thoi • • Terms. of *gin' era , pottrnal t - Two Days per annum, payable semiannually In edvanee.to those wbo reside In e Coanty-.and M4IIU any in advance to shoots Who residellutnithe Courtly the publisher reserves to himself the right to charge' *t,so per annum, where , payment is delayed longer pan one yeas. .. , TO .CLUBS. . • • Three copies to one 'addrets, - e ' 85 00 Seven Do • .Do . . 10 00 fiffeelf D o Do' _.. . ' 20 00 Five dollars in advance will pay fur three Mr"' sub , acription to the Journal. . . , . RATES OF ADVERTISING. One Square of 16 lines, 3 times, • .. Every subsequent insertion, flag Square of 8 lines, 3 times, -.Subsequeht 'nsertions, each, .. : VO,Ur lines, 3 times, , •, ~..ftSubsequent in4ertions, each,.. - . .One Square, 3 months, • Six Months . ; - . • . n Orie.Year, . • . Business - Cards of. Five lines, per annum, .Xtrcha . nts and &heti!, advertising by Year, with the privilege of inserting dif- . ...,', - erent advert6ementsweekly. • 03-Larger .fidvertisements. as per agreement ------ - g TOCICS • ,o , , t VritlAr .... ,k4tN'. ‘,'...::.4 •5 ., :.,. - ‘, f.jtj. '--...;1.E.: ":,:' '' C , ' • ' '9. ' l.° ;',.;' ' . 3•'-- :-: • :7 : I : : ''' •;' - ' ‘ , I , • fiq''.. :- '". t ;-. :-- ~- ; ' .1.. P," 7.,',V:41V,.'7":.:1; ' "" l ,.;', •.' ... , ; ‘,':l)4tiil:'.',::".•—_--`,--::::-/,1'''.. , ',.; -: ''' i1f,...„,, .C.l''...4'"'";‘-'7''' ',— i s•-;; ..',... " _...,5,,,,,'N'it-1 Vt•-•-/' pi - it' LIC . I . ' . : 1 . . .. , , , ' 4 -' .- -- 4: - - '-e , ; n7. 1 . -: ,"' '•--7, :' - ..- ',, ,A, .c Y4 ',...1 , -._l, • .:„.t_ T.' .._ -- ...• c. •' ~ s'Lf cit.- 1 1 ,- vt. r ,,. c,o.c , ' t. vii ._.= . Facts for the People T ' IE ennitantly increasing populaiiiy and rale of B. A. Fahnesiock's Vertu'loge has induced 'per• sons who are envious of its success to palm off upon' the public preparations which all triNicatmen linov% to' be inellinaclous in ehleiling worms` from ihe . system. This Vermifuge has made its way into public layout pon the ground of its own intrinsic merits, more .han any other medicine oftho liiinfnow,ased;' and .while - many worm remedies have by dint of pulling, been ,forced into sale, and shortly nfter gone intr the obscurity which their worthlessness justly mer. ,iced, ,B. A. Ftandstock's Vermifuge continues in be trlumnhantly 2 iiustain'utl. It has only to be used And its effects will fully sustain all" that is said of its weinderfulespelling , power. •' Certificate. Wales, Erie Co., New- Y., Jan, Z, 1843. We certify that we ['Ave used IL Fahnetock's Verziatrge,4n our and in every case it has provided h'decided and effectual remedy for expel. ling. worms front the FVSActICI, W., cordially recent. mendit to parents wholiavechildrert atificted with. .that dangerous indhaij , ELON VICGIL. WM. B. AMU, • ROBls OSRPB BURROUGHS. For Sale, wholele and peta:l, at the Urug Ware = house of ' 8.. A. FAHNESTOCK &C- r Corner. of Sixth and Wood tits. Pitsburg, Pa. 'For Szde in Pottsville. by • CLEM EN S &PA(VIN. Dr uegists. December HAAS' EXPECTORANT, FOR VIE CURE or Vmsumptiol4, Coughs, Colds;' eke TO THE PUBLIC!! . - TN PRESENTING this valuable medicine to the pub _UM as a rent dy for Consumption, and Pulmonary ' • • Diseases in general, Illave been actuated solely hy the . great succes- attending Its use in my OWIi illlnW4ll3le - neigtibcoliond, and a desire to benetit the atitieted, I , - ?shall simply endeavor to give , brief sbatement of its :usefulness, and flatter' myself that its surprising etlica .ey will enable Inc to furnish surh proofs of, its virtues as will satisfy the most incredulous, that CONSUMP . ' •TION may and "CAN IfE,CILRED," if this medieine is ...resorted to in time. ..AsVonsumptinn, howevor it a disease which differs 11111 C (I in the severity iv synip oms, and the rapidity of its-progress, and has hole la f_ lied the 3kill Drphysicians it cannot be supposed that . t hi s or 'any ether:remedy is capabre of effecting 'a cuieiarevery - ense-and inieve ry stage of the disease; on the contrary, we must expect it to failsometimes: a circumstance which occurs ilaily,with MUM! . Most ,val ttable remedies we possess. for the most simple diems . es. The proprietors taming tile followine testimonials in its favor from citiiens otthis County, well krown - ''''to the,public. . . ? Mn. 1,V.'.1. IleAs,—Having been afflicted for the last . thirty year's with Consumption, and having nail the ad vice of sonte . of the most mniiientl'hysicians,and Was 6- ! venni) as incurable. I was inducedto make trial of your - , itivaluablelExpeciorant,and am happy to say that I ant entirety cured.hnd am atonding [only daily .wcupat ion - • as thoneh Thad never been afflicted. 'Previous to ta.- - king your EXPECTORANT, I could not. if I had been • so disposed, do anythine 31 my trade. I have 14111 I. ree onmientledl it to several of my friends, and particidarly one case of'CONFIItMED CON:•;OCIPTION, and am happy. . • ,to statellMt in every instance it had the desired emset: • , Yours respectfully, JOi4III.;&IIAWKINS . j Schuylkill /raven, October 1, 1811. ; i. SCEII2I'LIi 111 HAVEN, Jll.PilarY 1, ISIS, lilt. W.,11 lIAAR,—Dear Sir:—Ravine been afflicted -.. . with a severewarn in the breast, I was induced to try your Dxpectorant, and after using one bottle of it, found it to relieve!. me, and I do not hesitate in recommending ' ,it to the putlic as a valuable medicine for Colds, Coughs ,and Afflieti tut of the BreaSt. .1 .44,..., lam respectfully yours See., - '':-.-. - l' , . EDWARD FITNTZINGER. • ' '. , StIIVVLItift'IIAVEN, Octol ? er 19, 15.14." ..1 ivas taken With a bad cold some time ago. and used ; one or 'two bottles of stle lines' Erpectorprit, which re.- .. Aleved ,nte Much, and should I have occasion for the \ , above again, I would freely call on Mr. Naas for hisin ' vnlhable Ekpectorant. DANIEL U. STAGER. , l -. 'Scitevinit.t. HAVEN, ]illy, 20, IS.'S."' , 4 Mit: Wit.t.tAur J. IfAss:—Dear Sir:4l ant happy to testify to the efficacy 01 your nxpeetorant, for answer ' ing the purpose for which it was intended, that of re - Devine., Coughs, Coldd, &c., '- , Yount }respectfully, ' CHAS: lIIINTZINGER.4 For.sale by the Proprletor at Schuylkill Ilacri, and - by the foll Owing Agent. in Schuylkill tiounty. • . - Pottsville—J. S. C• .J artin,' LlewellsM—Joliannad•Ctickhill Evil ' - — r, r. : 2\ MinerevilieJ. & .. J. Fairs, .. • ..- I • '• V ble w CaStie ff ,' George Itelfsnyder, Estt Port Carhon—He'nry ShisMer, P. M.l _ ' l.andincyille—Color & Drumheller. t Pinegrove-GraetT&Forrer. . 1 • Tamaqua—lleilper kMorganrotlt, Middlephrt-11. Koch k Son, ' , . Tuscarora—George R. Dry:: . i Nov 22,4 .1 NATURAL REMEDY. , . Stated to the Human Cohilifull9n, and equal to tke curs . of erery curable diseasi, found in •• _INDIAN VEGETABLE' PILLS, th:Arortp Ain4ritan Cullegr rppESE.extzaardinary Pills are cemposed of plants which glow spontaneously on our own soli, and • -nre. therefore, better adapted to Mir eonstitutions than Medicines concocted from foreign drum, however well they. may be coumpounded ';!-and IN -DIAN VEGETABLE PILLS are founded upon the principle that , . the human body'is in truth • SUBJECT, TO BUT ONE DISEASE, . . . , • „ namely. corrupt humors, and that said Medicine cures this disease on natural principles, by-cleansing and pu rifying the body, it . . Will betAmanifest that, if the consti rtutioa be not entirely exhaustmli'a perseverance in their itse, according' to directions, ls absolutely certain to 'drive disease of every name front the body. I.Vben we wish to restore a swauip or morass to ter . cility,we drain it of the superabundant water. , Inlike ,'manner, It we wish.to restore the body to health, we must ifleanse' it of impurity. -i 1 . • ' WRIGHT'S INDIAN VEGETABLE PILLS, - ' trill be found one of the best, gem: the very best riled ' • tine in the world for carrying out this GRAND PURIFY ' . /NO PRISCIPLE, becabse they expel from the body all morbid and corrupt bumor,,the cause of the disease, in .an easy and natural manner; and while they every ' day giviease and pleasure, disease of .t. very name is -,. tepidly riven front the body. _ . The Billowing highly respectable storekeepers. have - , been appointed Agents far the sale of WRIGHT‘S IN __ MAN TEC ETABCE VILLA, in Schuylkill County : THOMAS. D. BEATTY, Pottstille• • . Bickel & Medlar, Orwigsburg. - - • •A.:Htebner 4- Son. Port Carlini). Dewald. Poff dr. Co., McKeanshurg. :Geo. R. Dry, Tuscarora. . . • - Verity Koch ps Sbn, Mlddleport. • Wm. Teggart,'Tornaqua. E. & E Hanirner, Orwigahurg. -- . .. ' Wheeler & latel; Pine grove. ' - - •• ' , Aaron Snyder, Fr edensburg. - • Aaron Mattis, Lower Matihritanghi - • Jonas Kauffman, ' do . acob Kauffman, Ifahantango: i ' - . • John Welst, Rlingerston. : • . Gabriel Herb. Zimmermintosin.:_ C.' BDe Forest. West Bran . ch : . : ~ ' . lienJ. lieffner,Nlinerwrille. ' .•"'-,, Johannan Cockhill, Lleivellyn., • , Ceorge Dreibeltds, East Brunswick', , Ceo: 11. Potts, Brockville. . . • .S. Hart & C.0.-New Philadelphia. tevan & Kauffman. hcbuylkill.Haven. --- Charles Drexler, East Brunswick. ' Jonas Rdbinholds, Port Clinton. , •' - , • - Retfsnyder & Brother. NeW Curate. , • Dani et Welst, timer Mnhantango. . . • Daniel Boyer, Port Clinton. ' , . Cr Offlees devnteiVexclusively to the sale drWright's • Indian •• Vegetable Pills, of the North American •Col - lege of Health, No.llsB,Greenwich street, New York; No. NA Tremont street, Boston—and principal oaks, No. IGURace Street. Philadelphia,. ... . . ~•.:,"September 19;18.1.6. - ' . . . . ~ . Prunes and Ginger. , rciv Jars OA quality Prunes and fresh presCrved 41.. Ginger, Just reeeiyid and for sale at ,- • ' 141.VITIN'S Drug Store. . ..• . , . , 1- -, - - , --- , -7 , ----,...----- - - -, ....: -', • : • , , 1 , - • - .._ • ' =M. t" ' :', ~ ' : •'•.... ' .''' 7 \ . E : RS 9.. ' ,t ~ ) —1 :6.t....- . • !A r :a • .•,- :' ' & ? ._--. , -.-,.7. . . . • , _ I . -, , s i it i 2 ! • • .• . -t.::-. - ----r - ----,-.--,„_,. ...... 0.. ....,-----__.7..- --- 1 , _,, , , : .';•-- [ 1 .. ~ _ ' % . .. . -- 1. r. ..s'r . 1 AL . , ... • .._ ....•, .• ...........__,,.........,„,........_,..,:•:,„,.,:.,,,.. . , , , ..• .. AND . puTTsvirT A T : _ , - .....-----7.7-.7.7....:,.:u .„.... y,.:. t .....,.... 4 G e , . - . 0 $1 00 .. , . . . I WILL TEACH YOU TO PIERCE THR . ROWELS OF THE EARTH, AND BRING OUT FDDH THE. caTERNs OP aiPuNT Ams, METALS Win cri WILI;(3114 wrzEiiNiTfl TO OUR RANDS AND SVA4ECT /14.. NATURE TO OUR USE RED r4cAsuar..." — DR.•IPLINSON . , .. . . 8300 I 500 7 00 3 00 R? BENJAMIN BANNAN, AGENT FOR THE PROPRIETOR,i ) OTTSVILLE, SCHUYLKILL 'COUNTY, PA. VOL XXII. 10 00 pijitabiipl)ta. PURE WHITE LEAD:- Wll, etherlll & Biother, A, /TA NUFACTURERS. No 65 north Fron. street 111 Philadelphia, have now a good supply of their warranted pure white lead. and thosecustomera whc have been sparingly supplied in consequence an run on thearticle, shall now have their orders filled. No kn,'wn sirbstance,possesses those perservative and beautifying properties so desiralde-in a paint, to an equal extent with unadulterated white lead; hence any admixture of other' materials only mars its value:' It has therefore. hcen the Xteady aim of the manufacuires, for many years, to supply to the public a perfectly. pure white lead, and the unceasingde. mand for the article; is proof that it has met with fa vor. It is invariably,branded on'one head—WV:TH. ,ERILL St• 13110TIfF:R in full, and on the other, WA RRANTF.I) PI) in red letters November 19, BEST. BUTT HINGES, - ANEFACTURED and for 'sale by M MORRIS, TASRER & MORRIS, ' Pascal Iron Warehouse, S. E. corner of Third and Walnut streer,, - Philatia. Philada. Augusl,9, 32 IMPORTANT TO ALL COUNTRY HOUSEKEEPERS. rYou may be sure of obtaining, at all nt Ti --- .. times, .pure and highly flavored TEAS, I : • icj '. l , by a ; the ,ie siniil r e s tan , qr A tamm i tn, LL--f.,1 WA4EIIOUSE, 30 South. Second Street between Market andtliesnitt Streets, Philadelphia. Heretofore it has been very difficult, indeed, almost impossible, always, to obtain good Green and Black Teas. But now you have only to visit the ) Pekin Tea ComPany's Store to obtain as delicious and fragrant Tea as you could wish for. All tastes 'Lan here be suit ed, with the advantage of getting a pure article at a low price: Philadelphia, June 20, 1546: - RAIL ROAD IRON. rrITE subkrihers have now landing from ship Alimm. -bra,, from Liverpool, 5 tons Roil Road Iron, la x 5 tons xl, 10 tons 11 aa, 5 tons xa. Also, Eh tons hest...refined Iron, consisting of round; square and tiat, bars.,-Apply to I T. &E. GEORGE, .isiorth East corner of Market and 12th street. . P 1846. • 17-tf • PHILADELPHIA; READING AND . POTTSVILLE RAIL ROAD. WINTER •ARRANGEMENT. • Passenger Trai_ns. Hours ofstarting on . after Monday, Oct. 0, 1845 From Pottsville, at 9 A: At., }Daily except Sunday "•• 9 A. M., ,HOURS OF PASSING READING. For Philada.,at 10 A. M„ Pottsvill " 19 A. M., f RATES OF FARE. Bettven Pottsville and Philada.,f.oso and 3'oo' „ • o -" Reading. ;1 40 and 150 —Plillada., Oct. II • ' ,Is— , SALT ! SALT ! ! ALINA Sall.in harrels & bas, for'sale tt the Inwes Market price. 'delivered on hoard of Boats no the rocs-of PORTERAOE by & BROTTICM. ' :14 Walnut et. or Locust st. Wharf , Phitadeiphia July 19th, 29 1 - - . . BURDEN'S PATENT HORSE SHOES 0 MADE OF THE best refined American Iron, for sale at about the sante prices of the Iron in bar, heing a iavirre of about 100 per cent to the , pUrchaser. All. loi.s sold, ar Warranted, and 'if nut satisfactory, can be returned and the Money will be eefunded. !'ftAY..& BROTIIER, .12 Walnut st., Philada. June 8- 22 Philadelphia, Reading Sr. 1'916 Rail Road. • Reduction of I.'re!glel'iln Jlerniandire. WI AND AFTER Monday next, lime. 20th. "181 1, Goods will'he forwarded with despatch at the fol lowing rates, of ,Freig?4, between Reading and Cie points below stated, per.ton of 2000 l i bs. , 7 , , ' Betteen Bitween • . • _ • 7 .. = Re: ding 4,: c cding , . ,and and . • • '•• . ' Phila. l'o,! !wills. Plaster, slate, Weir, ke, - • 110 " 70 eta Pig Iron, blonnts..timber,;.) • . marble, 1 osin, iar, pitch, j - "120 ~ . , . and grindstones, Nails 4- spikes, 'bar iron, castingsdearl.turpentine bark, raw tobacco, sail, :,--.& 40 ' 100 provisions,poiatoes;ltun I '. • ber, stoves, 4-c., L J Flour per.barrel, • , ~ Wheat, corn, rye, 'clover ) seed, 4- Salt per bushel, f ' Groi.eries, hardware,steelo , copper, ttn, brass, do. I F. 'nestle lionorsonachine- I . .:-)" "., ry, butter • and eggs, }.. -'. " cheese, lard and tallow, I oil, wool, cotton. leather raw hides, paints, oys ters, hemp, and Cordage. ' 1.1r.v Grinds. drugs ,t,o4iedi . - , eines, foreign 'liquors, p • Wines, glass, paper,fresh }- : , • 2 - 00 . 1 70 fish, meat, con fe.cliateal . . ' ry, -books fr Stationary.. ' . No additional charges 'for eonunission,' storage, or receiving or deliverlng p freight at any of the Couipa ny's Depota on thejitie, July 10, 1813 'O - ; Y 47-Iy',' , • . To Idlaoh,inists and otheis. 13 , ,J.ATT'S universal Cltch, all sizes, from_64o 20 I inches ; Salter's Spring Balaner.s,rmaile exprrssly roc Steam Engines, SO, 50 and '2.4 pounds. Platfprm and Qiunter Scales, more than 50 different sixes: and patterns: p'or sale wholesale' and retail at the lowest manufacturer's prices, ni No. 34 Walnut street, by ' CRAY & BROTHER. Philadelphia, Feb. 7,161 G. ' ' 6-- _ MILITARY 870-RE. sulissriber Wonittre'spectfully inform his friends and custothers, that' he has located his MILITARY CAI' .7dA N V FACTORY' In Third street. No. Ptf, a few doors below Race, where he would be pleased to see his old customers, and as many sew ones as are dispbsed to favor hint with their custom. Ile still continues to manufacture Military' and Sportmetis articles of every description, such as Leather, Cloth e Felt, s-ilk and Beaver Dress Caps. of all Patterns ; Forage Caps, Holsters for Troop, Body do. piartr Bxes, Bayonet Scabbards. Sword Belts or 'knds.. Cnteens, Knapsacks, different patterns ; Fire Buckets, Passing Boxes. Tube dn. - Brushes and Pickers, Plumes, Poinpootis, Firemen's Caps, Leather Stocks, Ron Cases, superior quality Shot Bags„ Game Pat's, prums, t.- Orders thankfully receiva and promptly atten.fed to. W5l. CRESSMAN, No. 96. North 3d st , a few doors below Race.' Philada., Januari'l3th,lBll, • PACKING YARN. • MITE subscriber gespectluity informs hit friends and tha public in general. that he hak appointed J. F' Whitney, Agent for the sale of his superior Italian Hemp Packing Yarn, who will keep a constant supply at the Iron Works of E: THOMAS JACKSON. Reading,—tf-18 • Pa. • For Sale at Private Sale. - • A LL that certain tract or parcel °Liana, situated on 11 the Broad Mountain, in Lower Mahantonge town ship, in Schuylkill county, (fortnetlylierks county,) to he state of Perinsyivania, bounded and described as fnl ; lows, to wit :-,Beginning at a 'narked white oak tree; thence by , late vacant lands,. now surveyed to Jacob Miller, north slity-flue perchesilo a white oak ; then 'by late vacant land, now autveyed to George Weiner, west 146'perthes to a stone; thence by late vacant land noW surveye - il to Leonard Mick, south sixty-five perch es to a Spanish oak; thence east 116 perches, to the place of beginning, containing fitly-live acres and one hundred and fifty-two perches of land and allowances of tax per cent. for roads, &c. JOHN GaiIIENNER, ExhcaTor of F. Beatisi• Mate, 69. Market st. Philada. rbils.lelphla, September 19. 1846 . FA- • • Agent Wanted for this County. WIRE business will be,to procure subscribers far, and .L sell, when published. a large, Ow, splendid town. - *hip Map of the Mato of Pennsylvania. The quallli cations required are a small capital of *lOO, sobriety, integrity, isAistry, energy and active business talents. Information of the terms of the Agency, (which are liberal) will be given on abpllcation, posiaot PAID, to . 4LL.KANDEit HARRIMON, superintending Wt. souttreeseath street, Philada, • Maga., SeSt., 19 1 180, , 116-0 16 cts: II cts UMIECIE A'T'TENTION, !! iMtsviite Busines Cards of five lines inserted for $3 per annum. - Dry Goods, Groceries, &o. GEORGE W. SLATER, Wholesale & retailDry-kood, Grocery & Liquor Store^ A FEW DOOMS BELOW THE RAY SCALES, CENTRE ST. ~ Pottsville. -• DAVID Ni. lIEISLER, • DEALER IN DRY GOODS AND'VARIETIES; Centre St. 3d door aboveballowltill, Pottsville. James Cochran; READI NAGE CLOTHING STORE: Oantro street, opposite the Exchange Hotel, THOMAS FENDER, . Wholesale and Retail Dry Good Merchant, CENTRE Sr.,. I DOOR ABOVE NORWEGIAN, ma James M. Beatty, & Co., Wholesale & retail dealers in dry goods, groceries &c Arirt' door to Fox 4- Mortimer' Haig!, - • ' Centre st„ Pottsville. Thonias D. Beatty, D`.,A.LER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, &c. Corner of Cpatre and . 1 1forieep,.ittn streets; I Pottsville. FOX & 1:1110THER, Ltry Good, Grocery, Liquor, Flour and reed Store, • "• Genera Street, opposite the Lamb Tavern. Pottsville. . EDWARD YARDLEY, • MORRIS' ADDITION TO FOTTSITELLD,, Dealer in 1611 Rudd and liar Iran, Groceries, Oil, Fish, • • HAY AND GRAIN. • aphn 13. Donty, IMPORTER AND DEALER IN DRY GOODS, GROCERIES AND _LIQUOR*, Arthe New York Store, Oe4tre st, • James Downey, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERY STORE, IN minutia' ADDITION ' FOSTER & DALY, Wholesale and Retail Dry Good and Grocery Store, CORNER OF CENTIIE AND MARKET !TEE* IiDTTSVILLE. ..:JOIIN H. HILL, * DEALER IN DRY G GODS. GROCERIES &43. Cent street, 2nd door below Muketntanzo street, POTTSVILLF • • FOCIIT Si. FOSTF.. It [NEW STORF..I *hotCsnle &Retail Dry Gond and Grocery literghants, Xert door to the. Town Hall, Centre et. Potteri & ~DEALERS IN , DRY GOODS AND 'GROCERIES, Centrest.betweenthe Errhonge& Geisse's Pottsville. Jqs 'eplt nowen, GROCERY AND VARIETYS.i'ORE, Centre street, 2d door below Market,. Pottstilie. HUGH R. HUGHES, MERCHANT ,TAILOR AND DRAPER CENTRE BT., TWO COOPS ABOVE THE TOWS 4 Pottsville. Clocks, Watchc s and Jewelry pi.- ELLIOTT, . CLOCK, WATCH Ai .TEWELLRY STORE, .one door above Ceisses' NOW Hotel CENTRE' ST., .POT S TBVILLI:,! PA. • • L. FISHER, 7: CLOCK AND RATON MA:MEE, REWIRE STREET, TIMID DOOR BELOW MARASTANG°, POITSTiVe. .. . . , • , a. L. YODER, t • CLOCK AND WATCH MAKER, Czatre strrct, four drieire , below .ilarket Potterille. - Particufar attention paid to, die re airing I of Clotics and Watches. . , Hotels and Refectories 03 ct,s EXCIIIANGE - .IIOTEIA JOEIN C.*LESSIG, PROPRIETOR, CENTRE ISTREET, CORNER OF CA LLOWRILt, Pottsville, Pa. POTTSVILLE lIOUSE, DANLiL 14 . 1 7 • T Proprietor, Centre street, Pottsville, Pa.- TIMOTIIIY 11017 LE, . OYSTER SOUSE, :. COILNEO: OF BIASIANTANGO AND CENTIap ' STREET, Pottsville. cc:, Oysters served up in the best possil(le manner. -V) NS TOWN HALL P.EFECTORT, FFZ:LII F. MUDDY, Proprietor, CENTIIE ST., POTTLyILLE. G. J. lIEHIR, CONFECTIONER AND FRUITERE4, .4 fete (hams above the :linters Bank. Centre St., Pottsville. EEO Hardware and Iron Stores • , BRIGHT •S POTT, ,• • HARDWARE AND IRON MERCHANTS, At t)ie Town Hall, CENTRE ST. POTTSVILLE, PA George U. Stichter, , lIABDIV-111E. AND - IRON NEROMINT, _ Coyner of Centre anti'Market streets, , Pottsville. • Drugs and Medicines • ~AJOIEN G. BROWN, •Agq. • WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST, • WE.T. Epting'o old stand, CENTRE ST. POTTSVILLE, • .BOAST S. C. MARIPLN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL , DRUGGIST, CM:TREAT., 2 DOORS BELOW ?11116NTA.2:00, FOUsville. Boots -:and Shoes. Moody Sr, Aechternachi • BOOT & SHOE DEALERS; - One doer heloiv Mr. Andrew U. White's Store, • CENTRE STREET, POTTSVILLE, PA. ; n It. D.' scgtigNlEJß.,' ..nDDLEIRT,'HARIIESS, BOOT 'es SHOE , STOKE, . : NEXT DOOR TO O£OIIGE W. SLATRR'S IFTpRE, '• Contra st., Charles F. Thacher, DEALPR IN BOOTS AND 8110 ES .Sign of the Golden Ball and Rig Shoe. Centre Synet, a few doors below Market street, Sept,, 19, 1848. Clothing, Tailoring, &o. Lipid colt & Taylor, Merchant Tailors, posses OF CENTRE Alit) NIAUARTANOO STREETS, Pottsville, BENJ. T. TAYLOR, MERGIVINT TAILOR AND DRAPES, Next door to Ciemen's dr. PalVin'S Drug Store, Centro st., Patsy! Steam Engine Faetozies. Pottsville Iron Works, E. W. I'itcGENNI - S, Proprietor, COAXER OF NORWEGIAN Aid) COAL STS fottsvill*, . - ii (WOOD Si, SNYDER, Naaufacteters of Alcons - Engine?, Castings, &c., Corner of eallowhUl and,Coel eorsvpitin Sn" . URDAY C=E! Pottsville MORNING, DECEMBER. 5, 1846, :Onsineq, earbz. 1, 2 eg,i1 Notices: E IZT 11 0 L 0 111 E ATTORNEY AT, LAW, eorrsviit:e, ea..„ Office in Centre street, three donrs . lielew the Muerte juurOlOffiee: 'July 11, `,9-2mp, • JotIN'CRIAS. NEVILLE, ATTORIiEY AT LAW, I r ATILL attemfto all ithnine=s entrusted to him, with care and. despatch.: -. .Office one door below the Miners' Journal. October 19- JOIN W. nosttioutirty, ATTOR, E Y AT LA:w ORV:ilaellU110, Jan. 4. A. W. 1L1E31131711N, AttorthY at LaNs• . . HS Opened an °Mc,. in the borough of Scliuylkill aven. Office hi rEt street. second door east of M. Manning'sj:Hotel, . attend to all business en r tinsted.tohis care, n e counties of 'Schuylkill and Berks. Apra d, 1844 e _ U. O. ACUSON,' • .tktfornia 'at iL a is 1. • portrritr.E, PR. • 13••Oltre in Market et , arthe Emporium Ot6ee.-00 June RI, 25- ROBERV M. PALMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AND ' • - N T A-R L I C , • TftrOVILLT% (5- Office in Oentre st. titxt;door to Excbang,e.-cg 17 W. ,TIATCIIIN, • • rnic y; a Law, Office at Settylytkill ?tarn; 'next door to, Ed mart Store Misallaneou.s. • '• Jacob Wipe, -111ap.a4ratte, • . IV I I,; IL i care..teiid to i-; i i i ;kisinesS fro' to : throat], Pt rusted 6 in Centre street, a few doors below the Pennsylvntrialfall. and nearly .opposite the office of 'the Miner's Joirtial, Pottsville, Ps. -._; Pottsville, Feb. 7., 18-10 ' • ' . 43-Iy* .. J. Fra:ntllit Harris, MANUFACTURER Oti CARPETS k FLANNELS, A few &lore awelbe Toirn . ' rotsi - nze. • TOWN HALL !BILLIARD ROOM, F. F. 11/IiIY3F, Proprietor, CENTRE STILEF:T, POTTSVILLE. WM. 11. DEAL, rift IN DAV GtODS, GRPCERTES, QifF,P;SWARV, Centre street, four.le door tlejoWrMarketi • POrSVILLE. OCt:311 t 181 . 0. c • , • • 90-- , . - Howl Jenkins; ' 'EAVER ANEW PATENT WIRE SCREEN, t l'ilaatfactorer. • treet, a few dope from Noryegian street, rofronLf.E. N IRC-t I Coal : Edwar4. E.: &Mind; BLACHSM7II, - AND IidsaiI'ACTITRER DRIFT ,c 41 , 4 & lIGAVV WAGONN, BllCkihy'S Addition tn'enhtvillt... near the Anthracite lEtnare. OWEN 7 , 14.#.111 - X , S • COOPERING supp, :11AnlinT . Cau l trip,: of every' tlescupiwn , ,tone at shalt lrotice . ttil at red.otiable))..rms. , • Manufacture: of. Ooache, &c., CURL BTRF.ET, PiErT,VII.IS:. I`l. Particular 'attention paid to the repairing of . kintht of %'cltiotog...i f • • . . ElO. Sholle,fillemer aRCECAttn . GIIIST'IVII.LL, , Porisil.l.ll, PA. ~., 5,- All kinds of Flont.conslantly on :land 4-- ~ • „ EAGLE STEMS: SAW 3Z.LLL, D.RNIEL 1-11P:12 Proprietor, "..7 2 7 Orders can he :eft' at 3 SdlyliATlS,-,Smil',, Store tin tre Nt., where they will pn;lortly ett , T.l,d to. Georg - e :IF:t.,)f. on. CARPET AND COVEV.,ET gANI FAC,7131..E11, Market street, atuve Market , POTTE ' VILLE. 1 . Remember the•Matto».!.‘l.4 !el be Underduld." CHEAP, BOOK ANDiSTATIONEBY STOKE, Centre Et. opi4te the Penn - . Hall,' , . . _ POTVVII.LE.) JOSEPH IL SL'IDERS, DENTIST, lIAIII DIVSER AND HAREM - I Centre strctt, a feu. (Intre....r.. or; atc Penn. Ball PnttFille. Spence*, & !Ace's IIRON FOUNDRY 4ND 'MACHINE SHOP, Brnckville, County,J'a. f)rders.prolu exectsinl, on i'easont.le. teims Aug. 049. . 1ig.1014 NVOrt/iS; JOHN Old+, PROPRIETOR, Alanufactnrer or liteanit:lngines, Lathes _Cars, 111111 Gearing, iron and Brass.Castins,s, • r On Rail Itoad ear)ler ;of 'Britig,a street. 31Apt A. • (E4tbs .4". W. pellptvelt, ' MINER . SVILLE IItON :',voilmit--reouNtmk .• AND mAnunr. snot., • Manufacturers of Rail-rcallearr.,f:pat Breakers,&c. Ilenjamin Heffner, WHOLESALE Al 4) RETAIL DEARER IN Dry Gpods. Groceries, lAntir and Fed, mminsro.te. PA. • - . r• - Bast I.,tiftepptter‘ •WDOLESALE ' AND' IlErAlj. • DEALERS ; In Dry Goods, G rOceriel, Pon r.Preri„, kr. in Suubuhy at. ) Mi ne 1 - swine, f S din yII; it t critint!:•,; ;Pa . , ILVAtien J. TAY Loit.] T [WAltrn S. McCLENA cite' . •_, r 'TAYLOR Si McClilENACHiAlli, 117,01csalc•hni1 Retail Dear7-s in' Dry: Goods, Groierie's, 'LipiorF,-,Flortr and F i ced &c CORNER OF SECOND u; STINDURY ETS. • nwitnsviLt.r., Charles 43; loa. Forpst; 1 Dialer 'in Drp Goadi, Grortries, Fldjtr and Feed, And Miner's Goods,•WSoesate arid Retail, [ Ninersri le. Pa. • Sternei he -111E9fixt.r, WIIOLESALC Sr..•RETAII DEALEItS 111 Gdods, Feed And Mining Goods; cor::Sunblity st.& Spencer's R. R.: PA. . Part AgitrbOn 13ustiuss ogarbs. .. , Albert • . . *aanfatturer of Steams E n nn, Castings and Shovelti 1 Cr Steam Engines built, Castiags made. and Shovels manufactured of every description; and of the bast -quality for !dining and other' putßoaco. ! : Tort Carbon, Pa. , . , : • 'l', 11. Wintesteep, 1 ' !Afastiforturer of Steans Engines;Ptn.n' Gearing, Cars, and Casting*,. of all descripteons. Port Carton, Po. 7_l. . • Mattson szi Co,, • WHOLESALE AND DETAIL IMALERS In Dry Goods, Groceries, Provbdons, kloeir, Feed Ace Part Carbor,?a. . • ... , • iiostin; i3‘115 - 1110,3 gl.ctrb 1 4. • ;._ , C. J. F. Itityriey, - J., • ~. GEXEimr coAf.trissitlN oikACIMV24, ' And 'Aoeni for Coal, Iron and Mninifacturce, 1 City 'harf, Boston,lllass:Ailvances made oh voilaigtanotito nrsi:rthiq 5 . . ' ' Amos Binary, Eso;,,Boaton - . . Nemo. Grant &Morin, ' 'll.l,ll3,dptil . ' Brown Earl &Er - rm. ^tint $ . ~, o i • ,- . WE'. W.. GELSSENII I :4IN 4 - JR. , - - . ATTORNEY & LA Sdichar in eliancery,t Caddiso onto- f ( Itt Pennay/ronia, - No. 11l lino at., N. yoth rear NaSsaust. Buy be seen at tits residenrat,ACl Brooms street, be pm 9A. Mind aftqy Cr.* . . Inn.' il* • . a 'fjail to pennsoluonla. I - ALLriail to ItesasSLVANIA I upon her noble brow .' • ThiVadiance of a better day 1 brightly falling now; MI ginSCIOnS of her strength"she stauds,las from her • phi:olden fall The heavy chains whose heavy weight proclaim the tyrant's thrall. . For weary' days'and weary years, ‘ through sunshine and thron,gh storm. , I To bear aid% a desperate cause,she bent her giant Corm; From love, not fear, she stooped toshatne, still honest at the, core: . I - • But the tyrant smote her on the face—* woke. to dam no more! - AU flail to Pennsylvania! her 'sires' were :men of 13:1 - might ; oche freest of the free :whose souls nine forth from •• • Europe's night: Within the city of her pride that noble creed had birth.- Which yet shall every fetter break.upon the bondaged ire;4(gTf h b ; odi, :rind of mind, Freedom to work foil hire, i Ay, Freedom; too, to bruise the heel,would tread you in the mire, Freedom to reap Where you have sown, to enjoy your rightful part, Of what your forehead's sweat bath won, and the blood dr ops of your heart .! AU hail to Pennsylvania! right worthy of her sires, She has gathered ass:lnc man again around her ancient fires ; for step is on her native plains, In her hand her old en sword, Her battle-try goes up once more for Freedom and the Lord. Once more she wheels with steady front into the Northern line. • .• 4 , , "Free Laboei , rights--no• more Slas . re States'," her sign and countersign, • • Dgeeived, hetrayed, sold by her' friends--no irt her Ifriends, her foes-- • II Ilencelrth her path is straight and plain, and' where it leads she knows! • , , All hail to Perinsylsanial her sons are sons cif toil,- 1 With their own hands they wring their bread front . , out the. stubborn soil It was a clay-of wind and rain, the element's were fort, The•children of, they joyed to :see the triumph of the 1 . North, The farmer left, his grain unthreshed, the miner, It4l. hik ease, , _ Though black with coal-duct and with sweat he felt he was to slave. ~. ' • : A The forgemau stayi , d his ponderOus slOgeolie artisan his hand. - To answer to the r : .1I - c411 of Freedom's gathering band! All hail to Pennsylvania . ; if she be slew to wrath: It is a noble Tallies which the weak soul never hash, But none the less her wakened ire, and not less hey shall rue, - Whom she bath once confided In hurproved no longer As noble as her patience itt,such is her Vengeance when Those she had loved and trustetilare revealed false ' hearted men; Even then she gives not I nOtte to threats, which-are but idle breath, ; ' But bides her time in peace--then speakti words which -••- • are life or death ! • Allaiad' • to Pennsylvania erect and firm she stands • With those that own to living by the soiling of their hands. She hurl's her spoiler's tauntings beck, no longer will she kneel, March at their laiddinir,,parise with them, hnd at their pleasure wheel, :For God and Freedom t now she etand4, foe 'those who . . . , . . till the soil, •t• Their claims against the 'claims of those who lire b 3 , - .. others' toil. . ===l • .. • their plan, For honor, , honesty and truth for Labor and-for an ! . . J . thz (Tale of therALltno - . • • We'find in the National Intelligenceri the sub joined letter from en. officer in the United Stntes army. at San Antonio de Bexaf.'w'ho, in cWiting .the remains of the Alamo, which is now a less mass of,ruins reverts es follows to the terrible strueoe of which that fortress wa4 the memorable scene trn years ago. II is perhaps tl,e most graph. is description of the event that bus ever been writ. ten, and it will, we 'doubt...not, have Interest for al. most every reader, especially `lll . lhe ' ; preseitt mo ment, when we are arrayed eivitist the-same enemy: On the 23d day. of Fehruary.,lB36;•Sanla Anna entered San Antonio de Bevir. and took po•-s l ,:s• slop of the town wnhotitAi ring diau.l The stuall garrison of one hundred and thitty•nien,iinder the command of NV iilioinTarrit Travis. retired as be advanced. to the Alamo, on the . oponsite - side of the'ri4r, deterrnintA there to offer hatrvr encc,to the piogres4 of the tyrant that 'God and their oVvn'.energies should permit. Flusheff . with the conquest, Co easily effected of the town, the Me,icicati Ges:exiitpupared f.,F an immediate attack Upon tho ..11L1110. ordered breas i ia:orks to he thrown up on every cottnitanding runt, and artil lery plaincill‘shete . .cr it could he limit s effteti%c.— One hattpty was completed on the right kink of the. tiverlyi.Ahe 25th, and on this day the',:dege commenced. _ - It is a dark and gloomy morning, deem' d to, a dark:and unholy purpose.t. &cutting in the work of death upon whicli he entering, :Santa Anna croses the river, 0/eletter to behold the success of his designsA4establishcs his head iptatter.4 in a small stone building yet'standing.' Tim signal is given. and err: the sun has risen upon the scene the roar 'of 'artillery from the Nlexisats battery awakens'the echoes fit and wide; sod' um:CS from their slumbers the yepisleeping inhabitants. But, the defenders of the Alamo Kaye not lost sight for a single moment of their wily and remorseless en emy :: Thdy watch the _studied direction of every, gun; they Sep the matey lightedi they listen, breathless, sea evert M r . that distance they could hear the command to fire; And when lt does conic, and tho walls of the citadel tremble ander the sho'ck of the iron hail, and the fragmenis of stone tire whirled aloft by the sudden impulse, they send ' back a violist pf defiance, mingled wiih a diiichaige from their own guns, almost as deafening as the thunder of their assailants.' Before the smoke rolls oway . and the reverberations are 11 , st in the dis tance, while the shoirts of the- besieged still linger on the ears of tha besiegers. the cannonade 'vise• flared, and for seven hours fi ercely continued up on the wall untie Alamo. But these walls'reld no more than the spirits of : their defenders. 'The fire is steadily I.s-tinned ; and, though stones ars shivered around them, ,there are - stout hearts and' , willing; hands ready to repair' every breach,"and to restore from the 'Mellor whatever my have been destroyed'from without; Earth is thrown up, ev. cry ',crack or fissure closed as fast as created by the eager efforts of those Whe will permit no evidence ,of succes4 to cheer the hopes of their enemy. The sun heir almost sunk behind the western plains when there iS'a pause - in the work of demolition: The firing ceases 'for the day by the order 'of the - 4 litexian cornniqnder, with his thirst for'blood tiii satisfied, for no: 'a single drop bat f:illen within the Alamo. Way of his own men had bit the dOst hefore'the artillerists Mid riflemen of the fort; but thus far they are unavenged. Darkness falls wren besiegers and-besieged,; the 'forrricr 'raise new en trenchments to prosecute the assault; thclatter es. tablish a -cyst - eh for the night and endeavor toseek'' that ;repose whiCh shall giye thernfresh yigor for the : ' contest which theyknow*ill coin© to-morrow. l'fie morning of the ?Oa dawns, end reveals to - - the occupants of the fort the effect of; he midnir,ht labors of their enemy, in the establishment of:two additional batteries within the: Alamedr's of the - Al-, ame. The bayonets Of the infantry, crossed over thaliver during the pight, glittering in. the morn ing beaniis, and the, plumes of the cavalry are -seen waving o f the eastern hills, to inteicept the .expected aid from' that quarter. ' The cot,Hit is renewed, by a slight skirmish between a few of the 'felons sent in quest of wood and water, mid a detachment under, the Mexican General Sesma t but this-is a mere ovcrkure to the grand petforea= once of the day. The thunders of the heavy ord nance, iintler 'the direction of ,Col. Anipudia, a'e " pail roused into actions; Volley after volley is j poured into the and 'answered only it rare in. tervals, bithe.shouts of those within. :There is no pause, no Cessation,, Still the cannonade goes off ; ;Awns fly hissing ; through the air, and balls Ibury: themselyea witlaiti : the ramparts ; but night v - counrCrsn, and the -- Mesican. 9eneralen see no - 1 progress. DADA bin not discouraged,-he pikers- , Ices his line of posts, and prepares' with the 'Morn ing twilight, to enter upon his task. Thal north wind sweeps over the prairiesi, as it only rivreeps in Texas ; aatorrny lullaby to stormy ps,ssiopej iof theie contending -hosts. The daisnesSis fird: - ,, I ken Qui)r b 7 the feeble blap - of a few bete', ,pred - ' From die New York Tribune O. 49. by the Texans, which h. co' •furnished a - cover to 'their enemy. The -flatenes : curl opwards with a sickly glare, throw a 'falai light for a ; monient the:slumbering army and expire.: The reign of darkness and of silence is resumed. On the nest d :y the:Mexicans appear inactive. There is - but little tiring on either side. within the fort, with spirits unsubdued, and with energies weakened but not. exhsuste'd, are apply ing their limited resources tattle purpose of defence. No heart falters ; nceoulse throbs with diminished power ; no hand shrinks front the labor that ne cessity imposes ; all is confidence - and determine. tion ; a firm reliance sprinting from the holiness of the cause, and the certainty of its final triumph. • " Sunday follows but bringS' no rest. - The fire-of the Mexican artillery keeps-compa ny with the minutes as they roll : on. . Morning, mid-day, and evening are ~passed, yet there ts no faltering among those who are defending the They mopylre of Texas. Another sun rises and sets, 'and yekanother ; Still the indomitable hearts with• in quail not before the unceasing efforts of.their enemy. In .spire of.ttrat enemy's vindictive vigi knee, the little garrison' receives from Gonzales' a reinforcement of thirty-three men : Additional vie tirns for the funeral pyre, soon to be kindled by Santa Anna on the surrounding hills, as a human hecatomb to Mexicin vengeance. New b4Leries are erceted by the besieger's, from every phinatound the Missiles of destruction eon.'" centrate upon the Alamo. The circle' , grows smaller and smaller: The iftnal hour must soon come,. 'Provisions are n6t yet exhausted, but the .ammunition is almost gone, Water for days has I;cen Supplied by . the darin; efforts of a solitary IVlcrrican woman, who,-through.e shower of grape and Inuskkry, has threaded her way from the riv er to the castle, while her own blood has :narked the path.. She bears With her the spirit of her it. lustrious ancestors, stretched upon the racks of Cortez; and it is not the fear of death•or the 'tor tare that can swerve her front her purpose. - In her presence there is. IMpe, and joy, and life. At each arrival She is tiailed ,by the garrison as the guardian angel of the Alamo, and falls her efforts fail not. The siegefhas contiratied for ten days: _ The Mexican General has received la rg'4 reinforcements, and his army now numbers thousands.: He has' been unceasing in his efforts to batter doym the' Walls, but has thus far. failed. The triumph is with Travis"; but it ie written in the heart of. his ruthless foe that I - Ns must die ; and when the can-' nonade is suspended on the 6th of March,Santa An nn has4eterintned that the hour for the assault has arrived. During teri days altlotad red, flag has been streaming from the spirebf the church 'in San Antonio, isociaiming that no qnarteris to be giv. en to the champions 'of the Alamo—that blood alone. williigitease the fury of Mexican malice.= When the, stkii.rtgaitCgoes down, the flag is no longer seen. for timdeed of which it was the sign has been aceeiMplitted. It is midnii,4llt. Stirs, are smiling in the firma. meets, and fine repose 'of paradise seems hovering over the armed hosts,' and hills, and plains which encircle the Alamo. -1 A . low murmur rises upon the air, which gradually becomes more and more distinct: Lights move too and fro in tire distance, and indicate:same unusual moreinCrit. The be sieging army its in Meth). There.is no advance hr columns., The force of the. Mexicans is so great, that the fort may be surrounded, leaving in tervals only far the fire or artillery.. The place is e,irdlechby a deep lips of infantry, and these are hemmed in and surrounded by' another of cavalry. If the they mu , t he thrust forward to I tl,e a-stinlt by.the sahr,:s and pistids itt their cots-. ntes. ,Suddenly the batteries are in cr blaze, and front thin concentric pogitions pour forth radii of fire pointing to a sitr'gle centre. A Mill the Omit- Seri: thus created, their own shouts scarcely less terrible, and the blasts of bu g les, the Mexicans advance Id the Marna. 'A sheet of flame frorn ties that never fatleLL . is the arswe r to the eharge.l '6e'infarnry recoil arid tall h-irk upon the cavalry; their ra►tk ' ero and disordered by the deadly fire of the litAeged..' The snorts firm tbe.fort are initialed with the groans of the eying on the plain, while the officers are endeavoring to re-form their . scaitered inazsos. They return to Vie aitack, but the leaden ,shntver ,Which,they ertconnter fensthern 'to the Carth by p'ntitons. Travis shows himself' on the ehicring on his undaunted folloWersl Around hito :115 Crockett, Evans, and Batiliturt, rod , ed to the. Loa iitruagle, ,for they know 110 their donfin is sealed,. In .quick cut s. sort oil 'after rifle is discharged, sending hundred's to their long account. . The Mexicans are again repulsed; they fill batik dhheartenial by the dead and dying around them. The battallion of Toluca, the flow. er of the Mexican crmy, is malice(' 'from fourteen hundred to twenty-three. Men have become for a mcirnent regardless ',4)1, their Officers, and areni most delerious from the cries of anguish which no discipline can restrain, aturiwhich conic from their fallen,and expiring comrades. But 'a breach is made at last ';'Cho forges, by the ahl of threats and entreaties are, rallied. and once more• turn their faces to the Alamo. The firing in that' qbarter has for some time been 'growing slower anti slower. Rifles have dropped frent Many a' vigorous hand, now cold in death, While others cling to their weapons even in the . agonies °fibs. solution. Ammunition, too, has been failing one by one the muizleAdrov; the last rifle is load ed and discharged. and theAlexicans have gained the rasa. Proudly conspicuous in that awful mo ment, Tracts receives a shot, staggers and falls.— Hi , dies not unavenged. A Mexican officerirushes 'upon him, and is about to plunge his sabre fino the bosom of the fallen man, when, gathering all his energies for a last effart, he hathel.his awn/sword in the blood of his enemy, and they r. Bi the meantime the bittle ha's been raging hot and thick. The Mexicans have poured into the citaucl like leaves failing before the storms of au tumn, The conflict becomes hand it, hand. Erich man struggles with his I.tiver:=ary, dealing ldo..vs rificS 'satires or whatever ni)..sile -may he. within reach. The Texans are almost , buried 41 neath the number's of their oppenents.. ,Thejgf nag:. has been to terrible that the slain ardilied up in heaps.' Death, stares every surViverM the. face but still he struggles on. Cre . ckettr 3 ,h"" conspicuous in the melee, wherever therelows fell 'limiest' and thickest. .Helms fordTd way over piles of the dead bodies - of and has reached the door of the chape'l..,,flere he deter.: mines - it& make his - last stand.one glance-of his,ey.e,:he sees that the late I ,r the Aldine rests [hinwelf alone . Travii has . fallen . ; Evans is no 'More ; Bow.ie expires upon a bed of sick tress, 'Pierced to the hearthy a IMexican bayonet; Dunham- fell before his,r3es, and he ends himself the only living worrioi,, of the 'one hundred and sixty three who had 6een his comrades. perhaps at that (nee:lent the life-blood creeps to his heart lav A natural inapirlse, but it is only fora moment. His fees. glarejon him with' the ger s eneds of de ruons and assault him with Iblows from sabres muskets 'and pistols.. The strength of a hundred me:l:Seems concentrated in his single min, nahe dealsnut &loath to his rancorous and unsparing as sailants Their bodies have grown into a ram part before hint. Blackened with lire and sunalr. betinie4Ml with blood, end routed into plirenzv, be st r ands hike some fabled god of antiquity; laugh ing in scorn the malice end the powei and - the fu ry 'of his enemies. New lire dashes from his eye, and I new vigor nerves his trtn. :On his Ati,4tl - _rash, but it-is.o n ly upon certain death.— They fall, but their places are still supplied ; and so quickly, the dead ssemed to rise up before him like , armetimen from the . teeth of Cadmus. Al . . length a ball from a distant rifler 'pierces him the forehead ; he falls backward to the earthkin thp'streams of gore which •urt.ile around No groan escals a his lips, no cry-of agony grati flea the implacable rancor of Iris enemies ; Le dies, and the Alitno •hae•fallen I • j S I 9B I • TN Illannexion with our Establishment, we ea Talk" , # lagg•Jobblug Office, tbr the printing of Boars, ' ( Large Postery Ramphletiq • 1 Handbills, ' Bilis of Lading,. / !Bill Heeds, Blank Permits, . :Circulars, Cards, f. • Tinto Books, .ke Tolte.her with all kinds of parley Printing, lo l a which Will be executed at chart Police and in a - bea utetyle • His stock of Type for Jobbing is very large, caliph was selected with a view to' g tVe effect to bandetillta r : and his type for Book and Peappidet Printing, hi equi4 to any used in the bites.. . As he keeps hands expressly tbr.lebbing, be, flatten himself that his facilities for executing Work la greats( than that of any other office. 'und that the public will find it to there advantage to give idea , -- el- Ali kitids of hoots printed, ruled, and toceetil order, at short notice., Book Ilindery.. are rito prepared toThindell kinds of boob. Six th.: most durable manner, at titianprince. • Blank Pooks always on hand—alert made to order and ruled to any pattern:lo t , . • • •• Ruling 3lncliine. • 1.14 have alsoprovided ourselves with a full flea chine, ofthe most approved kind, which enables us to.- rule paper to nny pattern to order.' . . !Pram the N. 0. Dena. MILITARY COLEFiStONDENCE s We publish the follow-input an illustration *Me philosophy of letter writing. lf ajar,- McCallai it will be seen, is positive, Kowa and sentenious.- - Capt.. Tobin is candid, discursive and didactic.— The whole. if not trenchin.t on the, 'sublime, fr. ! - / longs at least to the (beautiful.' TREASURY' Dirsirtinatv-i,-)2(1 - Anditor'e.0(Iloo. JulyB-li4-848. ,• •) I Sir :—/Vou are chargeor-on the books of this Oft/ 'fice - with $152 . 5. the value of \ the clothing and! hlankets furniAwil fur the 'WIC of your company, and for which you . will be bold accountable. Irt. • • order to telieve yourself front this accountability. , you will, r enter oil yaur first muster-roll all articles,. , - or clothing) and blankets.iseued to the men under your_confmentl, an request. the,payruasler.to de- . duct; the 's'ever.il amounts from their first meant, You at4 l also, 4 beld respousibliforilbe camp, and garrison tspii - tage received:for youritompany; un, ,tai turned oyer to aU. quartermayter. - ')j arn. sir, your obedient servant. • INC). I'iIcCALIA, Second Auditor, . Capt. G. It Toni Washington Reg% L. Volunteers. " • • 1- • . ' I TIILLSUUT DEPAUTVINT, '2d 4utlitor's.Otlicti, - Aug. 8, 1848 • a- clortaioti of the lion. the Secretary of War, each soldier under your command is en! titled to six months' clothing, to the amount ofs2l —all oyer,thet they are to be charged witlfg. Thera will be: ,- ither .charges, of Which you till be in, formed by this office, YOu will 'please consider this letter yule guide, in addition'-to - the ono yoq teev: , ed froth Inc of the 3161u1t..-f . , • Very .yespectfullv. .4N°. IsleCALLA„So:cond Auditor Copt. G. 11. Touts, Louisiana VOlunteors. , Outzssi - , - Beit. 17, 'Had. Sir :—Uhavo the honor to acknowledge- the. receipt of tto favors froth, you, 014 dated.3let of July, the other Sth of AugUst. - I can only answer by a yarn. A countryman of mine ; wait Mite induiiing in the very intellectual occupation of suckiiti; fresh eggs raw and ieadifig a newspaper. By come mischance, he-c6tri‘eil to bolt a live chicken.— The poor bird chirruped aril' vvent dotvrthis throat and he very politely observed the powers my friend, you spoke too late! ' I can only say, sir, that your favors latiTli reach ed rne(oo lath'. They been chasing me through' the Itlexidan post offices i that is, to vxpreu myself more clearly, whin I received them, they, (the let ters) were down in _Mexico and I wee up here, end when I : didn't reeei've them, they were up here and• I was-down there'. • Tbe•fact is that] most of my men hare been paid Qfr, and are now Scattered to the four quarters of the globe. They were mostly sailors as I was . myself. From them, (if there be charges) ' con be expected. The camp end garrison equi p•rge has,been turned over to the proper officers, with the exception of sundry• axes mashed and placed ',ors du apribal in chopping down' those amiable cbapprntrals on the banks of• the Rio... Ginn& I except also, the camp kettles and pans, many of whis h were used up in roasting, , boiling, stewing and frying . our pork and beans - bacon and fresh heel, not to speak of the slow rent .ison, which smuts were natured enough to calf Mexican -beer. . . l'orMy own responsiliility in tho matter, I•re• Bret, more on Uncle Sam's account thanmy own. thatj am not w4rth a continental dime. i, have bien not only pa, d. but I believe overpaid by about, 5 , 40'. - My ecinscii.ce compelled mete remonstrate with the pay otters, but they assured PIO O .. at ' .they made no . i Mitel....ea (hank. tellers sornetimei - say Ithe same.) i considered their feelings and in., duhr;ed them. - .Iloweverl I - made a good nee of themoney,.. I gave it to theltick- and unpatctifol- '- diem, , Most of ,the m i ller captains are in- tile! attina tit - with tnyaelf(b.ining time overpay) about responsi• bility, and ;ref* u, my epistle ari an, anima. • .: If you have any further dommunicatione 'for me ' please direct to the care of 'Mai Gen. J - ohn , 1... i‘fisi,i, N. 0 c I 6.?140in go to the post office, beeatnic' I have . ;obody ti,• correspond with, and, ' yet f lon not he wan. who delver had father or mother; but wa 'won at a ran!: . , , • , Very reepectfutly,: • . G. H. ' i kOBIN, Capt. Co. H., , . Washinliton ReOrnmit, La. Capt., .j0: - 17i MCI 3 A 1.1..1 ' P. S.---1 d, captain, es•cv 'lain. :, .Tut Tau true gentlem, in life: Th. • Pr Men IS, hit met] with st! with 'service an iinineasu dame than tl eQllege g rves bduri his diplornil his vacnt notion; that; sccirt or roil ioded with r ihe list of limeinunen] on the hum, -shrinl:s wid. i the honest' re-ri titan. 0-- sums ih: 1 f: the sod it treads, or .._ c r a in i , „ Will but nobility of soul 1_ Whence vi ~,: no ; crest -.lights of the intellectual Arieument i ~...t h o t tar, : : thalliorin the brilliant %siva? whose 1,, ; A dank tire' eye of every h.eholder.! In the, Il i flightily fil l initance!, they hive emerged to Aninenee -front the chilling depth.of °Wearily; nestitutioniln I vont.. , Whose voices tire °awes; taised, in the succesnful vindication oh ,humayi rights; and iloat over . monolog/ and plsin — over ocean and I ‘iid; tin th 4 aihrare on the ear of thec "reinote.tA.v , llin in- Christendom? Who are , they that "Pluck bright liejler froui Its pile-taced=rnoon, or dive, into ill lemon) pf the dup. NVlicre falhoot•line could ogier tooth the ground.. And drag u;,. firo'tv (led Isloor:by the lock t'' / . The scions Of noble blood!. The" worshipper, .of I.3acChui andVenuS, who fritter away the hours grantad by .1 - 4tiven... foOeelf•imtirovement, in the . study of the lcontemptible end puerile forms. of . fashion 1 No,. They Me tneti;of low pattentage.r. men who have buffeted theiiilleare•of fete without 'dependence, sriva, upon the Ilkley of God and theirown energics--tho gentlemen ef-natere Who have trodden , tinder loin. the 'painted lizards' of Bor. .cieiy, and".vsokkettoptibeir , own distinction Phil an ardor thaVeutild: not he qiienehed, end a per.: eestrence ~ t h t considered nothing done 'whilei anything s et reinaintil to he done. -" . , 131.acttrat-itiestsvd”.— A notorious' blackleg was errestetilon 'ruesday moaning, at New Yutit-,', upon.whoie !person was Wand a fine velvet Test, in the "front srt of witch`, between the ontsids and lining, vas thin tin case, oper4lg with a spring, `wli‘ch contained a nundwz oY piliying cards. It • GiLlEi BO continent! tkati con:soot eosild sta: sity estrsot •d vininAut Lciu enured, the, : operation o ploy. : ' VVbcre beutisix thn ;tau! buca thali Lraaol" lisped the pimuie of woitity Fhircki. as he opcni.d the 1444 %fj'o.f......;.r!ltaftanily oce nitig ieryi9 imakt's nu grok dirk rwicc :twat' rt. gir.A.7 Ili LtIG of ' 441 :ho etwul 84 on t .t • " •-• • „ 130, iv the' 13.:3L0:t, Sarr.psoti fgpny as
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