BY DAVID OVER.
agoetvg.
BEAUTIFUL LESSON.
No more beautiful lesson has been taught by a
modern poet, than is conveyed in these stanzas by
•f. G. Whittier. Adaiu and Eve, exiled from the
Garden of Eden, and sat dowu disconsolately on
the outer side of the wall of Paradise, and there an
angel found them bewailing their fate. Thereupon
the radiant presence spoke.
•'Arise !" he said, "why look behind,
tf hen hope is all before.
And patient hand and willing mind
Your loss may yet restore 1
I leave with you a spell whose power
Can make the desert glad,
And all around you fruit and flower
As fair as hid.
1 clothe your hands with power to lift
The curse fiom off your soil—
Your very doom shall seern a gift,
Your loss a gain, through Tom.
Go. cheerful as your humming bees,
To labor as you play .
\V hile gleaming over Eden's trees,
The angel passed away.
The Pilgrims of the world went forth,
Obedient to the word,
And found, wher'er they tilled the earth,
A garden o 1 the Lord !
t't.ce mere. Ob ! white-winged angel, stand
Where man still pines and grieves,
And lead, thiough Toil, to Eden land,
New Adams and new Eves !
From lite. j\ew York Herald.
SKETCH OF JOHN BROWN,
The Leader of the Harper'* Ferry
Insurrection.
Captain John Brown emigrated io
from Central New if oik in the fall of 1855 !
and settled in tie towEship of Ossawattomie. j
lie was accompanied by seven sons, tbe young- i
est beiog old enough to caru bis livelihood.— ,
The birthplace of Brown is not positively i
known to the writer, but report has it that he
was born in Kentucky*. At ibis time he is
about sixty years of age. lie is about medium
height, slim, muscular, aud possessing an iron
constitution. 11c his Hue eyes, sharp fea
tures, and long gray hair weariug a full heard.
In December, 1855, during the "Shannon
war," Brown first made Lis appearance among
tli? free-State men at Lawrence. His entrance
into the place at ouee attracted the attention
the people towards him. He brought a
wagen load of cavalry sabres, and was aecom
t anied by twelve men, seven of wbom were bis
own sons. He Srst exhibited his qualities at
tb< time the free-State aud pro-slavery parties
ender tLc lead of Governor Robinson on one
eid, and Gov. Shannon on the other, met to
make a treaty of peace. After Gov. Robin
son had seated to tLe people who were gather
ed around the hotel tLe terms of the peace,
Brown took tbe stand uniuvited, and opposed
tbe terms of tbe treaty. He was in favor of
ignoring all treaties, and such leading men aa
Robinson, Lane, and Lowry, and proceeding at
once against the border-ruffian invaders, drive
them from the soil, or liaug them if them if
taken. General Lowry, who was chairman of
the Committee of Safety, and also commander
of the free-State troops, ordered Brown uudcr
arrest. Tbe latter made no physical resistance,
hut it was soon discovered that he was alto
gether too eou.'lufltiblc a person to retain as a
prisoner, and a compromise was made with him
by the free-State men, aud he was released.—
He was informed by the leaders of that party
that bis remarks were intended to undo what
they were trying to accomplish by means of the
treaty : that be was it stranger in Lawrence
•and Kansas, and ought not, by bis rash re
marks, to compromise the people of Lawrence
until he had koown them longer and knew them
Letter.
One of his sons, who was elected to the
Legislature in February, 1856, was seized and
taken from Ossawattomie to Lecompton in
ebains, a distance of thirty miles, ills fret
and hands were chained together with a laige
heavy chain, the size of that used upon ox
team*. He was compelled to walk the whole
distance beneath a burning sun. The irons
wore the flesh from his ancles : he was attack
ed with tbe brain fever, was neglected, and died
iu two oi three days. He was the companion
>f Governor Robinson, Jenkins, (since shot by
Lane , and some eight or ten others. Another
son of Oapt. Brown was shot at Ossawattomie
by a marauding party from Missouri. After
the death of his first son, occasioned by the
tortures ami fatigue of bis forced march.—
Brown swore leugeanee upon the pro-slavery
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party, and it was frequently observed by the
more prudent of the free-State men that he was
evidently insane on the subject. He was al
ways considered by them a dangerous man,
was uever taken into their councils, and never
consulted by thbm with reference either to their
policy or movements.
The destruction of the free-State Hotel and
presses at Lawrence, in May, 1856, incited him
anew to action, and he organized a small com
pany, composed chiefly of nten who had been
robbed, or whose relatives had been murdered
by the pro-slavery party, and at the bead of
this band, armed with Sharpe's rifles, bowie
knives, and Colt's revolvers, he scoured South
ern Kansas, aDd the name of "Old Brown" be
came a terror to ull who opposed bis will in
that region. While he was thus marauding,
five pro-slavery men were taken from their
cabius at Pottawattooiie creek, in the night
timo, and shot dead. The pro-slaTcry party
charged old Brown, while the free-State party
asserted that they could prove Tim in Lawrence,
forty miles distant, when it happened, and that
the horrid deed was perpetrated by "Buford's
Georgian Ruffians," supposiug that the victims
were free-State men.
The news of this massacre reached West
port, Missouri, the place of rendezvous of the
''border ruffians," the same eveuing that the
Kansas Commission sent out by the U. States
House of Representatives arrived at that place.
The excitement was intense, and was induced
almost as much by the appearance of the Com
mission, as by the news of the mass-sere. The
"mffians" swore vengeance upon the members
and officers of the Commission, declaring that
their Hood should recompense for the slaughter
at Pottawuttouii6 creek, and but for the inter
cession of Mr. Oliver, the pro-slavery member
of the Commission, and others, it was believed
tint the Commission would have been at. ]
tacked. It was at this time that the notorious !
11. Clay Pate organized a band of men iu the
streets of Westport, Mo., with -fire a-rcmed
purpose of entering tbe Territory and capturing
"Old Brown." Ho raised about thirty men,
and went iuto the Territory at twilight ono
evening, and was surprised at sunrise the next
morning by "Old Brown," who was in com
mand of nine men, armed as stated above.—
| Pate sent a flag of truce to Brown, who ad
vanced some rods iu front of his company, and
! ordered the flag-bearer to remain with him,
and sent one of his own men to inform Pate to
! come himself. Pate obeyed, when Brown or
dered him to lay down hi* arms. Pate refused
; to give the order to his men, when Brown,
! drawing a revolver, informed him that be must
give the order, or be shot on the spot. Pate
i immediately surrendered up himself aud men,
aud they were disarmed and marched into a
ravine near by, aud kept until liberated aud
sent back to Missouri, by Col. Sumner, a few
i days subsequently, who also ordered "Old
' Brown" to disbaud and go Lome. The latter
agreed to do so, if the Colouel would also
agree to protect the settlers iu that region of
tbe Territory. This was tbe celebrated "Bat
tle of Black-Jack Puint,"made famous by tbe
"H. C. P." Kansas correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican, who was the heroic commau
der of the surrendering party. Captain Brown
was not much heard from again until the no
torious Capt. Hamilton mado his incursions
into Southern Kansas from Missouri in 1858,
when uC raided another company, and, with
Capt. Montgomery, drove Hamilton and his
companions back to Missouri, and marching
his men into that State, lock possession of one
of the villages, shot one or two ni£D> liber
ated several slaves. This course of BroJVQ ~va®
repudiated by Governor Robinson, and tb>
leaders of the free-State party, in and outof
Kansas, which caused Brown to publish a-et
ter explaining his position, in which he assisted
the entire responsibility of his acts, and-'liov
ed the free-State men from any sharetherein.
This letter was called the "Two Paralels," ou
account of the peculiar distinction ude by the
writer.
Captain Browo is a very strong believer iu
the doctrines of the PresbyterUjChurch. He
is fanatical on the subject of aiti-slavery, and
scents to have the idea that w specially de
puted by the Almighty tQii^ €ra,e slaves and
kill slaveholders. It wa ,a^wa y a conceded to
him that he was console*' 008 mau ' vec y nod® B *
in his demeanor, apps" ent ly inoffensive until
the subject ef slaver wa s introduced, wheu he
would exhibit a fee*Jg of indiguation unparal
leled. After mrters subsided iu Kansas,
Brown intimated to some of bis anti-slavery
friends that he- bnteaj p' a ted organizing an in
surrection am a g 8t 'bo slaves in Kentuoky and
Tennessee, act becoming known to some
of tbe leacPg anti-slavery men of the coun
try, they #f° Be> i bitu meaus with which to go
on, and *soouraged his proposed undertaking.
He g p t > a portion of tbe last summer in visit-
j r „ (jiiVrent Northern cities, and was-endered
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1859.
sums of money, with the understanding that he j
wished to secure a little farm upon which to
settle in his old age. It is supposed that he
employed the money thus obtained to hire the
farm near Harper's Ferry, which he used as a
rendezvous for the insurrectionists.
Tlie Harper'* Ferry Tragedy-
The late tragedy at Harpei's Ferry has cal
led forth universal comment from the public
press. As yet we have not seen a single jour
nal containing a syllable in excuse or justifi
cation of even the motives of the misguided
men whose aots have sent a thrill of horror
through the laud. The wild iasauity of the
attempt proves of itself the total loss of the
lust ray of reason on the part of the immedi
ate actors. Madness, utter madness, could uo
further go.
No event could teach more significantly, or
more eloquently, the wisdom of that govern
mental policy to which the Republican party
has been committed from the very day of its
first inauguration. The doctrines preached by
its founders were the same conservative prin*
ciples which, from the formation of the Consti
tution down to 1854, the era of the infamous
Kansas Nebraska bill, had met the approval of
all parties. The cardinal idea that legisla
tion for the territories should belong of right
to CoDgress, as the Constitution expressly pro
vides, was the favorite doctrirfe of Henry Clay
and the Whig party. This idea fell by right
of succession to the conservative Opposition of
the country. Had the firebrand of squatter
sovereignty never been flung into Congress by
Mr. Douglas—had the unwearying extrtions
of the Opposition to keep the Missouri Com
promise intact been successful, the Pandora's
box of evils which lay concealed in the spe
cious provisions of the Kansas Nebraska act
would never have cTrsed the country. But
tho insane movers in that scheme of wrong
would listen to uo utterance of Reason or of
yttgtir. " Tbey were hltnd to every idea save
that of selfish aggrandizement and temporary
triumph. .Not one who moved in it, not Ste
phen A. Douglas himself, the contriver-in
chief, at this day, with the fearful experience
since, would do the same deed ovet again.
The dragon's teeth were first sown iD Kan
sas. Peace, that was to hover like a protect
ing angel over that fair and sunny garden spot,
folded her wings in dismay. Discord, and her
dark and damning brood, entered tho devoted
State, and scenes that shocked humanity star*
tied the land into indignant detestation.—
Peaceable men from the North, unoffending
citizens, who on their arrival in Kansas were
hooted at by the Missouri ruffians, as a race of
impotent cowards, found their homes invaded
by the knife of tho assassin, their wives and
children outraged, their dwellings lit by the
torch of the incendiary. These were the first
fruits of the great peace measure of 1854, of
fered to the expectant country as a sovereign
panacoa, by Senator Douglas. Those peaceful
emigrants, who had exiled themselves from the
i land of their early association?, were madden
■ed to revenge. The Missouri borderers had
: taught them, b/ a lesson of blood and fire, the
catechism of warfare. They were, in self-de
! fence, obliged to protect their firesides, or else
I consent to sacrifice all they bad come to se
■ cure—namely, a peaceful restmg-placc upoD
I the common territory of the nation.
Thf cataloguo of wrongs tho poeple of Kan
| sas re called on to cod, has never all been
I ioU- Those who suffered in person, iu the
sfEctity of their homes, became, liko Brown of
' Jsawatouiie, frenzied with the scenes of dia-
I bolical horror through which they had passed.
Reason fled her throne, and the idea of resist
ance to tiro supposed cause of all the tumult
and outrage became a religious fauaticism. —
The idea of constitutional barriers never more
had pluoe in such brains, and blood
shed and civil war became to such distracted
minds as things of right. The affau blar
par's Ferry, insane, utterly inexcusable as iv w ,
may well be credited as the legitimate conse
quence of the false policy invoked by the au
thors and contrivers of the Nebraska bill.
It is oven higher madness, more absurd and
glaring folly to charge such a terrible outbreak
upon any party of roasooable men. All par
ties alike condemn it, and the Republican par
ty, above all others, is committed point blaDk
against the policy that could breed such ex
cesses. We seek to make no war upon the
South, or its rights. We beiievo only iu work
ing under and through the Federal Constitu
tion. Through legal means, and only legal
means, can any social errors in the political
fabrio be corrected. As proclaimed by the
leaders of the party in the oauvass of 1856,
we have nothing whatever to do with slavery
in the States. To the people of the Southern
States alone belongs the settlement of thia so
cial evil within their own borders. This uoc
triae the Republican patty has always undevi
atingly maintained, and will maintain it to the
end. Our only aim is to keep all the Territo
ries free from the evil of slavery, free front a
system whose presence directly tends to the
and reahzation of a crop of bloody
tragedies like to this through which we have
passed. The attempt, therefore, on the part
Of the hireling journals of a corrupt Adminis
tration, to charge this objectless, insane out
break upon the Opposition party, will only re
foil upon the infamous movers. The country .
(tan easily see through the flimsy sophistry,
wfid punish the malevolent suggesters of the
t&ooght.— Slate Journal.
| ANECDOTE OF WASHINGTON.
.In 1754 he was stationed at Alexandria
with bis regiment, the only one in the Colony
Of which he was tho colonel. There happen
ed at that time to be an election in Alexan
dria for members of tie Assembly, and the bal
lot ran high between Col. George Fairfax and
Mr. Win. Elgey, Washington was on the side
of Fairfax, and Mr. Win. Payne headed the
friends of Elgoy. In the course of the con
test Washington grew very warm, (for his pas
sions .uaturally wero very powerful, though a
wise regard to duty, t. honor and happiness,
soon reduced them to proper command,) and
uoluckily, said something to Mr. Payne, who
though but a cub in size, wag a lion iu heart,
elevated his shiilelah, and, at a blow, extended
our hero on the ground. News was soon car
tied to the regiment that their colonel was
murdered by a mob! On the passions of tho
soldiers, who doated upon thoir ooiuminder,
such a report fell at once like a flash of light
ning on a magazine of powder. IQ a moment
the whole regiment was under arms, and in ra
pid motion towards the town, burning for ven
geance. During this time Washington had
been liberally plied with cold water, acids, aud
vtdatilt'S, aud happily for Mr. Payuo and his
party, was so far recovered as to go out and
meet his enraged soldiers, who crowded round
him with fa es of honest joy to sea hino alive
After thanking theiu for such an evi
dence of their attaobuieut to him, he assured
theui that he was not hurt in the least, and
begged them, by dUetTY ?e of hint and of their
duty, TO return peaceably to thvW barrtoiCß
As for himself, ho want to hi* ream, generously
chastising his passion, which had just struck
but a spark, that would like to htve thrown
' the whole town in a flame; and feeling hiiuseif
! the aggressor of Mr. Payne, he resolved to
; make him the honorable reparation of askiug
j his pardon. No sooner had he made this ba
, roic resolution, thau, recovering that delicious
! gaycty which ever accompanies good purposes
.in a virtuous mind, be went to a ball that
uight, and behaved as pleasantly as though no
thing had happeued. Early next morning, he
; wrote a polite note of iuvitation to Mr. Payne,
;to meet him at the inn. Payne took it for a
i challenge, and repaired to the inn iu full ex
pectation of smelling gunpowder. Put what
j was bis surprise, on entering tho chamber, to
! sec, in lieu of a brace of pistols, a decanter of
| wine and a couple of glasses on the table.—
Washington rose to meet him, and offering his
: hand, with a smile, began: "Mr. Payne, to err
lis sometimo nature, to rectify error is always
! glory. 1 believe I was wrong in the affair of
yesterday. You have had, 1 thiux, some sat
isfaction, and if you deem that sufficient, there
is my hand; let us be friends."
An act of such sublime virtue produced its
proper effect upon tho niiud of Mr. Payne,
who, from that moment, became the most en
thusiastic admirer aud friend of Wasbiogtou,
and for his sake ready at any timo to charge up
to a battery of forty-two pouuders. "If our
youth," says the narrator, "would be persua
ded to act in a stjle so correct and beroioal,
our newspapers would no longer shock us with
acoouuts of elegant youog men murdering
each other on false principles of honor—by one
desperato deed depriving themselves of all
present pleasures, aud of all future hopes.
Recollections of the American Revolution.
AN AMERICAN AIEETS THE EMPEROR
OF BRAZIL.
The Knickerbocker tells the following good
story of an interview of au American with the
Emperor of Brazil:
I was suddenly aioused by a hearty voice
addressing uie in French * 4 You have rather
an obstinato mulo there." I looked up. In
frout of me was a youog man in a cocked hat
and dark undress uniform, mounted upon some
animal, which, from my then confused condi
tion, 1 cannot uow feel sure of the naturo of.
Some of the lancers had passed IUO; others wero
endeavoring to force the narrow passage on one
,idfl W'i.-M I replied to this remark, or wheth
er! replied at Ml, I not "Use your
spurs," said the same voice, and then, as if
suddenly aware-of my destitni? predicament,
it added, "Well, try a lance." An o(der was
given to one of the soldiers at my side, WIJP
dropped his lance to the position of a charge,
and obeyed at once. At the application of the
cold steel, my mule made a bound—the coun
terpart of his acrobatic performance on the way
up. I remember striking heavily against some-
it may have been the Empsior, or only
one of the guards. I heard loud laughs and
shouts and screams. I have a dim perception
of seeing womcu, baggage and many mules.
Something was overturned, and then all be
came dark before my eyes.. How long I re
mained uuconscious, I eauuot tell probably
not more than a few minutes. On opening my
eyes. I found myself upon the ground, tuy
shoulders supported by one of tho soldiers,
while a second was sopping my head with a
handkerchief wet witboold water. My clothes
were muddy, and torn in several places. Iu
■ the middle of the path, as tfhconcerned as if
nothing had happened, or, as I thought, with a
diabolical leer in bis eye, stpod the cause of mv
wretched troubles. At my side, surrounded
by several ladies, and officers in uoiform, was
the same persou who had addressed me before
the accident. As I looked around and made
attempts to rise, be said: "Ah, you feel much
better; it was uot much after all." Whatever
I may have thought, I coincided in the opinion
by replying, "A mere trifle." "Monsieur is
English?" he asked. "Xon, Monsieur, Amer
ican." "Where are you going?" "To Rio,
Monsieur." "Alone?" "No, Monsieur, I
have some friends somewhere about hare."—
"Ah, yes, I met tbarn a few minutes ago, on the
other side of the mountain; Baron was
with them. Well, take care of yourself, for
there are places on the way down where a fall
will not be as pleasant as here. Adieu."—
With these parting words, and a hearty laugh,
tha Emperor, for he it was, mounted, and in a
few seoouds the cavalcade was bidden from my
sight by a turn in the pathway.
A GHOST STORY.
Mr. Hector McDonald, of Canada, was re
cently on a visit to Boston. When he left
home his family were enjoying good health, and
he anticipated a pleasant journey. The second
morning after bis arrival in Boston, when leav
ing bis bed to dress for beakt'ast, he saw re
flected in a mirror the corpse of a woman lying
OD the bed from which he bad just risen. Spell
bound, he gazed with intense feeling, and tried
to recognise the features of the corpse, but in
vaiu ; be could not eveu move his eyelids ; for
how long he knew not. He was at last startled
by the ringing of the bell for breakfast, and
sprang to the bed to satisfy himself if what he
had seen reflected in lira mirror was real or an
illusion. He found the bed as he bad loft ii;
he looked again into the mirror but saw only
the bed truly reflected. During the day he
thought much upon the illusion, and determined
uext morniDg to rub his eyes and feel perfectly
sure that he was wide awake before he left his
bed. But notwithstanding these precautions,
the vision was repeated with this addition, that
he thought he recoguized in the corpse some re
semblance to tha features of his wife.
In the course of the second day he received
a letter from bis wife, iu which she stated that
slit* was quite well, and hoped he was enjoying
himself aiming bt- trioode. As he wjsdevoat
edly attached to her, and always anxious for
her safety, he supposed that his tuorbid fears
bad coojurod up the vision he had seen reflected
iu the glass, and *ent about his business.—
On the morning of the third day, after be
had dressed, he found himself in thought in
his own house, leaning over the ooffio of his
wife. His tricuds were asseinbltd, the minister
was performing the funeral servioes, his children
wept— he was iu the house of death. He fol
lowed the corpse to the grave ; he heard the
earth rumble upon the coffin, he saw the grave
filled, and the green sods covered over it, yet,
by some strange power he oouldsee through the
ground the entire form of his wife as she lay in
her coffic.
ile looked in the faces of these around him,
but no one seemed to notice him , he tried to
weep, but tbe tejrs refused to fiow\; his very
heart felt as hard as & rock. Enraged at his
own want of feeling, he determiued to throw
himself upon the grave and lie tnete until his
heart should break, wheu he was recalled to
consciousness by a friend who entered the room
to inform him that breakfast was ready. He
started as if awoke from a profound sleep,
though he was standiug before the mirror with
a hair brush in his band.
After composing himself, he related to his
friend what he had seen, and both concluded
that a good breakfast only was wanting to dis
sipate his unpleasant impression. A few days
afterwards, however, he received tho melan
choly intelligence that his wife had died sud
denly, and the (he time corresponded with the
day tie bad been startled by the first vision in
the mirror. When he returned home he de
scribed miuutely all the details of the funeral
be had seen in bis vision, and they correspond
ed with the facts. This isprobabiy one of the
most vivid instances of clairvoyance on record.
Mr. McDonaid knows Dothing of modern spir
itulism or clairvoyance, as most of his life has
been speut upon a farm among forests. It
may not be amiss to state that his father, who
WHS a Scotch Highlander, bad the power of
"Becoud sight."— Boston Traveler.
PADDY AND THE TCRTLE. —In New York
a man was oarrying a live turtle along the
street, when an Irishman came along, followed
by a large dog. The countryman tried by gen
tle words to get the son of Emerald to put his
finger into the turtle's mouth, but he was too
smart for that.
'But,' says he, 'l'll put my dog's tail in, and
see what the baste will do.'
He immediately oalled up bis dog, and ta
king his tail in bis band, stuek it in the tur
tle's uiouth. He had scatoely got it in when
Mr. Turtle shut down OD the poor dog's tail,
and off the latter starto i at railroad speed,
puliiii o " the turH o a(?ter bim at a more rapid
rate than e?r it traveled before. The coun
tryman, thinking that his day's work would be
thrown away if the should run at that
rate, turned with a savage look upon the Irish
man and exolaiined:
•Call back your dog.'
Paddy put his hands into his pockets, threw
his bead to one side, and then answered, with
a provoking sung froid:
'Call back your fish!'
The other day, Mrs. Snipkins being unwell,
sent for a medical ruan, and declared that she
was poisoned, and that Mr. Soipkins did it.—
"I didn't do it," shouted Suipkins. "It's all
gammon ; she isn't poisoned. Prove it, doctor
—open her OD the spot-r—l'm willing." ■ -
VOL. 32, NO. 4-5.
Tbaubsgiring in Pne<iylrania.
PENNSYLVANIA. SS:
[L. H ] ID the name and*by the authority of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM P. PACKER,
GOVERNOR OF THE BAID COMMONWEALTH.
PROCLAMATION.
FELLOW CITIZENS :—The blessings vouch
safed by a kind Providence through the past
year, demand our grateful recognition and
agaiu cal! for the sacrifice of Thanksgiving
and praise. Under the protection of a Gov
ernment that secures to all equal rights, we
have pursued, unmolested, the various avoca
tions of life, with more than usual prosperity,
fhe earth, under the labors of the husband
man, has yielded her increase, aud our barns
and store-houses are crowded with the fruits oh
the harvest. Wo have not only been preserve!
from the ravages of the pestilence, but edf
past has been a year distinguished for bealht
iu our large cities aud throughout all our rural
districts. Oar country has been preserved in
peace. Our homes have been the abodes of
tranquility, and blessings innumerable have
clustered around our domestic hearths. Oar
Various schools and seminaries of learning arc
diffusing throughout our community a tfgfeer
intelligence, and imparting to our youth noWe>
aspirations. The institutions of our holy re v
ligion are well sustained : and under its pore
and geuial influence, the spirit of unity aud
love, the earnest of yet better days, is most
happily developed. To God, the Great aud
the good, wa are indebted for all, and to Him
let praise be rendered.
With these sentiments, and in accordance
with the knowD wishes of many of my fellow
citizens, I, WM. F. PACKER, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby
appoint
THURSDAY, THE 24TH DAY OF NOV. NEXT,
as a day of general Thanksgiving and paise to
Almighty God, and recommend to all our peo
ple to lay aside, on that day, their customary
worldly business—assemble in their respective
places of worship, and unite iu praising God
for His excellent greatness toward üB-beseech
it-g Liis gracious goodness.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State, Harrisbnrg, this fourteenth day of
October, A. D. 1859, and of the Common
wealth the eighty-fourth.
WM. F. PACKER.
By the Governor :
WM. M. H JESTER,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
A QUEER ELOPEMENT—SIXTY AND
SEVENTEEN.
About a week since a fair young girl arrived
in this city from London, Canada West. She
eame on the Port Burwell packet, and took
rooms at a modest but comfortable hotel. Iler
wardrobe was rather scanty, but she had plen
ty of money, and calling to her aid several
milliners and dress makers, she soon dashed
out in gay and attractive style. She register
ed her name as Sarah May, London, C. W.—
destination West. She told the landlord she
expected her uncle at the end of the week, and
on Saturday morning he ai rived. lie was an
active affable geuileuntu, well dressed and airy,
but gray as a rat, and evidently sixty years old
at least. 110 paid his niece's bill, and the pair
purposed leaving OD the 5 50 Columbus train.
But early iu the afternoon there arrived at the
hotel an uncouth old man in baggy trowsers, a
bed blanket ooat, a bat belonging to a previous
generation, aud with a slight Yorkshire accent.
This old man angrily confronted the other old
man and charged him with ruaarng away with
bis daughter, who was not and never had been
his, the other old man's nieoe. The other old
man, the Dew corner said, had a wife and eight
children at home, four of whom were grown up.
It also appeared from the injured father's story
that the ancient gray deceiver's name was M'Ma
kiu; that he had been a magistrate; that he was
a man of wealth, and had borne a spotless char
acter up to the time he induced the girl to inn
away with him, or rather before him. The
tirocPmagistrate hud a private interview with
the girl's father —we do not know what was said
or what peculiar influence was brought to bear
upon the injured father —but he returned to
London and the retired magistrate and the
young girl left on the 5.50 Columbus train.—
We get these facts from the landlord in whose
hotel the eccentrio drama was played. We have
no further particulars, but they apparently have
a queer way of doing some things over in Mrs.
Alberf's county.— Cleavebind Plaindealer.
UaoDEßicK's LASR WORDS.— In San Fran
oisco huge posters have been put up all over the
city containing the following as the dying words
of Broderick:
liRODERICK IS DEAD.
"They have killed me beoauso I was opposed
to the extension of Slavery and a corrupt Ad
ministration."
This is the testimony of a dying man, and
would be received as unimpeachable evidence
io a court of justice. It is sufficient to oonviot
every one of the conspirators of willful murder
of itself.
A correspondent from Northampton, Mass.,
is responsible for the following :—"A subscri
ber to a moral-reform paper, oalled at our post
office, the other day, and enquired if The
friend of Virtue bad come. "No," replied
the postmaster, "there has bceu u<> suoh per
son here for a long time."
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A roll bishop Hughes, who went to Wasbiug
tou to oonsecrate a ehurch, was invited by the
President to itake bis home in the White
House so loug as be may remain in the oapital.