Vol XXX VII— Whole No 1 079. Terms of Subscription, OXE DOLLAR PER ANNU XI, IN ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. ILJ"* All NEW subscriptions must be paid in advance. If the paper is continued, and not paid within the first month, $1,25 will bo char ged ; if not paid in three months, $1,50; if not paid in six months, $1,75; and if not paid in nine months, §2,1)0. Rates of Advertising. One square, 16" lines 2 squares, G mos. $5,00 1 time 50 44 1 year 10,00 44 2 times 75 column, 3 mos. 8,00 44 3 44 1,00 44 G 44 10,00 44 1 mo. 1,25 44 1 year 15,00 44 3 41 2,50 1 column, 3 mos. 10,00 44 G 44 4, 00 4 4 6 44 15, 00 44 1 year G.OO 44 ] year 25,00 2 squares, 3 times 2,00 Notices before MAR -44 3 mos. 3,50 RIAGES, &C, sl2. The above rates are calculated on burgeois type. In smaller type, 15 lines of brevier, or 12 lines of nonpariel minion constitute a square. For stereotype plates, a liberal deduction will be made. The above are cash terms for all advertisements inserted for three months or less. Yearly ad vertisements are held payable, one half at end of three, and the balance at the end of six months. Communications recommending persons for office, must be paid in advance at the rate of 25 cents per square. J. W. IMKKEIS, Attorney at Law, Lewi-town. Hi ill in to. Pa. CrSC. 7T. EIiEE?-, Attorney at Law, OFFICE in West Marketslreet,opposite Eisen bi-e's Hotel, will attend to any business in the courts of Mifflin, Centre, or Huntingdon coun ties. Lewistown, Jan. 23, 1852. MAGISTRATE'S OFFICE CHRISTIAN HOOVER, Justice of the Peace, CAN be found at liisofßoe, in the room re cently occupied by D. W. Huiitig, Esq. where he will attend to all business entrusted to him with the greatest care and despatch. in:, k. w. ii ils; OFFERS, his professional services to the citizens of Lewistown. He can be con sulted at all times at the Roe Hive Drug store. Lewistown, August3o,lßso-tf WILLIAM LIND. MMJDMji'JiI iMILDii, East Market street, Lewistown, IN returning thanks to his friends and the public .generally for tke liberal support heretofore uxteiolcii to him, wouli*. respectfully inform ihenrthat he has jusi received aoplendiil assortment of Fashionable CASSIMERES & YESTLYGS, selected in the city with special reference to h. rug made sip for customer work, which he is enabled tofurnish at lower prices than similar articles could be procured in the stores. Gentlemen desirous of having a superior article of clothing, are requested to cull and examine bis stock. Willi long experience and the aid of first rate workmen, he flitters himself that he can furnish his customers am! friends with superior garments, al rea sonable prices. I.ewistown, Nov. 2S, 1851. p§[Tiip7~ rpllE undersigned continues to manufacture celebrated Quilted and French calf Roots, together with all articles connected with his business. MOSES MONTGOMERY. Lewistown, August 8, 1851-tf JOHN CLARK & CO. HAVE removed tbeir Shoe Store from be low Eiseobise's to the diamond, opposite the Lewistown Hotel. Having renewed their |KI stock, they are now prepared io make f to order all kinds of BOOTS AND in the best manner and of the best materials. They have also a choice assort ment of city and eastern work to which they invite the attention of the citizens of Lewis town and vicinity, as they are determined to sell at the very lowest prices for cash. Lewistown, April 23, 1852. BILLY JOHNSON'S Cheap Hoot, Shoe A Cloth iiix Store. T¥AVL\'G returned from the city with a large stock of the above mentioned ar ticles, he is prepared to sell low for cash: Mens Calf Boots, from #1 75 to #0 (10 44 Coarse 44 44 1 25 to (i 00 44 Gaiters and fancy shoes of different kinds. Ladies' Shoes, from 50 to 1 50 44 Gaiters, best quality, 1 50 to "2 00 Misses' and Children* 1 Gaiters, of different kinds. He is also prepared to make to order all kinds of 800 TS, SHOES and GAITERS that may be wanted. His stock of CLOTHING has been well selected. It was bought for cash and will be sold at very small profits. Call and examine for yourselves, and you will be convinced of the fact. ap23 BILLY JOHNSON. MARTI YS SELF REGULATING SI.IIIU MINE. BA the use uf this Machine one person can tin as much si-wing, and make better work than five or six can do by hand. Tailors. Saddlers, Ate., look to your interest. Ma chines, Shop and County High!* for sale Apply to JOH N LOCKE, Lewistown, until February 10th, after that at I.ewitsburg, Union county, Pennsylvania. P. tS. One of these Machines may be seen in oper ation at C. M. HKILL'S Tailor-shop in tins place. JOHN LOCKE. Lewistown, January 16,1-52—tf Fish, Salt, and Plaster, TV)lt sale by JOHN STERRETT & CO., • U;nc 27.-tl At the Lctvtslown Mills, wsssmm jjgn mm as wtmaaa varsssswm, ANTIDOTE FOR WET FEET. Good ws lor the People. rpHE undersigned, having resumed business lathis-old stand two doors east of YVattson At. Jacob's store, East Market street, Lewis town, has just opened an ENTIRE NEW STOCK, comprising one of the best and j cheapest assortments of 03cE><S>il£3 ever offered in this market, which lie is pre i pared to sell 25 per cent, lower for CASH, than has ever betore been sold in this commu nity. As an example of this, call and examine an article of Ladies' Gaiters, which ha 9 always been heretofore sold here for $2,*25, and which he can now sell at #1,75. Other articles in proportion. He has Men's tine boots from #2.50 to #3.50 '• coarse " " 1,50 to 2.50 Roy's Roots " 1,50 to 2.75 Ladies' Gaitprs " 75 to 1,75 Ladies' Shoes '• 02A to 1,50 Misses' 44 41 50 to 67£ Children's 44 44 25 to 50 j Boys' 44 44 75 to 1,1*2.j These articles he feels safe in recommending ! as worth the money, being well made from good materials. OCr Roots and Shoes made to order by ex ! perienced workmen —none others being eni ployed. ! Repairing done at reasonable prices. 0"5~ He invites an inspection of his work, his stock ami his prices, and he doubts not he will be able to render entire satisfaction. DANIEL DONOT. I-ewistown, April 23, 1852. READ AND ACTT rpHE subscribers having just received one A of the largest and handsomest slocks of Spring and Summer Goods ever brought to this place, would invite their old friends, and the public generally, to call and give them an examination, as we are de termined to sell goods of all kinds AS CHEAP AS THE CHEAPEST, and v. c ihink (though we are not so good at bragging as some of our neighbors) that in point of style there is no thing in this place quite equal to them—at least the ladies say so. We have all kinds oi Ladies wear, such as BOXXETS, UICTSOXS, SPEXfERS, SLEEVES, COLLARS, SILKS, SITIXS, CiXADIXES, Poplins, Bareges, Tissues, Barege de Lames, l.awns, Prints, White Crape. Shawls, Gloves, Hose, Ac., Ac. And for the gentlemen Cloths, Cassimeres,Sattinets, Linens, Cottorrades, Mus lins. Summer Hats, Coats, Vests, l'unts, Boots, Shoes, Ac., Ac. Hardware Ac Queens ware, (offer, Tea, Sugar, JloJasscs, ive. Mackeral, Shad, Salmon, and CARPET ING that cuii l be brut tor style,quality and price. Come and sep, for we are determined to sell at prices which will astonish some peo ple SIGLER A STUART. Lewistown, April 23, 1852. Wattson, Jacob. & Co. H AVE just opened at theirold stand a very . large and desirable assortment of Spring ami Summer Goods, which they vwxild respectfully invite purcha sers to call and examine. Their stock em braces LADIES' DRESS GOODS of every description, handsome Black and Col ored SILKS, M. de Lames, Barege de l.ames, Challies, Lawns, Prints, Linen Cambric Hand kerchiefs, Collars, Sleeves, Bonnets. Shoes, Ac. Also, superfine Black and Fancy Cassimeres, Linens, Cot touadee, SIMMER CLOTHS, CARPETS, Boots and Shoes, Summer Hats, \c., all of which they will sell as low as any other establishment. Their stock was never fuller or more complete, arxi they will endeavor to give satisfaction to those friends who palromze them. Lewistown, April 16,1852—tf. LEWISTOWN MILLS. rpHE subscribers have taken the Lewistown F Mills and formed a copartnership under the firm of JOHN STERRETT A CO. loj car rying on a general MILLING BUSI NESS, wish to buy a large quantity of all kinds ot GRAIN, for which we will pay the HIGHEST I'UICEM the market will afford, accord ing to the quality of the grain. Any person wishing to store their wheat can do so, arid a receipt will be given to be kept in store until the Ist of August, and offer that until the Ist ot December. In case of wheat left in store, (lie subscribers reserve the privi lege of purchasing said wheat when the own ers wish to sell, at from 13 to 15 cents off' of inladelphia prices, and it we do not buy at this rate, then wc charge one cent per bushel fur Storage. No interest will be allowed on money not lifted for grain sold, as we are pre pared to pay CASH at all times. 1 1.0 l It hud all kinds of FEED keptand for sale tor cash. W. THOMPSON, AND. Mr.FARIiANE, HUGH CONLEY, S. S. WOODS. Lewistown, May 2, 1851.—tf DR. JOHN LOCKE, i> i: \ T I ST, Dr. L. is a regular graduate of the Balti more College of Dental Surgery, and devoted his entire attention to the business for seven years, which warrants him in offering entire satisfaction io all who may favor him with their patronage. Lewistown, Oct. 24, 1851—tf. LEAF LARD.—IO cwt fresh Lard, of the subscriber's own rendering, at 10 cts. per pound. For sale by ap2's2 JOHN KENNEDY, FRIDAY EVENING, HAY 28, 1852. iJort vi 2* Lines. BV WILLIAM (TLI.EX BRYANT. 1 lie May-sun sheds an amber light tin now-leaved woods and lawns between, Rut she win. with a siuile more bright, \Y elcomed and watched thespringin**green, Is in her grave, Low in her grave. The fair white blossoms of the wood In groups beside the pathway stand- But one, the gentle and the good, W ho cropped them with a fairer hand, Is in her grave, Low in her grave. Lp on the woodland's morning airs I lie small bird's mingled notes are flung: But she whose voice, more sweet than theirs, Once bade me listen while they sung, Is in her grave, Low in lier grave. That music of the earlv year Brings tears of anguish to my eyes; My heart aches when the (lowers appear, I'or then I think of her who ii< N Within her grave, Low in her grave. Our Country. BY M . J. I'EABOPV. Our country—'tis a glorious land ! With broad arms stretched from shore to shore; The proud Pacific chafes her strand. She hears the dark Atlantic roar : And nurtured on her ample breast. How many a goodlv prospect lies In nature's wildest gratul' tir drest. Enarnell'd with her l<y< lit r dyes. Rich prairies, deck'd with flowers of gold, Like sunlit ocean roll afar ; Broad lakes her azure heavens behold, Reflecting dear each trembling star. And mighty rivers, mountain born. Go swe ping onward, dark and deep. Through f r >t where the hounding fawn Beneath their sheltering branches leap. And cradled 'mid her clustering bills. Sweet \ales in dream-like beauty hide; Where love the air with music tills, -Vnd calm content and peace abide: For plenty here her fullness pour- In rich profusion o'er the land, And sent to seize her generous store, There prowls no tyrant's hireling band. Great GOD 1 W thank thee for this home— This hount • >n- birthland of th" free; W here wand iers from afar may come, And breathe the air of lihoj t\ ! Still may her flowers nntrampled spring, Her harvests wave, her cities rise; And yet, till Time shall fold his wing. Remain Earth's loveliest paradise .' I** isc r 11 nuco no. From the New York Tribune, extracts from Ilayard Taylor's Letter. KN.tKTOt.-JU, in Siuntiii, I'riil iy, Jin., ifi, lsi 2. Here, for tie 1 first time, I fully realize that 1 have reached Central Africa. You will, perhaps, be able to appreciate ila- impiessii n. when 1 tell you that the first di.-h on our table at dinner is a sheep rousted whole, and eaten without knives and forks: that the horse that lias been appropriated to mv daily use is a red stallion, of the wild breed of Dar-Fur: ami that my pets, in playing with which 1 lose ail hour> time everv day, arc, a full grown lioie-ss, a leopard ami two hvenas. When we ride out of a morning, six jet-black attendants. in white'! and scarh't dre>ses, fol low us on six droinedari 's. or, if wchose to dispense with tlu-ni, two footmen run liefore us. to clear away through the streets. This is a slight taste of that barbaric pump and state which one involuntarily associates with the name of .Soudan. On reaching here, the first thing - 1 did was to - ;1 house, as in these lands a traveler who wishes to he respectable, must take a residence on arriving at a city : even if he only intends to stay two or three days. I went to the residence of the sheikhs of the different quarters, none of whom wasathome: then to the (fovemor of the city, hut lie was absent in Ivordofan. Finally, in wandering about the streets, we met a certain Ali Effen di. who took us to a house which would lie vacant the next day. It was a large mud palace, counting an outer and inner divan, two sleeping-rooms, a kitchen, store-rooms, apartments for servants, and an inclosed court-yard and stables, all of which were to he had at 100 piastres (So) a month—an ex orbitant price, as 1 have since been informed. Before engaging it, 1 decided to ask the ad vice of the Austrian Vice-Consul, Dr. Reitz, for whom 1 had letters. He received me with true Herman cordiality, and would hear of nothing else hut that 1 should immediately take possession of an unoccupied room in his house. Accordingly the same day of my ar rival beheld me installed in luxurious quar ters, with one of tlm most brave, generous and independent of men as my associate. As the Consul's residence is the type of a house of the best class in Khartoum, a de scription of it may give some idea of life in the place, under the most agreeable circum stances. The ground-plot is one hundred and thirty paces square, and surrounded by a high mud wall. Inside of this stands the dwelling, which is about half that length, and separated from the principal side by a nar row garden and court-yard. Entering the court bv the main gate, a flight of stops con ducts you to the divan, or reception-room, in the second story. From the open ante-cham ber, you look to the south over the gray wastes of Seminar, or, if the sun is near his setting,'you see a reach in the White Nile, Hashing like the point of an Arab spear. The divan has a cushioned scat around three sides, and matting on the floor, and is really a handsome room, although its walls are mud, covered with a thin coating of lime, and its roof palm-logs overlaid with coarse matting, on which rests a layer of mud, a foot thick. In the second story are also the Consular Of fice and a sleeping room. The basement < ont.im? the kitchen, stop(?-roonis, scrvtints' rooms, The remainder of the house is | only one story in height, and has a balcony , I looking on the garden, and completely em- , i bowered in flowering vines. The only rooms . •ire the dining hall, with cushioned divans on ] : each side and a drapery of the Austrian col- , ; ors at the end. and my apartment, which , overlooks a small garden-court, wherein two . , large ostriches pace up and down, and a com- . ; pany of wild geese and wild swine make con- , tuiual discord. J lie court at the entrance ; communicates with the stables, which con- ] : tain the Consul s horses—a white steed, of < the pure Arabian blood of Nedjid, and the i red stallion 1 ride, which was sent by the | King of Dar-Fur to Latiff Paslm, ami pre- : | seated by hiin to the Consul. A Jfi/iu, or i trained dromedary, of unusual si/ •, stands ! in the court, and a tame lioness is tied to a stake in the eomer. She is a beautiful and powerful beast, and 1 never pa s her without , j taking her head between my knees, or stro king her tawny bide till she rubs against me 1 like a cat and licks mv band. 1 assing through a side-door into the gar den, we came upon a whole menagerie of animals, I nder the long arbors, covered : wi.li luxuriant stand two surlv hieiias, ;i wild ass troin the mountains of the ! Albara. and an Abyssinian mule. A tallmar ub >ut, la bird of the eraiv* species, with a pouch-bill,) stalks about the garden, occa sionally bending a hinge in the middle of his lung legs, and doubling them backward, s,, that lie uses half of them for a seat. Ad joining the stable is a large sheep-yard, in which are gathered together gazelles, strange varieties of sheep and goats from tie* countries of the \\ hito Nile, virgin-crane, and a huge an/i/o/nts l< >ir >, ;/.•■. fmm Kordofan, with curved horns four feet in length. Mv iavorite, however, is the leopard, which is a most playful and affectionate creature, ex cept at meal-tune. He is not more than half ■ wu, aim (is ■ all the wiles ui an intelligent Kitten, climoing his post and springing upon uie, or creeping up slyly and seizing mv ancle in his mouth. The garden, which i's watered by a well and string of buckets turn ed by an ox, lit- a rich variety of fruit trees. 1 J be grape season is just over, though 1 had a i'-vv btiuciies yesterday : figs are ripening li< iji day to day. oranges and lemons are in fruit .and flower, bananas blooming Ha* anoth er crop, and the pomegranate and creaiu-fruit i a variety of tie* Mexican chiriiiioga) bang h"avy on the branches. J'here is also a plan tation of date-trees ami sugar-cane, and a number of oruaun ntal shrubs, few of which < an* at j>rt*s lit in !!i>soii. There is m> plan whatever in the dispo- i •-ili ui of the buddings. Each man surrounds his property with a mud wall, regardless of si- I* caiieii with respect toothers, ami in going from one point to another, one is obliged to make iim im- t pei plexing zigzags. I rarelv ; venture far on foot, as 1 soon become le --vvlie; •red in the labyrinth of blank walls. \S hen mounted on the Consul's tallest drome dary, 1 look down on tjio inuis of the native J lion- s, and can take my lieu rings without difficulty. Ail tie* mysteries of the lower life of Kluirtoum* are revealed to me, from such a lofty post, tin each side 1 look into ■ pent yards where the miserable Arab and ' .Negro families lazily bask in the sun during the day, or into the filthy nest where they crawl at night. The swarms of children which they breed in these dens sit naked in tin* dust, playing with vile yellow dogs, and ! sometimes a lean burden-camel stands in the corner. The only furniture to be seen is a water-skin, a fow pots and jars, a basket or two, and sometimes an aiiaiii/reh , or coarse woe len frame covered with a netting of ropes, and saving as seat and bed. Nearly half the population of the place are slaves, brought from t lie mountains above Fazagl, or from the land of tin* I'inkas, on the White Nile. Due's commiseration of these degra ded races is almost overcome by his disgust ' with their appearance and habits, and 1 found even the waste plain that stretches to- I wards S uuiaar a relief an *r threading the ! lanes of the quarters where they live. Notwithstanding the nature of its popula tion. Khartoum is kept connwndsibiy neat and clean. It will lie a lucky day l'or Koine and Florence when their streets exhibit no more filth than those of this African city. The fa/.aars only, are swept every morning, but the wind performs this office for the re mainder of the streets. The xoag, or market, is held in a free space, opening upon the in land plain, where the country people bring their sheep, fowls, camels, dourrsi. vegetables and common products. The slaugter ; ing of animals takes place every morning on the banks of the Flue Nile, east of the city, which is thus entirely free from the effluvia i arising therefrom. Here the sheep, cows, j goats and camels are killed, skinned and j quartered in the open air, and it is no unusual thing to see thirty or forty butchers at work on as many different animals, each surround- ] ed by an attendant group of vultures, hawks, i cranes, crows and other carnivorous birds. I They are never molested by the people, and we sometimes ride through thousands of. them, which have so gorged themselves that 1 they scarcely take the trouble to move out of our way. The place labors under the disadvantage of ' being the most unhealthy part of one of the most unhealthy regions in the world. From the southern frontier of N übia, where the tropical rains begin to fall, to the table land of Abyssinia on the south, as far up the White Nile as lias yet been explored, Soudan j is devastated by levers of the most malignant character. The summers are fatal to at least ; one-half of the Turks, Egyptians and Eu ropeans who make their residence here, and j the natives themselves, though the mortality ; ; is not so great among them, rarely pass I j through the year without tin attack of fever, j I We have now the most healthy part of th*v i year, and yet of all the persons I see, three l'ourths arc complaining of some derange j meat of the system. The militavv hospital, 1 which I v isited, is tilled with case's of fever, : dysentery and suiall-pox. In one of his letters from St. Thomas. Mr. \\ illis says they have cockroaches there * that have pretensions to be lobsters, and spiders on which one might fry a beefsteak, mistak- I ing it for a gridiron.' I The Lord our Shepherd. ' The Lord is my shepherd; I shrill not want.' It seems next to impossible for the most casual reader of the Psalms of David, -ind, indeed, of all the Bible poets, to pass un noticed the simple, yet frequent and forcible manner, in which they illustrate the sacred truths they inculcate. Indeed the scriptures abound with imagery, often the most grand and gorgeous of which we can have any con- And then on the other hand, as in the Psalm from which the verse before us is taken, scenes of the most rustic simplicity are made to convey truths the most comforting and blessed that tlie soul of the christian could desire. " 7 he Lord ut my Shepherd.** I hose arc gracious words. Who that lias any claim to tin- title of christian can read them without feeling his faith grow stronger—his hope brighter—his love enkindle, in view of the truth so beautifully, yet so strongly assert ed, tint tin* Lord -Jehovah—the God of heaven and earth is he who. never slumberin° r , watch eth where Ids people dwell. He, who 44 hath his way in the whirlwind, and the clouds are dust of his feet—" W lin plants his footsteps nit the st?a, And rides upon the storm." lie, who is King of kings and Lord of lords, condescends with all the fidelity and watch fulness of an humble shepherd to guard and defend those who are so unspeakably happy as to b> numbered among the " sheep of his pasture." lint tin- language of the Psalmist acquires additional force when viewed in its personal application. I'lie Lord is not onlv the shep herd of his people in a f/encral sense, hut he j is the proteetor, friend and guide of each lamb of tli - tiock. The Lord is mv shepherd, i says Pavid. Herein is the consolation and hop.? of the christian, (lod careth for hini milirnliiat/i/, persona I iy—Bay, even so particu larly, that rh" very "hairs of his head are all numbered." 'But- this i s included in the lan- i guage which iinmediutely follows as a certain i conclusion of the fact so confidently assumed. Use Lord is my Shepherd : I shall not tcani.' 1 SIIM.I. NOT WANT. With what confidence and assurance must he have uttered these words. As he himself when a lowlv shep- ' herd boy, he watched his father's bock, had anticipated every want, supplied every neces sity, and shielded front every danger his ten d'-r charge—so with the assurance that the Lord ;s his shepherd, he is ready to conclude without the shadow of a doubt that he " shall not want any good." A ay, though as in his own experience "there came a lion and took a lamb out of the bock," but be delivered him out of his mouth and slew the spoiler: so he shall ucrcr waul the presence and as sistance of his almighty Shepherd to succour him front the roaring lion who walketh about seeking whom he may devour. In his wan dering through the desert he may sink deep in a horrible pit and miry clay, but he shall not want a present helper to set his feet upon a rock and establish his goings. "Fis thus the christian ever feels, and he may well exclaim, though storms of adversity lower thick around me 1 shall not want deliverance from the raging blasts. Temptations may assail, the j world may allure, the enemies of the cross may persecute and destroy, but I shall not ii'iint strength for each trying hour, power to [ resist each false allurement, and grace unto the end sufficient to enable me to come off . conqueror, and more than conqueror, through Christ who has loved me. Such may be the ! language of the child of (lod. Who would not wish to be able to say, the " Lord is mv •Shepherd," when such is the portion—the j strong consolation—the inrcitable certainty j that he " shall not icuni." Will You Take a Sheep ; A valued friend and an old farmer, about j the time that the temperance reform was lie- ! ginning to exert a healthful influence in the ! country, said to his newly hired man: 'Jonathan, I did not think to mention to j you when I hired you, that I think of trying j to do my work this year without rum. llow j much more must I give you to do without?' j 'Oh,' said Jonathan, '1 don't care much ! about it—you may give me what you please.' j ' Well.' said the farmer, ' I will give you a sheep in the fall, if you will do without.' ' Agreed,' said Jonathan. The oldest son then said— ' Father, will you give me a sheep if I will do without rum ?' 'Yes, Marshal, you shall have a sheep if you will do without.' The youngest son. a strippling, then said • —' Father, will you give me a sheep if 1 will j do without ?' ' Yes, Chandler, you shall have a sheep, ' also, if you will do without rum.' Presently Chandler speaks again— ' Father, hadn't you better take a sheep, ! too ?' This was a poser ; he hardly thought that \ he could give up the ' good creature' vet, ! but the appeal was from a source not to be I easily disregarded. The result was : the do- I tnoii was henceforth banished from the prem ises, to the great j' y and ultimate happiness ; of all concerned. A jockey wishing to make an advantageous display of a horse that he was desirous of selling to a bystander, placed his boy upon ; the beast, ordering him to ' ride him round a j short distance.' The boy, though well in- j strueted in this trade, unfortunately in this j instance, knew not whether the horse was al- j ready his father's, or yet to be bargained for; j being anxious, therefore, to learn the will of) his father, he stopped after riding a short dist- ; anee, and inquired with a loud voice, ' Fath- j or, shall I ride the horse to buy or sell'.' ' " As a physician and his friend were walk- j big down one of the principal streets the j other day, the doctor said to his companion: ! ' Let us avoid that pretty little woman you j see there on the left! she knows me, and i casts on uxe looks of indignation. 1 attended ' her husband—' 'Ah!' 1 understand: you ■ had the misfortune to dispatch him.' 'On j the contrary,' replied the doctor, ' i saved him.' A man who marries a frivolous, showy wo- : man, fancies he has hung a trinket around iiis j neck, but he soon finds it a millstone. i New Series—Vol. 6—No. :i. A Short Story with a Moral. A young Yankee had formed sin attach ment for a daughter of a rich old farm or, and after agreeing with the ' bonnie la,-.de,' went to the old farmer to ask his consent. During the ceremony—which was an awkward one tor Jonathan— lK; whittled awav at his stick. Ihe old man watched the movement of the knife, at the same time continuing to talk 011 the prospects of his iuture son-in-law a he supposed, until the stick was dwindled down to naught, lie then spoke as follows : ' You have fine property ; you have steady habits ■ are good enough looking; but you can't have my daughter. Had you made'something, no matter what, oi the stick you whittled awav vou could have had her: as it is. you cannot! Your property will go as the stick did, little by little, until all is gone, and vour family reduced to want. I have read your charac ter ; you have my answer.' Dick Daily's Great stump Speech. • FEU.FR CITIZENS:—This are a day for the poperlation of lloonville, like a bobtsiiied pul let on a rickety hen-roost, to be lookiit' no ! A crisis have arriven—an' sometliin's bust! Where are wc? Here 1 is, and I'd stand here and expirate from now till the day of synagogues, if voud whoop for Daily. Feller Citizens—.Jerusalem's to pay. and we hain't got any pitch. Our hyperbolical and majestic canal of creation has unshipped her rudder and the captain's broke Ids nek, and the cook's div to the depth of the vasty deep, in search o'dinning ! Our wigwam's torn to pieces, like a shirt on a brush fence, and cities of these ere latitudes is a vanishin' in a blue flame. Are such things to be did ? I ask you in the name of the American Fagle, who whipped the shaggy headed [don of o''eat Britain, and now sits a roostin' on tin* magnetic telegraph, if such doins is goin' to be conglomerated? i repeat to you in the name of the peacock of liberty,'when he's flew in o'er the cloud capped summits of the Kocky Mountains, it we's goin' to be extem poraneously bigyogged, in this fashion ! O, answer we ! t la7 we not bust in lynoranee," as Shake peel says. 'Shall we be bamdoozle ticd with such unmitigated oudaciousness ? Methinks 1 hear you yelp—- No sir. Ims- Hv !' Then 'lect me to Congress, and there'll be a revolution sure. heller citizens—lf I was a standid' on the adamantine throne of Jubiter, and the light nin was a clashin around me. I'd continue to spout! I'm full of the bilin' lathea of Mount Ktny, and I wont be quenched! I've sprung a leak, and must howl like a bear with a sore head. Flop together! jump into ranks and bear me through. teller citizens—You know me, and rip my lungs out with a mill grab if 1 won't stick to yer like brick dust to a bar of s..ap. Where is my opponent? Nowhere! Iwasbrotnp among ye, flier citizens, and popped in a school-house, but In' can't git me with his hi falutin' words. l[iotum, strictuni, ul bran to, catnip, Brazeel, Togloony. and Baffin's Bav ! AVliat do you think o' that ! Go it porkey—root hoy or d-i-e as Shakapecl said when Censor stabbed him in the House of Representatives. teller citizens—'Beet me to Congress and I 11 abolish mad-dogs, muskeeters, and bad cents, and go in for the annihilation of nig gers, camp meeting, and jails. I'll repudiate crows, and flustitiben hocks. I'll have bam raisins every day—Sundays excepted—and liquor enough to swim a skunk. Yes feller citizens, lect me to Congress, and I shall be led to exclaim in the sublime—the terrific language of Bonaparte, when preach in' 111 the wilderness— " Richard's himself ayfiin !" On, then, onward to the polls—"gallop apace fiery footed steeds," and make the wel kin' tremble with anti-spasmodic veils for Daily. Cock your muskets, I'm coniin'. " He nee yc.' Brutus, broad axe and glory!" Let's lieker! Indemnity. rpilF, FRANKLIN FIRE INSIRANCE C'OMI-ANV NF Ptiitad. I J- phia—OFFICE 163. Chesnut street near Fifth street DIKE C T O H S . Charles N.Bancker, Geo. R. Richards, Thomas Hart, Mordecai I) Lewis, Tobias Wagner, Adolphe E. Borie, Samuel Grant, I>avid S. Brown, Jacob It. Smith, Morris Patterson. Continue to make insurant e, perpetual r |imit*d, n every description of property in TOWN A roiJM'ltV, at rates as low as are consistent with security. The Company have reserved a targe Contingent Fund, which, with their Capital and Premiums safely invested, affords ample protection to the assured. The assets of llttf Company, on January Ist, 1849, as published agreeably to au Act of Assembly, were as tot lows, viz: Mortgages,* $1,017.438 41 Heal Estate, te1.721 S3 Temporary Loans, ' 06,001 -f> Stocks, 01,553 i'i Cash, Sac., 38,804 37 $1.328,492 71 Since their incorporation, a period of eighteen years, they have paid upwards of One Million Four Hundred Thousand hollars, iusses by fire, thereby affording an evi dence of lite advantages of Insurance,as wellustbe abil ity and disposition to meet with promptness all liabilities. CHARLES N. BANCKER, President. CHARLES G. UANCKEII, Secretary AGENT for Mifllin county, R. C. 11 Al E, Esq., Lewistown. [apl2-lv Justice oi* the Peace. HENRY KULP has opened his office in \Vc9t Market street, next door to the jail, where he will attend to such business as mrt'v he entrusted to him, with despatch, and accordiitjr to law. Lewistown, May 14, 1852. William Ball, BARBER ami HAIR-DRESSER, has fitted up a room in MAIN STREET, under THOMAS' NATIONAL HOVSK, where Shaving and Hair-dressing will be promptly attended to, at all reasonable hours, by experienced hands. apl6. PERFUMERY —Bay Rmn. Cologne, Ver beua, Sweet Briur, Paicheoly, Jenny Lmd, Jasmine, Hose, at dlO BANKS' Variety store. I^RUIT. —Oranges, Lemons, Raisins, Figs, Prunes, the first of the season, at dl'J A. A. U\NKS\
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