I le No. 2459. I TERMS OF SDBSCKIPTIOK. ftVE DOLLAR I'ER AASI'JI, • IX ADVANCE. for six months, 75 cents. 11 \V subscriptions must be paid in I £?• if the paper is continued, and net ,r f 3C !hin the first month, $1,25 will be charg "dr ! oaid b t' ,rec months, $1,50; if not ! '/in >ix months, $1,75; and if not paid in to persons out of the j II be discontinued at the expiration of ■ar'id fjr ' ,nic>> 9ppriai ro( i" es, L is ,nade Ccontrarv or payment guaranteed by some Visible person here. ADVERTISING. f noes of minion, or their equivalent, con . a square. Three insertions $l, and 25 each subsequent insertion. Swest Branch Insurance Co, OF LOfR HITEf, PA., V?L ! RB3 Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- j handise Farm Property, and other Build- j and their contents, at moderate rates. " PIRECTORS. i f... J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, f,B lialb T T Abrams, , 4 t Mayer K. Jackman, '![£ Crist, ' ' VV.Wt.ite, „ Di k'n-on, Thos. Kitchen. W Hon. Cr C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. Jim. kilrhtn, Sec'v. REFERENCES. aoeiH, Llovd, Thos. Bowman, I). 1). A,VViDsgarJner, Wm, Vanderbelt, iMackef. Win. Fearon, White. i)r J.S.Crawford, jiggle, A. Updegratr, 7 3 \v Mavnard, James Vrmstrong, a Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. for Mifflin county, G. IV. STElV inity from Loss nnl D n innze by Pire, • '■> Ptr ls of Marine and Inland Transportation. ""CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. arooraltd by the Leyishiture of Pemistylvci nia, icilh a Perpetual Cha:~fer. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. lift No. SI Walnut St. aboif Seroml, Phila. Fire Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer jnfoe, Ac., generally. Marine Insurance Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the iriu. InlaiM Instirnnce on Goods. (XLC., by te>. Rivers, Canais, and Land Carriages, to I parts of the Union, on the most favorable rns.cansis. at with security. DIRECTORS. torje W. Coltaday, William Bowers, M il. Coleman, Joseph Oat, kin V. Machete*. Howard Hinchman. GBOUGH W. OOLLADA Y, President. GILES WILSON. Secretary. for MilHin county, Wm. P. EL [id'iTj H-q. febl9-ly IWVTV AGAINST LSSS BY F HEL ■rankliu l ire Insurance Compa ny of Pliiladelphia. Bee 135 and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth. •TATKMH.VT OF ASSETS, January 1, 1858, )publi-iie I agreeably to an act of Assembly, •i Mortgages, amply -ecured, si ,590 825 19 i'i\ E-tale. •'present value $lOO,- j(W.; cost, 74,280 93 tmporaiy Lnan, on ample Col iaicral Securities, 101,088 17 kws,' T their incorporation, a period of twenty ji'-srs. th v (*,:• *.*♦* paid over Four Millions f Dollar los-os oy fire, thereby affording cv i act i; t ; ~ji i f ges of insurance, as well ' the ability and disposition to meet with ■omp'.ne-'- :il! liabilities. Losses by Fire. iO-'c-pjid ; r j n g the year 1*57, $203,7?9 4 DIRECTORS. ■ut, \ Jlant-ker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis, 4)135 IVagner, ; it vid S. Brown, *S',ei Grant, Isaac Lea, •cos R. Smith, Edward (J. Dale, to. W, Richards, | George Fales. CHARLES N. BA.YCKER, President. WM. A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tem. Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL- ItflS, F.'q., Lewistown. feb2s 1T377 1 SE.OaBK.7, WISION AND FISH STORE. 'HE subscriber ha* opened a Grocery, Pro -1 v *ion and Fisti Store opposite Major Eisen is's dotel, where he ha* just received a fine "ortment of fresh jFamUt> (Sroccncs, ®ong which may he found fine Coffee. Sugar, • e fc. Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers, Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy " !; i. Tobacco, Secjars, Soap, &c. Mm, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a wgt assortment of Willow-ware, which he '"'fa for cash very ciieap. will pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes, n '°as, &e. Call, see prices, and judge for yourselves. JAMES IRWIN. CHANCE "or Every Person to Raise their i Own GRAPES, T**& make THEIR OH* WISE. 1'- undersigned will deliver from the Ist to the 15th April next, to any persons {J®}" 1 Mifflin co., ISABELLA GRAPE rf*,, <• year's growth, from cuttings at U | Dia ' a Vineyard," at the following rates, s*l , w ' ien delivered: 25 Vines for $3, G J°n |5 : 50 ' 100 ,Jo - for $lO - y "ttings will be delivered at half the fcv J'r Also, Osage Orange Hedge Orh,' ' Ht ''' Hedges grown by contract. "* tw rec uvod before tbe Ist of ' tfiure attention. Address [, hla A. HARSHBARGER, McVeytown, Mifflin Co., Pa. r Shad and Herring for sale ' mhll F. J. HOFFMAN. spujEsyira® B>®ikhii3:eibiib wt ®s@i£®ia iFmwsnsjsajßa IHBTOKF®WST 9 ™iM™ ffl®OTnpw 9 s>4\ o HARDW A R E ! To Buy Cheap for Cash, Blacksmiths, buy at Hoffman's, Carpenters, buy at Hoffman's, Saddlers, buy at Hoffman's, Shoemakers, buy at Hoffman's, Cabinetmakers, buy at Hoffman's, Farmers, buy at Hoffman's, * Builders, buy at Hoffman's," Housekeepers, buy at Hoffman's. D>n't forget, if you want good Stoves, Pump (. bains, Oil Cloths, Mails, Steel, Iron, Cutlery, • Vices, Bellows, Chains, Glass, &c , F. J. Hoff man's Mammoth Hardware Store, and you can ! be accommodated. mhll j DRUGS, DRUGS, DRUGS, Hfdlflnrs, Medicines, Krditines, Pai'iis, Paints, Paints, Glass, Glass, Oils, Oils, Oils, Trusses, Trusses, At HOFFMAN'S. f IARDEN SEEDS!—I have now on hand a I VJJT fine assortment of Fresh Garden Seeds, 1 consisting ot some of the finest varieties. Pole and Bunch Beans, early and late. Dwarf and Bush do do do Cabbage, do do Also, Radish, Beet, Onion, Lettuce, Chinese ! Sugar Cane, and other seeds. mhll F. J. HOFFMAN. IT'LOUR. — I have now on hand and shall con tinue to keep a supply of Extra Superfine ' Flour from Pittsburgh, which we will warrant to give entire satisfaction. N. B. Those who want a good article can find it at mhll F. J. lIOFFMANS. AT TALL PAPER!—As the Spring opens, yV housekeepers will be looking around for j Wall Paper, where a good supply can be found | and cheap. This can be done at mhll F. J. HOFFMAN'S. 2HE&32 .&5J2© Sk&M? For sale by [mhll] F.J.HOFFMAN. .Sugar Cane and Flower Garden Seeds At [mhll] F. J. HOFFMAN'S. j White Com Meal. An excellent article for sale bv mhll F. J. HOFFMAN. 3lKii.il iKiiUiKJ-S, A good article lor 12$ cents at in till F. J. HOFFMAN'S WEST'S Patent Galvanic Cement U? i ZD Of* ZD ZD Li~* fi OA o r |MIE undarsigned having purchased the | right for this Cement in Mifflin and Cen tre counties, an- now prepared to furnish and pu. ii on roofing wherever desired—the roof being sheeted by the owner. Scientific mm under 'lie direction of government, and ar chitects and builders in various parts of the country, for years have been studying and experimenting to discover some composition . or article for roofing, which would resist tlo change? of our climate, and would unite the qualities of Iniperviousnrss to TT'r/er, Iticom- ' bustibilitu. Durability and Cheapness. No article now in use pose saes these qualities. Shingles are not tiro proof, and cannot be used up.''ii flat roofs. Slate can only be used upon v ..fs. The contraction, expansion and rusting of metallic roofs are fin great in this changeable .'filiate that they soon become worthless, or the repairs will cost more than a new roof. The various cements and com positions which have i con introduced, can ho supplied only to very flat roofs, ami they are i all so affected by the action of the weather | that they will nit It- and run in summer and ! crack in winter, and in a short time become j crurnblv and worthless. The inventor of the I Galvanic Cement has labored twenty years to j obviate these difficulties, and it is believed by those who have hud opportunities to test the ; matter, that he has entirely succeeded. As | now applied, Firr-t—lt is completely impervious to water. I Water may continually stand upon the roof without affecting it in the least, j Second—lt is fire proof. It is so incombus- I tihle that it will afford ample and perfect pro j tection against fire, sparks and burning shin gles from another building immediately ad- I joining. .... j Third—lt is durable. It is not injured by atmospheric changes, having been tested for j several years by the Patentee, at Syracuse, ! New York. I Fourth—lt is clienp. Roofs will bo put on | for about half the cost of tin, and will last ! much longer. Fifth- Repairs are easily and cheaply made. ■ Sixth —lt is sufficiently elastic to entirely ! resist the expansion and contraction by heat i and cold, and will remain perfect and solid in i the warmest and coldest weather. Seventh—lt is adapted to all kinds of roofs, | either flat or steep j Eighth—lt is valuable for repairing old I roofs. Old shingle roofs may be covered j without removing the shingles. Old metalic 1 roofß can be made perfectly tight and secure. Ninth—lt is especially adapted to all kinds cf seaming around battlements, sky-lights and chimneys, and for the lining of cave troughs and gutters. Jloofs which have given I trouble for years, and which have continued j te leak in spite of all efforts, can be made I perfectly secure by this cement, j Tenth —It has been proved to be the best i article ever used for covering car tops and | steamboat decks. Eleventh —This cement applied to new tin j roofs preserves them from rusting, by fur ! nishing a coat which is at once impervious to 1 water and an almost perfect non-conductor of heat. Twelfth—lt is the only roofing material patented which contains India rubber and gutta percha. For a specimen of this cement we invite i owners of property to call at our mills, whore I a single coating , put on in December last, lias ' kept the buildings perfectly dry through the winter. K. R. LOCKE & CO., ap!s Locke's Mills, Mifflin co., Pa. floral niiU 2seU&foiis. NEAKKK. One sweetly solemn thought Gomes to me o'er and o'er: I'M nearer LIIV HOME to-day Than I've ever been before. Nearer mv Father's house, Where the many mansions be- Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the jasper sea. Nearer the bound of life. Where we luy our burdens down— N'earins leaving my cross, Nearer wearing my crown! FADELESS IS A I.OVI>'G HEART. Sunny lines may lose their brightness, Nimble feet forget their lightness, Pearly teeth may know decay, ltaven tresses turn to gray, Cheeks he pale, and eyes be dim, Faint the voice, and weak the limb. But, though youth and strength depart. Fadeless is a loving heart. Like the little mountain flower, Peeping forth in wintry hour. When the summer's breath Is fled. And the gaudier flow'rets dead ; So, when outward charms are gone, Brighter still doth blossom on, liespile Time's destroying dart. The gentle, kindly, loving heart. Wealth and talents will aval! When In life's rough sea we salt. Vet the wealth may melt like suow. And v. ith wit no longer glow; lint more smooth we'd tind the sea, And our course the fairer Le. It our pilot., when we start, Be a kindly, loving heart. Ye In worldly wisdom old, Ye who bow the knee to gold, lines this earth as lovely seem As it did in life's young dream, Ere ttie world had crusted o'er Feelings good and pure before t Ere ye sold, at Mammon's mart, The best yearnings of the heart? Orant me. Heaven' my earnest prayer. Whether life of ease or rare Be the one to me assigned. That each coming year may find Loving thoughts ami gentle words Twined within my bosom chords. And that age may but impart Kiper freshne>s to my heart. "My Clothes arc not Suitable lor Cliurclt." ! 'Then of course, you do not show your- ' self in any company; for if you do your clothes are suitable ibr church. To go to other places with the apparel you have, and yet to stay from church must be on the supposition thst if is a kind of fair f"r the exhibition of finery, and each contrib utor a candidate for prizes. The Jews in public worship rent their garments, because of their sins; sonic of our people on the con- ! trary, will not ro to worship unless they ! have a bonnet or coat just from the ma- ! ker's hand, thereby showing that they re- j gnrd the opinion of their neighbors more j titan the favor of their Maker. And to ! make the absurdity more glaring, most of j the congregation arc worshipping God, not; having come to notice whether clothes were old or new. There may, indeed, be some few tfillers who come to make remarks — but the smile or sneer of such will not al fect any sensible person. 13c neat in your dress, and you will be respected more for wearing clothes that are old, than wearing new which you have not the means of pay ing for. and whether you please man or not you please God and your own conscience. This excuse which keeps you from church has its source in all vanity, and when you know your own heart and the account to be given to God, you will experience no diffi culty in this respect. Should you not have everything exactly as you wish, you will have what is more important, 'the clothing of humility.' niiiamiuaiuia. lION. G. A. GROW. We do not remember to have ever seen the following sketch of the political career of Hon. G. A Grow, until meeting with it in the Boston Bee. It will he read with interest. Mr. Grow was born in Windham coun ty, Connecticut, llis parents emigrated to northern Pennsylvania while he was yet a child. His father died when this son was but three years of age, leaving his family in reduced circumstances. An elder broth er aided the subject of this sketch in ob taining an education, and he was graduated at Amherst College, Massachusetts, at the age of twenty one, in the year 1844. In the fall of 1850 he was first elected to Congress by a singular accident in politics. 'The Democrats of the district were divi ded, and had two candidates in the field, each claiming to be the regular nominee. | Eight days before the election, both agreed ; to resign if Mr. Grow would be the candi date, lie had left his law office the fall before by reason of ill health, and was spending the summer working on a farm, plowing, peeling bark, and surveying. He ! was waited on in bis retirement by a friend | of each candidate, as a committee to ascer THURSDAY, ffiAY 20, 1858. tain his feelings. They found liini with a set of hands on the public highway, re building a bridge that had been swept away by a ireshet. He acceded to their propo sition to be a candidate for Congress, and both the other candidates resigned, and a Convention was called, which placed Mr. Grow in nomination just one week before his election. He was elected by 1250 ma jority and in 1851 took his seat in the House of Representatives, the youngest member of the Thirty-second Congress, and with one or two exceptions, of the Thirty-third Congress also. He is now serving his fourth term in Congress, 'i he second time he was elected by 7,500 ma jority; and the third time, by a unanimous nomination of all parties, for his able and manly resistance to the passage of the Kan sas Nebraska bill; the fourth time he was electc l by a larger vote than he received when lie had no opposition. Ilis district, previous to the repeal of the Missouri Com promise, gave uniformly about 2,500 Dem ocratic majority, but in con.se,2Bs; shirt buttons, §29,480; balance springs for watches, §250,000. Thirty-one pounds of.iron have been made into wire upwards of 111 miles in length, and so fine was the fabric that part of it was converted, in lieu of horses' hair, into a barrister's wig. j Relieve the needy—you won't regret it. TIMES TO COME. We have seen lately a little volume call ed the Talisman, published in New York, more than thirty years ago. Among the contents we find a quaint and pithy paper entitled the 'Devil's Pulpit,' near the close of which the following passage occurs. It appears to have been written in rather a predictive spirit, and is by no means inap plicable to many of the faults and charac teristics of the present times. "The Doctor now sat leisurely down, with liis legs hanging over the precipice supporting himself, as lie leaned backward, with his left hand, while he swung his cane to and fro, and remained some minutes in profound meditation. " Yes," said he, I see how it is. These poor people, too, must go the way of all flesh. Half a century hence, they will be as wicked as the Londoners. With the same vices they will have more wit. But what of that ? So much the worse for them. They will have their South Sea bubbles, land bubbles, their bank bubbles, and all man ner of bubbles. " They'll have their Stock Market, and their New Market; and there will be bulls and bears, lame ducks, rooks and pigeons in both of them. They will have lotteries and operas, and elopements, and cracked poets and ballets and hurlettas, and Italian singers and crazy French dancers. And almost every second man in a gen teel coat will be a lawyer or a broker or an insolvent. And there will be no more cash payments, but the women will wear the cashmeres and men will drink champagne. And the girls, instead of learning to cook and mend clothes, will be taught to chatter bad French, and worse Spanish, and to get their husbands in jail:—but tliere will be no jail in those days, for they will have bankrupt laws, and three quarter laws, and two third laws, and the limits will be as big as the country ! "There will be no more comfortabletca drinkings. and innocent dances, but balls, and routs, and conversaziones, and fetes and fiddlesticks. People will dine by can dlelight of weeks; and nobody will go to church on afternoons on Sunday ! Folks will be knowing in wines and cook ery and players and paintings and music, and know nothing of their own affaire. They will go to fashionable churches for I me re amusement, and to fashionable gaming i . houses as a business. The girls will learn to waltz of the Ger mans, and their mammas to flirt from the French. | The boys will be all men and the old j men will try to be boys. Then they will have all manner of quack ery, from a patent pair of hoops, to a pat ent way of paying t lie national debt. And they wi'i run after the heels of every quack who comes among them. And the Doctors will quarrel about moon shine and ruin the character of the pro fession and themselves by telling the truth about one another! But 1 shall be gone ere | then; —sufficient for the day is the evil | thereof. COULDN'T DO IT. In one of our interior mountain towns lives a man whose name is Mr. Sowers— some very distant connection, I am told, of old Mr. Jehosaphat Sowers —and who, by his friends, is familiarly called Major Sow ers. The Major is about forty years of age, measures just five feet seven inches in height and weighs exactly 21S pounds by the steel yards. He had—and who has not? —some little eccentricities, one of which is thinking aloud. He had also a bad Ixabit, acquired in these days by very many —that of taking a glass too much; but for all that, the Major is "one of our first men," and goes not a little upon his dig nity. One day the circus came to town, and the Major determined to go to the circus; and as a preliminary, as well as to pass away a little spare time, he imbibed several times, and between the acts of the perform ance, imbibed several times more. After the exhibition, he joined company with one or two " old boys," and went " round" for a couple of hours or so; and at precisely 1 A. M. started for his home in the " out skirts." During the performance, the Major had been particularly pleased with the " ground and lofty tumbling;" also the vaulting and souimerset acts. He was thinking of this as lie walked home, and New Series—Vol. 111, No. 27. thought how easy it would be to turn a sommerset. He believed that he could do it, and our informant overtook him just in time to hear (he following soliloquy, and to witness the overture. " Sowers, you can do it, and there is no better place to try it on than here." Divesting himself of a coat and a hat, lie took a short run; and threw himself for ward ; but, alas for human expectations! his hands striking the ground, the huge body slowly ascending until attaining an attitude of exactly, forty-five degrees — for an instant it poised there, and then fell heavily back upon the ground. As the Major gathered himself upon his haunches, supported with one hand upon the ground, and with the other rubbed his damaged body, solemnly wagging his head, he muttered, in very broken accents: " Sowers, my boy, you can't do it —you cannot do it — yom arc not sufficiently ex perienced." From Utah. —News from Utah to March Oth reaches us byway of Califor nia. There is no important intelligence by this arrival, other thai: the evidence furnished by the movements of the Mor mons, that their determination to resist the government remains fixed. Brigham had made a speech, inculcating the obliga tion of self-denial incumbent upon the Saints, even to the length of destroying their goods and chattels, sub mit. Meetings had been hold in the Ter ritory to sustain him in his course. Orson Pratt, a prominent leader, had avowed his intention to relinfjuish all further efforts to enlighten the Gentiles, and had announced tire purpose of the Mormons to descend upon Missouri, and retake the lands of which they have been deprived in that State. Col. Thos. L. Kane had arrived at Salt Lake from New York via California. The Saints were busy with their spring work, and appeared confident of safety in any event. gfag-A lion, a hear, a wolf and fox hap pened at a carcass of a fawn. Said the lion, " I can eat this fawn in one minute twelve and a half seconds." Said the bear, "I can eat it in two minutes one second." Said the wolf, " I can eat it in an hour, a minute and a second." Said the fox, " you are the mcst voracious gentlemen 1 ever saw; it would last me a week, a day, an hour, a minute and half a second." Exas perated beyond his patience, the bear struck him a blow which threw h::n off" a preci pice, causing his absence 59£ seconds; the rest began to least immediately; how long | till the fawn was eaten, the fox helping as j .-oon as he got back ? A Puzzling "Pome." —Properly punctuated the following nonsense becomes sensible rhyme, and is doubtles as true as it is curious, though as it now stands wo admit that it "s very curious if true : 1 saw a pigeon making bread ; I saw a girl composed of thread ; I saw a towel one mile square; I saw a meadow in the air; 1 saw a rocket waik a mile; I saw a pony make a file; 1 saw a blacksmith in a box; 1 saw an orange kill an ox; I saw a butcher made of steel ; 1 saw a pen knife dance a reel: 1 saw a sailor twelve feet high; I saw a ladder in a pie ; I saw an apple fly away; I saw a sparrow making hay; I satv a farmer like a dog ; I saw a puppy mixing grog ; 1 saw three men who saw those too, And will confirm what 1 tell you. HEW STORES NEW GOODS! NEW PRICES! rTMIK undersigned respectfully informs the 1 public that he has opened a new Store in ! the room lately occupied by Jacob Everich, ! between Mutthersbough's and Mayes' hotels, ' Kast Market street, Lewistown, where his friends and the public are invited to call and j examine a large, neat, and well selected stock, i which is now being sold for cash or country i produce at very low prices, k consists of Rich Dress Silks & Dress Goods of every variety, 1 Shawls of every description, Fine Embroider' ies and lieal Laces, Dress Trimmings, Ribbons, d\\, and Domestic Goods of every known style and make, CLOTDS, CASSIMERS AND SATINETTS, and all other articles usually found ia first class stores. Also, a choice assortment of jFamila <&xotevie*. The store will be under the management of B. K. Firoved, well known as an attentive and obliging salesman, who will spare no pains to please all who may favor him with ; their custom. WM. BUTLER. Lewistown, April 29, 1858. [D * p] K7OO lights best Window Sash, from 8* j?)10 to 10x18, for sale very low. KBANCWCU#