BY DAYID OYER. SELECT POETRY THE DREAM OF HEATEN• Lo, the seal of death is breaking, Those who sleep its sleep are waking, Eden opens her portals fair! N Hark ! the harps of God are ringing, Ilark! the seraph's hymn is singing, And the living rills are flinging Music in the Immortal air! There, no more at eve declining, Sutis without a cloud are shining, O'er the land of light and love ; Heaven's own harvest woos the reaper, Heaven's own dreams entrance the sleeper, Not a tear is left the weeper, To j-rotiine the flower above. No frail lilies there are breathing— There no thorny rose is wreathing In the bowers of Paradise ; Where the founts of lite are flowing, Flowers unknown to time are blowing. Mill superior verdure glowing, Than is sunned by mortal skies. There the groves of God, that never Fade or fall, are green foravor, Mirrored in the radiant tide ; 1 here along the sacred waters, Unprofaned by tears of slaughters, Wander earth's immortal daughters, Each a pure immortal bride. There no sigh of memory swelletb, There no tear of memory dwelleth, Hearts wli 1 Meed or break no more; Past is ah the cold world's scorning, Gone the night, and broke the morning, With seraphic day adorning Life's glad waves and goldeu shore. From Ihe boston Traveller. THE IU R.MAG OF THE AUSTRIA. Litt to those solemn dirges Which the wild waves sing, While o'er the rising surges Cries of terror ring ; See, from the fated barque Fierce flames arise, Where on the waters dark Helpless she lies. Never again shall they, That trembling hand, Clasp friendly hands that wait, Vainly, on land. Manly hearts, lovely forms, Childhood and age. Midst burning horrors fall, Or from their rage Plunging 'neath rolling waves, Soon where the deep Greets them with chill embrace, Silently sleep Long in the distant fatherland Shall fall the bitter tear; And homes shall long be desolate For those who perished here ; And o'er them still the winds that sweep Across the trackless main, Shall chant a reqnium for the loved Earth ne'er shall see again. A FAIR TURN.—'I uuderstaud, Mr. Jones, that you can turn anything neater than any other man in town?' 'Yes, Mr. Smith, I said so.' 'Ahem! Mr. Joues, 1 don't like to brag, but there is nobody on earth can turn a thiug as well as I can whittle.' 'Pooh, nonsense, Mr. Smith, talk about whittling—what can you whittle as well as I can turn?' 'Anything, everything, Mr. Jones. Just you name the article that I can't whittle that you can turn, and I will give this dollar if 1- don't do it to the satisfaction of these gentlemen present. (Here Mr. Smith tables the dollar.) 'Ahem! Well, thoD, Mr. Smith, suppose we take two grindstones, just for a trial, you know, you whittle the me, while I turn the other.' 'A fair sell!' Mr. Smith stared for a mo ment and vamosed. The forfeited dollar was quickly disposed of by those preseut with great! glee. SPITE. —The Harrisburg Patriot and Union i tries to say some very severe things of the j Americans, because they did uot preserve a distinctive organization in the recent contest. J Its shot, however, fulls short of the wark, ".uJ ; is not likely tbaf anybody will be hurt by ! tlieut. If the Patriot and Union preteuds to j be a newspaper, it ought to know something of party politics, and any one with the sense of au °yUsr, who haa beon in Pennsylvania for the b'Bt two or three years, knows that the opposi ttoo of Americans to the Republican move 'n"ta wae on account of its sectionalism. That laving been abandoned, tbere could be no ob jection to a union with theut upon a national :Ms - This was accomplished, and the happy ' stilt has cheered the heart of tho good old : - ystcne State. Americans aro very comfort- ! '"•b- ;*i i,r the infliction of Locofoco wrath. In l ' ; , h , 'y rather like it, and if indignant exple will mitigate the horrors of defeat, theor- : > of tiie great king are welcome to explode ' f *!<•.— Unity JVens. I A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &c., &c—Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance. ! Arkansas in New Orleaus.-l'arryiiig Concealed Weapons. The "local" of the New Orleans Delta gets off the following capital sketch. The "repor ter" referred to is, of coarse, a revolver, and the "half moon concern" is the crescent which is worn by the New Orleans police, as our po lice wear a star: "This reporter got a sight, a few nights ago, while taking an outside peep through the bars of the First District Lockup, of a gcuuiue specimen of an Arkansas tiaveller, who had 'kum' all the way dowu to Orleans and the 'yaller fever' to buy some wheelbarrows, which tho Napoleon merchants failed to furnish.— Feeling a little curious to know how a stianger bad thus been taken iu -and cooped, we veutured to ask how ho managed to be put in. Well, you see,' said the traveller, at the same time exteudiug bis long shirt-sleeved arms through the gratiug, and lifting up his light leg, with jeaus pautaloous stuffed in tho top of his boots, and with ease, rcstiug his foot upon the cross bar, on a line with our head,'l was pressed for some wheelbarrows, aud 1 just left the old place iu the luteh, and f that good old song, 'Tito Arkansas Traveller.' FILIBUSTERING. A proclamation ha 9 been issued by tho Pre sident against the filibustering schemes of Gen. Walker, aud others, who contemplate making a descent upon Nicaragua. Tue proclamation is mild but tirm in its tone, and whtiu it meets j the approbation of ail good citizens, will scarce ly be regarded by the pirates whose infamous proceedings it is designed to arrest. The len iency of our Government towards Walker, when he was captured by Uoui. Puul.ing, was not calculated to inspire our navat officers with any great degree of confidence that their exer tions to maintain the honor of the nation, iu ibis particular, will meet with general appro val. The proclamation is outy intended by the administration to deceive the people. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 18-58. "KING OF THE AUTUMN." la a recent issue of the Hatrisburg Tele graph, a beautiful aDd poetic description of an "American Autumn" was published, from the pen of the gifted Preutioe of the Louisville Journal, which has since appeared in the col umns of nearly every paper that visits our sanctum. The following article oo November, as "King of the AutumD," breathes the true spirit of poetry aud eloquence, and will be equally appreciated by the admirers of Pren tice, whom they justly regard as one of the most graceful of our American prose writers. We copy from the Journal of Monday week:— NOVEMBER.— Room for the athlete! room for the broad-shouldered, deep-chested, and vigorous November, who leaps with an elastic bound into the arena! He has divested him self of all supeiflaous clothing, every limb is bare, aud his brawny trunk stands iu glorious majesty, while his bead, encircled by a coronet of the purple vino and scarlet berries, pro claims him (he King of Autumn! Doomed as be is, deserted by his fleeting brethren, pressed by the advancing legions of gloomy Winter, he still looks 'every inch a king!' He has gath ered about hiui iiis vasais, who neither trem ble with fear uor look pale at ihe p-wteuts around them, hut every one has thrown dowu his leafy gauntlet, aud bent his branchy iance to await the coming storm! Like the last King of Assyria, he has surrounded himself with all the luxaiious garniture of nature and the vo luptuous revelry of the season, and looks to his parent son to send dowo his fires to con sume theui all bcfoie he will surrender! Above and around him the winds sing a witching soug, and the bright plumage of the clouds glows with weird lustre as their winged flm-ks soar to the z -uith or sweep majestically to rest upon the bosom of the h-ttizon. Type of tho uiuuth—symbol of the pendiug fate of No vember—arouud the golden couch of the! setting suu tho curtains of royal purple are drawn, and earth aud sky are hushed aDd mute, lest a breath should disturb his sleep, whilfl stars that spangle the meas irel dome above siuk Jowly apd softly their lollabjf.: So will November sink to repose after a life of majesty and of strong action, to the mellow cadence-i of the Indian Summer, amid the bla zonry of the golden maple, the gorgeous crim son of the forests, and tho brigut scarlet of the running vines which gird his sturdy guard of monarch oaks. Y\ lto then can usseut to the poet's idea that with November, "the melan choly days have come, the saddest of the yeat ?'* Not we ! There is no saduess Id any work of God's providence; he orders all things in kiud ncss, anil his smile can warm this last autumn al month, and make it gorgeous in the sun shine which fills the hutnan soul with gratitude and illuminates it with the full, bright aud beatific kuowledge of his Eternal Love. A NEW ORLEANS INCIDENT. The New Orleaus papers from time to time, relate many touching incidents occurring iu that scourged city, where the pestilence runs riot, striking down old and young, strangers and citizens, aud desolutiDg the homes of high and low, rich and poor. We daily look over the columns of the Picayune with melancholy in :erest, aud find in every issue a sad talc of come "straDger in a strange laud" being strick en down by "tho skeleton hand of tho pesti lence." Among the numerous incidents rela ted by the papers of that devoted city, we have read none more affecting than the following, from the Picayune: AN INCIDENT.— About a month since, a stranger of fine personal appearance evidently reared amid the associations of good society, applied to one of the benevolent societies of ■ out city to he taken into their infirmary, as he was suffering under the first attack of fever, j aud had no friends iu the city. He was one of the first who oaine from the far North to seize the golden opportunity for desirable busi ness situations made vacant by death, but fouud the beckouing of Purtuue to be in reality the wave of the (skeleton baud of the Pestilence.— Around his couch strangers ministered with the tenderness and the assiduity of life-long friends, but tho fever ran riot in his veins, and his iron constitution only utade the struggle with the disease the more terrible. From the day he sought assistance, it was evident he was doom ed; but in his descent into the dark valley lie had all the attentions which could have been provided iu his Northern bouie. The benevo lent friends who had watched, and nursed, aud ministered to him, aud provided him wish a last resting place iu our city of the dead, wrte to his frieuds the sad tidings of his decease, con veying his last messages of love to parents aud relatives, and such consolations to the be reaved a were uaturally suggested. Iu seven days front the receipt of tho letter in that Northern home made desolate, while the tever was at its height, a cousin, iu the prime of life aud vigor of manhood, arrived iu the city to convey the body of bis deceased relative to a last, resting-place beneath the fu neral willows tu the family burying ground. — Scarcely had ho time to flue the charitable friends of the deceased before fie was seized with fever: his application for the body of his relative prove i a demand fur the same chart- | ties that had been bestowed upon the recent ; dead, lie was placed in the same itifiruiury, j occupied the same couch, and utter wrestling with toe pestileuee seven days, died, aud now j lies buried by tlie side of bitu be came lo bear back to his native home. ' THE DEAD SEA. j The editor—correspondent of the Utica ! Herald—graphically describes the Dead Sea j sea thus: As I first looked over the Dead Sea I tho't it lovely. Its waters were beautifully blue as ! those ot the noble lakes of my owu uative j land. Not a ripple disturbed its fair face; it ! seemed dreaming in the tranced hush of the hot noonday. Its translucent waves lazily toy d with the pebbly beaeh that wound about its skirts tu many a graceful curve. Then it stretched endlessly away between two frowning ramparts of hills mirroring on its glossy bosom the mountain of Moab and the mountains of Judea. 1 could not realize that this lake that lay so tranquiliy sleeping aud smiiiogso sweet ly on the wilds arouud, could be that fatal sea on whose every Wave rode grim and ghastly death, that its breath bad blasted the plaiu and blighted every 6pcck of verdure OD the hill. But as 1 looked more intently over its broad expanse it seemed to assume a certain unbealthtul, lurid hue, and there catne up Jroui it a hot and sickly mist as if seething ;tu its rocky cauldron. Its rest, too, seemed troubled, as it it were rather the stupor ot fe ver than the healthful bush of sleep. Aud the i ttauaiueeuoe ot its waters was deceptive, for Whenever they touched the shore there remain ed a black and oily deposit. I Probably uature does not afford a more des Folate scene than that of the region of the Dead kSea. It lies in a vast basin, four thousand I feet below tho .Mediterranean. It is bounded jou the north by the plain of Jericho; on the [ east its waves wash the base of the calcined r hills of Moab; on the west the uarreu moun tains of the desert of Judea rise above its shores; whil* its southern extremity touches the region of Atabia Detract. The eye looks iu vaiu for any sign or vestige of life. No living creature inhabits its shore, no fisb swiui , in it; no buds dip their wings iu its waters.— rGne endless range of barren hills meets you on [every side. There is no escape—no refuge rtrout the desolation that begirts you. This sea, wuieb receives the living Joruau, has no ! outlet. It remains a problem—an enigma to ! science. Numerous efforts to explain it have ; been made, many adventurous travelers have ; lust their lives iu the attempt, and Mr. Lynelt, whose survey is so imperfect, lost his first as sistant. Even the wild Bedouin, whose home is the desert, shuus it io his wide wanderings. Its origiu involves a wide aud fearful history. The shores it laved once teemed with life. Its waves roll on the sites of tho "Cities of the Ptaiu." Deep dowu iu its depths lies dead and damned Gomorrah and Sodom. • STUPIDITIES. Hall's Journal of Health enumerates the following. The list is capable of being cx- I tended indefinitely. Indeed, if oue should 1 specify all the silly and ridiculous habits and j practices by which the majority of reasoning J aud sensible mortals are iujurtug thpui ! selves, be would make a chapter as long as the ! Atlantic cable. "Walking along the street with the point of ! an umbrella sticking out behind, uuder the arm jor over the shoulder. By suddeuly stopping ! to speak to a friend, or by some other cause, I a person in the rear had his braiu peuetrated | through the eye, in one of our streets, aud died j iu a few w^eks. •'To carry a long pencil iu vest or outside enat pockets; not long since, a clerk in New : York fell, and the loug cedar pencil so pierced I au impel taut artery that it had to be cut dowu ; from the top of the shoulder to prevent death, with a three months' illuess. "To take exercise or walk for the health, when every step is a drag, and instinct urges repose. "To guzzle down glass after glass of cold water, on getting up in the morning, without feeling of thirst, under the impression of the health-giving nature of its wasuing out quali ties. "To set down to a table and force yourself to cat, wheu there is not only no appetite, but a positive aversion to food. "To take a glass of toddy, or of gangarce, or mint drops, on a summer day, uuder the be lief that it is safer and better than a glass of cold water. "To economise time by robbing yourself of the necessaty sleep, an the ground that an hour saved trout sleep is au hour gained for life, when in reality it is two hours actually spoiled. "To persuade yourself that you are destroy ing and unpleasant odor by introducing a stronger one, that is by attempting to sweeteu your own unwashed garments and person by envelopiDg yourself iu the fumes ot musk, eau de cologne, or rose water; the best perfume being a clean skio and well washed clothing. A CURE FOR SCROFULA. The Cincinnati Commercial publishes the fol lowing oommuiiicatiou from Nicholas Long worth, the great wine manufacturer of that city: All the papers I had giving the oure for scrofula have been distributed to persons seud iug for the remedy. 1 tuve uevir heard of a case where it did uot effect a speedy cure, aud it can in no case do au injury. In several iu iustaoces, where it has been applied in old sores, it has also speedily effected perfect cures. Put oue ounce of aquafortis iu a bowl or sau cer, drop in it two copper oents; it will effer vesce; leave the cents iu; wbau the efferves cence cea-es, add two ouuecs of the strongest cider vinegar. The fluid will be a dark green color. It should and will smart. If too so vere, put MI a little ruin water. Apply it to the sore, morning aud evening, by a soft brush or rag. Before applying it, wash the sre with water. Its first application known to me was a poor girl sent to our city feom Memphis, to have her leg cut off, as it was feared she might not live long enough to have it cut off in that hot cli mate. She was refused admittance to the poor house, and was lying on the sidewalk, as she could not even stand up. From her knoe to her foot one third of the flesh was gODe and all the skin except a strip about two iuches wide. She was laid on a bed and the remedy placed on a chair by it She could rise up aud apply it. In a few days her peace of mind returned, and she declared it was getting well. It was supposed it was a relief from the pain only, but when examined, fresh flesh was found grow ing, and skin over it. She was soou runuing about, and would work, which delayed the en tire cure, leaving a small sore, which was in a lew months entirely healed. A young girl with scrofula itt her neck, having a large open hole aud deemed incurable, cauie one mouth after, entirely cured, and recently married, with her Itusbaud, on their way East. 1 have ; never known a case where it did uot effect a | cure. ANCIENT SHIP-BUILDING. Ibo ;>neiouts seem to have outdone all suc ceeding attempts—the Leviathan of 1858 alone exccptod. Some of the galleys, from descrip tions left us, were supetb. Ptolemy Philupatcr had one built which was four hundred and twenty feet long, and twenty-eight broad, and required a complement of four thousand row ers, four thousind sailors, and three thousand soldiers ; but that of Hiero, constructed by the reuowed Archimedes, consumed Wood enough to build sixty largo galleys: and it was fitted up in a style that throws the most splen did of our vessels into a wide distance. There was not oulv banquetting room, galleries, baths, library and a spacious gymnasium, fin ished and furnished with the most admirable skill and costly materials, wiib stables, fish ! ponds, mills aud gardens; but there was a I 1 •'tuple of VeDus, fitted up iu a gorgeous | style, the floor being inlaid with precious stones, J the watls of cypress wood, ornamented with cbice paintings aud statues. The warlike ap : purteuances of this maiiue monster were on a cot responding scale of formidable grandeur.— | The vessel was surrounded by iron bulwarks, ' like a rampart, missy, and strengthened with ! eight towers, and tbere were machines suf ficiently powerful to project a stone three hun j dred pouuds weight, or a dart seventeen feet and a half long, a distance of a half a mile. AN EMBARRASSED FATHER. . The following true incident will show the dangers to which young children are exposed in the public squares of our cities. A gentlemna ou Saturday afteruoou was taking his little boy —an only child about six months old—on an airing iu Madison, Dark, New York, when sud denly a well dressed woman, an entire strau gor to him, rushed frantically after him and with screams and jestures, demanded her child. The astonished father, of course, pushed her aside, aud told her to clear off, upon which she persisted, attempting to lay hands on the baby, and drawing with her screams a large crowd to witness the contest. Of course the crowd, with their usual huuiauity, sympathised with the bereaved woman until the unfortunate 'pa rent' was compelled to call a policeman, who took his tormentor away. It seems a little strange that wheu there are so many unclaimed babies, she should be so ; anxious to seize an only child, the solo object of parental affection. The probability ts, I however, that the vixen who was a good look- J ing French woman, of about thirty or thirty five, had lost a baby, and seeing a handsome boy, had mistaken him for the one she was seek ing. From the pertinacity with which she in sisted on her ciaiut. it is aiso probable thai she ! would have succeeded in runuiug off with the j baby, bad it not been protected by the strong i arm of its father, and had its only guardian been, as is often the case, a servant maid or nurse of fifteen or twenty years.— Phila. Pa per. Kobber's Care near Clarion. Our neighbors up at Clarion hive a "myste ry" in their vicinity, whicU considerably ngi- ; tates them. The Citizen says that about five miles from Clarion, near where the Pittsburgh j road crosses Sandy creek, a singular discovery : was utade by a Mr. Masoo. While hunting | bees, ho Doticcd undoi some rocks, a buffalo I robe aud other evidences of the former pres ence of some anim tls less laborious and less honest thau those he was in search of. Being somewhat frightened, be called others, who, af ter some search, discovered jewelry of differ ent kinds, worth inull, about opo hundred dol lars. Iu addition to this, a pair of boots and pantaloons, a vest, cravut and fine coat, with the skit t considerably torn, pieces of which were found iu different places, were picked up ucar the jewelry depot. The circumstance iuduoed ten of the adjacent citizens to repair to the spot and lie in wait that night for the return of the depositors, but through the imprudence of kind liug a fire iu the after uigbt, nothing was ef fected. In dispersing next tnoruiug, a sack of flour, three freshly dressed chickens aud a j ulauket, were found unconcealed, as though j they had been hastily left. Several other ar ticles, such as powder, caps, au old rovolver, augers, a bottle of chloroform, &c., were pick ed up.— Pitts. Jour. True friendship is like souud health : its j value is seldom kuown until it isJosL VOL. 31, NO. 47. EDWARD MCPIIERSON, ESQ.— Among th e marry gratifying results of the lute election in this State, none are more gratifying than the success of Edward MePherson, Esq., who has been elected to Congress in the Seventeenth District. In that district, Wilson Reiiiy, the Administration candidate, had a majority of 509, two years ago. Now Mr. MePherson carries it by 267 majority, against this same ] Wilson Reilly, who was zealously aided by his friends, and the whole power and patronage of the government. The people of the State arc to be congratulated upon securing the services of such a man as Mr. Pherson. We have long known him as a gentleman of fine talents and attainments, perfect purity and uprightness, j thorough knowledge of the wants of Penusyl j vania, and entire devotion to her interests.— . His articles on the sale of the State Canals, I published in our columns, did more than any thiog else to open the eyes of the people to . the abuses of the State system of managing tbeui, and hastened the accomplishment of the sale, which is nowhere regretted except among Democratic politicians. He has, in many ether ways, exhibited his knowledge of the State and what she requires, and it is a matter for real rejoicing, that such a man should be sent ito Congress. We predict that Mr. MePherson i will make one of the best, most faithful, most | useful and most respected representatives that 1 Pennsylvania has ever sent to Washington.— I P/iu'a. Bulletin. AN IMPORTANT MEDICAL FACT —Suicide ; Averted by Means of Artificial Respiration ; Several days ago a weli known citizen attempt ed to commit suicide by taking laudanum. Ho swallowed about two ounces and a half. As soon as the fact became known medical aid was called in, the stomach-pump and other j appliances made, but seemingly all in vain. AH hope of averting death was at last given up by j those in attendance. Some several hours after the occurrence, the physician ot the family ar rived, but too late, as was supposed, to do any ! good. Jhe Iho't struck him, however, of test ing efficiency of artificial respiration, so suc ; cessfully used of late in cases of strangulation by water. He proceeded immediately to work, and soon began to pereive symptons of improve ment. Encouraced. he labored nn. as.-iistr-d hp medical gentlemen, and in the course of nine hours succeeded in restoring the unfortunate man. The inteuded suicide is now well. The entire success of the experiment is worthy the attention of the faculty.— Cincinnati Times. Contest of Florence's Seat, It will be seen by the following that Flor ence's right to a scat in Congress is to he con tested, and we have no doubt that Col. Hyan will succeed io making good his claims : To the People of the first Congressional District . As it is my intention to contest the right of Col. Thomas B. Florence to a seat iu ,tbe Congress of the United States, I would re spectfully urge upon all those who have any knowledgj in relation to the frauds perpetrated at the reoent election iu the First Congressional Distiict, to transmit all the information in their possession to JOHN W. RYAN, 944 South Front street. CALUMNIATORS. —Calumniators are tbosd who have neither good hearts nor good under standings. We ought not to thiuk ill of any one till we have palpable proof, and even theu we should not expose them to others. We suppose that egotistical people may he set dowu as taking excellent care of themsel ves, for every man minds his I. A waggish candidate coming iu the course :cf the canvass to a tailor's shop, "What wo look for here," said he, "are measures, not uieu." >He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper; but he is happier who can suit his temper to his circnmstances. To the poor the gosple was preached, not only in the days of Christ, when the common people heard him gladly, but all ages of the Church the sweetest, richest pieces of experi ence in the work of grace are from the poor, to the poor, and for the poor. Some hard-money rascal recently perpetra ted the following upon the back of a one dol lar bill, Bank of Tennessee : "Thou art but the Ghost o, cash, The spirit of a specie dollar, Thy paper fabrick is but trash, And all thy promises arc holler." What part in a play do drinking men always like the bast ? The fine ale to be sure, A Western jury brought in a verdict of 'Death by hanging—about a groggery !' Tying a Mackerel to your coat-tail, and imagining yourself a whale, is one of the first lessons in codfish aristocracy. Why is a little nurse-maid like the evening star ? Bccause's she's a wee-nuss. Some writers, iu a vaiu attempt to be cut ting and dry, give us only what is cut and dried. Why ate ladies like bells I —Because you cau uever dud out their metal until you have given them a ring. Some judges commit a vet vviv ■'.vcr.iO the o~, r loyn.cnt by Committfotf ori#f