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Messrs Hane & Hoy will attend to my business durinzmy absence in Congress, and will be.as Snfey by mo in the trial of all gutsy entrusted to m. AMES T. . _Decembor I5, 12,9. 2 Hus Ke OU Gls BRN, DLUGGIST. LELLEFONTE, PA. 1 DEALER IN Perfumery, Paints, Oils, Var. oilet Soaps, Brushes, Hair and WEHOLRSALE AnD Rtas Drugs, Medici nishes, Dye-Stufly Als) ) Lodth Brushes, Faney and Toilet Articles, Trussels i i] Garden Seeds. Will find myst o 0s! and all sold at modoraty oy comple me {3 Farmors ang Physicians ere nvited to examine my stock. —— 20 NING my A. 0. FURST, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, pA. ILL practice in the several Cour W Conlon and Clinton a. os business entrusted to his caro will reco t attention. Iopoive Dron OFFICE—On the North- : : anal n the North-west corner -of the Di. March 28, 1801.--1y- om {he country From the Atlantic Monthly for May.] BROTHER JONATHAN'S LAMENT FOR SIS- TED CAROLINE. . She has gone—she has left us in passion and pride, Our stormy-browed sister so long at our side! She has torn her own star from our firmament’s glow, And turned on her brother tho faze of a foc! 0 Caroline, Caroline, child cf the sun, We can never forget that our hearts have been one,— Our foreheads both sprinkled in Liberty’s name, From the fountain of blood with the finger of flame You were always too ready to fire at a touch; But we said “she is hasty,—she does not mean mueh.” Wo havo scowlod when you uttered somo turbu lent threat, But Friendship still whispered, * Forgive and forget.” las our love all died out? Have its altars grown cold? as the curse come at Inst which the fathers fore- told ? Then nature must teach us the strength of the chain, That her petulant children would sever in vain They may fight till the buzzards are gorged with their gpoil, . Till the harvest grows black as it rots in the soil, Till the wolyes and the catamounts troop trom their caves, And the shark tracks tho pirate, the lord of the wave : In vainis the strife! When its fury is past, Their fortunes must flow in one channel at last, As the torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll mingled in peace through the valleys below. Our Unien is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man broak Though da with sicel, The blue arch will b the dic! h cloven ioned wi ier, thoug iton, the water: 3 1 14 it o es There are battles with fale ‘The staz-dowering banner must ne For its blossoms of light are the hope of the world ! Geo, then, cur rash sister! afar and aloof, — Ran wild ia tho sunshine away from our roof, But when your heart aches and your fect have grown sore,- Remember the pathway that leads to our door! THE SOLBIER'S NARRATIVE. AN AUTHENTIC INC!DENT. I was rather disappointed, if the truth must be told—so indeed we all were at home—at my Kinswan’s scanty supply of words, when he returned to us from the great Crimean campaign. As for the general story of the war, we did not want that from him, but what had personally befallen him ; for we knew that, though it was hard, indeed, to be pre-emi- nent in the discharge of duty or daring of danger amidst that flower of the world’s soldierhoed, he had been noted as notewors thy, even among such, by those who had tho best means of appreciating his courage and his industry. have found this modest, manly silence, touching personal exposure and achieve. went, an almost invariable characteristic of our noble fighting men. My reader will, therefore, kindly bear it in mind thus the detailed and curious narrative I put under his eyes here is of my wriling rather than of his telling, short as it is. But { have interwoven in it, so faras L know, nothing but authentic threads of recollectiqn. I picked the matter for the spinning of them bit by bit out of his conversation, as an old woman might pick out of a long hedgerow, at long intervals, wool enough to furnis! worsted for her knitting needles to work up into a stocking or pair of mits. He had keen under fire continuously, for seven hours cr more, on one of the most hard fought days of all that hard fought struggle, and as he rode away at cvening rode bareheaded, in reverent acknowledge. ment to Heaven for the the marvel that he was riding out of that hail of iron himself unhurt. As for the unobserved incidents of that days’ danger from which a merciful preser- vation had been vouchsafed, they would be hard to reckon; but upon three occasions daring those seven exposed hours, it really seemed that the messengers of death avoided him, as in some legend they turned aside from the man who bears a charmed life, — There was a six pound shot, which he saw directly coming, as the cricketer views the projectile which threatens his middle wicket. It pitched right in front of him, and rose as a cricket ball when the turf is parched and baked, bounding clean up into the air, and so passed right over his untouched head. 1 fell behind him, and he looked at it more than once that day, and, but for its inconve. ment bulk, thought of carrying it away as a memento. There was a twenty-four pound shot next —a sort of twin brother to'that which, some three weeks before, had actually torn his forage cap from off his head—but it camo too quick for sight. llc was at that moment backing towards the shafts an amunition cart horse, whose reins he held close to its jaw, as he spurred on his own to make it give way in the right direction. Smash came tho great globe of iron, and gs the blood and bones and brains bespattered him he almost fell forward; for the poor brute was restless no longer ; headless horses don’t strain against the bit, although it is Just as hard as ever to back them into the ‘shafts. Then there wag a moment, one of those of direst confusion, of what other than such soldiers as fought that fight would have reckoned a moment of disinay--a moment wherein regimental order itself was in part broken and confused ; the guardsmen mine gled with linegmen, the linesmen with blue. coated artillery. There had been fearful havoc among those noble servants of the deep-voiced cannon, and men were wanted to hand out the shells from a cart ho had himgelf brought up, re- plenished to a breastwork, Ie called in some of the linesmen. One of them stood by him foot to foot, almost or actually in contact, They were handing amuni- tion from one to another, as men do fire buckets when fires are blazing in the streets. le leaned in one direction to pass on the load he had just taken from a soldier’s hand —the soldier was bending toward the next man in the chain—a Russian shell came bounding with a whirr, then burst and scat- tered its deadly fragments with a terriffic force. Ono of the great shreds passed—- there was just room for it—between his leg and the soldier’s that stood next him. They looked each other in the face. « A very close shave, that, sir 7” said the the man, ¢ Nearer than you think for, perhaps,” he answered, for he had felt the rounder sur- face of the fragment actually Bruise him as it passed, whereas its ragged edge had shav- en, with a marvelous neatness, from his trowsers, part of the broad red stripe upen the outer seam. I venture to give these minute details be- cause they may help other civilians, as they helped me, to *¢ realize,” as they call it now a-days, more vividly, the risk of a day of Lattle, and the large draft they make upon a man's fund of nerve and composure, just as he stands, without coming into any close encounter. But at last the firing was done, and bare- headed, as T have said, he turned and rode back towards camp. It was before the famine period there, and though there was no supertluity of food, there was food to be had, and that long day’s fighting men stood in sore need of it. ft was dusk, and he was lighting a can- dle to sit down to his meal, when the voice of a French soldier called something like his name from the outside. He was himself a perfect master of that language, as the « Soldat du train” who stood outside found to his great relief upon his first utterance of inq: The iman held 2 male by the bridle the creature’s back It = ed wen offizier, fo bri 8 gorpse to you. TY nd of his-—his name stage of the ¢ startlin s there weve few names among those of his friends and comrades which could and grieve him mors to hear pronounced under such ci stances. Gtha. Light ures fatabod... ta oa jead the, noe body, then, with a sigh t once more gently down. There was a small round hole in the very centre of the forchead, whereat the death-dealing ball had daried into the brain of his hapless friend. He called an orderly, and directed him to accompany the Frenchman to the dead man’s tent. Ile would himself soon follow and see to his receiving soldier’s obsequies. His weariness and exhaustion were such as to render it imperatively necessary that he should first take his food, to which he re- turned, with what increased weight of heart who shall rightly tell 2 It needsnot that the tension of a man’s nerves should nave been strang tight by the hand of battle, for him to know, from his own experidnee, what is the strange, and awful and we fceling of the fist relaxa- tion of them in the early after hours of re. sponsibility, danger or important erisis of decision. If apparitions and visions of things unearthly be indeed mere fictions of men's brains, such after hours are just those wherein the ind is readiest to yield to the power of illusion. Illusion or reality more startling, more unaccountable by far than it. Whether of the two was this? There entered at the curtin of hig tent the dead man, towards whom, in some minutes more, he should have been paying the last sad kindnesses. The light fell full and clear upon his face. He took off his forage cap as he came in, The broad white forehead showed no longer any trace of the murder- ous Incrash of the ball winch had slain him. Into the poor dull glazed eyes the gleam had returned-—could it indeed be the gleam of returned life? Or do the eyes of ghosts gleam life-like so ? ¢ What made you sead that Frenchman with my corpse to me 2 At least, he would insist that it was ine.” “X. ! Good heaven! you indeed 7? “ Who should it be? What ails you, man 2 Why do you stare at me so 2” «I cannot say what ails me; but I am surely under some strange delusion. It is not half an hour, surely, since I saw you stretched lifeless across a mule’s back, with a riffe bullet between your eyes. What can thismean? Youare not even wounded.” *¢ No, thank God ! nothing has touched me (his time ; but that French soldier—did you then send him up, indeed 2”? ¢ Indeed I did.” Hideous comico-tragic episode in the aw- ful drama of war! They discovered by and by that the slain brother soldier was no comrade of their own corps, but a brave of- fleer of another arm. Neither of them had known him personally, nor had they ever heard before that between him and X—— existed, in his lifetime, the most remarkable and close resemblance ; such an identity of feature as is 1arcly seen save in twin broth. ers. Can it be —————— T00 True.-—When « rakish youth goes astray, friends gather round him in order to restore him to the path of virtue. Gentle- tleness and kindness are furnished to win him back to innocence and peace. No one would ever suspect that he had sinned. — Bat, when a poor, confiding girlis betrayed, she ‘receives the brand of society and is driven fromthe ways of virtue, ~The be- trayer is honored, respected, esteemed, but there is no peace for her this side of the grave. Society has no loving, helping hand for her—no smile of peace—no voice of love —no voice of forgiveness. These are earth- ly moralitics unknown to heaven. There is a deep wrong in them and fearful are the consequences, A NARROW EXCAPE, AN INCIDENT CF THE WAR OF 1812. About the middle of December, 1812, the garrison in charge of Fort Niagara, at the mouth of the Niagara river, was surprised by a large party of Dritish and Tadians, whereby the American frontier from Youngs town to Bullalo, was laid open to tho depre- dations of tne savages. Ose of the most {flourishing American vil- lages on the Niagara, was Lewistown, situ- ated opposite to the Canadian village of Queenstown ; and as the inhabitants of Lew- istown had been active in the defence of the frontier, the enemy doomed the place to speedy destruction. When the fiames and smoke were ascend- ing from the wanton conflagration of Youngstown, and the parties of villagers flying from the murderous savages, notitied the people of Lewistown of what would soon be the fate of their own homes and families, every one was thrown into the ut- most confusion and alarm, and sought safe- ty in flight. Among the last to escape were two broth- ers named Lothrop and Bates Cock, the for- mer of whom, a few days previous, had had his right leg amputated above the knee, and was now a helpless invalid. Lothrop, who in his crippled condition, had no hope of escaping the scalping knife of the savages, begred his brother to leave him and {ly for his life. But the generous man had no such intention. With all the haste possible, Bates, after getting the teem and sleigh to the door, managed to drag the bed, en which his brother lay, upon the ve- hicle ; and throwing in clottung, and such other necessaries as came nearest to hand, started off’ in the rear of the flying fugitives. But so rcugh was the ground that the wounded youth could endure no other than the slowest motion. therefore, found if necessary for strain his team to the slowest walk, while he could see in his rear the flames burstinpout of the doors and windows of 7 quitted, and the drunken Indi® te as fired, and before n had reached the top of ihe * way out of the place, theentire Ir {i in i f i Al louse a ic. painted werriors, and bedecked with the ¢ stores, dancing and howling like so many inearnate do- sled hero and thers among them, an sing in and out of the burn- ing buildings, their British associates, as busily engaged wm the work of plunder as ages; while obscene caths and nocones. attoatad t} infernal joy. he other hand, as they moved slowly along, they could seo teams and groups of neizhbors and friends disappearing rapidly in the distanee, while they were forced to m along slowly and exposed to the first party of drunken and infuriated savages who might espy them, Moving thus along, they had proceeded ing like half a milo from the sinoking village, when on ascending an eminence, Bates was startled by a fierce war-whoop in their rear, and to his horror discovered a band of savages in pursuit of them, aud wildly gesticulating for him to stop, In the excitement of the moment he urg- ed his team to a faster gail; but a ery of pain from Lothrop caused him to slacken peed again, and catching up a gun he had had the forethought to throw into the sleigh, ared to defend his helpless brother 6 mons ; << az to the last. Lothrop now perceiving the danger they were in, and knowing in his feeble condition that eseape was hopeless unless swifter pro- grass could be made, begged his brother to drive on. - At least it could only be death to him; and if the motion of the sleigh over the rough ground should kill him, he thought is would certainly Le better than to fall into the hands of their merciless pucsu- ers. The Indians, dashing on, were soon in hailirg distance, and in broken English threatened Bates with the most cruel tors tures if he did not stop, but he refused to obey. Soon eoraing up with the sleigh, the sav- ages began to chase Bates round and round it, but from some oversight paid no atien- tion to his helpless brother. At last, Bates snatched the gun from the sleigh, and ran olf to one side of the road, to draw the In- dians, if possible, away from Lothrop. The rase partially succeeded ; but as a fierce locking Indian pursued Bates more closely than was consistent with his safety, he turn- cd suddenly, and levellng his gun at the savage, fired. The Indian gave a terrific yell, leaped info the air, ran a few paces, and fell dead. The death of their leader exasperated the savages to the last degree, and they were about to wreak ther ven- geance on the brothers, when upon their right, on the side of the mountain, they heard a wild, ringing war-whoop, and the next instant a volley of rific shots whistled towards them, and several of the pursuers fell killed and wounded to the ground. The new party proved to be a baud of friendly Tuscaroras, under Little Chief, who hearing the firing along the road, hass tened to reconnoitre, and sceing the two brothers, whom they immediately recogniz« ed, thus beset, ran down the hill to their re- lief; and of the filteen or twenty savages who pursued the villagers, scarcely one- fourth returned to tell the fate of their com. panicns. Bates Cook afterward became Controller of the State of Now York, and Lothrop oc- cupied many positions of trust and distinc: tion, but both now sleep their last sleep. Essexon or Young AMpricA.—Scene— Cabin of the New World. Little boy, with a “letter in the post oflice,” —cyeing old gentleman in blue and yaller, and with a large mouth. Tattle boy (inquiringly)—¢ Who made that slit under your nob, old feller #7? Old Gentleman —¢¢ Sir, you are itnpudent.’ Little Boy (sugygestively.)—¢ Careless cuss, warn’t he ¥—cut a little deoper ho'd had yer head orf.” Old gentleman vanished to the tune of “ Go it while vour young.” DREADFUL CALAMITY! Disastrous Fire on Oil Creek—15 Lives Lost—20 Persons Dangerously Burned— Loss of Property $18,000—2,000 Barrels of 0: Consumed ! The most sad, heart sickening calamity it has ever been our painful duty to ehronicle, transpired on Wednesday night last, (April 17th.) Tho facts briefly told are as fol- lows : Little and Merrick, who were boring an cil well on the Buchanan farm, three miles up Oilereck, and who had struck good veins of oil previeusly, opened on Wednesday af- ternoon about 5 o'clock a very large vein of oil. The oil and gas instantaneously rushed in torrents over the conductor five inches in diameter, filling it to its utmost eapacity.— The apparently cxaggerated, but really truthful rumor, that a well had just been struck that was yielding 100 barrels of oil per hour, naturally drew around the well a large number of persons, anxious to see the wonderful phenomona. While the crowd was gathered in around the derrick, which was Hooded with oil, sudden as the electric spark, the shanty enclosing the well, inside and outside, was enveloped in a vast sheet of liquid flame, and simultancously an ex- plosion of gas occurred, which shook the houses for a mile around, and was distinctly heard six miles distant. © Then followed a scene which beguars all description. Men stunned by the report, with clothes satura- ted with oil which the remorseless flames were devouring, lay prostrate, unable to help themselves, and too fearfully imperil- ed to Le aided by others. In another mo- ment, those who had recovored from the first shock, ran wildly away from the source of danger, literally shrouded ina sheet of flame. All efforts were mado to strip them of their flaming clothes, and in some cases with suc- cess, bat in others, the destroyer had con- sumed every shred of clothing, leaving the bodies naked, charred to blackness, Three, if not still more unfortunate if possible than | any others, were unable to escape and could | not be rescued from the flames. On Thurs- | day at 4 o'clock, P. M., when we left the scene of disaster, their skeletons could be scen, when the wind for an instast lified the flames from them—a sad, sad sight. The name of one was unknown —the other two are Judd Mason and George Hays. IST OF THE DEAD. West Skinner, Wattsburg, Erie ¢o. Pa. Levi Walker, Butler co. Pa. Albert Gardner, Michigan. Judd Mason, Northeast, Erie eo. Pa. George Iiays, Sherman, N.Y, H R. Rouse, Enterprise, Warren co. Pa. James Walker, residence unknown. Augustus Cummings, Butler co. Pa. + . Bentley, } 9 a oni Benes play Hig er, N.Y. FATALLY BURNED. II. Eastman, Whitesborough, Oneida co, N.Y. John Glass, Lawrence co. Pa. Archibald Montgomery, Mercer co. Pa. James Ul. Perry, Utica, N. XY, Joseph Loyd, Utica, N. Y. Yony Jase, Frenchereek, Chatham co, ‘James Smith, Sandycreek, Venango co. Pa. — —- Stratton, residence unknown. MAY RECOVER. John Westing, Sherman, N. Y. S. H. Walker, Pittsburg, Pa. George Glass, Butler co. Pa. James Johnston, Mercer co. Pa. W. Benedict, Enterprise, Warren co. Pa. Constance Burnoli, Erie co. Pa. James Wadsworth, Wattsburg, Iirie co. ~ James M. Buell, Utica, N. Y. Themnas Page, Mercer co. Pa. Qeorae Kent, Cherryereek, Chatham co. N.Y. A. J. Holeman. McClintick, boy, reported injured. Unknown man, taken away by his friends. All the fixtures of four adjacent wells, were utterly consumed, including engine houses, vats, derricks, cabins, one large barn, together with several hundred barrels of oil and empty barrels. One of the porta- ble engines burst its boiler from the heat of the oil flames. Oil in vats and barrels was consumed to the amount of about five thou- sand gallons. The ratal well was throwing a steady stream of gas and oil {lve inches in diameter, varying in height from sixty to onc Luadred fect. This was all on fire fo. gether with what constantly flowed over the ground around the well. The appearance was that of a volcano of fire, shooting up from the heart of a lake of flame, throwing up incessant jets of liquid drops of fire, and envolving dense masses of flames o’er cano- pied by vast clouds of smoko, covering the hillsides and darkening the heavens, as if the pitchy darkness of Tartarus was shroud- ing the valley. All this was accompanied by a hissing, rearing sound, like muflled thunder that could be heard a great dis- tance. The scene was indeseribably grand and beautiful. Words cannot picture the sublime reality. When we left at four o’clock, the well was still throwing up its column of oil and gas and flame, but with somewhat diminished force. At twelve o’clock, midnight, as we write, from our window, seven niles dis- tont, with high hills intervening, the horri- zon is lit up as if the firmanent at that point was on fire. = At brief intervals the glare is vivid, the flames apparently licking the clouds that overhang the melancholy scene. Wednesday night and all day Thursday, thousands camo to see the grand pyrotechuic display—others and not a few with sad heart and tearful eye, sought among the dead, or the suffering friends and relatives, who a few short hours since were in the vig- orof health and buoyant with hopes. Our personal anxiety was relieved when we learned that a brother operating in the vi. cinity was unharmed, Would that others had been equally fortunate. Lhe origin of the fire is really unknown. | Some assert that a person was near the well smoking a cigar, from which the gas (ook fire and was thus communicated to the con- ductor, while others assert that they saw a vivid flash as of lightning, shoot from the. Wodrsworth engioe several rods distance, to distance round the well must have been sat- urated with gas, which is known to be high- ly mflammable, this theory is perhaps the most plausible. We have no time for comment or caution. LATER. Tho well to-day. Friday, is still burning, but 1s somewhat abated, The oil and gas is still thrown up fifteen feet in the air. When the wind lifts the flames from the ecnductor, a blackened mass is seen, which is supposed to be the charred bodies of human beings, four or five in number. Some are known to be missing since the catastrophe. More par- ticulars next Wednesday. Larssr.— News has just arrived that fif- teen persons in all have died since the oceur- rence.— Citizen. “PROVIDENTIALLY DIRECTED.” Persons frequently imagine that the sug- gestions of their own human nature are the intimations and directions of God. They love to be guided by iim, and ihey love fo think that their own pleasant desires and purposes are inspired by Him ; thus they easily deceive themselves. An arusing in- stance of this, took place at a certain Cone ference. Among the atiendants was a very beautiful and intelligent looking young lady, who drew the admiring gaze of many cys, particular s masculine, always on the lookout for pretty feminine faces, During an intermission, a spruce young ister stepped up to the Presiding Elder, 1, with an air of sco 1 observe the yo pillar on the eft the Eider, *+v d the young “f feel ime pressed that the Lord de ms to take ti ife. th she would that lady for my ‘ make a good compruion and helpmate in the to make yz the same Iv is not best to bi the scures of such it prudent El- der. And he had said well, for hardly were the steps of the second youth cold at his side, are a third a ached with the same story ! and, while the worthy confident still mars veled, a fourth dre car with the question, “Did your lie, noble looking wg- man oy your leit “Yes, cried the swelling Elder. Well, "went on the fourth vietim of that one unsuspicions girl, “It is strongly borne upon my mind, that it ig the wiil of tho Lord that © should arake proposals of” marriage to that lady. He hag impressed me that she is to be my wife.” The Elder could hold in no longer. Tm. possible ! Impossible I” he cxctaimed, in an excited tone. “The Lord er could have inten that one wo led thal four men should marry nr n! a De AAs APITOLS of three States in the Union than that of Pennsylvania. The Capitol of Ohio, at Columbus, is a maguifi- cent bmlding, with Library rooms larger than tke Capitol at Washington. Its dimen sions ave 304 by 184, and cover an area of 39 = eicet., ‘The Capitol of Tennese le, is 135 by 240, aud covers 32.400 square feet. The Capitol arolina, nt Raleigh, is 166 by 90, 1 and cu area of 14,540 square feet. — Th of Pen ania, at Harrisburg, ii ind covers an area of 14,400 The Capitel of Indiana, at fn ? same dimensions as tho sburg. The National Capi- shington, covers an area of about Ll Ld asset Tir vor Tan, —At St. Paul, recently, a Rev. Mr. Fisk declared that John Brown second Jesus Christ. Some sensible cerinin political the domestic interests {in view of the above, towing: £ ! a second Jesus Christ,” That Mr. Fisk has made him- 's Ass ; provided, hows ever, {ha in contained, i3 in- tends s original Ass hy intj- mating that Mr. Fisk is bis lineal deseend- ant.” Trees Ixpruicariny Dencare.—The other day a young lady stenped mio a well known es- tablishinent and enquired of a fine-looking 1 . a Kk: «Sir have you any mouse-colored ladies’ hose 2” + Mouse-colored ladies hose, miss 2” « Yes—a sort of grey— just the color of your, drawers here,” replied she, meaning the store drawers, which were painted grey. “My drawers, miss,” cjaculated the young man looking down fo sce if cverything was right and tight. ¢ My drawers, miss! why, i dow’t wear any,” The young lady was cai:ied home on a shutter. tale A good ancedoteis related of vagabond, who was broaght Le {rate asa comucn va ly harpooned a good ideg, he ; eapacious poeked cf his talc: of bread and a half of’ a di holding then up, with a tiiam; and gesture, 19 the mus “You don’ ketch bim thei way! I'm no vagrant. A’nt them! means o' supa port, I shonld like to know 2” Tue birth of a fifth con to a gentleman in Si. Paul, was thas has'ily anncunced (5 an Eastern friend : “St. Paul, July 8, 1850.——Another boy”? The following reply was 1oceived: {+ You've told that story five times with out variation—znow dry up.” ely BRB Br Tknown L Magise adden from a look rate, exclaimed, | Pruw.—Many - beautiful women while walking the streets, seem very angry if they are gazed at, and sadly disapo dit they the flowing well. Inasmuch as the air for a are not,