l ie No. 2475. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.' OVE DOLLAR PER AYU Jl, IN ADVANCE. si for six months, 75 cents. ? \H >'UW subscriptions must be paid in |, e |f the paper is continued, and net within the first month, $1,25 will be charg- , n ?t'paiJ in three months, $1,50; if not ir s ix months, $1,75; and if not paid in Booths, $2,00. ,apers addressed to persons out of the iV will be discontinued at the expiration of Jt , p3 iJ for, unless special request is made [contrary or payment guaranteed by some edible person here. ADVERTISING. ,lines of minion, or their equivalent, con- " a square. Three insertions sl, and 25 forcach subsequent insertion. ] West Branch Insurance Co. OF LOCK HAVE*, PA., H'RES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer- amiise, Farm Property, and other Build- jad their contents, at moderate rates. DIRECTORS. John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey, it Ball, T. T. Abrams, |j. tL Mayer, D. Iv. Jackman, its Crist, W. White, [Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen. Hon. G. C. HARVEY, Pres. T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres. k'ifcSrrn, Sec'y. REFERENCES. ,F| H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D. Winegardner, Wm. Vanderbelt, Macfcey, Wm. Fearon. bite, Dr. J. S. Crawford, sQuiggle, A. Updegraff, [IV. Maynard, James Armstrong, Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler. Agent for Midi in county, G. W. STEW- P. Esq. ap23 unity from Loss and Damage by Fire, i'lf Peril£ of .Marine ami Inland Transportation. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. f.t rated by Out LegislaiHre of Pcnntylca- ion, kUk a Perpetual Charter. Authorised Capital, $1,000,000. r So.-SI Walnal Si. above Second, Hilla. it Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer- Ctse, <fcc., generally. Marine Insurance iitgoes and Fretgfcts to all parts of the 11. inland Insurance on Goods, &c. t by iv Rivers, Canals, and [.and Carriages, to earts of the Union, on the most favorable I.consistent with security. DTRECTUUS. rce W. Col lad ay, William Bowers, Ml. Coleman, Joseph Oat,. [in V. Machette, Howard Hinchman, GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President. A LEV VVII.SON, Secretary. >Asent for Milflm county, Wm. P. EL- ITT, Esq. feblD-ly INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE. liiklin Fire Insurance Compa- ny of Philadelphia. e 435 and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth. ATKMF.NT OF ASSETS, January 1, IPSB, übli-hcJ agreeably to an act of Assembly, [Mortgages, amply secured, $L596,c25 ID E-ljte, (present value >IOO,- II.) cost, 74,20 23 porary Loans, on ample Col- eral Securities, lUI,OSB 17 ks,(pres't val. $7G.9G4 22) cost 71.547 'J7 Ei and Bills Receivable, 4,307 00 40,855 48 >1,888,904 74 trjKlu d or Limited Insurances made on every option of property, in Town and Country. as are consistent with security, lice the-ir incorporation, a period of twenty- tyears, they have paid over Four Millions loUars' losses by fire, thereby affording ev- ce of the advantages of Insurance, as well |he ability and disposition to meet with fptness ail liabilities. Losses by Fire. *s paid during the year 1857, >203,789 4 DIRECTORS. ' V Banckcr, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis, ?as Wagner, I David S. Brown, iel Grant, J Isaac Lea, 13 R. Smith, | Edward C. Dale, \u25a0 W. Richards, | George Fales. CHARLES N. BANCKER, President. A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tern. r*Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. VVAL- S, Esq., Lewistown. feb2s ITE77 &ROCBRY, 10VISION AND FISH STORE. IE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro- ?lsion and Fish Store opposite Major Eisen- t Hotel, where he has just received a fine Woent of fresh jFamtlfi (groceries, which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar, Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers, Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy '' Tobacco, Segars, Soap, &c. wo, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a 1 4 assortment of Willow-ware, which he for cash very cheap. *ill pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes, f-ti, &e. prices, and judge for yourselves. *3 JAMES IRWIN. CHEAP GOODS AGAIN! 8E undersigned having purchased the 'kick of goods of Samuel Comfort, con- all kinds of DRY GOODS, suitable ; t*4los, Gentlemen and Children, Grocer- "toeensware, lleadymade Clothing, &c., off the entire stock at COST ! out the establishment. Persons wish- Aj buy CHEAP will do well to give us a I Country dealers wanting goods to keep -ir assortment will do well to examine Up , we w 'b Be H at Philadelphia prices. 7 '? Country Produce, at market prices, "\u25a0 received in exchange for goods. G. W. SODLT, 11. 11. COMFORT. **Wown, June 10, 1858. lights best Window Sash, from 8x ! -*l s , for ale very low. FRANC!BCI7B iisy® ipwffiaasiEisffi) sir ®s©s®s ssirsmc&ssa SSWHE®©WH 9 asMF&m ©©ursrws, s>& a THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858. JIJIIS JNlßSttllllk. MY MOTHER DEAR. There was a place tn childhood, Which I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone, Bright l'alry tales did tell; And gentle words and fon.l embrace Were given with Joy to me, When I was In that happy place. Upon my mother's knee. My mother dear! My gentle, gentle mother! When fairy tales were ended, "Good night," she softly said. And kissed, and laid me down to sleep. Within niy tiny bed; And holy words she taught me there; Methiuks I yet can see Iter angel eyes, as close I knelt lleslde my mother's knee. My mother ler! My gentle,gentle mother! In the sickness of my childhood. The perils of my prime, The sorrows of niy riper years, The cares of every time; When doubt or danger weighed me down; 'Then, pleading all for me, It was a fervent prayer to Heaven That bent my mother's knee. My mother dear! My gentle, gentlo mother! NELLIE GRAY. There's a low mossy valley on the old Kentucky shore, Where I've whlled many happy hours away? A-sitting and a-singing by the little cabin door. Where lived ray darling Nellie Gray. Oh! my poor Nellie Gray, They have taken her away. And I'll never roe my darling any more; I am sitting by the river. And am weeping all the nay, For she's gone from the old Kentucky shore. When the moon had climbed the mountain and the stars were shining too, I would take my darling Nellie Gray, And paddle down the river In my little red canoe. While my banjo so sweetly I would play. 01.! my poor Nellie Gray, Ac. One day I went to see her ?she bail gone, the neighbors said; The white man had bound her In his chain? He had taken her to Georgia, there to wear her life away, As she toiled 'mid the cotton and the Mile. Oh! my poor Nellie Gray, Ac. My canoe Is under water and my banjo Is unstrung? I sin tired of living any more; .My eyes shall look downward ami my song shall be unsung, While I stay on the old Kentucky shore. Oh! my poor Nellie Gray, Ac. My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way. There's somebody knocking at the door; 1 hear the angels calling, and I see my Nellie Gray- Farewell to the old Kentucky shore. Oh! my poor Nellie Gray, Up In heaven there they say. They'll never take you from me airy more; I aui coming, coming, coming. As the angels clear the w ay- Farewell to the old Kentucky shore. HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE. We have never reuu a more thrilling picture of the horrors of the slave trade than is given by a correspondent of the Charleston Mercury. The writer recently visited the Africans who were captured in the brig Echo, and he has furnished a truly touching account of the scene. Of the victims in health, or comparatively so, he found about two hundred and fifty, of whom some fifty were females. There were about fifty others in the sick ward, in various stages of disease. The women, from some unexplained cause, were, gener- allyspeaking, in much better condition than the men. " The result of the whole visit was intense sympathy for them and indig- nation for their captors. You may read of the horrors of the " middle passage," but the half cannot be told as one view of these unfortunates will tell the tale. Dysentery, dropsy and opthalmia?all, I believe, the production of contact, want of ven- tilation and want of exercise?are the pre- vailing diseases. But even where these were not visible the spectacle was harrow- ing. A skeleton taken down from the nail of a doctor's closet, and presented to your view, would scarcely be more descriptive of anatomy than many of these living, walk- ing specimens of human frame. The effect was very startling when you saw them squatting on their haunches, with their knees drawn up behind their elbows, in an attitude common to apes and baboons, but which no human frame clothed in flesh can obtain. Some wheu sitting and told to rise, did so with great difficulty, and rnove- ed with a step as tottering as I ever saw after illness. The very head seemed but a skull encased in a black covering. It is common to speak of a man being reduced to skin and bone, but one who saw these can scarcly use the expression again. But if this is to be said of those comparatively in health, what language can describe the sick? f saw one poor creature swollen to the iuo>t wonderful size with dropsy; and, as he lay on his back, he moved his hands, signi- fying to one of our party a request for his segar, which, when given to him, he smok- ed with the greatest avidity. Another manifested similar wants, and replied to our beckoniugs to come to us by pointing to his leg, which we construed into ina- bility to move. Two lay near, whose troub- les here had ceased in death; while anoth- er?the most affecting sight ofaal a child of six or eight years, lay 011 its side in the sun on the stone wharf, with eyes closed and no other evidence of life than the slight motion of the stomach indicating breathing. The poor creature, alone and unattended, had rested its bead on it*little hand as naturally as our own little ones do, and in this touching attitude was fast losing consciousness of a life whose experience had been only that of sorrow and suffer- REMARKABLE PHENOMENON. POPLAR RIDGE, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1557. Yesterday at about I o'clock, P. M., the atmosphere became suddenly filled with myriads of insects, of a type entirely un- known in this region, as far as I can learn. The phenomenon is known to have exten- ded several miles, and appears to have oc- curred at the same moment. The insect is about one-fourth of an inch long, and close- ly resembles the common ant. Rut the strangest part of the matter (that is to me) remains to be told. As soon as they ap- peared they began to alight upon whatever object they came in contact with, and to Jive birth to young insect*, ready winged, which, in a few seconds, ascended into the air, while the old ones threw themselves in- to violent contortions, which continued un- til they had succeeded in ridding themselves of their wings?after which they appeared to feel much relieved, and ran briskly about upon the ground, as contented apparently, as though they had possessed the power of flight. In an hour the earth was alive with these fallen insect-angels, and strewn with their lifeless wings?- while their tiny, new-horn progeny had as- cended and were sporting in the beams of the evening sun. This morning the pa- rent insects may he seen secreted in the grass, or whatever offered protection for the night, while the new generation appear dormant upon the surface, awaiting the warming rays of the rising Bun. Ento- mologists may be familiar with such a per- petuation of an insect race, without the intervening link of the larv;e. If so will some one enlighten us on the subject ? A'. Y. Evening Post. A Woman's Dodge in Rotterdam. ?I had not gone far in my rauibles about the city before I was brought to a stand by a discover}'. On both sides of the streets, projecting from the centre of almost every window of the dwelling houses, each at an angle of 45 degrees with the window, were placed two mirrors of about a foot square each in a vertical position, one facing up the street and the other down. I immedi- ately set my Yankee ingenuity to work to "guess" their object, and was not long in discovering in these mirrors plain indica- tions that here, in this great swamp of Europe, woman's curiosity is the same as among verdant hills and more genial climes. The mistress of the house seating herself in her parlor in a particular spot before a window, with hook, needle or knit- ting work in hand, has but to lift her eyes into the twin looking glasses outside her window in order to catch at a glance the whole panorama of the street in both direc- tions. There was also another queer looking glass arrangement which for a long time puz- zled me. The puzzle grew out of the pecu- liar positions and various angles at which these mirrors were placed. I was about giv- ing it up when observing that their incli- nation was always decidedly towards the front door, I saw the whole secret as clear as light. The good lady of the house, hearing the door bell ring, darts a look in- to the curious mirror, and thereby knows in a moment who stands at the door. Of course when the door servant comes in her ladyship can at once say whether she is at home or not. In all the cities of Holland nearly every dwelling house has projecting from its windows from one to ten of these ugly looking mirrors-? St. Louis Democrat. R< mark able Event. ?Eight sisters, the youngest more than sixty years of age, met in the .South Church, on last Sabbath, for the first time in many years. Here thSy sat together in their childhood and youth; here their father, a venerable citi- zen who died many years ago, was one of the pillars of the church; and here, or rather in the old house which stood near, they were baptized in their infancy by the Rev. Dr. Hopkins of revolutionary fame. The sisters have been long separated, in distant parts of the country, one of them having been a resident of Virginia, and it was a memorable circumstance to meet once more together in the pew which they formerly occupied. Another interesting fact in connection with the meeting was that they listened to a discourse from their old pastor, Rev. Dr. Emerson, who is now in the eighty-first year of his age, and the fifty-fourth of his pastorate.?S a/em Reg- ister. Death of a Noted Preacher. ?The Lex- ington (Miss.) Advertiser announces the death, in Holmes county, of the Rev. Mr. Cooper, the original dreamer of Cooper's Well. He was an eccentric, hut eloquent and good man, perhaps at his death a su- perannuated member of the Mississippi conference. These celebrated waters, known as Cooper's Wells, were his discovery, and once his property. It is said, and credited, that lie was led to dig for them by a dream three times repeated, by which a certain spot was designated?healing waters wel- ling up, and hosts of sick and impotent folk flocking around and getting cured. mmmaauna. lt'r<'Tii the llwHiUnysburg Keslster.] A Happy iVeddlny with a Sad and must Mel- ancholy Termination. Married?At the Lutheran Parsonage, on the evening of the Ist inst., by Rev. Lloyi] Knight, TOBIAS 11. WKRTZ, of near Holli- 1 daysburg, to Miss MARY 0. WAUGH, of Ilagerstown, Md. The .simple facts in the case. ?A half an hour previous to the marriage, Mi&s Matilda A. Caldwell, in company with another lady, was passing by the Parsonage door on her way to prayer meeting. Site had known nothing of her friend's wedding on that even- ing. Ladies were at the door?a conversation took place as she was passing. She was in- vited in to see her friend, the intended bride, and then by the warm request of the lady of the house and many others she was prevailed upon to remain, The evening passed off most agreeably and pleasant to all. There were ' two horses and vehicles, each to take a lady who lived some distance in the country. It so happened, without any previous arrange- ment or intention, that these drove up just as the ladies of town were leaving for home, about 11 o'clock at night. It was dark, but otherwise pleasant to he out. Some one re- marked: "Take the ladies home first who live at a distance in town." Of course the gen- tlemen would comply with this request. Miss Caldwell had almost reached her hoine in Gaysport, when a light from a window near Cooler's tavern suddenly fell upon the horse's head and in the path before him. He instant- ly took fright badly, but was ably and skil- fully managed by the young man until the line broke. lie then immediately jumped out, and risked his own life in striving to catch the horse, but in vain. He escaped?Miss C. was killed. In a moment after the horse was loose she attempted, it is thought, to jump out ?fell on her head in the road, and died three hours afterwards. Had she remained in, no one can say it would have been any better, for in a few moments more the vehicle was dashed to pieces. It is useless to say, ail was done that possibly could be done in the case. No effort was spared to bring relief and save life. But alas, all in vain ! Death had marked bis shining victim, and poor Til- lie C. must go to her long home. Never has there anything happened iu this community that has filled the hearts offriends with more sincere sorrow and sympathy, and cast a deeper gloom over the whole community, than this sad and awful occurrence. But there is a Providence that shapes all our ends. We can only say, " Even so, Father, for so it seemeth good unto thee." Not our will, but Thine be done. Li-orn Kniout. SSajrKesist evil. Extraordinary Suicide by Voluntary Starvation. ?.Jacob Plant, 86 years of age, died in Manchester, Mass., on Monday last, of' voluntary starvation. Mr. Plant was paying attention to a young lady of the above place sonic three years ago, but his proposal for marriage was rejected. The disappointment preyed upon his mind and he soon afterward attempted to blow his brains out, but only succeeded in destroy- ing both eyes. Ife has consequently been blind for three years. During that time lie once made an unsuccessful attempt to starve himself. The second time he was successful ?meeting his end as above sta- ted. lie had partaken of nothing for nine weeks, but cotfee, sweetened water and morphine. Jlol<l On. ?Hold 011 to your tongue when you arc just ready to swear, lie, speak harshly, or say any improper word. Hold on toyoorhand when about to strike, pinch, scratch, steal, or do any disobedient or im- proper act. Hold on to your foot when you are on the point of kicking, running away from duty, or pursuing the path ot error, shame or crime. Hold 011 to your temper when you arc angry, excited or imposed upon, or others are angry about you. Hold on to your heart when evil as- sociates seek your company and invite you to join them in their games, mirth and rev- elry. Hold on to your good name at all times, for it is more valuable to you than gold, high place, of fashionable attire. Hold 011 to the truth, for it will serve you well and do you good through all eternity. Hold 011 to your virtue, it is above price to you in all times and places. Hold 011 to your good character, for it is, and will ever be, your best wealth. in g" Suicide of a Hoy. ?A boy, named Wil- liam Kodgers, aged fifteen years, committed suicide in Blaekville, Green county, a few days ago, by hanging himself iri a clearing near his father's house. The only cause as- signed for the rash act, is the fact that his father had whipped liiw a short time pre- vious for racing a valuable horse. It is only a few days since we recorded a sim- ilar case of suicide by a son of Wm. Mc- Connic, aged also fifteen, who hung him- self without any known cause for the act, in New Vernon township, Lawrence county. Boys at the age of fifteen are not often weary of life. Wonderful Achievement, if True.?M. Garvani, a French machinist, has, it is said perfected his aerial ship, at the cost of 300,000 francs, and made a voyage to Algiers, Africa, and back with it ?a dis- tance of fifteen hundred miles from the starting point. The average speed was almost one hundred miles an hour, the voyage occupying eighteen hours. M. Garvani is to make the attempt from Havre to the city of New York as soon as he has further tested the character of his invention by a few short trips over the Mediterranean and its neighboring provinces. The Wciyht of a Million in Hold. ?We are indebted to a gentleman who worthily occupies a prominent position at the United States Mint in this city, for the following reply to the question, ' What is the weight of one million of dollars in gold?' 'The weight of one million of dollars of United States currency in gAd is 53,750 troy oun- ces.' This makes 1,-170 lbs. 2 oa., or near- ly two tons and a quarter, reckoning 2,000 lbs. only to each ton.? Phila. Inquirer. I From the St. Louis Democrat.j The Jobs of the Administration. "Attempted .Sale of Fort I.eat en worth. We are not going to enter on the ques- tion whether any member of either of the Whig Administrations which intervened between Folk and Pierce was implicated in the "Galphin and Gardner frauds," but we do know that the present Administration ?the firm of Floyd & Go. ?have done the heaviest strokes in the plunder business which the secret archives of Federal cor- ruption will have recorded. In the first place, the clandestine sale of Fort Snclling stands revealed to the coun- try as a monstrous plunder job. The rec- ords of Congress exhibit it in that light. In a body, a majority of which were Na- tional Democrats, 110 resolution vindicating the Secretary of war could be got through, and the majority report of the committee appointed to investigate the subject con- demned him explicitly. Without adver- tisement or notice of any kind, $300,000 worth of property was alienated from the Government, and the equivalent exacted lor it was $90,000! The sale was not only clandestine, but the price was nominal. The parties to the contract were National Feinocrats exclusively, and after the reser- vation, including the fort, was sold, some troops were dctaiucd there, and SIO,OOO a month barrack rent was charged to the Government by the new proprietors. The 890,000 purchase money, or the greater part )f it, lias thus beeu discharged. This Fort Snclliug sale, we submit, has been an unique one, and worthy of the highest fi- nanciering genius. Wall street brokers Sera [liny vp Gold. ?At a convention of clergymen, not long since, it was proposed by one of the members, after they had dined, that eaeh should entertain the com- pany with some remarks. Among the rest one drew upon his fancy and related a dream. In his dream on he went from hea- ven to heaven, and he described the gold- en streets, the river of life, etc. As he concluded, one of his divines, who was some- what noted for the penurious and money- saving habits, stepped up to the narrator and inquired jocosely : " Well, did you sec anything of me in your dream ?" " Yes, I did." " Indeed ! what was I doing?" " You was on your knees." u Fraying, was I ?" "No ?scraping up the gold!'' New Series?Vol, 111, No. 43. and absconding bank presidents must re- gard it as the most renowned achievement of their occult art, and unanimously vote the parties to it high priests in the temple of the money changers. Next in order comes the Wiilett's Point, transaction, in New York. A site for a fort was selected where no fort should be, and the ground was purchased by the Gov- ernment for §200,000. The singularity of the proceeding awakened local inquiry, and it was discovered that a few days betbre the Government purchase was made, two or three prominent Democrats from the city of New York, known to be in the confi- dence of the President, had purchased the same tract of the owners for §IOO,OOO. This was another heavy stroke (value §IOO,- 000,) of busiuess consummated between the Secretary and his friends. This was also a subject for investigation by Congress', and some of the most respectable men in New York swore that tbe tract was not worth §IOO,OOO, and that they could have bought it for less, if they had chosen to do so. Congress, it is true, did not openly pronounce Secretary Floyd a rogue, but they passed an act forbidding him to make any more private sales. This was indica- tive enough of the opinion which they formed regarding him. The third and greatest job is involved in the contracts for the Utah army, and we venture to say that, if the facts connected with these contracts ever see the light, a mass of frauds will be laid hare, stratum on stratum, which will fill the public mind with dismay and aston- ishment. Put nothing but a committee of the House of Representatives can sink a, shaft through all the layers of that alluvial formation, of the flood of corruption which this Administration has brought on the country. We showed a few days ago how the mule contracts ?if contracts they can be called?were disposed of; how they were distributed to retainers of leading Democrats in Congress; how the contractors were left to their own discretion in fixing prices; how private instructions, of which die Quartermaster General was kept igno- rant, were forwarded to Capt. Van Yliet, directing liim to allow large profits on prime cost; how Captain Van Yliet has been ta- ken to task fur refusing to avail himself of the profligate license conferred upon him ; and worse than all, how mules were bought at §l7O a head, when the letter of Messrs. Caldwell and Geary was on file in the War Office, offering to supply all the mules that might he wanted at §BS and §IOO a head. This is the third chapter which has been opened in the black book of corruption, and the disclosures it makes are of a black- er dye than the Wiilett's Point purchase or the Fort Snelling sale. It is not generally known that another branch of the same party of plunderers actually extend their operations to Fort Leavenworth. The plot was concocted, the machinery put in motion, and every prepa- ration made to reproduce the Fort Snelling affair; hut the plot was marred, and the machinery stopped by the Chief Quarter master then stationed at that post, and by the refusal of General Harney, acting on the representations of Colonel Grossman, to sanction the job. George Saunders, and the firm of Kossel), Waddell A Co., and several others, had carved out the greater part of the reservation for their own use and ownership, for the moderate sum of twenty-five dollars an acre. The Secretary of War was willing, but the assent of th# commanding officer was essential. He con- sulted the chief Quartermaster, who ex- posed the plot, and threatened to hid §IOO an acre for it himself, if it were to be sold. This blew up the whole scheme; and so the military reservation in Kansas has escaped for the time the' fate of the reservation in Minnesota. These facts are known to gen- tlemen in this city?civilians?from whom they are immediately derived, and they arc known to most of the officers who were stationed at Fort Leavenworth in the Spring. They cannot be denied. If it were not for the annoying interference of Grossman, and the provoking conduct of Harney, a lot of fine fellows (George Saun- ders and comrades) would he npw revelling in the green acres which surround Fort Leavenworth. Glimpses are thus given to us of the system by which the Buchanan .Adminis- ; tration governs the country. The corrup- I tion fund is enormous. Plunder is boun- tifully and widely distributed. It is sown- broadcast throughout the land, and fraudu- lent elections spring up from it, and such fruit is reaped front it as the Lccoinpton : Constitution. The corruption fund is a ; self-supporting one. The money that is spent in carrying elections is reimbursed from the public property or the public Treasury by the votes of those whom it has | elected. That horn of plenty is, always full, though open at both ends; for what it 'oses at one end it gain* at another.? The maw is insatiate, but the supply is al- so unlimited as long as the funds or the credit of .the United States hold out. The system commenced with the .October elec- tion, in Pennsylvania, two years ago, when the Democratic nominees wore fraudulent- ly elected by the aid of the contributions furnished b} New York Bankers, politi- cians, ocean-mail contractors, and such per- sons, has been steadily prosecuted since in the Congressional administrative branches of the government. Promises were made
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l ie No. 2475.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.'
OVE DOLLAR PER AYUJl,IN ADVANCE.
si for six months, 75 cents.
? \H >'UW subscriptions must be paid in|, e |f the paper is continued, and net
within the first month, $1,25 willbe charg-, n ?t'paiJ in three months, $1,50; if notir s ix months, $1,75; and if not paid inBooths, $2,00.
,apers addressed to persons out of the
iV will be discontinued at the expiration of
Jt, p3 iJ for, unless special request is made[contrary or payment guaranteed by someedible person here.
ADVERTISING.
,lines of minion, or their equivalent, con-" a square. Three insertions sl, and 25
forcach subsequent insertion.
] West Branch Insurance Co.OF LOCK HAVE*, PA.,
H'RES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer-amiise, Farm Property, and other Build-jad their contents, at moderate rates.
DIRECTORS.
John J. Pearce, Hon. G. C. Harvey,it Ball, T. T. Abrams,|j. tL Mayer, D. Iv. Jackman,its Crist, W. White,[Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. G. C. HARVEY, Pres.T. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
k'ifcSrrn, Sec'y.REFERENCES.
,F| H, Lloyd, Thos. Bowman, D. D.Winegardner, Wm. Vanderbelt,Macfcey, Wm. Fearon.
bite, Dr. J. S. Crawford,sQuiggle, A. Updegraff,[IV. Maynard, James Armstrong,Simon Cameron, Hon. Wm. Bigler.Agent for Midiin county, G. W. STEW-
P. Esq. ap23
unity from Loss and Damage by Fire,i'lfPeril£ of .Marine ami Inland Transportation.
CONTINENTALINSURANCE COMPANY.f.t rated by Out LegislaiHre of Pcnntylca-
ion, kUk a Perpetual Charter.Authorised Capital, $1,000,000.
r So.-SI Walnal Si. above Second, Hilla.it Insurance on Buildings, Furniture, Mer-Ctse, <fcc., generally. Marine Insuranceiitgoes and Fretgfcts to all parts of the11. inland Insurance on Goods, &c. t byiv Rivers, Canals, and [.and Carriages, toearts of the Union, on the most favorableI.consistent with security.
DTRECTUUS.
rce W. Col lad ay, William Bowers,Ml. Coleman, Joseph Oat,.[in V. Machette, Howard Hinchman,GEORGE W. COLLADAY, President.ALEV VVII.SON, Secretary.>Asent for Milflm county, Wm. P. EL-ITT, Esq. feblD-ly
INDEMNITY AGAINST LOSS BY FIRE.liiklin Fire Insurance Compa-
ny of Philadelphia.e 435 and 437 Chestnut street, near Fifth.
ATKMF.NT OF ASSETS, January 1, IPSB,übli-hcJ agreeably to an act of Assembly,
[Mortgages, amply secured, $L596,c25 IDE-ljte, (present value >IOO,-
II.) cost, 74,20 23porary Loans, on ample Col-eral Securities, lUI,OSB 17ks,(pres't val. $7G.9G4 22) cost 71.547 'J7Ei and Bills Receivable, 4,307 00
40,855 48
>1,888,904 74trjKlu d or Limited Insurances made on everyoption of property, in Town and Country.
as are consistent with security,lice the-ir incorporation, a period of twenty-tyears, they have paid over Four MillionsloUars' losses by fire, thereby affording ev-ce of the advantages of Insurance, as well|he ability and disposition to meet withfptness ail liabilities.
Losses by Fire.*spaid during the year 1857, >203,789 4
DIRECTORS.' V Banckcr, 1 Mordecai D. Lewis,
?as Wagner, I David S. Brown,iel Grant, J Isaac Lea,
13 R. Smith, | Edward C. Dale,\u25a0 W. Richards, | George Fales.CHARLES N. BANCKER, President.
A. STEEL, Sec'y pro tern.r*Agent for Mifflin county, H. J. VVAL-S, Esq., Lewistown. feb2s
ITE77 &ROCBRY,10VISION AND FISH STORE.IE subscriber has opened a Grocery, Pro-?lsion and Fish Store opposite Major Eisen-t Hotel, where he has just received a fineWoent of fresh
jFamtlfi (groceries,which may be found fine Coffee, Sugar,Molasses, Syrups, Cheese, Crackers,
Ham, Shoulder, Fine Ashton and Dairy'' Tobacco, Segars, Soap, &c.wo, Brooms, Tubs, Buckets, Baskets, and a14 assortment of Willow-ware, which he
for cash very cheap.*ill pay Cash for Butter, Lard, Potatoes,
f-ti, &e.prices, and judge for yourselves.
*3 JAMES IRWIN.
CHEAP GOODS AGAIN!8E undersigned having purchased the'kick of goods of Samuel Comfort, con-
all kinds of DRY GOODS, suitable; t*4los, Gentlemen and Children, Grocer-
"toeensware, lleadymade Clothing, &c.,off the entire stock
at COST !out the establishment. Persons wish-
Aj buy CHEAP will do well to give us a
I Country dealers wanting goods to keep-ir assortment will do well to examine
Up ,we w'b Be H at Philadelphia prices.7 '? Country Produce, at market prices,"\u25a0 received in exchange for goods.
G. W. SODLT,11. 11. COMFORT.
**Wown, June 10, 1858.
lights best Window Sash, from 8x! -*ls , for ale very low. FRANC!BCI7B
iisy® ipwffiaasiEisffi) sir ®s©s®s ssirsmc&ssa SSWHE®©WH 9 asMF&m ©©ursrws, s>& a
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1858.
JIJIIS JNlßSttllllk.MY MOTHER DEAR.
There was a place tn childhood,Which I remember well,
And there a voice of sweetest tone,Bright l'alry tales did tell;
And gentle words and fon.l embraceWere given with Joy to me,
When I was In that happy place.Upon my mother's knee.
My mother dear!My gentle, gentle mother!
When fairy tales were ended,"Good night," she softly said.
And kissed, and laid me down to sleep.Within niy tiny bed;
And holy words she taught me there;Methiuks I yet can see
Iterangel eyes, as close I kneltlleslde my mother's knee.
My mother ler!My gentle,gentle mother!
In the sickness of my childhood.The perils of my prime,
The sorrows of niy riper years,
The cares of every time;When doubt or danger weighed me down;
'Then, pleading all for me,It was a fervent prayer to Heaven
That bent my mother's knee.My mother dear!My gentle, gentlo mother!
NELLIE GRAY.There's a low mossy valley on the old Kentucky shore,
Where I've whlled many happy hours away?A-sitting and a-singing by the little cabin door.
Where lived ray darling Nellie Gray.Oh! my poor Nellie Gray,They have taken her away.
And I'llnever roe my darling any more;I am sitting by the river.And am weeping all the nay,
For she's gone from the old Kentucky shore.
When the moon had climbed the mountain and the starswere shining too,
I would take my darling Nellie Gray,And paddle down the river In my little red canoe.
While my banjo so sweetly I would play.01.! my poor Nellie Gray, Ac.
One day I went to see her ?she bail gone, the neighborssaid;
The white man had bound her In his chain?
He had taken her to Georgia, there to wear her lifeaway,
As she toiled 'mid the cotton and the Mile.
Oh! my poor Nellie Gray, Ac.
My canoe Is under water and my banjo Is unstrung?I sin tired of living any more;
.Myeyes shall look downward ami my song shall be unsung,While I stay on the old Kentucky shore.
Oh! my poor Nellie Gray, Ac.
My eyes are getting blinded and I cannot see my way.There's somebody knocking at the door;
1 hear the angels calling, and I see my Nellie Gray-Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.
Oh! my poor Nellie Gray,Up In heaven there they say.
They'll never take you from me airy more;
I aui coming, coming, coming.As the angels clear the w ay-
Farewell to the old Kentucky shore.
HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.We have never reuu a more thrilling
picture of the horrors of the slave tradethan is given by a correspondent of theCharleston Mercury. The writer recently
visited the Africans who were capturedin the brig Echo, and he has furnished atruly touching account of the scene. Ofthe victims in health, or comparatively so,he found about two hundred and fifty, ofwhom some fifty were females. Therewere about fifty others in the sick ward, in
various stages of disease. The women,from some unexplained cause, were, gener-allyspeaking, in much better condition thanthe men. " The result of the whole visitwas intense sympathy for them and indig-nation for their captors. You may read ofthe horrors of the " middle passage," butthe half cannot be told as one view of theseunfortunates will tell the tale. Dysentery,dropsy and opthalmia?all, I believe,the production of contact, want of ven-tilation and want of exercise?are the pre-vailing diseases. But even where thesewere not visible the spectacle was harrow-ing. A skeleton taken down from the nailof a doctor's closet, and presented to yourview, would scarcely be more descriptiveof anatomy than many of these living,walk-ing specimens of human frame. The effectwas very startling when you saw themsquatting on their haunches, with theirknees drawn up behind their elbows, inan attitude common to apes and baboons,but which no human frame clothed in fleshcan obtain. Some wheu sitting and told to
rise, did so with great difficulty, and rnove-ed with a step as tottering as I ever saw
after illness. The very head seemed buta skull encased in a black covering. Itis common to speak of a man being reducedto skin and bone, but one who saw thesecan scarcly use the expression again. Butif this is to be said of those comparativelyin health, what language can describe thesick? f saw one poor creature swollen to theiuo>t wonderful size with dropsy; and, as helay on his back, he moved his hands, signi-fying to one of our party a request for hissegar, which, when given to him, he smok-ed with the greatest avidity. Anothermanifested similar wants, and replied to
our beckoniugs to come to us by pointingto his leg, which we construed into ina-bility to move. Two lay near, whose troub-les here had ceased in death; while anoth-er?the most affecting sight ofaala childof six or eight years, lay 011 its side in thesun on the stone wharf, with eyes closedand no other evidence of life than theslight motion of the stomach indicatingbreathing. The poor creature, alone and
unattended, had rested its bead on it*littlehand as naturally as our own little ones do,and in this touching attitude was fast losingconsciousness of a life whose experiencehad been only that of sorrow and suffer-
REMARKABLE PHENOMENON.POPLAR RIDGE, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1557.Yesterday at about I o'clock, P. M., the
atmosphere became suddenly filled withmyriads of insects, of a type entirely un-known in this region, as far as I can learn.The phenomenon is known to have exten-
ded several miles, and appears to have oc-curred at the same moment. The insect isabout one-fourth of an inch long, and close-ly resembles the common ant. Rut thestrangest part of the matter (that is to me)remains to be told. As soon as they ap-peared they began to alight upon whateverobject they came in contact with, and to
Jive birth to young insect*, ready winged,which, in a few seconds, ascended into theair, while the old ones threw themselves in-to violent contortions, which continued un-til they had succeeded inridding themselvesof their wings?after which they appearedto feel much relieved, and ran brisklyabout upon the ground, as contentedapparently, as though they had possessedthe power of flight. In an hour the earthwas alive with these fallen insect-angels,and strewn with their lifeless wings?-while their tiny, new-horn progeny had as-
cended and were sporting in the beams ofthe evening sun. This morning the pa-rent insects may he seen secreted in thegrass, or whatever offered protection forthe night, while the new generation appeardormant upon the surface, awaiting thewarming rays of the rising Bun. Ento-mologists may be familiar with such a per-petuation of an insect race, without theintervening link of the larv;e. If so willsome one enlighten us on the subject ?A'. Y. Evening Post.
A Woman's Dodge in Rotterdam. ?I
had not gone far in my rauibles about thecity before I was brought to a stand by adiscover}'. On both sides of the streets,projecting from the centre of almost everywindow of the dwelling houses, each at anangle of 45 degrees with the window, wereplaced two mirrors of about a foot squareeach in a vertical position, one facing upthe street and the other down. I immedi-ately set my Yankee ingenuity to work to"guess" their object, and was not long indiscovering in these mirrors plain indica-tions that here, in this great swamp ofEurope, woman's curiosity is the same
as among verdant hills and more genialclimes. The mistress of the house seatingherself in her parlor in a particular spotbefore a window, with hook, needle or knit-ting work in hand, has but to lifther eyesinto the twin looking glasses outside herwindow in order to catch at a glance thewhole panorama of the street in both direc-tions. There was also another queer lookingglass arrangement which for a long time puz-zled me. The puzzle grew out of the pecu-liar positions and various angles at whichthese mirrors were placed. I was about giv-ing it up when observing that their incli-nation was always decidedly towards thefront door, I saw the whole secret as clearas light. The good lady of the house,hearing the door bell ring, darts a look in-to the curious mirror, and thereby knowsin a moment who stands at the door. Ofcourse when the door servant comes in herladyship can at once say whether she is at
home or not. In all the cities of Hollandnearly every dwelling house has projectingfrom its windows from one to ten of theseugly looking mirrors-? St. Louis Democrat.R< mark able Event. ?Eight sisters, the
youngest more than sixty years of age,met in the .South Church, on last Sabbath,for the first time in many years. HerethSy sat together in their childhood andyouth; here their father, a venerable citi-zen who died many years ago, was one ofthe pillars of the church; and here, orrather in the old house which stood near,they were baptized in their infancy by theRev. Dr. Hopkins of revolutionary fame.The sisters have been long separated, indistant parts of the country, one of themhaving been a resident of Virginia, and itwas a memorable circumstance to meet
once more together in the pew which theyformerly occupied. Another interestingfact in connection with the meeting was
that they listened to a discourse from theirold pastor, Rev. Dr. Emerson, who is nowin the eighty-first year of his age, and thefifty-fourth of his pastorate.?S a/em Reg-ister.
Death of a Noted Preacher. ?The Lex-
ington (Miss.) Advertiser announces thedeath, in Holmes county, of the Rev. Mr.Cooper, the original dreamer of Cooper'sWell. He was an eccentric, hut eloquentand good man, perhaps at his death a su-perannuated member of the Mississippiconference. These celebrated waters, knownas Cooper's Wells, were his discovery, andonce his property. It is said, and credited,that lie was led to dig for them by a dreamthree times repeated, by which a certainspot was designated?healing waters wel-ling up, and hosts of sick and impotentfolk flocking around and getting cured.
mmmaauna.lt'r<'Tii the llwHiUnysburg Keslster.]
A Happy iVeddlny with a Sad and must Mel-ancholy Termination.
Married?At the Lutheran Parsonage, onthe evening of the Ist inst., by Rev. Lloyi]Knight, TOBIAS 11. WKRTZ, of near Holli- 1daysburg, to Miss MARY 0. WAUGH, ofIlagerstown, Md.
The .simple facts in the case. ?A half an
hour previous to the marriage, Mi&s MatildaA. Caldwell, in company with another lady,was passing by the Parsonage door on herway to prayer meeting. Site had knownnothing of her friend's wedding on that even-ing. Ladies were at the door?a conversationtook place as she was passing. She was in-vited in to see her friend, the intended bride,and then by the warm request of the lady ofthe house and many others she was prevailedupon to remain, The evening passed offmost
agreeably and pleasant to all. There were 'two horses and vehicles, each to take a ladywho lived some distance in the country. Itso happened, without any previous arrange-ment or intention, that these drove up just asthe ladies of town were leaving for home,about 11 o'clock at night. It was dark, but
otherwise pleasant to he out. Some one re-marked: "Take the ladies home first who liveat a distance in town." Of course the gen-tlemen would comply with this request. MissCaldwell had almost reached her hoine inGaysport, when a light from a window nearCooler's tavern suddenly fell upon the horse'shead and in the path before him. He instant-ly took fright badly, but was ably and skil-fully managed by the young man until theline broke. lie then immediately jumpedout, and risked his own life in striving to catchthe horse, but in vain. He escaped?Miss C.was killed. In a moment after the horse wasloose she attempted, it is thought, to jumpout ?fell on her head in the road, and diedthree hours afterwards. Had she remainedin, no one can say it would have been any
better, for in a few moments more the vehiclewas dashed to pieces. It is useless to say, ail
was done that possibly could be done in the
case. No effort was spared to bring relief
and save life. But alas, all in vain ! Death
had marked bis shining victim, and poor Til-
lie C. must go to her long home. Never has
there anything happened iu this community
that has filled the hearts offriends with more
sincere sorrow and sympathy, and cast a
deeper gloom over the whole community, than
this sad and awful occurrence. But there is
a Providence that shapes all our ends. We
can only say, " Even so, Father, for so it
seemeth good unto thee." Not our will, but
Thine be done. Li-orn Kniout.
SSajrKesist evil.
Extraordinary Suicide by VoluntaryStarvation. ?.Jacob Plant, 86 years of age,died in Manchester, Mass., on Monday last,of' voluntary starvation. Mr. Plant was
paying attention to a young lady of theabove place sonic three years ago, but hisproposal for marriage was rejected. Thedisappointment preyed upon his mind andhe soon afterward attempted to blow his
brains out, but only succeeded in destroy-ing both eyes. Ife has consequently beenblind for three years. During that timelie once made an unsuccessful attempt to
starve himself. The second time he was
successful ?meeting his end as above sta-
ted. lie had partaken of nothing for nineweeks, but cotfee, sweetened water andmorphine.
Jlol<l On. ?Hold 011 to your tonguewhen you arc just ready to swear, lie, speakharshly, or say any improper word. Holdon toyoorhand when about to strike, pinch,scratch, steal, or do any disobedient or im-
proper act. Hold on to your foot whenyou are on the point of kicking, runningaway from duty, or pursuing the path ot
error, shame or crime. Hold 011 to yourtemper when you arc angry, excited or
imposed upon, or others are angry aboutyou. Hold on to your heart when evil as-
sociates seek your company and invite youto join them in their games, mirth and rev-
elry. Hold on to your good name at alltimes, for it is more valuable to you than
gold, high place, of fashionable attire. Hold011 to the truth, for it willserve you welland do you good through all eternity. Hold011 to your virtue, it is above price to youin all times and places. Hold 011 to your
good character, for it is, and will ever be,your best wealth.
ing"
Suicide of a Hoy. ?A boy, named Wil-liam Kodgers, aged fifteen years, committedsuicide in Blaekville, Green county, a fewdays ago, by hanging himself iri a clearingnear his father's house. The only cause as-
signed for the rash act, is the fact that hisfather had whipped liiw a short time pre-vious for racing a valuable horse. It isonly a few days since we recorded a sim-ilar case of suicide by a son of Wm. Mc-
Connic, aged also fifteen, who hung him-self without any known cause for the act,
in New Vernon township, Lawrence county.Boys at the age of fifteen are not oftenweary of life.
Wonderful Achievement, if True.?M.Garvani, a French machinist, has, it is saidperfected his aerial ship, at the cost of300,000 francs, and made a voyage to
Algiers, Africa, and back with it?a dis-
tance of fifteen hundred miles from the
starting point. The average speed was
almost one hundred miles an hour, the
voyage occupying eighteen hours. M.Garvani is to make the attempt from Havreto the city of New York as soon as he hasfurther tested the character of his inventionby a few short trips over the Mediterraneanand its neighboring provinces.
The Wciyht of a Millionin Hold. ?Weare indebted to a gentleman who worthilyoccupies a prominent position at the UnitedStates Mint in this city, for the followingreply to the question, ' What is the weightof one million of dollars in gold?' 'Theweight of one million of dollars of UnitedStates currency in gAd is 53,750 troy oun-ces.' This makes 1,-170 lbs. 2 oa., or near-ly two tons and a quarter, reckoning 2,000lbs. only to each ton.? Phila. Inquirer.
I From the St. Louis Democrat.j
The Jobs of the Administration."Attempted .Sale of Fort I.eat en worth.
We are not going to enter on the ques-tion whether any member of either of theWhig Administrations which intervenedbetween Folk and Pierce was implicated inthe "Galphin and Gardner frauds," but wedo know that the present Administration?the firm of Floyd & Go. ?have done theheaviest strokes in the plunder businesswhich the secret archives of Federal cor-ruption willhave recorded.
In the first place, the clandestine sale ofFort Snclling stands revealed to the coun-try as a monstrous plunder job. The rec-ords of Congress exhibit it in that light.In a body, a majority of which were Na-tional Democrats, 110 resolution vindicatingthe Secretary of war could be got through,and the majority report of the committeeappointed to investigate the subject con-demned him explicitly. Without adver-tisement or notice of any kind, $300,000worth of property was alienated from theGovernment, and the equivalent exactedlor it was $90,000! The sale was not onlyclandestine, but the price was nominal.The parties to the contract were NationalFeinocrats exclusively, and after the reser-vation, including the fort, was sold, sometroops were dctaiucd there, and SIO,OOO amonth barrack rent was charged to theGovernment by the new proprietors. The890,000 purchase money, or the greaterpart )f it, lias thus beeu discharged. ThisFort Snclliug sale, we submit, has been anunique one, and worthy of the highest fi-nanciering genius. Wall street brokers
Sera [liny vp Gold.?At a convention of
clergymen, not long since, it was proposedby one of the members, after they haddined, that eaeh should entertain the com-
pany with some remarks. Among the rest
one drew upon his fancy and related a
dream. In his dream on he went from hea-ven to heaven, and he described the gold-en streets, the river of life, etc. As heconcluded, one of his divines, who was some-what noted for the penurious and money-saving habits, stepped up to the narrator
and inquired jocosely :
" Well, did you sec anything of me inyour dream ?"
" Yes, I did."" Indeed ! what was I doing?"" You was on your knees."u Fraying, was I?"
"No?scraping up the gold!''
New Series?Vol, 111, No. 43.
and absconding bank presidents must re-gard it as the most renowned achievementof their occult art, and unanimously votethe parties to it high priests in the templeof the money changers.
Next in order comes the Wiilett's Point,transaction, in New York. A site for a
fort was selected where no fort should be,and the ground was purchased by the Gov-ernment for §200,000. The singularity ofthe proceeding awakened local inquiry, andit was discovered that a few days betbre theGovernment purchase was made, two or
three prominent Democrats from the cityof New York, known to be in the confi-dence of the President, had purchased thesame tract of the owners for §IOO,OOO.This was another heavy stroke (value §IOO,-000,) of busiuess consummated betweenthe Secretary and his friends. This wasalso a subject for investigation by Congress',and some of the most respectable men inNew York swore that tbe tract was not
worth §IOO,OOO, and that they could havebought it for less, if they had chosen to doso. Congress, it is true, did not openlypronounce Secretary Floyd a rogue, butthey passed an act forbidding him to makeany more private sales. This was indica-tive enough of the opinion which theyformed regarding him. The third andgreatest job is involved in the contracts forthe Utah army, and we venture to say that,if the facts connected with these contracts
ever see the light, a mass of frauds will belaid hare, stratum on stratum, which willfill the public mind with dismay and aston-
ishment. Put nothing but a committee ofthe House of Representatives can sink a,
shaft through all the layers of that alluvialformation, of the flood of corruption whichthis Administration has brought on thecountry. We showed a few days ago howthe mule contracts ?if contracts they canbe called?were disposed of; how theywere distributed to retainers of leadingDemocrats in Congress; how the contractorswere left to their own discretion in fixingprices; how private instructions, of whichdie Quartermaster General was kept igno-rant, were forwarded to Capt. Van Yliet,directing liim to allow large profits on primecost; how Captain Van Yliet has been ta-
ken to task fur refusing to avail himself ofthe profligate license conferred upon him ;
and worse than all, how mules were boughtat §l7O a head, when the letter of Messrs.Caldwell and Geary was on file in the WarOffice, offering to supply all the mules thatmight he wanted at §BS and §IOO a head.This is the third chapter which has beenopened in the black book of corruption,and the disclosures it makes are of a black-er dye than the Wiilett's Point purchaseor the Fort Snelling sale.
It is not generally known that anotherbranch of the same party of plunderersactually extend their operations to FortLeavenworth. The plot was concocted, themachinery put in motion, and every prepa-ration made to reproduce the Fort Snellingaffair; hut the plot was marred, and themachinery stopped by the Chief Quartermaster then stationed at that post, and bythe refusal of General Harney, acting onthe representations of Colonel Grossman,to sanction the job. George Saunders, andthe firm of Kossel), Waddell A Co., andseveral others, had carved out the greaterpart of the reservation for their own useand ownership, for the moderate sum oftwenty-five dollars an acre. The Secretaryof War was willing, but the assent of th#commanding officer was essential. He con-sulted the chief Quartermaster, who ex-posed the plot, and threatened to hid §IOOan acre for it himself, if it were to be sold.This blew up the whole scheme; and so themilitary reservation in Kansas has escapedfor the time the' fate of the reservation inMinnesota. These facts are known to gen-tlemen in this city?civilians?from whomthey are immediately derived, and they arcknown to most of the officers who werestationed at Fort Leavenworth in theSpring. They cannot be denied. If itwere not for the annoying interference ofGrossman, and the provoking conduct ofHarney, a lot of fine fellows (George Saun-ders and comrades) would he npw revellingin the green acres which surround FortLeavenworth.
Glimpses are thus given to us of thesystem by which the Buchanan .Adminis-
; tration governs the country. The corrup-I tion fund is enormous. Plunder is boun-tifully and widely distributed. It is sown-broadcast throughout the land, and fraudu-lent elections spring up from it, and suchfruit is reaped front it as the Lccoinpton
: Constitution. The corruption fund is a; self-supporting one. The money that isspent in carrying elections is reimbursedfrom the public property or the publicTreasury by the votes of those whom it has
| elected. That horn of plenty is, alwaysfull, though open at both ends; for whatit 'oses at one end it gain* at another.?The maw is insatiate, but the supply is al-so unlimited as long as the funds or thecredit of .the United States hold out. Thesystem commenced with the .October elec-tion, in Pennsylvania, two years ago, whenthe Democratic nominees wore fraudulent-ly elected by the aid of the contributionsfurnished b} New York Bankers, politi-cians, ocean-mail contractors, and such per-sons, has been steadily prosecuted since inthe Congressional administrative branchesof the government. Promises were made
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