- ^ F1 * .*?' I_-_ _ '-- ""—'UMT'* 'r'-- - j. ll . - - -' -~ ""* LL - - -—lu.l ■■! mil i--. ''Hi. JP'CcJUI tin Be No. 2407. ! TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. OAK DOLLAR PER AAALU, IV ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. Ml NEW subscriptions must be paid in :. If the paper is continued, and net thin the first month, §1,25 will be charg int piid in three months, §1,50; if not six months, §1,75: and if not paid in nths, §2.00. apers addressed to persons out of the will be discontinued at the expiration of • paid f >r. unless special request is made rintr try or payment guaranteed by some inle person here. ADVERTISING. ines of minion, or their equivalent, cori a square. Three insertions §l, and 25 r each subsequent insertion. KJO3EPH A. NEEDLES, MANUFACTURER OF He. Silk & Eair-Cloth Sieves, |H, medium and fine in mesh; large, middle t size, and small in diameter. Mft'tl Lie t LOTUS OR MGIE* WIRE, f (■, n, st qualities, various sizes of mesh, omKos. 1 to 80 inclusive, and frcm one to x Ml in width. TV: are numbered so many spaces to a lin fjKh, and cut to suit. a Is > keeps constantly on hand Sand, Ore, Lime, Grain, Gravel, Gu gSKmnac, Sugar, Salt, Bone, Coffee, Spice, Dvestuffs, &c. Together with an as- t 9# 4. 11l A .YD AY.YEALED IROY WIRE. the above sold wholesale or retail, by J. A. NEEDLES, vtfßp 54 N. Front St., Philadelphia. ■ L. B. MUSGRAVE & CO., I Wholesale Druggists, AND DEALERS IN |D IFLTJ Gr &> , SPICES, GHEKIOALS, mJI * 3 * || TaiNTSr v Oils, Glass, &c , IMBnrkct st. above Ilth, 8. side, Phila. and country merchants are to gi\e them a caii and examine >vk and prices, before making their GAS FIXTURES. has ju-t received a splen- a-orluient of Gas Fixtures, among BD\NTN, BRACKETS, DROP LIGHTS, ■tMBI.I TIDES, GLOBES & SHADES f iswd- scriptions, arid a general assortment of all which he will sell at Philadel- Varices (cut, fitted and put up free of i.) Call and examine for yourself, pipe put into houses, shops, stores, &c. shortest notice. aifcl G. W. STEWART. I GAS! GAS! U. SEI.MKIMER would respectfully in form the citizens ol Lewistown that he paring to put up as Fixtures of all kinds, jrcln-s, Stores, Dwellings, Public Build- Shnps, &c., in the best manner. Hav rocured an experienced workman from _tj, recommended to me to be one of the in the State, I can safely war- Hall work and feel confident of pleasing Lewistown, May 22, 1856, 1T27/ FJRNt. subscribers, trading as McWilliams & have leased the Lewistown Mill now prepared to buy all kinds of grain, they wilt pay the highest market will he taken in store on the same B as heretofore ly John Steirett &. Co. r- who wish to have grists ground, or chopped, will he accommodated on the notice. will always have on hand for sale a full B el ■Flour, Grain and Feed, will be delivered to anv part of town by eiders at the office in the Mill. of them will at all times be found at the Hto give their personal attention to the and they hope to merit a continuance B patronage bestowed on the old firm. GEO. W. McWILLIAMS, F. R. STERKETT. January, 17, 1856. ■GEO. W. SLEEP., Attorney at Law, in West Marketstreet,opposite Eisen Hotel, will attend to any business inthe. p™H°f Mifflin, Centre, or Huntingdon couu- Lewistown. Julv 1, 1853. So 2k> ffIDKEfWIJa HM'iji.i;O\ lu.Vll-T. A L business promptly attend to, and charges reasonable. Bmce on North Main street, second door the town Hall, and nearly opposite the office. je 21, 1855—tf. take this opportunity of informing the that we have obtained direct from KSTOM HOUSE all kinds < f L.IQTJOTIS, are as pure as can be obtained in tliis y, expressly for medical purposes. J. D STONE ROAD, Bek Hive Drug Store. ipjßSSj'iftajß) ipwxs&insiHEais) The West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK IIAIE.Y, PA., INSURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer chandise, Farm Property, and other Build ings, and their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. Hon. John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, John B. Hail, T. T. Abranis, Charles A. Mayer, D. K. Jackman, Charles Crist, W. VVnite, Peter Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T, T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. Tlios. Kitchen, See'y. REFERENCES. Samuel 11, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. A. A. Winegardner, Wm. Vanderbclt, L. A. Mackey, Wm. Fearon, A. White, Dr. J. S. Crawford, James Quiggle, A. Updegralf, John W. Maynard, James Armstrong, Hon. Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW ART, Esq. ap23 liulfiijiiity from Loss r.ihi Damage by Fire, the Perils of Marine ami Ivlav>' Transportation. CONTINKNTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Ijtyislature of Pcuimylva miia, with a Perpetual Charter. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. Office No. 01 Walnut St. above Second, Pliilu. Fire Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer chandise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance on Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the world. Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by Lakes, Rivets, Canals, and Land Carriages, to all parts of the Union, on the most lavorubie terms, consistent with secuiity. DIRECTORS. George W. Colladay, William Bowers, John M. Coleman, Joseph Oat, Edwin V. .Machette, Howard Hinchman, GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President. GALEN WILSON, Secretary. for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL LIOTT, Esq. * fcbl'J-ly INIOMTY AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE. Franklin Fire Insurance Compa ny of Philadelphia. Office 1634 Chestnut street, near Fifth. Statement of Assets, *1,827,18.* 80 January Ist, 1637. Published agreeably to an act of Assembly, be ing, Fist Mortgages, amply seeuri rc.~v.-e 1 With a desire to bring my business nearly to CASH, after the first of April our credit term* will be Thirty Days and accounts not to exceed Fifty Dollars. W'e hope still to conduct our business so that we shall enjoy the good will of our numerous customers, and that the num ber may be greatly increased. mar! 2 F. J. HOFFMAN. m oiii) sbiiiiii Has Just Opined a Splendid Assortment OF SPRING & SUMMER GOODS. IF you want a cheap Diris, call it ill* Old ("inner If yon waul a cheap .-hawl, call at ih>* Old Curlier If you want cheap Silks, call at the Ohl Corner If ynti want cheap Muslins, call at the Old Corner. If yon want Kentucky Jeans >.r Tweed*, call at the Ohl Corner. Al-o, Flannels, all kinds and colors. If yon w ti.l abulia £or ilcreges, call at lhe (>ld Corner. If you want Brilliunles or Lawns, call at the Old Corner. If you want I.a Villa Cloths, call at the Oil C' fuer. If you want Silk (.'ravelins, call at the Old Corner. If you want .Mourning Goods, call at the Old Corner. If you want stuped .Skirting Muslin, go to the Old Corner. If you want patent Crinoline Lining,go in tin Old Corner. If yon want Collars, Cndersleeves, Edgings, Inserting*, Flouncing*, or any Embroideries, go to the I lid Corner. If you want Corded Skins, tSonlag Skins, or 1100, s, call at the Old Corner. If you want Cloths, call at lite Old Corner. If you want Cassiun res, call at lite Ohl ('ori.cr. If you want Satinells, call at the Old Corner. IV YllLi H.S.YT A MYTH !VTG I. AT 77/ K Pit Y GO UPS /.EVE, GO TO T/fl. O/.1l COHJYKIt If you want to maki choice from over EtIJ styles i f Wat! Papers, go to the Old Corner. If you went a Carpet of any kind, go to the Old Corner. If you want Groceries, Uucet.au are, or Cutlery, call at the Old Corner. If you want Clothing, Boots or Shoes, Hats or Caps, call at the Old Corner. If you have Country Produce to exchange for Goods,call at the Old t orner. If you want Bargains in anything, call at the Old Coiner. rVCotlnl ry Dealers supplied with Goods hy wholesale at a verv small advance above cilv whnl.'sale prices. aj>23 GEORGE BLYMYER. BOOKS!BOOKS! . A'J' GIFT SALE. V HANDSOME GIFT, ranging from 611 cents to $lO, will he given to each purchaser fa llouk atJunkin's Book and Jewelroy Store The following comprises a poitiou of the hooks on his shelves ; Periscopics, hy William Elder, Sense and Sensibility, by Miss Austen, Geoffrey Moncton, hy Mrs. Moodie, Three Hundred Religious Tales, Clouds and Sunshine in the Life of a Village Pastor, Headley's .Sacred Plains, Language of Flowers, Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons, New England Tales, hy Mrs. Sedgw ick, The Elder Sister, Fashionable Life, by M. A. Eastman, The Young Lady's Mentor, Home Scenes, or Christ in the Family, Uueechey, by the author of the Wide Wide World, Visit to Europe, by Professor Stllimau, Lectures 011 the Progress of Arts and Sciences, England and its People, by Hugh Miller, The Youth of Madame de Longueville, The Aroh Bishop, or Romanism in the United States, Ups and Downs, hy Cousin Cicely, Dred, by Mrs. (itowe, Mechanic's Text Book, Wager of Battle, by 11. VV. Herbert, Eventide, by Effte Afton, Salad for the Solitary, Household Narratives for the Family Circle, The Three Colonies of Australia, Pious Dead of the Medical Profession, The Christian Family Library, Can Eden, or Pictures of Cuba, The Poetry and Mystery of Dreams, Lives of Generals Scott and Jackson, My Courtship and its consequences, by Wykolf, And an endless variety of other useful, scientific, teli gions, aud miscellaneous books. in the country remitting mon ey for any book named on tho bills, cau have the book and gift forwarded in any manner they may direct. If by mail, tbey must send 25 cents additional in stumps or money to prepay postage. ap23 THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1857. THE CONSIDERATE DOCTOR. A poor girl, who had just recovered front a long spell of sickness, gathered up her scanty earnings, and went to the doctor's office to settle her hill. Just at the door, the lawyer of the place passed into the office before heron a simi lar errand. "Well, doctor,'' said he "I believe I am indebted to you, and I should like to know how much." "Yes," said the doctor, I Attended upon you about a week, and what would vou charge me for a week's services, or what do you realize, on an average, for a week's services?" "O," said the lawyer, "perhaps seventv live dollars." "\ erv well, then, as my time and pro fession are as valuable as yours, your bill is seventy-five dollars." The poor girl's heart sunk within her, lor should her bill be anything like that, how could she ever pay? The lawyer paid his hill and passed out, when the doctor turned to the young woman, and kindly inquired her errand. "1 came," said she, "to know what 1 owe you, although I know not as I can ev er pay you." "I attended you about a week" said he. "Yes, sir." "What do you get per week?" "Seventy five cents," said she. "Is that all?" "Yes sir." "Then your hi!! is seventy-five cents." The poor girl paid him thankfully, and went hack with a light heart. An old and rich man ol my acquaintance was once re marking to the doctor, that no one earned their money so easily as the doctor, or could get rich so easily. The doctor reminded him of the many losses incurred, as thev must visit the poor as well as the rich.— "W ell," said my old friend, "you must charge the rich more, and then you can af ford to lose by the poor." Not many weeks after, the old man was obliged to employ the doctor for some lime. At the last visit his bill was presented, anil strongly resisted as enormously high. "But," said the doctor, "you know what you told me, and 1 have only followed your advice." Not a word more was said, but the a mount was immediately paid. CAL T tillT*iN~A TRAP. It was lately that a strange event occur red 111 the village of Champignolles, France. One of the inhabitants had dug a pit for tiie purpose of catching a wolf, and, after covering it, put on the top, to attract the animal, a living goose. Anoth er inhabitant of the village saw from a distance the goose, fluttering and strug gling to get loose. The obscurity (it be ing twilight) not permitting him to distin guish the trap, he approached and fell to the bottom of the pit. The pit was Bor ten feet deep and the sides perpendicular. Cheat was the astonishment of the man, and greater yet was his embarrassment, at lindiug himself in that position; and it was not until after having for some time called in vain for help that he resolved to wait patiently lor daylight, and meanwhile inade himself as comfortable as possible. But hardly had he taken this resolution when he felt a heavy weight fall on his shoulders. This was a wolf, which, at tracted by the bait, had also been caught by the trap. You can easily imagine the fright of the unfortunate man. Indeed, the terror of the four lpgged animal was not less, for it retreated at once and laid itself down in one corner and did not move during the night. At length day broke, and to the poor companion of the wolf it seemed time for it to break, lor the night had seemed terribly long. The owner of the trap came early to see what he had caught, and found his neighbor in the pit. lie drew out the unfortunate man more dead than alive: but he was less gen erous towards the wolf, which he killed, notwithstanding his exemplary conduct through the night. £3P*Next to being upright and faithful in the performance ol our duly, be decided, and then vou will make either friends or foes worth having. CWSubject for a Debating Club:—lf a man had a grizzly bear by the tail, would it be policy to hold fast or let go? 3j)ol(t(rai. Judge Wilinot's Acceptance. Towaxda, April 23, 1857. GENTLEMEN: —On my return home, after an absence of two weeks, I found your communication informing me of mv nom ination as a candidate for the office of Governor, by a Convention of the Free men of Pennsylvania, opposed to the lead ing measures of the late and present Na tional Administrations, which assembled at the State Capitol on the 25th ultimo, together with a copy of the declaration of principles promulgated by that Conven tion. I accept the position to which I am cal led by the unsolicited suffrage of the body whose organ you are; profoundly grateful for so distinguished a mark of the confi dence of my fellow citizens, yet painfully sensible of my inability properly to meet its responsible obligations. The approaching election is one of no ordinary interest. Important questions of Slate policy, affecting the public welfare and prosperity, are not alone involved in the issues presented. As one of the lar gest and most powerful of the sovereign States of our confederate Republic, the honor and interests of Pennsylvania are deeply concerned in ihe principles thai animate her National Government. She cannot, with safety to her independence and the liberties of her people, be indiffer ent to the momentous questions of Nation al import in progress ol settlement—ques tions touching the constitutional powers of the Federal Government, and vitally affecting the dignity and riglils of free labor. Nor can she, without dishonor, withhold her protest against the wrongs inflicted upon her sons in a distant Terri tory, under 'he license of Federal author* iv. The dearest rights of freemen, secured by plain, constitutional guarantees, are ruthlessly violated on the soil of our na tional domain. American citizens are made the victims of a tyranny unknown in the despotisms of the old world. The annals of civilized and Christian nations furnish no examples of cruelty and out rage on the part of a government towards its people, such as has been endured by the people of Kansas, unless they lie found in the persecutions of the Huguenots, un der Louis the Fourteenth, of France, aud of the Protestants of the Netherlands, by the Duke of Alva, under Philip Second, King of Spain. Indeed, lfie barbarities to which the people of Kansas have been exposed, were of a character so inhuman as to provoke incredulity in the minds of a large portion of our citizens. Thou sands have been deceived into the belief that, for partisan purposes, fictions were substituted for tacts; although no events in Ameiican history are better authenticated than are the murders, robberies, arsons, and lawless rapacity inflicted upon the free settlers of Kansas. These outrages had for their object the subjugation of that Territory to the curse of slavery. We speak of quiet being restored to Kansas, because armed bands of lawless men do not to day infest her highways and plunder her people—because her towns are not sacked and the cabins of her set tlers in flames. This peace is deceptive and insecure. It will be broken the mo ment iliat the people of Kansas make a vigorous effort to recover those rights of vtfiich they have been fraudulently and violently deprived. The purpose of her enslavement is inexorably pushed forward. A system of ingeniously devised fraud, kindred to that employed in the usurpa tion under which she now groans, is being carried out for the cousuinmatien of this great wrong. To this end also the power of the Federal Government is basely pros tituted. We are given words of fairness, but persistence in support of the wrong. Every appointee of the President in Kan sas is an active co worker in the scheme for her enslavement. Principlus of eternal truth and justice, which lie at the foundation of a Christian civilization, and upon which repose the rights of humanity, are defiantly assailed j , by the power that controls in our National j Government. These truths, declaratory \ of the natural and inalienable rights of; man, contained in the Great Charter of our liberties, are condemned by our high- j est judicial authority as unmeaning and false. The sanctuary of our Courts of Justice- is closed against an entire race of men. The poor and downtrodden are not allowed to petition for a redress of their i wrongs, in those tribunals of human Gov ernment that should most nearly represent the beneficent attributes of the Creator and final Judge of all men. In view of these incontestible facts—of j the wrongs perpetrated against the rights of American citizenship, and the dangers to which our liberties are'exposed—thus I presented in its true aspect —the contest before us assumes a dignity rarely given to human affairs, and imposes duties upon our citizens as high and solemn as ever appealed to the hearts and consciences of men. The question is before us—from its demands there is no escape. Decide we must, either for the right or for the wrong. Sooner or later the verdict of this great New Series-Vol. 11, No. 27. Commonwealth must be pronounced 011 the issues forced upon the country by the advocates of human bondage. History will record that verdict to her endurin" honor, or to her everlasting shame. The repeal of the Missouri Restriction, and the attempt to force slavery upon Kan sas by fraud and violence, precipitated upon the country a conflict between the antagonistic systems of free and servile labor. In the issue of this conflict is in volved the democratic character of our institutions of government, and the inde pendence, dignity and rights of the free white laboring man and his posterity. Slavery is the deadly enemy of free labor. The two cannot co-exist 011 the same field of enterprise Either labor will vindicate its right to freedom, or it vvi'l sink into dependence and dishonor, free labor is clothed with intelligence and power. It stands erect in the dignity of a true manhood. Ii sustains by its energies all the noble institutions of a refined and perfectly developed social life. It is the source of our prosperity and national greatness. Slavery is labor in ignorance and chains—a brutalized humanity, stim ulated to industry by the lash of a master. It makes the laborer an article of mer chandise, without aim and without hope. In the place of an intelligent citizen, ready to defend with his life the honor and in terests of his country, slavery gives to the State an ignorant savage to be held in sub jection. It endangers the social fabric by converting its great element of strength into an implacable enemy. Never, in the history of partisan war fare were men more unjustly and perseve ringly misrepresented than are the oppo nents of the extension of slavery. This arises in part from the intolerant nature of slavery, and the weapons it is necessitated to employ, and partly from the fact—so omnipotent has the Slave Power become in our government—that support of its every demand is made the single test of party fidelity, and the only road to official preferment. The citizen who dissents in terms of earnest and manly protest against whatever exactions Slavery makes, be comes thereby—in so far as the National Government can impose disabilities—al most as much an alien and outlaw as is Ihe slave himself. If the freemen of the Nortli consent to occupy such a subordi nate position in the government of their j country, the spirit of manly independence will be crushed out in their posterity. Our sons will become a submissive and servile race, stripped of manhood and of self-respect. The slaveholder, proprietor ot the soil and master of the government, will dominate ° v *-*r them with scarcely less of arrogance and power than he rules over his hereditary bondsmen. io this condition are the non-slavehold ing whites of the South already reduced. 1 hey have to-day little more of practical power in the formation of public opinion, and in the affairs of government, than lias the slave. The same fate awaits our pos terity, if slavery is allowed to monopolize the virgin soil of this continent. It is the inevitable retribution of heaven 011 any people that have not the courage and in tegrity to maintain their rights. It is not true that the defenders of the rights of free labor seek the elevation of the black race to an equality with the white. They do not propose the emancipation of the slave, but leave that question, botli as to time and the mode of its accomplishment, with the States in which slavery exists. They wish to deal with this great and em barrassing evil in a spirit of friendly for bearance towards these States, but they cannot carry their forbearance as far as to virtually become slaves themselves—as to , surrender the soil and government of the ; nation into the hands of an aristocracy founded upon property in slaves. Free white labor has rights in the soil superior to the pretensions of slavery.— The slaveholding capitalist claims thai his property, being largely invested in slaves, will depreciate, unless the field whereon he can employ it be enlarged. The white laborer, also, has a property in his labor, quite as sacred and as worthy of the care of the Government; and where is the field upon which he is to make that labor prof itable to himselt and family, if slavery shall monopolize the fertile and virgin lands of the West? Labor is depressed almost to the starving point in the densely populated countries of the old world, be cause of the narrow field upon which it is imprisoned. The demand for labor is I small, compared with the thousands who have labor to sell. So it will be at no dis tant day in this favored land, unless we keep our past public domain as a sacred inheritance for the free while laboring man ; and his posterity forever. In the soil of our extended empire, the toiling masses i have the only sure guarantee for their fu ture prosperity and independence. This ! the cupidity of capital would lake from them; and here lies the real issue that the ' Slave Power has forced upon the country. It is a struggle for land. e?D On the one side stands the owner of slave properly, demanding a field on which to employ his servile labor—upon theoth ! er side stands free labor, claiming the soil as an inheritance for a free posterity.— | Central and Western Europe, teeming j with its millions of population, is not as