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ogee and residanoe on the North East Corner
at the Diamond, dear the Court !louse
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the mooti,when b will be ewe filling professions(
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DR. G. L. POTTIER,
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PHYSICIAN A SURGEON,
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of Centre Qounty, All business Intrusted to him
VIII be faithfully attended to. Tertteular attention
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CHI TO, 1869
W. P. GREEN,
DRUGOIST.
ISLLitroNTII,
RITAM DIILLFR
115"61, Medlathes, Perfumery, Paints, Oils, Var
ashes, Dye•Staffa, Toilet Soap', Brushes, !lair and
Tooth Brushes, Ifsmov and Toilet Articles, Trawls
sad Shoulder Brame (birdie Seeds.
Oestoiners 4111 Snd mitt oak oomplete and fresh,
and all sold at moderate prices.
garitsrmers and Physicians om the 00110(xy
76 u•itia M era My stook.
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BALE A Hint,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
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Will attend promptly to all bakiimeentruated to
their ears. 01llee In the building formerly mon-
Pied by Host. ,/A•. T.
A GARP.
Mum HALF 4111 flaY Win attend to my busker
diark asim ay &Wiwi Is Goo niss, and will Was
tar* initwilAsd
lhMOW•wi WPM, !man 11.
EMMA
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• Life 17vin the Railroad.
There is en ld saying that the friend
ship of a dog isttor than his ill will, and
it s v
for many years in nircapacity as a railroad
conductor I h Ye hepily found the above to
ho true to tholetter—but mind, I am not
saying I have no enemies. I,'undoubtedly,
have se few, aid I don't think there is a man
'lives hutwpt-has more or lone. A little
kindness new and then, to many ones, a
conductor frill find almost every VIP over
his road, will not be lost, and be will in
many cases find from his ' bretd etst upon
I the,watent,' ii. ; return fourfold. Yet he must
use a rivet deal of judgment in bestowing
hie charity upon those he thinks entirely
worthy of such bestowal. I will, in con
nection, relate a little incident by which a
little kindness eared my life, and the lives
of afflhe passengers on board my train.
The western division of our road runs
through a very mountainous part of Vit. -
' ia, and the stations are few and far L 009".
About three miles frOtn one of a...rotations
the road runs through a 'gyp gorge of the
Blue Ridge, And war Om centre is a arhall
"Ih.. z , an d oeero hemmed in by the ever
lasting Dills, stood a small ono and a half
st,ry log cabin. Tho few acres that sur
rounded it were well cultivated as a gsr
den, and upon .the fruits thereof, lived a
widow and her three children, by the name
of Grafl. They were, indeed, untutored in
the. eold charities of an outside world—l
doubt much if they ever saw the Nun Rhino
beyond (heir own native hills. In the sum
mer time the children brought berries to the
nearest station to sell, and with the mousy
thus earned they bought a few of the neces
sities of the outside refinement.
aiLusemirs, ra■n'y
The eldest of thentrchildren I should judge
lobe about twelve years and the youngest
about seven. They are all girls, and looked
nice and clean, and their healthful appear
ance and natural delicacy gave them a res•
dy welcome. They appeared as if they had
been brongbt up to fear God, and love their
humble home and mother. L had often
stopped my trail and let them off at their
home, having found them at the station
atimathresialathaa-kithalkaaawi otter dinPuOug
of their berries.
I bad children at home, and I knew theie
little feet would be tired in walking three
miles, and therefore felt that it would be
the same with those fatherless little ones.—
They seemed pleased to ?ude, and thanked
me with such hearty thanks after letting
them offnear home ! They frequently of
fered me nice, tempting baskets of fruit for
my kindness, yet I never accepted any with
out paying their full value.
Now if you remember the winter of W 54
was very cold in that part of the State and
the snow was nearly three feet deep upon the
mountains.
On the night of the 26th of December of
that year, it turned around warm arid the
rain fell in torrents. A terrible storm swept
the mountain tope, and almost filled the
valleys with water. Upon that night my
train was winding Its way, at its usual
speed around the hills and throu l gh the val.
'eye, and as the road bed was of solid rock
I had no fear of the banks giving out. The
night was intensely dark and the wind moan
ail piteously through the deep gorges of the
mountains. Some passengers were trying
to sleep, others were talking in a low voice
to relieve the monotony of the scene ! Moth- I
ers had their little children upon their knees
as if to shield them from some unknown
danger without.
It was near midnight, when a sharp whis
tle from the engine brought me to my feet.
I knew there was danger by that whistle,
end sprung to the brakes at once, but the
brakesmen were all at their posts, and soon
brought the train to a stop. I seized my
legtern and found my way forward as sonll
as possible, whoa what Si sight met my
gaze ! A bright fire of pine logs illumina
ted the track fur some distance, and not
over forty rods ahead of our train a horrible
gulf had opened its maw to receive us !
The snow, together with the rain, had
torn the whole side of the mountain out.
eternity itself seemed spread out before us.
The widow Chaff and her children had found
it out, and brought light brush from their
home below and built a large fire to warn
us of our danger. They had been watching
more than two hours beside that beacon of
safety. As I went up where the old lady
and children stood, drenched to the skin by,
the rain and sleet, she grasped me by the
i
anti and cred—
"Thank God ! Mr. Sherbourn, we stop
ped you in time. I would have lost my
life before ono hair of your head should have
boon Burt. Oh, I prayed to Heaven we
might stop the train, and my God, I thank
Thee !"
The children were crying for joy. I con
fess I don't very often pray, but I did thou
and there. I kneeled down beside the good
old woman and offered up thinks jo an All
wise being for our safe delrierance from a
most terrible death, and called down bless
ings without number upon that good old
woman and beiohildren. Near by stood tho
engineer, fireman, and brakeimen, tho tears
streaming down their bronzed faces.
Liniunediatoly prevailed on Mrs. Grail and
bershildron - to - go - back can nut oftthe
Morro and coid. Aftes resshioe tbs ass, I
CEIMEE
MEI
3E4lfamous.
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BELL 'NT CENTRE COUNTY, PENIVA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1859,
rotated our hair-breadthLescapo, and to
whom we wore indebted for our lives, and
bogged the mon passengers to go ffirward
and see-tor thttnselvcs. They somireturn
ed, and their pale faces gave evidence of the
frightful death we hid escaped. The Indies
and gentlemen vied with each other in their
thanks and heartfelt gratitude toward Mrs.
flraft and her children, and assured her that
they would never, never forget her, and be
fore the widow left the train she was pre
sented with a purse of four hundred and six
ty dollars, the voluntary °Miring of a whole
train of grateful passengers. Sim refused
the proffered gif Cie r somo Woe,. and said
she had only dons her dot', and the knowl
edge of having 'done so was ill the reward
she asked. llowev , r, she finally accepted
the money, and said it should go to educate
her children.
The railwad company built her a now
house. G ave her and hcr.children a lifepass
ovn the'railroad, and ordered all trains to
stop and let get oil at home when she wish
ed. But the employees needed no Mich or
ders ; they ern appreciate all ouch kindness
more than the directors themselves.
The old lady frequietly visited my home
al 11-, and she I at all times a welcome
visitor at my fireside. Two of the children
arc attending school at the same place. So
you see that • little kindness cost toy noth
ing and saved my lite. U.
A Female Korso-Thief.
, Thu Pittsburg True Press gives* long
account of the adventures of a Mrs. Killian,
• famous female !mega-their. Sha stole a
horse and buggy near Rochester, N. Y., while
the owntr was attending church ; she was
arrest , d on the lake shore, and the horse was
locked op. She, however, managed to aka!
the horse over again, and another horse with
him. The now horse gave out, and she left
him, and made her way to Pittsburg, with
the Rochester horse and buggy. The stolen
horse gave out, and she traded him off on
the road. She put up at Neeley's hotel, at
Pittsburg, stayed a fair days, and then told
the landlord that she wanted to sell her
horse and buggy, and return home by the
Pennsylvania railroad. She behaved so
well at the ta,,ern ,bat no 000 suspected her
of being a thief, and besides, her good char
acter was certified to by a Mr. Savage, who
had known her mut years ago in Ireland.—
So the landlord sold the property for one
hundred dollars, gave, her the motley, and
she left. A few days after, a claiment came
for the Rochester horse : he was found on
the tarot of Mr. Burnside. in Mercer noway,
to whotri Mrs. Killian hwel trailed him, and
Mr. Burnaido came into Pittsburg and re
covered 1119 horse Riiu the pMelia ter Mrs
Killian is alio& thirty-tire years old, neatly
tire feet high, 411(1 s ugly; about one hundred
and severity live polio Is She hog long black
hair, •ery smooth face, anti !loft tender
hands. A rumor was circulat' d after she
kit, that she was a man in disome,
greatly annoyed a Icily who had slept with
her during hi r way a t Neeley's botel.
Delirium
Never was drunk but once in my life,"
said a chap once in my hearing "and I nev
er mean to be again. The street seemed to
be very steep, and I lifted my feet at every
step as il I was getting up stairs. Several
cartwheels were making revolutions in my
brains, and at one time I fancied my head
was a large carving and turning establishment
the lathe of which I was keeping in motion
with my own feet. I couldn't conceive wat
was the reason the town had turned into such
an enormous hill ; and what made it worse
was, that it seemed all the time to bo
grow
ing higher and threatened to pitch over on
me. Stop, stop, said I, and I'll head this
old hill yet, or at least it shat't bead me
I turned round to go- down and get at the
bottom, tell me ! it the town didn't 'turn
right round with me, heading me all the
tilne,'and presenting the high hlull in front
of me. Wel? sure enough the ground flew
.ttp And struck me on the forehead ; and as
fOOD as tig stars cleared away, I commenced
climbing With my hands and knees. The
next thing I saw, was a big brick house
coming full split round a corner,. and I be
lieve it run right over toe, for I did not re
member any more." - -
ABOILITIOICLST Horn) in Karirupr.r.—The
Now York Day Book has received informa-
Lion from a private source that a few days
ago an Ohio Abolitionist named Day, was
arrested by the Vigilance Oommitteee in a
certain county in Kentucky. He had incen
diary papers on his person. As he had been
caught in the attempt to circulate tbeee doc
uments previously, and warned that he
should be banged ircaught at it again, he
was this time swung up without further
ado.
MABIIIAOI or CORITNEL —Gov. Magefiln,
of Kentucky, reoomMends the Legislature of
that State, to ptohibit by Ilw, under severe
penalties, the marriage of cousins. 11e says
that the imbeciles, insane, deaf mutimi and
blind in the different asylums of that State
who are the offspring of (musing, is from 10
to 20 per cent. of the whole number ; and
he claims that it is the right and duty of the
State to protect herself against the evil and
expanse by forbidding such unions, which
nature - pitinty forlifiXby the nitnnl penelti
she unitbrtukr
"
40 ~ 1:
A Letter for t k he Timed. c
Tho following letter wits written by 'Dan
iel %Vaster, nearly eight years ago. It al
ginates in homely topics, and proceeds from
_
those to others of more general impcirt and
interest—the duties of 4, patriot under the
Constitution and the Onion. The great
practical sense of the Copstitutionak expoun
der is not more evident In the mode of illus
tration than it is in thegiattiotisni which in
spires every word and the true national son
titisent which it seeks to inculcate. Mr.
Webster had groweruf with the Union ; he
had seen it daily givisg strength and power
to the natiod - I.llStoroffehensive mind sa w
that the liberties and security of the people
and the prosperity Of thehountry rest upon
the foundation of the eqmillity of tie States,
with the faithful observance of the oblige-,
tiona (hat each State owes to the other.--
llertce earnestness with which he seeks
to impress this fact in the latuiliar illustra
tion which his letter contains. Nothing
probably has been . written mien our conau e
tutional obligations which comes home so
practically, so loreiblu and AO strikftly.
It Is a valuable less* inch a$ can come
only from a patriot isid statesman, and as
an illustration of politleal duty is worth vol
tunes of exposition: Its frankness, its gen
erous sentiments and conscientious sense of
duty knust commend it to every reader.
LETTER PROM DANIEL trlessrsa TO J 011): TAT
Lek.
"JOUN 'Lanus :—Go ahead. The heart
of the winter is broken, and before the Ist
day of April all your land may be plowed.
Buy the oxen of Capt. Marstop, if you think
the price fair. Pty fur the bay. I send you
a check for 1180, for these two objet's. Put
the great esen ins condition to be turned out
mid flitted. You have a good hor,o team,
and I think, In addition to this, fobr oxen
and a Pair of four year old steers will do
your work. If you think so, then dispose
of the Stevens oxen, or unyoke them and
send them to pasture for beef. I know not
when I shall see you, but I hope before
planting. It you need anything, soak as
guano, for instance, writs to Joseph Break,
EA., Boston, and be wllltwir44 to
• Whatever grusintljen a
Nast it is in a gootecotiOltion.% .we
pinny royal crops. „ A dare firm well
tilled" is to a farmer the next hest thing to a
little wife well willed." Cultivate your
gn; den. Be sure to produce sufficient qtian
inks of useful vegetables. A man ntay half
~epert his family from %good garden
T . ike care to keep my mother's garden In
roil order, even it it costs you the wages of
a man to take core of it . I have sent. you
many garden seeds Distribute them among
your neighbors. Send them to the stores in
the village, that everybody may have a part
of them without cost. lam glad that you
have chosen Mr. Pike 'representative. Ile is
a true man ; but there are In New [ramp
shire many persons who call themselves
Whigs--are no Whigs at all, and no bolter
than disunionists. Any man who hesitates
In granting and securing to every part of the
country its constitutional rights la an enemy
to the whole country.
John Taylor:—lf one of your boys
should say that he honors his father and
mother, and loves his brothers and sisters,
but Mill Insists that bne of them should be
driven out of the family. what can you say
of him but this, that there is no' real family
love in him I You and I are- farmers : we
never talk politimi : our talk Is of oxen ; but
remember this ; that any man who attempts
to excite 000 part of the country against
another, is just as wicked as he would be
who should attempt to get up a quarrel be
tween John Taylor and his neighbor, old Mr.
John Sanborn, or his other neighbor Captain
Burleigh. There are some animals that live
best in the Ore ; and there are some men
who delight in heat, smoke, combustion, and
even general confiagratiog. They do not not
follow the things which make for peace.—
They enjoy only controversy, Contention
and strife. Rave no communion with such
persons, either as neighbors or politicians.
You have no more right to 'say that slavery
ought not to erist m Virginia than a Vir
ginian has to say that slavery ought to exist
in New Hampshire. This is a question left
to every State to decide for itself; and if wo
mean to keep the States,togethcr, we must
leare to every State this power of deciding
for itself,
"I think I never wrote you a word before
on politics. I obeli not do it again. I only
say tovo your country, and your. , whole
country.; and when men attempt to persuade
you to got into a quarrel with the laws of
your State, tell thorn 'that you mean to
mind your own business' and advise them
to mind theirs. John Taylor, you are a free
man ; you poitsiesa good principles ; you
have a large fibnily to rear and provide for
tly your labor. Be thankful tp the govirn
meat which does not oppress you, which
doom not bear you down by excessive taxa
tion, but which holds out to you and yours
the hope of all the blessings Aid' liberty,
industot and security way give. John Tay
lori tgok Pod, morning and evening, that
you wdolis bog' 'in such a country. John
Taylor, nievoe write me another word upon
politics. Give my kindest remembrance to
your wife and children ; and when you
look from your eastern windpw upon the
graves of my family, remember thi4 he who
tschtLauthor of this let4or--sauktrooOrtioltow
them to soother world.
Wiourtga."
NE
WASHINGIor, Marrh 17,3 452
El
In!
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Helper's Book.
The wort of this renegade North 41itia
Abolitionist, recently published in New York
yilkundoabtedly be extensively c!rcuiated
by leading Republican and Abolition - agita
tors for the purpose of inflaming the p lic
mind and inst:gating armed forays into t ;
border slave states. Thir - work is full of
devilish bentimetp, which should be unhesi ,
tatingly oondenined by every sound patriot
in the country. Addressing himself to the
South. Yelper says :
ANo man can be a true patriot without first
becoming. an Abolitionist."
"Henceforth, sirs, we are detnandants, not
supplicants. We demand our rights—noth
ing less. It is for you to decal° whether we
are to have justice peaceahlyor by VIMANCR ;
for, whatever consequences may follow, we
are determina d have it one way or the
other.
• • ~• " • • •
"The diabolical institution (slavery) sub
sists on its oa n flesh. At one time children
are avid to procure food for the parents ; at
another, parents are sold tolitticure food for
the children. Within its postilenttal at
mosphere nothing succeeds f. progress and
prosperity are uniinown ; inanition and sloth
tuluess ensues ; everything becomes dull and
uprofitahle ; wretchedness and desolation
stand or lie in bold relief throughout the
land-I an aspect of most melancholy inactiv
ity and dilapidation broods over every city
and town ; ignorance and prejodico, sit en•
throned over the minds of the people ; usurp•
ing'desvits wield Clio sceptre of power :
everywhere, and in everything, between
Delaware Ray and the Gulf of Mexico, are
the multitudinous evils Tor slavery appa
rent'''
...Inscribed on the banner which we here
with unfurl to the world, with the full and
fixed determination to stand by it of die by
it, unlees one of more virtuous efficacy shall
be proaented, are the mottoes which, in sub
stadoe, embody the principles, as we con
ceive, thatakinulti govern us in our patriotic
warfare against the otose awhile cod maid
lout foe that arm , 'menaced :the inalienable
rights and OW* , and dearest interests of
America" •
And yet ihity4lgiri Zipdb7lcan
Congress, with John Sherman, their candi
date for Speaker, among the number, who
profeas to be Constitution abiding and lin•
ion loving citizens, have endorsed this infa
mous book and earneatly recommend its pub
lication.
Exaltation of the Gallows
Thero seems to bo no limit to the moral
obliquity with which Republicanism is due
posed to regard Brown's Virginian massacre.
From Greeley to Fred liouglais--‘4 black spir
its and gray," all aro in full scrabble, trying
to prove an assassin better fitted for Heaven
than any man who has died in ueighteen con-
tunes."
According to then- tiiterpretation, the
Christian wcrld has been wrong for a very
long time; and recent discoveries warrant
the belief, that the shortest and Surest way
to eternal happiness, is to commit murder,
and step from the gallows into "the embrace
of angels."
Let the argument be backed by quota
tions from the Mucosa of the New York Tri
bune:
"V't hile the responsive heart of the North
has been substantially sympathizing with
the one whom they 'Andre, and venerate, and
love, the great soul itself has passed away
into eternal heavens During the eighteen
centuries which have pulled, co such char
actor has appeared among man. The gal
leries of the resounding ages echo with no
foot-fall mightier than the martyr of to-day.
He has gone. Efforts to save him were
fruitless. Prayers were unavailing. lie
stood before his murderers defiantly, asking
no mercy. • • • • • „ •
" Bewildered not, and daunted not, the
s hifting scenes of his life's drama, at the
last, brought to him neither regrets nor
forebodings. Having finished the work
which God had gieen him to do, this apostle
of a mw dispensation, jc imitation of the
Divine, recetved with fortitude his baptism
of blood. And thus, beholding the heavens
opened and Jesus standing at the right hand
of the throne of God, this last of Christian
Martyrs stepped proudly and aplmly upon
r the scaffold, and thence upwarrnto the em
brads of Angels, and into the general assem
bly and church of the flrat born, whose name
are written iu the heaven."
flow delightful the vision of Immortality,
when tinged with the blood of a score of vic
tims ! And the gallows I what a fine idea
is conveyed—encouraging to minor culprits,
—in making that a stepping-stone to future
rewards ! Charming ! 'lt is to be hoped
that competition for death on the gallows
will not make that article "higher'^ in 04
market, notwhit'stadding its merits are
widely advertised in Republican papers.---
Albany Atlas.
Joshua B. Giddings was in Hartford last
week, and while there wrote a letter, and
fixed a stamp thereto, the Brat time, he re
marked, that he had paid postage in twin
ty-one years. Ilia franking priviledge ex
pired Monday noon.
Alpha Manta _Ckultral—Railreati Ormpwiry
his add of the government lands granted to
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Prenticeana.
, The following are a few Specimens or the
contehts of the work by the edittir of the
Louisville Journal, entitled ;' Prentioearia,"
'tier published by Derby and Jaekson, New
ork
37' A Mr. Archer has been sent to the
Ohio Penitentiary for marrying three wives.
Insatiate Archer ! Could not one suffice?'
17 A Pittsburg paper says, in an obitu
ary notice of an old lady, that " Abe bore
her husband twenty children and never gave
him a cross word.". She moot hire obeyed
the good old precept—" bear and forbear."
QT A Buffalo paper announced that Dr.
Brandreth has introduced a bill into the l.e•
gislature. Is the editor sure that he minded
his p's in the announcement.
The editor of the Boston Liberator
calla uprn the ladies of the North to make
use of nothing that is produced by slave la
tor. Ile needn't expect them pot to use
cotton. - They Win riot expel so old a friend
from Meir bosoms.
ili . The common opinion is, that we
should take good care of children at all sea
sons of the year, but it is well enough in
winter to let themsiti;:e.
Q 7 W. Q. llooe, Postmaster in Virgin
ia, publishes that trwhnndred dollars of the
public fundg are missing from his office, and
he asks "who his got the money I" Possi
bly echo may answer— lime.
(fey' The editor of en Indiana paper says:
"more innarny is on foot." We suppose the
editor has lost his horse.
cDr. The New York Pint says, a man
"cannot be active and quieecent at - the same
time. There may be some doubt of that.—
Some fellows bustle about terribly and yet
he slat.
2:2" A Rocky Mountain correspondent of
the York Evening Post. who writes
himself "Henry E. Land," dericybos () Te r n
as the most delightful country in the world.
Our citizens, if they choose, can goons there
sod see4low the Land hes.
'l7' Mr. Walton Mood was robbed neer
Oorinth, Abe., on the nth inst. The Otoi•
loth u„ylk that the same of Om bigherspen.
ismintonio, but Ate hum doubt that be
.liplaitt!,Meint.
EC?' The Ohio river is getting lower every
day. It Ilse almost ceased to ron. All who
look at it can at once perceive that it sahib.
its very little speed but a great deal of bet-
trp Mrs. Lucy complains in di . Ar•
kansas paper, that her nephew has trampled
upon her rights and feelings. The graceless
young scamp shouldn't be allowed to tram
pin ulkin - his attn.! • Hai.
fig - A woman in Florida, named Crows,
lately gars, birth to an infandeon which
weighed only ono pound. That Cress wasn't
hard to bear.
Two men, Joseph Sparks and Oscar
Flint, were assailed an the suburbs of Bal
timore, a few nights ago, by a band of
shoulder hitters. Flint was knocked down,
but his companion escaped by light. When
the scoundrels hit flint Sparks friss.
rp We were considerably amused by an
account that we lately gay of • remarkable
duel. Thero were air men upon the ground
and sir
10 — A young lady of New nitlearla, who
recently performed a remarkable feat in row
ing,bas been presented with a beautiful yawl.
A smack would have been more appropri
ate.
frj - Mr. Henry A. Rhule Lays, in a Mill
s isaippi paper, that he bus "worked zealous
ly for the adrninistratioYi.k Now let him
turn and work faithfully against it.. 'Tis a
poor rule that. won't work both ways.
ET Mr. J. S. Fall, a Mississippi editor
asks when we 'shall get wise. Undoubtedly
before Fall, if ever.
A New HALF D0LL131..--A new .kraplf dol•
laa has been got up at the United States
Mint : i 45 bo submitted to the Clovernment for
its approval. The new coin, although of
the same diameter as that now,io circula-
tion, is much thicker at the rim in cons&•
quence of the deeper sinking * of the die,
and hence meth 'more dustbin. On one side
is a medallion portraft of Washington, with
the head wreathed with laurel; the word
Liberty upon a scroll over the bust ; at the
bottom the date 1859 ; and around the
whole the words United States o 1 Argotic*,
in plain well adapted rained letters, On
the reverse side, a wreath of graft envelopes
the words Half Dollar, in the same beautiful
letteris. The coin is very handsome.
A member of ,the Mississippi Legislature
at ono of its late 'entre, introduced a bill
to change the name o'ra cirtain county in
that State to (less county. One of the op.
,position moved uan amendment, that the
letter CI be stricken out of the proposed
name. This metion create son* laughter
at the expense of the member offerinek--
Nothing debuted, horror, he arose in reply
and said, "Mr. Speaker, this ie the first in
stance that has come to my knowledge in
which a member has had the itsettromoe, up.
on the floor of any Legislature,' to propose
to name e'county after himself."
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- A - villain has been arrested at Brighton,
(.). W., for selling beat and
bienir.Bler slier being 'bitten by n sad dog.
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In the volume of Dr. Sprogile.l ei the
Baptist pulpit, Gov. Briggs coon:T . :Mates •
very interesting letteron John Leland. whieh,
contains a full account of his personal habits
and manner of preaching them wb hors !ter
er seen before.
He was little inclined to superittilion,skys
Gov. Briggs ; indeed, his practical sagacity
and startling common sense kept him from
any tendency In that direction, bnt he had
some peculiar experience of the superittu
ral as thd following anecdote testifies:
While I was -at his borne I enquired of
him about a remarkable noise, which I had,
when a boy, heard that he and hts family
had been annoyed by when they lived in
Virginia. He gave hid account of it :
His family, at the time, consisted of him
self, wife, and four children. One evening,
all the family being together, their atttnUon
was attracted t r . noise. which vox, auusb
resembled the faint groans of a person in
pain. It was distinct, and repeated et in
tervals of a few Iteciande._.Tt seemed to - to ,
under the sill or the win dow, and between
. the clapboards and the ceiling. They paid
very little attention to it, and in • short
time it ceased. But afterwards it returned
in the same way—sometimes every night,
sometimes net so frequently, and always In
the same place, and of the same character.
It continued for some montlui. Do said,l,
xcited their curiosity and annoyedfilierni,
but they were not alarmed by it. Du
its continuance they had the sidingsnir
sing removed from the place where it sp
peered to be, but found nothing to swoon..
for it, and the sound continued the men..
Ile consulted his friends, especially some
of his ministerial brethren, about it. I
think he said it was never heard by any ono
except himself and family ; but it 'via beard
by them when be was absent from home.—
Mrs, Leland said. that often when she was
alore with the children, sod while they,wers
playing abootahe room, and nothing being
said, it would Game, and they, vs* hail
their play and come and pthelydeimmil hit
past* They had a piano My trrlittty
rods SI, the Wass, by V!1 1 ,
View,*awry didll7Z" ,
dsy s ittuthe was tri t place, It met
her them precisely as t had den, in the
house.
After the nem had been hoard at brief
intervals (dr, -1 think, six or sight seastime,
they removed their toile quit* an op
posite and distant mist house, hat it
continued as usual for some time is ho old
locality. One night, after they had retired,
they observed by the sound, that it had left
the spot from which it bad previouslyitre
oeetled. and seemed to be advancing in a di
rect line toward their bed, and was becom
ing constantly louder and more distinct.
At each interval it advanced toward them,
and gathered strength and fulness until It
entered et.e room where they were, and ay
( preached the bed, when the groan became
deep and appalling. "Then," said be, "for
the first time since it began, I felt the emo
tion of fear ; I turned upon my face, and if
I ever prayed in try lite, I prayed then. I
asked the Lord to deliver me and pay family
from that annoyance, and that if it were a
message from Heaven, it might be explained
to us, and depart ; that it it were an evil
soffit, permitted to disturb and disquiet me
and my family, it might be reit:inked and sent
away ; or, if there was anything for me to
do to make it depart, I might le instructed
what it was, so that I could do it." This
exercise restored hia tranquility of mind,
and he resented his usual position in the lied,
Then, he said, ft uttered a groan too Muct Lod
startling to be imitated by the human voice.
The next groan was not so loud, and, it rece
ded a step or two from the front of the bed,
near his face. It oontinued to recede in the
direction from which it came; and grew'ie.s
and less, until it reached its old station,
when it died away to the faintest sound, — and
entirely and forever ceased.
No explanation was ever ,band. "I have
given you," said he, "a simple and true his
tory of the facts, and you can form your own
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opinion, I beet none." wifeconfirintd
all he said. I think I can say I never knew
a person less &Wu to the marvellous than
Elder Leland.
News Bsowatow AND rim corrtif..-
Among the notables present at the late mass
meeting 'at Lynchburg, Vs., milled to ex
press the opinion of the people of that sec.
non in relation'io the }larper's Ferry raid.
I was the well known Parson Brownlow. His
remarks on the occasion were characteristic.
A reporter, in noticing the speech, says It
was " ittensely Bentham, " and represents
the parson as saying " he world rather be
with the Sluth in Pandemonium than, with
the Abolitionists la Heaven." Ths'pertion
also remarked that he intended to dive $e
hunil, instructions not to bury him b s
Yankee wan ; btstif, in ease of an owe.
genoy, they should bs forced to dose, that
they emethwee both ends open, so that
when the deed or abolitionists come is.sh
one'end be could timid out at the other.
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