He No. 2434. I TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION# OSE DOLLAR PER A.WIJI, | IN ADVANCE. ! For six months, 75 cents. \ll NEW subscriptions must be paid in e . If the paper is continued, and net jthia the first month, §1,25 will be charg- D ot paid in three months, §1,50; if not s six months, §1,75; and if not paid in onths, §2,00. papers addressed to persons out of the will be discontinued at the expiration of ie paid for, unless special request is made contrary or payment guaranteed by some sible person here. ADVERTISING. lines of minion, or their equivalent, con si square. Three insertions §l, and 25 or each subsequent insertion. West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK RATES, PA., RES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer jdise Farm Property, and other Build- Q d their contents, at moderate rates, J DIRECTORS. _i.fi j Pearce, Hon- G. G. Harvey, I Halls T - T ' Abraras, t Mayer, D* Jackman, ! Crist. w Y,/fcinson rhos. Kitchen. )l€k Hon- G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. Kitchen, Sec'y. REFERENCES. ]II Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. IVineeardner, VVm, Vanderbelt. Wackev. Wm * Eearon. j, e ' Dr. J. S. Crawford, Quisle, A - Updegraff, V Maynard, James Armstrong, Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. Sent for Mifflin county. G. W. STEVV- E,q. a l >23 ■nitv from Loss and Damage by Fire, H, f en [ s of Marine and Inland Tranrjtortaliun. I CO.NTINKNTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Hunrfci by the Legislature of Ptiuisi/lva- E| H ia, with a IWjxtual Charter. ■Authorized Capital, 81,000,000. ■ %61 Walnut St. above Seeoud, Thlla. Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer &e., generally. Marine Insurance and Freights to all parts of the 'inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to of the Union, on the most favorable ■ consistent with security. If liIKECTuBS. W. Colladay, William Bowers, ■\l.Coleman, ' Joseph Oat, ■ v Machette, Howard Ilinchman, W. COLLADAY, President. Wilrom, Secretary. for Mifflin county, Win. P. EL ST, Esq. febl9-ly ■ran AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE. Bnklui Fire Insurance Cornpa- ' K nv of Philadelphia. of Assets, $1,827,185 SO January Ist, 1857. agreeably to an act of Assembly, be lt ' in S' amply secured, $1,519,932 73 .tale, (present value, jIU9,- , ■}cost, 69,114 16 ■s, (present value, $83,881 12,) ■ 71,232 97 ■ *e., 64,121 56 II $1,827,185 80 (IT Limited Insurances made on every of property, in Town and Country. as low as are consistent with security. their incorporation, a period of twenty tjHjears. they have paid over Three Millions losses by fire, thereby affording cv ■< of the advantages of Insurance, as well aability and disposition to meet with ail liabilities. i|. Losses by Fire. paid during the year 1856, $301,638 84 m RECTORS. Bancker, I Mordecai D. Lewis, Wagner, 1 David 3. Brown, Grant, j Isaac Lea, Smith, Edward C. Dale, Richards, , George Fales. ■CHARLES N. BANCKER, President. G. Bakcker, Sec'y. for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL* Lewistown. marl 9 S SwiLL(S3©2> ■gar, Book, Stationery, and ■ VARIETY STORE. subscriber, at his old stand on East Mar ■ str t, added to his former stock of large assortment of ■ocket and Family Bibles, and , rayer Books, of various kinds and w . 5 ' an k. Classical, Common |', sce ," aneous an( * Juvenile Books, cm a'l tie te.\t books now in use in the mie! ai, d Common Schools. Kr < rf d !L CO u Sistin S of Note i Letter and Cap e quality, either by the ream Quantities; fancy and plain EnvJß ■n.M. and Printing Cards; Steel PelS w ;, ' ate ' ea< * an< l car< l Pen- J ' and Inkstands, together K, nf er J °f cv ery description, and a great . ' other articles usually kept in book E 'iff" wee<1 > he would call their gBT'" his large and extensive assortment ■JOBACCO AND CIGARS, H;, gjp" '' ea b Congress, coarse and fine and Smoking Tobacco, t ' er y best kinds; Imported Havana 'S ars of the most celebrated \rni e - tIC '^? vana J Spanish, Half Span mof w e |i .f lcan C'l? a rß, and also a large quan- Hf; -|, se . a5 °ned cheap domestic and Ger- w "ich he will sell wholesale or ■* tend, rea, °nable terms. ' r "i l att ntion t business, and en- Half 0 P'' ai,f! his customers, and selling vFJ' !*.' t0 increase the patronage GEO. W. THOMAS. IRBUHOTSIE) ASJSB UTOIEHSSISIEIB ®J3®IE®IiB ®®®SSB^ a !?>£<, VIIIB TWO PICTURES. Somebody's heart is gay. And somebody's heart is sad: For light shines out across the way. And a door with crape is clad— SitUncss and gladness alike Are dwelling side by side; Perhaps the death of an early one, And the crowning of a bride. Bright eyes are tilled with mirth, Pale faces bciyl in prayer; And hearts beside the household hearth, Are crushed by cold despair; Ah! sorrow and hope and Joy Are parted by thinnest walls- Bat on the hearts of the thoughtless ones, No shadow of sorrow fulls! No thoughts of the funeral train Come to the festive throng; No hope that the past will come again To the anguished hearts belong. The future's a sunny sea To the lovers of Joy and mirth— But the past alone to those who weep For the parted ties of earth. * Somebody's heart Is gay. And somebody's heart is sad: For the lights shine bright across the way. And a door with crape is clad. Fadness and gladness alike Enclose us 011 every hand— . A wealth of smiles and a flood of tears With hope and sorrow stand. A HUNTLT'S ADVENTURES. A correspondent of the National Intelli gencer, writing from the Allegheny Moun tains in (leorgia, describes an old hunter whom lie found in a log cabin, in the cen tre of a small valley completely hemmed on all sides by wild and abrupt mountains, and one of the most romantic liooks iinugi nablc. lie has lived there for thirty years, is about sixty years old, and wears a long white beard—professed to have killed in his life-time about four thousand deer, and amused the correspondent of the Intelligen cer with long stories of his adventures with the wild beasts of the forests, some of which the writer has condensed as follows: On one occasion ho came up to Ti large grey wolf, into whose head he discharged a ball. The animal did not drop, but made its way into an adjoining cavern and dis appeared. Vandcver waited awhile at the opening, and as he could not see or hear his game, he concluded that it had ceased to breathe, whereupon he fell upon his hands and knees, and entered the cave. — On reaching the bottom he found the wolf alive, when a " clinch fight" ensued; and the houter's knife completely severed the heart of the animal. On dragging out the dead wolf into the sunlight, it was found that his lower jaw had been broken, which was probably the reason why he had not succeeded in destroying the hunter. At one time when he was out of ammu nition, his dogs fell upon a large bear, and j it so happened that the latter got one "of the former into his power, and was about to squeeze it to death. This was a sight the hunter could not endure, so m he un sheatlied his large hunting knife and as saulted the black monster. The bear tore off' nearly every rag of his clothing, and in his first plunge with his knife he com pletely cut off' two of his fingers instead of j injuring the bear. lie was now in a per- j feet frenzy of pain and rage, and in mak ing another effort succeeded to his satisfac tion, and gained the victory. The hear weighed three hundred and fifty pounds. On another occasion he had fired at a large buck near the brow of a precipice some thirty feet high, which hangs over one of the pools in the Tallulah river. On seeing the buck drop, he took it for grant ed that he was about to die. lie ap proached the animal for the purpose of cut ting his throat, when he raised to his feet and made a tremendous rush at the hunter with a view of throwing him off the ledge. But what was more remarkable, the animal succeeded in his effort, though not until r Vandever had obtained a fair hold of the buck's antlers, when the twain performed a sommerset in the pool below. The buck made its escape, and Vandever was not, seriously injured in any particular. .About a month subsequent to that time lie killed a buck, which had a bullet wound in the lower part of its neck, whereupon lie con cluded that he had finally triumphed over the animal which had given him the un expected ducking. But the most remarkable escape which old Vandever experienced happened in this wise. He was encamped upon one of the lofty mountains in"l. uion county. It was near the twilight hour, and he had heard the howl of a wolf. A\ ith a view of ascertaining the direction whence it came, he climbed upon an immense boulder-rock, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1857. (weighing, perhaps, fifty tons,) which stood on the brow of a steep hill side. While" standing upon this boulder he suddenly felt a swimming sensation and to his aston ishment he found that it was about to make a tearful plunge into the ravine half a mile below him. As fortune would have it, the limb of an oak tree drooped over the rock; and as the rock started from its tottlish foundation, he seized the limb, and thereby saved his life. The dreadful crash ing of the boulder as it descended the mountain side came to the hunter's ear while he was suspended in the air, and by the time it reached the bottom he found himself on the very spot which had been vacated by the boulder. Vandever said that this was the only time in his life that he had really been frightened; and he also added, that for a day after his escape he did not care a finger's snap for the finest game in the wilderness. Daguerreotypes by lightning. A countrywoman has recently arrived in Paris from the department of Seinc-et •Marne, who should he presented to the i Academy of Sciences. This woman was a j short time since watching a cow in an open field, when a violent storm arose. She ! took refuge under a tree, which, at the in ! stant, was struch by lightning; the cow was killed, and she was felled to the eartli ; senseless, where she was soon after found, the storm having ceased with the flash that felled her. I'pon removing her clothing, the exact image of the cow killed by her side was found distinctly impressed upou her bosom. This curious phenomenon is not without precedent. l)r. Franklin mentions the ease t of a man who was standing in the door of a house in a thunder-storm, and who was looking at a tree directly before him, when it was struck by lightning. On the man's breast was left a perfect daguerreotype of the tree. In 1841, a magistrate and a miller's boy were struck by lightning near a poplar tree, in one of the provinces of France; and upon the breast of each were found spots exact ly resembling the leaves of the poplar. At a meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, January 2oth, 1847, it was sta ted that a woman of Lugano, seated at a window during a storm, was suddenly sha ken by some invisible power. She expe rienced no inconvenience from this, but afterwards discovered that a blossom, appa rently torn from a tree by a lightning stroke, was completely imaged upon one of her limbs, and it remained there till her death. lii September, 1820, the brigantine // Burn-Surva was anchored in the Armire liny at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea, where she was struck by lightning. In obedience to a superstition, the lonian sail ors had attached a horse-shoe to the luizzen mast, as a charm against evil. When the vessel was struck, a sailor who was seated by this mast was instantly killed. There were no marks or bruises upon his person, but the horse shoe was perfectly pictured upon his back. A Spanish brigantine was once struck in j the Hade de Zante. Five sailors were at the prow —three of them awake and two of them sleeping. One of the latter was killed, and upon undressing him, the fig ures 44, plain and well formed, were found under his left breast. Ilis comrades de clared that they were not there before his death, but their original was found in the rigging of the vessel. Hut the most sin gular facts connected with this affair are set forth in the report of the physician, Dicapulo, who says : — American born here, and living here until he is twenty-one years of age, Icarus more or less of the Constitution under which he lives, as well as the rights and duties of j citizenship. At any rate, whether he docs i this or not, he is presumed to have done : it, and therefore the laws of the land give j him the right to vote without the formality of an oath; it is his birth-rujht. To those ifht horn 011 the soil the law applies a dif ferent rule, and requires from them the oath now under consideration in your case. I hold that the due, even the decent ad ministration of that oath depends in part on the condition that the applicant should at least understand it, and I will never al low such an abuse of the law as would he committed by your taking that oath in your present circumstances. You cannot he naturalized by this Court. USE OF THITDICT [< )NAIIY. The reader may discover by the follow ing extract, that it would he possible to write a technically grammatical sentence which would be almost unintelligible. The words below can all be found in the dic tionary, and are all grammatically used; and yet the thing is as hopelessly dark as if written in Cherokee. It is an amusing illustration of the fact that one may write English, or speak it, and still use an un known tongue. The letter purports to be a note from an author to a critic: n gi r: —You have behaved like an im petiginous acroyle! Like those inquinate, crass sciolists who, envious of my moral eelsitude, carry their nugacity to the height of creating symposically the faound words which my polymathic genius uses with übcrity to abiligate the tongues of the weet lcss! Sir, you have crassly parodied my own pet words, as though they were tang rams. I will not coacervate reproaches —I would abduce a veil over atramental in- gratitude which has chamfered even my undisceptible heart. I am silent on the foscillation which my c -adjuTancy must have given you when I offered to become your fautor and adminicle. "I will not speak of the-lippitude, the ablepsy, you have shown in exacerbating me—one whose genius you should have approached with mental discalation. So I tell you sir, syncophically, and without su pervacaneous words, nothing will render ig noscible your conduct to ine. I warn you that I would vellicate your nose, if I tho't that any moral diathrosis could be there fore performed—if I thought that 1 should not impigorate my reputation by such a digtadiation. "Go ! Tachygraphic scroyle ! band with your crass, inquinate tautors —draw oblec tations from the thought, if you can, of having synachronically lost the existima tion of the greatest poet since Milton, and drawn upon your head this letter, which will drive you to Walker, and send you to sleep over it. "Knowledge is power, and power is mercy—so I wish you no worse than it may prove an eternal hypnotic." For an entire solution of the above high ly interesting missive, the anxious reader is invited to amuse himself an hour or two with Walker or Webster's unabridged. SCENE IN TEXAS. We find the following in the Galveston (Texas) Civilian of the 26th ult.: A cor respondent of the Austin Intelligencer says that at the late camp meeting on the Blan co, about U o'clock one evening, while the services were still proceeding at the stand, the Sheriff of Comal county, with two sons of Woodson Blassengame, rushed suddenly up to the tent or camp occupied by the families of Day and Pliarr, for the purpose of arresting Pharr, against whom the grand jury of Comal county had found a bill of indictment, charging him with being con cerned with the mob that killed Woodson Blassengame eighteen months ago. Pharr was seized, hut extricated himself and ran off between the line of tents and the preaching stand, pursued by one of the, Blassengawcs with a double barrel shot gun, who was in the act of shooting him, when somebody shot Blassengame with a six shooter. He fell instantly, hut his wound is not considered fatal. The other Blassengame ran around the tents and shot at Pharr with a double barrel shot gun, but missed him. The line of tents was about thirty steps from the preaching arbor where the service was going on, and the whole affair occurred in the midst of men, women and children, to the imminent danger of innocent persons being killed. The entry of the Sheriff was sudden and unexpected, and in the dim light of the camps produced a great confusion and excitement, and the meeting was broken up next day, as fami lies were unwilling longer to remain there. Tut; JENNENS PROPERTY. —A Liver pool paper states that the immense estate of the Jennens family has been formally taken possession of by Joseph Martin, heir at-law. As a portion of the property was purchased from the Daniels' family by Robert Jennens, the father of William ''the rich," and, as the latter died intestate, it descends to Mr. Joseph Martin, as an heir loom. The other portions of the estate are strictly entailed, and pass to Mr. Martin under wills which have been duly proved. was designed to regulate the every day life of those who profess to be its subjects. But in how many instan ces does the 4 fruit' of Chistianity, as ex emplified in the ordinary duties of men, utterly fail to commend the gospel to those who have never felt its power ? 'ls Mr. good ?' asked a bank officer of a Di rector the other day, in the hearing of a friend of ours. 4 That depends on wheth er you mean God-ward or man-ward,' was the answer. 'God-ward/ continued the Director, 4 Mr. is 4 good.' No man in our church is sounder in faith, or prays often cr in our meetings, or is more benev olent, according to his means. But man ward, I am sorry to say that Mr. is rather tricky.' A FEMALE IRISH BULL. —An Irish wo man who had been convicted of illegally selling spirits, on receiving sentence, fer vently clasped lier hands and prayed that "his Honor might never live to seo his wife a poor widow, and obliged to sell rum to support the childcr" New Series—Vol. 111, No. 2. AN AFFECTING SCENE, j A Jirnthe.ru Love.—A Mister's Shame. A friend relates to us an affecting inci dent which occurred at Xenia on Wednes day. Amongst the passengers in the train from Cleveland, was a young man of per haps twenty, and a lady some few years his senior. The gentleman was plainly clad, but the girl was dressed in the extreme of fashion, and rouged beyond even brazen wantonness. It was frequently observed by the passengers that the young man ap- I peared to be earnestly remonstrating with the girl, and seemed to be deeply affected. At Xenia, both left the cars, and it was apparent that the course of each lay in different directions—the man to this city, and the girl to the West. As the ears were about starting, the young man kissed her a hasty good bye, and both burst into tears. The conductor seeing that there was some deep grief at heart, invited the gentleman to a seat in the baggage car, as more secluded from the gaze of the crowd. " Anywhere," said he, " only come with me. I must speak to some one" or my heart will break." After becoming a little calmed, he said : —" That lady and myself were raised together; with moss for carpets, acorns for cups and saucers, and pebbles for walks, we played in childhood. She was a few years older than myself, but we were inseparable. She grew up to woman hood, was married, then separated from her husband, and sought the city, and became a wanton, heartless, disgraced courtezan. Steeped in sin as she is, shameless as she may be, I could not but kiss her good-bye, for she is my sister ! She has already hur ried a loving mother to the grave, and brought a disgrace upon her brothers and sisters. But while she acknowledges it all, and sheds tears of apparent contrition and regret, no remonstrance can change her course. She has just been home to make us a visit, but has left again for her resi dence in the city, to drown in the wanton's life the remembrance of what she was and what she might have been. Bo you blame me, then," turning to the sympathizing conductor, " for weeping as I do over one so loved and fallen ?" It was no tale of fiction. It was painful truth. Fallen, disgraced, and shameless, she still shared a brother's love, who would .win her back to virtue's path at any sacri fice. A bi*ief career of pleasure, and we shall find the erring sister amongst the daily habitues of the police court and pris on. — Cincinnati Garotte. BSL, A Teacher had been explaining to his class the points of the compass, and all were drawn up in front, toward the north. " Now, what's before you, John ?" " The north, sir." '• And what behind you, Tommy ?" " My coat tail, sir," said he, trying at the same time to get a glimpse at it. JSTORE STAND & DWELLING TIIE undersigned offers for sale two lots of ground, situate in Reedsville, Mifflin co., on the turnpike leading frotn Lewistown to Bellefonte, on which are erected a large two story Dwelling, with Car ||! j|®jriag-: House, Stable, and all other eamJEßk necessary out-houses, and a STORE STAND with a secure run of custom varying from $15,©00 to $20,000 per annum. The store stand is situate at the confluence of sev eral reads, and all the trade from the Great Valley as well as Stone Valley in Hunting don county, and Centre county, passes the door. It is therefore a most desirable stand for gathering marketing of all descriptions, any quantity of which can be obtained. For further information, inquire of or ad dress 11. M. KINSLOE, ocl-3m Reedsville, Mifflin co., Pa. unms© 3M ©mm sfejmlj© s KENNEDY, JUNKIN & CO.'S NEW STOCK OF DRY GOODS, FOR THE FALL AUD M ISTER ! WHICH tbey offer for sale cheaper than the the cheapest, and invite one and all to give them a call, and examine their stock, which embraces new and beautiful styles of all kinds; also a large stock of the cheapest to be had in town, as well as Clothing for Men and Boys, of all kinds, which we will sell at the lowest prices. CASH OR COUNTRY PRODUCE taken in exqhange for goods. Give us a call. Octlo KENNEDY, JUNKIN & CO. TO MARKSMEN—RifIes and Shot Guns, Shot, Fowder, Caps, &c., for sale at se P 3 HOFFMAN'S. . 174 RE BliICK! FIRE BRICK!—For Noble, Globe, Girard, F'lai Top, New V" dd, Crys tal, Fanny Forrester, and Sunrise Cook 8t a, and for all kinds of Room and Parlor Stoves, can be had at the Stove Warehouse of septlT F. G. FRANCISCVS.