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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
<i July, A. D. 1839, I, Jacob Mutthersbough,
-Jherilf of the county of Mifflin, Pennsylvania,
do hereby make known and give notice to the
electors of the county aforesaid, that a general
election will be held in said county of Mifflin
on the SECOND TUESDAY (13th) of October,
1857, at which time State and County officers
are to be elected, to wit:
One person as Governor of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
One person as Canal Commissioner of the Com
monwealth vf. Pennsylvania.
Two persons as Judges of the Supreme Court of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
One person to Jill the office of Member of the
House oj Representatives to represent the county of
Mifflin til the House of Representatives of Pennsyl
vania,
One person lofill the office of Register and Recor
der.
One person to fill the office of Sheriff.
One person to Jill the office of Coroner.
One person to fill the office of County Treasurer.
One person to JiU the office of County Commis
sioner.
One person to fill the office of County shut it or.
One person to fill the office of Director■ of the
Poor for the district composed oj'the borough of lew
istown. the election oj'tcliom is confined to the voters
of said borough alone, as per act 16th .'torit, 1853,
P. L. 466, sect. 18.
1 also hereby make known and give notice
that the place of holding the aforesaid election
in the several districts of the said county will
be held respectively at the places hereinafter
designated, to wit:
The electors of the borough of Newton Ham
ilton are to meet at the new school house in
said borough.
The electors of Wayne township to meet at
the new school house in the borough of Newton
Hamilton.
The electors of the borough of McVeytown
are to meet at the Union school house in said j
borough.
'I he electors of Granville township are to
meet at the Court House in the borough of
Lewistown • „
The electors of Derry township arc to meet
at the Court House in the borough of Lewis
town. .
The electors of Oliver township /ill meet at
the school house known as the Brc- kland school
house in said township.
The electors of Brattou township will meet
at the brick school house on the farm of Wil
liam Harshharger, in s- ,d township.
I'he electors of Menuo township arc to meet
at the public b' use now occupied by John Ford,
in Alle" ; "c, in said township.
i he electors of Union township are to meet
at the public bouse r ccupied by Richard Brin
dle, in said township.
The electors of Brown township are to meet
at the public house occupied by William Broth
ers, in said township.
The electors of Armagh township residing
east of the line commencing at the middle of
the road at the stone meeting house, in Brown
township; thence along said road to the end of
the lane known as Jonathan Abraham's lane,
near the residence of Thomas Longwcll, Jr.,
thence running in a straight line to the west end
of Cressman's knob to the Union county line,
are to meet at the office of E. E. Locke, in said
township. Those residing west of and not in
cluded in said limits, will meet as heretofore at I
the public house now occupied by William
Swinehart, in said township.
The electors of Docatur township arc to meet
at the house of Abraham Mutthersbaugh, for
merly occupied by David Mutthersbaugh, in
said township.
And by an Act of Assembly, the borough of
Lewistown was divided into two Wards, and
each Ward to compose an election district.—
The electors of the East Ward will meet at the
Court House, and vote at the window of the
Commissioner's office.
The electors of the West Ward will meet at
the same place, and vote at the window of the <
SherifFs office, in said Court House, and in said
borough.
An act of the Legislature having changed the I
manner of voting in Mifflin county, all officers
to be elected this year may be voted for on a
single slip of paper and deposited in one ballot
box, a fact which should be particularly noted
by all entitled to the right of suffrage, and by
the otljcers of the election.
The second section of the act declares "that
any fraud committed by any person voting in
the manner above prescribed, shall be punished
by the e>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<imU£ tiffromire,
among which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar,
Teas, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers,
Fish, Ham, Fine Ashton and Dairy
Salt, Tobacco, Segars, Soap, &c.
Also, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a
large assortment of Willow-ware, which he
offers for cash very cheap.
I will pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes,
Onions, &e.
Call, see prices, and judge for yourselves.
sep3 JAMES IRWIN.
J 000 POUNDS OF FLOUR.—Just re
fill reived, 4000 pounds Family Flour, in 25 and SO pound
bags, at IHH'JJTS FJUiIL Y GROCER Y.
1 50,000 Plastering Lath, 3, 3|, 4 & 4&
X feet long, and the best in the market, for sail; by
aiic!3 FRANOISCfS.