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A PIONEER GOING WEST

The following picture of family travelling to
! the "new countries we find in the Evansville
Journal:
| Near the saw-mill, on the banks of the river in
the lower part of the city, moored to the shore,
| on Sunday evening last wretched raft about ten
by twenty feet in area, constructed of per"1l OF
old plank, the sur face of which not than
two inches above the surface of the water. On this
frail structure the occupants had raised ridge pole
about live feet high, and placing against it small
pieces of board, apparently picked up from the
drift in the river, had formed a roof with kind of
dog kennel beneath of about six by ten feet on the
floor of the raft. Into this howell on little straw
and heap of old rags, were crowded, in most
foriorn and wretched condition, a man, woman
and four children, at the breast and the eldest
perhaps, ten years old. The only household goods
were an iron skillet pot, and two old barrels; not
seat table, or a dish was visible.
on the bow OF the raft, on a piece of old boiler
iron, raised few inches above the plank, was
blazing fire of drift wood, which fortunately, is
abundant and without price. Around this, that
wretched group were huddled, presenting a scene
of squad poverty and destitution seldom seen in
this country, and sufficient to move the compassion
OF the most selfish and penuriOus They have navi-
gated the Ohio, on their frail structure, from the
mouth of the Kanawha to this point, in a voyage
of about six weeks during which there has been an
uninterrupted succession of cold and cherries
storms. Every washed over the wretched
raft, and rain must have penetrated every part of
the miserable roof They have passed towns and
cties-the abode of luxury and professed Christian
beneyolence-and no aid has been rendered them
but few crumbs from tables that were covered
with abundance, which have kept them from
starving.
In spite of all this wretchedness and suffering, the
woman well and robust, and the children were
hearty and cheerful, and as full of sport as in the
midst of plenty and comfort. The father was a
cripple, and told a short and simple story of mis-
fortune. He teamster at a saw-mill in the
upper part of Kentucky and had his leg crushed
by log rolling on it Unskilful surgery had left
an incurable sore His sickness had reduced them
fn tttrtiG fhnf-
made complete by fire that consumed their dwell
ing and all its contents. Without cent in the
world, he had gathered few refuse plank from the
river and constructed his raft, and it placed his
family for voyage down to Arkansas, where he
intended to squat onpublic land raise a small corn
patch, and rely on his gun for the other means of
living.
The hearts and purses of few generous persons
who visited them supplied their immediate wants.
Clothing for the woman and children we saw going
on board, with good supply of bread and meat.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL MARKETS, Saturday, Jan. s-9REAp-
Corn trade generally steady the advance lately quoted
In this market Flour is unaered but being
OF condition very difficult sell. Western is quoted
lss (d]2Os. Philadelphia and Baltimore 2Os 2ls. Ohio
2s d23s Wheat firm and holders ask an advance of Id
2d but only obtain it the qualities other kinds
being unchanged. Western red As Cd 6s 3D. white 6s
(d6s 3D. Southern, 6s 9d.d7s. Cd. Corn in retail de
mand at previous rates Mixed 2Ssd29s yellow 29s IA
sos; white 33s. .d33s Cd. The stock of all kinds of
Breadstus on hand on the 1s of January largely in
excess OF same time last year.
PRovIs1oNs.-Beef without improvement and still ia
yoring buyers Sales of Craigins at 9Os, and AL
Irish slight advance asked Bacon, inquiry for
American New Long Mddles have been sold at dos
Cheese held firmly. Lard in limited demand but firm
SIS Cd (G56s Taow in better request and Cd dearer
Butchers Association, 52s Sd.
PRoDUCE.-Ashes quiet but firm at 2Ss. Cd d29s for
Pots and 32s. for Pearl Sugar steady notwithstanding
large arrivals Coffee quiet but firm for suitable quail
ties. Rice heavy. Sales of Cod Oil f31 15s and of
Sperm at fs4 for fair and f92 for fine. Seal quiet
firm at further advance for Sales of the week
900 barrels the spot and arrive at 4s lid 5s 3D.
medium sells at S. Ges and fine at l5s. Sd. Spirits Tur
pentne hrm at 3Ss. Cd .S9s American Lin eed Cakes
80 per ton for thin oblong. Quercitron Bark dull.
LONDON MARKETS.-Messrs Barring Co. report
Wheat in small supply, and English Is 2s dearer
42s Flour, 20s. .a924s Iron quiet at Sc los for rails
and f6 5s for bars Scotch Pig quiet at 53s Cd 54s 3D.
sugar opened quietly after the holidays and continued
without animation. Tea firm, and Nd dearer for black
leaf Congous.
Common Congous steady at 1d@114d. Coffee firm
Copper firm with an advancing tendency. Tn-Foregn
advancing Banca selling at 1905 and Straits at 1888
English unchanged, but sellers Spirits Turpentine
firm at 39s. Cd Linseed Cakes barely supported New
Oils steady. Linseed steady 3Os Cd Rice without
material change Tallow rmer and selling SIS the
spot and up to March.
HAVRE MARKET. T.-Breadstuhs dull, but without ma
terial change Ashes quiet and nominal Coffee un-
changed Oils quiet sales of Cod at f47 SOFAS Rice
nothing doing; Carolina, f259f27 Sugar is firm but
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ward tendency We heard this morning of a sale of 200
bbs City Whskey at "a cts, and subsequently had
reported sale of 100 bbls Penns ylvania do 81
Ohio Whiskey offered quite freely this morning %
cts. without finding buyers
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The ship Emerald, from London Dec. 6, arrived
at New York on Saturday Captain Cook reports
From Dec. l6 to 3d. we had a most severe hurri-
cane from W. s. W., which exceeded anything ever
above $3.50 at any time, and the principal part
stood at 2S to 2610 the ship drtted from lon. % to
20. Dec. 81 at 10 P. NJ. shipped sea, which filled
the decks and washed overheard the chief mate,
Mr.. Henry Grayton, of New York, and David King,
seaman, of Providence, r. l., both of whom were
lost; it also disabled the entire starboard watch
Except two) by washing them about the decks
fracturing and brusing their limbs in such a man
as to render them unfit for service the remain
der of the passage. Tom Eyre thrown over
the wheel and his leg was broken. He caught
in the chains which tore large piece of flesh out
of his thigh.
According to a recent enumeI alton the popula-
tion of the city proper of Vienna-the portion
comprised within the walls-s 553, 900, being an in
crease since 1856 of 10000. By including the i'm
mediate suburbs the number amounts to 653, 900,
which is still further augmented by counting the
military-20, 900 men-and the inhabitants beyond
the line of the city; making the total population
of Vienna 723, 900.
On Thursday morning Mr.. A. L. Trippe, en-
ployed in rectifying establishment in Chicago
was awakened by the growing and barking of his
dog, and upon rousing up, noticed fire issuing from
around the stove pipe through the ceiling. The
fire extinguished before much damage was
done.
| Mr.. j. S. Byington informed the editors of the
Montgomery (Alabama) Mail, that he made two
very remarkable cotton purchases very lately
One was the cotton crop for the negroes of Dr.
Lucas, for which he paid 81 800 in cash, every dol
lar of which goes to the negroes.
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From the Ne'o York Papers Of yesterday.l
Trial of the FiIibusters
MOBILE, Jan. 22.-Captan Maury and others
have been tried before the United States Commits
sioner for obstructing the United States officers in
the discharge of their duties on board the schooner
Susan and for violating the neutrality laws
The Commissioner has held them to bail in the sum
of S2,500 for their appearance at court in Febru-
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BURNING OF THE SHIP MERoo:- o:-Advices from Per
nambuco, December IA, give the following circum-
stances attending the loss of the ship Meroo by re
She left the Sand-heads, on the 2lst of August
last, with full cargo of seeds and ute touched at
st. Helena on the 10th of November, and up to the
2sth of the same month experienced fine weather.
On that day at noon fire was discovered in the
main hold, which was supposed to have been caused
by spontaneous combustion, and notwithstanding
that every exertion was made to extinguish it by
the captain, officers and crew, it became appa-
rent that the fire had spread rapidly to defy
human control, and that the ship must be aban-
doned; and while in the act of clearing away the
boats and getting them ready, the American ship
Grey Feather, of New York, for San Francisco,
with passengers, bore down and took the whole
crew off the burning wreck on the evening of the
same day, and finally landed them at this port on
Decemher g. all we'll.
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Notwithstanding the large yield of the vintage
of France for the last year, it is stated that the
demand has been large that prices are on the
rise. The demand has been checked by scarcity
and high prices for some years past, and now the
abundant supply has brought immense orders for
the product of the last vintage.
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SAILING OF OCEAN STEAMERS.

Fulton. southampton. New ork FEB.
The Overland Mail for California leaves St. Louis every
Monday and Thursday at A. NJ Letters designed for il
shonld be marked "0verand, via st. Louis.n
The Havana steamers leave New York the ID h 18th
4th 10Th The New York steamers of the I'd and 18th
the only under strict contract with Government to sail
On their appointed days
INDIA, &cThe Overland Mail to India closes in Lon
don follows Via Marselss the 3D. 9h 17h and 18th
Of each month; via Southampton 4h, 18th and GOTH For
China via Marseles 9th and 25th via Southampton 4th
and 2Oh For Australia via Marseiles and Suez the
10th via southampton and Suex 18th When the date Of
making up the Indian and Australian mails at London falls
on Sunday they are made up on tn evening previous
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.$506, II
646,l92. 40


The earnings of the Little Mama Railroad Company, and
Cincinnati Hamilton and Day for the month of Decem
Der last show very satisfactory increase those of the
corresponding month of 1857:
Earnings of the Little MAMA r. Co Dec 1857 S059 62
si,3iUeU
Cincinnati Hamilton and Day for Dec. 29
December 1858 Il $50 SS
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TANTA ToPEE.-0ne of the most dangerous lead
of the revolted Sepoys, in India, is Tanta To-
pee. He has not yet been captured, or his forces
dispersed; and the Bombay correspondent of the
London Daily Ne,cs thus speaks of him:
1t cannot, however, be denied that he is leader
of no mean ability; and anything short of his death
or capture will render all the battles, marches and
countermarches, of the last four months, perfectly
valueless. Tanta Topee is Mahrattan, and sol
dier by profession. He is of mean origin. He can
neither read nor write, but he possesses courage,
and his followers have confidence in him. Contain
robust and vigorous frame, he infuses zeal and
strength into others more by his physical than
moral example, He is perfectly acquainted with
system of warfare, and prefers fatiguing us by
long and rapid marches to encountering us in bat
tie. He knows that his men and his matchocks
are incapable of standing before our soldiers and
their Endted rifles; and he consequently trusts the
destruction of our troops to exposure to the by
day, and the noxious exhalations of the Jungle by
night.
Tantia Topee is in the vigor of manhood, being
about forty years of age. He is rather above. the
middle height, and is in person vigorous and ro-
bust His countenance is good, and his bearing
bold and martial. His eyes piercing, fierce and
restless; the eyebrows black and oval shaped the
forehead high and expansive; the nose aquine; the
mouth small, and the lips compressed covering
while in repose, the teeth, which are, as is usual
among natives, of ivory whiteness. His whiskers
black, and his complexion olive. He dresses
very plainly, seeking comfort rather than ostenta
ton, and wears generally the loose white robes of
the Hindoo, with a cashmire shawl thrown over his
shoulders. His usual guard is composed of twenty
or thirty men; but he dispenses with this pomp on
the field of battle. He is frequently seen on horse
back, and only resorts to paanquin when wound
ed or over-tatgued. He styles himself the Viceroy
of the Peishwa Mana Sahib
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-25

The third supplement to Klugfeps Guide gives
interesting statistics of the book trade in Germany.
Northern Germany contrasts strikingly with South
ern Germany, both in the production and con-
sumption of books In Northern Germany, Saxony
and Prussia l. e. Leipsic and Berlin, the great
centres both of publication and sale. In Southern
Germany, Austria, though the smallest producer,
is the largest consumer. In the last few wears
quite new market has been opened up to the trade
in Austria. The editor of the Guide explains this
by saying that the interest for literature there
fresh and young and, there being no stock on hand
in the Vienna shops, all has to be ordered at once
from Leipsic. Bavaria, on the other hand, is the
worst market of the Southern States.
The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-01-25

CoUET OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND.-DEc. TERM,
ls5s.-ANNAPoLIs, Jan. "a, ls59.-No. %. Special
Docket. VIM. G. Ford Us. The State of Maryland,
City. LIE Grand, Chief Justice, delivered the opin
ion of this Court Judgment reversed and proceden,
do awarded.
No. 27. Regular Docket. Jervis Spencer Us.
The President Directors and Company of the Bank
of Baltimore. Appeal from the Court of Common
Pleas of Baltimore City, was argued by Alexander
for the appellant and by Meredith for the appellee.
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Stlunetarp ana Commercial 8ebiem.
BALTIMORE. January d 1855.

The transactions Stocks day quite light the
entire value the transactions reported being only about
$4,000 Wehaye material change to note in the rates
for any of the stocks the list The leading fancy Bal
and Ohio Railroadl steady Saturday rates.
but Northern Central do advanced y. There moth
ing done in Northern Central Railway at the Board, but
sale made after the close of 100 shares at $204 buy
GO days OF Baltimore and Ohio there $50 shares
sold at the Board S6X seller CO. and 25 shares at s56&
buyer go days and it OF s56a bid, $685. asked reg
ular way Northern Central Railway closed at S204 bid
SoH asked regular The only sales ooans reported
of $500 Maryland 6s 1870 at 1O4k and Of
$500 Northern Central Railway 1885 bonds 7o4 ad
vance of Most Railroad bonds and all State and City
SIS quite firm. The only sale of Bank stock made
of shares Bank of Commerce at S24A.
The New York stock market today rather irregular
Virginia es advanced X Illinois Central bonds X Can.
ton Company S Rock Island Railroad n Cleveland and
Toledo Y; La Crosse and Milwaukee y; Harlem 4; but
New York Central declined X; Reading Y; Michigan
Southern \; and Gaena and Chicago 4 Missouri 6s
sold at s6H, and Erie Railroad at sl4A Saturday.
rates.
9f Foreign Dry Goods at New York for the week and
FSs:ss & .ss s5 sss
Ess$%d EFPs5;s$ 5s 4 as Ee;! ssss ss5 s ss
sgn Dry Goods and General Mechandse for sSs the Week. and
since January
EOr the lUeek.
General Merchandise. I,O2i5OI 77I13J 2.32l
prs1isa!e TOTAL tes :ss ,; ] ss
Since January l0Ssll S50S56ii Sll ,S4T 90S
The earnings of the Ereailroad for the month Dece
ber 1858, 1892 292 II
Earnings December 1857 S5T.................. 65s "a
Decrease OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. SS536557
The following is statement of the earnings of the New
York Central Railroad for the month of December 1855
q he
previous year
1sjS.. .S506,+06.ii
rna
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-06-17
THE DISAPPOINTED PIXIES PEAK
ARMY,

Hundreds of weary, weather-beaten sufferers
from the plains, arrive at Leavenworth daily,
and throng every steamer for St. Louis, anxious
to escape from the scene of so much destitution,
suffering and poverty. The coaches of the
Leavenworth City and Pixies Peak Express
Company present cherries array Of empty
seats, and the wheels ofbusiness, which, at the
numerous Quitting points on the river, were
running around so prosperousy month ago,
have we'll nigh come to dead lock.
1t has been estimated that no less than 900
returning emigrantS, principally from New
York, Illinois and Indiana, have taken passage
down the river the past fortnight. Not more
than one-halt of them ever passed the halfway
house TO the mines nor is this fact to be
wondered at. Fevers, especially gold fevers,
are very easily started, and not unfrequently
just as easily stayed. Ten returning disappoin-
ted gold-seekers will do more TO allay the
mania at home and cause a panic among the
lew faithful ones that remain behind than five
hundred intending emigrants could counleract.
Cor. 81. Louis Democrat.
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SQUIBS FROM PRENTICE.

The ftlqntic Monthly says that "woman is
link between earth and heaven" So is a
sausage tossed into the air.
Mrs. Swisshelm in her letters to Young ladies'
says that ''eVery country girl knows how to
color red with madder.' This we believe to
be an chronological sact, as we have always no.
ticed that with all gIrls the madder they get
the redder they are.
A great deal is written at present about the
seat of war. Byron IN one of the stanzas of his
Childe Harold, personifes War and describes
his hair, his eyes, his hands, and his feet, but
says nothing about the seat of War.
pushing politician in Maine boasts of ha-
wing been the drawer of the liquor bill in that
State. Is he sure that he isn't The drawer OF a
good deal of the liquor itself?
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room but war no sooner down an war up,
for it 'peerd the stone war all ice it war So cold
one look at the gals stanin' round la fin one
look out the winder, whar seed the seat oy
my trowsers hangin' onto the fence, and 1
6olted from the house worse nor CREASED streak
of lightnin' an the last | ever heerd' oy eny
OF them people war old red-head squeelin,'
'Don'tset down under no chestnut-tree.o In
bout ten minits, I war in the woods, an hyar
I'VE been ever sense, a wearn' leather. an ev-
erlas;n' cured ov lovin' wimmin''
Yours truly,
IFPPy
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-06-17
VOL. 2, NO. 46.
VALUABLE INFORMATION.

Posts made from the limbs and upper parts
OF the tree always last the longest.
A bushel of guano weighs 10 pounds. The
tact furnishes test of its purity.
Scotch snuff put in holes where crickets come
out, will destroy them.
A small daily ration ofraw meat will induce
cooped hens to lay.
Beware of drinking cold water while in
heated condition
Sow long orange carrots, two pounds Of seed
TO The acre; drilling them eighteen inches a.
part. Hoe and clean as soon as they show the
third leaf
Boiling water poured on peas sufficiently to
cover them for minute, kills the bugs in-
side.
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TERRIBLE CALAMITY IN TExAs.-The Dallas
(Texas) Herald of the Ith inst. says:
"a gentleman just from Fort Worth reports
a mos; painful calamity that occurred last Thurs
day evening, near night, on. the west fork of
the Trinity, about seven miles above Fort
Worth. A gentleman living very near West
Fork. on returning home during the heavy
rain that was falling, found his house was being
rapidly surrounded with the flood that was
rushing down the low lands bordering on the
stream. He had wife and seven children
took two OF them on his shoulders, and carried
them over the water to a shed on the premises,
placed them upon it, and started back for the
other children and his wife. He had not gone
far when cry from the shed drew his attention {;
he looked back, and discovered it floating off
with bis two children on it. He rushed after
it, and, after following it inearly half a mile,
succeeded in placing his children upon place
of safety. Night was rapidly coming on, and
he returned TO save his vile and children, but,
alas he found not even ves!ige of his home
no sign OF wife or child and, to add TO the
horrors of the scene, darkness was fast settling
down upon the rushing flood, whose appalling
roar deadened the cries of his family, even if
they then. lived. The unhappy father has
heard nothing from them yet, and every effort
made 10 find their bodies has proved unaral
ing.
"The rise OF the water is represented as
being unparalleled in the history of the country
for its SuddennesS and volume"
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WHAT Is A GOOD COW,

We think COW that comes up to the stand
ard OF that owned by Otis Hunt of Eaton VIII
iage, New York, will pass for good one. He
gives the following statement of the amount of
butter made from her:
"Amount made from April 7 to July s, 1911
pounds amount made during the month of
June, "a pounds amount made during the
year, 5l5 besides furnishing all the milk and
cream used in a family of four persons land oc-
casional visitors all the time''
The breed of this good cow is gwen as "na-
tive" and the quality of milk and out:er excel
lent.
0TThe following is too good to be lost
ofa schoolmas:er and pupil
"JoseDh, where is Africa %
"On the map, sir.
81 mean, Joseph, in what Continent-Eastern
or Western 90
"Well, the land of Africa is in the Eastern
Continent but the people, sir, are all OF 'em
South"
"What are tie products ?''
''Of Africa, sir, or down South %
"Africa, you blockhead"
"Well, sir, it hasn't got any f.; it never had
any,"
Chow do the African people live 2"
"By drawing"
"Drawing whitewater %
'No, sir, by drawing their BREATH"
''Sit down, JOSEPH"
"Thomas, what is the equator ~
"Why, sir, it is the horizontal pole running
perPendrcularly through the imaginations of
old astronomers and old geographers.
''Go to your seat, Thomas"
civilian, what % you mean by an eclipse a'
"An old race horse, sir.'
"Silence. Next, Jack, what is an eclipse 90
"An eclipse is thing as appears when the
moon gifts off on bust, and runs agin the sun,
consequently, the sun blackens the moons
face"
''ClasS is dismissed
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HORRIBLE.

The ST. Louis Democrat contains a letter
from correspondent at Cherry Greek which
gives horrible tale OF starvation on the Plains.
Three bra;hers, named Blue, from Whiteside
county, H., were overtaken by starvation and
one ofthem died. The remaining two, in their
desperation, were compelled TO satisfy their
brother.
a letter from a St. Joseph correspondent,
states that the inhabitants of that city are in
much fear of the depredations of the returning
Pixies Peakers, and that the Mayor has taken
some precautionary measures TO protect the
life and property of the citizens.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-06-17

% AT banquet OF officers IN Milan after
various toasts had been drunk N allusion to the
impending war, a jealous young Austrian
officer proposed the following s.To the Austrian
Army The French and Sandman battalons
shall break against it like this brittle glass :" So
saying, he tossed the glass, which he had just
emptied, into the air, that it might fall heavily
upon the table. 1t did so, but without breaking.
The young soldier stood aghast
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1859-06-17

NM Mr.. - and his wife were sitting, a
few days since, quite close to each other, in
their home the husband feeling somewhat
loverlke, although for years a married man,
put his arm around his wife and saluted her
affectionately. The wife pushed him away
saying "You should not do such things
when the door is open and people are passing.
They will think We are not married if they
see US kissing each other"