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S. B. ROW, Emhi'Ud Proprietor.
CLEARFIELD, PA JFJiE 21, 1857.
, State Normal School.- An aet was passed
at the last session of the Legislature "to pro
vide for the training of teachers for the Com
mon Schools of the State.". According to the
provisions cf the law, the State is to be divi-
ded into twelve Normal School districts. Any
number of citizens, exceeding thirteen, may
establish a school for training, teachers in a
district which shall be entitled to the benefit
of the act; but no district shall have more
than one such institution that can receive any
aid or support from the provisions of this law
The pecuniary affairs of the fcchools are to be
managed by a Board of Trustees, elected by
the contributors or stockholders of the insti
tution. When rightly organized, the Trustees
may receive any, gift or endowment, and may
tzse the same for the benefit of the school-
The Trustees are to submit an annual report
In June to the Superintendent of Common
Schools. The act provides that do school shall
be fully organized until it has suitable build
ings, an area of no less than ten acres of
jrronnd for gymnastic and healthful exercise,
library, philosophical apparatus, botanical gar
dens, six professors, and a model school for
giving teachers in training an opportunity to
exercise their taients in the education of at
least one hundred children, taken from the
neighboring country. It will be seen from
this, that these Normal institutions will wors
In two ways for the enlightenment of our popu
lation wit, by training efficient teacbers,and
also educating children in the model schools.
E3"A telegraphic dispatch was received at
"Washington, from Emory D. Potter, accepting
one of the vacant judgeships of Utah. lie is
an ex-member of Congress from Ohio. The
other was offered to Mr, Eccles of Indiana who
probably will accept it. It is uncertain wheth
er Judge Stiles, who is now here, will return
to the territory. A well founded report as
signs Thomas II. Dunn, of Mississippi as mar
shal! of Utah. Col. Curnmings will aga:n be
tendered the Governorship ; bis acceptance is
considered certain.
The California overland Mail question after
undergoing thorough consideration in the
Cabinet has been referred to the Post Master
General who is not yet prepared to pronounce
a- decision ; however, the impression prevails
tliat the Southern route will be selected com
mencing at Memphis and continuing by way
of Fort Smith, Donna Anna and Fort Yuraa.
Little DoRRrr. We have been favored with
a complete copy of this highly interesting
work, which has been published in snccessive
nnmbers for a Ions; time. T. B. Peterson, of
Philadelphia, "having received the advance
sheets from the author, by a lte steamer, has
published this work in a neat edition, uniform
with the volumes of Dicken's works issue.! by
that publisher. Little Dornt is a story winch
will iuterest the public this last being eqnal
in graphic power and skillful delineation of
character to any of his previous work3. Price
of the complete woak, Fifty cents. Address,
T. B. Peterson, Philadelphia.
POLICY 15 UTAH.
Some recent accounts from Washington have
stated" that the policy of the riew Governor of
Utah is to be the issuing of a proclamation
that such persons residing, in the Territory,
male or female, as wish to leave and go else
where, shall be protected in doing so, aDd shall
lw assisted in getting away. If it be true, as
the recent correspondence from Utah so posi
tively asserts, that a considerable part of the
Mormons, including a large portion of the
women, are held in subjection by Erigham
Young and his elders, by a system of pure ter
ror, ana tnat it is as naru, to getaway irviu
Utah, as it was during the time of Walker's,
predominancy for American citizens, especial
ly those who had "enlisted into his "service, to
get away from Nicaragua, certainly it is high
time for our Government to interfere. -They
did not interfere in the case of Nicaragua, but
that is no reason why they should not inter
fore in the case of Utah.- The case of Nicar
agua stood upon peculiar grounds. The last
Administration, to say nothing of the present
one, was a filibustering Administrition.
Walker, if not acting by authority from Wash
ington, was, at least, acting ia conform ity to
Cabinet principles and ideas ; and it is a set
tled maxim of all fanaticism, more especially
of fillibustering fanaticism, that the end justi
fies the means. Utah stands upon na such
ground Utah is annexed already ; and though
Walker was allowed to go on, not ordy re
straining American citizens, but robbing and
shooting such of them as attempted to escape
out ofhis clutches, that is no reason why Brig
ham Young should be allowed to emulate his
example. If Brigham wants to do that, if he
wants to shoot, hang, rob and imprison, with
impunity, let him establish a fillibuster settle
ment either in the Mexican territory at the
south or the British territory at the north.
Then he may reasonable expect, not only to be
allowed to -proceed to any extremities he
chooses against such unfortunate An.ericans
as, having been -deluded by false repesenta-
ons within his grasp, shall attempt to escape
from it, bnt, in case he is likelv to fail and fall
nto the hands of the Mexican or British au
Sorities, that the Government w:ll serd a mil
itary force to hover on the border to aid in his
escape, and even to intervene in his favor by
solicitations to the other party to alio- him to
escape, with hints, perhaps, of something else
n case of refusal. So long as Brigham Young
is merely Governor of Utah, he has no reason
to expect that our Government will at' all con
nive at his running the same rig wi'h Walker
in Nicaragua. Neither need Erigham attempt
to reassure himself by calling to mind the case
cf Kansas, and the privileges of rolbery and
murder and false imprisonment allowed there
by Gov. Shannon, acting Governor Woodson,
Ju'lge Cato and Lecompte, "SheritE' Jones
aud other distinguished functionaries of the
Territorv. Neither need he count at all on
the high official positions lately cor ferred by
President Buchanan upon Murphy, Emory, and
other leading Border Buffians. Thnt. tfv
was a fillibu.tri"3 operation j these persons
were also filibusters, and stand on the same
ground that Walker occupied in Nicaragua
Stealing Kansas from the Northern States was
in the eyes of the last Administration, and is
in the eyes of the present one, an enterprise
no less laudable and useful than stealing Nicar
agr.a for the purpose of making a Slave State
of it. Indeed, more so, since the blow at Lib-
ertv attempted in Kansas is adoulle one, no
only adding one to the Slave States, but also
taking one from the Free States. When there
ia an obiect to serve, Mr. Buchanan can wink
XATTSAS.
The Free State Convention met at Topcka,
and the committee on business made the fol
lowing report, which was adopted :
Resolved, 1. That the people of Kansas now
as ever, disewn as invalid and of no force or
eflect, the authority of the territorial govern
ment as embodied in the enactments of the so
called legislature of Kansas.
2. That it is made incumbent on the peo
ple of Kansas, by the highest considerations
of justice and expediency to look forward now
as ever, to their admission into the Union tin
ker the constitution which they haye( already
formed, as the only method of adjusting ex
isting difficulties, to which they will assent.
SrThat the people of Kansas will pursue
with unfaltering steadiness of purpose, the ap
plication now pending before the congress of
the United States, for their admission into the
Union under their own constitution, and ;witfy
their government, resting their hopes for the
success thereof upon the profound confidence
they feel, that a measnre so eminently, just,
and so accordant to the principles of past legis
lation in our country, will eventually be con
ceded and sanctioned to them by tbe represen
tatives of the American people. ;
4. That the constitution framed and adopt
ed at Topeka, had its origin in a public neces
sity, was the offspring of the popular will, And
experience .'has proved the wisdom of those
who framed it, and it is the duty of the legis
lative officers elected under it, to complete
the state organization, and keep its niachi
nary in readiness for use so soon as we are ad
mitted into the Union : or th
the peoplo shall require. .
The committee reported the following,
which was also adopted: "
Wueeeas, By unfair legislation by the Le-
compton "legislative assembly," and the man
ner of registration under the act providing
for the call of a convention to form a consti
tution has excluded a large majority of the vo
ters of Kausas from the participation in the
election of delegates to the said convention:
therefore
Resolved, That this convention respectfully
and eamestlv recommend to the free state
A DESTRUCTIVE WHIRLWIND.
Variocs rumors were afloat at Utica,N. Y-,
on the evening of the- I3th inst. that the long
threatened comet had "struck" in the neigh
borhood of that city. A correspondent writing
to the Tribune says he endeavored to trace
them to their source ; and the result was, a
well-authenticated statement that a phenome
non of a very singular character had been vis
ible in the heavens, or, rather, in the atmos
phere between the heavens and the eirtb
seemingly suspended from above ; that this
body was a tunnel shaped, black, moving body,
of a nebulous character! that it had taken its
rise, or made its first appearance, at a point
over the northern outskirts of the city. Thence
it moved easterly, accompanied by a buzzing,
rumbling noise, and gradually elongating its
figure as it went, approaching the earth nearer
and nearer, jntil finally, it struck the ground
near the dwelling of a Mr. Root, in Deerfield,
tearing down a fence or two, and passing on,
gradually settling lower and lower. At last,
having reached a point some five miles ia a
north-easterly direction from this city, near
the dwelling of Mr. Nathan Budlong in Schuy
ler, it made a descent tipon his barn, ripped it
np, and scattered it to winds. Then passing
on, tearing np trees, fences and out-houses in
its terrible course, it finally struck the dwel
ling of Mr. John Warren. The building was
lifted from its stone foundation, carried a dis
tance of some fifteen feet through the air, and
dashed in splinters upon tho ground, leaving
a clean plat of grass between t'e place where
it had stood and the pile of rubbish. In the
necessities of ! house were a family of six parents and
children. Mr. Warren, seeing the terrible ob
ject rushing down upon him, tearing up trees
and fences in its onward course, and buzzing
like a thousand hornets' nests combined,
called -upon his wife and children instantly to
accompany him to the cellar,- and, suiting the
action to the word, seized two of the children
and leaned down the stairway. The wile es
sayed to follow, but her footsteps were tardy ;
she was a moment an instant too late ; the
. , 4 1 ..M ....
engine oi uesirucuon ioie mc uuuum uy,
carrying herself and child, together with a lit
tle son who wrts behind her, with it. The bus
party of Kansas, that the election for dele- band had but time to sec her ascend with the
gates, in pursuance of the law enacted by the building that tore away from above him, and
Lecompton bogus legislature, be disregarded then he .stood exposed to the day, in bis open
and permitted to pass without and participa- cfiiar. lie went to view the ruin of his home;
tiontherein by the free state party in Kansas, it was complete. litre lay the dead and nude
Reiolced, That since tho issues of the past body of his wife, the destroying power having
have been sufficient to develop the political I stripped her clothing from her person ; there
principles of every inau in Kansas. Therefore I lay his son, covered with blood, and senseless ;
we regard any man who sympathizes with our I and, just beyond, his dwelling lay one such
oppressors to the extent that he consents to mass of destruction as probably never was be
liurnmp 'a HplrTto tn tln Tfi-nmnton eonven- I held before. It Passed On. swinging UZItV a
tion, or a candidate to the same, is unworthy bout like a monster "elephants trunk," crush
the fellowship or confidence of the free state
men. and should be regarded with suspicion
everywhere. :
The American Party Who Compose it!
The Philadelphia Daily Sun, of Thursday,
June ISth, savs : "The news from Boston yes-
can Convention in Massachusetts. The body
numbered over 300, and it appears, from the
report of the proceedings, that they endorsed
Mr. N. P. Banks for Governor. Out of over
300 members, selected from the American par
ty in the various divisions of the State, 219,
out of 229 votes cast.were given to Mr. Banks,
and he was afterwards nominated unanimously.
Tf Americans iu Massachusetts can endorse
Mr. Banks, it is very strange that Pennsylva
nia Americans cannot endorse Mr. Wilmot.
We pronounce Mr. Wilmot an American of the
ing all in its way. Next, Mr. Budlongs barn
was thrown into the air, riddled to pieces, and
hurled in all directions, as the agent of des
truction swunz on. For hundreds of feet to
the south, east and west of the barn, the field
was literally strewn with the broken beams
ticijLo contents of tho linm mnr.
manure, corn-coos anil hay, was scattered ovc
the entire field. I was permitted to enter the
resideuce of Mr. Budlong, where the corpse
of Mrs. Warren had been laid out, and view it
It wis clothed in its grave garments, and a
handkerchief concealed certain ghastly bruises
on tlie neck, though tho blow which caused
death is evident in a wound upon the abdomen
Kifleelions sal and suggestive thronged my
nina as I looked on the corpse of that mother.
ind thought on the fate that had stricken her
)n death, while the infant in her anus was ct
:erly unharmed, and the boy behind her not so
eriously wounded as to causo instant death
Lai-cable Project.- We see it stated that
Philadelphia, so world renowned for her char
itable institutions, is about to add another to
the number. .A movement is now being made
to establish an Asylum for the superanuated
printers of that city, a class of men, who, per
haps, more than any other, deserve the sym
pathy and kind consideration of the public.
We trust this project will received the support
of every genuine philanthropist, and that an
institntion will be erected creditable to the
city in which it is to be located, as well as to
those for whose benefit it is intended.
true stamp, and no American mat is noi ime
as nam us ,,. . ' ' tureel with l.ocolocoism can ori le.use m.u bnt reflectloM are not 5n , ,
i Ai.-i V.i.liiiir' iA it oanc r Tl 1 V f 1 1 :i I I 1 . 1 I .1 -,.1 ...,w( I -
snm. xut a jjufcimin o - that tiiey are opposeu 10 ie lurmur cau-hsiwu coun.- 0 q
the interest oi ine &i;ie-uncia, i 0r slavery. This sentiment oi mo American
grounds for expecting that his outrages will be ty hag becn publisUed and endorsed by its
overlooked, or that measures win noi oe iah.eu cns;ble head, the "City Committee of Su
perintendence," and even by the "Daily Uh
maclite" itself, and yet, upon the distinctive
priciples of Kepublicanism, Mr. Wilmot does
not 20 one whit further. In this single scnti-
7" The Erie Consiilulion says that the city
and county of Eric will undoubtedly have to
pay the interest on their bonds issued to the
variocs railroads connecting with that city,
and that the taxation to meet that responsibil
ity will fall heavily upon the people.
It is a fortunate thing that the peoplo w ill
have an opportunity to adopt, this fall, an
amendment to the Constitution prohibiting,
q futorc, all such subscriptions; and it is
much to be regretted that such a provision
waa not incorporated in that instrument long
go --; - j . : - :I T.
P(MTr.E.-The Post Master
General lias recently decided that bona fid
subscribers to weekly neswspapers can receive
the same lree of postage if they reside in the
county in which the paper is printed and pub--hshed.
tveniftke olfict to which the. paper is
tent i without the couniy, provided it is the of
fice at which they Tegularly receive their mail
' matter. This will be an item of interest to
newspapcrsubscribers living nearcounty lines
to protect and relieve the sufferers by them
Nevertheless, we very much doubt whether
the President will have the courage to adopt
the very reasonable and proper course indica
ted for him by the Washington letter-writers.
Unfortunately. Utah is by no means the only
portion of the Union in which nearly every
household is at once a soraglio and a prison,
and in which a large portion of the people are
keiit from runnicz away by terror of the con
sequences should they happen to be caught
Mr. Buchanan, we fear, will hardly have the
Courage to set an example of intervention on
the part of the Federal Government, however
loudly the state of things in Utah may demand
it which might hereafter be inconveniently
applied to other no less suffering portions of
the Union. In fact, it would be easy for Brig
i . i ii
ham, and he is altogether too surewa a reiiow
to overlook it to put Mr. Buchanan, his new
Governor, proclamation and all, in a very
awkward predicament. Let the Mormon
Elders only induce their extra women and the
rank and file generally of the Church, male as
well as female, to enter into wr tten indentures
of service- and thereby would not only a per
fectly lawful authority be acquired to hold
them in Utah, but should any of them succeed
. . . . 3 J
in getting away, they might be pursueu, ue
swego, destroying property of
:very description in its course, when it made
nother attempt on life ; a Mr. Furniss, and
eamstcr, who were engaged in loading staves
t a saw-mill, hearing a strange noise, turned
round looking upwards, saw a barn shovel fly-
ng through the air, and the next moment a
rec was dashed across the wason. knockins
mem is couiaiueo. a,. cr ,he teamster down on the staves and throwins
David Wilmot. We say all, for there is not a rr. Furnjsg to the groun1 Thc ,atter m
firmer State rights man m the Union than Mr. I , ,It th(. tMmif, .
Wilmot, nor one who would do more to secure I . , ,f(M. ... -f
the peace an permanence of the Union. It is Iq to property ofGiIbert & penfic',j. Mr. GiU
very singular that men can profess American- I t ciT ,h jevastat;on. and vp
ism, and yet, by opposing the very principles ;nJ M lbil flinr thronffh ,he ...
they proclaim, mislead others, and bring d.s- lh d j ,
- Kittuot Bask. -It is stated that a snffi
cient amonnt fifty thousand dollars has been
subsciibed to the capital etocfc of tho Kittan-
ing bank to secure" its charter, the principal of
- which "a as taken by J. E." Brown, Esq., a gen
tleman cf extensive means, and of well known
capacity as a financier and business man. The
bonk will go into operation between this and
The first of August.
grace and defeat to the cause they deceitfully I
pretend to support. They cannot do it. 1 here
is too much intelligence in the people of I enn
sylvania. They . cannot be deceived in. this
matter, and there is convincing evidenc that
ether influences and motives govern the "side
door" Ishmaehtish movement, that looks e
ventually to the success of Mr. Packer. All
that is necessary to defeat this movement, is
to expose hypocrisy and double dealing, and
enlighten the honest, thinking people in re-
imrA in the-, character of Air. limou i nis
we intend to do."
mily to come out as soon as possible, "for
e Comet hai struck, and their time upon earth
as short'." Not satisfied yet the whirlwind
bxt attacked two barns belon'rin in Afr.
-
enry Kowe, and utterly destroyed both.
kyond the barns of Mr. Roue, the course of
is whirlwind is marked distinctly to the Os
go River, by upturned trees, here and there
rough orchards and wood lots, but after get
ig about one mile east of Mr. Rowe's resi
nce, its principal fury seems to have been
ent aud its traces disappear entirely on rea'ch
g the river. Such is a brief but truthful ac-
provisions of the Fugitive Slave Lav. The
very troops about to be sent to Utah, instead
of being employed to aid in setting the cap
tives free, might, under the j-rovisions of the
Fugitive Slave Law, be called upon to aid in
catching tho runaways.
E -Three of the mutineers of the brig, Gen. )unt of a whirlwind which we do not believe
Pierce, convicted of manslaughter in killing'er had its equal on this globe for fury and
I the C'ptain and cook of that vessel while or odigions power.
KF" Jackson, convicted of the murder-of
oman Morris in Lake county, Illinois, last
.....
ii, was executea this niornme. the 19th.
-
man.led,arrested and carried back under the the voyage to the coast of Africa, were cacl.
sentenced to imprisonment for six years anfi
to pay a fine of $2,000, equivalent to impris
onmentror me, as vue pruuc r-roe frcm the city of Cfaica-o. He
th. fine." Smith, convicted for the murder of ,.... , J . .
the captain, has been sentenced to be execu
ted in August next. "' " ' '
niesseu me murder some davs since. It is
timated that 25,000 persons were present ;
e crowd pressing broke the platform, but no
Ep-The Douglas men in Chicago seem tio was injured. Tho military were out in
Laegest Chaix is the Woau. It is te-
be mortified with the result of their recen
ieved that the largest cabl- in the world is j persecution of Mayor Wcntwoith, by charglni
that now about to be used in the operation of him with stealing mail bags. It was shown o
raisin" the Russian ships sunk at Sebastopol. the trial, that if the reception of canvas bag
- i i . i :t. 1 n;;nr T-,nK!i n i"w-!imiTit : f mm th.' npnnrt
It is two nnnareayarusrons; cacn nun wl-ijjus i tuui""c .. . . . : . " je(j
. 1 n -w? nnnnHs ami a Tl lint 1m hpn ment. without returning them, was stealing. .
separately tested by a strain of five hundred
tons.-? It was manufactured at the Reading
Force, in onr own State. The value of the
material to be furnished by the Russian gov
ernment, to be used in the riising.of this fleet
will be a million
time occupied
will, it'is thought, be about two years
then Douglas had stolen a great many morj
thar Mayor Wentworth.
rce.. The execution passed off quietly.
C"On Thursday morning, some of the
rvants of the City Hotel, Bostoq, found a
range animal in the meat cellar, which thev
It was about the size of a large cat,
th web fe-;t, long tail, and a face similar to
monkey's. It wa finally ascertained to be
mongoose, an animal found in' Africa; but
A Giieeji Rose !On3 of these extraordinary j,e wnere he was, remains a puzzle.
rv natural curiosities may, uc recu ai inui - , ... . . ,
... n 1 .
burn's seed store in uroauway, j,ew i oi k
3
Flocr has
-aMVliaTf Of dollars, and the rs STS lilf " '
in-iwrforniing the; contract pne uniform green color- ; The parent stalkIV: Hams 13 cents, shoulders 11 a 11 1
said to have gome from Japan.
Rye Soar ?o,75.
a downward i tendency in tho
and
i
PENNSYLVANIA ITEJIS.
Cpxtre Cocxtt. One day week before last.
during a thunder storm, two mules beljnging
to the Centre Furnace Company, were suiea
by lightning. The team had been sent out to
the uirrens, some four miles distant irom me
furnace, for a load of coal, and when n the
way back, the storm came on the driver
sought shelter from the rain under the wagon,
which was most providential, for scarcely had
he gone under the wagon ere the mule on
which he had been 6itting was struck to the
ground. Thc magnetic fluild then ran along
the filth chain, to the lead mule, and killed it
instantly. The other four mules, and the dri
ver, escaped, though they were badly stunned.
The driver has entirely recovered lrom the
paralptic effects of the stroke The Oys
ter Saloon of J. G. Ritter, in Bellefonte, was
entered several nights since, and the money
drawer robbed of its conteuts. An ale barrel
was also tapped and several gallons of the bev
erage carried off. 'The saloon was entered by
breaking open the back ttoor. . - . . .nr.iu-
ny.ol Beaver Mills, was seriously injureu oy
being thrown froai a sulky. neWiSataitng
from the residence of J. I. Thompson, at Mar
tha Furnace, and his horse takiug fright ran
down towards the plank road, and threw Mr.
Chany into the race, breaking bis couar oone,
and injuring him other ways. .... The Belle
fonte Whig says : William and Lewis snear-
man wee arrested last week tne iormer m
Jnniata county, and the other at Tyrone and
brought to this place, charged with enticing a
young girl away from home. Alter a hearing,
they entered bail in the sum of S100 each for
their appearance at the August Court. Tbe
girl disappeared about the first of April and
has not sijnce. been neara oi. tier aioiuer is
the prose" 'dn the case.
WAsMi?I1CorsTT. Thc house of Sam
uel Wasers. Pike Run, was entered last weet
and seventy-five dollars taken. Mr. Wagers
discovered the thief retreating, collared htm
and threw him to the floor. The-thief sur
rendered his booty, and a light being ir.tro
dneed. ho was discovered to be the son ot a
respectable farmer in that neighborhood. . . .
A gentleman named Glassock, who recently
died in Missouri, made a will manumitting six
slaves and setting aside three thousand dollars
of his esiateto be invested in the purchase of
a farm in Washington county, Pa., costing
twentv-five hundred dollars, tl:e residue, five
hundred dollars, to lie expended in the pur
chase of stock. The negroes-have arrived in
Washington. .... A child of Jonathan Mf.r-
tin died last week, from the enects oi swal
lowing a piece of glass or Queensware.
Clintos Cocxtv. A lad about 14 years old,
slipped into a building, in Lock Haven, re
cently, and took from a pantaloons pocket a
portmonie containing 52.75. The owner s is
pecting the hoy, decoyed him to the Sheriff's
residence, where he threated to lock him up,
if he did not fork over. lie promptly cav;d,
and 'forked' over the money Another
entered a shop on Water street, in day-light,
and took $1.50 from a drawer. He attempted
to pass a quarter the same day, which proved
to be counterfeit, at the shop where he had
taken the money, which led to his detection.
Such young scamps should be promptly pun
ished.". . . . An ordinance was passed by the
Town Council of Lock Haven, prohibiting per
sons from driving at a laster pace than 3-10.
Fast town, that.
JerrEtsos CorxTr. One day last week the
body o! a child alout - three years old, was
found drowned in Mabon's mill-race, in the
south end of Clarion borough There is
a prospect of abundant fruit and grain crops
in this count-, the present season Dur
ing the high waters last week, a poition of tbe
Knox township, was carried away. Loss about
S-300 During the past week quite a num
ber of persons have been arrested, and fined
or imprised, for intemperance and profanity,
in this county. .... Considerable damage was
done, in Several sections r.f the county, dur
ing the late freshet. A number of families
removed from their dwellings, through fear
that they would be swept away.
I.vriAX.v CorxTr. On Saturday, the 13th
inst., thc lightning struck a chestnut tree in
front of the dwelling house of Mr. John Fer
guson, of White township, passed down the
tree and killed two cows and three hogs which
were congregated about its roots. The effects
of the shock were also felt by Mr. Ferj uson
and other members of the family who wt re in
the house at the time lln t! l"th ini
the Borough of Indiana was visited with a vi
olent fall of rain mixed with a small sprink
ling of hail. Bat little hail fell. Some them
however, were equal in size to a full grown
walnut The bridge and part of the Mill
dam at Diamond Mills was swept away, tv the
floods, last week. .
Blair Cocxtt. The large Steani Saw Mill
of the Messrs. White, at Somnan,on the Alle
gheny Portage Railroad,was destroyed by fire,
on the 17th, involving a loss of some $r,.000.
The fire is supposed to have originated from
sparks from a Locomotive. .... . During the
th-nnder storm on Saturday evening, tlw 13th
inst., the lightning struck the chimney of the
residence of Mr. John Miller, of Iloliidavs
burg, passing down the entire depth, knocking
out a few brick, but thorouglyvcleansing it of
soot about two bushels. No other damage
done.
Fbaxklin Coi xty. On lCth inst., at Green
castle, the tavern of John Reilly and the gro
cery of Henry Appenzellor, were both burgla
riously entered, and the money drawers, with:
their contents, carried oil from each. The
loss in both cases is small. ...... Ahorse of
Mr. Flemming, near that place, was stolen on
the same night Mr. Allen of New York,
in jumping from a buggy, the horse of which
had run off, was considerably injured, near
Chambersburg. ,
Bccks Couxtt. The dead body of a man.
45 years of age, was found near Falsinglon last
week. ' An empty laudanum vial, from Simes'
drug store, Philadelphia, was found near him.
A small stick was stuck in the ground, th3 up
per part was split, into which was let -i small
piece of paper; upon this, on one side was
written with a lead pencil, "Death," and upon
the reverse, 'I have committed suicide. I
have consumption of the lungs. John Latham
of New York."
Lehigh Couxtt. The German Lutheran
Synod met at Allcntown last week. About
1 00 were in attendance. .... Te store f J.
Benninger. near Slatington, was entered late
ly, and S75, stolen. . . . Tho books of the
Bank of Catasareque were opened on Monday
a-week, and 4S0 shares taken the first day.' "
Fatette. On Friday, the Uniontown coach
was rtpset, bruising tbe passengers ; injuring
a lady of that place so severelr. that .h
compelled to return home The los hr
the burning of the Union Furnas :, -i .
$5,000, . . . ; The wheat cron. in thU .,--
Moxtoce Cocktt. Robert: mi. r r if.
gill, of Danville, was injured on the 13th, by
the accidental discharge of a gun in his own
hands. The charge . did not penetrate the
skull, but swept away the scalp from a portion
of the frontal bone. . . . ,
Excitemext ij Neitraska. Tho claim
jumping troubles continue in Nebraska Terri
tory, and the settlers arc resorting to desper
ate measures against the oflendors. From an
extract of a letter pnblislcd in the Davenport
Gazette, we learn that on the 20th u't., thy
had a very exciting time at Florenc?, N. T.,
some half drzen men having been irrcsted,
tried and condemned to be hung by the set
tlers. The writer says :
"The prisoners were brought up tied togeth
er, tried Dy tne ciuo asociauon, ami con
demned. Death was the penalty. Ropes vera
procured, audi thought lor somo time-they
were suie to. be huTig according to sentence ;
and I think, had it not been for an old gray
headed father pleading for his son and son-in-
law and the tears of their wives and sisters,
they would have been bung. A number of
speeches were made in favor of death, but the
final result was, that three were set free oir
condition they would do right and be honest
in future, confessing their fanlt and releasing
their right of claim. The other four were sent
across the river, accompanied by about one
hundred and fifty men, with a resolution thai
if they ever set foot again on Nebraska soil
thev would be hang. '
Gbievixg foe Lost Pearls.- It would be
hard to tell whether most joy or sorrow ht
been caused at Notch Brook, N. J., by the
discovery of the peatls. Dozens are bemoan
ing fortunes that, in days past, they carelessly
fiung away. One matron nnavailingly sighs
over some "little white things' that she once
gave her boys for marbles. A schoolmaster
lugubrious remembers that he had chopped
eight or ten thousand dollars' worth, with hi
penknite, "to see what was inside." Another
genius rammed a joarl bullet down his rifle
and shot away his fortnne. An ohl la-Jy who
chuckled six months over her "good bargain
with the pedlar," now discovers that she paid
him in pearls, about seven thousand dollars
for a calico dress. It is needless to say she
hasn't laughed since. The nnfortunate man
who had the $25,000 one cooked for his break
fast, has taken fo bed in utter despair, and re
fuses to be comforted. J2xchanei Paper.
Peabls, Silver, asd Copper. Patcrson,
N. J., and vacinity, apparently is destined to
be one of the noted spots in the country. Al
ready it has become celebrated for the dis
covery of pearls, and now, the Guardian says,
a vein of copper and silver lias been struck in
Garret Mountain. A shaft about 53 fet hsa
been sunk, and a bed of copper ore, 10 feet
below the surface, and 24 feet thick, has becn
struck, and Mr. Chadwick has submmitted it
to a melting company in Harlem, New York,
who have offered him $2DC0 a ton for thc No.
1 quality. Some distance below the copper,
a vein of silver ore has been struck. The
thickness of this at the place at the shaft bas
becn sunk is between two and three fet.
How far it extends is unknown.
A family, iu York, Pa., has uffrrcd
ranch" from eating "apple butter," and last
week a boy died. A York paper says that tho
mother and one or two children are still pros
trated and in a critical condition from the ef
fects produced by this copperas apple butter,
which was boiled in a copper kettle and left in
it nntil cold. They are reduced to a skeleton
like appearance, moan from pain frequently,
and will hardly survive. .
Democratic papers in Main, mutter in
dignation at the bestowal of flices ly Mr
Buchanan on "Straight Whigs." One of the
malcontent presses has becn pacified with a
long Navy advertisement for 'beans," bat
those who get none of that fodder continn
more irate than ever.
CT7"Wrongthe date en our outside. It
should be the 24th instead of the 25th June.
TTew Advertisements.
4 FEW ORAIX CRADLES, of superior m.k,
U. of which the scythes are also warranted, and
it not good to be returned, can b had cheap at
MERRELL A CARTER'S.
4 TTEXTIOX ! REGULARS. You are ordered
-f. to meet for para.le on SatRnlav. July 4th
at 10 o clock. A. M. Each member will provide
himself with ten rounds of bUbk cartridge. By
order of the Captain, G. W. RHEEM
j Jne2t ; First Sergeant
FOR SALE IX XEW MILLPORT FOUR
lots, each 50 br 110 feet. One ha a Inrto
two story frrae dweliin- houae mpon it. Thev
'VI c ;?,',1.che"P niion ey terms. Apply to
wr. at ciearnela.
june24-'5t-tf
J B. M EXALLY.
UJr- The testimony in. the Bardell estate
case closed at New York, yesterday, the 10tb.
The question relative to a commissioner to
take testimony in California,' remains undis-
l'u'J oi. -
eHEKIFF'S SVI.E.Ry ,.-. writ
tTx ; - 'neJ euC of te Court of Common
?hf n ,earfifiJ CLUntv' "nd to me directed"
there will be sold at the Conit House, in the Eor
oujth of Clearfield, on Monday tae 20th Ut of
July next at 10 o'clock, A. M.,"the f ollowing des
criber real estate, to wit :
A terrain tract or piece of land, situate ia Gosh
en township, Clearfield county, containing 106
acres, more or less, adjoining lands of John Snlf
rirfjre, Ellis Livergood. Robert Grafcara and others,
wun a log houe and lo siable, and a small lot
cleared thereon. Seized, taken into eiecution,
and to be sold as the property of 5am oel Sped v
. V J R- REED. Sheriff. '
Clearfield. Jnn. 24. 1357.
SALES! SALES!! SALES !!! SALE2J !!!t
(ECT XOT SHERIFF'S SALES.) -AT
THE "SHORT SHOE SHOP."
FRAXK SHORT informs his friends in jreneral,
and all man and woman kind ia particular, that
ne nas on hand a fine assortment of Gents Gait
ers. Ladies and Children1 Gaiters. .. Al. Eng
lisn H alkmg .shoes of his own manufacture, of
trench Patent Calf, Frpnch Calf without the Pat
ent, - nd all other kinds r fine and eoaro work
constantly on hand, and tho materia! I mak
anything m his line from a rock" np to a Utt.
strap Root. Also, Finding Tf all kinds, (kit ex
cepted.) Eoan and Pink. lir.injs. Toread-iSl!v
Pegs. Ilccl-balla. Bristles and Moroccos: Boot Mo
rocco. i.aaies dressed and urvlressed Morocco
French Morocco, Kid and Bindings of aU liadil
Come one f Coma all f -r . :? :
Give Shorty a Call! , Sj "...
and if you don't like the goods, don't soil tWem
TERMS.; One half CASfl when you purcha
and the other hlf at the sain tima. . t'
jue2i-'o7-3m. , . . . , ER AX CIS SHORT.
P. S. All old customers indebted to me. are ra
auesd to come forward and itl t,;-" T
and sa-e costs, as I am called n pen to settle tfe
0,Hr "f by y credited, Immedi
ately. . If said customers have not t. . TiU
they can give their notes. - This i Wsitive-
nu.
ly the last notic
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