■Whole No. 2473.
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IK ADVAKOC.
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-r s\ll NEW subscriptions must be paid in
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! if not paid in three months, $1,50; if not
V ir. six months, $1,75; and if not paid in
CiotoS'-MW- ,
til papers addressed to persons out of the
,!„ty will he discontinued at the expiration of
time ps'd f° r > u"' ess special request is made
/he contrary or payment guaranteed by some
Loosible person here.
ADVERTISING.
fen lines of minion, or their equivalent, con
tute a square. Three insertions sl, and 25
'jfor each subsequent insertion.
West Branch Insurance Co.
OF LOCK HAVE*, PA.,
VSURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer
chandise, Farm Property, and other Build
, and their contents, at moderate rates.
DIRECTORS.
uo John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey,
4 nß.Hall, T. T. Abrams,
a rlcs A. Mayer, D. K. Jackman,
fjrles Crist, W.White,
iter Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. G. C. HARVEY, Pres.
T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
kitchen, Sec'y.
REFERF-NCES.
Uriel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D.
[. VVinegardner, Wm, Vanderbelt,
A Mackey. Wm. Fearon,
White, Br. J. S. Crawford,
ge*Quiggle, A. Updegraff,
ii W. Maynard, James Armstrong,
(O.Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler.
t|=Agent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW
it Esq. ap23
iniiity from Loss and Damage by Fire,
Idlit Perils of Marine and Inland Transportation.
CONTINENTAL
INSURANCE COMPANY.
vrporated by the Legislature of Pennsylca
nia, with a Perpetual Charter.
Authorized Capital, $1,000,000.
Otf So. 61 Walnut St. above Second, Phila.
lire Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer
tdise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance
Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the
irid. inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by
its, Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to
jarts of the Union, on the most favorable
■a;, consistent with security.
DIRECTORS.
rje W. Colladay, William Bowers,
ij.il. Coleman, Joseph Oat,
.in V. Machelte, Howard Hinchman,
GEORGE VV. COLLADAY, President.
GILEK WILSON, Secretary,
tr*Agent for Mifflin county, Wm. P. EL
ijTT, Esq. febl9-ly
INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS BY FIBE.
ranklin Fire Insurance Compa
ny of Philadelphia.
[ c 435 and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth.
TAT EM EXT OF ASSETS, January 1, 1858,
published agreeably to an act of Assembly,
a?— __ __ I
m Mortgages, amply secured, $1,596,825 19
iil Estate, (present value SIOO,-
iUO.) cost, 74,280 93
mporary Loans, on ample Col
steral Securities, 101,088 17
etks, (pres't val. $76,964 22) cost 71,547 97
and Bills Receivable, 4.30" 00
sh, ' 40,855 48
$1,888,904 74
ftrpetual or I/uniled Insurances made on every
xription of property, in Town and Country.
lies as low as are consistent with security.
Since their incorporation, a period of twenty
nt years, they have paid over Four Millions
bollarv losses by fire, thereby affording ev
■ ice of the advantages of Insurance, as well
'M ability and disposition to meet with
"'aptnessall liabilities.
Losses by Fire,
paid during the year 1857, $203,789 4
DIRECTORS.
its. .V Uancker, 1 Mordccai D. Lewis,
•bias lV'agner, I David S. Brown,
ffiuel Grant, j Isaac Lea,
eos ft. Smith, 1 Edward C. Dale,
K W. Richards, t George Fales.
CHARLES N. BANCKER, President.
*. A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tern.
Ir*Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL-
HiS, Esq., Lcwistown. fcb2s
IT37T &RCOBR.T,
107ISION AND FISH STORE.
HE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro
'ision and Fish Store opposite Major Eisen
' ilotel, where he has just received a fine
ftnent of fiesh
jFamflg grrocerfrs,
which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar,
is, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers,
Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy
Tobacco, Segars, Soap, &c.
! ':o, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a
assortment of Willow-ware, which he
J* for cash very cheap.
*'ll pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes,
60, &.C.
•".see prices, and judge for yourselves.
JAMES IRWIN.
CHEAP GOODS AGAIN!
: *£ undersigned having purchased the
t stock of goods of Samuel Comfort, con
of all kinds of DRY GOODS, suitable
Gentlemen and Children, Grocer
' wentware, Readymade Clothing, &c.,
' filing off the entire stock
A.T COST !
-At out the establishment. Persons wish
t buy CHEAP will do well to give us a
~ :°untry dealers wanting goods to keep
ir assortment will do well to examine
we will sell at Philadelphia prices.
• Country Produce, at market prices,
• in exchange for goods.
G. W. SOULT,
11. 11. COMFORT.
k*tow n , J un e 10, 1858.
j ' ! ghts best Window Sash, from 8x
' 1)1 'i for 4ale very low. FKANCIBCUB
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GOOD NEWS FROM HOME.
•
Good news from home, good news for me,
Has come across the deep blue sea,
Fiotn friends that I have left In tears.
From friends that I've not seen for years;
And since we parted, long ago.
My life has been a scene of wo, —
llut now a Joyftil hour has come,
For I have heard good news from home.
Good news from home, 4c.
No father's near to guide mc now.
No mother's tear to soothe my brow.
No sister's voice falls on my ear.
No brother's smile to give me cheer;
Jlut though I wander far away,
My heart Is full of Joy to-day,
For friends (across the ocean's foam,)
Have sent to me good news from home.
Good news from home, 4c.
When shall I see that cottage door.
Where I've spent years of Joy before?
Twns then I knew no grief or care.
My heart was always happy there.
Though I may never see It more.
Nor stand upon my native shore.
Where'er on earth I'm doomed to roam.
My heart will be with those at home.
Good news from home, 4c.
O! CARRY ME HOME TO DIE:
BY CAKRII CARLTON.
O! carry me hack to my childhood's home.
Where the ocean surges roar;
Where Its billows dash on a rock-bouud coast,
And moan foreverinore.
I'm pining away In a stranger's land,
lleneath a stranger's eve—
O, carry me home—O, carry me home—
O, carry me home to die!
I sigh lu vain for my native hills—
Their sweet and balmy air
Would wafl away from my youthful brow
Each truce of gloomy care.
I sigh to breathe the air of home.
To gate on its starry sky—
O, carry me home—O, carry me home—
O, carry me home to die!
I long to see my mother again.
And hear her sweetly say,
"Come, weary dove, here is thy rest.
Then fold thy wings away."
Twouhi ease my pain to hear her voice.
When death had darkened my eye—
0, carry me home—O, carry me home—
O, carry me home to die!
Then let me rest In a peaceful grave.
Beside the loved and dead;
For the quiet earth Is the only place
To rest this weary bead.
] would sweetly sleep If you burled me there.
Beneath New England's sky
O, carry me home—o, carry me home—
O, carry me home to die!
iiatni&iitia.
AN ADDRESS
DELIVERED BY
PROF. GEORGE F. M'VAKLAND,
At the opening of the present session of the
Freeburg Academy.
RESPECTED FRIENDS: —Heretofore it
has been the custom to invite able and el
oquent men from abroad to address you at
the commencement of each Session. This
was especially the case at opening of the
last two sessions, at the first of which our
esteemed and very talented friend, the Rev.
S. Homer, of Selinsgrovc, entertained his
audience so well, that at the request of ma
ny of them, a copy of his address was pro-
Cured for publication —a fitting tribute to
its worth.
On the occasion of our last commence
ment, our no less esteemed and eloquent
friend, Rev. 0. Z. Wciser, then of the
same place, favored a delighted audience
with one of the most able productions. —
Upon this occasion, however, you will not
be thus entertained. No one has been pro
cured to address you, and consequently the
duty devolves upon us, though doubtless no
less to your regret than ours.
In the discharge of this duty our re
marks shall be brief and practical, and di
rected particularly to the three great clas
ses directly interested in the success of all
institutions of learning, viz:—Students,
Parents, and friends of Education.
You Students, the first class, are espe
cially interested in the commencement of
a new session. \ acation has come and
cone again, and the melodious notes of the
I© © /
Bell, so conspicuously suspended in the cu
pola above our heads, again calls you to
your studies, after having allowed ample
time for amusement and recreation.
Among you, we, your teachers, recognize
familiar faces and with pleasure extend
you a sincere and affectionate welcome,
while we still cherish in our memory those
whose seats are occupied by strangers, re
gretting the vicissitudes of fortune which
thus compel us to separate from them.
Many deep emotions arise in the heart of
the faithful and consciencious teacher, upon
such occasions, and instinctively do we
pledge ourselves to labor more diligently,
and through past experience, we trust,
more ably for you students, than ever.
No stone shall remain unturned, or duty
unperformed, calculated to advance my
dear young friends, in the delightful paths
of learning, rectitude and honor. Day af
ter day will we labor cheerfully and faith
fully, to remove all obstructions from these
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1858.
paths, or assist you to surmount them.
But to enable us to succeed in doing this,
certain duties devolve upon you. }Ve can
not succeed in promoting your advancement,
without corresponding efforts on your part;
and at the beginningof this, another session,
it behooves you to consider carefully what
those efforts are. Let us then enumerate
a few of them.
First. —Your first effort will be to ascer
tain what your object in going to school is.
Here many, very many students fail. How
few indeed, have a clear idea of their ob
ject in attending school! Some go because
their parents desire it; others because their
position demands it, or it is fashionable, and
others again because they have no particu
lar employment for a few months, and think
their time better thus occupied than else
where.
Most, if not all, such students fail to sat
isfy either themselves or their friends. To
show the cause of this failure, it is only
necessary to state the well established fact
that to succeed in obtaining a sound and
comprehensive mental, moral, and physi
cal education, the student must unreserved
ly throw his whole mind and soul into his
efforts to pursue it. Home, company pleas
ure and loved ones must all be sacrificed
for it. Self denial must be the student's
daily companion. Weary hours of toil
must engage him, while others are enjoy
ing the real and imaginary pleasures of
life, or else he never will reach the top of
the hill upon which his aching eyes have
been fixed.
Let us turn to the light and trivial stu
dents of whom we arc speaking, and ask,
will they make all these sacrifices ? With
out a definite object in view, can they give
up all things to obtain it? They cannot,
they do not, and this is the cause of their
failure. Never will they drink deep from
the pure fount of knowledge. " Shallow
draughts" must ever satisfy them, and they
must be content to wander about the base
of that mount, upon the top of which their
more noble brethren may be seen resting
their weary limbs, and basking in the sun
shine of royal favor.
Ilut a few of another class, who have ex
amined carefully themselves and their fel
low creatures, have discovered that the
mind, heart and body need careful, syste
matic and continued training and cultiva
tion.
These having ascertained what they want, |
and having counted the cost, go to work
with a self-sacrificing spirit, a will and an
energy that carry them through every dif
ficulty, over every opposing obstacle. —
While the former are spending their time
in vain wishes for hotter opportunities, the
latter are using those they have. While
the one class is running from school to
school in search of better teachers, more
costly apparatus and cramming processes for
rapidly filling their empty heads; the oth
er is making use of the teachers and appa
ratus within their reach as helps , and slow
ly but surely filling their rapidly develop
ing minds and hearts with the products of
their own silent toil. And to conclude the
contrast, when the first class shall have been
forgotten, or passed from this stage of ac
tion into utter oblivion, the last will be the
dazzling stars upon which the world will
love to gaze, or having been peacefully
gathered to their final resting place, will
leave their praises to be sung bj r "millions
yet unborn."
And now let me ask, to which of these
classes do you, my young friends whom I
am addressing, belong ? Time can tell.
Second effort. —The student having as
certained his objects in going to school, and
having with a self-sacrificing spirit thrown
his entire energies into his efforts to obtain
those objects, in the second place, needs
continual efforts to guard himself from the
many enemies by which he is surrounded.
The battle once begun, must never be re
laxed until victory perches upon his ban
ners. Ignorance is a powerful enemy
and will fight you with many weapons, and
those well suited to overcome every means
of defence. The active and rapid student
will be attacked by fatigue and exhaustion;
: the inactive and slow by sloth and short
l sightedncss; the daring and able by flatte
|ry and self-examination; the timid and
i weak by danger and despair.
Thus will every class of studants be met
by the weapons most powerful against his
particular case, rendering it impossible for
any class to succeed, except the industri
ous, vigilant and persevering. Let me re-
peat it: The industrious, vigilant and per
severing student alone will succeed —in-
dustrious to perform the great amount of
labor in the way; vigilant to guard away
all the enemies or weapons of ignorance
enumerated, and many more; and perscvc
ing to struggle on unyieldingly until the
battle is won.
Students, do you possess these three qual
ities ? Are you cultivating your industry,
vigilance and perseverance ? If you are,
it is well; if you are not, let me urge you
to do so—as a friend let me urge you
again to do so. They will smooth your
rugged path, they will carry you on at all
times, they will enable you to combat the
greatest difficulties, and bring you off more
than conquerors. The student possessing
these will not disobey his teacher, he will
not growl at him for exacting compliance
to his rules, or neglecting to do so; he will
not expect him to clear his pathway of ev
ery obstruction, he will not teaze him to do
for him what he should do for himself; he
will not fret and scold at his teacher and
schoolmates, and he will not blame them if
he does not improve. Are these traits of
character valuable, students ? Would you
not like to possess tlieni ? Cultivate them
and you can do so. The session we are
now about commencing will tell who try to
posvsess them and who do not. We shall
see. And at its close, your certificates of
scholarship and standing will enable you
And your parents and friends to see also.
And remember, from the worthy and suc
cessful the reward will not be withheld.
And now parents, I wish to address my
self briefly to you. The students, whom I
have been addressing are dependent upon
parents, not only for opportunities to edu
cate themselves, but also for every assistance
necessary to overcome the innumerable
difficulties continually surrounding the path
way. The student may be willing, the
teacher may be good, and yet the scholar
may not make progress in aequiriug valua
able knowledge, unless the parent also does
his duty. Do we not wish to do our duty
to our children, says one? Certainly you
Jo—l reply, and so dues every parent; but
very often neither you nor they do it; and
of what advantage are empty wishes to
them ? Here the question arises, why,
and in what particular do parents not do
their duty to their children. I will name
a few.
Want of time prevents parents from
guarding carefully the health and morals
of the young child. The mother is busied
with others, or with household duties, and
the father is absent at his work, so that the
habits of the child are formed, or its thou
sand ingenious questions are either answer
ed by an ignorant, careless hireling, or both
are unattended to. When the child goes
to school, want of time or disposition, fatigue
or ignorance, kees parents from helping or
even encouraging it. As it learns to play
and seeks mates, it is not instructed or
not cared for; when it does wrong, it is
sometimes punished in a passion without
understanding its crime, or not at all. His
idle tales, picked up upon the streets, are
believed or made fun of, according to hu
mor ; one day, one week, or one quarter, it
is sent to school, the next it is kept at
home; fathers set about public places, furn
ishing it a bad example, while tliey should
be instructing it, Ac., to the end of the
chapter.
Children thus trained, cannot always
make good students; indeed it is suqirising
that they ever do.
How important for parents, who see what
difficulties and dangers beset the path of
youth, to carefully guide them, or if unable
place them under the guidance of those
known to be able to do so. How watchful
should they he of their intellect, morals
and health. And what can be thought of
that parent who neglects these important
duties, who will not labor hard, to furnish
his children with the means of an educa
tion ; especially he who will not do so
through stiuginess and meanness, when his
Hevenly Father has blessed him with abun
dance of this world's goods which he soon
must leave? Fathers, attend better to the
present and future welfare of your children;
care for them, watch over them, educate
them, and then they will pay you for do
ing so, by doing the same to their chil
dren.
In the last place, I now turn to friends
of education in general. Thero are many
duties devolving upon them. Their pn>
fessing to be such, makes its enemies
watch them closely, and if they stab the
cause by treachery and meanness, how its
enemies do rejoice! What do we think of a
man that is continually talkiny of education;
its advantages and blessings; and though
he enjoys it himself as an inheritance from
his generous parents, yet allows his own
children to grow up in ignorance, even if
surrounded by the means of education ?
Or, of him who professes to be a philan
throphist and christian, and yet allows his
neighbor to wallow in the miry pool of ig
norance and sin.
And again, what estimate do we form of
that man, who receives his daily bread
from those whom he boasts he is laboring
to give more expanded intellect and enlight
ened understandings, while for sordid gain
he exhibits a narrower intellect and more
benighted understanding than they? This
applies to a class of prowling teachers,
who, "like wolves in sheep clothing," scour
the country, undermine and belie their
fellow teachers, and for " pretext," preach
"and make long prayers." It is this class of
teachers that so injures and demeans the
profession, that honest and capable men
leave it in disgust upon the first opportunity.
Verily the profession is ruined by its friends
who profess to protect it from its enemies.
Another class are always friends of edu
cation when nothing but talk is needed,
but the moment action and means are
wanted, their attention is particularly needed
in another direction. Such men injure
the cause and its friends—the cause by
withholding their support, and its friends
by creeping among them, influencing their
councils, and then parallizing their efforts
by withdrawing when they are depended
upon. Young men growing up in ignor
ance and sin, find a very windy friend in
such men ; but when they should take them
by the hand, kindly furnish the means of
education, and reformation, they slip off
upon some flimsy pretext of unworthinees,
when perhaps there is a truer heart and
more worth beneath thou rough exteriors,
than ever was under their own fine feath
ers.
Such friends of education are a curse
to the cause, and the sooner it is rid of
them the better for it. There are, however,
those of a different character who are real
friends, who aid in advancing its interests
with their influence and means, and who
stand by it in adversity as well as in pros
perity.
And now let me ask you, whom I am
addressing, to which of these classes do you
belong ? Do you belong to those who, hav
ing received an education from the parents
deny it to their children ? Or to that
philanthropic class who leave their neigh
bor perish because they have shown the
want of a good education by doing wrong?
Or to those educators (excuse the sacrilege)
who should close their sermons with, "do
as I say, not as I do." Or to that noisy
windy class, who eloquently defend the
cause, but fail as soon as means and action
are needed ? Or finally, do you belong
to that more noble class who stand by the
cause in adversity as well as prosperity, who
talk and labor for, and contribute to its
advancement, and who form the real hack
hone of its support ? Though a few may
belong to some of the first, let me hope
that the greater number belongs to this
latter class, and that they will persevere
in their efforts to advance that cause, which
has for its objects the amelioration of the
condition of mankind, and the advancement
of true christian morals.
I have now noticed the three classes
first alluded to, and will leave the subject
to your own careful consideration, with the
earnest hope that through this session, all
three may cordially unite in the faithful
discharge of the various duties devolving
upon them, and thus secure unexampled
success in the prosecution of the cause in
which we are all engaged.
GARDENING OPERATIONS. — Addressed
to Ladies. —Make up your bids early in
the morning; sow buttons on your husband's
shirts; do not rake up any grievances; pro
tect the young and tender branches of your
family; plant a smile of good temper in
your face, and take care to root out all angry
feelings, and you may expect a good crop
of happiness.
KgAA new stove has been invented for
the comfort of travellers; it is to he put
under the feet, with a mustard plaster on
the head, which draws the heat through
the whole system.
New Series—Vol. 111, No. 41.
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.
The following account df the Cotiragcous
conduet of a voting lady has been commu
nicated to a New Jersey paper : A Mr M.,
whose health was impaired by the climate
of the seaboard, was induced to remove
from the city of New York to the interior
of Illinois, his family consisting of his'
wife and three children, the oldest a young
lady of seventeen summers, and the young
est some three years. Early that spring, a
maiden lady, a particular frierid of the
family and very much attached to Mrs. M.
aud her children, removed foriii NcW York
and took up her abode with them. She
had not been long in her new home before
she was suddenly taken away by death.
While Mr. and Mrs. M. were attending
the funeral of Miss W., Miss M. was left
in charge of the house and the young child,
and the room containing the effects of the
late Miss. W., which was situated on the
second story of the house, was locked by
the young lady and the child put to sleep'
in an adjoining room, while Miss M. was
busying herself with her duties below
Some time afterward, Miss M., hearing a
noise up stairs, and supposing the child
had awoke, proceeded to look after it, but
Found it sleeping quietly. With a thought'
as quick an electricity, she concluded that
some one had entered Miss W.'s room 1
form the outside for the purpose of robbing
it. Acting on this theory, she immediate
ly went down stairs, procured Her father's
double barrelled gun, and returning, open-'
cd the door of the room of the late Miss
W., when her expectations were fully re-'
alized in beholding a stout mart in the
very act of appropriating a gold watch and
chain, which he had just taken from a trunk
of the late Miss W. She ordered Kim tcF
lay down the watch, and the fellow, noticing
her determined attitude and manner, very,
readily complied. She next ordered him 1
to take the money from his pocket, which
he had extracted; he denied having taken
any, when she gave a more peremptory
order, accompanied with suitable movements
of a military nature, when he, thinking
" discretion the better part of valor," pro
duced the money and deposited it with the
watch. She then gave him the passage
and orders to inarch, which he readily
obeyed.
Ou the return of her parents, measures
were taken (which proved successful) and
the fellow, after being caught, was speedily
brought to trial, fully identified, convicted,
and sentenced to the State Prison, and the
Court caused to be presented to the young ;
lady a testimonial in the form of a beautiful
pin, with a suitable inscription.
A short time after this, the same young
lady was at home alone as before, and her
parents not returning at dark, she took the
precaution to fasten the outer door. She
had not long done so, when she heard a
knock, hut before exposing herself to dan
ger, she took precaution to provide the
means of defence in the same two barrelled
gun as on the former occasion. On carefully
opening the door, a strange man presented
himself and inquired, " Are you Miss M?"
She replied "Yes, what do you want?"
He inquired again, " Are you the young
lady who had a man sent to State Prison?"
She replied " I am." Thou said he, " I
am his friend, and have come to put you
out of the way," and drawing a long dirk
knife was proceeding to enter the door,
when she deliberately aimed the gun at
him, and told him if he advanced a step he
would be a dead man. She immediately
noticed that he changed countenance and
began to tremble; whereupon she, pursu
ing her advantage, ordered him to about
face, march, which he very readily obeyed,
and as lie was retreating she gave him a
parting salute, by discharging one barrel of
her trusty companion, which unfortunately
only accelerated his retrograde motion.
Cane Cider. —The Nashville Homestead
says that, besides the excellent syrup and
sugar made from the Chinese sugar cane,
there is yet another article obtained from
it which is of a pleasant taste, and doubt
less healthy in its consequences. It is ob
tained by putting the expressed juice of
cane into any clean wood or glass vessel, al
lowing it to stand ten or twelve days, when
it assumes the appearance of limpid water
and it is fit for use. The flavor is similar
to our best cider, and we suppose it might
be properly called cane oider.
Raise your children right, and they will
be grateful in after years.