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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,