JJJL wW imimlh-w - - !- f n , n, iH,, l1"H ' T ' " im HiW 1 OM WWi il i . I. 1,1, - , i . , LEW Jo BL C. HICKOK, Editor, a N. WORDEN, Printer. LEWISBURG, TJNIOR CO., PA., AUQ. 8, 1850. Volume VU., Number 22. WLo:Trjmber 334. The Ve wlaburg Chronicle i isuJ every Wednesday morning at Lcwitburg, Union county, Pennsylvania. Tibxs. $1,50 per yer, for cifh actually In advance; $1,75, paid within three months; $3 if paid within the year ; $2,50 if not paid before the year expires ; aingle numliera.5 cents. Sub scriptions (or six months or less to be paid in advance. Discontinuances optional with the Publisher except when the year is paid up. Advertisements handsomely inserted at 50 ct per eqoare one week, $ I for a month, and $5 fur a year ; a reduced price for Linger advertisements. exceeding one fourth of a column, quarterly. $ 10. m a t Mercantile advertisements not Casual advertisement and Job work to be paid for when banded in or delivered. All communications bv mail nat come post paid, accompanied bv the address of the writer, to receive attention. Those relating exclusively to the Editorial Department to be directed to If. C. Hickok, Esq., Editor and all on business to be ad Irested to the Publisher. Office. Market SL between Second and Third O. N. WORDEN. Printer and Publisher. For the Lewisburg Chronicle. Where do the Hosqnitoes come from ? Mr. Editor : On a warm summer even ing, when you have heard the peculiar and musical notes of the mosquito about your ears, or felt the gentle insinuation of his proboscis, bas il ever occurred to yon to inquire where they come from ? Volumes have been written on the history of other insects, but the musquito is my favorite. Anyone may answer the question for himself, by l lie use of the following method or discovering the origin of these trouble some little creatures. Tuke a tumbler half full of riin water, two or three days after it has fallen. Cover it with a book, and set it aside over night. On exnmina tion next day, you will probubly discover h number of atiim.ilou'ai moving.- in the wa'er, of nearly a white color, with a line of brown through the middle. Soon, these become larger, growing to the length of the tenth or eighth part ol an inch, becom tng of a brown color, with the head and two black eves distinctly visible. Their motion, in the water, will remind you of that of an old politician, being rapid, swim ming up and down, and wiggling mi 1 wrig gling with a zigzag or serpentine move ment. U hen closely examined, you will sko the insect has a body nearly the size of the head, and a long, tapering, forked, alligatorish tail, distinctly marked with rings or belts with diminutive spinal pro jection. Id a few days the habits of the little wiggler, as we may cad him, undergo chugs, to his youth be it all life and activity, and at your approach, or the least agitation of hie native element, he will tim idly wiggle down to the bottom of the ves sel Which contains him." Out as his life advances, he loses his habits of activity, and becomes - bolder - as well as' more sluggish, giving signs of an approaching metamorphosis. While in this state of his existence, however, you will need no baro meter to indicate the stale of the atmos phere. If the weather is moist and pleas ant.tbe whole colony is in constant motion, this being probably the business season in the wiggler nation. If however it is dry and hot weather, you will ace the whole fraternity with thfir heads close to the surface of the water, their tails hanging downwards, perfectly molionless,as though praying lor a change of weather. If you have not paid the closest attention to your proleget, you will probably, some morning on examining your tumbler find ia the open space between your book and the surface of the water, several full grown mosquitoes, vainly endeavoring to make their escape ; and if you feel any wish to know where they come from, you can then soon satisfy yourself by selecting one of the largest, biggest headed, and apparently laziest ol the wigglers.and closely watching hit movements. After sundry impatient shakes of the head, as if dissatisfied with his present condition, and determined that , it is high time that something should be done, he will come to the surface of the water to bid a final adieu to the element from which he originated. He prepares to assume a wider and more ethereal state of existence, and spreads himself npon the . surface, raising, as it were, one shoulder from above the water. After a strong eflort he effects an opening in the skin, or coat of meil.which had hitherto confined him, and begins to develope his real nature. Gene rally the breach is effected in the body, or that division of the insect next the head, and is toon enlarged, so as to manifest to the attentive observer something of the familiar looks of an old acquaintance. First you see a small projection from the opening aforesaid, which coon appears like a knee or elbow slowly emerging.and then the limb is stretched out at full length. This member fully liberated, its powers are tested by an exercise of the joints, some thing after the manner of a sleepy man stretching his arms after waking from a long nap. Another leg is then got out with less difficulty, and very soon the new "iml obtains the victory over the old. The crocodile tail is shoved ofl backwards, by the unites efforts of the hind legs, and kicked away like an old pair of unmentio nable to which the owner gladly 'bids a nal farewell. Then the lore legs are ap plied to the hood which still cover the head, and alter some tugging it is drawn off" as a well-fitting flannel shirt is discard ed at the beginning of warm weather by a larger species of insects. By this last ope. ration, that interesting and important part of the animal, the proboscis, is liberated, and with no small pride and apparent gratulation our youthful friend extends it for the first time. Alas ! what annoyance ibat little member of this humbles: of insects 1 mT 3et occasion to some of the monarch ol creation : His wings are soon dried and extended, the rejected husk or covering answering the purpose of a boat mean while ; the body, no more confined by the worse than corset iigatures -from which it was just freed, enlarges ; the legs assume their fair proportions ; and the full grown but as yet somewhat delicate looking mos quito appears in all his majesty ;' or, if an opportunity offers, tries the powers of his wings, and sails off in search of prey. Perhaps for a while he may tarry, compo sedly smoothing down one leg by rubbing it with another, or with murderous design sharpening his proboscis with his fore legs, and dressing his wings, or quietly musing on what direction he. shall take to seek his fortune in the wide world on which he has now entered. The after historjof she mosquito it is quite unnecessary for me to give, as every reader has without doubt learned something of his nature and powers. Leaving, there fore, the winged life of this amiable cousin of mine, to the imagination or memory of) ihe reader, I close my Entomological dis quisiiion by availing myself of this occasion to tender you assurances of my distinguish ed consideration ; and subscribe myself, most tenderly, your faithful and devotedly attached friend, Aug. 19, 1650. Galli-kipper. From the Unaie Journal. Thoughts en Visiting the Place of . my Hativitr. The silver thresds that mingle with The auburn o'er my brow. Warn me, thit Time's relentless hand la busy with me now ; ' But here, among my native hills. The thoughts of age depart. And all the glow of sunny youth Conies bounding through my heart Can I be old 1 , There stands the Ires From which, but yesterday, . This very hand, in clusters bright Bore the ripe fruit away ; ' And is not that my father's boas Which standK upon the hill ! " "-"" And there, -upon the brawling stream, Clattera the busy mill. " Vou are not old." Thus Fancy said. As in a dream-like mood. Gazing on all these youthful scenes, Wtihio the vale I stood. I turned delusive Fancy tied ; A monitress to me Stern and sincere. Heaven's earth-bom child, Stood grave KEAL1TY ; Clothed in the sacred garb of Troth, With mourning on her brow, She whispered sadly on mine ear - " Where is that father now ? r . ' . " And where are many, once beloved. Who rovde, 'mid summer's bloom, ' Those dells with thee, all life and joy 1 Alas ! within the tomb. And ah, that 'yesterday' of thine Years, years have passed away, And what a train of vast events Divides it from to-dax ! "Those hands that bore the ripened fruit Were young and tiny then, While aow, with tbewa and sinews strong. . They cope their way with men. - Th wheel Ibat clattered by the stream By man has been renewed Nought save the tree, the rock, the hill, Stand now as then they stood !" A troop of children passed me by la all their noisy glee, Aad voices shouted, fund and clear, . Familiar names to me -The names of those whom once I knew, The absent and the dead Another generation trod : Tbs paths I used to tread I - - J Though strangers dwell within the halls Where once my fathers dwelt, ' Though stranger at the altar kneel Where once my -faihers knelt, Tie ruei remaiaa, whet boyhood's yesrs 8o smoothly o'er me rolled, And, standing here, I almost deem ' Yxsas can not make me old! ' Cbesth.N.11. B. B. FRENCH. ' Remarkable. A letter from J. W. Wilson, Sec. of the Keystone Mutual Life Insurance Company,' to Si II. TaTLob,, Agent for Wyoming County, dated Ilar risburg, August 2, relates the following remarkable circumstance: "We have just met with a $5000 losf in Pittsburg. A perfectly healthy man, that bas not called a physician in twenty years, got his policy on Saturday, and died i on . Monday night following ! lie went to bed perfectly well, and died of apoplexy before morning. The money will be promptly paid." - '" j OCrThe above is one' of many instances of the benefitsof the Life Insurance policy, reported almost daily.. The Editor of the Chronicle is Agent for a Life Ins. Comp'y. ' Whittling Shingles. - Scfkc Mr. Plowbnmlle's dourysrd John aod Editor seated on logs, on the sunny side of bis great woud-pile John, whittilug a chip ; the Editor, a basawoo J splinter. ' i""'"" 1 The Editor. Whittle from you, John . . , , i g i . why don't you whittle Jroth you ! John. What's the difference T Whitt ling is whittling any way, whether you whittle towards or from vou. Editor. A mistake, John ; a palpable mistake. There is philosophy in whittling. There is a right way end a wrong way to do every thing ; and for the right way theie is always a good reason. John. Pray, what reason for whittling from you 1 It's a small matter, at best really too small to consider. Editor. Wrong again ! It's the obser vance of these little things the considera tion of trifles that constitute what men call good or bad luck. There now, you have cut your finger not bad, I hope. John. Not very. Blast the knife. Throws it down. EJitor. Well, this is an apt illustration proof positive before I had commenced my argument. John. I'd like to know what my finger has to do with luck, good, had, or iiidiffer- ent 1 . Editor. Everything. Ifyou had con sidered a moment, you would have seen that whitiljng.towards you was dangerous; ommon prudence would have shown you that you might cut your fingers ; while, il jou whittled from you there was no danger. j Herein, then, is the key to that phantom which men cull luck John. Don't you believe in luck ? lvlilor. Don t 1 believe the moon is made of green cheese? No, Sir. There is no such thing. It's all moonshine. Just now you cut your finger, and you say "I am unlucky.' .o sucli thing you were stupid, careless. There's old Gripe, who began with no other capital than his axe. worth now his thousands, and you, and everybody else say as" lucky as old Gripe," and yet we all know that he has made his money by the operations of a clear intel lect a shrewd, close observance of little things turning the stream at tho foun tain, and not waiting till it gets to be a river. ' ' , ' ' " John. Training the sapling, and not the tree. 1 t ; Editor. Exactly a good idea. You always find him about his business. His work is never behind. His hay don't get ciught out in the rain, His wheat is nev er wet in the bundle or swath. lie looks at little things. If his grain is to stand out over night, il is all nicely put up in shocks and capped ; if his hay can't be carted the same d ty, it's raked and cocked. He says, 'I am not master of the elements, but lam of my time.'' So he makes sure against contingencies which he can not control. He always whittles from him ; and be is called "lucky." John. And he is lucky. Editor. No such thing, ifyou mean by that, chance favoring him more than oth ers. Now, there's Dick Careless, he is always railing at his bad luck. Dick works hard. I think he does more real h.trd work than Gripe. Put everybody pities poor Dick, he has such "h-trd 1 uck. I( it were not for his wife, he would have been in the poor house before now. Everybody says, "what a clever fellow is Dick ;' and so he is, he minds everybody's business but his own. UtcK stacks nis nay nut neglects i put on binders, and tho top blows ofl and his stack is ruined. He has a nice crop of wheat cut, and intends lo cart to-morrow, so he leaves the wheat carried into bunches. Hut to-morrow it comes on to rain.and his wheat get wet and sprouts,and then you say, "well, that's just Dick's luck." Dick has bad luck with his sheep, and cattle, and horses, always losing more or less every year. Now, you believe in luck ; well, just tell me why he loses more than you do. John. 'He is careless don't take pains enough with them. ' Editor. Oh 1 that's it. Which way do you think he whittles 1 Two loone.John, he whittles tovardt him. He cant see any difference ; and, like you, is a firm believ cr in luck. There's Tapewell; everybody says, "what a lucky fellow he has been, got as rich as a nabob, and had only a few goods to start upon-'' While Ging ham, who had a fine store, full of goods, went all to smash in three years. John. Yes, and old Tape bought his fine store and house at about one quarter its cost. Wasn't that luik. Editor. No, sir. Tape lived within his means, and accumulated his profits. He did not care for a fine store while he could-sell bis good in the old one ; and being at less expense, be could always sell a little cheaper, and tbus got the best cus tom. Gingham lived up to. bis income, and a little overt so when bard times came he could not collect, could not pay, and down he went, while Tape was snug in was, ha whittled towards himself, till he cut his fingers while Tape always whilt- : led the other way. No such thing as luck ihore, John, I . r 1. 1... r .. ..... v.. ;; , ,, , h . ' . , I p'auKibleas avlwer in a baa case; but mi I Ol 111 , Sill, UUl Vvlf p A IU31 fi JVUl'ij j coll, the other day dropped down dead in the, held worth a cool hundred now. wasn't (hat bad luck ? 1 don't know what you may call it, but I call it confounded bad luck. Editor. How had you kept your colt 1 John. In the stiible all winter, on car rots and hay, in fine order. . Turned him out to grass the other day.and before niht of the second day he was stone dead. Editor. Did he run much when you let him go T Large fields T John. Ah ! didn't he run ? Only a ten acre lot. I thought the fellow never would get enough. What an elegant racer he would have made ! Editor. Day was warm, and night cold. John. Yes, but what ol that 1 Editor. On, nothing ! only you w hit- lied towards you. John. How so ? Editor. Simple John! This you call "luck,'' while it's rank stupidity. Your colt was in high condition had not been exercised. A prudent man would have put him into a small yard.until he had become somewhat quieted. O.d Gripe would not have lot him out over a cold night, after ho had been exercising so severely in the hot sun. The colt was a victim to your own thoughtlessness. He killed himself running. Lucky John ! John. How could I tell he would hurt himself by being turned oui? Never had one before, and have done just the same thing times enough before. Editor. Thai's it. We come back lo where we started. It's the observance of these trifles, nothing more, that makes men lucky. Whittle trom you, my good fel low, always whittle from you, and a fig for luck. John. Well, there's one kind of luck I know you delight in, and that's ready. Editor. And pray, what's that T lohn. Pot-luck, to be sure. Editor. Good, I am with you.-l-fOhio Cultivator. . WOOL GROWER. Bissau'- Retreat at Buena Vista. We have been told by one who was there the minutiaeol the proceeding.' When the aid on duty, (who was Col. Churchill,) gave Col. Gissell the order to retreat, the Indiana regiment . was in rapid flight, in rear of Missel's scattered over a half a mile of ground, each man evidently thinking the battle lost, and trying to save himself; and as soon as Basel's men should be faced about, lo full back, those flying men would be in full view, and the panic they were under must naturally influence somewhat those who stood. Six thousand Mexican infantry were pouring oown upon inis de voted regiment, in steady advance by col umn, in front and flank, assailing them within point blank distance, with a steady hail storm of iron and lead ; four thousand cavalry were eoming up behind these infan try, waiting for a favorable moment, at the least sign ol wavering on our part, lo charge nnd complete the work of destruc tion ; t'nree pieces of artillery were thun dering on them their death messengers of grape and canister, tearing through their ranks like a hail storm of vengence, and they seemed lo stand alone, exposed to all this concentrated attack, determined on their annihilation. To iho aid, Col. Dissell replied ; " I am not ready to retreat .yet, whilst his regi ment continued returning the fire of the Mexicans. In a few moments the Colonel ordered, "cease firing !" "shoulder arms!" dress !" The Mexican fire was abated, and then, for at least two minutes, did that noble body of men stand under a steady, galling and raking fire of artillery, and musketry, with an overwhelming force ol infantry and cavalry advancing upon them, unblcnching and unwavering, without fir ing a gun. Not a man moved, while their Colonel's eye ran along the line to see if any one quailed. " About face !" " dress !" "for ward march !' They moved ofl in com- - A a I - I mon time. " U uck time marcn, ana the regiment retired, under circumstances which have never failed before in the histo ry of war. in causing a panic. The Mex icans considered themselves certain of vic tory, and with vivas" nod " hurrahs, on came their splendid cavalry, surging down in their green and scarlet, their plumes waving, and their lances gleaming in the sun, with their thousand gay strea mers catching the glistening beams as every breath of air fluttered them like glit- ering leaves of a fairy forest, upon that apparently devoted body ol men ; . Two hundred yards quickly passed, Risseli's men reached the spot designed for them to hold. The rancevs were preparing for the last charge, which was to hurl our Halt I'' " dress !" Coolly and camly as if on parade, did these Suckers obey the command, whilst the thunder of squadron after squadron, on the slope they had just left, told that the enemy was opoii them. They could not see them, but they could hear the horses' hoofs, the jingle of sabres, nnd the clatter . of lances, ihe inspiriting charge of bugle, and the vivas" of the men, as they rushed on to the seemingly easy victory ; and no doubt many a heart fluttered, and many an eye glanced invol untarily around for it was a fearful thing to know that an enemy is upon your back; but not a muscle swerved. "About fuce!" "commence fning and a volley of musketry rolled upon those huzzaing cavaliers, which silenced their cheering ; and as column and rank went down before that deadly and steady fire as their number lessened.and their chargers swerved from this serried line of men who knew no defeat, their column wavered, trembled as it were, slackened in speed, and broke in confusion. Rallying hack in tumultuous retreat upon the enemy, the whole division was involved in inextricable confusion, and in disorder left the field fhus was the tide of battle turned on that eventful day, and less than half a full regi ment in numbers defeated ten thousand of the flower of Santa Anna's army ; and that too, when the army was rushing in, flusheJ with victory, and encouraged by the flight of one regiment saving the credit of our arms, and the lives of the thousands who stood tlierejwith them. Illinoit. Argui. ATTaie of Horror. - ' While traveling a Couple of weeks since, we heard from the lips of a friend one of the most heart-rending recitals we have listened to for a long time. He was put off from a steamboat at or near Wolf Is land, about 25 miles below the mouth of trie Ohio, for the purpose of collecting debt from a man living about rive miles in the country, on the Missouri side, we think. With a carpet bag in his hand, he had followed a narrow path about three miles, when he came across a small cabin. Yet "cabin'' would not describe the place of habitation, for such it proved to be. It was a little dilapidated shed.with no boards on one side and great crevices on the other sides and in the roof. '' He would have passed it by, but moans from ' the inside told that it was occupied. " Wishing to in quire his road, he stopped, and stood before the open side of the shed, and gazed upon a spectacle, which, as he said, was present before his eyes days afterward, and haun ted his sleep. We describe what he saw, as he told as, only saying that atrange as ihe story may seem, full reliance can be placed upon his words. . There was not a bed or chair in the shed. but stretched upon the bare ground lay the body of a youthful looking woman, who had evidently just died. Her form was al most a perfect skeleton ; yet the face was that of a refined. and beautiful woman. On her breast lay an infant about 6 months old, with its mouth to the breast of its mother, and dead. And sitting up in the corner ol the shed, and staring the traveler in the face with glazed eyes, was what he thought another corpse, but life was yet in it. The figure was that of a girl, apparently about ten years old. She could not rise to her feet, and yet she was not sick. She was literally dying of starvation ! . By the side of the woman, and clasping her hand, lay a man covered with blood and apparently in a dying state. And to this the filth of the room and the half naked condition of the sufferers, and we wonder not that the scene long haunted the observer. He went in. The girl could not speak, but the man cried " water" in a feeble voice, and pointed to the girl, as if to attract the stranger's attention to her. The traveler. Mr. J., of Cincinnati, hastened away, tak ing with him a tin pan. and says he never ran harder in his life than he did about half a mile to a small stream he had passed nd returning, found the man alive, who eagerly drank ihe water, and pointing to the girl said in a whisper,"she's starving !" Mr. J. gave the girl water, which revived her, and she tried to walk, but could not. He learned with difficulty that there was a house about a mile distant, where he has tened, but found only a negro. While getting some provisions and returning, the negro said the Cholera had broken out in that neighborhood, and the family owning him had left for the time being that the little girl of the shed had daily appeared there for provisions until about three days past that the man and woman had been sick for a long lime,&c. On their return, the man was dying he lived but an hour. The little girl was revived by food s she said she had been ick herself, and could not walk to the house for food, that her mother died the day previous,and the baby about the same time, and that her fathar had tried to kill himself when they died. It was horrid. The child waa taken to the house, and the rest of the unfortunate fam ily buried. The child afterwards stated thought from what he could gather, that the family was from a New Albany. The negro said the family hud been there some weeks, and came directly after his owner had left. As there was not a family in the neighborhood, the person also having gone whom Mr. J. wished to see, the girl was left with the negro, who promised faithfully to attend her, yet there j were but little Hopes ol her recovery. It has never been our misfortune to hear a more horrible tale of reality than this Evansville (Ind.) Journal. Life on the Ocean. QMr. Kinney, late editor of the Newark Daily Advertiser, but who recently left to fill (he appointment of Consul at Sardinia, gives the following description of the voy age across the ocean : An Atlantic steamer, peopled for the sea, is itself a w orld, comprising specimens of almost every nation on the habitable globe. When tho ' America" left her wharf on the I9ih of June, in her humlredand twenty passengers were included English, Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Canadians, North Ameri cans, S ct! Americans Mexicans. West Indians, Spanish,Prcnch, Germans,Danes, &c, the United Suites Representatives being Yankees, New Yorkers.Southerners, and Western men. You will easily im agine that these formed a motley company when they dined, an irregular army when they walked, and a Bjbel when they talked ! To us, these human patterns of all worlds would have furnished study and amusement for the whole voyage had there been nothing to wonder at, ponder, and ad mire in the surrounding waste " in the blue above, and tho blue below.' As it was, the studies of nature, and human na ture alternately filled up the time, so that it passed almost too rapidly away. Talk now to those who never crossed the ocean before, of its terrors, and they would not understand you ; for, to us the sea was a libera! friend, douMing the smile of Heaven that bent over our heads in cerulean beau ly ; or, a capricious mirror, golden in the sunlight, and silvered by the rr.oon that blessed all our nights with her compan ionable beams. " ' Bjt, lest we should pass over the great deep, rilled only with the sence of beauty, the august presence of icebergs those cit adels of arctic seas awakened in us a deep sense of the sublimity and reverence ever due to Ocean, that mighty " hjerarch of nnture, whose "voice ol many waters" leads the worship of Creation.- On the morning or our first Sabbath out, the in creased chilliness of the atmosphere gave intimations of proximity to these ice-mountains, which ere noon stood round us, at safe distance, rearing their majestic sum mits, crowned with innumerable gems. They were of every shape, from pyramid to the Grecian temple of the - whitest white, and seemed alabaster palaces, tem ples and monuments," not in motion, but to stand firm, based in the depth of the deep, and pointing to the sun that gilded the tow ers. But, to pass from the lofty scenery of Nature to a scene1 of moral sublimity more pleasing than his mightiest works to the God of Nature, who listens to the Sab bath bell no less complacently when it swings at the mast-heud of an humble ship, than when rung out to far hills from the temple-spire let me lake you into the sa loon of the " America,'' where the Captain sits in the centre with the Bible and Prayer Book before him, surrounded by his offi cers and his hardy sailors, washed and neatly attired, on the one hand, and the congregation on the other like a father in the midst of a household. In a clear, rich voice, he read the service of the Eng lish Church, following il with a well-selected and impressive sermon. The beany responses of the seamen the blessed proof that, at least, once in the week they are reminded of and directed lo the sailor's truest Friend, could not but touch the Christian heart, and more than one of thai company of worshippers felt deeply.as they were leaving the land ol religious liberty, ' bow blessings brighten as they take their flight!" Terrible Affliction. The following notice of a sad visitation in the household of Gov. Clark, formerly a printer in Harrisburg, a native of Wesi more'and county Pa., tf Iowa, is from a Burlington exchange the Telegraph : Djed In this city, on Saturday night, at the residence of Gov. Clarke, of cholera, Mrs. Frances Wise, of Wapello and a few hours afterwards, Mrs. Christiana II. Clarke, wife of Gov. Clarke and on the next day, and a few hours subsequently to the death of Mrs. C, Miss Jane Stul!, daughter of Gn. StuU, formerly Secretary of Iowa Territory. 'The names of these estimable ladies are chronicled inthe order in which'lhey were called from our midst, partly to show the beautiful devotion of the female heart, as it is illustrated aftha bed side of a dying friepJ. "Mrs. Wise being jromptings of her kindly and woman'y na. 'ure, and become a ministering attendant, ' 'o some extent, of dying child. .When'1 ittacked herself, Mrs. Clarke, as hostess,' r end, and warmest hearted ol women. " Teeame Ihe devoted friend of her afflicted" :;uest; nor did she relax- in her noble ex-" ertions until the relentless hand cf drsease had fastened upon herself. Intelligence of ' this attack soon brought to her bedside the ' now lamented and generous hearted M'sa Stul! than whom a nobler spirit or a truer friend neve? bat?rcd nr.i she, a!2s! no' sooner saw the cherished object of her at- ; tentions inevitably perishing beneath the ' violence ol disease, than herself became a ' victim, and in a few brief hours, followed1 ' to the tomb, ths dear friend whom she had" sought to save. -" And, to complcTe" the dreadful visitation, we find the following in out Western ex changes : Death of Ex Gov. Clarke, or Iowa. U'e nre sorry to hear of the death of Jame3 Clai Ip, Ex-Governor of lown. Hu died on Sunday night, the 2Hlb of July. At tlie time cf hij death, Gov. C. was edi tor of the Inwa Gazette, Burlington. All who knew him will hear? of his deseaso with sorrow. Gulena Gazette. He was a son-in law of Senator Dodr,' of this State ILs daughter and her child , hid but few days before been swept away by the sar.-.e scourge. Milwoakie, Wisconsin, Au. 3. The RIe:tl7e7nlic7aryr The amendment to our State Constitu'. tion, authorizing the election of Ju:ige by the p'op!e, which is to be submitted to the ' electors of the Sfa:e next fall, it has been thought wouM meet with no serious oppo ' sition, since even the party presses gener ally have pretended to favor it. In this, however, it seems we have been mistaken,'' fir the Lancaster "Republican and Press," contains a letter from Garrick Maflery and C. Ingprsoll, Eqi., of Philadelphia, to Sjmuel Parke, Eq., setting forth that "sfn' opposition is now beinjj oran zed in vari ous parts Of the State lo the- proposed amendment ; and that it is inteuded to hold in the course of this month, at some designated place, a small private meeting, to consist of two individuals only, or?e Whig anyone Demoera', from eich judi cial district, quietly to consult upon, and arrange a plan of action for the different counties.' ' A . An opposition so onexpeced,and coming from a source so respectabV, ought lo put the people on the hlert, that a measure which has appeared to receive the sanction of nineteen twentieths of the entire poptw latinn of" Pennsylvania, should not be ds" feajed by a very small minority, in conse quence of their apathy. Let the people awake to this msttor, and there can be no danger of defeat Potlsville Emporium. . A Leap Almost Incredible One nf the mort extraordinary feau on record was performed on Friday evening, August 2 1, by a small Sorrel Mi re, be longing i Mr. Zimmerman, Livery S;able keeder. in M nersville. Lebbeus Hughes, son nf E. Hughes, Eq., aged about 12 years, was riding ihe Mare, when she be came frightened snd ran away with him ; she ran up the Kulroad lo where it crosses Wolf creek j'ist above tho shop of Mr. IV m. De ll.ivt ii, at which point the plju! had been removed from the Bridge for a space of about 2-" foef. Hare, as if fearful of attempting the leap, she stopped sudden ly for a iioment, nnd then gathered all her energies, cieitrej ihe space at a in"lo bound. U' could hardly believe such n leat possible, had it not been witnessed by several persons wbi immediately mea sured the distance jumped, and found it lo , be tweny-secen feet ! Neither horse nor rider were injured by the wonderful ixjloil. Totuvilie Emporium. 7PriviIege and Obligation are- but correlative terms. The greater the privil ege, the greater the duty, and the grea er the sin of leaving it unperformed. We ask more for the pulpit, than that it be provided w,hh a pious and well educated ministry ; and we ask more for the minis try, than lhat k should receive an adequate pecuniary support, and be respected and encouraged. We claim for it a practical regard for the truths it inculcates, and ths duties it enforces. We ask for it thai ha racter, those hopes, and ihose efforts which it was instituted to attain and advance. Uev. Gardiner Spring, I). D Pxincht Munificence. Gcrrit Smiil of Pelerboro has recently distributed 30, (MlO iu cash, and 500 farms to 1000 po.r landless and temperate whi'e penseo in York State. $180 and eiht faraw of the above have been given to individuals iu ihe county ol Ontario.. , Excellent. . Mr. Smi.'h, like a sensibia man, wishes to see 'his money do gooJ while he is living. . It looks better than rly iog bed donations, for charitable objects, for then il is only given because it h no .1
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