THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DIiaIOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C. TIIE GLOBE. TITEVEEMDCIPL 2,2, 'Wednesday, June 20, 1860. LAI` , .TKS ! BLANKS ! "BLANKS ! CONSTAI3LE'S SALES, ATTACIPT EXECUTIONS, ATTACHMENTS, EXECUTIONS, SUMMONS, DEEDS, SUEPIENAS, MORTGAGES, • SCHOOL ORDERS, JUDGMENT NOTES, LEASES FOR HOUSES, NATURALIZATION B'ES, COMMON BONDS, JUDGMENT BONDS, WARRANTS, FEE BILLS, NOTES, with a waiver of t e $3OO Law. JUDGMENT NOTES, with a waiver of the $3OO Law. ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT, With Teachers. MARRIAGE CERTIFICATES, for Justices of the Peace and Ministers of the Gospel. COMPLAINT, WA RRANT, and COMMITMENT, in case of Assault and Battery, and Affray. SCIEKE FACIA& to recover amount of Judgment. COLLECTORS' RECEIPTS, for State, County, School, Borough and Township Taxes. Print ed en superior paper. and for sale at the Office of the HIUNT'INGDON GLOBE. BLANKS. of every description, printed to order, neatly, at short notice, and on good Paper. FOR PRESIDENT, STEPHE A. DOiGLAS DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATION. FOR GOVERNOR, IIiNRY D FOSTER, OF WESTMORELAND. New Advertisements. ita- Auction Sale, by Prof. 3IcN. Walsh, of Cassillie Ala" Change of Schedule on the Broad Top Road. ifiZ••• Jr. Esenwein's Aromatic Balsam. Literary Notice One of the most interesting and useful pub lications which comes to our sanctum is the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, a weekly publication, devoted to popular science, new inventions, and the whole range of mechanic and manu facturing arts. The SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN has been published for fifteen years, by the well-known Patent Solicitors, Messrs. MANN 85 CO. 37 Park Row, New York; and has yearly increased in interest and circulation, until it has attained, we understand, nearly 30,000 subscribers, which is the best of evi dence that the publication is appreciated by the reading public. To those of our readers who may not be fa miliar with the character of the paper, we will state some of the subjects of which it treats. Its illustrated descriptions of all the important improvements in steam and agri cultural machinery, will commend it to the Engineer and Farmer, while the new house hold inventions and shop tools which are il lustrated by engravings and described in its columns, with the practical receipts contained in every number, renders the work desirable to housekeepers, and almost indispensable to every mechanic or smith who has a shop for manufacturing new work, or repairing old. THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is universally regarded as the inventor's advocate and mon itor ; the repository of American inventions, and the great authority on law, and all busi ness connected with Patents. The Official List of Claims, as issued weekly from the Patent Office, in Washington, are published regularly in its columns. All the most im portant Patents issued by the United States Patent Office are illustrated and described on its pages, thus forming an unrivaled history of American inventions. It is not only the best, but the largest and cheapest paper devoted to Science, Mechan ics, Manufacturers, and the Useful Arts pub lished in the world. lIoN. JUDGE MASON, for merly Commissioner of Patents, is not only engaged with the publishers in their immense Patent Agency department, but as a writer on Patent Laws and Practice, his ability is forcibly portrayed in the columns of this pa per. TILE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN is published once a week, (every Saturday,) each number containing 16 pages of Letterpress, and from 10 to 12 original Engravings of New Inven tions, consisting of the most improved Tools, Engines, Mills, Agricultural Machines and - Household Utensils, making 52 numbers in a year, comprising 832 pages, and over 500 Original Engravings, printed on heavy, fine paper, in a form expressly for binding, and all for $2 per annum. A New Volume commences on the Ist of July, and we hope a large number of our townsmen will avail themselves of the present opportunity to subscribe. By remitting $2 by mail to the publishers, MUNN & Co. 37 Park Row, New York, they will send you their paper one year, at the end of which time you will have a volume which you would not part with for treble its cost. The pub lishers express their willingness to mail a single copy of the paper to such as may wish to see it without charge. fl We are pleased to learn that James Boon, who formerly resided in this place as Superintendent of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Railroad, has become associated with James W. Power in the proprietorship of the States Union Hotel, Nos. 606 and 608 Market street, Philadelphia. This Hotel is in the centre of business, and has the reputation of furnishing accommoda tions equal to the best in the city, while the terms are much more moderate. Several of our townsmen have been stopping there du ing a recent visit, and speak highly of the Hotel and its gentlemanly proprietors. Our .old friend Boon will take extra pains to make his guests feel at home. Give him a call. The first number of the Juniata 7 I 6 Democrat, published at Mifflin, by 'Greer & Harris, is before us, his neatly printed and ably edited. Editorial Correspondence - BALTIMORE, June 17, 1860 REAR. GLOBE :—We, (Col. Graffus - Miller and myself,) arrived here on Friday evening. Yesterday morning we run over to Washing ton, called on Judge Douglas, visited the Capitol, and saw. the sights generally. Of the thousands that thronged the hotels, all, or 99 out of every hundred were for Douglas. Nobody else was named. Douglas is in fine health and feels right. Baltimore is already pretty well filled up with delegates and the thousands of outsiders, who are almost unan imous for the Little Giant. There never wa s such a large a majority of so great a crowd the political friends of any living man before, and yet the Administration persevere in trying to defeat him. This afternoon and to-morrow morning, additional delegates will arrive, all for Douglas. 'We stop at the Maltby House, are well fed and comfortably lodged. I hope to be able to give you the nomination of Douglas by Tuesday evening next. If he is not nomi nated, it is the universal opinion of Democrats from every State in the Union, that any other man will be defeated. We ate too heavy a dinner to write more. W. L. CORRESPONDENCE OF rr Etim GLOBE. NORTH HENDERSON, 111., June 9th, 1860. DEAR GLOBE :—As it is some time since I have written to you, I will take the present opportunity of dropping you a few lines. The weather has been quite beautiful of late, with the exception of being. a little too dry for the growing crops. Laterly, howev er, we have had quite an abundance of rain, which has caused the wheat to spring up quite rapidly, but in consequence of the con tinued dry spell, it will be a little short.— There has been an extra amount of corn plan ted this season, and the prospects for a heavy crop, look quite favorable. lam engaged in farming on a small scale, and my crops, though planted somewhat late, present quite a fine appearance. The oats crop also looks fine, and witht he continuance of wet weather will do well. There was a time when it was not necessa ry for the farmer to sow any clover or timo thy, but now it is neaily all broken, and the cattle keep the bottoms eat down. The crop is so scarce, that it does not pay for the trouble of mowing it, consequently, to obtain a sup ply of hay, the farmers are compelled to turn a portion of their farming lands into mead ows. Harvest will probably be here as early as the " Glorious Fourth," perhaps earlier, as the wheat was sown quite early in the spring. Corn still maintains the old price—on an average of about 37 cents per bushel. There is, however, a considerable quantity in the country to dispose of. There is to be a Fourth. of July celebration at Young America, a small town on the rail road, 7 miles west of Monmouth. Judging from the programme, there will be a most glorious time. The Republicans of the township north of us, intend having a ratification meeting this afternoon, in honor of " Old Abe." Very good—but if Douglas should be nominated at Baltimore, as he doubtless will be, " Old Abe" will be placed in the sante fix as he was in the campaign of '5B. Our State Convention, to nominate Gover nor, &c., will be held on the 13th of July next. The Republicans at the late Convention, nom inated Richard Yates, of Morgan county, for Governor. I will now close, hoping that I may be able to visit old Huntingdon this fall, and take a peep at the Globe office. . _ 130'• The following letter relating to pros pets at Pike's Peak, is from a gentleman who is reliable and sincere in his statements. Its publication may be interesting to our readers, as . many conflicting statements concerning this new gold region are now in circulation. It was written to Mr. Madson, who is now sojourning in this place, and given to us for publ:cation. CHASE CIIEEK, ROCKY MOUNTAINS, } , SUNDAY, June 3, 1860. G. A. Manson—Dear Sir arrived here on Tuesday, the 28th of May, after a journey of 35 days all in good health, and think prospects fair. There is no doubt about the practicability of bringing quartz mill to the mines. There is at this time about_fifteen mills in successful operation ; and, in the course of a month, will be as many more— all paying largely. One mill which is noth ing but a sham. being made from old wagon irons here in the mountains last year, and the first mill in operation without any ex pense ; yet is said to pay $lOO per day, tak ing two hands to run it. This statement is true. The Gregroys mill is said to be pay ing•finely. A gentleman told me that they took from this mill, as the result of 12 hours work, $l3OO. But this statement will vary as according to the capability of the mills and. richness of leads. There is at this time quartz sufficient out to be crushed, to keep all mills at work that are here, and all that can be brought and put in operation this fall, for at least eighteen months to come. Lumber is selling at $6O per thousand as fast as it leaves the saw. All that possibly can be made will find a ready market. Logs and wood is to be had plenty, at the cost of cutting, and hauling a distance of from 100 yards to half a mile. Pine and spruce logs will run in size from one foot to 30 inches in diameter. Timber is so handy that one yoke of cattle will haul sufficient logs to supply one circular saw-. I will now give you the market price of such articles as are most in use here at this time, which vary according to demands and supply : Flour $lB per sack; bacon, $25 per hun dred pounds ; sugar, 30 cents per pound ; coffee, 40 cents per pound ; molasses, $4 50 per gal. ; potatoes and onions, 40 cents per bushel ; hay, $2OO per ton ; corn meal, $8 00 per hundred pounds; ax and pick handles, $1 25 each ; shovels and picks, $3 25 each. I am located as you will see from the head ing of my letter on Chase Creek, on Quartz Valley, about one and a half miles from Gregory's Point. 'We have at this point an abundance of timber and quartz, together with a small stream of water running through the valley, snificient for all mining and mill purposes. The locomotive boiler is in com mon use here for weight of crushers in quartz mills, they vary in weight from 300 to 500. There is a steam quartz mill, twelve ,horse power, being "put up within a few yards of my location. Their stamps or crushers weigh 500 lbs. each, and nine in number. It is es timated that they will be able to crush forty tons of quartz every twenty-four hours. Do not fail to come, and come at once, so that you may get in operation this fall.— There is no doubt about things here, saw mills and quartz mills are paying investments. Don't forget the saw mill and provisions.— Bring plenty of provisions to do until the last of April ; that being as early as you can get your spring supply. You will be able to run all winter. Write as soon as you can, letting me know when you will start, and if it is your wish you can give us your bill of timber necessary for building, and we will get them out, so that you may be able to run in two or three weeks after you get here. There is in the mountains, at this time, a hundred thousand persons, and arriving by hundreds every day. A great many come into the mountains, and stay one or two days and start for the States; this class, however, are of that portion that do nothing, let them be where they may.— They come here without money, provisions, tools, or anything else, and soon become dis couraged, and make a stampede for the States with the cry of humbug. No doubt you will meet many just such. I met many such and might have been discouraged, but was deter mined to come through. I amthankful that I did not suffer myself to become discouraged. I am here with bright prospects. I have struck a quartz lead, that I think will pay well. This you may rely upon as facts. Write as soon as possible, but if all do not fail to come, the industrious man is the man that makes the money here. Our currency is gold dust. Yancey, the leader of the bolters at the Charleston Convention, is an out and out dis unionist. During the contest in Alabama, in 1859, he stated his views fully in a letter to Mr. J. D. Meadows, from which we make the following extract : " In 1850 I advocated disunion on three grounds, viz : that in the month of August of that year the federal government had admit ted California as a State, formed under the free-soil process of squatter sovereignty ; had dismembered the slaveholding State of Texas and annexed a part of its soil to the Territo ry of New Mexico, and had abolished the in• ternal slave trade between the States and the District of Columbia, and had thus in effect destroyed tlae constitutional compact of the Union. "The South, however, voted down the State Rights band with which I acted, and since, I have not again proposed or advocated such a measure. "Upon that question I 'bide my time,' and shall be ready with the readiest, believing at the same time, that sufficient causes exist for a resort to that expediency even now, if it were expedient." Mr. Rhett, of South Carolina, an aider and abettor in this movement, in a letter written to a friend, the 18th of May last, thus gives his opinion of the proposed Richmond Con vention, which fixes the character of ' I am in my old path, it seems to 'me, and I mean to continue to tread in it.' But you say, 'have we not heretofore opptieed na tional party conventions ?' I answer, no ! A national party convention is the conve- Lion of a party which is based on national principles ; that is, principles common to all portions of the United States. The Rich mond Convention is not such a convention. Its declared principles are not national, for not a single Northern State has dared to avow them. It is a sectional convention called by one section of the Union to support rights and interests belonging to one section of the Union, and acknowledged but by one section of the Union. It arises out of the debris of the one great national party in the Union—the Democratic party—and is inten ed to counteract its policy.' Notwithstanding this incontestable evi dence that the secession at Charleston was a disunion movement, and that the Rich mond Convention is to be a sectional meeting, there are a few men in this State who ap prove of both. Their bitterness toward the great statesman of the North-West is such that they would sooner see the Democratic party broken up, and the Union dissolved than that he should be successful. 'While no respectable newspaper in the State supports these traitorous designs, we occasionally find a Hessian shedt giving them aid and Ord ' fort. J. T. P Another Leaf in Lincoln's Record. Mr. Lincoln, the Republican candidate i for President, is said to be a conservative, ad law abiding citizen, but the record does not make him such. At the first Republican State Convention held in Illinois, which as sembled at Springfield, the sth of October, 1854, Mr. Lincoln was chairman of the Com mittee on Resolutions. The resolutions re ported, were unanimously adopted, among which we find the following:— Resolved, That the times imperatively de mand the re-organization of parties, and re pudiating all previous party attachments, names, and, predilections, we unite ourselves together in defence of the liberty and Consti tion of the country, and will hereafter co-op erate as the Republican party, pledged to the accomplishment of the following purposes : To bring the Administration of government back to the control of first principles; to re store Kansas and Nebraska to the position of Free Territories ; that as the Constitution of the United States vests in the States, and not in Congress, the power to legislate for the ex tradition of Fugitives from labor, TO RE PEAL AND ENTIRELY ABROGATE THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW; to restrict slavery to those States in which it exists ; TO PRO HIBIT THE ADMISSION OF ANY MORE SLAVE STATES INTO THE UNION ; to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia: to exclude slavery from; all the Territories. Over which the general. government has exclusive ju risdiction ; and to arrest the acquirement of any more Territories unless the practice of slavery therein forever shall have been prohib ited. As Mr. Lincoln has not announced a change of opinion upon this subject, we have a right to believe that he still holds to that which he advocated in 1854; - A nice President he will make, being committed in advance to "Re peal and entirely abrogate the fugitive slave law" and " To prohibit the admission of any more slave States." EDWARD S. DAVIS Yancey and Disunion. TEIE ART OF GROWING TREES FROM CUT- TlNGS.—Professor Delacroix, of Besancon, in France, has discovered a mode of propaga ting from cuttings, which is not only success ful in case of roses and other plants easy to live, but apples, pears, plums, apricots, &c. Out of an hundred cuttings put out in June, not one but was thriving in August, in the open air, without shade or extra care, except watering a few times soon after they were planted. His method is to put the whole cut tings in the ground, bent in the form of a bow, with the .centre part up, and just on a level with the surface, at which point there must be a good bud or shoot, which is the only part expoded to the air ; the other being pro tected by the earth from drying up supports and gives vigor to the bud, w'hich starts di rectly into leaf, and in its turn helps the cut ting to form roots and the whole even forms a thriving tree. The method of setting them is to form two drills about three inches apart, with a sharp ridge between, over which bend the cutting, and stick an end in each drill, and cover up and press the earth firmly, and water freely. Cuttings should be of the last year's groth, fresh and vigorous. [This is not very new ; but we believe when the operations are carefully conducted, success will often follow. The editor of the H. E. Farmer, re ferring to this subject, says, " We have cher ry trees now growing which we obtained by cutting off the shoots which had grown the previous year, and then planting them in moist, shady places. It is quite probable that twigs of other trees would grow as well under favorable circumstances, as we know of one or two instances where the apple twig has taken root and produced a fine tree."— Germanio2.oll Telegraph,. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. —Yelanchol y Death of a Newly Married Couple.—A bon t three o'clock Friday afternoon, says the Cincinnati Enqui rer, as the steamer Jacob Strader was plough ing her way up the river to this city, when near Westport, Ky., a short distance below Madison, Ind., the pilot observed a man and a woman in a skiff, crossing the Ohio from the Indiana shore. When first seen the man was leisurely resting upon his oars, and the pilot presumed he was waiting till the boat would pass, in order to ride the waves. To his surprise, however, as the crafts neared each other, the man in the skiff vigorously applied his oars to the water, and endeavored to cross the line of the steamer. The engines were instantly reversed, but the velocity of the boat could not be checked in time to pre vent a collision. The steamer struck the skiff, which was instantly capsized, and with its occupants swept under the larboard wheel.— A yawl was immediately lowered, but the un fortunate couple had disappeared, and were lost to view forever. A bundle of clothing and an umbrella were picked up and con veyed to the Kentucky shore, where an old man, who had witnessed the catastrophe, was standing with a couple of horses. He informed the men in the yawl that the woman was his daughter, and in company with her husband, to whom she bad but recently been married, was returning from a brief visit to some friends in Indiana. The lamentations of the sorrow stricken old man, who refused to be comforted, were painful in the extreme, and as long as the steamer remained in sight, he continued wringing his hands and rending the air with his cries. TRAINING BULLS TO FIGHT LOCOMOTIVES.- The other day, says the Pittsburg Chronicle, a plucky little bull, who lives on the line of the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad, about six miles from Wheeling, was grazing about near the track and picking the fresh grass blades out from between the cross-ties, when he beard a locomotive coming down upon him. The locomotive whistled for the bull to clear the track, which the bull made an ef fort to do, but being closely crowded by the iron horse, and not being disposed to show the white feather, even to a superior and firey opponent, his young bullship turn ed about, pawed the earth, bowed his head with the determination to give his pursuer the best he had in the shop. The engineer seeing this, put on steam enough to knock the bull sky high. The two came together with a crash, His bullship was knocked in to an "infinite number of small pieces," the engine was thrown from the track, and like the cars behind it, was plastered and bedaub ed with bloody meat and ghastly gore. The owner of this ill-fated but game bovine, some years ago, lost a steer- in a similar manner, for which the Railroad Company refused to pay. Since that time he has been engaged in the cultivation of game bulls to fight the Cleveland and Pittsburg engines. The ani mal whose fate we have just chronicled was left out of his pasture by his owner, with the expectation and the hope that he would en counter the locomotive. We heard the own er say, yesterday, that he bad another bull much larger and stronger, and gamer, which he intended to let out in a few days to fight the engine. SHOCKING CASE OF UNNATURAL BRUTALITY —A Man Murders His Mother and then Es capes—Coroner's Investigation.—A most re volting case of brutality, resulting in death, was investigated at Bellevue Hospital, on Tuesday, by Coroner Jackman. Edward Cromie is a man 27 years of age, and has been absent from his home in this city for the last five years. He returned about two weeks ago and went to his mother's, 88 Willett et., where he remained three days, and then hav ing a slight difficulty with his mother, fell upon and beat her most fearfully. After knocking her down and inflicting several vio lent blows with his fist, this unnatural and brutal son jumped on her face and breast, and with his heavy boots kicked and stamped upon her, till she was insensible and nearly dead. To the entreaties of his sister, who endeavored to pull him away, this brute Cro mie exclaimed " I will kill her, (his mother,) she has lived too long already." He did not desist till fearful the police were coming, when the desperado fled, and has not since been seen. A medical examination of the unfor tunate woman showed that her lower jaw had been fractured on both sides of the face, be sides which she had received other terrible injuries from the fists and feet of her brutal son. This occurred on the sth instant, and the victim was conveyed to Bellevue Hospital, where she lingered till Monday, and died.— The deceased was very intemperate in her habits, and when intoxicated it was a very difficult matter to get along with her, but at the time of receiving the fatal. violence Mrs. Cromie was sober.—New York Express. A WIEOLF, FAMILY POISONED.-A whole family, at Chicago, had a narrow escape from being fatally poisoned a day or two ago, by the carelessness of eating a quantity of the herb stramonium, or deadly nightshade, which they boiled for greens, thinking it to be wild beets. All were deranged for many hours, and only with difficulty were saved by,medi cal • aid, FREAKS OP A BLIND Roam—The Cham bersburg Repository gives the following ac count of the amusing but dangerous and rather expensive freaks of a blind horse in that borough: "On Thursday evening last, as an elderly man named Koons, was unloading butter, eggs, and other produce from his wagon in front of the store of G. W. Heagy & Co., Main street, south of Queen, his horse, which was blind, from some cause or other started off, at a slow gait at first, but finding itself unrestrained, and being strong and some what spirited, soon got into a furious run. Being blind, it wandered upon the pavement, on the opposite side of the street, above the Indian Queen Hotel, where the wagon came in contact with the steps in front of the resi dence of Mr. S. M. Perry, which were literal ly demolished. The blind and excited crea ture then tacked about and run immediately across the street, and the wagon coming in contact with the awning posts in front of the store of Mr. Joseph Deckelrnayer, the horse broke loose from it, and, with one shaft still attached, plunged frantically clear through one of the large show windows into Mr. D.'s store, demolishing jars of candies, show cases, and upturning every thing else in his blind, and mad career. When he got to the back part of the room, he reared upon other cases on the counter, smashing them, of course, and jostled the mineral water fountain, breaking a number of syrup bottles that were thereon. He then got into the middle of the room, and. meeting with no other obstacles, was arrested at the front door, when the affrighted animal was led out, trembling like an aspen leaf wid bleeding profusely from the numerous cuts he received in coming in contact with so much glass." STIOCKING ACCIDENT-A Girl Killed While Tied to a cow.—A terrible accident occurred in the town of Delhi, Delaware county, a week ago yesterday, which resulted in the death of a little girl seven years old. The parties to the sad occurrence were William Scott, a boy seventeen years old, and his half-sister, Eliz abeth Doby, the victim. The boy had been sent to take the cows to pasture, the little girl accompanying him. He had with him a piece of rope, with which he was to bring back some hay. On his way he playfully tied one end of the rope around the body of his sister, and the other end to the cow's tail. When the cow bad proceeded a short distance in this way, followed by the girl, the latter stum bled and fell, which so frightened the cow that she ran off at a furious rate, dragging the poor girl after her. After running some distance the girl's head struck a rock, crush ing in the skull, at the same time the cow's tail pulled out, so great was the force of the resistance. The.girl was also badly cut around the face neck and head. She was taken up by the boy and carried home, where she breathed but two or three times before expir ing- The boy is said to be rather deficient in intellect, and it is not supposed that he realized the imminent danger in which his sister was placed by his mischievous conduct. —Albany .Argus, June 8. FREAKS OP FORTUNE-AN ARISTOCRATIC OR, GAN-GRINDER.-Th e New York Express is re sponsible for the following history of the vi cissitudes of fortune: About five years ago Count 8., a Russian nobleman, was accused of political crimes.— An edict was issued confiscating his estates and consigning him and his family to the wilds of Siberia. Fortunately the Count heard of the matter before it was too late, and succeeded in embarking with his wife and daughter on board of a brig bound for the United States. In the hurry of their flight they were unable to take anything with them but a few valuables, which barely suf ficed to pay for their passage.. They landed in this city penniless and friendless. In this predicament, the Count bethought of turning the musical talents of his family to account. He procured an organ for himself, a violin for his wife, and a tamborine for his daugh ter, by pawning portions of their clothing : — The trio then went out, singing and playing from door to door, and their aristocratic man ner, which even their humble occupation but illy disguised, procured for them much more liberal support than is usually given to itin erant musicians. Their gains were so con siderable that in the space of four years they had laid by money sufficient to buy a house for $12,000 in the Sixteenth Ward, and two weeks ago signed the title deeds in the office of a lawyer in this city. By the last mail the Count received dispatches according to him a full pardon, with the restoration of his es tales. Next week the Count will re-visit his native land, taking with him, however, his musical companions in adversity. This is a true story. SINGULAR TRANSFOP3IATION.--The follow ing occurrence, reported by the York Repub lican to have taken place at Stewartstown, in that county, on the 20th of May, belongs to the records of the " wonderful." The story —the truth of which is vouched for by a re sponsible person—is as follows : " An Albino, or white negro, living with Mr. "Abel Kirkwood, •fell, from the effect of an epileptic fit, from the stoop of the house, where ho was sitting on a chair, down to the distance of some en feet. There he lay, struggling in his spasms for the space of half an hour, when he turned as black as the ace of spades. By Tuesday, the 22d, he was able to walk about town, and complained of noth ing save a few bruises, occasioned by the fall, and the ebony hue which still shaded his once fair face.- Poor fellow, he was quite lothe to part with the resemblance he once bore to a white man, in exchange for his present shadowy phiz as a black. What is more remarkable, is that while his face is as black as Egyptian darkness, his hair is per fectly white; thus forming a most beautiful and striking contrast. The name of the man who has undergone this remarkable transfor mation is Nicholas Billingsly, and he is about twenty years of age, The affair has quite mystified the good citizens of Stewartstown, as doubtles it will all others who read or hear of it." PROFANE SWEARING.--It is not generally known that the Revised Penal Code, passed last winter, makes all persons who speak loosely or profanely of God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, or the Bible, liable to an indictment for blasphemy, the penalty for which is a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or impris onment not exceeding three months, or both, at the discretion of the court. Persons in the habit of swearing had better be careful, as no officer who regards his oath of office can avoid returning to Court all persons who are guilty of the offence as above specified. • riee' The Convention of the Seceding Dem ocracy met at Richmond on Monday last, and, without transacting any buainess of im portance, adjourned on Wednesday to 'meet again on the 21st. Military Convention, Held at Lewis- According to previous announcement made by the Major General, the officers of the 14th Division, met in Convention at Lewistown, on the 30th ult, to determine the time and place of holding the next fall encampment. On motien of Lieut. Sterrit, Gen. Frank .111 Lane, of Huntingdon, was called to the chair, and on taking his seat made a neat and ap propriate speech, and asked the delegates present to aid him in preserving order and despatching the business they had met to transact. After nominating Secretaries, the roll was called and the following gentlemen answered to their names. Huntingdon. Gen. Frank H. Lane, Maj. John S. Miller- Capt. James Dunlap, 'Maj. James S. Bris bin. Maj. J. S. Gibler, Lieut. R. P. McWil liams, Maj. Jas. Reese, Capt. F. M. Mickey, Capt. C. McClelland, Lieut. D. K. Souloff. Gen. Wm. I. Furst, Lieut. Zeigler, Major John Wilson, Maj. Daniel Eisenbise, Maj. G. W. Gibson, Maj. George B. Mitchell, Capt. Wm. Biglovr, Lieut. T. M. 'rulings, Lieut. F. R. Sterret, Sergent J. S. Weaream. Mr. Weaream was admitted to vote as proxy for Capt. Sillheimer, who was prevent ed from attending the Convention. The naming of the place was next id or der, and the Convention proceeded to nomi nate, amid much feeling and considerable ex citement. 'VI:Ij. Jas. S. Brishin nominated Hunting don ; Capt. F. M. Mickey nominated Mifflin ; Lieut. Thomas Rulings nominated Lewis town. On motion the nomination closed and the Convention proceeded to ballot. The first ballot stood as follows : Huntingdon, Lewistown, Mifflin, Dunlap, Brisbin, Lane, Miller, McAteer, Furst, Wilson, Bigelow, Rulings, Gilder, and M'Williams, voted for Huntingdon. Eisenbise, Gibson, Zeigler. Mitchell, Ster ret and Weaream, voted for Lewistown. Reese, Mickey, _McClelland and Souloff, voted for Miffin. Huntingdon haVing received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared the next place of holding the Encampment. Camp Patter son, in honor of Gen. Patterson, was chosen as the name of the Encampment. Lieut. McWilliams moved that a Commit tee of three be appointed to wait on Gen. Crawford and with his consent invite Gen. Wm. Klein, to take command of Camp Pat terson, in case ill health prevented Gen. Craw ford from assuming the responsibilities of the Camp. J. Wearenm moved that the same commit tee be instructed to request Gen. Crawford to invite Gen. Patterson, of Philadelphia, and Gen. J. S. Negley, of Pittsburg, as review ing officers—unanimously agreed to. The Chair appointed the following gentle men as the Committee. George V. Mitchell, James Reese, F. M. Mickey. The - Chair then appointed the Committee of Invitation, which read as follows. Bitntingdon. Geo. W. Garrettson, John S. Miller. Centre. A. G. Curtin, James S. Brisbin, Jnoob Wolf. .3fifilin. Wm. I. Furst, J. W. Wilson, Joseph Wen- ream. -.K., Juniata. R. P. McWilliams, F. M. Mickey, James Reese. Clearfield. Jas. 11. Larimer, Wm. Campbell, J. Nev ling. On motion of Jos. Weaream, General P. 11. Lane was made Chairman of the Commit tee. On motion of James S. Brisbin, each offi cer present pledged himself to use his best endeavors to secure a full attendance at Camp Patterson. Captain Dunlap said Cen tre country was good for at least five compa nies. On motion of Lieut. McWilliams, the time of holding the Encampment was next dis cussed and after much debate the 24th of Sep tember was agreed upon. On motion of Jas. S. Brisbin, the proceed ings were made unanimous. An expression of opinion was had and tho Convention deemed it expedient to hold Bri gade Encampment next fall. The Convention then adjourned. F. H. LANE, President. PLAYING CARDS FOR A-WIFE:A constable in Williamsport, Indiana, while paying a visit to a young lady a few miles away, proposed a game of euchre as the evening's entertain ment, which was accepted by the young lady. When the cards were dealt the young lady proposed a " flyer" of fifty dollars, to which the constable demurred. The young lady protested that she would never play with a gentleman unless there was some stake up, but the gent still demurred, when, as a com promise, the lady proposed that they would play, and if she beat him lie should marry, her, which the gallant constable couldn't do otherwise than accept. At it they went, and the lady proved to be the winner. The con stable was invited to stay all night, and in the morning they would proceed to the squire's and be made one flesh. He plead pressing business and went away. She followed him to his father's and stayed there three days without seeing the young man, when a com promise was effected by paying the disconso late lady two hundred and fifty dollars to fill the breach. A FREAK OF NATURE.-.—We learn from n the Harrisburg Telegraph that a circumstance of a lamentable character occurred at New Cum berland, quite recently. The wife of Mr. Wm. Magonnel gave birth to a male child which was terribly deformed, . The deformi ty consists in the right arm having an extra joint in the ulna and radical bones , midway between the elbow and the wrist, joints. .A thumb and small finger, in close apposition, are placed on the end 'of this unnatural mem ber. , But, unhappily, far more unfortunate than this, is •the fact that on :the - left side there is no arm at all. The child is living, and bids.fair to attain to maturity.c The pa rents of the child are- in . limited circonft stancens in life. - town. Centre Juniata. 7 fin. 11
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