IF JYhole No. 2391. TKRMS OP SUBSCRIPTION". O\E DOLLAR PER ASi ATM, IN ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. j ypJpAll NEW subscriptions must be paid in aadvauce. If the paper is continued, arid net jfpaid within the first mouth, §1,25 will be char£- Hed • if not paid in three months, $1,50 ; H J 1 ? 1 paid in six months, §1,75; and il not paid in uine mouths, $2,00. J AH papers addressed to persons out of the [bounty will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for, unless special request is made to the contrary or payment guaranteed by some responsible person here. ADVERTISING. Ten lines of minion, or their equivalent, con stitute a square. Three insertions sl, and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. CilMl) SMiflW LIT COATIMI.IE TIMIE elections being over and the excitement ii attending them passed away, and it being considered dangerous nowadays to keep on hand thank notes, the proprietor of the People's Store f would again invite attention to his magnificent depository for replenishing the outer man and woman on the scientific principle of saving finoney, which accommodating establishment is in East Market street, and can readily be "distinguished from all others by its piles of 'beautiful goods and wares and "that sign," which, like the Star spangled banner, is fanned by every breeze. The Ladies, gentlemen, mer *cliants, traders, farmers, laborers, and all olh *crs are therefore invited to a grand display (uJ § mission fret) of a most extensive, beautiful, and f cheap stock of Staple and Fancy Goods. The exhibition will remain open every morning, af ternoon ami evening until fuitbei notice, and all concerned are requested to call early and procure good seats. Ihe performance com mences early in the morning with an exquisite I melo-drama entitled EFTY GOODS, H comprising in part Broche Silks, 75 cents; Ging k hams frotn <">{ to 25 cents; White Goods, such fj§ as Swiss, Victoria, Lawn, Bishop Lawn, India i Book Muslins, Brilliants, Swiss and Jaconet H Edgings and lnsertings, Flouncings, Collars and fg Sleeves, Challeys. Bareges, Mohair Mitts, Silk j§ and Kid Gloves' Hosiery, and hundreds of oth- M ,tr articles in daily use. j . Scene second will open with a grand display R ,f Stella, Crape, Cashmere, Delaine, Thibet, >1 and numberless other H jL 7T _, S j 9 \Crape Shawls from §6 up,) which for beauty, % neatness, fineness, finish, cheapness, and all the $s other et cetcras, exceeds anything of the kind ?! before displayed to the ladies. This scene is the admiration of all who have seen it, both 1 from town and country, and alone is worth a -visit from the extreme ends of the county. | Scene third will be an unrivalled exhibition of ( LOTUS AM) CASSIMERES, .tall colors, shades, and prices, of exquisite ma terial, and so beautiful when made up, that a .young lady of our acquaintance had for several .tiavs an idea of vetting her cap for a handsome she had seen across the street, thus jfdressed up, when she discovered it was her old beau I | Scene fourth will be a display of a choice se lection of | „ r. ' r -_r )TO f?' a-i T', J intended exclusively for family use, comprising feverv article usually sold in that line, and of j cour'-e cheap, whether quality or price he con sidered. An intermission of some time will here he II allowed in order to give the audience an oppur H tunity of examining an extensive stock of READY-MADE CLOTHING, well made out of good material, and cut out on scientific principles. The fifth scene will present a rich and varied stock of Queens ware and Glassware, ay with side views of Boots and Shoes, Cutlery, Gaiters, and sundry oilier matters plea sing to the eye and purse. The sixth scene is a rare spectacle of BOYYETS AYR BOY YET TRIJI.WIYGS, If.wiiicl, always produces a marked sensation H among the ladies, and is Irequcntly encored. — K This is really fine. This is the general routine of the exhibition, ■s but the seem s are often varied by the intiodue -> tion of other articles, use ul, ornamental and & pleasing. §The pti formers in this exhibition, from the manager down, are all unrivalled and celebra- M ted lar and wide for their politeness and atten tion to their numerous customers, and blessed if with the most unvarying patience, which is dai ly exemplified in their taking pay either in gold, silver, bank notes, or country produce, rjj; JOS. F. Y LAG Kit, Manager. Lewislown, Nov. 27, 1556. I FREEBURG ACADEMY, FKEUTRRC, SWDEIL (0., PA. |grpHE location of this Institution is beautiful X and healthy, and free from the temptations and vices common to larger towns situated on H public thoroughfares. The course of instruc tion is thorough and complete, embracing the .usual branches of an English, Classical and Mathematical Education, and is calculated to i prepare students for College, the study of a i?Profession, or business pursuits. Frequent Lectures are delivered during the term, and practical illustrations accompany each recita tion. have access to a good Library. 111 . The Academic year is divided into two ses sion- of 22 weekg each. The first commences i|j° n l' ie hist Monnky of July ; the second on the mirsi Monday of January. Public Examinations I* 1 c '°se of cac h term, when certificates of 4> dtolarship and Standing are given to each stu i EKMS.— For Tuition, per quarter of eleven Weeks, $2.50 to SB.OO. Board, Room, &c„ $1.50 to §2.00 per week, i for further particulars, address I R U GEO , F - M CEARLAND, Principal. fe Freeburg, June 2f>, 185 G. ALr ! Salt! 300 sacks Ground Alum KT Halt, 5 sacks Asliton's Fine Salt, M 200 " Dairy " M For sale by W. *. G. MACKI.IN, McWytown. §1,500 FEET 1,1,11,15, i„. P AN - U el, dry white Stuff', just received by ma 22 F. G. FRANCISCUS. IPJBJISfiFSIIS) &3SIS) HJ'ST ©l&i®2B(£lS ffIS'A'SNSJC&SNTE -9311 13 SI 8 9 ill iii ill Gently Peal with Tender Feelings. BY I. J. STINE. Gently deal with tender feelings, Gently deal with trusting hearts, For thou knowest not the sorrows One unkindness oft imparts— Nor the grief tiiat often follows By a word unkindly spoken. Or a look that seems the token Of contempt To a heart already broken. Gently deal with tender feelings, For the heart that's good and true, In its over flowing kindness, Ever thus would deal with you— And thou knowest not the pleasure That a word in kindness spoken, Or a look that seems the token Of affection, Brings to hearts that have been broken. There are hearts that are the temples, As if by some stern decree, Of the gloomy goddess, Sorrow, And perhaps they look to thee For the kindness else denied them. Are thy words in kindness spoken ? Are thy looks and smiles a token Of the love That would bind a heart that's broken? iraippTßieHT [From the Lowell Journal.] PERSIA. The Splendor of the Persian K ims.— This old Asiatic kingdom, which has mit lasied so many empires both in the East and in the West, and which formed one of the four great monarchies of prophecy, and whose shah still retains the proud title of king of kings, which he bore in the days of Cyrus and Chosroes, is likely to be an object of considerable interest lot some time to come as the battle ground of the Russians and English in the east. The modern Persians are a i exceedingly inter esting people. They are said to he the handsomest race of men living, with fair complexions and black lustrous eyes. The Italian is no match for tlinii in subtlety, cunning and dissimulation. They excel in poetry all the nations of the east. In the early part of the 17th century, in the reign of Abbas, Persia was one of the first powers in Asia. An Dalian traveller by the name of Pietro della Vaih\ resided in Persia for a long period during the reign of this shah, and the account which he gives of the Persia of that dav in his voluminous travels is most entertain ing. The court of the king of Persia is surrounded with all the pomp and spleiidni of the Arabian Nigli's. Capt. John Mal colm, in his sketches of Persia, thus de scribes the situation of Teheran, the mod ern capital. lie says, 44 the first view we had of Teheran, the modern capital of Persia, was very imposing. It is situated near the font of Elboorz, a mountain of the great lange which stretches lrom Eu rope to the utmost part of Asia. This range would appear high were it not for Deniavend, whose lofty peak rising above the clouds, and covered with eternal snow, gives a diminutive appearance toever\ thing in its vicinity. We had seen Dernavend at tiie distance of 100 miles from its base, but it increased in magnificence as we ad vanced ; and those amongst us who de lighted iq the pages of Firdousec (a Per sian poet) planned an earlv visit to this remarkable mountain, whose summit that poet describes as 4 far from the abode of men and near to Ileaven. 5 ' ' At a short distance from our camp we observed several mounds of earth and ruined walls, which we were told was all that remained of that famous Regis of Tobit—the Reges of the Greeks, and the Rhe of the Per sians. While all who had imagination and a love of antiquity, dwelt with delight on the prospect of ascending Dernavend, and visiting the ruins of Rhe, the men of business looked only to Teheran, which appeared to me to olTer little the view which was either grand or pleasing. One palace alone attracted any portion of my admiration. It stood near the base of the mountain Elboorz, on a commanding site, and was every way suited for a royal res idence. 55 Capt. Malcolm gives the fol lowing graphic account of bis interview with Feth Ali Shah, the king of kings: 44 Everything being arranged we pro ceeded towards ' the threshold of the world 5 s glory, 5 on the morning of the 10th of November, in the year of our Lord 1800. Wo were all dressed in our best attire. A crowd had assembled near the house of Hagee Ibrahim, and the streets were filled with gazers at the strangers. — The infantry part of the escort, with their THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1857, fifes and drums, and all the Hindosianee servants in scarlet and gold, preceded the Blclice, who rode a beautiful Arabieth horse richly caparisoned, but entirely in an English style ; he was followed by the gentlemen of his suite and his escort of cavalry. When we came within half a mile of the palace all was silence and or der; it was the state of Asia with the dis cipline of Europe. We passed through rows of men and horses, and even the lat ter appeared as if afraid to shake their heads. Many persons whom we saw in tire first square of the citadel, before we entered the palace, were richly dressed, and some of the horses were decked out with bridles, saddles and trappings of great value ; but it was not until we passed the last gate of the palace and came into the garden in front of the king's hall of audi ence, a highly ornamented and spacious building, that we could form any idea of the splendor of the Persian court. .Wca nal flowed in the centre of the garden that supplied a number of fountains, to the right and left ol which were broad paved walks, and beyond these were rows of trees. Between the trees and the high wall encircling the palace, were files of matchlock men drawn up, and within the avenues from the gate to the hail of au dience all the princes, nobles, courtiers, and officers of s'ate, were marshaled in sepa rate lines, according to their rank, from the lowest officer of the king's guard, who oc cupied the place nearest the entrance, to the heir apparent, Abbas Meerza, who stood on the Haiti of his brothers and within a few paces of the throne. There was not one person in all tins array win had not a g"ld lulled sword, a cashmere shawl around his cap and another around his waist. Many <>i the nobles and prin ces were magnificently dressed, but all was forgotten as soon as the eye rested on the king, lie appeared to be a little above the middle size, his age a little more than . • thirty, his complexion rather lair, his lea tures were regular and fine, with an ex pression denoting intelligence. His board attracted much ol our attention ; it was full, black aiid glossy, and flowed to his middle, lit- tires- baffled ali description. The ground of his robes was white, but he was so covered with jew is of an ex traordinary size, and their.splendor, Irotn liis being seated wluue lite ru, sol the sun played upon them, was so dazzling, that it was impossible to distinguish the minute parts which combined to give such amaz ing brilliancy to his whole figure. The two chief officers of ceremonies, who car ried golden sticks, slopped twice, us they advanced toward the throne, to urake a low obeisance, ata! the Kichec at the same lime took off his hat. When near the entrance of tin hall the procession slopped, and the lord of requests said, 4 Captain John Mal colm is come as envoy from the Coventor Cenera! of India to your Majesty.' The King, looking to the Elchee, said, in a pleasing and manly voice, 4 You are wel come. 5 " Much is the picture drawn by Malcolm, of the splendor of the Persian court in I MOO. Probably it appeared as it did in the day s of Ahasuerus, Queen \ aslili and Mordficai. A PEEP INTO THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The Bank of England must be seen on the inside as well as out, ;>nd to get into the interior of this remarkable building, to observe the operations of an institution that exerts more moral and political power than any sovereign in Europe, you must have an order from the Governor of the Bank. The building occupies an irrogu lar area of eight acres of ground—an edi ifiee of no architectural beauty, with not one window toward the street, being light ed altogether from the roof of the enclosed areas. I was led, on presenting my card of ad mission, into a private room, where, after a delay of a few moments, a messenger came and conducted me through the migh ty and mysterious building. Down wo went into a room where the notes ol the Bank received the day before were now examined, compared with the entries in the books and stored away. The Bank of England never issues the same note the second time. It teceives, in the ordinary course of business, about ,£BOO,OOO, or $4,000,000, daily in notes; these are put up into parcels according to their denomi nation, boxed up with the date of their reception, and are kept ten years; at the expiration of which period they are taken out and ground up in the mill which I saw running, and made again into paper. If, in the couise of those ten years, any dis pute in business, or law suit, should arise concerning the payment of any note, the Bank can produce the identical bill. To meet the demand for notes so con stantly used up, the Bank has its own pa perinakers, its own printers, its own en gravers, all at work under the same roof, and it even makes the machinery by which the most of its own work is done. A complicated but beautiful operation is a register, extending from the printing office to the banking offices, which marks every sheet of paper that is struck off' froni the press, so that the printers cannot manufac ture a single sheet of blank notes that is not recorded in the Bank. On the same principle of exactness, a shaft is made to pass from one apartment to another, connecting a clock in sixteen business wings of the establishment, and regulating them with such precision that the whole of them are always pointing to the same second of time. In another room was a machine exceedingly simple, for detecting light gold coins. A row of them dropped one by one upon a spring Scale. If the piece of gold was of the standard weight, the scale rose lo a certain height, and the coin slid off upon the side of the box; if less than the standard, it rose a little higher and the coin slid off upon the oilier side, i asked the weigher what was lite average number uf light coins that came into his hands, and slrangt iy enough, tie said il was a question he was not allowed to answer. 'Fhe next room I entered was that in which the notes were deposited which are ready for issue. 44 We have thirty-two million of pounds of sn Ring in this room,' 5 the officer remarked to ine: 44 wi1l ypu take a little of i;? 5 ' 1 told inni it would lie vastly agreeable, and lie handed me a mil lion of sterling (live miiiion of dollars,) which 1 received with many thanks for his liberality, but he insisted on mv deposit ing it with him again, as it would be hard ly safe to carry so much money into the street. 1 very much fear that 1 shall nev er see tii it money again. In the vault be neath 'die door was a director and a cashier counting the bags of gold, which men were pitching down to them, each bag containing a thousand pounds sterling, just lrom the mint. This world of money seemed to realize the fables of E .stern wealth, and gave me new and strong im pressions of the magnitude of the business done here, and the extent of the relations of this one institution to the commerce of the world. WONDERFUL GOLD STORY. Recent advices from New Mexico fur nish the following auriicrous reports: 44 Fhe ISanta Fe Gazelle announces the arrival of Mr. Idler, the agent and general director of the mining company organized some time since in Washington City, to work the Placer mines, near Santa Fe; Mr. Kuttz, a machinist from Nqrris' en gine shop, in Philadelphia, and Mr. Chap pin, a millwright, all engaged 111 the same business. This, says the Gazette, is a new era in the history of New Mexico. Two steam engines with erushing appara tus, are soon to be put in operation at the Placer mines, and the question will he set tled as to whether gold abounds in suffic ient quantities to justify the cos? of extract ing it by this description or machinery.— If the experiment prove successful it must produce a change in the business of the territory, for the quantity of gold-bearing earth and rock is admitted to be inexhaus tible and there >s room lor any number of machines. It has been stated that the gold mines of New Mexico bid fair to equal those of California. A letter from Santa Fe to a California paper, gives a romantic account of*their discovery. 'Fhe storv goes that a Mexican woman returned from a captiv ity of eight years among the Coyotero Apaches of the Gala country, bringing ex traordinary accounts of gold treasures in the region inhabited by that tribe. Before her captivity she had been a peon slave, and on her return she offered to take her master to the gold region, and her ac counts were so marvellous that a party of four hundred persons were organized to go under her guidance. But the cupidity ol some of the more avaricious got excited, and in order to prevent this large number troui going, they kidnapped the woman, and put her master in jail for debt. i lien a Lieutenant of the United States' Army, on furlough for three months, orga nized a party of thirty-six men and went in search of the gold mine. On reaching the territory of the Coyotero Apaches, they were met by a party of these Indians, who prohibited them from searching for gold, but offered to trade. The alternative was agreed to, and a trade effected, bv which the whites gained a large quantity of gold. Fhe Indians knew no other use for the gold than to make bullets of, and each warrior had lrom twenty to thirty ounce balls about him. Flic gold thus obtained was tested by competent chemists, who ; pronounced it exceedingly pure, having ! very few foreign substances mixed with it. ; Fhe woman sa)s thai in the region whence she escaped, gutd exists in every quarter, oil tiie surface, and in great quantities, and that there was one large lump imbedded, i in the side of a hill, and jealously guarded j by the tribe. 55 ] A Singular Fascination. —An English j.paper has the following: One of the most singular instances in ; connection with material things, exists in ; the case of a young man who, not very long ago, visited a large iron manufactory. ' He stood opposite a large hammer and watched with great interest its perfectly ! regular strokes. At firs', it was beating •~ i • immense lumps ol crimson metal into thin black sheets, hut ihe supplv becoming ex hausted, at length it only descended up !on the po|;sl.ed anvil. .Still the young : man gazed intently oil its motion; then he : followed its strokes with a corresponding motion of ifis head ; then his left arm moved to the same time ; and finally he deliberately placed his fist upon the anvil, and in a second it was smitten to a jeiiv. The only explanation he could afford was that he felt an impulse to do it—l hat he knew he should be disabled— tuat lie saw all the consequences in a misty kind of manner, hut that lie siilf felt tiie power within above reason and sense—a morbid impulse, in fact, to which he succumbed, and by which he lost a good right hand. Father JJat 'uic's Futiertu —The funer al oi the Rev. Father Mathew. the apostle of temperance, took place in Cork on the 12ih tilt., iftnl was, perhaps, the most re markable one ever witnessed in that citv. The cortege was more than three miles long and took an hour and a half to pass any particular point. It was attended bv the corporation and city officers, in mourn ing, by several dignitaries and clergymen ol the Established Church, as well as by a vast number of Roman Catholic clergy, with their bishop at their head, and all the Roman Catholic and a great many of the Protestant gentry of the surrounding coun try. It was estimated that not fewer than 50,000 people were assembled in and around ihe cemetery 011 the occasion, and the deepest sympathy was expressed by the greatest number of those present, many ol them shedding teats. '{'he Roman Catholic Bishop and seventy priests ofiici t ated at the obsequies 111 tiie Cathoiic Church of the Holy Trinity. Dreadful Accident. —On Thursday, the Bth iiist., three laborers who occupied one ol Messrs. .Mover & Hippies 5 shanties, near \\ oiuelsUorl, in Berks county, were spending the day 111 the second storv or loft, smoking and talking. By accident a straw bed took fire, which being unable to extinguish, they threw down the stairway. Burning with great violence, it set fire to the woodwork and thus cut off the usual means ol egress. The. building was soon in llaiues, and the party made their escape by jumping through a window, but not until they were all dreadfully burned. The most shocking part of the occurrence re mains to be told. A poor woman, the i cook of the shanty, at the time of the breaking out of the fire was outside bak ing. Having a small sum of money in her chest fhe rushed in to save it. This was the last seen of her alive. Her black ened and disfigured remains, beside which i lay a tew pieees of gold and silver coin, were found amid the smouldering embers. Blinded and suffocated by fire and smoke, ; she without doubt became bewildered ami thus met an untimely and horrible fate.— i Feuding Gazette. New Series—Vol. 11, No. 11. A Dove Alighting on a Coffin.— ln Edinburgh a few days ago, a respectable family in one of the quietest quarters of the rity were thrown into mourning by the death of one of their number, an elderly lady. A night or two after the event a strange noise was heard at the window of the room where the coffin was lying. It seemed like the fluttering of the wings of a bird against the window panes, and when the maid servant opened the window to examine into the cause of the noise, a beautiful white dove flew into the apart ment and alighted upon the lid of the cof fin. It offered no opposition when they attempted to secure it, and is now in pos sesion of the relatives of the deceased lady, who, from the singularity of the cir cumstances, have resolved to preserve it carefully. Ilad the event happened in time past, when superstition held sway, it would undoubtedly have given rise to some strange imaginings relative to the depart ed-—Edinburgh (Scotland) Express. .1 Man Sawed in Pieces. —We find the following paragraph in the Nebraska Ad vertiser of the 20ih ult. ; "On Saturday, the Bth inst., a Mr. Smith suffered a most horrible death at Smith land, in Woodbury county. He was en gaged as a sawyer in the new steam mill at that place, and whilst gigging back the carriage got his foot caught by the saw, which split his leg nearly the whole length before he could withdraw it; then bv ?n unaccountable destiny his body fell across the log before the saw, and was severed in the iniddie, inost horribly mutilating, in fact, tiie body into numerous pieces, which were gathered and decently interred. The deceased leit a wife and two children." Something new jor the Gourmand.— A Paris journal, the Union, says that in consequence of the success which attended the efforts of .M. Geoffrey Saint Hilairc to bring horse flesh into use as human food, a society has been formed in Paris for causing the flesh of young asses to be eaten also. "The society," says the Uni on, "maintains that such flesh is the most delicious in existence, and it holds weekly banquets in which the flesh is prepared in various ways/' The Union adds that the famous Mecamas and Cardiual Dupont, both distinguished gourmands, ''were pas sionately fond of the flesh of young r.sses." Dead to the Law. —A queer story is going the rounds, of an Arkansas man who owned an cst ite of $5,000, who went off" and was not heard of for four years. Administration on his estate was granted, ins property distributed and his affairs wound up. But one day the poor fellow catr.e back, appeared at the Probate Court, and insisted that he was alive; whereupon the Judge flew into a violent passion, and threatened to commit him for contempt of Court for daring to dispute the record.— The poor man fled, and has not since been heard of. A Second Lambert. —The West Ten nessee \V hig contains the following:—"On the 20th ult., as we were passing the cab inet shop of our lriend Sinclair, our atten tion was called to the putting together of the largest coffin we ever saw. It meas ured 3i feet across the top, 28 inches deep, and 7 feet long. This coffin was for Mr. Thomas C. McCarter. But a short time before his death he was in town and some of our citizens, curious to know his weight, persuaded him to be weighed. His weight was 527 pounds." The Aew Stale House oj Ohio. —The new capitol building at Columbus, Ohio, is the largest of any State in the Union. The appropriations already made amount to $1,104,/00 Ihe architect esti mates the additional cost of completing the building at $369,589 64, and of enclo sing* grading and ornamenting the grounds at $150,000 more, making the grand total : of the whole cost of the new State House ' to be $1,622,289 50. ; Tigers in Florida. —Captain Samuel Soraers recently killed, near his residence on the river St. John, an old tigress and two hali grown tigers. He also came in j sight of the old male tiger several times, i but was afraid to shoot at him. The ti gress measured eleven feet six inches from ; the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, and it is supposed would have weighed J three or four hundred pounds.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers