whole No. 2435. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION'. 0E DOLLAR PER ASXCI!!, IN ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. jJ=All NEW subscriptions must be paid in ranee, if the paper is continued, and net d within the first month, §1,25 will be charg if not paid in three months, $1,50; if not d in six months, §1,75; and if not paid in e months, §2,00. ill papers addressed to persons out of the inly will be discontinued at the expiration of time paid f jr, unless special request is made ,he contrary or payment guaranteed by some ponsible person here. ADVERTISING. 'en lines of minion, or their equivalent, con ute a square. Three insertions §l, and 25 ds for each subsequent insertion. Ie West Branch Insurance Co, OF LOfR HAYEN, PA., [SUItES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer lliatidise, Farm Property, and other Build- I i, 3nd their contents, at moderate rates. j DIRECTORS. i. John J. Pearcc, Hon. G. C. Harvey, n 11. Hall, T. T. Abrams, rles A. Mayer, D. K. Jackman, rlts Crist, W. Wi.ite, >r Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. Abr.vms, Vice Pres. jii as. Kitchen, Setfy . REFERENCES. met H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. { Winegardner, Win. Vanderbelt, t." Mickey, Wm. Fearon, Vbite, Or- J- S. Crawford, es Q'lizgle, A. Updegraff, iW. Mtsynard, James Armstrong, . Simon Cameron, H n. Wm. Bigler. |=Ageot for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW r, E- Ifl, Esq. ' feb!9-ly INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE, ankiin Fire Insurance Compa ny of Philadelphia. Ofioe IC.'J. 1 , Chestnut street, near Fifth, ttueut of Assets, $1,827,183 SO January Ist, 18.57. ilidieJ agreeably to an act ot Assembly, be ing, 1 Mortgages, amply secured, £1,519,932 73 il E tate, present value, $109,- TL rust, 89.114 18 rk, (present value, $83,831 12,; Mt, 71 232 97 ; M'-, 64 J2f 56 81,827,185 SO erp'lxst gr i.mnltd insurances made on every criptinn of property, in Town and Country. • low as are consistent with security, i.re their incorporation, a period of twenty it years, they have paid over Three Millions )Y> Richards, t George Fales. THARI.ES .V. liA.VCKEH, President. H ®. G. BASCRER, Scc'y. kpA'ent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL KS. E-q., Lewistown. marl 9 igar. Book, Stationery, and VARIETY STORE. 11.subscriber, at his old stand on East Mar ket street, has added to his former stock of *" an unusualiy large assortment of Pocket and Family Bibles, pa ar.d Prayer Books, of various kinds and es of binding: Blank, Classical, Common 001, Miscellaneous and Juvenile Books, cm ri all the te>t books now in use in the "-rmies and Common Schools. " ini K consisting of Note, Letter and Cap er ! of the best quality, either by the ream ■ smaller quantities ; fancy and plain Envel ■ • v i9'ting and printing Cards; Steel Pens olders; Slates; slate, lead and card Pen- D S ; Ink and Inkstands, together , ? ner Y °f every description, and a great • ) of other articles usually kept in hook J l '' e lovers of the weed, he would call their "•'on to his large and extensive assortment TOBACCO AND CIGARS, dV? sw eet and plain Cavendish, Rose . - iiural Leaf, Congress, coarse and fine > nc cut Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, jr, e v ery best kinds; Imported Havana IBd ,""' r , man Cigars of the most celebrated v domestic Havana, Spanish, Half Span- I of w ?! er ' can Cigars, and also a large quan m fiv 6 1 5e . cheap domestic and Ger il 0 wtl ' c h he will sell wholesale or He UrA m L ost reasonable terms. Pie bv S thanks for past patronage, h o ri r ' , attention to business, and eo ll> '.m il plaase his customers, and selling ret o f' P ro "ts, to increase the patronage qJV? C'ven him. GEO. W THOMAS. msm wmm2SS sas m > m? mmamm mranaraHm, urararaws, snDmuiß ©®®h®w 9 iiiiii maaamiii. TO A DRUNKEN HUSBAND. My Uuslkxuil, 'turns tor thee I left My own, my happy home; For thee I left tny cottage bowers, With thee in Joy to roam; Ami where are all the holy vows. The truth, the love, the trust, That wou my heart—all scattered now. And trampled In the dust. I loved thee with a love untold, ; And when I stood beside Thy noble form, 1 Joyed to think I was thy clinscu bride. They told me ere I was thine own. How sad tuy lot would be; I thought not of the future then— X only thought of thee. I left my home, icy itappy home, A sunny-hearted thing. Forgetting that my happiness A shadowing cloud might bring. The sunny side of life Is gone. Its shadows only tnlne. And thorns are springing In my heart Where blossoms used to twins. I do not bhune thee for the lot, I only pray for thee, * That thou may'st from the tempter's power (O, joyful thought The free; That thou may'st bend above my grave. With penitence sincere. And for the broken hearted one Let fall a sober tear. THE TWO BROTHERS. The Following beautiful Arabian legend we copy from the " A'oice of Jacob." The site occupied by the Temple of Solomon was formerly a cultivated field. possessed in common by two brothers.— (fne of them was married and had several children ; the other was unmarried. They lived together, however, in the greatest harmony possible, cultivating the property tliey had inherited from their father. 'J he harvest season had arrived. The two brothers bound up their sheaves, made two equal stacks of them and left them on the field. During the night the unmarried brother was struck with anexcellent thought. .My brother, said lie to himself, has tr wife and children to support; is it just that my portion of tlie harvest should be as large as his? I pon this he arose and took from his stack several sheaves, which he added to tiio.se of his brother; and this lie did with as much secrecy as if lie had been commiting an evil action, in order that his off ring might not be rejected. On the same night the* other brother awoke and said to his wife, " Mv brother lives alone without a companion; he has none to a.-.-i.-t him in his labor nor reward him for his toils, while God has bestowed in me a wile and children; is it right that we should take from our common field as many sheaves as he, since we have already im-rc than he In.—domestic happiness? it y >u eitnsent, we .-hall, b\ adding secret ly a number of our sheaves to his stack, byway of compensation and without his knowledge, sec his portion of the harvest increased. This object was upprov d and immediately put in execution. In the morning, each of the brothers went into the field, and was much surprised at -teeing the stacks still equal. During several successive nights the same contri vance was repeated on each side; each kept adding to his brother's store, but the stacks always remained the same. But one night, both having stood sentinel to divine the miracle, they met.; each bearing the sheaves mutually designed for the other.. It was thus that all was elucidated, and they rush ed into each other's arms, each grateful to Heaven for having so good a brother. Now, says the legend, the place where so good an idea had simultaneously occur red to the two brothers, and with so much pertinacity, must have been acceptable to God. Men blessed it, and Israel chose it, there to erect the house of the laird.—- La ma rt inc. SLANDER. Yes, you pass it along, whether you be lieve it or not. You don't believe the one sided whisper against the character of an other, but you will use your influence to bear up the false report and pass it on the current. Strange creatures arc mankind. How many reputations have bled by whis per. How many benevolent deeds have been chilled by the shrug of a shoulder. How many individuals have been shunned by a gentle, mysterious hint. How many chaste bosoms have been wrung with grief at a single nod. How many graves have been dug by false report. Yet you will keep it above the water by a wag of your tongue, when you might sink it forever. Destroy the passion for tale-telling, we pray. Lisp not a word that may injure the character of another. Be determined THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1857. to listen to no story that is repeated to the great injury ol' another, and-, as far as you are concerned, the slander will die. Hut tell it once, and it may go as on the wing of the wind, increasing with each breath, till it has circulated through the .State, and has brought to the grave one who might have been a blessing to the world. ETERNITY. ; Eternity has no grey hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man crows- old and 1• . . j dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkle on the brow of' eternity! Eternity! stupendous thought! the ever present unborn, undecaying and undying —the endless chain, compassing the life of : God —the golden thread, entwining the destinies of the universe. I Earth has its beauties, but time shrouds I them for the grave; its honors, they are i hut the sunshine of an hour; its palaces, they are but as the gilded sepulchre; its possessions, they are toys of changing for tune; its pleasures, they are but as burthen ing bubbles. Not so is the untried bourne. In the dwelling of the Almighty can come no footsteps of decay. Its day will know no darkening—eternal splendor forbids the approach of night. ]ts fountains will never fail, they are fresh from the eternal throne, j Its glory will never want, for there is the ! ! / , died with de lirium tremens at " Brush Run." The father, a short time since, was put to jail for selling whiskey, and during his incar ceration his wife made whiskey ••meat and drink" fi >r herself and child. The wile finally fell down stairs and killed herself, and the eliild was shortly after attacked with all the symptoms of delirium tremens, with which it died. SHINGLING A IIOUSK. J nines II was a young nnth who commenced life with every flattering pros pect, and a wife and children soon Messed him. Unhappily, by slow degrees he be came—to make a long matter short —a drunkard. One evening he left his wife in tears, as was too common, repaired to the house of a man who sold him the dead ly poison, and drank so much that he sank down in a kind of stupefaction easily mis taken ibc sleep. All hi.- companions had deserted him. Near midnight the land lord's wife came into the bar room and said to him : 'I wish that man would go home, if he's got one to go to.' 'Hush! hush I' says the landlord, 'he will call for something else directly.' ' I wish lie would make haste about it, then, for it is time every honest person was in bed,' said his wife. ' lie's taking the shingles oil' his house and putting them 011 ours,' said the land lord. At this time James began to come to his senses, commenced rubbing his eyes, and stretched himself, as if he had just awoke, saying, ' I believe I 11 go.' ' !>on't be in a hurry, .James,' said the landlord. '(), yes, I must go,' says James; 'so good night!' and oil' he started. After an absence of some time, the land lord one day met and accosted him. ' llalloo, Jim, why haven't you been to see us V 1 Why,' says James, ' I had taken shin gles enough off my house, and it began to leak, so I thought it was time to stop the leak, and I've done it.' The tavern keeper, astonished, went home to tell his wife about it, and James ever since has let rum alone and attended to his own business. He is now a happy man, and his wife and children are happier than ever. A FALSE TiAHY AN OLD STORY REVIVED. John on a Scolding Wife. —As Airs. Slausbury, residing in a court running from Race, below Sixth street, was about to biing a bucket of water front the hydrant last night, she found a basket suspended from the knob of the front door. Putting her hand into the- basket, she felt some* thing alive and kicking, so wrapped up in lags that no further discovery could be made without unwrapping the object. A piece of paper folded like a letter lay by the side of'the animated bundle. Mrs. fctansbury immediately returned into the house, and by the light of the lamp exam ined the billet. It was directed to her hus band. She tremulously broke the seal, and read as follows: lu Joe. S'ansbun/ —1 send you the bah}, which you will please to take good care of, and bring up right, so that it may turn out to be a better man than its daddy. Oh, Joseph ! what a sly old rake you are ! \\ ho would think that such a sober old spindleshanks could be such a tearing down sinner.'' Jhe child is yours—you may swear to that. Look at it—it's Joe Stan bury all over. \ou deceived uicshameful ly, Joe letting on to he a widower. lint do a father's duty by the young one, and 111 forgive you. \ our heart-broken NANCY. 4 P. S. Pont let that sharp-nosed wife ot yours sec this letter. Gammon her with some kind of a story about the baby.' Mr. Stansbury was in the basement qui etly eating bis supper, and little imagining what a storm was brewing over his head. The door was violently thrown open, and his wile's voice yelled out: 4 Stansbury, come up here, you villain 1 Here's a mess for you.' 1 he astonished Stansbury hastilv obeyed the summons. 4 Pont you want to see Nancy—the heart broken Nancy?' cried Mrs. Stansbury, when her guilty husband hobbled into the room. ' Nancy 1 what Nancy's that!' said the sly old rogue, in well-feigned astonishment: •Why, N aney,. the mother of this baby that s hung up at the door. Mr. Stansbury! —Oh ! you look mighty innocent ? just read that letter and look into the basket! Pont be afraid—it won't bite; it's got no teeth, poor thing! You'll know it, for, as the hussey says, it's just like you all over. — Please goodness, I'll expose you before ev erybody.' in loss than five minutes Mrs. S. had collected a room full of spectators —half the inhabitants of the court—to witness the process of unwrapping the baby. Anx ious expectation sat on every countenance as the jealous lady tore away (ag after rag from the body of the foundling, the vigor ous movements of which astonished every body. 4 It's full of the devil already, said Mrs. S., ' that shows it's his. You'll soon see that it's like him in everything.' At last, all the swaddlimr clothes being 7 © removed, out jumped the baby and made its escape through the open door. Tt was a big torn cat! ' ONLY HAB FAITH.' A friendly correspondent writing from Washington, I 'a., says : Like most other small towns, we have here a 'colored church,' where many amu sing things are said, highly cxhilirating to the spirits of the few who occasionally visit the ' Ilayti' meeting house. 'Hayti' is the name given to that part of our town where 'pussons of color' reside. One winter evening, when the colored preacher was in the midst of his sermon, making a most violent, if not most eloquent, appeal to his hearers, one of the legs of the stove which had been loosened in some way fell out, and as a natural consequence the red-hot stove tipped over at an angle alarmingly suggestive of tire. The audience, of course, commenced crowding out of the door like a flock of black sheep. Rut the preacher was equal to the occasion. Addressing one of his prominent members, he cried out: ' Pick up de stobe, Brudder Bolah ! pick up de stobe !—de Lor' won't let him burn you ! Only hab faith !' Poor Brother Bolah had unfortunately too much fiiith, and immediately seized it, all glowing as it was. But no sooner had his fingers come in contact with the fervent iron, than he dropped it again, and dancing around on one foot, blowing his skinless fingers, he exclaimed with all the energy he could throw into his voice : ' l>e debil he won't! de debil he won't!' S&.A new water-meter is about being introduced in Boston. It consists of a hor izontal east-iron cylinder, in which are two ! pistons connected by a shaft, forming an j air chamber between them. I nder the i cylinder is a chest, containing a sliding i hollow valve, with ports opening into each ! end of the cylinder and through the centre i into the air chamber. Through the valve the water is forced alternately from each end of the cylinder by the movement of the piston into and through the air cham ber from the machine, in a perfectly uni form and steady stream ; the valves being I kept in contact witli the valve seats by the | pressure of the water in the chest where j the supply is admitted. At right angles ; with the shaft connecting the pistons is a shaft, supporting a crank with two arms, one of which, being connected with the valve stem projecting through the cylinder into the air chamber, is acted upon by the pistons to move the valve until the ports are nearly closed, when, to reverse the flow of water, the valve is instantly forced to complete its stroke by the action of a dif ferential piston, connected by a cam and anti-friction roller with the other arm of the crank. The registering index, from one to one hundred thousand cubic feet, is placed above the cylinder, under lock and key, and, being connected with and acted upon by the crank—and the pistons being packed perfectly tight—no water can pos sibly pass through the machine in any quantity, however small, even to drops, without being accurately measured, the length of stroke of the pistons being ad justable to a minute degree of accuracy by collars on the shaft. Another peculiarity is a simple and sure method of draining the machine and pipes connected with it, to prevent freezing, by merely shutting off the supply at the waste-cock in the cellar. Th> S/iarloics of an Aurfnl Winter.— The following eloquent extract is taken from a discourse lately delivered by Uev. E. 11. Chapin to bis congregation in New York : '•lt is not the ruined merchant merely —it is not the spectacle of depreciated property and lost credit, and the manifold discomforts of usual bankruptcy that most make us shudder and grow sad. Around the gloomy shadow there is still a darker rim. Away down below the platform of financial transactions there looms a sea of faces—these faces of workingmen and workingwomen, looking up among the stopped machinery of the factories, and the silence of shipyards, and all the desolations of suspended labor; looking up to the shad ows of an awful Winter overcasting them. Men and brethren, what shall we do for those whose hard earned dollars arc not merely honor and credit, but bread and blood, and life itself? What shall we do for the poorest of babes, that must soon hang on the wilted breast of famine, and for the women lor whom we must say something more than 'God help them!'— Ah, yes, a financial crisis is for tears and shuddering, as well as for arith metic and rumor." war debt of Oregon, as passed by the Commissioners, reaches the round sum of $3,500,000, making, with that of Washington Territory, 50,000,000. Nor does-this include any of the claims which will hereafter be presented to Congress for spoliations, being only for actual services rendered and supplies actually furnished. The population of Washington territory is about 10,000, that of Oregon 80,000. — The populations of the territories are small, and the points to be defended must have been few. Five millions of dollars is a pretty round sum for war expenses alouc, there probably not being two thousand vol unteers engaged in the war. These debts were probably contracted in the same way that debts were made on the canal and Portage Railroad when in their prime j and hence no surprise need he expressed at the amount. A Rose on an Apple Tree. —A corres pondent of the Maine Farmer gives us an account of a natural curiosity which he saw in the garden of Mr. AVinslow Hall, of letter II Plantation, Aroostook, on the 21st ult. This was a full-blown rose ujx>n an apple tree. The tree blossomed at the usual time, au4 when seen by the narrator New Series—Vol. 111, No. 3. had many apples upon it. The blossom was nearly two inches across the surface, perfectly white, and resembled in all re spects the common white rose, having as many leaves, and being as large and full otherwise. GRIME IN NEW YORK (From the N. V. Herahl, of Nov. 20.) The increase of crime in our midst is truly alarming, and enough to make the stoutest heart quail. Within the past three days we have been called upon to chronicle the murder of no less than three persons, and the mortal wounding of four others. W here the carnival of blood is going to end we know not. Citizens can no longer resort to the public highways after night tall without the fear of sudden death be neath the bjavo's steel. The killing of young Hamilton in a drinking saloon in Canal street marked the commencement of the bloody epoch. The following night Francis Vincent was murdered in North William street; William Marshall, the ne gro, was mortally wounded in West Broad way, and a grocery man in seventeenth street, named Fraser, received a fatal stab while ejecting a rowdy from his store.' — Scarcely twenty-four had elapsed when we were horrified again by a wholesale butch ery at a dance house in Water street. The following table of the names of those who have died, and those who are now dying from the effects of wounds received at the hands of assassins, will give our readers some idea of the extent of crime in the metropolis since Monday morning last: I—Henry F. Hamilton, murdered in Canal street. ♦ - —Francis Vincent, murdered in North William street. o —McManus, murdered in Water sfc. 4—W m. Marshall, (colored,) mortally wouuded, corner of West Broadway and Canal street. o—John Fraser, mortally wounded in West Seventeenth street. o—Richard0 —Richard Barrett, mortally wounded in Water street. ~ —Susan Dempsey, mortally wounded in Water street. SSyThe exploration of Africa, in which so much progress has been made of late years, is still pursued with vigor. In spite of the disastrous loss of life which attended the first attempt to explore the Niger up ward from its month, that object is still zealously pursued. A new expedition has lately been fitted out tor that purpose in the steam propeller Day Spring, composed of fourteen Europeans, twenty-five natives of the countries on the Niger, and fifty Krooinen. It is intended to try the ex periment of establishing trading posts on the banks of the river for the collection of cotton and other native produce. It is thought that the return to their native countries of captured Africans who have acquired the English language and obtained some ideas of European civilization, may help a good deal in opening the way for trade with those countries. While the English are thus engaged on the Niger, the Portuguese have an expedition on foot for exploring the Congo. It is said to be under the command of an accomplished officer who is directed to make a complete survey of the river. STORE STAND & DWELLING fTMIE undersigned offers for sale two lota of I ground, situate in Reedsville, Mifflin co., ou the turnpike leading from Lewistown to aßellefonte, on which are erected a large two story Dwelling, with Car riage House, Stable, aud all other necessary out-houses, and a STORE STAND with a secure run of custom varying from $15,000 to $20,000 per annum. The store stand is situate at the confluence of sev eral roads, aud all tho 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 infjrmation, inquire of or ad dress R. M. KINSLOE. ocl-3m Reedsville, Mifflin co., Pa. Foundry and Machine Shop. THE public are hereby notified that 1 have rented the Foundry and Machine Shop in the borough of Lewistown, known as the "Ju niata Iron Works," and the large and general assortment of Patterns, late the property of Zeigler and Willis, now of John Sterrett & Co. and Wm. Willis, and that I am prepared to do all kinds of Casling, Turning, &c„ on the shortest notice and in the best and most complete style.. JOHN' ZEIGLER. Lewistown, April 17, 1856—tf. SHOT GUNS. —Single and double Shot Run*, very low, at MACKI.IN'F, MrVeytown.