Pittston Gazette and Susquehanna Anthracite Journal

              */*■/,tw ■■*¥***' '- '*•■'' ■C■ n1 " " , ' 11, i11' ■ J^mssss=^^ , _ h ~ m - ■ - ft D. - JSSKmH^. inAi al3* Ag.\ V r^v^Vy^i j||^ ill 8Fm M JBIL^JSpL. JgM \ #•»€ jjjjj pif p8[ T v AND SUSQUEHANNA ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. ' '' ! i i ' i i  — — • " " y m * . il Jlera3p5)in-( Bfuolrti tn jfjmiB, litttatnrt, f aliticB, tjit 3fitrtaolilt, Jflin'rag, BlerJjoniral, nnii Stgritulntnl Sntersts of tjrt Conntrq, Snatruction, Amusement, 8.)«(■ .. SjjJjJJjJ PXTTSTON, PA., FRIDAY. JUNE 23, 1854. VOLUME 4-NUMBER 43. (f.ffmnraniratioits. to convince any man who is not inexorably prejudiced in favor of retaining it, that it would be right and expedient to ejase it from our statute books. Will they;contend, in the face of the above facts, that it would be pernicious to abolish it, and that there is no protection to society unless '.he murderer sufTeVs the penalty of his transgression upon the gallows? 1 know tlifere are some who will not listen to the voice of experience, telling them that they are in error j but they plunge recktessly into the future, without stopping to consider whether our past Iaw4 are inimical to our moral progress, and whethfer the good they have accomplished wilt warran; their continuance. Their only wish is, that when a man's life has been wrongfully taken, the murderer shall be inurdered—no matter what punishment could be substituted more congenial to the instincts of nature, and better adapted tothehiiih standard of civilization and moral grandeur which we have attained. all the vicissitudes of life. It should then be an object of anxious Interest to parents to have their children taught those great principles of Right which are the basis of all happiness, and which alone will render them blessed here and hereafter. THE PROCESS OF COINING GOLD. I A United States mint has been completed in San Francisco, and Is prbbUbjy ere tjijs time jo active operation,.coining daity Vast treasures of golden ore. It was intended (hat it should be prepared to coin at lcn«t thirty trillions of dollars yearly. The following description of the system abou' to be established there will give a good general idea ot the ordinary process of coining gold— Gavetv and Gkavitjt.—There is a gayety of mind and a gayety of body.— '"■ey are two very different states, but both joyous. A Irian of gay or lively spirit live. mucjj j„ t|ie world of imagination, and enji^.s rriUC|, BatiSfaction thrre, which is not peri^veif (jy jj,0 outward ob. server. He reads, |*r|iaps, several houra a day. 1 his does not km, gayety  He is sitting in his slipped },{„ „f0'rn. 'ng-Rovvn, scarcely moving a D;mb or a muscle ; a smile is not even seen upo. his countenance. He is all alone ; he sing., not, talks not, laughs not, dances not, yet he is gay and cheerful. He is roaming in spirit amid fairy lands—makes a voyage by sea without the sea sickness—a tour through the tropical climes, without tho exhaustion, the labor, or ihe expense. Ha is plucking roses without thorns, and living in an Eden without seipents. Some people may call him a dull man, but he is not dull—he is very cheerful—he is very gay. On the contrary, a man ol gay personal habits may be verv dull. He goes to balls, dressed up in blue coat, white waistcoat, white gloves and cambric frills; and lie quadrilles, waltzes, polkas and mazourkas, and yet he is as dull as a door post. He has not said a fine thing the whole evening—not a funny thing. He has merely a set of common-place phrases in hia moutb, which he hus the sense to be quite ashamed to use too often, and therefore does not use at all. So he stiffens himself lor the rest of the evening, end assumes A meditative air, although his ideas have all run awny from him. He is now  done up with gayety, cheerfulness and mirth. Now all the mirth you could see about him lavs in his w lute gloves ar.d waistcoat, and tho fact of his being at 8 rout. The man in his slippers and roorning gown iAs meny again as this fellow, and has more jocular breath in one of his nostrils than the other has in his windpipe. It is diflicult, therefoie, to say what gayo. ty is. Sometimes gravity itself is gayety —gayety of mind j and sometimes gayety is gravity—a dull sort of fashiouable routine. There is no real gayety unless tho spirit be gay ; no rout, however splendid, can otherwise come off triumphantly.— Ileal gayety'is always conducive to health arid happiness ; false gayety is not. But how are we to distinguish the true from the false? Cheerfulness is the sovereign remedy of life ; whatsoever gayety sue. ceeds in preserving this state of mind continually, "from mom till dewy eve," is genuine gayety—none other deserves the THE PITTSTON GAZETTE, A CARD. . (t - ANIh •ntqiieliuu Anthracite Journal Fbr the Pitt8ton Oarrtte. Ms. Riciuiit:—DEihpl'Dyinjj yoor Column*, to announce to (he P»Wic that I nave established a Law Office at thP BUTLER, HOUSE in Pittb- T.IM, I desire to add; that in addition to the bu»i-neu of CtrnnsU and CalUeting, I ahall gWe particular attention to the art of CmvtvtneiHg— adopting the nealeat and moat approved Forms of Dkcds, Leases, and all Contrails, Real and Par■onal. Yours Truly. J . M. ALEXANDER. Pittston, May 5 IBM tf CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. -PUBLISHED -WEEKLY" BY To rtfs Editor or the Pittstok Gazetti NUMBER III. GEORGE M. R1CF1ART. Sir :—in the present state of public feeling it i8 very difficult to convict a man of murder, and if convicted it-is not certain that he will be punished. A criminal convicted of murder, and sentenced to expiate his crime upon the gallows, stands a iar better chance to escape punishment than hn would if he were safely incarcerated in prison. The pardoning power would be lews used in the latter case, and so many different way* to evade the law would not be devised. The death penally is so cruel and so rrpugnunt to the dictates of hutr.anity, that tho.se Do whom the execution of the law is entrusted, naturally shrink from the performance of their duly, which they would not do were ihev called upon to in fliot a milder penalty. A jury is not so easily found, who will, upon the most conelusive evidence, consign a man to an ignominious death upon (he gallows. They may think him guilty, aye, may know him guilty,but they cannot hang him,and sothey set him free. They believe it is belier thai " ten guilty men should go free, than that one innocent man al.oul'i suffer." Thanking vou, Mr. Editor, for the space you have afforded me in your paper, I will drop1'the subject for the present, although there is much yet which might be said to vindicate my position upon it. E. S. N.' Jenkins' umr Bride Huitih*fy toot $**th of Sutherland's Store— op stairs. 5' if* ■ 1** ClT'fl '? ■ it U published eieryFrlday, at Two Dollars per milium. Two Dollar* and Fifty Cunt# wttlh*'flfttarftud if not pald-witllhi Hit* r«ir. {lu pa par will be-di*coitfinued until-all arrearages are paid Adt«btiskmrntj art* iiiaerteUcoiiaglcuoufly ut On* Dollar par hi|ubm of fourlucn lilies for three ln»eril out ahdTWfcRTv-riVa Ck*ts additionalforHvt*ry«ub*i'C|»«'n n«*Drtioii. A liberal deduction to tboie Who ad v en in month® or 4J10 whole year. Job Work.—\V© have connected w.ith our eat aid iali men t a assort umwl ui Job Tvpk which willenu ftj8foexewfflSrtBS neatest style every variety of priuting. _  BUTLER HOUSE, " n ° , The metal after being received in the derail room is carefully weighed, and a reielpt given. Each deposit is (hen melted leparatelr in the melting room, and mould (J into bars. These bars next pass thro' he hands of the assayc, who with a oltisel ihips a small fragment from each one.— 2ach chip ia then rolled into a thin ribbon md filed down (ill it weighs exaotiy ten ;rains. It is then melted mto a little cup nado of calcined bone ashes, and all the Dase metals, copper, tin, 8c., are absorbed Dy the porous material of the cup, or oxidation. The gold is then boiled in nitric icid, which dissolves the silver it contains, ind leaves the gold pure. It is then »eighed, and the amount it has lost gives he exact proportion of impurity in the iriginal bar, and a certificate ol the imount of coin due tho depositor is made )Ut accordingly. Alter being assayed, the jars are melted with a certain proportion Df silver, and being poured into a dilution )f nitric acid and water, assumes a granulated form. In this state the gold is ;ho-' roughly boiled in nitric acid, until it is rendered perfectly free from silver 6r any uther baser metal thai may happen tooling to it. It in next melted with one ninth its weight of copper, and thus alloyed, is run into liars, end delivered to the coincr lor coinage., The bars are rolled out-in a rol ling mill until they are nearly as thin as lhe coin which i3 to be made from lliem — By a process of annealing, they are ren- Jered sufficiently ductile to be drawn thro' a longitudinal orifice in a piece of steel, thus reducing the whole to a regular width and thickness. A cutting machine next punches small round pieces from the bar, the proper size. The pieces are weighed separately by the "adjusters," and if too licuvy are filed down—if too light they are remelted. The pieces which have been adjusted are run thiough a milling machine, which compresses them 10 their proper diameter, and raises the edge.— Two hundred und fifty are milled in a minute by the machine. They aro then again softened by the process of annealing, and after a thorough cleaning aro placed in a lube connected with the stamping instrument, and are taken thence, one at a time, by machinery, and stamped between the dies. They are now finished, and being thrown into a box, are delivered to the Treasurer for circulation. The machinery for all these processes must, of course, be of the n'cest kind. 1'lie weighing scales alone, in the deposit room of the California mint, cost $1,000. Pittston, June 23, 1854 Pittston, Luzerne County, Pa. SAMUEL V. BOHflARD having taken the above stand Howell known to the Traveling Public under tbe occuC» panry of Junius 1D. Pofinao, and r«flit**d it in llMi best manner throughout, would announce to Ids friends and Ihe public that his arrangeincuts for tbeir accommodation are complete. The stand is the PRIDE OF PROPERTY AND LIFE. Ask the first man you meet, provided he be of this part of the country, to whom that large acacia belongs. lie will answer at once, ''That acacia belongs to Mr. Stephen." And so it does ; for I have reyu lar deeds to testify tha', tho acacia belongs to me. Carta. BRICK HOTEL opened about on© yC*nr since in the contra! part of PHtston. and la ohm of the inoftt commodious and best arrang»*l IIounce in Northern Pennsylvania and every effort will be made to render tho sojourn of all, pleasant and agreeable. The BAft will abound In tbe beat of Liquors, and the Table will be furnished with all lb© luxurlesol tbe season. ■ S o H u s ;# I £ c oT *8 t sa Jg 3 B D. *Z S v -S 8 f 31*** What a bitter sarcasm! CarefUl and obliging Ostler* always in attendance. Thankful for the liberal patronage heretofore received from the travelling public and citizens of the county, he will be happy to se«- them at his new location. Pittston, April 14, 1H34. Why then, shall we perpetuate such a law, when the light of experience teaches us that the interests ot society would be promoted by its abrogation ? It is evident that it confers no benefit upon upon any one, and dues not in the least prevent persons from committing crime when their passions once get control over their judgment. The sacredness 'of human life iC a noble conception, arid ought to be rccognized by every nation. It forms the su perstructure of human progress, and is capable of inspiring win new hopes and holier sentiments earth's down trodden millions. The tree is more than a hundred years old, and has preserved the vigor of youth. I am thirty-six ; I have already begun to die ; I have lost two teeth, and i cannot sit up late without fatigue. The tree has seen three generations live and die beneath its shade. If I live to be very old ; if I escape sickness and ill health ; if I die by dint of living—I shall perhaps see it in flower thirty times moie ; and then, some of those children who are playing marbles now, and whom we are teaching Latin against their will—those children for whom we are spreading bread and butter, and who will be men then—will put me by in a deal box, and pack me alongside of others below the earth, so as to muke more room above, until another generation whom they will have brought up for the purpose will pack them away in their turn in similar boxes. And yet I call ihat tree mine ! Ten generation more will live and die beneath its shade, and yet I cnll th'it tree n:ine ! I can neither seo nor reach the nest that a bird has built in one of its topmost boughs, and I call the tree mine ! Mine ! There is not one of the.things 1 call mine that is not destined to last longer than me—not a single button of my gniters that is not destinrd to outlive me considerably ! What a singular thing is property, of which man is so proud! When I had nothing of toy own, I had the forests and meadows, the sea, the heavens, and all their stars ; since 1 have bought this old house and this garden, I have only this house and this garden. Properly is a cov. enunt by which a man renounces everything that is not included within four particular walls. S31 cr i?Jl * 1 K JJJ CO - UJ S n|3.E rjs.tr PSz SI-*ii aD!2i3£ ° Si«l-■ ZUda. mmm ID C  *l£ C.H.8W.G.Dowd JI o" d .? «* |CQ I 3 41 j. v 55 E B S S « « Jl — n ® c c o ] ChKJS.CMX'1 WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN mmm» - TIN. BRASS. COPPEll. SHEET IRON, HARDWARE, HAY CUTTERS, Government can commit the error ol governing too much and too severely.— It may enaot laws so obnoxious to the feelings, that they can be executed only at the point ol the bayonet. Every day's experience goes to convince us that the more you-endeavor to goad inen into obedience, the m.ire resijtance you are likely to en counter. Men in whom the intellectual facuki's are largely developed hardly ev. er commit.crime, and they naturally shudder at the thought ot deliberately taking human life, even if the practice be authorized by law. CISTERN, AND WELL PUMPS, CARPENTERS TOOLS, Cf-C., Lackawanna Avenue, near Presbyterian .Church, Scranton, Pa. Orders respectfully solicited and foods forwarded with promptness. Kel». 84, 1854- ly. lid" § - Ofl PLS-,- »• 5 51 ii a -J a-S — i V .. J £ " g 2 ■i a « m v = 5 •£ % V o s n'3 3.2 8. - KG C2 We are always sure to inflict punish ment when crime has been committed, and without ever recurring to the causes which produced it. We should aim to prevent crime as well as to punish'it. We have a higher and holier duty to perform than merely to punish tlm outbursts of the human passions. When a crime has been committed, and the criminal is arraigned before the tribunal of justice, we should oonxidcr whether tlyit crime has not been the legitimate result of the ncglect of our own duty, and whether bv striking at the root of the evil, it might not have been prevented. We should educate the heart, from which the evil passions issue, and not punish men for their innate depraviiy. when by proper attention to our duly, that depravity might have been mitigated, and the tenipiatlons to C»rr thereby subdued. But how can we expect a man to be perfect when he'is surrounded by evil association', and left to pursue the path which his own sinful nature may dictate? Is not society itself corrupt and tyrannical? Then how can we expect its members to be pure ?— When a inan is once directed in the paths of" pleasantness and peaep," lie will be able to overcome the alluring temptations ol life. It should then be the object, as it is the duty, of society, to eradicate the sinful propensities ol nature, by elevating the standard of morality, and impressing upon the mind the sublime truths of virtue and religion. It should endeavor to keep men out of prison, instead of shutting them in it. That would be real charity and benevolence. Jle is a true pilanthropist who thus wars against barbarous punishments, and who aims to leaoh men that knowledge is better than ignorance—virtue bettfer than vice. •s, -§ ♦ » C=J D. S. KOON, Attorney-at-Law. JOB PRINTING Office icilh James Helm, Esq., I come now to the most unanswerable argument in favor of aliolishing Capital Punishment. Ii in an old maxim that « figures won'l lie," therefore tbev turnish ihe best argument '.hat can be produced. I will endeavor to show that where the law has has been abolished, murder, instead of increasing, as the friends of the death penalty predicted it would, has considerably diminished. PITTSTON, PA IfMiUy and expeditiously executed at this OF EVERY DESCRIPTION DR. E. SHELP, OFFICE. SURGEON DENTIST, Ou reasonable term*, jy JJUtukt of til kind} always on hand. SCRANTON N. B.—f»*. fl.. will upend from the 23d to the 30th* of each mouth hi PltUton, uim! wiil be round «t tho M Butler Houwo" where lie will be huppy lo attend to all who may require hi* servlcea. [8ept. 9, 1853. fis«ai! i traci C. R. GORMAN 8 Co., PITTSTON, PA., r Agents for Tupucott'i General Emigration and Foreign Exchange. Person* residing in the countrj, and wishing to engage passage or send inonay to their friend* in any part of Europe may do so with safety by applying a the Po*t-Oflice. Tapsr.ott 8 Co'n. receipt will be furniahd bv re. turn mail, [Pittston, Aug. 2li, 1863. The statistics of crime in England and Wales, clearly demonstrate (lie inefficiently of this mode of punishment. In Bombay i; wan impended altogether for seven years, and there were only six murders committed during that period; whereat, during the previous seven yearn, when twelve executions took place, there had been ci hteen convictions for murder.— '1 bus it will be aeen that murder decreas. ed 10 one half the number by discontinuing the use of the scaffold. Lord Suffield said that ihe direct tendency of this punishment was lo increase the evil which it was intended to avert, and that murder might certainly be expected to diminish where the severity ol the penally was lessened, and its infliction thereby made more certain. With these views, sustained by the statistics of crime in that country, he pro nounced it unsafe to retain the death penalty. In Belgium, this sanguinary punishment has been abolished, and no execu tjan has taken place there in twelve years. It was also abolished in Tuscany, together with all the different kinds of lorture and inhuman barbarities, and it had the gratifying effect of diminishing crime and elevating the niorals of the people. The following testimony of the venerated. J)r. Franklin, shows conclusively the error of those who contend that it is dangerous lo abolikh Capital Punishment. He says :— " In Tuscany, whore murder was not punched with death, only jive had been committed in twenty_years ; while in Rome, where that punishment was inflicted with great pomp and parade, sixty murders had been committed in the short space of three months. It is remarkable," he adds, " that the manners, principles and religion of Tuscony and Rome are exactly alike. The abolition of death alone as a punishment, hats produced this difference in the moral character of the two nations." Pittston Gazette Printing Office, ft*fltston, Pa. name. mil mmmf ER O P. HARVEY, i remember an old wood cl.ise to ihe house where ("was born, how many days have 1 spent beneath its leafy shade, in its green paths , how many violet* have 1 picked there in March, how many lillies ot the valley in May ! how many strawberries, blackberries, and filberts I have eaten ; how many butterflies and lizards 1 have pursued and caught ; how iniiny nests 1 have discovered there ; how oft~-n, at evening. 1 have admired the stars which seemed lo blossom among the tree tops, and at morning have watched the sun's rays penetrating the leafy dome like luminous dust ! Whatbalmv perfumes, what gentle reveries 1 have enjoyed there ! how many verses I wrote ; how often I have over her letters there ! I used  close of day to a little wooded hill lo see the sun set, and watch its oblique ravs, tinging with red the white trunks of the birches which surrounded me. That wood was not mine ; it belonged to an old. crip, pled, impotent Marquis, who had most likely never been in it—it was his! A.NECDaTE of Pulaski.—The following interesting statement concerning the Polish count Pulaski has been handed down by some of the revolutionary patriots who witnessed the occurrence— Franklin trect, next door to Dr. Dooliule, WILKES-BARRE, Pa. November II, IWiil. DK J. A. HANN, Office in Dr. .Cartis' Drug Store, Main Street, PITTSTON, Pa. December 17, 1852. GEORGE PERKINS ATTOKNKY AT LAW, pitiilim, I'n. Ofllfe n Build Ids CDKopial by Cjt'u. It. Love Co., kcod i floor. April 81, 1834.  Pula.-ki, as is well known, was as adroit a swordsman us he was perfect in horsemanship, and lie ever rode a powerful and fleet charger. In New Jersey, in the darkest hour of our national adversity, Pulaski, with a small party of horsemen, was pursued uy a body of Briiish cavalry, the leader of which was a good horseman, add. mounted nearly as well as Pulaski. Pulaski rode in the rear of his troop, whilo the British captain was in advance of hia detachment. COAL OFFICE OP D.P. FULLER 8 Co. East side Main street, nearly opposite Bowlcley C$• Beyea's store. Pittston, April 1, |85'J. J. H JENKINS, EXCHANGE BROKER,' 'j f.1 — QJler in thr Put Office, fa. May 20, 1831-tr. The Dbath of Pizarro.—"They thai take the sword shall perish by the sword." By the sword he rose—and by the sword he was to perish ; not on some well fought battle fie'.d, with the shouts of victory ringing in his ear, but in his own palace hall, and by ihe assassin's blade. In his own fair capi'al of Lima, the City of the Kings, the gem of the Pacific ; which had sprung up under his auspices with incredible rapidity—for Pizarro seemed to imparl his own vast energy to all about him—a score of conspirators, assembled at the house of Almagro's son, plotted his death. 11 was on a Sunday, in June, 1541, at the hour of dinner, lhat tiiev burst into his apartment with cries of " Death to the tyrant 1" A number of visitors were with him, but they were imperfectly armed, and deserted him, escaping by the windows ; and Martinez de Alcantora, two pages, and as many Cavaliers, were all that stood forward in defence of their chief. They soon fell, overpowered by .numbers, and covered with wounds. But Pizarro was not the mun, meekly to meet his death.— 0RI003, ZABRISKIE A LOVELL, WHOLESALE CKOOKRB AMD C0MA1ISSIQN MERCHANTS, Ifo. SJ52, Washington Street : A PRICE A CO., (Between Murray and KbUineonSU.) iimM.CiuiH, ) o«o. I.Sf. 7.t«ita«iz, '• HlI'II CD■ I.OVKLL. ) Office—West side Main street, Piltitdn Luzerne county, Pa. AuguttSO, 1852. tf. The morning sun was shining brightly* casting oblique shadows ; and as the pursued party entered a long, narrow fane, Pulaski, having satisfied himself of the superior command of his horse over that of his pursuer, slackened his pace, and kept his horse on the side of the lane farthest from the sun. Tha British officer came up in hot haste, his sword elevated so as to make the decisive cut upon Pulaski as soon as he should reach him. Pulaski rode as though he heard not the advance upon him, yet kept, his eyes fixed on the ground at the side of his, towards the sun on his right. As soon as he saw the shadow of his pursuer's horse fall upon hm, and found that the horse's head had, by the shadow, gained half the length of his own horse's body, ha gave the sudden sword cut of St. Gfwge with his powerful arm, and saw the heud of the British offi. cer follow the stroke One ot the best means of guiding men in the path of rectitude and right, and thereby pr •tecting society from crime, is 1 good system of education and moral culture, commenced ill childhood, and continued ihrou.-h a long series of years; and one which will come within the means of all—rich as well as poor. To this end our common schools should be increased, and more attention should be devoted lo the cultivation of the moral faculties. By examination, it will be found that Ignorance and Vice lie at the very foundation ot all error j and as long as these gigantic evils are left to predominate over the ennobling attributes of nature—so long will crime continue to fill our prisons with inmates and endanser the peace of society—so long will murder be committed despite all the laws which philanthropists car. devise. Let us then seek to re move these immense barriers to human perfectiou, bv educating the heart as well as the head, and by enhancing the value which men place upon their own charBoter. NKW -YORK, f Aug. 18, IHM-lr. J. BOWKLB7 A BEVEA, Coal Merchants, WYOMING HOUSE, offici Corner of Main and Hail Road 8Irttl Prrrarov, Luzerne County, Pa. Ancu»t 16, 1850. -tf, (near the railroad depot.) Sc.rantoii, Pa. J. O. BURGESS, Proprietor. frrfr- Charges Moderate. Beptarato# 1853. A. KENNRR'S Livery and Exchange. Near Ike Post Office, Scranton, Pa. Far from being tho lord of nature, as so many philosophers, poets and moralists have pretended, man is her assiduous slave, and property is one of the baits by means ot which he is induced to take upon himself numberless strange drudgeries.— Look at that man mowing! how tired he seems j tlie sweat drops fr m his brow.— He is cjtting his hay tor his horse j tie is proud and happy ! Man is employed by Nature to gather in seeds, and tosow them at proper.-season*, and to dig the- earth round the treF.s, in order that they may feel the gentle and salutary influence of rain and sunshine. SCRAN TON IIOCSE, OPPOSITE ecR ANTOf*Jt rr.ATT'3 STORE, SCR ANTON. PA. D K KRE3SLER, Proprietor. N. B.—\ carriage vlll be in roedinem to convnyifnum totlil«huu»«,imtlio -arrival of Ilia pngocHger Irulu al the "liiroul Dopul. rSo|.l. Ii3,1833-1/ Heady at all timet In aecommodale with the test oj horns and vehicles. Scranton, Feb. U, 1854-lv. JOHN GILBERT 8 CO. Wholesale Druggists, No 177 North T/urd '■ A few Jo or* above VIfid Street, E*»t Aide, laTfls rM'8s worn HYDE PATIK, PA, By HENRY aUFFORD, e*pt, S3, 1833, din Alone, without armor, his cloak around one arm, his good sword in his right hand, the old hero kept his cowardly assailants, at b#v with a vigor and intrepidity surpri siiig at his advanced age. "What, ho!" he exclaimed, "traitors, have you come to kill me in mv own house J" And, as he spoke, two of his enemies fell beneath his blows, llnda, the chief of ;he conspirators. impatient at the delay, called out— "Why are we sc? long about ? down with the tyrant!" and taking one of his com paniuns, Narvapz, ,jn hia arms, he thrust him against the Marquis. Pizarro instantly grappling with his oppnneuf, ran him through with his sword. But at that moment he received a wound in the throat, and reeling, sank on the'floor, when the swords of Rada and several conspirators were plunged into his body. "Jesu !"ex claimed the dying man ; and tracing a cross on the bloody floor, with his finger, he bent down his head to kiss it, when a •troke more friendly han the rest put an end to his existence.—Blackwood. PHILADELPHIA. But,let us come to our own country, and see what had been '.he result in those Slates whtrA'lhis barbarous punishment has been superseded by one better calculaied to answer the purposes 'or which all punishment is intended. In Mains, ihe criminal, after conviction, u confined in jail one year, arid after tijne until the Governor order* hirjj (o be executed ; and not ont execution Has taken place in that State since 1885. Vermont has a similar law,and no one hW been executed there in thiriyt nine years. In 1847, Capital Punishment wa» abolished altogether in Michigan, and What n happy result has been produced— what a seal hint* rebuke to the shallow pretensions of those who still hold tn rever ence this Itihumaq law. According to Statistics, there were four convictions in 184#, the first year afler the law was abolished ; in 1849, there was onn conviction for murder in the first dpgree i and in 1850, there was not one aonvictipn for muider or manslaughter. The Secretary of State in 1851, gave it as opinion thai murder had been diminished very rapidly since the death penalty was abolished. In an swer to inquiries made to him concerning the result of this most righteous movement, he says: "That from 1841 to 1846, rnclu sive, there were eighteen indictments for murder; pnd from 1847 to 1851, there were only tm." We must recollect that this encouraging resist wwpropuced in a State whose population was rapidly increasing, and especially by th*l ttlati* of inhabitants (foreigners,) wb® commit moat ti oilt pen* al offences. j 1 Could goon, and addncs m#» proof in favor} of the abolition oi Capital Punish, ttent; but the above, 1 think, is sufficient His mathematical eye had measured the ►hort distance by the position of the sliadow so accurately, arnJ hia posiiiod giving a long hack reach to his arm, while the cross stroke of his pursuer must have been at a much shorter distance to have taken eflfect-Mhat the pursuing, officer lost Iit» head before he suspected that his proximity was known, or a blow meditated. lOfM OILBERT. srtis *. WF.NTZ In every town that is tolerablv populous, the poor man has a public library, and consequeully from fifteen to twenty thousand volumes tor his use. It' he prow rich lie will buy a library and book* of his own ; he will only have four or five hundred books of his own, it is true ; but how proud and pleased he would be! You are poor : the sea is ypurs, with its solemn sounds, and the loqd voica of its winds- — '.he *ea in awful wrath, and its still more imposing calm—-the sea ia yours, but it belong to others likewise. One of these days, wh'.'n, by dint of toil, vexation, and perhaps meanness, too, you have become rioh—more or less—you will have a little marble basin built up in your garden ; or at any rate, you will lose no time in pur. nhasing placing in your house a cry a. tal vase, willi two gold fishes. There are times when 1 cannot but ask myself if perchance our judgment may not be so far perverted as to call poverty that which is splendor and wealth, and to term opulence, what, in fact, ia want and destitution.— Travelt in my Garden. ConSTAnTt.Y ON I tAROE IMOHTMSNT OP Drugs, Medicines, Chemjcnl« Fullers' and PyCjr» Articles, PainU,- Oils, Window «tnw, and Painters' Articles, Apothecaries' Glassware, 1'iU/jut JWilicinet, ,. August 30, 1850.—ly. ,  wmmh iYo, 333, Greenwich street, near Duane NEW YORK. JqIt t8, IMS. tf. As it now is, this essential branch oi education seems to be almost neglected by those into wlwse hands that sacred duty is committed, and the youth of our land are left to grow up in wickedness, if not in ignorance. Exposed as they are, to every species of vice, with no moral guide to restrain them from error,who can wonderthot when they arrive at maturity, jhey resort to the commission of crime to gratify the the inclination of those evil passions which were left uncultivated in their youth ? GEO. W. BRAINERD A Go. 103 Murray, aeiur Wast Street, Haw York Geo. W. Bbainkbd, david belden | Aug. 2, 1850.--ly*. n ; I. Fashionable Barber and Hair Dreiser. In the Room adjoining Cohen's Clothing Stote opposite the Engle Hotel, fitteton, Pa. "1TI70ULED Yenpectfully inform the public that Tf ' he him taken the Shop formerly occupied fey Lyman Fogg, where be would be pleased to' wait on there. PiUttoa, Nov. 1853. Cttr Our modern ladies who follow the lashious must certainly have easy consciences since they constantly make an "open breast of it.'1 Low neck style damsels will please feel funny when the laugh comes in. Browji 8 Lazarus, Forwarding and Commission Merchants 1'ITTSTON. PA. Ministers of tne Gospel would do well to devote more attention to the moral education of the masses. They should not only inoulcate divine truths in the pulpit, to a congregation who are able to pay high prices for the front seats in the sanctu«ry; but they should go among those who have not tlje means to purchase a pew, and who do oot/attend church because they dislike to intrude upon the patienoe of others — They should reprove evil wherever they find it. Our streets are filled with youth, who are now pursuing a path, which, if they are not cheeked, will lead them to an ignoble end. C Parents should exercise a guardian care over their children from the time they leave ihp '©cadle until they are pld enough to distinguish good from evil. A child ahoold receive its first impressions ol virtue at home ; there it should reoeive the rudiments of edueation, both moral *nd intellectual. The character which is If a girl thinks more of her heela than her head, depend upon it she will never amount to much ; brains that settle in the shoe, never get above them. ¥bucg gentlemen will please put this down. WILL.attend to forwarding and receiving «ood« at their (ton hoiUe. retirof l-axar«i»'« llotot:. Allgoode consigned to their care forwarded wWi deapalcb:  EAGLE HOTEL. O. R. GORMAN, M. D. GEO A E LAZARUS, .TSTON, Va. V- ReipactAiIlj tender* hia Profowional »ervie«a to the citizena of Pittaton and vicinity. Office nedrly opposite the. Post Office, Pittston. Aug. a, i#50. »y- The people who send money to a neirspaper office, with the request to "send the paper as long as the money lasts," are res. ;Dectfully informed that generally speaking, the money does not last long. Alj.t 1850., A judge's duty is to anub the counsel on both sides, and boiher the jury by show. i.ng them a third method oi" looking at the case. We get this from a iriend who once went to law to get damages, and got enough of what ho weat after to last a life-time. SALT AND FISH. GROUND Alnm Bolt In aacka Hid Byraouaa Salt hi bar rota, Tor ml* by Ike quantity or other*!*. Al»«D No« I. * and 3 Mackerel in Ble. tad half Dla., * Joe arllde.— Cod flab, kc., bjr BROWN fc LATAttUB. Architecture. TWOSfc wanting anything designated above will nlease give the subscriber a cull. Who is preparetl tA malti drawing* for buildings, writ* »p«ciflcatidn», if-c. May be found by inquiring at t he Kaglo Hotel. QUO. W. LUNG. Pitts ton. January 2nd; 1854. 1 H » W ' 1 ■ John Randolph met a peraonal enemy in the street one day, who refused to give him half the aidewalk, saying that he never turned out for a rascal "1 do," aaid Randolph, Stepping aside and lifting his hat politely, "pass bn, sir, pass on." A Londou witness having described himself to be was asked in whet department of literature he wielded his pen. He replied that he penned ttteep la the Smithfield market, Branny applications are recommended by a Western paper for baldnesi continued externally until the hair is well started, and afterwards taken in generous quantities internally, to clinch the roots. r«b.ii. GEORGE W ORIS WOLD. RWlpBWT UBNTIBT, of Cvbondato. OH CJW ffom SWMt fc E»yaor, on M«in»BCTtDt New, bold and inspiring ideas are only born of a clear head that stands over a glowing heart. The most precious wines are produoed upod the sides of volcano?. NAILS 8 SPIKES. OSfH-Wbich is I he way to health, th« Hydro-path, tho AIlo.path, or the Homoe. path ! Where there are so many paths, it u hard to know which we follow. ■ I1 "" ' " i ICS" The man who took a bofd stand, concluded to it back. JMT r»cel»eCl wd for j»to low, 100 keg* Ms»l* and uffiffifuuwn fc uaza^ITB. BARGAINS! BARGMNS! I 4 second addition of new goods are.jost arri- A, viag *Klie Bazaar, Which makes the stock LEATHER. A AAA kBS. wpenor quality i tt«UvU Bote Leather, on hand i oil letuptaCMMlMH* m to make ill pafchase t • in thie vicinity to buy of I eneeto going to the citiee. SMITH 4- . jom9, ww;'n; An editor down east says that the constant murmur of (he sea reminds him of his wife. And 06 doubt the squalla of old ocean remind him bis ohildren- ie ohMdbcod, generally sheds an either for good Or Dad, tbroOgh