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DIRECTORS.
Hon. John J. Pearce, Hon. O.C. Harvey,
lohii B. Hal. T. T. Abraros,
<.diaries A. Mayer, D. K. Jackuiun,
'Jliarle, Ciist. W. Wr.ite,
Peter Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. G C. HARVKY, Pres.
T, T. ASRIM,, Vice Pres.
Taos. Aib lun, r-ec'y.
REFERENCES.
Samuel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, 1). D.
A. A. Wine gut drier, W'm. Vanderbelt,
L. A. Mackey, Wm. Fearon,
\. VViiite. Dr. J. S. Crawford,
'arne-> <iuiggle, A. Cpdegraff,
John \V. Maynard, James Armstrong,
Hon. Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. lligler.
, .I'T'Agent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW
* ART, Esq. apl~
jr GAS! GAS!
E i B. SELIIELMER would respectfully in
tl - form tin? citizens of Lewistown that he
i is y-"paring to put up
v-as Fixtures of all kinds,
j] in Churches, Stores, Dwelling", Public Buihl
ings .Shops, ic., in the best manner. Hav
ing procured an experienced workman freni
the City, recommended to me to he one Of the
best workmen in the State, I can safely war
rant all work and feel confident of pleasing
all. Lewistown, May 22, 1856.
1,500 FEET I, 1, li, li. in. Pan
el, dry white Stuß, just received by
ma 22 f. G. FRANCISCUS.
| VIDI laasasii. ,
Tin: KOSHS Alii: FADING.
I!V ROBERT K. II'KAY*.
The roses are fading >
Like darkness at morn ;
The roses are fading.
Their beauties are gone.
Those ones that were brightest
, . Are passing away ;
To cheer an<i delight us
Why do they not stay?
The queen among flowers,
No perfumes now shed.
Though still in our bowers,
She's withered and dead.
O why doth she leave us ?
Why will she not stay?
When the parting duth grieve us,
By hastening away.
But thus it is ever,
With ones that are dear;
Death soonest doth sever
The brightest ones here.
The ones that are nearest
And twined round the heart;
Those ones that are dearest,
The soonest depart.
And so with the flowers,
Like things here below ;
When we think they are ours.
No more then we know.
They leave us in mourning,
The spots of their birth ;
Still they leave us a warning
lLiw frail is all earth.
uitav^'iußnisr
THE OLD BLACK BULL.
j We take the following from a new
' work published by T. 11. Peterson, called
"The Humors of ra'.conbridge." !
It's poor human natui', all out, to wran
' !e and quarrel now and then, from the 1
ki'clien to the parlor, in church and >tato.
, Kvi-n lhe fathers of the holy tabernacle arc
not probf against this little weakness ; for
jieople xvil' have passions, people will be
! long to meetin', and people will let their
; passions under the pulpit. IJul
I we have no distinct re ollection of ever
having known a misdirected, but properly
interpreted letter , to settle a cliueklv ' plug
muss,' so efficiently and h.'ppily a- the
case we have in point.
Old John Jlulkley (grandson ol the once
famous President Chauncty ) \\v>' a minis
ter of die gospel, and one of the G*—t id'
ruled men of iiis day in the wooden nut
meg State, when the immortal (or ought fo
be) Jonathan Trumbull was 'around' and !
in his youth. Mr. Ilulkley was the first
■•settied minister in the town of his adop
tion, Colchester, Connecticut. It was with
him, as afterwards with good old brother
Jonathan (Governor Trumbull, the bosom
friend of General Washington), goofT l >
confer on almost any matter, scientific, po ,
lineal or religious—any subject, in short,
w herein common sense and genera! good
to ali concerned was the issue. As a phi
losophical reasoner.casuist, and proodcomi
-1 selor, iie was 'looked up to* and abided by. ,
It so fell out that a congregation in Mr. !
Bulkiey's vicinity got to loggerheads, and :
were upon the apex of raising ' the evil
one' instead of a spire to their church, :.s i
they proposed and split upon. The very ;
nearest they cotdd come to a cessation oi
hostilities, was to appoint a committee ol j
three, to wait on Mr. Buiklev, state their
case, and gel him to adjudicate. They !
waited on the old gentleman, and he iis- j
toned with grave attention to their conflict- j
©
iiig grievances.
•It appears to inc," said the old gentle
man, • that this is a very trifling case—a
very trifling tiling to cause you so much
vexation.'
* So 1 say.* savs one of the committee, j
•1 don't call it a tufling case, .Mr. Bulk- j
lev,' said another.
' No case at ali,' responded the third.
'lt ain't, eii liercely answered the first
sjo;i kcr.
•No, it ain't, sir!' quite as savagely re
plied the third.
' It's anything but a trilling case, unv
how,' echoed number two, ' to expect, to
raise the minister's salary and that new j
steeple, too, out of our smalltonijregation.
' There is no danger of raising much
out of yov, anyhow, .Mr. Johnson,' spite- j
fullv returned number one.
'Gentlemen, it you please—' beseech
itigly interposed the sage.
' I haven't come here, .Mr. Bulkley, to
quarrel,' said one.
'Who started this?' sarcastically answer
ed Mr. Johnson.
' Not me, anyway,' number three re
plies.
' You don't say I did, do you V rays
number one.
' Gentlemen !—gentlemen ! —'
'Mr. Ilulkley, you see how it is; there's
Johnson—'
' Yes, Mr. Bulkley,' says Johnson, 'and
there's old Winkles, too, and here's lb .-
con Potter, also.'
' I am here,' stifily replied the deacon,
'and I am sorry the Reverend Mr. Bulk
ley finds me in such company, sir!
' Now, gentlemen— brothers —if you
please,' said Mr. Bulkley, ' this is ridicu
lous—'
'Mo I say,' murmured Mr. Winkles.
'As far as y oa are concerned, it is ridic
ulous,' satd tiie deacon.
This brought Mr. Winkles up, standing.
' Sir !' he shouted, 4 sir !'
' But my dear sirs—' beseechingly said
the philosopher.
' Sir!' continued Winkles, ' sir! I am too
old a man—too gorxt a Christian, Mr.
Bulkley, to allow a man. a mean, despica
ble toad, like Deacon Potter—'
'Do you call me— me a despicable toad/'
menacingly cried the deacon.
' Brethren,' said Mr. Bulkley, ' if I urn
to counsel yon in your difference, 1 inut
I have no more of this unchristian-like Hiek
i erin -'
'I do not wish to biqJier, sir," said John
son.
' Nor I don't-want to, sir,' sMt.' the dea
con, ' but when a man calls me a toad, a
mean, despicable load —'
'Well, well, never mind,' said Mr. Bulk
ley ; you are ali too excited now; go home
j again and wait patiently ; on fSuturdny
evening next I will have prepared and sent
to you a written opinion of your ease, with
a full and free avowal of most wholesome
I advice for preserving your church from
j desolation and yourselves from despair.'
And the committee left, to await his issue.
Now it chanced that Mr. Bulkley had
a small farm, some distance from the town
| of Colchester, and found it necessary, the
same day he wrote his opinion and advice
to the brethren of the disalfectod churcfi,
' to drop a line to his fanner regarding the
• fixtures of said estate. Having written a
long, and ol course, elaborate ' essay' to
his brethren, lie wound up ilie day's iiler
arv exertions with a despatch to lhe fann
er, and after a reverie to hiuisclf, he directs
the two documents, and next morning des-
I patches them to their several destinations.
On Saturday evening a full and anxious
synod of the belligerent churchmen took
: place in their tabernacle, and punctual!v,
as promised, came the despatclf from the
Plato of the time and place,—Rev. John
Bulkier. All was quiet and respectful at
| tention. The moderator took up the doc
ument, broke the seal, opened it, and—a
pause ensued, while dubious amazement
| seemed to spread over the features of the
i worthy president of the meeting.
'Well, brother Temple, how is it—what
does .Mr. Bulkier say?' and another pause
followed.
'Will the moderator please proceed V
| said another voice.
Thf moderator placed the paper upon
the table, took off his spectacles, wiped the
i glasses, then his lips—replaced ins specs
noon his nose, and with a very broad grin,
said ;
• BreJoreu, this appears to ine to be a
vcrv singular letter, to say the least of it!'
•Weil, read o—read it,' responded the
wondering heart."*.
• 1 will,' and the .moderator began :
' You will see to the repair of the fen
ce-, that they be built. and strong, and
you will take special care of the old blac 4
bvJi:
There was a general pause ; a silent
mystery overspread the community i the
moderator dropped the paper to a ' rest,
and gazing over the top of his glasses lor
several minutes, nobody saying a word.
' Repair the fences!' muttered the mod
erator at length. .
' Build them strong and high !' echoed ;
Deacon Hotter.
•Take special care of th e old black btill. n
growled half the meeting.
Then another pause ensued, and each .
man eyed his neighbor in mute rnvslery.
A tall and venerable man now arose from j
his seat; clearing his voice with a hem, he '
spoke:
'Brethren, vou rccm lost in the brief and j
eloquent words ol our learned adviser.—
To me nothing could he more appropriate
to our case. It is just such a profound and :
applicable replv to us as we should have
hoped and looked for, from the learned
and good man, John Bulkley. The direc
tion to repair the fences is to take heed in
the admission and government of our mem
bers ; we must guard the church by our
Master's laws, and keep out stray and vi
cious cattle ftorn the fold! And, above all
thine?, set a trustworthy and vigilant watch
over that old black bull, who is die devil,
and who has already broken into our en
closures and sought to desolate and lay
waste the lair grounds of our church !"
The effect of this interpretation was
electrical. All saw and took the force ol
Mr. Bulkley's cogent advice, and unani
mously resolved to be governed by it; hence
the old black bull was put hors du combat,
and the church preserved its union !
7". < Hird of tkt "Foiling Bdl.—Am
ong the highest woods and deepest gluns
of Brazil, a sound is sometimes heard, so
singular that the noise seems quite unnat
ural; it is like (he distant and solemn tol
ling (fa church bull struck at intervals.
This extraordinary noise proci iUs from
the Arawougo. Ihe bird sits on the top
of the highest trees in the deepest forest,
and though constantly heard in the most
desert places, it is very rarely seen, it is
impossible to conceive anything of a more
solitary character than the profound si
lence of the woods broken only by the
, meuilic and almost supernatural sound of
: this invisible bird, coining from the air
and seeming to follow wherever you go.
The Arawongo is white, with a eircie of
red around its eyes—its size is about that
of a small pigeon.
Philopaenp A correspondent of the
Trenton Gazette, writes from Berlin the
I following account of this game as practiced
among the Germans: ' Here when a rou
■) pie exchange philopoenas, the object of
. each is not to be first to pronounce the
- common word at the next meeting, but
with the exchange the sport has but begun.
The object of each is to draw the other i
into accepting some offer, and if* that is
i done, the word 'philopnena' is spoken, am]
t a forfeit required. To illustrate it better :
- by example;
*A and B exchange pliilopmnas at a par
- ty, and a few days after A calls upon Bat
his or he: house. B instead of waiting to
- lie asked in, enters just before the invita
i lion is given; if offered a chair takes a seal
; upon the sofa; if B presses the butter to
- Aat the table, A takes cheese instead,and
: so on, always taking care to accept noth- !
• ing, hut in a quiet way endeavoring to force I
t die other party into the acceptance of some j
i offer on his own side.
; 'lf at that visit either is successful, he j
i immediately says ' philopmna,' hut if both ;
should always be on the guard, the thing ;
. may pass on to a subsequent occasion.— i
I I. tie reader will instantly see how prcfera
i ble this method is to our own, where often- j
• times there is a rude haste exhibited to be j
■ the first to speak, and where the person
, j who has the least on his mind is genially
• successful.' jfjfc
-77, e Highest Mountain in the fVorld.
—At a meeting of the •rtyStic Society of;
Bengal, on the 6th of August, it was an- '
i nounced that Col. Waugh, Surveyor Gen
; eral of India, had completed his compu- 1
j tations of the positions and elevations of
the peaks of the fliniilayas. The result j
j was to depose the mountain Kanchinjtnea
from its throne as the highest point on the
i earth's surface. That distinction belongs !
for the pies* nt to a peak 100 miles from
Kanchinjinga, and between that mountain
. j and Katainantloo. This peak is ascertain
! Ed to be 20,002 feet above the sea level;
Kanchinjinga is 28.156 feet, and Dewala
eirl, the mountain which "school geogra
phies" persist in calling "the highest in
the known world," is only 26,826 feet.—-
! The mountain has no name intelligible to
civilized man, und Col. Waugh has there
■ fore ventured to denominate it "Mount
Everest," after a former surveyor general.
djmbiit Canoe Jjiscovered. —Three
| fisherman at Asnieres, I'ranre, have dis
j covered an ancient canoe buried beneath a
sand bank in the rt/er. From its form it
is supposed th ,t it was used hv the Nor
mans in iheir invasion of Paris. It is an
| immense trunk of oak, about eighty feet i
long, hollowed out, and capable of holding
! sixty men. It is well known that the
I Normans, in addition to their large Wicker
i work boats, had other very long ones for
purposes of war, formed of hard wood,
and it is supposed that this is one of them.
There is a striking resemblance between
this and the barks of the pirates of the
' ninth century.
A If til Case. —The Columbia South
i Carolinian states that thecelcbraledcase
j of .Mr. V\ i llis.—who took a colored ivo
; man to Ohio, freed her, and bequeathed
to her and ber children (who were also
his own) all hi? property in South Caroli
na, —has just been decided by Judge
O'Neall, at the > late term o! the Court at
i Barnwell. The jury gave a verdict against
the validity of the will, —partly on the
| ground that it was procured by fraud and j
1 insaniiv . and partly because it was oppos
ed to the policy of the GGute, as declared
b) the act of 1811. It has been appealed.
A N ! MPA'ffEN'T JURYMAN.
An Arkansas correspondent of the New
i Orb aits Picayune gives the following as
i authentic:
You are nil fond of cracking jokes at
the expense of Arkansas; now here is one
on your .State, absolutely true. I got it
from an eye witness:
The dis'rict courtol one of your northern
parishes was in session—'twas the lirst
• day of the court; lime, utter dinner. Law
yers and others had dined and were sitting
out before the hotel, and a long, lank, tin
sophisiocated countryman came up and
unceremoniously made himself one of 'em,
! and remarked:
'Gentlemen, 1 wish you would go on
with this court, for i want to go home—
-1 left Betsy a looking out.'
'All,' said one of the law vers, 'and pray,
j sir, what detains you at Court?'
'Why, sir,' said tfie touGtryman, 'l'm
foiehed here as a jury, and they say if 1 1
go home they will have to find me, and
thev moutn't do that, as 1 live a good
,
piece.
•What jury are you on?' a.slwd a lavv
\ or.
'What jury?'
'Yes, what jury? Grand or traverse
/ 1
jury.
'Grand or travis jury? dad-fetched if I
know.'
'Well,' said the lawyer, 'did the judge
charge you?'
• 'Well, squire,' said lie, 'the little fellow
that sits up in the pulpit and kinder bosses
it over the crowd, gin us a talk, but 1 don't
• know whether he charged anything or not.*
The crowd broke up in a roar of laugh- ,
j ter, and the sheriff' called court
From the Lock Haven Democrat.
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
Fort Clark, Texas, Sept. 19, 1656.
I seat myself according to promise, to {
give you a description of our last §c#ut.
We left here about the 18ih of August.—
I think there were thirtv of our company,
and twelve Artillery men with us. Capt. j
Oakes was in command. We had with ;
tu> Lieut. Clawson, of the Artillery, and ;
J.ierit. J. B. Withereli of oyr own compa- !
ny .
Wf took the El Paso roatfj .here, aod
followed it to the second crossing of Dev-q
ii's River, now known as camp Gilbert.
When we arrived at the first crossing of
the river weJialted—as we supposed, for i
the night—but as there was no grass for ;
our animals, the Capt. concluded to re- j
; main only until the moon would rise to i
give us Jight to travel. We had forty j
miles to go without water, and we thought
i it best to travel as far as possible that night, ■
| and rest in the morning a short time and
i start on. We struck our camp and started,, 1 ,
after some trouble, for our mules werej[
very wile! and gave us some (rouble ' I
we could bridle and saddle them. V I ~~ b "
wc had made every arrangement to star
j we discovered that one of our men was*'
; missing, his horse was there but no saddle 1
or rider. We hunted round, thinking lie I
had laid down some place and fell asleep, i
but cod id not find him. We then thought ;
that lie had saddled a mule and started, so I
off we started a nil went to a place called j
j California Springs, and remained there to
lake a couple of hour's rest, and to let the |
horses and mules graze, as the grass was
excellent. We had with us, at this time, i
a portion of D company of the rifles, on ;
their way to New Mexico, as an escort to
Capt. Jones,
i When twilight appeared we roused up '
J to pursue our journey twenty miles, with
out any water, or anything to eat. for when j
you have no water, you will not eat much :
of Uncle Sam's salty victuals. When we
were ready to start, to our surprise, i
Thompson —the missing man — made his
appearance. He had walked every step ;
of the twenty miles, after night, carrying j
a heavy rifle, ammunition and canteen, j
which was a pretty good load. He had to j
leave his saddle kit behind. We were j
rejoiced to see him coming. The first
words he uttered was, to give- him water,
for he was nearly dead.
U e continued our journey, for twenty :
miles to the river, tinder a scorching hot !
sun, (for there are no shade trees here,) i
and were almost dead (or the want of wa- ;
ter, and something to eat. M> friend, !
Johnson, had a canteen of molasses which I
sufficed us lor drink until we arrived at i
toe river. We ali hailed the sight of it.
Devil's River is a very beautiful and ro
mantic looking stream. 1 thought it die
mildest looking stream in the world, but
was afterwards undeceived.
We stopped at camp Gilbert five davs.
On the fourth day after our arrival. Cant, i
(Jakes took twelve men, mounted on mules, j
and struck across ihe country to sec if he j
could get tlie horses along, and to see if he 1
could discover any signs ol Indians. Capt. '
Gilbert was with him. They went to the
Fecas River and then turned back to bring
on the remainder of us.
We started from camp Gilbert on the
sixth day after our arrival, and would have
suffered for the want of water had not a
few showers of ram followed us up, which j
satisfied, for the time, us and our animals.
I he water would collect in the crevices of
rocks, from which we made out to quench
our thirst.
We arrived at the IVcas without any- '
thing transpiring worthy of mention, climb
ing hills that you would think, to look at '
them, were impossible lor man to asceud
them, without horses or mules. It rem hal
ed me of the pictures 1 have seen cf Na- j
poleon crossing the Alps. When we were :
at the bottom the tups were almost invisi
ble.
When we came to the river we received
orders to cross, it is so swift that there
i? danger attending the crossing of it, and
is very narrow. In some places it is very
deep with rough bottom. The bottom is
not to be seen as the water is as red as
Red River, (fur guides, who were Mex
icans, pitched into the stream and seemed
to cross it with ease. The Captain tried
it and got out a short distance but the cur
rent was too strong for him. He had to
have a larriette thrown to htm in order to
draw him back. We tied several larriettes
together and stretched them across, and at
last we were safely lauded on the other
side. But we had all our provisions wet
by the pack mules falling and going under
water. Gur hard bread got very soft by
the soaking.
After crossing we struck across towards
the R:o Grande, climbing over some of the
loftiest hills in Texas, and not as much
shade ns would shelter a cat, for as far as
we could see, there was not a tree or a
large bush to be seen. When we would
get into camp we would take the stalks of
some wild weeds that grow very strong,
and spre.tu our blankets over them to make
a shade (vhfi.i was nearly as warm as the
sun.
On our route we charged on several vil
j !ages, but discovered no Indians. They
had retired at our approach. At last we
' arrived at the Rio Grande, where we were
ceriaih. of finding thofn ;>t homo, but wa/"
disappointed. But when our
goec for Indians, and jf there me any
r wants them ami will have them.
Indians had crossed into Mexico. j'° r
though our provisions were getting s' /%✓
we pushed ahead, as it was rumoreu > 4
i there was an Indian town at the mouth of \
j Pec as containing 150 or 200 Indians all
jgood warriors. The number however, 1 X
i would make no difference with the Capt.
when he had sixty men; we having receiv
|ed an audition to our party of eighteen
| men, of a number under Capt. Gilbert.
We pushed down the Rib for a con?if},
j erable distance, when we saw a fresh In
i dian trail leading to the Rrver. We fol
lowed it till we came very near the river,
■ when we saw seven head of cattle. The
i Capt. divided the forces. He took the
; horsemen, and Lieut. Clawson the raule
; leers, and, up the river we charged, with
! the hopes of getting something for our
i lr ukle, but no go. I was with the
jmule.
. :.,~do 8^A ' SnSin> a| Lp the river a considera
i my own practice l vered where the fn
ut *i:iee its t
it and wonderful virtmflpver to trie Mexican side.
*er suspected. ojck to the rest. They had
everai c&3Btif successful than us, for they had •
chased two into the river but did not suc-
Qted in getting them on account of the Jt,
bank being so sleep that they could not fol
low them on horseback. They dismoflpt
ed and ran down the banks to the water's JBH|
' edge, the Captain ahead, leaping from one'CSpC
: foothold to another, like a wild man, wa- iff *'
i ving his hat, but when fie arrived at tpe
water s side there were no Indians there.
, They had taken to the water, ami when
j an Indian gets into water U.-u is swift they
| are like a fish, and it is almost impossible
;to shoot tliern. We secured a large nuni
; ber of baskets and such things, in their
camp, but they were poor plunder.
We then struck across l!u country to the
Pecas, which was not more titan five miles
from the iiio, taking all the rattle with us
with the exception of one Lrge ox, which
the Captain ordered to be killed for a feast
that evening. When we arrived at the
Pt-cas our path led to a small village.—
There were tracks there which were fresh,
i The'guides slipped to the bank ant! looked
| over, and below us, almost one thousand
i teet, (for the banks are that lngli in man.
: places,) was camp of those ted devils
! cooking their meals over their fires. I
\ myself counted nine, of them We crwd
; ed to the edge of the precipice and deliv-
I ered a volley upon litem. They never
looked up, but ran off vnhoiit taking auv
thing with them, with iho exceptions of
one who took his bow and arrows with
him, and the squaws, two in number.'pick
ed up their basket with a papoose in it.—•
They succeeded in unking their escape
without any of their number being killed,
but three of them were very badly wound
! Ed, from which, I am confident they will
never recover. We then ran down to the
river to see if we could not discover more,
but they had nil lied. The two guides
plunged into the river, and we stretched a
rope bridge across as before, and the fir*-: .
men over got the plunder. A great num
ber of tbe men crossed, but Lieut. Clawson
and W rtherell were almost the first to land
on the other side. ihe former is a very
small man a,-id had some difficulty in cros
sing. he heing so light that the current '
swept him off his feet. They had to have
their pistols thrown to them froth the side
we were on.
1 he Captain called tor the men that were
idle to come to il,r tup of the lull where
the guard were with the pack mules and
our animals. We had not been verv long
on the hill till we heard some sinking down
the river, lie mounted tbe men and gave
Capt. Gilbert instructions to move on the
top of the hill with his men and get in
ambush. They did so, but were not kept
there long until the singing became plain,
and at last six head of cattle made their
appearance and immediately two mounted
Indians appeared behind them, driving
them ahead. The foremost was singing,
very cheerfully, one of his Indian songs.
I think it must have been
•• U>u<tlv tl., suns ilia rattle,''
tor at that moment we did pour a volley
upon them, and down fell Mr. Indian and
horse without a struggle. The other one
started his pony at full speed, and our men
charged after him with our noble Captain
at their head. The Indian's pony was
badly wounded, I believe by our Captain's
own gun, as he endeavored to dismount
the Indian, and he succeeded. The Indian*
finding that his horse could not stand it
further, jumped off while his pony was
going at lull speed, lit on his feet, plunged
into the river and succeeded in making his
escape with his scalp. His pony, after
running & hundred yards further, fell dead.
We secured thirteen head of cattle, four
very good ponies and two splendid mules,
and then followed the river to where it
empties into the Rio Grande, where, we
heard, we would find a settlement, but the
Indians made good their < scape at our ap
proach.
We encamped on the Pecas that night,
and had a splendid roast of beef that even
ing, but nothing else, as our other provi
sions were at an end. The beef however
was very good, although our salt was very
limited. VV e had a very hard rain that
night which drenched us completely. You