iole No. 2425. ! , TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION'. ONE DOLLAR PER ISWH, IN ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. All NEW subscriptions must be paid in see. If the paper is continued, and net Uithiu the first month, $1,25 will be charg f not paid in three months, $1,50; if not ir. six months, $1,75; and if not paid in months, $2,00. I papers addressed to persons out of the •v will be discontinued at the expiration of L paid for, unless special request is made s contrary or payment guaranteed by some Risible person here. ADVERTISING. . lines of minion, or their equivalent, con e a square. Three insertions $l, and 25 for each subsequent insertion. i West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK HAYES, PA., I'RES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- . kiidise Farm Property, and other Build- | an 4 their contents, at moderate rates. j DIRECTORS. John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, j B Hall T. T. Abrams, ! p, Mayer, D. K. Jackman, I- Prist * W. White, Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. Kitchen, Sec'y. REFERENCES. *1 H Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. i Winezardner, Wm. Vanderbelt, W-ickev Wm. Fearon, hiL Dr. J. S. Crawford, - | iQu'iegle, A. Updegraff, \V Maynard, James Armstrong, s,mon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. | F-Aent for Mifflin county, G. VV. STEW- : ,feq. ' ; a P23 unity from Loss and Damage by Pire, the Perils of Marine and Inland Transportation. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. n,rated by the beyialature of Pcnnsylca- j nia, cit/i a Perpetual Charier. Authorized Capital, f 50.61 Walnut SI. aboic Second, Pliila. j •e Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer lise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance j |arsoes and Freights to all parts of the j j. Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by j s, Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to | arts of the Union, on the most favorable i s. ronsistent with security. DIRECTORS. ge W.Colladay, William Bowers, M. Coleman, Joseph Oat, in V. Machette, Howard Hinchman. | SEORGE W. COLLADAY, President, i lies Wu.sos", Secretary. fAgent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL- , rr, febl9-Iy - UDEIMTT AC.tINST LOSS BV FIRE, inklin Eire Insurance Compa ny of Philadelphia. )ilice lU3.i Chestnut street, near Fifth, tnrut of Assets, $1,827,185 80 January Ist, 1857. shed agreeably to an act of Assembly, be- ' ing, Mortgages, amply secured, $1,519,932 73 j Eilate, (present value, $109,- I.) cost, 89,114 18 B, (present value, $83,881 12,) i 71,232 97 : 4c . 64,121 56 $1,827,185 80 tptlmil or Limited Insurances made on every iiption of property, in Town and Country, f a-; low as are consistent with security, ee their incorporation, a period of twenty |vears, they have paid over Three Millions ' bllir*' losses by fire, thereby affording cv- j se of the advantages of Insurance, as well It ability and disposition to meet with Iptnesg ail liabilities. Losses by Fire. * !5 paid during the year lts.rG, $3Ol ,C3B 84 DIRECTORS. . X Ianckcr, j Mortlecai D. Lewis, Wagner, j David S. Brown, it I Grant, j Isaac Lea, i |t. Smith, Edward C. Dale, W Richards, , George Fales. CHARLES S. BAXCKER, President. 0. BANCKER, Sec'y. ir Agent for Mifflin county, 11. J. WAL- E?q , Lewistown. marl 9 Pennsylvania Railroad. AND after Monday, June 22d, 1857, JAMS leave Lew is town Station as follows: Eastward. Westward. , S . s ' 5 14 a. m. 5 40 a. M. UNE > 10 47 p. M. 729 p. M. ' _ . 404 " 304 " WGH freight, 500 " 150A,M. PT 500 " 3 25 " ■- freight, 5 00 " 10 15 " 7 25 " 12 40 " ■ to Harrisburg, §1 50; to Philadelphia, F fltoont, 1 75, to Pittsburgh, 470 R E TICKET Office will be open 20 min J ore the arrival of each Passenger . D. E. ROBESON, Agent. New Arrangements. retu r ß ' n K our sincere thanks to our JJUP J us 'trends and customers for their SD|I, . ? A 8 E ' would inform them that be found at H. aft '/if bring my business nearly to he' Th; I / of April our credit terms Doll' - a/ an( * accounts not to exceed i et; " r !; " e hop® still to conduct our ir num we sball enjoy the good will Dav I erotJS cu ?tomers, and that the num lfj9 ' E rea tly increased. F. J. HOFFMAN. r J? r - J- D. Stoneroad ten* P r .°^ ess '°ual services to the cit tr. . / fcw istown and the surrounding iv aj j^ e tn the Beehive Drug Store. v E k R! LUMBER! LUMBER! ving receiv" ! ' >ry ai "' Green Lumber is on hand bli '*l 1 which will be sold at the lowest rates F. G. FRANCI9CUB. ffisnsywaa) &sjse> auMHmsisnißiE) sre ©is@ffi©ii jra-a-sawa-aißa mawns®@mj 9 smnFffaiisj mwssirss, s?£ o TO BUILDERS AND CARPENTERS. LUMBER! Wm. B. Hoffman & Co. AT their Lumber Yard cn East Third street, Lewistown, near the Presbyterian Church, i have received, now receiving, in addi- I tion to their large stock of well-seasoned Lum- I ber— j 20,000 ft panel Boards A Plank, from J to 2 in. 10,000 ft first common Boards j 50,000 ft second common Boards 20,000 ft inch Boards 1 15,000 ft Sidings 2,000 lights of Sash, various sizes, 70,000 Plastering Lath, all sizes, Plain Siding and ready worked Flporlng, Hemlock Joists Scantling, 3x4, 4x5, 4xo, 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 liOGkA.IT FCtriTDn-f. rpHE public are hereby-respectfully informed I that we have leased the above well known Foundry, situate on Main street, in the borough of Lewistown, a few doors south of the stone bridge, where we will keep constantly on hand a full assortment of all kinds of STOVES, viz : Hathaway Cooking Stoves, different Egg Stoves, Nine Plate Stoves, &c. dkxhalso Iron Fence, Hollow Ware, Water Pipes, &'c., and will 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 out stock before buying any where else. You will undoubtedly save money by doing so. DANIEL BEAKLEY & SONS. Lewistown, March 26, 1857.-y Selling Off at Cost! A S times are hard and money scarce the sub- J\_ scribers wish to reduce their 9tock, and will sell their present assortment of eastern work, consistingjaf BOOT& AND SHOES, Gents, Ladies, Boys and Youth's Gaiters, Children's Shoes, &c. AT COST, for cash only. All kinds of goods in their line made to order of the best material and warran ted. Also, a large assortment of Home-made Work now on hand, which will be sold at the lowest prices. The attention of the public is invited to the above, * the eastern v-rL will be offered at such prices as to dely competition. All persons indebted to us will please call and make payment immediately, or the next notice to many will be sent through the hands of the constable. <■ - jelB JOHNSON & CLARKE. W. & I MAIM, McVeytown, Pa., keep constantly on hand a large assortment of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS AND CAPS, STRAW GOODS, HARDWARE, ItfEEOTARE, CEDARWARE, Wall and Window Papers, STATIONERY, CARPETS, DRUGGETS, OIL CLUTnS, RUGS, LINES, OIL, LEAD, PI'TTY, TAR, PITCH, OIKI JI, 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, 1857. Map of Mifflin County, Pa. FROM the County Records and Actual Meas urements by Original Surveys throughout the county. By G. M. HOPKINS, an experienc ed Surveyor, and author of Map of Adams Co. The subscriber is preparing to publish short ly, by subscription, a new and complete COUN TY MAP. The Surveys are undertaken by ex perienced Surveyors. All the Public Roads, and the locations of the Mills, Taverns, Places for Worship, Post Offices. School Houses, Coun try Stores, Smith Shops, Wheelwrights, <&c. are to be marked. The Names of the Property Holders generally, (carefully including all those in the country who subscribe in advance to the Map,) are also to be inserted upon their places, in the Style of the Map of Adams county, Pa To be illustrated with vignettes of views in the county. Maps of the Principal Villages on a large scale will be inserted in the margin. The plan will be plotted to a suitable scale, so as to make a large and ornamental map. To be engraved and delivered to Subscribers hand somely colored and mounted for Five Dollars per copy. Address, M. S. CONVERSE, Publisher, Nos. 517, 519 & 521 Minor street, Phila. August 6, 1H57. PEARL and Ivory handle Table and Dessert Knives, for sale by FRAA'CISCUS. 0500 Headed and Square Paling, 3000 f ) not headed do. on hand and Tor sale cheap by augl3 . FRANCISCUB. BILLS for Frame Stuff filled at short notice, of good quality, and at low rates. augl.l FRANCI9CUS. 1 A A DOORS, for inside and outside, 11/1/ Room and Front Doors, assorted si7.es and qualities, from #1.50 to #3 each. FRANCISCU9. 150,000 Joint Shingles, 40,000 best 24 inch Lap Shingles, on hand and for sale by augl3 Fit ANCISCUS. TOVES! STOVES! STOVES ! Ail kinds of Parlor, Bar, Hall and Cook Stoves, on hand and for sale at reduced prices by augti FRANCIS C VS. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1857. MMML PROCLAMATION. PURSUANT to an Act of the General As sembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsyl vania, entitled "an act relating to the elections o! this Commonwealth," approved the 2d day isting laws of the Commonwealth." Pursuant to the provisions of an act of As sembly, the Judges of the aforesaid districts shall respectively take charge of the of return of the election of their respective districts, and produce thein at a meeting of one Judge fror.i each district, at the Court House in the borough of Lewistown, on the third day af ter the day of election, being for the present year FRIDAY, the 16th day of October next, then and there to do and perform the duties re quired by law of said Judges. Given under my hand, at my office in Lewis town, the 9th day of September, lKf>7. JACOB MUTTHERSBOUGH, Sheriff. SheritPs Office, Lewistown, Sept. 10, 1857. Dissolution of Partnership. THE partnership heretofore existing between the undersigned is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The books and accounts are in the hands of Samuel Comfort, at the store, where all those indebted will please eall and settle their accounts. JNO. HAMILTON, SAM'L COMFORT. Lewistown, August 11, 1857. Having purchased the entire stock of goods of J, Hamilton & Co., I now offer them at GREAT BARGAINS! The stock is new and heavy, containing a large assortment of staple EKY GOOES, SILKS, SATINETS, f ASSIZERS, JEiltS. CAL ICOS, GINGHAMS & WHITE GOODS. CARPETS, &c. all of which will be sold at cost up to the Ist of November, 1857. My object is to reduce the stock, and the public may rest assured that they will get bargains. All kinds of produce taken in exchange for goods. Lumber, Stove and Limeburncr's Coal always on hand. Also, Shingles and Morticed Locust and Chestnut Posts. SAMUEL COMFORT. August 13, 1857. X7OO lights best Window Sash, from 8x (J 10 to IUxIS, for sale very low. FRANCISGVB 8311 03&3VIBB&. 44 GO IT." You're a sinner, sir. Ami you know it; But no matter, friend. "(So It." Only Dy and by. You may chance to die— There's a Ood on high, And you know it. Vim defraud and cheat, And you know it; Miv the chat)' uit.i wheat— "(Jo it." (Inly there's a place. When you run your raee, Shame wiil veil your lace. Dare you show It. You have wronged the poor, And you know it; Made their sorrow sure— "(Jo it." \ onder wrinkled crone Shall before the throne, All your sins make known; How you sent her cold, Shivering and old, from the crazy wall, Heady it to fall, I n the snow storm sent, licit for luck of rent, To trs she gave and groan— -1 ou—for bread—a stone. .Men have (riven you gold, _ And you show it; Berth vonr praises told, _ "(Jo it." tJmt your gold can rust, Turn your fame to dust, Ask you for your trust, Can you show it? [Olive Branch. DON'T WAIT FOK Till', WAGON. As originally sung by Bill Lake, with SpauMlng A Rogers' Circus. 0 Lord, this Is a fast age. As everybody knows. At telegraphic ligliluiug speeil. So rapid the world goes. But faster still, yes, faster. Than all the earth beside, Is this great Vaukee .Nation, For they don't wait to ride On tliut glow coach, the wagon. They don't wait on the jingon. But on u streak of lightning They get up a ride. '1 hey can bent the whole creation In smartness, that's a fact. And us for annexation. They do it in a crack. Just let us want a slice of land, In spite of friend or foe, 'Twill be ours by the patent right Of llltlbustero. We don't wait for the wagon, Ac. Just look at Nicaragua, And tlie Mimjnito King, W ho, like a buzzing Insect, Was always on the v, ing, Tlii \\ alker With his Yankee band Had landed there the while, lie dealt the cards. In- played his li.uj.l, And then took up the pile. lie didn't ait for the u.igou, xc. Though Johnny Bull may grumble. And France may show her teeth. The last had better mind her frogs. The lirst Iter rare roast beef; Or we'll tlx a cable io their shores. And some morn they will disklver. Thai tin- Yankee lads are liaw ling 'em t'p Mississippi river. Without aitlng for the wagon, Ac. . And us for little Cuba, Or Canada so great, * Whenever we get ready 11 e'll have t hem sure as fa to ; We never pause to look back, But Just as Crockett said, \V hate'er we do we know is right, And then we go ahead. We don't wait for the wagon. IjsmiAßapia." EXTItAOKDIXABV CASE. A Dirk• 'Trim fin;/ fourteen Year* throiu/h a Man * Shu ft. —We met with the most interesting ease this morning which has occurred in our experience for a long time. We were introduced ton gentleman who gave us u practical exemplification of the wonderful. Fourteen or fifteen years ago lie states that he was passing down Baltimore street, late at night during a heavy storm, when he met near Frederick street, three men and a woman. He gave them the way, hut heing violently jostled by one of them, ho upraided them some what sharply, when they attacked him. — Being a powerful man, standing about six feet in his shoes, he soon laid two of them horn (hi romhnt, and chased the other to the opposite side of the street, where he felled him to the ground, and where, lean ing over him, he received a blow in the left temple, which staggered as well as be wildered him for a few moments. Upon recovering himself his assailants had fled, and feeling the blood flowing pretty freely from the wound, proceeded to a physician, who soon found that he had been stabbed, the instrument entering about half way between the eye and ear, and breaking off short, leaving a considerable length of blade in his Lead ! Ail effort to extract it proved futile. Strange to say, be felt very little pain or inconvenience from his condition. The wound soon healed, and he attended to his regular avocations as if nothing had hap pened. Three years after the wound again opening he consulted a surgeon, who, feel ing the rugged edge of the blade, made several efforts to draw it out, and, after a considerable labor, drew from the wound a portion of the base of the broken dirk, which measured within a fraction of two inches in length. This part of it gave an idea of the part remaining, which was sup posed to be a piece of about the same sizg taken away. For eleven years longer did it continue in this condition, when, just about two weeks since, after suffering a great degree of pain on the right side of his nose, near the corner of his eye, on the opposite side to where he received the won ml, an da con siderable swelling appearing, he went to Professor Smith, who, upon examining the l diseased part, found the point of the blade [ protruding! It had actually traversed through the bones of the head, and, after fourteen years, made its appearance in the above locality. Such is its position, plain to the eye, and wonderful to be believed, excepting by an eye witness. I>r Smith, we understand, proposes, in a short time to operate for its expulsion. We have often heard of pins and needles being swallowed, and in after years making their appearance in different parts of the body, but that the blade of a dirk, between three and four inches iu length, should thus travel, and through bones at that, forms an interesting subject for the surgeon as well as for the common mind.— Baltimore Patriot. A GRAPHIC PICTURE. Parson Brownlow, of the Knoxvillc ; (Tenn.) \\ hig, has established for himself in the newspaper world a very general rep utation as a plain spoken gentleman. This reputation, his readers well know, is emi nently his due. The Parson, in a late number of his paper, launches forth a characteristic philipic against "all the world and the rest of mankind." Discour sing under the caption, " Rascality Aboun ding," he says; " The Gospel is preached to the people regularly, all over the country —religious papers and magazines are circulated in fam ilies, and many valuable persons set good examples before the world—but notwith standing all this, and more, observation teaches us that rascality abounds in all classes of society. Petty thefts are daily committed—such as robbing money draw ers, stealing clothes and dry goods, chick ens, ducks, corn and other eatables. Strol ling vagabonds, dealing in counterfeit money and diseased horses, all over the country. Gamblers, traveling and local, and resident rogues, are on the alert. Pi ous villains with faces as sanctified as the moral law, are keeping false accounts and swearing to them for the sake of gain.— \\ hiskey shops arc selling by the small, in violation of the law. Drug stores are training up drunkards in high life, and af fording facilities for Sabbath drinking, which can he had nowhere else. The rich are oppressing the poor, and the poor are content to live in rags and idleness. Coun try dealers in produce come to town and exact two prices for all they have to sell, and owners of real estate in towns are ask ing double rents, to the injury of business and the growth of towns. Banks and cor porations, intended for the public good, have their favorites, and are partial in the distribution of favor. Families envy each other. Individuals slander their betters. Persons of low origin put on airs and pre tend to be more than they are. Cheating and misrepresentation, are the order of the day generally. In a word, rascalities abound among all classes and in all countries. The dovil is stalking abroad in open daylight, without the precaution to dress himself! And if the present generation of men could see themselves in the Gospel G lass, they are as black as hell!" LESS KNOWN REASONS FOR WELL KNOWN TRUTHS The longer the beam of a plow, the less power is required to draw the plow; because the beam is a lever, through which the power is exerted, and, by extending the beam the long arm of the lever is length ened, and the leverage is thereby increased. The same is true of many other implements and tools—-such as spades, pitchforks, wheelbarrows, planes, screw-drivers, augers, gimlets, &e. The greater the diameter of the wheels of a carriage, the less power it requires to overcome the inequalities of a road ; both because the leverage is increased by length ening the spokes or radii of the wheels, which are the long arms of the lever*, whereby the power is exerted, and because the steepness or abruptness of the obstruc tions presented to the wheels is lessened by the greater circumference of the wheels. Rut there is a near limit to the size of the wheels, beyond which no advantage is gained by increasing. For when the axles of the wheels become higher than the point of draught on the animal, a portion of the power exerted merely adds to the weight, or pressure, of the carriage upon the ground; and the portion thus lost in creases with the increased height of the axle above the horizontal line of draught. Besides, the increasing weight of enlarged wheels soon more than Counteracts the .'id vantages gained by increasing the diameter. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. On Wednesday last, the 9th Hist., Mr. Christian Gingerich, near Freeburg, Sny der county, committed suicide by hanging himself with a silk handkerchief, in his barn. No reason can' be assigned that could prompt him to commit the rash act. On the same morning he was in Freeburg for the purpose of purchasing wheat, and returned home about 10 o'clock. After returning in the house for a short time, he took "his hat and went out doors; his wife asked him where he was going, he replied that he did not know himself. His sons were working in a field some short distanee from the house and Mrs. Ginger ich thought that he had gone to see them work. At noon his sons returned home but their father was not along with them ; inquiry was immediately made concerning him, but no one having seen or heard of him, they began to search for him and about three o'clock in the afternoon they found him suspended in the granary in his barn. Dr. Houtz of Freeburg took him down, life however was extinct, and he who was but a short time previous in the enjoyment of life and health, rushed un called for into the presence of his Maker, l He had already passed three score and four years, almost the full age allotted to man. ! —Jovrnnl. New Series—Vol. 11, No. 45. LAW VINDICATED IN ENGLAND. A ship lately sailed from England with a remarkable freight. It was a convict ship. It bore as condemned prisoners Sir •John Dean Paul and his two partners, Dates and Strahan; Redpatli, a wholesale forger; liobson, the Crystal Palace swin dler; and Saward, a barrister, who, alter a successful career of fraud, that had lasted for more than twenty years, had been final ly detected. These men were all well ed | ucated, had enjoyed good social positions, and were apparently above the reach of suspicion. " The imputation of a petty falsehood, or a mean shuttle," to quote the words of a London newspaper, " would have filled them with indignation; and yet, at this moment, they wear the convict's dress, and herd with the common mob of vulgar criminals, the touch of whose pas sing garments would once have been held a foul pollution." It must be acknowledged that, whatev er other faults England may have, she at least vindicates the law, irrespective of rank and influence. This has been her boast for generations. From the times when Bacon was stripped of his dignities —when Strafford was brought to the scaf fold—when Earl Ferrers was hung for murdering his steward, down to our own day, no station has been high enough to protect a criminal from the justice of the outraged law. Neither jjink, nor wealth, nor political importance—Wither the friend ship of the judges, nor a connection with the highest nobility, has been able to screen the offender. The courts stand above sus picion. Juries are free from the imputa tion of being bribed. The freight of this convict ship is a new proof, if one was wanting, that justice, in England, is inex orable as well as impartial. Fraud itself —that vice of modern civilization, which so many consider comparatively venial— cannot escape. The commonwealths of these United States might take a lesson from England. Politieal liberty is here in advance of what it is in Great Britain, especially political liberty in the Northerh States; hut perso nal rights are hardly as secure, and crime is assuredly less certain of punishment.— We could, if necessary, quote numerous instances where men, guilty of crimes sim ilar to those of Sir John Dean Paul, have escaped punishment. The records of the Courts, in this as well as in other States, show how frequently justice winks at the release of offenders who have wealth or politieal influence. Vainly may we-boast of our progress, vainly compare ourselves triumphantly with other peoples, while these things continue among us. In Re publics, even more than in monarchies, the law must he vindicated; for the law, in free governments especially, is the founda tion of order and prosperity. Laxity ir, administering the law leads to indifference!) indifference to anarchy; anarchy to ruin.— Ledyer. MURDER WILL OUT Week before last a man named Gray was hung by a mob in Pontotoc county, Miss., for having murdered a Mr. 11. Abernathy, while the latter was in his field pulling fodder. Gray confessed his crime after the rope was around his ncek. The cir cumstance that led to the detection of Gray, was the finding, at the place of the murder, the wadding of the gun. > An hour previ ous he had requested a locksmith, living four miles off, who had repaired his gun, to load it for him, stating that lie himself could not well do it, on account of a bile under his arm, and intending, as he said, to kill a deer. The locksmith loaded the gun, putting in twelve buckshot, and for wadding used pieces of an old pamphlet, lying in his shop, which pieces were found, powder burnt, near the body of the mur dered man; and identified. Other circum stances, confirmed afterwards by his con fession, fixed the guilt upon Gray. What we Di~ink. —The spurious wines of Oporto, recently seized by the Portu guese government, were made of molasses, alcohol and some coloring substance.— Thousands of pipes of this mixture have heretofore been sent to England, to the Continent, and elsewhere. The wine lately confiscated in Paris was made of water, alum and elder berries. ITB7T OTtCCHBRT, PROVISION AND FISH STORE. rpHE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro- X vision and Fish Sfore opposite Major Risen bise's Hotel, where he has just received a fine assortment of fresh jF