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CLEARFIELD, PA., "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1866.
VOL. 12.-N0. 27.
gusmtss gl'rcrforj.
S rVT BROTHERS, Dealers in Square 4 Sawed
, , 4c, Earnside Pa. Sept. 23, lb03-
! 1REDERICK LEITzTnGER, Manafturer of
h ,11 kinds of Stone-ware. CTearfield P. Or
, fcited-wholesale or retail. Jan. 1, 1863
b S 4 BARRETT, Attorneys at Law. Clear-
(
, field. Fa. .,.', BAKBETT.
t,. i. CB13 .
OBERT J-WALLACE. Attorney at Law. Clear
field P OBea Shaw1, new row. Market
,, ffose Xaugle-a jewelry .tore May 26.
t r F NACGLE. Watch and Clock Maker, and
If dealer in Watches, Jewelry, 4c Room n
row, Market street.
ETCHER SWOOPE. Attorney at Law. Clear
field Pa. OffieiBGraham'eBow,fonrdooi
rt0f Graham 4 Boynton a atore. ot.18.
-TTTrTOCK 4 IRWIN. Dealers in Drags,
I I Meikines. Paint. Oils. Stationary, Perfome-
v.nf t Good, Notions, etc etc.. Market atreet,
7,' , ,i pT Doc. 0, 1865.
CUarSeld, ra- ; ;
"j TsiUTziR 4 SON, dealers in Dry Ooods,
I ) ctothine. Hardware, Qneensware, Groee-
Pro, nous. Ae . Front Street, (above the A
rTe)Clevfield. Pa. . . . Dee, 37, 1S65.
-iTmiLUjTfTkw IN, Market street, Clearfield,
11 Pa. Iealer in Foreign and Domestic Mer
eiVodise. Hardware. Queensware, Groceries and
fi a. fly articles generally. or. IQ.
J" 0H GTELICH. Mannfaetnrer of all kinds ol
Cabinet-ware, Market street, Clearfield, Pa.
H also makes to order Coffins, on short nonce, and
aufcii funerals with a hearse. - AprlO, 39.
DK M. WOOPS, Pbacticeso Phtsicias, and
Examining Surgeon for Pensions.
C'ire, Sonth-west corner of Second and Cherry
b-.rnt. Clearfield, Pa. January 21. 1S63.
fpHOMAS J. 3IXCLL0CGH. Attorney at Law.
I Clearfield. Pa. OSce, east of the "Clearfield
liar.k. Deeds and otber legal instruments pre
rrf J with promptness and accuracy. July 3.
JB MEX ALLY, Attorney at Law. Clearfield,
, Pa. PrM tices in Clearfield and adjoining
-oanties. Offic- in new brick building of i. Boyn
t a. 2d s'reet, one door south of Lanich"s Hotel.
RICHARD MOSSOP, Dealer In Foreign and Do
mestic Dry Goods, Groceries. Floor. Bacon,
l.iqaors. Ac. Boom, on Market street, a few doors
wejt ot JanrniJ OJire, Clearfield. Pa. Apr27.
mtVJMAS V':, MRE. Land Purveyor and Con
J Tcysncer. ' t'ffice at his residence, i tnila east
f Pccnrille " I ostoffiee address. Grampian Ilills
L'te.ls and othsr instruments of writinsr neatly
eiecuted. ' June Tthi td-y. -
"17-M. ALBEI.T 4 BKO'S, Dealers in DryGooda,
t roeeries, Hardware. Qneensware, Flour,
Pnn. re.. Woodland. Clearfield eonty,Pen".
extensive dealers in all kindaof sawed lum
ber thingies, aai squire timber. Orders solici
Woodland. Aug. 1 Jth, 1S63.
V BLAKE W ALTKRS- Scrjviner and Con
" teTancer, and Agent fur tbe purchase and sale
vl Lands. Clearfield, P. Prompt attention giv
en t n'fi business connected with the county offi
ce. Office with Uon-'V. A. Wallace. Jan. 3.
t. R. n'vCBItAT.
SXUTEL MITCHELL.
'MPKPvAY 4: MITCHELL, Dealers m
ill Foreign and Domestic Merchandiia. Lcm
nu. Flour, Grain, Ac, New Washington. Clear
field county. Pa. October 2j, lS65-lyp.
R.J. P. Bt'RCnfTELP, late Surgeon of
tbe &3rd Regt Penn'a Vols, baring return
ed iron the army, offers bis 'professional services
19 the cititensof Clearfield and ricinity. Prof
feinonal calls promptly attended to. Office on
Seoth-East corner of 3d and Market street.
Oct. 4. ISfij 6m-pd.
ATCTIO.NEER-The undersigned haring
been Licensed an Auctioneer, would inform
the ciliiens of Clearfield county that he will at
tend to calling sales, in any part of tbe county,
wsenerer called upon. Charges moderate
Address, JOHN M QLTLKIN.
May 13 Bower Po.. Clearfield co.. Pa.
VrCTIO?fEERTbe undersigned baring
been Licenced an Auctioneer, would inform
the citizens of Clearfield county that he will at
t'tii to calling sales, in any art of the county,
"neneier called upon. Charges moderate.
Address. NATHAXIEL RLSflEL
Feb 22. 1365. Clearfield. Pa.
TI1HE MASON ft nAMLIN CABINET
1 OKU AS Forty different styles, adapted
to sacred and secular musie. for SiO to $600 each
FIFIY-05E GOLD or SILVER MEDALS, or oth
er Crft premiums awarded them. Illustrated Cat
aKguesfree. Address. MASON HAMLIN, Bos
ton or MASON BROTHERS, New York.
Sew York.Noyember 23 133i-ly
RAFTSMAN'S JOURNAL.
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AXD JOBBING. -Subscription,
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Handbills, eighth sheet.. 25 or less,
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vr 25 of each of above, at preportionate rates.
US1I, Salt and plaster in lane quantities
at 31ar. TZ. " J. f. HtlAlr.
A LARGE 8TOOK Of IASS, pirt. wr
wbke lead, ete,, at . . : : A. IRYIVsa
CABLE CHAINS a good article, on band
and for sale by MEKRELL 4 BIGLER
SEWI NCr "MACHINES . Pe rsons d esi roua
of having a superior Machine, sbonli buy
Wheeler 4 Wilson's Sample Machines on hand.
Clearfield, Feb. 23. 66. H. f. N AUGLE. Ag't.
CAUTION AH persons are hereby c tution
ed against harboring or trusting my wife An
na on my account, a will pay no deb's of her
contracting, unless compelled to do so bv due
process of Jaw. BAKTHOL STUMPH.
Punxsutawney. March 7.1S03. - - .
tKiiWAMED, 1,000. 5.O0O, ' 10.000
tt. ? Agents, male or female, of respecta
ble standing, to make from 32.000 to S2.iHJ0 per
annum, sore, at home or abroad. Send 25 cents,
and get sample and full particulars. Address,
J. K. KENNEDY' A CO.
44 4 49 Fifth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa.
March 7, lS66-6t-pd.
TO HORSE OWNERS. The undersigned
having recently discovered an infallible and
simple cure for that annoying malady in horses,
known as ' Hoof-bound." Any person sending Sd
in a letter, wilt receive Ly return mail a recipe
giving proper directions as to tbe necessary treat
ment. Address. JACOB IRWIN.
September 21, 1864-tf. Clearfield. Pa.
CLEARFIELD HOUSE, CLEARFIELD,
PA. The subscriber having purchased tbe
furniture and interest from 11. 11. Morrow, ic said
House, is now prepared for the reception of tran
stent and permanent boarders. Every depart
ment connected with his establishment will be
conducted second to none in the county. He res
pectfully solicits a share of public patronage.
July 11, lS60.-y.
.COLBVRN.
TVOTICEDTyw Thnr'ton, prtition'r. for
JL the bmrfit of hr insolvent atrt of this Com
monwalth: To tbe creditors of said Cyius
Thurston : You will please take notice that, by
ar order of the Court of Common Pleas of Clear
field County, Pa., tbe hearing of id Cyras
Thurston will take place, at tbe Court House at
Clearfield, on Tuesday the 2-jtb day of March, A.
D. !S65 . . CYKCS jUURsTON.
March 7, 1SC6-
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Letters
of Administration on the estate of Titus H
Bailey, late of Bloom township. Clearfield coun
ty, dee'd, having been granted to tbe nnderzn
ed. all peruns baving claims 'gainst the estate
are requested to present thetu properiy authenti
cated for settlement, and those indebted to said
estate are requested to make payment witho it
delay. V. BAILEY,
March 7, 1S65. .Administrator.
CAUTION. All persons are hereby caution
ed against purchasing or in any way med
dling with tbe following property, now in the
hatuis of Thomas Robison and wife, of Luinbrr
city, to wit: All tbe furniture goods, beds, bed
ding, andatl other property now in and abfut the
Tavern tand occupied by pail Bobison and wife.
Also, said Xobison's claim of and In three'rafts
of square pine timber, on Bell's landing, taken
out uy Daniel Kooser, as the same belong? to me,
and has only been left in care of said lbomas
Robison and wife, and is subject to my order at
any time. i"LTfcll BLOOM.
March 7, 15G5-3t-p4. . ,
MUSICAL I N S T R IT 31 EST S
B M. GKEENE
Has opened his !c?:c ttr.re. one door west f
Y. Lewis" Iiok Store, where he keeps constantly
on b arid Steinway A Sons" and Osrhles Piano
Manufacturing Coruiany's Piaaos.M.uin 4 Ham
lin's Cabinet Organs ard Carhart. Needhata 4
Co.s' Melodeons; Uuitars, Violins, Fifes. Fiutes;
Guitar and Violin ?'r:n's.
Music Books Golden Chain, Golden Shower
Golden Censer. Golden Trio. Ae . Ae.
Sheet Mu.-io He is constantly reccivrrtg from
Philadelphia all the l.Mest music, which person?
at a distance wishing can order, and have sent
them by mail at publisher s prices.
n?"Pisnos and Organs Warranted for five years.
Those wishing to buy any of the above articles
are invited to call and examine mine before pur
chasing elsewhere. My prices are the same as in
,c lora ana i uiiaucipaia.
Circulars of Instruments sent promptly upon
application with any additional information de
sired. B.M.GREEN.
Hill street. Huntingdon, Pa , One door West of
Lewis' Book More. Dec. 6, l!35.
CLEARFIELD A C A D E M
BET P.'l. BARKISO-S, A.M. PIUSCUMI..
The Third Session of this Institution will com
mence oa Monday. March lith. laoti.
Punls can enter at anv time. Iheywiu te
charged with tuition from the time they enter to
the close of the session
The course of instruction embraces everything
included in a thorough, practical and -accomplished
education of both sexes.
Tbe Principal having had the advantage of
much experience in his profession, assures pa
rents and guardians that his entire ability and
energies will be devoted to the mental and moral
training of the youth placed under his charge.
Tekms op TriTio!:
Orthography, Reading. Writing and Primary
Arithmetic, per session, (U weeks.) 55 00
Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, and Histo
ry S6.00
Algebra.Geometry, Trigonometry, Mensuration.
Surveying. Philosophy, Physiology, Chemistry
and Book-keeping. Ss.00
Latin and Greek, with any of the above
branches, S12i'0
CeNo deduction will be made for absence.
For further particulars inquire of t . "
Hkv. P. L. HARBISON, a k.
Feb. 23, 1866. Principal.
REGISTER'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby
given, thatthefollowingaccouDte-have been
examined and rawed by me. and remain filed of
record in tnisotnce ior me luffcvuuu ucn.
lezatees.ereditors.and all others in anyotber wa
:-T ..a .-J ill Kb nrantd to the Tl'xl Or-
phans' Court of Clearfield county, to be held at
the Court House, in the Borough of Clearfield,
commencing on the 3d Monday of March. lrM6.
Final account of John Swan and Henry Swan.
Executors of John Swan, lateofVJordan township,
Clearfield county, deceased-
Accoant of 11. H. Uurd. Executor of Thomas
Wilson, late of Chest township, Clearfield county,
deceased.
Final account of James Hughes, Administrator
of Isaac England, 'ate of Morris township Clear
field county, deceased. .
Final account of Frederick Zeigler, guardian
of Philip A-, minorson of Godfrie W eaver, late ot
Brady township. Clearfield county, deceased.
The account of J. A. Torpe, Administrator of
William Wayae, late of Brady township, Wr
field oewty, deceased -
Final account of Nancy Stewart, Administra
trix. ad Daniel Stewart, Administrator of Ar
chibald Stewart, late of Bradford tewaship Clear
field county, deceased. .TV
Final account of Abraham Myrter -and John
Flynn; Administrators ot Martin Myrter, late of
Penn township- Clearfield county,- deceased.
The account of F. F. Coudriet. Administrator
of Peter Mulson, late of Covington township
Clearfield county, deceased.
Final account of Mathew Ogden. Administra
tor of John M. Ogden, late of Lawrence township
Clearfield county, deceased. BARGERj - .
I Regiseet's Office, Feb, 19. 66- RegiKe..?
Select iVctm.
MAE0H WINDS.
Listen, Kitty, my darling !
Here by the fireside bright
Do you know what the winds are saying,
Abroad in the gusty night?
Moaning under the windows.
Like tbe voice of a child that grieves
Making the maples shiver
And creak at the cottage eaves.
Listen, Kitty,'my darling !
The winds are singing a song.
Of the Spring that is softly stealing
From sunnier lands along.
The srowdrops smile as they hear it,
A smile for the Spring's sweet sake;
And tbe shy little violets whisper :
' -We hear ! we are broad awake !"
No matter, Kitty, my da: ling!
Tho: the March winds drearily blow,
I am sure that the daisies are stirring
Down under the sheltering snow.
In spiie of the blustering weather,
The crocus is budding again ;
And the daffbdills whisper together,
And wait for the April rain.
A THSILLIKG ADYESTUEE.
We question whether, in the history of
hair breadth escapes a parallel to tbe follow
ing can be lound. Tbe story was told to us
by an old and valued Ineni, now residing
n the country near the city, but whose
early days were spent near the scene of the
trajnc adventure recorded here.
.We pre the fctory as it was related to us
in the worcLs of" the hero.
It was about the year ISOj, that I settled
in Virginia, near the falls of the Kanawha.
The country at that time, was uubroken
wilderness. But few settlements had been
Made by the whites, and they were so far
apart as to render vain all hojte of assistance
in case of an attack from ho.-tile indians,
numbers of whom etill infested the neigh
borhood. .
1 lived there alone with my wife for sev
eral months unmolested, and bv dint of per
severance, then young and hardy, had t-uc- J
ceeaed in making quite a clearing in the
forest, which I planted in corn, and which
promised an abundant yiei'd.
One uiornitigafter.we had despatched our
humble meal, and had just prepared to ven
ture forth upon my accustomed routine of
Jubor, luy attention was arrested by the tink
ling ot a cow bell in the corn filed. .
--"There," said my wife, "the cow is in
the. corn field.," , .. w..jl ,
But the ear of the back woodsman be
comes by education very acute, especially so
from the fact hts safety often depeudi upon
the nice cultivation of tha sen.-. I was
not so easily deceived. 1 listened. The
sound was repeated.
."That," sail 1, in reply to my wife's re
maik, '"was not the tinkling ot a beii upon
the neck of a cow, but a decoy from some
Lndiuii, who wishes to draw me into ain
bu,h." Beiievins this to be the case, I took down
my ol 1 musket, and seeing that it was prop
erly loaded, I stole cautiously around the
liefd tow ards the spot from which the sound
Eeemed to proceed.
As I suiected, there, in a clump of bush
es crouched an Indian, waiting forme to
apiear in answer to his decoy bell, that he
might send the fatal bullet to my heart. I
approached without discovering myself to
him until within hooting distance, then I
raised my piece and fired. The bullet sped
true to it mark, and tbe Indian feel dead.
Not knowing but that he might be accom
panied by others, I returned with all speed
to my cabin, and having firmly barricaded
the door, I watched all day from the port
hole, iu anticipation of an attack from the
companions of the Indian I had killed. To
add to the danger and seeming helplessness
of my situation, I discovered that I ha l but
one charge of powder left, 1 could make
but oiic shot, then. If attacked by num
bers, I should 13 entirely in their power.
Detei mined to do the best with what L had,
I poured out the last charge of powder and
put it into the musket, and Then waited for
the approach of night, feeling sure of an
attack.
Night came at last. A beautiful moon
light night it was too, aud this favored ine
greatly, as I would thereby be able to ob
serve the movements of the enemy as they
approaches the cabin.
it was some two hours after nightfall, and
yet I had neither heard or seen a sign of the
Indians, jrhtai suddenly I was startled by the
baying of my dog at the stable. I kntw
that the Indians were coming. The stable
etod little to the west of the cabin, and
Letwecn the two were a patch of cleared
ground upon which the light of the full
moon fell unobstructed. Judsrin-r from the
noise at the stable that they would advance
from that direction, I posted myself at the
port hole on that side of the cabin.
I had previously placed iny wife on the
cross role in the chiiuney so that in case
our enenies affected an entrance into our
cabin, she might climb out through the low
chimney, and effect her escape. For my
self, I entertained no hope, but determined
not to le taken alive, and to sell uiy life
deariY. - .
Whh breathless anxiety I watche l at the
port hole. At length I saw them emerge
from the shadow of the stable, and advance
across the open grouod toward my cabin.
One two three great Heavens ! six stal
wart Indians armed to the teeth, and urged
on bv the hope of revenge ; and I alone to
oppose them with one charge of powder.
My case was desperate indeed. " ltu
-.T,,t on1 KtaMiv Ktn- in close sincle fire
iliey approached and were already within a
few' vards of the house, when a sUgbl change
tha movement of the forward- Indian,
change.! the position of the six, so that a
portion of the lett side ot eacn was unu-
j n. -w ; iim anil mv aim
would w-er all Quick as thought I aimed
i J V .mnU lA&areA ?twaV. a-
i ana nrea. .s iuc - . - - ,
could hardly credit what my tenses showea
me as the result of my shot The fifteen
slugs with which I had loaded the musket,
had done their work well, five of the six In
dians laydead upon the ground, and the sixth
had disappeared.
Although no enemy was now in fight, I
did not venture forth until morning. There
lay the bodies of" the five Indians, undisturb
ed, together with the rifle of the other,
fcecuring the arms and ammunition of the
fallen Indiaus, I followed up the trail of the
missing one, uutil it reached the river, be
yond which point I could discover no trace
whatever. From the amount of blood
which marked his trail, together with the
unmistakable evidence that he had picked
his wry with difficulty, I was led to believe
that he was mortally wounded, and in order
to prevent his body falling into the hands of
the white foe, he had groped his way to the
river and thrown himself into the current
which had borne it away.
The Indians had killed my cow. and that
you may be assured was no trifling loss, yet
in my gratitude ior my escape irom the
merciless savages, I would have been entire
ly willing to have made greater sacrifices.
I was provided thus with aims and amniu
nition.taken from the six Indians, in case of
second attack ; but this fortunately, proved
to be ui3r last adventure with the savages.
Not one ot the band had escaped to tell
the tale, and incite his brethern to revenge
the death of his comrades.
"Ah!" exclaimed the old man, while the
tears stood in his eyes, at the memory of
that eventful night, "that was a glorious
shot the best I ever made !"
The hero of this adventure lived to see
the rude wilderness where he had pitched his
lonely cabin, transformed into smiling fields
and peopled with- hardy and enterprising
palefaces, -among whom his last days were
passed in peace and plenty, undistuibed by
his old foes ; but he don't tell us whether
his wife ever came down from outt he chim
ney, or how he disposed of the five dead In
dians.
National Wealth. An English writer
says that the commercial position of Great
Britain depends mainly upon her coal and
iron mines, and that if she was deprived of
these sources of wealth, she would soon
"sink to a third-rate power in the political
scale." This confession is another admoni
tion of the iiujKirtance of -encouraging the
development of the coal and iron deposits of
the TJnited States, which are infinitely more
extfooire and valuable than those to which
our great industrial rival ia largely indebted
for her pro?ierity. Geologists estimate the
quantity of workable coal m Great Britain at
lW.0X).0X,0fK) tons, and m North Amen
ta at 4,fXG,0A1000,tnj tuns the dispropor
tion being as 5 to 111. I he Government
wonld manifest criminal hostility or indif
ference to a grave national interest, it it
failed to maintain a puliev calculated to ren
der this inexhaustible fund of national
wealth available. It behooves us to increase
the productive r ower of cur country as rap
idly as possible, and our mineral resources
of this description are too importaut to be
prudently overlooked.
The Pope's Condition. In a letter
from Home, published in the London Jail
Male Gaztttc, it is stated that the I'ope has
had another bad turn during the last few
days, and the doctors have been somewhat
uneasy about him. His immediate atten
dants say they observe signs of growing fee
bleness in him, that his memory is shaken,
and that he yields more than formerly to
violent predilections and antipathies. This
is fnid to be especially noticeable in regard
to the impression ot earlier years, which
seem to be gradually coming back to him.
He shows a marked leaning towards Itaiy
and the house of Savoy. Ife has even, it
is reported, been heard, in conversation
with some of his more intimate friends, to
propose the investitureof ictor Kmmau
uel as Vicar of the Holy ee in the Komag
na, the Marches and Umbria.
' Exports axi Imports. The genres
hardly bear out the gloomy forebodings which
have been indulged relativeto our foreign and
domestic trade." From and including 1855,
we have exported in excess of our imports
cverv year, and in five of the years so includ
ed, 185S, '60, '61, '6-2, '63, our exports of
strictly domestic produce alone were in ex
ecs of total imports. For 1 864 our exports
of domestic produce were within $S,222,3SS
of our importations, while our total exports
were ? 12.171 ,021 greater; and this notwith
standing our imports jumped in that year to
$32S.514.559 from $252,17,57 in 1S63,
and $205,S19,S23 in 1862. The exports
were greater in 1 864 than in any former
years excepting ot, oy, 6U, ol ana o-s
and the domestic exports were only exceed
ed by 1S59, '60, '61, and '63. The record
shows that we are improving".
Protection Needed. It is said that
one-fifth of the American demand for iron is
supplied by England, the internal revenue
taxes having nearly counteracted the protec
tion afforded by the custom duties. We
hope that Congress will soon be enabled to
act on this and all similar eases referred to
in the report of the Revenue CommLssion.
It is vitally important that the industrial
enereries of our country should be properly
cherished, and that the fatal policy of en
riching foreign nations by the impoverish
aent ot our domestic interests should not
be tolerated a moment longer than is neces
sary to perfect the legislation required to
modify it. Let the Government take care
of the laboring masses of the country, and
they will preserve the national credit.
day, March 4th.
The cattle plaeue in England is without
remedy.- Death alone cures it.
' Bishop Alexander Campbell, known as
the founder of the Discirle denomination ot
Christians, died at Bethany, W. V., on sun-
Salt Manufacture in the United States.
Twenty-eight million bushels of salt are
annually consumed in the United States,
of which amount about one half is imported.
The quantity of salt manufactured in thLj
country is steadily on the increase, and per
haps in ten years will become sufficient to
supply our wants without any importation.
The Saginaw Salines in 1S60, j'ielded only
20,x0 bushels, but in 1865, the product
was 3,260,000 bushels. The Onondaga
works have increased the supply to tbe a
mount of over half a million lor the last five
years. The Pomeroy and Hocking Valley
works, of Ohio, exhibit a heavy increase.
The annual pre duet of the famous Kana
wha Salt Works of Virginia, (which have
leen operated for many jears) during the
last few years before the war, was about
3JX0.tt00 bushels. The salt regions of the
Kiskiminetas river, in Pennsylvania, yield
annually about l,0o0,000 bushels. A -very
productive salt well has lately been discov
ered in Saint Mary's Parish, Louisiana.
iHscoveries and developments of salt in
Missouri. Texas, Illinois, Sea., fully justify
the expectation that within a few years we
shall be indeiendcnt of - foreign countries
in this important article of -daily consump
tion. How Mirhors are Made. Probably
few of our readers have a clear idea how
the huge mirrors that are so fashionable
and expensive are made. ;Tbe plate-glass
which comes from France or Germany is
first polished by means of rouge brushes ;
nest a bag containing the common potato,
reduced by a pulverizing process to an al
most impalpable owder is applied to the
glass, the potato dust escaping through the
meshes of the bag ; then a plate toil is
spread upou a setting bed of marble, and
on it is placed the prepared quicksilver ;
the glass is then laid on the top of this and
pressed down with heavy weights. Here
it remains about twenty-four hours, when
it is examined, and if found free from flaws,
is ready for use.
Tricitina. An eastern physician, Dr. J.
A. Bead, is - disposed to ridicule the story
about the pork disease resulting ' from the
deposit of a species of worm. , He main
tains that the little worm which has caused
so much terror never did destroy human
life, and that it is an old resident in the sys
tem. He claims that these worms do not
inhabit the muscle of the hog more than
that of any other animal or of man himself,
and advises the community, if they desire it,
to eat pork, provided tbey do not eat it raw
prtainted. A good snggesiion oft e worthy
docter is, that even if they were any reason
to fear these insects, they are killed by cook
ing, Baiting, smoking, &c.
Tin: Last Man. The Portage 7?''t
(Wisconsin) chronicles the death at Caledo
nia, Wis-i on the 27th ult. , of Joseph Crele,
born near Detroit, Mich., in 1725. and who
had attained, therefore, the amazing age of
One JlunJred and Forty lear. fie was
lorn seven vears before George Washington,
and was fifty years old at the outbreak of
the American lievolution ; so that he might,
even then, have claimed exemption from
military service. lie was 44 sears old at
the birth of Napolean I. He was 62 years
old when the Federal Constitution was form
ed, and 84 when Abraham Lincoln was born.
A few days since a negro boy, through
curiosity, went to the Catocin Furnace es
tablishment, in Frederick county. Maryland,
to witness the opertion of melting iron ore,
and while looking down into one of the re
ceivers, from which a large quantity of pas
escapes, he was aluiQst instantaneously suf
focate.!, and at once lost all use of himself,
tumbling headlong into the lake of fire and
homing to death. All efforts to recover
the boy from the liquid flames were render
ed impracticable, and he was left to his aw
ful fate. .
Stephen Girard, than whom no shrewder
business man ever lived, used to sa.v : "I
have always considered advertising liberally
and long to be the great medium of success
in business, and the prelude to wealth.
And I have made it an invariable rule, too,
to advertise in the dullest time as well as
the busiest, long experience having taught
me that money thus spent is well laid out ;
as by keepine my business continually 1
fore the public it has secured me nianysaks
that I would otherwise have lost."
The Berlin correspondent of the London
7Vitsv z "Tntprestinffintelliffence reaches
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auriferous minerals have been discovered in
these northern latituties Ly the American
working party sent out to construct the tele
era ph that is to connect the three continents.
It is asserted that the California ore is Jess
r.M Vi thn ritur t-nmrf trove. The an
nual yield of gold in Siberia, it may not be
amiss to add, amounts to about twenry-iwo
million roubles."
In driftin? from his old lead at S hulls
burg, Wis.Maior Davenport discovered a
large opening whose walls seem to be a solid
mass of lead. From his mine last year
were taken 1,100,000 poucds of lead, worth
$60,000 to 70,000. Amine at StumpGrove
in the same district, was sold recently 1 10,
000 and three days after the sale the new
owners broke into an opening eighteen feet
np and down, containing a solid sheet of
lead fifteen inches thick.
Mice. Myriads of mice have made their
appearance this Spring - in Ohio. The tall
grass- that covers 1 the fields has given pro
tection to them and they have come fortli
this spring increased in numbers a thousand
fold. They have attacked the fruit trees in
some sections and destroyed over 5,o"0
trees, ; They are so thick that in passing
through the fields m some places tney ecs
ter before you in every direction-
Noble Sentiments. Condemn no man,
says John Wesley, for not thinking as you
think. Let every man enjoy the full and
free liberty of thinking for himself. Let
every man use his own judgment, since ev
ery man must give an account of himself to
God. Abhor every approach, in every kind
of degree, to the spirit of persecution. If
you cannot reason or pumiade a man into
the truth, never attempt to force him into
it. If love will not compel him to come,
leave him to God, the judge of alL
Petroleum has begun to gush in Louisia
na. An owner of land near New Iberia
was offered by some explorer $200,000 for a
locality ascertained to yield petroleum. He
refused, but accepted $20,000 for one year'a
privilege ot working his petroleum reser
voir, with an interest in the profits. The
Planter's Banner, too, notices the discove
ry of an abundance of petroleum about
twelve miles from Lake Charles, in Calca
sieu parish.
. There is a reason to believe that the Gov
ment has been robbed of nearly a quarter
million of dollars' worth of merchandise,
taken from captured prizes during the war,
and stored in the Brooklyn Union ware
bouses. These thefts are said to have been
going on for a period of nearly two years
past, but that the authorities have only
been able now to detect them. S'artlinir
revelations are proniired as soon as the
de-
tectives have completed their work.
On Sunday a-week a young man of Tay
lorsville, Indiana, was found dead in his
bed, having been shot through tbe heart.
In the morning he had cone to his room,
got into bed and covered h imself u p. When
found he was covered up to his eyes, with
his hands folded across his breast, and the
pistol lying on the bed by his side. Cause,
trouble with his "worser halt."
A lady in Clevela nd, Ohio, the other day.
was very affectionate to her husband, ana
at supp-er handed him a cup of tea, which
he declined to drink, but handed it to one
of his children. Thereupon the woman
sprang forward and seized the cup, thus
savine the child's life. The cup contained
arsenic An arrest aud trial of course fol
lows. The N. Y. Commercial of March 2d says
the dullness of business ha" told severely up
on the dry poods trade during the week.
Yesterday there was a general breakdown in
prices, and a state of affairs bordering on a
semi-panic. Printing cloths. 64 by 64. sold
down to 14c. and other cotton goods declined
similar. -
Many of the test veins of copper re at
present worked in England, extend far un
der the ocean. In some cases the miner
swings his pickaxe in galleries dug a quar
ter of a mile lieneath the sea, and where a
few hours' work in the wrong place would
brinsr in upon his devoted head the mighty
flood above him.
The late Provisional Governor of Georgia,
Hon. Jai-'ses Johnson, has reached Wash
ington. He says the condition of affairs in
his State is much less satisfactory than it
was six 'months ago, and urges that the
Freedtiien's Bureau should be vigorously
sustained, and that the military should not
be withdrawn.
There are, at the present time, some four
hundred banks that are used as depositories
for United States funds, yet out of the whola
nutiiicr there are only four who have more
money on deposit thau is covered by securi
ties ia the hands of General Spinner.
A nugget of copper ore, supposed to con
tr tu 90per cent- of pure metal, was broken
oJ a rock in Granville township, MifHin coun
ty, a short time since. Gold is also said to
have been discovered in what is known as
lie Narrows, in the same county.
The Oil Springs Chronicle, of Canada
West says that an extraordinary oil well has
just been discovered in Canada. It yielded
ou the 21st of February 2,259 gallons of oil ;
in one hour, which was at the rate of l,6y2
barrels of thirty-two gallons each a day.
In Charlottsville, Va., a dinner cost four
ilollars and a drink three dollars. If a sol
dier takes a "nip" and gets dinner he has
four dollars of his months' wages left.
Cheap place, that
General Scott met with an accident laiely
by falling out of his berth while going on
the steamer from Key West to New Or
leans, from the effects of which he is still
feeble,
A lady named her son, the other day.
Petroleum. Her reason for so doing was
that when she had occasion to whip him,
ehe might "strike ile."
, At what hour did the devil make his ap
pearance in the Garden of Eden ? Soma
time during the night. He certainly came "
after Eve. ' .
: Dr. David Jayne, a well known and pub
lic spirited citizen of Philadelphia, died on
Monday afternoon, March 5th, after a brief
illness.: : r - - ' ' -.
A certain landlady, it is said males her ,
pios so light that her lodgers, can see to "go v
to bed without a candle after eating a mod
erate sized piece, . ,
A man who retires from business
lives on the interest of his
said to be resting on hr
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