1 BY S. B.EO. CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1860. VOL. 7.-M 14. J: " "'J j A MODEL WORSHIPPED. 'TI1 me about the sermon deaf ; . Take off your shawl and hat. And eome and ait beside me here; The text first where was tht?" Well, really. Aaotr, I don't know, I have forgotten quite ; I wish you could soe Jane Monroe, She dresses like a fright! Mif Lyman wore a splendid shawl, With that old horrid bonnet. The rery one she wore last fall, With 'that old trimming on it. 'Rut Mrt. Deacon Jonei had on One of the richest collar I ever sow. nnd her new dress - Must hare cost fifty dollars. 'Strange what extravagance and waste Some people always show ! Then 11 at tie Bell, what want of taste the dresses with you know." . Tltn audience you remember, dear, If you do not the sermon ; Which preacher do you like to hear, It u one, or Air. Herman . rman '. an, for , aod his4L J ihow!" Oh, I like Mr. Herman lie's handsome, aunt, Then he's so graceful ilow splendidly they show! THE MYSTERIOUS HIGHWAYMAN. - ITROM TAB JOCRSAL OP AS ENGLISH POLICE OrVICEtt There was a shrewd robber somewhere. The farm-houses were robbed ; shops were robbed ; the tills of the bars at the wayside inns were robbed ; and the people had their pockets pick ed. All this happened in the region of coun try between Sidney and Lowstone not a field of vast extent and yet the robber or robbers could not re round- Omccrs had searched in every direction, and several suspicious look in; individuals had been apprehended; but the real culprit still remained at large. One day the mail was robbed, and on the next a man had his pocket picked of five hundred pounds, while riding in the stage coach for tuy narrative dates back to the old coaching lnys. Tlie money had been carried in the breast pocket, and he knew that it was stoleu from him whilo he was enjoying a bit of a done on the road. I had been confined to my house by a severe cold for several days, and was not fit to go out now ; but this matter was becoming so serious, 1 felt it my duty to be on the move, and accor dingly I fortified my throat and breast with warm flannel, and set forth. I had no settled plan in my mind, for 1 had not yet been upon the road, ami was not thoroughly "posted up." A ride of five miles brought me to Sidney, and thence I meant to take coach to Lowstone, where Sam Stickney, one of the shrewdest ol men, lived.-.; Stickney had already been on the search, and I wished to consult him before making any decided movement. . 1 reached Sidney at half-past five in the morning, and the coach left at six. Lowstone was sixty miles distant, so I had a good ride before me. Durirg the early part of the day I rode upon the box with the driver, and from him I gain ed considerable information touching the va rious robberies that had been committed, lie was forced to admit that several people had been robbed in his stage, though he declared (hat he couldn't see into it, for he had not the most remote idea even of who the robber could be. We reached Bonniville at noon, where we stopped to dine, and when we left this place I was the only passenger. At the distance of twelve miles, at a little village called Caw thorne, we stopped to change horses, and heie another passenger got up. I had been occn- . . .. : ,i e . .l . w. , l... i be wider than the others. and cave me a better opportunity for lying down; and when the new comer enteied he took the back seat. lie was a young man, I judged, and not very tall in stature, but so completely bundled up was he in shawls and mufflers, that his size of frame was not so easily determined. He was very pale, and coughed badly ; and J at once made up my mind that he was far less fit to travel than 1 was. After we had got fairly on our way, I remarked to him that I had been, suffer ing from a severe cold, and that this was the first time I had ventured out for quite a num ber of days. He looked at me out of a pair of dark, bright eyes; and when he seemed to have determined what manner of man I was, he said : . "I have something worse than a cold, sir." He broke into a fit of coughing which lasted minute or so, and then added "It won't be great while befote I shall take my last ride." Again he was seized with a spasm of cough ing, and when he bad recovered from it, he continued "The disease is eating me up and shaking me to pieces at the same time." He further informed me that be had started on a tour for his health but that he had given it up, and was now on bis way home, which place he was anxious to reach as soon as pos sible. Another paroxysm seized hira at this point, and be intimated that he was unable to converse, as the effect brought on his cough. I had noticed this, and had made up my mind Co trouble him no more, cveu before he had given me the hint. After this he drew bis outer shawl more closely about his neck and face, and having secured an easy posture, he closed bis eyes, and I was not long in following his example. Toward the middle of the afternoon the coach stopped at a small village, where four passen gers got up. This broke up the arrangement or my friend and myself for rest, as he had to take one of the strangers on his seat, whjje a iook another upon mine, the other two occu PFine t.ha middle ceat. The new comers soon iroaclied the subject of the robberies ' which una oeen committed in that region, and I lis jened .to . gain information, if. possible ; but 'nuew no more than any one elso' knew. They had heard all about it, and were inflated With wonder. i . One an old fanner asked me if I knew anything of the robber. I told hira that I knew but little of the affair in any way, hav- uB ucu eica, ana unable to be out amoncr folk. Then he asked my consumntive friend it he knew anything about it. Th ittr raised his head from its reclining position, and was on the point of answering, when he heard the driver, in a quick, abrupt tone, or dering some one to get out or the road. ' 1 instinctively put my bead out of the window to see what the trouble was, and my eye was just quick enough to detect a load of fagots n tune to dodge back and avoid tbetn. The. wad was quit, narrow at this point, and as' ("6 were i loaded . very widely, it1 was iK8lb.,or th0 arlve, td wholly avoid fheni.' ad the side of the coach was swept by them quite smartly. I escaped without being touch ed, but not so with my friend. I heard an ex clamation I thought rather a profane one from his lips, and on looking toward him I saw that one of the fagots had struck bim over the left eye, making quite a mark upon the pale sum. this incident turned the conversation from the subject of the robberies, and it was not again alluded to during the day. AY e reached Lowstone shortly after dark, ana l went at once to the residence of Mr Mickney, whom I found . at home. He had been out all day and had made all sorts of ef- Kts to obtain some clue to the perpetrators of fesfttfaberies that were being committed, but without effect. He said be could learn nothing on which to hang suspicion. Two shops bad been robbed in his town, but he could gain no clue to the perpetrators. We consulted together, and fi nally proposed to go in the morninsr and soe another detective officer named Gamblit, who resided about twelve miles distant in the town of Orton. This met the views of my host, and so we lett the matter for the evening. On the follow ing morning we were up early, aud as the coach would take us directlv to Garablit's bouse, we chose that mode of conveyance, ana repaired at a seasonable hour to the tav ern for that purpose. When we reached the inn, we found the old farmer, who had been one of my fellow passengers on the nig lore, stepping about the door m a high state of excitement. He had been robbed of three hundred pounds, and he was sure it must have been done in the stage, for he had slept with his pocket-book under his pillow. He had not thought to look into it when he retired, out no had round it empty that morning when he got up. He said that wallet had been taken from his pocket and put back again he knew it. As soon as he saw me he was anxious I should bo searched. Of course I allowed the operation to be performed willingly. Alter the excitement was allayed, I asked where the pale young man was, that came in the coach. and was told by- the landlord that he went a- way soon after the coach arrived. My Ci st aim was to satisfy myself that the old man had been robbed in the stage coach, ana or tins ne succeeaea in convincing me. After this my suspicions rested upon the con sumptive man, and I believed, if I could find him, I should find the rogue. So I bade the landlord to keep a sharp lookout ; and also spoke to the driver who had brought me from oiuney, anu wuo was now on tne point ot re turning; requesting him, if he saw anything ot tne pale man, to see that he was secured The suspicious individual had only remained at the inn a few minutes on the previous eve ning, and had then gone away m a gig, which had come for bim ; but no one could tell what direction he had taken. The coach for Orton soon came to the door and Stickney and myself took our seats inside, the farmer having determined to remain where he was until he heard something about the money. There were two other passengers in side, and two or three outside, but they were strangers to me. We had gone two or three miles, when the driver pulled up before a small farm house, where a woman and a trunk were waiting by the garden gate. The lady was handed into the coach, and took a seat facing me, and as she turned to give the dri ver some direction concerning the baggage, she threw her veil over her bonnet. She was pretty very pretty with rosy cheeks and sparkling eyes. Her hair hung in glossy brown ringlets over her neck and shoulders, and was a type of beauty in itself. I looked at the rosy cheeks again, and into her dark lustrous eyes. My gaze was fixed upon this latter point when she caught my glance, and quickly drop ped her veil. At first I felt a little ashamed at having been caught staring at her so bold ly ; but as the face was hidden from sight, aim 1 haa opportunity lor reflection, it struck me that I had seen those features before. Here was a study for me, and I was buried in it at once. Where had I seen that face ? I whispered to Stickney, and asked bim if he had ever seen her before. He said he had not, and joked mo for being so curious about a pretty face. We stopped at a place called "Turner's Mills," in the edge of Orton, to exchange mails, and here 1 jumped out to see the post master wno was an oia menu ot mine ana as I was returning to the coach the thought struck me to look at the trunk which had been last put on, and sec if any name was on it. It was marked with the simple initials "A. M." So that was all I gained from that source. As I came to the coach door I approached it from behind, and as 1 cast my eyes up I found that the beauty bad her veil raised, and was look ing in at the post office as though anxious for the mail to come, that we might be off. The expression of anxiety detracted somewhat from her beauty,and as I looked upon her now, seeing her face in a different light, I was struck with a sort ot snake-like cast which was per ceptible in the whole character of her features. lest she should catch me a second time, when a light motion of her head rolled her curls over her temple, and I saw a faint line, some thing like a vein over her left eye. It was a mark a livid scratch where something had struck. It might have been the stroke of a whip. But no ; I quickly glided back bo- hind the coach, and there I reflected. Such a mark as that could be made by a fagot. when I returned to piy seat in the poach the fair stnfnger's yeil was down again. Could it be possible thafmy suspicions were oorrecti anq mat etiance had thrown in my way a solu tion of the problem which had Vexed my dep uties so much 7 Yes, I was sure ot it; the more I compared the two l'acs in my mind, the more I saw a resemblance. Either these cheeks had been painted red to-day or white yesterday. The eyes were the same, the con tour the same, and that broW, with Us tell-tale mark, not to be mistaken. ' We soon stopped at the door of the inn at Urton. 4. fia uri ver announceu mat iney wouwt stop there fifteen or twenty minutes, to change horses and wait for the mail, and also inform ed the passengers that they would find plenty of accommodation in the house if they chose to go in. The lady at first did pot get out, but at length she did so and went into the hotel. I deter mined now to find out who she was. I left my deputy at the door of the room she entered, having ordered him to rush in, in case he should hear anything that warranted his intrusion- Op going into the apartment I found the beauty ' was sitting by a window, gazing otit between the blinds. She started up as I euteredi'and let ber'ycll fall. "I thought this was a private room, sir," she said. Her voice trembled and sounded unnatural. "It may be," I returned ; "but that does not exclude those who have business. I came on purpose to see you." There was a momentary struggle, and then she appeared as calm as could be. "Who are you ?" she asked. "I am an officer from Bow street," I repli ed. "I want to know who you are. " "Stop one moment," she said: and as she stopped she canied her hand beneath her cloak. It was quickly withdrawn, and in it was a pistol, but she had grasped a portion of her dres3 with it, and before she could clear it, 1 had sprung upon her and seized her by the arms. But it was her no longer. There was more muscle iu that slight body than I naa oargamea tor However, my man "con ped" in the moment he heard the scuffle, and the beauty was secured. The glossy brown tresses fell off during the scuffle, and some of the paint was removed from the cheeks As soon as the prisnor was secured, I had his trunk taken off and brought in, and upon overhauling its contents we found disguises oi an sorts, ana quite a sum or money, besides watches and jewelry ot much value. I made him assume a proper male attire, and when he stood forth in propria persona, I found that he had not only used red paint for the blushing ueauty or to-aay, tut mat ne applied a more cadaverous coloring matter for the consumptive individual of yesterday. As he stood now. he was a lithe built, intelligent looking youth, of not more than five-and-twenty ; but with cofd-blooded expression upon his marble face, -J - I 1 buu uu evii iook in bis uanng eyes. We carried bim back to Lowstone, where we found the money of the old farmer upon him besides other money which had been lost by different individuals. At first be told strange Biunes oi nimseu, out nnany, wnen ne kuew that the worst was come, he confessed the whole. He was from London and had come into the country on purpose to rob. He had two confederates with him, who had belped mm irom place to place. One of them bad taken bim away from the inn the night before, ana the other bad brought hira and set him down at the farmer's gate that morning. We made search for these confederates, but thev had got wind of their principal's arrest and were not to be found. However, we had got the chief sinner, and had broken up the game. After he had been iouna guilty ana sentenced, ho seemed to enjoy himself hugely in telling how he had deceived the good people of our country. Now he would turn himself into the old woman, who had given the driver so much trouble about ber bandbox. Then be would be again the meekbrowed minister, who had distributed tracts to the passengers, and pick ed their pockets while thev read. Then he would draw himself up into the little hump backed old man, who had been lifted into and out of the coach, and robbed his helpers wnue tney nxea his crutches for him. It was lunny very and perhaps we might neer have caught him but for the accident of the fagot. That was not so funny for him ; and I doubt if he found much fun in working at the hard stone hammering earlv and laie with an inexorable master over him when he lagged. HENEY CLAY ON SECESSION. In relation to the much discussed "right of secession" the opinions of llenry Clav should be entitled to, consideration. In & letter to Daniel Ullruan and others of Xew-York, in 1S51, Mr. Clay said : "If there are local exceptions at the North and at the South of rash and misguided men who would madly resist the Constitution and laws of the United States, let us not despair of their return, in seasonable time, to reason and to duty. But suppose we should be disappointed, and that the standard should be raised of open resistance to the Union, the Constitution, and the laws, what is to be done ? There can be but one possible answer. The power, the authority, the dignity of the Gov ernment ought to be maintained, and resist ance put down at every hazard. Government, in the fallen and depraved state of man, would lose all respect, and fall into disgrace and con tempt, if it did not possess potentially, and would not in extreme cases practically exer cise, the right of employing force. . The theory of the Constitution ot the united States as sumes the necessity of the existence and the application of force, both in our foreign and domestic relations. Congress is expressly au thorized "to raise and support armies," "to provide and maintain a navy," "to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasiors." The duty of executing the laws aDd of suppressing insurrections is without limitation or qualification ; it is co-extensive with the jurisdiction of the United States, and it comprehends every species of resistance to the execution of the laws, and every form of insurrection, no matter under what auspices or sanction it is made. Individuals, public meet ings, States may resolve, as often as their tastes or passions may prompt them to resolve, that they will forcibly oppose the execution of the laws, and secede from the Union. Whilst these resolutions are made on paper, they aro harmless; but the moment a daring hand is raised to resist, by force, the execution cf the laws, the duty of enforcing them arises, and if the 'conflict which may ensue should lead to civil war, the resisting party having begun it, will be responsible for all the conspquences." The Secession cockade seems to be fashion- ionable only with the middle aged men of Charleston. A card signed "Many Ladies." is publfshed in the 'Evening News,' which re proachfully asks: "Why is it that our cbival- ric young men and our gallant old men do not adopt thd emblem of secession ?" The fair querists threaten that if the men have not spirit enough to show their colors, they will set them an example. . A follow was doubting whether or not he should volunteer to fight. One of the flags, waving before bis eyes, bearing the inscrip tion, "victory or D.eath," somewhat troubled and discouraged bim. ''Victory is a very go.qd thing," said he ; "but wby put it Victory or Death ? Just put it Victory or Crippled, and I'll go that?" A speaker at a stump meeting out west de clared that be knew no east, no west, no north, no south, "men," said a tipsy bystander, "you ougb$ to go, to school and 'larn'your geography." SOMETHING ABOUT DIPHTHERIA. The following report from the pen of t leading physician of Delaware county, in re lation to this singular and fatal disease, and more particularly in regard to certain facts disclosed by examination into a fatal case hap pening during the course of his practice, will be found of importance and general interest to the community, particularly at the present time : "This disease, which for the last four or five years has been making its way westward, has appeared in various localities through this county and by its fatality, has caused consid erable alarm in the public mind. It is charac terized by the formation of a membranous ex udation covering the throat and roof of the mouth more or less completely, and in some cases extending into the windpipe, causing death, as in croup, by suffocation. It is not iaenticai with a form of throat disease which has occasionally prevailed in different parts of the country and which has been variously des ignated as malignant sore throat, putrid sore throat, erysipelas of the throat, Black Tongue, &c. The tendency in this form of disease is to a rapid death or gangrene of the parts af- ici.eu; ana it lacks wholly the meuibranou exuaation which is the peculiar feature of Diphtheria. The disease is not altogether new. Several epidemics have been described in wnich this peculiar exudation was observed anarnyBicians in every country have occasion auy met with cases of throat disease accom panied by a membranous exudation, but lack ing altogether the fatal tendency that has marked this epidemic visitation of the disease The danger from the extension of the exuda iion into the windpipe has been referred to Inis undoubtedly in some cases is the direct cause of death, but very many cases prove fa tal in which there is no affection of the wind pipe and no material obstruction to the respi ration. Death has been supposed to result, in such cases., from the terribly depressing effect or me disease upon the nervous centres. Perhaps a large majority of the fatal cases have been of this character and until the in teresting fact developed b' a case that occur fed in the family of Mr. liodman Prichett of .Last Goshen, but little has been brought out to satisfy the minds of intelligent Physicians as to the precise cause of death in those cases in which the difficulty about the throat is in sufhcient to accouut for the result. In Mr, Prichett's family the disease first appeared in June last and at that time counted its two victims. Last week it again appeared and added two more to the list. In none of these did the exudation extend to the windpipe nor was there an amount of disease of the throat to explain the result. The attending Physi cians finding themselves baffled in their efforts to arrest the fatal tendency, sought, in the last case, and readily obtained the privilege or making a post-mortem examination, which developed the fact that in the cavities of the heart there had been formed a mass of firm leathery consistency, and more or less firmly adherent to the lining of the cavities. Much the larger amount was found in the cavities of the right side of the heart, forming when roll- ea together a mass nearly an inch in diameter a ne auuesions to tue wails ot tne heart in some pans were so nrm as to renaer it im possible to separate it without leaving parti cles still attached. It is true that a gelantiu ous mass Is often found iu the heart, formed by its contracting upon the coagulated fibrin of the blood, during the last moments of exist ence ; but the leathery character of the mass removed and the firmness of the adhesion pre clude such a theory of its formation. A more rational explanation is found in the altered conuition oiine norm ot the blood which is the remarkable feature of the disease. The existence of such a mass would account, not only for the rapidly fatal termination, but al so tor the existence of an extremely feeble pulse in connection with a violent, tumultu ous action of the heart as is so often observed in fatal cases of this disease. Should this condition be confirmed by subsequent exami nations great practical good may result in di recting the attention of Physicians to another source of danger than the local disease of the throat and lead them by early and decisive measures to counteract more successfully the Diooa-vice, upon which the disease depends. One other point may be wortny of notice as calculated to do awoyjwith unnecssary anxiety upon Demg brought in contact with cases of Diphtheria. It seems to be purely and simply an epidemic disease, dependant upon a cause or causes existent in the atmosphere, and that t will select localities and individuals that have most affinity for it, without reference to direct exposure to the disease." Remarkable Case of a Fast Woma. The Cleveland, Ohio, Plaindealer says, in that city, recently, a woman, still young, and in whose face traces ol former beauty were still discov erable, was sent to the county jail for vagran cy. Five years ago she was a school teacher, in a small town in the State of Michigan. She was pretty, educated, and captivating in man ners. But she had an uncontrolable passion for dress, and was one day detected in the act of stealing a costly silk from the counter of the village store. She was arrested, but un der promise of leaving the village, never more to return, she was spared the pain and morti cation of a public trial for larceny. She trav eled West, and encountered a Southern plant er somewhere on the route, who employed ber as a governess in his family. She accompa nied bim to his home in the far South, where she succeeded in captivating him, causing bis wife to sue for a divorce. After thoroughly ru ining the planter, and scandalizing his friends, she eloped with a light mulatto, the most valu able servant in the planter's collection, and went to St. Louis. There, becoming sick of the mulatto'she sold him for $2000. She is next beard of as a manageress and leading ac tress of a strolling theatrical company in the interior of Missouri, playing star parts upon the stage, and 'doing' susceptible grain-merchants off. The St. Louis papers last spring contained nnmerous reports of her dashing swindles along the Missouri river. She ran a wild race in Chicago, and brought np in Bride well, where she served out a short sentence for theft. She reached Cleveland in the course of time, hopelessly dissipated and shattered. Pennsylvania made the first turnpike road in the United States, laid the first railroad, es tablished the first waterworks, ran the first lo comotive, established the first hospital, the first law school, the first public- museum, the first hall of mqsic, and the first library in the world open freely to all. Good for Pennsyl vania I A LITTLE EOMANCE ABOUT GABIBALDI. The London Jllhenaum says that a bit of ro mance about Garibaldi may help to explain the hostility of the Dictator of the Two Sicilies to France, and that of the Emperor of the French toward the Liberator of Italy. The family of Garibaldi, like the family of Bonaparte, isCor sican ; and the name of Pozzo di Borgo or of Louis Blanc is evidence with what fiery hate a Corsican may pursue his vendetta against that lucky race. The Dictator's grandfather, Jo seph Battista Maria Garibaldi, was one ot those patriot Corsicans who gave the Crown to Count Von Feuhoff, crowned Theodore the First of Corsica, and being sent by the new king on a message to bis mother, Madame Von FenhofT, who lived at Peddench, near Ruggeberg, in the Mark Country, (now part of Westphalia,) Garibaldi fell in love with the king's sister, Catharine Amalie, and, with his sovereign's consent, married her. The registry of this marriage, we read in a Rhino paper, is still to be seen at Ruggeberg. In the same year, Gar ibaldi took Catharine home loAjaccia; but fortune failing the patriots. Theodore fled be- lore the Genoese to England, where ho became tne iaoi ana butt of Walpole. who traduced hi character, and wrote the inscription over hi monument in St. Anne's church bewailing the fortune which "bestowed a kingdom and denied him bread." Joseph Battista Maria Garibaldi fled from Corsica to Nice, where, alter the French con quest and occupation of the island put an end to the last hopes of independence, he forgot politics and practiced as a phvsician. II grandson is the Dictator the present Garibal di. Meanwhile the offences of the Bonaparte against the Garibaldi's have grown in bulk and atrocity. Corsica has been made French Nice has now been made French. The old country, the new country, aro aliko gone .More, tne very last home of the hero is men.v ced. Caprera, the lonely green rock in the Straits of Bonifacio, which he has bought with nis gains ana peopled with hi pigs and asses belongs to the island of Sardinia, and must follow its path sliould a new "recovery" of territory to France take place. Thus, the Bonapartes seem to chase the Gar ibaldis like an evil fate, leaving them no foot oi earth on which the soles of their feet can rest in peace. Who can wonder at the Dicta tor's doubt, suspicion, and dislike. A ronian tic speculation may be allowed to close the record of these romantic facts. Theodore King of Corsica, left no lawful son. An i lie gitimate son, known about London streets as Col. I redenck, a man of mark in his day, pis toiea himself under one of the porches of Westminster Abbey. The title has been de clared by the Corsican Parliament hereditary to Iheodore's family, a near branch of which Dictator Garibaldi now represents. Thus Garibaldi's title to the throne of Corsica is just as good as that of Louis Napoleon was a dozen years ago to the throne of France. Sectioxal. Andrew Jackson of Tenn. was President, and John C. Calhoun of S. C, Vice President both from the extreme Southern "section," and both slave holders in 1828. Yet the Union endured. In 1836. Fillmore and the Northern Union-savers voted forllar nson ot unio and Granger of N. Y. on the same ticket. And the Union "snrwived ." Then, Frank Pierce of New Hampshire was rresuieut, and Jesse Bright of Indiana acting vice rresiaent Doth Irom Free States in 1854. But the Union wasn't "split." In 1856, we ottered them x remont, away down at the South-West, and Dayton up at the Central North-East. But the Union-savers preferred a "sectional" ticket from Pennsylvania and Kentucky.central States almost adjoining each otner. jnow, the Jreople choose a man from the farthest East, and one from the Central West men much wider apart than Jackson and Calhoun, Harrison and Granger Harrison and Tyler, Buck, and Breck.. or Pierce and Bright and the split, divided, mauled, broke- np Democracy call it "sectional." Tut, men you don't remember the facts of history, or you wiuuiiy oeue mem : It t Mi The steamer Glasgow, with European dates of the 8th inst., reached New York on the 20th. Lord John Russell's dispatch on Italian an airs had caused much excitement aud some ill-feeling among the diplomatic corps. About 15,000 Neapolitan troops, 4,000 horses, and 3i guns, had been pursued by the Sardinians into the Papal States, where they were disarmed by the Papal and French authorities. Francis II. had lost about 30,000 men in less than one week. There was a report that negotiations were not going on smoothly at Tientsin, in China. Chowfoo had been captured by the rebels, and Maypo and Ningpo were threaten ed. Private telegrams speak of the recom mencement of hostilities. It seems that the early French settlers and the Indians in Western Pennsylvania were ac quainted with the natural oil or petroleum wells, which are now thought by many persons to be a new discovery. At 1 ranklin, old oil vats have been discovered, with trees a centu ry old growing in them. An old well, sup posed to have been sunk for obtaining the oil, has also been discovered, with the remains of an Indian ladder in it. The early settlers used to place a dam on the creek, then take off the oil which floated on the surface, by absorption with blankets. This they used to" sell in vials as a medicine for curing rheumatism. Lincoln an Investor. We were shown at the U.S. Patent" Office the model of a steamer combining buoyant air chambers with a steam boat or other vessel, for the purpose of ena bling their draught of water to be readily les sened, that they might pass over- bars or through shallow water without discharging their cargoes. This method of lifting vessels over aboala was invented by Abraham Lincoln, President elect, for which he received a pat ent, May 22, 1849. Washington Star. V. Barnes, a native of Eastern Virginia, and a resident of Harper's Ferry, writes to the w heeling Intelligencer that, having avowed his design to vote tor Lincoln, he was threatened with indignity ana compelled for personal safety to leave that place before the election, and is not safe in returning, ne is a Metho dist. Such Is the Terrorism that reduced the Lincoln vote in the South. If men dared vote n the Slave States as they wished to, the re turns would indicate quite a different result. A German journal speaks of a young author ess who has distinguished herself in the liter ary world. She is called tb Baroness de Clokekrikerstecae Pickalkrenten. COOKED VS. DEY C0EN FOB HOGS. The following valuable facts are frora th-j Valley Farmer: Upon the question or "how much pork will a bushel of corn make Mr. Richard Thatcher, of Pennsylvania, gives, in the New York Tribune, the result ot his feed ing scalded or cooked corn meal, in several instances, to fattening hogs. The result or one trial gave sixteen and one-half pounds of pork for each bushel of filty-six pounds of meal f;d out. In another instance; seventeen and nearly one-half pounds were 'the gain from a bushel. The breed of bogs experimented upon was the "Chester" (county, Pa.,) white, w hich we regard as among the best breeds now in the country. We have recently seen ac counts of several other experiments of feeding hogs in the same way, with similar results, while the same breed of hogs fed iu the ordi nary way, upon dry corn, in the ear, gave a re turn ot but about one-third ol the weight com pared with those fed on the cooked meal. The experiments of Mr. Clay, ot Kentucky, as detailed in the December number of the Valley Farmer, for 1850, afford conclusive evi dence of the advantages of feeding cooked o ver raw food. In the experiments on the same animals, it was proved that dry corn'would af ford a gain of about five and three-quarters to six and three-quarters pounds of pork to each bushel consumed, but when changed to food prepared by grinding and cooking, gave a re turn of from fifteen to nearly eighteen pounds of flesh for each bushel of corn fed out. These various experiments demonstrate facts worthy the consideration of farmers and' others. With care in breeding from a'-good stock of bogs, and with their proper' management throughout, keeping the hogs constantly thri ving, at least an average of fifteen pounds-of flesh may be received from every bushel- ef corn consumed. A few well conducted exper iments in feeding, with appropriate apparatus for preparing the food, compared With- facta determining the amount of gain from the ordi nary method of feeding, would settle the ques tion and lead to valuable improvements-in this most important interest to farmers generally. Bad Aia and Intemperance. A London city missionary attributes much intemperance, to the poisonous influence of bad air. He thinks that the atmosphere of the damp, ill. ventillated cellars to which the lowest classes are confined, induces a fierce craving for stim ulants an opinion which has much probabili ty. When the vital forces are forcibly dimin ished or exhausted, nature braces against the depletion, and looks in every direction' for the means of recovery. The missionary fortifies his opinion by the statement of numerous ca ses, in which persons who had been enabled to change their ill-accommodations for pleasant and healthy lodgings, deserted the gin-shops of their own accord. This is an excellent hint to moral reformers of every kind. The great secret is to begin the work of reform- wfth their improvement. If a bad man is hungry, Asked or homeless, the first step should h to1 fee!, clothe, and comfort him, whereby, in a' major ity of cases, the way of his reformation will be greatly facilitated. This is especially true of the young to whom the discouragements of want and poverty.are a certain means of de pravation. The statement which has occasion ed thia paragraph goes farther, however, sad touches the recondite, but very certainly es tablished fact of the interdependence of moral and physical conditions a subject of great importance, but little considered. Parson Browklow, of the Knoxville. Ten nessee, Whig, pitches into the Disunfonists in the following refreshing stylo: 'Union Men, be on tour Gcard! Thero are those all over the country, and in all of our towns and villages, who talk long and loud a bout the horrors of Lincoln's election, and tal king advantage of the events which themselves and associates have hastened, call rrpon ns sit to unite to let 'bygones be bygones' and all act together as a united South. The object of these men is to get as many Union men to. commit themselves to the cause of Secession as they can. Let them know, wherever they meet you, that, as law-abiding citizens, loyal to our blood-bought government, you will nev er consent to see our soil ravaged by the terri ble strife which would result from Secession, and on the very threshold proclaim your de termination to oppose all the mad schemes of Disunion and to stand by this Unlou of States ! Tell these secret emissaries and street talkers that you admit the value of cotton as an arti cle of commerce, but remind them in the next breath that Kentucky and Missouri hemp, as a necklace for trait-rs, is an article of still greater value for home consumption." The Western People aro so disgusted with those New York merchants who sought to cre ate a financial panic at the close of the cam paign, fin order to defeat Lincoln, that they have determined to adopt the poMicy of non- intercourse with every New York merchant who entered into this treasonable conspiracy. Through cno of their journals, (the Detroit Advertiser,) they call upon the Republican pa pers of New York to publish a list of the dis union merchants of that city. A sporting gentleman in New Orleans, own ing a horse, which, he asserted, Could not be ridden by anybody but himself, Miss Ellen Dennisbn made the attempt ; the horse plung ed, ran away and brought up at his stable door; on again being brought out, after grooming, he ran away again, and on being secured, was again led to the stable.; the lady having stuck: to him throughout, mounted him the third time, and the horse became quiet as a lamb. A Nail in the Brain. Geoffrey J. Le- TaUe, who was shot In a flgh .witb T. B. Ker shaw, at Petersburg, Va dfed on the 12tn inst. The wound was inflicted on the 15tb ol October, and the pistol was charged with a horse shoe nail. The nail was found in his brain, where it has been for nearly a month. ' At the late vote on annexation in Naples, a woman, who, from ber heroism, has become famous, La Sangiovannara, claimea the right to vote, and voted. She is the leader ot a large districtin the City of Naples, and fought at Capua. Having borne arms she was ad judged to have gained the right of suffrage. Q The Vermont Legislature has passed a Hw against prize fighting principals, tea years imprisonment or $5,000 fine ; aids, seconds or surgeons, five years imprisonment or $1,000 fine ! and eitizens of the State who attend a prise fight in other capacity, out of the State, to receive the same punishment. t
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