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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\