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Inches, elegantly printed on tinted pa per, fully illustrated, each number having steel engravings, oil picture, or art subjects, publish ed by W. Jennings Demurest, New York, and by special agreement combined with the aA|LArOnRNAI is S£SO per Yr A ni?MTW! I WK WANT YOU In every A*JT Ijli 1 Jj I County, to sell our New au TOMATir CAKI'CT Hwkki'km. You can make from W.IJO to ».".(*) |«-r day the year round. Oiks] profits and rapid sales. Capital not necessary It you can furnish good references. Address at once Faok Cam'et Mwkkikk Co. Toledo, O. CHAR A CT ERISTIC ISC IN DENTS OF THE MICH IGAN FIRES. Fire had been burning in Sanilac, Huron, Tuscola counties, but no oue apprehended any danger. Farmers had set fire to slashings to clear the ground for fall wheat, but this happens every fall, and the fact that not a drop of water had fallen in from fifty to seventy days was not considered by who saw the smoke clouds and replied that tbpre was no danger. There »*as danger: Behind that pall of smoke was a greater enemy than an earthquake, and it had a tornado at its back and two hundred miles of forest in front. From noon UDtil two o'clock a strange terror held the people in its grip ; then all of a sudden the heavens top); fjrp, Qr hq it seemed to hundreds In some localities it came with the sound of thunder. In others it was preceded by a terrible roaring as if the tidal wave were sweeping over the country. Almost at the same minute ffie flames appeared in every spot over a district of country thirty njilps broad by one hundred in length. At Richmondville, ten miles above Sanilac, one hundred and fifty people had comfortable homes, stacks of hay and grain, teams, COA-S, pigs, sheep, and np fpar pf the fire which they knew was burning a mile At ! 2 o'clock the flames rushed out of the woods, leaped the fences, ran across the bare fields, and swallowed every house but two, and roasted alive a pepplp. H is hardly forty rods to the beach of tfcie lake, and yet mt*n/ people bad no time to reach tne water. Others reached it with clothing on tire and faces and hands blistered. The aoußfig sid not burn singly, but one billow of flames s£ise<j a<| flpep apd reduced them to nothing in tefi pa'V »te». I saw many and many a »pot if here the billows of fire jumped a clean half mile out of the forest to clutch house or barn. The TLornton family were wiped out with the exception of a boy. Tbprqtop fiat} hitched up his team to drive the family to a plfcc? pf safety, but when be saw that" they were all surrounded by the flames he unhitched the horses 'in despair. Before they poyld be unharnessed they bolted in different directions, &n<} J.be old man become so confused that he ran directly toward a big slashing, which was then a perfect mass of flame, and dropped and died with his head toward it Meantime the mother and children bad taken refuge in the Foot house. This was a structure mostly sunk in the ground and the roof well covered with earth. Here they were all right for a time, but when tbe father failed to join jbem one of the sons went out to see what caused tbe delay. Ho was hardly out of the place before th* door through which be bad passed was in flames. In this emergency he raD to a dry creek, and by lying on his face and keeping his mouth to tbe ground be lived through it. I talked with a woman who lived neighbor to the Thorntons and who escaped by fleeing to a field of plowed ground. This was only a few rods from the root house, and she said it was fully an hour before the screams and shrieks and groans from the peo ple inside grew quiet in death. One by one they were suffocated by heat and smoke, and their bodies presented a most horrible appearance. To one riding through tbe district it seems miraculous that a single soul escaped The fire swept through the green trees as well as tbe dry. It ran through fields of com at the late of twenty miles au hour, and fields of clover were swept as bare as tbe floor. I)ai k and gloomy swamps filled with pools of stagnant water, and the home for years of wildcats, bears and snakes, were struck and shriveled and burned almost in a flash. Over tbe parched meadows the flames ran faster than a horse could gallop. Horses did gollop before it, but were overtaken and left roasting on the ground. It seems as if every hope and avenue of escape were cut off, and yet hundreds of lives were spared. People spent ten to twenty hours in ditches and ponds, or in fields under wet blankets, having their hair singed, tbeir limbs blistered, and tbeir clothing burned off piece by piece. In dozens of cases the first flames spared houses and barns, but after seeming to have passed on for miles, suddenly circled back and made a clean sweep of everything. Uuless one rides over tbe burnt district he cannot believe *tbe eccentricities of a forest fire. In the great swamp between Sanilac and Sandusky, it burned every thing to tbe roots fora mile in breadth. Then it left patches from ten feet to ten rods wide, leaving a half a mile of fuel on cither side. In the timber it seemed to strike the green trees harder than the dry ones. It was like a great serpant making its way across the country. It would run within three feet of a wheat stack, and then glide away to lick up a house. It would burn a stack and spare u burn ten feet off. People felt the heat while the fire was yet miles away. It withered the leaves of trees standing two miles from the path of the fiery serpant. The very earth took fire in hundreds of pla ces, and blazed up as if tbe flames were feasting on cordwood. The stout est log buildingn stood up only a few minutes. The fire seemed to catch them at every corner at once, and af ter a whirl and a roar nothing would lie left. Seven miles off the beach, at Forester, sailors found the heat un comfortable. Where some houses and barns were burned we could not find even a blackened stick. Kvery beam and was reduced to fine ashes. Seven miles back of Forester a far mer gathered up fifteen JHTSOIIS in his wagon and started for the beach. The fire was close behind them as they started—so close that the dresses f some of tbe women and children were on fire from the sparks. It was seven miles of up hill and down, with cor duroy, ruts, and roots, and the horses needed no whip to urge them into a i mad run. As the wagon started tbe BUTLER, FA., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 9,1851 tire of a hind wheel rolled off. They could not stop for it, and yet, even on a good road tbe wheel would have crushed <lown going twenty rods : without it. It is an actual fact that the horses pushed over that seven miles of rough road at a wild run, and the wheel stood firm. A delay of five minutes ap any point of tbe road would have given fifteen more victims to flames which followed on behind. I saw the wagon at the lake, and I saw tbe tire seven miles away on the roadside. The people who sought the beach bad still to endiire much of tbe heat and all of tbe smoke. Wading up to their shoulders, they were safe from tbe flames, but sparks and cinders fell like a snow storm and tbe smoke was suf focating. The birds not caught in the woods were carried out to sea and dro>yned, and the waves have washed thotfgttuds of them asbpre. jSquirrelg, rabbits and such small animals stood no show at all, but deer and bears sought the beach and the company of human beings. In one case a man leaped from a bluff into the lake and fo(ii}(} himself behind a large bear. They remained in company under the bank nearly all night, and the bear seemed as humble as a dog. In anoth er instance two of the animals came out of the forest and stood close to a well from which a farmer was drawing watpr to dash oypr his Jiousp, and they were with bim for two hours before they deemed it prudent to jog along. Deer came out and sought the com panionship of cattle and horses, and paid no attention to persons rushing jiasf, tbem—lfetroet Pfe^i CASTING A MONSTER GUN. A Ball to be Thrown Twelce Miles. Au imimmws gun at the Scott Iron Works Qetobaf 2-J. The claim is that it will work a revolution in gunnery. It is twenty-five feet long and warranted to throw a shot a dozen miles. It is known as the Lyman- Haskell accelerating or multicharge gun. The casting was a success and was witnessed by a of visitors from other cities The Scott Works, are under tie con trol of the Reading Iron Company and occupy nearly a block on North Eighth street. During the rebellion mauy of the bpawifi&l cannon qsed by the Northern army were cast and fin ished at these works and tested on the proving grounds several miles below Heading. The reputation of the works becanic widpspread, and tbeif recent construction of the m >st powerful cot ton presses in the world has added much to their fame. Superintendent .John G. West, of the works, had di rect charge of the ousting. At two o'clock this iporning two reverberat ing furnaces In the foundry were charged with 58,000 pounds of iron. This iron was co!d-blu9t charcoal ma terial from four different, iron furnaces in this section. The flask containing the immense mould was placed up right in one of the deep gun pits that was used in casting cannon during war times. The patterns and mould were constructed here after drawings fur nished by the inventors. THE CASTING. The casting began at three o'clock Both furnaces were tapped at the same time. The molten iron from one was conducted in an iron trough, lined with '.•lay, to the mould, and that froiu the other was tapped into a lanre iron ladle attached to a crane and from this poured into the mould. The met al from one furnace ran down through an opening between the fl isk and the mould to the breech, while that from the other furnace ran down in the fame manner on the opposite side of the mould. They mingled together at the bottom and rose until the mould was entirely filled. Six minutes were consumed in the casting. The section of the gun cast to-day measured fifteen feet one and a half inches. The re maining section will be cast later. l)uring the casting Professor Hurt well, of the Scientific Ameri an took a photographic view of the scene, in cluding the huge ladle, whi h has a capacity of eleven tons of metal. Th" inventor exhibited the drawings and a large wooden model of the gun, and explained the power oftbe penetration of the accelerating cannon. The east ing was satisfactory throughout and the metal will have to remain in the mould some time, probably two weeks, before it is cool. It will then be taken out to the machine shop and finished up, to be taken to Sa idy Uook for an ofli >ial trial HOW THE OUN WII.L MB LOAOEI). When finished the gun will be twenty-five feet lon-r und have a bore of fix inches in diameter. Along the bore four pockets are located, in each of which a charge of powder will be placed, whjch will l>e discharged at the proper periods, with a view of ac celerating the speed of the ball after it I has left the chamber in the gun and I during its rapid progress through the I bore. The charge of powder necessary is reckoned at one hundred and thirty pounds and the weight of the shot one hundred and fifty pounds. It is con fidently claimed bv the inventors that the ball can be thrown a distance of ten or twelve miles and that it can be forced through a solid mass of wrought iron two feet thick. The greatest di ameter at the breech is twenty-six Inches. The inventors are J. It. Mas- I kell, of Passaic, N. J., aud of 115 ; Broadway, New York' and A. S. Ly j man, also of New York. Both men are well-known inventors and have made the subject of ordnance a study. Mr. Haskell was present at the casting j to-day. ' He says that the theory of this invention is the gradual accumu -1 lation of velocity or power by a suc cession of charges of powder exploded behind the projectile as it passes along the bore of the gun. The inertia of tho shot is first overcome by a moder ate charge of coarse-grained, slow burning powder and then repeated charges of quick-burning powder are applied in succession until u greatly increased velocity is attained. TilK ACCELERATING I'IMNCII'LE. By the accelerating principle ten times as much powder can be applied and yet the maximum pressure in the gun is not increased. Instead of plac ing all the 9train upon about two feet of the metal at tbe breech, by this pro cess the strain is distributed along tbe entire length of the gun. It is also claimed tbat these accelerating guns will have more than double the power of any single-charge gun. The weight of powder in pounds for a charge is as follows for a six inch bore : At tbe breech, 18 pounds; first pocket, 28 pounds; second pocket, 28 pounds; third pocket, 28 pounds ; fourth pocket, 28 pounds; total, 130 pounds. Weight of shot, i calibre long, 150 pounds. John Fewton, colonel of engineers, says that a twelve-inch accelerating gun would be more powerful than the one hundred ton Armstrong gun made for the Italian Government. In his opinion the loading of tbepockets can be m a flp as psp c 4itiotys as that of the breech. Haskell also claims as the result of actual experiment that as the pocket charges are ignited at the front end and the hot gas from the breech charge is driven entirely through them none of the powder can pass out of the tfUU cou)b H .tioD, All thopo*- de* Is therefore utilized and a velocity of three thousand feet per second is attainable for a solid shot twelve inches in,diameter and three feet long or even a larger shot. Practically this would }}e irresistible in warfare THE LAND SLIP AT ELM, SWITZERLAND. In the recent disaster at Elm—oth erwise known as Unterthal- a great fpass of earth atu} rocl{ ffom thti ten berg or Tscblngler Alp, 1,5000 feet wide, at least 2,000 feet high above the valley, and, according to the en gineers, from GO to 100 feet deep, fell over upon the village, its farm*, gar cjeqs, and meadows, covering several thousand '|Pon3 pf vyerp dashed entirely across the valley, and now rest quietly 300 and 400 feet hijfh upon the hillside. The uir pressure was so great tbat houses were lifted up from their foundations and carried a distance of 1,000 feet. A barn built of heavy jogs. an(J fil|ed with hay, carried entirely across the valley and overturned 200 feet high on the moun tain opposite tbe Platte nberg. An iron bridge which crossed the Sernf was torn up, earriedscores of feet away from its abutments, am} now rests oq e p d more thau halt buried in mud and loose stone. Tbe whole valley, us far as it can be seen from the village inn, which is still standing, very closely resembles the bed of a glacier which has receded. The river Snerf has made for itself a new channel through tbe debris, and has flooded and ruined much of tbe j land below, land which was not direct ly harmed by the avalanche of stone. So in one way or another the whole valley has been injured beyond all hope of repair. The loss in property will reach not le9S than 2,000,000f, ; at tbe lowest estimate 123 people have lost their lives ; other estimates make the number 150 or more. The state j engineers, fearing further land slides, have forbidden those who have escap ed to return to the houses which re main standing, and in consequence more than 800 men, women and chil dren, who but a few days before were prosperous and wellrto-do, are now *l - without a rool to Cover them. The chief causo of the disaster, after tbe heavy rains of the past summer, is said to have been injudicious quarry ing for slate, whereby the mountain was in part undermined and so render ed unsafe. Some three years ago omi nous signs of danger were observed, >tml the cantonal forest master, llerr S eli, warned the proprietors of the quarries that they were carrying on their excavations beyond the bounds o"safety. The work went on without i iteiTuption until Thursday, Sept. 8, when the premonitions of disaster be came so alarming that all the men were withdrawn from the quarries; yet DO one seems to have thought the village was in danger until Sunday afternoon, when, as the people were coming from church, a quantity of stones, rolling from the Tschingler, crushed several houses in Unterthal nearest the foot of the Alp. Ten min utes later came the great catastrophe ; a thunderous noise rent the air, a black duht-cloud overspread the valley, and all was still. In those two or three seconds Uuterthal had disappeared, and with it were buried nearly every one of the unfortunates, who a lew minutes previously were worshiping in tbe village church. Scarcely any, in fact, who on the lirst alarm crossed tbe Sernf. either out of curiosity or fear, to lend a helping hand to those whose houses had been struck, escap ed, and they included nearly all the manhood of the village Forty dwell ings, the best in the village, were buried. This is not the first disaster of the sort in Switzerland, nor anything like the worst. On the 4tb of September, |r !8, the rich though small town of Plurs, in the Grisons (near the Knga dinc valley), was entirely buried by a land slip. Over 2,400 persons lost their lives. The sight is now occupied by a fine forest of chestnut trees. No remains of the town have ever come to light, with the exception of a bell which belonged to the church, and which turned up twenty years ago. On the 2d of September, 180<>, the Uossberg, a mountain some miles to the north of the llighi, gave way on its eastern side, and slid down into the lake of Lowers, w hieh is half filled up, converting tho once picturesque slope, studded with chalets, pasturages, aud beards of cattle, into a chaotic mass of mud and rock. 11l houses and 4f>7 persons were overwhelmed and seen no more. The occurrence of all these catas trophes in September points to a common cause, the overcharging of the steep mountain slopes with water after periods of unusual rain. Never be without a bottle of that pure, mild, compound, Peruna; take it with first symtoin. Dr. Chapman said he could cure all disease with lancet, calomel and opium You cau with peruna. THE NEWS FROM YORK TOWN. How the City Received It—Quaint Newspaper Announcements —Demjnxtrations of Joy. As tbe morning of Monday, October Q2, 1781, wore ou towards three o'clock' the footfalls of a galloping steed woke the echoes of the southern section of the city as the express rider from the Revolutionary camp bore to Congress the first tidings of the glori ous consummation of gje for freedom. It was about one o'clock on the afternoon of the 19th when Major H-imilton marched into Yorktowu and hoisted the American flag, while the British troops, 'seem ingly much in liquor,' marched out to deliver up their standards. From that hour tbp untiring copier aped through town and village, between scant patches of cultivated land and great woody wilds, sometimes resort ing to water transportation, to carry the great pows to the Continental Government. Short time he stopped for rest and fot}s, ftns, qppcars, the fourth day of his ride was very young when he drew rein to ask a dozing watchman where he should deliver his dispatches. This worthy took him to the house of Thomas Mt Kean, Presi dent of tbe Continental ('ongress, ftfld just wuuiug to hear tne new?, started, as i 9 related, on his rouuds, warming the hearts of such as were awake to hear him with the snout: 'Basht diee o'clock, und Cornvallis isht dakeq.' BOMB OLB-.YIME aOI.RNAI.ISM Now in these days the city did not rejoice in a daily newspaper and the nearest approach was the Pennsy ra ti ia Packet or General Advertiser, tbe 'live paper of the day. It was j>ub lisheij eyery fe>atui:day. The curious in such mat ters hrave searched in vain for a broad sheet issued on Monday, but the Pack et of the 23d, No 707, contains on the third page the following announce ment : - PHII.A. OCT. fciarly yesterday morning an Ex press arrived in town with the agreea ble and very important Intelligence of Lord Cornwallis and his army having surrendered on the 17th instant aqd \ye ifnpatieqt|y \yait the Arrival of his Hxceilencv (Jen. Washington's dis patches, particularising this most in teiesting Event. In the next number appeared the dispatches SQ for, Meanwhile a weekly sheet, the Freeman'« Journal or North American luJelligencer, 'Open to all parties, but influenced by none,' as its motto says, appeared on the 24th, and filling the upper half of its front page was a 'display' an nouncement, of which the following is a reduced reproduction : BE IT REMEMBERED. That on the 17th day of Ooctober, j 1781, Lieut. G*?n. Charles Eurl Corn wallis, with about 5000 British troops, hir rendered themfehes prifoners of war to his Excellency Gen. Gen. [ George Washington, commander in chief of the allied forces of France aud America. LAUS DEO! MAJOR TIUJHMAN'S DISPATCHES. It is worth mentioning that this patriotic sheet was 'printed by Francis ; Bailey, in Market street, between Third and Fourth streets,' aud like' the Packet it sold at sixpence. It will also be seen that these publications date the surrender from the first pis sages ol the llags of truce. Well, the , historic records of the city go on to pay how tho Whigs rejoiced exceed ingly, while the Tories were corres pondingly glum, and 'kept to their houses for the most part.' Still fear ing there might yet be a disappoint ment—in short, thinking tho news al m >st too good to be true—the Execu tive Council still refrained from order ing any public demonstiation, but on Wednesday (24ih) Major Tench Tilgb-] min completed bis famous journey,] and placed in the proper banus the dis- \ pitches from Washington, of whom he wis an aide-de-camp. Major Tilgh nian bad started a day later than the express, and traveled slower, and yet j his time, four days, was then cousid- j ered remarkably fast It is supposed that be crossed the Chesapeake at An napolis, landing at Tolehester Beach. The gallant Colonel may here be dis mi-sed with mention of the fact that on October 2'J, 1781, Congress present ed him with a sword in recognition of his services. A DAY or JOY. Tho dispatches were delivered at 11 A. M , and forthwith the Vice Presi dent of the State and the members of the Council waited on the President of Congress and the Ministers of France and congratulations on all sides were the order of the day. The standard of the State was hoisted over the State House and in the yard there of the artillery fired triumphal salvos. Congress held a session wherein many resolutions were adopted bearing on the event, most of them merely of a routine character, but one appointing a committee to determine the best way of testifying the nation's gratitude to I)e Grasse, I)e Rochainbeau and Wash ington. Then Congress, the civic dig nitaries, the military officers in town, and the French Minister and suite gathered in the Dutch Lutheran Church, and there thanksgiving servi ces to the God of victories were con ducted by Rev. Mr. Dullield, one of the chaplains of Congress. The church was crowded with the God-fearing citizens. At six o'clock the city was illuminated and the streets were full of joyous throngs. The display, which is most elaborately deserilied in old piints, is that of a French citizen, Alexmder (Juesnay de Glovay, who sympathized in the general joy. lie placed in front of his apartment on Twelfth street, below Chestnut,- a de sign I»earing thirteen stars, which sto id at once for the triumphant States and thirteen virtues. From each ol these a rav proceeded to a central one, whereon the name of Washington was inscribed. The uames of De Grasse | and De Rocbambeau also appeared, ; garlanded with fleur-de-lis nnd accom panied with the motto 'Huzza!' It ' appears to l ave been a wet night, that | 24th of October, for the fireworks were postponed on that account. Thev were given next evening and were 'new and excellent of their kind,' while in the repeated illumination, tbe alle gorical design exhibited by Mr. Peale, at the corner of Third and Lombard streets, took the palm. The festivities, in one form or another, seem to have lasted throqgh the month and their climax ap)iears to have been reached when, on November 3, the volunteer cavalry marched out to meet the cap tured standards and bear them to the chamber where the fathers of the Re public sat to receive the trophies of success.— Phila Times, O t. 19. THICK # Of THE TOBA C\ CO TRADE. Many apocryphal stories are told of the way plug tobacco is doctored and adulterated, but, sifted down, the truth is fqlly expressed In the words of prominent manufcturer: 'Nothing ever goes into tobacco as deleterious or injurious to the human constitution as the tobacco itself.' Nevertheless, skilled workmen com mand extraordinary bigb salaries for the dexterity with which they make a cheap or damaged lot of tobacco and so disguise it in a wrapper as to deceive even an old tar. An average plug tobacco manufac turing establishment work* about £OO hands. Tbe tobacco is sorted into four grades, from which are produced as many as 75 different brands, the pen cil of the artist and the skill of the photographer being liberally brought into acquisition for ornamental designs to catch the tootsies* old man as well as pr&jociows by. While the government requires every package to bear the stencil mark of the manufac turer,'lt would be supposed that none but straight goods would be put up ; but it is with tobacco as it is with whisky—always a fair dcm(M\4 for the stuff, be it pyey so vde. Licorice, oils, glucose and other sweets are liberally used by some manufacturers, and while it is certainly a cheat, it is as well a harmless one. For example ; On August 29, Virginia plua was (juote(| at 4(S)4i cents, government tax added 16 cents; yet the manufactured product was quoted as low as 17 cents. Evidently the work-up of these plugs had the tobacco chewer by the lug. Hut in fine-cut tobacco and cigars is where the greatest deception is prac ticed. A western manufaturer says that there is no end to the adulteration of fine-cut goods. Machinery has been so improved that, as he says, with one pound of tobacco liquor, obtained by b Jl.ing down stems and refuse leaf, one pound of rag weed and one pound of slippery elm bark, five dollars worth of finc-cut chewing tobacco can be pro duced. The suggestion of slippery elm bark was a now oue and the inquiry was pursued farther He said it was nicely shaved and mixed with tobacco; that it had a pleasant, sweet taste, held the tobacco together, and made tbe 'quid' last a long time. The bark costs about four cents a pound, and when a third of it is made to replace to bacco that costs as high as 75 cents a pound, one can easily see the enormous profit resulting A gentleman who knows says that nearly all the slippery elm trees in Ohio, Indiania and Michi gan have been denuded of their bark, yet a leading wholesale druggist affirms that 50,000 pounds of slippery elm bark wjuld, for their legitimate drug gist and medicinal trade, glut the entire market of the United States. In cigars, cheroots, cigarettes and smoking tobacco is where the public gets robbed the worst. The cunning devices are so many that even good judges are imposed npon. It used to be a boast among gentlemen that thoy could always select a fine brand of cigars, ami of course they smoked no other. The other day an old smoker, whose devotion to the weed, cost him $5 every week, admitted tliut he couldn't tell Havanna filled from Con necticut filled. The di.»honest article, how< vor, is the product of the big mauufucturies, for the small country uianufacturtr cannot afford the machi nery nor conceal the lotions and decoc tions that are brought-into requisition by his wealthier competitor. It is quite safe to assume thut about the purest—no, not purest, for if there is one thing impure, it is tobacco—the honestest cigar is tho hand-made cigar of the local manufacturer— Honton Her.i Id. TUP: LAW UK LATINO TO CO UN T 1 INS 77 TUTES. The following is the text of the law relating to County Institutes: SECTION 1, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the du ty of school directors of the several school districts of this Commonwealth, and they are hereby required to allow the teachers employed in the said school districts, who are actually en gaged in teaching school therein, their time and wuges while ultendiug and participating in the exercises of the annual county institutes for tho im provement of teachers SKC. 2 Thut ut tho close of the an nual sessions of said institutes it shall be the duty of the several county citv and borough superintendents to make a report to each board of school direc tors in (heir respective jurisdictions, setting forth the number of days that each teacher shall have attended and participated in the exercises of the said annual teachers' institute, which said report shall be the wages; provided that the provisions of this act shall not extend to the First School District of Pennsylvania, nor to tho counties wherein special laws regulating and relating to county institutes are in force. Approved tho 7th day of June, 18# I. When a lecturer has worked tho la dies of his audience so near .to the weeping point that they have gotten out their handkerchiefs, and then sud denly changes his tone and speaks of the merits of Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, he is houud to rouse a feeling of indig nation. advertising RATES. On# square, one insertion. *1; each anba* •pent insertion, 60 cents. Yearly advertisemen | exceeding one-fourth of a column, f 6 pet inc , Figure worn dotiLlo these rates; addition charge* where weekly or monthly changes ar made. Local advertisements 10 cents «er lin Tor Brut insertion, and 5 cents per line fcr each additional insertion. Marriages and deaths put. lishcd free of charge. Obituw notices charged as advertisements, and payable when handed in I Auditors Notices. H ; Executors' and Adminia IT.*' 0 ™ Notic e"- *3 each; Estray, Caution and Dissolution Notices, not exceeding ten lice* i each. ' From the fact that the Ciraui is the oldei* established and most extensively circulated It«- publican newspaper in Botler oountv. (a Repub lican countyj it must be apparent" to business men that it is the medium they slftmld use in advertising their business. NO. 50 A SOLEMN At last the great question is settled. Dancing is a sin. Not only the wick etl waltz, tbe seductive tchottiche, and the giddy galop, but also the staid and sober square dances are sinful perform ances, the slightest participation in which bars the offender from Christian communion and thrusts him forth an outcast from the church. The Presby terian Synod of Erie has so pronounc ed by decisive vote, and all good Pres byterians are bound to take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Our special dispatches from Erie have given full accounts from day to day of the progress of the memorable trial which ended with this important decision. Heber Donaldson, au active lay member of a Presbyterian church at Emlenton, was at a social gathering in a private house, where some of the folks proposed a quiet dance. The call was made to 'Form on for a quad rille,' and when several minutes bad been spent in shuffling about, the master of the ceremonies announced there was 'one more couple wanted.' After repeated urging Mr. Donaldson consented to 'make up the set' by walking through the figures under the direction of bis partner, he being whol ly innocent of any knowledge of the art Terpslchorcan. When he had blundered through the changes, 'put out' all tbc other couples, and laughed h>mself and been the occasion of much laughter to others, Mr. Donaldson took his seat, supposing that was tbe end of the matter. But it was not tbe end. Tbe news that Heber Donaldson had danced was next day the gossip of Emlenton. Tbe current versions of tbe tale differed widely. Jn some quarters it was as serted he had not only 'quadrilled' but had also waltzed around the room with his arm around a woman's waist, and in sewing circlep, Iroin which men were rigidly excluded, the story ran that he bad actually danced the coo can—whatever that might be, though it was certainly something abominable, and hugged au impudent minx who ought to be ashamed of herself. From the sewing circle to tbe church social and then to the church session was a naturai progression, swiftly made. The Presbyterian church of Emlenton found Mr Donaldson guilty of dancing, and excommunicated him. The condemn ed appeal to tbe Clarion Presbytery, which confirmed the decision of the Emlenton Church Session. Appeal was then taken to the Synod of Erie, and by a vote of seventy-three to twen ty the appealed was rejected and the de cision of the Presbytery confirmed. Mr. Donaldson is plucky, and proposes to carry the case to the Qeneral As sembly, meeting in Springfield, 111./ but in the meantime he is cut off from church fellowship, and is an outcast from the fold, because he attempted to walk through the figures of a plain quadrille, and, probably, made a mud dle of it. He did this knowing tbe position of the church and tbe senti ment of his Emlenton brethren, and therefore invited the punishment he has received. The grounds on which the condem nation was asked and upon which the Synod based its decision was that 'if promiscuous dancing is wrong, all dancing is wrong, for a lino cannot be drawn between promiscuous dancing and social dancing The game com pany that would constitute a social dance in a private parlor would be come a promiscuous dance in a public hall.' It was further settled by this decision that if it is a sin to waltz around the room it is equally a sin to walk through Iho figures of a quadrille, because the first step to music involves all the possible wickedness of tho dance. 'Dancing,' it was solemnly an nounced, 'naturally leads to idleness and dissipation, and from the social party in tho private house the course is steadily down, down, down, to the deepest depths of vice.' Thus if four couples walk soberly across the floor of a Prospect street parlor, to the drumming of a piano played by the daughter of tho bouse, they will never cease their march until they aro fling ing their toes recklessly towards tho ceiling in a Commercial streetdive. Wo dare not venture to dispute this. The only true safety therefore seems to lie in not walking at all, or at least not keeping step to music. The Krie Synod should not stop at dancing, but apply the principle it has laid down t» other kinds of recreation and ~leisur,.leisure —driving, for instance. A recent melancholy case in Connecticut, to which we have before alluded, shoWt» tho necessity of some action. If walking to music Is sinful, both be cause of the bad influence it may have upon weak souls and the inevitable moral and spiritual ruin it brings upon the original offender, then sitting be hind a horse and holding tho reins is equally vicious. For ho who ridea be hind the sorriest plug acquires a tasto that leads him to get a faster horse if possible. Driving on week days leads to driving on Sundays, involving tho sin of Sabbath breaking, as Dr. Bacon's case painfully demonstrates. No man holding the reins over, the back of even a rack of horse bones but has at some time attempted to pass another driver or keep ahead of him. That is tho first step towards horse racing. Therefore, he who first essays to drive a nag will probably go on in his wild career until he is speeding a horse around a race track and buying pools on the event. Tho Krie decision comes in good time at the opening of the dancing sea son, and will undoubtedly have an important influence in saving the wear and tear of Cleveland carpets. For it is a regretable fact that a large num ber of I'resbyterians in Cleveland do indulge in 'plain quadrilles' at social gatherings, and the ease of lleber Donaldson will be to them a solemn and much needed warning.— Cleve land Herald. (Orunil K>I|>IIJN iilllea'J A ItiillUcr'rt TV»ti moiiy. Chas. S.Strickland, Esq., of 9 Boyls town Place, Boston, Mass. after relate iug his surprising recovery from rheu matism by St. Jacobs Oil, says: I cannot find words to convey my praise and gratitude to the discoverer of this liniment.
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