tl - " "by poets, is familiar to the general reader, And when Yoward we struggle through mazes of * heighbors, remo¥ed to the beautiful vallev © "of Wyoming, m Pennsylvania. VoL. 6 | ley, and, I may say, aed the two Sections {‘agamst a common foe. Why contend among | ourselves for the posession of a few acres, "| while a foreign enemy was laying Waste the "whole country, and taking all our lands and | rights from us ? Nowhere I believe, among no dr ! the colonies, did the fires of patriotism Burn Yes, T know that this life it & wilderness di, | brighter than in our late contentious valley, (Wild he'iit Sorenivmupiy:a dently, dark from which went forth all the able bodied * bough, : And the cold winds are sighing a sorrowful hymn | { men that could be spared, and who proved © As they stir th dark leaves o'et the’ travelers themselves heroes on many an ensanguined Selutt Poetry. w ERNESS F LIFE. BY Finan ROSE WALLACE. DRT. | field: Where $16 deep, Sunless fortains ko oft Took like | «Tt was while our brave soldiers were tears, [fway, that the infamous tory commander, i, ur ovens mie od he ih of | Colona! John Butler, conceived the irhuthan i fans | design oF marching an overwhelming force | When that dark frat bent to he pitiless | 'tipon the defenceless settlement, and taking 1. storm. : | & fiend’s revenge in the murder of the weak oy Hg and innocent. For this pirpose he collected Bat there! 's loveliness still in the wilderness dim, 3 x “For we often may meet with a soul cheering hundred Indians. descended the Susquchan. flowet,. fia, and captured or took possession of a While a sweet hymn of gladness, instead of the | couple of forts at the head of the valley. ‘hymn, i ¢ Never shall T forzet the terrors excited Watbles “Fope” rons the depth of some rose- by the appearance of this armed body of Wenathing bower} white men and savages, fér we knew our i seltes defenceless, and that we could expect "Rome brother, who also is wandering, starts no thercy froth such an enemy. Here were $6 oir side, hud in one blissful moment is born | several hundied women and children, a few A dear fritndship that never shall fade from | hoary headed and trembling grandsires. too r Rudrts. old to bear atths a few strippling youths, ‘ ITI too young fab the war, with a sprinkiing of Bo. we'll rll Hut ¥o oft at this wilderness ditt, | men in the p¥ilne of life, the remnants of But as much a8 we can, give ©o heed to the | the train bands which had gone to join the boughs hy w : Ev Of the durk naz stirred by that sorrowful hymn, wh I While we hall the least blossom to twine on out 3 toe. could scarcely raise a force of foiir hundred Nor forever by upas and night-fhade Will roam ; | hundred, and not & single There's a garden of myrtle and laurel in store | forts out of several in the valiey, that gould At the end of the forest where spatkies a hothe {wi hut od for an howd the assaults of the Toat our brothers and sisters have centered | enemy. What could we expect, therefore, i but a horrible and ittdiserimninate butchery, before: or a still mor¥ horrible captivity among bra- tal and merciless savages. «Oh! the azony that almost burst my young heart, as my poor, dear nother, with glaring eyes and pallid features, threw her thorn, to oppose eleven Dp tm THE PRINTER-FIENI! The night wa? dark—and not 3ige Peeped thfough the gathering le And silence brooded o'er the thie In the comping room. found arms around myself and younger sis: The printers had to supper gotio, : 4% ter, and strained as to her bosom | 2 And vacant were their places, When through the door a villain crept, And stole Dick Johnson's spaces! praying amid choking sobs, that God in Its Provi- dence would preserve us and suffer us to escape the ithpending doom: She was now our only H4pe, énd we her only solace—for my father was away with the army, and had not bebtt heard from for several months: « There chanced at this time to be in the valley asfew experienced officers; the most promuent of wh Colonel Zebulon Butler ; and by; »atmons desire he took command of our devoted little band of de- fenders, and led them forth ty the sacrifice. Young as I was, being only between nine anid ten yeabs of age, I asked permission (o go with theth and meet my fate with the rest—but my poor mother wolld not permit me ont of her sight for a moment. Along with a great many other women and ch ild- ren, she had taken refage in one of the sev eral stockade forts ; cowering, and praying together, we all wait- ed the terrible fesnlt. « The sounds of the conflict began be tween four and five o'clock in the afteriioon: and from that time till near dusk, when the wild yells of our savage enemies dahiouheed that they had gained the victory, we all stood clinging to one another in breathless hope and fear—the silence with us only broken by stnothered groans or short ejacu- tions ; but now, when we felt that all was over and lost, every breath seemed to be sent forth with the rhost indescribable an- ghish. + A few minutes later a man, almost na- eal kel and covertd with blood, burst in thi’e BY Ring Bi NNET. the gate, and groaned ott, as he fell dying een to the ground : The terrible massacre of Wyoming, which | « « Al] is lost | all is Jost! tas been recorded by historians and sung| yodhitain and save yourselves !’ 0. foulest wrong beneath the sun! 0, deepest Bf diwgraces | The darkest criffte that can be desis Is that of stealing spaces. When the forgiving atigel’s ptr All other gin erases, Alone, untouthed, shall still réidin The sin of stealing spaces. was Dick went to * lunich,” and left his cass Filled—running o’er—with letter, And thouglit he would retarf aghin When copy should get futter. When he ¢ame back he took his place Again before hig cases — You should Bate seen hid adtitute When he beheld his spe i Ces | Tt was no tim® for charity Or other christian graces; THe wildly cried—* I'll dot the eyes Of him who stole my spaces I” and there, trembiing, The fiend stiil lives and walks the edrth, Ard so mist walk forever’ He cannot die—a wretch like him — For rest aw4its him evel! And printers. for long years to come. Will treinble at their casts; Well knowing that nis spirit stfll Is fond of stealing spaces - Fu us. Fly to the fo to +« With 4 wild cry of terror and anguish, but the subjoined thrilling sketch of some of | 1,v ;nothet caught up my little sister in her * the incidents connected therewith, from the |, ms, seized me by the hand, and darted tips ofa venerable old man who now ‘sleeps | grey through the rear gate, and toward with his fathers,” will doubtless prove inter- some trees that grew upon the bank of the river. «It was not. yet dark, and in the dim light we could see figutes running in every direction, some m flight, and some in pur= suit. “One man, who was only a few paces be- the year 1769; antl at that time it was be-| fore us, was pursed by a fleet footed savage fieved by our people that this valley of Wy) who soon overtcok him and thrust his spear oming belonged by right of charter to the [through bis back ; and as the altered our eolony of Conhecticut, but the settlers from | | cotrrse to avoid the latter, I saw him bend- different portions uf Pennsylvania contended ing over his victim for the ptitpose of taking 1t was theirs by tight of purchase from the | his s&alp. Indians, and so tht two factions got ifito a| « A wothan on our right, with an bent quarrel, by Whicli considerable blood was in her arms, and who was evidently taking shed on both sides. for the same point as ourselves, was caught “My earliest Pécollections are of this | by a savage, and both were brained within feud, and the violent animosities thus en- twenty feet of us. The monster stopped to gendered ; and of being at times shut up in| secure the scalps of both, which gave us the fort, hearing the rattle ot musketry, and | time to reach a little thickct on the bank of _#eeing men, all bloody, stretched on litters | the river, within which my mother secreted and pallets, some hving and groaning, and | herself and ns, and whispered not to speak some dead, cold, and ghastly. These sights | op scarcely breathe. énd sounds of deadly contention my young! «Al around ns now were the fereams senses had in some measure become accus- | and shricks of women ‘and children, the tri- tomed to ; but still I cannot say 1 was pre- umphant and appalling yells of savages, and pared for the horrible scenes which followed | the occasional reports of muskets, 45 here 8 few years later. and there the enemy shot dow a fogitive in * The beginning of the war of the Revolu. | cold blood. Shortly after, a lurid glare fell ion put an end to our civil sirif: mn the val- upon us ; and looking out through the bush- esting to all classes. “I was a fitefe infant (said the aged nar- ator) when my [dther sold his farm in Coii- necticut, and, togtther with sevhral of his This wasin four hundred British and Tories and seven | es, we saw v the flames bursting from a win- dow in the nearest cabin, and a group of dark figures collectea around it. + «Oh, merciful God! ib there no hope for us ”’ groaned my mother, straining us convulsively to her heaving breast. « «They will soon see us here,” said I, “it gets so dreadful light. “«« My mother shook al! over with maternal anguish, as she added : ++ ¢ And now itis too late to fly—ior the moment we stir from here, we shall be ex- posed to a hundred eyes. Gracious Heaven !” she added, catching her breath convulsively, ‘there is a party eoming this way. Oh, God ! my poor children § oh, God my poof children I’ “« My little sister gave a long choking sigh, and pressed her bloodless face against my mother’s bosom, as if to shut out the sight. I looked and saw the men advancing straight toward us, There were five of then, the centre one seeming to be forced forward by the others. ¢ «1 do not think they have seen us,’ said I, hurnedly, ‘let us go down to the water ; it is better to be drowned than to fall into their cruel hands.’ +4 ¢Oh, yes I’ gasped my mother ; thing rather than that. : try the Water.’ «The bank at this point was, providen- tially, overhanging, and the water was nét deep: and as my mother quickly and silent ly lowered herself into it she announced, with an expression of heartfelt joy which I shall never forget, that throtigh the blessing of God we might yet be saved. She drew us all eroched under a shelving bank that completely screened us {rom the view of any one standing on the ground above ; and though by this position the water came up above any Keep still, while T silently after her, and we our waists, we only rejoiced that it so muth the more add. ed to our concealment and safety. The men we had scen approiching, came to the bank of the river, a few paces below our concealment, ahd then a coarse, voice said: “+ Here il wis, John Alkens, undeb this very trec; you pledged your love to Marga ret Stanley : and I took an oath then that you should die here.” « ¢ Mercy, William —merey ! trembling voice. “+¢T'm a Joyal heart, I" pleaded: a and you a rebel,’ replied the other, ‘and you needh’t look fol mercy from him you call a tofy. If Marga ret lives I'll have her ; but you shall die at sny rate.’ «- With these words there came a report like that of a pistol, followed by a gurgling groan and the sullen plunge of a heavy body into the water. I could fecla shiver run through the frattic of my delicate mother and sister as we clung together in silent horror blooded murder—perpetrated, not by a savage, but by a man who was akin at this cold to the one he slew: «« We did not actually see any more of the cold-blooded atrocities of that terrible night but we heard them all around us. Cribs, screams; yells and reports of maskets still resounded. By the light of the now burn: ing buildings, fugitives were constantly be- ing routed from their places of concealment and were then shot, stabbed of tomahawked, no quarter being given in any case, and on- ly here and there one making his escapt.— The whole plain-and the whole stretch of the river along the plain was a scene of atio- cious butcliery. In one case; sixteen men were placed in a circle around ¢ne rock, and each held By an athletic Indian, while a squaw, armed with 2 tomahawk end knife, walked coolly around and stabbed or brain- ed them one at a time. In an andther in- stance ninc others were served in the same manner. Of the four hundred gallant fel. fows who went forth to defend their homes, only sixty esctped from the field of slaugks tér: and when to these we add the women and childteft that were slain in every direc- tion; with others who died of fright, fatigue and starvation in the wilderness, we swell the list till the heart of humanity fairly sick- ens at the contemplation. « We remained in our last place of con- tealment, unseen and unmolesttd, till the fires had Burned down, and savage thirst for blood had beenso far satiated as to biing sleep to the eyes of those huniin demons, ‘and then we tremblingly crawled forth and chafed our water benumbed limbs, and stole away ahiong the shadows of the trees, past here and therc a ghastly corpse, and so escaped to the mofintains, where 6vertasked nature forced sleep upon us just as another day was dawning upon the world. «Tt wonld tak me hours to describ? the scenes of Hardship, peril and suffering which occurred even after our escape from the field of riagsacre. « On awaking from our briet but troubled sleep, we were joined by a party cf three worren and seven children, who had been concealed among Some rocks over night, and had cowimenced their toilsome journey at the break of day. One of these women was a young fragile creature, earrying an infant less than a week old. Her husband and brother had been slain in the battle, and she had risen from a sick bed and fled, to save BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY MORN NG. SEP Tie life of her ohild i rather than 71] own.- while we Were trying to revive her. and hasten on to save ourselves. My mother | took the babe and carried it several hours, | but during the day 1t went into conv! and died also As we continued + on we overtook parties wha had become exhausted, and had sat don to rest, perhaps never to rise again. — One white haired old man we found reclining | against a rock. . My mother took hold of him | gently and spoke to him kindly, thinking he | was merely dozing.” She started back with | a shudder, fob the old man was dead. “The first night following our flight we | ce | slept on a bare rock, in 2 wild, gloomy p in the mountains, having had nothing to ent since our escape. Long before morning my | little sister became feverish and delirious, | and began to call fér Yer father. My moth= | er sat up and held in her lap all night, but it almost broke her heart to see her in that condition without being able to do any- | thihg for her, and hear her plaintive calls! for him who might even then be filling a soldier's grave. « As goon as ft was light, we set forward | again—my mother, though scarcely able to | stand, carried my Sister in her arms. i plead to be allowed to relieve her, bit she | would not consent to it. On redching a fun-| ning stream, she made a cufi of leaves and | gave my siste as much water as she could drink, and bathed her in it besides. This acted like a charm and broke the fever, which did not trouble her again. « Before noon we came uport a large ficld of whortleberrics, of which we all ate rav. endusly ; and these I think saved our lives, for without some &ustenance I am certain we could not have held out ancther day.— This day two women gave out dnd were left behind ; theit fate T never learned. tH Another night and other ny in that aw. tA Aonih later iy father jdined us, and stich a reanion I never saw. We had lost all our worldly goods, itis true; but we bad all met again on earth, and that, tnder the circumstatices, was a blessing to thank God for the rest of our lives. « Alas! hot few of the once happy hearts in the beautiful valley of Wyoming could join with us in our thanksgiving.” ‘ooo — WasiNGTts axB viii Corporat, —During the American Revolution, it is said, the com- mander of 2 little shuad was giving ordets to those under Him, felative to a log of tinibel which they were endeavoring to raise up to the top of some rthilitary works they were repairing. The timber went up with difli- enlty, and on this account the voice of the little man was bften heard, in regular voeif- erations — « Heave away ! there she goes ! heave ho!” | The latter, astonished, turning round witht all the pomp of an emperor, said, « Sir, I ath a corporal!” # You are, are you ¢’ replied the officer, «1 was not aware of that ;7 and taking: off his hat and bowing, the officer said, ** [ ask your parden, Mr. Corporal,” and then dis- mounted and lifted till the sweat stood in drops ¢n his forehead. When the work was finished, the cominander, he said, « Mr. Uorporal, when you have another such job, and have not men enough, send for your commniander-in-chief, and I will come and help you a second tithe.” The corporal was thunderstruck! 1t vas Washington who thus addressed him ! turning to woe How a Max Penns wiey ue 18 Sior.— We take the following from a letter written by one of. the Towa volunteers, who fought in the battle near Springfield, Missouri : I was standing, or rather kueeling, behind a little bush, re-loading my mu before the rebels engaged in this close work retreated. Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in the shoulder; and fell to the ground. Jump- 1g up, ont of our boys asked meif I ail hurt 2 I replied that 1 thought not, and drew up wy musket to fire, when he said : — “Yes, you are shot right through the shoul- der.” - I think it was the remark more than the wound, hich caused the field, all at once, to commence whirling around me in a very strange manner. I started to leave it; with a half-ounce musket ball in my shoul der, and onze or twice fell down with dizzi- ness ; but in a short time recovered suf- ficiently to beable to walk back to Spring: field uiné miles where the ball was taken oat. sket, just oa 2 AN dloquent divine in the course ‘of his sermon was coniparing the state of the un converted sinner to that of a man in a boat away from land and only one oar, when he was suddenly brought up with a severe round turn by an old sailor, who jumped up and asked, ¢ couldn't the old fio} skall 27 eave BerTer bring your mind to your condition She soon after fell fro exhaustion, and died | We ! were obl jged to leave her without a burial, [upon the sions | {the event of these failing, a {number equal to one regiment, (to, a br | skirt; T. 12, 1861. =i z i “omarmG The old law of the pe United States, based Conscription law of France, or closely modelled after it. gives the President | authority to call ont the volunteers, and in draft may be lordered. The regular State militia are first [liable : but should they fail to supply the | required number, then the abie- bodied males residing in the regimental districts, between | the ages of Rand 45, are liable to be drawn. The Revised Statutes of this State. section 49 of the Militia Law, prescribe Whenever the President of thie United States or the Commander-i in- Chief, hall or- der a draft from the militia for public service, | such draft shall be made in the following "manner : § 1. When the draft required to be made | shall be a pumber equal to one or more com- panies of each brigade. such draft shall be { made by company, to be deter wined by lot to be drawn by the commandent of the { brig: ade, in th ge of the commanding s of the regi composing such |b ¢, from the mi forces of the State in his brigade, orgar , uniformed, &e. $2 In cade such a draft shail require | ade) it is to be deter, ined in the same | mantier: . In case sich draft shall require a fons number than the whole ntimber com- posing the military force of such brigade, such additional draft shall be made of an | equal namber fiom the military.roll of the {uniformed militia of cach town or yard, | i MODERN DEFINIi10NS: Hard times Sitting on a cold grindatsie reading the Presidant’s Mesfage: Love—A litte world within itself, inti- mately connected with shovel and tongs. Progress of tithe—A pedlar going through the land with wooden clocks. Politician— A fellow that ‘cit!iz ll his in: formation from borrowed newspi pers. iw . . ‘ Al - * 2 Rigid justice--Juror on & murder case fast asleep. Friend—Ode ho HER your money and then turns yout out of doors. Patriot—& fellow who has neither méne§ Hor reputation to loose. i Honesty —Obso! ebb ig term formerly used in the case of a mdi Who paid fob his news: baper and! the coat on his back. Independence--Civing fity lars which $ou never jt tHogsrnd doi: d to pay. manufactured Lovely witen-- 2 by milliners— «Who ants but little here below, And vints that little for a show.” Dandy—A thitg in pantaloons with 2 body and two arms—a head withott bfaing —tight boots——a cdne—# white Hindker- chief —two brooches dnd a fiiig on his little finger. Doguetts —A yoling lady with more bear filed ith the city, village or town, clerk &e. ty than Sense 3; thore accomplishments thai! When such a draft from the "uniformed | ledining } more charms of person than is ordered, (whizh means the riass of the graces of mind; more admirers than friends? people,) all mails residing in regimental dis- | tricts are compelled to enroll themselves the enhstment list is’ then filed (in eit On the day ap-| the county clerk’s office. more fools than wise men for attentiants. Credit—A wise provisiost by which con a etnies get their living: BL Soni ihe a dolhir out oF Ca pointed, the Mayor or Supervisor of the | | pocket and put} tli tiie other. Ward; in prefence of the Regimental Unm- mandet of the District; dratvs by lot from | this list a nulnberof names, in accorddhee with the number called for by the draft. On the day appointed, any male hos | drawn may provide an able-bodied man asa | substitute; who is then taken in ns stead. - No person of the required age is exempt | from this drafting, except clergymen, and | those incapacitated by reason of bodily ail- ments. The old malitia law of thé United States, 1 8 passed in i701 ,exempts the Vice President, Judicial and Executive officers, members of | Congress, custom house officials, postiofii- cers and officials connected with the inail service. inspectors of exports, in actual marines Union. eae = A Broa Womay. —The Press Mary, of Cambridge, whose betiothal to the duke of Newcastle has been is a very comely persohaze, bi stout-—so stout, | in fact, that she finds er ale entirely = su: perfluotis, except around the bottom of her | and it is.snid i had been necessary of | announced, late, to enlaige the door of her carriage. pilots, and’ service.—Patriét and | | 1803, Sete Tri Depr.—Annefed is % statement Sowing the amount of the na- | tional ‘debt for each year since the drganiza- | tion of the Governmerit * Edit $72 937,357 ), 67.475 044 53,421,414 48 465,406 39.12 7.001 599 4,760.082 37,733 37.517 1,878,221 4 857.660 1, 938,7 7338 . 2 98 fg 26,808 953 26,143,996 647 S35,6 s 127.330,938 1852, 67.560,392 123491.865 1853, 56.336.15% 103.466:634 1854, 44.975.456 | 05,520 618 1855, 30.9¢9,73t |18 9L1I5.506 1856, 39.963.410 45 25,165.153 141910,778 i An officer, not in military costume, was 'arriage was proposed between her 40d] ne passing, and asked the comménder why he | Victor Emanuel, and he was delighted at } did not take hold and render a little a1d.— | the prospect of a connection with the soyald 58,754,609 74,975,299 110,000,000 a Ree A worthy clergytngn wad arotised froth his family of England, through the owner ot so | sleep at itve o’cldck in the morning, by loud charming a face as that ¢f the portrait which | talking #¢t the side ¢f a Hsh pond in his was shown to him. But when on his visit to | | grottnds. fis reverence put his head out of England, he saw the lady, i/ Re galantiona | the window, and saw three men by the side __himself no slender lad—retired precipitdte- | of the fish pond. from the negociation, 1 cannot mary that | BB prayer said : « Lord, bless the grand council, the par- liament_ and grant that they may hang to- gether.” A country fellow stasiding, replied : «t Yes, sir, with all toy heart, and the sooner the better-—and I am sure it is the prayet of all good people.” - But, friends, said the parson, ¢1T don’t mean as that fellow does, but pray that they may all Hang together in accord and cons coril.” ’ ++ No matter what cord,” replied the oth er, ** so tis but a strong one.” veto A proprietor of a cotton-mill, who is sortie thing of a philosopher; posted ¥p on his fac- tory gate the following notice :—** No cigars or good-looking men admitted.” When asked for an explanation, he said. * The one will seta flame a going along my cot- tons, and the t'other among the gals: I won’t admit snch inflatnmable and dangerous things into my establishment at any risk.” —irveatiain TarkiNG of political chances, a Vermont Democrat remarked that he oncé came “¢t wi hin ole 7? of being elected to the high- est offics in the State. A friend inquired what ht meant by ‘“one?” +The candi &f the other party I" was the reply. ee tr pment ANOTHER NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSER. —MAUCH OnuNg, Sept 2.—Some persons entered the Carbon Democrat office, last mght, and de- stroyed the type, and upset the cases, &c.— The press was not disturbed. - ee pr ComyuraTiox oF Sextexce.—The Gover nor of Maryland who sentenced Alexander Gale to be hung on the 6th of September, has commuted the sentence to imprisonment than to bave your condition brought to your mind, | for life URASe A Scotch parson; in his | | « What are you doing there said the women,” said he ; she’s broad enovigh to sit | | clergyman. { upon the seven Ehilie ot Rome.’ « Fishing,” said they. “But you are trespassing on my land ; you must go “Go to bett aga In, wis this rejoinder ;— “your Master was Hot irl the habit of send. ing awdy poor Hshermen.” Tht gotd clergyman could of course, only turn in again, ee AAO eset WHAT 1s AN AMBULANCE ? — An amibiliace is a light carriage, the body being fhounted upon two wheels and suppoited by very elastic, light springs. It is a little over six feet in length. There aré Cots for two itlside, with beds, head poll#s, &c. The top is covered with black 6il cloth, but ‘the body and running gear ite painted red. The ani- bulance is intetided for one horse with a seat for the drivef in front, and being very light, though strongly built, can be driven along very rapidly without injury to the wound. ed. { ee ti SprrrEMeENT By A SoutHers PUstilAsrik. —The late postmaster at New Orleans; Th Ia Riddell, has paid promptly every draft ddwn upon him by the Postoftice D¥paftritent, even those drawn subsequently to the Secession of Louisiana, and as lath a§ August 15th he forwarded through Adams Express his ac: counts, all perfebtly squared up. Bs Faivres ANY Suspensions. —The Boston Commercial Bitlletin’s list of business chang” es gives seven failuresand suspensions inf Boston ; eleven in New YofR ; three mm Cin: cinstti, and twenty-two in other places a to- tal of forty-three for the week. t-te ml DiriNG the great storm of August six- tetnth and seventeenth, ten vessels of differ. nt nations were wrecked, and tw enty-eight lives lost off the coast of Florida, em Gen. Michael Dokdon, one of the oldest cit zens of York. Pa. died on Tharsday ina mp rc