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Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

4 Sug9estioa.-A Grahamite suggests
the following for the million in these hard
times. He says it can, at the option Of the
consumer, be taken as bread or ar pud-
ding. Cut up four laths in peck of
saw dust When well mixed, bake it by
placing napkin containing it in the sun
for half an hour. Serve up with sauce
made by soaking cedar shingle in pail
Of water"
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

Ry@In Lynchburg, Va, there is lad
proyerbial for being bad spellcr. The
school that he attends has among its many
rules and-regulations one that requires the
scholars to spell column in the dictionary
and give the meanings" just as the
school opens. Well, this lad was foo"
of his class. The next day the first word
was admittance. This lad had been walk
ing around sight seeing, when his eyes fell
upon a cirens bill, which, among other in
ducements to draw a crowd, had q Admit
tance twenty-five cents; niggers and chill
dren halfpricc.D Our young friend spelt
the word and learned it by heart
Next day, strange to say, the head boy
missed, and the next, and so on, until it
came to our particular friend, ,gho was in
the meantime all excitement with the hope
ofhis getting head,' being sanguine that
he was right. Here's the result:
Teacher-Boy at the foot, spell admit
tance.
Boy-Ad-mit-tance, Admittance.
Teacher-Give the definition
ROy-Twenty-fve cents; niggers and
children half price.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

Or Ne,e Bpoying Ground-First Old
Woman" What does the minister say to
our new burying ground y
Second Old Woman" He don't like it
at all he says he never will be buried
there as long as he lives
First Old Woman Well, if the Lord
spares me, [ will. !"
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

a.Major N, upon being asked wheth-
er he was not seriously injured when the
ST. Leonard steamers boiler exploded, re-
piled that he was so used to being blown
up by his wife that mere steamer had no
effect upon him.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13
From the Brooklyn Evening Star.
THE BLOODY DAGGER
OR, THE
CRIMSON WARRIORS sANGUTNARY
REVENGE.
A TALE OF TOAD HILL.
BY BRAINLEss BOB, JR.,
Author of the Phantom Tooth Pick
CHAPTER /.

CHAPTER /.
Go IN lemons.'--Tom IIyer.
Ha ha :, shrieked the Crimson Warri-
or Of Hoboken, as with rapid steps he pac-
ed the hall where hung the shilling ambro-
types OF his ancestors. TO night I'll be
reyenged upon the naughty Lady Adarina
Seraphina 'EuMurdeone, and that base
sucker Don Edmund D'Quackenbust Oh,
revenge. thou art sweeter than the nectar
ct the Gods, or Stewards syrup, which in
my days OF youthful innocence poured
III lavish streams upon the smoking buck
wheat cakes
With a demoniac smile he drew from
his pocket a large-handkerchief, and
carefully wiped his luminous nese
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

One Of The Comparisons An itincrant
minister was one day preaching to g pack
of hardened Sinners when he made use
of the following original and rather strik-
ing simile:
My hearers" said he, g can compare
you to nothing but pack of knotty hick-
ory nuts; the gospel is the.wedge, and
throwing himself in the attitude of a back
woodsman by the grace of God Pm the
beetle to d-y-t-p-e i iato .yotw y
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Revenge p-weDster's Dictionary.
CHAPTER III.

Edmund D'Quackenbust thy hour has
GOMEZ said the Crimson Warrior. ! am
the avcnger of Don Greeny, whom you've
wronged. Prepare for kingdom come
I'll call the police gasped D'Quacken-
bust
eFool, there is nospolice, between the
Mayor and the new Commissioners the po-
lice are what they never were before, an
honest (aon ESD body
With a single stroke of his huge dagger,
he cut Don Edmund in two pieces
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

ny~Henry B. Hirst, of Philadelphia,
has written a piece of poetry on Mr.. Bu-
chanan, in which he inyokes him, in set
Ting the Kansas and other difficulties, to
Arm! go forth naked to the fight!
Don't do it, Old Buck don't violate all
the laws of civilized warfare. XIII the en-
emy legitimately if you can, but don't scare
them to death.-PeRttce
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13
oAApTER ".

The Crimson Warrier having annihilated
Don Edmund, turned his attention to Ad-
arina and after some effort, restored her to
consciousness.
You are not Don Edmund-he had not
such a nose!' she calculated hysterieally.
No, lady, | am not. Behold your Ed
mund
She gazed upon the lifoless body for a
moment, and in voice of intense emotion,
she asked
Who are you that thus spills blood z
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13
New Series--- Vol. II, No. 40.

a Clergyman Suspended On Wednes-
day morning, the Both ult., the Presbytery
Of Allegheny, of the Cumberland PresbY-
terian Church, met in Westminster Col
iege, Allegheny city, Pa, pursuant to adj
Joarnlments on July 18th, to perform the
painful duty OF trying cne of their brethren
on two separate charges of " improper con-
tduct," which were entertained against him
at the preceding meeting % the Preshyte-
ry, and were as follows
|. That he acted improperly in entering
Miss Henderson S stateroom at such an un-
seasonabIe hour
2. That he acted improperly in having the
names /" Rev Simpson and lady entered
on the register Of the steamer Arctic
The Presbytery, in trying the case, used
the utmost care and caution, and every OPP
portunity was afforded Mr. Simpson to es-
tablish his innocence. But he could make
no defence against the charges preferred,
and admitted to having been in the same
berth with Miss Henderson, on board the
Iowa
Miss Henderson testified that Afir Silnp-
son was lying in her berth, but it was at
her urgent request, as she was afraid to
stay in the room alone. However Miss
Henderson denied that her g guardian" ev-
er made any improper advances.
The sessienof the Presbytery was lengthy
and tiresome, being prolonged until four
o'clock on Thursday morning, when by
unanimous eotc Rev. J. L. Simpson was
indefinitely suspended from the Gospel
ministry Of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, having been found guilty and in
dicted. The entire investigation was con-
Quoted with closed doors.
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

nFeA gentleman having lately been cal-
led on to subscribe to a course Of lectures,
declined because, said he, my wife
gives me lecture every night for moth
ing
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13
le West Branch Insurance Co.
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ESURES Detached Buildings, Stores. Mer-
|chandise, Farm Property, and other Build
&, and their contents, at moderate rates.
DIRECTORS.
IN. John ]. Pesrce, Hon. G. c. Harvey,
hn B. Hall, 7. T. Abrams,
krles A. Mayer, D. X. Jackman,
hrles Crist, w White,
Her Dickinson, Thos. Kitchen.
Hon. G. C. HARVEY, Pres.
t. T. ABRAMS, Vice Pres.
HEOs Kitcher, Sec'y.
REFERENCES.
knuel H. Lloyd, Jhos. Bowman, d. ID.
IA. Winegardner, Wm, VANDERBILT.
Ia. Mackcy, VIM. Fesron,
White, DIR. ]. S. Crawford,
hes Quiggle, A. updegraf,
hn w. Maynard, James Armstrong,
In. Simon Cameron, Hon. Vim Bigler.
I5-Agent for Mifiiin county, G. w. STEW
RT, Esq. ap23
Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1857-08-13

for cash only. All kinds Of goods in their line
made to order of the best material and warran-
ted.
Also, large assortment of Homemade
Work now on hand, which will be sold OF the
lowest prices. The attention of the public is
invited to the above, as the eastern work Will
be offered at such prices as to defy competition.
All persons indebted TO US will please call
and make payment Immediately, or the next
notice to many will be sent through the hands
of the constable.
jel8 JOHNSON & CLARKE.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07

A GRAssHoppER SHowER.-By letter from
Kansas we are informed that on the 14th OF
August last, at o'clock P. NJ, cloud of sim
gular yellowish appearance arose in the north,
near the village of Manhattan, and soon the
storm burst upon the inhabitants. 1t was nei-
Their rain, hail or snow, but grasshoppers, and
in about ten minutes the ground was covered
with them. They came in droyes and struck
the houses like large hail stones. Soon the
ground was strewn with corn leaves and ears,
some of which, two inches through, were eaten
off half their length, some with the husks and
corr trimmed as with knife, leaving the bare
cob standing, Two and half acres of buck
whear, three acres of turnips, watermelons, and
all vines on which they fed, were eaten up, ex-
cept those on the south side of piece of nillet.
In fact, they cleared out every crop except SUI
gar cane. There was field of sugar cane with
corn on both sides of it; the corn was taken and
the cane left. The grasshoppers remained at
Manhattan 48 hours, and seemed to be travelling
south, stopping there to feed When they. lett
they passed over Ogden high in the air and did
not descend. The cloud seemed to be about ten
miles vide Unadilla Times. 49, ..Ia
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07
From INDIA.-The following is telcgraphic
despatch to the Cork Qreland) Constitution Of

From INDIA.-The following is a telcgraphic
despatch to the Cork Qreland) Constitution Of
the 18th ut. eS.2
Gen. Havelock's force for the re-occupation Of
Cawnpore had in eight days marched 1875 miles
and fought four actions with Nena Sahib's army,
against overwhelming odds in point of numbers
and had taken twenty-fou guns of light calibre,
and that too in the month of July in India. On
the morning of the 18th July the force marched
into Cawnpore. The soul narrowing spectacle
which there presented itself to them beggars de-
scrption. A wholesale massacre had been per.
petrated by the fiend Nena Sahib. Eight off.
GERS and ninety men of Her Majesty's 84th Regi.
ment, seventy ladies and 121 children of Hel
Majesty 32nd foot, and the whole European and
Christian population Of the place including civil.
FANS, merchants, pensioners, and their families
to the number Of 400 persons, were the victims
of this Satan. a-..esl.t
The court yard in front Of the Assembly
Rooms in which Nena Sahib had fixed his head
quarters, and in which the women had been i'm
prsoned, was swimming in blood. A large mum.
Der of women and children who had been cruel.
ly spared after the capitulation for worse fate
than instant death, had been barbarously slaugli'
tered on the previous morning. The former hav.
ing been stripped naked and then beheaded and
thrown down into well, and the latter. having
been hurled down alive upon their butchered
mothers, whose blood reeked on their mangled
bodies. Only four escaped, the wife of mer.
chant and three others. i9. q
General Havelock, in despatch to the Gov.
ernor- General, says that "Nena Sahib has drown,
ed himself with lis family. Hehad an intention
of going to Lucknow, but when he got as far as
the river the cavalry and infantry deserted him
They are all gone off, after destroying their arms
to their different homes. Cawnpore is now as
quiet as Allahabad." ..gr s.ff
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07
SUSPENSIONS.

The suspension of specie payment by the Banks
in various sections of the country, has led TO va
rious other suspensions of different nature, and
is now regarded by people generally as very
convenient sort of thing. At first it was look
ed upon by many as the certain precursor OF
terrible disasters to all classes of the community,
and an awful state of suspense took possession OF
those who happened to owe five dollars to the
grocer or the tailor. They awaited with slls-
pended breath the arrival of the mails, and
manifested no little impotence if the telegraph
suspended operations for a few moments OF time
The first impulse was to shove off the bank notes
as rapidly as possible by the payment OF little
debts, and other shifts by which few gold dol
lars might be obtained in the way OF change
But the panic soon subsidized, and change came
DER the spirit of their dreams. They began to
perceive that suspension of specie payment by
the Banks did not seriously interrupt the usual
course of things they began to see that the note
holders were in no sort of danger, the Banks be-
ing abundantly able to meet all their liabilities,
and with the perception of these facts came the
disposition to suspend themselves, not mere
" specie payments, but all kinds OF payments
SUSPENSION was acknowledged to be the very
thing for those whose creditors were little
pressing in their demands, and the easiest pos
sible mode of settling all financial difficulties
Suspension at once became fashionable, ana
when called upon on Monday morning to settle
the little matter of money borrowed on Satur-
day evening, the creditor was informed by the
debtor in the politest manner imaginable, that
he had suspended about fifteen minutes before
his arrival, and could not tell until further ad-
vices from Wall Street when it would be posi-
BILE for him to resume. This information was
accompanied by shrewd hint that II forced IN
to liquidation in the present condition OF mon
etary affairs, the creditor might find himself
loser by the operation. In consequence OF this
general suspension, the debtor portion, winch is
always the largest portion of every community
are enjoying q season of unwonted mental CON-
posure. and look forward to the time when pay
ments are to be resumed as hard time coming
Suspension is good joke and nothing more
unless it be to the brokers. Its advantages are
so apparent that we have been seriously medl-
tating a suspension of publication for ie"
weeks to come, just to be moving in the fashion,
able current. At any rate, we may be pardoned
for suspending our editorial labors for this week.
in view of the fact that there is positively moth
ing in the papers to suggest remark but suspen-
sions. Therefore we suspend. a eat
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07

REDUCED PRIoEs.-The produce markets are
feeling the money pressure, and lower prices for
four wheat, corn, and cotton satisfy the hold
ers. Our debts have got to be paid off, and in
this process prices viii have to go still lower,
and become settled, and food be so cheap that
we can afford to go to work before business will
flourish again. As all prices are settling at the
same time, the relative values of exchangable
products will not be much altered by this re-
duction, so that farmers will really get as much
of exchangable value for their products as they
did under high prices. They may get but one
dollar for their wheat but if that dollar purchas-
es as great supply of groceries or domestic
goods as two dollars did during. the expansion
they do not loose by the reduction. When one
dollar does the work that two previously affected
it is evident that it will not require SO much cap
ital to set industry in motion or give labor an
opportunity to help itself by its own physical
energies-Phil. Leger.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07

THE VIRGINIA BANKs.--The following Banks
in this State have suspended specie payments
The Bank of the Valley at Winchester and all
its branches at Staunton, Charlestown, Chris
tiansburg &c.; the independent Bank of Win
chester and the branch of the Farmers Bank at
the same place; the Central Bank of Virginia,
at Staunton the Monticello Bank, at Charlottes-
vile; the Bank of Rockbridge, at Lexington ;
the Bank OF Rockingham, at Harrisonburg; the
Banks at Alexandria, Fredericksburg, Lynch
burg, Wheeling and other places.
The Banks at Richmond and Norfolk, with
most of their branches, including those at Pc
tersburg, have stood out against the pressure.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07
safety of independents Bank Notes.

The Fredericksburg Herald has an article
which shows conclusively that the holders OF
notes of Independent Banks can in no contln-
pency suffer loss. These Banks issue 500 Of
currency for every 800 of State Stock they
own, and circulate So in notes for every 81 Of
specie in their vaults. Should the Banks oe
forced into liquidation their State Stocks could
hardly ever bring less than $50 share, and
thus the note-holder is certain of onehaf OF 1.-THE
promises to pay" in his hands. The profits each
Bank has made, and which have been set aside
as sort of contingent fund, can scarcely be less
than ten cents on each dollar of notes Issued
This increases the fund for liquidation to 90 cents
on every dollar. Now, each bank has securities
in the way of collateral or direct, for every dol
lar they have discounted. If one-halt OF these
securities should fail, "a most improbable pro-
portion,) even then fifty cents in every dollar
would be realized, and thus the note-holder be
fully secured. and an excess of ten per cent. re-
main over and above to cover all expenses.
But should even this resource fail, the note
holder has an additional security, in that the prs-
rate fortune of eps4y Stockholder is pledged To
the srtent of his subscription to the capital st0es
viz: IfMr. B. owns $500 worth of stock, then
Mr.. BIS private fortune is pledged to the re-
demption of $500 worth of the Notes. The pri-
waite stockholders mag lose, but note-holders are
as we'll secured as human sagacity can devise,
The National Intelligencer makes the follow
ing,remarks upon the general subject of bank
ing:
The principle on which banking business is
transacted ali over the world does not presume
the ability of banks to meet all their liabilities
if pressed upon them at the same moment. Nor
is this principle confined to banks alone, but ex-
tends to every merchant and trader for no man
in trade, however solvent and sound his affairs,
can meet all his outstanding engagements at
twenty-four hours notice. Yet there is great
difference between traders and banks. The en-
eaeements of the former fall due at fixed future
periods, and payment cannot be demanded IN
iii maturity !; but with banks all their indebted
ness is payable on demand, and when a panic
occurs it is all pressed upon them at once, with,
ont allowing an hour for them to call in such Of
their resources as, in the course of legitimate
business, they may have invested.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07
MERonAND1zE.
s1,oso,76s,789
Excess of imports
in four years, $1S4, oOS,7
t.. sppcrE
$26,927,427
$219,864,9s4
26,927,427

Excess Of exports in four years, $1s6,4S6,957
Thus it appears that during the last four
years we imported one hundred and eighty-foui
millions more of merchandise than were export.
ed, and sent out of the country, one hundred and
eighty six millions more OF specie than came in.
to it, Here, then, are two periods under the
two systems distinctly marked by opposite char.
acteristics, the Wing or protective policy being
distinguished by an excess of exports in the ex-
change of merchandise, and an excess of specie
in the imports, and the Democratic or free trade
policy, being distinguished by an enormous ex.
cess of imports in the exchange of merchandise
and q still more enormous excess in the export
of specie. And yet in the face of these inexo.
rable and unanswerable facts, our people are
urged to support o system which is daily and
hourly drawing off the substantial basis of the
country's currency, Frustrating its whole
industry. ,-
We have over and over again shown the ten
denotes of the two systems, and demonstrated
what must be the effect upon the laboring
classes if a time of pressure came. 1t has now
come, and when, being thrown out of employ
ment, their wives and children ask for bread
Democratic demagogues who imposed those
burdens upon them, and who preferred degrad-
ded British labor to free American labor, will
tell them to beg. This is the sort of comfort
which the deluded masses get in their hour OF
tribulaton for shouting Democracy" and for
being the hewers of wood and drawers of water
for selfish leaders and packed conventions. We
regret their experience has been purchased at so
dear cost, for it has long been our effort to pre-
vent such calamity.
Ifthe principle of the tariff of 1912 had been
preserved, reducing you please its rates of
duties, all the domestic manufactures would now
be thriving. There would be no foreign debt
of three or four hundred millions, and no finan-
cia crisis to palsy the arm of trade, and to
strike down the wages of labor. The Demo
cratic party is responsible for all these troubles
by the attempt to force false system upon the
country, at war with all the instruction ofexpe-
rienoe, and by repeated changes in the system
after it was imposed. We have had neither sta
bility or wisdom in legislation while England,
pursuing steady course, preaching free trade,
but practising rigid protection, has made US
tributary to her pauper labor and is now our
largest creditor, after having withdrawn in five
wears more specie, by five tune over, than is this
dav in all the banks of the United States.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07

GENERAL WALKER REDIvIvUs.-f thousand
tongued rumor has pretence Of reliability, Gen.
eral Walker contenplates another raid on Gen.
trail America. The omens are portentous OF
such a conclusion. The only fact that seems to
throw doubt upon these rose-colored prospects
is the statement that General Walker goes back
not as the military commander Of this second
expedition, but only as its civil head-that he is
merely to issue the proclamations assuring his
devoted subjects of Nicaragua that lie has again
come to their relief and promulgate the DEGREES
allowing them to patriotically devote their prop.
erty to the support of himself and his self-sac.
rifcing compatriots, under penalty OF having il
taken without their sent,-whilst the mill
tary defense of his pretensons is to be left to 9TH
err and more capable hands. This is rather an
overdraft on credulity. |
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07

THE OCTOBER ELEoT1oNs.-Eection for State
officers only will place on the second Tuesday in
October in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iowa.
In Pennsylvania member of Congress to be
elected in the Luzerne district, to fill vacan-
cy. s}.ai4l q, 80
Elections will also be held next month in
Georgia and Mississippi for State officers and
members of Congress. ..ep tx. as..l.l
An election will be held next month in Min
nesota for State officers, three members of Con-
gress, and one delegate to Congress.
The election in Kansas for Territorial officers
took place on Monday last. o,.y
The Congressional elections close in Noyem-
Der with Maryland and Louisiana. 4a
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1857-10-07
Pastoral Call.

The Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, D. D., Pastor Of
the Presbyterian Church of Stanton, announced
on Sunday last to his congregation, his de-
termination to accept a call recently received
from a Church in Augusta, Georgia. This de-
cis;on Of DIR. Wilson is deeply regretted by his
peoplej and by this entire community, in whose
midst he has lived peacefully and labored &C
oontablv and successfully for several years.