SUNBURY AMERICAN AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL.
' From Satanhy evonlni's Transcript.
EXCITEMENT IN BOSTON.
Supposed Discovery of Dr. Parkman'$ Body.
Arrest of Prof. J. W. Webster, .
Since last evening, our whole population
has been in a stale of the greatest possible
excitement in consequence of the astounding
rumor that the body of Dr. Parkman has
been discovered, and that Dr. John Webster,
Professor of Chemistry in the Medical Sohool
of Harvard College, and a gentleman con
necVed by marriage with some of our most
distinguished families, has been arrested and
imprisoned, on suspicion of being the mur
derer. Incredulity, then amazement, and
then blank, unspeakable horror have been
the emotions, which have agitated the public
mind as the rumor has gone on, gathering
countenance and confirmation. Never in the
annals of crime in Massachusetts has such a
sensation been produced.
In the streets, in the market place, at every
turn, men greet each other with pale, eager
looks, and the inquiry, "Can it be true!"
And then as the terrible reply, "the circum
stances begin to gather weight against him,"
is wrung forth, the agitated listener can only
vent his sickening sense of horror, in some
such expression as that of Hamlet
i O, horrible ! O, horrible ! mol horrible !"
A thunderbolt at clear noonday fulling
with a loud report and shattering tho most
conspicuous dome in the city could not have
produced a greater shock to the external sen
ses, than that which tho falling of suspicion
on Dr. Webster, in this case, has occasioned
to the moral sense of this community. The
first impulse among all his acquaintances, is
to exclaim "impossible ! Outrageous! There
could have been no valid ground for his ar
rest 1" And then, as minute circumstances
are related as facts, hanging on facts, are
detailed, the propriety of the course of the
authorities in making the arrest is reluctantly
and painfully admitted.
.We give the facts that have thus far como
to light rn this affair; with an accompanying
protest, however, against making them the
material for forming an opinion against the
suspected individual, until they have been
thoroughly substantiated, beforo a legal tribu
nal. Heaven grant that they may prove fal"
lacious ! However terrible and confirmatory
the array of circumstantial evidence may
seem, let us postpone, as far as in us lies, all
convictions on the subject, until it assumes a
more imposing and authentio front than it
wears at present. Charity and common sense
alike commend this course.
As we have been informed, on what we
deem to be good authority, strong suspicions
have been entertained ever since tho disap
pearance of Dr. Parkman, and . especially
since it has generally been believed that he
was uo longer living, that tho place of his
concealment was in or about the Medical Col
lege (a branch of Harvard University) in
North Grove street in this city and accor
dingly a constant watch has been kept
about the building. The principal reasons
for these suspicions, which we have heard
assigned, are as follows :
Dr. Parkman hold a note for 5450 against
Professor Webster, which had long been
overdue, and upon which, although it was
secured by a mortgage of some real estate
in East Cambridge, the Doctor had several
times importuned for the money, and had
been from time to time put off. At length
he applied to the officer who disposed of the
tickets for Professor Webster's course of lec
tures to know if there were a sufficient bal
ance due the Professor to take up his note.
This circumstance is said to have greatly in
censed Professor W., who on Friday morn
ing of last week called at Dr. Park man's
house, No. 8 Walnut street, and left word
"if he (Dr. P.) wanted his money on that
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morigage, to can u ino iueuicui v,onege
about 1 o'clock that afternoon."
The Doctor is known to have proceeded to
the College at the time specified was seen
to enter, by several persons in the vicinity,
but teas not seen to come out. The statement
lhat he was subsequently seen passing Cra
gie's bridge, has been, as we hear, satisfac
torily contradicted. Oil his way to the Col
lege, Dr. Parkman purchased some groceries
at a store on tho corner of Vine and Blossom
streets, which he ordered to be sent to bis
house, but left in the store a bag of celery (
which he said he would himself call for in a
few minutes. At this time, it is slated, a
person wishing to do some business with him,
waited two or three hours in vain, in order
to see him when ho should come from tho
College.
It is said Prof. Webster admits lhat Dr.
Parkman was at the College about the time
mentioned, and that although he asserts he
paid him the $450, he cannot show a receipt
for it when it is well known that Dr. P was
very methodical in his business matters.
It is also stated that during the whole of
the past week, Prol. Webster has kept him
self very secluded lhat his rooms at the
College have been kept constantly locked
circumstances quite unusual with him.
From these and other alleged fact, suuh
suspicions were aroused that, in the Profes
sor's nbsenco last evening, Mr. Ephraim Lit
tlefield, who has Jhe care of the College
"building and grounds, was induced to break
the partition wall to the vault under the pri
vate laboratory of Professor Webster, in the
' basement of the building, and there discover.
d ono leg and a portion of the trunk of a
human corpse ! in a condition which made
it apparent that the remains had not long
been there deposited.
This discovery, with the fact that Prof.
Webster is not. an anatomist or surgeon, but
simply a chemist, and having nothing profes
sionally to do with dissection of bodies, was
ample to give rise to the astounding suspi
cion that Dr. Parkman had thus been most
foully and diabolically murdored.
. Prof. Webster was accordingly arrested at
: his residence in Cambridge, by officers Clapp
and Bice, and lodged iu Leverelt street jail
last night, to await further developments.
We bear that he was intensely excited on
the occasion, and gave way to violeut excla
mations, some of which, if reported correctly,
. would seem to strengthen the chain of cir
cumstances pointing to the deepest guilt.
Among other language of a similar import, it
is currently stated that he used the following;
"can it be that that infernal scamp (supposed
to refer to some accomplice) Am betrated
me " ' There are a thousand rumors of this
sort afloat, but how much credit to attach to
them we leave our readers to Judge.' - - ' -We
learn that a farther and thorough in
vestigation was made in the professor's labo
ratory this morning,- when in the ashes of his
furnace were found pieces ot bone from the
skull and other parts of a man's head, to
gether with several false teeth, some coat
buttons,' and some grains of gold, apparently
from a watch melted down. On the stairs
leading from the laboratory to the lecture
room above, were found spots made by a
strong acid capable of destroying marks of
blood which might have been there spilled,
or of almost instantly consuming the flesh if
thrown upon the person.
.It is staled as a suspicious fact in connec
tion with tho recent unusual closeness of Pro
fesso'' Webster's laboratory, that from its
chimney an uncommonly dense and constant
smoke has been observed to issue for several
days past, and that a great amount of pilch
pine kindlings has been used there.
Saturday morning brought with it still fur
ther discoveries. Officer Rico, in arranging
things in the laboratory, found, in a recess
formed by the brick-work of the furnace and
chimney, a lea-chest, apparently filled with
specimens of minerals, but emitting a strange
odor He at once npset the chest, and found
in the bottom, imbedded in hemlock bark,
the left thiyh, and tho half-roasted trunk of
the body. Tho skin had been wholly burnt
or stripped off from the trunk. The thigh
was only stained with the bark. All the
parts found are such in size that they may
very well have belonged to Dr. P.'s body.
The missing portions, and supposed to have
been burnt up, are the head, contents of the
body, left leg and foot, arms anu hands, and
right foot.
Among the secondary fuels, it may be sta
ted lhat four bloody towels were found in the
vault ; a very large clasp knife, with hunting
figures on the blade, was found with the trunk
in the tea-chest; somo grapples, made of cod
honks, with lines and lead sinkers attached,
were found in Dr. Webster's apparatus room.
This room is in the rear of the k'cturo room,
mut nnniiAfiliifl with it T,v n flimr Oil ttiA
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cals, arranged on shelves. Near the door of I
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this closet, on tho floor, commence scattered
marks of blood, which extend the whole
length of the apparatus room, and appear on
nearly every step of the stairs leading from
the room down into the laboratory. Dr. TV ab
ator's official duties as a professor required of
him no handling of bodies, nor .was it allow
able to have subjects in that part of the build
ing. On Sunday, a pair of trowsors, marked
with Dr. Webster's name, and with marks of
blood upon them, were found in the large
closet; also, under a settee in the room, a
pair of slippers, marked with spots of blood ;
also, a small saw, with a blood stain.
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The Body of Dr. Parkman Identified.
Boston, December 3.
Tho teeth and jaw found in Prof. Webster's
grate have been identified by Dr. Keep, the
dentist who operated on Dr. Parkman's mouth
a 6hort lime since. The jaw also fits tho
mould laken at that time. The. family of
Dr. P. has claimed the body for interment,
and have had the same encased in a leaden Dox
preparatory to burial. The body has a stab
in the ribs, through into tho cavity of the
chest.
Professor Webster is still in prison, and re
mains perfectly calm.
HUNGARY.
A banquet was recently given at Hamburgh
in honor of several distinguished refugees
who had arrived there from. Hungary. A
mongst the number wasKlapka, thedefender
of Comoro and one of the truest patriots of
tho Hungarian struggle. One of the speakers
on the occason, having exclaimed, "Hungary
is crushed to death!" Klapka instantly re
plied: "No! no! Hungary is not crushed to death
she is but a little relaxed from her horrible
struggle wilh two overwhelming powers;
but verily she wants only a breath lo inflame
her again lo a second heroical insurrection."
The following has been translated for the
Journal of Commerce, from some of the Ger
man papers :
Gorgey was characterized by General Klappa
a real traitor and common-place egotist, desti
tute of a lofty inspirations for the holy cause
of liberty. He further believes that Gorgey,
who has been overrated, may not have de
spised Russian gold ; but it is not ascertained
though no doubt exists, that he frustrated
Iho plan of Kossuth for annihilating the Aus
trian Government at Vienna, last spring ;
which was a mailer of no difficulty before
the inroad of the Russians, as the Austrians
were at that time entirely routed.
Gorgey also anxiously concealed from tho
the Hungarian army the report of the glorious
sally of the garrison of Comorn on the 3d of
August, under Klapka; and did it not Decorae
known till after his defection on the 13th of
August. Tho disastrous catastrophe at Vila
gos was to such a degree perplexing, that
every hopo from resistance vanished. Klapka
was at that time recruiting 5,000 men, and
preparing for an invasion of Styria.
The highest veneration is paid by Klapka
to the genius and greatness of tbe character
of Kossuth. In Klapta's opinion, Kossulh is
worth 100,000 Hungarians; but Kossulh arm
ed too much at once, and was too decided
for the entire independence of Hungary, ar.d
for a republican government. But for this,
the most favorable conditions would have
been agreed to, in the spring, by Austria,
under English and French guaranty.
The emigration from Hungary is now daily
inoreasing. Theia are 160 Hungarians now
in Hamburgh, and the roost liberal collections
have been made for them. The banker,
Heine, for instance, has subscribed for him
self alone, 5,000 marks banco, equivalent to
82,000. General Klapka has gone to England
where he will have an interview wilh Kos
suth, who is expected there on tht 6th inst.
Go to strangers for charity, aquainlanoes
for advice,, and relatives fur nothing and
you will always huve a supply.
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' TEE AIORXCAIT. "
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, IBIS.
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the most talented writers of this country. Among
the engravings we notice 'The Introduction of
Christianity into Britain," a well dosigncd mez
zotint -"The Flight of Time," a handsome lino
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mined to make each numlicr an improvement on
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tin measures 21 by 30 inches full. It will be sold
simply, because we have no further use for it.
O We are indebted lo the Hon. Jos.
Casey, for favors from Washington.
A full account of. the murder of
Dr. Parkman, which has caused so much
excitement in Boston, will be found in an
other column.
fiy The President's Message. We
had made arrangements to publish the Presi
dent's Message, but as the House was not
able to elect a speaker, it was not received
in time for this weeks paper.
C7Ri;cister & Recorder Mr. John P,
PurseT, tho newly elected Register & Reeor
der took possession of tbe oiiice on Saturday
last. Mr. Pursel has had considerable expe
rience in the duties of the office as clerk, and
will make a good officer.
QV" Ins Weather. Hail and sleet to
the depth of four or five inches, fell on Sun
day night. On Monday a portion of it dis
appeared, making travelling by foot or other
wise exceedingly unpleasant. A few inches
of snow would make excellent sleighing
should the weather become cold.
fUPosT Master General's Report.
The Report of the Post Master General was
received this week through the Philadelphia
Ledger, on the day that we looked for th
President's Message. The Post Office De
partment is in a most flourishing condition
The excess of revenue over the expendi
tures, amounts to $091,682 70. The excess
for the next year is estimated at $1,033,
710 57. The Post Master General recom
mends the reduction of lettler postage to
uniform standard of 5 cents for all distances
and a further reduction if on trial the de.
puruiK-iii can oe sustained, ineiree cir
culation of newspaper in the vicinity of
their publication is also hinted at, if it can
be done without injury to the Post Masters.
Congress will not fail to accomplish this, i
members can find any time to spare for the
wants of the people.
fp" The Rev. Dn. Green has left an
antobiography written several years before
his death. Ainoug a number of anecdotes.
of Washington and the men of his time, w
notice the following :
Washington's Wit.
"It was the usage, while Washington was
r resident ot tbe United Mules, tor the clergy
ol the city lo go in a body to congratulate nun
on his birthday ; and on these occasions he
always appeared unusually cheerful. The
last lime we made such a call, which was
about ten days before his retirement from of
fice, he said, with singular vavacity, 'Gentle
men, leul I lie weight ol years; 1 take
pair of sixes on my shoulder this day.' Th
great man was nut in his proper element
when he attempted a pleasant conceit, I
never witnesed his making the attempt but
ou this occasion : and if hit allusion, asl sup
pose must have been the case, was to the
titty-sixes used in weighing heavy articles,
U was aurelv far-fetched, and not verv obvi.
ous IU eulered bis sixiy-sixtb year at this
time." '
The fault found here is, we think, ground,
less. It is cot so much the want of wit in
Washington, as the want of its perception,
in the Kemend Doctor. Washington evi
dently referred to the figures 66, the oume
rals which represented his a. :
'IT- ' !
Enjoin W. Hawkins denies the story,
that all but one of the six origin) Washing.
Ionian had broke the pledge, au4 gone to
driuking again.
On me, when dunces are satiric,
t take it for a panegyric ;
Dean Swift.
Our neighoor ol the Caxette is certainly
an original, and ii he deserves credit for
anything, it is for the facility with which
he can shift his attitude! and positions in an
argument. We confess, however, that we
have been taken by surprise, for in all his
various gyrations,w we never expected
him to turn critic Could presumption go
further f Hear him ! ye sages, at well as
ye dablers in poetry.
"When, dear Mr. Editor, ron wish to be
forcible and sham in vour editorials, yon
must not insert in them a parcel of stale
verses, which add nothing lo the vigor of the
article, nor tend in the least toils adornment.
w hen a writer wisties lo De perspicuous ana
correct in his composition, he clears it of all
excrescencies be Ions off all exuberant mat
ter he discards every thins that loots use
froth or fustian, and he never repeals the
sayings of Hudibras, especially when he has
repeated them a thousand limes Detore. Hea
ven has not designed every one to be a Solo
mon, but has wisely confined wisdom to
particular few, from whom its beams should
radiate like light trora a terncle sun "
The editor has evidently been greatly
annoyed by the application ol the "stale"
verses from the Spectator and from Butler
in our reply to his article. We have, it is
true, a liking (or the verses of these ancient
authors, which the Gazette stigmatises as
stale. This, however, is wholly a matter
of taste, and we shall never quarrel with
the editor for preferring the freshness- and
Ihegreenness of the contributions to his own
columns. But we really were under the
impression, with the rest ol the world, that
a quotation well applied had some point:
and, no doubt, the editor feds so himself.
We also concur with this renowned critic
that all "excrescencies," should be "lopped
off," and we advise him, as example is bet
ter than precept, to begin by lopping off
the "i" in his own "excrescencfes," and
adopt another standard, for spelling verti
cal. Truly such glaring omissions (we
shall not call them errors,) do not come
with a good grace from a critic.
But to be candid, we must say, that we
have not been very forcibly struck with
cither the wit or the poetry of this modern
critic, and as he seems to have an aversion
to Hudibras, we give him a few lines from
Pope, in his essay on criticism, as expres
sive of our own views of his efforts.
Some have at first for wits, then poelspass'd,
Turn'd critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last,
Some neither ran for wits nor critics pass,
As heavv mules are neither horse nor ass.
Why our ice cream freezes should annoy
the Gazette, we can't concieve. We ad
vise him to try one, and if he does not
choose to use it for the purpose designed.
it may serve at least to consolidate and give
consistency to his ideas.
In regard to the editor's explanation of
his inconsistency in expressing opinions
for and against the tariff of 1S42, in the
space often months, we only to say that
the explanation differs from the one given
on a former occasion ; but we are charitable.
and are willing that he shall escape from
this "tight place," by the usual cant ofth
free-traders, that it is better for farmers to
buy iron, an article made up almost wholly
of labor, from the British manufactures,
than from our own countrymen, thus send
ing our money abroad to feed British la
borers on the products of British farmers,
instead of patronizing our own.
O" The most important, at least the most
interesting item of foreign news, is the fare
well address of Kossuth to the Hungarians,
of which we publish an extract in another
column. What a withering rebuke he pas
ses upon Gorgey whom he had invested
with ihe chief command of the army, and
who treacherously surrendered to the Rus
sians. Kossuth had designed transferring the
chief command from Gorgey to Bern, some
time previous lo the surrender. He probably
had some misgivings in regard to Gorgey at
the time.
TIlinTT-FIRST CONGRESS 1st Session.
Srrvnd Day's Precsedinss.
Washington, Deo. 4.
HOl'SE.
The House met at 12 o'clock. Journal of
yesterday read by the Clerk.
The balloting for Speaker was then re-
sume,d with ihe following result:
FIFTH BALLOT,
Cobb, ..... 102
Wiuthrop, ..... 96
Wilmot, ...... io
Gentry, ... .
Scattering, - - . .10
Necessary lo a choice, 113.
After the 10th ballot which stood as fol
lows, the House adjourned :
TtNTH BALLOT.
Cobb, 99
Wiuthrop, ..... 97
Gentry, ......
Richardson, ....
Potter,
Cleveland; - - . .
Mann, ...... 2
Durkee, - .
Stanton, ......
The House adjourned at half-past 3, with
out being able to elect a speaker 113 being
necessary to a choice.
WEST BRANCH BANK.
The following persons were elected Direc
tors of the West Branch Bank for Ihe ensuing
year:
A. Updegraff, S.H. Lloyd, A. Woodward,
Geo. Tomb, Wm.' McKinuey, J. S. Grafius,
P. Dickinson, . S. Lowe, Jos. S. Williams,
Thomas Bennet, C. Gudykunst, John F. Cow
an, L. A. Mackey.
1 At a meeting of the board, A, Updegraff,
was unanimously ' elected President,' and
Thomas W, Lloyd, Cashier,
Silver is now the only legal tender lo Hol
land, but this is not owing to tho influx of
gold from California, but to a law passed in
1847.
Corraspnnaenee of the PnbHe Ledger .1
TltOM WASHINGTON.
Washmotom, Deo. 3, 1840.
There is some danger now of a general
row in the House of Representatives. Should
the election of Speaker be delayed by a . se
ries of unsuccessful ballots, which would force
both great parties in Congress and the country
to split up into fragments, there exists a strong
probability that we shall have a boisterous,
perhaps a disgraceful session of Congress, 1
notice that, for the last two days, there does
not exist between members of opposite par
ties that friendly and even polite intercourse
which, in former days, marked the gentle
man of either, and distinguished society in
the metropolis from that of other cities in
the Union. 1 see that the Whigs have com
pletely separated from the Democrats, and
the Free Sellers will bold no communication
either with Democrats or Whigs. On the
other hand, it cannot be denied lhat the cor
dial support which Mr. Howell Cobb has re
ceived from the Democratic party, South and
North, show that the national heart is still
beating in its light place, and that the Union
wilh all rational and thinking men, is still
considered the palladium of our liberty.
The Calhoun men of the south do not give
a cordial support to Mr. Cobb; and dare not
lump over the caucus wall. In conversation
they frankly admit that they would as soon
see a Whig organization of the House as
Democratic one; their object being really to
disorganize rather than lo build. They labor
under the singular delusion that the whole
federal compact which binds them to ihe
north is radically wrong; and that the only
way to put it right, is to annul it and make
new one. Children have never played
mote foolishly with razors than these self
same Calhoun men play wilh the union of
the States, and the honor and prosperity of
the country.
COUNTERFEIT NOTES.
A new spnrious bank note has made its
appearance, in the shape of S3 bills, purpor
ting to be of the Farmers Bank, Columbia
county, dated Hudson, Jan. 15, 1849 the
date being engraved. The vignette repre
sents three women, and there is a head of
Washington on one end. The figure 3 is in
six places aid it boars the names of James
Duff, Jr., Register, and E. Gifford, President.
There is no such bank.
Counterfeit notes of the denomination of
five dollars, on the Franklin Bank of Balti
more, are in circulation. They are said to
be well executed and calculated to deceive,
but in what respect they differ from the gen
ine note we have not been informed.
Altered Notes. A 82 bill on the old
Trenton State Bank, altered so as lo repre
sent the Chesapeake Bank of Baltimore, has
been detected. The alterations and sig
nitures are roughly done. The name of
Geo. IFo'son, the payee of tho State Bank
notes, has not been altered.
North Branch Canal Allotment. The
Board of Canal Commissioners was in session
in this city on Saturday, and made the fol
lowing allotment of the work on the North
Branch Canal : Sections No. 1 1, Jacob Sei
ber&Co.; 12, Dykens & Wondel; 21, John
McCord;27, Patrick Burke; 67, Patrick
Burke; 69, Sturdivant & Little; 75, Jacob
Seiler & Co; 98, J. & J. Lamon; 111, John
Snodgrass; 112, John Snodgrass ; 113, Mead
&Carrigan; 114, Fiancis Blair & Co., 134,
Jackson McFadden; 159, John Sturdivant;
162, George Liebrick ; 173, Cochran & Mc-
Lane ; 174, John McMahon ; 182, Rody Mc-
Gee & Co.; 183, Edward Kerns & Co.; 184,
Wm. Phelan & Co.
The Hungarian Refugees. Tho brief in
telligence by the last steamer does not con
firm the rumor by Ihe previous on that the
Hungarians are to be imprisoned in Turkey
lo gratify Nicholas, and it is probably untrue
Still they appear, by letters from Widden, to
be under close surveillance. The rooms in
which they are confined are every moment
visited by soldiers or police ; and if they stir
out, they are, either on foot or on horseback,
everywhere followed by armed patrols. The
refugee soldiers, enclosed within the cordon
of their camp, without covering, insufficiently
clothed, and suffering with cholera, are ex
posed to the hottsun by day, and to the bitter
cold and Danube dews by night, while their
converted brethren roam at large in Ihe free
enjoyment of the abundance lavish piety
showers upon them.
Thb National Washington Monument.
Ihe obelisk of this monument is now 48
feet high above the surface of the earth It
is 55 feet square, cased wilh marble, with
walls fifteen feet thick, leaving a cavity of
twenty-five feet. Seventeen States and Ter
ritories nave contributed a block of stone, the
production of the Slate or Territory towards
erecting it, according to the original design,
which includes a contribution of the kind
from each Slate.
Chicago is said to be the largest beef-pack
ing market in the Union. The amount al
ready packed there this year is teported at
tu,uuu barrels, some 20,000 beef cattle hav
ing been killed in the last seven weeks.
Caps are worn small, and much decorated
with flowers, Home costumes will be made
high in the neck. Furs are very popular
Felt bonnets aro ronch worn by young ladies.
The New York Mirror speaks favorably
of a newly invented machine for carving
meiai or wooj, now in operation in that city,
It is said to work with rapidly and excellence.
A man is engaged in the business of ped
dling tombstones in Northampton county, Pa.
He has a wagon load of ready-made articles
wilh him, only wanting tbe names and stops
ai me nouses by the wayside to enquire for
is said that more emigrants have pas.
sed over tbe National Roud, west ward Iv,
during the past season, than any season for
ten years past.
Daniel S, Dickeriun, of New Bedford,
Mass.,' has recovered the sum of 92,800
gainst Samuel M. Grave for reducing hU
Wife,' ,;:.....
Sir Henry Lttton Bitlwer, Minister to
this country,- is accompanied by bis wife,
who is niece of the Duke of Wellington.
CoMffTiTiow to California. Steamers 1
to Chagres are now multiplying so rapidly,
that the fare on this side of the Isthmus will
soon be j reduced. In addition to the lines
composed of the Empire City and the Cres
cent City, and the Ohio, Falcon and Georgia,
a new line is advertised to leave Philadelphia
for Charleston, Havana and Chagres; the
first vessel, leaves on the 11th of December.
The Sarah Sands and the steamship Termes
see, are both op for San Franeisco, via Caps
norn.
Colombvs. Ohio The State Journal savs
that one hundred and buildings, most of them
substantial bricks and several of them elegant
residences, nave oeen ereciea aurmg tne
past summer at Columbus, the capital of the
State of Ohio. .
LIST OF CAUSES
7iOR trial in the Court Common Pleas of Nor-
thumbcrland
Countv at January
Term
Danville & Pottsville
Rail Road Co.
Wm & R. Kcgcly
Israel (Jutclius
Wm. r-'tarks
vs Hawood A. Snyder
vs George Hcckert
vs John Porter
vs John McGinnis
vs Wm. Ayres
vs Leah fttroecker
vs same
Frederick Keener
John Carver's heirs
A ndrew Garret et al
Henry H. Burr
John McGinnis
Lewis Crcssmon et al
Laeh 8troecker
Jacob Houscl & wife
Peter Richtcr's cx'rs
Ann Myers
Rachorl McCarty
vs Wm. McCay'sadm'rs
vs W m. Btnrks
vs Jacob Ruhl's ex'rs
vs Jacob Hoffman
vs Philip House! admr's
vs Dodge fc Barret
vs Dcwartdr Jordanetal
vs Elizalieth Weitzel et al
Jacob W. rVitzinccr
vs Leah Stroeckcr
Wm. & R. Fegely &Co. vn John Khisslcr
Nonh S Mackey vs Bomucl Finney
D. 11 oats for W. II. Fry mire vs Isaac Brown
Samuel Boudmnn vs Jacob Hower
D. 8. Dodjre for Moor & Biddlc vs W.& R, Fcfrcly
Jacob Karrhner vs David Frymiro et al
Jacob W. Pfouts vs A. Khawn
Aaron Rrppart vg Ira T. Clement
Chns. W. Richards vs Joseph Pcttit
David Miller vs B"11""". Byrs A
Hunter
Jacob P. Miller ct al
vs J. & M. A. Sweney
vs J. Wynn & J. Vanzant
vs Jacob Leisenring
vs Jacob Calel
vs Robert W Dunn
vs James Dunn
Sarah Bovcr ct al r
Wm De I'uey
Wm II Thompson
Mary Snyder ct al
same
Joseph Vandyke
vs Cornelius Smith
vs Samuel R Wood
rontius 6r I hompson
John T McPhcrson vs S Snyder, M Snyder etal
r.nm f. Sml P. ... s " Jordan, b Hunter
Alex Jordan
M Swrnev A wife
vs Michael Miller
vs John B Boyd's ex'rs
vs Korthumlierland county
v Eward A Kutzucr
vs Jacob Weike & wife
John B Miller
Wm L Dewart
Roliert McCay
J. P. Shulli
Jaeob Philips
vs George L. Weimcr
vs Teter & D V cimcr et al
Sarah Ijctghou,
John Hartman vs F Burkcnbine adm'r
J Clayton for J Mc Williams vs John Bower
F. d'Donnell for Wm F Kaalo vs John Divers
jut 1. r
Com 'wealth for J Kroh vs T A Billington lr bail
Henry W. Snyder
vs Wm F Wng;onsellcr
vs James it Wm Ross
I has l'leasants
Hugh Delias
Conrad Reedy
Mary Vickery
same
same
same
Wm. Reed, adiu'r of
Robert S. Grant
vs
vs K Hosts & Stoughton
vs Peter Fcssler
vs Peter Brosious
vs John Bnl ib
vs Daniel Gonsert
L. B. Christ, assignee vs Christ & Young
John Weber et al vs Stnrrick & Shriner
Franklin Piatt & Co., vs same
Charles 11 Frick . vs Eli Slifor
Thos Cummings ct al vs J Parke & D R Rishel
Jonathan Lcedam ct al vs Wm McCay's adm'rs
John Arnold vs George Lyon
R D Cumming vs Montgomery tc Mastcller
Reliccca Hunly vs Peter Stull
Chas PlcasanU vs James Sc. Wm Ross
la me 1 Bhoads vs Jacob Wertman
G P Tyson for Job Tyson vs Daniel I,. Srhncck
JOHN FARNSWORTH, JVoMYy.
Prothonotary's office 1
Sunbury, Dee. 8, 1849. J
THE PEOPLE'S VAOE-aXEOTJM
COMPRISING a collection of over 200
VALUABLE RECIPES,
In the Useful and Interesting Arts with a few
Simple and Carious Experiments in
CHEMISTRY :
TNCLUDG Medicines, Perfumery, Chemistry
Cookery, Farriery, Dying, Confectionary, Do
mestic Economy, etc etc. etc Price 6? cts., for
ale by HENRY MASSER.
Sunbury, Dec 8, 1849.
Estate of Mary Moore dee'd., aud
Jacob Moore, dee'd,
NOTICE is hereby given, that letters of admi
nistration on said deceased's estates, have
been granted to the subscriber. All persons hav
ing claims against the estates, are requested to
present them for examination and settlement, and
those indebted to the estates are requested to
make immediately payment
. PETER MOORE.
Lower Augusta, Dec. 8, 1849.
REGISTER'S KUI IC'E.
OTICE is hereby given to all Legatees..
Creditors aud other persons interested m
the Estates of Henry Malich, dee'd., settled by his
Administrator, 1'rter Malirfc; el Abraham Eister,
dee'd., settled by his Administrator, John S. Eis
ter; (supplementary account) of Abraham Kiss
inger, dee'd., settled by his Executors John F.
Wollinger, and John Kissinger ; (second supple
mentary account) of John Price, dee'd., settled
by his Administrator David Marlz, Esq.; of Anns
Irland, dee'd., Bottled by her Executor John Ir
land ; of Mary Awl, dee'd., settled by one of her
Administrators George C. Welker, Esq.; ef Hugh
McGinly, dee'd., settled by his administrator Wil
liam Honsel of John Lighou, dee'd., settled by
his surviving Executor Daniel Brautigan; of
btcaner Keed, dee d., settled by her Administra
tor Feter Amwine and Mungo A. Keed ; of Geo.
Stratton, dee'd., settled by his Administrator Wil
liam C. Law sou l of Jacob Keller, dee'd., settled
by his Executors Philip Keller, Solomon Keller
and Daniel Keller 1 of Godfrey Laeitzell, dee'd..
settled by his' Executor Benjamin Laeitzell ; of
martin Y eavcr, dee u., settled by his sdmistrator
William H. Mueneh ; That the Executors and
Administrators of said Estates have filed their
account s with the Register of Northumberland
county, and that the same will be presented to the
Orphans' Court of said county on TUESDAY the
8th day of January next for confirmation and al
lowance. JOHN P. PURSEL, Register.
Register's Office, )
Sunbury, Dec 8th, 1849. )
In ihe mailer of ihe exceptions to the account
of Catharine and Rebecca Painter, Exe
cutors of -Mary Painter, dee'd.
THE subscriber appointed auditor by the Or
phans' Court of Northumberland county, in
the above matter, hereby notifies all persons inter,
csud, that he will attend to the duties of his ap
pointment on Saturday, tha SSd day of December
1849, at 10 o'clock, A. M, at his office in the
Borough of Sunbury.
CHARLES J.BRCNER. Auditor.
, Sunbury, Doc 8, 1849.
A School Teacher Wanted.
SEALED proposals will b received by tha Di
rectors of tha Common School in ihe borough
of Sunbury until 1 o'clock P M, on Saturday tha
$th day ofDeoamber next, for on male Teacher,
at which Urns there will be a meeting of the said
directors held in room No. 4 of the Public School
Heuae when the application will be eonsldered,
the allotment made and Teacher examined. '
By order f the foard, , i
W. L. DEWAUT, President
O. M. YORKS, See'y
Suubury, Dec. t, 1819, " '
PROCLAMATION
M OT1CE Is hercny given that the several court
: of Common Pleas, General Quarter Sessions
of the peace, and Orphans' Court, Court of Oyer
1 enniner ana ueneral Jail delivery, In and
for the county of Northumberland, to commence
t the Court House, In the borough of Sunbury,
st 10 o clock, A.M. on Monday, 7th of January
next, will continue TWO WEEKS.
The coroner, Justices of the Peace snd consta
bles in snd for the county of Northumbsrland, are
requested to be then and there m their proper
sons, with their rolls, records, inquisitions, and
other remembrances, to do those things to their
several offices appertaining to ha done. And all
witnesses prosecuting in behalf of the Common "
wealth against any prisoner ara also requested and
commanded to be then and there attending in their
proper persona w prosecute against him, as shall -,
be just and not to depart without leavs st their
peril. Jurors are requested to be punctual in thsff
attendance, at the time appointed agreeable M
their notices.
Given under my hands at Sunbury, the 1st day of
December in the year of our Lord ono thousand
eight hundred and forty-ninc and the Inde
pendence of the United States of America the
73d.
JAMES COVERT, Sh'ft. .
Cod savo tho Commonwtalth.
DIl- J- J- UPBEGllAFF,
PESPECTFlrLLY informs the citizen, of '
1 - Danville and the public at large, that he has '
located in Danville, and is now prepared to prac
tice Medicine and Surgery in all its various bran
ches. He will operate on all the various forms
of blindness, cross eyes, cluh feet, harelip, cleft
palate, and attend to the extraction of tumors,
amputation of limbs, and all other surgical dis
eases. His collection of instruments comprises
all instruments in modern Surgery, of the latest
improvement and finest finish. He flatters him
self thnt many years' practice and experience will
be a sufficient guarantee to those who may feel
disposed to employ him.
His residence is nearly opposite the Montgome
ry BtriJiufrt, and next door to Isaac Rosen
ba urn's store, in North Danville.
A'U.l.ltli:, 1vl.i 1, IO'.. I,
ORPHANS' COURT
SALE-
N pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court
of JVorthumherlHiid countv, will be exposed to
Public Ssilc on Saturday the 2'Jth clnv of Decem
ber next, at the house of Mrs. Wharton in Sunbu
ry, the following projicrty to wit: A certain lot of
ground in the Borough of Sunbury, bounded on
the north by lot IS'o 86, on the west by Water
street, and on the south by lot No. 88 and number
ed in the town plau No. 87 containing one
fourth of an acre more or loss, whereon is erected
a two stnry log House, rough cast, to w hich is at
tached a log kitchen, iVe., lute the cstntc of Mary
Bargcr, (or Yun Bcrger,) deed., now in the occu
pancy of Samuel Fetter. Hale to commence at
10 o'clock A. M. of said when the conditions there
of will lie made known by.
HENRY BARTSIIER, Adm'r.
By order of the Court,
David Rockefeller, Clk O. C. J Dee. 1, 1849.
VENDUE,
Of Steal and 1'craoual Property.
f" N Wednesday the 20th of December next, at
10 o'clock A. M., at the lute residence of Peter
Burns, dee'd., in Lower Augusta towgship, will
be otVcrcd for sale, Horses, Waggons, Plough,
Harrow, Sheep, Hogs, Corn and Oats by the
bushel, and Gruin in the ground together with
some Household furniture, ono Rifle, one Shot Gun,
Hay by the ton, &c.
ALSO At the same time and placo,
A Tract of f.iuid,
containing 118 acres more pr less, on which tho
deceased resided, and on which are erected two
comfortable Dwelling Houses, one Barn, one
.Stable, About lOOarre of said land are cleared,
and in a pretty good state of cultivation. Tho
said tract of land is about fi miles below Sunbury,
and adjoins Henry Conrad, Henry Masser, Joseph
Folk and others. Terms' of sals will be made
known on day of sale, bv
HENRY BURNS, Ea'r
Lower Augusta tp., Dec. 1, 1S49 ts
SlIEMEE'S SALE
T) Virtue of a certain writ of Fieri Facias to me
directed will be exposed to public sale at the
house of Henry Eckbcrt, in the borough of Milton,
at 1 1 o'clock A. M., on Saturday the 2Sd of De
cember next, the following real estate, to wit :
A certain lot of ground situate in the borough
of Milton, between front street and the west
branch of the Susquehanna river, beginning at at
corner of a lot of S. DictVcndrrfcr on Front street,
thence along said street 30 feet, thence by line"
parallel wilh the line on the south side of said lot
of the said Solomon DielTenderfer, and extending
as far back westward as midway between high and
low watermark of said river; thence up the said
river 30 feet to the corner of said lot of the said 8.
Dieflenderfcr ; thence by the line on the smith
side of the said lot of the said Solommi Dielfcnder
fer to the place of beginning ; it being the' same
lot of ground which teth I Comly, by deed dated
December 1, 1842, granted and confirmed ht fee
to Paul Bennett Whereon is ercctell a large
two story brick dwelling bouse and store room,
with a brick kitchen attached and other out-buildings,
now in tho possession of Paul Bennett.
JAMES COVERT, Shr'ff.
Sheriff office Sunbury,
Dec. t, 1819, U J
Winter Arrangement.
PHILADELPHIA AND READING RAIL
ROAD, FROM PHILADELPHIA
TO POTTsVILLE.
ON and afu?r November 1st, 1849, the Pas
sengcr Trains will run between Philadelphia
and Pottsvillc as follows :
Leaves Philadelphia at 6J A. M., daily except
Sundays.
Arrives at Reading at 1 1 18.
Arrive at Potlsville at 12 50.
Leaves Pottsvilte at 8 J A. M. daily except Sun
days. Arrives at Reading at 10.
Arrives at Philadelphia at 12 50. '
FARES. PottsviUe and Philadelphia 3,50
and 3,00; PottsviUe and Reading 1,40 and 1,20
Reading and Philadelphia 2,25 and 1,90.
Passengers cannot enter the cars unless provi
ded with Tickets.
There will be no Afternoon Train.
NOTICE. Fifty pounds of baggage will be al
lowed to each passenger in these lines ; and pas
sengers are expressly prohibited from taking any
thing as baggage but their wearing spparet, wWcl
will be the risk of Ihe owner.
By order of the Board of Managers.
8. BRADFORD,
Nov. 34, 1849. Secretary
HXCKEY & TULL,
Ao. ifto C'liesDUt street,
(Opposite the Arcade)
VHXLADB&rmeY,
1 ANL'FACTl'RERS of their improved style-"-
Elastic Steel Spring, Solid Sole Leather, audi
SoUd Riveted
TIKUXKS,
which took the only first premium, awarded by
the Franklin Institute at their last exhibition.
H. & T. take pleasure in informing the travel
ling public, that tltey have now en hand, a beau
tiful aasortaisNt of their improved style ef Solid
Sole Leather Trunks; Double and Single Folio
Trunks, of various styles ; Ladies' Trunks, Va
liee Trunks. Bonnet Bote. Can Casus, r4 .
Bags, and an elegant assortment etr,iWil
lr Old Trunks Rrii-iJ.L. . .
for New one JJZ TZZ"1
-- See JIlVilYJSe .
r.v.1 1 , ; RICHARD W. TULLs,
PhilalUs, Noy ,r Mi W.VS