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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATION.
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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.
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