THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND U NERAL NEWS, &C.
TIM GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in, the 'county.
TITBIrUBDCKRI, I?LS,.
Wednesday, September 1, 1858.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
Virlll. A. PORTER, of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WESTLIAY FROST S of Fayette Co.
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ASSEMBLY )
bANIEL HOUTZ, of Alexandria
COUNTY CONMISSIONER,
JAMES HENDERSON, of Cassville.
DIRECTOR OF TELE POOR,
JOHN MIERLY, of Springfield.
CORONER,
THOMAS P. LOVE, of Huntingdon
EXTRA PREMIUMS.
It will be observed that the County Society—for very
good reasons we suppose—have omitted in their list, pre
iniumslor the best specimens of printing. Printing is an
art—the art of arts—in the improvement of which, busi
ness men at least, take some interest. We take as much
pleasure, and pride, in executing a job of work as it should
be, as other men do in their calling, and we can see no
good reason why a printer should not contest for an honor.
We, therefore, propose the following premiums:
For the best and greatest variety of Fancy Card
printing $5 00
For the best and greatest variety of Plain Card
printing 5 00
For the beat and greatest variety of Blank printing, 5 00
For the best and greatest variety of Handbill and
Circular printing
For the best and greatest variety of Printing
" " Job Office in the county
The contest to be confined to the printers of the county
and no part of any Card, Blank, Bill, Circular, &c., to be
executed out of the county.
All customer work, only, and Blanks regularly kept on
hand for sale, to be entered for the premiums.
Each Office contesting for the premiums, to place in the
bands of a Committee like sums as above, the whole to be
given to the Office receiving the awards.
The Committee to be appointed by the Offices entering
for the premiums—one by each Office, and the Committee
to appoint one.
The Committee to visit and examine work at the Offices
entering, on the second day of the County Fair.
New Advertisements.
Grocery and other items, by S. S. Smith.
..tica- Sale of Real Estate, by David S. Ker, Trustee.
ile,..Change of Schedule on the Broad Top Railroad.
Additional Appointments, by the County School
Superintendent.
445.- Hungarian Grass Seed, by John IL Lightner, of
Shirleysburg.
45P - Auditor's Notice—Estate of Isaac Ashton, dec'd—by
Theodore H. Cremer.
ta- Auditor's Notice—Estate of Robert Speer, dec'd—by
Theodore H. Cromer.
lel_ Administrator's Notice—Estate of John Smith, deed
—by Andrew Smith.
tEfLL.. Notice to the Stockholders of the Huntingdon and
Broad Top Mountain Rail Road and Coal Company.
'. We invite attention to the advertisement of the
Mountain Female Seminary, located at Birmingham.
notice to County Committee.
The members of the Democratic County Committee are
requested to meet at the Franklin Rouse, in the borough
of Iluntingdon, on Saturday, the 11th of September, at 2
o'clock P. 51., for the purpose of filling the vacancy on
the county ticket, occasioned by the resignation of Mr.
Owens. JAMES GWIN, Chairman.
Huntingdon, September 1, 1858.
To Tax-Collectors.
For the convenience of Collectors, we have
just printed, and will keep constantly on
hand for sale,.blank receipts for State and
County, School, Borough, Township, or other
taxes.
'See advertisement of Prof. Wood's
Hair Restorative in another column.
Air The Harrisburg Patriot and Union,
and Keystone have been united. The Daily
Herald has been bought out by the same es
tablishment, which will commence the pub
lication of a new daily paper about the first
of September.
SEir The Democratic and Opposition Con
gressional Conferences will meet at Johns
town on the Bth inst., when, we suppose,
both parties will offer for nomination, their
strongest and best men. It is impossible to
say who is likely to receive the Democratic
nomination. STEEL BLAIR., Esq., of Holli
daysburg, it is thought, will receive the Op
position nomination.
THE KANSAS ELECTION.—The Board of
Election Commissioners, constituted by the
"English bill," have issued a proclamation,
declaring the proposition rejected by nine
thousand five hundred and twelve majority!
The whole vote was thirteen thousand and
eighty-eight. No fraudulent Votes were re
ceived, but a few precincts were rejected on
account of informalities.
gerThe M'Kean County Bank, we learn
by the Potter County Journal, gave up the
ghost a few days ago. The cashier decamped
with $71,000 of its funds, was arrested in
New York, and committed in default of bail.
The bills of the bank have been thrown out
in New York. Mr. Kingsbury, its President,
says the Journal, will secure the holders of
its issue against loss, being able and willing
to do so.
Negro Equality.
The De Kaulb County (Illinois) Sentinel
(a Black Republican paper) published at
Sycamore in that StQ P i is great on negro
equality. Hear what the editor says in his
issue of July 26th :
"Our education has been such, that we
have been rather in favor of the equality of
the blacks ; that is , that they. should enjoy all
the privileges of the whites where they reside.
We have had many a confab with some who
are now. strong Republicans, who take the
broad. ground of equality, and they the oppo
site ground. We were brought up in a State
where blacks were voters and we do not know
of any, inconvenience resulting from it, tho'
perhaps it would not work so well where the
blaCks are more numerous. We have no
doubt of the right of the whites to guard
against 'spell an evil, if it is one. Our opin
ion is, that it *could be best for all concerned
to have' the colored population in a.State by
themselves, but if within the jurisdiction of
-the United States, we say by all means they
should have the right to have their Senators
and Representatives in Congress, and vote for
President. With us, 'worth makes the man,
and the want of it the fellow! . We have
seers Many a 'nigger' that we thought much
morer.of than of 4 . 0.7124 white men."
The Kansas Election.
We have refrained, to this time, says the
Doylestown Democrat, from saying anything .
about the result of the recent election in
Kansas, upon the question of the acceptance
or rejection of the proposition contained in
the English Lecompton Bill. We have not
pursued this course because we had any hesi
tancy about expressing our views, but be
cause we preferred to wait until the result
should be more definitely known, than could
be gleaned from the first telegraphic des
patches.
The result has not surprised us, for we
were always of opinion that the Lecompton
Constitution did not represent the will of the
people of Kansas. This instrument, or rather
the propostion upon which the people directly
voted, has been decided against by a majority
of at least ten thousand, and the Constitution
which politicians tried hard to force upon
them has been spurned with sublime con
tempt. This vote is the most withering re
buke that a people ever gave to those who
stood between them and their constitutional
rights, and we hope the lesson herein taught
will be of service in all time to come. The
voice of Kansas is overwhelmingly against
the Lecompton Constitution, and that poor,
miserable contrivance, had hardly friends
enough at - the polls to act as pall-bearers and
mourners. The result shows that those who
took the ground that this Constitution did not
express the will and wish of the people of
Kansas were right, and that those who took
the opposite ground were wrong—which is
victory enough for us, without sounding notes
of triumph over our adversaries. We are
well assured that the people were deceived
upon this subject, and made to believe that
all Kansas was in favor of the Lecompton
contrivance; and the result of this election
must show them how they were imposed
upon, and the facts misrepresented by politi
cians.
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We are amused at the present course of
some of the, heretofore, furious Lecompton
journals. They now proclaim it, far and
loud, that the result is just as they anticipa
ted, and that the people of Kansas are un-
Willing to enter the Union. We would re
spectfully ask these same journals, since
when did they believe the people would re
ject the Lecompton Constitution, and whether
it was before or since they exerted all their
might and main to force this same Constitu
tion down upon the protesting people of Kan
sas? Then they told us it was their work,
and had been both made and ratified by them;
but now they assure us, with equal solemnity,
that they expected the people to reject it, and
of course it could not have embodied their
will. lVhich are we to believe? Neither
can they lay the "flattering unction to their
souls" that the recent vote is their decision
against entering the Union at this time, for
it was nothing more nor less than their ver
dict against a fraud attempted to be perpe
trated upon them.
Lecompton is surely dead, never to be re
surrected, but its rejection we fear does not
settle this vexed question. The people have
rendered their verdict against it in the High
Court of Appeals, but this by no means re
moves it from the litigation of politicians.—
It is still an open question, and until Kansas
shall have been admitted into the Union, it
will be a bone of contention, and distract the
country. The only way to settle the question
forever, is to admit the Territory with any
Constitution she may present, that the people
ratify and approve. This will do Kansas
substantial justice, and sustain our platform
and the pledges of our party. Will any
Democrat dare oppose her admission, when
they shall demand it, with a Constitution of
their own making? The New York Herald
is in favor of this course: and below we pub
lish a paragraph from an article which ap
peared in the Richmond Enquirer a short
time since, in which the same ground is
taken. We would like to hear from our co
temporaries upon this subject:
"We are not disposed to anticipate the ac
tion of the people of Kansas on this subject.
But every thinking man at once recognizes
the fact that the provision excluding Kansas
until she shall have attained 93,000 or 120,-
000 inhabitants, furnishes no legal barrier to
the immediate admission of Kansas. With
out infringing a single item of the Constitu
tion, the next Congress may admit the State
without any reference whatever to the Eng
lish Compromise. And whatever action Con
gress may take on the subject should be taken
with a view to the best interests of the people
of the Territory, and entirely without refer
ence to the sectional preferences or prejudices
of different members of Congress. The man
who shall oppose the admission of Kansas
merely on the ground that she comes forward
with a free-State Constitution, will act in dis
loyalty to the spirit of the Constitution.—
The Democrat who shall follow a similar
narrow and vicious policy, must disregard
the faith solemnly pledged by the party to
which he belongs. And the Southern man
who acts in accordance with such dictates of
bad faith will offer to the adversaries of South
ern rights the best possible pretext and pre
cedent for disastrous retaliation."
Tags.—Every day we live, says an ex
change, we are more than ever convinced that
nine-tenths of the misfortunes which attend
humanity are self-inflicted. People jump off
railroad ears while in motion ; go bathing in
deep water when they cannot swim ; imbibe
spirituous liquors and meet with accidents ;
expose themselves regardless of prudence,
and suffer all manner of most evil conse
quences, which a little forethought in most
cases, would have averted. People know
very well that a violation of the common law
involves a. penalty, and yet utterly ignore
the fact that Nature is still more inexorable
than the Legislature, and visits with corres
ponding punishments upon every transgres
sion of her laws.
The Opposition and the Tariff.
It is conceded that the Tariff of 1846 pro
duced abundant revenue to meet all the
wants of the National Government, while at
the same time it afforded incidental protection
to our manufacturers in a just and resonable
degree. The capitalists who invested their
money were protected, the working man was
protected, and the consumer was protected
from the monopoly created by unjust and un
wise governmental interference with the laws
of supply and demand. But this party has
at all times clamored for protection and was
not content to let this Tariff alone. They
were not content to see the Iron and Coal
interests of the State prospering marvelously
under the Tariff of 1846. They must have
an• issue of some sort upon the Tariff, and
hence they inaugurated the scheme of modi
fying the Tariff of 1846, which was consum
mated during the XXXIVth Congress. But
this movement was directly in the face of
their old theory of protection. They did -not
increase the duties, which, according to their
arguments, is the only way of protecting
American industry, but they actually lowered
them, and at the present time made large ad
ditions to the free list. This, it must be
borne in mind, was accomplished by a House
of Representatives in which the Opposition
majority was very large, the vote standing
128 Opposition to 72 Democrats. The Com
mittee of Ways and Means, of which Hon.
Lewis D. Campbell, a prominent Black Re
publican member from Ohio, was
.Chairman,
reported a bill for reducing the Tariff of 1846
to the House, and in his speech on that oc
casion he thus talks of Pennsylvania and her
interests, and the necessity of withdrawing
the Tariff question from party politics :
"I am very glad that the gentleman from
Kentucky is willing to take this feature of
the bill, because Kentucky has a growing
Iron interest, as Ohio has; and I believe that
that great interest may well afford a reduc
tion of duty in order to have stability and
permanency, and in order to have the ques
tion withdrawn from the party politics of the
times and placed on a firm and staple basis.
Besides, the adjustment will relieve that in
terest from the dangers of having past duties
refunded on railroad iron, and the admission
of it free of duty, in the future.
"Again, I believe that, if this question
were settled, taken as I said, from the arena
of party politics, and placed upon the basis
reported by the Committee of Conference as
a finality, Pennsylvania will, before many
years roll around, reap a rich harvest from
the bill ; if Pennsylvania will cling to herald
policy, which sees no other interest than . her
iron and coal, and prevent the passage of
this bill, upon the shoulders of Pennsylva
nia must rest the responsibility, not mine."
The main point in this speech of the leader
of the opposition, Mr. Campbell, is, that lit
totally ignores all the idea of a protective
tariff, nay, that it even repudiates the Mea
sure of incidental protection afforded by .the
Tariff of 1846, and says that the iron interest
"may well afford a reduction of duty in .or
der to have stability and permanency, and
in order to have the question withdrawn from
party politics." This was the position taken
by the Opposition in 1857. They then repu
diated the protective theory, and argued in
favor of withdrawing the tariff question from
politics. They then reduced the duty on Iron,
and threatened Pennsylvania, if she did not
accept the reduction at once, they would vote
for the admission of railroad iron free of duty
in the future. Nearly the whole Opposition
in Congress united in the effort by which the
Tariff of 1846 was prostrated, and that of
1857 inaugurated in its place. Senators
Seward, Wilson, and all the master spirits
of the Opposition, gave their consent to this
scheme by which the manufacturers of the
Eastern States were to be favored. They
had no words of pathetic expostulation then
over the breaking down of the protective
system. It was free Wool and free Iron, with
Lawrence, Stone & Co., to foot the bill, and
this was the basis of Black Republican action
on the tariff in 1357, when they bad the
whole control of the House of Representa
tives. If they were in favor of protection,
why did they desert it in 1857 ? They are
not , hence the whole movement in that direc
tion, is a mere pretence. It is protection
when it suits a political purpose. It is free
trade when that will best suit their dishonest
ends.---So says an exchange, and so say we.
Returned Mormons at Nebraska City.
On the 28th of July a large number of the
company of 200 Mormons who received pass
ports and protection from Gov. Cumming last
May, reached Nebraska City on their return
to the States. They left Salt Lake City
on the 14th of May, and spent twenty days
at Port Kearney. They were under the care
of Captain Smith. The Nebraska City News
"We are informed by one of their number,
who has resided at Salt Lake City during the
last four years, that there are large numbers
in the city and throughout the Territory, who
have for along time manifestsd great anxiety
to leave the country, but have been compell
ed by Brigham Young and his satelities to
remain. They express great gratitude -to
Gov. Cumming, and the Government of the
United States, for their deliverance. They
represent the times as being very hard in
Utah. Men are paid very low wages, and
are robbed and plundered of their scanty
earnings by those in authority ; when em
ployed upon public works are fed upon dry
bread, and when complainibg of their hard
fare are told by Young, Kimball, and other
Mormon leaders, that there are plenty of
streams of water in the vicinity. The most
abject and slavish servitude is prevalent
among the lower classes. Thousands who
came out in hand-carts, would be glad to re
turn in wheelbarrows.
DiZ.- See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
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MouxT UNION, August 30, 1858.
DEAR GLOBE :—This is the season of Camp-
Meetings. In the different portions of the
country, the people are leaving their quiet
homes, and betaking themselves to "Nature's
Church," the lovely grove, to engage, for a
brief time, in worshipping that God, who
"tempers the wind to the shorn lamb" and
orders all things well.
The meeting in progress near this place,
has thus far, been numerously attended, not
withstanding the •unpropitiousness of the
weather. The sermon of Sabbath morning
was preached by Rev. Mr. Buckingham, for
merly of your town, from the words, "I am
the way, and the truth, and the life." The
discourse was eloquent, fervent, of rare merit,
and forcibly delivered. The appointment for
the afternoon was filled by Rev. A. H. Bar
nitz, whose sermon was based upon the
beautiful text, "Lead me to the rock that is
higher than I." This exclamation is truly
poetical; for "poetry is but the eloquence of
truth." The warmth and animation with
which the speaker treated it, were thrilling
and interesting. The camp-ground is a mile
and a half distant from this place ; it is a
silent, secluded spot—probably never visited
except upon occasions like the present:—
There is something of romance about the
" tinted grove," vocal with the voices of
many hearts united in prayer and praise.
From audible demonstrations on Saturday
evening, one would be inclined to think that
there had been too much imbibing of the
" pure vernacular."
The meeting will continue until Thursday
morning. The Presiding Elder is expected
this evening. There is promise of much
good being done. Yours,
Pleasant Grove Camp-Meeting.
[For the Huntingdon Globe.]
Having attended the Pleasant Grove camp
meeting, as a tent-holder, and being on the
ground during the entire meeting, thus hav
ing an opportunity to mark the result of the
passing of the cars of the Huntingdon and
Broad Top Railroad, I feel it not at all im
proper, in justice to those engaged in the
meetings, both preachers and people, and
also to those concerned in the running of the
trains, both officers and operators, that the
following statements be made:
In the first place it may be remarked; that
the course pursued by the superintendent, in
company with the other officers of the road,
was, so far at least as could be observed, most
gentlemanly, indicating a willingness to ac
commodate and oblige.
In the next place, the course pursued by
the• conductors•of the trains, could but im
press the minds of the observant and think
ing, that as gentlemen, they purposed, as far
as possible, to prevent any interruption of the
meeting by the passing and repassing of the
trains; and further, that the conductor of the
passenger train, not only did everything he
could to accommodate, but did also arrange
the landing and reception of passengers,
from time to time, so as to.prevent confusion,
disturbance, or noise, and by his most gen
tlemanly and skilful management, avoided
any disturbance or annoyance of the meet
ing; and at the same time made it most
pleasant for gentleman and ladies passing to
and from the meeting.
Again, it may be said, that the entire de
meanor of the persons employed on the trains,
so far as observable, was, from time to time,
gentlemanly, and respectful ; hence, from
that source no annoyance of the meeting.
In speaking of the meeting, it may be said,
the congregations, from time to time in at
tendance, were most orderly and respectful ;
speaking highly in favor of the neighborhood,
in company with those attending from a dis
tance. The accommodations were ample and
comfortable, and everything done for the most
pleasant accommodation of the people, that
could, under the circumstances, be done.—
The meeting was a most pleasant one through
out; the attendance good; the preaching ex
cellent, and the success such, as to call for
gratitude on the part of the Church.
Having expressed the foregoing views,
which can but be admitted the truth in the
case; allow me to add, that in my humble
judgment, contiguity to a railroad does not
necessarily interfere with, or interrupt the
progress of a camp-meeting in the least, con
sequently, I would say, if a camp-meeting
for this charge be held the next year, seek
some place contiguous to the railroad, both
for accommodation, diminishing expense, and
causing quiet and success in the progress
thereof. A TENT-HOLDER.
Temperance Celebration.
[For the Huntingdon Globe.]
Mn. EDITOR :—ln this age of demijohns,
when the black banner of Prince Alcohol
might very appropriately be unfurled on the
dome of every prison, poor house, and grog
shop, I have thought a short account of a
temperance celebration might be interesting
to some, at least, who have not yet bowed
the knee to Baal.
On the 14th ult., at 10 o'clock A. M., the
"Young Men's Temperance Association" as
sembled at the " Unity" church, in Hender
son township, where a large concourse of
people were already collected under the na
tional flag, and were listening to the soul
thrilling music of a military band,
The members of tho association—now num
bering over one hundred and thirty—were
formed in procession by the attentive Mar
shal of the day—Mr. James Porter. The
procession, greatly enlarged by those who
came to participate in the pitusnres of the
day, then marched, with =isle in front, to a
beautiful grove, on the farm of Mr. George
Hetrick, where a stand and seats had been
previously erected. The exorcises of the
day were then opened with prayer for the
promotion of the good cause, by one of the
speakers. Mr. James Miller then gave a
well-prepared compendium of the rise and
progress of the Association. J. D. Brown,
in behalf of the young ladies of the Asso
ciation, presented, in an appropriate style,
to the society, a, beautiful banner. Mr. J.
A. Brown received it in the name of the As
sociation, and, in his remarks, paid the ladies
a compliment for the good will they thus
manifested toward the advocates of temper
ance. J. D. Brown, being called upon, re
sponded in an earnest appeal to the youth ;
showing them the folly and danger of ac
quiring intemperate habits, and proving con
clusively, that the common use of intoxica
ting drinks, is in direct opposition to the
whole tenor of the Sciptures.
At the close of his address, the meeting
adjourned until the afternoon, to partake of
a plentiful and very excellent dinner, which
the ladies then spread on a table erected for
the occasion.
When all had shared to tlieir satisfaction,
in the "creature comforts," quiet was again
restored, and Mr. David Hare was called for.
He made an appropriate address on the
benefits resulting from associated effort in a
good cause. Mr. J. A. Brown then read a
number of " toasts," which had been pre
pared by members of the Society. Mr. Abel
Corbin, next made some pointed remarks on
the subject of temperance. I had almost for
gotten to say, that the ladies entertained us
during the intervals between the speaking,
with several good old temperance songs.
The day being far spent, the assembly was
dismissed, and all retired from the grove,
well-pleased with the "Temperance Celebra
tion." REPORTER.
MILTON.
As our farmers are all interested in the
grain crop, we publish the following esti
mate of it in the Northwestern States for the
present year, from the Prairie _Farmer. If
the falling off should be as great as here es
timated we must look for a considerable ad
vance in price:
"After a careful examination of the whole
subject, we have come to this conclusion:—
That of the whole crop of 1858 Illinois will
not export more than six million bushels—
perhaps far less; that lowa will export less
than one million bushels—perhaps less than
half a million ; that Wisconsin will export
not more than three-fifths as much as of the
crop of 1857 ; that Indiana will export in
about the same proportion as Wisconsin ; and
that there will be a falling off in Ohio of at
least three millions of bushels. Bear in mind,
we offer these as very high estimates. A contin
uance of bad weather may reduce the amount
for export to almost nothing. At present the
quantity is wasting at the rate of many thou
sand bushels per day. How much old wheat
there is yet in the country, we do not know,
but the quantity is certainly less than com
mercial papers estimate it. The corn crop
will somewhat affect the price of wheat, but
there is no possibility of its being an average
yield per inhabitants in Illinois or lowa.
The President at the Relay Eouse
Familiar as our people are generally with
the unostentatious habits of the chief officers of
our government, one cannot witness them,
with a knowledge of the pomp and show of
royalty to invite the contrast, without invol
untarily indulging it. On Saturday last
President Buchanan arrived at the Relay
House, or Washington Junction as it is more
properly called, en route for Washington City.
There was a rumor abroad that he was to ar
rive, and thuvisitors had consequently group
ed about the house when the train came
along. We soon perceived the President
coming from the cars to the platform, looking
hearty, but thoroughly travel soiled, smiling
and cheerful. By his side, and evidently,
offering with gentlemanly deference the cour
tesy of attention, was a rather rough looking
individual, whom we took for a conductor or
brakesman—the gentleinan will excuse our
blundering in such a matter—but upon in
quiry we were informed was Sir Wm. Gore
Ousley.
On passing into the bar-room the President
threw of his coat and his white neckcloth,
carelessly pitching them over a chair, opened
his short collar, and tucked up his sleeves
for a wash, conveniences for this purpose be
ing in the apartment. At the time however,
both basins were occupied by two young men,
neither of whom seemed to be aware that the
President was about. He watched patiently
sometime, when some one spoke and invited
him up stairs. He declined, however, quiet
ly remarking that he would " wait for his
turn." And as soon as the basins were va
cated he "took his turn" in a jolly good wash
in the public bar-room. This done, he seem
ed rather perplexed about the arrangement
of his neck-cloth, and seemed likely to tie his
nose and mouth up in it. Somebody just
then offered assistance, and the President
was briefly equipped.
At this time a person who had come into
the room, sung out pretty near to him, "Look
here, I thought the old Pros. was to be here
to-day—." The speech was cut short by a
nudge, while a momentary comical expres
sion passed across the face of that same "old
Pres! ' A cigar was handed to him by a
friend ; he took a good, satisfying drink of—
not "old rye," which he is said to affect,
when dry—but ice water, had barely fired
up the cigar, when the bell rung, and "all
aboard" summoned the Chief Magistrate of
the United States to his seat in the cars, and
away they went to Washington.
We took our admiration of this scene of re
publican
simplicity quietly with us into the
cars for 'Baltimore, and mused with some
complacency over the sterling honor of being
an Anaeripan citizen.—Bal. Sun.
METIMISTS IN NEW ENcLAND.—From the
minutes of the several Conferences in the
New England States, it appears that there are
in round numbers one hundred thousand
members of the Methodist Church in New
England, and the increase of the past year is
about ten thousand, including those on proba
tion.
The Grain Crop of 1858
A Noble Boy—An Example to Imitate.
The Memphis Appeal relates the following
very interesting incident in the history and
adventures of a boy, one of tile norbleut of
his kind:
Some weeks ago,. on Island Twenty-Six,.tif
the river, the father and mother of a family"
of eight small Children,. Whose names were'
Williams, died at nearly the same time, of .
one of the fatal fevers, whi'ch' SD frequently;
make havoc among the poptifatiinkei 4 low and
unhealthy districts(
The eldest of the peer orptans war gloir
Thomas Williams, twelve years of ' tige;- but
so weakly from ague and its attendarti
ing that he does not look so old as tha, The
others were graduated by small intervals id
little more than infancy in the youngest.-. 75
The island was no place for the helpless ba- ,
bies, and the only relatives they had in the'
world lived in Eastern Tennessee, at Sweet
Water, thirty miles from Chattanoga, WO'
hundred miles from this city. To these rela
tives Thomas resolved to go, and tell his story
of sorrow. The neighbors undertook the
care of the little ones, and stepping on board
the Falls City, when it stopped to wood, the'
boy made the clerk acquainted with the state
of the orphan family. That gentleman not
only gave him a passage to this city, but a
letter of introduction, which obtained for
him the kind hospitalitiei of the Worsham
House, and a free passage on the Charleston
railroad to the end of his journey, which was
given him by the generosity of Mr. Ayres.
The little fellow found his relations. They
were not rich in money, but they proinised
to raise the family if they were brought. to
them.
The young hero then set off to bring to
their new home his seven little brothers and
sisters. He passed again over the railroad
to this city; the Philadelphia was going up
the river; he went on board and informed
Capt. Marshall of his situation. * * *
The kind captain not only gave him a passage
to the island, but told him to have all ready
to bring the little ones under his protection
on boar with him at the return of the boat
from St. Louis, and, whether it was night or
day, the boat would stop for them. Accord
ingly, on the down trip, the Philadelphia
took on the eight little orphans. Their con
dition was distressing in the extreme. Not
one of them was free from sickness, and
Thomas was suffering from ague and fever—
prostrated with it, we were going to say—
but the gallant little fellow was not made of
the stuff that submits to piostration. He
was bright, ready, active, and thoughtful, at
tending with unwearying care to the wants
and wafflings of the sick, helpless, little ones.
* * * * * * * *
On Monday last Mr. H. M. Worsham was
on board the Philadelphia,
when Captain
Marshall invited him to look at some pets he
had, and stretched on mattresses lay the
troupe of sick little ones, their wants care
fully attended to, for there was not an officer,
not a cabin boy on the boat that was not do
ing his best to show kindness to those who
might be called God's little ones, for He was
their sole father, and wonderfully He "tem
pered the wind to the shorn lambs." Mr.
Worsham immediately recognized his former
guest, and at once set to work to facilitate his
further progress. He saw Mr. Ayres, of the
railroad, and showed him a letter with which
the boy had been furnished; that gentleman
gave directions that the whole should have a
passage on the road to their journey's end.
Burning of the Illinois Penitentiary..
The most severe fire that has visited Alton
for many years, occurred last night, within
the penitentiary walls. At about dusk, and
some fifteen minutes after the convicts had
retired from the yards and shops, fire was
discovered bursting out in two or three places
from a room in the building near the gate,
designated for the drying house for the coop
erage.
In an instant, as it were, the flames spread
through the room and to the adjoining rooms
of a large long building with cooperage stuff,
machinery, &c., so that the fire was beyond
all control ere the firemen got fairly at work
upon it. Their efforts were then directed to
saving the adjoining buildings, our readers
being generally aware that several large build
ings, comprising different branches of busi
ness, are grouped together within the prison
walls, with alleys or roads between them.
The fire by this time presented a grand and
fearful sight. The combustibles made an
immense blaze, the glare beaming over the
city, the river and the hill-tops, making all
as light as day. Thus, for several hours,
from eight until one o'clock, the firemen and
citizens toiled at the engines, until they were
quite exhausted, and, the flames being toler
ably well under, many retired to their homes.
But a vast pile of stares, some 300,000, had
taken fire, and was not to be subdued. It
commenced burning afresh. A new alarm
was given, guns fired, bells rung, and drums
beat, and the citizens and firemen again as
sembled and, went to work. Long before
this, however, the city military was called
out, about forty men of the Yager company,
with loaded arms, to aid preventing a rebel
lion among the four hundred prisoners, A
portion of the Yagers mounted the walls and
guarded other weak points, and also stood
sentry over about 100 short term and best
disposed of the convicts, the latter being set
to work on the engines, &c., which were again
brought within the walls. The heat and
smoke now enveloped the main prison build
ing, in which the prisoners were locked up
for the night, causing such an intense heat
that the convicts began to call loudly for de
liverance.
The main cell building was not ignited, but
the" upper floors and tiers of cells became so
heated and full of smoke that the convicts of
them were turned into the halls of the lower
stories, where the heat and smoke was less
intense. They were very fearful of being
burnt alive. No escapes were effected. The
loss is about one-third of the buildings of the
prison, valued, with their contents, at betweep i
$25,000 and $30,000.-4411021, paper.
lair For a number of years there have
been connected with many of the churches
in Richmond, Va., Sunday Schools for the
oral instruction of colored children in scrip
tural or denominational doctrines. Recent
ly, however, complaints have been made
against some of them, and as they were not
strictly legal, the Mayor of that city, on Sun
day, caused the arrest ofnearly one hundred
colored phildren found in attendance at a
School in the Lehigh-street Baptist African
Church. They were, however, soon released,
but the Tfrhig says the Mayor held an inter
view with the Rev. T. Lindsay, the pastor,
and-informed him of his purpose to summon
the pastor and trustees of the church before
him at an early day, to show cause why they
should not be dealt with according to law,
for permitting an unlawful assemblage_in
the church,