ffbote No. 2479. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION#! O*E DOLLAR PER ANSI'3I, IN ADVANCE. for six months, 75 cents. NEW subscriptions must be paid in P a P cr ' s continued, and net M within the first month, §1,25 will be charg- P} :f (IJ t paid in three months, §1,50; if not l in six months, §1,75; and if not paid in !;ne months, §2,00. 411 p| ,eri addressed to persons out of the n . v will be discontinued at the expiration of C h^time paid for, unless special request is made the contrary or payment guaranteed by some Sponsible person here. ' R ADVERTISING. Ten lines of minion, or their equivalent, con fute a square. Three insertions §l, and 25 fjnts for each subsequent insertion. The West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK HAVEN, PA., rysUR.ES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer | chandise, Farm Property, and other Build and their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. Hon John J. Pearce, Hoo4l. C. Harvey, John B.Hall, T. T. Abrams, Charles A. Mayer, D. K. Jackman, Charles Crist, -W. White, "eter Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. Thos. Kitchen, Sec'y. REFERENCES. itnuel H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D D. IA. Winegardner, Wm, Vanderbelt. A. Mackey. Wm. Fearon, t White, Dr. J - S. Crawford, iimes Quiggle, A. Updegraff, John W. Maynard, James Armstrong, Hon. Simon Cameron, Hon. Win. Bigler. Agent for Mifflin county, G. W. STEW JRT, Esq. a P 23 ladrmaity from Loss and Damage by Fire, ,Ind the Perils of Marine and Inland Transportation. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylva nia, with a Perpetual Charter. Authorized Capital, $1,000,000. If/ice No. 61 Walnut St. above Second, Phila. Fire Insurauce on Buildings, Furniture, Mer ihandise, &c., generally. Marine Insurance M Cargoes and Freights to all parts of the sorld. Inland Insurance on Goods, &c., by Lakes, Rivers, Canals, and Land Carriages, to ill parts of the Union, on the most favorable ierms, consistent with security. DIRECTORS. George W. Colladay, William Bowers, John >l. Coleman, Joseph Oat, Edwin V. Machette, Howard Hinchman. GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President. Galen Wiijos, Secretary. for Mitflin county, Win. F. EL LIOTT, Esq. feb!9-ly INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE. Franklin Fire Insurance Compa ny of Philadelphia. office 433 and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth. STATEMENT OF ASSETS, January 1, 1858, published agreeably to an act of Assembly, being— First Mortgages, amply secured, $1,596,823 19 Real Estate, (present value SIOO,- 3<)0.) cost, 74,280 93 Temporary Loans, on ample Col lateral Securities, 101,088 17 Stocks, (pres't val. $76,964 22) cost 71,547 97 Notes and Bills Receivable, 4,307 00 Cash, 40,855 48 §1,888,904 74 Perpetual or Limited Insurances made on every description of property, in Town and Country. Rates as low as are consistent with security. Since their incorporation, a period of twenty- years, they have paid over Four Millions of Dollars' losses by fire, thereby affording ev idence of the advantages of Insurance, as well as the ability and disposition to meet with promptness all liabilities. l Losses by Fire. Losses paid during the year 1857, §203, <B9 4 DIRECTORS. Chas. N. Bancker, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis, Tobias Wagner, I David S. Brown, •Samuel Grant, i Isaac Lea, Jacob R. Smith, I Edward C. Dale, Geo. W. Richards, | George Fales. CHARLES N. BANCKER, President. W M . A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tem. IC§F Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. WAL TERS, Esq., Lewistown. feb2s ITEVf G-E.CGiEE.7r, PROVISION AND FISH STORE. r PHE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro -1 vision and Fish Store opposite Major Eisen bise's Hotel, where be has just received a fine Hsortment of fresh jFamtls (Groceries, among which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar, Teas, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers, fish, Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy Salt, Tobacco, Segars, Soap, &c. Also, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a Urge assortment of Willow-ware, which he offers for cash very cheap. I will pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes, Onions, &.c. Call, see prices, and judge for yourselves. se P 3 F JAMES IRWIN. CHEAP GOODS AGAIN! IMIE undersigned having purchased the . stock of goods of Samuel Comfort, con suiting of all kinds of DRY GOODS, suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, Grocer i6B> Queensware, Readymade Clothing, &c., intend selling off the entire stock AT COST! to close out the establishment. Persons wish lßJs to buy CHEAP will do well to give ns a c*!!. Country dealers wanting goods to keep °P their assortment will do well to exumino oor stock, an we will sell at Philadelphia prices. J*. B. Country Produce, at market prices, *'ll be received in exchange for goods. G. W. SOULT. , . 11. 11. COMFORT. Lewistown, June 10, 1858. -yOO lights best Window Sash, from 8x " 10 to 10*18, for sale very low. FRANCWC'US jmssffaiE) ASJ3S ffunmiaiifflanaE) ms smTOnsjsaißa M2WUB®@WSJ 9 SBIUHHUISJ @@iffsys , 2'a OAI MUBWBE. [From the Newport Gazette.] MY HAPPY HOME. BT MARIE MATVI LIE. My happy home is close beside The Juniata's silvery tide, Where sparkling waves borne swift along Trill forth a never ceasing song. How sweetly ou my listening ear Their murmur falls in accents dear. And back to fond remembrance brings Bright thoughts of cherished bygone things. Once, when a happy sportive child, I roamed these hills and mountains wild- Played by this ever gliding stream, Then life was but a passing dream. Oft when the moon, in beauty dressed. Rose brightly o'er Mount Butfaloe's crest, I've watched its rays, as bright they fell Where Juniata's waters swell. Bright days of childhood, past and gone. Thy Joys and pleasures all have ilown! Kind friends and loved companions gay Like summer tiow'rs have passed away. Vet still I gaze with honest pride Upon the river's roiling tide; And still, tho' far away I roam, 1 love my childhood's happy home. Thus years roll on—death follows fust; Oh! may we fondly hope at last To find, when life's frail cord is riven, A home, a happy hckue in heaven. HYMN ON THE SEASONS. BT THOMPSON*. These, as they eliuuge. Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of thee. Forth In t' ' r -!ng Thy beauties walk, thy tei ... \ Wide flush the fields; the - * aal ;s h.t.in . Echo the mountains roum: forest smiles; And cv'ry sense, and cv'rv .rlisjoy. Then comes thy glory in the suiutni r months. With light and heat refulg i . Then thy sun Nlioots full perfection thro' the swelling year. And oft thy voice In dreadful thunder speaks; And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve, By brooks and groves, in hollow whisp'rlug gales. Thy bounty shines in autumn unconfin'd, And spreads a common feast for all that lives. In winter, awful thou! with clouds and storms Around thee thrown, tempest o'er tempest roll'd, Majestic darkness! ou the whirlwind's wing Hiding sublime, thou bldst the world adore. And humblest nature with thy northern blast. From the St. Louis Democrat. The JLate Balloon Ascension in Illinois. Authentic Faticulars. —The startling story of the late frightful ascent of two small children alone in a balloon, has na turally excited some incredulity, which in turn, has been increased by the rather di verse accounts given of the event. But the return to our city of the aeronaut, Mr. 8. M. Brooks, enables us to give an authen tic confirmation and true version of the thrilling narrative. This gentleman kind ly informs us substantially as follows : lie was to have ascended from the Fair Grounds at Centralia on Friday, the 17th September, but finding himself unwell, ac cepted the offer of another aeronaut, Mr. Wilson, who volunteered to take his place in the balloon. Mr. Wilson effected a beau tiful ascent, at 5J p. ui., floating westward and then south-eastward, rising two and a half miles, and at about 01 p. ui. descend ed sixteen miles south-eastward of the start ing point. lie was caught in a tree about forty-five rods from the farm-house of Mr. Benjamin Harvey. The spot is some two miles and a half from Rome, Jefferson coun ty. Mr. Harvey and his family, and others, gathered and disentangled the air-ship. They then pulled the car to the ground and some boys held the ropes as tiie voyager alighted, and while he was drawn oil' in con versation with the inquisitive people, the the balloon was "towed" towards the house, and Mr. Uarvey prepared to have some sport by raising the length of the rope, to be pulled down. Proving too heavy to rise, he stepped out and put in his three children—a lad .of three years, a girl of eight and a still older girl. At this point Mr. Wilson called out to those holding the ropes to be sure and hold fast. But the children were too heavy, aud the eldest was taken out. At this instant, through the unwatchfulness of the persons at the cords, the balloon suddenly and very swiftly went up! The anchor struck in a rail fence but tore it away, while a cry of horror burst from the agonized group. The chil dren screamed with horror, and the piteous appeal, ' Pull me down, Father!' as it con stantly grew fainter and fainter, rendered the parents, and indeed all present, for the time perfectly frantic. It was now past 7 o'clock, was becoming dark, and the bal loon was lost sight of. A period of more in tense wretcheduess to the parental heart can scarcely be imagined. As there was little wind, t!: ■: balloon had gone almost directly upward until its d ap pearance in a south-easterly course. Mes sengers were dispatched through • < region in every direction, and the ala- • spread rapidly, creating the most intense excite- THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1858. ment. In all quarters the men and boys rallied in parties to scour the country and search the woods, in the expectation that the victims would somewhere descend and be subjected to the perils of drowning, or else of starving undiscovered. At Centralia, the intelligence caused an indescribable sensation. The popular anx iety—almost agony—called out Mr. Brooks, who assured the people that the balloon would probably descend withiu two or three hours, and within at most thirty miles of the point of starting. lie sent to the distracted parents the best assurances pos sible in the case, informing them that there would be no danger excepting from a de scent in the woods, when the children might with difficulty be found, and from the older child's first stepping out and leav ing the younger again to rise. Apart from these perils, in themselves improbable, Mr. Brooks apprehended no danger to the little voyageurs. Yet the idea became current that they must encounter a frigid atmos phere which they could not survive. It was about three o'clock on Saturday morning that Mr. Ignatius Atchinson, liv ing on Moore's prairie, eight miles from Mount Vernon, got up, he says, and went out upon his porch 'to sec the blazing star'—the comet. An immense spectre rising from a tree, about twenty yards dis tant, rather appalled him, and he r< n •. r- Ed the house, and waked his family. On his coming out agaiu, a weak and piteous voice called to him from the spectre, ' Come here and let us down, we're almost froze!' Mr. Atchinson speedily perceived the astonishing nature of the case, mus tered help, cut away several limbs of the tree, and drew the car in safety to the ground. The little boy was lifted out, and when placed upon his feet instantly ran for sev eral yards, then turned, and for a moment contemplated the balloon with apparent in tense curiosity. The little girl told her sorrows and adventures with an almost bro- ! ken heart, to these people, who strangely 1 indeed had not heard of the disaster. A messenger arrived at Mr. Harvey's, eighteen miles distant, at 2 p. m. with the transporting tiding that the children were sale. We will leave it to the reader's heart ! to suggest the joy which the intelligence j caused. It was late in the afternoon when the little ones arrived and were clasped once more into the embrace of their pa rents. The happy result was received in Cen tralia, and announced on Sunday morning in the churches amid eestacics of joy.— The children were brought there on Mon day. and welcomed with the firing of can non and a general jubilee. Photograph portraits were taken of them by Mr. Win. B. Matthews, artist in Centralia, and avar riety of presents were made to them. The ; girl is named Martha Ann, and her little 1 brother, David Isani. She says that lie soon cried himself to sleep, and that she cried till she slept a little and then wakened up in the tree. Mr. Brooks affirms that the balloon must have descended by II o'clock of Friday night, and hence had remained in the tree till its discovery through the kindness 4 of the blazing star,' and the astronomical wake fulness of Mr. Atchinson. Fright Jul Accident —A Little Girl Hung. —A frightful accident occurred lately near the village of Friendship, Alleghany coun ty, on the New York and Erie Rrailroad. A woman named Guilford started with a little girl about nine years of age, after locking up the house, to visit one of her neighbors. After proceeding a short dis tance the mother remembered something which she had left behind her in the house and sent the little girl back after it, while she walked on. Arrived at her place of destination, she waited a long time, but the girl did not appear, and she returned home. On reaching home she found the body of lier daughter hanging from the window outside, dead. It appeared that the little girl, unable to affect an entrance by the door, had raised the window, and while en deavoring to crawl in, it had fallen upou her ueck and held her fast until life was extinct. She was an only child, always in de'.eate health, and her parents are nearly distracted at their loss. igsaf i lie brandy, wine, cigars aud tobac co imported into the United States last year cost 814,034,9(58. The loss of the Austria. How a Lady saved her Life but lost her Jewelry and Passaye Money. A lady resident of this city arrived home yesterday from a visit to Europe, where she has been spending the past few months. A short time previous to tho sailing of the Austria, the lady sent the amount necessa ry for a cabin passage to New York, to the agent at Hamburg, with iustructions to select her a good state room. He did as directed, with the exception of giving her a desirable location in the vessel, and on her arrival in Hamburg, to sail with the steamer, she found the vessel so crowded with passengers, and the room assigned to her so undesirable, that she concluded to take passage in another steamer. With this intention, she applied to the agent for the return of her passage money, hut he declined to refund. " A bargain was a bargain with him, and the lady was either compelled to accept such quarters as had been assigned to her, or to return by an other vessel and logc her passage ticket. She determined to adopt the latter course, and at once secured a state loom in anoth er steamer. After her arrangements had been made, and before the Austria sailed, a feeling took possession of her mind that the ves st J n which she had taken passage would meet with some terrible accident, and that sue herself would in all probability be lost! So well satisfied was she that some thing would happen, just as people fre quently " borrow trouble" without waiting for it to come along naturally, that she de termined to send her jewelry by the Aus tria. She therefore stripped herself of ev erything valuable, watch and chain, pins, rings, brooches, &c., to a considerable amount, and packing them securely in a basket, committed theni to the care of the captain of the Austria, taking the precau tion to inform her friends of what she had done, in order that they might recov er the p*>perty in case her own groundless fears in regard to herself would be reali zed. The result is well known. The vessel in which the lady took passage arrived safely at its destination. That which she had been prompted to leave, even at con siderable loss, with its load of human be ings, met with a fate that appalled the stoutest hearts! It is needless to add that the lady is contented. She lost her pas sage money and her jewelry, but saved her life.— Cincinnati Gazette, Oct. 2. Ilorse an'J a Corpse tied toe/ether three \ Waks. —Early in August, John Rawle, a lad uf l(i j'ears, living in Volcano, Amador county, who had vainly been endeavoring to obtain his father's consent to go to Frazer ltiver, disappeared, taking with him a val i uable horse belonging to the family. It was supposed that he had started for Frazer River, and so little anxiety was felt in re gard to him. On the 15th of August his body was found in the Butte Ditch, a few miles eastof Jackson, attached by a 'larriat' !to a half dead horse. From appearances, | the boy, on the night after leaving borne, ! lay down to sleep, with the liorse tied to bis person to prevent liis escape. The an imal, becoming unmanageable through fright, during the night, had run off, and dragged his master by the rope, until the boy's life was extinct. Afterwards, the horse had continued to graze around, drag ging the body with it for three weeks, i Finally the corps had been dragged into a ditch where it became entangled, be) T ond J the horses strength to extricate it. In his efforts to pull loose, the horse had cut his | neck with the rope. The boy's remains were horribly mutilated. Most of his limbs were broken, and the flesh rubbed bare from the body. ! SOFT SOAP. —•' Ma, lam going to make i some soft soap for the Fair this Fall,' said ! a beautiful miss of sixteen to her mother the other day. ' What put that notion into your head Sallie V < Why mother, the premium is just what I have been wanting for a long while.' | ' What is it V 1 A ' Kishacoquillaa Farmer,' I hope be will be a good looking one though !' ffpfThoy are to have a new style of heads for the Births, Marriages and Deaths in some of the papers in California. In their place they propose to substitute Hatch ; ed, Matched, and Dispatched. Gold in Kansas. For a month or two reports have been rife of gold existing in large quantities at i'ike's Peak, Kansas, but the impression was general that it was a ruse to induce emigration there. The news is as conflicting as ever. The Leavenworth Times of the 28th ult. says that a Mr. Spaulding arrived in that city from the gold diggings and pronounced them " considerable of a myth." Gold was everywhere, but not sufficiently acces sible or plentiful to pay for digging. A Mr. James Miller, who is said to have left the Cherokee country last spring with a company of fifty-five, has prospected the entire gold district, and crossed over into New Mexico. lie, too, is convinced that no paying deposits can be found, and that most of the miners were disheartened and about leaving the country. On the other hand, the Kansas City Journal of Comerce of the 29th says that Mr. John Horton, a well known and relia ble business man of that place, arrived there on the 28th ult, having left Fort Laramie on the 3d, bringing interesting and important news from the gold mines of the Arkansas, Pike's Peak and Cherry Creek. Mr. Ilorton says that all the Indi an traders about the Fort, and in the vi cinity of Peer Creek, were removing their goods to the mines; that he saw at the fort a Mr. Jackson, who had several hun dred dollars worth of the dust; that the mines were poorly provided with bread stuffs, not over two months' supplies being on band. They were also destitute of mi ning tools. Picks and shovels were worth their weight in gold—in fact they could not be had at any price. There was not a rocker in the mines, and no sheet iron with which to make riddles. Mr. Morton adds that a Mr. Benjamin Clemmore is now coming in, and will be there in eight or ten days, bringing §SOO of the gold, which he obtained in about two weeks without any tools; that there are now about two hundred and eighty men in the mines, most of whom are engaged in prospecting Cherry Creek and in the vi cinity of the Medicine Bow; and that sev en men worked two weeks aud made §SOO with nothing but pans. Statements more contradictory than these from apparently equally well-informed sources, can hardly be imagined. Massacre of Five Youwj Girls in Spain. —At Yich, in the province of Catalonia, on the 31st ult., as six young girls, of the ages of 23, 21, 14, 13 12, 10 years, were walking home from Matus cotton mills, which are situated near the village of Rodas, to Ingarolas, they were stopped by two mis creants, who pistol in hand, obliged them to turn back to a solitary place in the Ser radanwood. Here they were ordered to sit down, and while one wretch kept guard over five, the other led the eldest a few paces off and plunged his long Catalan knife into her throat. Iler dying shriek was heard by her companions, who one by one. were led away and butchered. The youngest of all, a child of ten years, on receiving a wound in the neck fell, feign ing death, upon which the assassins, after taking the little money the girls had about them went to the village of Rodas where they lived. The crime was perpetrated at night. The wounded child remained motionless until daylight, when she crawled to a neighbor ing farm bouse. When the authorities ar rived at the seat of crime, they found the three eldest girls dead, and two desperately wounded. The cause of this bloody act is said to have been jealousy, arising from some display of eoquctry at a ball, the pre ceding Sunday, where the prettiest of the girls, the one 21 years of age, refused to dance with one of the assassins, or to re turn him a ring, or some other love token. He had then looked for an accomplice, and found one in a neighbor. The accomplice, it appears from the deposition of the child, would have spared the younger ones, but the other alleging the danger of discovery, insisted upon their completing their batch er's work. jto£T*During an examination, a medical student being asked the question—" when does mortification ensue 1" answered— " When you pop the question and are an swered 'No' " B@uße kind to tho poor and they will not forget you. New Series—Vol. 111, No. 47. TOTAL, DESTRUCTION OF THE CRYS TAL. PALACE AT NEW YORK.. We extract the following particulars of the destruction of this fine building from the Courier of the 6th instant: The Crystal Palace, situated on Reservoir Square, Sixth avenue and Forty-second street, in which the Fair of the American Institute was being held, was destroyed by tire shortly after fire o'clock last evening. The fire origi nated in a room in the north nave, used for the storage of some articles left in the Palace since the Industrial Exhibition of 1851, and the alarm was scarcely sounded throughout the building before the flames began to spread in all directions. The galleries being hung with goods, the fire was almost instantly com municated to the different sections of the Palace, and the spectators and exhibitors, about 2000 in number, bad scareely time to save themselves. The scene which followed was most fearful; the greatest consternation prevailed, all rushing for the doors, except some of the exhibitors, who made an effort to save their goods. The rush and press at the doors was for a time quite suffocating, but fortunately the Palace was well planned for means of egress, and the people soon found themselves outside. The floorß of the building being of Georgia pine, burned like so much tinder, and BOOH deprived the grand structure of much of its support. Many of the exhibitors clung to their valuable goods to the last moment pos sible, but very few managed to save anything. Some came out with their clothes on fire, and narrowly escaped suffocation. It was the general impression for seme time that a large number of persons had been shut off by the flames, those coming out last reporting sever al left behind. The most painful apprehen sions were entertained, and at least thirty persons were thought to be lost in the flames, but fortunately such was not the case. Those supposed to be in the building at the time, had escaped out of opposite doors to those who had reported them lost. In fifteen minutes after the discovery of the fire, the dome fell in, and in live or ten minutes more, the magnificent structure, for seven years one of the principal ornaments of the city, was in a heap of ruins. Fragments of the walls and portions of the iron frame remained. The contents continued to burn and smoulder up to a late hour. The firemen were early at the premises, but could do nothing to stop the progress of the flames. The dome was ready to fall in when they got to work, and then efforts were found necessary to prevent the fire from communi cating to buildings on the streets adjoining. At a late hour the painful impression of persons having been lost by the catastrophe was chiefly removed. No one was known to to be missing, and it was believed that no lives were lost. The fire was supposed to hare been the work of au incendiary—some thought for the purpose of plunder. The entire losais thought to bo upwards of a million dollars. The Palace lately became the property of the city, under the charter given the original owners, and was not known to be insured. The cor poration does not insure its buildings. The Palace had been insured by its previous own ers for $50,000. It originally cost $700,000 to SBOO,OOO. Some of the individual Josses were large. Robert Rait, jeweller in Broadway, lost a case of diamonds valued at §30,000. The Castle ton Slate Company lost SSOOO worth of prop erty ; the N. Y. Steam Heating Company, $0800; Mr. Chickering, piano manufacturer, SIO,OOO. The Washington statue was worth $15,000; the Amazon, SIO,OOO. Engine companies No. 28, 16, and 31, had their best apparatus on exhibition, and lost them. The apparatus of Hose Companies Nos. 1, 5, and 40, were also destroyed ; also Engine No. 1, of Brooklyn. WANTEJD, At the Lewistown Steam Mill, ALL KINDS OF AT HIGHEST CASH PRICES! On hand, for sale, FLOUR, by the hundred or barrel, RYE FLOUR, CORN MEAL, B UCK WEE A T FL O UR, FEED OF ALL KINDS. ft£>~A large quantity of Coal, Salt, Plas ter, &c. for sale low for cash. ALFRED MARKS, Agent. Lewistown, Oct. 8, 1857. Pennsylvania Railroad. ON and after Wednesday, September 1, 1858, trains leave Lewistown Station as follows- Eastward. Westward. Through Express, 5 35 a. m. 5 51 a. m. Fast Line, 9 42 p. m. 7 30 p. m. Mail Train, 250 p.m. 325 " Through Freight, 5 35 p. m. 2 05 a. m. Local " 6 05 7 30 " Express Freight, 1 50 " 9 55 " On ami after September Ist, the fare will be as follows: to Jlarrisburg, $1 80 ; to Philadel phia, 505 ; to Altoona, 2 15; to Pittsburgh, 5 05; to Mililin, 35 cents ; to Anderson's, 15; to Mc- Veytown, 35; to Manayunk, 50; to Newton Hamilton, 65. £L]j*The Ticket Office will be open 20 min utes before the arrival of each Passenger Train, and unless tickets are procured one-half cent per mile more will be exacted by the con ductors. D. E. ROBESON, Agent.
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