it went to the plantain the spectator
thought he would [toll up the plantain and watch
the result. He did so. Being again bitten and
the plantain trot to he found the toad soot* be-'
gan to swe|| and show other indications of Be
ing poisoned, and rimd tit a short time, il the
plantain which grow - so a' undantly near almost
< v. i \ dwelling irt this vicinity w as such an im
mediate and t-iiertual remedy to the toad, lor
the hit*' of the spider, can we not reasonable
infer that it would he an effectual cure lor the
bite of the same insect.
OCCUPATION. — What a glorious thing it is for
the human heart. t hose who work hard sel
dom yield themselves up to the landed or real
sorrow. \V hen gtu f si's down, folds its hands,
and mournfully foods upon its Dais, weaving
j th** dim shadows that a little exertion might
i sweep avvav, into a funeral pail, the Mrong
! spirit is shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes
: our master. When troubles flow upon you,
ttark and heavy, toil not with the waves
I wrestle not with the torrent! rattier seek by
occupation to divert the dark waters thai
threaten to overwhelm you, into a thousand
channels which th*' <iuti*s of Ml" always pre
sent. Before you dream of it, those waters will
fertilize the present, and give birth to (rest! flow
' ITS that they may brighten the Jot DIP —flow>rs
; that will become pure and holy, in the sunshine
which penetrates to tlie path of duly, in sj ile
jof every obstacle. Grief after all, is a selfish
feeling : and most selfis'h is tbejman who yields
f himself to the indulgence of any passion which
filings noj >\ to his fellow men.
A Case of Elopement.
A TL E - R: .'. N D' - N E V~E N G E .
The N**w York Tribune gives an account ot
an elopement in "high life" in \\ illiamsburg,
which took jtlace a few days ago. it thus nar
, rates the facts of the case:
.Mr. A- -is a heavy merchant in New York
• and his residence for some time past fius been
! in tire most aristocratic portion of the city
km' Unas the South Side. His v lib is a beau
tiful and accomplished won an, belonging tua
w.aitliy and highly i• spectafile family tit New
York, and was looked upon by Iter husband as
everything that could fie desired in a partner
I T life. The third person, N;r- B , a young
man doing iritsirttss in New York, and is also of
high stam ing.
i Some three months since tlie wife and Mr. I>.
formed an acquaintance in a Btuadway salc-on.
'if,' two frequently met at tie-same place a:!%
finally tiecame aniently attached, and !■ * itng
that they would be unhappy if seperated, the
i.niy rieci :<'il to abandon her hu.-'*and and ctu'ii
ren arid elope with her lover. Early on the
morning of the Ith was fixed upon to consum
mate their designs and carry their plans into ex.
ecut i- tt.
The husband had received some intimation of
the -tep his wife was about t• > take, and al
i though tie could not credit tlie rumor, decided
jto fie fully convinced of its truth or falsity. On
tin ti '-."fiing in qu* stion Ait-. A. left the l ouse,
and, meeting a carriage, she immediately sprung
into it, when the driver proceeded toward the
; South Tenth street ferry.
I h* husband was now convinc lof his wife's
perfidy : and overtakidg the carnage, wrenched
op-n tii,- door and immediafeiy commenced an
! onslaught opott tin* voting man with a knife,
a: i did r.ot desist until lie had inflicted a
danger,--ns wound in the n*-ck, several upon the
ai'it:, otrr* of which will render the arm useless
—and also a severe gash across his stomach.—
During the melee the young man -discharged
his rftsl !. the ball grazing his adversary's fore
j liea i and causing a slight wound.
The carriage was turned hack to the house,
the \ oung n.an removed to a rom, and the hun
j i!y physician called itr to dress the wounds.—
, At this stage of the affair the two gentlemen rec
■ ognized each other as intimate business ftiends
in New York. As the In iv remained incog.,
Mr. B. declared tfmt h>* was nt aware of the
relations existing ht-tween Mr. A. and tire lady,
or In' would not for the world taken this
i Step.
The injured man is still lying in a critical
c< :u!ition. The wife has been discarded by h*-r
husband, who gave her one of Iter children, fie
[retaining thru,? others.
"Yon are f.om the country, .re vou not, sir?"
sir;. a dandy clerk, in a book store to a hand
somely dressed qoaker, w ho had given him some
tlOllble. V
I " v : s "
"W eil, here is an excellent essay on tlie rear
j ing of calves."
; "That," said Aminidab, as In- turned to
; l-a~e th** store, "thee had better present to thy
j muthei."
Sunr. MAN'S VALLFY AND Bnoan Top RAIL
: ROAD. —This roa*l, lying between the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad on the south, ar i the
Pennsylvania Centra! Railroad on the north,
: w ill make, w-Jv-n constructed, one of Ihe most
direct and favorable routes known from New
! York city to Cincinnati, St. E-uE and alt other
1 important points in the great west. It will also
bring PhiuJeiphia into cios-i c motion with
' western interest and create a vart amount of
; trade hitherto considered as visionary.
I It commences at the mouth of Fishing creek,
nf iit six miles ah ve this place, on tlie west
st : • ot" the Susquehanna river, at which point
it joins tin-Northern Central and Pennsylvania
Centra! Railroad, and runs directly west, inter
cepting in it< course, a number of small towns,
! fr->m each of which a large amount of freight
and passengers will inevitably accrue.
Tlie lumber business is also an important
item, and will greatly increase the local traffic,
as there are thousands of acres of beautiful tim
ber, now completely valueless for w ant of a
matket. and the immense mineral wealth of tin
section through which il passes, the unpataiied
advantages which it possesses in water power,
and the fact of bringing the Broad Top coal
fields thirty miles nearer market that) anv pres
ent or pp-posed route, leave ns in no doubt as to
the practicability of its speedv completion.
fße distanc" from Jlairisburg to Broad Top,
*by way ot Huntingdon, is one hundred and
twenty seven nnfi s, whilst, bv the proposed
route, it w ill only he ninety-nine. The entire
length ol the road from the mouth of Fishing
creek to the Pittsburg &. Connellsville Railroad
at Bridgeport, would he about one hundred and
forty-one miles, which, w hen completed, will
form the connecting link between N-w York
and Cincinnati, the whole distance being only
seven hundred and eighteen miles. From New
\ ork to Cincinnati, by way of Albany, Buffalo,
Cl-v.'liitid and Columbus, the distance is nine
hundred and twenty two miles, thus actually
TER.HS, $2 PER TEAR.
VOL XXV. NO. 48.
I raving by the construction of this road two hun
dred and four miffs.
it u til be set n frojn the comparative distances
that this ron ! possesses superior advantages over
any ether route leading from Philadelphia or
New York to the West: and the completion of
the Ohio and Mississippi and other railroads,
promise a large accession of both Southern and
Western trade, which will undoubted!v prove
ofgreat benefit to the State.
The maximum grade east is 52 S-10 feet to
the rile, ai:d the estimated cost per mile, inclu
ding rolling stock, motive power, &c. sufficient
to do the buisness of the road the first year af
t- r opening, is-$20,000, making the total cost
for one hundred and forty-one miles $3,56(i,00D.
The amount of business the second year will
no doubt require an increase of th rolling stock,
motive power, N_c., sav slf>oo per mile, making
the aggregate cos! of the whole road, when fin
ished, 0*3,817,560. — H"rrislurfz I'nion.
(' INVENTION OF Cot;?;*rv SUPERINTENDENT?.
Mr. Hickock, State Superintendent, has issu
e,J a circular requesting ail the County Super
intendents of C UT.uon Schools to assemble in
Convention at pearling, on the 22u of July, at
10 o'cioek in the forenoon, for consultation with
regard to the condition and prospects of the
Common Schw Is : the full and f: e discussion
of t!ie duties and wm kings of the County Su
perintendents, and the presentation of such ad
min ist rati ve changes and reforms as the expe
rience of the last three years may have demon
strated to be necessary or advisable. This Con
vention will be one of special importance, and
the punctual attendance ol the Superintendent
of every county is regarded as indispensible.
REMEDY FOH CUT Won;,is.—A correspondent
, of the Atlanta American, says the liquor from
tobacco imyle bv boiling two pounds of cheap
strong tobacco in a large wash pot of water pour
ed aruind the roots of the plants troubled bv
rut worms, is an effectual remedy against their
depredations, lie says the taste of tobacco is
distasteful to their uormships, and they will
vamose the ranche instanter, wherever it is ap
plied. He has tried it several wars and al
ways with success. Why did nobody ever
think of that before? it i; a self-evident tbiig.
for it is a notorious fact that man is the only
animal that can stand the smell or taste of to
bacco after it has been cured. The tobacco
worm itself will back out from it.
RURCNT-ICA.NIS;,i ON THE DECT.INB IN NEW
YORK.—A meeting of the Young Men's Gen
eral Committee mot in New York, on Thurs
day night, at the Studevant": Institute, and du
ring its proceedings
J. !!. Dutoher, of the Eigth Ward, called the
attention of the committee to the necessity of
hawing a "Document and corresponding Corr
!. ttce" appointed, to scntfpr "epiihlican publi
cations 'hroeghout the State. The speaker had
in*! returned from a tour in the Western pait
of the Stale, and he regretted that republicanism
was at such a ! w ebb. He 1 und the leaders
apathetic and the free soil ir.as-vs cold r-nd in
diff'ert ■ while the democrats were active and
"alnus in li •• pr o agation of slanders against
the r; i lira; The acts cf the last Legisla
ture had excited a bad feeling among the farm
em on account of the lavish expenditure of the
Stat-- money and the consequent increase of
taxation, 'i he new police bill was criticised
a verse!v, and on all sides he heard complaints,
which assured him that unless an effort was
made, and a str. ng. c.ne. the party would lose
the State in the corning election. He (Mr.
i'etcher 1 ti r one. end-ised all that had been
done bv the Leg is'ai ure, and lie believed that if
it was known why thos- measures were passed,
they would e acquiesced in by Ihe people.—
He was of opinion that a "Life of Fernando
Wood" would do a good d al ol good. Anoth
er reason for these documents being spread is,
that the Know Nothing party are about being
dissolved, and til- members ol it will ;oin the
democrats unless they are 1 rought under good
influence hv proper publications. He instanced
toe express as being a newspaper with a most
pernicious influence.
.Mr. I"). ah > stated that the documents should
he got up nn ■ r the herd of "Facts lor the Peo
ple,*' for if they a-e known <o be party docu
ments they v. ill not be r-ad ! !
DEATH ru N I'M ::O> N< ::;A. —About the Ist
of June, Mr. Juc >b S. \\ iiie's, of Cay side, rit-ar
Flushi; Long Island, a son ol Mr. Samuel
YVillet s, 1 lie prominent Quaker hanker and mer
chant of this city wa< bitten by a strange dog,
which eatr.o into his doorvard, and which he
was attempting to drive out. The dog was
killed s n after,and alfiiough we do not learn
that In- manifested any unequivocal symptoms
of hydrops, bia, Mr. Willets and his family nat
urally iejt a good cf a! of uneasiness. The
\v :m<! was cautetbo'J, and otherwise medically
treated, and no further ill eib cts manifested
them." Ives until Saturday last, when Mr. Wil
lets was seized with hydrophobia in its most vi
olent form, of which he died on Sunday after
noon. fie leaves a widow and four young
children. The dog belonged to Mr. Willet's
place. Some children were t. asing him, throw
ing dones, &c„ when Mr. W. drove him out
of the vatd. The wound entirely healed, and
it was believed that nothing serie.us would re
sult. The first symptoms of hydrophobia were
manifested on Saturday, when he drank a glass
of u:it-r. and experienced at the time a spas
modic sensation.—•A". 1. Post.
017" David Forney, ol Franklin, Pa., abused
his wife so tiiat her iaiher took her home, in
revenge of this Forney set fire to the old gen
tleman's house, and !j>7o,lioo worth of property
was consumed. Forney was arrested last week
in Cincinnati, where he passed under an assu
med name.
DETFOTT, Julv 17.—Th<> telegraphic cable
across the Detroit river, jjt ti.L point, was suc
cessfully laid yesterday.