Pittston Gazette and Luzerne Anthracite Journal

              0 PITTSTON 4 AND Luzerne Anthracite Journal. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY RICHART, BEYEA & THOMPSON, Thompson's Brick Building* 3d floor Nearly opposite the Bunlt. The GAZEfTE and JOIillNAL is published eTery Thareday, at Two DoiuhD p«r annum. ttrutly in advance. ISfNo postage chargcd within the county. f- ADVERTISINO- RATES. ette " Jobbing Office, a Job Printing Offlee of ,»T Ac BffiTBA, The ••d RICH Being now con* JoOlilnj minerlnI than any other oiler in (be coimtj, and U rnlty prepnrnd to •*eciilC- work of at! Vim* tTMnj beat and cheepm manner. Purllonlur attention «l»uu to the following:— PAMPIII.RTS, tlAIfDB ILLS, CIRCOLAltft; BILL HBAD8, irmi/ tiiru 1 ivRMB, CARM AND LUZERNE ANTHRACITE JOURNAL. LABEL*, He., net, lee, Rvumi. ■r*cK. I iqun, ... l 00 | S M . flaring la connection with the jobbing department of Uio(.aaeti« ofllce an improved KuIImk Macfitna. »e-a» prepared to do al) kind* of ruling, with different colored Into, In good aljie. 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David Taggart, both candidates for the people of Kansas, and the faithless servilitomination, were educated by the same tics of the Pierce and Buchanan Adminisnstructor. These three gentlemen, in trations—uttering its voipe for protection heir speech to the Convention, endorsing ta the tndastries of Pennsylvania, and exta nominee, referred, in most touching hibiting, on every ooension, that dignified arms, to the happy memories of the sunny moderation which is so peculiar to the lays when they were boys together in the Pennsylvania character. That Adniinis;CDod old .Milton Academy. tration steadily won the confidence of the After getting well imbued with as much people as it proceeded, and retired from uatin, Greek, and Mathematic us any of our power attended by the respect of every :ollcges afford, tho young Curtin wan placed citizen in the Commonwealth, and above n the law office and law school of Juclge even the suspicion of corruption or partialit pel. of Carlisle. This school was one of ity, Ex-Secretary Curtin, as the intimate lie departments of Dickinson College, and friend and constitutional udvi.ier of tho is long as its professor lived it flourished, Governor, is fairly entitled to a full share md sent forth some of the best lawyers of the crcdit which attaches to tho honest, ind public men of Pennsylvania. Judge wise and benign Administration of James [teed was well known for his " I'ennsylva- i Pollock. lia Blackstonc," one of tho first utteinps j During that strenuous contest for the ;ver made to adopt the immortal " Com- United States Senatorship, which distillucntarics" to our modern law. lie was a guished the legislative session of 1855 irst-ratc lawyer, and an adept in teaching Col. Curtin was strongly and persistently egal principles. urged by a large body of friends for that Andrew G. Curtin was admitted to tho- high position. )ar in 1839, and began the practice of the His department of Administration conaw in bis native town. He immediately nectcd hiin olosely with our common school jntercd upon a largo and varied practice system as its Superintendent. He gave md has ever since been constantly and laborious attention to it, and took particu ictively employed in the courts of the lar pleasure in pefecting its details one 'ounties of Centre, Clearfield, Mifflin and increasing its efficiency. Tho Common Jlinton. Ilis great information, his vigor- wealth is greatly indebted to him fur thC jus mind, and his candor, recommended legislation concerning Normal Schools, jiin to the courts, his winning style made which affords the method and means o; him powerful with juries. He rapidly systematically training a body of intelligent aecamc ono of the best known and most teachers, and thus supplying the mos •ising young men in central Pennsylvania, pressing need of our Free Schools. TJndei A man with the gifts and temperament of the working of the law, one State Norma Andrew G. Curtin could not fail to bo School is in efficient operation, and otherf largely interested and concerned in public are springing up in various parts of the iffairs. Stikingly amiable, genial, and commonwealth. warm hearted, of luminous, quick, and ex- Secretary Curtin Was an original and ac tensive intelligence, of the most engaging tivc advocate of that great measure of thC addresses, endowed with a fluent, facetious, Pollock Administration—the sale of thC Mid captivating eloquenoe, and instinct Main Line of the Public Improvements with old I ennsylvania traditions of policy This measure was vigorously opposed be find patnotism, he threw himself at once fore its consummation, but it is now agreed into these political controversies which, as on all hands that it was timely and wise Burke te Is us, arc the noblest employments and that tho Commonwealth was thereby 1 cultivated man. lie was an ardent relieved of an incubus which annualh and thorough going Whig, and in 1849 he depleted its treasury and corrupted its took an active part.in that enthusiastic politics he was a fervent adherent of the illustrious " , candidate of the Whigs, and he stumped 7Z \ ** " ™n „ 1 . • r tt °* IC 'aw» a,,c* to the material atid in das itfri t V01."7 C;'y trial interests of his regi;n of the Com ElK \ -T'a i " "onwcaJth. He. ha* been verv active ir that straggle, Mr. Curtm first ncquired hi* r v *r 1 » wide spread reputation for cSvo and resistless popular■ cloqaonco. There w not ,nd adj*}nin C()UIttil,s conncctioB a county torn the Susquehanna to the with thc iDcnns^lvania Contraband thC Alleghemes, in which the name of Andrew Sunbury and Eric railroad. He is a gen G. Curtin ever ails to attract the very tlcman unlujua, bHc . . d «?, g largcat crowds, who eagerly gather to enjoy whole soul is bound up in the develop* the feasts of wisdom and wit of humor nlcnt of tho | ,Pnine , and . , and pathos, of poetry statistics, story, argu- tural rcs0urccs of hifj ,mti „ ment and imagery, which spread out in his birth, education, and life-long habit and glowing and melodious periods. v . ,.b " ',llu Tn *r,„ Ti'k: association, he is a Protectionist, and t Electoral ticket, and again traversed many wh'T *"*1 aml 'r sections of the State i„W of General wosanorigina1 sup- i„duttries and refinements of a free an porter of the nomination of Gen. Winfield civilizud community. Scott, and in 1802 he was again pluced on a. , . , . thc Electoral ticket and worked with his . ?lnC* V'" ausPlcl(?us un!on of thC* °PP° usual aeal to cary thc Stato for the Ilcro ln Pennsylvania, which has resulted of the Valley of Mcxioo. Indeed Mr. "Y5 f(,r,"atl0» the continued Curtin was at all times a thorough and «ce"dancy °J People's party, Colone imbred Pennsylvania Whig, devoted to all Lurt"' !'a8 bce"' for at lea8t two years those conservative and humane ideas which rcgarC*e(*Dfrou| many quarters of the State distinguished that party which now sleeps ,a -Y wurt''y antl suitable can in the graves of Clay and Webster. He is dldut0 i'or that high positior by training, and by mature conviction, a u P00u',ar'y we'l qualified- He unites believer in systematic and efficient l'rotec- an ove," tel"PerD a"d judgment, to tion, in liberal internal improvements, in rcat knowledge, no'1 °' books but ol the policy of encouraging well paid and mc" »DCJ *ffa»ra- No man hi the Comwido diffused Free American labor. Such mon^®a!th 18 ra0.re with its history a Whig could not fail to bo a leader and a Wlth ,ts vanous Doca! intorests; with its counselor of the party, and accordingly dlvclslfiod capacities and requirements Mr. Curtin was an influential member of ?VIth \ts'eolation, its policy, and its pub nearly every Whig State Convention which 0 °P.,n,on ' no one 1,88 8uch an efensivc met during the last ten years of thc Whig jcqmnnttned all over the State. Tn al party's existence. s private relations, and in the discharge v , . of his official dutias, he has achieved r xNo man was over more popu ar at home. hi h character fw ' bit and honorIr tie is endowed with much of that raro i,„"i , ii * • J magnetism which neutralizes social and £ is i !' '"] UpL','l.mC"t ul,d.a„ct'°n political differences, and makes the man W.th.r Ai i • . A . our oroaa limits there is none who can ana stronger than his porty- As an illustration wi„ )liuko a better Govei.nor. of this in the year 1849, Centre county Col. Curtin k t otljuboveaIl roproacl composed part of the Senatorial district i,llf ;a i,i i i • • j- . in which Gen. Wm. F. Packer, now Go- S.beloDed by hls '"l,uedlate neighbor, vernor, was the Democratic candidate for ,ij" ''H Perso"u acquaitances. A man o; the Senate. Thc Whig candidate withdrew Pfesence, of gracious and gentle from tho canvass on the Friday before the demc,,nur- k"'d-l'earted, gc.nal, and sunny election. At thc earnest nd general soli- rnemarkab'/ and fac. citation of the party, Col. Curtin took the on Htfon '"') 71" field. There remained only three days to iT  canvass a verv larDr« diatruf n Pennsylvania. In his native countv Centre county gave a majority of' eleven thr°Ugh ,h® ValIcyS °f °e0tra} P,e"" hundred for thf rest of the Democratic fchr'. W°mU"'/ ""d ,oh,ld ticket, she gave Gen Packer a majority of LP "a ? r '17 atta.chmcn only threo hundred. Three dayshbSy^nt' Packer, Demo- KuiXiTl ft'"tt  cratic majority. ls nof'r'ch- a"d ]?ft offico Yl(:hout a con r .i _ . moro %an when lie entered it, no man ii In the year 1854, Colonel Curtin was Centre county has given away as mucl strongly urged by the counties of Central money to relieve the wants of the poor, ant Pennsylvania for the Governorship ; and aid the struggles of the embarrassed. I wh n Hon. James Pollock, of Northumber- was remarked in tho late Convention, whicl land, received the nomination, Curtin was nominated him so promptly and by such i made Chairman of the State Central Com- decided vote, that no man in the-State hac unttee. Upon the election of Gov Pollock, such abotjy of devoted enthusiastio person he appointed Col. Curtin Secretary of the al-friends. There never was a nominatiot Commonwealth. He discharged the varied more joyousely hailed It gives equal sat duties of that office with signal ability and isfaction among the farmers and iron met discretion. Gov. Pollock s Administration of Centre, and the merchants and manu was singularly pure, moderate and conserv- facturcrs of Philadelphia. Tho commercia ative. It was not distinguished by any metropolis of the State answers it with : startling measures, or any exciting innova- wonderful general applause. Thesolic tions. The agitations and fluctuations business men of tho eity and Stato ari caused by the breaking up of the Whig delighted with it. From Lake Erie to th( party, the pro-slavery Democratic outrages Delaware, this nomination is regarded ai 111 Kansas, the rise of tho American Be- tho beginning of a brilliant campaign, anc publican organisations, and the tremeiAlous the harbinger of decisive State and Nation political contest of 1866, withdrew the al victorios. The People's party could no general attention from mere State affairs to , have placed »t the head of their army i those of national concern. Dut, in the | more gallant, admirable, and formidable midst of all, the Pollock Administration champion. He will wake oil Pennsylva held its even way, maintaining the interests nia ring with his trenchant, sparkling, anc and the honor of Pennsylvania, condemn- sonorous eloquonce. 11c will be surround ing the barbarities wbicl) oppressed' the cd by the best men of the People's part- —the flower and promise of its future— young intellectual, and enthusiastic ; who, fighting by his side, will insuro a powerful and stirring discussion of our glorious ideas of Freedom, Progress, and the Rights of Labor. Andrew G-. (Jurtin is himself a 1 young man, io the very prime of life, and when he becomes Governor of Pennsylvania, his Administration will exhibit all the virtues of youthful maturity, solid enterpriwe, generous liberality, enlightened humanity, and • thorough Pennsylvanian pol cy. SECRET SERVICE IN THE REVOLT TION. MEXICAN YOUTHS. HOW THEY FOOLED THE WOMEN. ,,,^ft"tLhedeath ,of Montezuma, the Mex- One day week before last, it was ar- T,0VX. * g, tower in rai,ged among a party of fifteen or sixteen ■he great temple which overlooked the 1 married gentlemen, living at Mt. Pleasant. P-aC,ng thel° a ?ar"» 0hioD they would hav9, a sleigh ride, a SIS"ffir0"'n0tPaTr.d *rand a "g«od time," all to themselves 8 A*,?* the,r w,t"°ut their good wives being any the .W; /fT th'8 V°nt 1 was , ™cr of J'- They accordingly arranged to ecessary to dislodge them at any risk.—| have the supper come off at Waldron's mtawn,erf8C? I1" w°® ""j attemPt. about fivc miles from Mt. Pleasant, and on •,, "? repulsed. Fernando Cortex, sen- the appointed night, under various pre IlrlfvnfV?01 0D,J t.he wjtatotfon, but the texta they abandoned the society of their atety of his army, depended on thesuccess wives, and in cutters, behind fast trot tin)f the assault, ordered a buckler to be tied horses made good time to Waldron's ehuck°- iia j ?ot m®n,,Ke )Dng over the way in which they had "fooled us wounded hand, and rushed with his the women." But the women were not HWOpd lnto thJ thickest of the com- quite so ignorant as they pretended to be. hrir ffmeraWhf8! -y Prescnc« of 'J'he7 g°t wind of the party at Waldron's heir general the Spaniards returned to resolved to be "in at the death," and arrihe charge with such vigor that they grad- ved at the hotel just as the gentlemen were hlZt 8' and gating ready tosit down °to a sun.ptous LnlV.kIcxionn"tothe platform at the table of game, oysters, wine, &c. The la-2« b l!n l ? a »adful car" dio8 walked in and t°°k possession of the ?§? iff?" • two y°ung Mexicans of table, utterly refusing to recognize any of efirii. e-V,ng, C'°rtCS as heanima- the gentleman, and treating them alias eel his soldiers, resolved to sacnfico their perfect strangers. The truant husbands f all mv'd Vk?f t,He ?Uth°r saw the elegant supper, for the discussion "iiiintrv ti? wh|ch desolated their of which they had been whetting their apountry. 1 hey approached him in a sup- petites, rapidly melt away, and they were irr' "S • Hltfndcd t0 not even allowed to pick the bones. After nLit\ ' 1T-8; ai! S°'jlng hlm ln a suPPcr- the ladies, who had brought music ver whl.h fh ,1."" t?ra 8,the ral,S- wit1' them, danced for a while, and then on" TJ S thcy t.hre5r. 'hemselves head- went home, without onee speaking to their g, in hopes of dragging him along to be husbands, and treating all advances on their ShvSr byVh0 S1ame1fall\BlU Part-ith freezing coldness, or indignant Z J strength and agility, broke tonishment. We venture to say that no '.1 ' ■ i,C'r • gallant man of that party will sgain attempt to run li8nper.sh0d,nthe generous though away from his wife to goto a "atag party? unsuccessful attempt to save their coun- F * ♦rv. "  ' " " "*** Is The World a Mstake?-—One CDf he saddest mistakes which the people have nade, is in supposing the world to be a nistake. To these people—and their num)cr is not small—the earth is but a theatre Df pain and sicknes, sorrow and death.— Toy is illusive, pleasure a cheat, laughter i mockery, and happiness a thing impossible, and not even to be looked for on this tide of the grave. The performance of ill duty is the "taking up" of what they -all "a cross." They are actually afraid to be happy, under an overshadowing impression that they have no right to be happy in this life. 'J hey believe there is something intrinsically bad in this world that they inhabit and all the joy that proceeds iroyi it. They have an idea that the moral evil which affects the hiyaan race has struck J in. _ To them life is a trial—severe, unre- . lenting, perpetual. All that seems good, and graoeful, and glorious in the world, is j a hollow sham, for the deception of the unwary and the ruin of the unwise. len yrrnitl mint luivi' kl«neil the liill»,  S lit nmnmii" :r —- DTis sweot *t morn to hC*r the birds . Hymn out tlieir matin prtupes. I love the genial aim of spring, Tho fragrant dew lipped rosea: t love to hear the shanghais crow, For when they crow, they crowses. Of all the mysteries that occurred in the American Revolution, the employment of Rivington, editor of the Royal Gazette, in the secret service of the American Commander, is the most astounding. Rivington proved faithful to his bargain, and often would give intelligence of great importance, gleaned in the convival moments at Sir William's or Sir Henry's table, be in the American camp before the convivialisis had slept off the effects of their wine. The business of secret service was so well managed, that even a suspicion nevor arose us to the medium through which intelligence of vast importance was continually received in the American camp from the vury headquarters of the British Army, and had suspicion arisen the Kings printer would have been probably the last man suspected; for during the whole of his connection with the secret service, his Royal Gazette literally piled up abuse of every sort upon the American General and the causc of America. In 1783 this remarkable mystery was solved. When Washington entered New York as conqncror, on the evacuation by the British forccs, lie said one morning to two of his officers "Suppose, gentlemen, we walk down to Rivington's bookstore; he is said to be a very pieusant kind of a fellow." Amazed as the officers were, at the idea of visiting such a man, they of course prepared to accompany the Chief. When they arrived at the bookstore, Rivington received his visitors with great politeness; for, indeed, he was one of the most elegant gentlemen and best bred men of tho age. Escorting the party into a parlor, he begged the officers to be seated, and then said to the Chief, "Will your Excellency do me the honor to step into the adjoining room for a moment that I may show you a list of the agricultural works I am about to order out from London for your special use?" They retired. /The locks on the doors of the houses of New York more than three score years ago, were not so good as now. The door of Rivington's private room closed very imperfectly, and soon became ajar, when the officers distinctly heard the chinking of two heavy purses of gold, as they were successively laid on a table. woodlands wild, with tangled heaves, Alone I love lo wander; To muse upon the dreamy past, And on the future ponder. I love to nee tho start l«Dd stag Fling antlers to the breeses. And leave behind the insect hum Of flies and bussing beeses. "And when the storm king's thunder guns Flash o'er the heavenly *rehes, I love to hoar the forest?* fur, Rewound like martial marches: There freedom's feathered monarch reigns, . The birds that screamed and frighted. With flapping wings, the king of beu*t», Both tunes they scratched and bitcd. This sketch comes from the heart as well as tho head of a true Pcnnsylvanian, who, much as ho admires and trusts the candidate, loves tho man. Hut lot no one thorefore, suppose that the warmth of friendship colors this picture too highly. Andrew (J. Curtin will soon visit every part of tho State himself. Wherever he goes, the crowds who will meet and know him will become charmcd and eager personal friends*. I lore to MO the fiirmor'a plow Throw up the stubble ftirrow, Whwe all tho whistling winter long Tho rabbits kept their burrow. And when at noon the horned yoke To pasture bend their noses, Tin sweet to hear the dinned tone Of every horn that blow.sou. In October tho people of Pennsylvania will attest tho justice of this sketch by their votes, and tho futuro course of events will only prove the correctness of their verdict, and turn our anticipations into facts. I love at dawn, when hIow tho nan Fires up the mountain passes, To hoar the bleating floeks afar, And braying Johnny Asses ; And when at dunk the milky kine Return to welooine house*. 'Tin sweet to hear their tinkling bells, And see the baby cowses. When noJt the moon her virgin light O'er dreamy earth diffuses, I love to hear tho Thomas Cats Mc-ow of Tabby's mewse*. On fragrant buds of eatnip green They lie like loving spouncs. And purr their dreams, and pledge their tails, In loud a-inewsing mowses. Phenomena of Rain.—Not less than two pounds of moisture are daily expelled from tho skiu aud lungs of most individuals j and it a person happens to be flung into a particularly deliquescent stress of heat and exercise, ho may contribute five pounds to the atmosphere within the twenty-four hours. Were this rendered visiblo, every one would appear, tg be enveloped in a little cloud. t(I remember," says Watson, been very greatly heated in ascending the ladders from the bottom of a copper mine at Ector. When I got to the top, I observed by tho light of a candle, a thick vapor reeking from tho body, and visible around it to the distance of a foot or more. Yet such is Nature's alchemy, that the same effusions—the sweat of a sea and land, of herb and beast aud man—may shortly rc-appear as the tender dew, the listening .shower, or the limpid gush of the mossy fountain. Reckoning the mean annual evaporation all over the globe at thirtyfive inches, it has been computed that the total quantity of water poured into the air would till a cistern liinety-l'our thousaud four hundred cubic Jurtaa iu capacity. This estimate, however, founded upon Dalton's data is assuredly too low, for the mean annual issue of rain from the clouds all over the earth, is now calculated at live feet.— Brittik Quarterly. I love, as in the dnvs of yore, To hear the rippCing waters. Where loud the parent frogs discourse To croaking sonsand daughter* ! And when the star-gem'd wing of night Beyond tin- vision roaches, I love to hoar the owlets screech, For when they areech they screeches My soul is filled with lovo for all In imtiiro. grave or funny ; For life is full of shadows dark, CAPITAL AND LABOR. Tjic Ilaif, Edwti, Everett, some time atro on the occasion, ii we remember rightly of a dinner party given in Boston to Mr. Baring argued, in his usual felicitous style, that the poor man was often as rich as the richest—that there could really be no antagonism between capital and labor:— Ah well as pleasures sunny. Yet far above them all 1 lore The love for me that sighso*— That clings to me in weal or woe, And cries when e'er 1 crisi s. TIIE OLD HOME, VT MBS. CIURA FULLER. The owner of capital," he said, " in Eng. land or America, really reaps the smallest advantages which flow from its possession—he being but a kind of a book-keeper, or head clerk, to the business community. He may be as rich as Croesus, but he can neither eat, drink nor wear more than one man's portion ''I remember hearing a jest about Mr. A ator s property, which contained I think a great deal of meaning—a latent practical philosophy. Some ppo was asked whether he would be "Willing to take all Mr. Aster's wealth eight or ten millions of money—merely for his board and clothing. " No," was the indignant answer: think I am a fool f" I went to the "Homo" that I onco called mine* Where 1 nursed the flower, and trimmed tho vine, Where tho spreading sail oft met my view, -On the bosom of Kne, bright und blue, No clustering vine, nor shrub, nor flower, 1* blooming there ui field or boworu It is cheerless all—of its lDenutjL,reffc-» And the stranger dwells iu " the home T left." The feMftht little broolf.a* it hurried along,- O'er its pebbly oea, with a dirge-like song, Awakened thought* a* I turned to depart, Which left a chill on iny desolate heart. Tho party «oon returned from the inner oom when Ilivington pressed upon his ;uests a glass of Madiera, which lie assured hem was a prime article, having imported t himself, and it having received the appro Dation of Sir Henry and the most distin juished lion vhant* of the Uritisb army. The visitors now rose to depart, ltiv ngton on taking leave of the Chief, whon le escorted to the door, said:—Your Ex tellency may rely oh my especial attentioi icing given to the agricultural works rhich, on their arrival will be immediately brwarded to Mount Vornon, where 1 trus" hey will contribute to your gratificatioi imid the shades of domestic retirement. ltivington remained for several years ir New York after the peace of 1782, I was tho general opinion at that time, tha if ltivington had been closely pressed ot the delicate subject of secret service, char acters of greater calibre migtatehaveap pearcd on tho tapis than the King's prin ter.—From the Private Memoirs of Qeorn Washington. I wandered away to the churchyard lone.— Th*r»i I read fond names on the sculptured atone, Till my heart grew sad. and I turned away From'the cold, Mill place, whore the sleepers by ; For I felt indeed that n fearful gloom the portal* of the tomb. "do you Earth aeemed but the birth place of *ln and pain, And my mourning heart Man about to complain ; But a *pirit-D»reatn seemed to tin tuy brow, And ite radient influent oheeera me now ; For it whiopered words of living Faith. 'Of a Mighty Arm which had conquered Death ; It brightened the fading light of hope. And caused my dcapondiug eoul to look up, With a trusting eye, to that blest abode. Where the weary rest on the "Mount of God.* "Well," rejoins the other, that'll all Mr. Astor himself gets for talcing care of it He's found and that is all. The houses, the warehouses, the ships, the forms, and the estates which he counts by the hundreds, and is obliged to take care of, arc for the accommodation of others. Edward Bates.—As Judge Bates of Missouri, ia prominently before the people, for tbe Presidency, the following brief sketch of his career, will not be without Ail Irishman being asked whether ho did not frequently converse with a friend in Irish, replied :— ".No, indeed ; Jemmy often speaks to me in Irish, but I always answer him in English ." " Why so ?" " Because, you see, I don't want Jemmy to know that I understand Irish." interest "Judge Bates is in the sixty-seventh year of his age, a native of Virginia, and of Quaker descent. During the last war with England, ho served some months in "But then he has an income, the result of all this mighty property, five or six hundred thousand dollars per annum." i y°f!,Vu' 08,1 do nothing with his income but bui Id more warehouses and ships, or loan money on them, by mortgages, for the convenience of others. I tell you he's "found," and you can't make anything else out of it." I will Join them there,—the happy band I Though I linger awhile in a "hiranger laud,"— The darkened earth is of Joy bereft, I will sigh no more for ••rua bomb I tun." BIOGRAPHICAL SKETl'lI or the army. Went to St. Louis in 1814, and was admitted to the Bar 1816. In 1820 he was. appointed Attorney General of Missouri, and 1824 District Attorney of the United States. In 1826 he was elected to Congress, and in 1880 and 34 to the State Legislature. In 1843 ho was [ elected Judge of the St. Louis Land Court, served three years aud resigned. In 1847 his address as President of the Chicago Harbor and River Convention was cxceedingly able. Ho has been tbe leading lawyer at the St, Louis Bar, exoeodingly expemlary in private life, and father of seventeen children, oight of whom still survive." HON. ANDREW O. CURTIN. In the Iowa Senate, recently, one member called another to order, stating that ho didn't wish to see the Democratic party demolished just yet. Mr. llusch, the Lieut. Governor and presiding officer, promptly said, "The chair decides that it is never out ot order to demolish the Democratic party," and the Senate sustainedthe decision with a general roar. Andrew O. Curtin, the candidate of the People'8 party for Governor of Pennsylvania, was born the 22d of April, 1817, in Dcllefqnte, a beautiful village in the county of so called because it lies in the very Jieart of the Commonwealth. This county n away from the routes be- Iwefen'the North and the South, the Ku»t and the West, and thus it is not an well known as it ought to but it is exceed-* ingly rich and lovely, abounding in iron ores, fertile valleys, and fine streams. The rare facilities of this region attracted to it, at an early day, the energies and the residence of Roland Curtiu, who, for forty years, was a leading iron manufacturer in Centre county, accumulated a competent estate and has left three sons, brothers of Andrew, engaged in the staple business of Pennsylvania. Andrew G. Curtin comes of first-rate Pennsylvania stock. His father married a daughter of Andrew Gregg, who was one of the great men of Pennsylvania in the early part of this century. He was a representative from the interior of the State of the first Congress under the Confutation, and sat in the House of Representatives for eighteen successive years. Then lie was transferred to the U. 8. Senate, and served a term of six years. Andrew Gregg mi a steady supporter of the Administration of the earlier Presidents, and especially •of Jefferson and Madison. He offerod in Congress the famous war resolutions which preceded our last conflict with Great Britain and which elicited the eloquence of Henry Clay and John Randolph. After his retirement from Congress, he acted as Secretary of the Commonwealth during the Administration of Governor Joseph Heister. Every Pennsylvanian of middle Mge will remember the fierce and decisive State canvass of 1823, when the old Federal party, ander the lead of Andrew Gregg aa-their candidate for Governor, made a last stand for victory and existence, and were defeated by the old Pennsylvania Democracy, under the lead of John Andrew Shultze. There can be no doubt that the frandson, Andrew G. Curtin, standardearer as he is of the real Democracy of the State at this day, will fare better than bis grandfather. The subject of our sketch was educated atthe Academy of the Rev. J. Kirk patriot in Milton, Northumberland county. Mr. Kirkpatriok, still living in Allegheny county, was one of the old stylo of instructors. He "turned out" his boys thoroughly impregnated with the classics and mathematics. It is quite a coincidence, that Gov. James Pollock, President of the late State Convention which nominated Mr Pyrtin, and Messrs. Samuel Calvin and BQu The death of Mr. Boker, the wealthy wine morchant of New York, whose daughter a fow years since married his coachman, John Dean, naturally revives a little chat in reference to that romantic affair. The impression seems now to prevail that so far as her own happiness is concerned Miss Boker did not, after all make so poor a match. Her husband soon after their marriage, was appointed to a clerkship in tho custom house, which he still holds, and the duties of which be discharges oreditably to himvelf and with fidelity to the Government. He is a modest unassuming man, has a quiet b«t comfortable home in Williamsburg, is perfectly irreproachable in his habits andassociations, minds his own business, and is a faithful anil affectionate lmsband- He avoids notoriety of every sort, and pursues the way of au upright, sterling man, and a good citizen. Wherein is the family of John Dean inferior to that of tho late Mr. Boker ? Discovery op Ancient Cities.—Mr. C. C. Graham, an Englishman, who has lately beta traveling in the East, has made some antiquarian researches of the highest interest in the Great Desert beyond tho river Jordan, Mr. Graham re, contly road a paper before the Royal Agiatio Society, Ho found, far tq the east of the iiauran, and in a region unvisited bcforo by any European taveller, five anoient towns, all as perfect as if the inhabitants had just left them, (he houses retaining the massive stone doors which art a characteristic of that region. One of the cities is remarkable for a large building like a castle, built of white stone beautifully cut.  i arther eastward, other places were found where every stone was covered with inscriptions in an unkuown eharaotor, boaring some apparent likeuess of the Greok alphabet, formerly in use in Southern Arabia. Copies aud impressions of several inscriptions are presented, and will no doubt engage the attention of Orientalists. Discovery of a Soap Mine.—A Chataugua, N. Y. county paper mentions the discovery of a soap mine in Portland, in the same county. This article hns the appearanee of old soap grease. The surfaoo soil of the placo where this soap is found is a black mould, seemingly burned by tho passage through it of natural gas which is elevated at this pointy How TO SEtEOT Flq0r—First, look at the color; if it is white, with a Blight vol, low or straw colored tint, buy it. If it is vety white, with a bluish cast, or with black specks in it refuse it. Second exam- 4 ine its adhesiveness, wet and knead a little of it between your fingers ; if it works soft and sticky it is poor. Third, throw a lump of dry flour against a dry, smooth, perpendicular surtaeo; if it falls like powder, it is bad. Fourth, squeeze some of the flour in your hand if it retains the shape given by the pressure, that, too, is a good sign. Flour that will stand all these tests is safe to buy. These modes are given by old flour dealers, and we make' no apology for printing them, as they pertain to a matter that oonccrns everybody, namely, the quality of the staff of life. Bffi- A woman in Troy, N. Y., justdivoi-. cod from a white husband, has married a negro, and another white woman in the samo city, attempted Buicide because she wanted to marry a negro who had a wife and ehilfrcn. [ ££&' Children think because they are children there is little they can do; but there is one thing harder to learn than all scienoo, better to have than all gold, sweeter to frieuds than all outward Loveliness, and attained by the child easier than by the man. It is patience, the secret of all true happiness, the securer of lasting affection, and the strongest lever of success.A man being assured that the sun never rose in the west, paid it was very strange, as he had a cousin in Iowa who was always writing how pleasant it was in that district, lie concluded it must be all moonshine. t&~ An amusing scene in the Legislature of Pennsylvania uecurrcd on a motion to remove the capiti 1 of the State from Harrisburg to Philadelphia. A matter of fact, a member from the rural district, who had heard of the groat facilities with which brick houses are moved from one part of tho city to another, and who had not the least idea that anything but moving the State House was in contemplation, rose and said: I6T" Joseph was a bad boy. He had succeeded in blinding his mother for some time as to his imbibing propensities. One night Joseph came before tho old lady retired. He sat down and began conversing about the goodness of the crops and other matters. Ho got along very weil untilhc spied what he supposed to be a cigar on the mantle-piece, lie caught it up, and placing one end in his mouth, began very gravely to light it at the candle. He drew and pulled until he was getting red in the faco. The old lady's eyes were open and she addressed him: "Iftheo takes that tenpenny nail for a oigar, it is timo thee went to bed." There-is a house in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in which fiftoen childdrcn—eleven girls and four boys—were born of the sameparents; and. what- is- more singular, the eleven, gjrlfc were married in th«.«ame room. In order to amuse the- children on the Sabbith, a lady ui Brooklyn was engaged in reading to them from the Bible the story of David and Goliah, and coming to that passage in which Goliah, so boastingly and defiantly dared the young stripling, a little chap almost in his first twwscre, said " bister, skip that—skip that—he's only blowing I I want to know who licked I" The Charleston Mercury sayR that the-shoe strike in the North is not owin" to a falling off in the- Southern trade" which is as activc as ever-, but to the irrepressible conflict between labor and capital' "Mr. Speaker, I linvo no objection to the motion, but I dont't see how on airth you are going to get it over the river." 46r People of small intellect are very dangerous enemies, because thoy are likely to have a few extraneous (houghts to divert them-from their immediate object of malice; bocause they are shrewd noticers of personalities, aud personal weakness ; because there is nothing whioh a fool and a mean man may onjoy so much as to oatch a wise and honest one at a disadvantage.SOU A gentleman was invited by a lady to a leap year party in Norwich a fow days since, and when.she called for him he was "not Cjuito dressed," and she had tbe satisfaction of waiting in the parlor full two bours before he was ready! The joke was pleasantly taken as a good retort upon the usual tardiness of the fair sex. KS». Mahowmodaiw say that onC? IjftfKgf justice is worth aeventy years of prayer. One aet of charity is worth a oeutmy of cloqoence. Signs. If you spill ink, it is asignyou will go hungry if you don't eat your victuals. If you need a now coat, it ii not improbable that some tailor is about to suffer. If you laugh in your sleep, it is a sign that you can't do all your laughing when you are awake. If you cross your knife and fork, it signifies that they dont't lie parallel with each other. The youna»la#y who was suffering from the completely cured by a young man whispering a few words in it. Mrg. Beach, a wealthy widow of Bridgeport, lately privately married G. W. Franois, a black man. She gave as one reason for her conduct, communications from her husband in the spirit world. Francis once gained soiho notoriety as the supposed nephew of Boalouque. the Emperor of Hayti. , l@°" As a bou! in heaven my look back on earth, and smile at its past sorrows, so even here, it may rise to a sphere where it may look down on the storm that once threatened to overthrow it. . t C•»«»C» — An old sbaker, down east, accounts for his everlasting thirstiness, by the fact that he was Weaned on saH fish. —  The United States are first in gold, firet iu copper, first in lead, first in iron first in coal, first in cotton, amongst tho nations of the earth, and we may add, first in brass! ' I I W What is th truth and eggs T "1 will rise again," but reon Mf BrBiiett says lost New Hampshire, try to carry it I that the i,