THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, SLC,
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Wednesday, February 4, 11357,
f.rci • 3, - . )6llxiquents 1-4.Pai tip.
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tising and . job work, are requested to settle
their accounts at the earliest moment conve,
nient—at least between this time and the first
day of April, 18.57. This notice-is
particu
larly intended for those whose accounts have
been standing for two years and upwards.—
There are few, if any of these, who could not
pay their accounts at a moment's notice, with
out any difficulty; and we hope 'they will not
wait for another asking. 'We, as a general
thing, are not_in the habit of dunning, but
justice to others requires this to be .done.—
We pay cash regularly to, our operators, as
well as for type, paper, ink, and so on, and
cannot- . recognize as friends, those persons
who are-so negligent as to leave - their accounts
runfor.several years, when they are abun
dantly able to pay. 'We like to do business
in-a business way,' and hope to be - Seconded
by our friends.
Money Registered, can be sent by mail at
our risk.
ThE DEDicAnow.—The Methodist Episco
pal Church, in this borOugh, was dedicated
to the worship of God. on Sunday last. Bishop
WAron preach the dedicatory Sermon, and
was listened to by a large and deeply inter
ested congregation. Over three thousand
dollars were contributed and subscribed du
ring the morning and evening services—a
sum quite sufficient to liquidate the remain
ing demands against the building. The
church is a fine building, and is a credit to
the congregation, and an ornament to the
town.
THE Poon.—At this season of the year,
when every avenue is closed to many who, at
other seasons, can make some little provision
for those dependent upon them for support ;
when " chill penury" presses hard upon the
destitute ; when age and infancy are alike
unprotected, it is then that the fountain of
human sympathy should open and send forth
the sweet waters of comfort to .the starving
poor. Remember, 0, remember, ye favored
ones, whose coffers are filled with gold, whose
larders are furnished with plenty ; whose hab
itations are not only elegant but sumptuous,
whose hearts are made glad. with fat things,
that if you neglect . the poor, you incur a
curse. No one knows how much of abject
suffering may be in ourmidst until the miser
able victims of want and penury are hunted
up.
Senator Bigler
This gentleman, says an Exchange, is just
ly attracting a large share of attention thro'-
out the country. His great speech in defence
of the Administration and the right of the
people of Kansas to determine the question
of slavery for themselves, is everywhere cop
ied, in whole or in part, and its distinguished
author spoken of in the highest terms of com
mendation. Gov. Bigler, notwithstanding the
short time he has been in the Senate, has al
ready won for himself enduring fame as a
great national statesman, and exercises an
amount of influence second to no member of
that august and talented body. As a Penn
sylvanian we feel proud of the commendatory
notices which everywhere meets our eye.
Dei-The cold. weather, as usual, has had
the effect of rendering travel on railroads
dangerous by the snapping of rails. The
Lewistown Gazette says the down 'train on
Saturday a week broke a rail below Middle
town, and. although discovered by a family
residing. near, no notice was given, the con
sequence'of - which was that the up train was
partly thrown off the track and dawn an em
bankment some twenty feet high, smashing
an engine and several cars and setting them
on fire. In the last car the passengers were
thrown head downwards, and for a few mo
ments a fearful scene ensued, but were all
rescued without loss of life. A number were
injured, one dangerously, Henry Garman
from near Ephrata in Lancaster county, who
had both his legs broken and is not expected
to recciver. •
Death of Preston S. Brooks.
•
WASHINGTON, Jari. 27.—The Hon. Preston
S. Brooks, of South Carolina, died this even
ing at Brown's Hotel. He .has been in bed
for a day or two, suffering from the effects of
a severe cold. .He said to his friends this
evening that he had passed the crisis of his
illness, • and felt considerably improved in
health; but ten minutes afterwards he was
seized with violent cramp, and expired in in
tense pain.
FUNERAL OBSEQUIES Or ifON. P. S. BROOKS.
—We learn from Washington City, that on
Friday evening 30th, after a short recess, the
corpse was brought into the House, and in
the presence of the members of both branch
es of Congress, the President and Cabinet,
the Judges of the Supreme Court, Mr. Bu
chanan, and others, the Rev. Mr. Waldo,
Chaplain to the House, delivered a brief dis
course, (making no allusion to the deceased,)
from the words of the Savior to the thief on
the cross: "This day shalt thou be with me
in Paradise;" the object being to justify
Christ in making that declaration to the pen
itent, and to show the necessity of repentance.
The corpse was subsequently deposited in
the Cemetery.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM
THE WEST.
Le Claire tolonsklp,low A,
January 6, 1857.
Winter has set in like a Lion, and e
. we ar
all cooped up like chickens. The weather-is
extremely cold, and the winds piercing—it is
not in the power of any living man to face
the wind.for a mile, without freezing his face
and nose, and ten chances to one, if he does
not:freeze. It is a 'dangerous, superlatively
a dangerous undertaking, for a man to un
dertake to go ten miles over the Prairies. He
may reach his place of destination, but more
likely he will reach that place from which a.
traveller never returns. You may think, six,
tam exaggerating, but I have no reason to
do so. 'I have prospered as well as most of
those who came along with ine ; tell
you, as a friend, it is not the country it is
represented to be,—far. from it. 'lt •is one
thousandth per cent. below it. Do not be
captivated and carried out of your sense by
the lying tales sowed broad-cast by (the arch
fiends of, the black-regions of despair,) spec
ulators. The climate is bad, yes, worse than
I have made it. You would not believe me,
if I was to tell yott the hundredth part that
should be told., •Mrall— has bought, as he
stated .to youhl his last letter, one himdied
and twenty acres of Prairie Land, for thirty
five dollars' per acre, and ten acres Of Timber,
for thirty' dollars per acre,- nevertheless; he
intends returning to, your . place again next
fall, as - well as Tian. humble servant. He
bought with the 'intention of making eome
thing in the sale; which I think he will. - All
that came'from Huntingdon,- are talking of
going back, or seeking a better climate
where else. The. old settlers are beginning
to murmur. You spoke Of coming out here
to buy land
,—friend, speculation in land; at
the present, is a• 'very &Macrons operation.
The Land Offices were closed' last June; and
will not be opened before the Railroad has
selected their lands, and that may not b,e be
fore another year, so that all the speculation
at present, is second handed, and very little
doing at that. I would say, as a friend to
you, not to risk your money at this time.—
Land is on the fall—people know it here, and
take the advantage of strangers.. If I am
spared to see you, I will tell you as well as I
can, about the chicanery of this western
country. lam teaching school on the Prai
rie. Yes, sir, lam teaching a Prairie school,
and have prairie boys and girls, too—they
look as fierce and majestic -as young lions;
they shut me out, and seemed as ferocious as
tigers, and howled like old lions, but as usu
al, I succeeded in caging them, and at pres
ent, have gotten them tolerably docile; nev
ertheless, they sometimes manifest the Elk
disposition. I sold out in Toledo, last Au
gust, and came here; I got tired living among
the Indians, and seeing war dances and hear
ing the war-whoop; I travelled over some ten
or twelve counties,. which I think will com
pare favorably with the rest of the State, and
I am fully convinced by personal observation
and practical emperienco, that lowa is, was,
and has been overrated, not only in one par
ticular, but in all, and most grossly'too.
feel no hesitation in saying that the time will
come, when lowa will be dispeopled, except
the river towns, on account of the climate.—
The advantages and facilities, compared with
Pennsylvania, or any of the middle States,
are few and far between. All that lowa can
boast of, is her Prairie Land and rich soil,
and even that is overrated one hundred per
cent. You soon become tired looking at a dead
monotony of prairie. The winds that sweep
over them,- are so cold, that both man and
beast perish, when exposed to them. If this
is such a goodly land as speculators make it,
why do they not make it their homes? They
know it is not, and therefore, they live in the
East, knowing it to be the better place; but
they induce the poorer portion of the middle
States to come here, for the sole purpose of
making a few dollars off them, and making
them miserable for the balance of their lives.
Now people that are base enough to do this,
are not too good to take the life of a man,
when circumstances would. warrant the act.
I have said that the Land Offices were shut
in this State, so they are, all along the con
templated Railroads. There are Offices open
in the north western part of the State, where
nobody lives and nobody wants to live. Such
then, is the situation of things in this part of
the country. Mr. P-- and family and self,
will be back again next fall; another winter
on the Prairie, would freeze every drop of
blood in our systems, so we will, if spared,
return whilst we have a gill to keep us alive.
Believe nothing you hear about the west.—
Friend P—it takes ten times the exertion
to make one dollar here, it does with you, so
it is all gammon about making money here
by hogshead. The Legislature of this State
have passed a law, allowing the negroes to
come into this State, and have granted them
the right of suffrage, and placed them upon
an equality with the white freemen of our
land. This law alone, will forever seal the
doom of lowa—her decline may be dated
from the passage of the law, unleds they re
peal it this Session. Speculation is forever
on the decline. This will be a greater slave
State than any of the Southern ones—they
will flock here by the thousands, and when
here, they will be so poor that they will have
to work for whatever they can get, and this
is the object they have in view. They will
be ten fold worse off than if they were the
slaves of some Southern nabob. I wish they
may have their healths until they repeal - it.
God speed my flight from such aland. as this,
and may I never meet with such hollow heart
ed people and immoral reprobates. ' The bet=
ter churches, school houses, and mammoth
stores, which you heard about,' are not in
this part of the country. The. gentleman
who told you about them, must have seen
twice. -at once. Destroy Davenport, and the
expiring groans• of lowa would reach' you.—
The' more you hear any person, place or thing,
praised; the more reason you have to suspect
the genuineness of the tale—a man never
praises what he has - for sale here, he appears
very indifferent about it, so that both modes
are pretty nearly run down.
Yours respectfully,
R. T.
PROSPERITY OP IRELAND.—The London
Times, of a late date, remarks as follows :
" The time-honored phrase of poor old
Ireland' may be considered as representing
something which has now ceased to exist.—
On this Ist of January, at the commencement
of a new year, we may venture to predict
that 'rich young Ireland' will soon become
the more appropriate denomination. On all
sides we hear of increasing agriculture, de
creasing poor rater, cessation of political agi
tation, good feeling between landlord and
tenant, and other unmistakable evidence of
rising prosperity."
From the Evening Argue.
SAM!
Alas, poor Sanal He-is dead and buried.
Eut 'We remember him in the day of his vi
Although his existence was but short,
he made a great noise in' the world.' - -
swallowed`up all that remained of the Whig
party after the lamented Clay and Webster
had gone to their account; and it must not
be denied that he frightened some of our Dem
ocratic brethren most terribly. We -do not
I think the heart of the Democracy ever palpi
tated so painfully before. And no wonder.
East and West,'North and South, Baia play ,
ed the part of a conqueror. The prestige of
invincibility preceded him,, and the most as
tonishing victories were everywhere• Strewn
in his path, Mysterious and invisible,'who
could Withstand him? • . •
;Fortunately it is more diffienkto bear pros
perity than adversity. The founders of 'this
wonderful party were, it is true, merely men
of straw—'-being deficient in intelleetual stam
ina,- in prudence, in discretion. Like the
parvenu cod-fish aristocracy, thercould not
keep their own counsel; but must divulge the
trieks• and deceptionS by • which their -Success
had been, achieved. A • beef-pated cockney
gro'cvn suddenly rich, - delights to expatiate
on the adroitness with which he circumvented
his. victims.. And Sam could not keep his
own.secret, after he had carried cities, Con
gressional Districts, Legislatures and States.
He became altogether too confident. Noth
ing, he supposed, could arrest his progress to
the Presidency. And almost everybody be
lieved the Same thing, The panic even spread
across the broad ocean, and immigrationwas
checked. Thousands of Irishmen and• Ger
mans remained in their native potato patches
and vineyards, who had made up their minds
to work upon the American railroads, or bake
bread for us in our cities and villages. It
was thus his opponents made a premature
surrender, and Sam himself exulted too rash
ly.
The citadel of the Democracy, however,
still held out. But the time had been_ ap
pointed to storm it. In the old mother of
States, in the land of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and Patrick Henry, the crowning
triumph was to seal Sam's omnipotence. It
was in the pleasant month of May. No oth
er election was ongw tapis. The Argus eyes
of the thirty-one States were fixed upon de
voted. Virginia, to witness Sam's final achieve
ment.. All his orators were sent thither.-- , --
The artillery of 'rig:press all over the Union
opened a concentric fire on the last strcng
hold of • Democracy.
But the , Democratic champion who bad
been selected. to wage the desperate war
against the hitherto victorious legion of Sam,
was, himself, endued with an inherent pres
tige of invincibility. Never, throughouthis
political career, had he retired from any field
of contest but as a victor. Alone he entered
the lists, his eagle eye only the brighter foi
the incalculable odds against him. His lion
heart was insensible to the trepidations of
his friends, who witnessed the appalling
spectacle. lie knew that enduring laurels
were to be won in times of difficulty and dan
ger; and, scorning to await the onset, be
boldly charged upon the foe, "with helmet
down and lance in rest," and the result has
become a portion of our political history.
Sam was pierced through at Mason and
Dixon's line. All of him south of that boun
dary fell, paralyzed, to the earth; and after
a few spasmodic convulsions expired forever.
Then his northern extremities were seized
upon by the most infamous crew that ever
disgraced humanity, and were galvanized into
a semblance of animation. But that base
use, that vile association, was the final des
truction of Sam, here and hereafter. His
vertebre had been dislocated in Virginia, but
his soul was to be damned in New England
and. New York. The infamous act was con
summated. on the night preceding the Presi"
dential election, when Kenneth .Rayner read
the following despatch from Millard Fillmore:
"Success would justify my friends in for Ming
a union (with the Fremont Black Republi
cans) to defeat Buchanan." This perfidy
was net known in Maryland until after the
election. • ' .
Alas, poor Sam If he had not exacted
more than a reasonable probation from for
eigners; if he had not proscribed them from
office, nor persecuted them for their,religion,
how different might have been his fate I A
certain term of residence, opexAM only in"
the future, would not have - affected - 44th citi
zen of foreign birth then in ; the. Couniir.:-
the party might have been a nation . -14 -
But the temptation to incite ProteCcant de
, -nominations :against the , Rothan hierarchy,
I,g •-•
;was too 'strong for resistance.' Ilis education
waS•gadly defective, or he would have known
that-"ilie blood of the martyrs is the seed of
the alipreh,".,and that the puritan sects were
as capable of practising proscription and in
tolerance, as any other specimens of corrupt
humanity. The Independents and Presbyte
rians, in the middle of the sixteenth century,
afforded an indelible example to Europe; and
the Ward Beechen . and Theodore Parkers in
our own country, have desecrated the holy
altars, turning their churches into dens of
thieves, arsenals for murderers, and brothels
for hoary adulterers.
But the ratsbanc of. Sam, and that which
contributed most powerfully to his final disso
lution, was his embrace of Abolitionism:—
That ingredient is certain death to any party.
It is war on the Constitution—a battering
ram' aimed at the Keystone of the Federal
Arch, and of course every patriotic citizen
"will stand from under." In civil wars, all
moral and legal restraints are annihilated.—
Trade, commerce, improyenient, are destroy
ed.. The Banks, and all, moneyed institu
tions, become the common, objects,4*plun
der; and rich men are indisciirairtatelrand
remorselessly pursued and pluBked by all
parties and factions.
There is but one course left for the honest .
followers of Sam, - who cannot stomach the
arsenic of Abolitionism, and would see the
Union preserved and the people prosperous.
It is to, come' into; the Democratic party. The
door is thrOW`n . - wide open, extending from
the Atlantic to The - Pacific. The Blairs and
Bentons who used to' shut it so rudely in our
faces have been expelled forever. ,
A CURE, Eon SCARLET FEVER.--.A. corres
pondent. of the New York Post says . the fol_
lowing is a very simple and efficacious reme
dy for the terrible soreness and ulceration of
the mouth and throat in aggravated cases of
scarlet fever :
• " Take equal 'quantities of honey and
sweet oil, both should be pure-L-say.One table
spoonful of each, or one tea-Spoonful; heat
on a sheet of glazed letter paper °vet-a:spirit
or fluid lamp, and give, the
. patient, at -fre
quent Intervale, :1- - Small , quantitY, as •cold as
It can be taken. It can do no harm, and
has in some cases,• where; the collection of
mucus in the throat and mouth almost pro
duCed suffocation; saved the patient's life."
Pnn RIGHT SPIRIT.—The New Orleans 'Cre
ole, an ardent opponent . of the Democracy in
the recent canvass, hopefully and patriotically
looks forward to auspicious results from the
decision of the election. Does it not become
good and conservative men, of all parties, to
imitate the sound and proper spirit of the
following editorial remarks of the Creole?
On the 4th of March next, Mr Buchanan is
to he inaugurated. We shall be heartily glad
if the administration of that gentleman turns
out to be all that his warmest friends and
advocates claim for it in advance. We are
quite sure, that our opposition to Mr: Bu
chanan, and the Celto Teutonic Democracy
Which aided in his elevation to the Chief Ma
gistracy, will not so dim our visions as to
prevent our seeing and appreciating that wise
and sagacious statesmanship which is calcu
lated to bring peace and prosperity to the
nation. If he can reconcile the discordant
elements, and restore harmony and fraternal
good will, we shall be truly gratified.
We regard the signs of the times as auspi
cious. We do not belong to that class of
croakers who are incessantly predicting the
speedy-downfall of the American Union. The
nation has just passed through a terrible or
deal. The Old World . wiitched with the eyes
of Argus the Republican travail of the New.
Self-government was on trial before a packed
jury of European despots, and self-govern
ment has nobly and triumphantly vindicated
itself.
PREACHING 'AND LEGISLATING.—When so
many clergymen are yielding to the tempta
tion held out to them to enter political life,
an incident told of Dr. Plumer, by the .Pres
byterian Herald, has its moral.
It is related that a, committee of the domi
nant party , in the Legislature of Virginia
waited upon Dr. Plumer, then resident in
Richmond, and pastor of one of its churches;
but now professor in the Western Theological
Seminary, and inquired, whether he would
consent to become their candidate for the U.
States Senate, assuring him that he could be
very easily, elected if he would permit his
name to be used by the party. The Doctor,
after thanking them for the honor intended
to be conferred upon him, said to them in his
oracular style: "Gentlemen, I believe you
are in the habit, when you give up one office
to seek onother, of aiming to go up higher,
are you not ?" They replied in the affirma
tive. "'Well, then," said he, "itis a high
honor, and a very honorable office, to repre
sent the State of Virginia in the United States
Senate, but it is a much higher one to be an
Ambassador of Christ to dying sinners, and
I can't come down from a minister of the
Court of Heaven to that of United States Son
-ator." He magnified his office, as did Paul,
and so should every other man who bears it
in his person, and if he 'does not do it, those
who conferred , it upon him should deprive
him of it, and give it to men who will• fulfil
its duties and properly appreciate its digni
ties.
THE FUEL FAMINE AT CINCINNATI.—The
Cincinnati Times of the 23d says:
" Owing to the great demand for fuel, it is
quite a job even to procure that furnished by
the city. We saw females at the Council
Chamber this morning who have been there
every day this week, and who have not yet
Succeeded in procuring their orders. Seve
ral.of them became so desperate that despite
of the crowd .Whiolo.. surrounded them, and
the poliee force, who endeavored to prevent
them, -- theyrleaped over the-railing, and made
their wario the Committee.
-.lt was reported at• the Police Court this
giiorning that Some of the cartmen are in the
habit of swindling,. It is said they heap
heir. carts full at the - depot, but stop on the
ivaY and,xee the . vehicle of two or three
bushels:"
• The price of fuel gods up as the mercury
in the thermometer goes down; in no way
can our philanthropists •do more practical
good than by relieving the distress caused by
the severe cold.
A SISTER'S LOVE.--A lady whollas lately
lost a brother by death, writes us in a vein of
touching sadness, to which many hearts will
respond:—
"I cannot tell you how deeply I am strick
en by this sudden bereavement. Day after
day I stand and gaze after him, stretching
out my hands towards the'unknown shore—
calling on him for some assurances that he
still is , and not lost forever; but all in vain;
and the beautiful faith .of my life reels un
der the first stroke. God forgive me; but I
cannot help uttering, 'lf a man DIE, shall he
LIVE again ?' Were the world mine, I would
give it to be reassured on this one point, upon
which never in my life before, has fallen a
shadow of a doubt."
Ah, mourning sister, that skeptical ques
tion which now tortures you, and has tortur
ed millions of bleeding hearts, was answered
to.the weeping sisters of Bethany, once and
for all.
From the Bedford Gazette.
guntiftgd•da and Broad Top' Mountain
. • Railroad and Coal Company.
The road belonging to this Company con
nects Broadtop Mountain in Bedford county,
with the -Pennsylvania Railroad and. State
candl e _ at Huntingdon. The main stem is
thirty and a half miles in length—all com
pleted, stocked, and in active operation.—
Five miles of branch road. to the mines were
completed in March last, when, ,the _transpor
tation of coal:over the road commenced.—
Five and a half Miles More are just being
completed, along which collieries have been
opened and their necessary fixtures e prepared,
with a view to commence shipment by .Feb
ruary.
• Two collieries belonging to- the company;
and two to individuals have been in operation
during the slimmer; 'the . shipments from
since July
. Ist, have been about .81. X.
thousand tons per months.
Shipments from a new colliery were com
menced the last week in December, and five
additional .collieries will be prepared ,to for
ward coal between January and March of
the present year. •
The entire coal field embraces 'about 80
square miles, of which GO square miles will
be, accessible to the road. The company
own twenty-six acres of coal land; including
some of the .best :collieries in the mountain.
The other lands are owned by individuals
and companies, the products of whose mines
will Pass over this' oad. A plank road con
nects the south-western terminus with Red
ford, giving it.command of a large local trade
and travel. The coal. is of a semi-bitumin
ous character, and has a, high reputation for
steam manufacturing purposes. It has: been
used exclusively on the Columbia State Road,
during the summer, for their locomotives and
shops, and is now being largely introduced
on other Railroads.
The above is extracted from that invalua
ble sheet, the " United States Railroad and
Mining Register," published in Philadelphia
by Thomas S. Fernon.
Since the above article was published,
large deposits of Iron Ore, and some of the
finest veins of coal on Six Mile Run, on the
western part of Broad Top, have been dis
covered on the lands owned by the Hopewell
Coal and Iron Company.
All that portion of the country lying and
contiguous to, the Plank Road, twelve miles
in length, connecting Hopewell, the termin
us of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Rail
Road, with Bloody Run, on the Bedford
Turnpike, is susceptible of very great im
provement. Having along its entire route,
facilities for manufacturing and agricultural
purposes such as no other part of the State
possesses.
Yellow Creek, which disembogues its
' water into the Juniata opposite the town of
Hopewell, irrigates Morrison's Cove, one of
the most beautiful and fertile regions in the
world. Upon this stream are erected Forges,
Furnaces, Grist, Plaster, Clover, and Saw-
Mills.
Leaving via the Plank Road, about two
miles west of the town of Hopewell, is Situa
ted Lemnos Iron Works, now owned by
King, Madam. & Co. One mile further west,
can be seen in the distance, the smoke aris
ing from the fires of the Bedford Forge, at
present owned by Thomas King.
Crossing Yellow Creel, the Plank Road
takes a southwestern direction, through a
fine timber and agricultural region until you
reach Piper's Run, from which point, lying
westward, can be seen Woodcock Valley in
all its grandeur; bounded on the west by
Terrace mountain, - whose summit appears to
pierce the skies. Along Piper's Run the
Sherman's Valley Company has made their
survey for a Railroad.
From this point, the road is located along
the eastern base of Warrior's Ridge, until it
crosses John's Branch, the boundary be
tween West Providence and Hopewell Town
ships: Upon this stream are erected 1 Tan
nery, 1 Grist, and 5 Saw-Mills, one being a
Steam-Mill of 45 Horse Power. There is an
abundance of White Oak, Pine, and other
timber, on and near this stream, and a good
site for a Furnace can be obtained east of
the Gap. Limestone and Coal have been
discovered, between Jittin's Branch and Pi
per's Run, but not in quantities to justify ex
tensive burning and mining.
Planks have been laid from John's Branch
to the town of Bloody Run, mid tolls are col
lected on this part of the road. There is a
fine body of limestone land on that part of
the road that runs through Woodcock Valley,
that only awaits the enterprising agricultu
rist, artizan and mechanic, to be made a
source of profit. ThiS valley has au abun
dance of iron-ore, owned principally by the
Bedford .Iron and Coal Co. The iron-ore
mines of the Messrs. Tate and Schell, sup
ply the Rough & Ready Works of D. T.
WnOin, - the gentlemanly and efficient Presi
dent of the Iluntingdon and Broad Top Rail
road Company. Eight miles west of Bloody
Run is situated Bedford, far-famed as a wa
tering-place. The Bedford Mineral Springs
has passed into a Company, the principal
owners residing in Philadelphia.' Extensive
'improvements are' being made under the
management of Col. Philip Gossler, the
President of the Company. By the 3st of
June next the season will commence. Its
invigorating waters will give life and energy
to the invalid; its baths will restore the af
ilicted ; its mountain air and scenery is•only
to be inhaled and visited - to be fully apprecia
ted. M. R. B.
Curl os a
BOOKS MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE NOW LOST
OR UNKNOWN.--
1. The Prophecy of Enoch. See Epistle
to Jude 14.
2.. The Book ,of 'the Wars of the Lord.
See Num. xxi. 14,
3. The Prophetical Gospel of Eve, which
relates to the Amours of the Sons of God
with the Daughters of Men. See Origen
Contt. Celsuni, Tertul., &c.
4. The Book of Joshua. See Joshua x.
13; and 2. Samuel i. 18.
• 5. The Book aid& the Seer. See Chron.
ix. 29 and vii. 15.
6. The Book of Nathan the Phrophet
See as above.
7. The Prophecies of Ahijah, the Shilon
ite. See as above.
8. The acts of Behoboam, in the Book of
Shemaiah. See 2 Chron. xii. 15.
9. The Book of Jehu the Son of Ilanani.
See 2 Chron. xx.. 34.
10. The Five Books of Solomon, treating
on the nature of trees, beasts, fowl, serpents
and fishes. See 1. Kirigs, iv. 33.
11. The 151st Psalm.
TIJE Dirrnarsen.—The mercury in
the Thermometer is going down the - sub
scription list of the " GLOBE" is going up,
and herein lies the difference "precisely."
Barley Without Beard.
It is even so. A variety of barley has been
discovered in the gulches of the Himalayan
Mountain, entirely free from thoie annoying
arid poisonous beards attached to all our cora- .
mon varieties, . _
• The undersigned obtained•'t graitug Of this
new variety three years ago, - .and being much
pleased, with its general appearance and pro
ductiteness; has spared . no pains to multiply
this small quantity as fast as The Shanghais'
and other-birds would allow;
Its merits for grinding"or malting have not
been tested, and the quantity is now too small
to squander in that way, when every tiller of
the soil 'who sees.it, is. anxious to have a few
grains, not doubting it prove a, valuable'
acquisition. I have sufficient however,-to
fur
nish all persons interested who will be likely
to see this notice, with one head - ftehi eotr►
tabling 30 to 60 grains. Send: me_your ads
dress, on 'a stamped •envelope and I will en=
close a head, and send it back by returnmail l
with printed instructions for cultivating in - a
way to insure a ,large return from a small
quantity of seed. Should this new variety
be found to answer 'all the purposes* of the
common barley, a few years will suffice to
drive the "Barley Beards" from the country,
Should any person desire more than the'
one head, I will send a package of 700 to 800;
grains securely enveloped, by mail post paid
for 25 ets., accompanied with a few heads to
prove the fact of its being beardless. Ad
dress, I. W. BRIGGS, Wesf Macedon, Wayne
County, N. Y.
te=3lollE ABOUT THE MURDER.—The first
through Express train which we had for one
week, arrived in this place on Sunday last,
between 11 and 12 o'clock, bringing Mr.
Benjamin Poland, of Bostisn, a - distant rela
tive of young-Norcross. lie came on to take
charge of the body of NorcroSs and convey it
to East Lexington. Prom Mr. P._ we learn
that young Norcross, prevlous to leaving
Dunleith, 111., wrote to his sister that he was
about starting for home, in company with a
friend (unfortunately he did not mention his
name,) who lived in Philadelphia—was a
man of property—had a -wife and one child
and employed as his family physician one of
the best medical men in the city, and that
he, (Norcross) intended to spend a week
with him, (his friend) and come under the
treatment of his physician. We must here
mention that Norcross was afflicted with an
abscess under his arm which it was feared
'would take his life.
Mr. P. stated that Norcross must have had
in his possession, at the time he was murder
ed, about $3,000, as in the letter to his sister
above mentioned, he stated that the interest
of his money paid his expenses while study
ing medicine. This will account satisfactori
ly for the cause of the murder.
Mr. Poland also stated that the trunks of
Norcross and his friend, which were lying at
the depot in Philadelphia, were opened in
his presence. In the trunk of the compan
ion of Norcross was found a few carpenter's
tools one or two bills for work done m.-Dun
leith 111., several handbills of patent sash
and shutters, and a small pocket rule with
the name of David McKim, burned on-the
inside of the rule. This article was identi
fied by some of the policemen of the city as
the property of the individual whose name it
bore, and Mr. Hays an agent of the Pa. R.
R. Co.,,stated that he knew McKim and that
he had left that city, for the West, about the
first of October last.
From , the reputation given of McKim by
those who knew him in Philadelphia, no
doubt can be entertained but that be is the
murderer of Norcross. The changing of his
name, and his story to the proprietor of the
Eagle Hotel, in Pittsburg, prove that he had
the deed in contemplation at that time.
Facts . are multiplying in regard to this
mysterious affair, and we believe that all is
now required to bring the guilty party before
the proper tribunal is the offering of a buita
ble reward.--Altoona Tribune.
DEMAND FOR SILVER COIN.—It is not only
India and China that want silver to so large
an extent, but the demand from Russia and
Austria for this metal is of serious inconve
nience. The New York Post says:
Messrs. Berenberg, Gossler & Co., under
date of 31st December, state that "the wants
of silver for Austria and Russia, which were
the principal cause of the high value of mon
ey in all 1856, are not yet satisfied."
The contemplations arising from this aro
of a ,serious nature, as with the immense
shipments of silver by each overland mail
the circulation of all countries who have sil
ver currency like Germany, must, of necessi
ty, be materially cramped, unless timely
measures are taken to introduce a mixed or
gold standard.
During the year 1856, as appears by offi
cial statements . in the English paers, the
direct shipments of silver alone from England
to the various Eastern ports hate amounted
412,118,985, or over sixty millions of dol
lars. There is ground to believe that the
larger portion.of this vast sum consisted of
continental silver coins, chiefly of French
and Belgian five franc, pieces. During the
last six years the shipments of silver from
England to the East amounted to £30,717-
880. During the last four years £5,813,532
in silver have been sent to the East from the
Mediterranean. These sums, altogether are
equal to about one hundred. and eighty-five
millions of dollars. Of the £12,118,985 sent
from England in the year 1856, it appears
that only £3,167,014 was sent to China, the
rest being absorbed by India and the Straits
countries. The probability is that the drain
both to India and China will continue heavy
for a considerable time to come.
Tun SNAKE CHAnmErt.—They have a man
in California who is a marvel among snakes.
The Alta Californian say-:
It is well worth while for our readers to
lel& in and judge for themselves of his om
nipotent power over the fiercest.. and most
venomous of reptiles. His handling of his
"pets," as he styles them, cannot fa.il,to con
vince the most skeptical that he certainly
possesses a wonderful power over the serpent
species, and the manner in which he treats
the• poisonous reptiles shows that he is as
fearless as the animals are timid. On yes 7
terday, while witnessing his bold perform
ance, we noticed that he placed in his bosom
three rattlesnakes. Afterward he kissed the
mouths of the rattlesnakes; pinching them
meanwhile, and by every means exciting
them to resistance. But the subtle snakes
would crawl up his face, and wind themselves
most affectionately around his neck, but make
not_the slightest offensive demonstration.
There are only .three ways of getting
out of a scrape—write out, back out, but the
best way is to keep out.