Whole No. 2543. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. OVE DOLLAR PER AA.YI'H, IN ADVANCF.. For six months, 75 cents. Y \ll N'6 V subscriptions must be paid in aJrnce. If the paper is continued, and net p,j.i within th •- tirst month, $1,25 will be charg ||j. ;f ;iot pn l in three months, $1,50; if not piid i r . six months, $1,75; and if not paid in nine months, $2,00. All papers addressed to persons out of the county will he discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for, unless special request is made to the contrary or payment guaranteed by some responsible person here. ADVERTISING. Ten line* of minion, or their equivalent, con stitute a sqmre. Three insertions sl, and 25 ents for each subsequent insertion. A NEW STOCK OF Cloths, Cassimeres AND V E S T I NCS, Has just been received at the Lewistown Emporium of Fashion, which will be made up to order by experienced workmen. JFJr*Gentlemen art requested to call. WM. LIN'D. Lewistown, April 21, 1659. Removed to the Stand lately occupied by Kennedy Junkitw L 2BAI&2B csm^ss'(B3S l£w!£ EAP-SAIITSi A Year's Credit to Responsible Men ! The subscriber having now on fcS hand one ol the best and largest stocks between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, in order to accom modate business to the times, offers for sale a complete assortment of Saddles, Harness, Bridles, Collars, Trunks, Whips Haines, Valises, farpet Bags, and other articles in his line, which will be dt*p s-d of. when purchases are made to the amount of .li) or more, on the above terras for approved paper. Among in* stock will be found some highly finished sets of light Harness equal to any man ufactured. Let all in want of good articles, made by ex perienced workmen, give him a call. JOHN DAVIS. Lawistown, April 7, 1659. New Fall and Winter Goods, "I) F. ELLIS, of the late firm of McCoy IA • A Ellis, has just returned from the city with a choice assortment of Dry Goods and Groceries, selected with care and purchased for cash, which are offered to the public at a small ad vance on cost. The stock of Dry Goods em braces all descriptions of FALL AND WINTER GOODS suitable for Ladies, Gentlemen and Children, with many new patterns. His i occurs comprise Choi Sugars, Molasses, Java, Rio and Laguvra Coffee, superior Teas, &c. Also, 11 u and Shoes, Queensware, and all other articles usually found in stores —all which the customers of the late firui and the public ia general are invited to examine. R. F. ELLIS. Salt, I'laster and Coal always on hand. Country Produce received as usual and the full market t rice allowed therefor. Lcwistown, Sept. 22, 18o 4 J. CLOCKS, WATCHES, OPS?" 9 S&EEa Wo (Successor to M. Buoy,) Market street, next door to the old stand, in the room recently occupied by John A. Sterret, has made large additions Bjif to his stock of flocks, Watches, and St\ Jewelry. _\ V, If He has gold and silver watches of every kind and fes"* price, some of them of 'ery superiou finish, and warranted A No. 1 ; a splendid variety of including breast pins, ear rings, finger rings, bracelets, cuff pins, watch guards, pens, pen cils, spectacles, and every othersaleable article ' Jewelry, as well as a lot of SUtoct ituo yiixtcU WParc. Also, a great variety of FANCY ARTICLES. Pps*Btrict attention will he given to RE ' A'fflN'G clocks, watches, and jewelry, and a ''work will be done promptly and warranted. Inankful for the patronage heretofore re 'eivei fie respectfully asks a continuance of the aoe , and wiil endeavor to please all who may lv or him with a call. novll JNO. R. WEEKES, -Justice of the Peace, Sctttmur K Sttrfcnjov, OFFICE West Market street, Lewistown, next door to Irwin's grocery. ap29 REMOVAL 2 DR. S. S. CUXVIIVIINGS TW iJegs leave to announce that he has re moved his office to Mrs. Mary .Marks' and \ arietv Store, on east Market street, s lew doors oelow the Union House. fie Post Office has also been removed to the *®wd lace. mh3l 4 . f Wanted! Wanted! lO (H K i I>ERS ONS of both sexes to J '• h f\ t make money by huv^no-elunp '"-•eerie*, Baskets. Tut*. Boc' Chunpt " '' r brushes, ic dec. at ZEKBE'S. iK&affisi2> M&HSSSIHS> ws jra-ffcssiKsak aawasa® - wss , 9 smnnpiLnsj ®®tssnrsr a ipaq THE mvmzt. [For the Gazette.] The following iieuutifui lines were found by the pa rents of the youth whose happy death was noticed in last week's paper, written in iiis own hand. H<- hud arranged them, from verses in his possession. The note below was added by a friend. \V. CLINTON TO HIS MOTHER. CLINTON. My mother, my mother! O, let me depart.' A our tears una your ploadimrs are swords to mv heart. I hear gentle voices, that chide my delay; i see lovely visions, that woo me away. My prison is broken, my trials are o'er! O, mother, iny mother, detain me no more. MOTHER. And will you then leave us. my brightest, my best. And will you run nestling no more to my breast? The summer is coming to sky ami to bower; The tree that you planted wifl soon be in flower; A oil loved the soft season of song and of bloom; O, shall it return and And you in your tomb! CLINTON. Yes. mother, I loved in the sunshine to play, And to talk of the birds and the blossoms all day; But sweeter the songs of the spirits on high. And brighter the glories that shine in the sky! I see them. I hear them, they pull at my heart; My mother, my mother, O, let me depart! MOTHER. O, do not desert us! Our hearts will be drear. Our home will be lonely when you are not here. Your little sister will sigh'mid her playthings, and say, I wonder dear Clinton so long can delay. That foot lilt.- the wild wind.—that glance like a star, — O, what would this world !? when they are afar? CLINTON. This world, dearest mother!—O, live not for this! No, press on with me to the fulness of bliss! And trust me whatever bright fields 1 may roam. My heart will not wander tar from you or from home. Believe me still near you. on pinions of love; Expect me to hail you, wheu soaring above. MOTHER. Well go. my beloved! the conflict is o'er; My pleas are all seTlish, 1 urge them no more. Why ehaiu your bright spirit down here to the ulod, So thirsting'for freedom, so ripe for its God? Farewell, then, farewell till we meet at the throne • There love f. .rs 110 parting and tears are unknown. CLINTON. (>. glory! O. glory! what music! what light! What wonders break in on iny heart, on my sight! I come, blessed spirits! I hear you from high! O. frail, faithless nature, can this be to diet So near! what, so near to my Saviour and King? O, help ine, ye angels, His praises to sing. [Oh, reader, if you have ever added a sorrow to the soul, a furrow to the brow of an affectionate parent — if you have ever given one unmerited pang to that true heart which now lies eold and still beneath your feet—then be sure that every unkind look, every un gracious word, every ungentle action, will come throng ing back upon your memory, and knocking dolefully at your soul; then be sure that you will lie down sor rowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the un heard groan, and pour the unavailing tear, —more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.] MOAM&MREIDRTS [For the Gazette.] Pulpit Influences. That the power of the Pulpit is on the wane, we think any candid mind at all addicted to careful observation mustconeede, however re luctantly. When a power or a force is no longer wanted, it manifestly ceases to be the power or fore# it might once have been con sidered. The Press and Society at large have taken into their own hands the work which truly Christian Pulpits originally set about performing, but which the bald creedists never could or would perform. Hence, the latter are of necessity left out of the account alto gether. What men really want—when they know how much they want it—they will he sure to have. If their old ministers fail to supply the spiritual food for which their developing natures hunger, they will not hesitate long to resort to new ones. Ail experience teaches that this is the way with human nature every where. Hence, while the great majority of the pulpits have lost a good part of that influ ence whicli they are well aware belonged to them not many years ago, there are still a few whose teachers are thoroughly men of the present day, who partake ol its sympathies, interest themselves in its activ ties, keep up with expanding movements that are going ou all around them, and throw their lives heart ily into the great stream of the present cen tury. Thoy are doing a noble work, because they are doing just what needs to be done by somebody—if not by one, then by another. No danger of their churches or altars being empty. No fear of the echoes making sad sounding music against their floors and ceil ings. The word they preach is the licing word. The bread they break is the bread ol life. The teachings they dispense enlarge the capacities of the human soul, and never send away sorrowing ones hungering and thirsting. This country, and this age, need just such men, valiant workers in the vineyard. The people want such men to teach them what is life, what is spiritual health and growth, and what is abiding peace and happiness for the human heart. There will always be help for the world, so long as hearts like these dispense so generously of their large and noble sympa thies to thoe who are needy. If the body of the clergy would but take the hint that is enfolded in the success of such men as Wesley, Spurgeon, Chalmers, Ac., and in some similar degree endeavor to reach out and take hold of the sympathies of the mas ses. for whom and to whom alono they profess to preach, there would be little complaint of the meagerness of congregations, or of the in efficiency and increasing uselessness of the clergy at large. We do not argue for vulgar ity in preaching, or for dramatic effect in any way; but we ask that the men who attempt to instruct and awaken their fellow-men shall be infused and informed with the living words of Christ and his Apostles and Prophets, as revealed in the Bible, and with a never-dying love for humanity : for the poorest and most wretched of their fellow-creatures, no less than for the rich or 44 well to do's" in the world. And they who limit themselves in their labors to attainments less than these, ought to make up their minds at once that preaching the Gospel of Christ is in no sense their true aud instinctive vocation. They would do more ef fective work in some of our State prisons. On the other hand, what an astonishing am iint of g - J may be accomplished by the preacher, who, being himself "renewed in the spirit of his mind," labors earnestly lor the true conversion of the souls of his hearers! THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1860. Blessed is that servant! Glorious shall be his unfading crown, and pure beyond description his everlasting joys. The true minister of the Gospel of Christ is never proud of his person, or ashamed to be seen in the company of the most wretche 1 of his fellow creatures, lie is never proud of his sermons or prayers ; for he knows that " the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness." Pride is the very image of Satan on the soul. The more any man has of Christ in him, the more hum ble will he be, the more low and vile in his own eyes, and the more empty of himself. (Psalms, xix. 12. 13; lxii. 9 ; Proverbs, iii. 34; xxvi. 12. xxviii. 20; Ereitici, xvi. 49, 50; .Mat thew, vii. 21-23.) There never yet was a preacher of the Gospel that grew proud of his fine feathers, hut what the Lord plucked them out by and by. There never was an angel that had pride in his heart, hut he lost his wings and fell into Gehenna, as Satan and those fallen angels did; and there shall never he a preacher of the Gospel of Christ who in dulges self-conceit, and pride, and self-conti denoe, but the Lord will spoil his glories and trample his honors in the mire. "Thussaith the high and lofty One that inhabitcth eterni ty, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a con trite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of tho humble, and revive the heart of the con trite ones." (Isaiah, lvii. 15 ; Psalms, cii. 17.) "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to tbe humble." (James, iv. G; 1 Samuel, i. 12,13.) "The Lord is nigh them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the right eous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." (Psalms, xxxiv. 18, 19.) "Like as a fa ther pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him." (Psalms, ciii. 13; Deu teronomy, viii. 5.) "Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and seek hint with tiie whole heart." (Psalms, cxix. 2.) Q. A Letter from Dr. Livingstone. At a meeting of the Geographical and Statistical Society last night, a letter was read from Dr. Livingstone, the distinguish ed traveler, under the date of ' Tette, Zam besi, 22d February, 1859,' from which we extract the following interesting account of his latest discoveries : ' VVe are all quite sure now that, during at least eight months of each year, a steam er of four or live feet could trade without embarrassment. The reason why so little has been known about the Zambesi may have been the branching in the stormy promontory, by which it was hidden from navigators. And these easy chair geograph ers, dreaming over the Geography of Ptol emy, actually put down the Zambesi as flowing into the sea at Quillimanc, which in his day it probably did, thougli not a drop of Zambesi water in ordinary circum stances reaches that port. Had some branch of the Anglo Americans planted their foot steps on its banks—we are such a babbling, newspaper set—the world would have known all about it long ago; and no one would have ventured to play with this riv er as has been done, making it lose itself aud flow under the Calahari desert.' Dr. Livingstone and his party ascended a branch ol" this river, the 4 Shire,' and he gives some account of the people and things along its banks. He says : 4 So far as we can ascertain, this river lias never been explored by Europeans be fore. One part of the luxuriant valley of the Shire is marshy and abounding in la goons, in which grow great quantities of the lotus plant. The people were busy col lecting the tubers, which, when boiled or roasted, resembled chestnuts. They are thus real Lotophagi, such as are mentioned by Herodotus. Another part of the val ley abounded in elephants. My companion estimated the number at over 800. Herd upon herd appeared as far as the eye could reach ; and noble animals they were. We sometimes chased them in our little steam er; for the Shire branches off occasionally and forms islands. • 4 The upper part of the valley is well peopled, and many of the hills are cultiva ted high up. But never having seen Euro peans before, tbey looked on us with sus picion. They watched us constantly, well armed with bows and poisoned arrows, ready to repel any attack ; hut no inciv ility was offered when we landed, nor were out wooding parties molested. The greatest coward fires first; so think ing we had as much pluck as they, we did not lift a gun, though we saw them ever ready to fire, or rather shoot. We did nothing to make us ashamed to return, and, if we have their confidence, we may go further. They had abundant of provisions, and sold tlicm at a cheap rate ; also, cotton of two kinds—one indigenous, short in the staple, but very strong and woolly to the feeling —the other from imported, very fine and long in the staple. 4 We bought a number of specimens of their spindles and yarn, and, as it was quite equal to American uplands, we did not offer them any American seed. The cotton plant is met with everywhere, and, though burned down annually, it springs up again as fresh and strong as ever. They grow sugar cane, too, bananas, mani oc, Ac The men are said by the Portu gese to be very intelligent, hut very wild. The women wear the lip ornament, (which the doctor describes by a diagram It is a ring about four inches in circumference and nearly a quarter of an inch thick. passing through a large hole in the lower lip, which is thus made to protrude fright fully.) lam thus particular, says the Dr., in case our own ladies, who show a noble perseverance when fashion dictates, may wish to adopt lip-ornaments.' Legal Advice A gentleman ordered a suit of clothes Irom a tailor, and especially enjoined him , that they must be made by the next Tues day, and that they must be made in the tinest style, and that unless the tailor could have them ready to a certainty, beyond a peradventure to the day, that he must not undertake them; but Snip promised faith , fully that they should be finished, ad diem. Tuesday came, and no clothes; the enrag ed man flew to the cabbage man's house, and said:— ' \\ hat's the reason my clothes were not ready, as you promised? Here you have . kept me in the town at a loss of time and business only to disappoint me; now, if we bad yuu in our part of the country, I tell , you what they would call you, they would : say you were a perfect squirt.' The knight of the goose explained that the only competent workman he had, capa ble of making the suit, had a wife lying • at death's door, and he could not possibly j leave her. The outraged gentleman was not able to smother his disappointment, and berated the tailor pretty soundly ior failing in his positive promise. The ninth fraction of the genus homo CQild not stand this, and plainly told his customer to go to the calor ic regions of Pandemonium. The customer, red with rage, rushed across the street to a lawyer, and in an ex cited and hurried manner said :—' Do you know Snip, the tailor across the way!' ' Yes 1 know him,' answered Brief. ' Well, now, I want your advice,' said the gentleman, ' I want to know what you would do in such a case. That infamous stitch-louse has not only kept me here in the town on expense, to the great detriment of my business, and disappointed me in a suit of clothes, but when 1 went to remon strate with the fellow about it, what do you suppose the impudent rascal told me ? 'lie told me to go to a hot place down below.' With these words the gentleman laid a ten dollar bill on the desk, and said, 1 Now what would you do V ' Do you mean this for a retainer?' asked Brief. ' I do,' was the reply. 'Then,' said Brief, quietly folding up the X and putting it in his pocket, ' he told you to go below. Well, my opinion and advice to you is, don't do it. There is moreover, no statute or local law that can compel you to a specific performance. 1 say don't you do it.' 'She Works for a Living I .' Commend us to the girl of whom it is sneeringly said, 'she works for a living;' in her we are always sure to find the ele ments of a true woman—a real lady.— True, we are not prepared to see a min cing step —a haughty lip—a fashionable dress—or hear a string of splendid non sense about the balls and young men—the new novels and the next party —no —no; but we are prepared to hear sound words of good sense, —language becoming woman, and to see a neat dross, mild brow, and to witness movements that would not disgrace an angel. You who are looking for wives and com panions, turn from the fashionable, lazy, haughty girls, and select one from any of those who work for a living, and never — our word for it—will you repent your choice. You want a substantial friend and not a doll ; a help-mate and not a help-eat: a counsellor and not a simpleton. You may not be able to carry a piano into your house, but you can purchase a spinning wheel or a set of knitting needles. If you cannot purchase every new novel, you may be able to take some valuable paper. If you can not buy a ticket to the ball, you can visit some afflicted neighbor. He careful then when you look for companions and whom you choose. We know many a Ibolish man, who instead of choosing the industrious and prudent woman for a wife, took one from the fashionable walks, and is now la menting his folly in dust and ashes. He ran into the fire with his eyes wide open, and who but himself is to blame ? The time was when the ladies went a vis iting and took their work with them. This is the reason why we have such excellent mothers. How singular would a gay wo man look in a fashionable circle darning her father's stockings, or carding wool to spin? Would not her companious laugh at her? And yet such a woman would be a prize for somebody. Blessed is the man who chooses his wife from the despised girls ' who work for a living.' A Day's H ad Blown Off. —A little boy, residing in Union county, Ky., had his head blown oft one day last week. He bored a hole in a log and put powder in it, ramming the powder down with a stick. He then laid a coal of lire on the hole, and before he could get away it exploded, the stick striking him on the head, knocking the upper portion off, and killing him in stantly. Ther are nearly 12,000 liquor shops in the City of New York Going Different Ways. —Rev. Dr. With ers poo n, former President of Princeton College, was once on board a packet-ship where, among other passengers, was a pro fessed atheist. This fellow was very fond of troubling every body with his peculiar belief, and of broaching the subject as of ten as lie could get any body to listen to him. 'He didn't believe in a God and a future state —not lie.' Ry and by there came up a terrible storm, and the prospect was that all would go to the bottom. There was much fear and consternation aboard ; but no one was so horribly frightened as the atheist. In this extremity he sought out the clergyman. lie found him in the cabin calm and collected, and thus address Ed him: 'Oh, Dr. Witherspoon! Dr. Witherspoon ! we're all going for it—we have but a short time to stay. Oh, my gracious! how the vessel rocks! We're all going—don't you think we are, Doctor?' The reverend gentleman turned on him a look of most provoking coolness, and re plied in broad Scotch —'Na doubt, na doubt, mon, we're a' ganging; but you and I din na gang the same way The Black Law in Missouri. —The St. Louis Evening News says the free-ncgro law, which has just passed the Senate of Missouri, is harsh and oppressive in the ex treme. It prohibits any slaveholder from rewarding his faithful slave for long years of devoted service, by giving him his free dom, unless he enters into a bond of two thousand dollars to remove the emancipa ted slave from the State forever. It pro vides that every free negro or mulatto over the age of eighteen years, now living in the State, shall leave it before the first Mon day in September, 1860, on pain of being sold at public auction into slavery for life. All free negroes and mulattoes under eigh teen years of age shall be bound as appren tices till they are twenty-one years of age, twelve months after the expiration of which they shall leave the State or be sold into slavery. Any free negro or mulatto who shall come into the State after the first Monday in September, 1861, and remain twenty-four hours, shall be sold into slavery. Such are the leading provisions of the bill. would be necessasy to go back to the Biblical times to find the trace of a longevity so extraordinary as that of (Jap tain Alexander Victorian Nircissus Viroux, of Belgium, who has been put on the pen sion list by a royal command of the 16th of September, 1859. What makes it more wonderful is, that Mr. Viroux, born at Chi ma, November 9, 1709, and who has con sequently attained the age of one hundred and fifty years, took the strange fancy of entering the service the 16th of October, 1830. But the independence of his coun try called him, and in spite of his one hun dred and twenty-one years, he did not hes itate to fly to her defence. The military state pleasing hi?u as he felt young and vigorous, he remained in its service, and attained the rank of Captain. It is only the last few days that he felt the desire f retiring to the place wherein he first saw the light of day. Distressing. —A house near Montgom ery's station, in Clinton township, this county, belonging to John Kinsey, Esq., and occupied by John Murphy, was des troyed by lire on Wednesday afternoon last, and two children of the latter perished in the flames. It appears that in the absence of Mr. Murphy, Mrs. Murphy left her three children alone in the house while she went to her mothers a short distance off, and it is supposed the eldest a boy of four years, set fire to the window curtain with a match, and then made his escape from the house —the two younger ones perished.— Muncy Luminary. AWFUL CALAMITY! Falling of a Mill at Lawrence, Mass. 115 Lives Lost and 165 wounded. About 5 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon of last week the Pemberton Mills, at Lawrence, Mass , fell with a tremendous crash. Six or seven hundred operatives were at work in them at the time, and the lowest esti mates state that the number of those buri ed in the ruins was nearly three hundred. In the midst of the efforts to extricate the sufferers, a new horror was added to the scene. The ruins took fire, and before the rapid progress of the flames, the rescuers were forced to remit their labors and leave the sufferers to a terrible fate. The calam ity is attributed to the insecure construc tion of the Mills, which had previously oc casioned doubts for its safety. The loss of property by the disaster is estimated at half a million of dollars, but in the presence of the cruel suffering and destruction of life it sinks into insignificance. We subjoin such particulars cf this terrible catastrophe as are of interest: Th factory employed 950 operatives, but a portion had gone to supper. Tho building was live stories high, 280 foet long, and seventy feet wide, with a wing for ty-five feet square. It contained 2,700 spin dles, New Series—Vol. XIV, No. 11. The edifice was an immense brick building, running along two streets, the wings forming an angle somewhat like the letter JL. On the inner space, between the wings, were detach ed buildings connected with the works. Sur rounding the Pemberton Mills, and along the bunks of the river, were quite a number of other mills, the principal ones being the \\ ash ingtun Mills, the Duck Mills, and the Pacific Mills. The Pemberton Mills cost, originally, be tween $700,000 and SBOO,OOO, and were own ed by a stock company. Several years ago, the company failed, and the mills were bought at auction by their present owners—three or four persons, who carried it on as a partner ship concern. The firm has been quite prosperous, and has done a very large business, having con nections with all sections of the country. At tho time of the disaster they had over seven hundred looms at work, running full time. The principal fabrics of their manufacture were eottonades, shirting, stripings, ticking, canton flannels, Ac. Some of tho statements of the operatives who were rescued aie of an interesting nature. John Ward, an operative in the carding room, which was situated in the second story, who was miraculously saved with bis wife, who w< rked near him, describes their escape as follows: I was in the carding room with the second overseer, lighting up ; it was then five or ten minutes before live o'clock. We bad a few burners lighted, when suddenly 1 beard a loud, thundering crash overhead, and on look ing up, I saw the shafting coming down up on us, all over the room. Terrified, 1 stood nailed to the spot, although I knew the buil ding was coming down on me. Then I heard the overseer shout. 1 tried to jump out of the rubbish, but something struck mo senseless. When 1 came to, 1 found myself in the rub bish, covered with blood from wounds iu my face. Finally, I crawled up and got to the top of the rubbish. 1 found a lot of ruins hanging over me, which I greatly feared would take my life ; but 1 succeeded in get ting out. I passed a dead girl and two man gled bodies. When I was first knocked down, 1 fell under a large grinding stone which was too heavy to give way to the weight above. Mr. Ward found his wife at the City Ilall. The following is one of the heart rending incidents: Margaret Hamilton, aged 14 years, was ta ken from the ruins and carried to the hospi tal. This was her first days' work at themills. Her devoted mother atteuded her, and when she asked what injuries ber daughter had re ceived, the latter replied, 'My arm is broken, mother.' ' And her head is broken, and, Oh 1 my Lord!' and here the poor woman burst into tears; 4 my poor darling is all broken.' The unfortunate girl died to day. She was the main support of her mother and four chil dren. Miss Olive Bridges, of Calais, Me., who worked in the fifth story, seized the hoisting chain of the elevator, went safely down five stories, and escaped uninjured. Before the building caught fire, those im prisoned beneath the ruins could be seen uud conversed with. Drinks and refreshments were, in some instances, passed to them. When the fire spread over the ruins, and they found escape hopeless, they bid adieu to their friends, and, in several cases, gave di rections as to the disposition of their bodies. lu one part of the building a hole was bat tered through the wall, and through it could bo seen three young women, who said they were not at all injured. One of them thrust her arm through the small aperture, and beg ged to be drawn through it. But before it could be made large enough the flames drove the men away, and the prisoners perished in the flames. EXTRICATION OF THE BODIES. The news of the disaster went like an elec tric shock over the city, and the people com menced running to the spot. The Washing tun Mills, near by, were entirely deserted, and others in the city poured forth in excited throngs. Those on the street rushed to the place, stores were deserted, houses left uopro tected, and almost the whole population gath ered around the spot. Those who could work plied hands and tools briskly, all with heavy hearts, and spir its saddened by the frantic cries of some for help, the groans of the dying, and the disfig ured corpses of those who had been killed. As the bodies of the wounded, dead, and dying were taken out, those which were rec ognized were delivered to their friends, and such as were not recognized were taken to the City Hall. In this way as many as could find room upon the pile labored unremitting ly for hours. John Porter, Ksq., the' City Marshal, and all the officers of police, work ed nobly, and were successful in saving ma ny bodies. THE SCENE AT THE CITY HALL. The hall of the city government building was used as a hospital for such of the wound ed as it was deemed necessary to convey thither. Mattresses lined the hall on three of its sides, and on them were stretched mang led bodies, and others not dangerously inju red, but suffering from painful wounds. Kind-hearted physicians ministered unceas ingly to and some, whom years of pmc tice might have excused from sensitiveness to the suffering of others, performed their offices with tearful eyes, compassionate countenan ces, and all the gentleness of sympathetic na tures. On one pallet lay a little girl, with a beau tiful pale countenance, knit with the suffering she could not conceal, yet unmurmuring. She was watched over by a weeping friend, apparently her father, and my heart was re joiced at the announcement by the physician that she was not daDgerousiy, though severe ly, wounded. Further on were young Ward (whose fortu nate escape is described above) aud his wife, fervently thankful for the preservation of their lives, and furnishing all the information in their power. Still further, on a pallet, was a young wo man groaning with pain, from several broken bones, internal injuries, and a bruised head. Half a dozen disconsolate friends were about her weeping, for the phyßioao had said sfao roust die.
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