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THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1858.
tSilßilw parties are unknown to us, our rule for adrer
tUing la to require payment in advance, ora guarantee from
. kaWA persona. It la therefore ueeless for all such to (end
W advertisements offering to pay at the end of throe or six
months. ' Where advertisements are accompanied with the
money, whether one, five or ten dollars, we will giro the
•dreitiaer the fhll benefit of cash rates.
-■■W* Readers desiring a good Philadel
phia daily paper are referred to the adver
tisement of the Evening Bulletin. Being
an awning paper, it gives the news of the
day 16 hoars in advance of morning ri
vals.
N*w Monthly.— About the IstofDe
.Member, Oaksmith & Co., 112 Walnut
, ntredj, NewYork,will iasuethe first num
. .her of anew, monthly, under*(he title of
4ke ‘‘ Gteat’ It still hereafter
take the place of Emerson’s and Putman’s
Monthly, price €3 per year, or.£s cts.
per,number.
Centennial Celebration —From
the complete arrangements published, we
presume that this is a gala day in Pitts
burg, the greatest day, perhaps, ever wit
nessed in that city. Among the names
of the Vico Presidents we notice, J. Y.
'Mathias, Esq., and Hon. S. S. Blair, of
.this county.
*■ *’ s ■' v
JQU The Supreme Court has filed an*
. opinion 4n favor of'the plaintiff in the
nose of the . Sunbury and Erie Bail Koad
Company vs. Cooper, deciding that the act
Assembly for.the sole gf ,the canals is
constitutional, and that a, decree will be
: entered accordingly .at the next Nisi Pa
ws Court, subject to an appeal in the Court
. lu Banc.
Ladies’ Home Magazine.— This neat
little monthly for December is on our ta
ble. It contains a beautiful steel engra
ving and a colored fashion plate, besides
numerous patterns and' embroidery work.
The fact that this Magazine is under the
oars jof T, 8. Arthur and Virginia F.
Townsend, is a sure guarantee of its ex
cgllence. Published by T. 8. Arthur &
Co., Philadelphia, at 92 per annum. .
t&»Two prisoners escaped from the
Huntingdon jail on Friday night 4aat, by
- aneaus -'nfcn *fiiteo *k«y with—which they
unlocked. their cell door and afterwards
burning a hole through the ceiling thro’
wbipb they ascended to .the attic, thence
:by n.trap door they gained the roofVfrom
which they descended to the wall of the
yard and made good their escape. One
of them had been sentenced to three years
in the Penitentiary, and the other was
awaiting sentence. A reward of $lOO is
offered for their arrest. -Their/names are
. JiitzfonJ ohd
> Atlantic Monthly.— The September
number of Uiis best of all American Month-
ILas.is before ns, in which the " Autocrat
gives* Breakfast to the Public,” which
' mbit he relished by all who partake of it,
«md the “ Jolly Manner,” and “ Bulls
Wd will serve for a supper. There
is always something new and rare/ about
this Magazine, which creates a longing
for it before it arrives, and no matter how
jbijgh the hopes of its constant Readers may
.jnfti, they are always satisfied.. are
pleased to know that Mis. Harriet Beech
: er Btowe will be a constant contributor to
tiuswork hereafter. Price $8 per annum.
Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston.
Th» American MONXHLT.—Tius is
ofa new candidate for public &.
vor,in (be magazine line, which is to be
published in New York, at the low price
of |2,00 per annum, for single copy, or
two copies one year for #3. Into it will
.be merged the late Graham's Magazine, of
Philadelphia, which is now suspended.—
Each number will contain a splendid steel
figraving, and once in every three months
afi elaborately colored steel engraving of
the same quality. The new Magazine will
be under the editorship of that able wri
ter, Chas. G. Leland, and the Easy-Talk
: 4% old magazine will be found in the new.
Mfmxy White, publisher, No. 7, Beekman
St. New York.
• A Singular Vote.—At the election
inMassachusetts, the town of South Bao
-1 Vorti/votqJ as follow? for Goremor :
•• 444
BeacbVDem, . - • : -yyJ 444
. Am,
Jaoow Co*viCT*n.--Ohmtia» Jaoobi,
whom we noticed last week u being c|n
triaMbr the murderofbis wife, was, on,
Saturday lust, convictedbf murder in tbe
first degree. !fhe jury was out buli twen
ty minutes after the deliveiy of the charge
of the Court. The unfortunate man re
ceived the terrible news with . careless
ness and the utmost composure, as though
he cared not for the result. On his; way
back to the prison,'tears were observed in
his eyes, and he exclaimed to the jailor
«by g■■ d, convict a man for doing
nothing.”
This is the second man convicted, at
the present Court of Oyer and Terminer,
of Allegheny eonnty> for the murder of
his wife. In poth cases, motions for new
triak have been made. The second trial
of James M. Kelly, for the murder of an
old man Weisaman, will be taken up on
Monday next What a calender of orime
the records of the present term presents.
The Next 11. S. Senate. —The Uni
ted States Senate —which convenes in
December, 1850, and ends on the 4th of
March, 1861~will be constituted politi
cally as follows
Northern 9 I Southern Opp., 2
Southern “ 28 I Northern do 25
PEUANDBOIBSOES.
gST* Congrt® meets on the 6tU of December.
, JflT 111—;tbe editor of the Tyrone Star.
t&T Do—Trough of the Standard. No pa
per this week.
jggpr Scarce—“ Local Items,” and our time
to manufacture ’em. 1
BQv A Savage Procceding-r-An Indian run
ning away.
gffif On a “swell” last week—otieof Job’s
“ comforters,” outhe Seniors band.
{s, On a “bust” this week— “ comfor
ter,” much to the patients relief.
SSF The- Superintendent’s office is receiving
a fresh coat of paint.
Convenient for onr citizens—the new
orrongement in the running of passenger trains.
- When a great man stoops, or trips, the
supill men aroundilum suddenly become greater.
The prominent feature, after all, of the
Atlantic cable is its note-being an cyua-llne,
- The mother who saw a baby prettier
than her own has been sent to a lunatic estab
lishment
Stations are fast springing up on the
gieit overland California route, and the accom
modations are rapidly increasing.
BQt. Numerous—the number of hunters who
visited the “kettle” on Thanksgiving day. It
was no doubt a “ pretty koUle of fish.”
9&m DeHoiqos—hot buckwheat cakes, good
honeyand other "fixings!;” these cold morn
ings.
tSS* Speaking of cheap things—-it costs bat
a trifle to get a wife, bat dosen’t she sometimes
prove "a little dear?”
The gaptista.qf England are adapting
the'institutions of class meetings, .and their
leading men ore in favor of it.
gggrvWeare pleased to learn from the HoUi
daysborg papers that Hon. S. 8. Blair has en
tirely recovered from his late illness.
£9* A man in Philadelphia was recently
fined sixteen dollars for swearing and five dol
lars for getting drank. "
•g®* We admire the ladles because .of their
beauty, respect them because of their virtues,
adore fbhm .because of intelligence,
loro them becapse we can't http it.
A Frenchman repeatedly hearing the
weird press; used to -Imply persuasion, one ev
ening when in company exclaimed: "j say
squeeze that lady to ting.” \ ;
Crowded—the Ladies Bazaar with visi
tors on eve, and our office with
job .work all the time—People know where to
get their money book! 'l'-
fleefqr, of the "Logan House,”
HoUidaysburg, gave a complimentary dinner to
Van Tries’ Cornet Band on Thanksgiving. ■ The
Cqrporal knows bow to get up a good dinner.
9£9u A Pennsylvania Prize fighter.—3gr.
/George Washington Reifsnydcr, of Pottaville,
has,; it is said, accepted Tom flyer’s challenge
to tight any man in the world for $10,000.. ■
MBu. All s Matter of Taste.-—A woman -will
tolerate tobacco .smoke in a man she likes—and
yet, curiously enough, bow she dislikes it in a
man she dislikes!
A witness in an assault and battery case,
at Hartford Conn., in describing a wound cat the
head of one of the parties said it was “ about as
large.as a three cornered stone.’*
t&ST “ The only liberty cap,” says a clever
and witty author, is a nightcap. In it men
visit, one-third of their lives, the of sleep,
the only land where they aie always free and
equal.”
One of the best looking girls in a certain
seminary is a red-headed girl, from Vermont.
Out of compliment to her hair, they call her the
“ torch of lore.” Bather more poetic com
plimentary, we think.
gSg* We rather guess that but few printers
were in a mood this year to return thanks—hav
ing nothing on hand whereof to be thankful, un
less it be a pocket-full of——unpaid printing
bills. That’s our case.
BQU Julia Smith, a professional thief, was
arrested in Cincinnati, a day or two since, and,
under her hoops, were found carefully stowed
8 towels, 2 tablecloths, 1 looking-glass, 8 tum
blers, 1 pair of pants, and a great bottle of Ma
deira. • •
i Death from a Chestnut ShelL—A little
daughter of a Idr. West, who resides near Copp
er’s Furnace, in tide State, while eating chart-
AAA
87
—Hyeatordaj.jgota pieoe to»V:
Whieh earned death in a Aort Tba doe-.
tar vu Bent for.but before hereached the house
the child vu debd. Sha waa about eighteen
mputkaioild. Cairo should be taken when such
litfleones arc given anything of thaikind to
eat.—ESartoa Express.
'KUThesnrestand best way to be pteduo*
live of good is fo pay your little debts due ti»
mechanic and laboring man. They need what
is theirdue and jto put off their appeals by friv
olous excuses causes more misery than is dream
ed of. M
’ The Pestilence.—The whole number of
deaths from yellow fever in New Orleans, dur
ing the past season, foots up within six otfive
thousand. In Mobile, the total thus tie is 56
a large increase, compared with the previous
fever seasons of |1847 and 1858.
fgk- Mud.—lt is said that.the mud is so
deep in Leavenworth city, IL T., that hogs can’t
vaUovioithout\^ping x, d^an n under— and, that a
steamboat that landed some goods on the bank,
was'compelled to leave the dark to watch them,
on account of tile impossibility of draying.
jgST A Cincinnati paper has come to the con
clusion that “ if a score of the cowardly wretches,
who go about tdvn beating unfortunate women,
werC respectably killed, it would be well for the
community in general, and retributive justice in
particular;’* “Respectably killed” ip a good
phrase. ;!
Grant Thombum attributed bia cheer
ful eld age to we fact that he never eats enough,
and thousands of his countrymen are wearing
out their bodies, not so much by the excess of
business or the i multiplicity of cares, as by the
overwork they crowd upon them by digesting
surplus and unnecessary food.
.' i *
B@> There is a class of persona who only
make friends to use . them. If they can get
nothing out of ,a man, they do not want bis
friendship. SuOh people treat their friends like
cigars—they hang on to them, gist aU the good
from them, then throw them away and spit af
ter them.
27
IS. Sheridkn, being on a parliamentary
committee, oneiday entered the room as all the
members were seated for business. Perceiving
no empty seah' he bo wed, and looking round the
table with a droll expression of countenance
said, “ Will only gentleman move that I may
take the chair.?
9S&* A bright and beautiful bird is Hope; it
will come to us mid the darkness and sings the
sweetest song when our spirits are saddest;
and when the lone soul is weary, and longs to
pass away, it warbles its sunniest notes, and
tightens again the slender fibres of our hearts
that grief has been tearing away,
The City of Jeddo, the Capitol of Japan.
—The city of Jeddo is said to he, without ex
ception,. the largest city in the world. It con
tains 1,500,000 dwellings, and the unparalled
number of 6,000,000 of people. Some of the
streets are nineteen Jabanesorla in length,
Which is equal to 82 Engliah milpa
86T* A great shaving match against time was
recently performed in England, near Leeds.—
A “Professor Carrodos,” attended by three
latherars and five stroppers, engaged to shave
seventy men hi sixty minutes; and succeeded
in performing the task four minutes within the
specified time.
Among the patents granted last week
we notice the-following: O. Hickok, of Har
risburg, Pa., for cutting wooden screws, and
for improved die for catting wooden screws; B.
V. Jones, of Johnstown, Pa., for improved sau
sage machine; John Nagle, of Altoona, Pa., foi
improvement ip presses for embossing and figu
ring velvet, etc.
I®* Letter' boxes here been placed in some
bf. the Philadelphia passenger railway-care,
and on the latter reaching their tenninos, the
contents of the boxes are deposited by the con
ductor in the post-office. It is found to be so
great a convenience to snberbans, that all the
numerous am -mSf probably be supplied in the
aaine vay. yv 1
.one nays of the newspapers:—
Salutary as physolan, edifying asthe par
son, refreshing as the morning .daw* frdgront
as the flowers, and punctual as the milk-man,
drops in npon the yaeant or weary maw, mom*
ing or evening, thp newspaper. A greht inatif
tntion! Eighty product of the toil of
reporters, correspondents andoompositors !>
iST On the 29th instant, willcom
nMncC running between Philadelphia 'and Chi
dago, fite Pittsburgh, Port Wayne andChieago
havffig been completed. This road
bdng under the same management as the Penn
n°w imye (fie longest route
of mdhterrapW railway in the
eight hundred and twenty-four miles.
: hir A-gentleman in the habit of entertain*
ing, very often, a circle of friends, observed
that one of them was in (he habit of
something before grace was asked; and, deter
mining to cure him upon a sortition of the of
fense, he said: “For what wO are abont to re*
oe&Te,-and for what James Taylor has already
reeMyed, the Lord make os truly ttankftil.”—
The effect may be imagined. /
JS6T I love to look upon ayonngman, There
is a hidden potency concealed vrithinhisbreast,
which charms and pains me.
The daughter of a clergyman happening to
find the above sentence at the close of a piece
of her father’s manuscript, as he had left it in
his study,'sat down and added— ■
“Them’s my sentiments, exactly, papa—all
put the pains.”
8®- The Cincinnati Gazette tells of a gentle
man of that city, formerly connected with the
Turf, who recently made a visit to England, and
while there attended a number of races, betting'
freely in a small way, generally coming out
Winner. Finally, just before leaving, he went
to the Cffisarawilz Eaces, with a balance in his
favor up to that date of some 14,000 on his op
erations, and finding the odds ten to one against
Ten Broeok’s Prioress, he contended to risk his
pile op her. -She came ont about nz ineha be-
Had sho won, he xoold have pocketed
sj40 t ooo. v
: For Vie Altoona Tribunt.
ELECIIUCITT;
BY BATTERY NO. 3.
This adject has lately been pfdstoled to
your readers, both positively and negatively, In
regard to its very reoent discovery as a rcmedi
al agent, especially in deafoeeai and tiie minds
of many persons have been considerably cxor
clsed as to the truth of the. matter, which mod
plainly proves that but very little is known,
out-side of the Medical , profession. In reference
to”the curative powers of Electricity. Even
Editors, who arc supposed to, “know every
thing.” have manifested a want of information
on this subject; for 1 fold that City papers have
Very generally Copied the account of “A Curious
Case of Deafness Cured.” Thus the whole Country
has been Electrified, and ’ere- long some cute
Yankee will take out a patent-right for an Elec
trical aparams peculiarly .adapted to the pur
pose, and will canvass the entire Union, perhaps
the world, to furnish person’s whose hearing is
imputed, with an Electrical-Pocket-Battery;
and. the result will be that every person who is
suffering from deafness, no matter what may be
the cause or nature of the diseases of their
hearing organs, will have a battery in their
pocket and its poles sticking in their ears, with
a hope of having their powers of audition re
stored, and will continue to wear the machine for
some considerable time, at. least until the Yon
key gets quite out of their hearing. After all
have been supplied with such an aparatus there
will of couneHbe no further use for Asylums for
the deaf. •
The foregoing only illustrates bow easy.a
matter it is to impose upon the suffering and
afflicted, any thing that promises to ettre ; and
should be a warning to Physicians how they
-publish the results of their “ experimentsfor
it is very probable that not one out of every
hundred persons.who are deaf, or partially
so, would be benefitted in the least by the ap
plication of Electricity toother Auditory nerves;
whilst ten out of that number might really be
made worse. It is well known by all intelli
gent pbysioians that there are certain morbid
conditions of the organ of hearing, accompanied
by deafneas, in which the electrical current can
not prove otherwise than injurious.
Perhaps it is not now known when'Electrici
ty was first employed as a remedy in disease,
but if we may believe the writers at the pres
ent day, it was formerly much more extensively
used than it now is. The truth is that it, like a
thousand and one other theraputio agents, at
one time was employed in the treatment of al
most every disease, and like them has Adieu in
to almost entire disuse; it having accomplished
but little that was expected of it.
Scientific men have conceded that its chief
benefit to mankind is in its application to Tele
graphic communication.
That Electricity does possess some curative
powers, I will not pretend to dispute, but it
should be resorted to with the utmost caution,
and only when advised by an experienced phy
sician ; for truly there are certain and peculiar
condition's of the human system to which it-is
injurious.
For the satisfaction of those who are unac
quainted with the medical history of Electricity,
and especially those who had no knowledge of
its use as a remedy in disease prior to the pub
lication of “ A Curious Case of Deafness Cored”
I will here add that according to the “ Beports
of the Boyal Society, of Medicine” of France,
“Electricity was employed in the treatment of
nervous and spasmodic diseases as early as the
year 1776.” And in vol. V, 2d Edition of the
“ Medical Observations hnd pub
lished in London, 1779 is an account of the ef
fects of Electricity in Amaurosis (a disease of
the eye) by Dr. Hey.,
In Pereira’s Materia Mediea, vol. 1, page 102;
we find .the following paragraph: ‘‘ In nervous
deafness arising from a torpid condition of the
Auditory nerve, Electricity has been frequent*
ly employed; and though occasionally patients
report themselves benefited by it, in most cases
it foils to give relief, and in some inHfatncna has
agravated (he malady,” and then adds that
Hard, in his work on Diseases of the Ear
(published in Paris in 1828) speaks unfavorably
of its effects.
Ereamer ,in his “ Nature and Treatment of
Piseases of the Ear,” says: “In looking at the
results of all aocumolsted experience,
with the utmost honesty, there cannot be one
moment’s hesitation in declaring that Electrici
ty and Magnetism are utterly useless in disease
of the ear, that they even seriously endanger the
auditory nerve by exciting to on involved degree
its iritabiiUy, the ih&Utide result of which is
that it is positively debilitated.”
I might add much other evidence, quite as jre
liable, to prove that Electricity was employed—
evon in cases of deafhess—prior to the year
.1869, .and that too, Witt Ipt very little success;
and also that it Is positively a dangerous remedy
when indiscreetly employed. Sat this me
thinks is sufficient to Shew that we should be
scrupulously cautious in publishing to the worid
the beneficial effects of stioh an agent, fit a par
ticular ease, which may induce many otters to
wnploy it to their ultimate injury.
Bobbiblb Scenes— -Tax French nr CAaroß.
—-Four Frenchmen landed from one of the Cat
mift’s boats for the purpose of purchasing pro
visions. When near South Gate, and in the
new city, they were hemmed in by braves
Three cut their way through; the fourth was
captured, and his head and hands'cut off in dl
moat less time than it takes to write this. The
French naval commander on the river landed a
parity of men, marched to the street where the
murder was committed, measured off one bun
• £ P aces >. and at one end placed a detachment
with directions to. shoot every man that tried to
escape. A similar party barred the other end
Ihen came the revenge. Every adult male in
the houses lining the hundred paces were seized,
shot, his threat cut, and then left to swelter in
the sun, as a warning to the neighborhood.
Astounding Development.— Mr. S. S Jones,
late president of the lowa Central Air Line raiL
road, in a letter to a director resigning his office
states that the cost to the company of getting
the lowa lapfi grant through Congress during
the session of 1854 was seven hundred thousand
dollars. Thopriginal “pecuniaryoompliments”
were bestowed m the shape of lands of, which
Extraordinary Feat offja loco-
motive.
A most remarkable incident oocurredat the
depot of the Little Ilium Ballroad.
on last Thursday morning
ington, belonging it the Marietta; wdt Cmcta
nnti road. haastarted dowuthetrack some half
or three quarters of* mile, fot the purpose of
bringing the empipc&rs to prepara
tory to maki&g ug_a train,theengino being
under the control of a man employed about the
yard. About faalfa mile Item the depot, the
man in charge discovered an engine of the Lit
tle Miami n»d backing dovm to the depot for
the purpose of taking out the morbingtmn for |
Cleveland. Fearing a collision, the person in
charge of the Marietta engine, reversed, and
jumped from the machine. A inmate idler, the
two engines came together, when; the impetus
given to the Marietta engine, together with the
force of the reversed* power, started it towards
the depot with the velocity ofS irooket. The
down grade gave it additional; headway, and it
bounded alongtlw tiack-lpe.atiepd incarnate. -
Upon the track in the depot; the morning
train, consisting of some four or jftve ears bad
been mads up, and about one cho|^dr^dfpassen
gers had already taken their seats. On cape
the engine with .the speed, of £ destructive
whirlwind, directly upon the trank leading to
the train, until withurabout font or five rods
of the depot, the fortunate accidental
change of a switch drove it upim the other
track. Almost before the persone bp
could realise that an engine had'entered one
end of depot, the iron steed bad bounded
through the entire length, demolished an eigh
teen inch brick vail, timbers and ail, at the rear
—leaped across two road tracks—One about ten
feet below the other—withoatjouohiag either,
and imbedded itself in a huge pile: of coal in the
yard of J. Coehnower. The distance leaped,
from the wall of the depot to the lamp of tho
i engine, could not have been less tt|an teventy-five
feet. All this distance, through the demolished
wall of the depot, it dragged the loaded
with wood, without breaking the couplings. -
But for the fortunate change iju the switch,
which threw the engine upon the qpposite track
to that on which the Cleveland tnpn was stand
ing, the loss of life must have beeit terrible.
Tub Labors or Sbhatob DouqUab.— A west
ern correspondent sends a detailed. statistical
account of the labors of Senator Douglas in the
recent canvass of Dlinpis, from which it appears
that they were almost equal to the labors of
Hercules. It seeris that he has addressed bis
constituents in 67 f counties. He |me| Mr. Lin
coln in debate once in each Congressional Dis
trict ; made 59 set speeches of frobi two to three
hours in length; 17 speeches of iftom twenty
minutes to forty-five minutes iu length, in ro-.
spouse to the compliment of serenades: and 87'
speeches of about equal length, in reply to ad
dresses of welcome. Of these 12Q speeches, all
but two were made-In the opes air, and seven
speeches were mode or continued daring heavy
runs. To do this, Mr. Douglas 'crossed, from
end to end, every railroad line inthe State, ex
cepting three, besides. making long journeys by
horse conveyance and steamboats; the road
travelled amounting to 5,227 nni|BB. : By boats
he made almost the entire western side of the
State, and all that portion of the-Illinois River
which is navigable by steamboats.—JY. Y. Tunes.
' Child Bussed to Dbatb I—A most distres
sing occurrence took place at Conemangh Sta
tion about four o’clock bn Wednesday evening.
A little girl of three years, daughter of Mr
Henry Eemry, was playing about the stove,
when, at a moment when its mother was tem
porarily absent, its clothes took fire, as is sup
posed, from a lighted shaving. In a moment
the child was enveloped in flames, and before
its cries could reach the mother they had burn
ed and charred in a horrible nianher its body,
arms and face, and even its eyes and the inside
of its month. The mother, assisted by a neigh
bor, pat out the fire as quickly as]the meops at
their,command would permit, but in so doing
bnrned their own hands and jarms, considerably.
Drs. Bramwell and Yeagley were immediately
summoned to the bedside of the little sufferer,
but all their efforts to save Its life were' friutfeB&
It died daring the night, after -suffering the
most excruciating agony! It is acheart-sicken
cmc.—Johnstown SViiune.. \-t-
The Code of Hoson.—Hon. J. C. McKib(hsn,
M. C., recently, before leaving san Francisco
for New York, challenged George Pehn Johns
ton, who fought with William I. ..Ferguson a
duel in which the latter was morthlly wounded.
Johnston was editor of the JVationdl, and in .its
columns used disparaging terms concerning
MoEibben. Johnston has been arrested, and is
nowin prison awaiting his trial. McKihben
and his friend went to the prison-and Insisted
upon seeing Johnston, in order ty deliver him
the challenge. - The honorable gentleman , was
with great difficulty, it is stud, ffiade to under
Stand that to send a challenge to s genttcpnii
under such circumstances whs hoi exactly Com
patible with the code of honor.- : r ; ; »■
An amusing and pMnfuLiqeideni recent
ly took place in Cincinnati, l&p gentlemen
afflicted vrith St. Titos dance met, and each
supposing the otherfobomockihg the otter, a
fight ensued of the most' dangerous character.
Finally a mutual acquaintahoel ffonnd them
struggling in tte gutter and succeeded in sep
arating-them and making .known- their mutual
mistake. The poor" fellows could not at,first
boHeve their eon* at the expense! of tteir eyes,
but were finally convinced of their folly and
their enor, and shook bands, white they jerked
their mutual as profusely ns they
“W their demmdatioas a few moments before.
Masobbtib thbUmitbd Stages.—lt appears
«om satisfies derived from the latest informa
tion contained in tto proceedings of the various
Mosome Grand Lodges of the United States.
“ «»e United States 4.302 lodges
with 183,888 members, the number of Ma
fj® 8 * 18 , probably much greater than
tM® table shows, ds there are many to be found
everywhere who are not affiliated with any
lodge. The law of the fraternity is said to be
*| once a Mason always a Mason.” In Mary
with M 25 members; in
the District of Columbia, 11 lodges, and 4 Cl 4
members; and in Pennsylvania, 156 lodges,’ and
11,428 members.
The Ups and Downs or Live.—There can be
seep daily on one of the New York city cars, as
conductor, the son of a gentleman who formerly
resided in or near Boston, and who was brought
up in all the luxury that wealth could command
His home was elegant. Horses and carriages
waited his pleasure— servants attended his call
But one of those reverses came that come so
frequently. Life was changed; and the indulg
ed son and tenderly-carcd-for child had to go
out and meet the rude wind and cool looks of
the world ; and he cams his bread as conductor
on ono of the city cars, at the daily pay of one
dollar and fifty cents.
®- VAKE , Stobt.— The Sandusky Register nub
vm*°\r l tter a corres P°n(lent in Fenton
t Whlt ; a Btatos that : a 'man named
Beach, 21 years of age, has had a living unnW
in his stomach during the naat
neas 8 W j‘ cll c . auscd him great pain and nncari
ness, and at times threw him into spasms Li
SSpUa^ft d Tf k and ( l uiesce °‘. food
cwTlni i Beach to try the starving pro
.« 8? ?&{s^^*M***
19* The Uttle Tillage of Warsaw, fat
of Mississippi, is a bird place. Twelve
affrays have occurred there lately. Th e
ocotook place between one Dorsey,
andE. L. Magruder, a carpenter,
ultimo . An exchange says, from the fact
Dorsey, in the morning, at breakfast, QhjJrJ a
that he “ was eating breakfast hora ;’i
ing, bat would eat auppur in , this create s '. 1
and that Margrader, on the road to 3
some one to make his coffin, as ho didn't wj S
to live that day out, it is evideut that there*? 3
an old grudge between them. They subset? la
ly met and settled it with knifo and plstcJ 1
Dorsey caught his enemy as he tried to M
away, after shooting several times, and pul\
out a bowie knife, about eight ia
plunged it into Magruder’s bock, just belW ■
shoulder-blade, to the hilt, which, fro®
force of the blow, broke off. Magrudtt
and Dorsey, who had received 'several w a
bullets, walked over to his house, replying wl
shot plant through,” to the question uheiwll
was hurt He survived about fifteen mi n^W
A Tbrulixo Bcks*.— An exhibition o( ,1
bleanx waa given the other evening in
pdlitan Hall Chicago. A colored light in Wn
ing set some of the scenery oa tire. ThecSl
go Prat says —“ Those on the floor atBm?i
tiered the flame a part of the »||
but those at the front end of the gallery J;!
true idea of the ease, and one shouted,
Hall is on fire, make for th* door!* To datl
the frensied alarm that seised the entire
i»nce offull twenty-five hundred people, rZI
be impossible. Every seat on the main
and on. the galleries was full, and the fiai
were thronged, and the whole number
to make fo* the entrance left accesnble.
one for a roomept or tiro seemod lo possestw
> power or thedisporiUon tointeiposc any stayv
: the terror, or to dictate calmness, bat iht* j
rang with shouts,, groans, screams and erkij
One young lady waa seized with violent bnal
ioa. Tire fire was fortunately subdued rrlthetl
difficulty and losv I
Mcbdkji Win. Out.—A few years ain«,|a
citizen of Alabama; whose name Is suppm*3ffl
by.thapapers, committed acruel murder, k|9
on trial for tire crime h« escaped, owing to
link being .needed in the evidence. Poi; ||
opinion wassgnlnst bim, anil he aeon after ht ||
and took : residence In Attala com? r l
Miaa.,< It is recently related of him that,
haying experienced the inost terrible agony (• s|
many months, he procured a barrel of whidn 1
and excluded himself from the eooiety of
where, solitary, and alone, ho plunged into l
deepest and most thorough state of intoxicate v i|
drinking, it is sold, a quart of the “ fire *«*•£«
at oho draught, la this gloomy nnd miscraiijpfl
"condition'he lingered through the lapse vUr M
or three months, and Anally died, in the mail
intense mental agony, calling upon the
dera tp take away- from his the tittaii
who had sd long haunted his memory, ami
onixed him in his dreams. |9
A young man named 11. B. Ball, of Cy|
press, Miss., was ordered by his father to le»|
home, under the penalty of being cowhide! J
The father attempted to fulfil his threat, whsl
the yoqbg man’s mother interceded in hub]
half, and was struck upon the bead settaj
times by the father, \ which the Son seeing, h|
resolved to die by seif-dCblritctioh, rather tWi
live and see bis mother and himself impoMj
1 upon. He then took his gun,- receded ahi
steps from the bouse, pulled of his shoes, ul|
looked at his watch, giving himself half an hi'
for repentance. On the explmtiop of the hi]
hour, he blew his brains by pulHng tai
trigger with his toe. The young man's oatim
ly fate is deeply mourned by hm-aarivug
friends. "
Saxb or Pwzs GAXTXS.-rrB.-P> J»i»Jmgtoß,ik|
successful cattle exhibitor at the incest Unikij
States Fair inßiohmond,has sold ihveral ofh
stock. -He-writca as fbfioffs the Gmntal
(Vs.) Eta:;' ’ ' > . I
44 1 have sold * Bciplo’ to lfr. Hansbargw, d
Rockingham County, at $5OO, and * Lad; Baa;
to Bri Bowen, of Fredricksburgi nt $5OO. nij
one freer Kentucky fat cattle toMr. Linsej. V]
Richmond, for $5OO, and one fit Kentucky caj
for $205 80. JMy -white steer I sold talk]
Price for $220, and due yoke oxen at s2oft-|
One ox, three years old, tit Se gross, amoiaW
to $3OO, and a fat heifer at $2OO. ‘Triaufki
bull calf, sold for $2OO, _ . 1
The lUixapAp Barg Rqbbess Auesi»-|H
A roV days ago the 'boss : pointer In the r»ilrai
shops at- Ft Wayne, named Rivers, was u»-aj
ted charged'with heing concerned in the robte; 3
of tho Bailroad ! safe, at that place, of a
amount of money, as has been heretofore u S|
nogneed by telegraph. Twelve thousand
•larg of the money was'recovered. He alsoit |
plicated a German named Chrest who being if /I
rested, delivered up $5,000 of the stolen mowy ||
The valuable papers, tickets, &.. that bad b« 3
stolen, were found iu a corner of a fence, ins 1
'field in which the prisoners bad hid the momi J
Both burglars are now in jail at Ft. Wayne, .-a
Mobb Lvdias BaiTlib.— The U. S.
have, had another encounter with toe Naif
Indians, imwhich ten Indians were killed, : |S
ral wonndedj Snd eighty horses and sixty!' ||
hundred sheep were captured. Two of the! •-•a
8. troops who are missing, have probably t* 'H
killed, and one was wounded. Kit Carson, & |
a blind of Utah Indians, recently passed thins} 1
Santa Pe on his way to fight the Nnvajoes,!) |
are lit war with the UUbs. A party of McUT |
Indians attacked an emigrant train while itb |
crossing the Colorado, and killed three c* v |
two worn cn and four- children, and wouii
sixteen of the emigrants. J
A Fifteen mile foot race took
the Franklin trotting Pork, North Chelsa|l
Mass , on Friday, the 12th. There were
contestants for the $5OO prize, two of
were Indians. The Reading champion gar* |T ;||
the contest on the first mile, and Grffia oss -.M
fifth. There was then a sharp contest betvfC -|
the two Indians. Baring the latter part of S"M
fifteenth Smith began to lag, when
passed him, and made the fifteen miles in cS
hour, twenty-nine minutes and fifty sccosdi -j
Monument to the late Judge Coswv
committee of gentlemen, friends of tie M
Judge Conrad, are making arrangements toll* r J
a. monument erected over his grave, in
Hill Cemetery It is to be done by voluntary
tributioua, and is estimated .to cost sls,W*i|i
The gentlemen having the matter in cMga
seem to be sanguine of accomplisbing
dertaking. m
Died os hkr Ksbks,— Mrs. Catherine
wife of Mr. Daniel Jones, of Glenmorei
Md., died very suddenly, recently p
54. Bhe arose in her usual health, and
starting for Sabbath School retired to i« Fi|
vate room for her morning devotions, sing iD f'‘r;|
“ Jesus lorer of my soul, '4S
Let me to thy booom fly.” iS
And there upon her bended knees ah#
at once to pray and live. i
Wild People.— ln Lancaster La., a
a man, but hairy as a bear, has been
quently by the people. It |s very I
strong. It was once seen in *.cowp«o»
the cows, and when, discovered it started “ |
about to fight, then- turned and fied," b oo ®*3|
like a doer- It walks upright and»» * u I
to bo * w|ld man. 9
~ Ipuona
local
The Fun. —The Liu!
& Plaok’a Hall, which
ing eve, was one of t
kind ever hold in this ]
%ns viaited by almost «
hnd many from a distal
exhibited was dispoi
rapid manner in which
' wp, evinced the desire
1 g a e articles at a small
■jrin, they had the conso
I i»«ll. Many persons <
[ tabling money, but the
f by the argument that
[ means ” On this ques
[ decide; it belongs to tl
[ flee it to say, it netted
| tJtf purpose intended tl
cured by other means,
ytirk of the very best q
may enumerate a fine
gold watches, a numbe
eralbeautiful quilt pat
dresses, and smaller a
enomcrato." Everyth!
manner which insured
tribution of the prises,
charge of this part of
the confidence of all.
observed by visitors du
Fair was open. Wo
amount of money rcalis
I fully up to the expeotati
i Cuanqh or Time.—<
Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne m
be completed, and the c
[uing through from Phil
The road being under tb
E tho Pennsylvania rond, i
of uninterrupted railway
eight hundred and ttvt
freight between Philadol
[bs about four dollars p
(New York, and six dol
[freight from Boston to t
by the Northern Centra
at Harrisburg with the
has all the advantages of
railroad to Chicago. In
this route, twenty miles
is Philadelphia. This c:
[voltes a change in the
pytvauia Central Rail I
above mentioned, tho £
will arrive at this Statu
[leave at 7,10, passengers
[change has been made
[Westward. The Fast Li
p,50 P. M., and leaves a
lag supper. The same tr
p,26 A. M., and leaves at
pis been made In the
Brain.
Thasbsoiviko DaV.—
intty generally observee
he shops and stores wc
respectable congregation
►diet Church at 11 A. i
Jms of Rev. j. Steck, v
tble to the Rev. gentler
ungers turned out atte
M to the woods on the
lest Altoona, on a ta
aedal was won by Har;
f spending such days dill
so pie. While the ptou
|onse of God and pari
jud praise of the Giver o
bet gifts, others look up
lay— a day specially i
bating, &c. Many who
PS on any other ’ occasio;
bund wending their w
pns on their shoulders;
|toro than they would ha
d at homo, unless it be
jslr of worn out legs. I
Ivenilcs, and the cry, 44
j> day J” is proclaimed
phigs out his or her alec
Bastby Tuncp About.-
beks quite a number of
dieved of the contents
toe quiet gentleman, w
peiy, that they wore n
Mil they came to set the
|se last year, nothing bu
jkes, pies, preserved fruil
[owing pretty concluaiv
[fives ore too lazy to c
Ist they have no place
[tie strange that none of
[ught in the act of apj
ie’s goods. VTo think
[ould induce our citizci
|out their door and win
p a little attention to n
F after nightfall.
• tnE,—On Wednesday
•y at this place, under
lunon School Board, w
> it is supposed, origin
ye pipe. Our citizens
Ployed, labored hard
| they were all unava
tufortable new frame b
P the loss cannot soo
[Uek. wa B Principal of
P* how soon he will ag
t hope a house
piest practicable pwioc
Moss Walks— Our cr
r*' Jones, Esc
Mmpmementa of whi,
pmendable manner. 1
Pollent crossings have 1
in front of our ol
P* « crosses Virginia
[J 4 .tb?. .walks .badly
i • aacjy o
season yeai
Walks it felt, and tl
7e ibe hearty thankee