Whole No. 2454. TFRMS or SCBSCRIPTION. I OfE DOLLAR PER ASSI'S, IS' ADVANCE. For six monthf, 7" cent*. •>->\il N'EW subscriptions must be paid in ." : . if the paper is continued, and nc t first month, <.1,25 will be clinrjr fnjt pi id in three months. $1,50; if not v six months, $1,75; and if not priW in months, !H'I.TS addressed to persons out of the he discoatiouci! at the expiration of . p iid f.r, unless special request is made ( - : i:itrary <>r payraeut guaranteed by some iU.jasi'! r prson hcrc f ADVERTISING. - |j„ e 4 of minion, or their equivalent, con 'v a square. Three insertions $l, and 25 !i'its for each subsequent insertion. West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOJ K HAFEI, PA., TVSL'RBS Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer j chtndise, Farm Property, and other ftttild ■ md their contents, at moderate rates. HKCCTORJ. i, hn J Fearce. lion. G. C. Harvey, Jail:) it' Ha" I T- Abram*, Charles A. Mayer, l>. k. Jack.aan, ftirle Crist, W. Wrote, Dickinson, Tiios. Kitchen. Hon. G €. HARV EY, Pres. T. T. ABRAM*, Vice Pres. fwr. Kit chin. Sec'y. RF.F CRFVC tS. Riraoelll. Lloyd, Thos. Bowman. D. D. \ Winegardnor, Wm, Vanderbelt. • i \Hckpv, Wm. Fearon. . Write. I >r - S- Crawford, hue-Qii V I'pdegrsfT, ymW UjyiiarJ, J imc Armstrong, ||p Sinjou Cameron, lion. Wm. Biglcr. 3A.ret)tfor Mifflin county, G. W. STEW UtT.fcq P23 biemnity from Less mil Dnmagp by Pirc, hi' I '-' P' r >'* a S end T'l-md Transportation. CONTIXKNT \L INSURANCE COMPANY. !,ir, -j.'of lj /Ac legislature of Pennsylva nia. ici'h -i Perpetual Charter. Authorized Capital. £1.0#0,000. Hitt 50.61 Walnut St. above Serond, Fliila. fire Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer f.rdiae. &c., generally. Marine Insurance t. Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the roriJ. Inland Insurance on Goods, AT., bv Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to ill parts of the Union, on the most favorable rm>s consistent with security. DIRECTORS. s:crp V. Colladay, VVilliam Bowers, ioiia >l. C-aleman, Joseph Oat, Li'•.in V. Miehette, Howard Hinchman. GEJRC.E W. COLLADAY, President. GILLS" vvilsos". Secretary. Ty'Vjent for Mi.il n ronntv, Wm. P. EL LIOTT. E-q. ' fehlD-lv mm\U AGAINST LOSS BV FIRE. Franklin }' ire Insurance (ompa ny of Philadelphia. uv-t GJ and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth. JT VI r'. 1 L\T OF ASSETS, January 1. 1858, J published agreeably to an act of Assembly, Mg- Tst Mortgage*, amply secured, $1,596,825 19 It.. Estate, (presr • i value $lOO,- &0.) co,'., 74,23'.) 93 Tr-r.pornry Loans, cn n'nrile Col . s;er l Securities. ' 101,083 17 y ts. ;pre ; . $76 Jfi4 22) cost 71.547 97 jM Had Bios Rereiva'jle, 4 307 00 Cah ' 40.355 43 51,883,904 74 Fr;. loil ,-,r Linhrd Insurances made on every wscTiptton of property, in Town and Country, •sips • low as are con-istent with security. Since their incorporation, a period of twenty t-r.t year*. they have paid over Four Millions Dollar-" losses by tire, thereby affording cv- Lfiu:e.,i the advantages of Insurance, as well " tre ability and disposition to meet with jrap'.ness ail liabilities. Losses by Fire. U-s-s paid during the year 1857, $203,789 4 DIRECTORS. oas. A Banckee, i Mordecai D. Lewis, lobias Wagner, I David S. Brown, nmuel Grant, j Isaac Le2, cob R. Smith, ; Edward C. Dale, W Richards, ( George Fates. CHARLES N. BANCKER, President. . "• A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tem. for Mifflin county, H. J. W'AL 1-R3. Esq., Lewistown. feb2s IT27T G-P.CSEP.Y, PROVISION AND FISH STORE. THo S'j'jscriher has opened a Grocery, Pro • jion and Fish Store opposite Major Eisen a'se* 9 Dote!, where he has just received a fine wortreent of fiesh JFamila iSrocciit^ ? on B *biofc may be found fine Coffee, Sugar, is, Moiassrs, Syrups. Cheese, Crackers, na, Ham, Shoulder, Fine Asbton and Dairy Vi' oJ,acco > Segars, Soap, &c. Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a ,ir ? S!ort[ nent of Willow-ware, which he [or cash very cheap. or R utter > L*rd, Potatoes, tee prices, and judge for yourselves. JAMES IRWIN. | Sugar, Syrups and Teas GREATLY REDUCED. (r ,? ® rown Sugar at 9a 11 cts. per lb. % White " 11 al3 do r lea V 62 a 100 do jvenng'a best Syrnp, 75 per gallon i ij ew X ork " 60 do All f ew J? r ' #aD B Molagses, 50 do ItttJT the old Steam Mill Store, by 7. Junkin & Co. Also, the prices on ht € ° ODS ® REA * L * REDUCED, SLTL ' ue a call. We will soil for WCf any ether hoiiae. KENNEDY, JUNKIN & CO. mviv, DR MAHKS II mav i r#,,Jm ®d the practice of medicine, Tbij e gn, 4 7* fi e found at hie office in the °Pl >oa ' 4 ' ! Lewi "town Hotel tf'jsaos-ififcjfi, snr j?mirs2ii£j®im s Hiisi , wiis®<®wss' 9 (hardware* To Buy Cheap for Cash, Blacksmiths, buy at Hoffman's, Carpenters, buy at Hoffman's, Saddlers, buy at Hoffman's, Shoemakers, buy at Hoffman's, Cabinetmakers, buy at Hoffman's, Farmers, buy at Hoffman's," Builders, buy at Hoffman's," Housekeepers, buy at Hoffman's, j Don't forget, if you want good Stoves, Tump ( hain, (It! Cioths, Nails, Steel, Iron, C'utlerv, Vices, Bellows, Chains, (ilas, <&o , F. J. Hoff j man's 51ammoth Hardware Store, and vou can be accommodated. mhll DREGS, DREGS, DREGS, Medicines, Medicines, Medicines, Phin', Paint*, Paint*, ois, OH*, Oil-, Oil*, Trusses, At HOFFMAN'S. /TARDEN SEEDS!—I have now on band a VJT fine assortment of Fresh Garden Seeds, consisting of some of the finest varieties. ; • Pole and Bunch Beans, early and late. Dwarf and Bush do do do Cabbage, do do Also, Radish. Beet, Onion, Lettuce, Chinese Sugar Cane, and other seeds. n't'G F. J. HOFFMAN'. fM.OI ft.—l have now on hand and shall con t'nue to keep a supply of Extra Superfine flour from Pittsburgh, which we will warrant to give entire satisfaction. N. B. Those who want a good article can find 't at mbll F. J HOFFMAN'S. \A ALL PAPER!—As the Spring opens, \ V housekeepers will be looking around for Wall Paper, u here a good supply can be found and cheap. This can be done at nihil E. J. HOFFMAN'S. f 1 ROCERIES.—F. J. Hoffman's is the store VJT where good Groceries can be found, and at low prices. m hU QTO\ ES ! STOVES'—A large assortment at low prices for sale by F. J HOFFMAN. ijMSH. —Mackerel, Shad and Herring for sale h? mbll F. J. HOFFMAN. *i -S* £ c . V' W\ i*C C f? pro iiraSAJ*- .A_A. For sale by [mbll] F. J. HOFFMAN. Sugar Cane and FJower Garden Seeds At [tnhll] F. J. HOFFMAN'S. White Corn Meal. An excellent article for sale by mhll F J. HOFFMAN. uDiiJ aiiD'naa, A good article for cents at mhll F. J. HOFFMAN'S TO INVALIDS! D?„. HAEXMAIT, piIY-SICIAN for di'easev of the Lanes. Throat and *- ll- Sft —formerly Physician in Cincinnati Marine Mo pit I and Invalids' Retreat—Corresponding Member of t'i I o d'tn Medical So, in.ty of >!.- ervalion—A Utlluf ' Letters to Invalids," &c , IS COMING. ITRIL APPOIYTBETiTS. Dr. Hardman, Physician for Diseases of the tones, Formerly f<. the Cincinnati Marine Hospitals MAY C£ COK9VCTRD *T Lew istown, National Hotel, Tuesday, April 00. I>a. II t not a* treats < 'ooviiiiifithiri. Bronchitis, l.irynß- I tie. Astim*,andaildieeae ( the Throat by MEDICA i lEI> INHALATION ' Tbe ere at point In the treat ,ert of all humin maladies is toyei ;,t lue die*-e ira duett manner All medicines are estimated by the;r iitsin upon tiie or^.n rt-rjoirtnE relief. This is the tmpnrtat.t fact upon which Inhalation is based If the store,,. ts diseased, we t ike medicine directly into the stoma, h If the long* are diseased, hreathe or inha'.e medic sted vapors directly into them.— Toe re-ta in w hv C -ithamotion and d,-eases of tiie Limps have heretofore resisted all tr-aimer.!, has been because ! tfey tvere rmt approached in a direct manner by medu ir.e. ' werr intended t. te local, and yet they were so ad i mttws'cred that ilipy could only act constitutionally, ex j pemloip th. ir immediate action upon th<* •tnmarh. whilst j the foul ulcers within the Lungs were unmolested. In j halation brings the medic ine into direct contact with the j disease, without the disadvantage of any violent action, i Its application is so simple that it may be employed by ! the youngest infant or feeblest invalid. It does not dc ; range the stomach, or interfere in the least with the strength, comfort or business of the patient. I*>No charge for consultation. OTHER I>ISEASTS TREATED. In relation to the following diseases, either whsn enm i plicated with Lung Affections, or existing alone, I also I invite consultation—usually finding them PROMPTLY I CTRABI.E: PROLkPSL'rt and all forma of FTMALE COMSLAINTS, ' Irrernlarities and Weakness. PALPITATION and other forms of HRaRT Did I EASE, Liver Complaint. Dyspepsia, and ail other Dis eases of Stomach and Bowels. Pile*, fee. fee. £>AII diseases of the Eye and Ear; Neuralgia. Eoilep sy, and all forms of .Nervous Disease, j sVN'o charge for consultation. ! Jy*-'y D. HARDMAN, M. d. A CHAJVCB For Every Person to Raise their Own GRAPES, A!fD MARE THEIR OUT WilE. j T|AHK undersigned will deliver from the Ist j JL to the loth April next, tn any persons j residing in Mifflin co., ISABELLA* GRAPE i VINES of one year's growth, from cuttings of "Juniata Vineyard," at the following rates, i payable when delivered: 25 Vines for $3, ' 50 do. for $5.50, 100 do. for $lO. Good Cuttings will be delivered at half the ' rates for Vines. Also, Osage Orange Hedge j Plants to sell, and Hedges grown by contract. ; Orders must be received before the let of April to insure attention. Address A. HARSH BARGEE. - feblB McVeytown, Mifflin Co., Pa. Fruit -and Ornamental TREES, 4||g2fij*rc Straw berry. Raspberry, Currant, and Gooseberry Plants, in great variety. Inquire of W t. BUTLBK, Lewistown, Pa., or J. E. JCHNBTON, Agent, aug)3 Trenton. New Jersey AIIUIIBSVOIIIk. GOOD NEWS. Whene'er you meet yon always say— What's the news ? Whvt's the news? Pray, what's the order of the day? What's the news? What's the nw? 0,1 have got good news to tell. My Savior hath done all things well. And triumphed over death and hell— That's the news I That'* the news: The Lamb was slain on Calvary— That's the news! That's the news! To set a world of sinners free— That's the news! That's the news' Twas there Ills precious blood was shed ; 'Tvvas there he bowed His sacred head; But now He's risen from the dead— That's the news! That's the news I To Heaven above the Conqueror's gone— That's the news! That's the news! He's pass'd triumphant to His throne- That 's the news! That's the news! And ou that throne He will remain I mil, as .Judge, He comes again, Attended by a dazzling train— That's the news! That's the news! The Lord has pardoned al! my sin— That's the n-ws! That's the news' I feel the witness now within— That's the news! That's the news: And since He took my sins away. And taught me how to watch and pray, I'm fcappy now from day to day— That's the news! That's the news: His work's reviving all around— That's the news! That's the news! And many have redemption found- That's the news! That's the news I And since their souls have caught the flame. They shout fcosanna to His name. And all around they spread his fame— That's the news! That's the nes>! Apd Christ the Lord can save you too— That's the news! That's the news: Your sinful heart he can renew— That's the news! That's the news! This tnoment, if your sins you grieve, This moment. If you do believe, A fall acquittal you'll receive— That's the news! That's the news! And now. If any one should say. What's the news ? What's the news ? O. tell them you've begun o pray— That's the news! That's the news! That you have Joined the conquering band. And now with Joy, at God's command. You're marching to that better land That's the news! That's the news! IjUlimSliilj!. LOSING ALL—A FAMILY SCENE. There is something exceedingly tender, as well as instructive, in the following, which we take Ironi the Child's Paper: A few years ago, a merchant failed in business. lie went home one evening, in great agitation. "What is the matter?" as ked his wife. "1 am beggared. 1 have lost my all,!" he exclaimed, pressing his hand upon his forehead as if his brain were in a whirl. "All!" said his wife ;"I am left." "All, papa 1" said his eldest hoy, "here am 1." "And I too, papa" said his little girl, run ning up and putting her arms around his neck. "I's not lost, papa/' repeated Ed die. "And you have your health left, 1 * said his wife. "And your two hands to work with, papa," said his eldest; "and I can help you." "And your two feet, pa pa, to carry you about." "And your two eyes to see with, papa," said little Eddie. " Atid you have God's promises" said grandmother. "And a good God," said his wife. "And heaven to go to," # said the little girl. "And Jesus who came to letch us there," said his eldest. "God forgive me," said the poor mer chant, bursting into tears. "I have not lost my all. What are the few thousands which I called my all, to these more pre cious things which God has left me?" and he clasped his family to his bosom, and kis sed his wife and children with a thankful heart. Ah no, there are many things more pre cious than gold and bank stocks, valuable as these may be in their places. When the Central America was foundering at sea, bags and purses of gold were strewn about the deck, as worthless as the merest rub bish. " Life '. Life 1" was the prayer. To some of the wretched survivors, " water, water!" was the prayer. " Bread, bread !" it was worth its weight in gold, if gold could have bought it. The loss of property should not cloud the mind with a wicked forgetfulness of the greater blessings which are left behind. No inan should despair, for no man 1M? lost his all until he has lost his integrity, lost the mercy of God, and lost his hope of heaven at last. Duties of Daily Life.- —Life is not en tirely made up of great evils or heavy trials; but the perpetual recurrence of petty evils and small trials is the ordinary and appoin ted exercise of the Christian graces. To bear with the failings of those about us— pity their infirmities, their bad judgment, their illbreeding, their pcrverso tempers — to endure neglect when we feel we deserve attention, and ingratitude when we expect thanks—to bear with the company of disa greeable people whom Providence has placed in our way, and whom lie has provided on purpose for the triad of our virtue —theso are the best exercises of patience and self denial, and the better because not chosen by ourselves. To bear with vexation in business, with disappointment in our expec tations, with interruptions of our retirement, with folly, intrusion, disturbance—-in short with whatever opposes our will, contradicts our humor—this habitual acquiescence ap pears to be more of self-denial than any little rigors or afflictions of our own imposing. Theso constant, irritable, but inferior evils THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1858. ! properly improved, furnish a good moral discipline, and might in the days of igno | ranee, have superseded pilgrimage and pen. j AFFECTIONS AND INTELLECT. The Human form is the highest organic representation of the Affections and the Intellect., or which is the same thiriir, of Love and isdom. Love and Wisdom ev ;er determine and flow into the Human Form. The Human Form is the systema tized congerie or harmonic, microcosmic | combination of all uses, and hence is the i highest and most perfect fcrrn in the Lni- ! verse. No higher or more perfect form . can be conceived. Every attempt to con ; ceive a higher only monsterizes the Human. 1 and recoils upon us to our dishonor and | shame. Hence man embodies in himself j ! all the laws and uses of the natural, spirit- I ; ual, and celestial realms. But the relations which the affections bear j to the Intellect in this form, seem to be j ! little understood. The Affections are cen- j | tral in a man. The character and quality | of tne Affections determine the character j | and quality of the man. The Intellect is i 1 external to the Affections, and takes the ' j office of their executive. What a man truly j loves, that will he reflect upon, think and reason about. What he desires or loves, j all external restraints and considerations ; being removed, that will he will and that affection. If the Love ofl lonian kind, I of Justice and Equity, he his ruling animus, his thoughts and his will, will be perpetu- ! ally intent upon doing Justice and Equity. 1 . The character and quality ot the Alice- | tions project, modify or create their own In tellect. They gradually mould It into en- j formity with them. Such therfore as is j : the Love, such will he the Intellect ! and the will. It is true that external res traints and considerations, such as the civil and criminal law, morality, the authority of creeds, family considerations, Ac., may sup- i press the outcomings of the Affections, and arbitrarily induce upon the individual an j j external character of propriety, purity and ' goodness, in accordance with the standard they present; but nevertheless the true man j remains precisely what his affections are. CHARLES LAMB'S WARNING. Charles Lamb, a genius and a drunkard, | tells sad experience as a warning to young men, in the following language. " The waters have gone over me. But j out of the black depths could I be heard, : I would cry to all those who have but set a foot in the perilous flood. Could rhe j youth to whom the flavor of his first wine ' is delicious as the opening see tics ot lite. ■ or the entering upon newly discovered par adise, look into my desolation and be made understand what a dreary thing it is when a man shall feel himself going down a prec ipice with open eyes and a passive will— to see his destruction and have no - >wer to stop it, and yet was not able 'o forget a ! time when it was otherwise; bear about the j piteous spectacle of his own ruin; could lie | see ray feverish eye, feverished after last - night's drinking, and feverishly looking for ! j to night's repetition of the l'oliy; c raid ho but feel the body of death out of which 1 cry hourly to be delivered—it were enough ! to make him dash the sparkling beverage to the earth in all the pride of its mantling • temptation!" The Seventeen Year Ohl Roy Preacher. ' | —The St. Louis Democrat says of Mr. Ful ler, who is called the "Boy Preacher," who is aged but seventeen years, that he has, within the last five weeks, delivered in Marion county fifty-four sermons, and been \ instrumental in the conversion of one hun dred and forty-four persons. 11c has been licensed to preach only about two months, I during which time he has delivered upward j of filly discourses, and two hundred and ! forty persons have been converted through ■ his instrumentality. It is said that he | never studies his sermons or makes any notes, and frequently does not select his ; text until he rises up in the pulpit to preach; | and yet, it is said, no two of his discourses j are alike, either in point of argument or com position. He speaks most eloquently, and uses the most chaste and beautiful language. Calls to preach at various points are daily pouring in upon him. £®The N. O. Picayune of the 30th ulti mo says that a singular funeral train passed up Dryados street on the day previous, on its way to one of the Fourth district ceme teries. One woman, poor and lonely—per chance a mother—bpre on her head a little coffin containing the body of a child of jiboutfivo summers, and the sad. procession which accompanied her consisted of three women meanly clad, followed by three men Never before were our eyes witness of such a funeral train. That the bearer of the little corpse was the chief mourner could not be doubted, and yet it must have been her fancy to thus convey the departed one to its silent rest, for we can scarcely imagine that the men who joined in the procession failed to fopdor their services as bearers fd (the body. A YOl AG GIRL IN A TRANCE. About 10 o'clock last Thursday night a young girl named Isabella Ellison, residing in Washington street, Poughkeepsie, while at the altar at a Methodist church in that ciiy, suddenly lifted up her hands and fell backwards, apparently dead. Several per sons immediately ran to her assistance, and raised her, when to their horror they dis covered that her eyes were glazed and set, her ieatures pale as marble, her lips color less, and her feet and hands cold as those ot a corpse It was shortly discovered that she yet rremhed. wh n she was conveyed ' r t' •• nee, the preacher saving that she wo- in a trance, and when a member auvi.vid *\..t medical assistance should be procured, he objected, saying, *• The Lord has placed her in this mysterious state; and he will, at ids own time, raise her to testily j to his goodness." .She remained in this state until Saturday evening excepting a slight movement which occurred on Friday afternoon, when she lilted up her hand, and made three or four efforts to clutch something, when the arm fell hick over the headboard of the led. i wo or three of the women who were in the house at the time attempted to replace the arm upon the Led, but were unable to I-end or move it. On Saturday evening, a number of her friends were in the house singing her favorite hymn, when she sud denly lilted up her hand, crying,"glory ! hallelujah'.' 7 She then turned to one of her friends and calling her by name, said, "Re pent, repent. Oh, if you had seen what [ have, you would not live another moment in your sins, but would pray to God to have mercy upon you. I have been in Heaven; it is lit up with the glory of God, and around the thrrtne there were thousands of angels singing sweetly the praises of the King of lleaveu. By and by Jesus came past, and spoke to me. 1 also saw the great gulf, but could scarcely see the bottom of it." On Friday night a number of persons visi ted the house, and remained singing and praying until daylight. The young woman was very weak when she awoke out of the trance, but was stronger on Sunday, and at'ended church. This case has caused con siderable excitement in Poughkeepsie.— A1 Y. Com. Adcertixer. A KENTUCKY BRAWL. (From the Louisville Courier, April 5.) On Saturday evening, one ol' the blood iest and most desperate encounters ever re corded. even in the annals of Kentucky, took place in Springfield, Washington coun ty, between Ben Palmer and W. Maek Booker. The former was instantly killed and the latter is not expected to survive his wounds. T! :re had been some ill feeling between the two, arising iron, the election of Booker to the caminand of a company that had been raised in the C' unty to goto Utah. The particulars of the desperate affray are these : Ihe parties met in the bar-room of a tavern in Springfield, and an alterca tion instantly ensued, one or the other first using his fists. Each then drew a revolver and fired tour shots apiece in rapid succes sion. three of Palmer's hitting Booker— one in the left hand, a sc so&fi in his leg. and a tlitrd in the left breast, it he first shot fired by Booker struck Palmer in the groin, penetrating the bladder—a mortal wound. He was also wounded in the leg. After exhausting his shots Palmer hurled his pistol with all his strength against Boo ker, who thinking himself wounded,seized the other with his left hand by the coat collar, and throwing away his pistol, drew a bowie knife and stabbed the unfortunate Paluier nine times in the breast and body. The latter fell dead in his trucks, his body streaming blood at every pore. Booker may possibly survive his wounds, though it is thougt the shot in the breast will prove fatal. Booker is the son of Judge Paul Booker, for many years a District Judge in the iState. Palmer is a son of the lion. R. 0. Palmer. ex-Senator from Washington coun ty, and a grandson of the late Ben Hardin, of Bardstown. words are the brightest flow ers of earth—use them, and especially round the fireside circle, for they make a paradise of Lie humblest home. They are jewels beyond price, and more precious to heal the woundvl heart and n.uke the downcast ;ru : ttun all other blessings earth can o ivc - Temperance in Tennessee. —The Chattanoo ga Gazette says that Billy Ross, a noted ad vocate of temperance, recently lectured iu Newark, Knox county, Tennessee, and took the place by storm. Over two hundred joinea the temperance society, and ninety signed a pledge never to permit liquor to be sold in their town, except for medicinal purposes. All the liquor in tho place * iu> bought and burned, and those who had been engaged in the traffic abandoned it. This was the most i sensible temperance movement we have heard j of for a long time. StapTlie barn of Win. Zeigler in Brush Valley, Oeuire county, was destroyod by fire i on Sunday a week, together with seven hor -1 pes, wagons, grain, &c. The children kindled , a tiro in the barn yard for the purpose of I cooking Kaster eggs while the family were at church. Los* $4OOO. % New Series—Vol, £ BENTON ON HIS ])|\ --- (Correspondcnce of the IS'.Li WASHINGTON, April dying. His disease, ounce r jjfzl j baa made such progress that * ij, vive much longer. He suff£Y D , pain, and is exhausted to almostL,^ f gree of physical prostration. . "- 1 " is us clear and as powerful as evt r ' U ' sei {' lfc high, resolute, Boman spirit of theVcJ ' n man struggles with indomitable v, ne * t a and fortitude against sickness an lt a ness, and the awful presence of t * not of terrors. He dies in harness, wor^jNlV the last for his country and mankinds,/ , om old anu intkuate friend from led upon him this morning. Bento, in bed, scarcely able to move hand ' e and not able to speak much above a 1 ? 11 * But he was hard at work, closing nf t| Abridgment of the Debates of CongqJ lU . n " which he has brought down to 3850, PO 1 ,SIX par age oi the Compromise measures. * c . n " was dictating the closing chapter c^, v * or work. His daughter, Mrs. Jones, sit|'^ ar ' beside the bed, received it sentence bp.*.. teneo, whispered in her oar, and ropd, it aloud to her husband who wrote iter It was then read over to Col. Benton * e received his corrections, made with as >. particularity as if it were* the maiden V in of a young author. Besting a few minutes from his y,' - t Col. Benton entered into conver av on.'l his Missouri friend. He told him that reviewing the events of 1350, he was glad to find that the animosity of the past had died out in his heart, and he was not onlv ready but eager to do justice to his femur rivals, and opponents. He spoke with much fooling of Mr. Clay, to whose merits and services he had awarded the highest praise in what he was writing about the Compro mise of 1850. He dwelt particularly on the service, the great service, Mr. 0. had rendered to the Republic at the time by baffling and putting down the traitorous se cessionists of the South, who were seeking to destroy the Union, and plunge the coun try into civil war for their own selfish and ambitious purposes. The inspiration of this theme fired the languid blood and reanimated for a moment the tailing frame of the dying patriot. In energetic whispers, he told his visitor that the same men who had sought to destroy the Republic in 1850, were at the bottom of this accursed Lecompton business.— Among the greatest consolations in dying, was the consciousness that the House of Representatives had baffled these treasona ble schemers, and put the heels of the peo ple on the neck of tne traitors. Few events in our history had given him so much satis faction as the defeat of Lecompton He warmly praised the intrepid anu incor ruptible Douglas Democrats \ ho had resis ted the power and wiles of; corrupt and de luded Administration. In taking leave of hi> friend, Col. Ben ion said that, although there was much in his life that he regretted, he could honest ly feel proud on his death bed of his devo tion to his country, in whose service he had never been faithless or negligent. Col. Benton died on Saturday morning at 7 o'clock. We copy the following no tice of Ills life from the Bulletin : Thomas Hart Ronton was born on the 11th of March, 17*2, at his father's resi dence, near Hillsborough, Orange county, North Carolina. His lather having died when he was only eight years old, his mother removed to Tennessee, where he began to practice his profession. It was there that he first became acquainted with Andrew Jackson, who was then a Judge I of the Supreme Court and afterwards Major I General of the Militia. He was appointed ! one of Jackson's aides-de-camp, and when the war with England began, he raised a regiment of volunteers of which he was I chosen Colonel. In 1813, the volunteers having disbanded, President Madison ap pointed him a Lieutenant Colonel, but before he had any service, peace was proclaimed and he resigned his commission. In 1815 he removed to St. Louis, where he combined with the practice of' his pro fession the conduct of a newspaper, called the Missouri Argus. Those were stormy times i'or Western editors, and he had to engage in several duels, in one of which he killed his antagonist. When Missouri was admitted to the Union, in 1851, he was one of her first Senators, having been elected by the Legislature, which bad met in 1820, previous to the admission. For six successive times he was elected to the same post, retiring finally from it in 1851. He supported the administrations of Pres idents Jackson and Van Buren with great energy; especially sustaining Jackson in his war upon the United States Bank, andafler wards vindicating him by obtaining the ex j punging of the resolutiou condemning tho ■ removal of the deposits. As the apostle of hard money currency, Mr. Benton became an idol among a large portion of the most radical of the Demo cratic party. Afterwards, when he chose to entertain opinions on certain questions ; differing from those of the party leaders, and when other aspiring Missouri politi cians had grown weary of his monopoli zing the seat in the Senate, he came into disfavor, and this caused his defeat in the senatorial election in 1851. But during sll that period of thirty years, Mr Benton Jt|, No. 25.