No. 2421. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. O\L DOLLAR PER A\.\l TI, IN ADVANCE. For six months, ?5 cents. II NEW subscriptions must be paid in If the paper is continued, and net lin the first month, sl,-5 will be chari ot paid in three months, $1,50; if not six months, $1,75; and if not paid in nths, $2,00. apers addressed to persons out ot the pill be discontinued at the expiration of paid for, unless special request is made (titrary or payment guaranteed by some ble person here. ADVERTISING. i nei of minion, or their equivalent, con p square. Three insertions sl, and 25 r cat h subsequent insertion. West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOtK IIAIKS) BPS Detached Buildings, istores. Mcr j,=e Farm Property, and other Build their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. rilm 3 Pearce, Hon. G. C. llarvey, D "" a ,| T. T. Abrams, ; A M'aver. I). K. Jackman, i Crist W. White, yiekinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. . Kitchen, Sec'y. REFERENCES. 1 H Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. tVin'eGardner, Wm. Vanderbelt. Mackey. Wm.Fearon. . I>r. J. S. Crawford, Q.iWl®, A - Hpdegraff, V \lavnard, Armstrong, ti'mon Cameron. Hon. Wm. jfler. •A-int for .Midi in county, G. W. bTLW- F.sq. . a P' 23 _ nity frein Loss Mill Diiir.asc by Pirc, ] c Peri' • of Mnrine and Inland Transportation. CONTINENTAL NSDRANCE COMPANY, tv/raled h'l the of Pennsylva nia, with a Perpetual Charier. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. i y 0 .61 Walnut St. abate Serond, Iliila, e lii-uranre on Buildings, Furniture, AL r list- generally. "Marine Insurance Crgoes and Freights to all parts of the 1 Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by s. Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to arts of the Union, CM the most favorable !, consistent with security. DIRECTORS. ge W. Coiladay, William Bowers, M. Coleman, Joseph Oat, in V Macuette, Howard Hinchman, GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President. ILESJ WILSON, Secretary. T\-'r-ni for Mittlin county, VSm . r. EL.- TT E~q feb!9-ly INDEMNITY AGAINST LUSS BY FiKE. anklin Fire Insurance Compa-i iiy ot Philadelphia. Office IC3A Cluvtnut street, near Fifth. Stiurcl of Asset?} $1,827,185 80 January Ist, 1857. jlh'ied a^r tfca bb to an act of Assembly, be- j ing, , I Mortfa np<l . a.j[>ly secured, $1,519,932 73 j il>.?Ute, J (present value, *lO9,- J L • ; cost, 89,114 18 cits, (present vaiue, $83,881 12,) Eke., 64,121 56 5i,827,185 80 oi Llmilt'l Insurances made on every ' ►rri'ption of property, n Town ard Country. It' - a, low a' are c;n=;-tent with security. Since their incorporation, a period of twenty- | L years, they have paid Mi.lions [Dollar- losses by fire, thereby affording c - , Le of the advantages of Insurance, as well [the ability and disposition to meet with fcmptness all liabilities. * Lorrcs by Firci Ms paid during the year 1650, $301,633 84 DIRECTORS. La-. N. Jlancker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis, Dbias Wagner, I David S. Brown, kmuel Grant, 1 j* aac fp n , icob R. Smith, j Edward C Dale, ieo. W. Richards, i *® r S® ~ ~ , lt i CHARLES N. BANCKhR, President. CHAS. G. BAKCXER, Sec'y. ?LtAgent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL TER'S, Esq., I.ewislowa. rnar!9 IATS. CAPS & STRAW GOODS For the People, AND THE PEOPLE'S CHILDREN. Market street, Lewistown, opposite the Post Office, has just returned from the city nth a large arid elegant stock of Fashionable HATS,CATS, STRAW GOODS, kc., suitable for spring and summer ear > (finch, notwithstanding the advance of a inos everything else, he will dispose of at ow pri ces. Mis store has been fitted up with laig cases, with glass fronts, so that the stock can lie examined at a glance. . %*He will manufacture to order any descrip tion of hats, (having the best of workmen in ns Employ and an abundant supply of materia ,) should his extensive stock fail to furnish a sot table article. Parents are especially invited to p ill and examine his variety of Children s as 'arid Caps, comprising a first rate stock, lrom which they can make choice to please them- Ills'Ornish friends will find they arc not for !gr,tten, and they mav rest assured of finding a [artie'n i 0 their taste, or can have one made at short notice. ... Thankful for the patronage heretofore snuo na'uy extended to him, he solicits his friends to .all—those indebted to square up and begin anew arid any number of visitors lrom tnts or the neighboring counties, to take a look at him d-y ui evening. T pl 6 N. J. RUDISILL. p O to ITnfliuao's for Tuba VJT Co to Huffman's for Churns Co to Hoffman's for Buckets Oo toll.iflfman'sfor Brooms Co to Hoffman's for Baskets decU vmnsnnmi i,sjs® ffwaskasHna® si wmobiki ffmYS}2SJ®as ß aawssiwsws j 9 stanKm*® mot, ipa* TO BUILDERS HID CARPENTERS. T ■ XT M B B R. ! Wm. B. Hoffman & Co. AT their Lumber Yard on Last Third street, Lewistown, near the Presbyterian Church, have received, and are now receiving, in addi tion to their large stock of well-seasoned Lum ber— _ . . 20,000 ft panel Boards & Plank, from 5 to 2 in. ft fust common Boards 5(1,000 ft second common Boards 20,000 ft li inch Boards 15,000 ft Sidings 2,000 lights of Sash, various sizes, 70,000 Plastering Lath, all sizes. Plain Siding and ready worked Flooring, Hemlock Joists Scantling, 3x4, 4x5, 4x6, 6x6. Lap and Joint Shingles and Shingle Lath al ways on hand. Doors, Shutters, Blinds, and Sash made to order. All orders thankfully received and promptly attended to. may2l LCG-AIT FOUNDRY. rPHEjjublic are hereby respectfully informed that we have leased the above well known Foundry, situate on Main street, in the borough of Lewis town, a few doors south of the stone bridge, where we will keep constantly on hand K a full assortment of all kinds of STOV ES, ~3viz: Hathaway Cooking Stoves, different -sizes, Egg Stoves, Nine Plate Stoves,&c. and also Iron Fence, Hollo* Ware, Water Pipec, &c., and wiil make to order all kinds of CAST INGS. All orders sent to us will be filled with care and despatch, and on as reasonable terms as at any other establishment in the State. We hope, friends, you will call and examine our stock before buying anywhere else. You will undoubtedly save money by doing so. DANIEL. BEAKLEY & SONS. Lewistow n, March 26, 1857.-y Selling Off at Cost! \s times are hard and money scarce the sub scribers wish to reduce their slock, and will sell their present assortment of eastern work, consisting of BOOTS AND SHOES, Cents, Ladies, Boys and Youth's dalters, Children's Shoes, &. AT COST, for cash only. All kinds of goods in their line made to order of the best material and warran- Also, a large assortment of Home-made Work now on hand, which will be sold at the lowest prices. The attention of the public i> invited to the above, as the eastern work will be offered at such prices as to defy competition All persons indebted to us w ill please call and make payment immediately, or the next , notice to many wiil be sent through the hands : of the constable. j cl 6 JOHNSON & CLARKE. W. & ti. MACKLIX, McVeytown, Pa., keep constantly on hand a large assortment of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, CLOTHING, BOOTS AAD SHOES, lIATS AKD CAPS, STRAW ROODS, HARDWARE, CEDARWARE, Wall and Window Papers, STATIONERY, CAKTETS, DRUGGETS, OIL CLOTHS, RIGS, LINES, OIL, LEAD, PITTY, TAR, PITCH, OAKIB, Salt, Fish, Plaster, Guano, Cement, Stone Coal and Grind Stones. We are paying the highest market price for all kinds of GRAIN ; or where parties desire it we will ship their Grain by canal and pay them nett proceeds, after deducting freight. McVeytown, February 5, 157. Pennsylvania Railroad. ON and after Monday, June 22d, 1857, trains leave LewUtown Station as follows: Eastward. Westward. Kxnress 514 a - m - 540 m ' I S Line, 10 47 P m. 729 p . ! M a ;i 4 04 " 304 iIT Loeaf 88 " " 12 4U , (.'■ Fare to Harrisburg, $1 50; to Philadelphia, 4 J - U,e FlB K ' v' c O? METALLIC BURIAL CASES, iIK'TICiUT AND IS DESTRUCTIBLE j For protecting and preserving the Head for or dinary interment, for vaults, for transpor ation, or for any other desirable purpose. For *ale at the new Furniture rooms, under the Oii Fellows' FEUX . New Arrangements. \FTER retuTriing our sincere thanks to our numerous friends and customers for their continued patronage, I would inform them that I am still to be found at arrpmc s> <£>llc£L SBaaßUMtl With a desire to bring my business nearly to CASH after the first of April our credit terms Davs and accounts not to exceed will be I hirty t conduct o nr Fifty Dollars. We hope aunt business so that a > ihaU onj y , he „um of our numerous customers, aim ber may be greatly increase . jjq FFMA jj. marl 2 '' ?lItOCEKIES.- \_J Buy Cheese at Hoffman's Buy Sugar at Hoffman's Buy Molasses at Hoffman's 1 Buy Teas, ke , at THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1857. MI aaaswiL. MY MOTHER'S SONG—SWEET HOME. llow oft we hear those gentle words! We hear them breathed In song, When music bursts from happy hearts That still to Joy belong! When rosy beams of daylight dawn. Or when the shadows fail, We hear the gladsome echoes tell " Sweet home" hath charms for all. These simple words! That plaintive uir! My mother sang the strain In days gone past. In happy days, That may not coble again! She sang it by the household hearth. Our father sitting by, And smiles were playing on his lips, But tear-drops tilled his eye. " On earth there is no place like home," She taught my lips to say; But all that made my h"<ne so dear Long since lias passed away! We hear no more her gentle voice. At morning or at even; She has tut angel's golden harp, •Her song Is heard in lleavcu- I bear It sung by others now, And o'er my soul, the while, Steal memories, sadly sweet, that bring A tear drop and a smile! And oh! 'tis sweet, e'en now to hear Those thrilling murmurs fall; " Home, sweet home!" 'tis not of earth. Heaven hath a home for alt! lit miliaria! a. EVENING PRAYER-" OFK FA • Til Eli." 'Our father.' The mother's voice was ow, tender and solemn. 'Our lather.' On two sweet voices the words were bore upward. It was the in nocence of reverent childhood that gave llieir utterance. ' Who art in Heaven,' repeated the chil dren, one with her eyes bent meekly down and the other looking upwards as if she would penetrate the heavens into which her heart aspired. ' Hallowed be thy name.' Lower fell the voices of the little ones. In a gentle murmur they said —' Hallowed be thy name.' ' Thy kingdom come.' And the burden of the prayer was still taken up by the children —' Jhy kingdom come.' . . 'Thy will be done on earth as it is 111 Heaven.' Like a slow sweet echo from the land of angels —' Thy will he done on earth as it is in Heaven,' filled the chamber. And the mother continued —' Give us this day our daily bread.' ♦Our daily bread,' lingered a moment on the air, as the mother's voice was hushed into silence. ' And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.' The eyes of the children had dropped for a moment, but they were uplifted again as they praved —' And forgive us our debts as we also forgive our debtors.' ' And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever. Amen.' All those holy words were said piously } and fervently, by the little ones, as they j knelt with clasped hands beside their mo ther. Then as their thoughts, uplifted on the wings of prayer to their Heavenly fa ther, came back again and rested on their earthly parents, a warmer love came gush ing from their hearts. Pure kisses —tender embraces —the fond 'good night.' What a sweet agitation pervaded all their feelings! Then two dear heads were placed side by side on a snowy pillow, the mother's last kiss given, and the shadowy curtains drawn. What a pulseless stillness reigns through out the chamber! Inwardly the parent's listening ears arc bent. 1 hey have gi\en the innocent ones in the care of God's an gels and they can almost hear the rustling of their garments as they gather round their sleeping babes. A sigh, deep and tremulous, breaks on the air. Quickly the mother turns to the father of her children with a look of earnest inquiry on her coun | tenance. And he answers thus her silent question Far back, through many years, have my th oughts been wandering. At my mother s knee, thus said 1 nightly, in childhood my evening prayer. It was the best and holi est prayer, 'Our Father,' that she taught me. Childhood and my mother passed away. 1 went forth as a man to the world, strong, confident, and self-seeking. Once I came into a great temptation. Ilad 1 fallen into that temptation, 1 would have fallen I sadly fear, never to have risen again. The struggle in my mind went on for hours. I was about yielding. . All the barriers I could oppose to the rushing flood seemed just ready to give way, when, as 1 sat in my chamber, first occupied in many weeks, the murmur of a low voice was heard, yet something in the tones that stirred my heart with new and strange emotions. At length there came to my ears, in the ear nest, loving voice of a woman, the words —' Deliver us from evil.' For an instant, it seemed to me as if the voice was that ot my mother. Back, with a sudden bound, though all a child in heart again 1 was kneeling at my mother's knee. Humbly and reverently I said ov"- the words of the holy prayer she had taught me, heart and eyes uplifted to lieaveu. The hour and power of darkness had pas sed. I was no longer standing on slippery places with a flood of water ready to sweep me to destruction; but my feet were on a rock. My mother's pious care had saved her son. In the holy words she taught me in childhood there w;us a living power to resist evil through all my after life. Ah ! that unknown mother, as she taught her child to repeat his evening prayer, how little dreamed she that the holy words were to reach a stranger's ears, and save him through the memories of his own child hood ! And yet it was so. What a power there is in God's word as it flows into and rests in the hearts of innocent children. TIIF INDIAN MUTINY. Delhi, the Ancient Capital oi the Mogul Em phc. Since the conquest of British India the natives have been incorporated "into the ar my, and under the Indian name of Sepoys have rendered various and efficient ser- vice ,for more than 50 years. Recently an attempt was made by the British Govern ment to prohibit the exercise oi certain ■eligious rites, which caused a mutiny and ■esulted in the capture of I)elhi, the an ient capital of the Mogul dynasties. At lie last accounts it was still held by the Be toys, and unless the English succeed in rc lucing it the mutiny may extend through put the Eastern Empire. The following is i description of the city: The city of Delhi is situated in the cen re of a sand plain, upon a rocky ridge, ri sing to an altitude of 120 feet 011 the •ight bank of the Jumna, here a deep and iroad river at all seasons ol the year, in lorth latitude 28 deg. 41 min., and ongitude 77 (leg. 5 lain.; B.')b miles from Calcutta by the Birbhum road, and 880 uiles from Bombay by Alnnedubad. jv iording to tradition this city was founded 100 years B. C. by l>elu. It formerly stood" oil the left bank of the river, and is supposed to have covered a space ol twenty square miles. Major Reuncll mentions 1,000.000 as the number of inhabitants vhich Delhi was supposed to coutnin at the utd of the 17th century, and the ruins teem to justify this estimate. The Ernpc •or, Shah Jehan, built a new city 011 the •ight bank of the Jumna, and gave it he name of Shahj<J*auabad, by which only he Moslem part of uie population continue a call it. This is the modern Delhi, which s ahout five miles in circumference, and is >cated on a range of rocky hills, and sur •ounded by walls costructcd of large blocks >f gr.inite, and fortified with a good loop loled parapet. Several gateways and bas ions occur in the walls at intervals, anil he whole has been strengthened and put 11 repair by the English government. — l'he gateways are magnificent buildings, md are named after the provinces.and cit es to which they point. 1 his city has sev jn gates, and contains the remains ftf sev >raf fine palaces—the former dwelling of he chief omralis of the empire, These palaces are each of considerable extent, and surrounded by high walls, enclosing baths, •tabling and numerous outbuildings. The modem city contains many good liouses, chiefly brick, and oi various styles >f architecture. The streets are in gener ll narrow, as in other Eastcrp cities, but he principle ones, Bishop lleber says, are really wide, handsome, and for an Asiatic •ity, remarkably clean, and tne bazaars lave a good appearence. i here are two i'ic streets, one called the ( handery-choke, >0 feet broad and 1500 yards long; theoth r 120 feet Wfdp and one utile long. Down the middle of the first Oi these street;, runs an aqueduct, wlucli is shaded jy fine trees and supplied with water from \li Merdans Kahn's canal. 'lhe other streets are narrow, but contain many good Prick bouses. The crowd pf an Indian .ity, always picturesque, is here particu larly rich in showy figures of men and an imals. Elephants, eatnels and horses, gai ly paparisonod, parade through the streets, jangling their silver ornaments, and the many-colored tufts and fringes with which they are adorned. r lhe tvirnm of a great personage, sweeping along the highways, scrupulous of the damage it may effect in ts progress, forms a striking spectacle, when it can be viewed from some sate cor ner or from the back of a tall elephant. The coitjt <r ail is magnificent; but to en ter into details might destroy the illusion ; [or, mingled with mounted retainers, rieli •lothed and armed with glittering helmets, polished spears, and shields knobbed with silver, crowds of wild-looking, half cla< wretches on foot are to be seen, increasing he tumult and the. dust, but adding I.ot h n<- to the splendor of the cavalcade. Ac • real man—and Delhi is full of personages >f pretention —ever passes along m state without having his titles shouted by the stentorian lungs of some of his followers. Hie cries of the venders of different arti ■les of food, the discordant songs of itiner uit luusioiaiis, screamed out to the accom paniment of the tom-tom, with an oecasiou il bass volunteered by a cheetah, grumbling )ut, in a sharp roar, his annoyant* at being lawked about the streets for sale, with tlic ihrill, distressful cry of the camel, lb' rumpetings of the elephants, the neig >- ng of hoi-ses, and the rumbling of cart wheels, are sounds which assail the eai rom sunrise to sunset in the s ree .> Delhi. The multitude of equipages is a mcdingly great, and more diversified, per laps, than those of any other city m Urn world English carriages, altered and im proved to suit the climate and tlie peculiai taste of the possessor, are mingled with th< palanquins and bullock carte, open and cuv :red, the chairs, and the cage-like and anthorn-like conveyances of native con struction. There are several fine mosques in Delhi n good preservation, with high minarets md guilded domes. The largest of these he Jumna Musjid, was built by Shah Je lan. It is a splendid and enormous edifice milt of white marble and red granite, and s considered the largest and handsomest dace of Mussulman worship in India. Bishop Ileber thought the ornamental irchitecture of this mosque less florid and ;he general effect less picturesque than the splendid group of the Imambaunah and ts accompaniments at Lueknow; but the situation, he says, is far more commanding, md the size, solidity, and rich materials ot he edifice impressed him more than any hing of the sort he had seen in India. The Mogul's palace, built by Shah Je lan, on the west bank of the Jumna, is sur ■ouuded on three sides by an embattled vail 30 feet high, and more than one nile in circumference. It is a place of no rroat strength, the wall being adapted on y for bows and arrows or musketry ', " but is a kingly residence," Bishop Ilebei says, u it is one of the noblest that I have seen. It far surpasses the Kremlin, hut I lo no. think that, in the durability of its materials, it equals Yi indsor. Gentries in -ed coats —sepoys of the Company s regu lar army —appear at its exterior; but the ntemal duties, and incrced, most of tlie police duties at Delhi, are performed by .lie two provincial battalions raised in the Emperor's name, and nominally under hi.- jrdcrs. These are disciplined very much ike Europeans, but have matchlock guns md the oriental dress, and their cominan liug officer is considered as one of the do uestics of the Mogul, and has apartments n his palace." The chief hall of audi ;nee is an open quadrangular terrace ot vhite marble, richly ornamented with mo saic work and sculptures in relievo j aud lie chapel of Aurenzebe, also of white uavhle, although small, is of beautiful workmanship; altogether the building,even n ite present neglected state, attests the nagnificence of its former occupants. Ihe gardens, which were formed by Shah Je han, are said to have cost £1,000,000. Their original character has long been joinplctcly lost, and they now present the tppearance of a siuall neat park, with some charming groves of orange trees The circuit of the walls finishes at the cast md west sides of this palace, which forms lie river face in their line. Among the remarkable edifices of Delhi ire the tykunas, or underground houses, vhich are formed under ground, having nutlets for lights above, and ingress at one ilace only. They are handsomely arrang >d and furnished ; and possessing a tem perature of 12 deg. or even 11 deg. below hat of the rooms at the surface, furnish a pleasant ret reat in the hot months of April, May and June. One of the most useful works of the Emperor Shah Jehan iu this uty is a well, excavated out of the solid •ock upon which the Jumna Musjid is milt. The water is raised from a great leptli by complicated machinery to a suc cession of reservoirs, and fills a pond from vhich the inhabitants obtain a supply. Ihe principal wheels having been broken, and he whole machinery out of repair, it was •estored by the English a few years after hey obtained possession of the city. Among the ruins of the ancient city, on he east side of the river, are some mauso eums in good preservation; those ot the Emperors llomaion and Mahommed Bhah md of Jehanara Begum, daughter of Slut I Jehan, are the most remarkable. The torn! >f llomaion, who died in 1855, is a squart with an immense central dome, and foui small domes at the corners. The Shah i fort is on a large scale, with high bastions md lofty solid walls. The Togluckabad is ilso an immense fort, five or six miles n circumference, with a high and cowman ling citadel. The Katab Minar is an enor nous column in the centre ot the old city nipposed to have been built by a monarch pf that name, who reigned about l'-OO.— [t is a round tower rising from a polygon )f 52 foot in diameter and 27 sides, m five stages, diminishing in circumference to tin might of 242 feet. A spiral staircase ol 184 steps leads to the summit. "It is real v," says Bishop Ileber, " the finest towei I have ever seen, and must, when its spire was complete, have been still more beauti ful." These Patans built like giants, and inished their work like jewelers ; yet the or laments, florid as they are in their rropei places, are never thrown away, or allowed inteferc with the general severe and iolenm character of their edifices. be pal tec of the present imperial family is a urge but paltry building, ma bad style ot Y- ' • • .nd wth a public road Italian architecture, ariu wim * t ictualiv leading througli its courtyaul. < From the gate of Agra llomaion s tomb, isi-i.-'P ua.*, - fc / desolat 'on : ruins—tombs -after tombs— Varments ol' brickwork, freestone, granite md marble—scattered everywhere over i ,oil naturally rocky and barren, w.JKut iultivatiou, except in one or two small spots md without a single tree. 1 was reminder if CaiVa in the Crimea; but this was ( ail; ... !he scale of London, with the wretched fragments of a magnificence such as Kon- NeT^Series— Vol. 11, No. 41. don itself cannot boast." The cantonments are three miles north of the city, couched under a range of sandstone rocks. Delhi is well situated for carrying for ward the trade between the peninsula of In dia and the countries to the north and west; the inhabitants consequently exhibit a considerable degree of commercial activi ty, and the shops are crowded with all sorts of European products and manufactures. — Cotton cloths and shawls are manufactured in the city, and indigo is produced in the surrounding country. The trade ol Delhi is shawls, for which it Is a grand mart. A constant intercourse is kept up betw ecn this 6ity and Cashmere, whence the splen did fabrics so much prized all over theci\- ilized world are brought in immense quan tities, some plain to have borders sewed upou them, others to be embroidered in silk or gold, whence they derive the name of Delhi shawls. Nothing can exceed the Delhi needlework, which is in the highest esteem throughout Asia, and eagerly cov eted by both sexes, the caftans ol the men often being of velvet,, edged with rich em broidery. The goldsmiths of Delhi ait* al so celebrated beyond those of any other In dian city, and eminently merit their repu tation. The population of Delhi amounted in 1847 to 1117,977, besides 22,302 in the su burbs. A committee of public instruction, which was planned and brought into ope ration between 1823 and 1825, established a college at Delhi, and funds were assigned for its support by the central goverumexit; in addition to which a sum equal to £17,- 000 was presented to the college by Na wab Islamaid-ood-Dowlah, Minister of the kingofOude. In June, 1827, there had been opened 247 schools in Delhi and immediate vicinity, for the instruction ol poor children. The number of pupils in the college, which in 1829 was 152, had in creased in the following year to 25*.- — More recently another school has been in stituted, at which the children of the na tive gentry are taught the English language, and as many as 68 scholars attended in the 1 iir.-t year of its establishment. The Emperor of Delhi, the representa tive of the great Timor, though still reg ognized by the British Government as a sovereign prince, has long been shore ot all his grandeur, and except within his own palace, exercises no attribute of royalty, though looked up to and regarded by all the Mahontedan population ot India with respect and attaclifceut. Lord \N el lesley, on the destruction ot Scindiah a power, assigned to Shah great palace of Delhi as a residence, and for the support of himself and the royal family he made over to him certain districts in the neighborhood, which were to be placed un der British management, but the Emperor was to be allowed to check the accounts of revenue received from them. It is said that the revenue of these districts has now reached £390,000 a year, while the Empe ror's allowanco does not exceed £130,000, and that much of this latter sum is in re ality spent in his name by the British res deuts. Where Will they get Husbands ? —lt ap pears by the last census that the excess of females over males in the State ot Massa chusetts is 33,050. This excess is partly accounted for by the tendency among the sons of the Bay State to emigrate to other parts of the country, and by the resort oi native and foreign females to the factories. In Level alone, the excess of females over males is 8,088. One thing is certain, Mas | saehusetts cannot furnish husbands for its marriageable female population, and Lowel, especially, we would think, would be an ex cellent place for the bachelors who wish to get mated. In fourteen cities of Massa chusetts the proportion of females to every 100 males was, in 1855, as follows: In Boston, 108 ; Lowel, 103 ; Worcester, 104 ; Charlestown, 102 ; Salem, 102 110 j New Bedford, 110; Roxbury, 111 ; Springfield, 112 ; Newburyport, 123; Chel sea, 100 A Royal Hairdresser.- —Mr. Isodore, the Queen's coiffeur, who receives £2OOO a year for dressing her Majesty's hair twice a day, had gone to London in the morning, mean in- to return to Windsor in time for toil ette, but on arriving at the station was jm t five minutes too late, and saw the train de part without him. His horror was great, as he knew his want of punctuality would deprive him of his place; so he was obliged to take a special tram, and the establish ment, feeling the importance of his busi ness, put ou extra steam, aud whisked him the eighteen miles iu eighteen minutes for £lB. " Dr. J. D. Stoneroad OFFERS his professional services to the cit izens of Eewistown and the surround ng country. Office in the Beehive Drug Store. Jtfay 21, 1857. TTOOLj WCCL. ONE thousand pounds of Wool wanted, tot which the highest price w.ll be P>. j c 2s KENNEDY, JUNKIN & ED. DR. MARKS, HAVING resumed the practice of medicine, may always be. found at hi* office in the Public Square opposite the Lewistown Hoteij I May 7,
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