!i iveat id fr;ir Tliv f:' li''nov ji 11 r.ict < d limi -
Attention to the same s|w)t, and bade him drive
thnt way. ' Sec ! !' said lie—' 1
'A snaw drift likely, replied,rjomj ' Keep
np thy heart, mini ; we'll soon we what it is.|
(Jet nlong, Topsy ! Geo ! gee ! ! lu*s !*. *
As they neati-d the place, every one per
reived, a mound of siiow, presenting exactly:'
the appearance of a grave* and to romplete
the reseinhlance there stood a headstone.
.'On, on !' said the father;. J 0 Turn .tkiXK,
on! llow slowly we fret along:?'
At last they stopped ; the mountebank
pushed aside the hands extended to assist him, ;
leaped wildly out of the cart, and stood for a
moment silently contemplating their grave.--
,Joc took the spade, and lagan removing the
tall white heap that looked sp like a headstone.
In a little while, they removed away a quanti
ty of snotv, the fop of a large drum became
visible ; at sight of this, the mountebank's
fare was alternately flushed and pale, pale and
flashed. Keen anxiety marked the counten
ances of the whole party, and all ryes were so
intently fixed on Joe's operations,that none had
observed a recent addition to their number. It
Was a women —young, fair, and of an interest
ing appearance. Presentiment, destiny's grim
shadow, had whispered to her the sad tale of
her children's luckless fate ; and leaving the .
two younger ones to the care of a neighbor, ;
she had set out for Eirlintliprpc, resolved to
know the worst. Softly she went up to the
mountebank, gazed mournfully upon Ids alter
ed countenance —for illness and anxiety had
done their work—and pressing his hand af
fectionately, she said ' Husband !' The > fleet
of the one word was truly magical. The
unhappy man whose eyes were burning with
fever, and whose pent-up grief was driving him
to the very verge of insanity, was now reliev
ed bv a copious flood of tears. ' Gently, gent
ly,' cried lie, as Joe began to dig away the
snowy mound which it was now certain covered
his children—' gently ! Don't disfigure my
pretty darlings.'
Joe threw the spade down, tenderly drew
away with his hands the remainder of the snow
and revenled to the expectant parents the life
less forms of their dear offspring. There they
lay, as in tranquil sleep. Ally's right arm
encircled his little brother's neck; his left hand
grasped firmly the collar of the old coat in
which they were enveloped, and it was evident
thnt to the last the loving boy had striven to
pull the garment tightly round Midgkins to
to shield him from the cold.
'Dead, dead!'cried poor father, with a
groan of anguish : ' I knew it.'
Mother fell on her knees beside her little '
ones, and covering her face with her hands,
wept bitterly. The doctor lost not a moment
in parleying, but stooping down, began chafing
Ally's frozen limbs. ' Joe !' said lie abruptly,
' the wine ! look sharp ! There's hope yet.'
AVhat sweet music was in that simple sen
tence ! music that stayed the torrent of moth
er's tears, and caused father's countenance to
beam with hope. Half-a-dozen pair of willing
hands were soon employed in using every
means suggested by the doctor for the re
suscitation of the young sufferers. Happily
their earnest endeavors were crowned with '
success; for anon, Alfv half opened his eyes,
and on seeing his father bending anxiously over
him, he said—somewhat indistinctly as one i
speaks in a dream : ' Father, have you come
to fetch us ?'
'Yes, my love—yes,' replied father.
' But where's Midgkins ?' murmured Alfy
' I thought I had my arms round him -'
' Your brother's quite safe,' interrupted the
doctor; ' hut, no more talking now ; wait till
you're stronger.'
' Look he's breathing freelv, and moves his
hands,' said mother, referring to Midgkins—
to whom she and Yorkshire Tom had been
directing their care and attention. The doc
tor now gave orders that the boys should be
wrapped up in the horse-cloths, and desiring
their parents to get into the vehicle, lie placed
the little one in their arms, and whispered to
Tom to drive on, as fast as he could, for that
ranch remained to he done before he could i
prononee the young invalids out of danger.—
Moreover, he dreaded the effects of the keen
morning air on the frame of the mountebank,
shaken as it had been by the excitement of
recent events. Arrived at the Travellers' Ilest
every means that kindnes and experience
prompted was put into requisition for the be
hoof of the distressed family—warm baths,
good beds ; in short, all that her house afford
cd, Mrs. Dawson freely placed at the doctor's
disposal for their advantage, and was reward
ed by his declaring, on the following day, that
all his patients now required was plenty of
'kitchen physic,'second by good nursing.
The two important adjuncts to the physi
cian's skill were not wanting on the present oc
casion, for tbe kind landlady was indefatigable
in her superintendence of broths and jellies for
the invalids; and as for nursing, why mother
w-as there. The consequence was, that in a
few days the doctor discontinued his visits.
' There is a tide in the affairs of men, which
taken at the flood, lends on to fortune.' So
said Sltakspeare. With the subjects of our
tale this '* tide," had now set in. and that
which all their professional talent had failed
to achieve,accident gained for them—notoriety
the very life of public professors in whatsoever
department they may he. The newspapers
that week published accounts of the ' hair
breadth scape'of the children; men who make
n scanty livelihood by bawling through the
streets recitals of the various casualties that
are daily befalling their fellowcrentures, were
heard in the very town retailing the substance
of the foregoing narrative, with sundry ad
ditions, alterations, and moral observations
The mountebank, as Byron phases it, ' awoke
one morniug and found himself famous.' He
received a letter from the manager of one of
L mdon minor theatres, with an offer to Mr.
and the Masters Letlibridge of JLO per week,
for their jo.nt salary, to perforin in a new
drama, founded on fact, and entitled T/icsmnc
Storm ; the engagement to terminate when the
run of the drama was over. Said ' run ' might
continue on'y three weeks, or—if the piece
turned out u great hit—might last as many
months, just according to the success of the
production. Then came, post-haste, a model
ler in wax-work who, with father's consent,
took plaster easts of his and his children s
heads, l'hcir well-worn professional attire was
eagerly purchased by this gentleman, who went
away delighted at having it in his power to
add to the attractions of his wax work ex
hibition ' the life-like models of the renowned
Professor Letlibridge and his Infant Progeny,
dressed in the identical apparel worn by thein
iu the late disastrous snow-storm.' Nor was
the mountebank less pleased with the five
pound uote which was the result of the model
ler's visit. Jfe had scarcely left the inn, when
a very showy carriage, driven by a very showr"
coachman, stopped at the door, and a stoat
elderly gentleman alighted. llis JTV* was
uflra-faslTioiiahte, and lie was bejewelled, be
whiskcred, and be ringleted a mmrille He
.inquired pilitely for Monsieur Lulebtege,, to
i w bom ho flit:odneed hi.m Self as the 4tr></tur
. ill n celebrated foreign circus, at present locat
-3 led in London* The interview between the
I liartiflji jwas short, Imt decisive, and terminated
in tliejehirageiaent of Lellibridire and the boys
bv theViviirhniari at a liberal weekly ' salary,
the engagement to hold good for three years
.certain.. The dirccteiir hastened Lack to town
to set the printer and ttie bill-sticker at work
iiistiinlfr ; and in a day or tw ) London was
placarded with gigantic posters, representing
a snow scene, w herein, arrayed in gorgeous
Boman costume, the mountebank ap|>eaml,
the extreme point of one foot resting on n
.diminutive glass globe, the other gracefully ex
tended iu the air. On his forehead he stqt
portcd, pyramid wise, his two hoys—dressed in
Turkish flies and Greek caps—Midgkins, who
| formed the apex, waving iu each hand a small
! flag, emblazoned with the arms of France. To
j complete tlie picture, father's hands were in
-1 (histriously employed in tossing up and catch
ing at least a dozen oranges, and as many
formidable looking two edged knives—and all
this during a heavy fall of snow ; not very
1 na'ural, but highly effective.
Four years have passed away since the moun
; tebauk and his family, with tears of gratitude,
I hade adieu to their generous Kglinthorpe
friends. Since then, they have travelled pro
fessionally, even as far as Constantinople. Last
year, having completed the term of their en
gagement with Monsieur I? Directrit /•, they re
turned to their native country, greatly improv
ed in a; pearanee, manners, and knowledge.—
All the family speak French and German
fluently ; and the boys are considered by the
judges to be lirst-rate acrobats, horse-riders,
i and rope-dancers ; consequently, their services
' are greatly sought after. They can now coin
j mand excellent salaries, ami, iu short, are look
ed upon in their profession as holding rank
A 1.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
SESSION Of KVJ.
SENATE.
Ist I>i.*trict —Philadelphia, lath—Dauphin .and Lebu-
Saiu'l .1. Panda 11. P. lion.
Richard-ma 1,. Wright, D. John I?. Rutherford.*
j I. X. Market is, P. tilth—Lancaster.
t John Parker, * Hart rain Sliaeffer,*
! 2d— Chester and Delaware Robert Baldwin.*
Thomas S. Belt. D. 17th—York.
3d—Montgomery. fWilliain 11. Welsh. D.
t-lohn Thompson.* 18th—Adams, Franklin aud
I 4tli—Burks. Fulton.
f Mali Inn Yardlry.* Oeorge M. Brewer. P.
.">th—Lehigh and North.nnp 19th Somerset, Bedford and
1 ton Huntingdon.
| +Kev. Jere Shindel, D. William I'. Heliell. 1).
f.th—Berks. 20th—Blair. Cambria and
fßenj. Xuneuiarhcr, D. ('learlield.
7th—Schuylkill. John Creswell, D.
tltoiicrt M. Palmer.* 21st—Armstrong and Ind
-Btli—Carbon. Monroe. Pike iana.
and Wayne. Titian J. Coffey.*
Thomas Craig, D. 22d- Fayette and. Westmore
9th- Bradford .Susquehanna j land.
Wyoming and Sullivan. ■ Jacob Turney, D.
K. itrfd Miw.* 123 -<reene and Washington
10th—Lnzeruc. j (Jcorge W. Miller, 1).
C.eorge P. Steele. D. 124th —Allegheny.
11th—Tioga .Potter,MeKeai', Edward P. (lazznm ,*
and Warren. ! fJohn P. Penny.*
(ilenni w. senfield.* '2.">th—Beaver and Butler.
: 12th -Clinton. Lycoming.' John 11. Harris.*
Centre and Cnion. 126 th -Lawrence, Mercer and
fAndrew (Iregg.* i Venango.
13th—Snyder, Xortlininlier j William M. Francis.*
land. Montour and Co 27th Erie and Crawford.
Inuihia. j fParwin A. Finney.*
I tßeuben Keller. D. |2S —Clarion, Jefferson, For
! 14th—Cumberland. Juniata rest and Elk.
i Perry and Mifflin. i tK. L. Blood,I),
i Henry Fetter, 1).
Democrats 17
Opposition in
Democratic majority 1
•Opposition
tElected this year.
HOCSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Philadelphia. I Berks.
| I—C MI) Smith. 1) Solomon L Custer.D
•> —Wash (Juigli-y. D j Augusta- F Bert-Jet,l)
3—D R MeClain. D [Edmund f. Smith P
4—l M Harding, * t lane-aster.
—(leo T. Tloi ii,* i Nathaniel Ellmiker,*
jo- Ins M Church,* Samuel H Price,*
7—David H Styer,* Amos s (Ireen.*
s—C A Walliorn .* j Samuel Keneapv.*
ll—tico W Wood.* York.
10—Isaac P Xeli * William W Wnlf.D
11—John Wharton. P V Heit-tand Olafz.D
12—John A Fisher* Cumberland and Perry.
| 13—Oliver Evans. D Hugh Stuart.D
14—Simon llratz.* John Hartzcß.P
17—C W ll.mmer-lcy,* Adams.
I Pi—(leo W Wiley,* ,Samuel Dnrbrow.*
j 17—C F Abbott* Franklin and Fulton.
Peiaware. A |r\ K M'-Clnre,*
i William DlVnnel!,* James.Sill P
Che-ter. Bedford and Somerset.
■ William T Shaffer,* fJeorge AA° William*.*
j Caleb Peirce.* (leor.ge ( Walker.*
Isaac Ack< r.* Huntingdon.
Montgomery. ]R B AYigdon *
David Stweback.D I Blair.
John Di-mant.D {Jacob Barley,*
Dr Charles 11 Ilill.D ' Cambria.
Biiek*. ITlionus M Porter,D
Hiram A Williams,* i Indiana.
Joseph Barnslcj .* . A Wilson Taylor, 0
Northampton. [ Armstrong and Westmorc-
Max Coop p. I) I land.
Joseph AA'oodring.D l lohn AV Rohrer.O
Lehigh and Carbon. Robert Warden.D
Samuel Bilb-t * Afatliew Shields,l)
Tilghinan H Oood.D ' Fayette.
Monroe and Pike. Henry Galley,D
C Shoemaker. D (Ireene.
AVavne. Or D W lira v. D
Hulloway L Stevens,l) Washington.
Luzerne. (ienrge V Lawrence, 0
AA' AA* Ketehum* William Oraham. 0
l/ewis Pugh,* Allegheny.
P C (iritman.D I Heron Foster, 0 '
Susquehanna. Elias Irish. 0
Simeon B Chase.* tp.ivid E Bayard. 0
Bradford. j luliu* F Z-ilirr, 0
Tliomas Sinead* , Robert P Mi-Dowell.°
OH P Kinney,* i Beaver and Lawrence.
Wyoming. Sullivan, Colnm-i Joseph il Wilson,"
liia and Montour. ] lames I> Bryan, °
Samuel Oak-.P ' Butler.
(ieorgc D Jackson.D '.AA'illiam AA" |)odds,°
Lycoming and Clinton. [John M Tliouipsoii, 0
Lindsey Meliaffey.* Mercer and Venango.
AVilliani Eear.m. jr.* AA'(l Rose, 0
Centre. C P R inisdell, 0
Adam R Rariow ,* Clarion and Forest.
Mifflin. John M Fleming.D
David AVitlierow,* .Jefferson,Cleartield.Elk and
I'nion. Snyder and Juniata j MeKean.
JJ Patterson.* ;Michael A Frank. A 1,1)
AV F AA'agonseller.* S.im'l C Arthurs. A 1. D
Xortliunilierl.tnd. j Crawford and Warren.
Charles H"Uen-tein,D ,11 P Rouse, °
Si'hnylkill. R p Miller. 0
P If Palmer,* Erie.
John S Boycr* ( John W Canipltell."
C I. Pinkerton.* AA'ilson Laird. Ind I)
Dauphin. Potter and Tioga.
Win C A Lawreaic#,* I, p Williston, 0
Marks !> Whitman,* Lewis Mann,°
lebanon.
Joseph Eckman,*
♦Opposition.
Opposition, Ob; Democrats, 32; Anti-Leeompton Dem
ocrats, 2.
HECVriTt't.ATIOS*.
Democrats. Opposition.
; Senate 17 hi
House of lVpresentatives 32 158
Total 4'J 81
4!)
Opposition majority on joint lullot 3a
fcay* learn from Kansas that a portion
of the Lawrence company hail returned from
the South I'Jatte gold mines, whose account
fully authenticate the reports of llie existence
of gold along the L'latte lliver. They prospect
ed very extensively, with fair success. Numbers
continue to leave for the mines, with the inten
tiou of wintering uu the road.
JtmciAL AiToiXTMKvr.—Gen. John Bryan,
"of Doy lest own, has been apj>ointed,by (iovenior
l'acker, Associate Judge of Bucks county, iu
place of Stephen M. Bartinc, deceased.
:=S ■
• 11. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
A , iS'W) wANI >1 .J
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CI.KKK OK THE HOUSE.— The Opposition hav
ing elected a large majority of the House of
Representatives ot this State, already a num
ber of persons have been suggested to lill the
I offices necessary for the organization of the
| House. For Chief Clerk, Junsox HOI.COMB
will be strongly pressed by the Republican
; members from the Northern part of the State.
Mr. 11. combines all the qualifications and ex
perience necessary to make a popular and ex
i celleut officer. Representing this County for
I two years in the House, he was noted for his
1 familiarity with the rules, while as Assistant
! Clerk of the Senate lie gained himself great
j credit for the ready and courteous manner in
I which lie performed his duties. His election
1 would secure to the House a Clerk, whose
capability could not be excelled, while it would
be a mark of appreciation of the indomitable
and reliable freemen of the North which would
be peculiarly gratifying.
SAO ACClDENT. —Acorrespondent at Sheshe
j quin sends in the following account of a sad
accident which occurred on Friday week:—
A little girl aged ten years, daughter of
Adam Feucht, a German residing in this vicin
ity, while at the mill of Gore & R indall, in
company with her brother older, waiting for a
grist, diverted herself about the mill looking
I at the machinery &c. While in the third story,
i where there was a carpenter at work, her shawl
by some means came in contact with a small
upright shaft which was making about one
, hundred revolutions per minute ; she was im
mediately wound up to the shaft and made to
revolve at that rapid rate at least a hundred
times, before the carpenter could go below ami
stop the mill. There was a space of but seven
inches between the shaft and a post, through
which she was made to pass at every revolu
tion. She was probably killed at the lirst rev
olution, as her head was nearly torn from her
body, and almost every bone broken. Her
mother was confined to the bed with sickness,
but her father, in a most frantic state, met her
remains as they were being carried home from
i the scene of the accident. This case seemed
the more distressing to the parents, as, but a
few years ago, they had a sou burned tip in a
fallow, under circumstances eq unlly melancholy,
i This calamity ought to remind nil mill own
ers that such shafts (although they may ap
pear harmless,) should be boxed, so as to
avoid the possibility of such aecidcuts in fu
ture.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.— On Tuesday, the 20th
inst., Mrs. Hulduh, wife of Horace Wolf, of
Columbia, attempted to commit suicide by cut
ting her throat. She had been in a melancholy
state of mind for several weeks. On Tuesday
morning she weighed some meat and asked her
husband to carry it to one of the neighbors.
When he came back his wife was not to be
found house; he was alarmed and
communicated his fears to others ; search was
immediately made, and, after considerable time
( had elapsed, she was found in a sort of cellar
or ground room under the barn, where she had
gone, closing the door after her. She had
partly severed the windpipe and several of the
smaller blood vessels around it, then taking
her apron and wrapping it about her neck to
staunch the blood. She is still alive but more
insane than before she committed the act, and
| appears determined to kill herself by tearing
off the bandages and making the wound incur
j able.
OFFICIAL VOTE FOR PRESIDENT JUDGE.
WII.MOT. PATRICK.
j Bradford 4771 1141
j Susqnclumna 3051 l!i*2B
7(is7 3057
j We understand that the Alpha Epsilon
Society have made arraugemrnts for having a
course of lectures this winter, and that a num
ber of distihguished popular lecturers have
been engaged. The first lecture of the course
will be delivered on the loth optimo, by tlic
Rev. Thos K. Beecher. Season family tickets
can be obtained of Mr. A. R-Montanye, at
0. I). Bartlett's book-store.
j COOKY'S LADY'S BOOK. —Godey for Xovem
| ber is on our table, ahead of all competitors
and contains a choice variety of rending mat
ter, plates and patterns. The following is the
j contents of this number. One steel engraving.
( " The Inkeepci's Daughters " for beauty and
execution unrivalled ;onc colored fashion plate,
two plates printed in colors, forty-four engrav
ings, sixty articles, and one hundred pages of
reading—all for 2o cents. One copy one year,
; two copies, £5 ; three copies, $(5.
FORNEY FOR GOVERNOR —The Middletown
Journal suggests Col. John W. Forney as the
anti-National Administration caudidate for
I Governor in lfco'J.
D- ; ?" A shocking accident occurred in Mon
trose on Snturdaj week. It. having been deter
infqed t#'celebrate the victory in I'ennsjdvaiiia
oil llnil day, the ftttendaticc of Co! J Spicer,
with the eaimon under bis ifcark andjtwo ex
perienced artillerist*, Cfn wford Tifus nndi
JJtvid Titiis, brot|j|rs f ieeuml. The
firing of the cannon had progressed without
accident, tjJJ they were preparing to discharge
it for the last time, at about five o'clock, I\ m. f
when from some unknown cause, it went off
while they were in the act of loading it, wound
ing Crawford and David Titns in a most shock
ing manner, and slightly injuring Mr Tanner,
their nephew.
Crawford Titus had his right fore arm torn
off just below his elbow, and the arm badly
broken and lacerated. Hotli his eyes were
put out ; the right eyeball was dsstroyed by
splints from the ramrod, and the coats of the
left eye so cut and burned with powder as to
destroy the sight. His face, neck, and breast,
were horribly mangled and torn. As soon as
reaction commenced taking place, the torn
vessels began to bleed ; and, the injury being
so near the shoulder, hemorrhage could not be
arrested except by amputation of the limb.—
After making ineffeetua' attempts to stop the
bleeding, the arm was amputated, near the
shoulder, by Dr. Patrick. The patient, weaken
ed by the loss of blood, and prostrated by the
shock, continued to sink, and died about eleven
o'clock, p. m., of the some day.
David Titus had the flesh torn from the inside
of the middle of the left forearm- -the hand
and fingers badl v lacerated, some of the lingers
entirely torn off—and his face and eyes burned
but not so as to produce any permanent injury.
It was decided by the physicians in attendance
Drs. Black man, Patrick, Dimoek, Park, ami
W. IJ. Richardson- that the hand could not
be saved ; and they advised that the arm
should be amputated. The operation was pre
formed by Dr. Patrick. It is expected that
the patient will recover.
Craw ford Titus, who was a highly respected
citizen of Harford township, leaves a widow
und four children, with but little property.—
His funeral was attended in Harford, on
Monday, by a large concourse of mourners.
This unhappy occurrence has cast a deep
gloom over the community ; and, although the
loss sustained by the afflicted family is one that
can never he repaired, efforts are making to
express the sympathy of the public in such
manner, and to render such aid, as is in their
power.
B3T" The Salt Lake Mail to the 25th of
September reached St. Joseph's, Mo., on the
Kith inst. Everything was quiet in the Ter
ritory, and good feeling is reported to exist
between the Mormons and the Gentiles.—
Business was brisk at Salt Lake City. Trains
of goods and provisions were constautlyarriving
from California. The supply trains from the
States were also arriving in good condition
and great numbers. Sixty had passed Fort
Bridgcr, and twenty were met 011 the Sweet
water, and eight were north of the Platte.—
All the troops under Gen JOHNSTON are con
solidated in one encampment. His command,
including employes, number 7,00 or 8,000. —
About 4,000 men were also at Fort llridger,
under Col. CAMIIHEV.
The President is now (in his own opin
ion) even with the people of Berks County.—
They administered a stern rebuke at the polls
by rejecting J. GKANCY JONES, but the Auto
crat at Washington, to show his contempt for
the popular will, immediately tendered to the
discarded Representative the mission to Aus
tria. The friends of the distinguished dinner
eating JEHU were disposed to regard the offer
as an insult, but it appears that lie could not
afford to indulge in any such feeling, and it is
announced that he accepts the post. If the
President expects to provide for all the mar
tyrs to Lecomptonism, he will be obliged to
create some new offices.
Mr. L. M. DKM OTT, traveling agent for
JOHNSON, FRY & Co., Publishers, NEW York,
is now engaged in canvassing and delivering
to snliseribers, the Illustrated Life and Times
of Washington, and other illustrated and
standard works. The former work has now
reached its fifth number, and maintains the
value and elegance of previous numbers. When
completed it will form a work of rare elegance
and worth, such as no library should be with
out. The publications of this house are of a
very high order, any of which Mr. I), will sup
ply on application.
Hon. \Y M. A. POUTER having been ad
monished, by the result of the late election,
that he was not the choice of the people of
Pennsylvania has resigned his position of Su
preme Judge, and GAYLOBD CHURCH, of Craw
ford, has been appo'nted to the vacancy. The
Judge's letter of resignation shows that lie
takes his rejection by the people very ranch to
heart.
An enthusiastic gathering of Ilepubli
cans and Americans convened iu the Park, at
New York, on Thursday afternoon, to express
their gratification at the result of the late elec
tion. Among the speakers was Hon. G. A.
GROW, who delivered an eloquent address, elic
iting the warmest applause.
1* IRE. —The dwelling honsc of JAMES SA.VTEE,
in Towanda twp. f was destroyed by fire, with
most of its contents, on Thursday last. The
fire when first discovered was breaking through
the roof, abont the chimney, and is supposed
to have originated from some defect in the
chimney. The loss is partially covered by an
insurance of §bUO iu the State Mutual.
STF V icc-President BRF.CKIXIUOOE writ
ten a letter to the Chairman of the Illinois
Democratic State Committee, urging the re
election of Senator DOCGI.AS. He says that
he eannotr indorse the course of I)orni*u in the
hite Session of Congress, but he being the lead
er of th# Democracy of Illinois in their present
light against the Republicans, he sympathizes
with hjtn, and desires his success. Mr. LKBUY,
the Administration candidate for Congress in
the Third District ot Illinois, has withdrawn
from the contest, and advises his friends to
support the regular nominees for Congress,
State Officers and Representatives, who will
vote for POLO LAS for Senator.
■f&r At a regular meeting of Linta Hose
Co. No. 3, the following officers 'were elected
for the ensuing term :
Foreman. —T. HAYWARD.
First Assistant. —JOHN BRITTON.
Second Assistant. —JOHN W. MEANS.
Secretary. — H. B. MCKEAN.
Treasurer. —E. OVERTON*, JR.
&rSf Mrs. Mary Twiggs was hung, at Pan
ville, on Friday, as a punishment for having
committed the crime of poisoning with arsenic
Mrs. Catharine Ann Clark, whose husband
was convicted of the charge and bring on the
20th of September. Great efforts were made
to obtain a pardon for Mrs. Twiggs, but they
failed. Public opinion is somewhat divided in
regard to her gulit, but the community general
ly believed her guilty. OH the scafTord she
protested that she was innocent.
Definite returns have at Inst been re
ceived from the lowa elccton, all the counties
but nine having been heard from. In the First
Congressional District the Republican can
didate is elected by a majority of 1,421, and
in the Second District the Republican candidate
has 3,354 majority, as far as heard from. The
election of the Republican State ticket is claim
ed by 5,000 majority.
fcuF We have received the October nnmbar
of the " Printer," a monthly newspaper devot
ed the interests of the " art preservative of all
arts." It is handsomely got up, tilled with in
teresting and entertaining matter, and should
lo in the hands of every member of the pro
fession, and all interested in the progress of art
and science. Published by Henry & Hunting
ton, at No. 1 Spruce street, N. V., at £1 a
year in advance.
fiaT* The great balloon race at Cincinnati
between the American STRIKER and the French
man GopAP.n has been won by STRIVE it. He
made a distance of 230 miles in a little over
six hours.
1 he Execution of Ira Stout.
ROCHESTER, Oct. 22.
Ira Stout suffered the full penalty of the law
to-day. At 212 o'clock, a procession headed
l>y Deputy Sheriff Warner, reached the jail.
The military were drawn up in lines, so as to
open a passage to the jail. As soon as they
had arrived and taken the places assigned to
them by the officers, the prisoner, Ira Stout,
was brought down from his room to the gal
lows. lie was supported by Deputy-Sheriffs
Pond and Marill, and followed by his spiritual
advisers, Messrs. Ilotehkiss, Cutting, Board
man and others.
The prisoner was arrayed in a suit of black,
and wore on his head a white cap. His step
was tolerably lirm, considering the fact that
lie had a spell of fainting about noon. On
reaching t.'ie gallows lie took a seat wl<ile Dep
uty Sheriff Warner read tlie death warrant in
a distinct and forcible manner.
At the conclusion of the rending, Mr. War
ner told the prisoenr that the time had arrived
to put the warrant into execution, and that if
lie had anything to say lie had now an oppor
tunity. Stout did not rise, hut while seated,
in a clear and firm voice said:
GKXTI.KMEX: I am of the opinion that there
has been considerable vindictiveness in this
mutter, and where there is vindictiveness it is
difficult to speak. I have left my oracle, which
contains an expression of my feelincrs as a
dying man, and that contains all I have to
sav.
The Rev. Mr. Ilotchkiss standing at the
prisoner's right, said he would read the whole
of the loth chapter of Ist Corinthians at the
request of the prisoner, and he read it—the
prisoner, meanwhile, seated with his head sup
ported by his right Inn d.
At the conclusion of reading the S -riptnre,
Mr. Hotchk iss said he would address the
Throne of Grace, hoping that the prisoner
would find strength to follow in a short prayer.
Mr Ilotchkiss then made an impressive
prayer, which interested the audience, if it did
not the prisoner.
The prayer concluded, Mr. Ilotchkiss con
versed a moment inaudibly with Stout, and
then said that Stout desired him to say he did
not feel strength to pray, but heartily adopted
the whole prayer he had just heard.
The Deputy Sheriffs, officers and friends then
shook hands with the prisoner, and Deputv
Sheriff Warner put the rope about his neck
and drew the cap over his face. While the
officers were pinioning his arms, St mt stood
quite erect, and remained in that attitude to
the last. He was quite firm in his demeanor,
and gave the snme complacent smile to uli in
bidding adieu that he gave at all times, when
conversing, since his arrest.
All being ready and the spectators standing
in breathless silence, at twenty minutes past
3 o'clock Sheriff liabeock pulled the fatal line
and Ira Stout was suspended three feet from
the floor. Not a sound was heard in any di
rection, sive the fall of the heavy weight,
which did the fatal work.
The death of the ill-fated man was not as
sudden as could be desired. llis struggles for
eight or ten minutes were severe, and caused
the spectators to turn away in disgust. His
neck was probably not. dislocated and he died
by a slow process of strangulation. I)rs. Hall,
Avery, James and Miller stood near, and in
eight minutes after the drop fell they said his
pulse was full as in life.
At the end of half an hour his body was cut
down and placed in the coffin, preparatory to
lieing taken'to the residence of his mother on
Exchange-street.
News from all Nations
—The notes of the Bank of p cnn vl
have advAce* 15 per rent. i„ value since tbc VlU "' 1
sin of the court miking it inr U mt,ent
t receive them in payment of obligations a,„
tut ion. llut
-The f£rls of Hon. J. Glnncy J oms r ,
one Tittmli.-.r gum, !lt Heading, on Mon.lav a '
their gratification ut the prosit of g t . uinif h V" k * B '*'
Uw country air.rtlea by the tender of the \ Ultrkn ' ''
to him. Tlic immortal John has not ;ef (f 7~ "p**
form hU admirers whether he will accept tin „
" leave his country lor hi* country* g,*„i
it is thought that Muj. Schwartz will be elected t *!'*'
unexpired term. iu*
—ln Indiana, the Democratic State ti ,.-
has been elected by u majority of 2,500. Tin's "
stand thus : Republicans, 27, ; Antl-U^ |lUl _ M !* A 1
erata. 3 ; Democrats. 22 : and the n ,w House win?"
52 Kepublicans, 3 Antl-Lecornpton Ib, m( "
Democrats. ' M <l li
— l The silver mines in Arizona, now^,,
worked by the Sonora Mining Company, are tun
well, and alxiut a thousand ounces a weak arei ,
pe.l from Tuboc to San Francisco. ' *
—ln Minnesota the RepuhTTcans liaveefce,
cd thirty-three members of fhr Ifonse and
' l "n Illf
of the Senate, while the Democrats have elected
eight Representatives and six Senators. \ ini ., \ ,
preventative districts and four Senatorial dutrnt- "
to hear from. j-t
—The schooner H. K. Miller, which hM, r
rived at Providence. It. 1., brings later intellipencr f r ,
| Africa. Dr. Livingstone had gone tip the Nil,. r ,
| disturbance* among the native trills continued. 1
Governor had dispatched forces again-t them, wh ! 1
J gained a victory at Cbaiupanzce.
i —Gov. Mt:\Villie, of Mississippi, lj as
! pointed Thursday, the 25th or VovemUr, as a
I Thanksgiving throughout that State.
! —The receipts at the Seventh Annnal Indi
ana State Fair, which closed at Indianapolis on the 1 •
1 inst., were $IO r "iOO.
| —The whole number of deaths in Galveston
Texas, from yellow fever, during the month endiar
Iter 4, was 112.
—An lowa paper estimates the quantity of
Chinese sugar cane grown in the western part of that
i State this year, as sufficient to make a million gallon.,
[ syrup.
—White-fish have made their re-uppearane?
in Oneida Lake, and are now caught by thousand*. NV.
have I teen caught there for ten or twelve war*.
—The first nctv rorn of this season wa<
sold in Chicago, Illinois, a few days ago, at 40 ceats •-
bushel of i;o lb*.
—On the 11 tli inst., six cows were run
over on the railroad track, near CuuiWland, Md.:
was knocked into the canal and drowneil,twowereki .
outright, and the rest were, more or less injured. l„t
tunately, none of the passengers were serious., hurt.
—Kansas papers record the mnrder on the
Little Blue of George IV. Sbermer. a printer from Pm
svivania.
—The venerable Bishop Sonle, of the MK
Church, South, is in a precarious state of health.
—George Shaw has lx;en convicted m
Pittsburg of kidnapping a colored boy.
—lf Jehu G. Jones is entitled to a fit;
mission for lieing knocked overlward by a small l,r
side of nineteen guns, what should lie the reward*!
man who has been shockingly mangled by a regular
bardment of over 3.000 ?
—Potatoes in East Hartford, Cinnecti'-n:
are said to be so plenty as to be selling at seventeen c;t
a bushel.
—The celebrated racer, Fashion, was cxhit
ited at the Ohio Slate Fair la-t week. She had with in
abb Hided colt. She i- now ov< r twentv-.ine ' car,
and has won for her owners, at diflercu: tine ;
—All Indian cliief in Carson Yallev, sits
correspondent of a Stockton paper, ha* aw hite *'M
for a wife, whom he purchased from a tri>e of Ca: •
Indians.
—At ti Camp Meeting of the I'nited I!n
thren Church, recently held near West Baltimore. 11
g.mery county, Ohio, Bishop ltussel forbid any- t *
j hoops nu to partake of the sacrament, t (firming tii.iti *
would not be welcomed nt the table of the l.uni
—An exchange snvs, it is just as sensi! ,e
move to undertake to get married without ■■ourtir: •
attempt to succeed in business without adverti- PI.
—We see it stated that the New York an
Frio Railroad Company have resolved tou-c-ul '<■
their locomotives.
—There are boats on the Erie canal w.i
greater tonnage than the ship with which Cnlinub -
covered America.
—Millard Fillmore announces that Ik 1 '
withdrawn from all political strife.
—Henry Ward Beccher is to have a (if
church built for him which will cost $200,000.
—The ladies of lowa are decidedly "
On the ISth ult., a race of ladles, on hit. came *
lowa City, for a prize of a silver cake-basket. A
Handy won the prize.
—A drove of nearly 100U lioas were
from n pen in Baltimore, on Tnesdav night F-f 'M'
through the streets of the city, and driven eff w 101l 01
■nknown.
—The Siiubury Gazelle savs, that on M
day morning of last week, a cow belonging to w '
Gecnough, Esq., produced n calf with eiJ't I"'-"
ears, and two back-bones. The cow end cait lie!--
—There was a decrease in the tnvnh"
porty of San Franeico, California, for the pre
year, as compared with the last, of enndderc 1 2
than $4,500,000.
A man, named Rooncy, indicted
week, in Albany, V. Y., for setting firet" a l! *
housecontaioing several women and children was
ed of the crime, and sentenced to be hung, en t ,h --
3d of December next.
—Boston, (Mass.,) papers state that F
who was sentenced to death for the murder of" lf °
lar, in the western part of the State, ha* snuk :
otie condition, and the probability now is tltft
treme penalty of the law will not le carried ent.
—George Shaw was convicted in Fit-
Pa., of having, by fraud and false pri ten-c, ent' 1 ' 1
the county of Allegheny, George \V Ferri-. a " 3
latto.with intent to have him kept and if t un'
for life, in Missouri or Alabama. lli> counsel lll
arrest of judgment and a new trial.
—Kimber Clever died in Pottsvhle, T 1 1
morning of this week, aged about 45 rear-. "
active business man, and a gentleman ol niuih • 1
in that region.
—On Wednesday nijfht, some villi® ll
into the Drag Store of Messrs. Green A M
font*, and took therefrom about *
bank notes. ~
—John W. Ryan has written n n 1
ing bis intention of contesting the - at ol 1
of the first Congressional district. He urge*
any knowledge of fraud* at the election i 1 m '
known to him. —'
At the house of Austin Wetmere in " fr .j T o *r-
Countv. Pa., Sundav. Oct. 17th- by l!c|- in j
Mr. KDWIN T. KLLSWOIITII. "J I %' ,[
M \RY .lAXE GOODWIX, of Ilcrrrck
County, Pa.