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readers this week for the 'half-sheet which’
® Ohio. Heis the graduate of the Ohio State
BELLEFONTE, THURSDAY, NOV. 28,
STATES.
“The “bear” articles that have recently
appedtred in the London Times, on the credit
of the United States Government, are being
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‘* Here shall the prese the people's rights masn-
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n,
Enawed by party or unbribed by gas ;
Plodged but to truth tg literty Sad Law,
No favor sways'iis ‘and no fédr shall awe.”
‘DEMOCRACT—A sent: mgt not to be appaled, | od
“rorupted or compromised. It knows no baseness ;
tt cowers to no danger ; it Oppresses no. weak-
mass. Destructive only of despotism, 1t is the
sole conservator of hlerty, labor and prosperty,
Ii ss the sestiment of Freedom, of equal rights;
of equal obligations—ihe law of nature perva-
ding the law of the land.”
—_
®. T. ALEXANDER, Editor and Publisher.
TU5™ Thursday, being - Thanksgiving day,
‘we issue our paper eerlier than usual. We
hope the day will begenerally observed.
—— Pee
"45% The war news, up to the time_of the
present writing, (Tuesday morning) is not
‘of any great mmportunce. Things remain
sabout as usual.
eee SAH essere
TC Dr. Evy Panny, Dentist, is spending
a'week or two in Bellefonte. and persons de-
siring his professional serv ices, are request-
ted to malce early application at Kephart's
Hotel. t
— 30 Bee
Tus Cry #oR Bruap 1N France.—The
London Times says that France wili be com-
pelied to spend forty million pounds, or in
round numbers, two hundred mithens of dol-
lars, to make up the deficiencies in her do-
mestic bread crop of this year. Canada and
the United®tates will be importing largely
into France.
Queer Taste.—Rocenily as white woman,
wife of William Wildman, of the borough of
Perrysvill, Juniata county, 'cloped with a
negro man who hall been working about
that borough for some time past, leaving her
husband and child ‘beltind, She is said to be
rather a good looking women, whilst the ne-
gro is a tall specimen of the African race
and as black as the ace of spades. Nothing
has been heard from them since.
B® We must beg the indulgence of our
we present them, remarking at the same
time, that we have made an arrangement
whereby we hope to avoid all such contin
gencies in the future. Next week we will
have an assistant in the editorial department
end hereafter we hope to be able to present
our patrons with a clean, as well as a good
paper.
— BOO em
FrzeSreecu 1x Srracuss.—Fred Doug-
lass, the ni, gerorator, was anounced to speak
in Syracuse a few’days since, when a hand
ill was iseued calling upon the people to
raiseand drivehim from the city. The Mayor
Balled upon all good citiz ns maintam the
peace, and the military in town was offered
to protect free speech ! not in the case of a
white man, but a negro! Great country
this !
eel An
Gross Arrexer 10 SwINDLE.—Some
sharper in the west is attempting to swindle
the benevolent by flowing the mails with
«¢c’rculars appealing for contrib utions to the
<U. S. Ilumane Society,’ which professes to
act by the consent of the Government and
under its authority, in obtaining funds for
the army, ambulance aud hosvital supplies.
The modest sum of only $30,000 is required
and subscriptions from a dime upwards are
solicited:
tel GO
Wa. LLoyp GARrrisoN delivered an aq.
dress before the 28th Congregational Society
at Music Hall, yesterday morning. Lis sub-
jeet was: © The State of the O untry,”—
He extended the right hand oi Abolition fel-
lowship to Hon. Chas. Sumner for his eman-
cipation speeches, —endorsed Gen. Fremont’s
proclamation, which he said, the President
had not power to revoke ; said he didn’t be-
lieve the charges against Fremonts charac
ter ; said that those opposed to the abolition
of slavery at the present time were traitors ;
and, in conclusion. urged his hearers to sign
the petition which is being circulated, ask-
ing Congress to abolish slavery under the
war power.— Boston Courier 12th.
——— Op.
A RemarxasLe BiGamist.—A blind man
named, Thomas Bishop, is under bonds in
Cleveland, Ohio, to stand his trial ona
charge of marrying three women, all blind
in the Space of eight days. The Leader
says that on the 10th of September he was
married at the American House in Cleveland
to a lady ol Huron county, at which time he
assumed the name of William Gibeau.—
Seven days later; assuming the name of Gib-
esut, he married a young lady of Cleveland.
On the nextday, Septeniber 18th, he left
the city. taking with him all the clothing
and valuables of both women, and after-
wards married a third wife at Marrietta,
Tostitute, for the blind at Columbus, as are
all of the ladies whom he has succeeded 1p
duping, and there made their acquaintance
a few years sigce. The ladies are represen-
ted as of unimpeachable character, and are
deeply sympathized with in their misfortune.
pied in'the New York and other papers.—
| Those arficles predict a great financial panic
for this country whenever a drain of specie
shall commence, the occlifrence of which the
Times pretends to regard as certain within'a
short tine. bid ;
The views expressed in the articles refer .
red to must be attributed to ignorance of the
immense resources of this country, or to a
desire to injure and break down the national
credit, by exciting the fears of capitalists. —
A very brief examination of the subject will
show that the opinions advanced by the
journal in the question are not well found-
Wealth is regarded as one of the principal
marks of an empire’s greatness, and it is
expressed in the amount of the precious
mctals it possesses. and the surplus com~
modities which it produces for exchange with
other nations. Considering the amount of
specie now held in the United States, and
the immense quantities of breadstuffs which
we have on hand and are capable of produc~
ing annually, to meet the wants of Europe,
it may be confidently asserted that, at no
period in the history of this country has it
been so well prepared to withstand a drain
upon its resources as now, and that there is
no people in Christendom possessing to a
greater extent tho elements of ‘power ‘and
| self sustenance.
The amount of specie ** in the American
Banks and the Treasury of the Federal Gov-
ernment” is stated by the Times at about
$50,000,000. If this were the extent of our
stock of the precious metals, there might be
|| some grounds for the views expressed by
thatijourrial ; ‘but it is much greater, as we
shell presently show. This being an ims
‘portant ‘point in the examination of our fi-
nancial strength, we have prepared, with
much care, an estimate of the amount of
specie now held in this country. Our data
are obtained from the Reports of the Treas-
‘ury Department and Mint, and may, there
fore, be relied on as correct.
Prior to the year 1820, no official account
of the exportations and importations of spe
cie appears to have heen kept. Sinte that
time, however, the 1mports and exports of
the precious metals have beer carefully not.
ed, and a comparison is, there, easily made.
The amount of specie in the country in
1820 has beeen estimated by different wri-
ters
: : $40,000,000
Taking this as & farting point, we Sid
must add thereto the following
sums, viz; '
Amount of bullion and &oin import.
ed into the United States from
1820 to 30th June, 1860,
Amount of gold and silver, of do-
mestic production, deposited at
the Mint establiehment during the
same period,
Amount of excess of specie and bul-
lion imported, and bullion deriv-
ed from the mires of the United
States over exports of the same,
from 30th June 1860. to 31st Oc-
tober, 1861, (estimated, )
340,161,876
492,896,634
100,000.000
Making altogether the sum of $973,008,561
From which must be deducted the
Sheuis and bullion exported from
20 to October 31, 1860, 688,640,608
Leaving as the amount of specie in
the United States on 31st October,
861, $284,361,953
Making due allowance for the precious
metals used for manufatturing purposes,
which it 18 believed has not much exceeded
the amount of coin and bullion brought into
the country by private hands, and by the
overland route from Mexico ; and estimating
the amount of coin in the States in rebellion,
at twenty millions of dollars, it may be safe-
ly assumed that the loyal States of the Un-
ion hold at this time not less than two hun~
dred and fifty millions of dollars in specie, or
five times the amount upon which the calcu.
fations of the London Times are based. This
is certainly a sufficient basis for all the bonds
and stocks which the Government may find
it necessary to issue, and it is not likelv to
be disturbed very soon, for the reason that
the annual bullion product of the United
States is not less than fifty millions of dol-
lars, which, wih our surplus breadstuffs,
will be amply sufficient to pay for all the
articles we are likely to require from abroad,
at least during the continuance of the war.
If the foregoing statements are correct—
and we think they cannot be refuted—our
financial position is one of extraordinary
strength, and will enable us, with due econ-
omy, and a wise administration upon public
affairs, to maintain thé national credic un-
impaired, until the rebellion shall have been
crushed and an honorable peace attained. —
In order, however, to maintain the present
high credit of the Government, it is neces-
sary that the people will it. Having reso:
lutely put their shoulders to the wheel, in a
day of gloom and mistrust, they must not
look back, especially at a time when every-
thing appears so hopeful as at present, but
continue to freely furnish ¢‘the sinews of
war,’’ and co all that is necessary to main-
tain the public credit, while our brave sol-
diers are defending our natienality upon the
perilous field of battle. Duty, patriotism
and elf preservation require this at the
hands of the people of the loyal States.
Dears BY Po13oN. —Frederick Parker, Esq.
and wife of New Bedford, Mass., were ser-
1ously poisoned a day or two since by drink-
ing cider that.was carelessly put into a bot~
tle in which fly poison had been kept, and
Mr. Parker died on Monday from the effects
of the poison. The Mercury says he was a
prominent citizen and a man of wealth.
ea We ror
Where bard work kills ten, idleness kills
a hundred.
federate grand-jury, as being guilty of tréa-
son, because he still remained true to the
be the'last for some time to come—T am un-
The following is mérély'an extract from
the- farewell address of Parson Brownlow,
editor of the Knoxville ‘Whig, published in
‘Tevnéssee. He has been indicted by a Con-
Government of the United States, and sen-
tenced to imprisonment, The following are
his brave and patriotic sentiments :
“¢ This issue of the Whig must necessarily
able to say how long. The Confederate au-
thorities have determined upon our arrest,
and I am to be indicted before the grand
jury of the Confederate Court, which com«
menced its session in Nashville, on Monday
last. I would have awaited the indictment
and arrest, before announcing the remarka
ble uvent to the world, but, as 1 only publish
a weekly paper my hurried removal to Nash-
ville would deprive me of the privilege of
saying to my’ subscribers what is alike due
to myself and them. I have the fact of my
indictment and consequent arrest having been
agreed upon, for this week, from distinguish
ed citizens, legislators, and lawyers at Nash~
ville, of both parties. Gentlemen of high
positions, and members of the Secession
party, say that the indictment will be made
because of ‘‘some treasonable articles in the
late numbers of the Whig * I have repro
duced those two “treasonable articles,” of
the first page of this issue, that the unbiass~
ed people of the country may ‘read, mark,
learn, and inwardly digest’’ the treason.—
They relate to the culpable remissness of
these Knoxville leaders in failing to volun-
teer in the cause of the Confederacy.
According to the usages of the court, as
heretofore established, T presume I could go
frae, by taking the oath these authoritiesare
administering to other Union men, but my
settled purpose is not to do any sach thing.
I can doubtless be allowed my personal lib
erty, by entering into bonds to keep the
peace and to demesan myself toward the
leaders of Secession in Knoxville. who have
been seeking to have me assassinated all
summer and fall, as they deaire me to do,
for this is really the import of the thing, and
one of the leading objects to be attained.—
Although I could give a bond for my good
behavior, for one thousand dollars, signed by
fifty as gdod wet as the country affords, I |
shall obstinately refuse to do even that ;— |
others, I will render it null and void by res
fusirg to sign it. In default of both, I ex-
pect to go to jail, and [ ready to start upon
one moment's warning. Not only so, but
there | am prepared to be, in solitary con-
finement, or die from old age. Stimulated
by = consciousness of innocent uprightness,
I will submit to imprionment for life, or die
at the end of a rope, before I will make any
humilitating concession to any power on
earth !
I shall in no decree feel humbled by being
cast info prison, whenever it 1s the will and
pleasure of this august Government to put
me there ; but, on the contrary, I shall feel
proud of my confinerhent. T shall go to jail
as John Rodgers went to the staxe—for my
principles. I shall go, because I have failed
to recognize the hand of God in the work of
breaking up the American Government, aud
the inauguration of the most wicked, cruel,
unnatural and uncalled for war, ever record-
ed in history. I go, because I have refused
to laud to the skies the -acts of tyranny,
usurpation, and oppression, inflicted upon
the people of East Tennessee, because of
their devotion to the Constitution and laws
of the Government, handed down to them
by their fathers, and the liberties s:cured to
them by a war of seven long years of gloom,
poverty, and trial ! T repeat, T am proud of
my position, and of my principles, and shal!
leave them te my children as a legacy, far
more valuable than a princely fortune, had I
the latter to bestow !
With me life has lost some of its energy ;
having passed six annual posts on the west
ern slope of half a century, something of the
fire of youth is exhausted, but I stand forth
with the eloquence and energy of right to
sustain and stimulate me in the maintenance
of my principles. Iam encouraged to firm-
ness when I look back to the fate of Him
‘whose power was righteousness,’”’ while
the infuriated mob cried out, “Crucify him !
crucify him !
I owe to my numerous list of subscribers
the filling out of the respective terms, for
which they have made advance payments,
and, if circumstances ever place it in my
power to discharge these obligations, 1
will do it most certainly. But, if [ am de-
nied the liberty of doing so, they musi re-
gard their small losses as so many contribu- |
tions to the cause in which T have fallen. T'
feel that I can, with confidence, rely upon |
the magnanimity and forbearance of my pa-
trons under this state of things. They will
bear me witness that T have held out as long
as [ am allowed to, and that [ could not |
avert the horrors of or successfnliy oppose.
I will only say in conclusion —for I am |
not allowed the privilege to write—that the |
people of this country have been unaccus. |
tomed to such wrongs ; they can yet scarce- |
ly realize them. They are astounded for the
time being with the quick succession of out-
rages that have come upon them, and they
stand horror stricken, like men expecting
ruin and annihilation. I may not live to see
the day, but thousands of my readers will,
when the people of this once prosperous
country will see that they are marching by!
‘double quick time” from freedom to bond- |
age. They will then look these wanton out-
rages upon right and liberty full in the tace,
and my prediction is that they will ¢‘stir the
stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.”—
Wrongs less wanton and outrageous precipi-
into dungeons without charges 6f crime
against them, and withont the formalities of
a trial by jury ; private propérty confiscas
ted at the beck of those we have in pewer ;
‘the press humbled, muzzled, supprossed, or
prostituted to serve the ends of tyranny !—
The erimes of Louis XVI fll short of all
this, and yet he lost his head ! The people
of this country, down trodden and oppress-
ed, still have the resolutions of their illus~
trious forefathers, who asserted their rights
at Lexington and Bunker Hill
Wiis G. BROWNLOW,
a Editor of the Kuoaville Whig.
October 24, 1861.
Col. John Cochrane on Our War Policy
on the Slavery Question—A Great Mis
take,
In our published report (which we have
no dotibt 1s correct) of the rémarkable speech
delivered by Col. John Cochrane to his reg-
iment—the New York First Chassgours—we
find these observations to wit:
‘ Suppose, said the speaker, our army
encotinters myriads of cotton bales, and we
are able to export these cotton bales to Eu-
rope and reccive from them millions upon
millions of the sinews of war, do you say we
should not seize the cotton ? You are clear
upon that point. Suppose that munitions of
war, that sebsistance for their army are
within our reach, would we would we not be
guilty of shameful neglect were we not to
appropriate them to our own use ? Certain-
ly we would, Suppose the enemy advances
against you, would you, from any squcam
ishness, from any. false delicacy, refrain
from leveling the hos: ile gun andgwostr:
them to death? No. Tt is yous alicet, i
is your purpose. Then if you seize tier
property, if you open their ports. if you de-
stroy their lives, | ask you whether you will
not arm their slhwes and whether you will
not carry them by battalions into war against
2
t
ther masters 2”
This proposition is repeated mn another
part of the speech, in which, ifa general
confisca ion of the property of rebels will not
bring them back to their old allegiance to the
Union. Colonel Cochrane says:—“Do all
this, and, if that be not sufficient, take the
slave by the hand, place a musket in it, and
hid him in God’s name strike for the free-
dom of the Human race.” (Great cheering.)
Now, we say that in this radical and start-
ling proposition Colonel Cochrane has com
mitted a great mistake. © What would be
the consequences of a general arming of the
slaves against their masters? The bloody
scenes of St. Domingo all over the South, in-
volving the most horrible atrocities of savage
violence and butckery upon the helpless wo-
men and children of the white race, anda
savage war of extermination between the two
races, ending Perhaps, only with the exterm-
ination of both whites and blacks.
Arm the slaves? No! Col. Cochrane,
no! That way leads us to universal slaugh-
ter and an indefinite reign of anarchy. Our
true policy, and our only safe policy, is that
of President Lincoln —-¢‘the integrity of the
Union.” What says General Sherman in
his address to the people of South Carolina ?
Murk his words : “Carolinians, we have
have come ariong you as loyal men, fully
impressed with our constitutional ebligations
to the citizens of your State. Those obliga-
tions shall be performed as far as in our
power ; but be pot deceived.”
He implores them to pause and reflect ;—
he warns them that this rebellion will be put
down. He speaks not as a ruthless invader
who has come among them to waste. pillage,
ard destroy, but as a benefactor whose mis-
sion it is to save and restore all the bless-
ingsof the good government which those
foolish people have thrown away. There
can be no necessity *in any event, to arm
the slaves of the South against their masters.
We can employ the slaves of rebel masters
in a much better way. The shovel, the hoe,
the rake and the woodman’s axe are the
proper tools to put into the hands of thy
slaves.
While our army is necessarily engaged in
consuming and destroying, let us at least
keep the slaves of rebels falling into our
hands employed in the work of producing
and saving, and let us make it manifest that
the only hope of safety to this peculiar in~
stitution of Southern slavery is the Union
and we shall soon disarm this rebellion. In
the border slave States, slavery has received
a shock from this war, from which it will
soon die out, and free white labor will more
profitably take its place. But slavery in the
cotton States is a different thing, and there
we must maintain it if we desire “the inleg~
rity of the Union.’
We hope that Col. Cochrane will make no
more stump speeches until he shall have
achieved something in the way of fighing.- -
Let him follow the example in speechmaking
of General McClellan. meantime, by declin-
ing to make speeches, and he will be acting
like a sensible soldier. As for the report
that the Secretary of War, out and out, on
the spot, endorsed this last and very impru-
dent speech of Colonel Cochrane, we cannot
believe it. Our reporter must have misun..
derstood General Cameron’s remarks or the
General must have failed to hear distinctly
the remarks which he has been made to en-
dorse ag his own. The administration has
never never dreamed, in any extremity, of
arming the slaves of the South against their
masters. The case of Fremont is conclusive
upon this matter.—N. Y. Herald.
esrb
A BiG Fist.—A New Bedford whaler re-
cently caught a sight whale in the Kodlah
Sea, that made two hundred and seyonty four
barrels of oil.
A REMARKABLE INCIDENT.
omy i ——— a
SPECIE RESOURCES OF THE UNITED | BROWNLOW'S FAREWELL ADDRESS. | tated the French revolution. Citizens cast
A correspondent of the Lockport, N. Y.,
Union, narrates that Chduney Coe. of Ca-
wandaigua, died twenty years ago, leaving a
widow, son and daughter, with a compe-
tence. The widow devoted herself to her:
children. The daughter grew up and mar-
ried. The son, upon attaining his majority,
engaged in the manufacturing business and
went to Calfiornia. Soon after arriving his
manufactory was destroyed by fire, and he
found himself penniless in the streets of
San Francisco. He suddenly disappeared,
and for twelve years his fate was unknown.
Meantime, some years after his disappear-
ance, a childless uncle, (Blah Coe, of Buffa-
lo,) died, and by will left him and hiy sister
ample property for life, with reversion to
their children, but with a provision that in
case of their death without issue, the rever-
sion should go to educational and charitable
institutions.
Under the will, the sister has enjoyed her
share of the rents and profits, the share of
the lost one meantime being, under the di-
rection of the conrt, deposited in a savings
bank, until after some seven years having
elapsed, the two reversionary institutions
instituted proceedings to secure his share of
the property. The court, upon a full hear-
ing, decided that after this lapse of time,
he must be judicially dead, and that one of
the claimants should enter upon the enjoy~
ment of its portion of the rents and profits.
As to the other. its charter not permitting it
to take real estate, it was thrown out alto-
gether, and that share not being legally eon-
veyed by the will reverted to their heirs at
law unconditionally, who are these same
children.
During all this time, the sister’s husband,
with a zeal and pertinacity worthy of all
commendation, had been unremitting in his
endeavors to find the lost one. After all
else had been compelled to believe him long
ead, he has continued to spend time and
money in his discovery, He has communi-
cated with every American Consel of the
islands of the Pacific and Australia. He has
sent circulars, offering a large reward, to
California and Oregon. He has advertised
with a reward in the papers of the shipping
and whaling ports ; he has received many
communications from sea captains and oth
ers, professing to give information, which
has always proved erroncous, until at last,
every endeavor having proved futile, and
even a mother’s hope discouraged, whose
locks have become white in the long, sleep
less agony of waiting for the return of an
only and beloved son, within the last month
suddenly, and without the least previous
notice, the truant drives up to th: mother’s
door. Alive and well, with face burned and
bronzed to parchmeat, by exposure to sun
and wind, he has come back at last to that
mother and that sister, who have so long
mourned him as lost and dead to them for
ever,
¢And there wad joy in that house.”
And where upon this earth had the truant
been hidden, that a mother’s and a sister’s
love could wot find him ? Why, in the only
part of the globe that has not been searched
for him.
In Soyth Africa, far up rom the Cape, for
many years, and in China several times.—
He was employed in the Caftre war. He has
hurited elephants and zebras. He has dwelt
with and driven cattle with the natives. He
has met with losses by wreck and by fire. —
He has suffered fevers and the incidents of
wandering life, until, at last, in middle age,
the yearning to once more see his native
land, and embrace his aged mother and his
sister became too strong to be resisted. Ile
sailed to Liverpool, and thence to New York,
and there, for the first time, heard tidings of
his fortune, and that of all the letters he had
written home not oue had been received.
pw B eta
A SHORT STORY BY Dickens.—Dickens tell
the following story of an American sea cap-
tain :
On his last voyage home, the captain had
on board a young lady of remarkable per
sonal attractions—a phra e I use as one
being entirely new, and one you never meet
with in the newspapers. This young lady
was loved intensely by five young gentlemen
passengers, and. in turn, she was in love
with them all very ardently, but without
any particular prefevence for either. Not
knowing how to make up her determination
in this dilemma, she consulted my friend
the captain. The Captam, being a man of
an original turn of mind, says to the lady,
« jump overboard, and marry the man who
jumps after you.” The young lady, strack
with the idea, and being natually fond of
bathing, especially in warm weather, as it
then was, took the advice of the captain who
had a boat ready manned in case of accident.
Accordingly the next morning, the five lov-
ers being on deck and looking very devoted-
ly at the young lady, she plunged into the
sea headformest. Four of the lovers imme-
diately jumped in after hér. When the
young lady and her four lovers were got out
again, she says to the Captain: What am
I to do with them now, they are so wet 2"
Says the captain, * Take the dry one!"—
And the young lady did, and married hin.
eel Be
TaxiNG A Fair View oF THE MATTER.
—George Bromley, of Preston’ Conn,. while
sitting on the railroad track a few days since
was struck by a passing train, and pitched
into the bushes. Upon the train backing up
to ascertzin his injuries, he came forward
and told the conductor that if he had dam
aged the engine any he was ready to settle
for it, and left for howe.
BY
TELEGRAPH.
Fighting at Pensacola. - i
Novemsrr 26.—A despatch just received
here states that a fight is now going on af
Dehnéaciln oi !
- Fort Pickens opened fire Warrenton
and the Navy grt Bl has
been. burned. : we ;
So is all that has thus far ‘béén “Fecdiv-
ed. en
a,
A CoNFIRMED CAsE.—A gentleman of ex~
‘cellent habits and very amiable disposition
was so unfortunate as to have a wife of a
very different character ; in short, one that
would get beastly drunk. Being in compa~
ny with a few intimates one evening, one of
them remarked to him, that if she was hik
wife —since all other things had failed—he
would frighten her in some way, so that she
would quit her evil habit, and proposed the
following method : that sometime when dead
drunk, she should belaid in a box shaped
like a coffin, and left in that situation until
her fit should be over, and conciousness re-
stored. "
A few evenings after, the dame being in &
proper state, the plan was put into execu.
tion ; and after the hox lid ‘was secured, the
party before alluded to watched, each in
turn, fo witness the result, About daylight
next morning the watch heard a movement,
laid himself down by the box, when her la.
dyship, after bumping her head a few times
was heard to say :
¢ Bless me where am [ 2” \
The outsider answered, in a Sepulchral tone :
Madam, you are dead and in the other
world.’ A pause ensued, after which the
lady inquired again: ¢ Where are you 2’
‘Oh I am dead, too,” said he. “Can you
tell me how long I have been dead ?"’—
*¢ About three weeks.” ¢ How long have
you been dead #’ * Four months.” -¢ Well
you have been here so much longer than I
have can’t you tell me where 1 can get a’ lit-
tle gin 2”
re Artem
AFTER THE BATTLE. —A volunteer who
was in the fight at Fredericktown, Mo., gives
a graphic picture of the battle field after the
fight was over: ‘ ;
«In returning [ passed through the ‘field
where Col. Lowe's command what engaged
in battle. Ths field, away to the left, was
about as large as one of our blocks in the
city. Tnevorshall forget this sight as long
as [live. It was the most awful spectacle
I ever looked upon. Men, dead and dying,
were strewn in all directions, shattered, torn
and mangled, I counted one hundred and
forty-two dead men on that one field. Most
| of them were shot in the head. "Col. Lowe
was shot right in the forehead, and his
brains were all running out. He was a pow..
erful man and a brave one. lle had thrown
off his coat and rolled up his shirt sleeves
for the fight. His body had been complete-
ly stripped of everything valuable. 1 want-
ed something as a trophy, so I dismounted
and found a little flute, the only thing left
on him. The most singular thing I saw was
a man who was shot while getting over a
fence, and whose body remained upon the
top of it. Icounted seven bullet holes int
his body. I saw another man with one half
of his head gone. But I will not. recite
more of these shocking details. I know I
never shall forget them.
DisTRESSING CASE FAMILY BRREAVEMBNT.
The Johnstown Tribune recently gave the
facts of a distressing case of a family. breave-
ment in the household of Mr. P. P. Lehman,
who lost four children within a month by
diptheria. The same paper of last week re-
lates the following equally sad case: By
letter before vs from Mr. James Conrad, of
Washington township. we learn that he and
his whole fam ly have been prostrated for
weeks with the typhoid tever, from the
effects « f which he is just recovering.- Three
deaths occurred in his family during the
month of October from the disease—a son
and two davghters, one aged 19, one 17, and
one 15 years. The balance of his family
were all sick but are recovering. To add te
his troubles, the head race to his mill-—~which
had been swept away by former flood, and
which had just been reconstructed-distroyed
by the high water of Saturday night week.
Truly misfortune never come singly.
Mr: Brown said a constable to an ubiqui-
tous personage the other day, «* how many
cows do you own 2’
« Why do you ask ?’ was the reply.
‘ Because I wish to levy on them,” was
the prompt rejoinder.
‘ Well, let me. see,” said Mr. B., ab.
stractedly, ¢ how many cows does the law
allow me 27’
+t Two,” replied the constable.
“Two 1” sdid B., with good natured as-
tonishment ; Well, if it allows me two, I
wish it would make haste and send the oth-
er along, as I haven’t but one.
Gir Missing.— William Cloud of Bern
ville, Berks county, advertises forinformation
about his daughter, Sarah, who left her
home in Febuary last, and resided, for some
time with Mr. Amos Huber, in Roseville,
Lancaster county, under a fictitious name:
See left Mr. Huber on the 2d of September
last, with an old calico frock on, buf
without shoes or bonnet. Nothing has since
been heard of her, and her parents will be
thankful for any information by which they
may discover where she is.
Lerrers recived in this county froin gen-
tleman who know what they write, indicate
that ‘the Prince Napoleon, since his return
from America, makes no disguise in expres-
sing, both in public and in private; his deci-
ded conviction that the North is fiot otily
determined, and amply quallified to” whip
the Southern rebels to terms, and his opin=
ions have an important effect upon the views
of France and England in relation to our
troubles. :