The compiler., June 28, 1858, Image 1

Aa t iqfAW 9.1 1 - THIS P4PZIL
0010 FILMS L pablislied" every Woodsy
111 arming, by MINIM J. arsit.e, at $1,75 per
swum If paid strictly ti . sovsstca—s2,oo per
'ma'am If not paid la advance. No subscrip
tion discon unless at the option of the
publisher, 1M all arrearages are paid.
Arivernssuinvs inserted at the usual rates.
Jos Paurriso done with neatness and dis
patch, and at moderate prices.
Orrice in South Baltimore street, directly
opposite Wampler's Tinning Establishment, one
and a half squares from the Court House—
" Campus's" on the sign
Notice
Q TAX-PAYERS.—Notice la hereby es
"- in that the Connti Commissioners will
make an ABATEMENT of FIVE per cent.
upon all State and County Take* assessed
for the year 1858 that shall be paid to Collec
tors on or before lliusitday, the Ist day of
fitly next. Collectors will be required to cab
oa tax-pnyers on or before the above date,
and make such abatement to all persons pay
ing on or before said day, and ray the same
to the County Treasurer, otherwise no abate
ment will be made. By order of the Com
missioners. J. M. WALTER,
May 10, lrsB. Clerk
Sheaths & Buehler
L Have constantly on hand, at their yard
U on Washington sad Railroad streets,
X any variety of River and Mountain
B LUMBER---White Pine, Hemlock,
F Po))Ur, Ash, Le. —Boards, Plank,
R • Joist, Scantling and Studding. They
are ready to fill all orders, at the short
est notice, for any amount, for totilning par
poses, at prices which will surprise those
who may favor them with a call. They have
also on hand a lot of worked Flooring, Win
dow Sash. Palings for fencing, Plastering
and Shingling Lithe. Ai..
Gettysburg, May 3, IKiS.
The 500 People
WHO I)might their Winter Clothing from
" FRANK LIN B. PICKING, are all e.m-
ing back, and bringing with them their
friends and r,eptaintanees, to examine his
`N,LNT assortment of Spring and Summer
Clothing,
,jn.t opened at. his new Clothing
establishment in Chanthersburg street, np•
po•ite the Lutheran Church. •They will have
the cheapest and best assortment of Goods to
select from ever brought to Gettysburg.—
They will find every style of Summer Coats,
Pantaloon., Vests, Raglan Coats of every
quality, Frock Coats of Italian Tweed, Cash
meros, Linen, Che•k; Luck Coats, Lc.—
Pants or black and fancy Ca.ssitneres, Tweeds,
Jeans, Linen, Puck, Cotton, &c.
FRAIIIKLIN B. PICKING.
April 2G, 18,58.
Ready-made Clothing.
GF.O. ARNOLD has now on hand the largest
stock of Ready-made Clothing in town,
comprising every variety and size, nil of his
own manufacture, which will be.warranted
well made, having hands constantly employ
ed cutting out and making up. Uwe cannot
tit you with a garment ready made, we will
sell you the, goods, take your measure, and
Haiku you up a g:trment on the shortest no
tice. Ple.t.e call nt the Clothing Emporium,
where you will find Mr. Culp always on
hand, bright and accommodating. Our htea
is large, well selected, and will be sold cheap
for Cash,
Gottylditir:. 31nrelt 2!). IFIZR
Auctioneering.
A NDREW W. FLEMMING, residing in
A
Ilrekinridtr,e street., near James Pierek'a,
Gettysburg!. offers his service?' to the public
as a Sale Crier and Alvtinotter. ilia charges
are lunderate, and he will nn all oxwasions en
deavor to reader satisfaction. Ile hopes t.?)
receive a share of public patronage.
Aug. 17, 1:457.
Challi Robes.
Tlll3 third arrival of Robes by express.—
The prettiest styles yet offered to the la
dies, and from which they cannot fail to
please their mstes. Came immediately ifyon
want pretty and cheap goods. The latest
t.tyles and patterns of side , trine robes just
receketl at FAHNESEOCKS'.
April 26. ISSB.
Spring Millinery.
fIS9 Ni ckIIMARY has just returned frnm
41 IL the city, and is now opening a beautiful
assortment of mid Fancy Cools, of
the latest styles, which she will sell at the
lowest cash prices, and which she invites the
Indic+ to sal and examine,
Milliners who wish to buy Goods to sell
•gain, will find it much to their advantage to
give her a call, as she keeps none but the
suoht fashionable
April 19, 1858. 3m
Clear the Way
FOR TifE NEW FIRM I—No. 1, 2
and 3 Riding and Wngnn Saddles,
Trotting, Buggy and Carriage liar : .
nest, Buggy, Carriage, Mule, flair. Ticking
and common Collars. Riding and Driving
Bridle., Martingale, II ,Iters, nurse Covers
and Fly Nets of every description ; Whips.
414.. just received ana for sale astonishingly
Ly, at BRINGMAN & CULP'S, sign of the
"BIG BOOT." Claambersburg street.
May 10. DiSS.
Clothing.
IT RE best a.sortment, and the cheapest, in
1 town. Call and see them, at the Clothing
Emporium of
April 5. 1358
White Goods
AND EMBROIDEIItIES.—,J. L. SCHICK.
would invite the Ladies to examine his
large variety of new style Brilliants, Cam-
Dries, Jaconets, Plain Cambrics, Linen, Col
lars, Handkerchiefs, &e. [April 5._
To Get
timE full worth of your money, make your
.s• purchases of lteady-mane Clothing,
Boots, &meg, Hats, Caps, Trunks, Clocks,
Violins, and everything else in the variety
line, at SAMSON'S.
- March 29, lgiS.
Men's Wear.
JL. SCHICK would invite the attention of
• buyers to his large stock of
. Fine Black Cloths,
Fine C.ilored do.,
Fine Black Cassimeres,
Fancy Cassimeres.
Side Striped do.,
Vesting*,
Cravats, Hosiery,
Gloves. Suspenders, handkerchiefs, &c., &e.
April S. 1858.
Louts► KAT' Lima
Aza7 wishes to inform the ladies of town and
eoentry, that she is now prepared to execute
Millieery in alt its branches, in West Middle
street. s few doors below Mr. George Little's
store.. Work done/keeper than elsewhere in
toms. - -Please call AIM see. I - apr. 21, '(4.
CFROCIIIKS. —lf yon want a good assort
meet of Groceries, such as Syrups, MG-
Ismer; Saga? and Coffee, you will do well by
taimMting the assortment at
11. S. E. IL lithrstaas'.
• 'pas Mention of the Ladies is directed to
4 - the luxe and splendid assortment of new
Seeing aaSenimer Goods,maoh u Detanes,
01, Dues* Chilli, Gingbains, domestic and
• hurls, Bonnets. Le.. at
J. C. 017 INN i BUO".S.
utca Em - smorDzaris.—A large and
' beantifel assortosent. of rich work
ed. Collars, sad muy other new and season
able goods, jest received sod for sale at low
10140.1. U. a. & g. Ef. MUSINIORS%
VID C4I4I / 3 - --- Sepr. Core% *gams, and
, - ill Mad* of Sptees, sad every inside in
1 41=3 1 line. thesp sad geed in the new
and Grooematore et •
y.
J C. GUINN 4 W I
I ‘ S e Suspenders, Cravats sad ilasonner ,,
, % •eilkinlie, at PICKING'S.
407. YEAR.
When swallows dart from cottage eaves,
And farmers dream of barley sheaves;
When apples peep amid the leaves,
And woodbines-icent the way—
We love to dy fro, daily care,
To breathe the country buxom air—
To join our bands and form a ring—
To laugh and sport—and dance and sing,
Amid the new-mown bay.
A stranger comes with eyes of blue;
Quoth he, " I'm Love, the young and true;
I wish to pass arbour with you,
This pleasant summer day."
"Come is I come in! you saucy elf!
And who's your friend ?"—" 'Tis Friendship's
self."
4 Come each—come both, our sports to share ;
There's welcome kind, and room to spare,
Amid the new-mown hay."
The ring Is formed; but who are these?
"Come, tell your errand if you please;
You look so sour and ill at ease,
You dim the face of day."
"Ambition!" "Jealousy I" ant" Strife!"
And "Scorn and "Weariness of Life I"
" If such your names, we hate your kin;
The place is full, you can't come in
Amid the new-mown hay." .
Another guest comes bounding by,
With brow unwrinkled, fair and high—
With sun-burnt face and roguish eye;
And mks your leave to stay.
Quoth be, "I'm Fun, your right good friend!"
" Come in! come in I with you we'll end I"
And thus we frolic in a ring—
And thus we laugh, and dance, and sing,
Amid the new-mown bay:
Small Joe L. was playing one sunny
morning in a yard at the roar of his resi
dence, when essaying to cast a stone
high in the air, ho found he had miscal
culated his strength, or tho weight of
the stone, as that missile slipped from
his fingers, and taking an entirely dif
ferent direction from that intended,
went whack through a pane of glass in
a neighbor's window.
Mrs. Connolly, who was engaged in
washing in the kitchen, bearing the
smash of glass in her spare room, rushed
hastily to the scene of action, and
through the broken pane beheld Joe in
active retreat. Irate and indignant,
the injured matron sought the presence
of Mrs. L., and straight poured forth
the story of her wrongs.. Mrs. L. as
sumed a dignified sir, the culprit was
called to " the presence," and the in
quest on the departed pane commenced.
"Joseph," said Mrs. L., with awful
solemnity, "did you break the glass in
Mrs. Connolly's window ?"
" Yes'm," replied Joe, with prompti
tude.
" Joseph," said Mrs. L., "if you
broke that pane of glass I shall certain
ly correct
.you ; did you break it, sir?"
Joe hesitated, but conscience was
powerful, and he replied that he did.
Mrs. L. took a stick from the mantle
piece. "Joseph," said she, "if you
broke that glass I shall correct you
most severely ; I ask again did you
break it r
Joo looked at his mother; looked at
the stick ; and hanging his head, ho
muttered, "No ma'am."
" There I" said Mrs. L., triumphant
ly,-" that boy never told me a lie in his
life. I knowed he never broke no win
dow; 'spect your little Ouster broke it;
she hove a stone clear over our' fence
yesterday."
That's a good style of encouraging
trnthfulnesa in a child, we don't think !
—Knickerbocker.
GEO. ARNOLD
We believe that the subjoined little
bit of comico-pathetieo humor, was
from the pen of the late Wm. 11. Levi
son. It contains a good deal of feeling
under a crust of Ethiopian jargon, de
finable, perhaps, as a specimen of real
sentiment, disguised in broad grin :
is Dey may rail against woman as
much as dey like, dey can't set me up
against dem. I hab always in my life
found dem to be the fust in lub, fiat in
a quarrel, fust in the dance, do fast in
the ice-cream saloon, and de fust, best,
and de last in de sick room. What
Lonld we poor debblos do widout dem:'
et us be born as young, as ugly and
as helpless as we please, and a woman's
arm am open to receibe us. She it am
who gubs us our fiat dose ob castor oil,
and puts cloze'pon our helplessly naked
limbs, and cubbers up our toots and
tooses in long flannel petticoats ; and it
am she, as we grow up, who fills our
dinner basket wid doughnuts and ap
ples as we start to school, and licks us
when we tears our trousis."
Judge Burke, who came from Ire
land, and was something of a man in
South Carolina about the time of the
revolutionary war, was very apt to
make mistakes even in his office of
chit Judge. On oneoccasion having
to pass sentenoo of death on a man who
had been• legally convicted, he conclu
ded as usual with tho words, "that you
be banged by the neck until you are
dead," to this. ha unfortunately added,
"I am sorry for it, my friend; it is what
we must all come to"--and the solem
nity of the scene was interrupted by a
burst of laughter, at which the Judge
was the only one surprised.
Arkansia, when a man desires
to nay that be would like a drink, he
declares that it he had a ease of whis
key, be meld throw himself outside of
mighty . quick I
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GETTYSBURG, PA.: AIONDA_Y, JUNE 28, 1858.
A Railroad Train in a Flood.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, travelling during the recent
flood on the Ohio and Mississippi Rail
road, says :
'• On crossing the bridge of the Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad, at Vincennes,
the traveller westward witnesse3 a nov
el sight in railroading. Before him is
a lake (the Wabash Valley overflowed)
over six miles wide, and longer than
the eye can reach. Across this sea the
train runs on a trestle work that sticks
out just four inches above the top of
the water. Nothing is seen on its
broad surface save these two iron rails,
ateund which the waters eddy and
whirl, and dash madly against the slen
der frame, which seems to tremble
tinder their force. All over the lake
are whirling eddies, carrying big trees
and drift round and round. These soon
make your head swim, and you feel
that the trestlo-work is certainly mov
ing; the bottom seems to be undermin
ed and is moving, while the top is tip
ping over against the current, and you
expect every moment to hear the splash
of the whole train going down into the
sea. But it don't go, and there is no
danger, frightful as it looks.
"Bat now we come - to a place that
really seems fearful. Wo are in the
middle of the lake. It is just twilight.
Almost. out of sight of land—nothing
but a waste of waters on every side of
that long, solitary railway train ; we
leave the straight line, and go curving
southward like a snake's track. Why?
Simply because the flood has carried
the trestle work away from its straight
course, and left it in a•eig-zag line, (and
half upset, at that) some distance below
where it originally stood.
"So badly unset was this trestle work,
that in some places the rail on ono side
was two feet lower than the other, and
it. seemed as though it wanted only the
eight, of the train to throw it entirely
down. Tho lower rail had, however,
been taken up, and timbers placed on
that side, to bring it up as high, and in
some eases a little higher than the
other, so as to throw most of the weight.
on the upper side. It was also braced
up and stayed as well as could be itone
in• the present state of the flood. On
this overturned, racked and tottlish
looking trestle work, our train crept
cautiously along. A railroad train out
at sea, with iron enough about it to
anchor it safely at the bottom, and
creeping along on a shaky trestle work,
that the engineer is afraid to jar, for
fear he may jar it down. Workmen
are busy now in bracing up and strength
ening this part of the road and before
my letter reaches you it will no doubt
bo perfectly safe."
Au Eloquent Extract
"Generation aftei generation," says
a fine writer, " have felt as we feel now,
and their lives were as active as- of
own. They passed away like a vapor,
while Nature wore the same aspect of
beauty as when I or Creator commanded
bor to be. The heavens shall be as
bright over our graves as they are now
around our paths. The world will have
the same attractions for our offspring
yet unborn, that she had once for our
selves, and that she now has for our
children. Yet a little while and all
will have happened. The throbbing
heart will be stilled; and we shall be at
rest. Oar funeral will wind its way,
and the prayers will be said, and our
friends will all return, and we shall be
left behind in silence and darkness for
the warm. And it may be for a short
time we shall be spoken of, but the
things of life will creep in and our
names will soon be forgotten. Days
will continue to move on, and laughter
and song will be heard in the room in
which we died; and the eye that mourn
ed for us will be dried and glisten with
joy; and even our children will cease to
think of us, and will not remember to
lisp our names. Then shall we have
become, in the touching language cf
the Psalmist, forgotten end out of
Inattention of Postmasters.--Com•
plaints occasionally reach us that post
masters in the country are in the habit
of permitting newspapers to ho taken
from their offices by persons not enti
tled to them. It appears to be the
practice with some to open the packa
ges and throw the papers out upon their
counters, where they can bo picked up
by any one who chooses to do so, and
are often worn out with careless hand
ling or carried off entirely before the
subscribers, to whom they rightfully
belong, call for them. Now, it would
be well for country Postmasters to
know that this gross negligence on
their part is in direct violation of the
Post-Office laws, which require all mail
matter—newspapers as well as letters
—to be kept safely until their proper
owner claims them.
Locusts.—The seventeen year locusts,
as Dr. Smith, of Maryland, predicted,
have made their appearance in countless
multitudes in the neighborhood of Vicks
burg, Miss. Except for the incessant
droning they keep op, they aro said not
to be troublesome.
Worth Trying.—The French Gazette
Medical states that charcoal has been
accidentally discovered to be a care for
burns. By laying a piece of charcoal on
the burn, and the pain subsides at once.
By leaving it on for an hour the wound
wilt be healed. It is certainly worth
Ong•
sir" Wherever I go," said a gmtle-
MAn remarkable for his State pride, "I
am sure to find sensible and intelligent
men from my own State." " won
der," said-the person he was addressing,
" for every man of that State, who has
any sense, leaves it as fast as he can."
"TRUTH IS MIGHTY, AND WILL PELYAIL."
How he Did it.
A gentleman feeling a strong partially
for a young lady whose name was
Noyes, was desirous without the cere
mony of a formal courtship, to ascertain
her sentiments. For this purpose -ho
said to her one day, with that kind of
air and manner which means either
jest or earnest, as you may choose to
take it :
" If I were to ask you whether you
were under matrimonial engagements
to any ono, what part of your name
(No-yes) might I take for an answer?"
" The first," said she in the same
tone.
" And worn I to ask you if you wore
inclined to form such an engagement,
should such person offer who loved you,
and was not indifferent as to yourself,
what, part of your name might be then
taken as an answer ?f.'
" The last."
"And WI were to tell you that I lovo
you, and ask you to form snob an en
gagement with we, thou what part of
your name may I take ?"
" 0, then," replied the blushing girl,
"take the sokok same, as in such rase I
wonld cheerfully resign it for yours."
It is almost needless to add that they
wore soon afterwards married.
Further from Utah—Flight of ormon&
Col. Thomas L. Kano arrived in
Philadelphia on Friday, after an ob
serve of about five months. During
this period he has traveled froni New
York, by way ofSkn Francisco and San
Bernardino, to Safi, Lake City, in the
short time 0C47 days. lie left, Camp
Scott on the 10th of May. Major How
ard Fagan, who came in with him, fur
nishes the St. Louis Democrat with the
subjoined additional news :
Gov Cumming, who had arrived at
Camp Scott from Salt Lake city, states
that almost instantly Lyon his arrival
at the Mormon city ho found the popu
lation moving off. The movement had
indeed commenced, and shortly increas
ed, till tho entire people of the north
ern meta were in motion. , Brig
ham Young formally delivered into his
hands the "great seal" and all State
records. The Mormon chiefs appeared
particularly solicitous that Gov. Cum
ming should take possession of these
momentous documents, relying upon
this measure as the only one for their
preservation. They were urgent that
the Governor should at once deposit
them in a fire proof safe. The reason
of this soon transpired with the dis
covery that extensive preparations had
been skillfully made to give the city
to the flames, a Is the Russians at
Moscow. Large quantities of dried
fence wood had boon arranged in many
houses which a match would have kin
dled to conflagration. Happily, bet
ter councils prevailed among the lead
ers, and stren lions endeavors were sue
, cessfully made by the major part of the
population to prevent the catastrophe.
Having received the capitulation of
Brigham, and taken efficient means to
prevent the still dreaded Minting of
the city, Governor Cumming deemed
it proper, if possible, peacefully to pre
vent thb migration southward, and set
off after the trains. The whole popu
lation ()fare northern settlements wore
on the- road—a few guards alone being
left in tho villages. Tho number of
mon, women and children could scarcely
be loss than 85,000. Many were fur
advanced, so that it was useless to pur
sue them. '_:The forward trains were
throe hundied miles southward down
the valley. The Governor eountdd
seven hundred and fifty wagons laden
with families. They wore abundantly
provisioned.
There is uncertainty about the desti
nation which the Mormon leaders now
propose to themselves. They keep
their own counsel in this respect with
remarkable closeness. The suggestion
that they were bound for Cedar City is
rather discredited by the fact that they
I have driven large herds of their cattle
much southward of that point. It is
feared that they may coalesce with
some of the Indian tribes of the South,
which are already sufficiently vexatious,
and thus give much trouble to the gov
ernment. They themselves complain
bitterly of the treatment of roving par
ties of Indians, who, finding them de
fenceless on the road, cannot resist the
temptation presented by so much booty.
Tho Indians ridicule the Mormons, say
ing they are squaws, and can't tight.
Camp Scott remained healthy. The
accounts of inadequate provisions have
been exaggerated. Tho quality of their
fare is alone matter of complaint with
the troops. Gov. Cumming. has taken
efficient steps to remedy all inconveni
ence, and preclude the possibility of
suffering in the army from this source.
The departure of the Mormons ap
pears to be eanceduil by the
and by those in the American camp, as
probably the beat course feasible. The
coolness, address and firmness of Gov.
Cumming in securing the adoption of'
is alternative to war, are strongly at
ted by the eye-witnesses of his con
duct. His management of the army in
its critical circtimstanoes also elicits
warm encomiums.
A Gotaaadiser.
At St. Louis, on Friday, one Francis
Charle, a Frenchman, at one sitting, ate
eight five cent loaves of bread, six lbs.
of ham, a pig's foot., balf pound cheese,
and a plate of salad, taking two glasses
of beer and eleven glasses of water to
aid in the masticatory process, and then
declared be was not satisfied. This lit ,
tie epicurian repast occupied peeeisely
three hours. We preamble thatif two
or three barbeeted beeves, nem of
hard boiled eggs, and six or arm hun
dred friedfrogs bad been aetbefore him
For a dainty lunch, his gluttonousap
petite, "ha stomach for them aIL"
GI
National Peeling.
There is no longer a doubt that na
-1 tional feeling is on the decline. Every
day's experience testifies to this asser
tion. Twenty years ago, nothing but
one common country was known.—
Even later than this, the people spoke
only of their country. Everything
partook of a truly national spirit. A
common bond seemed to unite every
part of this great country together into
a common brotherhood ofStates, whose
destiny was the same, and the welfare
of one was considered to be the welfare
of all. A hint at sectionalism was
deenied traitorous to the best interests
of the country, and it was spurned by
all just and right thinking men. There
were, at those times, two great political
pr.rties, but they were national in their
existence. Every principle and every
measure that was advocated by either
Was advocated on national grounds.—
Each party maintained that its success
would promote the interests of the
whole country. Indeed no party dared
put forth or advocate a single principle
that was not thoroughly national and
applicable in every State of the Union.
Is this so now? What are the facts ?
last the reverie. Sectionalism has en
toied into everything. National feel
ing has declined and the bond of common
brotherhood bits been to a great degree
severed. Bverything that is spoken of
is agitated on sectional grounds. The
question hi not will it promote the inte
rest, the happiness and pro s perity of
the whole country, but is it, northern
or southern in its iharater. That love
of eountry that *Maid units individuals
throighout the entire country. stronger
than chains, is daily becoming weaken.
od and changed into bate. Men will
not with feelings of pride and ad
miration tip3n the progress of the coun
try, but jealousy, hatred and malevo
lence usurp their place. floes any one
portion of the country make progress,
another is aroused to the highest degree
of indignation.
Septum:dim is hsurping everything.
We have nothing that does not partake
of a sectional character. There appears
to be but a single party that is truly
national in its character. All other
parties have merged into merely sec
tional parties. At the last Presidential
election one party scarcely 'Killed a
vote in fifteen Suites of tho Union.—
Wo have hardly any national churches.
It is the Church Nnrth, and the Church
South. It is the Presbyterian Church
Northand the Presbyterian Church
*South. ' lt is the Baptist March North,
and the Baptist Church Sobth. It is
the Methodist Chiireh North, and the
?dothodist Church South, and so to the
end of the cutalogae. A man that was
considered to be a'good Christian, liv
ing in either section of the country, can
hardly be deemed so now, if living in
one portion or another. Almost every
Church in the country has been section
alised.
ar.d preachers, instead of preach
ing the Gospel of the lowly Savior,
which was intended. for all mankind,
preach the Gospel North and tho Gos
pel South. and woo to the people that
live in either section, for they will be
without hope or mercy.
Where are the great national parties?
As already stated, there is but a single
one left that can lay claim to true na
tionidily. Partici have risen and have
been sfeept away, like the morning
dew,. before I he strides of the sectional
monster. The old Whig party, once
boasting as its champions Webster and
Clay, men thoroughly and truly imbued
with a national spirit, was the first. to
give way to his crushing stride. It
withstood 'his approach for a long time,
but it had to yield, and from being a
party that had an existence in every
State of the Union, it became merged
into a "contemptible abolition party,"
and it fell to rise no more. The nation
al nion left it, and then came the Ameri
can party, fresh and flush as a prancing
steed, full grown, carrying everything
before it, and laying claim to the special
mission of saving the country. But in
the space of a single year sectionalism
entered it and felled it hopelessly to
the earth. Its nationalism was swal
lowed by sectionalism within the brief
period of a twelve-month, and it. has
been ruined as a party.
There is indeed no place in which sec
tionalism is not now rampant. It is
Northern or Southern; whatever niay
be the subject in contemplation. It is
the argument on the street, and the
conversation in the parlor. In busi
ness; in politics, in the church and in
the State it is sectionalism. It is not
our country, our altars and our homes,
but it is our Northern country, our
Northern altars, our Northern• homes,
or our Southern country, our Southern
altars, our Southern homes. That glo
rioug nationality of feeling that should
a thrill of Joy .and stitniration in
the bosom of every true American, and
cause him to thank his God, is the in
most recesses of his heart, that ho has
been born in a country conferring such
blessings and privileges, has been al
most extinguished.
Should not this state of things make
people pause. Let them reflect upon
the matter before it is too late. There
is a point beyond which the greatest
danger may befall the country. Lot
the true spirit of patriotism bo rekin
kled among the people. Let nationali
ty of feeling be cultivated, and let seo
tionalism be spurned from oar midst as
a monster and an evil of the resit dire
ful kind. It should be looked upon as
destructive of the best interests of man
kind.' The union of the Matra is of the
utmost importance, of more aecoan
than'the socompttihment of any merely
teelporary object. Upon the preserva
tion pi the Felon will depend the dear
est interests of huminity—the flde of
mittions yet unborn and the hope of the
worlb, 2 - Register.'
TWO DOLLARS A-TEAR
The Explosion of the Steamboat Penn
sylvasia.
Most llortibk Disaster of the Western
Waters— Thrilliny &•enes & Incidents.
We have received detailed accounts
of the distressing mlamiky and loss of
life on board the steameiWonnsylvania,
near 'Natchez, Miss., on the 13th inst.,
of which the telegraph has already fur
nished the main particulars. The cause
of the explosion is attributed to a want
of water in the boilers. We copy the
following accounts :
The Accident.—About G o'clock on
the morning of the 13th inst., when the
boat Was about - 70 miles below Mom
phis, she exploded four of her boilers,
while under way. At the time of the
explosion she was near three hundred
yards from shore. The cabin was torn
to pieces forward of her wheel-houses.
Very few of the passengers were out of
their staterooms at the time. The pas
sengers in the afterpart of the cabin—
men, women and children—rushed out,
and the utmost confusion ensued among
them, all supposing the boat was on
fire from the smoke and steam which
came nothing through the cabin.
The fire appeared to issue from about
the after end of tie boilers, and in one
minute from the time of the 1113 TM the
boat was wrapped in flames. Passen
gers and crew immediately rushed from
the burning boat upon a wood boat,
which had gone to their relief, and fill
ed it as full as they could stand.
Danger of the Wood-Boat.—The most
intense excitement prevailed on the
wood-boat as we endeavored to propel
it from the burning mass, as we had on
ly a few boards, in place of oars, and the
crowd rendered it almost impossible to
work them with success. But we final
ly succeeded in getting her bow turned
out, so that the current struck her
stern and swung the wood-boat around,
and by that means we cleared the burn
ing boat and she drifted by, but not
until many of the passengers wore se
verely scorched. By turning our backs,
and by the aid of a few counterpanes
and quilts that were saved, we screened
ourselves from the heat as much as pos
sible, and finally succeeded, after drift
ing one mile, in reaching an island or
towhead, called Ship Island, whore the
wood-boat was made fast to some trees.
After shoving the wood-boat from
the steamer there were a good many
deck passengers seen rushing out with
their trunks, boxes, 4., in the hope of
saving their little steel of plunder, and
by trying to save their effects they lost
their lives, for it was impossible for us
to render them any assistance.
Wounded on the Wood-Boat.—About
twonty-fivo of the wounded escaped on
the wood-boat. Amongst them were .
the first mate; second engineer; two
Frenchmen, late of the Theatre d'Or
leans ; Col. Harris, of Arkansas, badly
scalded, and other*, very badly cut and
bruised, mostly dock passengers. They
suffered very much in consequence of
there being no medical attendants to
dreattheir wounds, and no means of
procuring any tub ; the space of two
hours: Bat at %ngth neighboring
planters from Me Arkansas shore
brought some linseed o:1 and liniment,
which, with the aid of cotton taken
from the quilts, gave some relief to the
wounded. The scalded victims suffered
much from the beat of the sun, as the
whole country was overflowed. and we
could not succeed in getting the boat
to the main land, and in this condition
we were obliged to remain under a
broiling sun for fully eight hours. The
women and children who were unhurt
also suffered excessively from the heat.
of the sun and hunker. After remain
ing on the island eight hours, the steam
or Imperial, bound down, came to our
relief, and, after giving us a good din
ner, pat us on board the Kate Frisbee
and Diana, bound up.
Terrible Incident.—Mrs. Witt, of St.
Louis, who was lost, occupied with her
daughter, Mrs. 14 ultim, room No. 8 in
the gentlemen's cabin. Mrs. Witt was
taken from the ruins just. as the fire
broke out, perfectly blind sad in a dy
ing condition ; by that time the wood
boat had left the steamer, and a young
man who was endeavoring to rescue
her was compelled tojump overboard
and swim to the wood-boat to save his
own life. Mrs. Fulton was not seen af
ter tho explosion. There was a man
buried in the wreck, who, from his ex
pressions, must have been either a su
gar or cotton planter—as in his despair
he said ho had money, negroes, and a
plantation, and would give all to save
his life.
Priest Lost. —Another priest besides
Father Delcross (lost,) was so seriously
injured that no hopes were entertained
of his recovery. He was put off at
Memphis, and his cousin got off there
to attend to him. lie was scalded ter
ribly, and his lower extremities were
literally boiled, find in ant ti 3 WIS dy
ing when last seen. He was going, I
think, to some °olive in Maryland, and
was a talented and learned man. He
was so scorched sad scalded that he
looked like a negro.
An Awful Dea.tA.—A gentleman and
his wife , who occupied a room forward
of the cabin division,died most horribly,
hiving burned alive. In the. fall of the
rubbish caused by the explosion they
were caught under a heap of rains of
the fallen rooms, and boiler fell on
that. He implored the others to.extri
cate them, an offered all he was worth.
The attempt was made, bat it was im
possible to save them, as the boat was
sham del Ars.
The , 14remaa's Report of the .Disaster.
Nearly all the deck bsod s were either
killed or ntlssing; first and second mates
'so badlyl injured as to render them help.
lede r
Fist chat*, Me. Black, sad Yr.
Brown;pilot, both &Wang; 'ea cap
tain tied ' Siliallte *the Whole charge of
Mamma. 004,1 .Ireeuesies‘wat
the time a4l etplosion Onlyfili4eida .
hived; end he stated to me they
had just hauled the coals from the-ash
pan, and had neglected in ecome-acts
sure to replenish the fires. At that
time the engineer imp. around via cal l
ed ou them, eleyliff Shove -tier up,
boys, *w we MS seemly stetediing the
current;" and he says that they bad
scarcely put any wood into the fire
doom before the explosion oecureed.—
By some miracle this man escaped with
a =scald in the bark.
'ay Sigle.—Yr. King, a passen
ger on the Diana, says the cabin floor
of the Kate Frisbee presented the most
horrible sight he ever witnessed. From
one end to the other lay huddled together
the wounded, the dying and the dead.
The air resounded with cries of sorrow
or of pain, and the voices of the dying,
growing fainter and fainter, until the
lips were sealed, made an impression
upon the mind never to be erased. -
Sisters of Charity.—Through, the
crowded cabin could be seen a eouploof
the "sisters of charity," first hero—
then there—wandering through the
thronged hospital like angel visitants,
speaking an encouraging word to one
—affording temporary relief to another
—whispering a prayer with a third—
muttering a blessing upon tho expiring.
No effort was spared by them in their
work of charity and love. They were
passengers on the Pennsylvania, and
ing in the ladies' cabin at the time of
the explosion were saved.
Passengers Rescued by the Diana.
Thu Diana took about 100 of the sur
vivors from the linperml, and about 2.3
or 24 of the badly wounded. She *it
the wounded at 'Memphis, where they
were taken to the hospital. Half of
them at least could not possibly recov
er. Judge Harris, of the Supremo
Court of Tennessee, is among them,
and cannot survive.
NO. 40.
Mr. Dennis Corcoran, of New Or
leans, formerly editor of the Delta, is
among the lost.
The Opera Troupe.—Thore was an
opera troupe on board the Pennsylvania,
on their way from Now Orleans to st.
Louis. Most of tho male members
were killed. Some three or four were
put off at Memphis by the Diana to too
convoyed to the hospital.
Statement of a Baltimorean.—Mr. J. P.
Tice, of Baltimore, who is among the
saved, has made a statement from
which we copy :
The books were not saved, but a care
ful estimate of the number of persons
on board falls but a little short of four
hundred and fifty souls ; all that were
saved cannot 5y any posibility excied
250. It is supposed Otto fifty or sixty
were lost in the cabin. The boilers
seemed to be headed upwards and for
ward, parting the cabin at the gang
way, and rendering the upper worksof
the boat from that point forward a
complete wreck. Out of twenty-six
state-rooms, all full, only six or eight
persons have survived. Those occupy
ing rooms aft of the gangway were
nearly all saved. When the steam nod
smoke had cleared up from the wreck,
there indeed was a mournful spectacle
presented to the vision of the few sur
vivors. The boilers and smoke stacks
were twisted together like huge-ser
pents, locking in their hot embrace
scores of human beings, dead anti dying.
Somo wore killed instantly; others
were buried beneath the rubbish to await
the advance of the flames which as yet
slumbered in the hold.
Captain Montgomery, who held : a
commission in the Kansas Free Slut°
militia, under General Jim Lane, has
lately been committing such inhuman
outrages that his political friends have
boon compelled to denounce him, . A
correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat,
a Republican print, notwithstanding its
name, in detailing some of the outrag es
prepetrated by Montgomery and is
band of marauders, says they compelled
a woman to strip naked and march back
and forth between their ranks. The
correspondent endeavors to make it ap
pear tha; this band have no connection
with the politics of the Territory, and
that " Free State" men have offered to
go in pursuit of them. It may be that
the mass of the Kansas Republicans
condemn the infamous conduct of . theso
villains, but what are we to think of a
party that permits itself to Do ruled
over by such monsters—for there is l no
denying that Montgomery was n ot
long since, as his friend Jim Lane' is
now, a leading member of the freedom
shrieking party in Kansas. That par
ty have boon led and governed, from
the beginning, by the must unprincipied
scoundrels in the Territory, and tolliis
fact all the Kansas troubles are attriba
table.—Cluzmbersburg Valley Spitit,
Admission of Jews.—The Morning
Advertisorlearns from various sources
that s sottlement of the long agitated
question of the admission of Jews{ to
Parliament has at length boon brought
about. The conferences boatsmen the
Lords and Commons have ended, it. is
said, in the formes agreoing to the
principle of the right of Jews to 'seats
in Parliament, and the result will ,be,
as the first fruits of the concession of
the Peers to popular feeling, that.iPa
ron Rothschild will very speedily take
his seat in the House of Commode.
aTho Menildi si i Ledger ow:—
" With the subs' 00 of the waters ou
Arkansas shore, uitoesjimbocom
mg so thick that the sun sets fifwen
minutes too soon—its rays being.ob
scared by the swarming inseets,:usThey
wore by the clouds of arroweat She
Battle of Pharsalia." ..
-
Pastoral.—Rev. D. J. Bragonitert 'la
the last thirteen years passuir.o,the
German Reformed Church cit — Opp
herdstovni, Ya., resigned hisa
few weeks ago and accepted kll e 4 1M 3 111
the ILartinsburg German Rekrmed
Church.
tar A n attempt is to be'inide td re
cover the million and a half of 'dare
that went down in the Central Alit ica,
although she is sunk in j ordr ve
eights of a nuile deep, hind in' A spot hat
is ninety miles from land: ''
Be/1.---The lb,lltiwi*lien
terieii appears id'tho pehtrilas qa Liv
erpool paper.—“ The C4rptirsisiin are
rifidat to build. t*o bee schoulsl4l6 of
which fa Piskeir = , .`f t' . 41 _
eirKladuessie - erstiLawejil vim* ie
the heseti •hke`troeit hiteithr: r,
te;sweatiii" every objeet
Beecher Itufilanhun.
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