\ Cjtt ptewta Critame. 4IiTOONA, PA. MAY 19, 1859: ■U.Wh*r« parties are unknown to ns, onr rule for adrer liaiac i* to require payment iuadvance, or n guarantee from ftaownponoa*. . It U therefore useless for all.sucb to send offering to pay at 'the end of three or six ; ,WSsre adrertlseraents are accompanied with the moaey.whetUer one, five or ten dollars, wo will giro the ftitKSUsr the foil benefit of cash rates. l.-H.;PETTEWGIIsIi & €©., fillwUtlllt Agents, 119 Nassau street, New York, and Mints stmt, Boston, are the Agents for the Mtama most inflaential and largest circulating lffpi)P»psnin tbe United States and the Canadas. They UWMthorlMd to contract for us at oar louxtt rata. '■ ■ - ; ; ' and Distressing Accident; On Thursday night last,‘the barns.at ladled to the State Lunatic Hospital, at Harrisburg, were discovered to be on fire, about U o’clock. Every effort was grade togave the adjoining properties by the Harrisburg firemen, who repaired to the ipot, fortunately with success. The large gear thank barn, which oqst $2,000, to gether with 16 tons of Imyr farm implements, including.a number of cos tly WSgOQ,a dearborn wagon, a v large;|arm wagon, ■seven borses, a dot of chickens and *• couple Of pigs were entirely -consumed. The jbof and attic of the gardener's house Wafl The entire loss, is estimated at ’ 'Xitn: ihe same night, a little after two o’clock, the'barn attached to the Dauphin county “ House was discovered to be on him' iWlth this there were Consumed five.horses, fourteen valuable milch cows, onp largo bull, a calf. 25 tons of hay, 50 bushels of rye, 40 bushels of potatoes and a number of chickens and 7 ducks. The lon is estimated at SS,OC|O. the (Oitizen -Engine Company was proceeding to -the fire at the Lunatic Asylum , one of the members, Sam uel J. Miller, tripped and fell under the wheels'tif the engine >which passed over his body under bis arms. He was taken up im'hn insensible condition and borne to xbis wjhere be died at 10 o’clock thenext morning. A. man who gave his name as Martin who had been some 18 months in the Asylum, and had been pronounced ccagy by the attending physician, was ar rested as the supposed incendiary. While in the As;lam he became so violent that he wap finally committed to jail in Har v day previous to the fire, the Court ordered him to be sent to the Comity House, but the carriage whichbbnveyed him there was not put of sight, ere he run off firom the institution. He uup|d .giTe im satisfactory account of ■his whereabouts pn the night of the fires and was accordingly committed for a fur- .ther hearing ‘probable csr of lhe Ifw* Tbit the effects of the war news upon the business of this country viM be very great cannot be questioned. Already it has canped a considerable advance in the price of brcadstuffe, and bids fair to make flottriahhijg timesfor pur farmers. The New York Tribune advises the fimners> throughout the country to plant and sow freely, penistendy; for grain and meat are likely to be in demand next fall. The wiurVhioh now threatens is unlikely to be aphort and cannot be a little one. It is likely tq array a million of men in arms against each other, subtracting many times that number from productive industry, to employ them in casting cannon, making powder, charging shells, etc. All these snuatpat, and battle fields are not wall adapted to growth of food. We shall be disappointed if Europe does not afford ns a large market for brcadstuffe before the of the current year. ; t £cpd (Derby, in a recent speech on the IfrVuft question, in referring to the war which it will be noticed by the foreign npwp, in another column, has already been wOtfitiinood) said that it would not be a yiffjytwean two great nations contending for some definite object, but a war exciting tha most violent passions, and once begun fttTtaly it will extend far beyond the lim- Hpof that country. Other passions will other interests will be touched, will be called upon to inter #d war originating in Italy, will cer f.ttiniy; at no distant period, extend far apdhyWa,-wrapping the whole of Europe conflagration. signed the bill Prussia, 45,000,000 Bardinia,,,:.., Commootesenst, prompts the inquiry— are such heavy borrowers in a condition; to expend further millions, in any cause that could and ought to he settledbe peace ful diplomacy nr .mediation ? flSrThe obolenhosbeen raging in ’to a frightful; extent. At Yeddo alone tile deaths 'are: reported at one hunWdandiifty-thousand; in oneononth. Alisimaand also suffered greatly. The outbreak of I this dreadful scourge so soon after the; timethe foreign embassies were at Yeddo has led the people fo attribute to them its introduction into their country, and su perstition points to the coincidence as a punishment for opening Japan tolforoign-. era. By the latest accounts thej disease ifasleSsvirulent. ■ ———— l ———- Wo learn that our townsman, Col-: I* W. Hull, delivered a leotureatWilliomßburg, in this county, on Tuesday at the re quest of the ladies of that places for the benefit df the “Mount Vernon Ladies Association.” The audianto wa&,laige and attentive andwe doubt not was well entertained, as the CoL is able to get np something interesting on short notice. ■ For the M&pna Tribute. Hie Poor lleme. Msssas. Editors:— As E. MpGraw, Eiq., Stewart of the Blair County Poor House, has found it necessary to refrain from replying to my Inst article addressed to him three weeks : ago, on the subject of his management of coun ty affairs, sod thereby declined my intimation ,to him to invite the tax payers to call at the Poor House and examine into the affairs for themselves, I subject with him and them to .determine ;«s they may see fit. As I understand it, be thereby admits all the errors charged in my last communication. So mote it be. -'Ai TAXPAYER. PEN AND BCISSOES. According to the last census returns, China, contains a population of 445,000,000,* ■9“ Don’t harrow op my feelings/ as; the worm said when the plow was passing over him. 'l9* How melancholy the moon mast feel When it has epjoyed the fulness of prosperity, and got reduced to Us last quarter. tSr Tavern licenses must be taken npand ; paid for within .fifteen days from the time they are granted, otherwise they are forfeited. ; I®. A Grand military encampment is to be held at Ghambersburg, Pa., commencing May 81st, and to continue for. four days. M&T lie should be considered our beat friend, who is the most ready to tell us of our errors in afriendly way. B&. Never marry a man because he is hand some. He will think toa much of his beauty to take pride in yours. ' The State Agricultural Fair is to be held at the Powelton Grounds, in Philadelphia, ; sometime in September next.; ; 8®“ The beat dowry to apvance the marriage of a young lady, is when she has in her counte nance mildness, in her speech : wisdom, inj her behavior modesty, in her'life virtue.' 8&> A Merchant of Berdiansk has recently; sold about 15,000i000 pounds of iron and past; iron, made out of the projectiles found on the battle-fields of the .Crimea, j j tSPi Irish Sergeant—•• Attintion company, and attind to rowl call. All of ye that are pres int, say here, and all that aren’t presint say ab sint ” ' . v|||r A late number of the Brookville Amerir can announced the destruction of the editor’s bat; whereupon the Conncrsville Tma impu-) Realty wonders if any lives were lost tST* A mau .the other day declared he had in: his fime iaten so much veal, hewas ashamed look a Calf in the facet We suppose he never* looking glaas, i aQuAhvdit6r“outWeBt ,, getBoff thp foli ioviqtWhich ** J .visit to America la reported to fie all a amiwsstir movement.” , J i M&>Bev. 0. O. B> The news by this arrival shows that the war has actually, commenced, and that a battle-has been fought between the Austrian and Sar dinian forces, i ; Thb latest accounts from* the seat of hostili ties indicate that there was a sharp action at thefamous bridge at Buffalora, eiwSfig 'tt* river Ticino, cjn Thursday, the 28th nit, It was reported thsf'thS Austrians, after considerable doss, tookthV bridge at thepoint of the bay? onet. It was reported also that Mortars had been taken. [Tbis &ty is the capital of the province of LerfrelHna,- on‘ the river Arlogua, only some 25 miles from Alessandria.] The Sardinians are reported ,to have retreat ed from Buff»lora and Mortara, before the Aus trians, to a point near Lake Maggiore, but as the telegraph I lines to Switzerland had been eat by the Austrians, authentic accounts had not come to hand when the steamers sailed. Austrian troops were concentrating In great masses at Piacenza, capital of the province of that name, thirty-mz miles firdm Farina, and near the river Po. Forty-thousand French troops were in Genoa at the latest advices. The Kind of Sardinia, accompanied by Gen erals Canrobert and Nisi, of the French army, had visited the line of the river Dura, an impor tant tributary of tbe Po, one branch of which joins that river near Turn. Tho Austrians on reaching Lake Maggioro are reported to have seised all v tbe Sardinian vessels on its waters. Austria is endeavoring to raise a loan of $20,- 000.000 sterling. The Emperor Napoleon was expected tp join the French army on the 8d inst. Tbe Prussian government bad resolved to pat the Prussian army in readiness to march. Count Von Buol, the Austrian minister of foreign affairs, has forwarded circular notes io tbe foreign governments, stating the diplomatic and political reasons for. declaring war by tbe Emperor against Bardina. Tbe Wiener 1 Zeitung publishes Austrian de crees ordering an increase tax of the third class to be retained by the pay office immediately upon the interest of the public land being paid: Or dering a loan of £20,000.000 sterling to be raised, but adding that ns it is at present im possible to contract it, tbe national bank will advance two-thirds of the nominal value of the loan in new notes. The third decree releases the National, hank from meeting its notes with specie payments. Tbe fourth decree orders duties and excise dues to be paid in silver, or payable in coupons of the national loan. The note of preparation for war was sounding in England. A royal decree baa been issued, offering a bounty of £lO to seamen, with the intention of recruiting ten thousand additional men. There was also great activity in tbe dock yards, and England is evidently preparing for war. * “You Wouldn’t Bite a Blind Box I” —On one of the Michigan Central Railroad Trains the other morning, an incident occurred which created considerable merriment. A blind boy, who bos the run of tbe cars for the purpose of selling knick-knacks, entered tbe sleeping oar supposing all the inmates were up and dressed. Walking through the car, he passed his band along tbe berths to see if they were occupied, when it fell upon the face of a sleeper whose hirsute covering at once arrested tho boy’s at tention. Stroking down the hairy coat, the boy commenced With, “Here, puppy—here, puppy!’’ and other expressions of fondness which a lover of the canine species wonid be likely to indulge in. Tbe disturbed sleeper partially awoke un der these manipulations, and, shaking his head, gave a loud snort., The boy jumped back in af- x fright, yelling, " Get out I you wouldn’t bite a blind boy! take himbff!” without even yet comprehending the truth. The passengers roared with laughter, which did not all subside when the boy exclaimed, “ La! I thought it was a puppy in the berth, and not a big bull dog.” MUft- A dreadful accident, resulting from foolishness and carelessness combined, recently occurred at a law school pear Gallatin/ Tennes see, and is thus described by a correspondent of the New York Express: “ The students were trying (illustrating) the Sickles case in moot court, when the young man who took the part of Sickles, jerked out a pistol which he did not know was ’ loaded, and shot bis most intimate friend, Who was taking the part of Key, through' the chest. ;Mr. Tap took the part of Sickles, and Mr. Burke the part of Key. It is a very sad thing, but the shot was purely accidental. It was at first thought that Mr Burke would recover, bat’mortification bos taken place. Mr. Tap has suffered so much in mind that he has two or three times tried to kill himself, bat been prevented by bis young friends.” ■QT la Frederick, Md., on Monday night, an attack was made on L B. Lent's circus compa ny, while , they were performing, by * large crowd of rowdies. Two of the circus men were badly, hurt while protecting their property.— Two or three of the outsiders were hurt, but not seriously. The crowd set fire to the side can vass, which was burnt up. They also broke one or two wagons belonging to the circus. All the persons got out safe. The cause of this is said to be the price of tickets, which was fifty cents. The coinpnuy refused to put the price at twenty* five cents, which bad been done by others before theni. It was feared another attack would he made. - Loso and Short Datb.— At Berlin and Lon don the- longest day has sixteen hours and a half; at Stockholm, the longest day has eigh teen hours and a half; at Hamburg, the longest day has seventeen hours and the shortest hav en 5 at St. Petersburg, the longest day has nine 4cen, and the sfaorteit five hours; at Torneb, in inland, the longest day baa twenty-one hours and a apd the shortest two hours and a half; at in. Kofway the day lasts from thb 21? t of May to the Si2d of Julyv with out andat Spitsbergen, the long cst day Is three months ‘and a half. Now ahd Xhbh.—Thirty yeas ago, (1829) New England hud 30 members in the House of BeprebeuteUyes, and’ the north- western States 18. Now the New England States Sentf 29, and the north-western 69. " New Hampshire then sent fi, and now has only 8 members; while D- Imois then sending only .I now has 9 members. The census of ISBO wUI make the disparity far greater than it is now. The census to be taken next year will show the population of the Uni ted States to be over 30.000,000 inhabitants." Pike’s Peak emigrants axe reported to be m a suffering condition on the plains, be ing destitute of means and food. They were kept from starvation by.the charity of the 'em- Overland Mail Company, who had afforded all the relief in their power to bestow. ENGLAND. - Ttatnxmo Ijiciotiff.—Mr. J.T* ®***®*? , J|® his “Diary of a Chaplain m the AmyofChe Revolution,” relate* the, following: At the battle of Banker Hill, as the British were ad vancing through Charleston trihc attaekjJ a sol dier entered ahousewherethe husband lay sick. His wife was young and beauttfW.-- Hearing the soldier in the next rood* she wens not to meet him. Ho immediately addressed insulting proposals to her Beingangrily re* pulsed, ho attempted violence, when her screams aroused her sick husband from bis bed. Nerved with the sudden excitement he leaped up. and seeing his wife struggling in the hands of a British soldier,.* ran him through the body.— The man fbll back bin the floor; and as his ejea met those of his destroyer, he shrieked out, “ lly brother!” The recognition was mutual, and with the exclamation, “ I have murdered my brother 1” the over-excittd invalid husband fell dead upon the corpse. These unhappy brothers were Scotchmen. One had emigrated to America several years' before; the other bad joined the English Amy, and after a Jong sepa ration thus met to perish together." Snasrac Histoby or a Mcbdebbb.—-It was mentioned a few days ago that Felix Sanches, a Cuban mulatto, who, in January last, killed bis father-in-law, ! and stabbed his wife and mother-in-law in New York, had been arrested at New Orleans. The Bee farther infoms u«: He was hid away in a Spaniard’s house some fifteen days in Now York. The Spaniard then took him to Baltimore, and by reason of his naturally dark skin managed to sell him as a negro for $1,400. ; He was subsequently taken to Mobile, where he was sold to a Mr. Brooks, and subsequently to a Mr. Ladbctter, who sent him here to bo sold by Mr. Foster. The latter pot him In the parish prison for safe keeping, where bp' wap subsequently identified as the al leged murderer iSanohez is said to be the child of a free negresa id Cuba, and the son of a weal thy Cuban planter.:. He has a wealthy nude, he says, in New York, and was born in Trinidad de Cuba. The accused doubtless had to submit to being sold as a Slav* to prevent being exposed as a murderer. . ’|i Tb* Waste of Wa*;-—ln the sixteen years intervening between 1797 *nd 1816* the French army absorbed 4,656,000 men. The army of 1818 was composed ofTectaita from eighteen to twenty years of age> Of a million ana a quar ter raised in 1813, -only one hundred thousand remained alive in 1814. France, in addition to this loss of her citizens, had to pay 700,000,000 francs as an indembity of-war to the alliedpow ors. and 400,000,000 for the support of foreign garrisons/ These j figures show the cost of a war such as the powers of Europe arenowabout entering into. -. -i ' *»-A few days since; in Cincinnati, Ohio, a little girl nine years old, daughter of Caleb Potter, was thrown'into spasms, and came very near dying, froth the effects of' orange peel, which she had eaten the previous two or three days,' stopping digestion and the regular opera tions of nature, and poisoning her system. An Dr. M’Lane’s . CELEBRATED VERMIFUGE LIVER PILLS. beg leave to call the atten tion of the Trade, and more especially the 'Physicians of the country, to two of the most popu lar remedies now before the public. We refer to M Dr. Clms. f’Lane’s Celebrated Vermifuge and Liver Pills; We do n6i recommend them as universal Cure-alls, but simply for what their name purports, viz.: . THE! #ERMJFIJGE, For expelling Worms from the human systejn. It has also been adniinistercd;• with the mostsatis factory results to various Animals subject to Worms. THE IHVER PILLS, For the cure of Liver Complaints, all Bilious jpEftANGEMENTS, §ick Head-Ache, &c. In cases of. Feve| and Ague, preparatory to or after taking Qui nine, they almost invariably make a speedy cure. As specifics for the above men tioned diseases, they arc Unrivaled, and neyer known to fail when ad ministered in accordance with the directions. V , Their unprecedented popularity has induced the proprietors, Fleming Brothers,* . # PITtSBURCH, Pa. to dispose of: their Drug business, in which they have been success fully engaged for the last Twenty Years, and they will now give their undivided t|ne and attentioi| to their manufactured termined tha| Df. M’Lane’s Cele brated Vermpfuge and liver Pills shall continue to occupy the high position they|; now hold among the great remedies of the dayf, they will continue-tb spare neither time nor expensein procuring the Best and Purest material, and com pound them in the most thorough manner. Address all orders to PIBBINi MOS. riltgbnrgh, Po. P-S end; Physicians ordering from others Fleming 8r05.,-; will do wrfl to r.rfte their orders W I*. iTUnt% cmwrd ly PdUbuTg\ fb. To those wishing to givo wilt frrwaid per mail: mt paid, to any >rt °v too United fitatss, on* box of Till* fcr twelro P°«fcv?n stamp*. or on* rial of Tennlftaio for • ithrwvoent «nmr«,, All orders ftomCsnad* must » IV pT*rn. !n jUtoon *> b J A. Brash and S. W. K«s*. and by *U Druggists. [m*y 1», ’59-iy "VTOTICE TO SETTLE.—Notice is *o*U pemot knowing th«nie)*M to* dented to the nndanlkned, to come forward and make Ht- Uerawt all parts umlfrtrtllj iail, PtiST PAIP. Wp* •pies sol J the T«*' nglo. marrieil, and ths /fit ied happy. A I-'dun ci ,oi', or LvW to cWj-o a farl r: a complete work cu MIA ifery. U containi huo-W* ■lied—warrant'd to I? I for it, 115 rent* Imf-f-iit* f>o«tage «tamp« encLacd, will secure ncpy hy return •* nail - DU. TELLER has ilnvntOOTS AND SHOES JL* . . ' cm apex Tffjy srt* The subscriber bis just received from the dev a 1W and well selected assortment of.BOOTS A BBO&2, it <“ klndu amongst which are Men’s Calf Bools, froms3 50 to li 00. Men’s Oxford Ties for *2 00. Men’s Calf Baiters for $2 62. Men’* Patent Leather Gaiter* for JS 00. Boys’ Calf Gotten from Jl 62 to $2 00. , Youths’ Gaiters A 1 20 and upwards. . ladles’ French Morocco Heel’d Boots «0. ladies’ Kid Slippers 70 cti. ■ ladies’ Black and colored Gaiters from 90 ct*. to Children’s Shoes of all kinds for 12V els. and upward*- Glee me a call before buying elsewhere. JteineoiUr C* place. Virginia street, opposite the Lutheran Church. , May 5,18W-3t BENJ. £. 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Come, kind reader, if yon want to dress in a fiuhi’"-, style, call at my Shop, opposite nowhere, but cl»* J , toon* Banking House. Look ont for the picture name below. JACOB BXYDEB, X*s M ’ Altoona, Oct. 14, M,18M.-ly ' House and lot at private SALE,—The subscriber offers at rrlriteW'lw and Lot situate in the Borough of Altoona, t '""e j No 8, in block MM. The lot is on the comer of Aw" Eebecca streets, to 130 feet deep, and has a front on Bcbtcea street. The homo to an excellent frame building, well finished Inside and ontofda.. -.j, are also all neeoesary outbuilding* on the lot, a wen of excellent water at the door. The lot lent order. A bargain may be bad la the atom Altoona, May 6 th, UMjt - TBQP- TTNI TJf Dr STATES, LIFE OP THOMAS ELWAT. - tktf* u (upper • morphim pure w» wbist« the* * too thing* t mountain net two cotnmoda place in known, i mcr reso: The c; Wilson, I for faroi Holliday* town “hi urjf link cotrcot ( people of bat a d get nt i glace. Is “ D lion in to »Of exc cage up ed to li the etbe been foui of obthi “ Irish 6i wishing me to a key -to siiit-thc fared. 3 receired there me aecompar on the < when th way of means o were Ul: was clos •afely, i “ dmne proved u detetmin to obtai: way to s by a pas cause U whereupt tiieir pos Hcreaftei careful o h«y whe: Tub 3i word to (be morai •y aerert was assi| tbat be author ol -"A n ••If betti fur ho heirs, wh hut the casj j the truth How Toe Lube To It Gtm Bare And Lose Buoa- “ Slaugl f'rtU, ot Went, o w»s at half 0 f •t Peter Tipton, third hi ia each this rati hare bi dozen U Conni Btguttr note ‘a that t totponsi D «aed; ihiiauat tnal tMpcnsi G&oeafc