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Three insertions sl, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. iuvnMf.ii. / rrvHE elections being over and the excitement L JL attending them passed away, and it being • -considered dangerous nowadays to keep on baud ■Lank notes, the proprietor ol the People's Store would again invite attention to his magnificent /depository for replenishing the outer man and -4woman on the scientific principle of saving -money, which accommodating establishment is §in East Market street, and can readily be aj distinguished from all others by its piles of beautiful goods and wares and "that sign," |f whicfi x like the Star spangled banner, is fanned by every breeze. The Eadies. gentlemen, mer jg chants, traders, farmers, laborers, and all oth ers are therefore invited to a grand display (ad mission feet) of a nio-t extensive, beautiful, and rheapsfoCk of Staple n4 Fancy Goods, 'the j t ! exhibition will remain open every morning, af- j f ternoon and evening until further notice, and H ait concerned are requested to call early and procure good seats. The pei formance com ugpjces carijtin the morning with an exquisite 4 mjflo-dratua entitled -s • - * ' £ • 1 111 comprising: in part Broche Silk*. 75 vents; Cjng- I I "hams from li] to 25 cent-; White Goods, such ( jg * S-viss, Victoria, Lawn, Bishop (.awn, India j Book Muslins, Brilliants. Swiss and Jaconet | Edgin sand Inserting-, Fluunciiigs, Collars and ! Sleeves, Challeys, Bacege-, Mohair Mitts, Silk j and Kid Hosiery, and hundreds of oth- j r articles in daily use. Scene second will open with a grand display 1 -of Stella, Crape, Ca-hmere, Delaine, Thibet, j and numberless other f-J tr I "fT TJ flAr* V V • iTrspe Sha-a is from up.) which for beauty. 1 urali.e-s, fineness, finish, cheapness, and ail the othci ct ceteras, exceeds anything of the kind j before displayed lo the ladies. This scene is j the admiration of all who have seen it, both j 1 from town and country, and alone is worth a ! -vi-.it from the extreme ends of the county. Scene third will be an unrivalled exhibition of CLOTHS AND CASSDIEUES, •II colors, shades, and prices, of exquisite ma terial, and so beautiful when made up, that a i I young lady of our acquaintance had for several ' i davs an idea of telling her for a handsome gentleman rhe had -cu across the street, thus dtes-ed up, when she <li~c<>vr red it was her old heau ! Scene fourth will be a display of a choice se ; lection of : r.-TM * -' JA "^-' r HA 1 ? y intended exclusively for fatuity use, comprising < every article usually sold iu, that liiie, and ol , I eourse cheap,, whether quality or price be con- j | sulered. An intermission of some time will here be allowed in order to give the audience an oppor | tunity of examining an extensive stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, well made out of good materia!, arid cut out or ; wl scientific principles. The fifth scene will present a rich and varied i stock of Queensware and Glassware, with side views of Boots and Shoes, Cutlery, ] | Lariies' Gaiters, and sundry other matters plea- j sing to the eye and purse. The sixth scene is a rare spectacle of COYYIITS IAD BOYYLT TKUJIIACI, which always produces a marked sensation j among the holies, and ss frequently encored.— j This is realty fine. This is the general routine of the exhibition, j but the scenes are often varied by the iritroduc j tion of other article*, use ul, ornamental and ! pleasing. j The performers in this exhibition, from the § manager down, are all unrivalled and celebra- j ted far and wide for their politeness and atteri- j • tion to their numerous customers, and blessed | with the most unvarying patience, whici) isdai- i ty exemplified in their taking pay either in k<>ld, j - #Uver, bank notes, or country produce. JOS. F. YF.AGER, Manager. t Lewistown, Nov. 27, L 36. FREEBURG ACADEMY, FRLEBIRft, SYYDKR CO., Pi. THE location of this Institution is beautiful and healthy, and free from the temptations j -n-l vices common to larger towns situated on ! public thoroughfares. The course of instruc- I tian is thorough and complete, embracing the j usual branches of an English, Classical and j Mathematical Education, and is calculated to A • prepare students for College, the study of a Profession, or business pursuits. Frequent Lectures are delivered during the term, and practical illustrations accompany each recila j- tion. Students have access to a good Library. P The Academic year is divided into two ses | sions of 22 weeks each. The first commences | j on the iait Monday >/ July; the =ecorid on the ! ipl first Monday ij Jon nary. Public Examinations i : || at the close of each term, wh.-n certificates of ! f§ Scholarship and Standing are given to each stu- i H dent. # 3 Terms. —For Tuition, per quarter of eleven i weeks, * >.50 to 00. Board, Room, &c„ f £*••>') to ()0 per week. Fa* Further particulars, address GEO. F. McFARLANL), Principal. Frceburg, June 2b, 185 G. OAIil 1 Salt!— 300 Barks Ground Alum k} Salt, 5 sacks Ashton's Pine Salt, -m " Uiim •' ' j Pur sale By W. tc G. MACICMN, McVeylown. I\l RS. MARY A. DENISON writes Jl'A for the Saturday Evening p,** i{j K hija. | K ER'rt PROTEGE 8e pruspactus in another place. ' ffisnsyiFaa) asjis jpsrsMissiiia® sir ®a@3B®ia trarsraanKMSißa aawns®®mys, Hmawimsr <snsmaw 9 w& 0 milli MiiasaiaiL. For t*i* Dewiatown <iaret Ir. j COMB TO THE MOUNTAINS. DOVE. A SONG— BY I. J. STISI". Come to the Mountains, love, Come, come with ni-; Where prouU waves the forest grove. Stately and free; Where sings the woodland bird. And the wild bee's hum is heard— Come to the mountains, love, , come, come with me. t'otwp to the mountains, love. Come, come with me; Clucking sweet wild (lowers we'll rove, Mapp. v and free; And sit at eventide Ky the rippling streamlet's side— Come to the mountains, love, O, come, come with me. Come to the mountains, love. Come, come with me; Here, K-ve, let me ever prove Worthy of thee. Here be mv happy bride, lty the rippling streamlet's side— Come to the mountains, love, O, come, come with me. I Lewistown, Dec. 17, 1850. iiisiiMjipyr SARAH GOODWIN & HER BOYS. Sarah Goodwin was the name of a poor seamstress residing in the city of N. A ork. She was not wholly friendless, but those whom she knew would ha\e aided her in her struggles, were very poor and could j not. So she, a widow with four boys, from lilt* ages of four to nine years, snug gled through winter's mid and summer's ! heat, providing her little iainily with bread ■ and that was all. Meat and luxuries were denied Sarah Goodwin and her boys.— The Jailer were good children, always in their home after night-fall, and giving their mo'.iier every cent of iht-ir liille earnings as often as they luvmd work to do. At last the mother fell sick, and through a weary illne.-s she had no other attend ance, save the occasional help of lu r lit tle boys. Tltey were never from her side, and it was towelling to behold their syni j pathy, their gentle administrations; every one prophesied they would be blessed in coming years, for their thoughtful kind- : ness toward their mother. The widow recovered, but it was now , die heart of a bitter winter, and their little stock of fuel was nearly gone. As soon as her strength permitted, she walked i through the cold cheerless day to the shop i of her employer, and told him her pitiful story. But it was hard times; and her ; dlness had made room for others as dcs'.i ; tuie as herself; in tine, lie had not one ! stitch of work to give her. With a sink ing heart but praying to keep her courage ' up, the poor woman toiled on from shop to shop until it 'became late, and what with , her tears and the darkness, she could hard ly see her way home. ' If .Mr. H art himself had been there.' i she soliloquized, bending to the strong wind, and drawing her scanty shawl closer : about her form, ' 1 know he would have b > 1 given me work. As she whispered thus through her chat tering teeth, a tail man with a long gray beard, passed by her, and as he did so, something fell on the sidewalk and lay on the crusted snow. Sarah paused, she had heard the noise made by the little packet, and a mysterious impression let! her to search for it. O, joy! it was a purse, j heavv and filled to the briin; yellow and shining lay the gold within its meshes, as she carried it to a lighted window. 'My poor boys, they shall want food no more,' she ejaculated fervently; 'this is gold! God put it in my way; he saw I was despairing.' Suddenly, like a Hash of lightning, the . thought occurred to Sarah that not one cent | of the new found treasure was honestly hers. But a moment she lingered, pres- | sing the money with her numbed fingers, i the sorrowful tears coursing down her thin cheeks, then starting forward to find the owner of the purse, she walked hurriedly up the street, fearful that the temptation, should she arrive at her room and see her hungry children, might prove too strong for i her integrity. Opposite the great hotel as she stood hesitating which way to lake she saw the stranger enter. She knew him by his long singular beard; anil timidly crossing the street, she made her way into the bil liard saloon, and there bewildered by the light, knew not what to say till twice ask ed by a servant what she wanted. Of course she done no more than describe the , stranger by his tall stature and strange beard. But he had already gone out again; THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1856. she must call on the morrow they said and ask for Mr. Ashcraft. The next morning, having eaten nothing, for she could not touch a farthing of the gold, she was admi ted into the room where sat the stranger. lie arose as she entered, and gazed with a curious air till she presented the purse. Then he stared with pleased siTrprise, laid down his paper, took ihe gold and counted it over. ♦lt is all safe,' he said, 'you have not taken—' 'Not one piece, sir,' she cried eagerlv, trembling as she spoke. •You seem poor,'remarked the stranger, carelessly. 'I am poor,' she replied. 'Got a family, I suppose?' ♦Four little boys, sir, 1 am a widow.' 'Humph, humph, s.> I suppose —that's the old story.' ♦Ask Mr. Hart, the tailor,* cried the widow, stepping forward a little, 'lie knows me well; he knows I am poor but honest.' A bright red spot burned on her cheeks as she spoke, and she forced back the tears. ♦Now confess,' said the siraitger, rising and walking to and fro before the fire, 'confess that you expected a large reward for this.' •I did think perhaps," and she turned with quivering hps to the door. •:Siop, stop,' cried the stranger; 'you would not have returned the purse, had you not expected to he paid for it.' •Sir,' said the widow, her tone indig nant, her form lowering, ami, oh, the with ering rebuke in her voice and manners. The stranger paused, holding the purse in his hand; then drawing forth die smal lest possible coin that it contained offtred u to her. For a moment she drew back, but then remembering that her boys were hungry at home, and in bed because there was no fire, she burst into tears as she took it, saying, ' This wilt buy bread for my poor children,' and hurrying away, she buried the bitterness of that morning m her own heart. h was four o'clock on the same day.— Sar-h Goodwin sat by a scanty lire, busi ly engaged in sewing patches on the very poor clothes of her lour boys. 'Run to the door, Jimmy,* she said to the eldest, as a loud knock was heard. •() mother!' the boy cried, returning, 'a big bundle for us! What is it? What can it be?' •Work for me, perhaps,' murmured the Widow, untying the package, when sudden ly there came to light four suits of strong grey clothes, with lour neat black shining caps, each set exactly fitting :o ihe dimen sions of her boys. Almost paralyzed vvnh astonishment, the widow remained on her knees, her eyes riveted on the words —'a present for the fatherless;' —while the boys appropriating their wardrobes, danced about the floor shouting with g!ee. •What's in the pocket here? what's in the pocket? cried Jimmy, thrusting his hand into that receptacle, when lo! out came the very same purse of gold the widow had returned that morning. A scene of joyful confusion followed, anil the voice of prayer ascended from Sarah Goodwin's full hcarL Again and again she counted the glitter ing treasure. Five hundred dollars! it seemed an almost endless fortune. How her heart ran over with gratitude to God and the stranger. She could not rest till, throwing on her bonnet, with cheeks glowing now with hope and happiness, she ran back to the hotel to pour forth her thanks. A carriage stood at the door, laden with trunks behind. The driver mounted the seat as site reached the steps; and turning her head, there within, sat the mysterious stranger with the long heard. She had not time to speak, but he nodded his head as lie saw her with clasped hands standing there her face seeming a prayer embodied. Sarah never saw the eccentric stranger again. She took a little shop and stocked it well, and put her boys to school. To-day she is the proprietor of a hand some store. Of her boys, two are minis ters, one is a doctor, and the other is a thriving merchant. Nobody knows where the man with the long gray beard has gone, but if lie be living and his eye m6ets this, lie will have the consolation of knowing the noble, re sult ol his generous deed toward Sarah Goodwin and her four boys. FRAUDS AND THEIR Go N SE QUENCE,. Every period of the world's history seems marked bv its own peculiar vices, pretty much as different diseases seem to rage with increased fury and malignity at different periods. Crime wins to be a mania, coming as epidemically as does the yellow fever or the small pox. Iu one generation it is murder by knocking oot people's brains with swords and clubs ; in another generation poison is the favorite mode. At some times the Dev 1 shows his mastery over the minds of his follow ers by making them set fire to the barns and houses of those who offend them. At one time drunkenness rcigris uncontrolled and at another libertinism is largely in the ascendant. tSo goes the world, and it seems that all the labors of the living preacher and all the thunders of the press result in nothing more than in changing the direction of the torrent of evil. The ruling vice of the present period seems to be, in one shape r other. Fraud, M hen, within the range of the recorded experience of mankind, did rascality and want of laitfi in money matters so exten sively prevail ? It would almost appear as if the race of honest men was extinct. Put a man in a position where he becomes the custodian of other people's money, and no matter what his previous character may have been, in a few years it is more than an even chance that he turns out a defaulter, runs off to some distant part of the world, or if caught, 3 jury, feeling in themselves an innate sympathy with the crime, whitewash the offender and turn him loose again upon the community to run the same career over again, if anybody con be found foolish enough to trust him another time. And this vice is not confined to one sin gle locality. Nothing, except the cholera, has ever equalled the extent of country over which ii prevails. In England every body seems infected with it. Sutee the pious Sir Paul Bates and his equally pious associates swindled half the orphans and widows of London out of their incomes, scarcely a steamship that has crossed the Atlantic but has brought us the news that sonic other graceless scamp, with a fair outside show of character, has been squan dering the money of those who trusted him by hundreds of thousands. Redpath is the last prominent instance there. Like all the rest ol his class, he was a very lib eral man—a munificent and a magnificent fellow. Nobody subscribed larger amounts for missions to convert the heathen than himsell, and at building churches he was unrivalled. We don't know whether lie ever presented a cathedral with a chime of bt ils or not, but at any rate he was church warden. Most men of his description are generally great on churches. Here let us not be misunderstood. We find fault vvitli no man for doing the good deeds above mentioned, when done with their own motiev and from pure motives. We are only tearing the disguise from those sinners who " >.taal the liver*' of Heaven To serve the Devil in." Fraudulent bank cashiers and presidents, rascally stock brokers and bankers, vvitli swindlers of every genteel description, are fully aware of the value of a saintly ex terior to impose upon the public. Like Charley Bites, when the "Artful Dodger" introduced < (liver to Fagin, they knew how it u works up the rich females to have a pious face." "Lord Fagin," said Charley, " what a capital hand he'll make for the rich old lady's pockets at church. That boy's mug is a I'ortin to him." Over France, Spain and even India the same crime is now equally prevalent.— Staid, solid, old fashioned Germany itself has not escaped the contagion as we see by the papers. How the Indian bankers manage the matter we are not well inform ed; the French, Spanish and Germans not having the refinement in this species of the polite arts which mark their English and American brethren, just make one big haul and run. Here and in England our operators take it and live on it like gentle manly aristocrats for a long series of years, and if they manage it particularly well, among us, they are more respected after they are found out than they ever were before. This is the only difference be tween the English and Americans. There, when they are found out and caught, they are punished as they deserve to be. Here, in ninety-nine cases out of a hunnred they go Scot live, and their neighbors wfirs have not directly suffered from their frauds respect tliem us gentlemen. How much >i this arises from the fact that their as sociates themselves would do the s.urte tiling if they Jmd an opportunity ? Nearly every mail from North, South. Fast and West, brings us tlia news ol some fraudulent embezzlement of some body's funds, and the number of these ca ses is constantly increasing. Even here in our own staid quiet little city, this spirit of reckless, dishonest speculation lias been rife, and within the last two years, in hun dreds ol cases the only means for the sup port of widows and orphans, with the earnings of thousands of hard working men, and night after night toiling seam stresses, have been- swept away to support the extravagance and swell the fortunes of their plunderers. V e need not mention particular instances of these wholesale frauds. Everybody here knows all about them. But it is time something should be . done to put an end to this particular sort of rascality amongst us, for should this stale ol things continue, all confidence : must be destroyed, and without confidence there can be no business, and without business no prosperity either public or pri- I vaie.— Lancaster Lulqpcn.'cnt Whig. THE NEGRO TROUBLES IN THE SLAVE STATES. From t"se st. Louis n.-mor.jit of Dec. IStli.) The steamer ISaWte West, from Nash- i ville, yesterday, brings us the information that tilings were assuming the usual quiet ' appearance jn lite towns bordering the I Tennessee, and also iu all the districts back from the river. I'he slave excitement had almost entire 1 ty ceased, peoples' minds having become quite iranqtiilized, as they are convinced that danger of an insurrection had passed. A passenger informs us that a white • man named Taylor, was hanged at Hover, oil Wednesday, on presumptive etude.ice of having been engaged in exciting the slaves to a revolt, and that a number of citizens had started from Dover, on the night previous, in pursuit of two other white men, on whom suspicion rested.— Six negroes were hung at Dover by the j infuriated citizens. (Curri-siioiiJence of tli> lV.crs'uiir:,' K.\, 1 Richmond, Dee. 17. —N0 little interest 1 exiJ-ts iu our city at present, consequent upon rumors ol insurrectionary movements, and the women and children are, vou might suppose, very much alarmed. There is. in fact, no sort of foundation for such reports. Yet it has been deemed expedi- j ent, in consideration of intelligence from other places, to take such oreeautions for j any emergency as will be *mfiicient to frustrate an attempt of the sort. Twenty men have been added to the night watch, and life varjous military companies have ' received secret instructions as to their mode of in the event of difficulty. Still, no sensible person anticipates it, and, as intimated, the timid are alarmed at the weak inventions of their own minds, i Tioine families in the western part of the , eitv were much frightened the other night | at a small assemblage of negroes, who | were playing tfte bayjo for their own amusement. An alarm of tire last night, j at a late hour, carr.ed terror to the minds j of many, yet here we are this pleasant morning, in big Richmond, all O. K., and likely to continue so. A person who came from New Kent county yesterday, states that they were j then in the act of imprisoning several ne- j groes, arrested on suspicion of plotting i mischief. (OonvsponJcnce of the I-e.r.isvmo Journal.) ) Camphkllsvillk, Taylor county, Ky., ! Dee. 10.—A negro boy, owned by a gen tleman in litis vicinity, disclosed to his | master a plot on the part of the negroes in the neighborhood to rise in rebellion about j the Christmas holidays. Several arrests of negroes implicated in the affair were made, and an examination was held before Judge Cloyd on the 9th instant. Nothing, however, was elicited, > further than the statement of tlfit boy, to the effect that he had overheard them in conversation say that they intended to . have war with the whites during Christ mas. At another time, the boy was invi ted to join with them, and the promise j made that they would make him rich.— Further arrests will probably bp made, with a view to elicit more facts, the proof iu the first case not being deemed sufficient to warrant further proceedings. New Series—Vol. 11, No. 8. Several negroes are reported to be in possession of guns, pistols, &c. There is dotibiless considerable dissatisfaction and iihiilence among the negroes generally, u oich, if not promptly repressed, may cause serious trouble to their owners and tbo community generally. Let the people everywhere he on the alert. A BLOpDY AFFAIR IN ILLINOIS. L>rum .1 [nivjiti- li tter to the Rochester Araericau.J MONMOI TH. Warren co., 111., Dec. 12. A bloody tragedy was performed at the "Baldwin House," in this city, this after noon. About two o'clock the terrible cry of murder was heard, and we all started out to discover the cause. Distant tHiJy a few yards, there—weltering in their blood —lay the victims of the most sanguinary, single-hand conflict it has been-my lot to witness. The circumstances are as fol lows: V Mr. Fleming, an elderly gentle man. and two sons about 25 to 28 years j of age, had called upon a Mr. Crozier, at his rooms at the Baldwin House, armed each with a loaded pistol, to coerce the tatter gentleman into a concession and re traction of a calumny affecting their daugh ter and sister, with which they charged Mr. C. Air. C., after some warm lan guage had passed between the parties, did i sign a retraction in the presence of a friend whom Messrs. Fleming had brought with ! them. Immediately after delivering the paper into the possession of their friend, the Messrs. F., or one of the brothers, said to Mr. G\: "I am now going to cow-hide you," ! and one of the boys, holding a cocked pistol to his head, directed the other to iu llict the threatened punishment, which lie immediately commenced, lie had struck three or lour blows, when C. pulled a ■ dirk knife from a side pocket, and passing, at the same time, his left arm ar-mm! the -neck of the one who plied the lash, sub bed him in the left breast; and, as quick as | thought, withdrew the knife, and struck | the one who held the pistol a back-hand ed blow, which reached, as did the tirst, tiie heart of his victim. Both brothers received their death wound ;n less than two seconds, and were both bloody corpses in three minutes after thev were struck. Ibe old man had gone out i into the hall and locked die door, and stood upon the outside, with a pistol, to keep I out assistance. The a flair lias created an immense ex citement here, I assure you. The young mas Crosier is under arrest, having sur j rendered himself into custody, and is to undergo a:; examination to-morrow. The sympathies of the people are most ily with (. rozier. lie acts and looks the picoire of despair. He is a young man, some 27 to 30 years old, and unmarried. , Fie is said to have been engaged to the young, lady in question, who is at present out ot the State. The other parties were I respectable farmers, and two of them, I understand, were members of the Church. ; in good standing. ! Curious J Coif Trap. —The Hartford Times says: A very ingenious and appn- I rently effectual contrivance for catching and killing wolves, foxes, &c., has been i invented by Frederick Reuthe, of this city, I a workman at Colt's pistol factory. It is , small and compact, being hardly ten incli ts long, atiu it works wilii much precision. Two steel iron cases, are provided with four barbed points, upon which the bait is .fixed. The little thing is completed by ; two small steel tubes or pistol harrels run -1 ning lengthwise with the case on either ' side, and provided with cones for percus i sion caps. When the animal seizes the meat, lie pulls out the two prongs upon which it is fastened, and in doing so opens them by a powerful spring, thus forcing his jaws wide apart, and holding them firmly In die cruel, barbed points, while at the same instant both barrels are simultaneously fired down his throat. It finishes him . completely. Even without the pistol shot* j no wolf could get away with those barbed points in his jaws. An experiment tried on a dog succeeded admirably. The in ventor goes to Canada with his trap to | sell it in that wolf-swarming region. ££■" l met her at sunset bright, her ging ham gown was blue; her eyes that danced with young delight, were of the same dear hue; and always when the sun goes down, I shall think of the girl in the gingham gown.
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