whole No. 2436. Il.flMS or IGB4CRIPTIOV. O.YL DOLLAR PER AWTA, IH ADVANCE. For vix months, 75 cents. Bj£jAll NEW subscriptions must he paid in B'raoc.e. If the paper is continued, and nit Bid within the first month, §1,25 will he charfc- B ; .f not paid in three months, §1,50; if not Bjd in six months, §1,75; and if not paid in Ke month*, §2,00. Bvll papers addressed to persons out of the Biintv will be discontinued at the expiration of K time paid fjr, unless special request is made ■the contrary or payment guaranteed by some ■aonsible person here. ADVKUTISINO. ■'e:> l' nci ' n >nion, or their equivalent,con -8.,,.,. a jquare. Three insertions §l, and 25 K ts f or each subsequent insertion. ■he West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK HAVE*, PA., Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- i ■ctuisforf Farm Property, and other Build- j ft. and their contents, at moderate rates. DIRKCTOR*. H John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, ■nß.Hfo, T. T, Abrams, ■Ale. \ Mayer, D. K. Jackman, ■foes Crist." W Wrote Her Dickinson, Thos Kitchen. H Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pre*. r T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. j ■ Kilcktn, Fee'y. airnßENccs. ■mud H. Lloyd, Tho*. Bowman, D. D. ■ a Winegardner, Wm. Vanderbelt, ■ A Mackey. Wm. Fearon. ■ white, ' Or J. S. Crawford, He- Q'titgle, A. Lpdegratf, Htn W. Maynard, James Armstrong, Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. Hr' \-ent for Mifflin county, G. W. STF.W HT, i;,q. ap23 j ■rmnitv from Less and Damage by Fire,j Peri:, of Mii.im ani f * land "'raiupertatioa.. s CONTINENTAL || INSURANCE COMPANY. Hwrpora/fo by the legislature Agent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL- i HOTT. febl9-ly I [ ISDESMTY AGAINST LOSS BI PIKE, ■ranklia Fire Insurance Compa- j I ny of Philadelphia. |l Off.-* 1C34 Chestnut street, near Fifth. HilrnieQt of Assets, §1,fc27,!X5 SO 1 January Ist, 1857. agreeably to an act of Assembly, be- J Mortgages, amply secured, §1,519,932 73 j Heil Kit ate, (present value, §109,- cost, 89,114 lb (present ralue, §83,881 12,) H 'fo 71,232 97 Hih,4c., 54,121 56 I §1,827,185 80 ißlerpriail i.imitrd Insurttncti made on every of property, in Town and Country. as low a* arc consistent with security. their incorporation, a period of twenty- j years, they have paid over Three Millions Dollars' losses by fire, thereby aff .rding r v- of the advaiitages of Insurance, as we'! H the ability and disposition to meet with all liabilities. 1; Losses by Fire. paii during the year ISSG, §3Ol. Cjß 84 §, DIRECTORS. N Bancker, | Mordecai D. Lewis, Wagner, t DaTid S. Brown, Cr .r.t, j Isaac Lea, R. rr.llh. I Edward C Dale, W. Richards, | George Fales. H CHARLES N\ BANCKER, President. G. BANCBER. Sec'y. ■ Agent for Mifflin county, 11. J. WAI .• Lewistown. marlQ ■Cigar, Book, Stationery, and I VARIETY STORE. |Hjit books now In use in the and Common Schools. 111 Lnds. consisting of Note, Letter and Cap of the best quality, either by the ream |H' n ,naa '.' er quantities; faney and plain Envel visiting and printing Cards; Steel Pens &Hi der ®; Slates; slate, lead and card Pen- H.|' Se |'ng Wax ; Ink and Inkstand*, together V,," foiiontry of every description, and a great other articles usually kept in book 3 ( l '' e lovers of the weed, he would call their Hv- ntlon to his large and extensive assortment ■ TOBACCO AND CIGARS, of sweet and plain Cavendish, Rose gH, "^ alura ' Leaf, Congress, coarse and fine H, '.hoe cut Chewing and Smoking Tobacco, jH V * ver y best kinds ; Imported Havana H->.' er J man 3r9 of the roost celebrated ■ 7' Oonwstic Havana, Spanish, Half Span- K t 1 oraerican Cigars, and also a large quan- r- We SeaSonc d cheap domestic and Ger '' a " which he will sell wholesale or H. 'J B m "?'- reasonable terms. ■oin/i hi " thanks for past patronage, 4m^ii l ° p ' ease his customers, and selling P l-o ® lß ' to increase the patronage ■ ottiJ eglV6n hiin - II u GEO. W. THOMAS ipiansraHHß AHffi sir ®a®a(&a maaiMis? hwwwjww# s=i. s aistmAßitis. OPEN EYES. . j | A STOTTV OF PRACTICAL WELL-DOING. ! • Our minister said in his sermon, last j evening,' said Mrs. Beach, the wife of a | prosperous citizen, as she dusted her man j tie of porcelain and marble, on Monday, j | 'that he who wanted to do good must keep I {a constant lookout for opportunities; that 1 i (rod does not find our work and bring it . ready fitted and prepared to the hand, but j j spreads the world before us, and we are to : wa.k through it as Thrift and the Apostles i • 1 j did, with eyes open, looking for the sick | l and the suffering, the poor and the oppros- I sed, • .. ) 'Now I am certain, continued the lady, j as she replaced a marble Diana in the cen tre of the mantle, 'I should like to do some ' good every day; one feels so much better j when they go to rest at night; and I'll just j keep my 'eyes open' to day, and see if I j come across any opportunities that under ! ordinary circumstances 1 should let slip.' Ilulf an hour later Mrs. Beach was in the nursery with the washerwoman who had come for the clothes. • 1 wish, Mrs. Sirams,' said she, as she heaped the soiled linen in the basket, ' that you would get Tommy's aprons ready for me by Wednes- j dav : we- arc going out of town to remain • 1 I until Saturday, and I shall want a good ; supply cii hand for such a carelent little scauip as he is.' • Well, I'll try, ma'am,' said the washer woman ; • I've gut behindhand a good deal j since Sammy had the hooping cough; but ! now he's better, 1 must try to make up for lost time.' • • Has he had the hooping cough? Poor ' little fellow! How old is he?' questioned j the lady. 'He was three last April, ma'am.' 'And Torn is four,' mused the lady.— , 'Look here, Mrs. Si nuns, won't you just open the lower drawer of that bureau, and | take out those tour green worsted dresses in the corner? Turn's outgrown them, you see, since last winter, but they are almost > as good as new. Now, if you want them : for little Sammy, they'll do nicely, without altering, [ think.' 'Want them, Mrs. Beach!' answered the washerwoman, with tears starting in he dim eyes; 'I haven't any words to thank you, or tell what a treasure they'll be. — Why, they'll keep the little fellow as warm j ai toast all winter.' ' Well, I'll place them on th? top of the j clothes,' said the lady, smiling to herself ! as she thought, ' My eyes have been open ] once to-day. X >t long afterwards Mrs. Beach was on j her way to market—for she was a notable j housekeeper—when she met a boy w ho had i lived a short time in her family the year ; i before, to do errands, wait on the door, Ac. ; | ' lie was a bright, good hearted boy, and had been a great favorite with the family, • and Mrs. Beach had always felt interested . in him : but this morning -die was in quite j a hurry, and would have passed hiui with ■ a cordial, but hasty, ' How arc you. Joseph, j 'my hoy ? Do come and see us,' had it not I J | ot.uek her that Joseph's face did not wear ' ! its usual happy expression. She paused, j ; as the memory of last night's sermon flush ed through her mind, and asked : ' la there anything the matter with *you, Joseph ? You do not look so happy as you used to.' The boy looked up a moment, with a I half-doubting, half-confiding expression, | into tho lady's face; the latter triumphed. ' Mr. Andersen's moved out of town,' he said, pushing back his worn, but neatly brushed cap from his hair, ' so I've lost my place; then little Mary's sick, and that makes it very bad just now.' •So it does/ answered Mrs. Beach, her svniD uliies warmly enlisted. ' But never mind, Joseph; T renminbi r, only night be fore last, my brother said he would want a new errand boy in a few days, for his store, and he'd give a good one two dollars a ] week. Now, I'll see him to-day, and get the situation for you, if you like.' Tho boy's whole face brightened up.— •OL I shall be so glad of it Mrs. Beach.' 'And see here Joseph; I m going to market, and perhaps we can find something nice for little Mary.' The iady remember ed thai Joseph's mother, though a poor seamstress, was a proud woman, and felt this would be a delicate way of presenting her gift. So she found some delicious pears and THURSDAY, DECEIYCBER 3. 1857. ! grapes and a nice chicken to make sonic I broth for Mary, who she learned was ill ' with fever, before she proceeded to do her | own marketing. Hut it was a pity that the lady did not see Joseph as he sprang into the chamber where little Mary lay rnoan | ing wearily* on her bed, while her mother sat stitching busily in one corner, and held up the chicken and the fruit, crying ' Good I news, good news! I've got all these nice ; things for Mary, and a place at two dollars | a week!' | Oh! how little Mary's hot fingers closed over the bunches of white grapes, while ! the sewing dropped from her mother's lin • <_rery, as the tears ran down her checks. It was evening, and .Mrs. B< ach sat in j the library absorbed in sonic new book, I when she heard her husband's step in the 1 hall. Though the morning had been plea ! sant, the afternoon was cloudy, and the sun i had gone down in a low, sullen, penetra ting rain. | Now, Mrs. Beach loved her husband i with the love of a true wife, but he was not ; a demonstrative man, and the first beauty and poetry of their married life had settled down into a somewhat bare, every day, matter-of-fact existence. But her heart was warm to-night —warm with the good j deeds of the day, and, remembering the ; resolution of tin morning, sh<- threw down her book and ran down stairs. ' Henry, dear,' said the soft voice of the i wife, ' has the rain wet you at all ? Let me take of your coat for you. • Thank you, Mary; 1 duu't think I'm i any wise injured, hut you may help me, 1 just for the pleasure of it,' and he stood still while she removed the heavy coat, with all that softness of touch and movc ' nient which belongs to a woman. She | hung it up, and then her husband drew her to his heart with all the old love's ten derness. And there was music in Mrs. Beach's heart as she went up stairs —music to the words, ' Eyes open '. eyes open !' A MOTHER'S GRAVE. Earth has some sacred spots, where we feel like loosing the hoes from our feet and treading with reverence —where com mon words of social converse seem rude, and friendship's hands have lingered in each other —where vows have been plight ed, prayers offered, and tears of parting shed. Oh, how thoughts hover around such places and travel through unmeasured space to visit them. But of all the spots on this green earth none is so sacred aa that where rest.-:, waiting the resurrection, those whom we have loved aud cherished —our brothers or our children. Hence, in all ages, the better of mankind have chosen aud loved the burial places of the dead ; and on these spots they have loved tu wander at eventide and meditate. But of all places, even among the cbarnel houses of the dead, none is" so sacred as a mother's grave. There sleeps the nurse of our infancy—the guide of our youth —the counsellor of our riper years —our friend when others descried us; she whose heart was a stranger to everything but love, and who could always find excuses for us when we could find none for ourselves. There she sleeps, and we love the very earth for her take. With sentiments like these I turned aside from the gaities of life to tho narrow habitations of the dead. I wan- S dered among those who commenced life with me in hope. Here distinctions are i now forgotten, at least by the slumberers 1 around me. I saw the rich and the great, : who scorned the poor and shunned them |as if infected with the plague, quietly [ sleeping by their side. Government Patronage. —The State De partment haa recently published a list of our Consuls and Ministers abroad, their compensation, the States from which they were appointed, Jkc. This list affords some curious statistics, of the rank held by the several members of the Lnion in the gov ernment patronage. New York of course carried off the lion's share. Pennsylvania is very little behind her, however, uie ag gregate of the former being and of the latter 874,825. Virginia comes next with $55,800; then Indiana $28,500; Massachusetts $20,750, aud so on down the list. Ohio, the third State in the Union in aluiust every respect, ranks ninth, with $15,500. Missouri, Tennessee, North Car olina, Arkansas and Vermont do not appear in the table at all. NORTHERN EUROPEAN HORSES. Of the Swedish hurses, Clark, in his j " Scandinavia, says that they are small , and beautiful, and remarkable for their j speed aud spirit. The Finland horse he j describes as yet smaller, not more than , twelve hands high, beautifully formed, and j very fleet. The peasants take them from : Lie forests when they arc wanted fir trav- I elers. Although apparently wild, they are. I under perfect control, and they trot along I with ease at the rate of twelve miles an h'.'iir. The following is toM of a Nor | wegian horse: His master had been Jinin' • i at a neighboring town, and when it was j tune to return had indulged so much that j*he could not keep a firm seat in his saddle. The hcrsu regulated himself as well as lie j could, according to the unsettled motion of his rider, but happening to make a false stepi the peasant was thrown and hung with ; one foot entangled in the stirrup. The horse immediately stopped, and twisting I his body in various directions endeavored to extricate his master, but in vain. The j man was severely hurt and almost helpless, i but the shock had brought him to his sen -1 ses. The horse had looked at him as he lay upon the ground, and, stooping, laid I hold of the brim of his hat and raised his ' head r. little, but the hat coming off he fell | again. The animal then laid hold of the j eoliar of his coat and raised him by it so | far from the ground that he was enabled to | draw his tfoit out of the stirrup. After resting awhile lie regained the saddle and 1 reached his home. Grateful to his preser ! vcr, the man did what every irood feelin" i . " . J . .5 ! bid him—he cherished the animal until it : died*of old age. Many a man owes a con j siderable debt of gratitude to this intelli i gent and faithful servant, who has taken : care of him when he was unable to take | care of himself, and possibly preserved his ; life. Let him repay the debt, by kinder ; usage. RICHES AND THE IK EVILS. ! ~ T1 e vanity of riches is seldom illustrated so strikingly ax in the case of the great English millionaire, Morrison, who died worth $20,000,000. Tt seems to be one of the conditions of the accumulation of enor i mous wealth in a singlegeneration that the possessor shall first disqualify himself from enjoying it, and in some cases, even appre ciating the fact that he holds it. Mr. Mor rison accumulated this almost fabulous am i ount himself, and in the regular course of his business, without any extraordinary \ turn of fortune; yet the following extract 1 from a letter in the Boston Post shows how little benefit he permitted himself to re ceive from all his wealth. What a satire | it is upon the exclusive devotion of all the faculties to the mere accumulation of prop erty : '• Mr. Morrison retired from active busi ness several years since, without withdraw ing his capital from the mercantile house, and though managing his vast funds him self up to the time of his death with all the sagacity of earlier days, he has for the pa-1 throe years been possessed with the idea that he should come to want. More than two years ago he commenced doing day labor upon a farm held by one of his tenants, for which he received twelve .shil lings a week, and this he continued up to the time of his illness. For tho last eigh teen months he has been a regular appli cant for relief to the parish, assembling twice a week with the town paupers at the door of the 'Union,' and receiving with each one of them his two shillings and a quartern loaf. Hia friends have indulged him in these fancies on the ground that it was the best choice of two evils. The truth was money was his god; and the idea became at last too great for him and broke him down. And yet he is said to have made a most judicious will and his invest ments up to the last are characterized by great good sense. The probate duty on his will exceeds £100,000." Extreme Sensibility. —The Cincinnati (Ohio) Gazette says :—" A young lady from Kentucky, who was visiting near Co lumbus, Ohio, became much attached to a mocking bird in the house of her relatives. The bird sickened and died. The lady be wailed the loss most piteously, and soon after became insane. On being seuthome in charge of an attendant, sbe attempted suicide by stabbing herself with her scis sors, but is now recovering." Think twice before you speak. CONFESSION Of Tuo of the Washington County Murderers. Henry Fife and Charlotte Jones, two of the persons convicted of the murder of George Wilson and Elizabeth McMagters, near M'Kcesport, have con f