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■ October 2, 1856.-Ciuo
JOSEPH A. NEEDLES,
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-i/.e, and small in diameter.
* METALLIC (I.OTHS OR WOVE! WIRE,
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N'os. 1 to ;(j inclusive, and frcui one to
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S They are numbered so many spaces to a Un
4U*I inch, and cut to suit.
Mml The subscriber also keeps constantly on hand
Igwor Goal, Sand, Ore, Linte, Gram, Gravel, Gu-
W'O, Sumac, Sugar, Sak. Bane, •Coffee, Spice,
Dyestufi's, Together witki an as
sortment of
I BRILHT AND ANNEALED IRON WIRE.
,'AU bf the akov/eiold wholesale or retail, by
J. A. NEEDLES,
nia2t) 54 Front St., Philadelphia.
w. L. B. MUSGRAVE & CO.,
Wholesale Druggists,
AND DEAXfclts IN
DRUGS,
SPICES,
OHEMIOii.LS,
m ay*3jfas?ifs
li gt© ss siu atx up 5
PAINTS,
Oils, Glass, &o ,
IH6 Market t. above llth, S. side, Phlla.
|W,I Iruggists and country merchants are
Wquested to give them a call and examine
JjHfeir stock ami prices, before making their
purchases. ma 22
Furs! Furs! Furs!
Yictorines, Pelverines, Gloves, &e.
jMJ in great variety, from which the ladies
C4 make excellent choice, are now open and
fur sale at the Business Emporium of
Ijjr r; I GEORGE BLYMYKR.
ML GT n. HARCY,
I THE HUNGARIAN PHYSICIAN,
(LATE OF NEW 70RK CITY,)
f ERS his professional services to the citi-
WKM zens of Eewistown and surrounding coun
wfy Office in the diamond, adjoining Hoff
■Rn s Hardware Store.
Dr. G. N. H. boards atthe Lewistown Hotel.
*iston, Aug. 30,1855—3 m"
asjid ffwsaaissiffim) ®is©3e®is ffis'ffSffisjc&aißs, aznzpffess? o®osnre 8 ipx?
a 111 i:ists.
BY CHARLES LAMB.
They oat
Their dully Ure.nl. ami draw the lirvutb <n il.
Without .t thought *f thanks; Heaven's* root' to tiu-iu.
Is blit a painted ceiling liunif with lamp*.
No more, that Itaht* them to thoir purposes.
Tlicy waiuler loose about ; tlioy nothing *e.\
Themselves except, alu! creatures iiko themselves,
Short-lived, short-sighted, Impotent to save.
( So 011 their dissolute spirits, soon or fcit*,
Destruction couietli, like an armed man.
, Or like a dream of murder In the niulit.
Withering their mortal faculties, and breaking
The bones of all their pride.
LAND OF OCR FATIIFKS.
Land of our Fathers! w lieresoe'er we rouin,
l.aiol of our birth, to us tliou still art lionie:
I'eaee and prosperity on thy sous attetui,
Down to posterity tlieir Influence descend.
All then inviting, hearts and voices joining,
Sins In liurmony our native land.
Though other climes may brighter hopes fuliill,
l.aml of our birth, we love thee still!
lleav'n shield our happy home from each hostile hand.
Freedom and plenty ever crown our native land.
All then incitini,'. hearts and voices joining,
Sins; we in harmony our native land.
miiiMHirta.
AN AWFUL SITUATION.
The Sail Francisco Bulletin of January
21st gives llie following:—Early yester
day afternoon, a telegraphic despatch was
received by the boatmen at Pacific wharf,
from Point Lobos, say ng that one of their
comrades had been upset below port Point
and was driving uul to sea. The unfor
tunate man, supposed to he known as
• " Dutch Andrew," was seen from the out
er telegraphic station, clinging to, or
astraddle on his boat, which was bottom
upwards. The news, however, seemed !o
have little cfTcct on the Pacific wharf boat
men, and no effort was made by them lo
rescue their comrade. The praise of ma
king an attempt in favor of the unfortn
tunate, is due to " Dublin'* and several
other boatmen of V allejo street wharf, who
started out to the rescue. They were,
howevt r, unsuccessful in their philanthrop
ic endeavor to find Andrew, and thereupon
spoke the steamer (lolden Gate, four miles
outside the Heads, and informed Captain
W luting of the circumstances, desiring
htm to keep a watch for the lost boatman.
It is to Ue hoped and expected that the
Gulden Gate w ill pick the wrecked man
up; as, when last seen, at 5 o'clock in the
afternoon, he was still clinging lo the boat,
six miles southwest of the Heads, in the
track usually pursued by the Isthmus
steajjaefa. The imagination of our readers
may picture the terrible situation of An
drew on his upturned boat, driving out
wards upon the ocean, and the nigiit com
ing 011. Unless he was found, ami is now
upon the Golden Gate, he must have
already been washed from his frail scat
and been swallowed by the waves.
A WILD WOMAN.
Linden, Marengo county, Ala., is all
astir on account of a wild woman that re
cently appeared ,1M Uie woods and hills ol
that neighborhood to a party of huntsmen.
She is a medium sixed woman, fair, and
quite naked, with the exception of mocca
sins. She runs with great velocity, leap
ing 011 ail fours over every impediment
like an antelope. The Linden Jeffcrsoni
an says:
"When discovered bv a party of hunts
men, she was concealed among some brush
and ran hastily away on tlieir approach.
This is, we believe, the fiut instance of a
wild person being seen in Alabama, and
with the exception of the wild man said
to have been seen in the southern part of
Arkansas, is the only instance we remem
ber to have heard of."
Another editor, who was one of a hunt
ing party who saw her, says she was ac
companied by a large ram of remarkable
whiteness, by whose wool she held on
when running up hiijs and springing over
rocks. This ram appeared very much at
tached to this wild and singular crealure
and protector. It appears that some fifteen
years ago a little girl, daughter of a French
woman residing on ffie banks of the Tom
bigbee river, was lost, as well as a pet
lamb of hers. They were never after
heard of, so that many supposed the little
girl and her lamb had been drowned. The
question now is, cay this wild woman of
Marengo county be the same? It is high
ly probable, but how she has existed du
ring fifteen years in the woods, away from
all intercourse with the world, is a mys
tery. — Savannah Georgian.
ladies, to have good health,
should see the sun rise every morning.—
Not, however, when returning from a ball,
but from their chamber window.
Taylsr has gone to Lapland.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1857.
A C URIOUS CIRC UMST A N CE. •
Some seven years since, says the Elinl
ra Advertiser, Whitlington Sayre, a gentle
man extensively engaged in the lumber
business in that place, and highly respected
by a large circle of acquaintances, went on
a visit to a couple of sons, near Milwaukie,
\Y iseonsin, but shortly after arriving there
he was taken ill. died, and was buried in
one of til" graveyards of that city. A
few weeks since, 011 account of a road go
ing to he opened through the ground where
his remains were deposited, it was deter
mined to disinter them for burial elsew here.
On removing the earth from the coffin,
(which was considerably decayed,) it was
found that Mr. Say re's body was in as
good a state of preservation as when in
terred. It was taken from the grave and
examined by a large number of people.—
The general opinion was that the petrifac
tion had been occasioned by some action
of the soil; but when the remains of oth
ers, in adjoining graves, were taken up,
they were found to he almost entirely de
composed. Every feature of Mr. Say re's
face was perfectly preserved, anil the
whole body was as hard as the hardest
stone. This is a remarkable case, and
will give rise to sc.tne speculation among
the scientific and curious.
DR. RANE'S DOG.
The Arctic dog brought home by Dr.
Kane has strayed away oil" in Alleghany.
He has become the property of James
McArthur, timber dealer, in Oramtl. The
recently intense cold weather has kept this
large, black, shaggy animal in high spirits.
When they take him into the forest among
the timber hewers, where lie can do no
harm, and remove his muzzle, he cuts all
sorts of pranks, seeking deep drifts, and
burying himself for delight; you can see
the dry snow move, but 00 semblance of
a dog, till suddenly out he pops, giving his
hairy lleeee a tremendous shake, and away
lie runs for another dive. Mr. McArthur
calls him "Es-ki-mo" (Esquimaux.) not a
very smooth name, but characteristic. To
look "Esk" fair in the (see, you see almost
a likeness of a black bear, though his eyes
arc rather languid. His long, soft, shaggy
covering is nearly equal in bulk to kis
body. When left 10 run at large in the
village, he wears a muzzle to prevent his
destroying the pigs and chickens.
ATMOSPHERIC GAS LIGHT.
This is the name given to a new gas
light, the basis of which is humid atmos
pheric air, the product presenting itself in
the form of a clear, white, pure flame, free
from smoke and other offensive or un
healthful quality. This light is produced
by a current of humid air passing through
a mixture, the principle ingredient of which
is benzoic, a highly carbonized fluid. In
stead of using the carburretted hydrogen,
prepared by expensive chemical processes,
this gas is produced by atmospheric air,
which, by a metre passage through the
liquid, at ordinary lemperatures, appropri
ates to itself, from the benzole mixture, all
that is requisite 10 impart lo its flame pe
culiar brilliancy, jieuzole is a hydro car
bon spirit, of liquid form, obtained by
distillation from bituminous coaj ainl other
analogous substances. This benzole is
mixed with one or two other cheap ingre
dients, and a gallon of the hydro carbon is
equal to the production of 1000 cubic feet
of gas.
Hard Case. —Boy with ragged trousers
and rimless chip hat, runs into Dr. Fuller's
drug store, with a dipper in his hand.—
"Doctor, mother sent me down to the shot
ticary pop quicker'n blazes, cos bub's
! sick as the dicken3 with the pickcn cliox,
and she wants a thimble full of polly gol
lie in this din tipper, cos we hadn't bot a
goltle and the kint pup's got the bine wa
ters in't. Got any?"
—
are you staring at sir, m:iy I
ask?" said an imperialled moustached
"blood" to a "Iloosier" on a Mississippi
steamboat, who had been watching him as
' a cat watches a mouse, for some fifteen
I
| minutest. "I thought so," exclaimed the
Hoosier, the moment the other spoke; "I
said you'd got a mouth, and 1 was only
waitirT to be sartain about it to ask you
.to "liquor." Stranger, whal'll you drink?
or had you rather fight? I dont care
j which myself."
iteiy*lietter to be upright with poverty thau
| wicked with plenty.
NARROW ESCAPE OF MR. BU
CHANAN.
About the time Mr. Buchanan returned
from his late visit to Washington, we heard
whispers of a singular and mysterious na
ture in regard to his illness and sudden re
turn home. In prosecuting our inquiries,
we ascertained that Mr. Humes Porter,
of this city, caine home from Washington
with Mr. Buchanan, also sick, and was
obliged to lake his bed, where he has been
ever since.
At the same time we were satisfied of
the truth of the statements we give below,
but as extraordinary efforts were made
here as well as at Washington to keep the
matter hushed up. we yielded to the soli
citations of friends, and withheld the facts
in our possession, As they are now com
ing out through oilier channels, it is due to j
our readers to give ilieni a history of this
extraordinary ease of a narrow escape from
wholesale poisoning.
When Mr. Buchanan went to Washing
ton, he put up at the National House,
where J. Glancy Jones, John L. Dawson
and others were stopping. It appears that
this hotel has been terribly infested with
rats of late, and one of the boarders—as
the story goes—conceived the idea that
they ought to be disposed of effectually
before the day of inauguration. Accord- ,
ingly, he procured extra large doses of
arsenic, which he disposed of in the most
tempting manner about the house. The
rats ate the poison. It is well known that
when rats partake of arsenic they put <li- j
rectly for water. There is a large tank of
water in the upper part of the hotel referred
to, and into this the host of rats plunged,
drank, bursted and died. From this tank
the house is supplied with water for drink
ing and cooking purposes.
Twenty or thirty of the guests were
suddenly and some of them severely af
fected, from the use of water thus impreg
nated with the poison. Mr. Buchanan left
suddenly for Wheatland, where he arrived
suflering severely from diarrhoea. lie
was, however, less severely affected than
the others, and in a short time recovered
sufficiently lo receive visiters —but the fa
tigue incident to entertaining two or three
hundred persons, made it absolutely neces
sary for him to husband his strength, by
relusiug to any but his most intimate
personal IrienJs—a rule which was rigidly
observed up to the hour of his departure
this morning.
Mr. Jones, of Berks, was more severely
affected, and has been lying in a critical
condition ever since—and a doubt about
his recovery his appoituKient to a
place in the Cabinet an open question up
to the present time. Among the others
most severely affected was Hon, John L.
Dawson, of Fayette. The report, how
ever, needs confirmation. Mr. Porter of
this city was also severely affected, and
though confined to liis room ever since,
we believe he is out of danger. Lancas
ter Express.
The West Branch Insurance Co,
OF LOIR HAVEN, PA.,
INSURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer
chandise, Farm Property, and other Build
ings, and their contents, at moderate rates.
niRKCTORS.
lion. John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey,
John B. Hall, T. T. Abrams,
Charles A. Mayer, D. K. Jack-man,
Charles Crist, W. VVi.ite,
Peter Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres.
T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
Thos. Kitchen, Bec'y.
REFERENCES.
Samuel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D.
A. A. YVinegardner, Wm, Yanderbelt,
L. A. Mackey, YVm. Fearon,
A. White, Dr. J- S. Crawford,
James Quiggle, A. Updcgraff,
John W. Maynard, James Armstrong,
Hon. Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. lligler.
83"Agent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW
ART, Esq. a P I7
Indemnity from Loss ami Damage by Fire,
In it the Perils of .Marine and Inland Transportation.
CONTIN liNT A L
INSORANCE COMPANY.
Incorporated btj the Legislature of Pennsylva
nia, with a Perpetual Charter.
Authorized Capital, $1,1)00,000.
Office No. 61 Waliint St. above Second, Pbila.
Fire insurance on Buildings, furniture, Mer
chandise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance
i on Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the
world. Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by
Lakes, Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to
I all parts of the Union, on the most favorable
terms, consistent with security.
DIRECTORS.
George W. Colladay, William Bowers,
John iVI. Coleman, Joseph Oat,
Edwin V. Machette, Howard Hinchraan,
GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President.
- GALEN WILSON, Secretary.
rrf= Agent for Mifflin county, Wm. 1 . EL
LIOTT, Esq. febW-ly
Extract from the Speech of Mr.
Jordan,
In the Senate of Pennsylvania, on the Bill de
fining the duties of the Attorney General.
By the present mode of doing business,
the condition of the public claims and col
lections can never be made known. They
are placed in the hands of such Attorneys,
in different parts of the Slate, as the Au
ditor Geperal and Stale Treasurer may
select. These men sometimes ueglect tq
bring suit until the sureties
become insolvent. In other cases they !
collect the money and neglect to pay it
over, and other Attorneys, in some instan
ces, have had to collect the money of the
Commonwealth from those who had col
lected it from the first defaulters. There j
being no law requiring returns to be made, !
none are made; and no man in the State
knows t)|e actual condition of affairs.—
These are some of the ordinary and pal
pable evils of the present system: and they ,
are all greatly aggravated by a change of
officers in the Auditor General's or State !
Treasurer's department?. They will be
all cut up by the roots by the first section
of this hill whenever it beconips a law.
Heretofore, neither the Attorney Gener
al nor any one employed to act for him,
has ever been required to give bond for the
faithlul discharge of their tinijes, .or the
payment into the Treasury of money
collected for the Slate. This, to say the
least of it, is gross negligence, and a most
dangerous departure from the well settled j
policy of the Slate in every other branch j
of the public service. Not only sound ;
policy, but the commonest instincts of
self-preservation, require immediate change
in this particular. Our history is full of
instances where large sums of money have 1
been collected by irresponsible agents, and
been forever lost to the State for want of
this salutary requirement.
Th.e right of access to the books and
papers of the several departments, is an
other important feature in this bill. The
annual reports of public defaulters as sub
mitted to the Legislature by the State
Treasurer, as required by law, show large
sums of money due the Commonwealth
for many years, in some of which, both
the principal and sureties, and in others,
the sureties only, are perfectly good for
the amounts; and yet no collections have
been made. Why this has been so,
is perhaps foreign to our present purpose;
but that the fact is so, will not be denied
by any one acquainted with the past his
tory of our public dedications. For these
evik, th.e present bill also proposes a rem
edy. It is made the dutv of the Attorney
General to see after the interests of the
State in all such cases, and to see that
collections are made in every instance
where practicable, without respect to per
sons.
The salary I have fixed at three thou
sand dollars per annum. Some think this
too low, and others consider it too high.
In iny judgment it is little enough, but the
Senate may at iis pleasure either increase
or diminish it without materially affecting
the leading principles of the bill. The
duties of the office will be arduous and
responsible, requiring the best legal abili
ties in the Slate, and these should not be
asked or expected without a reasonable
compensation. The amount however is
less important than the principle which
establishes a fixed compensation. Make
it what you please, only pass the bill, and
it will be the means of great economy
and saiing to the Slate. Under the pres
ent system, or rather want of system, the
annual cost lo the State is enormous, and
what is worse yet, the public business of
this department not duly done. The pres
ent able and accomplished State Treasurer
in his annual report, recommends the pas
sage of a bill containing the leading prin
ciples of this one, and his main reason for
it is on the score of economy.
He has assured mc that if all the bills
presented during the past year, for pro
fessional services alleged to have been
rendered 'the Commonwealth, had been
paid, the amount would not have fallen
short of twenty thousand dollars. And
this is no extraordinary amount, but rather
an ordinary annual occurrence. The
j manner in which the Treasury of our
good old Commonwealth has heretofore
been robbed according to law, can perhaps
be best illustrated by giving a few instances
ol recent date :
It is no doubt pretty well known to the
New Series—Vol. 11, No, 19.
Si rial*, tint not long since the county of
Allegheny and city of Put,burg issued a
, large amount of bonds to aid in the con
struction of certain railroads. On these
bonds the law required a specified tax to
be paid to the Commonwealth. A ques
j Uo " > vas raised whether this tax should be
paid by theYounty of Allegheny and the
city of Pittsburg, by the railroad compa
nies, or by the holders of the bonds. Now
it will he observed that the State had no
interest whatever in this question, because
it o.ade no difference to her who paid the
tax. Hut an action at law was got up
about it, in which the Commonwealth was
used as a cat's paw, by allowing her name
to he placed on the record as a party to
i the suit; and the result is, a biil is present
ed ol one thousand dollars for professional
services rendered the Commonwealth!
1 ake another case: A question was rais
ed with a certain bank concerning the am
ount owed the State on dividends. The
i Commonwealth claimed about three thou
sand dollars, and the bank denied that it
owed anything. Instead of putting the
matter into the hands of the A Home v
General, as should have been the law,
three other Attorneys were employed to
bring suit against the bank. The suit was
accordingly brought, and the three thou
sand dollars recovered; whereupon the
Attorneys nipple out their bills against the
State tor two thousand dollars apiece, thus
i charging our poor old commonwealth the
, nice little sum of six thousand dollars for
; the collection of three thousand.
Such, Mr. Speaker, are a few instances
of the practical operations of the present
law. Others might be given, but 1 trust
| these will suffice. To me, I must sav,
it is a matter of no little surprise that such
a condition of things has been tolerated
so long. In mv judgment it is high time
for a change; and the sooner it is made the
belter it will be for the tax payers of the
State. Knowing these evils to exist, I
have endeavored to provide a remedy bv
the bill now under consideration. I feel
confident it will, if passed, bring about a
radical and most important change for the
better and I hope to secure the vote of
every Senator on this floor in favor of the
measure.
Our public debt is over forty millions of
i dollars; and the annual accruing interest is
more than two millions. To pay this in
terest and other liabilities, and keep up the
credit of our State, we tax our citizens se-
I verely. We tax their houses and their
| lands, their bonds and their mortgages,
their money and their stocks, their horses
and their cattle; and it seems as if their
wives and children barely escape. To
enforce the collection of these taxes we
have passed the most stringent laws, by
which the tax gatherer may sell the last
bed from the man and his family, and then
put him in jail for any residue not covered
by the proceeds of the sale. And yet, by
our present miserable system of laws, if
j system it can be called, after we have col
: lected the funds from the tax payers, we
! permit them to be squandered by the thou
sand and tens of thousands annually, and
that too, by the most unworthy class of
public defaulters who get the taoney of
the Slate in their corrupt hands and hold
on to it from year to year with impunity,
regardless alike of all morals, ali law, and
; the public weal. I call on my fellow
Senators to see to it that this condition of
; things be perniiited no longer.
luuiluT
McVeytown, Pa.,
keep constantly on hand a large assortment of
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods,
CLOTHING,
BOOT* IXO SHOES, HITS AID CAPS,
STRAW GOODS,
HARDWARE, QUEENSWARE, CEDAR WARE,
NY all and Window Papers,
STATIONERY,
CARPETS, DRUGGETS, OIL CLOTHS, RUGS,
LINES,
OIL, LEAD, PETTY, TAR, PITCH, 01ßl tl,
Salt, Fish, Plaster, Guano,
Cement, Stoiie Coal ami Grind Stones.
'
We are paying the highest market price for
i all kinds of GRAIN; or where parties desire
i it we will ship their Grain by canal and pay
them nett p - after deducting freight.
1 ' McVeytown, February 5, 1857.