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at 11 o'clocs, A.M., and ZS o'clock,
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Louther rue ev. JACULI Tauter. Services
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German 'townie(' Church', "'outlier, betu .. „'eeu Unilever
and Pitt streets. Rev. A. rinionnt, Past Cw. Services
at %1} e'clooli, A. M., and ti!„
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day of each mouth.
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BedfOrd streets. Rev. 1. P. iasuhuld, Easton service at
/UR! A. M.
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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
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liarrisburg, Pa.
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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,
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4.00 1'2.00 10,00
12.00 20.00 30.00
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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
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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
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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
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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.