*4 17 \ ' ■I I ) I * " i ' lI i ■■■ ' I :i I'i BY DAVID OYER. SUPERIOR In the QrigUial Halt' Cheats. IX BOXES, ov G AND I*2 POCXKS, AND IN AIEVA' LtC P.VCKAGSSOI' i 4,1,2 & i POUNDS, FOH kals Br JENKINS A CO., 6-3 m. NOTICE TO COLLECTOKST Collect*™ f the Poor Tate# are notified that Kxccntiosa will i.*uo at once against ; ONE HINDU ED TOWKT LOTS IN THE .TOWN OF fiOALiOONT. A PFBLlCT"uttion WILL be held nt C'.ialmont, Huntingdon County, on the Huntingdon and .Broad- Top Railroad, on WEDXESDJY 16TM D.IY OF dPftll, r.ext, when and where the following Lands will be soid: LANDS IN TOI) TT., HUNTINGDON CO One hundred choice building Lots in the towu of Coalinont, each 6) by laO feet. A vdnablc tract of Coal Laud, situate on the Fork* of Sharp's ltun. adjoining Coaliuont, containing about 350 acres, more or Jess, It is composed of Are surveys, part of Benjamin Pen, Nathan Layering, J. S. Stewart, Evans & Hamilton, Evan*, Hamilton and Anderson. It has fire coal openings, it is tho first coal land reached by the rail-roafl, and is only 27 miles from the Pennsylvania Kail Road at Huntingdon. A Tract of Coal Land situate on Trough Creek and Sharp's Hun, near Bread Top city, adjoining lands of Jesse Cook. John McCanle*, and Broadtop Improvement Company, kuotrn as the "Loads Tract," containing about 104 acres, more or less. A Tract of Coal Land, situite on Trough Creek, adjoining lands of Broadtop Improve ment Company, E. L. Anderson, Houc's heirs and other*, known as the Shoemaker Tract, containing 471 acres, with allowance. This tract can be ruin-sd on the eastern slope of Broadtop. LANDS IN BROADTOP TP. BEDFORD CO A tract of Coal and Ore Land, situate on 6 mile ltun. near rail-road, adjoining lands of Curfnian's heirs. Asa Duvall, Thomas I. Mor ton, and Septimus Foaier; known as the -*Jo siah Ilorton Tract," containing about ll>7 acre*. more or less. A tract of Cnal and Iron Ore Land, surveyed to E. Fos'er and W. P. Sche.l, situate on Sandy ltun, about three miles from Hopewell, adjoining lands of John N. Lane's heirs, Rich ard D. Wood, and John Devereux, containirg 289 acr< s with allowance. A mi'-H tract of Coal Land, near the above tract, adjoining lands of Samuel Pleasant:) and Jacob Saiiifi, containing about 13 acres. LANDS IX WELLS TP., FULTON CO. A tract of Coal an I Ore Land, in rime William Gray, on Ray* Ifil7, adjoining lands of the Broadtop Improvement Company, and fames Patton. containing '55 acres. A tract of Ore and Timber Land, in tho name of Abraham Wright, adjoint tig the above tract, partly on Ray* Kill, and partly in Ground Hog Valley, about 5 miles from li ops well, containing 240 acres. All th? above tracts of coal hand arc i".p posed to contain the famous "Cork Vein.*' They will be sold according to net measure ment. For mora particular information apply to Levi Evan*, Esq.. Coalmen'. Writ. Foster. Broa ;tr>p. and Thomas W. Ilorton, Li q. f Hopewell. Tin: subscriber will be at Coalmont for two days previous to tbe day of sale, and will ex hibit a connected draft of thu whole Broadtop coal field, and separate drafts of the tracts of fered for sale. Alltr-cts and lots remaining nnsol J (If any) on the day of sale, will ho offered at private sale on the day following. of salo will be made known on the dav of sale. tE7"The passenger train leave* Huntingdon for Coalmont daily, at 8 a. in. Sc 2 p. m.—Re turning at 12 m. and 4 p. m. Win. P. SriIELL. March 21, 185 S. mm, BOOKS ISO STI TIfiXARY. l it. F. f. UKAJIKn, Bedford, Fa., HAVING purchased the Drug and Book Store of Dr. S. D. Scott, ha* constantly on hand, at the old stand, a large and well se lected stock of choice Drngs and Medicine , wholes* e and retail, all of which will be sold at fair terms. The assortment consists in part of Drugs and Chemicals, Dye Woods and .iciis. Pain's ami Oils, I ['indole Glass and Glass Ware. Tobacco and Srgars, Perfumery, Fancy or licit!. 4 r -- d". PaTiftr AIKKIC;*!;*. Having the regular agency for ihe sale of all <>f these medicines, the public are assured th-.t they are of the beat, such as have stood the test of time and espe ri'Micc, and can be safely recommended as ge nuine, vis: Townsend'e and Sand's Sarsapa rilla, Wistir's Balsam of Wild Cherry, Aver's Cherry Pectoral, ilotfat's Life Pills and Phoe nix Bitters, Dr. Jayno's Fatnilv Medicines, Fahnstock's, Uohensaek'*, and other verrrfu g-v 1! > >fi nd's Garni*n Kittors, Ac., Ac, Constantly on hand a large stock of historic, biographical, scientific, religious, poetical, school, and miscellaneous BOOKS. Also a great variety of F.4NCY STATION ARY, Cap. Post and wrapping paper of evry Utility, Paper Hangings m great variety.— tfindow Blind* in pattern* or by the piece M'.ill Paper. Steel and Fancy Goods. BO.VT ROOK# of every sir.e and quality, Pokst Books and Port Monnaies, Diaries, Blank Deeds and Mortgages, gold Pens and Pencil*. Comb*, Brushes, Perfumery iu great variety, Soap*. Ac., Ac. t. itupt, and Csmphine Oil and Burnirg Fluid, kit .onatantly ott baud. CHOICE LiiiVORS-inrmr* iral nae ; WolfTa Schoiuani Sebnappt, Citi, i'ort, Sherr* and Jtfadcira Wine*. Aug. !!, W54.-tf IMI'OKThiT TO MI 1,1. OWKCBSI WOOD IV AB D'S Int proved Smut and Screen ing >1 whines, Mill Bushes, BoltingCloUia and Bran Dusters, of the most Improved plan; Mill Screws, Coru and Oob Grinder*, Patent Bridge* fof Mill Rpiniljea, Portable Mills, warranted to grind ten bnsbok per hour, Mill lion* and Mill Bum made to order. Also, Stover'# Patent Orn kiln and Grain Dryer— a valu ible invention. Tlte aborts article* are kept constantly on hind, tud ar> be obtained at any time, from ft, D. BROAD, at Bin .•'laburg. Bedford County, who is also agent for Bedford, Somerset, and adjoining counties. Mill wright work done at the shortest tntiee, and on the most rensoaoble item*. Pubru.tr/ I-"*. 18"4. McCOR MICK'S Itosjvcr and Slower for sale by S. I). BROAD at richellthttfg, p a , , igeal fur Blair and Bedford camutiv#, Jfcbrmvy !i, 1 tf- t'OLLISIOX WITH IS ICEBERG OSE HIKDItEO THIRTY FIVE LIVES LOST! Nine Days of Horror in an Open Boat. ONLY ONE SURVIVOR. On the 20th of February tile packet-ship John Ruiledg", Capt. Kelly, nf New-York) while on her voyage from Liverpool to this port, struck upon an iceberg and sank, with the mate, carpenter, and 30 to 35 pas sengers on board. Our information in re gard to this disaster is derived from the only known survivor, Thomas W. Nye of New-Bedford. So far as we have been able to learn, the subjoined narrative contains all of the facts in the case: The packet-ship John Ilutledge left Liv erpool on tiie 16th of January, with I*2o ] passengers, and a crew of officers and men • numbering, all told, 16 persons. During | the passage she encountered severe weath er One of her crew was washed off the i bowsprit, and a male passenger was carried ; through the bulwarks by a heavy sea and ! drowned. On tbe 20th of February the | John Rut)edge was struck by an ieeberg, . and want down. From the log-book of tbe , mate, which was saved in the boat with the | boy Nye, wo extract the following en | tries: "Monday, 18th February—B a. m., thick, foggy, with drizzly rain. Middle and lat ter part, strong breezes and rainy. Pass ed several icebergs on both aides. P ssed one within ten feet of the weather side.— Lat. dead reckoning, 45 deg. £4 mio N., lon. I>. 11., 46 deg. 56 mil). W." "Tuesday, I9fb. p. m: —Follows with light winds and hazy. The vessel was sur rounded with icebergs, it being very diffi cult to steer clear of them. At 8 saw a large field of ice ahead; tried to steer clear of it, but there being little wind it got down to the ship before we could get past it, and the triiid dying away, we could not steer clear. At 11 the ship was completely wedged in with drift-ice and very largo ice bergs in all kircctions, and the breeze springing right aft, there was no alterna tive but to proceed through it. The fur ther we got in the thicker tbe ice got, and the greater the number of icebergs. .Mid night, light winds and the ship making very little headway through the i *e. 4, morn" ing, the samo. 8, steady breeze, nr.tl the ship making more headway, Passed some very largo bergs. At 9 the 1" Here the log abruptly terminate#. From this we Infer that the collision with the ice berg took piece between 9 and 10 o'clock on tnc morning of the 20th of February. - And it would seem that the mato was wri ting np his log when tbe fatal shock occur red. The ship was abandoned about six o'clock the same eveuing. Before leaving his vessel, L'apt. Kelly, finding that she leaked badly, manned the pumps with pas sengers and seamen; and as the leak con tinued to g*iu upon her. had about 100 hags of salt and a .number of crates of crockery broken out of the fore Isold and thrown overboard. Getting clear of the ice Boon after, it was discovered tbat a plank was started from tbe forefoot, and an atteu pt was inaua to stuff the leak with blankets and rags. It appears that this was not very successful, as the captain sub sequently decided to abaudon tho vessol.— There were five large boats on board in which 134 persons were to be saved. llow tho captain bore himself at this time we conld riot learn, a* tbo survivor lies in a very critical Htnation, and we could not question him close!}!. We only know that font boats pal off before that in which Nye was. The ce, ain's boat was the onlv one of the four which had a compass. How Capt. Kpllj distributed the provisions and seatnon we conld not learn. The last boat which left the ship contained only thirteen persons. It appears thai Atkinson, the mate, put his wii'e into this boat, and, with the carpenter, went to sound the puraps.—- Whilt they were gone the boat was struck by a heavy sea, which broke her from her fastening?, and she rapidly drifted from the ship leaving the mate and carpenter, with from thirty to thirty-five of the passen gers, onboard. When last reen the ship was down to her mizien chains in the wat er aDd from the character of her cargo,salt 4 iron and crockery—she probably went dowu in a short time afterward. Of the thirteen person? in the list boat, there were four women,one little girl, five male passengers, Mr. Nye, a Scotch suilor, and the boats wain, an Irishman, whose wife resides in New-York. For the subsistence of these pooplc there was only one gallon of water and ix or eight pounds of bread. "The mate bad placed a compass in the boat, but hU wife, in leaping trosji the slip, lad Iro- BEDFORD. PA.. FRIDAY, APRIL 4.1856. ken it. Cast thus helplessly upon the open sea, among the fogs and mists of the Batiks of Newfoundland, and surrounded by drift and berg ice, their prospect could hardly have been more gloomy. Soon after the boat broke adKft, night came on—how it passed may bo imagined. From what we could learn, but little was said by any one, and probably all of them soon came to a realizing souse of their dreadful situation for .-is soon as Mrs. Atkinson entered the boat she seized the vessel containing the water, and being a large robust woman, fought off all whu attempted to obtain a drink froui it. Nvc got only twoorthre 6 swallows; the rest was drank by herself and the boatswain. What disposition was made of the bread does not appear. The proba bility is that there was no organizatio a whatever among the little party, but every one looked out for himself. Having no compass, nor sign by which to steer, they did not exert themselves, other than to keep the boat before the sea. The sailors weao warmly clothed, as was also Mr. Atkinson: but the passengers, for the most part, were very scantily attired and suffered keenly from the cold. Day after day only dawn ed to raise their spir its anew with hopes of succor, which tlie long and dreary nights turned to the bitterness of despair. Thus time passed until tho third day, when one of the little land, a man whose clothes were quite too thiu to shield him troai the bleak weather, sank under the combined effects of cold and hunger, and his body was committed to deep. Then a woman in the arms of her husband and little daugh ter. and her corpse was also silently drop ped into the sea. The fourth day came, and with it the same angry sea, the same leaden sky- -r.o ray of hope anywhere vis ible. The cold was so intenso thtt it al most froze the uurrow, and not a drop of water could be obtained, while only § small quantity of food remained. Human uatur>* could not bear up much longer against this exposure and privation, when, tiicy were about to give up ail hope, the wind lulled, Mid Jo! a btig hove .ifdhsfet? was not very far off," and they palled for iier with might and main. Signals were also made. For some tunc they seemed to gain upon her, but she did not see them and the wind freshening, she was soon ou l of sight. With her went all hope. A burning thirst soon fell upon ail of ibeirq and noedlcjis.of young Nye's earnest ap peals, they (ell to drinking salt water. This only increased their thirst, and they drank eagerly and repeatedly of the fatal fluid.— What followed is the old story of delirium and death. Ons by one they grew mad and madder besought oaeli other to kill them; then they dreamed of sitting at sumptuous feasts, and spoke of the rare dauties which mocked their grasp; of the delicious leverages whh'b they in vain essayed to quaff. At length worn out with the intensity of their physical and mental sufferings; they grew more subdued, their Laggard features be came rigid, their wild eyes assumed a glassy look, and the ir shrunken forms seemed gradually to subside—the next lurch of the boat tumbled them off the seats dead! Such were the sights which young Nye witnessed daily. As they died, he threw their bodies into the sea, as long as his strength lasted. He says that although his thirst was of the most agoniziug character, ho uot only warn" ed his fellow sufferers against drinking salt water, but showed thein how he obtained re lief by simply rinsing his mouth occasionally. They were hopeless and desperate, and would not listen to him. The boatswain grew dclirous, and died within twelve hours after drinking it. In bis dclirutn he was most most violent. He attempted to throw the oars over board, and did not succeed in tbi owing over the bucket with which they bailed out of the boat. Nye did his best to quiet bim and stop him from drinkiug more sea water; bat ho struck him a severe blow upon the chin, inflicting a wound which has not yet haled up. Mrs. Atkinson was also very violent, aud, being of a strong constitution, it was along timo before she expired. Our informant's recollection of. events which occurred about this time is very indistinct. But, from what oould gath er, on the sixth day there were onH him self, a small woman wrapped up in two blankets, and the little girl alivo in the i>oad. Before sunset the chiid died, and on the day following the woman breathed her last. He had strength enough to throw the body of the child overboard but that of the woman, together with the bodies of three others, was so coiled up under the thwarts that he was unable to extricate them. Fooling % strong sense of ilrowsb ness creeping over him, he fastened a red shirt and a white shirt to an oar, and hoist ing it to attract any passing vessel, lie coiled himself np in the stem of tuo boat and dosed away the hours. Occasional Iv he would rouse himself, and bole out the boat, and then lay down again. He did not sleep but the lime passed in a kind of waking vision. Occasionally he felt light-beaded —and began to dream of being at home in New-Red ford with his family. Fearing that he too might be delirious, he fought aghins 1 these influences, and kept himself awake by various means, At first the sight of bis ghastley companions caused him tnneb dis tress, and his mind became oppressed with gloomy He resolved to shake these hope #or*Wp even to the last, thinking it better to go to the next world with all his senses abont him than to die a raving manic. Thus resolved, he bore np bravely and to the end. On ihe 23th of Fcbuary a ship hove insight of the loaelv boy. lie says that he saw her before thos e on board discovered him, and he was sure front the first that they wonhl pi. k Lira up. That vessel was the packet ship Gernuna, Capt. Wood, from Havre, bound to New -5 oik. When (.'apt. Wood deserted the folitary boat, he ordered one of his own quarterboats to be lowered, ahd sent an an officer to see what it contained. At they approached biui poor Nye grimed 'For Jesus Christ's sake, take me out of thI s boat." They did take him out, with wo manly tenderness, and with the boat and its fearful load in tow, rowed back to the ship. The young sailor was quickly trans terrcd to the comfortable cabin of the Ger manin, and his late companions, already far gone in decomposition, were thrown into the sea. The boat was half full of water, and the bodies washing about in it had cov ered the seats and sides with 'blood. It is ; * wooden life-boat,about 25 feet Jong. Af ! 'er being thoroughly cleaned, it was hois ; ted on board and brought into port. j I nder any other treatment than which he I rc-eived on board the Gcrmana, young Nye | would not have lived to see his home again. Hut Capt. Wood and his lady took him into I ike cabin and nursed him with parental ten derness. His feet were soddened with | salt-water, and so badly frostbitten up to Hbia knees,, that they feared .Wtfif bvaiy. n , would ensue. Fortunately theie were sev t eral cows on board, and Mrs. Wood made i poltices of bread and milk and applied them • to his legs with such success that, all dan ! ger of luortifiaation is past. It was also } necessary to administer food and liquids in i iufinitessinial quantities at first, until his J stomach became accustomed to the changes j but now he can eat quite heartily. His mind is still bewildered at times, wore es pecially when the scenes through which he Ims so recently passed are recalled; Le lias an almost Infaiitrre fondness fur those who wait npon liitn, and can scarcley bear theni to bo for a moment out of bis sight. Yes. lorday a coinpauion of his childhood, who is clerk in a store in this city, wen t to hint, and wi'l stay with him and accompany biiu home to New-Bedford. We were informed that C.ipt Wood is parsonally acquainted with the family of his protege. The lad is 19 years of age, of olive complexion, thin and of wiry make, wit a black hair and eyis, and rather tall- Ho has just entered upon the of a sailor, aud has bad an experience that will last him through life. Of the otbor boats of the John Rutleuge no tidings have been received. Nye thinks that those were us badly off as lie was, if not worse, aud entertains but lirtle hope that any flictn would be picked np. As before observed, only the Captain's bout , was furnished with a compass, aud it is I probable that all of them wore poorly pro vided with food and water. The survivor believes that with plenty of those the in. jority of the people in bis boat coold have endured the cold until tlvey were picked up. The Germana kept a strict look-out for the other boats, und laid to during the Viight, hoping to fall in with some of them. Fail ing to do so, she bore away to the soutL- west with the same object. That morning a hoavy snow storm came up and obscured the view. A bark came ontof the ice at the same time as the Germana, and it is thought to b not improbable that she picked up some of the boats. The Genn.inia did not escape the com pliments of this season. During her voyage she encountered severe storms' and a great deal of ice; and once she was hove down on her beam ends. "JheJohn Ilutlcge was owned by Ilowlar,,] & lltdgewa? She was built in 1851, at Baltimore, and was 1,008 tuns burden. In surance men say that she was a crantev ship upon which they did not like to insure; we have been unable to obtain the name of a single passenger. Her captain is a Oaptr Od man. The mate, Alkiason, belongs to Philadelphia. It is a singular fact that one of the owners of tUi-t ship Mr. Rldjgeway is one of the passengers on the unfortunate twMTi:-hip Pacific, MAIL ROBBERY ANECDOTE In the early arinals of our country, says Mr. Holbrook in "Ten Years among tb> Mailbags," many instance* of mail robbe ry are found some of which occasioned the display of great intrepidity and daring, as the perusal of the following will show: While the country was vet thinly net tled, and the wails were transported on horseback, or in different kinds of vehi cles, from the gig to the stage coach, often through xifusive forests, which afforded every facility for robbery, tbe office of the stage driver or mail carrier was no sinecure. Resolute men were required for this ser vice, who on an emergency could handle a pistol as well as a whip. Some thirty or forty years a mail coach ran in the northern part of the State of New York, through the famous Chateaugav wo-ids. The forest was many wiles in ex tent, aud common fame and many legends gave it the reputation of a noted place for freebooters anJ highwaymen. One morning the stage driver on his route had occasion to examine his pistols, and found that instead of the usual charge, they were loaded with wheat bran ! A da ring villain had through an accomplice, thus disarmed the driver, preparatory to waylaying him. Ha dtew the charges, cleaned the weapons, and carefully loaded them with powder and ball. That afternoon he mounted his stage for his drive through the Chuteaugay woods.— There was not a passenger in the vehicle.— Whistling as he went ho 'cracked up' his leaders aud drove into the forest. Just about the centre of the woods a man spraDg out from behind a tree and seized the hors es bv the bit. 4 1 sav, driver,' said the footpad with con summate coolness, 'I want to take a look at that mail.' 'Yes you do, no want to overhaul my mails," replies the driver, 'but I can't be so free unless yau rhow tueyour commis sion. I'm driver here, and I never give up my mails except to one regularly author -Oh, vou don't eh? well here's my au thority,' showing the butt of a large pistol partly concealed in his bosom. 'Now dismount and bear a baud, my fine fellow, for you see I've got the documents about me." 'Yos, and so've I, says the driver, in stantly leveling his own trusty weapon at the highwayman. n I'-' o 1* on your eocw, and 1 give it to you." ♦'