ExpipAtur. aaaixasL,E;.2.4: , 'WEIWSDAY, NOV. 11, 1857 i.KOCLA.MI o . • ss: ]- ris the name and by the authority •of the Com ownwealth ,of Pennsylvania,' JAMES POL- IsOCA:; • Governor ojihe said Commonwealth: A; PRIX LANTATIONT'-L---• Fallow Citizens-I—T° render-to-Almighty. ..- (ilod, who controls the deetinies of nations and men,•the homage of i devout' gratitude and praise fOrldsgoodneks and his mercy, ie the appropriate and Solemn duty of a free . end • bighly favored people. As, the'giver of every good and perfect gift we should „ever reeng idle Ills hand in our mercies, and acknewl- • -edge our dependanee 'Upon Ilia providence; and althougiradversity -may 'throw its dark ahadoviacross our pailway, yet we, should be assured of this .' the Judge of nil ' the earth will do right." .• . , - - ~ _ liuring the.past yenr.the bounties of ttkind Proiridence have pot been witheld from nor Common Wealth. Our free institutions have • been preserved, and our 'tights and privileges,. civil and religious, enjoyed'. and maintained. The.arts and sciences,. antl . thil great biteresta. 'of edtication,, 'Morality., nod' religihn, liaie 'lamed the attention and 'receiVed - the en; eaurrigement of an intelligent and liberal' peo ple.—Honorable industry 'in its varied depart ments has been' reworded; and although re sent and.t -- V - elrelitin - neittl -- revulsi oll-111 S - filltlit with gloom, sorrow and distress, the hearth: aid homes of many of our citizens, yeCnn fear • ft famine, no dread of impending' patio or - social. calamity, mingles with our emotions of • gratitude for past blessings, or weakens - our trust for the future, in t h e e providence of Wm vho wounds but to: heal, And •., whoec mercy • - endureth forever." -A- ~ -13 plenteous harvest .has eroirned the labours of the liusloitidmanL race with'its gentle end reforming influences, .and unwonted bealthwithltsbenelits ninitner- Ades, have b.een vouchsafed to its. • • , , '• In Acknowledgement of these manifold ble.s• sings, we should offer unto God thanksgiving and pay our vows unto the mpt high 3 - anal sail upon ilim " in the day of trouble: Ile will. deliver thee anafthou shalt. glorify !Gm." , . Under the solemn conviction of the proprie •ty or this duty end in conformity vi,ii,ll-eetabe • lisped ciustom-and ills willies of intay . gond Citizens, I, JAMES POLLOCK, - Onvertinr of the Commonwealth of ,f'enusylvania, .do hereby recommend THUNSDAVTAk: MEN LY ; SIXTIII>AT OW 'NOVEMBER NEXT, as a day of general thanks ,• giiing and prairie threught this-State,and ear nestly request the people that 'abstaining fictu their usual avocations and all worldly pursuits - they assemble On' that day according to' their ,religious customs, and unitein offering thanks S. Almighty prod for ,bin past goodness and vaercies; and while humbly - acknowledging „war tranegreiviop, and imploring UM forgive _.:titeas,.beseech llimovith sincere and earne - sttle- Ore, to return and visit us again with Ilislove • tag kindness, make us worthy of Ills bounties,. and coniimmte us .the•rich blessings of His providence -nnd grace. • . . Given tinder my,hand and,the Great Seal of the /e•-•.; State At Harrisburg , this nineteenth r, a. day ,Of October, in--the year of our , --v-- , Lord ono thousand right hundred and fiftpeeven, and of the' Commonwealth the eight - 'lly second. -. • , , ~ By the Governor.. JOIK4 . : 7Af. SOLLIA•A X. - . , -Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth.. To Re.splera'aiid.Corrieppondent The- kind attention of P." is duly ap. predated, and the ye/ectioni, will be published •In duo time. Who is the author Is it original or selectbd ? . • - Our readers vvilPfititlin the corner," an original "Ponie, ‘ " on the Creation, lade!' is rather more cirdumstantial in detail," than the Mosaic account.. It is.snitl, - that nn old Scotch Divine, once undertook to versify the Bihle, and got as fir as Exods where he says. "And wag not Ptoiroalt a saucy plum!? Who wouldn't lot too children of Isrnel go out Into tho irtl!loiriess, forty dnyn null forty lights, to out the .P•scuni." - • • But ho broke down over the loot line and Never recovered. We publish also, the beautiful ballad entit led “over the 'say" by Charles Itinckny,the pop alir Bong writer who has recently arrived in thie'Country, with the intention of delivering rt series of lectures. The Phantom Wife: i t thril lingly 'interesting. Sleepy David, is A very amusing ekeich, and fun from the 1114azine'n tarnishes some new jokes. The Farmers De partment, on the fourth page, contains some useful receipts, as well as many practiCat hints in regard to stock, and the ladies Will find in their Department, an article_ from Life Illus trated, to which, we ask their prayerful. atten •lon. • 116„, We naknowledge the receipt of the Coneisaiotial Globe, with tho appendix, and Patti I and 111 of the "Commercial Iteltitione,"!• froth the•Bou. L. Todd, for which we tender ear thanks. ler Samuel Megaw, sq., was sworn into office on Monday, 'as od of the County Com snissioners in place of George M. Graham, Esq., who retires from the Bdard. Mr Me ow will make en efficient and obliging officer. Potreo Deno.—A muu named George 110 w_ otter, who lived near Mount Rook, was found dead on Tuesday die 3d.instant, having been thrown fronaliii wagon on 'the road hoino - frosa Centrorillo.i inquest — As - held .on the body by M. Eeq.,•Coroner, and it verdict re turned it' accordance with the facie. DASTRUTIVE Finn.—Abort ono 'o'clock on Tnesday morning, Nov. 3d, a fire occurred on the farm of Jacob Ensminger, Sr., in ErSilk ford township, near Eloserrille, which des- Aroyed adarge bank barn, corn-crib t • nod vari ous article* .of personal property, ',including four head of young horses, four piilk cows, all.the fanning implements, ploughs, narrows, salt:Suitors, ,threshing-machine, horse-power, grain -drill, 'horse-gears, &o." The barn con- Misted a large . quantity ofgrain ancriiy, and about .two hundred bushels of _ *urn, all of which was destroyed.. , The loreis estimated at about $3.600, on which there/ is uo incur sion*. It iltsupposed to be the worli of di, Da. KANE.—We learn from the Press '2ll, Thiladelphia,that the biography of this lawn _ Sad self martyr to science and heroic adventure by.,Pr..Elderovill soon be. issued by the enter. .publishers' Child. & Peterson. The . inany thousand readers, who billowed ithne, Yrith tioatActed interest, through his " Aitic Zip:orations Mid who have mourned biev un timely ,death, are waitiug Impatient lyfor . the renrainfi. of hip, whose„ name is a ,sync iiyai for lieroilimo;imadiwhooeexplokto form one of /he.brjghteac pages, iu the, history ,of the Ths..high, literary spindijm.of Dr. Elder, . offers • sure guarantee _ tho•of themork. and , when we n 44, to thio, . that siwo,.typography and itwill boa seitpanion vollimn to "Dr. kanes Aritie ‘plorfprOt?.!,! . ...wolifiva 801 all that fa atitreseary. salagaaoloierymie ;rilO ihe' vOy - tieti of th&Vlthigalohl . id igator to" oolnplete` the porohabilig the biography:: Rhi weit0044...0?u00). promioes :',e010, -. . ,„. 1114 Ab ibithera "receive d teddy;i