iksir fodder, when kept warm and wallah! tared from north wind and pitiless liufm. 1 tried to convince him that his cattle proper. Jy protected would look much belter in lha spring, on two thirds lha food, lio mid, ha had nsrer thought of that, tt had occurred to him, it he kept them In the Meld, and did not leant Ike bin dawn, they would be warm enough, tt had occurred 10 him, that com fortable stalling spoiled their nppetites. And so it dM : tilt ihis is something to be desired, noi ftvnided, when liny is worlli (an il then was) $1.1 a ton, and corn stalks in proportion ft has always been mi id by wise mm, ihnl What is worth keeping nt all, in woilh keep ing well, and Ihis sensible dnclritio upplies w ith creat force to ull the products of A i 1 i - ciil:iire, nniiri:il Riid vegetable. My eslcciiie.1 friend Kck, has some fowls over there, he would be very clear of soiling (or 12i cents a pioce, or even 25 cent, although they cost him but litllo mote in lite rearing thai, ordi nary ones. Five or ten dolluis will make the dilTeienee in Iho cost of rearing n lioise worth $300, und ono worth leslhiin half the money, and so of every other donuviiis ani mal. The same rule applies to t lie piu.lt. els of the garden, orchard and Held. I am glad that the ago has gone by, when people believed that any alteration in ihe. customs of their ancestors was to bo repudia ted as a disrespect to their memories. I am glad that habits and ideas ate no lonjer cherished because they were entertained by old fogies, 50, 100 or 500 years ago old fo gies that might have learned many things from the children of to-day. If the tappers should succeed in scaring up the spirits of Bacoiij Newton, Locke, or even Fianklin, yonder little school boy might tell them something they never dreamed of. It would astonish any of these respectable ghosts, not a little to be told, that news might be trans mitted from Boston to St. Louis or New Or leans, in precisely one hour and seventeen minutes, less than no time at ull. It would surprise them, nearly as much to be 'informed that wagons without horses, mules or oxen, could be driven over the land for bonis, and (lays and weeks together, at a speed far greater than horses, mules or oxen could possibly attain. It is not the irreverence of youth for age, forlheworld is older now than ever before. It is the Manhood of Humanity looking back on its passed and surpassed childhood 1 Then why (his rcgaid for bald and hoary principles which experience has proven to bo vain and worthless? If we must adhere to the uncouth implements ami unimproved stock of our fathers, how dated they ih.ow aside the still more primitive ways ai.d means of their ancestors. The Fame principle that would make us pause, where we are, would take us back to fields unplowed and unsown, to hutSj comfortless and wretched to sav. ageness and destitution. But ladies ! I have gone thus far. and spo ken nd Word especially to you. And although the sunny days of romantic and blind devo tion to your sex. have passed for me: al- though the glittering and delusive phantoms . I w.rr. a ijai. n Ullllh, UI &L-CC.I1 lll'r, IS Oil cf youth have cast off their heavenly robes, our table, and a first-rate number it is. The en nml nnmpil in lha -r r I . . 8nd assumed in the cold light of experience, the forms and the hues of earth. For 1 have sadly learned, "Years steal fire from the mind, Ami Vigor from the limb, And life's enchanted cup, But sparkles near the brim." Yet In hnnor of the circumstance that my mother, my wife and my sister happen to bo women in honor of the time, when 1 dream ed that petticoats covered only angels, (espe cially as that dream is still entertained by many unsophistocated young gen tlemen bo fore mo,) I will address myself briefly to yon. That work on which woman smiles, must ever prosper. While by the laws of her na ture, the cannot boast the physical strength, and somo rudely assert, the mental visor of her 'lord and master V yet by the same law s, the impulses of hrr heart, if native ami mi thwarted, are always right. I have often thought, Mr. President, that after an honest man, and a Shanghai Rooster, an industi inns, evun-tempered woman, is "the noblest woik of God." My fair friends, it is in your powe-, by in dustry, frugality and kindness, to fill the world with plenty, comfort and peace, to moke the fires burn cheerful in the hearth cf home. It is in yuur power, by wakefulness, sloth and fierceness to carry poverty and sor row imo your household, and make your hare of earth a hell. I!y your effort.", the desolating fiend of drunkenness may bu unlit ced to twino his fingers around a foolish hus band's heart. By your efforts, an outlawed husband may be led back to decency, virtue nod happiness. Many a man has been bro ken down his energies withered, bis be prospects blasted, by a frowning brow- at home. Many a man has been urged on to j proud achievement, by loving smiles. On ye ! to whom much power is given, exer it in mercy ! L,i your influence go forth to robe the earth with flowers ! Let it go forth to unpeople tho haunts of vice and the dens ol infamy! Let it go foilh to incite tt riving man, on his lonely and arduous way to mi"! ' deeds! Let il go forth on its gentle paU, way, to wm ernu? man ,0 .js, lie und honor! ' Mr. President, if you vrili p.ir.lnn this erra tie episode, I will recur to my desultory ar gument, if orgunifnr it can bu called. In onrprog.es., we haw. evoiy thing to -nronrage us. With rapid 6 ride,, rur coun try is advancing to tho dizzir.l heights or Nat.onal Power nJ grai.deur-Kveu now he pres.ei.ts a picture, such as th,, ttold ,,. never wen before. Behold her ships of wa. nd commerce upon every sea, her gigantic Improvement penetrating ere,y eoreerol l.er broad d.nr.aii, : ruilinads crossing rivers . vaulting over deep vallejs; tuttii thi.uigl! mountains; canuU deepning and wi-lning on every hand-mighty lake, while.,,:.! with a commerce greater than the commerce of tl,r ea-chains of Lightning blinking .)fu to. gether her furthest cities, and the ,pri... ing up. " As from llw m.vL of the enchain-,', warn),'-' Soma thousand of iron Hetds, more won derful than Ihe supernatural agencies of Ara. otaa tales, wau torrent speed and hearts of .... Kr.... , . . ..-i hr, bqunding and ihuDiJering ever taa land, . b'ng to distant markets,, the 'product, of ih belli, the torga, the to. est tnj the mina. Nor is this all ; for long before the grave shall hare closed over the last surviver of this orowd, the striped and starry Flag of the lie publio shall wave over 100,000,000 of educa let!, happy and free Americans! But let us come home. To us especially, nature has been kind beyond example. She has given us fertile fields, yielding to rude culture, abundant harvests inexhaustible forests. She has filled our hills with trea sures richer und more substantial, than the gleaming ore of Culirornian mines, and over all she has swrpt the magic wand of her grandest loveliness. Vet n little while, and these benefactions ot .atuie will be opened out to the world. Vet a little while, and we shall behold, min gled with them the loftiest achievements of man s (.eiiiug and Power tho evidences of his highest civilization. In a few more years, and we shall hear the hoofs of those iron steeds t liuudei ing among these mountains in n few .1.0.0 years, far up in the wilder ness the swift deer will be heightened from his lair, and thu eagle from his eyrie, by something swifter and mightier and more untiring than either. Let us not be backward in our share of this mighty Progress. In years to come, when tho white handed dweller of cities trust for the first time his dainty person to our keep ing, let lis send him furth as a living witness to our well-bred stock, our highly cultivated fields, our tasteful nd happy homes. Let us send him back to tel! his cooped up friends and relatives at home, that he found a peo ple on the Susquehani.n, to whom God had given a rich and beautiful land, and who knew well how to enjoy it ! Let hi.n go back ami tell, he round a Vuradise in Old North umbcrland ! "The liiiine uf a very Invn!;- portion (f the county. THE AlflSP.ICJLlT. SUNBURY. SATURDAY, KOVUMBEK tfl.li-M. H. It. MASM:n, E.lllor and Proprietor. To Alvw.TlEi..- .The circulation of the Suuhury American n.noiur the lillVri'..t towns on the ttatqueliiiiiiin i not exceeded if equalled liy any paper publ.ar.ed in North em le.t.isylvn.iia. i:uri OR'S TADLE. Tiitslnrss ftoticrs. Mons New Ciouns S. N. Thompson, has just received and opened a new stock of Store Uooils, at Ins storo in Market street. The public is invited to examine his stock. Advertisement next week. r : i- ' j T it r T i : eravinas "Cl.irst l.enlintr the Sick. Is a lieaiiti ful line engraving, "Tho Christmas Party," and tho Plate of Colored Fashions, fcc. Ac, are peouliitry fine, and cannot be excelled any where. The reading matter is equally good with the il luHtrations. A new volume commenced with the new year. Terms, S3 per annum ; two copies for $5 ; six do. if! 10. Sali of Riu Estate. Hy an iidvcrtispinp.it in another column, it will Le seen tlit.t Michael Bol.li, oilers for salo his proporty at Snufl'town. EPISCOI'AI. SERVICE Service will bo held, by Divine Permission in bt. Matthew's Church, to morrow (Sun day) evening al 7 o'clock.' Land Wakra.nts. Persons having Land Warrants for sale, can dispose ol them lor cash, by applying at this office. 17 Bank or Noktuusibkiiland. We are requested to state that the Directors of (Ins hank will meet on Wednesday next the 23d, instead of Thursday, the 2Mh, the latter being thanksgiving day. T7 Hw. James Gamble will please ac cept our thanks for a volume of the Con gressional Globe. tO On our first page will be found the address of David Taggarl, Esq., of North umberland, before the lale County Agri cultural Society at Milton. Though no' so elaborate as some of the addresses of this character, our readers will find it much more entertaining and interesting than a large majority ol those published. We commend it to the perusal of all who take an interest in such matter?. rjy Steamuoat. -The workmen are now engaged in putting into the Steam Tow and Terry Boat building at this place, the boiler and machinery, which only arri ved a few days tince. Cv" The prosecutions in regard to the alle.lged bribery of the Commissioners of the county to subscribe S'200,000 to the utj lehanna Railroad Company, have been abandoned. No prosecutors appearing, all parties Were discharged. To CocKKsroNMiKNTs. We received sntne days since a eorr.musiicalion from Shainokin, on the subject of the schools in that place. The writer has not given us j his name. Bvsides, the ar tide is entirely I too difiuse. Articles lor newspapers should embrace facts and circumstances, condensed inU as small a space as possible, (f.r Biaenuk Commissioner. Hon. C. C. Welker has been appointed Revenue Commissioner for this district. Thia ap pointment is made by lha President Judge and hit associates in the -district. The -ici.iiuh te eutiu enr. i vuu.iu.ri.qii- . . - . , . , lr meel l Harrisburg in January to revise tbt assessments throughout the State.'- election ii it good ene. The Commission- augllUHY AMERICAN AND SHAMOK1N JOURNAL. THE SHAMOKIN COAL TtlADE. The reputation ol the coal from our re gion is such that it now commands from 25 lo 50 cents per ton more than other coal with which it comei in competition. The demand is now such, as one of the ship pers informed us, that he could sell three hundred thousand tons per annum from the wharf. Considerable coal is now shinned lo Lancaster, Columbia, York, Baltimore, etc. borne of the dealers in those places. who two years since refused to buy, unless at reduced prices, have been, during the past season, importuning our operators for a supply, but in vain, as they could not supply old customers with their increased demands. One ol those dealers sent a boat to this place to procure a load at any price, but there was none to spare, and the boat look down a cargo on freight. The scarcity of miners continues, and will continue until next spring, when arrange ments will be made lor a heavy business from the new wharfs on the basin of the Canal and Water power Company.' The locomotive brings in two freight trains or from thtee lo lour hundred tons perday. The estimated shipments for next season is 300,000 tons. K7" The Court for the second week end ed on Wednesday morning. There were more cases on the trial list than could be disposed of in two weeks, but the misfor tune is that the parlies are so frequently not ready. The January term of Court will continue two weeks, commencing the 1st Monday. There will be a Special Court on the third Monday of January. 05" The foreign news by (he Baltic, is al this crilical period, full of interest. This is the steamer in which Major William L. Dewart and family, of (his place, sailed lo Europe. Letters from the M.ijor and hit family have been received at this jdace, announcing their safe arrival, iS'c. E7 Our old friend and cotemporary, John M. JJaum, ol the Union Times, has been appointed Collector at Liverpool John has had numerous conflicts and some awlul scrimmages with those terrible sin ners, the whigs and anti-masons of Union Couuly, and thought himself entitled to a small chance at (he public teat. Friend Baum has the ability, and will no doubt make a good officer. The Philadelphia and Sunbury Telegraph- The posts between Shamokin and Poltsville are all up, and thus between Shamokin and Sunbury nearly all on the ground. There will be something like ten stations on the line, or one to every five or six miles. The line lollows the Mine Hill rail road, and will be a great accommoda tion to the extensive mining operations along that road, rendering the Eastern end ol the line, fully as profitable as this. KIT" Our neighbor ol the Williamsport Press did not construe or understand our remarks properly. We did not admit the present-mode ol travel on the Susquehanna route, as preferable, from this place or Nor thumberland, to Philadelphia. When the Susquehanna rail road is completed it will be, without question, the great passenger route, as it undoubtedly will be the best, safest and quickest. The Philadelphia and Sunbury rail road can well afford to dis pense with the passenger business, although that route will necessarily always command much travel. C7We are in the receipt of the Spiritual Telegraph, a paper devoted to the illustra tion of spiritual intercourse, or what is more commonly known as spiritual rap pings. The paper is handsomely got tip, and is edited with ability. Though we have no faith in the doctrines it inculcates, still there is much in its columns to in terest if not to instruct the general read er. Published in New York, at $2 per annum. f7" The Political Class Book. A work hearing the above title, by Daniel Puller, Esq., and published by Messrs. E C. & J. Biddle, No. G, South 3d street, Philadelphia, has been sent us. It compri ses a familiar exposition of the Constitution of the State. It is highly recommended by Gov. Bigler, Judge Grier and others, and we have no doubt will be a most usel.jl Book for our Schools. Price, 31 cents- 07" North Branch Canal. The tolls collected on this branch of the public im provements, since the 1st of December last, amounted to 1 G5,25G C9, showing an increase over the amount of last year's re ceipts, for the same time, of 553,571 27- The money market is much easier in London and also in New York, and slocks are rising. The Danks in New York, have now three millions moie of specie in their vauits than in August, when their discounts were fifteen millions more than at present. rrT" Sheriff Kipp left for Philadelphia on Wednesday morning in the cars, with three prisoners. Two man sentenced to the peniteutiary, nd colored girl to the House of Refuge. 03- Isaac G. McKinlby, Eq., has pur chased the interest el his partner, Mr. Ltacure, in the Democratic Union, at Har risburg, and is bi its sole proprietar. It will not lose anything by the change. IE7" Lewis C. Levin. The clomsy par graph in some of the papers, by which this gentleman announcei himself as the Natie candidate for Gorernor, in 1854, is not Lewis C. Levin the fermtr.M. C.from Philad'a, but another person of that name. Levin the member, is too much of scholar and oralor to utler such nonsense. 07 Hon. Edmund Burke of N. IL. Ions- a political friend and associate ef President rierte, has been mnk.nz some revelatiens as to the manner in which the President was nominated, which Mr. B. savs be planned himself. (ST A New Telegraph Line, from Lan dingville, on the Reading Railroad, to Orw.gsburg a distance of some two or three miles has just been erected, chiefly through Ihe instrumentality of Messrs. Ed ward B. and Francis W. Hubley. This places Oiwigsburg in telegraphic commu nication wilh Poltsville, Reading, Phila delphia, and "the rest of mankind." ID Union Canal. This canal under the management ol James Worral, Esq -niet engineer, is to be widened through lo Reading next season. So says a cor respondent at Lebanon, writing lo the Philadelphia Register. O Col. H. W. Crotzer has been an. pointed Post Master at Lewisburz. The Colonel will make a good P. M., and is good at almost anything he undertakes. (EF" Willi AMsroRT. Our neighbors ol this pleasant village have also been extend ing the limits of their town, by Woodwards addition. Williamsport is bound to erow. The Maine Yankees have been doing much for that place and neighborhood, as Ihey generally do for any place where they locate. GkMKROUS OKFEa. Allhnni.li Cnrnnrol . . . have no su s. it ipumi ihu. ; . i manifest a disposition In n.nvi.lo fnr it.. of others; as tt.o r.ill,i ii,r extract from the procee.inics ol trie nyi.o.1 or the German Re formed Church, w hich lately sat in Philadel- "The proposition from ih Ph;i..iii.; anil Sunbury Railroad Company to appropri ate 83000 towards the erection of a German Refoimed Church al Sl.umnli in nrnviuoil iku Synod would comribntH a like sum, was no- icjMtTu, inn. a .rmii.j'iun piisse.1 io make ihe necessary HrraiiL'eriR.i.t fur lha n.i.....;.., of the Church." Reading Gazette. When the members, who represent these corporations, have souls, Ihey cannot justly be styled soul-less corporations, and this is the case with the members of the Phila delph.a and Sunbury Railroad Company. A number of them we know lo be "whole souled fellows.' The amount, however, is too large, we presume, by a cypher. KI'IU:SS mil.U IN l ALIFOIlMA. We used to think that some ot our Ex presses conveying election news were some thing to brag of, but the wonderlul feats of our California friends cast our best efforts into the shade. The enterprising firm of Adams & Co.'s Express stops at nothing. Their express lines extend to almost every part of the globe. Mr. E. M. Hall referred lo, is a young man Irom (his place, who went to Califor nia some five years ago, and is now one of the agents of Adams &. Co. at Auburn. The papers do not slate at what sacrifice those leals were performed, but Mr. Hall says he killed two of his horses. A San Francisco paper rays: It has been eur purpose for several day past, to speak of Ihe splendid achievement of the Express department of this house, which opportunity now for the first lime en able us to do. Our readers are familiar with some of the exploits which their express messenger per formed, but they are not acquainted w ith tho expense attending such achievements, nor of the fact, that beyond a certain reputation ac quired, Adams & Co. received not the slight est remuneration for the noble exertion used to place the public in possession of the latest news from ull part of the State. Adams ti Co. at a very great expense, merely for the accommodation of I lie press and the public, some time before tho elec tion, had the whole State literally boiled with line of fleet horses and expert liders, landing in readiness lo express the returns from every point, an, I we doubt if thu same amount of territory has ever been travelled over in so short a space of time, a has been accomplished by these messengers. Nothing but magnetic telegraphs could have outstrip ped them. A. &: Co. had employed hi their public spirited enterprise tome five hundred horses, and about one man lo each five hor. ses. Fur each man and Ihe horse ridden by him they must have paid at least one hundred dollars, making about fifty thousand dollar expended by this house for the tingle purpose of fumi'timy lha returns of the elec tion lo thu publio. It was a gigantic enter prise in itself, and yet il was more inci dental ariaugement, a little side play, having no connection wilh their regular business. It wa necessary to establish relays of the finest ho. ses that could be procured, on all the route over which ihe mail were carried. Their lider were picked men accomplish ed horsemen, daring and dauntless who, when a steed fell under ihem, shouldered their valises ami ran ul Ihe lop of Iheir speed, Until Ihe next post was reached; when again vaulting into the saddle, Ihey plunged forward reeklesa of life and limb, till ll.sy bad accomplished the important purpose for which they set out. An accident of this kind occurred to Frank Ryan, in riding from Nevada to this oily, in which a very valuable horse was rode down and abandoned on ibe road to die. Many of the horse used, were rendered unfit for future icrvioe. In all such cases, the loss fell upon the house of Adam & Co., who bore it without a marmery and esiaerhed lhmele well repaid by secoring the p. probation of Ihe publio. Without any par ticnlar data upon which to place a calcula tion we thould iudce that Ihev were al a cost in tanning expresses wilh election re turns aione, ot not less than htteen or twenty thousand dollars. That the reader mav be f.illv annrised of j rl the nature of some of Ihe feats performed br express riders of that celebrated house, we give lielew a recapitulation of several an nouncements made at the time of thai nur. formanoe. The following are from the Daily imen or the 8th and 10th inst. Isaac YY. Elwdl. ih r l.t.. t. Co.' Express from Plaeersville lo this citv. .uv ,Ui ,,ip hi inree nour anu ten minute distance 64 mile. Sam White, the rider of Adam & Co.'a Express from Coloma to this city made the trio in two hours ami fif. Biimiiaa Frank Ryan, Messenger of Adams k Co., from Nevada, arrived here at II o'clock, 20 minutes, being 4 hours 20 minutes distance 75 miles his favorite horse Colonel, (well known for fast running wilh Presidential new,) made 20 mile it. 55 minutes. Mr. E. M. Hall, of Adams Co.' Express, brought the returns of Placer county from Anbnrn to this city, 40 miles, in one hour and fifty minutes usina only four horses- D C. Reynolds, Adams It Co.'s rider from San Jose to Oakland, 35 miles, ma.lo the Irin it. two hours and thirty-live minutes, with! one pair of horses. Mr. U. and Ihe horses heliinsi lo Kcllv 4 Revnnl.l Is, stage men nt , i DR. KANE. The following is the conclusion of n letter from the learned Mr. Metiam, published in the N. Y. Courier fe Enquirer : My last advices from Dr. Kane were from Newfoundland, but further advices may be expected from him either from Ihe whole Fish Islands or from Upper Naverick, as he led the latter place for Smith' Sound but a few day before Ihe bearer of the Ensjlish despatches arrived there. The Francis' Me tallic Life Boat which Dr. Kane took wilh him, can be transported on sledge from the hea.l ol Smith s Sound towaids Iheceorranhi- cal pole, and should they reach an open sea can be launched and enable ihe bold a.lven. Hirers to navieale the polar basin (if one there be.) with perfect safely, for Ihe boat iscapa- o.e oi carrying all his company, and a suffi cient stock of provision. The extreme cold of ihe Arclio rerrion seperales, or rather forces the chlorides of sodium, &c, from the water, freezing the water, anrl forminc ice of that water while the chloride of sodium, &c, are so much concentrated as to resist Ike most intense cold. Lieul. Da Haven informed me that brine during intense cold stood in puddles on the surlace or lite ice, and was so strong as to resist even Ihe cold that solidified rr.ercti. ry; but w hen Ihe weather becamo sufficient ly milil, the brine rapidly dissolved Ihe ir and thiisielurned lo sea water such are the harmonies of nature and such are the c.li.in. ces in the polar regions. Dr. Kauo has taken from our collection ofbrit.es, soino w hich is as dense as Ihe water of the sra of Sodem, and will be able to determine the influence which the most intense cold will exert iinon it in the Arctic regions. Maryland. The Democrats have oIpcip.I iheir whole ticket for Slate officers, and the Whijrs have carried both blanches of the Legislature The latter insnten Ihe eleetin.. of a Whig United Siales Senator and a Win Slate Treasurer. The latter has the casting vote in Ihe State Boatd of Publio Work.. which is equally divided, there beii g two v nigs and two Democratic members. Of the delegation lo Congress, the Whic have elected two and the Democrat four. Balti more city give Liaon (Dem. 13035 maio.itv: and in the whole Stale he ha 3967 majority. in tne state Senate the Whig have 6 major, ily, and in tho House 6, making 12 majority en joint ballot for Ibe election of United State Senator and Slale Treasurer. Abdication or thcCzab Nicm T, ;. understood in Washincion that there is con. siderable reason to believe the European iu- mor that the Emperor of Russia is ahnnt m abdicate in favor of hi ion. NhmrI mils' and others of Ihe Ministry, are earnestly in favor oi the retiring of the Russian troops from Ihe i rinc.palit.es, and will nut second Ihe Czar'a desire for war. It is understood ihey now admit lha! lha hereditary insanity of the Romanoffs has fallen unoti hi.n. Il tins threatened to abdicate if the Cabinet and his family persist in opposition. Well informed parties believe that abdication will bo forced upon him in order lo got Russia ojl of the acr-.pe. The Cleveland Finest City reports the ft,!. lowing Bank failures, all happening wiihin a lew ilay of each oilier. The Massillon Bank, the Patchin Batik of Buffalo, Piatt's Bank and the Merchants' Bank of Buffalo the bank of Owego, the Farmers' Joint Stock Company, Canada; lha Erie Bank, and Ka'la. mazoo UaiiK, Michigan ; tho L inton Bank. Columbus; the Chatauque Bank, the Ma- comD Lounty Bank, and everal olhers. vt nal the milled liabilities of the whole lot amounted to is not stated. Sudden Death. The Rev. Mr. Ritt en- house, Pastor of the Presbyterian Congrega tion at Waluiilonville, died suddenly, at the door ol Ihe New Piesbylerian Church in that place, on Tuesday last, while he was in the act of entering the church, for Ibe purpose ... of consecrating it to the worship of God. l no cause ol ni ueain is ascribed to an ai. feolioa of the heart, under which he has been laboring for some lime. He wa a most faithful servant in the vineyard of lha Lord and beloved and respected by a large eongra- gallon ami numerous host of friend and acquaintance Danville Dem. Kit TiMosr and Sl-iooeiianna Riinnin. The meeting of Iba Board of Director of lha Baltimore and Susquehanna Railroad wa held on Thursday, for the election of Presi dent for lha ensuing year. Robert C. Wright, who ha ably filled the office, wa removed by Ihe direotora In Ihe selection nf C. V Hughe a President of the Company. The vote stoou nve to lour. Liquoa Lw in Tennessee. On the 2d in stant, thirty member of the Tennessee House of Representative, nresanted petitions fer a Prohibitory Liquor Law. Curresanndmc of tb PuMie Lerlgsr. LETTER FROM WASHISOTO. Washington, Nov. 12, 1863. A Iruoe ha been established, by silent consent on both aides, between Ihe organs at Wnshinrrlnn anrl Maw YnV Tka llnimt of Ihis morning does not contain a word on the eleoiiona in Ihe Empire Stale, and no fur ther denunciation against the Hard. Per temtra, John Van Buren is heie eonsulting Governor Marey about ihe last battle. The speculations about the President' message are chiefly derived from the hint thrown out inlheUnienin regard to Cuba, the Sandwich Island and theTehnantepto Route. On the Sandwich Islands, a I have already intimated to you, the President is decidedly in favor of annexation ; but in regard to Cuba, fierce language towards England and Fiance, but especially toward England, will give particular force to Ihe annual message. Were England differently situated in Ihe East, bold language in Ihe President would probably find a bold renlv it. a ministerial speech in Parliament. This, however, must not be expected now. England has taken so much sauce from Russia wiihin the last four months, that she may well digest a lilllu Yan kee "soss'- in the baraam. That Ihe Administration has its eyes upon Cuba is now a matter of notoriely, and that, in easo of a general European war, the Is land may be peaceably annexed to the United States is probable ; but I doubt whether any progress can be ma.lu toward il if ihe Eas tern question is seliled by Ihe intervention or diplomacy. Nor must it be supposed that the whole country South of Mason nml Dix on'e liy; is for Ihe acquisition of the Island There are those among the Southern men who see an ocean of Iroubles ahead should the Island be now annexed to the Union, and no particular benefit occuring fiom it lo their own Slate. Certain il is that the acquisition of the Island at this juncture would re-ope-i the debate on the slavery question, and that political parties are now more unsettled than they were a year ago. If the South, as I heard some of the Southern eentlemen ob eive, desire an extension of the Compromise, to the effect of express'y sanctioning Ihe in troduction of slavery into new lerriioties, the probability is that the proposition will be de feated in Congress. By the terms of the lust Compromise, that body has no right to inter fere with the domestic institutions of mw i territories at all. The peonle mav !.. . Ihey please, and when in sufficient number lo form a State, may adopt such municipal laws in regartl lo the while ami black races as to ihem may eem proper; but the power oi me federal (government must not be in voked lo introduce involuntary servitude into territories. The Picisdenl's Message will not sav much on the subject of the Pacific Railroad, and wm not hoi, a veto suspended in terrorem over the bead of Congress. lie will surely takn ground directly opposite to thai assumed by Col. D.ivis in his Crystal Palace nroces. sion speech, and decline his opposition to nave it.e roail built by Government means. That he may veto any bill on that subject may bo matured dining the present Cottgres, is not unlikely, but the announcement ol such a resolution would bting him at once in collision wilh a i-onst.leiHble party in Con gress. The malcontents will seize upon any thing for the purpose of organising an oppo sition to the preteut administration, ami great caution and forecast must be used not to lurnish Ihem with a handle. Mr. James Gordon Bennett has sernrpil apartments at Ihe national; and will spend a large portion of next Congressional season here in Washington. Member of Congress are beginniug to flock in, and the street and hotel aie beginnine lo be lively. Our meat banke:, W. W. Corcoian. Eso.. is about la retire from business, lo enjoy otium cum dig nitale wilh a select circle of friends and ac quaintances. Hi bank, as I understand, is lo be closed in Ihe month ol February next. A number of new banker have commenced business, but I doubt whether they will do a very flourishing business next winter. OnsEHVER. ADDITIONAL KOKUON NEWS BY THE A MK It If .t.-. EASTERN AFFAIRS. The reported skirmish between Ihe Russian steamers and Ihe Turkish fori was tlegiaplt ed to Pari by the Fiench Consul at Buchar est. The P.nis Munitour. of Friday. sa thai arrangements have been made so thai the standing army of Fiance can bo raised to 750.000 men in six weeks. Tits same Journal adds that Fiance and England will be united in action, its they were it. negotiations, w ith regard to the East ern question. The Earl of Clarendon declares that Eng land has not the (lightest intention of aban doning Ihe Sultan. Some popular disturbances are reported to have occurred at Constantinople, during which the Swedish flag was insulted, and the English Consul' residence pelted with stone. Trie Bill Found. The Grand Jury of Luzerne county have found a true bill against Deputy Marnhalls Jenkins, L'rossin, George Wynkoop, and the owner of the alleged slave bill, tor Ihe disturbance growing out of the attempted capture ot the slave at Wilkes barre, some time since. Religious Toleration. The son ef the Rev. Dr. Quigley, a Catholic, of Washington eounty, New York, was recently chastised and expelled from Ihe public school for re fusing, in obedience lo his parent's com mand, lo commit part of the Testament lo memory. Ihe matter wa btuught to the notice of the Secretary of State, Mr. Ran dall, who held that ihe Slate had no author ity lo compel tho pupil to reciva anv ipn. larian iustructions agaiust tho wishe of Iheir parent. Soiie one having su ;csted that the ad. ministration of chlorofurm to Bees uoul.l n..i them lo loep Ions enough to oht honey, a writer in ihe Boston Cultivator say thai he ha tried Ibe experiment -with per feet suscess, ike bee wars n..i n, .k. or si' jt soundly tctr since. MEETIJQ Or NATIONAL, DEMOCRATS) tTAftlllfteTOft. Battle of the Hards and Softs. WashinotoN, Nov. 14, 1S53 The meeting, of ihe National Demoorati this city, took place to-night at Copp's i loon, according to previous announceme The room was wall filled. The meeij waa organiced by calling Charles T. Walla lethe Chair; Henry M. Offit and feurte ether were chosen Vice Presidents, Wm. B. Chase acted as Secretary. Cornelius W. Wendell offered a series resolutions declaring the nomination a election of Gen. Pierce was in consequen of unmistakeable National antecedents ai known opposition to the opinions and cendu of those who defeated Gen. Cass, in 184 by voting for Van Bti.en that Ihis meetit does not regard the Baltimore Platform as general amnesty to such that the atlem made by the Depailme.tts to crush out N lional Democracy in New York, deserves ir mediate attention and correction by Ihe Pr sident. Another resolution denounces Secretar Guthrie's interference in New York ; co. gratulales tho New Yorkers on the signi victory won by them over Free-soilism ; d ptocates Ihe recent attacks on Senator Did inson, &c. These resolutions having been read, Danit S. Ralcliffe took the platform and mado a able speech against the resolutions, regarding Ihem as thrust at the administration, an. charging upon tho movers in Ihis meeting i design to sink the administration. Thi: speech created great excitement, and the speaker appeared to cairy the sympalhi" o a large portion of the meeting with him. Mr. Wendell replied, amid the confusion that he was instrumental in calling the meet ing, and he defended tho resolutions. He asked "Hub the President carried out tho principles of the Democratic parly V Boislerou response ,!ye" and "no," tho former predominating The Chair called for order, and the band struck up in the hope of subduing the excitement. A call was made of "cheer for Dickinson," which were given. Mr. Overton was called nut and spoke briefly, not having henrd the rnsolutions. The great qi.est ion, he said, was not opnsi lion to the administration, but simply w heth er free-soilism should be an element in the Democratic party. The question upon the resolution was call ed for, when Mr. Ralcliffe reminded tho gentleman that this was not an ailack upon the Administration. Mr. Wendell denied it, and a great scene of excitement ensued, the parties coming al most to blows. Somebody moved an indefinite postpone ment of the resolution, and another wanted lo offer a substitute. Before ihe qumtjnn was distinctly put, Win H Thomas, the Deputy Collector of this port, sprang upon the platform and moved to adjourn, pioceed ing his motion by proposing three cheers lor the Adminisirnlion, which being heartily Kiven, Mr. Wallach, Ihe Chairman, struck Thomas, knocking him off ihe plalfo.m. A general melee ensued, lasting some minutes but no very se.ions injuries were inflicted. The National Democrats subsequently ser enaded Beverly Tucker. Newspaper Sale. Mr. Barnum, the Bos ton Transcript says, has disposed of ih Il lustrated News" lo Mr. Fredetick Gleason, of that city, proprietor of ' Gleason' Picto rial." It i reported lhal Ih News bas ne ver attained a circulation of fifty thousand copies, and that the proprietor ha sunk up ward d 840,000 in the enterprie. i Hew Advertisement. Estate of SAMUEL THOMPSON", dee'd. myunCE M hereby given that fetters of Ad . ministration have been granted to the uu- .Bi.ru u.uu uk! i-Hi:ue oi cmmurl Thompson, late of the Borouuh of Sunbury, dee'd. All per sons having claims against said estate are request, ed to present Ihem. .Ii.l . it. ....;... .... . .uiiiLIIIIVBiru, Jl.f setlleinrn. nml rli..e I-.. . , . ' "' niiun.iiu uiciiiseivc pi- ucbted to make payment without delay. tl I lit 1 . ' . juniwA 1 Illl.MrstJA, Adm rix. Stinliury, Nov. 19, 1833. (it. Estate of PETi.Il OBERDORF.ee'd, jV'OTICE is hereby given that letters of Ad iiiuitstrution on the ctule of Peter Oherdorf, lale of I'liocr Auounla. X..nl.,..,.l....., j ... ..." a- --. ......uaimvuuiiii, .lied, have been grained to the u.i.lersiened Therefore all person imlel.ied to said estate will discharge Ihe same, and those hating demands .u i.-.-em iiirm ior settlement. All person inJebtcd to the e.tute on vendue notes are re quested to call for settlement. l'ETEH OBERDORF, ) , GEO. OBERDORF, $ Ex Upper Auirusta twsp., Nov. 19, 1853 6t. Estate of CHRISTOPHER WOODS, dee'd. Mie oj me jsorougn of JSortUumberlaiul. LETTERS of Administration on the above named estate having been granted to me, debtors and creditors of the same are requested to call at my oHice iu Northumberland, to settle or make known their claims. DAVID TAGGART. Iorth'd, Nov. 19, 1853 Gt. PUBLICS ALE! On SATURDAY, th 3d of DECEMBER, next at tho public house of the subscriber, in Shamo kin township, Northumberland county, th following property, to wit . A VALUABLE FARM, situate in said township and county, adjoining lands of Leonard Kotharmel, Hugh Teats and others, containing about 42 acres, more or less. 'I'h improvement consist of a two story frame TAVERN STAND, frame karn, outbuildings, and also a tenant house. There are two pumps of never failing water at the taveru stand. There tra on th premises, two spple orchards, on of thse thriving and young. 'I he tavern stand is situated in Snufltown, with 8 acres of laud attached thereto, the resi due, 3'J or 40 acres, are almost adjoining the tavern stand. The sl.ovo property will be old together or seprrute, to suit purchasers. Term made known on day of sale by MICHAEL BOBB. SnuliUiwn, Nov. IS, 1853. Jt. AUDITORS' NOTICE " NOTICE is hereby giveu that the andersinrd Auditor appointed by the Orpliins' Court of Northumberland county, in the matter of the exception to the account of Geo. C. YVslkar, Administrator of Jacob Ureiner, dee'd., will meat at hi orlic on Saturday, 111 3d dav of December 1853, when all intaresUd mav attend if ik.v deem improper. M. L. SHINDEL.AueVo; Sunbury, No. 19, 1853-. St.
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