ilit Complier.
R. a. *Mile, Eaquire as/ rregoviverr.
.a(RTTYSBURG, PA
Xonday lfgrzigE, June 28, 1868.
DEMOCRATIC STITE TICKET.
;root gr PVT'lll , lfr cork?,
WILLIAM A. rOII.TER, of Pliihtdelphis
perAL COMMISsIONER,
MOTLEY FROST, of Fayette county
air Mr. J.ogn A. IL Rrrirxß has been
appointed postmaster at Bigler P. 0.,
-Middletown, in this county, in the
room of Henry Koser, sen., deceased.
Qtgeitil advices received at Wash
ington, frotu England, disclaim any in
tentional offence on the part of Great
Britain toward this country, as regards
the late insults offered to our flag.—
Orderrs have been4ssued to discontinue
the visits to Arrierican vessels—her
IlLaissty's Government not insisting on
visitation as a Flipp.. This is well.—
Had these visits beetiallowed to pass
nnnotiecd by our wesssod Government,
it is likely En ;laud would not so readi
ly give up her supposed right to .‘ rule
the waves."
sorThe New York Ilerald starts the
rumor that the Mexican Government
have Arranged to make a sale of
.the
terr)tpry of Sonora, for a certain con•
eideration, tti a Colonization Company,
whose managers and licailquartetre are
in New York city.
-111111" The Democrats of IVostmoreland
mmpty have nominated Ilon. Ilenry
D. poster for Congress.
.rhyprapd.-..We learn, w►ys the York
Pros, that Mr. Josaph Fenix, a worthy
an 4 hjghly respected young man, was
drowned in Mr. George B. .Entig's mill
dam, ip the Coaowago croek, on Friday
craning last. The deceased, in company
Tith 4 aumber of his fellow workmen
mr—who were engaged in putting op a
barn for Mr. George Spahr, in Wash
ington townahip, in place of the one
destroyed by lightning some weeks
ago—went to the dam for the purpose
of bathing, and not being able to swim,
veritored into water whifh was deeper
thasi he imagined and was drowned be-
fore lie companions could render him
*ny aft4spgice.
irillt4 ky. Lightwing.—On Sunday
last, as David Comp, of Antrim
township, this county, was returning in
on open vehicle in company with his
wife end daughter, from meeting at
Brown's Jschool house, the party were
struck by lightning. 31. r. C. and lady
were stunppd and the daughter, an es
timable young lady, was killed. The
horse was knocked down by the force
of the Ntr4e.—Chambersburg Spirit.
TArce Hundred Fishermen Drowned !
On Op Pit inst., a heavy gale occurred
on a banks of New Foundland, at
-0440 with groat suffering among the
Asllornipp, no less than 4300 of whom
PerOlkefi:
Pretty Good Priccs.—A gentleman
14tely came through from Salt
lake Pty states that at Fort Bridger
sio was selling at $2 50 per pound ;
twain is per pound; flour $lOO per
saok, spld not over eighty-six pounds in
a sack ; tobacco at $1 50 for "a good
cbeF ;" whiskey $25 per gallon. -•
The New Stoops of IVar.—The Secre
tary of the Navy, it is stated, will ordor
tvp:, stoops of tho seven authorized by
Von/MIN to be constructed at Philadel
ipmb!tbly a like numbeiest New
York, and the rest will be distributed
!Roos several places.
Alr.ltem risitor i s from the Treet.—&
detaclinteat of the 2221 regiment Illinois
initnbering 112 guns, under
corIMMI4 of Major Payne, will visit•
WsOiagtoq, Baltimore, •Philadelphia,
New TOOr and Boston the coming sea
son. - !.t, will be the most extensive mil
itary expedition ever undertaken.
to w.
itlirekke hog diners is making havoc
smith the hugs in Pulaski county, lll.—
Xmay flulnera have lost their entire
stock.
A New Cent Piece. —We love seen a
•• • • ; • coin of r.... Cent ire:.
noteinstion, just from the mint at Phila
delphia. Something of this kiud is
much needed to take the place of that
abotoinsble abortion, the one cent coin
0f11357. The new cent piece, like the
other, is of nickel, and of the same size;
it has , the head of an Indian girl upon
one side, and tbii - words, United States
of America, with the date. Upon the
reverse is a wreath, surmounted with
a shield, with a bunch of erre-Iva en
prised et "that bottom, and the words
nee sent ie.the iaiddie Of it. The work
jOimlu:p as wall as the design is hesuti
lidly exotatod.--Bostos Post.
,:-104.1fry Xarket.— Frogs are now a
Es
iinotod article in thi Now
- starket. The bat riven reads:
. ote in dentami, and.aell for one .
OVa.- *Nen. Meek are foot be
. ' limier& dish, sad thadooand
w - 4ibaeotning constantly . great:
Or." - - • •
When JAW Belegilltwaikliimags-
rated President of** Usked 1 1 .1Ilites, a
tooling of satisfaction peivsided`.the en.:
tire ooentry, and the conservative tend
patriotic men of an ponies emigrates. !
tea each other on the atospioions *vent. 1
The whole tenor of the new President's
public life foreshadowed an Admtnis
tration that would add to the greatness
and glory of the nation. Nor was that
foreshadowing untrue. In the short
slaw° of one year and throe months,
this Administration has been called up.!
on to unriddle nearly all the difficult!
and complicated questions connected
with the Federal Government.
First came that offspring of political
fanaticism, the Kansas question. This
was a problem (as the Bedford Gazette
with entire truth remarks,) froth the
solution of which statesmen and legis
lators shrank aghast. The wise men of
the nation uproached it. with fear and
trombling. :11% torn and Congressmen
discussed it from session to session—
quarrelled over it--fought about it—
without putting it at rest. Like the
ghost of the murderod Banyan, it would
not down at their bidding. The cry of
" Bleeding Kansas !" rent the air from
one end of the land to the other, until
the common sense, unflinching firmness
and lofty patriotism ofJAMES BUCHAN
AN silenced the whining hypocrites
that raised it. Kansas is quiet now.'—
It bleeds at but one spot at present,
and that is where tho blood of Jerfittris
cries from the ground against the mur
derer, JAmr.s H. LANE, the leader of the
Kansas Abolitionists.
Next came the Nicaragua difficulty.
Filibustering expeditions had been car
ried on unchecked, for years, by some
of the ambitious am restless spirits of
the country. Ono of those expeditions
was again about to make an incursion
in the territofy of a friendly people,
but JAMZB BUCHANAN was in its way
this time, and it was thwarted in its
lawless purpose. Thus another bright
page in the history of our Pennsylvania
President was written.
Poring the same time in which the
Kansas and Nicaragua quest-ions occu
pied the attention of the Administra
tion, another important and embarrass
ing exigency demanded its timely and
careful consideration. The rebellious
attitude of the Mormons in Utah,
threatened the nation with a grievous
and perplexing trouble. Other states
men had shirked this question—had
suffered the Mormon cancer to root
itself firmly in the body politic. Other
Presidents had allowed the treasonable
bravado of Brigham Young to go unre
baked—had made no effort to correct
the evil which sprang from his uncurb.
ed fanaticism. It remained for JAmrs
BUCHANAN to rid the Government of
this dangerous embarrassment, and his
far-reaching wisdom and comprehensive
statesmanship have already accomplish
ed it. Well may it be asked, what Ad
ministration has ever, in so short a pe
riod of time, met with so many difficult
questions and has solved them so ored
itably to itself and so satisfactorily to
the people, as the glorious Presidency
of the " Sage of Wheatland ?"
The Late Congress and the Adminis
on.
The Now York ournal of Commerce,
an independent and influential journal,
says few occasions have arisen, tinder
any administration, demanding a high
er order of executive talent, or a more
comprehensive statesmanship than have
been demanded by the extraordinary
concurrence of events affecting our
country's interest and honor during the
last few months. It is fortunate for
the country, and especially fortunate
for the cause of republican government,
that we have in the executive chair, at
the heads of departments, and in Con
gress, men equal to the emorgmey, and
that from all tho confusion and threat
ened danger, the government will
emerge with honor and with renewed
claims to confidence and respect.
Popular Sovereignty.
We thought the conversion of the Re
publicans to the Democratic doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty was more sudden
than sincere, and we were right. They
had no intention of abandoning the old
Federal ground of the power of Con-
gress to do whatsoever it pleases. The
advance they pretended to make to
wards popular sovereignty was a plat,
and intended to lure um% ary Demixrats
into the fathomless bogs of Black Re
publicanism. Hear what. they say now
in Illinois
Plimis Politico—Republican State Cbn,
vention
Spiumanun, ILL-, June 16.—The Re
publican State Convention met to-day.
One thousand delegates and altgapp..._
repreaPntillg Pit tety ffire' tiouiiiiea were
present.
James miller wss re-nominated As a
candidate for State Treasurer, and W.
Bateman as Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
Resolution,' wore adopted endorsing
the Philadelphia platform, denouncing
the Dred Scott decision, and re-affirm
ing the poser of Congress over the Terri
tories.
The power of Congress over the Ter
ritories is maimed by the Republi
cans of Illinois, and it will be re-alarm
ed by the Republicans wherever they
have boldness enough to &dere their
honest sentiments. That is their plat
form, and they are trntrue to their
principles whenever they depart from
4.—Valley Spirit. • .
illiirlareen corn is now brought to
market for table Me, in sessuul cities in
(corgis
tha..0141042=4" of SO siipiehlilaiiiiHisikineitios.
- The Eno Gisitstautor, decidedly the
Wi 'egret to htfberol l a outivadisi aid* Republican per in North W es- 1
"mixt' Week as aerie and ootieleeitell tera Pennsylvania„Whose editor is one!
lipase" on the expenditures of the gov. ' of the most influential men of his party,
ssosessit, delivered in the Rouse of is out in strong terms against the pro- 1
Representatives, by Mr. Lercaxa, of: posed Union S:ate Convention, to
Virginia. "This unanswerable expoei- ramble at Harrisburg on the 14th of July.
Lion," says the Philadelphia Penosylva-lAfter announcing the project, and the
nian, "of the made-up statements of the ; means by which it was obtained, it
opposition cannot bo to widely circu- uses the following language: " For'
lated at this time, when the watchword s ' One we enter our protest in advance
of extravagance has been passed along against any affiliation, coalition, union
the allied lino, and it is being re-echoed or fusion with such political renegades
from all sections of the Union. Mr. and traitors as Swoope and Flannigan.
SHERMAN had been chosen for the Put - Thrice have the frewmen of the State
pose of leading the financial wing of the struck- hands with them and thrice they
opposition army, and, according to his i have been betrayed. If they honestly
statement, the Government oxpendi. desire a union •of all the opponents of
tures for the fiscal year I 8,5e-'9, will j the aihuinistration in the present cam
roach ninety. two millions of dollen]. But :paign, they ought, in view of the past,
this calculation is materially interfered to have the prudence to keep their
with by the figures of Mr. Lercurs, I names from any published calls. The
who shows most certainly that the total j Republicans can set it down as an es.
of the appropriations fur the paat SeaSiOli,ltablished fact that the Sanderson-Flan
including all the expenses of the milita- Wigan-Swoops faction, will never keep
ry expedition against the Mormons, faith in any political arrangement.—
and all deficiencies in either branch They are partizan guerrilas nnfit for
of the Government on account of ex- association with men who are governed
penclituros incurred by previous Con- by honest motives in political action.
greases, will only sum up Sixty-eight
They have cheated us in three cam
millions of dollars. This is knocking off
paigns, and it remains to be seen whe
nce/ay-four millions of dollars at one they Republicsns will allow themselves
blow, and reducing the expenditures of ngain to be gulled by such tricksters.—
the first year of Mr. Bt;cI/ A te s A d-
We aro willing to unite with all honest
ministration, below the appropriations opponents of the extension of Slavery,
made by the Black Republican Congress
and co-operate to overthrow the present
of 1856-'7some nccnty Millions of dollars. National Administration, but we are
The real expenditures of the Govern-
not willing to join hands or associate
mont for ordinary purposes for tho with venal leaders who make a show of
cal year 1858-'9, will not amount to friendship only to betray. The leading
.ore than Pifty millions of dollars.— l • t • •
po mans mayo
kwhat arrange-
The balance up to the figure sot down mcnt they please in this matter, bat if
by Mr. Lrreura is produced by extra they in any way ignore the cardinal
appropriations, which cannot rightfully
principles of Republicanism, or if they
be charged against the Administration
expunge from tear flag the motto of
of Mr. 131:CDANAN.
"No more Slave States," they will de
" This speech of Mr. Lrrcess de
serve and receive defeat. We march to
monstratea the unscrupulous character
the battle under no moo
of the opposition, and provesgrel flag. They
the folly
of trusting to assertions which are will find thousandserstaunch and true
simply made for political effect, and freemen in the North and West who
aro not based upon facts and official
will repudiate an evasico, unmeaning
statements. The effort of Mr. &UMAN
is intended as a feeler for the Presiden-
platform, no matter who the candidates
hid campaign. Thecharge of extrava- are. We warn the Republicans to bo
omer is to be sandwiched between ware of the scheme."
Protaetion and Anti-slavery: and in We imagine the tricksters who have
this manner the fight against the Do
endeavored to take the lead of the Op
mocracy is to be conducted. The very
men who, daring the session of 1856-'7, position to tli - o Democratic party, will
voted away twenty millions of dollars find after all that their self-glorified pa
in excess of that appropriated for the triotism will not produce the exact ef
fiscal year of 1858-'9, are now clamor- feet they designed. That "glorious
Inge - gal nst the Administration of Mr.
Buchanan on accour.t of its extras-a- victory" some of their papers claim
ganee, while those who proposed and will not be won with quite as ranch
carried the amendments to the Tariff i ease as they predict.
of 1846, are now claiming to be the on
ly friends of American industry, the
- exclusive encouragers of home labor.—
With whit. justice can Black Republi
cans arraign the Democratic party for
extravagance, when, during a time
when there was no occasion for extra
appropriations, the country tranquil,
the Army stationary, (fey spent more
money in a single year than w ill be ire
qaired by Mr. .BoonasAs to carry on
the Government for the first year of his
administration,
although that year is
burdoned by the extra expenses of the
military expedition to Utah ? This po
sition is on a par with that taken by
the Black Republican, protection party
in this State, when they shouted hosan
nas to the Tariff of 1842, yet nominated
and voted for .DATID WILMOT for Gov
ernor, one of the most determined op
ponents that ever spoke and voted
against the protection theory. The
Eastern manufacturers led the crusade
against the Iron interests of this State.
They promised free Iron to the railroad
speculators if they would give them
free material., from the use of which
they could add to their profits when
the manufactured articles Caine to be
sold. It was free Wool and free Iron;
and the combination came within a
few voles of carrying this project en
tire, when the Black Republicans had a
decided majority in Congress. They
did reduce the duty on one of those
great staples of this State, about which
they are now so particularly interested;
and yet after this action, tho same par
ty comes before the people with falso
charges of extravagance and enormous
expenditures, in order to make the peo
ple believe that they must go back to a
high protective tariff to meet the defi
ciency. If they arc honest now, they
were false and dishonest when they
made the attack upon the Tariff of
1846, and the people should not trust
them
‘4 But the speech of Mr. LETCHER is
fatal to the exlsavagance plank of the
proposed coalition platform, and when
that is removed the light shines in upon
the whole scheme. It is merely to be
a revival of the FatotoNT excitement,
with enough of tariff sauce to recom
mend it to certain localities. Mr. WIL
MOT wants Anti Slavery for his district,
not protection. That will not be sit.
ceptable to those whom he has misled.
But ia the manufacturing_ districts the
negro is to be dropped, and the protec
tion idea pushed into the foreground,
not with any intention of making it a
practical reality, but as a meai.s of
hoodwinking and deceiving the masses,
'whose support they need. This is the
Weaning gf gamA,l' 41, ppeccl bi
dle import of the tariff demonstration
in our city; this the proposed plan tor
the Presidential campaign for 1860.
The shot from Mr. LETCHEIL has struck
this scheme between wind and water,
and the people can see how corrupt,
and rotten the whole combination is.—
jlt cannot succned against the wise,
i prudent and economical administration
of JAMLS BUCHANAN."
Caution 1--In our changeable climate,
coughs, colds., and lung diseases, will al
ways prevail. Consumption will claim
its victims. Those diseases, if taken in
tinibo arrested *nd cured. The
ren :l is Dr. Wlstar's Baiwn of Wild
Cherry. Buy none nnloss it has the
writzensignatare of " L Batts " on the
wrapper.
Northers Ceittrai Railread.—The first
1000,MOUTO Raped over She newly com
pleted portani of the Northern Central
.kailmed to Suabary, Pa., or. Thursday
lank, and le , odd that, lb* road was
round to wink in the very hest messier.
The Opposition State Convention—A
Glance at some of the Leaders of the
Coalition.
The "American Republican State
Committee," of which Imam, TODD
is Chairman, says the Patriot and
Union, had hardly published their call
for in: opposition State Convention, to
meet on the Bth of July, before the call
was withdrawn, and the 14th of July
substituted, by an agreement between
all the elements of the Opposition.—
The parties entering into this combina
tion are " The United American Re
publican and People's Committee of
Superintchdenee for the City of Phila
delphia," "The American Republican
State Committee," "The American
State Committee," and "The Republi
can State Committee." The several
Chairmen of these Committees, with
their advisers and backers, met at Har
risburg last week and perfected the ar
rangement. It hi almost needless to
say that they constituted a brilliant ar
ray of ability and . honesty. JOlllll% R.
ILoc.:m.oE and Grosaft A. Corm fig
uro as Vice Presidents of the Philadel
phia Committee. Pershnally, they arc
the very antipodes of ach other, but
in
ctno doubt there is a , al and political
likeness which renders' the association
fitting and agreeable. Coffey certainly
ought to be able by this time to tell
which party ho prefers. In the cam
paign of 1856, he started out in opposi
tion to the Democratic party ; then he
changed his mind, joined the Democra
cy and stumped it for Buchanan, and
growing tired of this in a few weeks,
ho changed again to Fremont. He is
admirably adapted to be ono of the ar
tificers of the now coalition. He can
be depended upon at any time to leap
from one platform to another, to change
one set of principles for another set,
and to do such little political jobs as
may be assigned him, without any of
those awkward scruples of conscience
with which loss facile men are troubled.
He is certainly the right man for the
right place.
11. BUCHER SWOOP,: is the Chairman
of the American Committee. Last Fall
this gentleman was opposed to the
election of Wilmot, and resolutely anti-
Republican. He is most cordially detest
ed by the Republican politicians of the
State, on account of the nice little ex,:'
posuro ho made of the distributi / t,m
AartairLfund t.r.2sted to ord, of
Ohio, for the purpose of buying up pres
sor and politicians for Fremont.—
Swoope is controlled in his present ac
tion by abler politicians than himself,
who are tired of fighting t ip their own
hook, and who look to a coalitio4lPc
tory as bringing them something com
fortable. They have stood on the out
side long enough, and are rejoiced at
the opportunity. of coming in upon
terms of equality. Sanderson of the
Daily New., is the head and front of this
straight-out division. He has boon
stigmatised and abused beyond meas
ure by the Republicans, for his coarse
in 1868 and last Fall, but they know
the cam is hopeloes without him, and
have been compelled to yield to fife de
mands. When Lemuel Todd called a
Convention to meet on the BthofJuly,
Sanderson rebelled, and Todd's party
were constrained to pith way. T
thus waarthen changed to the 14th, and
mismattes party propitiated by eon
cemdoeastirielt were no doubt more Nab
scanted than the okapi* . *iteration of
the time of the Convention. The ifrai.
4 News gees 60 fir *a to view the 60.1
Lion of the collar wings of the e :
t4on as an acknowledgment th7the
Straight-outs were right in their course.
Witness its language : i
_
" Americans were unwilling titadopt
the sectional platform of the .Republi-,
cans, hollering it to be injurious and
unwise. Time has shown that the con- i
servative policy of the American party
was right; and when others are willing
to acknowledge it, and to,unite in a
common effort to resist the tyranny of
a despotic President, we are not so un
wise as to repulse them. Time, we be-
Feve, will show the necessity for adopt
ing all our measures, and every day
brings fresh, though sad proof to the
pride that they cannot prosper under
the unwise system which now curses
the country and destroys the hope of
the people."
But the Republicans will submit to
be openly flouted thus by the man they
kicked and cuffed last Fall, rather than
lose the chance of defeating the Demo
cratic candidates.
•Wm. B. TIIO3IAS is Chairman of the
Straight-out Republican Committee, an
organization purely Abolition, having
no other object but the promotion of
anti-slavery sentiments, and uniting
with this coalition, not so much from
sympathy with "Americanism"—which
they cordially detest—as with the de
sire to use any party that can break
down the Democratic.
Most, of the'men who have been fore
meat in perfecting this combinatio4e
long to the lowest order of politielliffs.
Siirue of them have sold theinselC , os two
or three times, and others are perhaps
in. sosrch of a market. Baying ar
ranged all things for the members
composing the different branches of the
opposition, they are expected to ac
quiesce without a murmur. So fall into
line I
A Flash in the Pan.
AcCording to
, a Washington corros
i
pcmdcia of the P iladolphia Argus,
"The new political antling called the
i People ' s Party. kof e Union,' of which
Humphrey Harebell, H. Winter Davis
and Senator Ctittendon are the wet
nurses, promises to have a puny exis
tence, if it has any existence at, all.—
T4e leaders of Black Republicanism aro
not willing to be tied to the tail of do
fa,et Know Nothingism for the good of
Kentucky and Maryland, and protest
loudly against the movement. The
A uti-Lecompton Democrats also object
to being used for the advancement of
their old political oPpononts; and alto
gether tho thinehangs fire terribly."
The Tariff.—&nne of the opposition
papers are trying very hard to again
make political capital oat of the tariff
qnestion, but take good care not to toll
their readers that wo are indebted to
the late Know nothing and Black Its
Congress for the present low
duties, of which they complain. Why
did. they not let the Democratic Tariff
of 1846 alone? It afforded ample and
adaquate protection, and our trade,
mapufactiires and elmmeree flourished
under it for ton years. Theoilition
are chargable fur that which they h 7
to saddle on the Demoeracy—thoy made
the i present tariff, and if there is any
thlng wrong about it, let the people
understand to whom doing tho injury
!Y.:longs. . As long as the Democratic
tariff of 184 was in existence, all was
well, Let the people take warning
from the past an beware of the prom
ises the mongrels may make on this
subject now.--Easton &Wine!.
George Peabody(' Loser by the j/inis
aippi Cairo (111.) City
Proporty Company, which suffered so
vc%by the law floor(, is represented
by •1c to the amount of 111,000,000,
of which George, Peabody owns $700,-
000, having pnrchased the same during
his visit to this country last year.
Improring.—The United States Tr*lk
surpr's weekly statement for the week
ending. on Monday last shows some
what of an improvement, inliomuch as
the'inerease of receipts is set down at
abqnt $350,000 over the preceding
week.
A Good Fit.—ltev. T. 0. Liaeoln, of
Utica, N. Y., has boon presented by the
youth of his congregation (Baptist).
with a pair of kid gloves—each of tho
fingers and thumbs of both gloves had
foldud in it a ten dollar bill r
The citizens of llanover aro
about building themselves a Town
Hall—to Le named "Franklin Min."—
Capital at present. $B,OOO--abares 110
cacib.
Terrible Dzsager.—At a Masonic Din
ner at ellsville, New York, on Thurs
day last, the floor of the hall gave way,
precipitating the company to the floor
beneath, wounding forty or fifty per
sons, including a number of ladies, but
killing none. The floor above also fell
upon them.
liireasper Manta, Esq., late Sheriff
of Frederick county, Md., died last
Wednesday.
sfirWarin weather has come upon us
in earnest. On Friday i po thermome
ter indicated 93° of beat, and on Satur
day', 98°. Nota bad beginning.
• esteßiTt:y76 43 .:"—in the Shude,-.6
course
Tho Obituary by X. will appear
in our next.
Letter from the West.
Firomorurt.o, Greco co., Mo.; 1
Jane 14, 11168. f
Ma. Enrron:—This is a section of country
little visited sad Uttle known, mall latterly.—
The coil In the volliii--elong strums and in
the bottom labia, is deep, rich and loamy, easy
of cultivation when the timber is properly
clearad--whlch requires no little labor. The
timber, prlacipally oak of various species, is
very . heary sad ltifty--constitating the chief
obstruction to the appody settlement and age.-
*alumni developesneat adds section of coun
try. Oa tbswpiatidrund highlands, and ridges
stigma's declivity, where the soil re net so
rich sad liertile—.say places entrtmely'itar
reaatim timber is generally small, of dwarfish
Mack oak, Just too glean to make a Cool shade
for tie fowl. Simpdar to liod them uplands
owned with a rick, luxuriant crop of greed,
spridging up spentatteously, thus &swishing
unlinsitad Made of nentrisi pastireoristre feed
*man& of flocks and herds. Hence the
notoriety of this country as a stock raising
country. The mineral wealth of this Southern ,
section of the State Is not the least of her na
tural treasures. Nature in lavishing her trea
sures upon man seemed to be partial to this
region. Here in large beds and capacious
reins has she deposited a wyrrd of\wealth.—
Iron and lead ores are the toast istiiiif i dant--
while copper, sine and some silver, are also
hero deposited, in great quantities in the
bosom of Mother Earth—who discloses here
and there rich specimens to the keen, avarici
ous eye of ever-greedy man. The climate in
the South-eastern counties is generally very
unhealthy, owing to the uncultivated condition
of the lands, which are in many parts low and
swampy. In this South-western portion, how
ever, the climate Is mild and saluhrious-L-the
soil here is of s much better quality—more
highly cultivated--of which we shall speak
hereafter. After the natural wealth and-ad
vantages come the Improvements and de
velopements of man, bat the magic power of
skill and industry which has marked the face
of other lands, has not been felt here. No wide
spreading farms with neat fences hemming in
the high waving grain—with orchards weigh
ed down with the ripening fruit—gardens rich
in all the vegetarian can illeideo--flower beds
burdening the air with their sweet fragrance.
No such an eastern paradise of a skillful and
testy farmer meets this view or glads the eye
here.
This region of Missouri is settled principally
by men from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee
—generally of moderate or limited circum
stances. They are in hear t
. good, kind and
hospitable, their door ever open to, and their
table set for, travelers and sojourners. The
kindneu of their hearts excels the wisdom of
their heads. The most striking trate in their
character is the utter destitution of order, or
a system of neatoess and taste—and in some of
cleanliness. They live for to-day, caring little
about to-morrow. As to their style of Archi
tecture, it seems robe original with them. Hav
ing cleared a little land they build, or rather
they first build, *assail house, (often without
windows,) two doors, one on either side—thus
affording a fine passage for the air in summer.
The kitchen, dining-room, parlor and bed
chambers are all in the same room.
With the two doors wide open, We have fre
quently slept in houses, in the midst of wilder
ness of woods, and soundly too—fearing and
dreading the wild beasts wirnocr, much less
than the small, domesticated animals, usual
tenants of old homes, wrrefx. As for the out
buillings, when there be any, they are always
much more useful than ornamental—and some
much too convenient fur comfort or agreeable
ness. One of the houses, in brief, In this
section, i.e the most desols te, dreary and cheer
less leaking places worthy the name Of hose.
Often not a shade tree is left standing near,
though the hand of nature had planted many
around. The dull and dingy Appearance of a
low, grey, weather-beaten boast, with its eye
less tact, its stick and mad-built chimney at
the one end, impaired fences, scattered rubbish•
around, no grass plats, no neatly paled gar
den, no flower beds, no shrubbery ; all these
wanting, or all showing the want Of care and
attention, leave no favorable impression on the
mind of the traveler. To one accustomed to
see the neat, chaste cottages of Pennsylvania,
with their smiling and cheerful looks, their
front yards blooming and blushing with full
blown roses, their gardens in the rear richly
luxuriant with flowers of every hue and tint,
teeming with luscious fruit—to ooe thus ac 11
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customed to see order and system displayed in
the beautiful oonsforts and adornments of an
humble Lome--to such an one the cheerless
homes bare look doubly dreer aid comfort
less. But even in these dwellings which look
so comfortless, comfort does dwell, and the
flowers of affection do flourish and bloom, like
the rose in the wilderness, like the lily in the
wildwood.
The few towns here are still less cheerful—
even more desolate in appearance thin the
woodnassis cot or farmer's dwelling. We visit
ed the county seats of the different counties
through which we passed. Doniphan, in
Shipley county, is a town composed of a few,
old dilapidated houses, bleak and destitute of
tenants in appearance as the sand bills of
*ham. No enterprise, no stir, no business,
no town at all.
Thomasville, in Oregon, is an elder brother
to Doniphan—a sort of a dry-laced, shrunken
hearted, out-of-date old bachelor, wearing the
only remnants of his good suit, coat shabby
and tattered, hat dinged in and dinged out,
scuffed all around. Pitiful sight! Irretrieva
ble condition I Not wanted by the youth, nor
admired by the ladies. • One bnildin g was,
however, interesting to us—the prison, which is
a small, low building standing naked and alone,
far removed from any tree or house, on the
commons. la this prison has been confined
for tour years, a murderer, convicted and sen
tenced to hang next Friday. His name is
Shehan. In s cell ten feet square he has en
dured the cold of four winters without a spark
afire—the heat of four summers in so narrow
a cell that little fresh air reached his fevered
brew through a six-inch square grate. So
much has he muttered from confinement that ha
looks (I saw him through the grate,) pale and
haggard as a witch, so weak that he is unable to
stand without support. Justice, though often
slow in inflicting planishment, does not demand
a slow, lingering death by thus fi;exing,
smothering and roasting. Inhuman treatment I
We next came to Hartville, in Wright—then
Marshfield, in Webster—the first an old town,
obsoleted---second a skeleton of a new town
largely laid out, more Like a town than either
of the towns mentioned; some spirit and ear
prise here—built in prospect of the South
western
branch of the Pacific ILailroadreacbing
it soon.
We here been in Springfield now for the
last- &ea doss. This is the far-famed and
much-talked-of tower as the largest in the
southern portion of the State and no doubt is.
It is larger than all the aforenamed towns put
together and then multiplied by four, and Get
tysburg would make two of its size at least.—
So you may form an intimate of these London,.
We are now In a country altogether direr
ent from that we have Just traveled over. We
are on the high table lands of the Ozark—
prairies stretch's( outfor miles In all directions,
dotted hero and there with chapattis and
"island groves."' Grand and sublime sight!
"These are the gardens of the desert—these
the-unshorn fields, beautifal and boundless."
Here blooms the blushing rose—she modest
lily, in beds of living- peen.
A line Gllmata, rich soil, a spontaneous crop
of vegetation--all make this a most pleasant
and delightful Gauntry. Over two hundred
sad Sky miles from the nearest Railroad point,
&rftoes narigatioakbas many inconveniences.
Bat- - the Wand wind* le bare, end qua will
moos show more ameekilly tlm aegis tress
formations of his lard Ws* of Industry.
_Nora' saes. V. start th-ntorraw 'for do
Cherokee -Wallas. • Yciarle • T6'
lAN? & et** *Mi.
eli• peomb.
Our national anniversary occurring
this year ou Sunday, the
,cielehrstions
will, generally, throughouilkhe whole
country, come oft on Monday, the sth.
In this place, no preparations are mab.
ing fors general demonstration; but
the day will of course be duly observed.
The stores "All, we understand, be
closed (on the sth;) the Independent
Blues will celebrate the day in the
beautiful wood west-of town, near the
railroad cut ; many of the young folks
will g 9 pick-nicking; others may "try
theirluck" at fishing, or other amuse--
inent; whilst not a few may " lay
around loose," killing time as boat they
can
The day should bo ushered in by the
ringing of - tells, firing of cannon and
stirring music--commoneing at rise of
sun, not before.
lIIIIIItary Cismagoany et Areibiltrvllle.
The Military Company organised at
Arendt/wine, in this-county, on Satur
day week, numbers about 40 members,
(with the promise of more,) and is nam
ed the " Independent Riflemen." - Wxt.
F. WALT= has been chosen Captain,
JA.cos Ii• PLANK First I.iientenant, and
JACOB 31. MUMMY Second Lieutenant.
The Company has our best wishes fur
its success. That it will become a welt
drilled and efficient corps--•=a credit to
the neighborhood—we do not doubt,
Tate New litreet,
The Town authorities have commenc
ed the grading, of the new street, or
rather the extension of Stratton street
—from the 'Railroad to the llarrieburg
road. The material for filling is at
present very conveniently gotten, in
Railroad street. In the construction
of the Bridge across the run, it is to be
hoped that the wretched excuses for
Bridges on the Ilarrisburg and 3turn
masburg roads will Rt. bo imitated,
sarTho stone-work of the new Court
House is going up, with a good force of
masons on the job. Work on Cho
Warehouse for Messrs. Klinefelter dt
Co. has also been commenced. Mt.
Hoko's is ready for the brick-work.
tlttiessowa Ur Ilreail.
Wo aro informed by the Secretary of
tno Company, that tho Cara upon the
Littlestown Railroad will commence
running regularly to-day—Monday.—
Two trains daily—morning and noon,
Mr-The railroad from ll:mover to
Gettysburg is completed to 14tlestown,
Adams county, and the curs aro now
running regularly from liatiover to
that place. The entire road is rapidly
progressing towards completion, and
wo presume that very little time will
be permitted to pm before the whole
line will be open for tr.:lcel.—York Ale.
Our friend of the Advocate does
not appear to bo well " posted " in re
gard to this geography of this county.
The Littlestown and Gettysburg Rail
roads are two distinct " institutions."
The former takes a south-western di
reetion from Hanover, and stops at
Littlestown; the latter bas a north-of
west course from Hanover. via Now
Oxtbrd, and terminates at Gettysburg.
Adams county has (mind ye 1) two Rail
roads :—with a third in the back
ground, the long-neglected but not
worthless " Tapeworm."
Messrs. POLAND and WELTY baVO
resumed track-laying on the Ralroad
at New Oxford. They extieet to "push
ahead " rapidly.
/-It will be seen by an advertise
ment in another column, that Mr. Cott
vmsr, Principal of the Public School
'in this place, proposes to teach a Nor
mat Class during his summer vacation.
Tho undertaking is especially commend
ed to Teachers, to whom an admirable
opportunity for bettor fitting themselves
for their responsible vocation is thus
afforded. The qualifications of Mr.
Converse aro undoubted. Sue adv.
Tall
Mr. GEORGE Busustatc,_of Cumber.
land township, sent to our °Blue, on
Monday last, a stalk of Rye measuring
eight foot—grown upon hia.farm.
Mr.. Vatau Wamtr.a. of Tyrone town
ship, on the some day, forwarded- a
stalk of Clover four feet two inches in
length.
On Wednesday, Mr. Mtettitzr, FRIT,
of Cumberland township, sent us a
stalk of Clover four feet two inches
long—grown upon land of his father,
Mr. PETER FRET.
Mr. Gitosos Rues-mon!, residing near
Abbottatovrn, a few daywainee, palled a
stalk of Clover on his farm which
measured four feet and three inches.
Stir The Annual commencement
Mt. St. Mary's College near EMMA&
burg, will occur on Wednesday pest,
and at the Sisterhood on the day fol.
lowing. • •
A School ExhiStlon. will take plt:iee
at Conowago Chapel on the Olt oaf
R it
July.
air9n Saturday week, tho_scb4ie
occupying tho upper door of the Selling
building, spent the day in the•
under Um charge of Mr. Coxr4 4 le
Principal. What more plemegi ' t
than to pee a party ofjuvecines4
artrliui" in the ocPt elunifkigk e
green sod, ehasing fan mot* "tutu
the hours chase them 1 ' ...-, -f_ '2 . -- •
1111, - The &Albert atthis eillookrbirre
common Old mi1440,1110_ ‘Vtich
pronisei
qoality._-Thiti6v, is
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