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Office heretof're occupied by F. A. Shoe maker. Dec. 7, 18C4 tf ralMlHiMYlfl AIA IN STREET. JOIINSTO PA LEWIS LUCKIIART, begs leave to an nouuee that he has always a largeand varied assortinen of all the various articles peculiar to his business. Repairs promptly and carefully attended to. Johnstown April, 17 1861. tf. cI-'f98I OS TMtidpiqj f 01 sf r.oi sox mddY "k -oaiix 'ssaaaav onkivhh GKV s'lwj.s 'Tiia v aim HYO 3X1 UA 1OA N3AIO S3XVH VIHnaaV7IHJ lS2Ki)IH i TOi .rrlfanrniTs Tlic Husband Revenge. Somewhere about Ihe year 1835, Wil liam ISradway, a young man of rive and twenty, then living in ttte interior of the State of New York left his family, con sisting of a wife and two small children, and went uth on a tour of speculation. He was absent nearly a year, and stated on his return, that he had been very suc cesful,and had purchased a place on the Red River, whither he proposed to move his family, and there aettle, perhaps for life. His wife pleased with the novelty of the change, readily assented to the new arrangement ; and, -as soon as their Nor thern affairs were properly settled, they set off for their new home, which, in due course of time, they reached in safety. Rut Mrs. Rradway was sadly disap pointed in finding the place so different from what she had pictured in her fancy. The settlement was new, and everything was rough. The houses, many of them were built of logs, and even the best of them lacked the finish of her Northern home, wimVthe furniture was generally of the plainest and coarsest description, and scanty at that. Rut worse than all the rest were the inhabitants ; composed prin cipally of rough speculators, negro tra ders, gamblers, and outlaws from differ ent quarters, with such females and chil dren as looked to them for support. Mrs. Hradwav. who had been well educated and brought up in refined society, sought in vain among them for suitable associ ates and corn f "anions, and being a stranger in a strange land, soon became depressed and homesick. Under the peculiar cir cumstances, she unguardedly made some remarks not complimentary to the place and its inhabitants ; and these remarks being reyorted, with such additions and exaggerations as scandal-mongers gener ally use for "embellishments, she soon found herself surrounded by open enemies, and subjected to such petty annoyances and persecutions as little, malicious minds delight to inflict upon those they secretly believed to be their superiors, and both envy and hate for that cause. Six months had not passod away ere William Rradway felt the necessity of re moving his family from that unpleasant and 1 iwless locality, and this he was pre paring to do, when an awful tragedy oc curred which changed the peaceful man into a bloody avenger. Some business at a neighboring settlement called him from home for a couple of days, and on his re turn he found his house in ashes, and learned that his wife and children had all been murdered under the most atrocious and aggrivating circumstances his poor wife, previous to her throat being cut, having been subjected to treatment worse than death by the three ruffians concerned in the horrible affair. To a fond husband and father this was a terrible blow.: and for a da and a night William Rradway remained beside the still smoking ruins of his dwelling, some of the time walking slowly around them with his ej'es bent on the ground, and some of the time standing and "azina at them with an abstracted air, as if he were recalling the past, or looking into the past, or into t he future. He had shown no violent sorrow even a the first, but had received the awful intelligence as one mentally stupefied as one who could not clearly believe the facts and comprehend the whole extent of his loss. It was ob served that his features suddenly became deadly white, even to his lips, and then gradually changed to a livid hue, which remained, without alteration, and without beinc afterwards tinged by even the slightest flush. " Who did it T" he inquired, in a tone of unnatural calmness. Three men were named George Ilar- baugh, James Fawcet, and John Ellery. These men were known as gamblers and desperadoes, and had been suspected of beinr robliera and murderers. They did not live in the village, but had visited it occasionally, and one of them had, some time previously, had a quarrel with Rrad way, and threatened revenge, though the latter little dreamed at the time that any thing terrible was meant as had been ac complished. It is but justice to say that, though the Rradway's, as previously mentioned, had made themselves very unpopular in the place, there were very few of the residents who openly sanctioned the horrid crimes that had been committed, and thore were some who boldly expressed a hope that the perpctritors would yet meet with a just punishment ; but though the ruffians had made no secret of their fiendish deeds and had even boasted of them before they left the place, no one bad made any at tempt to arrest or detain them, and they had gone, no one knew whither. It was about ten o'clock in the morning that William Rradway first saw the ruins of his home, and heard the awful news of his irreparable loss; and all through the remainder of that day and the night which followed it he conducted himself in the manner we have described, seemingly ta king notice of the curious groups that gathered around him, and replying to none of the idle questions put to him. The next morning he went into a neigh bor's house and asked for something to eat, which was given him. lie offered to pay for this, but the man of the house declined io receive any money, and, with expressions of sympathy, invited him to make his home there for a few days. No," returned Rradway, ''I intend to leave to-day." ' You don't look as if you'd got strength to go far," said the man in a kindly tone. " I have that within which will sus tain me," replied Rradway. He then inquired into the particulars of the awful tragedy and the direction taken by the murderers speaking calmly himself, and listemngly calmly to all re the replies his features the while retain ing their unnatural, livid hue, and dis playing no signs of emotion,' save jerhaps now and then a perceptible quiver of the bloodless lips. As lie passed through the village, after taking leave of this family, he was several times stopped by different parties, who wanted to enter into conver sation with him, and find out w hat he intended to do, but hs gave them only evasive answers, and slipped off" as quiet ly as possible. It was about two months after this that George Ilarbaugh, late one night, was picking his waj' through the dark streets of Nacogdoches from a gambling house in his lodgings, when a man came up to him and quietly sai l : Good eveninjr, sir !' Who're you ? and what uy'e want ?" demanded the ruffian in a gruff", surly tone, at the same time thrusting his right hand into his bosom as if to draw a pis tol. "Do not be alarmed, sir!" returned the stranger ; " but permit me to ask you one or two questions. In the . first place, is your name George Ilarbaugh ?" " Well, what of it, whether it is or isn't ?" was the uncivil demand. IF it is, I owe you something, which I wih to pay," returned the stranger; " and il it is not, perhaps you can put ine in the way to find the person I seek?" " What do you owe me for, and how much ?" inquired the gambler, taking his his hand from his bosom. "I am light, then, in supposing I ad dress George Ilarbaugh himself?" "Yes, that's my name. What's yours, and wher'd we ever meet before ?" "If I am not mistaken," pursued the stranger, " you. with two companions, were at the village of- , on the Red sixth of Sep- river, on the night of the ..rv,l... locf ?" "I la ! what's this?" cried the ruffian, springing back, and again thrusting his hand into his bosom. He had not time for more, ere, with a flash and a crack, a ball passed through his breast. As he staggered and fell, shouting murder, a sharp knife was drawn across his throat and the name of I William Rradway hissed into . his dying I ear. It was the last earthly sound he j ever heard. He was found murdered, but his assassin was not discovered, j During the winter following, James i Fawcet went among the Choctaws to pur i chase horses. While trading with the ; Indians he fell in with a small dealer, I who, for a trifling consideration, offered i to assist him in taking his horses to the ! settlement some two hundred ' miles dis j tant where he expected to dispose of them 1 at a heavy profit. The bargain was ; struck, and, with fifteen horses, James I Fawcet set off with his assistant through ! a long stretch of wilderness. On the j second night, as the gambler and murder I er sat smoking before the camp fire, he was suddenly startled by finding a noose : dropped over his head and shoulders and j drawn around his body, po as to pinion j his arms. In less than a minute, not I withstanding a vigorous resistance on his i part, he was literally bound hand and I foot, and lay stretched on the earth as i helpless as an infant. ' What's the meaning of this? Do you intend to murder me ?" he demanded, in a voice made tremulous by fear. I suppose you do not recollect ever having seen m before you met me in the Indian villiage ?" said the man who had been acting as his assistant, a hu now stood over his prostrate form. " No, 8f course not ! Where had I ever seen you before?" replied Fawcet. The other removed a wig of long hair, and a patch from one eye, and then quickly said : " Do you know me now?" " Well, it does seem as if I had seen you before, but I can't tell where," said the ruffian. " Do you remember the woman and children you helped to murder on the 6th of last September ?" "Ha! you're Rradway!" cried the villain, in a tone of despair. " William Rradway, at your service the same in name as when you knew me, but not the same in nature. Then I would not have harmed you ; but now I would execute the vengeance of a wrong ed husband and father." "Mercy!" gasped Fawcet. " Did you show any ?" " You will not murder me ?' "You must die, I have sworn it. I have followed you to rid the earth of a monster. Ilarbaugh fell by my hand ; I shall not spare you, and then to hunt down John Ellery ! Say you prayers, if you have any to say, for your minutes are numbered ?" "Mercy, mercy!" gasped .the terrified ruffian. The avenger made no further reply, but deliberately proceeded to fasten a rope, with a noose, around the neck of Fawcet. This done he dragged him to a sappling, bent it over, secured the other end of the rope near its top, and let it go. With a wild, unearthly yell, the second murderer was jerked up from the earth, and hung dangling, swinging, and strug gling a few feet from the ground. Rrad way looked calmly on. till the body be came still in death ; and then, mounting, his own horse, he rode swiftly away, leaving the other horses, and the money on 'the person of the dead man, to who ever mi-jlit find them. It might have been six months after the terrible death of the ruffian just recorded, that two men sat in a private room of a gambling den in Natchez, playing cards for money. Riles of gold and silver and rolls of bank notes were on the table be tween the men, and each was staking his money freely, and apparently considering nothing but how to beggar the other by his superior skill or knavery. You know," said one of the two men, " that we arc to play till one of us wins all ?' " Suppose we take another drink on it ?" "Agreed !" A liottle and tumblers stood on the ta ble just behind the first speaker, who got up and turned round and poured out two glasses his companion, who had the deal, improving the opportunity as well as he could arrange the cards so to give himself a winning hand. The man who poured out the liquor now handed one to the gambler at the table and held the other himself, ready for drinking. "To the cholera!" he said, quietly nodding to the other for the malady had at that time begun its work of des truction. " To ihe cholera be it then, and let it do its work!" cried the gambler, with forced bravado, turning somewhat pale, and tossing off his glass at a gulp. The other drank quietly, replaced the two tumblers, and resumed his seat at the gambling board. For a few minutes there was no remark made, except what concerned the game ; ami then the one who bad parti illy packed the cards, as ho raked down a large sum he had just won. said, looking up, with an expression of alarm, " Ry Heavens! I feci very strange !" "You look very pale," returned the other-r-" I think j-oil aw going to die." " Well, you're a pretty comforter, 1 must say I think you will find me so preseut- Ah?" groaned the gambler, dropping the cards and clasping his stomach with both hands, " I am on fire inside." "Of course you are!" "How, of course? What do you know about it ? Have I got the cholo ra?" demanded the gambler somewhat fiercely. " Listen to me a few moments, and you will know and understand all. There were once three companions named George Ilarbaugh, James Fawcet,- and John Eller. A little more than a year a-n, tlvey murdered an innocent woman and two children, in the village of , while the husband and father, William Rradway, w as away. When he n turned and learned all the horrid particulars, he swore a solemn oath that ha would never er rest in peace till he should have hnnt ed them all down, and put an end to their guilty lives. Georgo IJarbaogh was as sassinated in the streets of Nacogdoches, James Fawcet was hung in the west, and John Ellery was poisoned in Natchez." "Rut I am John Ellery!" cried the gambler, the very picture of horror. " No need io tell me that, who have hunted you to your death!" said the other. " I am William Rradway !" "Good Heaven! am I then noisoned?" shrieked the wicked man, as new pangs seized him. " Yes, beyond hope ! In five minutes you will lie a corpse." "Murder! help!'' the dying man began to crv. " None of that !"" said Rradwav, spring upon him like a tiger, and forcing a handkerchief into bis mouth, w hich he held there till thi man fell down in spasms, when he turned to the table uid quickly selected his own monev from the gambler's and put it in his pocket. The poison was quick and sure and in less than half an hour from his last drink of spirTts the murderer was a corpse. Waiting only to be certain of his deatii, Iiradwa' went down stairs and told some of the people of the houso that his com panion either had the cholera or had fal len down in a lit, and thy had better g up and see to him. He then hastened down io the river, got on board ihe first passing steamer, and before night was many miles away from the seuce of his last act of vengeance. William Rradway subsequently went to Texas, joined a band of rangers, and was finally killed in a fTght with a party of guerrillas on the western frontier. His companions all spoke of him as a quiet, deteraiined man, who was npver known to smile. Sonora Copper 3ilnrs, A correspondent of one of the St. j Leois papers gives the narratjvp of an ', exploit ion from the foot of the Sierra ' Madre range across the State of Sonora to Arizona, in which allusion is made to the " marvelous"' Nacosari copper mines. ; as follows : j It is a most wonderful developement of , that valuable ore, so lavishly and and re- j dundantly thrown down or up th-re, that i almost upon the very suffice one beholds ; masses of copper ore, with 50 per cent, : of pure metallic copper in it, in abuss- 1 dance sufficient to surfeit the market of : the world. I scarcely know whether to : call it a vein or lode. It is sixty fc t ; wide and runs for miles. The ore is o ; advantageously placed that it can be blasted out for one dollar p.'r ton, I orF-r"-ing to contract to take 5,003 tons at that figure. No shafts or tunnels seem necessary any more than on Pilot Knob or Iron Mountain. All that is necessary is to put in a blast and knock otr "a ton at a pop." Resides the copper, each ton con tains sixty dollars per ton of silver. I : have many specimens of the beautiful ore, some of them as beautifully variga- ; ted as the colors of the spectrum, all of them 50 per cent, pure. The " Don Juan" is a continuation of this wonder ful in:ne, two thousand feet distant. Neither of them have been much worked, capital being wanting. The face of th mine already stripped presents the boiu tiful ore in 'such advantageous position that the merest bungler in . :ntni::? cuild kngck it out so rapidly and at such little cost that it could be laid dow n at : In doors of the smelling furnaces at .a less per centage of expense than can be said of any copper mine I have beard of from Lake Superior to the Isthmus of Darien. Rktroi.kum IN" Cir.n oKMv Informa tion by the telegraph from S in Francisco has been received in this city that an oil well is reported struck flowing two hun dred barrels per day the existence of oil in abundance on the Northern eo:.! of California being thus abundantly demon strated. This is understood to be the tir.-t paiing wfill sunk in a region where the existence of petroleum in paving quantities was first demonstrated, in December .ast. according to a repeat of l'rofesso;' Si'.Ii mun. The surface oil discovered is described as of the orisiston. of good sperm oil; in color greenish yellow and opalescent, almost without odor, what it has being rather agreeable than otherwise, and some what resembling tnrei;t:ne. lis Sn'eifie gravity is about 900, water lein iiieur.it, which is not very different from the den sity , of averag" crude petroleum. Its boil ing point is high. The excitement which since the De cember discoveries, has prevailed through out California region will doubtless be ir. creased by the announcement which is now made. .Y. C3T Music of the season -sound from J the light Cat a rib. Vast Armies and lelr Jioie-mciii. There have U-eu vast armies and g: ae..l movements in ancient times. I lore- is a record of some of them : Sennacherib, the bible fells us lo.-i in a .-ingle night 185,'!0!j by the disl.OMeg angvl. The city of Thebes hd a htu.Jicd gates and could send out of each gate lO.OUJ fighting men and two hundred chariots, i;i all 1,0'.-'0,000 men and two thousand chariots. The army of Trerah, King of Ethiopia eon.-i-ted of 1 ,OO0,H'0 mt n ami lin e- hun dred ch uii:ts of war. Sesostris, King of Egypt, led agr.Ia.-t his ciiciines o00,0(0 men, 24,000 chaii uls, 11!) I before Chri.-r. IL:n:ilear went from Carthage, and huide l rear Palermo. He had a fleet of 2,HK ships and 3.O0 ) small essels, tiv.'X a land force of 30;,. men. At the buMie in which-he was deflated, 150,000 were si. .in. Ninus, the Assyrian king, about 2.200 years before Christ, led against the Rac tri.ios an army of 1,701, OoJ foot, 1,70. 0!) ho s. anJ 1G.0J J chariots arml Willi Seville's. Semi; amis employed 2,!"90,Q..i) m.:i i:i building Rahjjon. She took 100, O00 prisoners at Indus and sank 2,00 lnia'S. A .-hu t time after the taking of" R;. by Ion, the forces of Cyrus consisting of 0O;,:)U0 f'H.t, 1-2,'OJ ho.e, and 2,000 chariots, armed with scythe . Army of Cambyses, ". '.'')) 5-troi r, was buried in the d:seri s.. d- cf Afj'uss by a south wind. W ben Xrxes arrived a'. Tl.crmopyl;r his land and sea forces amounted to 2, 01-1,510. exclusi ve of servants, eunuchs, wom'n, sutlers, etc., i.i all numlrii.g 5,283.220. So say Herodotus, Plutarch, i.nd Isocrates. The army of Artaxeixes before ti e battle of Canuxa amounted to about 1, 2'0'000. Ten thousand horses and 100,000 foot fell on the fatal field of Issus. When Je rcsa'em was taken by Titus, 1,100,000 pel i: lied in various ways. The army of Ta iM--!ane is said to have sim-nm-cd to 1 ,000,00' and that of his aiiia-onist, Rajazt to 1,409,000. C"st- i Petroleum. HitLtito this oli Las been most exclu sively spoken of as an illuminating sub s'.:;itev. Mid :.s sue li if has at least as many a Sv-eis.-iri-es as it has friends. Rui it possesses at -i:t r qualities, the value of which i less -pci to di-pule. We mentioned a tew d:i& Kgo the property it possesses of de:iroying the parasites that prey uj on the human 1 cdy, and we will now r.dd that it may become one of the most impor5a.it auxiliaries .in the art of tlyeing, in wbieh it i- calculated to pro duct: q.ii.e a revolution, it having just lieen discovered th:it it con';. ins the prin- ciplcs of aniline, the wil! known vegeta ble b.iso d -rived, from huligo, and which is new so comm-r.ly u-ed for p-exlucing soh-ndid rose-colored. sunTs. Aniline has hit hert -j b-en obtained by treating indigo I wiili a -o:e--n'.-.ited so!. iii--n of jotash, '. m Iii-i-. by a wni. -h oily sr-bstar.ee is rii:nied, v Ich bv disli.leti. ii yields pure a-iiliiee, :i e! .-r i-olorl-ess liq-iid, having the siaeii of wiiv, trit a corrosive a v.d pois n ous ta-te. 'i "lie s.dts of aniiii.vi arc color-I--S-: bet rapidly a--:H:i ; a nicl'ow rose co! r !y . p t. ihe air. White wood .lipped i;ito a foiut'on of sa'f of ani line t::ke a d-e: p vo'.low cilor : Hydmch . lori- 1 turns tiiwe sal's gn en, blue, or : black, accorh::". io ihe concentrated state ! of :!ie so'urie-:--. For the present, cxperl-rnnt- .11! b: i Torres.- for extracting ani'iue I'ei.i pctrelium at a cheap cost, and livre is every n:son to s'lpposc that th--e ell! r:s will b-i ctowred wi.h mccees. Certain odoiitlroi s ethers may ::lso bv extracted from petroleum, and th"re U even a talk of substituting potta'.ci.n tor t-vi! of c ke for steam purposes. Lcuhm ; 77'f.- tS2 A ci.!..iiig politician is often found skio'Iiiiii ond t the ckrieai robe', with an oi.t.-ide rc'.e-ion an I .-in inside all po hiicai rancor Tbiirj Sj iriuial and thinjs ti !'.;; -r:;l jov strangely j'lm'ob-d to gether, like- poisons an 1 s tuidctes on ar. ; apoili.ea.' v's shelf: and ii'end of a de von s' oion the simp!;' chai-eh -going peo ple h.ivc t.ften a political pr.:..:.iei thros'. down t!.fr throats labelied with a piosi text from Scripture. -.Washington I:in.. C3 Heaving a physician remark that small bl.w would break t!i nose, a tie ee'. lii'.u-i 1, Wel I da ino bout tl... I've b'.o veil my n s? a gre-i! many time.-, ;;nd I'w r, broke it vet. 8 r t r - r