ci>i§®o (2s ss©ss" 9 jFJsHfiasisnaißSs Whole No. 2759. Lewistown Post Office. Mails arrive and close at the Ltiwistown P. 0. as follows: ARRIVE. Eastern through, 5 33 a. m. , " through ami way 421p m. Western " " •• 10 38 a.m. Bellefonte " " " 2 30p.m. Northumberland, Tuesdays, Thursdaysand Saturdays, 6 00 p. m. CLOSS. Eastern through 8 00 p. m. " " and way 10 00 a. m Western " " 330 p. m. Bellefonte 800 " Northumberland (Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays) 8 00 p. m. Office open from 7 30 a. m. to 8 p. m. On Sundays from Bto9 am. S. COMFORT, P. M. Lewistown Station. Trains leave Lewistown Station as follows: Westward. Eastward Baltimore Exoress, 4 40 a. m. Philadelphia " 5 33 " 12 20 a. m. Fast Line, 620 p. ra. 350 " Fast Mail, 10 38 " Mail. 4 21 " Through Accommodation, 2 35 p. m. Emigrant. 9 12 a. m. Through Freight, 10 20 p. m. 120 a in. Fast " 340 a. in. 815 " Express " 11 00 " 2 35 p. m. Stock Express, 5 00 " 9 05 " Coal Train. 12 45 p. m. 10 38 a. m. Local Freight, 045a. m. 626 p. m. 43-Gnlliraith's Omnibuses convey passengers to anil from all the trains, taking up or setting them down at all points within the borough limits. OEC. W. SLEEK,, Attorney at Law, Office Market Square, Lewistown, will at tend to business in MltHin, Centre and Hunting don counties my 26 m* &2,5)323, ZLJ S2T SEP UL OFFICE or East Market street, Lewistown, adjoining F. G. Franciscus' Hardware Store. P. S. Dr. Locke will be at his office the first Monday 3h month to spend the week. my3l DR. J*. I. MARKS OFFERS his Professional services to the citizens of Lewistown and the surround ing country. Office in the Public Square op posite the Lewistown Hotel. janl3—6m* Large Stock of Furniture on Hand. A FELIX is still manufacturing all kinds .of Furniture. Young married persons and others that wish to purchase Furniture will find a good assortment on hand, which will be sold cheap for cash, or country pro duce aken in exchange for same. Givejne a call 0 • F alley street, near Black Bear Ho tel. feb 21 Jacob C, Blymyer & Co., Produce and Commission Mer chants, LEWISTOWN, PA.* •SifFlour and Grain of all kinds pur chased at market rates, or received on storage and shipped at usual freight rates, having storehouses and boats of their own, with care ful captains and hands. Plaster, Fish, and Salt always on hand. sep2 Lock Repairing, Pipe Laying, Plumbing and White Smithing FTHIE above branches of business will tie JL promptly attended tp on application at the residence of the undersigned in Main street, Lewistown. janlO GEORGE MILLER. 3S3BA2EBXEE& AND BRAID STAMPING Done on the most fashionable patterns by MRS. MARION W. SHAW. Lewistown, Sept. 23, 1863- Kishacoquillas Seminary AND NORMAL INSTITUTE. FIT HE Summer Session of this Institution _L will commence on MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1864, and continue twentyone weeks. Cost fur Board, Furnished Rooms and Tu ition iu the English Branches, per session, S6O. Day scholars, per session. sl2. Music. Languages aud Incidentals extra. In order to secure rooms in the Institute application should be made before the open - ing of the school. For further particulars, address, S. Z. SHARP. Prin. j a nl3 Kishacoquillae. Pa. Mt. Rock Mills. ORDERS FOR FLOUR, FEED, &c., CAN, until further notice, be left at the Store of S. .J. Brisbin A Co., or at Pratt's Store, at the old Felix corner, at which pla ces they will be called for every evening, till ed next morning, and delivered at any place in the Borough, nuh* G. LEHR. Hoffman's Cheese, it is extra. THE IIIITJREL GUARDIAN ANGELS. Guardian angels, guardian angels? They are with us night and day, Dropping flowers of love the brightest As they watch us on our way. fn_our sorrows, in our troubles, Tliey with care around us throng, Ever guarding us from danger. Ever shielding us from wrong. Guardian angels, guardian angels ! Still your benedictions pour. On our hearts the joys of truth, The light of virtue ever shower; Teach ns how we may our blessings Ever cherish, still increase, And grant that every flower we pluck May be a flower of love—of peace. WAITING FOR THE SPRING. As breezes stir the morning* A silence reigns in air; Steel-blue the heavens above me, Moveless the trees and bare ; Yet unto me the stillness This burthen seems to bring— " Patience ! the earth is waiting, Waiting for the Spring." Strong ash, and sturdy chestnut, Rough oak and poplar high. Stretch out their sapless branches Against the wintry sky. Even the guilty aspeu Hath ceased her quivering. As though she, too, were waiting. Waiting for the Spring. I strain mine ears to listen, If haply where I stand, But one stray note of music May sound in all the land, " Why art thou mute, O blackbird? O thrush, why dost not sing?" Ah! surely they are waiting, Waiting for the Spring. Oh heart! thy days are darksome; Oh heart! thy nights are drear; But soon shall beams of sunshine Proclaim the turning year. Soon shall the trees be leafy, Soon every bird shall sing; Like them, be silent, waiting, Waiting for the Spring. The Number Seven in Scripture. From the Waste Drawer of a Clergyman. Thai there was some mystic idea at tached to the number of seven, is plain, by its being made the number of perfection among the Jews. The rabbis maintain tht seven things were created before the foundation of the world—the law, repent ance, paradise, hell, the throne of God, the temple, the name of the Messiah. The reason which I'hiio and Josephus give for the number seven having been held sacred by the sect of the Essenes, may have been very satisfactory to themselves, but to us it conveys no meaning. 'lt is,' say they, 'because it results from the sides of a square added to those of a triaugie.' Cicero is not more explicit, when he says that seven 'is the knot and cement of all things, as being that by which the natural and spiritual are couipreheuded in one idea.' That the Creator rested on the seventh day after the world was formed, and ordained that the seventh day in every week from thence should he kept holy, in commemoration of the glorious work, seems to have invested the number with peculiar sanctity, and accounts for its being so often connected with matters pertaining to reli gious worship. This connection is so striking, that, in reading the Bible, it can not escape observation. Not only a Sabbath ordained in every week, but sab batical years were instituted. Every seventh year was a Sabbath of rest and set apart for leaving the ground untitled, 'to maintain, as far as possible,' Calmet observes, 'an equality of condition among the people, in setting the slave at liberty, and permitting all, as children of one fam ily, to have the free and indiscriminate use of whatever the earth produced; to inspire the people with sentiments of humanity, by making it their duty to give rest, and proper and sufficient nourishment, to the poor, the slave, and the stranger, and even the cattle; to accustom the people to sub mit and depend on the divine providence, and expect their support from thai in the sevenths-ear, by an extra' rdinary provision ou the sixth'—a blessing which the Crea ator graciously promised and miraculously fulfilled. In like manner were the Israel ites provided with a double portion of man na in the wilderness on the sixth day, # for a supply tor the seventh day. Every seven times seventh year was 14 jubilee. The great feasts of unleavened bread and taber nacles were observed for seven days. The seventh day of the seventh month was. ordained a feast for seven days; and the Israelites remained in their tents for seven days. Seven days of mourning was the allotted observance. The men of Jabesh Gilead, after they bad performed the fu neral rites of Saul and his sons, fasted seven days Joseph mourned for his father seven days. Miriam was shut up seven days to bf healed of his leprosy. The number of animals, in many of their obligations, was restricted to seven. Balaam prepared seven bullocks and seven rams for a sacrifice- In cleansing the temple, King Hezekiah offered a sin offering of seven bullobks, seven rams, and seven he WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1864. goats. The .friends of Job, who sat by him for seven days and for seven nights, offered, as an atonement fortheir sins, seven bullocks and seven rams. Seven bulioeks and seven rams were also David's offering, when he was bringing up the ark; but the most inhuman sacrifice which is noticed is that of Saul's seven sons, who offered to avert a famine. Abraham gave seven ewe lambs to Abimelech, as a me morial of his right to a well. The law was ordered to be read to the pec pie every seventh year. The young animals were not to be taken from their dams for seven days. By the law. man was commanded to forgive his offending brother seven times. Among the ceremonies enjoined at the consecration of Aaron and his sons for the priesthood, we find that the priest was to abide seven days and seven nights at the door of the tabernacle. Seven priests, bearing seven trumpets for seven days, encompassed the walls of Jericho seven times, and on the seventh day the walls fell Seven days were decreed for an atonement on the altar; and lor seven days the priest's son was to wear his father's garments. In the religious ceremonies ol purification and consecration, the oil or water was to be sprinkled seven times; and the offering of blood was to be sprinkled seven times belore the altar. Naamun was to be dipped seven times in Jordan. If the walls of a house appeared to hear any traces of the infection of leprosy, the owner was to be commanded by the priest to leave it, and it was to be locked up for seven days If there were any suspicion of infection in clothes, they were to be brought to the priest, and locked up for seven days. If, on the seventh day, the supposed murks of infection had increased on the house, it was to be de-troyed If the marks ot infection on the clothes were plainer on the seventh day, they were to be burnt. The ark of God remained with the Philistines for seven months. Solo mon was seven years in building the tem ple. At its dedication, he feasted seven days. Iu the tabernacle there were seven lamps. The house of wisdom, in Proverbs, had seven pillars. There were seventy elders ot Isreal. j- Jacob served seven years for the sake of Rachel, and seven years more did he serve for her, tor the which he bore ber. On the seventh day of Laban's pursuit, he overtook Jacob Samuel commanded Saul to sojourn at Gil gal for seven days. Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. The elders of Jabesh entreated Nahash the Ammon ite seven day's respite. The son ot the Shunammite sneezed seven times when restored to life by Eiisha. Noah had. sev en days' warning of the flood. According to divine command, he took the fowls ot the air and the clean beasts by sevens into the ark The ark rested on Mount Ararat on the seventeenth day of the seventh month. In seven days Noah setr out a dove, and waited seven days after her re turn, to send ber out again. of abundance and seven years of famine were foretold in Pharaoh's dream of the seven well-favored and the seven ill favored kino—the seven full and blighted ears of corn. Seven times did Elijah send his ser vant to look for the cloud. King Ahasuerus had seven maids, seven days feast, and sent for the queen on the seventh day. In tne seventh year ol hi< reign, Esther wqsbrought to liim. ihe fiery turnace into which Shadrach, Meshach, and Abeduego were cast, had been made seven times hotter. Nebuchadnezzar ate the grass of the field seven years The vision of Daniel was seventy weeks. Enoch was the seventh after Adam. The psalmist offered praise to God seven times a day. Uur Saviour was the seventy seventh from Adam in a direct line. He taug' t that forgiveness of an offending brother should not be restrict ed to seven times, but should extend to sev eDty times seven. On one occasion he exemplified his discourse with seven para bles. Seven loaves were all that the disciples supplied him with, when he mir aculously fed the multitude, who took up seven baskets of the fragments which remained, after they were satisfied Out of Mary Magdalene he east seven devils The apostles planted seven churches, and appointed seven deacons Sceva's seven sons were overcome by the evil spirits which they were endeavoring to cast out Through every part of Scripture, we find the number seven brought forward in a remarkable tuauner; in the declarations of the Creator: in the precepts of our Saviour, and in proverbs and prophecies; in (easting and fastings; iu oblations and visions; and iu ail the historical details, and in ail the foreshadowtngs of futurity. God threaiended to smite his people seven times for their transgressions. If the slayer ot Cain was to be punished seven times, the slayer of Lamech was to be punished sev enty times seven. Perfection is compared, iu Scripture, to gold seven times purified in the lire. The Revelation tells of seven golden candlesticks, of seven stars, of the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, of the book with seven seals, ol seven spirits, of seven angels, of seven kings, of seven thunders, of seven thousand men slain, of seven vials of wrath, and seven plagues. When the years of the world shall have numbered seven thousand, many com men tors believe that a new will be disclosed. The importance of the num-, ber seven is not lost sight of when we close the sacred volume. Rome, seated on her seven hills, professes, in her religious creed, to acknowledge seven sacraments and sev en deadly sins. In some of their trost solemn processions., we find that seven acolyths, hearing seven tapers, precede seven deacons, who are followed bv seven priests. Mahomet had his seventh heaven. Among our superstitions we find that the seventh son of a seventh son was to be dodicuted to the medical profession. We have heard the phrase of being frightened out of our seven senses, though we can not tell what they are. Nursery lore treats largely of seven. Pousett and his seven br< t.hers we remember as special favorites; and we recollect the high consid eration in which the seven champions, the seven men of Gotham, the seven leagued hoots, and the seven wonders of the world, were held; and the mysterious awe in which the legend of the seven sleepers was involved. A little while, and the tur moil of life begins. We hear of the squabbles of families and the strife of men; and we learn hence that those ola house are sometimes at sixes and seveus, and are told of the seven years' of war. We turn from such things to the blessings of peace —the cultivation of the fine arts; and we remember that music owes al) its charms to seven notes; and that painting is. iudebt ed for all its variety of tints to seven colors MElHetoml What a Garden May Be. IE-re let. tne. outline, in brief, what a far tner's garden may be made, without other than home 1 bor A broad walk shall run down through the middle of either square enclosure, or long p.trallelogi am. A box edging upon either side is of little cost, and contributes eminently to neatness; it will hold good for eight years, without too great encroachment, and at the time, will sell to the nurserymen for more than enough to pay the cost of resetting On either side of this walk, in a border of six feet wide, the farmer may plant his dwarf fruit, with grapes at intervals, to ciimb on a home-made cedar trellis, that should over arch and embower the walk. If he love an evening pipe in his garden, he may plant some simple seat under one or more of these leafy arbors. At least one half the garden, as I be fore* suggested, he may easily arrange, to till, —spring and autumn, — with the plow; and whatever be places there in the way of tree and shrub, must be in lines parallel with the walk. On the other half, he will be subjected to no such limitations; there, he will establish his perennials—his aspar nuns, his thyme, his sage, and parsely, his rhubarb, his gooseberries, strawberries, and raspberries; and in an angle—hidden if he chooses by a belt of shrubbery—he may have his hot bed and compost heap Fork culture, which all these crops demand, will admit of any arrangement he may pre t'er, and lie may enliven the groupings, and win the good wife's favor, by here and there a little circlet of such old fashioned flowers as tulips—ye low lilies and white, with roses ot ail shades 1 pon the other half he may make dis rriiiution ot parts, by banding the various crops wiili border lines of China or Refu gee beans; and he may split the whole 1 cros-w se, by a walk overarched with climb ing Limas, or the London Horticultural— setting off the -two ends with an abut ment of Scarlet runners, and a surbase of fiery Nasturtium. There are also available and pretty de vices for making the land do double duty. Ihe border lines of China beans, which will be ripened in early August, may have Swedes sown in their shadow in the first days of July, so that when the Chinas have fulfilled their mission, there shall be a new line of purple green in their place. The early radishes and salads may have their little circlets of cucumber pits, no way interfering with the first, and covering the ground when the tir>t are done. The ear ly Bassano beets will come away in time to leave space for the lull flow of the mel ons that have been planted at intervals among them The cauliflower will find grateful shade under the lines of sweet corn, and the newly set winter ca! bages, a temporary refuge from the sun, under shel ter ot ilie ripened peas Ido not make these suggestions at random, but as the re suits of successful experience. With such simple and orderly arrange menus involving no excessive labor, I think every farmer and country-liver may take pleasure i< his garden and objects of heau- j ty ; —making of it a little farm in minia ture, with its coppices ot dwarf trees, its hedge rows of currants and goosberries, > and its meadows of strawberries and thyme, j From the very d y on which, in spring, : he sees the first, faint, upheaving, tufted ] lines of green from his Dan O'Rourkes, to the day when th& dangling Limas, and sprawling, bloody tometoes arc smitten by the frost, it offers a field of constant pro- I gress, and of successive triumphs. Line by line, and company by company, the \ army of green things take position; the flowery banners are flung to the wind; and lo! presently every soldier of tt-eni all—plundering only the earth and sun shine— is loaded with booty. Ike Marvel. i iwiwjisHM&WHa How Much Farmers Lose by Keeping Poor Cows J A corrspondent of the Country Gentle man says, it is a New England maxim, that , 'farmers cannot afford to keep poor cows, nor to keep cows poor.' Taking either ! horn of this dilemma, t' ,o re i< abundant j ground to show, beyond a doubt. that it is the very worst system of policy that a mer can practice, to keep his cows on such a stinted supply of food that they will in evitably become poor and emaciated, or, to keep them on poor food or such fodder as will afford very little milk or verv little nourishment to the animal. W lien cows have been kept on litlle food until they show every rib 111 their bodies, and their necks have fallen downward, like ■ the neck ot an Asiatic dromedary, they j cannot he profitably to their owners And why? Because, a poor cow will not give as rich milk, nor as much of it, as the same cow would give were she tolerable fat. i Now, if the milk be poor, of course a much i larger quantity of it will be required to make a pound of butter or a pound of cheese. And, if a cow be poor, a large proportion if the material that would g 0 to make rich cream, were the cow fleshy, is secreted to nourish her animal system. , 1-or the reason, when we feed poor cows food that has an abundance of creatu pro ducing, or butter forming materia! in it, we often wonder why it is that the milk is : so poor—white and thin—when it ought to he thick, and yellow as gold On the other hand, when we feed poor fodder to cows that are in good condition, the milk will be poor, because so much of ; the material that would go to make milk, 1 is secreted to nourish the system before it ! reaches the lacteal glands. Now then, suppose a cow loses, during the foddering season, only one hundred t pounds of flesh and fat. Very many cows lose more than two hundred pounds during that time. Every pound of flesh and fat that is lost is equal to one pound of butler or two oi the best cheese. And. if a cow is in good healthy condition—not as fat as fat beef—and 10-es one hundred po in Is of fat, as soon as she receives a good supply ot food, she will begin to increase in flesh and fat. I iierefore, her system will take up cream producing material enough, iu replacing the 100 pounds which she lost, to have made 100 pounds of good butter or two hundred or more pounds of good | cheese. There is no evading this logic, and there is no dodging these conclusions. Common | sense, philosophy and experience, all will ! substantiate these considerations. How much then is 100 pounds of Lutter ; worth? Let every farmer answer for him | self. And, when he reflects on this sub ject, let him remember this is a very easy | matter tor a cow to lose one or more pounds j of fle-di daily, which is worth, in cash, more than one pound of butter. Afiri/ —Fotcir of the Month. —Cowslip. Sow for succession peas, beans and carrots; parsnips, celcrv and scale. Sow • Spring flowers ' Plant evergreens, dahlias. chry santhemums, and the like ; also potatoes, slips of thyme, parted roots, let'uees. caul iflowers, cabbages, onions, Fay off" turf, remove caterpillars. Sow and graft Ga melias, and propagate and graft fruit and rose trees by all the various means in use. J>ow cucumber and vegetable marrows tor planting out. This i the most important month in the year i'oi Gardeners ififSGEtMSEOUi Steam Boiler Explosion at Messrs Mer rick & Co's Foundry, Philadelphia- At quarter before nine o'clock on Wed nesday morning a steam boiler, nearly new exploded, with fatal effect, at the extensive foundry of Messrs. S. V. Merrick & Co., on Washington avenue, between Fourth arjd Fifth, Second ward. Of course the most phrenzied and extended excitement prevailed in the entire southern section of the city. The most impropable rumors were freely circulated, which s : mply ad ded fuel to the excitement. The report ers of The Press were early upon the ground, and gathering all the facts and incidents thereto, p/esent the following in teresting narrative: The boiler house was built of brick, lo cated near the centre of the yard. It was surrounded by the various shops or de partments incident to an extensive estab lishment for manufacturing purposes, and the only wonder is that so little damage 11 was done to this property. The boiler tHat exploded was conueeted with an older one, both being under the roof. donky en gine, used for pumping the water into these boilers, was in front thereof. It was entirely demolished. The exploded boiler seemed to have broken into two or three pieces, one of them weighing many tons, being hurled to eastward to the distance of thirty feet. Smaller portions, and the flues were whirled in every direction, with great ve locity, scattering death and destruction in their course. The bricks of the building were thown with great violence to the east, the west, north, and south, doing more or less damage. The boiler that connected with the exploded one; was forced about ten feet from its bed, and partly canted over. It is 9 feet high, 8 feet wide, nd 2KKTSJ* New Series—Vol. XVIII. No. 24. I_. >ir If fret long, the samp in size as the tvie that in a moment Was torn t. pieces. Jhe suiolte stack, about 2 feet in diameter and thirty five or forty feet long, weighing probably a ton, was projeo ed in a north western direction. In its descent it crush ed the root of the pattern shop, in the third story of the main building. There were sixteen men and boys at work in this h. p The smoke stack crushed to splin ters one oi t'ie ' enclies at which a boy named Marotzer was at vjrk. Amid this crash of material, of falling beams, or splinters, the lad found himself on 'he roof, arid was so astonished at the unrevealed method of his "elevation, that he called down to Mr Richard Xewsam, who was yet in the shop. * Say, Mr. Xew sam, shouted the lad, ' how in the did I got up here, anyhow?' This little inci dent had the effect to restore the dumb founded, halt inclined to be panic stricken operative, to something like propriety, and they left their apartments. The bov de scended on the smoke .stack to the floor of the shop, and then hastened downstairs. Seven were killed and 12 wound in this terrible disaster, shrouding many families in deep gloom. Some of the deaths were instantaneous, and though their mutila ted bodies presented horrifying spectacles, yet it is naturally consoling to know that the poor fellows did not suffer. One or two bodies seemed like moving masses of human pulp, but not a groan to indicate suffering arose from them. Others less, though severely wounded, were taken away bleeding, and groaning, and dying. One of the killed was standing in conversation with a fellow-workman, named Morris Agan. In a moment he disappeared, and and yet Mr. Agan escaped withuutascrateh. Another man, working at an anvil, ham mering away, suddenly found himself grasp ing a window frame, the glass from which was smashed to atoms, lie caunot account for his wonderful escape. His hand was somewhat cut, and for a few moments it was hard tor him to realize the fact that he was not at the anvil. The experience of this man, and the boy "Marotzey, on tbe roof, is indicative, no doubt, of the feelings of many others who made very narrow escapes. One man was wheeling a barrow near the boiler house; he fell dead between the sfuifts of the barrow. There were only one or two persons kill ed by beintr buried in the falling ruins.— Quite a number were caught amid the fal ling wreck of shed buildings and roofs, but ihey either extricated themselves, or were assisted by'heir fellow workmen. Beneath a shed not far distant from the boiler house, were a number of employees. Upon this a terrific shower of bricks, iron and other missiles, fell. The shed roof was crushed in, ami this gave rise to a stunning report that forty people were killed beneath the rubbish The fact is, that the interi or of the shed or building was so well fill ed with material, that the force of the falling fragments was resisted. We be hove that none of the men here were se riously injured. A SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES opened on Monday, February 29th, in rhe Lpwist*n Academy, where all the com mon ami higher English Branches will be taught, together with Latin, French, Music, and Painting in Oil and Water Colors. Terms stated on application to the Princi* pal A. PROCEUS. Lewistowo, March 2, 1864. KPYEYIO7TW Normal School AND AC A3DE3 M Y, AA7ILL open April 4th, 18C4. Theprin cipnl mission of this school is to the more fully prepare teachers for their great and responsible position. In order to this a Model School will be connected with the Normal. Besides the regular Academic [ course, instructions will be given in Instru | mental Music and in German. For par I ticulars, address Rev. S. J IIAYES. Principal, or W. J. SIEBER. Assistant. McVeytowo, March 2d, 1864.—5t. NEW DRUG STORE Two Doors West of the Odd J . Fellows' Hall. I)URE and fresh drugs always on hand. . . 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