SUNBURY AMERICAN AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL
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"aHwrstpanisTffP'EfliiSins Clij''Ca'pniln J.1!).'
Wilson, 'arrived early ort thb ' hiornint of
vNov.'l lib, from Chrtgres, by the' Way of Kings-
Ion, JamaichJ ' '." ' !'Y i ' '
'Annexed is thearnount of dust ih "Hit! font
pi7cilyv-v'-'iii "",", -i
Amount of cclil dust on board Iho Lmpira
'Jity Mfr.StfrjlY IdiV'Trcigh-amJ ,a targe
"Wfnofinf'h lfd fianits hf tha passoiigirii.'' '
9a ''romhV'Afth'CaTifoniiVCteit. '"' :
, . TUB STATE COXVENTfON. .
' Tins bbdyj'iiplrj our 'lntcsi'dntesy had Veil
MrT session' H' littlo rtver 'iliree weeks. ' Most
'"bt the proviViohs' oHhe proposed constitution
'liaj bedti titled and passed njioii' in' commit
" tec of th6 whole, and thai, vc suppose, tnay
' be taken ns a fair index of what will bp the,
' action of ihn house.' ! ' J
'''"The bill of rights, as rulnplt''in cniuniittco
6f Hie whole, embraces twenty sections, of
trie usual character of such provisions. The
'only point upon which it was supposed a con
' troversy would arise; the question'of slavery
passed without debate, and '.uitgnim.ousJyi
utterly prohibiting slavery. Soruo were ill
; favor of submitting 'the matter to iho people
forn separate vote; but it was, not contend-
-d for with any show of strenuosity, and was
'voted down unanimously.
' i The suffrage : question, was the source of
consuierattlu debate; nut was finally disposed
"of by admitting nil male citizens of the Uui
ted States, six mouths resident in Calilornin,
Uventy one years of ago, (Indians, Afri
.eh us, an i the descendants of Africans ex
copied,) to Iho privileges of electors. , , ;
rrom the Aha Cahforuian, Oct. 1810.
1' . 1XTEUES1XG GOLD NEWS.
U'e have no details of successful direiuc.
or reports of a diirereut nature than those
presented in our last, wherewith to illumi
.nato with auriferous brilliancy, I ho columns
of our paper to-dav; but we havn miiu-iili.
"Mauding, cheering words for the hundreds of
-J unveil yuju uuiiiers.
Parties have been organized within the
"past month, and departed to explore the re
gion of Trinity river, whore it is, now render
ed 'ceihiiii gold exists. Several hundred
" trench half-breed from Oregon were nl last
advices employed very "successfully upon this
"stream. . ,
Feather river, high up, has been nearly
drained of precious metal, and at this limn
affords scanty profit for the few who prefer
its solitude to ihe crowded washings of the
norih'. A Afoul Ionian from . thc.JSuuth Fork of
Feather n'ver informs us that without the as-
Visjunee of Indians in washing for gold, labor
,is otoiit)eJ w-iih very unsatisfactory conipeu-
'auiihn'.' .'''."
' Thore id probably no'' portion of the placer
Hint has proved more productive, than 'ihe
niuuntaiuoua country watered by Yuba river.
iThere ate about five thousand, principally
-Americans, at work on Yuba,' among whom
-the past month Witnessed no inconsiderable
amount of sickness. By the following ex
tracts from the Ptartr Times of Sept. 22, we
ifo pleased to note, n bolter state of health.
-From Vuba River we have more favorable
ladvices.. The sickly season is about over,
nd the operations of miners nre not impeded
by the extreme heat. . i: .
From the same number of the above paper
we extract , ; ' j, r .. . . .
,On ;fjie Nodi and Midd'e Forks ihem i-i'a
-marked chanpfl m the wett,er; Hnd the wit
ters having fallerr, every ono who drx-s a fair
-day's ' work, ena calculate tipoti- 'b:igging"
boot an -ounce: We hear of but very little
iufetiess h 'any .part' of the mine's. ' ' -
Companies organized for tnrnin the rivyrti
111 this section have fared but ( indiflVrenlly ;
iiiuph of this brunch of, mining has , signally
failed, and the projects have bucn: entirely
abandoned.
rf' From the Middle Fork w-o learn," says
fna Timesl ''that the diggings are improyiu",
and that ah onnoe a day can be'pbtaine'd by
TKvho' work.'" 'And' "that most of the par
ties operating with rockers were doing' well.
-There, was a party of four wlw took out $6,
008 apiece in eight days from one opening,
"and are now on their way home." "'
The most favorable news wo gather this
week is from Dry Creek, at which point op
cramrs were doing surprisingly well. The
great iufluv of emigrants, however, bus evi
dently rendered labor in the mines less pro
lituble, and we hear of many who have given
up digging, and ar about to lurn their atlen
iion to other branches of industry.
VlW". learn that Dr Boynton's roinpanv,
eonsistiMgof six, took from one hole sonie
five oiilos above Mormon Island,- in seven or
jn'ght days, $8,000.; It is said also that no
cuo in (hat vicinity who worked, made much '
less than an ounce per day, while iho mere
fortunate were getting several ounces by a
few hours' ha I'd work. ' ' : i ; . i
-i The gold wushings tin the tributary streams
f the San Joaquin continue to ; attract much
attention. "Sickness is abating and success
is ruoro gencrul than when we last prepaied
pt summary of : intelligence. - We are fur-uished,-'
by a young rgentldman located in
Stockton, ' wilK the following facts,' which
will be read with imprest; ' : ''''"
i saw a diiy w two flgv a pieoa of gold
takun eiu the diggings ou , tha Calavarus,
uot ajr ffom iitockUHii I U was Ihe roost sini
ular, and at tlie same lima tba 'most beau I i
fgl pjec I Ijave yet seen.hapot) jike ihe
ieaii ot a'ljuTkick ) hh. a pair , (if clear, solid
gi'Mn, horns jivore titan ai) inch lon. , I hew
that (hero has teen a lumy taken oul repent
ly, on the Mukelumno weighing thirty pounds
rtk "and-geld Vg;f1ier.' t' am ' prpared; to
bHv'anythinj) that I hear about 1 the1 gold
la California. - ",1 " ' f - '
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Thirty thousand Americans (the present
probable aggregate) in Hie gold region of
Tfclifbrniiiaro IncaffiCTi&joT eAstistjhw the
leisures W that fportioji, wh(ch. had long
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COllf REMOjfT'SaOLD:MN ' .
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a yard IVylor iils hitler, sbeaks of Fre
mont's Bfscovory 6l goiir in the rollowin?
But bv'iar tile most matmificcnt discovery
Fremont, on the Mariposas uiver. it is noin-
"ffTfflKfmrraln'-oToTanr
a bujpa fidaji Oha, first tiMCli, ruw Jeei?
found in Catilorn ta. AV hether it wns first de
tected by" a party of Sonomnns or by the com
pany which Col. F. organized last spring, and .
whiebjjas since been jwotked. . in tho same
locality, is a disputed poi.nf, though 1 believe
tho crcttilis'dne' to' the latter. ' At any rate,
the gold is ihere, and in extraordinary nbun
difilce.",t saw sfirrie pocimcns which were
in Col. Fremont's bossession. stone is 4
f6"f lili qliitrli, filled with Tich veins of gold,
tltTtl PUt jt nr-i iitt; iiiu fijivviuivim ui vi.i,n
frohi' North CarhliniTnnd 'Georgia.' Some
stories plrked up on tfio 'trip 'oT' the 'quartz
strain, wilhortt particular selection1, yielded
2 nz'. of gold' 16 tvefy 25 lbs'. Cul. Fremont
informed rric that the Vein had been traced
for'rhrirn than a mile.'" The thickness on the
surface i-l 2 feet, : gradilnlly widening ns it
deseetids and showing larger pnrtlflcsof gold.
The dip downward is Duly tibonf 20 degrePi,
sci that llitf mine can "Worked ' with littlo
expense. ! 'These are the parliitdar fiisl
given me,' when the discovery "was niinmiu
red. Still more astotiishing'lacts' 'havo just
come to li;ht'.,:;';'"; '' '' ' ' ' . . ' '' '"
' A geologist sent onf to' examine the place,
arrived here lb t nigTit.'" He reports having
traced thVveiri'V disiaricft bf ' two' le.igiles,
willi 'dri'kverago breadth bf 150 feet. At ono
extremity of tho tnino he found large' quan
tities of native silver, which' ho ' calculates
will fully pay the expense of setting up ma
chinery and working it. ' The rauclie upon
which it is situated was 'purchased by Col.
Fremont in 1840, from Alvarado, former Go
vernor of the Territory.' ' It' was then con
sidered nearly worthless, and Col F. only
took it at the moment of leaving the country,
because disappointed in obtaining another
property. This discovery has made a great
sensation throughout the country; yet it is
the tirst of many such. The Sierra Nevada
is pierced in every part with these priceless
veins, which will produce gold for centuries
after every spot of earth from base to sum
mit shairidve Weil turned over and washed
out. ." "'
THE AbTXDAXCE OF THE GOLD.
Mr. Taylor also serves up the gokl dis
coveries with a very prudent caution to tho
reader respecting gold stories in general:
This country seems fated in regard to gold
and golden excitement. It whs supposed not
long since (hat Ihe limits of the placers had
beet; 'settled, nud that the Sierra Nevada was
the great store-house of the precious metal.
Since my arrival, however, discoveries have
been niade which almost induce us to believe
that the uhulc country, from S.m Diego to
Ciipo Meridoemo, from the r.icific to the top
most ridge af Iho Nevada, and heaven knows
how much further eastward, has been com
pletely seasoned and spiced witli the yellow
grains'. 'News reached' San Francisco' of a
large placer having been found on Trinity
River, a stream ''whieh rises in Ihe Coast
Range, and empties into the Pacific opposite
the head of Sacramento Valley. The story
was soon verified by intelligence from 'the
diggings on tho American Fork, whieh stated
that Ihe diggers were leaving in large bodies
for the Trinity Rivar,' where men wero said
to wash' out S100 day. It is best td' receive
the atories of gold digging, 'even here, with
a grain of allowance, but the main' fact is
tree.'' I lately saw a letter from a merchant
in SiicrumenloCity to his partner in San Fran
cisco, in which he saj s : ':There is good
news from Trinity Fiver; Rnld is very plenty
hnd provisions scarce. '.Wo' shall make a
great raise on the loads I have Bent there."
Near the Mission of San Antonio, ertuiitert
among the Coast Mountains, sixty miles south
of this,' a washing of considerable richness
has been discovered. At the' last; accounts,
a lMimber of people Were working there.
wilh fair success, and traders are beginning
to send iheir teams in that direction. , Guld
is said to exist in small quantities near Hie
Mission of Catmel, only four miles imm (his
town,, and, in fact, there is every geological
indication of it. Thai Sun Fruuoisco itself is
built on a placer, I am well satisfied.' To my
curtain kiiowleilge boys have picked 34 and
5 ill a few hour's, from rlay dug 30 feet be
low tho surface, in sinking a well. The story
of Mr. Harrison, the Collector, having found
gold in the abodes of the' custom-house, is
something more than a good joke. ,
,i
- A Neat Caiovlatiox. The editor of Ihe
While Uiver Standard, published at Bedfurd,
la., was bragging the other day of three large
pumpkins, one weighing 1-104 pounds, and
the two others 135 lbs. each grown on the
farm of Mr. Thomas f'gg, near that place.
After speaking eloquently of Hie fertility of
(he soil thereabouts, the editor coca on to.
make the fullowing interesting calculation :
4194 pounds of pumpkins would make 1678
pies, calculating 4 to ihe pound. These pies
at 5 cents each, would amount to SSI 00.
Take from this sum for flour, butler, spices,
eggs and luborj' the sum of S18 00, and the
liett profits would be S60 40. Just think of
it ! ' Hers! is a sum sufficient to purchase 40
acre pf land, build a district school house, or
erect a eonntry ctiurcU, and alt fioiri three
jtumpkim! '
CdKGftcsf Saved a World or TRon&tt.
California has settled ihe question or slavery
for herself, by declaring, in territorial con
volution, that neither afueery nor tneoluitfary
termtude, ezetpt for the punishment of crime,
shall ever b tolerated in this State." This will
save CoiigTesira world of trouble at the' nest
session," and spoil a large batch of already
prepared inflammatory speeches. ' C '"'
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c A eivil enginoor of London has proposed
lb the-Admirably 10 send td Ihe northern
sieas on or mora vessels laden w ith gim-coi-ion,
wilh which to explode tha ice and open
a passage U Sir John franklin1 alup. -Mol'i
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vi e reter our readers to Ihe advertisement of
Mickey & Toll, 150Chesnut street, Philabclphia.
The trunks. &c.,' made by them, cannot be sur
piw'd in this or any other country. At the late
exhibition of tho Franklin Institute they were
awarded the first premium for their trunks.
Willst & HtauiHd, No. 19 Minor street,
I'liihiJcliliia, keep on hand an excellent assort
ment of paper suitable for printers and others
whijh they sell at fair nnd reasonable prices
They are utlentivc and obliging businessmen and
oll'ur great inducements to purchasers ; see their
advertisement in another column.
.Linrniik, Wim, it William G. Cochrane,
72 Walnut street, Philadelphia, by his advertise
ment ofl'ers for sale a tine ussorlineut of superior
liquors and seauis. Hi u n 0)(1 an(j ,vcj est(lD.
Jished lioiue.
, V. B. Palmku's Ccsisrss-Msa's Almamac
oii 1650 Wc have ordered a number of these
Almanacs, and will hove them in tho course of a
week or two, when iill who w ant a good Almannc,
besides dollars worth of statistical and ether
useful information, for a shilling, can be supplied
by calling at this office,
C7 Tub Bev. Mr. Sheddin, will preach
in the Presbyterian Church, in this place, on
Sunday next at 2 o'clock P. M.
wealher Ihe past week, has been
most delightful. The whole season has Ihus
far been remurkably mild.
U'e are indebted to the Hon. Alex.
Kamsey, Governor of Minnesota Territory,
for u copy of bis Message with accompany
ing documents to the first Legislative As
sembly. J)y the census annexed, taken
June 1 1, JS49, w e have tho population
of the Territory. vi- Mla Qn,n.
males 1,lJ; Total 4,680.- The message
is well written and speaks encouragingly
oi the prospects of the new Territory.
- 05" We are much indebted to some of
our editorial bn-then for the complimentary
manner in w hich they have noticed an
"Ice Cream Freezer" invented by us, and
for which a premium was recently awarded
at the Franklin Institute. The Reading
Gazette say ; i
"We advise Mr. Massf.r to sell out his
newspaper, and commence the Ice Cream
manufacture forthwith. All men have sto
niacin, in common with other animals, but
only one in a hundred has brains; and Ihe
editor of the Jmeruait will find it much easier
nnd more pioliialile tusk lo tickle the public
palate with Ice Cream, at a shilling a duo,
than lo elighten ihe mind of ihat same public
wilh his newspaper."
' We cannot, however, adopt the advice
of our friend of the Gazette. We have in
vented the machinery as a labor saving ap
paratus for tin? ladies. The cieam making
we Khali leave for lliem and for others in
Ihe business. And we may as well state,
that our agents Messrs. Protrty & Barrett, of
Philadelphia, will soon be able to atipplj
every part ofthe L'nton with the machines.
We think, however, that our friend does
injustice to his readers, and readers in gene
ral. A inaa who takes and pay ibr a
newspaper is not wholly destitute of brains,
and without a handsome Fret of paying sub.
criber; we take it such a paper as the
Gazette, could not long be sustained. 1
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KF The New York elections are closely
contested. .The Tribune 'says, the Senate
will be Whig bv majority o( fwp or three.
House doubtful.
K7 Read the article on the tariff que,
tion in onou thii4 pe. ..
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' - DEAlTIFtt, TIICOnY. '
; ' Tlie Marrisburg Keystone topiei frdth the
Washington Union, a tettclroVer theatgna.
ture of "A Pennsylvania Iron Master,' in
favor ofthe tariff of 1840. Wo lake from
Ihe letter the following beautiful extract, for
the purpose of showing how easily a man
tnay sometimes refute his own position by
the absurdity of hit statements : '
"1 propose now to submit a plain statement
atfaets, which rii tame tobe true., nnd Which
are conclusive with mej that it Is the in erest
of the Pennsylvania iron-masters to oppose
anv change in our present tariff.
The cost of manufacturing pi$r iron from
anthracite coal, varies from $12 lo ?I5 per
Ion. To get to iho Philadelphia market, sel
dom costs over S2. and lorco qualities are
are daily thrown into Philadelphia for one
dollar per ton ; making the whole cost to
ironmasters from 813 to 817."
Now the fact is, experience has demon
strafed that in Ihe most favorable locations,
good Anthracite iron can not he made for
less than about $15 per ton, and the Iran
portation from three-fourth of the Furnaces,
will average from 53 to $t per ton, inde
pendent of storage commissions &c, which
this patriotic Iron Master has put down at
51 to swell the cost of British iron, but
omitted it in regard to the American article,
S'if there was no charge for haiilitij
storage and commissions oh American iron
The freight from England, he puts down at
S, when It Is blten brought lrom Liver
pool as ballast, nl 2 pet toni It is not the
amount of duty that We complain of, as
much as the ad valorem system, which,
even, according to this writer, has enabled
thri "British manufacturers to play a grime'
which he thinks they will soon grow tired
of like the cat We presume, playing with
the mouse, w hen she has Worried itto death
. . TUT TARtrF ISSt K
The editor of the Sunbnry Gazelle, Inking
his cue from tho Washington Union nud
Pennsylvania!! on nil leading subjects, finds
it necessaiy to show its fealty lo the powers
Ihat be, by endorsing ihe vapid nonsense of
these papers, on the subject of the ta ri IF.
To claim Ihe election of Mr. Gamble ns. an
anti-lanff victory, is Ihe sheerest piece of
presumption that we have seen for some time.
During the late canvass the editor of Ihe Ga
zette was as quiet as the grave upon this sub
ject. We confess that we were therefore
surprised, ihat it should infer to the alleged
passasn of a resolution in favor of the tnrirl
of 1816 at iho late County Convention, in
proof of thisnssertion.
The truth is, the editor of ihe Gazelle, be
ing himself a candidate, had. to our certain
knowledge, no particular desire lo sen this
resolution in print. His free-trade principle,
so obnox ious to Hip people of this county, had
very nearly swamped him as it was, and had
this resolution been placed on his shoulders
as an additional burthen, it would have sunk
him so deep Ihat Ihe hand of resunection
could never have reached him.
!T7 The ll.irribirg Key-lone ur'es upon
the Canal Commissioners the propriety of ta
king into their own hands, tho earn ing of
passengers over tho Columbia Bail lioad.
The state, it app -are, has a capital of about
$4,000,000, in this road, and car owners
abmit $20,000. The Stale receive for ihe
use of her road nnd motive power, about
91 54 per passenger, from Lancaster to Phil
adelphia, and the car owners nearly $1 00.
This division is about equal to that of the
Monkey with the Cats. We have heard Hie
Canal Commissioners on more than one oc
casion complain of this imposition, and of
their ineffectual attempts lo amend it. The
company has many ways of operating on the
members of the legislature, so as not lo inter
fere with their interests.
AM AMTI.TARIFF ARfil'MEXT.
Some of our brethren of the Press in
order to holster up the tariff of 1846 resort
to, not only extraordinary arguments, but
extraordinary calculations to support them.
Our friends of the Berks County Press, in
reply to one of its neighbors makes the fol
lowing terrible onslaught on the protective
policy:
'To show tha extreme stupidity of the
'Journal,' and Ihe tdiallowiiess ot iis humbug
of a Home Market, to gull and deceive its
readers, we ask iho atlenlion of the public lo
the following fact ; last year the Farmer of
ihe Uniied Stnles produced, il is estimated,
over 126,000.000 bushels ol w heat. Onr pop.
illation is over 20.000,000, which would giie
fo tnch man. tfuimui and child iu this L'huiii,
Sl.XT Y.TllliLE BUSHELS! Can the big
eeht iron-master iu Pennsylvania eat C3 bn.
shels of wheat in a year nud as he cannot,
how vain is il for ihe minnows and tom-lils
ofthe 'Journal' lo assert thai they can con.
sumo this amount. The yield for the present
year is much greater than it was lual year,
y ielding at the lowest calculation 100 bushels
for each inhabitant. Does not this show that
Ihe Farmer cannot depend upon the Home
Market alone for the sale of his produce, and
yet Ihesu TarifT wise-acres aiid most eotisom
mule J.ick-asses, these second Daniel's ex
pounders of whis tariff doctrines, are assidu
ously laborinf, in ihcir madness, to destroimot
only the Foreign Market, but also the Home
Market. This would bo ihe certain result of
their insane twaddle opon iho Tariff.
This U a formidable array if figures it is
true, and although "figures wont lie" them
selves, they are sometimes wonderfully be
lied. And this, unfortunately for friend
Myers, is the case in this instance. Ac
cording to our arithmetic the result will be
a little over 6 J bushels instead of C3 bush
els. Six bushels per head is the usual esti
mate of consumption, "big iron masters and
Jackasses" included, and 100 bushels per
head for 20 millions of people would make
iu the aggregate 2000 millions of bushels,
enough to feed the whole world. Now as
friend Myers has based his argumenti upon
this arithmetical assumption, thereby indu
cing bim to apply various naughty epithets
to us tarifl men, we trust he will retrace
and put the boot on the right leg.
07 Judge Huston died at bis residence
in Bellefonte, on Saturday last, aged 80
years.
Oy California. The news from tlTe
gold regions, Which will be. found inano
ther' column, It mirth .rhrjre encduraging
than by the previous accounts. The whrjle
country teemi lo be embedded with gold,
and Col. Fremont, it seems, hat opener a
regular Vein. Heretofore no original de
posits had been found, the digging! having
been confined to the depositei of dust, where
it had been washed. We fear that Califor
nilj like all other gold regions, will be good
for little else than the gold it contains. -
Sillivan CofNtr The seat of Jus
lice in this new county, has been a bone of
contention for several years post. It is now
at a place called Laporte, almost a perfect
wilderness and scarcely accessible. Lad
winter an act was past appointing new
Commissioners to review and decide ujioii
the location. They have fixed the county
seat at the Widow Fairchilds on the turn
pike. . . . .
Col. Henry Petriken, died recent
ly at the Merchants' Hotel in Philadelphia,
of consumption, aged about 52 years. Col.
Petriken was" Deputy Secretary of' this
Commonwealth under Gov. Shunk's admin
istration, and part of Gov. Porter's term.
He had been in declining health for several
yearsi
O Jenny Lind, Ihe Swedish nialitingnlc,
as she is sometimes called, will probably
come tb this country. Mr. Barnnm, of the
Philadelphia Museum, hnsolTered her $1,000
per lilghl, for 200 nights. Jenny's siveet
Voice is worth more than 'a California gold
placer. To sing lo th tune of S1000, seems
extravagant, Jel it is mlich less than she has
been receiving in Europe.
The Camden and Amboy Itail ltoad
Company nre experimenting on a new species
of light, something similar lo iho Drummond
light, to be placed in front of the locomotives
on their fail roads between Philadelphia nnd
New Vork. This will render travelling nt
night ns safe as day light. This Company is
controlled by enterprising men, who will
spare no money ill Introducing new experi
ments. K7 SrsQCUiANNA Cor nt v Bank. The
Pradford Reporter says, that this Bank has
long been a swindling concern and that the
stories of Ihe brokers in connection wilh tho
Bank's failure, is a humbug.
DISTBESSI0 STARK AlTtDENT IN
, S( III Yl. KILL COVMTV.
On Monday evening last a fearful accident
occurred to the Northumberland stage, com
ing this way, occasioning serious injury to
several of the passengers, nnd endangering
the lives of all. It seems Ihat on starling
from Ashland, 13 miles above Pottsville, the
driver had barely reached 1 lie box, when the
horses started at full speed, and on turiiins
an an'lo in thu road, n very short distance
I hi side of Maj. Morrows' balel, tile stage
was lluown over with great force.
There were eleven passengers in nnd upon
l ho singe, nnd among lliem Mr. Win. 1'.
Smith, of Caltawissa, whoso wrist was ;.piniu
ed; Mr. Robert McCoy, P. Master at Wash
ingtouville. Col. county, and daughter, the
killer of whom was uliuhtly bruised; Rev.
Geo. Foot, Northumberland, his head some
what injured ; Mr. Eastman, and his sou, A
Eastman, of Bangor, Maine, the latter of
whom received a very severe cut, extending
from the temple to the lower part of the
face, which was sewed jup by Dr. Halber
stadl, after the passengers arrived at Maj.
Lessig's Exchange Hotel, In this borough ;
Mr. Thomas Racer, of Northumberland,
whose head was slightly bruised, and Mr.
Buck, a merchant of Muncy, Lycoming coun
ty, whose thigh was broken. He remained
necessarily at Major Burrows' Hotel, Ash
laud, where the fractured limb was skilfully
set by Dr. McWilliams, of New Castle, and
we 'learn the wounded man is quite comfort
able, with a fair prospect t)f recovering ra
pidly. The driver, Mr. Ellis, who is said to
bo sober and prudent, was considerably
bruised.- roltsvillc Emporium, Hth itist.
roiTi:nrriTsoTHF. Lacasteii baak.
The A'u'i"a Police Gazette states that
Counterfeit $10 notes on Iho Lancaster Bank,
are in circulation. They are dated January
1st or 2nd (conld not distinguish which) 1S44.
lelier B, siened Christ, Tachmar, Cashie
James Evans, President. Vignette, a naked
female silting with a staff in her riirht hand,
her face turned left, no spots visible on the
eye, a spread eagle on her left side, (the right
of the vignette,) resting on a shield; a ship,
all sails' vet, on her light, badly engraved;
the hull or bottom of the ship looks like a
floating saw log, square at both ends.
Counterfeit. Counterfeit On on tho
Slate Bank of Ohio are in circulation the en
eraving and signatures of which are so per
fect as lo deceive even good judges. The
engraving is bard ly as highly finished as the
genuine, and ihe paper and printing a shade
lighter. The red impression on tho back of
the counterfeit is also lighter than Hie genu
ine, and the best, if not Ihe only distinguish
ing mark is, ihat in the counterfeit, the star
or areola al Ihe end of the bar enclosing Ihe
words "Stale Bank of Ohio," also on the buck
is set in the centre of a sqnaro block, which
is not the case in the genuine; and the plate
of the counterfeit is shorter than the genuine.
A Heroine roa California. The brig
Aik sailed from New bury port on the 31st
ull., for California, with 117 passengers,
among whom were thiee young ladies. One
of them is a single woman, without friends
(unless of recent acquaintance,) or relatives
on board. She goes out on her own hook.
Gen. Mariano Paredes, Ex-President of Ihe
Republio of Mexico, aud who bore so con
spicious a part at Ifae beginning of the late
war with that country, died in the city of
Mexico on the 1 Ith. of September, after a
long and painful illness. - '
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Thc City or Boston has transmitted one
thousand volume of . American books aa a
donation to the city of Paris.
Important rnoM hajita fe.
Return of Col. Wathington from Ihe Kavijo
cdnntrtf-Treaty with the Indian Major
Stein Mjtcovering SUrgeon Norwood and
Surgtm Snyder killed by IndiantSew
Routt 16 California Diicorared, ttt.
St. Lotrts, Nov. 12iy an arrived here
from the Plains, later datea have been re
ceived from Santa Fe.
. Col. Washington returned to hie quarters
on the 44th of September, frdm his march
fhrongh the - Navijo country. ' At firtrt- h
found the Indians very troublesome, and not
disposed to come to terms, but he finally suc
ceeded in concluding a treaty of an important
chntiitler with the NaVijos, by which it is
stipulated that they give up all tho property
which tho marauding bands of their tribe
have stolen; release oil prisoners, and ac
knowledge their subjection lo Ihe govern
ment of iho Unilod Slates; - The Indians ap
peared perfectly satisfied wilh the arrange
ment. Previous lo the conclusion of tho treaty,
Col. Washington had an engagement wilh a
parly of Iribe, in which six Indians were kil
led, nnd several wounded :
Major Stein; who wag wtftindcd in ft fight
wilh the Apaches, on ihe ldth of August last
is recovering. He is no able lo walk about
but Iho ball has not yet been extracted.
Surgeon Norwood was shot dead in the
same engagement, nnd Sergeant Snyder, who
was wounded al tho same lime, died from
tho effects of his wounds, on the 1 1th of Sep!
lember.
Lieut. Siinpsmi, who accompanied Col.
Washington on hise xpedilion, hasdiscovered
a middle route to California. It is situated
between Gila river roiite and the old SpanNh
trail. It is a wagon route1, and three hundred
miles nearer than any other passage wlllcli
has yet been discovered.'
Business nt Santa Fe is represented ns be
ing very dlill.
Hr.NRV Clay on Socrkrovt. Henry Clay's
opinions bate been quoted upon many sub
jects; those upon sourkrout nre quite ns de
cided aa anything he has uttered; if the fol
lowing story be true :
'Henry Clay dined recently with ex-l'res-idont
Martin Van Bufe'n, at l.inde'nwald.
The dessert consisted of Crullers, olecocks,
snckethash, owsreetchees, &c. Mr. Clay
expressed a vish to Feo that "Iwclre acres
of reclaimed tog land," so miich talked of
during the election, which Mr. Van Buren
look great pleasure in showing him. On
their return, a tureen filled to the brim wilh
wukroiil Was set before him. Clay put his
handkerchief to bis nose, and wiih a 'whew,'
said 'Van, I've lived long, nnd encountered
as strong opposition ns any other ntrin, rmt, 10
bo frank with you, I never e'ncounlered any-1
thing quite as strong as litis.''
Thc Si'syntiiANNA CorsTY Bank. We
learn from Montrose that the failure of the
Susquehanna County Bank has caused the
greatest excitement in that community. The
committee of directors appointed to investi
gate Ihe affairs of the inMilutimi, report that
Ihe bank has at least S200.0H0 alloat. of
which probably 1150.000 has recently been
put in circulation nl ihe west, through a ct-r-tain
i'cnl in Cincinnnlti, w ho was in .Men.
troso but n week before llm institution explo
ded. The cashier,- T. P. St. John, has been
arrested nnd Cfrtnmllled in default of 210,000
bail. He had assured the directors that there
were but ?43,OO0 in c?rculafioii( and that
every dollar could be redeemed. So irifn
rialed were the citizens that they attempted
to do violence lo his person, and after his in
carceration, they took Hie signs from the
bank, nnd placed them wilh an elfigy over
thc jail door.
Polygamy amonc tiic Desert Mormons.
A correspondent writing from Ihe cliy of
Salt Lake, states that the laws of ihe com
munity permit thu men lo have ns many
wives ns I hey can support, and that some of
the older ones have twenty, but Ihat young
men content themselves with five.
ail Sorts of Stems.
Etiquette ok a Dinner Party -"Mar'
ried ladies precede ibe single. The lady of
the house is ihe last to enter the dining-room
People who are engaged walk together. La
dies do not dme with gloree on,- aud are not
asked to lake wine by gentlemen. There
must be a salt-cellar for every two persons.
Loiulim Jutn nal
Major Ciievalme has withdrawn from tho
service of Chihuahua, in which he had been
engaged in limiting down the Apaches at 200
a head. His men bud made 30o each by
their expeditions, and none of them had been
killed or wounded.
Phizk Conundrum. The following by
Miss. E. P. Drown, of Meriden, was adjud
ged best by a late committee, in New Haten:
Why is Ihe Great Russian Hear, Nicholas,
like a half starved fox! Because he's got
Hung(a)ry and wauls Turkey."
Gut at Emigration on Squirrels. It is
slated hi somo of the Kentucky papers, Ihat
the squirrels have paid another visit to Ihat
good ok cammon wealth, are traversing it in
great numbers. In 1822 aud in 1833, they
crossed Iho Obie in lens of thousands.
A lunatic, named Matilda Elliot, now in
tho Lunalie Hospital at Philadelphia, lias just
obtained by judgment of Hie Court one undi
vided fifth part of HW lown of Temperance
villo, near Pittsburg, Pa., valued at 2D0,000.
Col. Weiler, w ho has been superseded
by Col. Fremont, as Mexican Boundary Com
missioner, writea that his removul would
break up the commisaon, expecting the party
engaged with bim le resign and take to gold
digging. ' ' 1 '
Baptists in Nlw Jersey. The New Jer
sey Baptie! Stale Convention metal Plainfield
on the SOih till., am) among other things a,
dopted a resolution with a view lo ihe pub.
lication of a complete history of the Buptist
choreh in Ihe Stale, " "
Several old ladies in Ihe vicinity of Wil
ninigtou, IKji., imagine that lliey are bewitched-
They are rather behind ihe age.
The exact velocity of eleclricily along a
copper wire is 288,000 mile in a second it
is calculated accordingly that we could teles
graph ,to our antipodes in rather less thari the'
300th part of one secend of lime I
;' I
From a Parliamentary return; just publish:
ed; it appears that tile total (lumber of paUi
pera relieved in England and Wales, on the
1st of july, 1843, was in workhouses, K),
122,-eut.of doera, 763:266.
R. II. SLiteRj the great flegrd darJCor, con
tinued dancing, h, Cincinnati iatcly, without
'osing time, tu-enty.five minutes.
Tiiiiri. who deceives Ihe eye by weaN
ing false curls, is apt lo detcivo the heart
with false professions of lore.
Sweet oil has been found a cure for the
mildew which affects grapes. The stems'
are brushed w ilh Ihe oil daily.
The total loss of men in tho Russian army;
in the lute Hungarian war is, according Id
ttie reports of iho officers; 8,000. -
A RotARY Enuine ha.
England, it is said, on sd small a Scale, that
one of a Hundred ho.rso power occupies 4
space ol only lour feet by two.
It is n little trouble to tell a lie; but it il
a great deal of trouble lo cdnceal Ihe fact
you have told oiio.
The Presideul r( Lllili has asked Ihe Brit;
ish jVlmlriil Irt brolect Chilian subjects irt
California.- Thc Admiral refused all interfc;
rence. .
The Austrian army is henceforth to bo
composed of 450.000 in lime of peace, and
800,000 in time of war.
A two hundred thousand dollar marriage
settlement Was made on Thursday, nt the
HegMler's office in New York, which attract:
ed iniH-H attention in that city.
It is the opinion of a recent traveller hi
Russia l hill iRO.OOO men is nil that the Czar
c't'iild readily bring into Ihe field.
Some of the best boats on th Ohio river
are now running between Cincinnati and St,
Louis. Passage, six dollars.
Legislative Power'. The Supreme Court
at St. Louis, have decided, that the Missouri
Legislature cn?frrot divn'ico parties upon the
petition of oi'j of I hem:
Our inlauif Commerce fs rtiid lo amennt to
450,000.000 annually, aimiiount twice as
grcal us that of our foreign trade.
Application will be made to the New Jer
sey Legislature for an India Rubbcrand Gutla
Percha Company, with S50.000 capita!.-
Ms. X. . Ac?i!, of Atrrtntniftf Co., Ohio,
(fas' made n cheese whieh weighs 200f
ponuiU.
The fafn'ly Of J late General Worth in
tends removing lo riltslie!:l, Ms,
Tub cholera still prevails hi rarrfie ortiomt
of Missouri.
ORPHANS' COURT
SALE.
E N purn'mn of i. ii nrili r of (lit Or)lisns' Court
If of XorthiiniherUiiil i-nunty, will l-e expotrd trf
lniUir fnle on I lie premises, on S.itunlnv the "9th
il.iy of IJecenili-r next, the follow in; (li-frrilxd
proju-rly lo wit : Tho one undivided l,l'f jti 0f
all tli.il errtuiii
TIMC'T OF I.4l.
situate in Point township, noil rounty sforrsa'nl.
Adjoining land of John JNixoii, Leonard I'fouli
and others, and the North Uraurh of tlir Susque
hanna, rontiiiniin; in llic i.liole, onr hundred and
ninety-foor svre and sevr iilv-livo perches ; alut
on hftndrcd nud sixty arren of which arc cleared ;
whereon are err.-l.-d a lare SToXK HOl'SE and
a good Khims lit wMh other hfiildini.'S, the
In lid is of (her best ipiulity. Lste the estate of
William Lemon, .lrc'.l, Sale to oommefice at ll
o'clock A. !., of said day, fn lie erudition
thereof will be mrah) kiiowii fcy
mc.U M'WILLIA.MS,
I!y Order of the Court, Executor;
Lavid Korkrfrller, ( 'IU., O. C. )
Sinlniry, .ov. 17, 1 8-19 it
KICKED &. TULL
Xo. I.-iO iM'Kiuft Mrt-ef,
(Uppusite Ihe ArcaAr)
PHlI.ADEt.PniA,
f ANCFACTrKKIWof their improved style:
1 Klastie Kleel ("pring, Solid Sole Leather, and
(Solid KixeU-d
TKI Mi,
which took tlus only first premium, awarded by
the Franklin Institute at their last exhibition.
11. A: T. fake pleasure in inlorniiiis the travel,
lint; puMie, Ihat theV hve now on hum), a lieau
'ttfuf u'ssortinrnt of their mrproVed .style of Solid
Rote feather Trunks; LVnhle and Single Folio
Trunks, of Various styles; Ladies' TMmkS, Va
lice Trunks, llonnct Iioxeir, Crrp VtMe, f'aTpef
Uaus, and an elecaut assnrlmenf of nriur Kit
unified l'uleut l.rnlh.ir Uuga, wilh every article,
in their line of business.
IT"' Old Trunks Hepaired or taken in exchange'
lor New unci. A I.KX. 1.. HICK KY
RICHARD W.Tl'tt.-
Philadelphia, Nov.- 17, MllT.
WILliKTT &. llMRUIAtt'S
WimiOLKSAI.E Commission PATER and
f f UA(i WAREHOUSE-, Tier, lit MINOR
Slreet, Philadelphia Where a general assort
ment of all kinds of Paer is kept, and' for sale at
the lowest cash prices.
Cap, Letter a net Friutlug rttpert
fee on Intndtf
Plain and ruled white Cap.-
" ' blue
Flat Taps:
Plain aud ruled white Letter.- -
" Woe "
Blue and white Folios.
W hile and colored Printing Papee
Tissue Pupers..
Shoe
Wrapping "
Envelope
Hardware and Sleuthing Paper.
Tar Hoards.
straw Uourd.
Hound Il.ur.la.
All ordein from the Country Will be attends!
lo al the shortest notice.
All (foods sold will he carefully packed, and de
livered at any place in the city.
The highs-at cash price paid (or Rags, or ex
changed for Paper, an low as can be bought eU
where.
Please call and examine for yourselves.
Philadelphia, Nov. 17, 1819
Win. O. Cochran fc Ck,
W ! mm4 Rata 1 1,
WlVB AND LIQIOR MERCHANTS,
So. If Walnut Street, Philadelphia.
nAVE always on band a very lavyC stock af
Wines, Liquor Mid tSes, of lhei orit
importation, store Keepers, Hotet Keepers, and
prh-ate gentlemen, will be supplied on tha saoat
litmral terms. t '
PhilaaVlpliia, Nov. 17, 1819, - ..((-.,
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