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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 : — <l After undressing
the young sailor, we found a band of linen
tied about his body, in which were gold
pieces and two parcels done up in paper.
The one on the right side contained a letter
from Spain, three guineas and two half
guineas ; the other a letter, four guineas, a
half-guinea and two smaller pieces. Nei
ther the pieces, the paper nor the linen
presented the least appearance of fire, but
upon his right shoulder were six-distinct
circles, which preserved the natural color,
and appeared as though traced upon the
black skin. These circles, which all touch
ed at one point, were of three different
sizes, and exactly corresponded with the
gold pieces in the right side of his belt."
should physicians have a
cr horror of the sea than any body else ?
Feeause they are more liable to scr sick
new.
[Prom the X. V. Courier.]
JUDGE GOULD ON NATUII ALIZ \-
TION.
Ih% Hon. Geo. Gould, of Troy, while
holding a circuit of the Supreme Court in
the Third District, was applied to by a stout
Hibernian for "his papers,' in the manner
following:
The Clerk informed the Judge that the
man wished to be naturalized and he (the
Clerk) proposed to conduct the matter, as
usual, without interrupting the business of
the Court. The Judge replied that he
knew no business more important than giv
ing a man the full rights of an American
citizen, and that he would himself conduct
the proceedings in open Court.
The applicant thereupon produced his
certificate of intention, and his witnesses i
as to residence, good character, Ac., after
which the following colloquy ensued :
Judge. You say you prefer living in this
country to returning to Ireland; will you
tell why ?
Fat. This is a land of liberty, yer honor.
Judge. You show that you are attached
to our institutions; what are they?
No answer.
Judge. Who governs our country?
Pat." The President, sure.
Judge. Who makes the laws?
Pat. Sich as your honor.
Judge. No; I only administer the laws.
Who governs this State ?
No answer.
Judge. Mr. Clerk, hand me that blank
form of the Naturalization Oath. [This
being handed to him, he addressd the ap
plicant again.] There is in this oath a
clause by which you are to swear that you j
will support the Constitution of the United j
States.
Pat. Oh, yes, yer honor! I'm ready to '
swear to that.
Judge. Did you ever read that Consti- j
tution ?
Pat. No, yer honor.
Judge. Or a word of it?
Pat. No, yer honor.
Judge. Did you ever hear a word of it j
read ?
t
Pat. No, yer honor.
Judge. Can you read and write ?
Pat. Yes, sir.
Judge. Do you know one word that is in :
the Constitution of the United States?
!
Pat. Indeed and I do not, yer honor.
Judge. You have lived in this country !
nearly six years; you can read and write,
and vou have been all this time intending !
to become a citizen here, yet you have nev- ;
er taken the,tumble to learn or know one
word of the instrument you are now ready i
to take a solemn oath to support. An >
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.