0 ?SRNS OF THIS PAPER. ,- ~,, Tim Covens' is published every Monday saoraing, b) HEIET T. STAHL; at $1 75 per annam If paid strictly is anTsscs.—s2 00 per steam If not paid in advance. No subscription discontinued, unless at the option of the pub lisher, mita all arrnarages are paid. A.DritTISIIKSTII inserted at the usual rates. Jos P 11.17110 done with neatness and dis- Pitch- Orme' in South Baltimore street. dirretly opposite Wamplers' Tinning Eftablishment— "Conrmaa" on the sign. New Livery STABLTSII MUT. Cita a is a • - M. TATE has opened a new .. . • ryestablishincet, at the stables . .imilo ytre , on Washington week, occupied in part by the "Eagle Hotel," and has made such arrange ments as will enable him to accommodate the public at all times, on reasonable terms, with Horses, Buggies, !lacks, .k.c. Ilk stock is good. On funeral occasions, ke, ' he will be able to Supply a want which has been gaud' needed. 'Terms CASII. [May 24, .5.1. Groceries, WITOLESALE AND RETAIL.--1101:14pei and Sugar by tlie barrel. VotYee by the sack, and all kinds of Grocerie , . either hy the quantity or in small amounts, at prices that de fy competition. can at once at April 4. FAUN &STOCK LULUS'. Wood-land AT PRIVATE S.-11,E.—1 will sell at private Pale i 2 ACRES OP LASILou the Ihink:i of h creek, near Bream's Mill, 40 Acre+ of which is heavily timbered. If not sold prior to the first day of July it IA ill then be Lai,' out in lots to snit purchasers and ti,iii at public sale, Ilty 16, 189. GEt). ARNOLD. Marble Yard Removed. TilE, subscriber having removed ltis place of business to East York street, a short dis tance below st. James' Church, would announce to the public that he is still prepared to furnish all kinds of work ls lois line, such as Monu swats. Heath:tosses, /cr,.. ke., of every variety of style and tini,h, with and a itle4iit. bases and siokets, to snit purchasers, and at prices to Rnit the times. Persons desiring anything in his line will hod it a decided ad‘aiimg,e to examine his stuck and prices before purcha%ing el,e‘% here. MEALS. Gettysburg, March 21, 18.53, Lace Caps, MANTILLAS, &('.—Another new arrival purchased at Auction at reduced price+. WI which will he sold at rates that defy compe tition. Our stock of Caps and Mantillas is the largest ever kept in the county, and for st)le+, and cheapness. it only requires an examination to induce those wishing the article to purchase. A. large asi general assortment of all kinds of Ladles' Dress Goods always on hand, to which sce are constantly making additions. FAIINESTOCK Sign of the lied Front. June 13 New Goods. GEORGE ARNOLD has just received and Is now opening the largest and most beauti ful of LADIES DRESS GOODN that leas been offered to the public at any time Al en, a lot of beautiful Fancy slkmets, Bonnet Trimmings. Shaul+, Hosiery, Gloves. ke, ke.— A large stock of Gentlemen's Dress Goods, DEADY-IL\ DE CLOTHING, ke.. all of which Imre been ',ought low \ fur cash and will be sold cheap. All persons are invite.' to call—the tidies' attrition is particularly incited to my Stock ofbeess Goods, which far ta.naty of style cannot be 'teat. [April 4, 1859. Here We Are Again ! from the city with the hest and clump.- ") est assortment OiSYRCPS and MOLASSES that we have yet °tared, calculated to plena* n,M pursuit ist quaJity and prices; SCOARS, a ery large stock,low; COFFEES, TEAS. Choco late. Rice. Cheese, Spices, (all kinds.) Cratkera and Tea Cakes. Vinegar, Pickles, ting..lr-cored and SHOrLDERS, Lard.Shad..lLackerei and Herrings, Salt, Cedar-ware,Tuks, Ilawkets, 'lie.; Baskets, Flour Scives. Brooms. Brushes, stc.; all kinds of Cordage. Convenient* Lye; Extra and Superfine FLOUR, all kinds ufVecd: Potatoes, Fresh Butter and Eggs constantly on band ; Fancy Goods. Confectionaries and Fruit. (live us a call. It affords (13 pleastirc to show our large and inviting stock. NORBECK k erattygbarg. May 30, lafa, -- Farmers' & Mechanics' IVINGS INSTITUTION OF ADAMS COON. 0 TT.— Wen/tA toasts kg Flering.—Depo@ite satvitas funds in dela Itotitittiou and re ceive interest to the rate of from two to f,ur per rent. This institution oilers a safe. convenient ottnl profitable depository to all classes of July 4, 1859. Removal. TILE snhaeriber has remote,' his Plough an 1 Machine Shop frnm the Foundry Wilding to R inroad street, oppnsite Tate's Ulaok.smith shop. hack of the . Eazde lintel, where ho is better prepared than ever to at tend to customers. Ploughs alvrays on bad and made to order at the shortest notice, and ,Id L.:bine+, Reapers, &AL, repaired. Also he will attend to ehmaing and repairing Clocks. May 10. DAVID WAIIIIk;N. The Latest News ! rrliTE latest news, in which all are interested I is the arrival of n (cry large and suparior squat of HATS, CAPS. lIOUTS k at the cheap and fashionalde store of it. F. McIL 11KNY. at the N. E. Corner of ,Centre Square, Gettysburg. His stock of flats is very eaten- Sive. comprising all the various styles of Silk Hats, Gent's black and colored Soft Dress fiats, Ken's Russia Hats. (broad-rirn.l anti all kind. , la lien's And Boy's Slouch Hats and Caps, of the most fashionable sty 1e,—.111 of w hid i are unsurpassed for beauty of style isnil elegance of anish. BOOTS AND SIBIES.—Iie has al , o re ceived a very large ri“ortinent of Boots and 'Shoes, consi,ting of Men's French Calf Boots, ens French Calf tinI,TCES Gaiter+, Patent r o eather Gaiters and Pomp, Oxford Ties and all kinds of Men's and iloy's Dre.s and Coarse 'Shoes, r o adies and Children's Shoes and Gaiters of every style. The pel,lie is very re.pectfully lavited to call and examine these goods before purOasißg elsewhere, as it a iii certainly he to their advantage. U. F. I.IcILBEN V, April 18, 1859, What Everybody Wants. Tl3B FAMILYDOCTOII: containing in plain 1 language, free from medical terms, the LAPSES, SYMPTOMS and CURE of disease in every form, with important RULES FOR PRE SERVING THE HEALTH. and Directions fur the Sick Chamber, and the Proper Trc.ttmeni of the Sick.—This book is written in a plain. easy and familiar style; adApted expres-ly to family and individual use. It advocates no particular theory of medicine, bnt draws alike front the Flowers of the Field, the Plants of the Garden. or the Minerals of Earth, for such Remedies as lave proved the most simple, safe,and effectual , believing that wherever disease has found a foothold, there the Giver of all Good has, in sonsefortn, mercifully placed a Specific. Neither does it profess to supercede the physician, but only to avoid the necessity and expense of call jag bite la except in dangerous cases. It is in fact a physician itself, aln-a?s at hand and ready to serve you, while its simple receipt may Boon save you many times its cost. It contains 3uB pages, in a clear and` open type, is illustrated by appropriate engravings, s;d will be forwarded to your address, postage pald and neatly bound, en receipts of the price 1 00. Everybody should have it. • - Agents wanted everywhere, who will find it ,very popular, and with whom liberal arrange- Neat' will be made Address, JOHN E. POTTER, Publisher, No. 917 Santora St., Philadelphia, Pa. July 4, lBsa. IIEttrILDRW MATERIALS.—Paints, Oils, kc„ " alirays oa hand and Will be tarnished at OT PIP Ikt FANNESTOCKS'. 0 HOPES, MESS k HOES.:::A large 174 jest received at the new and cheap n on Q f A. scan a SON. DOMAS WARI.-1 large assortment at re j laud Pica u FAILYEBTAME3'. TH E COMPIL ER. • 0 geworratir, dams and tamilg Nona BY H. J. STAHLE 417 YEAR. Wm. B. McClellan, 4 TTORNEY AT LA W.__Dih ee on the on th side of the public square, 2 doors west of sue ScutiuPl office. Guttpiburg, August 22, '53. D. McCortaughy, A?TORN EY AT LAW, (office one door west of Bitebler's drug and book store,Chatn beratiurg street.) ATTORNRY ASO SOLICITOR roa PATRNTS ANU PRNBIONA. llounty Land War rants, Back-pay suspended Claims, and all other claims against the Government at Wash ington, I). C.; also American Claims is England. Land Warraut:4 located and sold, or bonght,and highest prices giTCCI._ , Agents engaged in lo cating, warrants in lawn. Illinois and other 4,,itern States. 10drA k pply to him personally or by letter. Gettysburg, Nov. 21, '53. Edward B. Buehler, ATTOTINEY AT LAW, will faithfully and promptly attend to all liuviness entrusted to him. He speaks the Cermnn Innguage.— Office at the same place, in South Baltimore street, near Forney's drug store, and Dearly opposite Danner A Ziegler's store. Gettysbt.rg, March 20. J. C. Noely, ATTORNEY AT LAW, will attend to collec tions and all other buginess intrusted to his care with promptuess. Office uearly opposite Fahnestock's Store. Baltimore street. Gettysburg, April 11, 1859. - tr J. Lawrence Hill, M. D. S his o ffi cPone Ndoor west of the '4T. Lutheran ehnrch in Chambersbnrg street. and opposite Pickftg's store. where those wishing to have any Deutal o.mr4tion performed are respectfully invited to call. rr zz Ness: Drs. Horner, Rev.-C. P. Krauth, D. 9.. - ILev. IL L. Baugher, D. 13., Rev. Prof. M. Jacobs, Prof. M. L. Stwver. Gettysburg, April 11, '53. New . Agricultural Settlement. TO ALL WANTING FARMS, a rare °tbor wait,- in a delightful and healthy climate, 25 miles southeast of Philadelphia. on the Cam den and Atlantic Railroad, New Jersey.—An old estate, consisting of several thousends of acres of prodnctive soil, has been divided into Farms of various sizefto suit the purchaser.— .-1 population of some fifteen hundred. from various parts of the middle States and New Eng land, lime settled there the past year, improved their places. and raised excellent crops. The price of the land is at the low sum of from $1.5 to S2O per acre; the soil is of the best annlity for the production of Wheat, Clover. Corn, Peaches, Grapes and Vegetables. IT IS CON SIDERED TILE BEST FRUIT SOIL IN TIIE UNION. The plate is perfectly secure from frwsts--the destructive enemy of the farmer.— Crops of grain. grass nnd fruit are now growing and can be seen. Dy examining the place it self, a correct jedgment era be formed of the productiveness of the land. The terms are made easy to secure the r.upid improvement of the laud. w hick is only sold for actual improvement. The result has been, that within the past year, saute three hundred houses have been erected, two mills, one steam, four stores, some forty vinyards and peach orchards planted, and a large another of other improvements, makiug it e t desirable and active place of business. THE MARKET, as the reader may perceire from its location. is the BEST IN TIIE UNION, Produce bringing double the price than in locations away from the city, and more than double the price than the West. It is known that the earliest and best fruits and vegetables in this latitude come from New Jersey, and are an tually exported to the eaten' of millions. In locating here, the settler has many advan tages. Ile is within a few hours' ride ofethe great cities of New England %Ltd Middle States, he is near his old friends andlfssociations, he is in a settled country where every improvetnent of comfort and civilization is at hand. Ile can buy every article he wants at the cheapest price. and sell his produce for the highest, (in the West this is reve•sed4 he has schools for his children, divine serrice, and will enjoy an open winter; and delightful climate, where ewers are utterly unknown. The result of the change upon those from the north, has generally been to restore thaw to an cm:ellen& state of health. In the way of building and improving, lumbar can be obtained at the mills at the rats of XlO to '4. 1 15 per thousand. 'kicks frost the brick yard opened In the place, every article can be procured in the plate, good carpenters are at hand. and there is no place in the Union where buildings and improvements can, be made cheaper. The reader will at once be struck with the ad vantages here presented, and ask himself why the property has not been taken up befogs.— Te reason is, it was never thrown in the mar ket ; and unless these statements were correct, eta one would be invited to examine the land before purchasing. This all are expected to do. They u ill see land under cultivation, and inch is the extent of the settlement that they will no doubt, meet persons from their own neighbor hood ; they will witness the improvements and (-In judge the character of the population. If they come with a view to settle, they should come prepared to stay a day or two and be ready to purcbaze, as locutions cannot be held on re fusal, There are two daily trains to•Philadelphla, and to all settlers who improve, the Railroad ausipaqy pees a free ticket fur six months, dud 0 ilinlf-prire ticket for three years. THE TOWN OF HAMMONTON.—in conr.ec tion with the agricultural settlement, a new and thri% tag town has naturally arisen, w hich pre sents inducements for any kind of business, par ticularly stores and manufactories. The Shoe Lipiiness could he carried on in this place and market to good advantage. also cotton bnsiness, and mdnufacturies of agricultural implements or founleries fur casting small articles. The improvement has been so rapid as to insure a con-Lint and permanent increase of business. Town lot: of it good size, we do not sell small ones, as it would affect the improvement of the place, can he had at from sloti and upwards. The Hantruontoa Farmer, a monthly literary and agricultural sheet. containing full informa tion of Hammonton, can be obtained at 2.i cents per annum. Title indisputable—warrantee deeds given, clear of all incumberance when money is paid Route to the land: leave Vine street wharf, Philadelphia, for Hammonton by Railroad, at A. M., or 4. P. M. Fare 90 cents. IN hen there inquire for Mr. Byrnes. Boarding con veniences on band, Parties had better stop with Mr. Byrnes, a principal. until they have decided as to purchasing, as he sill show them over the land iii his earriage, free of expense. Let ters and applications can be addressed to Lan dis k Byrnes, Hammonton P. 0., Atlantic coun ty, New Jersey. or S. B, Coughlin, 202 South Fifth street, Philadelphia, Maps and lnfortua flan cheerfully furnished. Jaly-4; 1859. ern Timber Lots. IDE subscriber has • few more LOC CST sad CITESNUT LOTS, in Hamiltonban town- ShiP, Adams comity, for ale. J, D. PAXTON. Gettysburg, July 4, 1859, tf CY BONNETS sad trimmings, very radmonse—call and see them at the sto , re GEO. ARNOLD GETTYSI3URG, PA.: MONDAY, AUG. 1, 1859. Poet's C:Jorla.er_ TEM EEGGAR•M DEATII. SS BCIICEIZSLT The beggar on his lonely bed, In wretchedness is dying ; And yet., effulgent on his head, A crown inc is lying. Come, quiet earth and silent grave, Ills limbs forsaken corer; He lays on you his wanderer's staff, His pilgrimage is over. On riches, honor, pleasure, strife, No trust of his is centred; Ile hastens naked-from this life, As naked it he entered. A Christian man, he dies in bliss, When kings nosy be forsaken ; A treasure beyond price is his, A faith in Christ unshaken. Rough is the bier on which be lies, On pauper help depending; No funeral pomps for hint arise, No purchased tears descending. Into the common earth his frame, In careless haste, is buried; And in his grave obscure, his name Is now forever buried. Yet Cod, for his great day of grace, Is that poor name retaining, The mute entreaties of that face Not, like mankind, disdaining. He a limn the princes of the land Ou earth were coldly spurning. Will soon be at his God's right hand, In seraph glory burning. My God! if 'tis thy wise decree That here in want I languish, May I, like Lazarus, in thee Find comfort in lily anguish I May angels bear my soul, like his, From this pour world of sorrow, To endleis plains of heavenly bliss = nn eternal morrow. b.ll - cellaia.ec)las_ Origin and History of Pews. In A riglo-Saxim And some northern churches of early date, a stone bench was made to pru ject within the wall, running round the whole interior, except the eastern end. In 1010, they were represented as sitting on the ground, or standing.. About this time the people in troduced low, rude, three legged stools, pro miscuously over the whole church. Wooden seats were soon introduced after the Norman conquest. In 1.)17,:a decree was issued in regard to the wrangling for seats being eo common that none could call any seat his own, except noblemen and patrons, each entering and holding the first one he seized. As we approach the Reformation, from 1530 to 1540, cents were more propriate, the entrance be ing guarded . It a cross, and the initials, en graved on them Immediately after the Ref ormation the w system prevailed, as we learn from tmpin:int of the poor commons addressed to Ilenry VIII.. in 1616, in refer ener to a decree that a Bible should he in every church, at liberty for ell to read, be e:lllPC they feared it might be taken into the "rinire," or some .• rite." In 161.11. galleries were introduced. llnt as early as 1611 pews were arranged to afford comfort, by being hinted or cushioned, while the sides around were so high as to hide those within ; (a de vice of the Puritans to avoid being seen by the officers, who reported those who did not 5ta.4441 when the name of Jesus was mention ed.) With the reign of Charles the First, the reason for heightening the sides disappeared, and from the civil war they declined gradual ly to their present height. To Induce Sleep. ITow to get to Pict p is to same persons a matter of high importance. Nervous persons who are troubled with wakefulness and ex eitnbility. usually have a strong tendency of blood to the brain, with cold ettreml es, The pressure of blood on the brain keeps it in a stimulated or wakeful state, and the ;nil- Potions in the head are often painful. Let such rise, chafe the body and extremities with a brush or towel, or rub smartly with the hands to promote a circulation and with draw the excessive quantity of blood from the brain. and they will fall asleep in a few min utes. A cold bath, or a rapid walk in the open air, or going up and down stairs a few times, iisat bafore retiring, will aid in equal izing circulation, and promote sleep. These rules are simple and easy of application in castle or cabin, and may minister to the com fort of thousands 'who would freely expend money for ail anodyne to promote Nature's sweet restorer, balmy bleep." Pate of the Apostles. Matthew is !apposed to hare suffered martyrdom. or was slaiu with the sword at th • etty of Ethiopia. Mark was dragged throngh the streets of Alexandria, In Nom, till he expired. Luke was hanged upon an olive tree in C reece. John was put into a cauldron of boiling oil at Hume, and escaped death. He afterwards died a natural death at Ephesus, in Asia. James the Great, was beheaded at Jerusa lem. James the Lou, was thrown from a pint ele or wing of the temple. and then beaten to death with a fuller's club. I'hilp was hanged up against a pillar, et Hieropolis, a city of Phrygia. Barthol w was flayed alive by the com mand of a battmrous king. Andrew was bound to a cross, whence he preached to the people till he expired. Thomas was run through the body with a lance at Coromandel, in the East Indies. Jude was F hot ti, death with arrows. Simon was crucified in Rome. atirThe Winsted (Conn.) Herald tells the following good one in regard to the proceed ings of a congregation in that village. There was considerable disposition manifested there to settle as pastor on a young man who had just left a theological seminary. A meeting was called and the result of the conference might hare been in favor of the young man, Ipt a plain old farmer got up, and in a blunt way suggested that " for hie part ho had got sick of breaksay steers." The project was dropped. Great Depth of the ()eean.—The following account of the depth at which the ocean has been sounded, will give some idea of the vast valleys that exist in its bed. The sounding was performed in the Atlantic, and tho deEth at which bottom was reached was 7,i 043 fathoms, or 14,412 yards, being over eight miles. The time required for this immense length of line to run out was about niue hours and a half) A Nice Calculation. —lt has been tialcula tad that the hairs on the tip of a dog's tail of the average length of thirteen inches [tail not hair] are made to traverse 25,433 miles by the simple act of wmging, during an ordinar il happy life of lame years two months and eleven days, wbielt is tho mean lifetime of a do`, • "TRI:TII IS MICIIITY, AND WILL PREVAIL!' Wouldn't Marry a Mechanic. A young man commenced vit.itiog a yourg woman and appeared to be well pleased.— One evening he called when it wog quite late, which led the girl to enquire where he had been. "'I had to work to-night." " Do you work [or a liviugr inquired the astonished girl. „” Certainly," replied al* young man, ‘‘ I am a mechanic." "My brother does not work, and I dislike the name of mechanic!" and she turnecOlp heir prettose. heir as the last time the mechanic visited the fet id' as young woman. lie is now a wealthy man. and has one of the'best woolen for a wife. The young woman who disliked the name of mechanic, is now the wife of a miserable foot—a regular vagrant about loos shops—and she, pour, miserable woven is obliged to take in washing to supportlertelf and children. Ye who dislike the name of mechanic. 'be' ware how you treat young men who work for a living. Far better discard the well-fed pauper,' with his rings, jewelry and brazen ness, and take to your affections the callous handed intelligent and industrious mechasic. Thousands have bitterly regretted their folly, who have turned their backs to honest indus try. A few years of titter experience base taught them a severe lesson. In this coun try, no man or woman should be tespected. in our way of thinking, "who will not work bodily end mentally, and who curl their lips contemptuously if they are introduced to a llan who is obliged to work for a living. Prying Pans. A single law passed by Congress, suppos ing it had the power, and was obeyed by the people, would effect a great reform in the pub lic health, diminish the• business of doctors and the demands for drugs, and prove of in calculable benefit to this and future geniirn tious. Thus, be it enacted, that on the first day of January, 1860, frying pans in ;he United States be broken up, and sold for :old iron, and that no more be manufactured henceforth forever. Frying is the must un wholesome of all modes of cooking. Eterything cooked by this method is satu rated with empyematic oil, and is made as unfit as possible for tie human stomach. No dyspeptic shouli ever eat anything fried, and no one should ever du so who would nut 'be come dyspeptic. Lot your food be boiled, or baked even—anything but fried. Frying meat is the worst possible, mode of cooking. destroying whatever good qualities it may possess, and exaggerating all its badness. All this comes of having frying-pans, spid ery, and other cast . iron abominations fur Junkie , . food unwholesome. Uoal people! beware of the frying-pan, be ware of the fat which it scorches, and the butter it spoils; and beware of meat, fish and eggs which it renders unfit for food and difficult of digestion, that your days may' be lung iu the land. Hifalutin. Perhaps the following may not amuse either yourselves or your readers, but it did me.— In our drug store I have a fellow clerk. some what celebrated among his acquaintancea as a concocter of puns and the utterer of dry joker. 110 is a bo y ish-lucking youth, and officiates, when his vertices are required, be hind the soda fountain. A few mornings since, a fashionably dressed, poetical-looking young gentleman 'entered, and seating himself on a stool in front of the counter, in a choice selection of terms requested the clerk to pre pare him a seidlit: powder. The following conversation, ridiculous iu its eurnestatss, rowalted: Oct k —With syrup ? Cuslonter—(Slowly and Vnetbodically)-4 require it not aa a refreshment. If the syrup vitiate not the effect of the compound, You may mingle with it such nn amount of the substance as will render the potation palata ble. Or, to be better understood— Cierb—(interrupting)—l comprehend you perlectly. Permit me to assure you that the tendency of the syrup will he rather to 'eu !armee than diminish the purgative virtuell of thedrug. Cusioswer—(lndignant at observing that his style is effeetPd by the other)—Then pro ceed, miracle of medical literature and wis dom I dispatch, confounder dfo 9 ls. Custower--Then if not struck motlonlsss, use haste. • All this wait so quietly, and !CI said, that, although amused beyond expresaton' at the conversation, I stared in wonder at the parties. The clerk evidently felt cut at the last remark of the other, hot mixed the pow der, which the stranger triumphantly swal lo wed, paid for, sod started to leave the 'tyre, when— Clerk—Should you feel any uneasiness in the region of the stomach within the period of fifteen minutes, Illustrious patron, attribute the cause to the accidental introduction into the draught you hare just taken of some drug of vigorous effect and painful cons*. quenoo. Customer—(A trifle frightenel)--If I do, d—n you, I'll punch your head I Clerk—l thought I'd bring 'yein down to plain English ; but I peas you'll find the powder all right —Era customer, with coat tail standing straight-out. This is Poetry Oh, if there is one earthly bliss More precious than another, It is when, with delight, you kiss a pretty . girl when she sonde; a certain individual out of the room on the important errand of seeing whet hour iv indicated by the hand of the family piece down stairs Certain individual being her brother. While musing thus, on summer eye, As by the lair one's 4ido I sat, The time was near et b.nd to leace, so, sfeal ing my hand around her waist, I drew her gently to me, and, when in the act of' ap plying my lips to hers, the door was softly opened, and her respected " Ma" appeared armed with &broomstick, and, before I knew where I was, I was knocked into a cocked hat. Always Dry.—" I:say, mother," said a reg ular street loafer the other night, after he had deposited something in a rickety old eup board, and laid himself down upon the floor, "I want you to wake me when I get dry." " How shall I know when you get dry?" asked hie mother. ' , Oh I just wak* me up any time ; I'm al ways dry 1" I=Z:=l ear Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble, at a touch ;. nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Does not Mr. Bryant say that Truth get. well if sbe is run over by a locomotive, while error dies oflock jaw if she scratches her Auger. IllirGaribaldi has • son who is • soldier with him, and tights like • lion by bia father's side. This young man is two and twenty years old; Extraordinary Exhibition--A Man of Leather An exhibition of a very remarkable and unnatural character attracted a small but highly respectable audience at the Melodeon on Thursday evening last. A Toting man by the name of James Stevens had advertised he would do many wonderful things in the way of cutting himself up with knives, nailing his feet, arms, and legs to chairs, to the wall, Lc., which astounding exploits he proceeded to exhibit at the appointed hour, In the presence of a number of physicians of celebrity, in cluding members of the medical faculty of Transylvania University, and other learned professors, who were invited to the stand that they might detect any fraud or deception, if practised. Us began by sticking a hand ful of pins, up to the head, in his legs, then drove an awl through tho middle of his wrist into a chair; drove a knife through the mus cle of his leg ; nailed his foot to a wooden shoe, the nail or awl passing through the middle of the foot, and en walked about the stage; cut his dexter finger through the flesh. exhibiting the naked - bone, and con cluded by passing a knifa through his cheek. the blade protrudinr, through his mouth. In all this but littls blood was drawn. Ho also offered to drive a knife through each leg and hang himself from the wall, which the audience mercifully excused him from doi*g. feeling satisfied that he could ac complish whatever lie proposed. About the whole proceed ure there was no sort of humbug, as the eyes of divers gentlemen, who were upon the stand, were steadily fixed upon him, and any "unbelieving Thomas" had an op portunity to touch the knife blade on the op. posite side to that into which it had been thrust, of the leg, wrist or hand. lle used a few galvanic rings about his person, which will probably more for show - than any thing else, us they could e ff ect nothing. Mr. Stevens looks to be not more than twenty or twenty-one years of age. Before closing, he proposed to operate in a similar manner upon any one of the audience, agreeing to forfeit $l,OOO if he inflicted pain. This, however, was prudently declined. We saw this man of leather early yesterday morning. looking as fresh and whole, as though knifo or nail had never penetrated his elastic body. School-House Struck by Lightning. Marvellous Escape of the Clullren.—A school-house about it mile from North Fair field village, Huron county, was *ruck by lightning during a recent thunder-storm, and badly torn to pieces. The teacher. Miss Mary Moss, and nineteen scholars, were in the building at the time, and the escape of all from death or injury seems a miracle indeed. The North Fairfield Gazette sacs : " The lightning struck the top of the ohim ney nt the west end of the building, com pletely demolishing it, teeringdown the entire west gable end of the building to the ceiling —siding, studding and all—scattering the pieces for rods to the west, throwing numerous whole bricks through the siding of the east gable a hundred feet into the front yard, and dividing the rafters of the roof its entire length. The electric fluid then passed down the stove-pipe into the schoid-room—and here the scene presented is gloomy enough. The six windows are completely shattered—the sash in two of them being broken and gone, and the glass in all the rest being so badly broken as to need now lights throughout ; the desks are loosened from the fluor, while the floor itself is badly damaged. The electric fluid seemed to to have followed the store pipe to the stoie, and from thence spent its foice in the ground underneath the building. In its passage it twistedei joint, of the pipe as if it had been paper, broke the door fastening of the stove, shivered : a large stone on which the stove st ood, almost fiulverizeti a stone on which the sleeper rested, ripped up the floor to the width of tv o feet its entire length, then entered the ground, making a hole about eighteen feet deep and a f,ot in diameter, throwing a quantity of mud to the ceiling and into the room above, and raising the entire floor, so that the doors could not be opened, and the teacher and pupils bad to make their exit through the windows, and yet, among all this wreck and destruction, no one was so much injured as nut to make their escape out of the house. We doubt it so singular an occurrence ever took place before." Domestic Receipts. Potato Padding.—Two pounds of po toes boiled and sifted, three-fourths of a • .of sugar, one-half piot of cream, seven el., and nutmegs. 7b Brown Coffee.—Cuteo should be brown ed gradually. and only to a light chestnut brown, so that when it is ground it will be lively.and fly around the sides of the eup. Loaf Cake.-1 lire.' cups t.ugar, one cup batter, two eggs, two cups spur milk, one tea spoon soda. with spice and fruit; or change abuse by putting in ono cup sugar lual nearly one cup molasses. Dandy radding.—One quart milk, two ta ble spoonfuls flour. yolks of four eggs well beaten mixed with the milk. Beat the whites separately with four tea-spoonfuls sugar. drop on the top of the pudding, and put in the oven. Beer.—Twenty drops wintergreen, twenty drops essence cinnt.mon, twenty drops essence sassafras, one pint of molasses, one table spoonfulginger, half pint yeast, five quarts hot and live quarts cold water. Let it fer ment, and cork tightly in bottles. Ought blarried People Skip Together!— " Hill's Journal of Health," which claims to be high authority in medical science, has ta ken a stand ngiamst married people sleeping tether, but thinks they had better sleep in adjoining rooms. It says that kings and queens do not !deep togother, and why should other people? Just think at separating a newly married couple on a cold winter night, because Hall's J.urnal of Health says so! MTlllinois would make forty such States as Rhode Island, and Minnesota sixty. Mis souri is larger than all Yew England; Ohio exceeds either Ireland, Scotland, or Portugal, and equals Belgium and Switzerland togeth er. Missouri is more than half us large as Italy, and larger than Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and Silitzerland. Missouri and Illinois are larger than England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Preneh Fria.—" Why do we make war on Austria?" said a youngster to a comrade. "Stupid I don't you know we are opening new Boulevards every day ?" ft Bother your Boulevaids I That don't ex plain the war." " Yes it does, too. As soon ea we open new Boulevards we have to make Imar." " But why?" "To find names of victories for them, tole sure." Parried.—Mr. Gratz Brown, the able edi tor of the Missouri Democrat, was married on Thursday of hest week, to Miss Mary Dann, ofJelkeon City .—Exchtsage. As is plainly to be perceived, she is now Mrs. Dunn Brown. imrße man and feu , not. TWO DOLLARS A-YEA IC P. Willis Visits Mauch Chunk The Anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania appears to be a favorite resort for tourists during the present season. So great is the rush to that direction, that excursion tickets are issued from New York fur a round trip through the Lehigh and Susquehanna coal Seib. N. P. Willis recently made a trip to Mauch Chunk, and writes his ideas about that very pretty town among the hills to the Rome Jur nal as follows : FromMiston to Mauch Chunk we follow the winding of the Lehigh. It is so happy a chance expediency, that railroads are built easier along rivers l The Baltimore and Ohio route, for instance, follows nearly tivo hun dred miles, the loveliest water-course of Vir ginia and Maryland—an italicising of the needed passages o r / Nature, that adds ex quisitely to their significance and beauty I The Lehigh is of the caressing and affectionate order of river beauty, full of coy windings and ravishing surprises ; and it is ptrhaps its most American peculiarity that it bontinues so wildly natatti and graceful, though de voted to gulch a merely practical loser as a railroad I The fact is, that the Lehigh style of charming women—perfectly , content with a merely business husband—is a national feature. As you approach Mauch Chunk, yen have something the sensation with which you enter Dlar hibyrinth of furniture in Broadway. It seems to be a warehouse of monneains—all exquisitely curious and beautiful. but so crowded together that you feel as if Nature and Marly may reasonably expect you to make allowance, and imagine how much bet ter each exquisite article would look, with drawing room and landscape to give it a pro per setting. At the stopping place. in the village. itself, it is liko coming to an inextri cable labyrinth. Deep down at the bases of a confused cluster of mountains, where you can only see the sky by laddering your eyes up the lines of lofty precipices directly from where you stand, there is a tight tangle of a railway, a canal, a brawling water course and a single street, the most crowded and elbow ing situate of a town and its thoroughfares that I ever saw! And yet just here—down at the bottom of this cave ol human industry and wild scenery—is one of the best hutch in the country, a house up against a rock, where you can sit on the veranda and toss a flower across the only street into a wild torrent, the opposite bank of the torrent giving room only fur the most busy of canal locks. As a strangely curious spot only seven or eight hours from New York, it ia a wonder that a trip to Mauch Chunk is not the most favorite of the excursions " hanly to Broad way!" flit I have not yet told the most attractive feature of this town cavern of mountains,— One of their sky-kissing summits is nine miles distant from another summit which is a mountain of coal. And how do you sup pose they "establish an °flotillas line" be tween these two Alpine stations! Liston to something funny and new The great point in lecomotion.• of course, (as in human revenges,) is to first gain such a anperior elevation that it is down-bill to your object. With a Mount Pisgah at Mauch Chunk. (named very properly alter the tall Peak from which Muses saw Canaan,) they hoist you, by a stationary engine, to the top —a three-quarters of a mile slide, swiftly up a precipice! From hence there is a descend ing railway, ns I said before, for nine miles, to the foot of an equally lofty coal mountain. And to return, they hoist ynu, in the same way, up the precipitous side of the coal-moan tain, and run . you back, by a similarly de scending track—(the two tracks crossing each other like the letter X laid on its side)—to the foot of Mount Pisgah. Over these two nine•mile tracks of de scending plane, the cars, of course, run with out locomotive; the law of gravitation har nessed and acting as a "2.40 trotter." And a more deliciously novel and refreshingly un human being-ish craft it is impossible to con ceive! Let me try to give you an idea of it. The passenger ma is simply a single open omnibus, running along and carrying fifteen or twenty people. It is started by band, the descent being so gradual as to be impercepti ble:—and this forms part of the marvel of it, as you seem to be cleavitig the air without effort, like a swift eagle asleep on the wing. The course of the road is a succession of sur plus. in this way. It jumps chums by the slightest looking of frame bridges, rounds the projecting curves and mountain sides, pene trates eaves and threads ravines and valleys, by no propelling power anywhere visible.— From the primitive wilderness of the Alps, through and over which the railway passes, it has been thought necessary to cut a path no wider than the track, and the trees brush the sides of your vehicle nearly all the way, hiding the road and making it seem like spiritstlitting or thought travel, regardless of' material obstacles. Part of the way the de scent is more ranid, running you through the close woods at the rats of between thirty and forty miles an hour; and the luxury of the feeling of this, in an open car, the world and its obstacles ignored as in the walk over Jor dan, only faster—is a rare thing, indeed, to be had for the price of a ticket ! Arrived at the base of Mount Summit, wo found ourselves in the wilderness of coal mines, nothing to be seen but the pyrsmids of the excavated rubbish interlaced by cobwebs of railways, black faced miners with lamps in their hats, steam engines and rough shanties —the world's writhing heart, under the curse of labor laid open I Ah, what a sigh—sug gesting specta,:le it was 167 - A little two year old youngster, just beginning to walk, was being severely rebu ked the other day by his mother for some naughtiness, and while lain it down to him gooJ, with strung gestures and sparkling eyes, Young America looked calmly into her face, and exclaimed, '3la—subside?' The mother was so much astonished at dais polite request, that she subsided without delay. bap-No man knows when, or. whoir. he will marry. It is nll nonsense planning or specu lating about it. You might as well look out fora wilt place to fall in a steeple-chase. You come smash down in the middle of your specu lations. lAn exchange goeth it thus—" A lady in Indium has obtained a divorce from her . hustauld, because he always laid with his back to her." All wrong! The woman might here got over on the other aide of him I It beats all what queer lawe Indiana has. sarA poet, lifter Lonsfellow, gels off a poem, of which the following stanza is o fair specimen: In the world's broad field of battle, In the great, barn yard of life, Be not like hwy . cattle— Be a rooster in the strife I airliany persons have a particular ambi tion to seem exactly what they are not. We know a rich man who bought a most splend id library. and signed the -contract with his mark. itlioa•Citizess of Pentsqlramiiii:— We now proceed to present to you, as billed ly as circumstances will permit, the viewein. tertained as the State Committee believitb, Us. Democracy of the State and of the &Aim, respecting the rights of oar natnralisedaiti-- sena, and those principles of natural justice and freedom which we are prepared to main tain in our intercourse with foreign States, es $ part of our enlightened American Policy. This subject has been at all times an interest ing one to us as our history shows. The first Article in the Constitution, authorising Con gress to establish an uniform rule of naturali zation, and the several acts of Congress pass ed in pursuance of the power granted. all in dicate this fact. It so happens now, that the state of war in which several of the lead ing nations of Europe have become involved, and which may possibly embrace in its un happy circle the whole of that Continent lx fore peace shall be re-established, has im parted, for obvious reasons, an immediate and mast important significance to all these ques tions depending on the principle of the right of expatriation, 'as we understand it in this country, and which, in connection with our act of Naturalization, aro notonly extremely intereages to our citizens by adoption, but directly concern the dignity, power and in termitional consequence of our Government. It is true that many ur all of theiGoverndlents of Europe have made provision-, in some mode or other, fur the naturalization of foreigners. by which they are invested with a portion or all of the righ toot native born /subjects, in the country of their adoption ; but, nevertheless. these same Governments, almost without ex ception, either openly affirm or tacitly main tain the doctrine of perpetual allegiance, ab solute or qualified, on the part of an alleged subject to the Government. under which he happens to be born. In opposition to this, the People and Government of the United States have always denounced the isles; of perpetual allegiance as unworthy the era in which we live, and as inconsistent with and inimical to the generous principled of our Government, and it is well known that on one occasion we successfully resisted its ap plication at the cannon's mouth. In the ' same spirit, the Imperial or Monarchial Gov ' ernments of Europe, still more or less sub servient to old Feudal influences, regard ex patriation as a matter of grace from the Government to the Subject, not as a matter of right in the subject, and of course as being subordinate to their claim of perpetual legianee. We, on the contrary, regard ex patriation as a natural and indispensable right, like the right to enjoy the sunshine or to breathe the air ; we believe it to be supe rior to allegiance, and that it can only be limited or modified, postponed, or in any way impugned or affected, by some actually exist ing debt, penalty or obligation due to the law, civil or criminal; at the period of emigration. The Governments of Europe have all been disposed to treat naturalization as being no more than a mere municipal regulation, which each nation might make for its own particular interests or convenience, operative ' within its own jurisdiction, but which did not warrant anything to be done fur a naturalised subject, in contravention of the international code of Europe, perpetual allegiance being a part of that code. On the other hand, with a larger comprehension of civilization and liberty,. we regard the act of naturalization as placing the naturalised citizen in 1 re spects, excepting in the one C TIP utional reservation of ineligibility to the residency or Vice Presidency, on the same footing, and in the same degree of righta and honor, as that occupied by the native-born citizen—es in point of fact inducting a man, hitherto for the period of probation required by the law, an inhabitant or resident in the land, into full and perfect citizenship under a Govern ment which proclaims expatriation to be a natural right, And which disaffirms the deo trine of perpetual allegiance as condieting eqnally with justice and reason. It must be borne in mind, however, that independently of the tie or duty of allegiance. and really distinct from it, there is and al ways must be in the necessity of the case, as the very cement of any organized political society endued with sovereignty, a certain contrast between the Government and its sub jects or citizens. Under this contract, the Government engages, among other things, to give protection to persons and property, to preserve order, to guarantee civil and politi cal rights, and to defend the nation against its foreign enemies, and the'subject or citizen fur his own part engages to obey the laws and pay to the Government whatever debt or pen alty the judgment of the law may justly de mand of him. What may be an actual sub sisting debt or obligation in the law which one may attempt to evade or esc a pe by expa triation may be hereafter the subject of diplo matio controversy between the Government of the Union and foreign States, but it is cer tain, that while the United States, so long as the Government remains in the hands of the Democracy, will permit no insulting visitation of the claim of perpetual allegiance on our adopted citizens, or any political distinctions to be drawn in principle between native and naturalized citizens at home or shroud, no act of naturalization, whether of am American e;tizen by a foreign government. or ,of a for eigner by our laws, can release either from an actual—not constructive—existing debt, penalty, or obligation under the contract re ferred to between all governmei.ts and their citizens or subjects, incurred and owing at. the time of expatriation, and unpaid at the moment of a voluntary return to the jurisdio tion of the deserted country. NO. 44. But there is no need to occupy your atten tion Caper with any observation of our own un thillopic. It is, fortunately, in our power to lay before jou an extract from a dispatch addressed to our Minister at Berlin, from the Department of State, by order of President Buchanan, and which, relating as it does to a. practical case, has been most carefully pre pared. It presents the true American position in a manner at once so clear iu statementaoll satisfactory in argument, as to be well nigh beyond cavil. [The Extract alluded to was published in the Compiler of last week, to which we refer our readers.] This perspicuous dispatch is se (Arial ex pression uttered by the government of the United States, under the auspices of a Demo cratic Administration. It announces the law of the question as it is understood and felt by our people, and its tone is ns temperate as its language is firm. lam willing to admit that it is somewhat in advance (tithe position held by preceding Administrations, but we must remember such has been the wonderful pro grems of- the United States in population, wealth and power, that but a few years have intervened since, from the character of a third, or at best, second-rate nation, oar great republican Confederacy has sprung to the first place among the sovereignties of the world, The influence of our country is now greater than ever before—its vast intellectual and physical capacities are well known abroad —and it seems a fit time and fit occasion in the particular case at issue, if ever, to wake the declaration which has now been sent to an European Court. • Thus it iv, fellow citizens, of Pennsylvania. and thus it has allege been, that thp true spirit of our free American institutions has been reflected in the noble history of tho Democratic party, and thus it is that the re cord of the Democracy is preserved in its purity and strength. It was certainly appro priate, too, that the party which reduced the probationary term of naturalisation front rourreskyears, as jewel; during the Admin istration of the elder Adams, to mu under Jefferson—which hinted from the statute book the "alien law." indicating a settled purpose on the part of its friends to harass and expel from our shores the uefortnnate persons who lied fled hither for refuge— which acquired Louisiana mad the mouth of the Mississippi, notwittistandi the cry of the Opposition that there - van f li ' uses on those fertile Imulk who, 14 tiniferMerilf.tbe treaty, would become citiseifeh has lawa,Y l solourned saggraitiott 0001440 , 61 aKasipßAl' the 8111110 hand-4,l4lkasade 14.2:11 11241 Damoarstte , Cloiamittee; "!~1
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