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SUNBUllY AMERICAN AND SHAMOKlOoUKNAL.
California JCcuis.'
rHOM CALIFORNIA.
The news of the admission or California
Into the Union was received at San Francisco
8 union wns m-cie
18ih, at 11 o'clock, A.M., by the mail
tr Oregon, Lieut. Patterson, V. 5. N-,
on the
learner
ml caused a great rejoicing, Doniire, illumi
nation, &c
THE ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA.
When the news of this event reached San
Francisco, it excited general rejoicings. The
ships in the harbor fired their gnus, the first
tine to blaze away being a British bark from
Liverpool. The Alta California thus de
cribes the scene in the city :
The Orepon came gallantly into the har
bor, gracefully decorated, and telling the im
portance of the news she broiicht, by con.
' tinned cannonading. At once the American
Flag went up from every possible place in
ths city. One gallant fellow worked his
way up the slippery flag-stair on the Square,
and rove the pennant halyards amid the
cheers of the crowd. Then the Slars and
Stripes went floating aloft, and every hat
swung around, and every voice was brought
into requisition, to welcome the first public
flag ever raised there in honor of the Thirty
first Siate of the Union. "Thiee times three"
were given in token of pri.lo and pleasure J
.. mnnv more for Harrv Clay, tor naving -as
sisted in nutting it there;" the same for Mr.
Benton for the same reason, and many cheers
f,.r others. Then the people contributed be
tween S200 and S300 for the benefit of the
fine fellow who "shinned" 'up" the flag-staff.
Soon two splendid pieces of ordinance were
on the ground beneath the flag, and a grand
salute of wo do not know how mauy guns
fired in honor of the great occasion. These
cannon were from the revenue cutter, and
under the direction of Capt. Fra.er, were
skilfully managed. Universal joy seems to
prevail among all classes. The young repub
licans are glorious, and so are the old. Seve.
ral thousand dollars were subscribed within
two hours for a Grand Ball in honor of the
occasion. The Kl Dorado and other build
ings were illuminated, and crackers and fire
arms and happy voices all told unmistakeably
of the love of the Union, which is one of the
strongest feelings in the hearts of our citi
zens. LYNCH LAW.
The Sacramento Transcript has the follow
ing: An instance of this summary mode of
dispensing justice took place on Monday last
at Georgetown, while the election was going
on. It seems that a man by the name rf
Pevine had taken to gambling, and as he
was in the habit of loosing his money, his
wife hid all that came inlo his possesion. On
Sunday, as he had pot "broke," he demanded
th monev she had hid. She refused to do-
liver it if he intended to use in gam
bng,
TVvine threatened to kill her.
Ashe seized his ami she blew out the can
dle and fled into another room; ho how
ever discharged il at her. The. contents
passed through the door and killed her. An
enraged crowd, several hundred strong, as
sembled forthwith, set Divine on a horse, and
rode him ofT to a tree. Here they made him
kneel upon the horse's buck, put the rope
around his neck and drove ihe horse ntT, leav
ing him hanging from the branch of the
tree.
ITEMS EROM THE MINES.
The Placer Times contains the details of a
murderous transaction, which is horrible even
te read about. Two Chinamen, working on
the north branch of ihe Calaveras, and who
were known to have some half dozen pounds
of dust, were visited by some neighboring
white peisons; one of the Chinese was
jnstantly killed by the blow from a crowbar,
and the other knocked down, his skull frae
tared, his arm shattered in fending off tht
blows, robbed and left for dead, w here he e
mained three days and nights, through rin
and heal. When found, he was covered with
mud and gore, and vermin were in the terri
ble gashes iu his head ! Poor fellows A
more peaceable class of miners is not to be
found than the Chinamen, and wo hope the
hellish perpetrators of this tragedy may be
detected.
The Sacramento Transcript says that in
Grass Hollow Dry Dieginas, five men not long
since, took out nearly $5,000 a piece in less
than a week.
The same paper says that new diggings
have recently been discovered in the vicinity
ef Placerville-, a part of which are quite pro
ductive. Four men took out about $400 for
several days in succession. The diggings
are located near the lop of one of the highest
hills about the place, which indicates quite
clearly, that the whole earth in that vicinity
oontains more or less of the "dust." Tho
gold that has been found iu the new diggings
is quite coarse and is found in a strata of
earth about 16 feet below the surface..
THE HAWKIN'S- BAR COMPANY.
This Association, consisting of 109 mem
bers, succeeded iu changing the entire chan
nel of the Tuolomne liver, at this place, by
means of a dam across the river and upon the
ba,r, being about 400 yards long ; also, two
canals of 300 yards in length. This Associ
ation was at work last season taking out about
14 ounces of gold per day, when the water
raised five feet last October, and obliged them
to suspend operations until this season. The
company commenced again on the 20th of
August, and on the 5th of September were
able to take gold out of the bed' of the river,
until Ihe late freshet on the 23d, which des
troyed a greater part of their works. After
wailing for the water to subside, they commen
ced operations again on tho 30th u It., and on
Ihe 7th of the present mouth, were again en
abled' to lake out their pounds. The sum
already taken out up to the present time
amounts-to over -ten thousand dollars this
year. The oompany are making active pre.
parations to. drain a large hole within the
limit of the dam, when they expect to take
dust out by the bushel. As far down below
the water's edge as has been worked, it
yields from two to eight dollars the bucket.
Stockton Journal,
The Indians all along the upper Sacrameiv-
to and Trinity diggingsare becoming exceed
ingly troublesome We have several lute
ceouiits ef murders committed by them
About two weeks since, near the upper
crossing of the Trinity, a man named Otey
was walking along, his partner being in the
rear ; something hitting him, he turned and
discovered three Indians, who hail dischar
ged their arrows, three of them probing him
in the back. On starting for the purpose of
joining his partner, two more arrows struck
him, wounding him dangerously, ifnotmor
tally. '
A gentleman, named Mr. Cassidy. had sev
eral claims in a ravine a mile and a half this
side of the North Fork of Yuba, which he
had worked for some lime, but with little
success. Having located another claim, ne
transferred his old claim to a Doctor Thorn.
The Doctor and his party, four men, went
to work about 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
and by sundown washed out sixty four oun
ces of gold. Mr. C. had worked within two
feet of the point whore the treasure lay, and
might be compared to the old cobbler in lr
ving's Alhambrn, who lived all his life next
dnor to fortune, but never could manage to
get under the same roof.
A most horrible murder has been commit
ted at the Mormon Gulch. The unfortunate
victims were Italians, and had 83000 In gold
dust in their posession. Suspicion rests on
three Chillians and two negroes.
A Lump WRiouiNd 13 Pounds. A lump
of pure gold weighing 13 pounds has been
found in the town of Senora, by a Mexican.
It was discovered v in the creek running
between Sonora proper and tho Sonorian
camp.
BATTLE WITH INDIANS.
A party of whites under Captain Best, of
the brig Orbit, now lying at our levee, and
an old California adventure, Mr. Van Deuzen,
had a severe engagement with a parly of In-
dinns, at the month of Salmon river, on the
Klamnth, about the middle of Augnst'last.
The Indians, it appears, had taken nine white
men, whom they were holding as quasi priso
ners, having robbed them of their clothes,
provisions, horses, &c., some time before this
party of whites arrived at Salmon river.
Best and his company of course demnnded
the instant restoration of the goods to the
robbed party, but the demand was not com
plied with. The whites collected theii for
ces, and measures were conceited for a gen
eral fight. All told, some fifty while men
appeared, with some 300 Indians arrayed
against them. The fight was kept up for
some hours, the Salmon river dividing the
combatants. During the battle 24 Indians
were killed, and several white men severely,
though not moi tally wounded. The huts of
the Indians, with their wives and children
were on that sido of the river where the
whites had stationed themselves; and as ihe
Indians, contrary to their expectations, hail
failed to whip Capt. Best's party, they sent
in a proposition for peace. As the whites
had been revenged, they consented to "bury
ihe tomahawk."
ART INTELLIGENCE AMERICANS IX
ROME.
A correspondent of the London Athananim
says the Americans seem to be the only people
in Rome who are suffered to exhibit their politi
cal, eristic and religious heresies with impu
nity. Powers' emblematic statue of the Repub
lic of the United States is progressing, and Air
Crawford'sdesign for a monument to Washing.
ton is described by him us follows: Tho de
sign, for which 8100,000 is to be paid, is or
iginal and striking. From the centre of i
huge block of gr;inito, cut into the form of a
star with six rays, rises a pedestal, on which
stands an equestrian statue of ihe Legislator,
sixteen feet in height. The six points of the
star are surmounted by six colossal statues
one of them an allegorical figure of Viiginia,
the hero's birth place three of them statues
of distinguished generals who were his com
panions in arms the other two representing
statesmen who were connected with him iu
the great struggle and succeeded him in ihe
office of President. The casting, it is said
will be done iu either Paris or Munich. All
the figures, except that of Virginia, are to be
done in bronze. The writer says the Amari
cans have just obtained permission to build a
Protestant church tho fust ever permitted in
the Eternal Cily. Their architects are now
at work and in a short time the edifice w ill
rear its head in the neighborhood of the an
cient tomb of Augustus, and iu the very Via
de Pontifici!
Returning Cai.ifokniass. About one
thousand persons were on the Isthmus when
the last steamers were ready to sail. Three
hundred anil fifly were taken on board the
Cresent City and five hundred on board the
Pacific, a steamer about the size of the Ad
miral. On tho Pacific they were absolutely
packed in bulk, and for neurly ona day be
fore reaching Havana were without provis
ions and water. Of the Crescent City's pas
sengers, w ho arrived at New York on Thurs
day night, a number are sick of Chagres fe
ver ; others, worn out with their hardships in
California, are not only sick,' but absolutely
pennyless; and' will have to depend upon
the charity of strangers for means to reach
their various homes. Of all the Cresent City's
passengers perhaps not more than twenty or
thirty have gained anything by their Califor-'
riia trip, while hundreds of others have not
only lost all, but are also ruined in constitu.
tion. Perhaps the want of success was as
much their own fault as that of the coun
try from which they have returned. It re
quires energy, industry, perseverance and
business tact to make a fortune in any coun
try, and where one will starve, another, with
the right kind of talent, will reap riches.
A Tall 'Living.' The Calvary Church'
N. Yuik, in addition to $5000 salaiy, ha
given it is reported, Dr. Hawks, its Rector,
415,000, furnished a parsonage house, and
insured his life to- the amount of $10 000.
This is probably the largest living ever be.,
towed upon any clergyman iu the Union.
Deadly Encounter Between. Two Fam
ilies. Louisville, Nov. 29. We learn that
the male members of the Hamilton and John
son families, of Tennessee, between-whom a
family difiioulty having its origin in poli
tics has for some time past existed) met re.
cently at Adamsburg, Alabama, to fight.
Two of ihe llamiltons were badly wuuudd,
mid wero not expected to survive.
TEE
SUNBURY.
s ATt; n DAT, November an, i?.it.
II. B. MASftEll, Eillinr and Proprietor.
V. B. PAt.MKH II our aulliorici) itpMit to Treelve mib
srrlpiion and advertising at Ills office, In Philadelphia, Now
York, Button nhri Baltimore.
To Auvkhtiukih. The circulation of the Puntuiry
Amerienn nmong Ihe riilTWeiit tnwna on tin Susquehanna
ia not etcptfleil If equalled lijr any paper published In North
etn Pennsylvania. 1
EnlTOU S TABLE.
Business Notices.
Ink T. Clrmkst, advertises a new stock of
goods, which he has just received from Philadel
phia, and now offers for Sale IS his customers.
Mr. T. S. BonsT, by his advertisement informs
the public, tli n t he has opened a new clock and
watch establishment In Selinssrovci Mr. Bobst
has the reputation of being; a careful and skilful
workman.
Holds' Maaixi!, for December, has come
to hnml. The publication is a elienp one at $100.
The contents are Varied and interesting.
C7"Pkintino Ink.
for cash at this office.
-A few kegs for sale
rj2r" A well written communication un
der the head of "Industry" will be found
on our third page. The author promise8
more of the same sort.
IT Post Mistress at NoRTnuJtnnrt-
land. We neglected to mention that Mrs.
Weimer has received the appointment of
Post Mistress at Northumberland, in place
of the late incumbent, Mrs. C. G. Boyd, re
signed. The appointment we believe, gives
general satisfaction.
05s Our Baptist friends have been hold
ing a protracted meeting in this place.
Three adult persons were baptized, by im
mersion in the Susquehanna, on Wednes
day morning last.
fj" John Baker, a man with a large fa
mily, was found dead at JMuncy, near
Frick's Boat Yard, on Thursday morning
the 21st inst., cause intemperance.
KF" There has been a rumor that the
President has ordered the arrest of Gov.
Quitman for trt-ason, arising out of the ex
pedition of Lopez.
F Koran Draw. Conrad Rhodes, a
German about 40 years old, who had been
employed for several months past at the
Hotel of Mr. J. C. Perkins, in this place,
was found dead on Sunday morning last.
He had been kicked in the face, a few
weeks since, which, together with a more
polent destroyer rum, was adjudged by
the Inquest to be the cause of his death.
RAIL ROAD FltOlt NEW YORK TO THE
SUSQUEHANNA.
There is no dpubt that ere long there
will be a rail way communication from
New York, by way of Easton and Allen
town, to the Schuylkill Coal Region, and
from thence, across by one or more of the
numerous proposed routes, to the Susque
hanna. The New Yorkers have a deep
interest in thi enterprise, and will, no
doubt, lend their assistance, and persevere
in its accomplishment. In connection of
this we may refer to the rail road from
Reading to Ilarnsburg, which is already
in progress of construction. It will draw
the greater portion of the travel from the
Columbia road, and much of the freight.
This road will pass from Harrisburg through
Lebanon, on a favorable location and a
rich country, to Reading, and there con
nect with the Reading road. The distance
to Philadelphia will only be a few miles
more, and the impression is that passen
gers will be carried from Philadelphia to
Harrisburg in three and a half hours over
this route. We extract the following from
the money article of the Philadelphia Led
ger of Monday last :
The people in the Schuylkill coal region
are pushing with much earnestness, ihe pro
ject of a direct railroad to New York. A
convention of delegates is lo be held at Al
lentowu on lhn 3d of next mouth, to which
the people of Orwigsburg appointed delegates
directing them to use the necessary and
pioper exertions to ell'ect a survey of the
contemplated railroad route Irom the junction
of Lizard Creek, and River Lehigh, in Carbon
county, following up saw Creek lo the Sum
mil, between it and Ko-nig's Creek, down
said Creek to Kinusold, from thence through
the Valley near McKeansburg and Orwigsburg
lo Schuylkill Haven ; from this point by the
way of Friedensburg and Piuegrove, through
Ihe Indiantown Gap, to-the River Susquehan
na, with the view lo form a connection be
tween ihe city of New York, and the State
Central Railway, at ihe point where said road
crosses the river Susquehanna, several miles
above the borough of Harrisburg.
FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.
Attorney General Crittenden, has given
his opinion in relation to' the U. S. Mar
shal, at Boston, in regard to the arrest of
fugitive slaves. He does not think there is
sufficient cause of dismissal,, but that the
Marshal might have used more energy in
the discharge of his duties. Whatever
opinion some of our citizens may have in
regard to the policy of passing such a law,
we do not see how they can, as good citi
zens, refuse to obey iti mandates. The
law is a stringent one in some respects, but
that arises from the peculiar nature of our
federal compact recognizing slavery, and
we have no more right to nullify, or inter
pose obstacles in enforcing this law, than
numerous others that are connected with
this subject.
CENSUS OF NORTIIl'MBEIt AAftD COUKTY,
COMPLETE.
We are Indebted to T. S. Mackey, Esq.,
the Drputy Marshal) for the following ab
stract of his labors, in taking the census of
this county. Mr. Mackey, ia alluding to
some slight errors in the statements previ
ously published, says, the population of
Sunbury is 1210 instead of 1213, which
makes the increase 111 instead of 105) that
of Milton is 1649, being an increase of 208.
Besides several other small errors have been
corrected.
Miltom, Nov. 2Bth, 1850.
H. B. Masseh, Esq. Dear Sir : I have
finished taking the Census of Northnmber'
land county, and send you below, a corrected
list of the Townships and Boroughs, with the
number of inhabitants each contains, viz :
Delaware township, Inns Milton borough, 1010
1-ewls " 1475 ftinhury " 1419
Turlml 1047 Northumberland " 1041
Chillsquaqlte " l!M4 Upper Augusta tsh'p 047
Point " H7S Lower Augusta " Soil
Rush ' 1176 Coal ' 1455
tipper MahonoV " 14.7 Wmmokln " 21S0
Lower Mnhonoy 1174 Jackson
Little Mahonny " 3M
ltl,fM)
ta
12.310
lO.SKt
Total, tt:i,S3
Making a total of Twestv-THREE thou
SAND TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE.
The population of the County in 1840 was
20,027; showing an increase in .the last ten
years of 3,196. The number of inhabited
dwellings in the county is about 4100, and
that of farms, about 2000.
To tho citizens of Northumberland county,
I return my sincere thanks, for the kind, and
hospitable manner, in which they received.
and treated me, while engaged in taking the
census.
Tho kind attentions, and hospitality re.
ceived, will 1 ttuat, never be forgotten by
their Humble servant,
T. S. MACKEY,
TJ. S. Assistant Marshall.
ITJF A correspondent sends us the follow
ing query and answer, occasioned, we pre'
sume, by the astounding declaration of the
editor of the Wilkesbarre Farmer, that the
report alluded to, was the "ablest emana.
tion of mind from Pennsylvania for forty
years." "Forty ages look down upon us,"!!
was the famous declaration of Napoleon
from the Pyramids, in Egypt:
Do vou know tho muse of all the great flood
in me .Misqueniinna tins summer ; Do you give
h up.
It was in consequence of the tremendous Tie
port of the chairman of the Committee on Federal
A'clationa last winter.
U. S. SENATOR.
The Poltsville Emporium, in a well writ
ten article, takes the Pittsburg Post to task
for its assaults upon Gen. Cameron. In re
gard to the resolution of the Berks County
Convention, instructing their nominees not
to vote in caucus fur Gen. Cameron, for
U. S. Senator, the Emporium says:
No such resolutions was passed in any con
vention. In Berks county a resolution was
passed instructing the nominees not to vole
lor him in caucus. When it was offered and
passed not more than Forty of the one hun
dred and forty delegates composing the
convention were present! It was concocted
and brought forward at a time and in a way
discreditable to its originators, as it was harm
less to him whom it was designed to injure.
Does the Post suppose that the enlighlened
Representatives of a free Democracy are to
be influenced by its vituperation of a distin
guished Democrat, who occupies a high posi
tion in Ihe atreetionsof the Democracy if not
the Radical Democracy, in whose fellowship
the Post rejoices ? If he does, we assure him
that he will find himself egregiously mista
ken. There are some other matters in this
arliclu we will notice hereafter.
WILL OF JOMAII WHITE.
Josiah White, long known as President
of the Lehigh Navigation Co., and as an
eminent Quaker and philanthropist in
Philadelphia, has in his will, made the fol
lowing: devises for charitable purposes.
Mr. White, it will be seen, by hisbequestSj
has like the majority of his sect, given his
warmest sympathies for the colored race,
although in his endowments for two man
ual labor schools in the West, he has inclu
ded white, colored, and Indian children.
To the Colored Orphans' Society, of
Philadelphia, one hundred shares of stock
in the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Com'
pany, the par value of which is fifty dollars
per share.
To the House of Refuge, Philadelphia,
one hundred shares of the above stock.
To the House of Refuge for Colored Per
sons, Philadelphia, one hundred shares of
Lehigh stock.
To the House of Industry, Moyamensing,
one hundred shares of Lehigh stock.
For the support of a school or schools in
Liberia, Africa, such as Hannah and Re
becca White, daughters of the testator shall
designate, the income of one hundred shares
of Lehigh stock.
AAer disposing of the above charitable
legacies, and those to members of his family
and others, the testator thus bequeaths as
follows :
I do hereby give and advise to Two Manu
el Labor Schools, to be located in Ihe free
htater in the West, the sum ot twenty thou
sand dollars to each of said two schools.
And I' do Hereby direet lhat Ihe land for
these Belli 10 Is be bought where X now am in
negotiation lo purchase, if Ihey can be made,
vii ib. traet one and a half niMes square in
Iowa, near Salem,, and- a tract of two miles
square in the fudian reserve, Indiana ; and if
these tracts cannot be bought, to buy as near
to them in point of quantity, quality, price
and healthiness as can be accomplished, so
that not exceeding one-half of the amount
of $20,000 allowed to each place be laid out
in the land and its improvements, and the
other half in the buildings necessary.
ITT" Taxes on Bonds anb Mortgages,
Friend Hickoclc of the Lvwisburg Chro-
nicle,-uorrects us as" follows, in this matter
The act of 1850 led us into the error.
Money at iliterest, in whatever shape, is taxi.
Lie for State, county and other purposes, by virtus
of the acts of t ub June, 1840 80th April, 1644;
and 7th April', 1849 ; and if specially exempted
Irom taxation for Borough and Township parpo-
hy the XSi section ol set otSMv Aprils 1850.
RRITMH KMUtARtES AND BRITISH GOLD.
The following article, strong and welltimedi
is from the New York Express!
That ihe "Hon," George Thompson, a Brit
ish Member of Parliament, has been sent to
this country just now, amid ihe present agita
tion, in order, if possible, to break op the Union,
nd separate the cotton-growing from the
manufacturing and commercial States, and
that he is the recipient for his services of
large sums of British Gold, we have not a
doubt. It is of the highest Importance lo
some interests In Great Britain lo separate
the South, which grows cotton, from the
North, which is rivalling British manufactu
rers in working it up into cloths; and that this
Thompson is the feedaeent of these interests,
receiving and disbursing their Gold, we be
lieve as confidently as we believe hi our ex'
istence.
Some years ago we stated, nnd we proved
it in the columns of this journal, that Ihe
British Abolitionists were sending large sums
of money to this country ; that they supported
Abolition Papers, and Abolition Lecturers,
and printed Aboliiion Speeches: and we have
no doubt that since that time these contribu
tions have been freely kept up. Indeed we
are sure, if the matter could be authoritatively
ferreted out, that it could be demonstrated
that the immense circulation which wasgiven
in this counlry lo some of the Abolition
speeches made in the last Congress was paid
for by tho British Gold.
Under these circumstances, and in view of
these facts, considering Ihe present excited
and almost insureclionary state of the public
mind in Ibis country, we have no hesitation
in saying that we hope this country will be
made too hot for this Hon. feed British Emis
sary, in case he attempts to patrol our country,
and to excite and to exasperate one portion of
our countrymen against another. The Gar
risons, the Gerrit Smiths, the Fred. Douglas
ses even, born on our own soil, and having an
interests in our rise or our downfall, have
their rights, which all should and must, in a
free community, respect ; but this British
Member of Parliament is an intruder, a spy,
a firebrand, a sower of treason and sedition,
and he has no more right here to attack any
one of our Slates with his tongue, thnn he
would have with his sword. As we would
repel a foreign enemy, we have a right to re
pel him. As the British Government would
hang an American in Ireland, there exciting
one portion of society loan insurrection against
the other, so here we have Ihe right, not to
hang this British feed Emissary, to be sure,
but to silence him in every way consistent
with the laws of our country. We owe him
no decent trealment. He is an alien spy, from
portion of the British people who wish lo
destroy our country; and Ihe quicker he is
made lo feel the ignominy of his traitorous
mission, the quicker he will go back, with
his Gold, to the mischievous enemies who
dispatched him here.
There are lamentable differences nf opin
ion in this country, in Ihe matter of slavery;
but we apprehend that no one differs from
this sentiment, I hat a foreigner, a paid for
eigner, a member of another government, has
nothing lo do with these difference. No
American member of Congress would be tol
erated in patrolling through the towns and
cities of England in railing against the Brit
ish Aristocracy, ihe British form of govern,
ment, or Ihe British Queen ; and no member
of a British Parliament ought to be tolerated
on any mission in Ihis country, tailing any
portion of our common countrymen. The
differences we have, the sectional quarrels
that divided us, we can dispute about and
settle ourselves. We want no British hand
nor British voice among us to divide us more.
DEATH OF GARRET D. WALL.
General Garret D. Wall, late United States
Senator from New Jersy, died last night, Nov.
22d, at his residence in Burlington, N.J. His
disease was dropsy on the chest, and his
health has been declining for two or three
years.
General Wall was a native of Now Jersey,
and has resided there all his life. He was
a lawyer by profession and stood at the head
of the bar iu his native Stale, while he con.
tinned in practice. His career has been one
of little incident, from the fact he has uni
formly declined taking a prominent part in
public affairs. During the war with Great
Britain, he commanded a company that was
in service, but since that time he has remain
ed in the quiet pursuit of his private business,
except during one term in Ihe United Slates
Senate, to which ha was elected during Gen
eral Jackson's administration. He was uni
formly declined all other offices, even that
of Governor of New Jersey, to which he was
elected by the legislature, on more than one
occasion.
In his early life he was a Federalist, but
left that party and joined the Democrats at
the lime of the war of 1812. His patriotism,
however, always shone above his parly feel
ing, for having no political aspirations of his
own, his motives were never questioned.
General Wall was over seventy years of age.
He leaves a widow, in affluence, and several
children.
Losing a Sister on Monte. A robbery
occurred, a short time ago, in Sacramento
City, and among the articles stolen were a
number of miniatures. A few evenings after
ward a young man was observed by a police,
man to enter Ihe El Dorado, and after losing
alibis money, he bet a gold ring aud-lhe
miniature on a card, and the policeman think
ing the miniature might lead to the detection
of the thief, arrested the young man and took
charge of the miniature lady, which, by the
way, was beautiful. Several gentlemen who
came forward the next morning to assist Ihe
yoiuig man out of his difficulty, testified that
the miniature was that of an only sister,
lovely girl-of sixteen. What will the young
girl Bay when she ascertains that she hasbeen
lain'upon the monte table, gambled- away,
afterwards arrested and put in the tombs.
next morning brought before the lleoorder,
admired by the members of the bar, end af
ter many t&rnpliments; finally restored to the
unworthy brother.
At Upsal, iu Sweden' on the 12th' ult.,
twenty three lunalio patients were bnrnt alive
by a fire in lbs Royal Hospital.-
GOVERNOR QUITMAfl.
The Misslssinnian, of Ihe 15th, has the fol
lowing in reference to Gen. Quitman, out of
which probably the Washington report grew .
Proceeding! against Governor Quitman
The United Stales Court, at New Orleans, Is
proceeding to demand the presence of the
Governor in that city, to answer certain char
ges there preferred against him, regarding the
Cuba expedition. We believe the whole to
be frivolous and Unfounded, and intended by
the Fillmore administration to affect ulterior
political objects. The Governor, however, is
ready and willing to undergo any examina
tion when his official term expiies, and will
voluntarily do so now, if ho can lawfully ab
sent himself from the seat of Government
without detriment to the public interests and
in obedience lo the requirements of the Con
stitution. We do not believe hn possesses Ihe
power to do so. There is a question of Slate
sovereignity in this matter which we desire
to see settled. The Legislature would cer-
ainly have the right to recall the Governor, but
were he to place himself voluntarily beyond
its jurisdiction, in the hands of the authori
ties of ihe United Slates it mieht bo impossi
ble lo obey tho summons. President Jeffer
son refused to attend Ihe trial of Aaron Burr
on trrounds which pertained to the necessity
of his presence at the seat a', envernment. and
Ihe position of resistance, which ho look at
that limp, ought, wo think, lobe sustained by
every Slate, in regard lo their cheif mnais.
Irate who is emphatically a portion of a State's
sovereignty.
Lvino in Bed Forty Years Considerably
above forty years ao, a yeoman of ihe neigh
borhood of Keighlev, England, got entangled
in tho meshes of the lender passion nnd snf.
fered disappointment. Having taken to bed
at that time, he has kept it ever sinep ; neither
threats nnr entreaties ever once induced him
to leave it. His health is uninjured ; he eats
wellj is conscious of all that is being done
around him; and, enjoying a small competen
cy, he resolves to end his days where he
has so gloriously immured himself for nearly
half a century.'
The Engineers over the San Juan route to
the Pacific, have been making their surveys,
and are highly delighted with the results,
and the practicability of the Canal, ihe engi.
neers say,, admits of no questions. They
have surveyed a route from Nicaragua Lake,
4 miles North of the city, which has an eleva
tion of only 60 feet above Ihe lake, and a grail,
ual descent to ihe Pacific. The soil to be
excavated is clay and luffa, a porous rock,
that can be dug with a pick axe. The engi.
neers pronounce the route practical and desi.
rable, and the distance is but 12 miles from
the lake to the Pacific.
The "Orus" steamer is now at the foot of
the rapids, . Castillo, and wailing only for a
rain, one foot rise, to go ovei and go into the
lake. Above Castillo there is water enough
to float a vessel of any size, and below the
smaller boal, ' Director." now on the river,
can navigate at all limes.
1 here are 400 passtngcrs now at uealejo,
waiting to come across, ami juu at Ban Ji.au
de Nicaragua waiting lo coi.ie to New lork-
Honesdale hasa population of 2,268 with
in its borough limits, and 1,655 residing with
out the limits, making the population tf the
village 3,944.
Census ok Schuylkill County. The po.
pulalion of Schuylkill county now numbers
about 60,000. It was but 29,672 in 1840, and
in 1820 only 11,439.
Census of Wayne County. The Deputy
Marshals return the population of Wayne
county to be 51,911. The death during the
past year number 252. In 1840 Wayne had
but 11,348 inhabitants.
Michigan Lecislature. The Detroit Ad
vertiser thus estimates the state of parlies in
Legislature elect. Senate Demociats, 15 ;
Whigs, 5; Free Soil, 2. House Democrats,
40 ; Whigs, 26.
The Neapolitan Government have grant
ed the sum of twenty thousand ducats for
continuing the excavation of Pompeii.
A Movement has been started at Holler,
dam for the formation of a company to estab
lish steam communication between the port
and New York.
The Paris Pattie snys that a convention
is about to take place among the chief mar
itime power for Ihe adoption of a. universal
meridian.
A Grateful Player. A comedian in
Boston, by way pnfT for his approaching ben
efit, publishes these lines :
Dear Public, you and I, of latp,
Have dealt so much in fun,
I'll crack you, now a monstious great
Quadruplicated pun I
Like a grate f nil of coals, I'll glow
A gran full house lo see.
And if I am not grateftd too,
A great fool I must be 1
Bewahd. A thousand dollars have been
offered by John Tucker, Esq., President of
the Railroad Company, for Ihe arrest of the
parlies, who recently placed obstructions on
the Mill Creek KoacU
Hon. Lewis Cass will deliver a lecture
before the Franklin Lyceum of Providence,
on the 27th instant.
Sknatoii Bkrmepj is denounced by both,
Union and Resistance men of Georgia, in
consequence of his letter, so tfiat he will
doubtless lose what he is aiming at, viz : a
re-election to the Senate.
AccoRDiNfl tb' the Worcester Tribune,
V. P. Neal, of that city has discovered a
process by wtticH fruits, vegetables, meats,
&c, may be preserved perfectly fresh for
any length of time. Application is tb be
made for t patent.
Horace MaHn says that President Taylor
told him "that in case any State should
nullify an act of Congress; he'would imme
diately order a naval force to blockade its
coast ; he would allow nothing to pass into
or coma out of (He rebellious State, and he
thought H would soon givt up its rebellion."
iUasl)mgton News.
CorrMponrimwe of the l'hlts. Iedfer
THOM WASHINGTON.
1 . v Washinotok, Nor. 24.
The Secretary hrs called upon the Nat
Board to suggest some mode of punishmf
in lieu of the lash J let us hope they will i
commend a regular system of rewards, a
that the Secretary will make some such sr.
gestions to Congress. Two-thirds of the n
nor offences may at all limes be punish
without flogging, and the severer caces m
be punished mora severely by some oit
mode.
Cheap postage is the cheif aim of the po
master General, and some of the fads to
set forth by Ihe Secretary of the Treasury w
serve as arguments in favor of a modificati
of the Tariff. I doubt much, however, whe
er, with the exception of iron, and perhr
coal, the present Congress will make any :
rious alterations in the law of 1846. T
substitutions of specifics for ad valorem v
be strongly recommended by Mr. Corwin.
The President's Message will necessar
be a very long document. First of all,
may look to an able r.view of the exciti
topics of the day, Rnd the course which
administration of Mr. Fillmore intends
pursue in regard lo them. The-Presidi
will be explicit on Ihe subject, and avow
determination to execute Ihe laws passed
the last session. There will be nothi
equivocal or temporizing in the message, t
any recommendation to oiler the laws whi
he has sanctioned in good faith. This is i
tho period to propose any amendments, a
should they be agitated in Congress, Ihe Pre
dent and the adrninistiation will oppose thi
with all the constitutional means at Iheii cb
maud.
No new loan is required, and none will
asked for by the Secretary of the Treasui
California and the new Territories of N
Mexico and Utah will necessarily occupj
h.rge space in the message. The differ'
roules across the Isthmus, including Nicai
gua, and especially Tehvantepec, will also i
ceive a propei share of Executive conside:
lions. Observer.
Mr.. Junius Smith is still successfu
cultivating the tea plant in South Caroli'
He has received this year, direct fromC
na, a large quantity of plants, which arr:
ed in good condition, and are allmost all 1
ing and doing Wrll. He appears very s;
guine of success.
New Advertisements.
THE VEUl' LATEST AURll.il
NEAV GOODS,
AT THE ST0EE OF
IPwA T. CLE ME IT 3
"V17HO takes this method of informing
friends and customers, that lie has jtiat
ceived nnd opened n splendid assortment of
N K W V. ) () D S ,
which he offers to the public at the lowest pric
His stork consists of every variety soil qtiali
nceesiarv for the farmer, meehuuie, and labor
as well a the professional man, mi: all kiniU
M ens' A p n r e 1 .
JrCIl AS CLOTHS. CASSIMKUKS, SATTt.NET"
VESTING!, ke.
ALSO !
a lanre. assortment' of
Calicoes, Mousseline De Laines, Alpaccas,
Merinos, Shawls, llandkerthitjs,
ulovts. Moiscry, Checks,
Cambrics, Ging
hams, tyc.
Also a large assortment ' of
Boots r.nd S.ot, lints nnd Caps,'
Gum over Shoes,
Also ax Assoktest or
READY MADli: CLOTHING:-
A general assortment of Groceries, Suga
Coffee, i ea, Cheese, Mo
lasses, Spices.
An assortment of
Hardware, Nails, Steel end Iron
Liquors,
Such as Brandy, Gin, Rum, Whiskey, Set
Ey Prodnce of all kinds will ! taken in ei
clmnno, and the highest market price paid for thi
same.
junliury, Nov. 00, 1850. ly.
T. S. BOBST'S
AND WATCH ESTABLISHMENT
In Selinsgrove, Pa.
CIocKh, Watches and Jewelry,
T EPAIRED in the beat manner and warranted
to perform well.
All work intrubted to hi care will be strictly
attended to.
Selinsgrove, Nov. SO. 1850. tf.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
T) Y Virluo of a certain writ of Yen, Exp. to ma
-directed will be sold by public Vendue, or out
cry, at 2 o'clock, P. M. on Monday the 83d day
of December, 1650, at the bouse of James 11 rasa,
in ths Borough nf Milton, the following Rral a--tate,
to wit-:: A certain
Lot of Lund,
situate in the Borough of Milton, bowideri netth i
by (ipper Market street, east by lot owned by
Mrs Ellen Kelrhner, south by an lley, anitwest
by lot of C. Goodlander, containing orne-eigrith of
an aere, more or less, wtieteort ate erecteii'ir'twta'
M story Log and Frame- Dwelling Hbrja,'
(plastered,) and-a Frame Stabhv Sciicd
taken itveieeution, and to be sold at -the property
of Keuben Overpeck.
JAMES COVERT, SKriftV
Sheriff's Otlire,
Banbury, Nov. ?7-, 1850. ts. J
REGISTER'S NOTICE
TVOTICB is hereby given to alp Legate
' Creditors and other persons interested in the
Estate of John K. Maurer, dee'd settled 'by hi
Adm'r. Georg Boyr, of Valentine Hummel,
dee'd., nettled by His Adm'r. David Marts, of Gid".
deon Scheddel, dee'd., settled by his Executors.
Win, H. and Gideon Srlieddol, of John Wilhtiut
dee'd., settled by hia Adm'r. Thomas 8. Mackey..
of Robert M.-Seydel, dee'd., settled by his Admlr -John
. Wolung.r, of William Fullmer, dee'd,
settled by hia surviving Executor, Jonathan Foil
mer, of Joseph Kiiha,-dec'd., settled by one of Hi
Adm'rs. John Pfouta. That the Executors and
Adininiairetora of said Estates have tiled their ac
counts with the Register of Northumberland
county, and that the aame will be presented to the
Orphans' Ooust of said Coutuy, on Tuesday th
7th day of January nait for confirmation and J
lowancc '
JDUf P. PURSEL, Regiater..
Register's OftVs, ) ,
Sunbury, Nov. 30, 18jOY 6U J