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WiAu,titt. Ass 'edit e .1 lidges --11,ta. Joh❑ Rupp. t•zunuel Wood jam. instriot. A t t..•:•ney WIA. J. .SIK•-arer. Arotipyl••(..u•)-=•builitil K. Noel.l. 1it...i.,.1.,r, A.- t —.liillta .11. tit egg. ' l- • 1te;..u.0..,•r 'A iiKaul Lytle: I It tAtt :51K.•;•i'sf—Ja.col) Bowman; Deputy, James lila per. 1 Cou:tty T!....:1:3 Lirer."-.7.i . W. 'Woods. ISIMMIIII ME= y to neexsionern—.luhn 11.1,b,.1zunes Araistronz 6001.0 V. rul uu . el'•rlk to GoinmiNtAuttors. Il i lanul {Yin c. i re , t n; r 1 the I'r/01.-1.; .rge SI/ ea lit.r, Uuurge Brit, !{row u. :Super) Let:dull losepti Ji l to . UGS-3I OrrI.C.BRIL Chief lturzos4—Col. A.R3lstitoBll Assist.aut, tlurgess--‘6IIIII/1.31 Tow uUli Ward, (President) Henry Myers, Joh It t.utsLuill, Peter 310 n) er, tiortiner, 11..\. St urge.vo. sheater, Johu tioutpson, Davit] stpu. Clerk to "ottlicil.--tlillutni ety,el. C0n;11..1.1th...--J.ditt [larder High Coo/stable; Robert McCartney; NI and Constable. 0111Y1ICILES. First Pre.byterluu Church, northwest .englo,ceCentre s qw " . CoNm Ay I'. %% i u, PaStroY.—:nn'Vii:oti every ti uu/kLy wor,llau; ut 11 o'clock, M., and 7 o'clock, p. SoCOIld. Pre:: Ily terlau Claurch,eorlier of South Littnovor and Poaufrot stroots. Roy. Mr. h:sti.s, Postor. I.4eivices cotuntouce at l l o'clock, A. M., and 7 o'clock, P. M. lit. Johns t_'lltirak, Nplscopal) northeast angle of COntre Square. laic. JAcult It. Mull,s, Itoetur. tiorvices at 11 o'clocs, A.M., and ZS o'clock, English Lutheran / Church, lhnliord botwekni DLiln and Louther rue ev. JACULI Tauter. Services at 11 o'clock, A. 11.,amd i o'cruck,,'l'. M. German 'townie(' Church', "'outlier, betu .. „'eeu Unilever and Pitt streets. Rev. A. rinionnt, Past Cw. Services at %1} e'clooli, A. M., and ti!„ .E.Church, (prat Charge) corner of Main and Pitt streets. 11ev. S. L. M. CoNssa, Pastor. Services at 11 o'clock, A. M.,and ti . !„ci o'clock, P. M. Methedi , 4 EL. ;Church, (second Charge) Rev. .1. M. JONES, fast 'r. Services in College Chapel, at 11.0 clock, A. M., and U o'clock, I'. M. Rowan Catholic Church, Pomfret, near East street.— Rev. J.01,:s llAnitsrr, Pastor. Services on the Sod Sun day of each mouth. German. blitheran Church, corner of Pomfret and BedfOrd streets. Rev. 1. P. iasuhuld, Easton service at /UR! A. M. AkeiVhen changes in the above are necessary the pro per persons I.IVO requested to notify us. DICICINSON COLLEGE• nor- Charles Collins, President and Professor of Mora Se Roy. Ilernmn NI. Johnson, Professor of Philosophy and thiglish Lltora t ore. James W. Marshall, Professor of Ancient Languages. Oth, if. Tiffany, Professor of Mathematics. IVilllam C. ‘lilsom Lecturer on Natural St:Wilco and Curator of the. Museum. Alexandre Schein, Professor of Ilebrow and Jloderu Languagi:s. Benjamin Arbogast, Tutor in Languages. Samuel 1). Hillman, Principal of the tirantinur School William A. :Snivelsi Assistant In the thanituar Ebucotion. WIIITE HALL ACkDEAIt, Three miles west of Harrisburg. _Vik , l_t_gntb—aeSslou_ _2hlstAustitutten...sYHEsegu• monco on Monday, the Lth of November next. , Parents and gurdlaus aro requested to inquire into its merits instruction isgiven in the ordinary and higher branches. of an English Education, and also in the Latin, °reek, French and German Languages and Vocal and Instru mental music; Boaroing,lVashing and Tuition In the _English Branch es, and Vocal Music, pur Set:91011, (b 1110111118) P 0.09 Instruction In each of the Languages - b,W ti in Instrumental Music - 19.00 For circulars and further information address D. DENLINUEIt, Principal, liarrisburg, Pa. sop. 20,1305. ,-., I LAIN FIELD 'ACADEMY.—Near 111.1SLE, Ps.—The Nineteenth Session Ova months) will commence. November fall. A new build ing has - been erected containing Gyninsulium, Music norm, Sie, . With increased facilities for instruction, and ample elecolpluoilations, this Institution •prissents great in-' dumplings to parents who desire the physical and hieing improvement of their sons, Terms per Session, $OO 00. ' circuiam, With full information,•address ntunns, Principal and Proprietor,' October 10,1855. Plainfield, Coulberland co., Ps, .5.U0 8.00 12.00 4.00 1'2.00 10,00 12.00 20.00 30.00 2.5.00 31.00 41.00 sdr-The Business Man's Law Altninae for 1856, is a valuable publication of some fifty pages for \Odell we are • indebted to the publishers, Km & Philadelphia.— Besides the usual calendar for various lati tudes,•4it contains a great variety of legal forms, rendering it a valuable companion and guide to the accurate business man. Among others are forms and instructions for drawing bonds, deeds, leases, .mortgage . s, Powers of Attorney, wills, formsunder the Bounty Land Act, instructions for 'keeping books of account and much other useful information. • . . _ 4 ,' 4 ,„ . . Clui3Of ' ~ • . 0 • • ik:4?, • ' ' 0 ` tl r " ~, I V .t ._ 0 4 ! ' ' 0 ' it , . v . : ''4l . I.t i: Ars, .. it.:ll, '(' . •4, 4, :,,, " ' 4 ' 1 ' . . t , ~. ~ 4 .. . . A ii , ~, 4!, ~, 1 ~ • 0 ,. . , , , „ -, -- --, ~,, ; • I. 4.1' 1 ‘ n '' • •'•-, • , :il ,• •.' ''' . "-' ' ' '''Y ,e - . . , . r. . . . I:qiier Inr itintilti Cirrit. VOL. LVI. fiEt, , ,.13..Li it i\TJ EIf)OSITUE aioofts 'tub Feriobicafs. IMIEM FANNY FERN'S NEW NOVEL —WC are indebted to Messrs. Mason Brothers, of New York, for an advance copy of ROSE CLARK a new novel by the well knOwn "Fanny Fern." We have not yet read it, hut a contemporary - speaks of it as a great improvement upon her former work, as being more dramatic in its plot, and has much of the graphic power of DICKENS in effecting his practical reforms, and disseminating universal true philanthropy and charity. Rose Clark, an orphan at six years of age, is taken from her mother's grave,. by her 'Aunt Dolly,' and consigned to a char ity school, where she encounters the enmity of .lire. Markham, the matron, a scheming hypoc'rite. Those who read the opening, chapters will, we trust, he taught to know that sympathy is'fis much needed by orphan ed little ones, as clothes of factM7 cotton or br e ad and molasses'. Fanny, Fern describes this charitable institution more touchingly than Dickens does Do the Boys' Hall," for it is not it caricature, hut evidently a stern reality.- In process of time ROSe is bound out to Aunt Dolly, a milliner, and here her sor: rotes are not mitigated. After years of mis , cry her beauty attracts a young Southerner. I who marries her, and subsequently disappears mysteriously, having fallen a 'Victim to the arts of a dissipated cousin, to secure his in her tance. The sufferings of Ruse, her hope ful trust in Heaven, the genial friend she meets with in Gertrude, the graphic descrip tions of scenery, the skilfully sketched char ,. • Acters, the Christian sentiment pervading the entire work, the sytnpathy with virtue, and the abhorrence of vice, even when its wounds are bathed with tears, the spirit of forgiveness —all will be apprecirited when the .work is read. It will be published next week, and will make a profound sensation in the literary world, It Will be for sale at Air. ' on \lain street. 7 NEw LLUSTRAT ED PAFBt3.--Franit Leslie, of New York, publisher of the 'Gazette of Fashion' and 'New York Journal.' works of great merit and wide spread popularity, will issue to-day 4 the first number of " Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper," which prom• ises to be a formidable rival in the field now monopolized by " Ballou's Pictorial." A spe cimen sheet, now before , us, shows that in point of elegant typography and highly finish ed engravings, the new paper will leave no thing to be. desired. The first number will contain five large illustrations of striking In cidents in Dr. Kane's recent perilous Arctic Expedition, with numerous other engravings, and a variety of interesting literary and news items. The "Illustrated Newspaper" will be published wekly, in a lurg pages, at 12 aneli Spruce for 10 cents a number, or will be for sale in Carlisle at Mr. Piper's and by all Booksellers and Newsthen throughout the United States. TIIE .)', P ENNSYLVANIA FARM .JOURNAL.• —J. Lacy Darlington, who has conducted this valuable Journal for the last four years, re tires with the December . number; and it will . hereafter be under the editorial charge of Da vid A. Wells, A. AI , formerly Chemist to the Ohio State Board•of Agriculture, assisted by A. M. Spangler, the original editor and pro prietor of the Journal. Under the manage• anent of these gentlemen, we doubt not the Farm Journal will not duly, maintain its pres ent high character fur ability mtul usefulness, but become still more worthy of the support of the friends of Agricultui•al improvement.— It will be published monthly as heretofore by Stimue.L.Emlen _Co._7lh—tuni—Market,st s at $1 per year. lIMEI IR AkZi`uTl )ere arc roliorta of civil war in !Kan- IVEDESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1855. The Free State Convention, held at Topeka, Kansas Territory, to form a State Constitu tion preparatory to asking admission into the Union, adjourned on the 11th November, after having finished its labors The Bill of Itig,ltts prefixed to the constitntion, declares that •Sli.- very shall not exist in the Suite,' but permins its continuance till ,luly 4, 1851. The Consti tution adopted is said to resemble that of Penn sylvania in many respects. lmmediately up on its final passage. in Convention, three en thusiastio cheers were given f 9 it by thd I le)- eitates. It is to he ,tybrititted to a direct vote or the people for raiincittion an the fifteenth of DecetnUr inst., and if adopted, an election for . Govern. r, Lieutenant Governor,. Secretary of State, Treasuler, Auditor, Judge of the Su. pretne court, Attorney General, and members of the General Assembly, is to be held on the third Tuesday in January, 1856. A few days after the Free State Convention adjourned. a pro-slavery Convention was held at Leavenworth, at whiclrGov. Shannon made a strung pro slavery speech. lie declared the late bogus Legislature a legal body, whose acts should he respected; that the (louse had an undoubted right to settle the seats as it did, and that those personS.whe refuse to obey the law pissed by that body were guilty of trea son against the government. lie declared Reeder's ele-tion a revolutiouitry movement, without justification, and said if Congress should unction the proceedings of the Consti tutional Convention by admitting Nanzas as a State under the eonstitutibn framed by that body, civil war must follow. Ile denied that the Legislature had elected all the local nth cers for six years, and said that, after the next election, they would be ansen by the people. lie assured the Convention that the administration was on its side. Throughout his speech the Governor identified himself with the pro slavery party. The tone of his re marks shows that he is alarmed and incensed at the prospect of losing his Governorship. - The pro-slavery party tight hard, but we are l b ill of the k opinion that the majority will rule, I f mid that anzas will )et be a free State. vit NEw DOME: OF THE CArrroL.—The Washing tot correspondent of the Baltimore -Sun says thXold dome is fast disappearing. When re moved it Fill be superceded by one •far ex ceeding in utility and magnificence even that of the celebrated 'St. Peters,' The beautiful invention of Prt lessor Walters will rise three hundred feet above the bt.sement floor, and reach three hundred and - eighty feet above tide-water. It will - contain one hundred and twenty-four windows, many of which will be eighteen feet in height, decorated with entab latures which will be emblematical of the most important events in American history ; and such arrangements have been adopted that all visitors froin'those in the spring-tide of /ire to the hoary haired veteran, can easily ascend, and from the loftiest of all our lofty eminences behold the extent and grandeur of the National Metropolis. THE LIQUOR. LAW IN LANCASTER --The Grand Jury of Lancaster county have refused to find bills of indictment against the persons charged with the violation of the now Liquor Law, on the ground that the law was uncon stitutional, and have directed the prosecutors to pay the costs. Tho number of cases thus disposed of is eighty-four, and the Saturday Express, a prohibition journal, is full ,of wrath at the result. It exclaims: 'Great God ! has it come to this, that njury of Lancaster counjy, many of whom never read the cotistitutiou, presumptuously set them selves up as the supreme judicial power' of the State, and boldly hid the daring outlaws go free, because, itt their opiuiou, the law under which they are indicted is 'unconstituniunal.' ABORTIVE ATTEMPT AT ESCAPE BY SI:AVES. On Wednesday last, the • schooner Mary Ann Elizabeth, of Baliimore, Md, sailed from Nor folk, Va., for Philadelphia; during the same night, was driven ashore in Princess Anne county, Va., near Cape Henry. Several fugi tive slaves were on board, who, with the cap tain and Mato of the schooner were lodged in Norfolk Jail. The negroes, say they paid the captain *125 for their Passe,ge to Phila delphia;. while the captain says that they were off - b - o - iiiaGen t his knowledge, and that when ho found them they were in the schooner's forecastle; he attempted to run back to Nor folk, in doing which, he got his vessel aground. We - Madam Rachel was taken so seriously ill in Philadelphia. last - week, that sho was un able to:fulftl'her engagement in that city. She left Philadelphia, for Baltimore, on Tuesday afternoon, and was so feeble that she had 'to bo carried from her olnunber to the carriage. She,purposes passing the winter at Ifavauna. ANOTHER AMRIUOAN VICTORY,—A despatch. 'dated,!New Haven, Tuesday, N0v.27, says "The' most exciting . town election.,ever held hero took place to-day., Over 3,1500 votes were polled. .The Aineriond Union ticket succeed-. ed by 406 majority. A Town Clerk cud 13e lectmen were (boson." • A FIPACUS IN KANSAS. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. The steamer Atlantic arrived at New York last Thursday, from Liverpool, bringing news from Europe one week later. A victory was gained by Omar Paella 410 d his troops over a body of ten thousand Russians, at the river Ingour, which the Turks, twenty thousand strong, crossed nt three different points, tak ing sixty prisoners and three guns. and caus ing a Ru-sian loss of four hundred in killed. The Turkish lons was three hundred. An other despatch, referting to the sane epoun ter, says that the Turks crossed the river at the seaport of Anaklia, and stormed the Ittls. sian redoubts, after which. they pushed for ward towards Kutars. Russia and Turkey have both prohibited the export of Bread• stuffs. rite formal dosing of the Paris exhibition took place i on the 15th oh The Emperor made a speech on tho occasion, in which he alluded to the war, and said that he desired a speedy and durable peace; but that a peace to he datable, most realize the objects for which the war was undertaken. rretiminn ries Seem to be arranging for the resumption of the negotiations rot peac'e. PR.OR NIC A RAG UA. By the last California steamer we learn that Oen Walker Ivas in full possession of Nice riigua. Col. Wheeler, the American Minister, had publicly acknowledged, on the part of the 'United States, the independence and eover eignty of the new reputilic, and tisured its government of the kind regards and well wish es entertained by the Chief Magistrate of the United States towards it. General Corral, who had been detected in a, treasonable correspondence with some of the (Avers of the late government. was tried by n court martial, and shot in the Plaza at Grena da, on the 7th itstnnt, eight hours after his arrest. The Court Martial was composed en tirely of Americans. Other arrests had been male, but no names are given. The sentence of Gen. Corral was acquiescgd n by Gen. Rivas, the newly elected President. AMERIC A N EximuTorts IN PARIS. The Paris Presser, ou the evening of the closing - of the Paris .Exhibition, pnblished a list of the medals and awaVihrninde exhibi tors, and the United Stases come in for it fair share. In the Agricultural Department, Mr. McCormick, of Chicago, received the grand medal of honor, with the following words:— 'lnventor of the reaper, which bus been worked under all trials, and which is the type upon which other reapers have been made, with various modifications, which have not changed the principles of the discovery.' Mr. Pitt, of Buffalo, 'for machine for winnowing grain, remarkable for several inventions and the amount of work it performs,' received medal of honor. Bache & Kline , 01 New York —'Balances of precision's' and .Etalons de mesures,' received a medal of honor. Lieut. Maury, for 'charts of winds and currents of the Atlantic Ocean;' 'disoovery of new routes shortening passages,' received a grand medal of honor; and Goodyear, of New York, also for the 'discovery of the vulcanization and the softening of -India rubber; considerable im pulse given to the manufacture of the products' of India rubber.' Among our American artists, Healey, May and Itoositer received medals for paintings. Tun `NEw YORK COMMODORES.!-A Wash ington letter to the New York Express says : "The three illustrious Commodores of New Yolk have all arranged hero for a winter cam paign. Coinodore George Law is in an estab lishment of his own, with equipage, &c; Com modore Vanderbilt, at Brown's, with his fami ly, and Comodore Collins, here, there and everywhere. When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war. The Washington c . on't ing campaign is 'to he n great affair, enAoccan and on land. RIOTING AT LAND SALES IN WiscoNstx.—Tho land sales at IViona, II isconsin, on the 27111 ult., were attended by about 1500 _persons, amid much excitement. A serious difficulty „ occurred, in which two men were shot. A set tler on a piece of ground persisted in bidding. for the swap though In the defiance of_thu— threateneg peril of being thrown into the river if he did.-On the attempt to lut the threat in execution, ho drew a revolver and shot two of his sisallants. - NORTHERN CENTRAL RAILROAD —The Sun bury American learns that the Northern Cen ' tral Railroad Company have made arrange ments to let hi a few weeks, the road between Sunbury and Dauphin, in seetlons. At the y latter place it adds it will conned with the Dauphin and Susquehanna, and -ibe Ponnsyl- . . vania Railroads, and thus give us rail commu nication with Philadelphia and Baltimore.-4 • The Bridge at Dauphin, and the extension of the road from Baltimore to Cantonimill net le let for the•pie et t, - ft "Theyhave hail, superb sleighing in ilhintreal for ten days past. Sleighing is also good in sumo sections of Northern New York: LATER FROM CALIFORNIA - - Indian Warm In Colltornia and Oregon. BY the arrival of the steamship, Star of 'the West, at New York; we have dates from San Francisco to the.tsth of November. The most important news is in regard to the ravages of the Indians In California and Oregon, which are becoming quite serious, The accounts say: From Puget Sound to Shasta Butte the 'lndi ans bad made a sitetultaneous attack upon the whites, and massacred a large number Volunteers were turning nut in all directions. The U. S. trOops, under Fitzgerald. Itnd also turned out in pursuit. Nearly all the tribes north of,Columbia river hove confeder ated and sworn to exterminate the Amet icons. 1 band of 1500 attacked a small force of U. S troops at Puget Sound, under Major Haller. ;111(1 forced thorn to retreat. The latter had been reinforced by nine companies of volun teers called out by Governor Curry, and sup plied with ' ammunition by the Sloop-of war Decatur, and' the revenge cutter Jefferson Davis, and were about to assume the offensive. • Gen Wool . was about to pryceed to the sent of war in Oregon, with all the U. S. troops not actually employed in California. IVO. 14. - from or,voffian Extra, of Mnmlay. fat. v . ,. Indian 'War in Oregon. We have just received Front :11 officer con nected with Alaj Hallees command, the fol. towlng parliculhrs of the cantpaigh: 'Major Holler's command entered the Sim coo, a valley, and were fifty six miles front the bef , .re they saw an Indian. The war reply to their chief, wits the first Intimation of a large number, for most of them were concealed in the brush. The action commenced about 3 o'clocl.: P. 111 on Saturday, and before sundown the enemy was driven out of the bi ugtt, null the field was in our posses sion. Our loss was one killed, two mortally wounded, two severely, wounded, and three slightly—total loss, eight. While the action was going on, the Indians poured in front the plain in view, in great numbers, and fairly surrounded our position. There Were at sun down, (ix or seven bundled Indians in the field. Notwitlitanding this number the troops ad vanced toward the north, bound for the Ya kima mission, btlt on missing some heigths, they heard the Indians talking and their horses neighing, and •being too dark to see before them, 1111. 3 halted for fearof an ambush, but • posted the soldiers for a night attack, and every man lay un his arms mill .night. Two Indians rode into our camp, mistaking it for - their own, and discovering the ;mistake, at. templed to get away; as their heads rose above the brow of the hill their long hair rayed them, and a fire brought down one of their horses. Early in the morning, the enemy closed in around us and commenced firing. As they closed on ns, they were driven off with the blyonet, and the whole force was kept at bay; although, during the (Iv. squadron after squadron of the Indians came over the hills on the north and poured into the plain before us„ On Sunday evtavitg the Indians. had appa rently doubled their numbers—say 1400 or 1500. The meu had fought them alrday with out water or wood .to. cook with, and had scarcely touched feed. Their stilleriugs and fatigue could riot be endured much longer, and something had to be dune. The enemy saw our need of water mid grass, and about sun down seemed to concentrate on the bluffs overlookiug the water. A night match was resolved upon as the safest means of "getting beyond the mountains, on the Hind to the trades, so as to be in communication with the tro o ps to be .called for. It was expected. to Moe a night attack from the Indians, as they held the brush, .Sc' every man available was Marched on foot to engage the enemy. The horses mid pack undes, excepting those with the sick, the ammunition, &c., were let run loose, and not having eaten- for so long . time, were determined to feed themselves.— Many of these went in the brush to feed, and in the darkness could not bo found. The troops, by is worthless guide, were led off the trail, and ioi consequence, the rear guard, who kept the trail, became detached. At 2 o'clock. A. M. Valor llaller's party bud gained a grove of fir timber on the mountains, and here built two fires as signals to those in the valley. o find diem The men, almost ready to die of fatigue, lay down to rest until daylight. The Miens understood the fires, and many hastened through the darkness, guided by the light of these signals, to our rear. At day light we saw the kin full of Indians charging for us. We mustered our men, and found on ly about forty of them available to guard the wounded and oppose the Indians in our retreat. We had not gone far when theyll commenced their assault, and a running tight took place for six or eight miles, which reflected - great credit on die officers and men, as only two men were wounded, althotigh fairly surround- orb by the Indians The troops then selected a spot for defence, and during the rest of Mon day kept off the Indians. They fired the pra. ries to burn us out, and lastly fired the woods all around us. At night we again advanced, and were not afterwards molested. In the retreat, the , howitzer carriage broke dolr, mid it had to be abandoned, but the piece was carried on until the , mule was ready to break down, when coming - lo some brush, we cached it. IlarractrhattirffrahEdlaritriTaT — Saltißay, fought, and then were on the alert all night ; fought all next day, marched next night until two o'clock, and at daylight "again" marched and fought, then defended camp until sunset. Wetmati soldiers could not have done more.— Next day the command met the rear guard, who had not seen an Indian, the fires of Sun day night having drawn all the warriors atter that party on the summit ofn)the mountain.— Every man, eicept four of the .dead, were brought back 'to the Dalles. The total lOW five killed and seventeen wounded—over me fifth of the command. Anniv.st of Alois arm ltrutironosusstra.— 'he Oregonian ',;?' the 27th says : 'The Comma. ia . brought up a company of regulars, togeth r with 1500 stand °farms and a large amount r munition. The 'company are raid to be irked men,"nocustomeffto fighting Indians, tuber the cointnand of Captain Ord; they will doubt, do important serviee. •They. pro. • red immediatly to the field of operations.
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