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BL C. HICKOK, Editor,
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LEWISBURG, TJNIOR CO., PA., AUQ. 8, 1850.
Volume VU., Number 22.
WLo:Trjmber 334.
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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 ?
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" 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
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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. '
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1 The Editor. Whittle from you, John
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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,
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I p'auKibleas avlwer in a baa case; but
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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
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