pole No. 2404. ■ TERMS or SUBSCRIPTION. OAF, DOLLAR PER I^.lll, 1M ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. If*AU NEW subscriptions must be paid in ! nee. If the paper i continued, and net within the first month, $1,25 will be charg if not. paid in three months, $1,50; if not | in six months, $1,75; and it not paid in months, $2,00. , ; 1 papers addressed to persons out ot the ty will be discontinued at the expiration ol ; ime paid far, unless special request made n,. contrary or payment guaranteed by some | person here. advertising. )bn lines of minion, or their equivalent, con- j L a square. Three insertions sl, and 2o j L for each subsequent insertion. | JOSEPH A. NEEDLES, manufacturer of Ire. Silk & Hair-Cloth Sieves, medium and line in mesh; large, middle size, and small in diameter. (LOTHS OR WOlE\ WIRE) ojuie best qualities, various sizes of mesh, Nos. 1 to 80 inclusive, and frcm one to < in width. | Wftey are numbered so many spaces to a lin etSnch, and cut to suit. S, e subscriber also keeps constantly on hand I "2TVISP c Sand, Ore, Lime, Grain. Gravel, Gu- Sumac, Sugar, Salt, Bone, Colfee, Spiee, K). Dycstuffs, &c. Together with ana sqSner.t of Bright a\d ax?ealed irox wire. ■| of the above sold wholesale or retail, by 54 N. Front St., Philadelphia. Jmr. L. B. MUSGRAVE & CO., Wholesale Druggists. AND DE.tt.EBS I.V I 13 IF&. XT O £S , SPICES, CiKEMICALS, ■ i s;jfa?? 3 , '}■ ''pa TK T3 ~ " Oils, Glass, &c , IfßKarkrt st. above Ilth, S. side, Pliiia. f- and country merchants arc MjSestcd to give them a call and examine stock and prices, before making tin ii GAS FIXTURES. IBr. subscriber has just received a spltn- assortment of Ga- Fixtures, among R RACKETS, DROP LIGHTS. Blemcei: tires. globes a. shades descriptions, and a general assortment of all which he will sell at I'i.iladet prices (cut. fitted and put up iree ot Call an 1 examine for y< ursclf. pipe put into houses, shops, stores iAc. al fbsshoitest notice. I gas: GAS! B. SELHEIMER would respectfully in |H. form the citizens of Lewistown that he to put up ■Gas Fixtures of all kinds, Stores, Dwellings, Public Build- Shops, Ac., in the best manner. Hav mk procured an experienced workman from recommend' 1 to me to be one of the workmen in the State, 1 can safely M.tr all work and feel confident of pleasing ss Lewistown, May 22,-1850, ITE7T FIP,M. subscribers, trading as McWilliams & Sterrelt, have leased the Lewistown Mill are now prepared to buy all kinds of grain, which they will pay the highest market in cash. will be taken in store on the same as heretofore by John Sterrett & Co. who wish to have grists ground,- or chopped, will be accommodated on the notice. will always have on hand for -ale a full [ Flour, Grain and Feed, will be delivered to any part of town by outers at the otfice in the Mill. of them will at all times be found at the faMl to give their personal attention to the and they hope to merit a continuance patronage bestowed on the old firm. GEO. VV. McWILLIAMS, F. R. STERRETT. January, 17, 1856. ■ GEC. 7 r. SLEEP., Attorney at Law. in West Markctstreet,opposite Eiscn Hotel, will attend to any business in iht Milliin, Centre, or Huntingdon couu Lewistown. Julv 1, 1853. Ho L£ o I SI ItGi:\ DEMIST. business promptly attend ed to, and charges reasonable. W)FFICE on North Main street, second dooi bw the town Hall, and nearly opposite the je 21, 1855—tf. I Drs. Moss & Stoneroad Kit their professional services to the cit izens of Lewistown and surrounding coun Office at the Beehive Drug Store. jes ( ' to Hoffman's for Tubs Go to Hoffman's for Churns H to Hoffman's for Buckets H Ho to Hoffman's for Brooms Hoffman's for Baskets do 11 JPSBIOTEPEBH) iroiKMBSnKB) IHlfiFS&SK&iai&a MH®U S MI'SS ©aWffHWffs IP^ O Kroui the Xe York Musical Beview. Where Shall We Make Her Grave { Words by Mrs. Heinous. Music by V in. 1., llutclicr. Where shall we make her grave? Oh ! where the wihl flowers wave In the free air ; Where shower and singing bird 'Midst the young leaves are heard— There—lay her there ! Ilarsh was the world to her— Now may sleep minister Balm for each ill; Low on sweet nature's breast Let the meek heart find rest. Deep, deep and still. Murmur, glad waters by! Faint gales, with happy sigh, Come wandering o'er That green and mossy bed, Where, on a gentle head, Storms beat no more. POP GOES THE QUESTION. List to me, sweet maiden, pray, Pop goes the question ! Will you marry me, yea or nay? Pop goes the question ! I've no time to plead or sigh, No patience to wait, for bye and bye. Snare me now, I'm sure to fly, Pop goes the question ! "Ask papa!" Oh, fiddle de dee! P"P goes the question ! Fathers and lovers can never agree! Pop goes the question ! 11 can't tell what I want to know, Whether you love me, dear, or no, To ask him would be very "slow!" Pop goes the question ! I think we'd make a charming pair. Pop goes the question ! For I'm good looking and you very fair, Pop goes the question ! We'll travel life's round in gallant style, And you shall drive evey other mile, Or, if it please you, all the while— Pop goes the question ! if we don't have an enchanting time, Pun goes the question ! I'm -ore 'twill be no fault of mine, Pop goes the question ! To be sure my funds make a feeble show, But love is nourishing food, you know, And cottages rent uncommonly low, Pop goes the question ! Then answer me quickly, darling, pray, Pop goes the question ! Will you marry me, yea or nay ? Pop goes the question ! I've no time to plead or sigh, No patience to wait, for bye and bye, Snare mc now, or I'm going tj fly, Pop goes tiie question ! ♦i fati a. si. aa id is. MANUFACTURE OE MALLEABLE IRON WITHOUT FUEL. At a meeting of the British Association for the advancement of Science, held in Cheltenham, England, last month, 11. Bes semer, of London, read a paper on a new method of making malleable iron from pig iron, which deserves the attention of our iron manufacturers, as the process is very original, is stated to he perfectly successful, and destined to revolutionize the processes of manufacturing malleable iron and steel. The following is the substance of his paper, which we have condensed for our columns: For the last two years his attention had been almost exclusively devoted to the manufacture of malleable iron and steel, with but little progress, until within the last nine months. The idea occurred to him that if molten pig iron at a glowing j heat was run into a chamber and a blast j driven through it, that the five per cent, of carbon in it wotdd unite with the oxygen of the blast, producing intense combustion, because carbon cannot exist at a white j heat in contact with oxygen. He therefore j i put up an apparatus capable of converting , | about seven hundred pounds of crude pig ! : into malleable iron, and so successful was j ; the result that crude pig was rendered into ! malleable iron in half an hour. He then put up a cylindrical vessel three feet in diameter and five feet high, like an ordinary cupola furnace, the interior of which he lined with lire brick. At about two inches from the bottom are inserted five tuyre pipes, having nozzles of lire clay. At one sides of this vessel, half way up, is a tap hole for running in crude molten pig iron from a common blast furnace, and on the opposite side is anoth er tap hole, to run out the metal when the ! process is completed. A blast of air of a THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1857. pressure of eight pounds to the square inch is let into this cylinder a few minutes before the crude iron is allowed to flow into it from the blast furnace. The mol ten crude iron is then let in by its tap, and it soon begins to boil and toss about with great violence. Flames and bright sparks then begin to issue from the vessel's top; the oxygen of the air from the blower combines with the carbon in the metal, evolving a most intense heat producing carbonic acid gas, which escapes; the met al is deprived of its carbon without roast ing. by fuel, as by the common mode, and thus it is rendered into malleable iron. By this simple process the heat genera ted is stated to he so intense that all slag is thrown out in large foaming masses, and all the sulphur is driven off, together with deteriorating earthy basis; so that the met al is completely refined—more pure than any puddled iron. It is also stated that one workman by this process can convert five tons of crude pig into malleable iron in about thirty minutes. Its advantages are, painted in such dazzling colors that we are afraid to rely upon them implicitly.— If they ate such as .Mr. Bessemer has de scribed, a new era in the iron manufacture has dawned upon the world, and malleable iron will soon be reduced to a price hut little above that of common pig. We hail every improvement in the man ufacture of iron, either to cheapen its price or improve its quality, as of vast conse quence to mankind, because it is the prin cipal material employed in the mechanic arts; it is the great material agent of mod ern progress in physical science. Without it we would neither have steam engines, steamships, railroads, cotton or woolen manufactories; we would lie as deficient in machinery as out forefathers who lived in the age of bronze. An immense amount of fuel is employed in the common process of rendering pig iron malleable. It is roasted in a furnace bv lire heat for a long period, until i's carbon is made to unite with the oxygen, to which it is exposed to for in carbonic acid, which is driven off. The new pro cess accomplishes the same result without the use of any fuel—the carbon in the metal being made lite agent to decarbonize itself. The heat produced by this process is also stated to lie so great that scrap iron placed in a small chamber near its top is melted. By this process steel of different qualities, it is also staled, can be produced by tapping the metal at different stages of the process after it boils in the cylinder. AN EASTERN LEGEND. There is in Afghanistan, a country abounding in legends, one to this effect:— That" Satan entered into a compact with the people to teacli them to cultivate earth and bring forth its fruits, the produce to be divided by ibein. The proposition being acceded to, the soil was prepared by the labor of the people. Satan then produced the seed, whtch in due course of time came up carrots, turnips, and other vege tables, the value of which lies beneath the ground. When the time of division arriv ed, the ignorant people took that which was above the surface. Discovering their mistake, they complained loudly. Satan heard their lamenting with composure, and then to soothe them, blandly promised that it should be different next year. The peo ple were to take all the produce beneath the soil, and as Satan this time sowed wheat, barley, and sucli like grain, he ob tained all the profits and they were tricked again, having nothing for their share but useless roots. This legend has a moral. Satan never j sows any seed in the human heart that ; brings forth any fruit by the growth of j which any but himself is the gainer. Only One O'clock . —Mr. , coming home late one night from "meeting," was met at the door by his wife— -4 Pretty time of night, Mr. , for you to come home—pretty time, three o'clock in the morning; you, a respectable man in the community, and the father of a family !' 4 'Tisn't three—it's only one, 1 heard it strike; Council always sits till one o'clock.' 1 My soul ! Mr. , your druhk —as true as I'm alive, your drunk. It's three o'clock in the morning.' 4 1 say, Mrs. , it's one. I heard it strike one as I came round the corner, two I or three times.' TORTURE IN SICILY. His Majesty of the two Sicilies has re cently introduced a new luxury into his prison discipline in addition to the many already existing. It is called a cap of si lence (cujfia di nile.nzio), and both for the particular purpose for which it is ostensi bly applied, and as an instrument of tor ture generally, it may, perhaps, he consid ered superior in refinement to the celebra ted "iron mask" or any of the engines of antiquity. The invention is due to the genius of Signor Baiona, Inspector of Po lice at Palermo, and it appears to have been so highly approved by the King of Naples that he immediately decorated the talented and philanthropic gentleman with the order of Francis I. This cap or cujfia, consists of a circular band of steel, passing round the head just above the eyes, with a semicircular band of the same material connecting it over the top of the head from car to ear; attached to this superstructure is a chin strap of steel wire, growing broader towards the bottom so as to confine the lower jaw completely, and make it utterly impossible to articulate when the bands on the head are proper!v screwed up; and to complete the adjust ment there is a strap of leather with a buck le attached to the chin strap, which passes round the back of the neck, just below the ears, and keeps the latter firm in its place. It is said that the first experiments made with this novel instrument of torture were on two persons-called Lo-Re and De .Med ici, and that the former suffered so much from it that he remained senseless for some time, and a gaoler who saw him, believing the man to be dying, ran and fetched a doctor and a priest without Signor Baiona's permission. When the doctor and priest arrived, Signor Baiona consented to allow the cap to be removed from the unfortu nate prisoner, who was at length restored to life, after a copious bleeding and other remedies ; but he ordered a punishment of fifteen blows of a stick to the gaoler, in or der to check his over zealous charily in future. MARRYING IN FUN. Another instance of the folly of " mar rying in fun" is just now exciting the good people of Fonda. It seems that a banking officer in that town met at a ball a young lady Iroin the neighborhood, who was very good looking, uprightly and at tractive. While waltzing wiih her, he proposed in jest that they should he mar ried. The lady accepted his proposition, mid they adjourned to a side room, where a person present was called upon to per form the ceremony, which he did, to the infinite amusemement of all coneerm-d.— ! i The gentleman thought no more of the mat- j ter until the breaking up of the ball, when J the fair partner-called upon him to cor.duct | her to his residence. He demurred, and i thought she had better go to her own resi dence. She said that the home of her husband was her home, "whither thou go -1 est, I will follow thee." He didn't hardly 1 understand that she was his wife. She insisted upon her marital rights and claim i ed that as the ceremony had been perform- j ed by a Justice ol the Peace, it was a j perfectly fair and legal transaction. Gen- j tleinan inquired into matters ; found that ! her positions were correct, and that he . was in a bad box. He is now endeavoring j to ignore his wife and back out of the bar- j gain, with little prospect of success, how ever. The lady has before been married, and was, it is understood, divorced from her former husband, but under such cir- cumstances as admitted of her marrying again. A Chance for Catholic Beaux. —The j Troy Times tells of two beautiful and accomplished maiden ladies in Lansing | burgh, N. Y., who are held in celibacy by j j the force of circumstances. Their father, a wealthy retired merchant, died some j time since, and left a will, by the provis- j ions of which Ins entire property reverted to * foreign party, in case they should marry anybody who was not a Catholic. Prefering celibacy to poverty, and not hav ing seen any Catholic gentlemen who could win their hearts, they are passing I into old maidenhood. Some fortune hunt ing youths, however, will probably save them from such a fate by "changing their creed." A young lady down street says hoops are good institutions. THE ARITHOME 1 RE. The attention of the learned world is now engrossed, says the Independence Beige, by a new invention which promises to be of universal usefulness, Mr. Thorn as, of Colmar, after thirty }ears of hard study and assiduous labor, has at'last solved the problem of calculation by mechanism. His machine, which he has called " Arithometre," is applicable to the mechanical solution of all arithmetical op erations, from the simplest to the most complicated ones. His instrument solves, | with infallible correctness, not only the four rules—addition, subtraction, multipli cation, and division—but also ascertains the powers of quantities, extracts the roots of numbers, resolves triangles, reduces or dinary and decimal fractions, and defines the rules of proportion, &c. Its rapidity of execution is such as to defy the ablest * calculators. A multiplication of eight numbers with eight numbers is executed in eighteen seconds ; a division of sixteen cyphers through eight cyphers in twenty four seconds. The machinery is so sim ple that, after the expiration of five min utes of instruction, anybody can calculate with rapidity and correctness. The " Arithometre'' is placed in a small light box, which can he easily carried in a pocket, and is so. constructed that its mechanism can scarcely ever be deranged. AN OLD ART REVIVED. An unique invention for the manufacture of garments without seams, is n >\v in prac tical operation in Massachusetts, on a con siderably extensive scale. The wool as it passes through the carding machine, is woven upon cylinders of peculiar shape, the layers ol wool crossing each other at different angles, the fibres being stretched to their utmost, making a close well woven ball, which can be formed into coat bodies, others into sleeves, mittens, pantaloons shoes, leggings, and the like. Over these cylinders are drawn closely fitting hags or coverings of cloth. The whole is then immersed in water, whence they are taken and dropped into metallic tubes heated by steam. A- slight vibratory mo tion is there given them, which felts the wool in a few minutes, leaving, when coats are to be made, the ends of the sleeves and the arm-holes of the coat soft. They are then joined and firmly felled together, producing a coat perfect in shape and even in texture. They" are then pulled until they become firm and solid. Most of these garments are dyed in the wool before carding; those that are not are at this stage ready for the dyer. Next they are dried on copper form* in the shape of men heat Ed by steam. While on these forms they go through a finishing process, which gives them the appearance of goods known as beaver cloth. A GOOD MAN'S WISH. I would rather, when I am laid in the grave, that some one in his manhood should stand over me and say—"There lies one who was a real friend to me, and privately warned me of the dangers of the young. No one knew it, but he aided me in the time of need. I owe what I iam to him." Or would rather have some | widow, with choking utterance telling her children, —"There is your friend and mine. i * ! lie visited me in my affliction, and found ! you, my sou, an employer, and you, my ! daughter, a happy home in a virtuous family." 1 would rather that such per sons should stand at tny grave, than to have erected over it the most beautiful sculptured monument of Parian or Italian i marble. The heart's broken utterance of reflections of past kindness, and the tears i of grateful memory shed upon the grave, are more valuable, in my estimation, than the most costly cenotaph ever reared.— j Dr. Sharp. following announcement, says a 1 California paper, will be hailed with de light by sundry gentlemen from "Old Pike." : "Air. Editor pleas giv a very good no tice of the marriage 'of Bob Sikes that was whipt for stealin in Gorgy to old Bill Rices big ugly gal Betsy which took place last thursday by Squire Billy Jones. We had a bustin time shure and you nevet seed sich fun. Put in some Poetri if you can it will please em al mitaly. Yours &c., .TOE MUGGINS. Things forgotten—April showers. New Series—Vol. 11, No. 24. TERRIBLE OUTRAGE ON A JEW. I he Konigsburg Gazette relates the fol lowing disgraceful affaii: "The son of a Jew tradesmen of Gutt siaut, in Eastern Prussia, having lately terminated his apprenticeship to a furrier, gave on the occasion a grand banquet to all the master furriers of the town. After a good deal of wine had been drunk, the conversation turned on the crucifixion of Christ, and the guests regardless of the consideration due to their host, insisted that he was responsible for the crime of his ancestors. One of them at length proposed that, as a punishment, the young man should undergo the operation of hav ing a cross cut 011 iiis person. The prop osition was adopted with applause, and the young man, in spite of a desperate re sistance, had a cross cut deeply in his haunch. He wou'd probably have been further ill-treated, if, by an almost super human exercise of strength, he had not broken from his assailants and rushed into the street. There he fell senseless, and 'was conveyed to his own house. Medi cal assistance was procured for him, but the loss of blood was so great there is but little hope of saving him. His cowardly assailants, all of whom occupy a respec table position in society, were arrestPil and sent to Heilsburg to take their trial,'' A Rich Case. —Memphis is decidedly a great place in its way. A few days since a case was pending in the Common Law Court of that city, in which a Mr. and M rs. Helbing had sued Philip R. Bohlen.* for breach of marriage contract, in failing to marry Mrs. Helbing, when she was Miss x\gnes Handworker, and the jury has given the injured parties $1,250 damages. The idea of Helbing sueing Bohlen be cause he did not marry his wife, is cer tainly the richest thing of this fast age. A ew Swindle. —The Cincinnati Com mercial notices the operations of a man by the name of Mathews, who pretepds to have a town in Dacotah county, Minne sota Territory. He has sent circulars all over the states offering to give away three thousand lots in his town to any one who will make the application. He only re quires one dollar, he says, to pay for the deed, it is, perhaps, needless to say that it is all a swindle, and the police of Cin cinnati are on the track of the fellow.— He has lately received through the post office hundreds of letters; indeed, so ex tensive had his correspondence become as to excite the suspicions of the Postmaster, when the above swindle was developed. Mr. Lawrence, Postmaster at Newville in this State, says, in a letter to Dr. Vattier, that he alone sent the fellow S3O. This kind of swindle, we notice, is getting quite common in the East also. A Spirit Running a Saic —The peo ple along Barber's Run, in Jefferson co., Ohio, are greatly excited. The sound of a man sharpening a saw has been heard at a point on the run, night after night— in a "sunless glen whose sunken shrubs must weep." Just the place for a ghost! When the quidnuncs approach, the sounds cease and commence on their retiring.— The sawyer, unlike children, prefers to be heard, not seen. Tradition affirms that many years back a saw mill owner was mysteriously shot in that vicinity. His disembodied spirit has returned to the scene of his "taking of!'." Freeburg Academy and Normal School. HMDS INSTITUTION, located in the beau x' tiful and healthy little village of Freeburg, Snyder county, Pa., will commence the second (Spring) quarter of its Second Session on the 23d of March. In view of the great want of proper instruction for Teachers in this and oth er counties, a iVORIAL DEPARTMENT will hereafter be connected with this school, in whjch Teachers will be prepared for the ardu ous duties of the school room. That justly popular Teacher, Lecturer and Author, Prof. J. F. Stoddarb, has been engaged to deliver a course of Lectures and assist in arranging and conducting the Normal exercises and training, and it is hoped Teachers will avail themselves of his services while, in the county. An addi tional Female Teacher has been engaged, and other arrangements made to meet the wants of ail. TERMS, " One-half payable invariably in advance. For Board, Room, and Tuition, per session of 22 weeks, $50.C0 to $55.0 C Tuition only, per qr. of 11 w'ks, 2.50 to 8.00 Instruction on Piano and use of Instrument, 900 For Circulars, &c., address GEO. F. McFARLAND, Principal. Freeburg, March 12. 1857. CULTIVATORS! CULTIVATORS!—S, 7 & 10 Teeth Cultivators, with part reversabje cast steel teeth. F. G. FRANCISCUS.
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