No. 2460. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.' O\E DOLLAR PER AffXVfl, IN ADVANCE. for six months, 75 cents. subscriptions must be paid in /"nee R the P a P er ' s continued, and net M within the tirst month, will be charg- Pj' n o t paid in three months, 51,50; if not U ir six months, 51,75; and if not paid in months. 52,00. All papers addressed to persons out of the t v will be discontinued at the expiration of 'he time paid far, unless special request is made the contrary or payment guaranteed by some .Sponsible person here. ' ' ADVF.RTISING. Ten line- of minion, or their equivalent, con te a square. Three insertions 51, arid 25 j { /ii for each subsequent insertion. The West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOtli iIAAEH} PA,j rysURHS Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- I ch.indise. Farm Property, and other Build jj,/ and their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. K_,n John J Pearce, ilon. G. C. Harvey, join. B. Hall, T. T. Abranis, Charles A. Vayer, D. K. Jackman, Carles Crist, W. Wr.ite, Pe'er Dickinson, Tims. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice L'res. I\M Kitchen, Pec'y. REFERENCES. Samuel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. j k tVinegardner, t\ m, Vanderbelt, r Mack-y, Wn. Fearon. White, Dr. J. S. Crawford, ] jmes (<uigle. A. I'pdegrafr, '•hnW. MavnarJ, Jame< Armstrong, Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. I "sAgent for Mifflincounty, G. If. STEW Esq. p23 .Itiunity from Less p.iil Dr.mage by Fire, Peril* ' Marine and Inland Transportation. i CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Inrp by the Legislature of Pcnnsylva- • urn, taill a /Vpi/iim Chatter. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. Olfire No. 61 Walnut St. above Second, Pliila. fire Insurance on Ritildings, Furniture, .Mer chandise, lie., generally. Marine Insurance j s Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the 1 vsrld. Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by j Likes. Rivers, Canals, and (.and Carriages, to j s!l parts of the Union, on the most favorable i terms, consistent with security. DIRECTURS. Ceorge V. Colladay, William Bovvers, jt*:n >1 Colemin, Joseph Oat, Esin V Machette. Howard H inch man, GEORGE W. COLLADAY, Ptcsident. GALEN VVJI.SON, Secretary. Z'f \.'ent for Mi til in county, Wm. P. F.L- LiJ'FT. E<q. feb!9-ly HDEUNITV AGAINST LOSS BV FiP.E. Franklin Fire Insurance Compa ny of Philadelphia. t OT.-e 4:15 mid 457 Chestnut street, near Fifth. 1 STATEMENT OF ASSETS January 1 1858, ij published agreeably to an act "of Assembly, ?. :ir '?r ' ( r.rst Mortgages, amply -•curr-J, 51 596 825 19 Heal Estate, (present value 9100,- 5.0.j cost, 74,280 93 i Temporary Loans, on ample Col lateral Securities, 101,088 17 , Stocks, (pres tval.B7fi.9G4 22) eost 71,545 97 Notes and BilU Receivable, 4 307 00 40,855 43 j 51,333,904 74 ■; f'ttjitijLul <>r Li nit t t-t i /ii.iir(m<-r rrnOc on every description of property, in Town ami Country. Rates low as are con-intent with security. | Since their incorporation, a period of twenty- j ver. they have paid over Four Millions i Hnlt-.r l ' by fire, thereby affording cv- • wence of the advantages of Insurance, a well : tv the ability and disposition to meet with ; fTompUit-.s nil liabilities. Losses by Fire. ••L-ses p.i. ldm jng the year 1857, 5203,789 4 . DIRECTORS. a*. .Y. Bancker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis, übias Wagner, ; David S. Brown, t-imuel Grant, 1 Isaac Lfa. Jacob ft Smith, Edward C. Dale, Geo. V. Richards, ( George Fales. CHARLES N. BANCKER, President, D M. A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tem. I for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL TERS, Esq., Lewistown. feb2s ITSVr G-HOO33KT, PROVISION AND FISH STORE. I'HE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro vision and Fish Store opposite Ma jor Eisen "l4e's Hotel, where he has just received a fine mortment of fresh jFanUlj) grt'ocrncs, among which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar, j jyas, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers, j T' Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy Tobacco, Segars, Soap, &c. M'o, Brooms, Tub", Buckets, Baskets, and a lr st assortment of Willow-ware, which he Hera for cash very cheap. 1 *ill pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes, °-wis,4e. see prices, and judge for yourselves. JAMES IRWIN. CHANCE Fo * Every Person to Raise their Own GRAPES, iSB ffAKF, THEIR OH A WE'VE. fE undersigned will doliver from the Ist ff>® 15th April next, to any persons ®| in Mifflin Cft -- ISABELLA GRAPE tf'.r,°l ot js year's growth, from cuttings • uniata V inevard," at the following rates, , * hen delivered: 25 Vinos for $3, f o 1 o IW do. for -810. r., 'Btifigs will be delivered at half the 'i nr ' 8 ' Gsage Orange llodge (jf,, a nd Hedges grown by contract. A,. ® U6t be received before the Ist of *' h > insure attention. Address f A HARSHBARGER, - ' McVeytown, Mifflin Cu., Pa. F Shau and Herring for sale mh H F. J. HOFFMAN. &sm wmtwwm ws vwwm wm- xbbbwm, rwwmwrsi 9 amnnuis unOT u>&> H A R 1) W R K ! 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. Don't forget, if you want good Stoves, Pump i Chains, Oi! Cloths, .Nails, Steel, Iron, Cutlery, ; Vices, Bellows, Chains, Glass, &c , F. J. Hoff | man's Mammoth Hardware Store, and you can 1 be accommodated. nihil DRIGS, BRI GS, DREGS, .Hcdiriiifg, Mediums, Jiediriucs, Painis, Paints, Paints, Glaus, Glass, °Hs, Oils, Oils, Trusses, Trusses, At HOFFMAN'S. /"TARDEN SEEDS!—I have now on hand a VjT fine assortment of Fresh Garden Seeds, consisting of some of the finest v arieties. Pole and Bunch Beans, early and late Dwarf and Bush do do do Cabbage, do do Also, P.adish, Beet, Onion, Lettuce, Chinese Sugar Cane, and other seeds, rob 11 F. J. HOFFMAN. IM.OUR. — I have now on hand and shall coti- I'titie to keep a supply of Extra Superfine Flour from Pittsburgh, which we will warrant to give entire satisfaction. N. B. Those w ho want a good articie can find it at mhli F.J.HOFFMAN'S. YT/"ALL PAPER!—As the Spring opens, \Y housekeepers will he looking around for Wall Paper, where a good supply can be found and cheap. This can be done at nihil F. J. HOFFMAN S. &ssm Far sale by [inhll] F. J. HOFFMAN. Sugar Caue and Flower Garden Seeds At [mb 11 ] F. J. HOFFMAN'S. White Com Meal, An excellent article for sale by nihil F. J. HOFFMAN. !j Jj ii U 3 > A good article for 12| cents at mh 11 F. J. HOFFMAN'S WEST'S Patent Galvanic Cement —l2 2LJ ZZ* ~—L— QZJ _E j li Ctl a r IT1 il7 und- rsigiied having purchased the 1 right for this Cement in Mifflin and Cen tre counties, are now prepared to furnish and put it on roofing wherever desired—the roof being sheeted by the owner. Scientific men under the 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 the changes of our climate, and would unite the qualities of Irttpariijusnens to Water. lucent huntibility. Durability and Cfcapvesn. No article now in use possesses these qualities. ; Shingles are not fire proof, and cannot he used upon flat roofs. Slate can only be used upon steep rooi-. Tlx- contraction, expansion and rusting < f me tallic roofs art' so great in this changeable < djmate that they soon become worthless, or the repairs will cost more than j a new rotf. The various cements and com positions which have been introduced, can be supplied only to very fiat roofs, and they are all so affected by the action of the weather j that they will mr It and run in summer and crack in winter, and in a short time Leonine | crumbly and worthless. The Inventor of the Galvanic Cement has labored twenty years to j obviate these difficulties, and it is believed by those who have had opportunities to test the j matter, that he has entirely succeeded. As now applied, First—lt is completely impervious to water. Water may continually stand upon the roof without affecting it in the least. Second—lt is fire proof. It is so incombus- j tible that it will afford ample and perfect pro- j tection against fire, sparks and burning shin gles from another building immediately ad joining. 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. Fourth—lt is cheap. Roofs will be put on ! for about half the cost of tin, and will last much longer. Fifth—Repairs arc easily and cheaply made. < Sixth —lt is sufficiently elastic to entirely j resist the expansion and contraction by heat j and cold, and will remain perfect and solid in the warmest and coldest weather. 'Seventh—lt is adapted to all kinds of roofs, either fiat or steep. Eighth—lt is valuable for repairing old roofs. Old shingle roofs may ho covered j without removing the shingles. Old metalic roofs can be made perfectly tight and secure, i Ninth —It is especially adapted to all kinds of seaming around battlements, sky-lights j and chimneys, and for the lining of eave j troughs and gutters. Roofs which have given \ trouble for years, and which have continued j to leak in spite of all efforts, can be made perfectly secure by this cement. Tenth—lt lias been proved to be the best j article ever used for covering car tops and steamboat decks. Eleventh—This cement applied to new tin roofs preserves them from rusting, by fur nishing a coat which is at once impervious to water and an almost perfect non-conductor of heat. Twelfth —It is the only roofing material j patented which contains India rubber and gutta percha. For a specimen of this cement we invite ! owners of property to e.all at our mills, where a single coaling , put on in December last, has kept the buildings p<'rf"etlv dry through the winter. E. E. LOCKE <& CO., apls Locke's Mills, Mifflin co., Pa. mi! man ai as a., I OWK NO MAN A DOLLAR. KT ciiutLKs E. smn.vs. Oh, ilo not envy, my own dear wife. The wealth of our next door neighbor, Ihit hid me still be stout of heart. And cheerfully follow my labor. You must know that the last of those little debts. That have been our lingering sorrow, Is paid this night! So we ll both go forth M iih happier hearts to-morrow. Oh. the debtor I- but a shamefaced dog. With the creditor's name on his collar; W liile I'm a king and you're a ijueen, For we owe no man a dollar! Our neighbor yon saw in his coach to-day. With his wife and his flaunting daughter, VV hile we sat down at our coverless board. To a crust n.l a cup of water. T saw that the tear-,lrep stood in -our eye. Though you tried your best to conceal it— I knew that the contract reached \ our heart, -Vn 1 \ uu could not help but feel it; Bat knowing now that our scanty fare lias freed my neck from the collar. Votri! Join my laugh and help ni" shout That we owe no man a dollar! This neighbor, whose show has dazzled your ,3, In fact is a wretched debtor; I pity him oft from my very heart. And I wish that his lot were betn r. 4Vby, the man Is the veriest slave alive. For his dashing wife and daughter 5V 111 live in style though ruin should come- So he goes like a lamb to the slaughter; But he feels it the tighter every day. That terrible debtor's collar! Oh, what would he give c3uid lie say with us, - That he owed no man a dollar! You seem amazed, but I'll tetl you more: Ithin tv. o hours I met him Sneaking awaj with a frightened ~p-. As If a Bend had beset him: Yet lie fled from a very worthy man, TYhoni I met wHh the greatest pleasure— Whom i called by name ami forced tc •top, Though he said he had not leisure. He held my la>t note! so 1 he! 1 him fast. Till lie freed my neck from the collar; Then I shook his hand as 1 proudly said, " Now 1 owe no man a dollar!" Ah, new y>u smile, for you feel the force Ui" the truth 1 have been repeating; I knew that a dnw uriglit honest heart In that gentle breast was beating! To-morrow I II rise with giant strength To follow my daily luticr: But ere we sleep let us humbly pray For our wretched next door neighbor; And we'll prey for the time when all shall be free From the weight of the debtor's collar— When the poorest will lift up his voice and '-ry, " Now I owe no man a dollar." Jftorai atiQ jucuaious. The True ami Catholic Spirit i f Christian ity. In a sermon, recently delivered l>y the I'ev. Charles Wadsworth, D. D., of' Phil adelphia,—and published in pamphlet form for gratuitous ditrihution by two members jof his church —we find the following sound and liberal sentiments, which if properly , appreciated and adopted by Thclogians gen erally, would do much to soften denoniina '■ tionai asperities and give to the preaching ; of the gospel its desired power and infiu i encc: "There is an exclusive and sectarian bigot ry—not confined to any one Christian denom ination, 'out in a mca.-ure, at least, common . to them all—which talks rather of "the ! church.' than of Christ crucified : of Sacra ments. lather titan of the Sacrifice ; which practically regards the Grace of God as flow ing in the channels of its own exclusive ordi- i nances, and the heating power of the living : water as abiding rather in the earthen chalice i • than in the sparkling spring. To hear these , men talk of ordinations, and confessions, and I : successions, ar.d baptisms, one would think | that this Fountain of Salvation were, like a j mineral spring at a watering place, enclosed, appropriated, and surrounded by liveried water-dippers, so that the soul that will not drink from these particular cups, must perish in agony. And the abomination of this last thing is worse than the first. Tell ine that God's eternal decree shuts me away from salvation, and 1 could better be reconciled to it. The j grandeur of the Eternal One, as with his ma- j jestio scepire he waves me back from the i Fountain, would give dignity to destruction, j But to be repulsed from the sweet waters by ' a poor mortal gesture; to lose the healing j ; draught because a spider's web is spun by ! the well side ; to be driven backward upon ; God's uncovenanted mercies by some fair- j lipped champion of successions and baptisms; j to die of thirst in lull view of the swelling j ; Fountain, because the cup wherewith 1 would I | draw and drink hath not the blazon of a shib boleth —oh, this is intolerable ! To be told that Salvation is to be found only or even especially iri the Presbyterian communion, or the Methodist communion, or the Baptist communion, or especially or only j in any or all of them—this is intolerable blasphemy! Why, what is the Church? The Fountain of living water? No, sirs! An enclosure ' round about that Fountain ? No, sirs! The ! Church altogether, or in its distinct denomi- . ; nations, is only a company of thirsty men, | 1 who have como to drink, each man tor him- j self, of that blessed Fountaiu, and whose only j office is that of the ' Bride,' to say ' Come j j — Come.' Is Baptism salvation ? No, sirs ! j Is the Lord's Supper salvation? No, sirs! j Are Church ordinances salvation? No, sirsl j Christ, crucified is salvation! Let me meet a | poor heathen in the wilderness, who never ; ; heard of a Church or of a Sacranieut, and to whom in his circumstances a Sacrament were impossible, and as 1 tell him the stpry of | Christ crucified for sinners, 1 say, ' Repent | and believe, and thou shalt be saved for ever.' i Ah, ye troublers of meu's consciences about | the poor mint and anise of rites and cerome- ! nies, go up to Mount Calvary, and shut away ' if you can, if you dare, that dying malefuc- j tor unto God's uncovenanted mercies, because he sat not at your board, and went not forth to your baptism, and the forgiving look of j THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1858, your glorious Redeemer will palsy the tongue that utters the blasphemy! Church ordi nances may be indeed channels for (he flow ing of God's grace, but Christ crucified is the . Fountain, ' and whosoever will mail take the [ water of life freely." j Prayer.—Prayer is a haven to the ship | wrecked man, an anchor to them that are I sinking in the waves, a staff to the limbs i that totter, a mine of jewels to the poor, a I healer of disease, and a guardian of health, i Prayer at once secures the continuance of our blessings, and dissipates the cloud of our calamities. Oh, blessed prayer ! thou art the unwearied conqueror of human woes, i the firm foundation of human happiness, a source of ever-enduring joy, the mother of ph:l isophy. The man that can pray truly, though languishing in extreme indigence, | is richer than all besides ; whilst the wretch who never bowed the knee, though proud ly seated as the monarch of all nations, is | of Jill men the most destitute. i a a 3 Mb Diiiia. OH! THE DRINK! The following world picture is an extract from the temperance lectures of John 11. Go ugh : J here is 110 power on earth that can make a fiend like drink. < hie circumstance in my own reminiscences I will give you. I was asked by an individual to go and see the hardest case in town. 1 s ;i jd : 1 i have no right to go and see him ; he will say to me' ' Who sent you to see me? —Who told you I was a drunkard? You mind your own business, and I will mind mine, you wait till you are sent for." I have no right to go to him.' ' Well,' said he, ' he is a hard case, he beat a daughter of his, fourteen years of age, with a shoemaker's strap, so that she will carry the marks to her grave.' Said I, ' he's a brute.' ' ilis wife is very iil now with the lever; ! the doctor says he thinks she cannot get over it; the man has not been drinking for some days, and if you can get at him now, [ think you might do him good.' 1 thought I would go. 1 knocked at the door; he came to open it. He had been at one or two of our meetings. The mo ment he saw me lie knew me. Said he. ' Mr. (lough, I believe?' ' i es, that is my name; would you be j good enough to give me a glass of water, if you please?' 'Certainly; come in.' Ho I got in. 1 sat on one side of the table and lie on the other. There were two children in the room playing together, and a door halfway open, that led into the room where the wife was ill. I sat and talked with him about everything 1 could think of but the subject. 1 talked of trade and crops, railroads and money matters; and then I got on the public houses, and then drinking, and he headed me off again.— 1 looked, and thought 1 saw a malicious twinkle in his eye, as much as to say, ' Young man, you are not up to your busi ness yet.' 1 was about to give it up hut, I think, providentially, I saw the children. 1 said to him, 'You've got two bright looking children here, sir.' ' (>h ! yes, bright little things !' Said 1, ' You love your children, don't you ?' ' Bless the children ! to be sure I love them.' Said f, 1 Wouldn't you do anything to benefit the children ?' He looked at me as if he thought some thing else was coining after that. 'Well, to be sure sir,' said he, 'a man ought to do everything to benefit his chil dren.' Then T stood up so that 1 might get out of the door as speedily as possible, and said, —' Don't be angry with me; lam go ing to ask you a plain and simple ques tion; you know who I am, therefore you wont be angry,—suppose you never use any more intoxicating liquor, don't you think your children would be better off?' 'Well, well, you have me this time,'said he. ' Said I, ' You have a good wife, hav'nfc you ?' ' Yes sir, as good a woman as ever a man had for a wife.' ' And you love your wife?' 'To be sure 1 do.' 'And you would do anything you could to please her ?' ' Well, I ought to ' ' Suppose you were to sign a temperance pledge, would that please her?' 'By thunder, I rather think it would; I could not do a thing that would please my wife more than that. If 1 was to put my naifie down there, why the old woman would he up and about her business in two weeks, sick as she is.' Haiti I 'Then you will do it ?' 'Yes, 1 guess I will do it.' And he at once opened a closet, took out a pen and ink, and I spread out the pledge, and he wrote his name. Ihe children had been listening with eyes, cars and mouths wide open, while we were talking about temperance. They knew what a drunken father was; they knew what the principle cf abstinence would do for him ; and when he had sign ed, one said to the other, 'Father has sign ed the pledge!' '< )h my !' said the other, 'now I'll go and tell mother!' and away he ran into the other room. But, she had heard of it; and 1 listened to her calling: ' Luke ! Luke! come here a moment.' Ik said, 'come in here along with me; come in and. see my wife.' I went in and stood by her bedside.— The face was ghostly pale, the eyes large, and deep sunk in their sockets; and with her long thin and bony fingers she grasped my hand, and with flic other took the hand of her husband, and began to tell me what a good husband she had. 'Luke,'said she, 'is a kind husband and a good father; he takes care of the children, and is very kind to them; but the drink! Oh! the drink makes terrible difficulty! God only and the crushed wife of the intemperate man know any thing about it.' The man shook like a leaf ; he snatched the hand from the grasp of his wife; tme down her night dress from her shoulders, and said ' Look at that!' and on the white, thin neck, close to the shoulders, was a blue mark. Said he, 'Look at that, sir! T did it three days before she was taken down upon the Led, and she has told you that she has a good husband. Am 1? Am 1 a good husband to her? God Almighty forgive me!' ami he bowed over that wo man and wept like a child, gripped the hod clothes i;i his hands, and hid his face in them. And she laid her thin hand upon his head, and said, 'Don't cry, Luke; don't, please don't, you would not have struck me if it had not been for drink. Mr. Gough, don t believe him : he is as good a man as ever lived! Don't cry Luke!" THE GRASSHOPPER PL AGUE. According to the Gonzales Inquirer, of the 24th ult., the swarms of grasshoppers, so much roroplained of in Texas, are taking their departure from that region, the air be ing filled with (lie vast hosts, all flving northeast. It would take about two weeks to get rid of all, as a very large number were young ones, not full grown. Great numbers were dying also all over the coun try, wliile others were still engaged in dev astating fields of corn, cotto'.i, and wheat, which had previously escaped. So com plete and general lias been the destruction that all the farmers will be compelled to re plant. The counties which are most afflic ted are Bexar, Gaudaloupe, Caldwell, llays, Comal, Karnes, Goliad, Nueces, De Witt, Lavaca, and Gonzales, and portions of Bas trop, Fayette, and Victoria. In two or j three of these the wheat crop has been on- ! tircly devoured, and in all it w ill be neces- ' sary to replant. It is mentioned as a sin- j gular fact, that the grasshoppers have eve- \ rywhere spared the Sorgho or Chinese Su- i gar Cane. The Benton Independent says that the grasshoppers have made their ap pearance in Williamson county. The San- Antonio Ledger of the 24th savs, that the farmers of llonuo have not suffered from the grasshoppers, and that their Crops are doing remarkably well. On the Lucas, in Atascoso county, several farmers saved their crops by arming all their people, and turn- j ing out in a mass to fight the grasshoppers, j On the San Antonio river the crops are j all ruined. On the Medina the grasshop- j pers did not attack the growing corn, though j they damaged other crops; wliile on the Salado and Sibolo they destroyed the corn entirely. The Goliad Express of the 24th says that most ot the grasshoppers have ta ken wing, and fled from that region. They j leave as soon as they get able to fly, and are daily seen rising from . ; ground, go ing to an immense height, as if to take a long trip New Series—Vol, 111, No. 28. WIIISK KV HOOT, j Some time .ago, I wrote vou that there j was such a thing in this country as 'whis key root;' you disbelieved. I now take my revenge by sending you the specimen. It is what the Indians call 'llic-okce.' It grows in Southern Texas, on the range of the sand hills bordering on the Itio Grande, and in gravel, sandy soil. The Indians eat it for its exhilarating effect on the system, producing precisely the same effect as al coholic drinks. It is sliced, as you would a cucumber, and these small pieces chewed, and in about the time that comfortably tight cock-tails would 'stir the divinity' within you, this indicates itself; only its effects are what I might tern a little k-a-v --o-r-t-i-n-g, giving rather a wider scope to the imaginations and actions. It can be sliced and dried, and in this way the Indi ans preserve it, then parch and serve it up as coffee or tea. It is evidently of the cac tus species, and it resembles that more than any other plant. 1 have never seen this particular root mentioned in ar.y work, and believe these —and specimens L sent to the editor of the .Southern Cultivator- — to be the only specimens sent from the State. I wish you would have these anal yzed, and publish the result. — Texas Cor resjwndent N. O. Pi< ayune. A monster Fi.h Net. —Some New York speculator has just attracted some attention by the construction of an immense fish net, which contains five tuns of twine, and re quired seventeen barrels of tar to coat it. The first trial with it was made a few weeks ago, outside of Sandy Hook, two small steamboats being employed to drag it through the water. The net was soon fill ed, and it was intended to run the fish into a box which was dragged behind the net; they swam, however, before the net as fast as the steamboats could go, and consequent ly escaped. So this attempt to monopolize the fish business is thus far a failure Served him right. [From tin- New Hnven Journal.' Death of a Remarkable Man. Died, at bis residence near Racine, Wiscon sin, on the 3d inst., Capt. John T. TroW- formerly of this city, in the 78i.l yea: of his age. Capt. Trowbridge was one of our hum born, and will be remembered by the older portion of our citizens as master of the ship Thomas, of this port, captured off the isle of France by a British squadron, which, after taking from the ship ail hands except Capt. Trow bridge, Mr. Charles Peterson, (the fatheroof. f Charles Peterson, Esq., of this city,) who was brother in law and first officer of Captain Trowbridge, and Benjamin Applewhite, the cook, put a prize crew of twenty-one aieu on board, and ordered her to the Cape of Good Hope as a prize. On the passage, Captain Trowbridge and Mr. Peterson planned her re capture and succeeded in their design, and proceeded to Madagascar, where they put the prize crew of English on shore, having in duced some Lascars, composing a part of the prize crew, to join them as seamen after the recapture of the fhip. Here the ship wa? captured again, by a French frigate, under the " Berlin and Milan" decrees, and sent to the Isle of France. The French Governor restored the ship and part of the carg to Capt. Trowbridge. While lying there the Island was taken by the British, but Capt. Trowbridge succeeded in selling the ship and cargo to avoid confiscation, and escaped to Batavia. After an eveutful pieriod of a year or two there, and a most daring enterprise on the coast of New Holland, where he recovered by aid o i divers upward of ?250,0(K) in specie from a sunken wreck, lie was captured, with all his specie, by his old enemies, the British, being taken by a frigate and carried to Java, and afterwards to Calcutta, where he was imprisoned in the famous Black Hole of that city. Finally, he was taken to England as a prisoner of war, and confined in Dartmoor Prison, where he was at the time of the mas sacre of the Gth April, 1815. On thenewsuf peace Capt. T. was released on the 10th of April, and arrived at New York June sth, 1815, having been absent 54 years. Fond of enterprise, he removed to the West und settled at Rochester in 1816, where he was for many years at the head of the well known commercial house of John T. Trow bridge & Co. After accumulating an ample fortune, the vicissitudes of life again followed him in the loss of property, and in 1836 he removed to Racine county, where he has sine resided. BRICK! FIRE BRICK'—Fo. Noble, Globe, Girarfl, Flat Top, Niew Woild, Crys l.l. Funny Forrester, ami Sunrise Cook Stoves, and for all kinds of Knoni and Parlor Stoves, can be had auhe Slove Warehouse of septl? F. G. FRANCISCUS. I BLACKSMITH'S COAL, > LUMP COAL, WILKESBARRE EGG COAL, SUNBURY COAL, Just received, and for sale low, and deliv ered in any part of town, by novo SAMUEL COMFORT. POTATOESJ A LOT of fine Potatoes, expected from Pittsburg this day, and will be sold low. rnyC F. J. HOFFMAN. riTOO lights best Window Sash, from 8x f4 pi m !O*;S, for eale very low. FttANCISCUS
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