whole No. 2405. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. O*E DOLLAR PER Amitf, IX ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. SCf-All NEW subscriptions must be paid in Ivance. If the paper is continued, and net lid within the first month. $1,25 will be charg- I; if not paid in three months, $1,50; if not lid in six months, $1,75; and if not paid in ne months, $2,00. All papers addressed to persons out of the lunty will be discontinued at the expiration of je time paid for, unless special request is made [the contrary or payment guaranteed by some Sponsible person here. ADVERTISING. Ten lines of minion, or their equivalent, con lute a square. Three insertions sl, and 25 pts for each subsequent insertion. JOSEPH A. NEEDLES, MANUFACTURER OF 'ire. Silk & Hair-Cloth Sieves, irse, medium and fine in mesh; large, middle size, and small in diameter. HETALLIC CLOTHS OR WOVE! MIRE, the best qualities, various sizes of mesh, in Nos. 1 to 80 inclusive, and frcm one to feet in width. 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IF. subscriber has just received a splen did assortment of Gas Fixtures, among rh are TXI>\\TS, BRACKETS, DROP LIGHTS, LEXIBLE TIBES, GLOBES & SHADES ill descriptions, and a general assortment of K.N KRS, all which he v. ill sell at Philadel i prices (cut, fitted and put up free of tie.) Call and examine for yourself. •a* pipe put into houses, shops, stores, dec. lie shot teat notice. ig2l G. W. STEWART. GAS! GAS! i Ik BKI.IIKI.MLK would respectfully in > form the citizens of Lewis-town that he fv paring to put up ■las Fixtures of all kinds, (Lurches, Stores, Dwellings, Public Build I, Shops, 1 US. ISROOKS. Men who have to the altar led Hearts which since have often bled, O'er joys which from their homes have fled, By the first cup's decree; In evil day and evil hour, ; They yielded to its blighting power, And then the clouds of woe did lower Ou that doomed family. In the first glass the danger lies, 'Tis the first sip that will victimize, The tempter smiles and claims his prize When the first goblet's drained ; | Reason dethroned and brain on fire, i he tottering gait and tremens dire, j Are the "first fruits" of base desire And passion unrestrained. Who would be to sin a slave, : The curse of God and man would bravo, j \Y ho would fill a drunkard's grave, The first glass let him sip ; i But who would keep that higher law, j A peaceful dying breath would draw, | Dash aside that cup with awe, Before it touch thy lip. j Can men forget the converse bland, | The sacred vow and plighted hand, { Are promises a "rope of sand?" Beware of perjury. ; That wives do honor and obey, ! The sacrifices of each day, i Are proofs sincere in long array. Of their fidelity. ! Yc men of function, trust and power, j Our couptry's hope in darkest hour, . Before whom even de.-pots cower, And laud your noble aim. That yc have felt this moral peM, ; Your serried ranks do well attest; Help then this common foe to arrest, And win a laurelled name. j Ye youth who soon mu t fill the place ! Of those who near have run their race, Can ye your fatherland disgrace, By inebriety ? When good men die as die they must. For God hath said from "dust to dust," ; Can they resign their sacred trust To such depravity ? Promise to him who made the skies, By all that you on earth most prize, i Above such baseness you will rise, And men and " naught else" be ; I Lay the tyrant Bacchus low, j In him will fall your deadliest foe, Prepare to strike a signal blow, And gain the victory. 188111 Mil HI 8. i TIIE BOY Wll THER'S HEART. 1 went into the "Tombs," or Now York city prison, yesterday, and saw a great many things to make me very sad; but none that excited my sympathies more than a poor weeping woman, who stood looking into one of the cells containing three or ft/nr hoys from nine to twelve years old. One of these boys was her own and eldest son; she was a widow and her husband, who was a sailor, had been dead several years. I spoke to this heart-stricken mother, and inquired into the cause of her sorrows. "Oh, sir," said she, "my boy is here in prison for steal mir. Oh, if he were dead and in his coffin • I * 1 could bear it; but'to have hiin here in a felon's cell, breaks my heart. I tried to keep him in, but he would go out into the streets, and there he got into bad company; [ warned and entreated him, but he would not do as I wanted him to, and now he is here in this dreadful place!" No wonder that his mother wept; no wonder that she could not be comforted. Here in a horrid prison, in which were shut up scores of thieves and other bad men and boys, was her own child, the babe that she had nursed and kissed with ! the love that a mother only knows; the babe that she had a thousand times rocked to sleep singing a lullaby; lor whom she j had in sickness watched and wept and slept not, and to clothe and teed him i had sewed till midnight hours had come. ! That babe, in and disgrace, could not ; be spoken to only through an iron grating even by his mother. Poor woman, 1 did pity her. I wept with her, and tried to soothe her anguish, Let me ask those who read this story, how it is with you. Are you kind and obedient to your mother? Do you mind i her quickly and pleasantly when she • speaks to you? Do you never disobey her? Or are you like the boy who broke THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1857. i his mother's heart? No matter how old j you are, be careful, Obe very careful you don't break your mother's heart. You will never know in this world how much ; you owe your mother—how much she has j endured and suffered for you. But if you are spared to live until you are grown up, I and that dear mother shall live for you to bury her, if you are unkind and disobedi ent to her now, how will yon feel when you come to kiss her cold face for the last time before you cover her from your sight? When I see a boy or girl disobedient and unkind to a mother I greatly fear they will come to some wretched end.— Child's Payer. SKINNING CATS ALIVE. At Bow street, 011 the 23d ult., Mary Beckett, a dirty, ragged and very ill favor ed woman of about 45 years of age, was brought up in custody of policeman Stead tnan, of the F. Division, charged with skinning two cats alive. It appears that this horrible practice lias of late been very much on the increase, as is shown by the number of skinned cats found every morn ing in the areas and cellars of back streets, such as tbe coal yard and Nottingham court, having been thrown away during the night. Ihe prisoner had been long sus pected, and had frequently been watched by the coeclable. !Bhe was constantly about the streets at ail hours of the night, in tl.e 1 cry places where the c.os were usually tound, but until the present occa sion she had never been detected in the act of disposing of them. At about 5 o'clock that morning (Saturday,) a costertnouger, named William Pa) ne, living in Notting ham court, saw the prisoner skulking about with something bulky in her apron. He watched her, and presently saw her stoop down and thrust two skinned cats under the flap of the cellar. He then went in search of Steadman, who to k her in charge, and led her back to the place point ed out by Payne, where lie fount! two skinned cats. They were both quite warm and smoking, and one of t.bcrn still quiv ered. The prisoner then said, "They were the first two I eier done," and after wards added, "Don't make it very bad against me, 1 will stand a drop of gin.' He look Ironi her the apron and a couple of knives, and took her to the station house. On examining the carcasses be found a mark of a spike at the back of the head of each, tiie usual mode of performing this horrible operation being to fix tbe head of the animal to a spike, by which it was "half stunned," so as to be incapable > of fighting against its torturer. Mr. Henry asked what was the-ustt il price of their skins. The constable said he believed they fetched 2s. 3d. when taken from the living animal; but otherwise they were utterly worthless. The fur lost its gloss. The prisoner denied that she skinned ' the cats alive. She found them in the streets, already dead, the previous day. Mr. Henry said that could not be, for they were still warm when found by the constable. The utmost punishment he had power to inflict was three months' impris onment with hard labor, and he should sentence her to the full extent of that pen alty.—London Paper. Horrible Story. —The Tipton Adverti ser, published in lowa, contains a story apparently in imitation of Poe's "Case of M. Valdemer." It is contained in a letter from one John Moreton, and relates to the j case of a patient of his who disagreed ; with his wife, she believing in spiritual manifestations while he scouted them.— She died telling him with her last breath, that 011 his death bed she would appear to him in the body. A few weeks alter he died, Dr. John Moreton being then present, and as he was gasping his last, a most hor rible body, through whose decaying flesh the white bones gleamed, and front whose rotten limbs dropped loathsome grave worms upon the floor, entered the room. This horrible form said, "Come Wil liam! they wait for you—l wait," and fell to the floor, where it remained the next day, and the body of tbe husband being conveyed away, the house was burned. ' This story is supported by two or three affidavits, taken before James Maylor, No tary Public for Grand Traverse county, Michigan. ryThe best capital to begin life on is a capital wife. REMEDIES FOR THE INCREASE OF CRIME. The increase of crime in the country at large has become a matter of universal notoriety, and the failure to punish crimi nals has rendered the laws on the su'ojec" almost obsolete. Indeed, the only result which in many cases follows .1 murder is a grave waste of eight or ten days of time by court, lawyers, juries, and witnesses, and a bill of costs to tbe Commonwealth. A reli/ious paper now before us makes an effort to explain the Cause of the in crease of crime and to suggest remedies. I he cause, it alleges, is found in part in the fact that more at eution is given to the mere intellectual than to the moral culture of youth: that in times of great civil con vulsion, when anarchy and \iolencc pre vail, as in the first French revolution, it is the learned, and not the ignorant, who lead the way to destruction. No severity of law, says the writer, 110 strictness iu the enforcement of penalties wiil secure public justice amongst a corrupt community, or serve ns a substitute for an honest heart in the people. You may multiply jails and penitentiaries, yet, in spite of all these, crimes will multiply so Jong as die heart of the people is left in ail its corruption 'o i work as the great foutain of crime. conclusion to which the writer comes is that Chiistianity has a power exce'eding • all others in counteracting human wicked- i ness, and is adequate to all the present ne- ; cessities oi nations sinking under the weight of their own corruption and crimes, j 1 his all seems very well, but we may suggest that the power to work out reform must not be that sublimated sort of Gbris- j tianity which claims a wisdom anil a re- ! linemetit beyond the precepts of its great founder, and which has too much tender ness of conscience to hang a murderer when bis crime is made manifest. In short, there must be, in addition to the moral culture admitted to be necessary iu diminishing crime, that s;ern idea of jus tice which renders the cett inly of pun ishment a terror to evil doers. STATE DEBT' To* BE LIQU IDAT ED. We live in an age of progress and gi gantic financiering on the most approved j basis of judicial morality and constitution- ; al ethology. As an evidence of this, we learn from the Venango Star that a large ! and enthusiastic meeting of the Democra cy of that county was held at Rieeville, (named after the editor of the Pennsylva- ' nian, we presume,) on Monday of last week, for the purpose of endorsing the de cision of the Supreme Court in the Drcd j Scottcase. Eloquentspeeches were made, which are not reported, and must, there fore, be lost to the worlJ, but James F. ' Wood offered a resolution "that the Black Republican party, by its malignant abuse of the venerable members of the Gourt, has shown that its real aim and object is to subvert and destroy the very foundations of this glorious Republic," and Col. Hol land immortalized himself by presentiug another, that "Me State Legislature be requested to inquire into the expediency of liquidating the debt of the State by the safe of persons of color now residing in Pennsylvania." The Star tells us that j Col. Holland, in supporting this resolution, j said that although this proposition might seem to be a starding one, yet a little re- J flection would convince every thinking i tnan that the plan was not only perfectly j in accordance with the decision of the United States Supreme Court, but was perfectly feasible. He spoke at consider able length, developing the details of the proposed plan, liis remarks were listen ed to with profound attention, and at their conclusion the meeting adjourned until the 27th instant, when final action will be ta ken on the resolution. Wc shall await final action with some anxiety, but in the meantime suggest to Col. 11. the propriety of modifying his resolution, so that the surplus cash shall go towards buying ev ery white man a farm, and should it fall short, let us include in the sale all oilier persons whose complexion is of the 'bur nish livery of the sun'—the white slaves who have to work for their livings, 16 the great disgust of the South, We sec cheer ing signs of the speedy advent of "the good time coming." fFAn Irishman trying to put out a g?s light with his fingers, cried out.'Och, mur th *, there's niver a wick in it!' New Series—Vol. 11, No. 25. singular frf:ak of a bird. The Somerset (Pa.) Democrat says, ; some time last fall, a blackbird came to Mr. Joseph Snyder's in this borough, and has since lived contentedly with the chick | ens. It has become thoroughly domesti cated, and comes regularly for its food. Instead of roosting as the chickens do it takes a position on the rooster's back, who bears the we ight of bis little friend with great good nature* But the most singular nl all is, that it has learned to crow liko. the cock, and crows regularly, more fre quently than the rooster; and seems to be vain of its accomplishment. It is a real bona fule crow, clear and loud and similar [to that of a young rooster. The bird can : be seen and heard daily, and if any one doubts its trmli they can be convinced by seeing and hearing for themselves. The age is progressive, and the birds are keep ing up with the times. Discreditable to Somebody .—The Hon. Richard W. I Iroinpson, of Indiana, as very many are aware, has had for some years a claim fur forty thousand dollars against the Government for services ren dered the Cherokee Indians. Mr, Guth rie, as Secretary of the Treasury, refused to pay the claim. He was appealed to in all possible ways, and even threatened with suits at law, but he steadily and per severingly refused to the last to let the money be paid. The new Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Cobb, has allowed Mr. 1 horn; son's claim. Although he has been in office only about a month, and during that time has necessarily, as a new encum bent, had very many matters demanding bis attention, be promptly, and of course with little or no opportunity for examina tion allows a $40,000 claim, which Sec retary Guthrie, with all possible opportu nities for scrutiny through a series of years rejected over and over again. Recovery of a Lost Child. —A curious incident occurred at Turin on the 26th ult. A party of rope dancers were performing in one of the public squares of that city, when one of the spectators rushed fcr waid with the exclamation of "My daugh ter! my daughter!" At the same moment one of the performers, a girl of about nine years of age, with beautiful fair locks, broke away from the troop and rushed in to his arms with a cry of recognition. Tt.e police immediately interfered, and the gentleman, an inhabitant of Bagnolo, informed them that the young girl was his daugher, who had been stolen from hiin in September last. The rope dan cers were immediately taken to the police office, where the chief of the troop gav? proof of bis not being the kidnapper, and the daughter was restored to her father. Revolting Affair in Maryland. —The following tragic occurrence took place at Winston, Md., on the 27th of March:— A son of Philip Pendleton and a young man by the name of Drain, from Chicago, had some misunderstanding, which result ed in Drain's challenging young Pendleton, lie accepted the challenge, and chose bow ie-knives. They nailed themselves down to a two inch oak plank by the pants, and fought until Drain was mortally wounded, Young Pendleton was nearly cut in pieces and is now lying in a critical condition. Part of Pendleton's knife is still in Drain's head. There is no hope of his recovery. The Dr. thinks they will both die. Drain was 22 years old, and small of stature, while Pendleton was about 19. Trouble in the Party. —An unpaid grog bill lias involved tho Central Committee of the New York Buchanan party in a deal of trouble. The fun of it is, a darkey is the prosecutor. It seems, that iu a jubilee over the election of Buchanan they not only ate his bread hut drank his wino to excess, and then like a pack of ingrates, walked off and refused to pay him. Sambo, however, is not to be trifled with, insists on his rights, and, with the air of a hero, drags them to judg ment. The best way to get out of the matter ! would be to get into the U. S. Supreme Court | —there Sambo it seems has no rights. ©uif- Wm. A. Greatrake, of Pittsburgh. ; who, after an exciting trial, was sentenced ta two yenrs imprisonment for seducing Miss Mary Murray, had been pardoned, after serv ing a year in the Penitentiary. Miss Mur ray, aniung many other " friends, exerted herself to procure the pardon from Governor Pollock. bread is better than none.