flhoie No. 2405. TEEMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. OJE DOLLAR PFR ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. For six months, 75 cents. rS'Vi! XEIV subscriptions must be paid in .'lace. H" tt,e paper is continued, and net v :' v ,j t hin the first month, $1,25 will be charg jj': fnat paiJ i:1 tllrce months, $1,50; if not ; r 6 ;x months, $1,75; and if not paid in g ith,, *2.00. %|| papers addressed to persons out of th% will he discontinued at the expiration ot liine paid for, unless special request is made contrary or payment guaranteed by some Sponsible person here. ADVERTISING. fen line' ol minion, or theircquivalent,con state a square. Three insertions sl, and 25 crntsfor each subsequent insertion. fte West Branch Insurance Co, OF LOCK HATES, PA., n'SURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer chandise, Farm Property, and other Build and their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. q>o. John J- Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, '• j n B. Hall, T. T. Abrams, Varies A- Mayer, D. K. Jackman, .VariesCrist, * W. Wr.ite, MerDickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. fits. Kitchen, Sec'y. REFERENCES. saaoel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. •A. Winegardner, Wm, Vanderbelt, i,A. Mackey, Wm. Fearon, rWhite. Dr. J. S. Crawford, . iisesQuisle, A. UpdegrafT, ii|alV. Maynard, James Armstrong, Sja.Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. Mifflin county, G. W. STEW iir. Esq. 0p23 Canity from Less and Damage by Fire, r P:ri'.a; of .Marine and Inland Tra nsporta! ion. CONTINENT A L INSURANCE COMPANY. 'st<*l*r(tttd by the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, with a Perpetual Charter. Authorized Capital, 5? 1,000,000. iftttSo.6l Walunt SL abou Second, fliila. "ire Insurance Buildings, Furniture, Mer ssadise, &c.. orally. Marine Insurance surgoe- an; Freights to all parts of the e::j. Inland Insurance on Goods. &c., by Likes, Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to j i 3 parts of the Union, on the most favorable ] ra?, consistent with security. DIRECTORS. Sorge W. Colladay, William Bowers, n >l. Coleman, Joseph Oat, V. Machette, Howard Hinchman. GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President, DUES WILSON, Secretary. ; 3*Azent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL- LioTT, Eral Securities, 101,088 17 ■y-rU, (prrs't val. $76,964 22) cost 71,547 97 j l >-ami Bills Receivable, 4.307 00 ! •ch. 40,855 48 j $1,888,904 74 P'r/Ktaal or Limited Insurances made on every fenptinn of property, in Town and Country. •* 't 3 low as are con*i->tent with security. \nr° their incorporation, a period of twenty tuey have paid over Four Millions - Dollars' looses by fire, thereby affording ev :''f >f the advantages of Insurance, as well ; t: * ty and disposition to meet with prouptse.-.- Jl liabilities. Tosses by Fire. ! during the year 1857, >203.789 4 DIRECTORS. : -V Bancker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis, l'*as Warner, I David S. Grown, SactKJrant, Isaac Lea, fee. W. Richards, | George Fales. CHARLES N. BA.VCKER, President. A St eei., Sec'v pro tern. for .Mifflin county, 11. J. WAL- Esq., Lewistown. ieb2s 1T37 T 58.005R7, IVISION AND FISH STORE, i!F. subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro l Uiiori and Fish Store opposite Major Eisen lot?!, where he has just received a fine ''■'JTlraerit of fresh jFamCli) Atomies, aong which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers, Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy s °t Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a issortment of Wiiiow-ware, which he '•-for cash very cheap, sill pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes, 4c. '!l. see prices, and judge for yourselves. J JAMES IRW A. OXX/VTVCXE r Every Person to Raise their Own GRAPES, OD niRE THEIR OWT WNTE. I ME afldrrsigned will deliver from the Ist % ... hi? 15th April next, to any persons B?'* Mifflsn "•' ISABELLA GRAPE °"- 9 y ear ' 3 growth, from cuttings iney.rd," at the following rates, i" , *]* deuvered: 25 Vines for §3, in* 5 : 50 ' 100 do. for 810. ** f r v tlln £ s v 'll be delivered at half the WtL jr*' osage oran K e lled ß ß *.?rs a Hedges grown by contract. *}riit. ® us t be received before the Ist of in sure attention. Address fchlfc A - HARSHBARGER, WcVeytown, Mifflin Co., Pa. ,est Window Bash, from 8x 1 % for tale vny low. FRANC'IBOUS apaaasHEHß ASSB wwrmwsißsw® anr vmTOsraum, ndvnisHNWß wosvx„ ~b>a. 1133(823.3.021)13. THE WARRIOR MAIDEN. Sometime just before or about, the be ginning of the revolutionary war, Sergeant Jasper, of Marion's Brigade, bad the good fortune to save the life of a young, beauti ful and dark eyed Creole girl called Sally St. flair. Her susceptible nature was overcome with gratitude to her preserver, and this soon ripened into a passion of love, of the most deep and fervent kind. She lavished upon him the whole wealth of her affections and the whole depth of passion nurtured by a Southern sun. When he was called upon to join the ranks of his country's defenders, the prospect of their separation almost maddened her. Their parting came; but scarcely was she lelfc alone, ere her romantic nature promp ted the means of re-union. Once resolved no consideration of danger could dampen her spirit, and though of consequence could move her purpose. She severed her long and jetty ringlets, and provided her self, and set forth to follow the fortunes of her lover. A smooth faced, beautiful anil delicate stripling appeared among the hardy, rough and giant frames who composed the corps to which Jasper belonged. The contrast between the stripling and these men, in tlieir uncouth garbs, their massive faces, embrowned and discolored by the sun and rain, was indeed striking. But none were more eager for the battle, or so indifferent to fatigue as the fair faced boy. It was found that his energy of character, resolu tion and courage, amply supplied his lack of physique. None even suspected that she was a woman. Not even Jasper him self, although she was often by his side, penetrated her disguise, hut treated her with kindness and respect, and often ap- , plauded her heroic bravery. The romance j of her situation increased the fervor of j her passion, ft was her delight to reflect that unknown to him, she was by las side j to watch over him, in the hour of danger. She had fed her passion by gazing upon him in the hour of slumber; hovering near ! him when stealing through the swaiupand : thicket, and always ready to avert danger . from his head. But gradually there stole a melancholy jivcsent'ment over she poor girl's mind.— She had been tortured with hopes deterred, the war was prolonged, and the prospect of being restored to him grew more and more uncertain. But now she felt that her dream of happiness could never be re alized. She became convinced that death was about to snatch her away from his side ; but she prayed tb t she might die, and he never knew to what length the vi olence of her passion had led her. It was the eve before a battle. The camp had sunk into repose. The watch fires were burning low, and only the slow tread of sentinels fell upon the profound silence of the night air as they moved through the dark shadows of the forest. Stretched upon the ground, with no other couch than a blanket, reposed the warlike form of Jasper. Climbing vines trailed themselves into a canopy above his head. through which the stars shone down softly. The faint flicker from the expiring embers of' fire fell athwart his countenance, and tinged the cheek of one who beat above his couch. It was the smoothed faced stripling. She bent low down, as if to lis ten to his dreams or to breath into his soul pleasant visions of love and happiness. — But tears traced themseves down the fair one's cheek, and fell silently but rapidly upon the brow of her lover. A mysterious voice has told that the hour of parting has come; that to-morrow her destiny is con summated. There is one last, long, linger ing look, and the unhappy maiden is seen to tear herself away from the spot, to weep our her sorrows in privacy. Fierce and terrible is the conflict that on the morrow rages on that spot. Fore most in that battle is that intrepid Jasper and ever by his side fights the stripling warrior. Often, during the heat and the smoke gleams suddenly upon the eyes of Jasper the melancholy face of the maiden. In the thickest of the fight, surrounded by enemies, the lovers fight side by side. Suddenly a lance is leveled at the breast of Jasper; hut swifter than the lance is Hally St. Clair. There is a wild cry, and at the feet of Jasper sinks the maiden, with the life blood gushing from her white bosom. He heeds not the din or the dan ger of the conflict; but down by the side of the dying boy he kneels. Then, for the first time, does he learn that the strip ling is his love; that often by the camp fire and in the swamp, she has been by his side; that the dim visions in his slumber, of an angel face hovering above him, had indeed been true. In the midst of the battle, with her lover by her side, and the barb still in her bosom, the heroic maiden dies! Her name, her sex and her noble devo tions soon became known through the corps. 1 here was a tearful group gathered around her grave; there was not of these hardy warriors one who did not bedew her grave with tears. They buried her near the river Santee, " in a green shady nook, that look ed as if it had been stolen out of Paradise." A SCENE FROM REAL LIFE. '1 here is many a life scene more touch ing, more worthy of immortality than the deeds of conquerors or the heroes of histo ry. The following from the St. Louis Re publican, is one: A\ e saw hist evening an apt illustration of the affection of a woman. A poor ine briated wretch had been taken to the cala boose. His conduct in the street, and af ter lie had been taken to the cell, was of such a violent character that it became ne cessary to handcuff him. The demon rum had possession of his soul, and he gave vent to his ravings in curses so profane as to shock the sense of his fellow prisoners, one of whom, in the same cell, at his own solicitation, was placed in a separate apart ment. A woman appeared, at the grating, and in her hands she had a rude tray, up on which were some slices of bread, fresh from the hearth-stone, and other little del icacies for her erring husband. She stood at the bar, gazing intently in to the thick gloom where her manacled com panion wildly raved. Her voice was low and soft, and as she called his name its ut terance was as plaintive as the melody of a fond and crushed spirit. The tears stream ed from her eyes, and there, in the dark house, the abode of the most wretched and depraved, the tones of her voice found their way into that wicked man's heart, and he knelt in sorrow and in silence be fore his young injured wife, while his heart found relief in tears such only as man can weep. Though the iron still bound his wrists, be placed his hands, with the heavy insignia of degradation, confidingly and affectionately upon the brow of his fair com panion, and exclaimed— < Katy, I will try to be a better man.' There, upon a rude scat, she had spread the humble meal, which she had prepared with her own hands, and after he had fin ished she rose to depart, bidding him to be calm and resigned for her sake, with the assurance that she would bring a friend to go as his bond, and that she would return and take him home. And she left him a strong man, with his head dropping on his breast, a very coward, humiliated before the weak and tender being whose presence had stilled the angry passions of his soul.— True to the instincts of her love and prom ise, she did return with one who went on his bond for his appearance the next morn ing—with his hand clasped in that of his loving wife, she led him away a penitent, and, we trust, a better man. There were those who laughed as that pale, meek woman bore off her erring hus band ; but she heeded them not, and her self-sacrificing heart knew or cared for nothing in its heaven-born instinct, but to preserve him whom she loved with all the devotion of a wife and a woman. A Devil-worshipper Sentenced. —Prud- homme, the notorious French communist, recently wrote an atrocious book, in which, among other infamous things, he praised and eulogized the Devil —seriously, not in jest. We learn that this French Devil worshiper has been sentenced to three years imprisonment and to pay a fine of TOOO francs for publishing that work. Wc do not particularly admire the lion rule of Louis Napoleon over the press, and over the entire literature of France, but in this instance it is pretty certain as regards the penalty imposed upon the "victim," the universal verdict of mankind will be, "serv ed him right." Pleasures, while they flatter a man, sting him to death. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1858. WHY AM I NOT A CHRISTIAN. 1. Ts it because I am afraid of ridicule, t and of what others may say of me 1 AA hosoever shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, of him shall the son of man he ashamed.' Is it because of the inconsistencies of professing christians ? 1 Every man shall give account of him *clf to God.' •. Is it because I am not willing to give up all for Christ? ' AVliat shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul ?' 4. Is it because I am afraid that T shall not he accepted ? ' Hint that comcth to me I will in no wise cast out.' 5. Is it because I fear I am too great a sinner ? 1 The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.' G. Is it because I am afraid that I shall not ' hold out ?' 'lie that hath begun a good work in you, he will perform it until the day of Je sus Christ.' 7. Is it because I am thinking that I will do as well as I can, and that God ought to he satisfied with that ? 'A\ hosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, //< h guilty of all.' 8. Is it he cause I am postponing the matter without any definite reason ? 4 Roast not thyself of tomorrow, for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.' 0. Is it because I am trying to save my self by morality, or in any other wayofwy own '/ ' There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must he sa ved.' 10. Is it because I do not clearly see the way to be saved ? ' Repent ye and believe the gospel.' ' God so loved the world, that be gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever be lieveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' John 3, 16.— Am. Messen ger. WHISKEY-SKLLING. Whilst we loath and despise that traffic in Intoxicating Liquors which sets itself up in conspicuous places and deals out liquid poison by the dram, we often find persons engaged in it for whose course there is some excuse. They are those who from early education and association conscien ciously believe it to be legitimate and right; that the moral turpitude is with the in temperate user and not the vender; that it is a subject about which men arc alone responsible to themselves and exempt from obligations to society. It is not a matter of surprise to find such men pursuing the traffic, and when we think of the lasting influence of early training—the immutable nature of early impressions, and also that conscience is the creature of faith, every person must be more inclined to pity such than condemn them. Rut Kansas has some exemplars of a far different class of venders. There are groggeries now open in Kansas, and for anght we know in Quindaro, under the auspices of men who at their homes in the States, a few hundred miles nearer the rising sun, were only known as active, thorough advocates of the Temperance Reform—men who have declared the mak ing, selling, or drinking of intoxicating liquors to be degrading, ruinous, damning. In coming to Kansas they have put off their professions by the wayside; their eyes have been blinded to the dread horoscope of the drunkard; their convictions have beeu blurred, and their consciences have been seared by the crisping, deadening passion of avarice; the unsettling of the humanity of husbands and fathers, the undermining of the happiness of wives and mothers, the overwhelmning of the hopes of sons and daughters, have to them lost their terror and their magnitude! For such men there is condemnation without a ray of pity. By their course they arc treasuring up for themselves a most direful wrath against the day of wrath. In this life they must retrograde with a fearful aud dizzy rapidity, inaugurating a career which beyond the disenthralling portals of the grave, will be continued adown the awful and gloomy descents of perdition.— Quindaro (K. TA Chindowan CI RC'UMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The fallibility of human testimony is such that it must he acknowledged we can not believe our own eyes. A case very similar to one which occurred some months since at Poughkeepsic, N. A'., in which a girl positively identified the remains of a deceased person as those of her sister, and on the strength of which a young man was arrested for murder, hut in which casesus piscion was averted by the reappearance of the supposed murdered girl, has occurred at Joilet, Illinois. A body of a fetnalc was found in a ravine near the town of Joilet, Illinois; a farmer testified to the finding of bloody clothes near the spot; four families testi fied to the hearing of screams from the ra vine on the night of the supposed murder, and that the cries were those of a female; a woman named Cook recognized the body as that of her daughter, who was missed on the very night of these screams, and knew it was her daughter because one of her front teeth was gone; she also testified to improper intimacy between her daugh ter and a Mr. Richardson, and he was ar rrested for the murder, and some three hun dred men were about taking the law into their own hands to lynch Richardson, fear ing that justice would not be done by a regular jury. The girl finally was found in Chicago, and produced in Joilet. The body found was finally proved to be that of an elderly grey-haired lady, who had died a natural death, and whose body had been disinter red for dissection. The girl is only eigh teen years of age.— Cleveland Herald, A YOUXO DEVIL. —The Baltimore Re publican gives the following as a few of the exploits of the son of a very respecta ble citizen of that city. The villain is only fifteen years of age ; Not long ago, a young Newfoundland dog, the favorite of his father, was securely tied by this young Nero, who saturated the body of the unfortunate animal with camphenc or ethcrial oil, and set fire to the inflammable fluid, which had the effect of roasting poor Towser until life became ex tinct, after the endurance of the most in tense, agonizing suffering which the human mind can conceive. The young demon being well pleased with the result of tfiis grand experiment in cruelty, next endeavored also to roast alive his little sister, a bright, intelligent child, about six years of age. Having playfully bound her legs and arms with a rope, he placed her upon the stove in the kitchen, heated to an intense degree, in order to prepare dinner for the family. The shrieks and j ells of the agonized little victim were fortunately heard by tlie mother, who rushed down and removed the poor child before she was fatally in jured. Toleration of the young villain's crimes had now ceased to be a virtue, and the father was engaged in preparing to effect his removal to the House of Refuge, when the hopeful youth suddenly disap peared at night from his dwelling, and no tidings have been heard of him since his flight. Bta?~A couple of fellows strolled into a colored church at Hartford, a few evenings since to enjoy the fun; but when the colored minister rose up to preach, before announc ing his text, he leaned forward on the pulpit, and looked slowly around, on his congregation. 'Breddren,' says he at length, 1 May dc Lor' have mercy on all the scoffers.' A long pause. ' May de Lor' hab mercy on all de laffers,' Solemn pause. 'May de Lor' hab mercy on de two pea nut eaters down by the door.' *The young men did not wait to hear the benediction. BgL-Mr. James Grant residing ten miles from Ilcighstown, New Jersey, lately fell headlong down his well while drawing wa ter. No one saw the accident, lie reach ed the bottom without much injury, but the water being twelve feet deep, he sunk three times before he could get a footing against the side walls. Having succeeded in doing this, he commenced his ascent, and after vigorous exertions reached the top. His arms aud legs were rather bruised, but otherwise he was not injured. The dis tance from the top to the water is fifty eight feet. New Series—Vol. 111, No. 33. An Exciting Trial at. New Orleans —The trial of George \V. Tlarbj—an old and respected citizen of Xew Orleans, and a veteran teacher in the public schools for over a quarter of a century —for the kill ing of Charles H. C. Slone, (a native of Virginia,) a young man of previously irre proachable character, and a junior mem ber of one of the largest and most respec table mercantile houses of that city, took place on the 18th inst. The killing grew out of the charge that Stone had seduced the daughter of Harby, and then refused to marry her. The trial seems to create intense excitement, and the court room was thronged with an anxious multitude. The defence admitted the killing, but contend ed that, under the circumstances, it was justifiable. The case was submitted to the jury with out argument, and in a few minutes return ed a verdict of " not guilty." The result produced a scene seldom witnessed in such a place. Cheer after cheer resounded through the building, and the indignant re monstrances of the judges, and the vigor-, ous exertions of the deputy sheriffs failed to quiet the enthusiasm. The detnonstra tions were renewed outside the court room until Mr. Harby succeeded in getting away from his friends and driving oft' in a carriage with his daughter. Squaw Slavs in Utah. —One of the Xew York papers says that an intelligent writer in the train of the Utah Peace Commissioners, writes that the system of baying and selling Indian women is car ried on all along the route across the plains among the traders and frontiersmen, as a regular established practice. Almost ev ery white man along this route has an Indian concubine purchased, in the case of young and beautiful squaws at as high a price as three or four horses, though old and ugly ones may be had at a much less cost. Once sold to the white men, hei Indian relatives renounce all further in terest in her, and not merely her person but her life, is at the disposal of her own er. When a white man gets tired of his slave-wife, he ships her off and gets another. The children of these unions are totally neglected by the fathers, and grow up as they may under the care of the mothers. At all the forts along the route the young officers, settlers, and all who can afford it keep squaws. Tiro hundred and Fifty-five Wounds. —The body of Sophia Doyon, murdered by her two insane brothers, near Detroit, has been examined by physicians. The number of external wounds found on the bod\- was two hundred and fifty-five. Of these twenty-eight were in the face, nine were in the neck, fifty-five were in the chest, nine in the right leg, ten in the left leg, thirty-three in the right arm and hand, thirty-one in the left arm and hand, thirty six upon the back, and one on the right shoulder. These ranged from small wounds to wounds of considerable extent. Some of them in the face were from two to three inches deep each side of the nose. The one on the shoulder was very large, being one or two inches in depth. Seven ribs were broken on the right side, and five on the left. The liver was torn from the frac tured ends of the ribs, half in two. Of the wounds in the head, but one entero the skull, though the top and back of it was beaten to a perfect jelly. The b. Ast . was also badly bruised. The Gobi Ifumhug in loica. —The Dubuque Herald speaks of the gold excite ment in lowa as not promising any golden results. It says: A number of mischievously inclined persons have on various occasions procured quantities of brass filings and strewed them in the places where they expected gold hunters would find them among the sand. Among the specimens of gold on exhibition at the office of the Emigrant Association is a sample said to be from Eagle Point, which has been labeled thus: " Brass filings from some place and black sand from some other place. Presented by yx r . No sell that time. A number of supposed specimens of gold have been discovered to be nothing more than straw colored mica, whose shining appearance is calculated to deceive per sons of limited observation on such sub jects. thy neighbor as thyself.