THE HUNTINGDON GLOBE, A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS, &C.
THE GLOBE.
Circulation—the largest in the county.
LEMBITOADOE, 22.4
Wednesday, August 25, 1858.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT,
WPII. PORTER, of Philadelphia.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
WEWICLEY FROST, of Fayette Co.
DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.
ASSEMBLY,
DANIEL. lIOUTZ, of Alexandria
COUNTY COMMISSIONER,
JA)IES HENDEB,SON, of Cassville.
DIRECTOR OF TILE POOR,
JOHN . MIERLY, of Spiingfield.
AUDITOR,
JOHN OWENS, of Birmingham.
CORONER,
THOMAS P. f...OVE, of Huntingdon
EXTRA PREMIUMS.
It will be obseryed - that the County Society—for very
good reasons we supposehave omitted in their list, pre,
miums for the best specimens of printing. Printing is an
art—the art of arts—in the improvement of which, busi
ness men at least, take some interest. We take as much
pleasure, and pride, in executing a job of work as it should
be, as other men do in their calling, and we can -see- no
good reason why a printer should not contest for an honor.
We, therefore, propose the following premiums:
For the best and greatest variety of Fancy Card .
printing $5 00
For the best and greatest variety of Plain Card
printing 5 00
For the best and greatest variety of Blank printing, 5 00
For the best and greatest variety of handbill and
Circular printing
For the best and greatest variety of Printing
" " Job Office in the county.
The contest to be conned to the printers of the county;
and no part of any Card, Blank, Bill, Circular, &c., to be
executed out of the county.
All customer work, only, and blanks regularly kept on
hand for sale, to be entered for the premiums.
Each Office contesting for the premiums, to place in the
hands of a Committee like sums as above, the whole to be
given to the Office receiving the awards.
The Committee to be appointed by the Offices entering
for the premiums=one by each Office, and the Committee
to appoint one.
The Committee to visit and examine work at the Offices
entering-, on the second day of the County Fair.
New Advertisements.
41Q- List of Premiums. .
Orphans' Court Sale.
G Notice to Coal purchasers.
AlklV- Two Adminstrator Notices
7Qti3— See advertisement of Prof. Wood's
Hair Restorative in another column.
AtEr See advertisement of Dr. Sanford's
Liver Invigorator in another column.
-The Report of the Pbor House Visit
ing Committee will be published in our next.
Aar'`lire arc prepared to get up in hand
some style, Banners and Flags for Sunday
School and other celebrations, political meet
ings, &c., with any inscription desired.
sEir We have been requested - to state that
the Colored Camp Meeting to be held in Or
bison's Woods, about one mile froM town,
will positively commence on Friday next.
E6?-The declination of JOHN-OwEse,
will be regretted by our party friends through
out the county; County Auditor is one of the
most important positions in the - county, and.
we know of no man who would have the con
fidence of the people to a greater extent than
Ma.owEss, in the discharge of the duties of
the office. The County Committee, we sup
pose, will-fill the vacancy at an early day.
Declination.
BIR3IINGUAM, August 19, 1858.
WILLIAM LEWIS, ESQ.—Dear Sir:—ln your
"GLOBE" of the 18th instant I see my name
placed on the Democratic county 'ticket for
Auditor, by the late Convention. I feel
thankful to my friends for the honor con
ferred, but regret that my name was men
tioned in said Convention, as my domestic
circumstances are such that I must and do
positively decline being a candidate.
Respectfully - yours,
JOHN OWENS.
PLEASANT GROVE CAMP-MEETING.—In com
pany with some' hundreds of our citizens we
visited the camp=ground on last Sabbath, and
during - the whole day and evening it was the ii
general remark that as good order was never
before witnessed at a camp-meeting. There
was not the least noise or confusion on, or in
the neighborhood of the ground during the
whole day. The arrival . and departure of
the cars with hundreds of pasengers, did
not create the least confusion, or disturb in
the least the religious exercises in the camp,
althoUgh located immediately On the road:—
For the great care and attention in the run
ing of the trains, Mr. LAWRENCE Superintend
ent, Conductor MORRISON, and his assistants,
came in for a large share of praise—and well
they deserve-it. There was at least two thou
sand people on the ground at noon on Sun
day—a large number for the section of court.:
try.
BEV-Some of the Southern papers, fearing
that Kansas may make, application at the
next session of Congress, and be admitted
lute the Union with an anti-slavery Constitu
tion approved by her people, already inti
mate that they will not submit to the " indig
nity!' With a slavery Constitution her pre
sent-population would be large enough to
secure Southern support for her admission--
but, if she is to be a free State the Southern
slaveholders and their agents in the North,
will look upon her efforts for admission with
her present population as an attempt to com
mit a gross outrage upon their rights. We
are for her early admission, with a Constitu
tion, slavery or anti-slavery, as may be de
termined by a vote of her resident inhabi
tants..
.Then, and not till then will the ques
tion be settled, the assertions of the office
holders, office hunters, awl their pipers to
the contrary notwithstanding , end if Dem
ocrats, North and South, East and West,
would be wise, they will see that the ques
tion ils." settled" before the Presideutia.l can.
vaigu.
Democratic County Committee.
Hon. JAMES Gwrs, Chairman.
Samuel Isenberg, Alexandria.
George W. Owens, Birmingham.
John S. Gehrett, Cassville.
George Jackson, Huntingdon.
Alexander Port, di •
David Black,
E. L. Everhart, it
George 31. Cresswell, Petersburg.
Dr. M. J. McKinnon, Shirleysburg.
Gilbert Horning, Barree.
John K. Metz, Brady.
John Hamilton, Carbon.
John Dell, Cass.
Richard Madden, Clay. -
Michagi Starr, Cromwell.
John Jamison,. Dublin.
Maj. Gorge Dare, Franklin. •
John Rhodes, Henderson*. -
John B. Weaver, Hopewell.
Dr. M. Miller, Jackson.
•Williain Speck, Juniata.
James B. Carothers, Morris.
Robert Wilson, Oneida.
John' Eby, Jr., Mount Union Dis.
John Gemmill, Porter. .
•
Henry Grubb, Penn.
David McGarvey, Shirley.
N. K. ; Covert; Springfield.
John Jones, Tell. •
David Hamilton, .Tod.
. Jacob 11. Miller, - =Union.
William S. Lincoln, Walker.
James Chamberlain; Warriorsmark.
David r iek, West.
BENAI 3 'OR BIGLER IN AIiGUST
1557: Wil
• liam Bigler 'Senator from Pennsylvania, is
now traveling the State denouncing and at
tempting to read out of the Democratic party,
such men 'as Douglas, Wise, Walker, Stanton,
and all• who differed with him upon the Kan
sas question. His denunciation of Secretary
Stanton, we understand, is particularly se
vere. Under those circumstances, there is
an obvious propriety in printing the following
- extract from a letter of this same Senator
Bigler to Secretary Stanton, dated Clearfield,
Pa., .August 14,.1857.
"Make my special regards to Governor
Walker, and say to him that he has the pop
ular heart with him throughout the entire
country except only the extreme South. Should
his programme succeed, he WILL nAvr. TILE
MOST ENVIABLE PROMINENCE OP ANY MAN IN
TIIE NATION. The _Administration is a little
weak at the knees, and winces under the South
ern thunder, but they must stand up to the
work.
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A Platform for the Whole Union.
The following is the platform of the Dem
ocrats of Sehuykill county, who oppose the
attempt to force Lecompton upon the peo
ple of I:iansas. What Southern citizens will
object to these truly national principles ?
Resolecd That the Democratic party of
Schuylkill county, in delegate convention as
sembled, do reassert and declare that we are
unaltera,blk , ,attached to, and will maintain
.inviolate-,.. the principles -avowed .by , the. Dem
ocratic party at their National Convention,
held in.einetunati in June 1.85 G.
Resotiled, That we avow, with renewed en
ergy, our • devotion to the Federal Union of
the l_inited'States, our earnest desire to avert
sectional strife, our determination to main
tain inviolate: the sovereignty of the States.
and to - protect 'every -State - and the :people
thereof in their constitutional rights.
Resolved, That the people of a Territory
have the right to decide fairly at the ballot
box upon - all the provisions of a Constitution,
before Congress shall grant their application
to be incorporated into our Union as a State ;
and that thwadmission of a Territory into the
Union as a State, upon such fair submission
to the people therein of all the provisions of
its Constitution as a condition precedent, is
in strict accordance with the fundamental
principles•of our Government.
Resolved, -That the settlement of the ad
mission of Kansas under the Lecompton Con
siltation- is in the bands of the people of Kan
sas themselves, and should they accept the
the . terms of the English bill, the sympathy
extended to them will have been thrown
away. That should the Constitution be re
jecte-d, it 'is expected that the members of
Congress from this district will vote for the
admtssion'Of thenew State with any Consti
tution adopted by a majority of the people,
without regard to the number of inhabi
tants. '
Chester County Politics.
The •Dcmoerats of Chester county held)
their usiiiil county meeting, August 10, at
which the' course of Hon. John Hickman,
Anti-Leaorapten Democrat, was fully sustain
ed. The following resolutions were adopted
by the ingetitig::,, - •
Resolce . d, That the doctrine of Popular
SciVereightY, l aS' reeenlly applied with great.
distinctness to the Territories of the United;
StateS; is'`drily a recurrence to'firSt principles,
being clearly enunciated by Jefferson when
he
. said — that - Governments were only legiti-.
mately instituted among_ men when they de
rived their just powers from the consent of
the . 'governed.
Resolved, That we• believe that the people
of a Territory like those of a State, are fully
capable Of selecting the institutions under
which they are-to live ; and that when they
have, by the fair expression of the majority,
chosen such institutions, it is treason against
their most sacred rights for•an,y power to in
terfere tio, attempt to force upon them a sys
tem of laws, fundamental or otherwise, that
are repugnant and odious to them.
Resolved, That the present tariff is inade
quate to defray the expenses of Government,
and we are therefore in favor of its revision.
In making such revision we hold that the
duties should be adjusted as to g,ive ample
protection to all the industrial interest of
our country.
MR. EDITOR S—Having been appointed by
the Camp-Meeting Committee to attend to
getting the benefit of Excursion during our
Camp-Meeting, which is about one mile from
this place, and to commence on the 27th inst.,
lasting one whole week ; I have attended to
the same, and got the grant of an Excursion
from Altoona and Miffiintown and interme
diate points. JOHN BAKER.
fix. LTa-lon, Agust 17, '5B.
Excursion
Court Proceedings.
List of criminal causes disposed of during
the first week's session of the Huntingdon Co.
Court :
Corn. vs. Wm. Cook and John Gorden, (both
colored.) Indictment 'assault and battery.- 1
True bill. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to
pay a find of $2 each and costs.
Corsi. vs. Absalom Robinson. Surety of
the Peace on complaint of T. T. Cromwell.—
Deft. sentenced to pay the costs of suit and
enter bail in the sum of $lOO for good be
havior for the term of six months.
COM. vs. David flicks. Indictment forni
cation and bastardy. Deft. acquited•and the
county pay the costs. , ' •
Com. vs. Sarah Ewing. Indictment as
eult. Not a true bill. Geo. Rudy prosecutor
pay. the .costs.
Corn. vs. Geo. Rudy. - Indictment assault.
Not a true bill. Sarah Ewing the prosecutor
pay the costs.
Corn. vs. John Croyle. Indictment larceny.
True bill. Verdict guilty. Sentenced to pay
a fine of $1 and costs, and undergo an im
prisonment in county jail for two months. -
Corn. vs. Nevill and Saxton. Indictinent
larceny. True bill. Verdict not guilty. •
Corn. vs.- Vim. Wilson. indictment-larce
ny. Not a true bill, Hugh Alexander the
,prosecutor pay. the dosts. • '• •
Corn. vs. Same. Indictment . larceny. Nat
a true bill.
Corn. vs. Sanie. Indictment malicious mig
chief. Not a:true bill and Hugh Alexander
prosecutor pay the costs...
Corn. vs. Jas Hardy and HughDenning. s ,
Indictment conspiracy. Not a true bill.—
Prosecutor pay the costs,
Corn. vs. Geo. Hinkle. .Indictment as
sault. True bill. Verdict not guilty, Jas.
Jacobs prosecutor pay the costs.
Com. vs. Jas. Jacobs. Indictment mali
cious mischief. True bill. Verdict not
guilty. George , Hinkle prosecutor pay the
costs.
Com. vs. the Same. Surety of the peabe
on complaint of Mary A. _Hinkle. Dismiss
ed and complainant pay the costs.
Con:. vs. Wm. Thomas and Joseph Ste3vart.
January Term, 185 S—Indictment assault and
battery with intent to kill. True bill. Guilty.
Sentence deferred and remanded to. jail.—
August 21st, 1858—new trial granted, and
District Attorney enters a nol. pros. on second
count in the indictment (intent to kill) and
the defendants plead guilty on first count,
(assault and battery) and sentenced each to
three months confinement in county jail.
Harrison & Couch vs. Cumberland Valley
Fire Insurance Protection Company. Ver
dict for Defendant.
A. H. Bumbaugh for use of John Mc-
Cabe vs. Same. Verdict for Plaintiff fur
$564 51.
Oliver's heirs for use of Wm. 3leNite vs.
Jas. Clark's Administrators. - Verdict fur De
fendant.
David Snyder's Executors vs. Bracken,
Stitt & Co. Verdict for Plaintiff S47S
John Brewster vs. Long & Ricketts. Ver
dict for Plaintiff for SG7O 50.
Meeahau's Executors vs. Geo. Coucii.. =
Verdict $l2l. 00 for Plaintiff.
Commonwealth for use vs. John Jamison . amiso
and others: Verdict for Plaintiff
for costs.
. ...,,
_
R. R. AnderSon vs. Speer & Miller. Ver
dict for Plaintiff for $lOO.
_
James Morrow vs. John Lyon and Others.
Verdict for Plaintiff for . slo dutnac,es.
The Telegraph Cable.
On Monday evening of last week the, toi,
lowing message from Queen Victoria was re"
ceived by President Buchanan.
Losuos, Aug;l6; 1858.
To the Honorable the President of United
Slates :
"The Queen desires to congratulate* the
President upon the successful issue of this.
great international undertaking, in which the
Queen has taken the deepest interest. -
"The Queen is convinced that the Presi
dent will join with her in fervently hoping
that the Electric Cable, which now connects
Great Britain with the United States, will
prove an additional link between the natioUS
whose friendship is founded upon their- com
mon interest and reciprocal esteem.
" The Queen has much pleasure in thus
communicatinn,re
newingwith the President, and re
newing to him her wishes fur the prosperity
of the linited States."
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN'S aEPIX.
• WASDINGTON, Aug. 16.
"The President cordially reciprocates - the
congratulationS of her Majesty the Queen,*on
the success''of the great International Enter-
prise accomplished by the science, skill
indomitable energy of the two countries. -It
is a triumph more glorious, because More
useful, than was ever won by the conqueror
of the field-of battle. May the Atlantic Tel
egraph Company, under the blessing of hear-.
en, prove to be a bond of perpetual peace and
friendship between the' kindred nations, and,
an instrument destined by diVine Providence
to diffuse religion civilization, liberty and`
lag throughout the world. In this view will
not all the nations of Christendom spontane
misty unite in - the deOaration that it - Shall be
forever neutral, 4ind that its communicatimy
shall - be' held sacred` in the places of their
destination' in the midst of hostilities. -
SENATOR DOUGLAS ON THE STUMP'--=A SCRAP
Or MS ESRLY ITISTORY.—In a•speech-at Win
chester, 111., delivered on the 7th
Douglas said: •
"Twenty-five years ago I entered this town
on foot, with my coat upon my arm, withbut
an acquaintance in a thousand miles, and
without knoicing Where I could get moneeto
pay a week's board. Here I made the first
six. dollars I ever earned in my life, and ob
tained the first regular occupation that I ever
pursued. For -the first time in my life I then
felt that the responsibilities of manhood were
upon me, although I was- under age, for I
had none to advise with and knew no one
upon whom I had a right to call for assis
tance or for friendship. .Here I found the
then settlers of the country my friends—my
first start in life was taken here, not only as
a private citizen, but my first election to pub
lic office by the people was conferred ripen
me by those whom I am now addressing and
by their fathers. A quarter of a century
has passed, and that penniless boy stands be
fore you with his heart full and gushing with
the sentiments which such associations and
recollections necessarily inspire."
KENTUCKY.—The Democratic majority in
the State, as shown by the result of the re
cent election for Judges, is 11,000 or upwards.
A slight diminution from last year, but "sufi
elect fur all practical purposes."
JAS. 4IiCII,UNAN,"
Items of News, &o.
ler The Governor General of Canada, gets
$31,000 per annum—s6,ooo more than the
President of the United States.
gr. The Blair County Agricultural Socie
ty recently determined that it was inexpedi
ent to hold a fall exhibition this year on ac
count of the hard times.
• A NEW TEST.—The Chicago Times states
that William Fitch, a clerk in the Post Office
of that city, was discharged because lie spoke
to Senator Douglas.
rer Harrison county, Obio, is one of the
greatest wool-growing counties in the Union.
The Cadiz Sentinel estimates the crop of the
county at four hundred thousand pounds,
Which will sell for one hundred and seventy
two thouiand dollars.
MGR PRI C ES FOR SLAVES.—The Frederick
(Md.) Herald notes the sale of three slaves in
that county for $2,840. One aged about 17
years, brought $1,115, another • about 15
years of age, $l,OlO, and the other about 8
or 9 years of age, $725.
• Ile- A man sentenced to be hung, was
visited by his wife, who said : "My dear,
would you like the children to see you execu
ted ?" "No," replied he. "That's just like
Yon," said she, -"you never want the chil
dren to have any kind of enjoyment." '
• xier-An aged man, named' Solomon Wolfe,
was killed by. lightning durinc , the storm on
Tuesday afternoon of week before last, while
engaged in ploughing in a field, near Canoe
creek, Blair county, Pa. The electric fluid
penetrated the top of his head and'passd out
at his feet, producing instantaneous death.
gig:Ts-The product of the California mines,
since their discovery, has amounted to $713.-
000,000 ; of the Austrailia to $615,000,000.
It has been estimated by Mr. Snowden, the
director of the United States Mint, that $l,-
400.000,000 have been added within the last
decade, to the stock of precious metals exist
ing in the world.
EXTRAORDINARY LONGEYITY.—Th ere is a
very remarkable case of longevity in one
family in Nelson county, Va. There are five
married sisters whose aggregate ages amount
to 434 years. On the Ist of January last
the eldest was 93, the second 91, the third 88,
the fourth 82 and the fifth 80.
ALARMING FATALITY'.—The Mobile Adver
tiser states that at Greenville, Miss„ a family
of seven fell victims to the "milk sickness."
Milk was a daily article of food in the family,
and they ignorantly continued the use of it
after their cows had been attacked by the
prevailing disease, and died.
TOUGLI YARN.—The Pennsylvanta Inquirer
states that a train on the Chester Valley Rail
road, was actually stopped one day last week,
by the swarms of grasshoppers, which have
infested that section of late. They became
so plenty upon the line of rails that thou
sands of them were crushed, so completely
greasing the wheels that the train lost head
way.
CUEAP.7r-A letter from Burlington lowa,
predicts that grain, corn, beef and all provi
sions will be very cheap this fall. The wr:-
ter says :—" Lots of beef will go from this
section, and more especially from Illinois.,
eastward. • The over labored ox is being
'treacherously entertained by the owner with
corn nubbins and tender prairie grass, to fit
him for an early trip to New York."
ter - A man who is very rich now, was very
poor when he was a boy, and when asked
haw he got his riches, he replied : "My
father . taught me never to play until my
•work was finished, and never spend my
money until I had earned it. If I had but
,one hour's work in a day, I must do that the
first thing, in an hour—and after this, I was
allowed to play ; and then could play with
much more pleasure than if I had the thought
of an unfinished task before my mind. I
early formed the habit of doing everything
in time, and it soon became perfectly easy to
do so. It is to this I owe my prosperity."
LICENSE DECISION.—Judge Haines deliver
ed an able opinion before the Chester county
Court, last week, upon the subject of the
new Liquor Law. He holds that there is
.still a discretion left with the Court in its
power to grant license, founded upon the evi
dence before it, as to the 'necessity of the
house for public accommodation, and the
character of the applicant, and that the . Court
is not bound by the law of 1858 to license
all taverns applied fur in due form—irrespec.:
tive of
.the morals and interests el the peo
ple.
A POLITE Bov.Tlie other day, says an
exchange, we were riding in a crowded car
on the Pennsylvania Railroad.. At one end,
of the• station an old gentlemen entered and:
was looking around him for a scat when a
lad tea or twelve years of age rose up and
said, "Take my seat, sir. l "lhe offer was
accepted, and the infirm old man sat doWn.
"Why did you give me your seat !" he in-
quire(' of the boy. "Because you are old,
sir, and I am,aboy," . was the quick reply.—
The passengers were very much pleased•and
gratified. _Poi my part, I wanted to seize
hold of theliitle' fellow
S apd press him . to my
bosons. It Was a reSpect: Tor cirri age, is Well
is always praiseworthy. . .
OW. The electoral vote for 1856 consisted
of :. 5 .96 votes.' The admission of Minnesota
will increase that number to three hundred,
and should Kansas and Oregon be admitted
the entire vote will be three hundred and six,
requiring one hundred and fifty-four for a
choice of President. Of this three hundred
and six, there will be one hundred and twen
ty from the slavoholding States, and one hun
dred and eighty-six from the non-slavehold.:
ing States. In the Charleston (Democratic)
Convention, under the two-thirds rule, it will
require two hundred and four votes to make
a nomination. It will require eighty-four
Northern votes, even with the united South,
to make a nomination.
A FRENCH FLYING MACHINE.-A Paris COT-:
respondent says that the Emperor Napoleon
has just made a present of 5,000 f. to a private
in the Line, who asserts he has discovered a
solution for the great problem in aeronautics
—the art of flying. He has invented a kind
of air ship, consisting of a platform of silk
stretched over whalebone, to be propelled by
two gigantic wings of the same material,
placed on each side. The aerial navigator is
to be suspended at a distance of about four
feet from the platform; while his feet rest on
pedals, by means of which the wings are set
in motion, while his arms rest on a lever,
which imparts to the platform the direction
he chooses - to give it. Only a model of this
machine has yet been constructed, and it ap
pears to work• well.. Thanks to the Emperor's
munificence, it is now about to be constructed
on e. large scale.
Submarine Telegraphs.
In the latter part of May, 1858, Great
Britain and Ireland were brought into instant
communication through the submarine tele
graph. The distance between the points of
connexion—Hollyhead and Howth—is sixty
five miles, and the greatest depth five hun
dred and four feet. There was only one wire
in this cable, with the indispensable coating
of gutta percha, which was protected and
strengthened by the iron wire covering the
outside. It was laid at the rate of four
miles per hour, and fell so evenly that only
three miles more than the actual distance
traversed was required.
Scotland and Ireland were connected by a
cable of six wires in May, 1858. The dis
tance is about thirty 'miles, and was travers
ed by the steamer in not more thanten hours.
The following June - a cable waslaid from
Orfordness, in England, to the Hague, in Hot
land, a distance of one hundred and fifteen
miles. This task was accerripliShed in thirty
four hours, arid'only - four and a half miles of
cable were required in the paying, out over
the actual length from point to
,point, mak
ing hardly one hundred and'tWenty ' miles
altogether. Another cable contiects , Dover
with Ostend, making the ,third between. Eng
land and the Continent.. . • ,
In the summer of 18 . 54 a telegraphic union
was effected bet Wee - CorgictiLand Sardinia,
in Italy, the Sardinian GOvernment having
granted three vessels of war
,to assist in the
undertaking. This worlf*S attended with
much difficulty; in consequence of the freak
ing of a part of the wire. The submerging
of a cable between Corsica and the Island of
Sardinia was succesfully accomplished short
ly after; but the attempt which - was subse
quently made to connect the Island of Sar
dinia and Algeria, and thus -established im
mediate communications between the conti
nents of Europe and Africa, was unsuccess
ful, and has not since been attempted. That
it will be effected, and at- no distant day,
there is no reason to -doubt, as the obsta
cles are not of au
,insurmountable charac
ter.
In th© opinion of scientific men there was
little need for much deliberation on the part
of man as to the exact position of the Atlan
tic Telegraph just,laid. Nature has benefi
ciently decided this question for him. New
foundland is stretched forth as the hand of
the New World to meet the_grasp of the Brit
ish Isles, which are extended as the hand of
the Old World. Exactly where these hands
are held towards each - other, and between
them, a smooth softly-pared. ledge is laid
down, to receive the cord that may compen
sate for the shortness of their reach ; and this
ledge is placed exactly at the depth which is
required for the security of this connecting
cord, and just beyond the edge of the eddy
ing current, which troubles the centre of the
wide sea. The course of the telegraphic ca
ble is precisely marked Out by a natural rac
ing across the depth of the ocean. There in
one line, and only one line f in which the work
can be accomplished. Providence has de
signed that the Old World and the New, sev
ered at first by a great gulf, shall be re-cod
neeted by electrical sympathies and bonds,
and Providence has prePared the material
means for the fulfillment of the design.. In
this official letter to the United States Legis
lature, Lieut. Maury writes : "The only
practicable route for it sUbtimrine telegraph
between the United State,i,',Ond England ,ap,
pears to be along the 'platen' of the Atlantic,
whereupon it is proposed,tolay the wire that
is now in the process of :construction." In
accordance with tliis . convietionand in antici
pation of the success which is to be realized,
the lieutenant prOphetically:ehristened the
traverse tableland ledge of the North At
lantic "The Telegraph Plateau," even before
the completion of prophecy had become
the special charge of commercial enterprise.
The cost of the Atlantic Telegraph cable
just laid, is estimated as follows:
Price deep-sea wire per mile • $2OO
Price spun-yarn and iroa-wire, per mile 265
Price outside tar, per mile 20
Total, per mile
I'rice 2.500 mikes kt 1,212.500
Price l 0 miles tl‘sp-5,.1. cable, at $1.430 per mil.. 14,500
Fur '25 miles shore-eml, at $1,450 per mile 31.250
TOM coet $1,258.250
J Boston Transcript.
Edward Everett.••••on the Cable.
One of the finest things yet spoken on the
cable is the following . by Edward Everett :
"Does it seem all but incredible to you that
intelligence should travel two thousand miles,
along those slender copper wires, far down
in the all but fathomless Atlantic, never be
fore penetrated by aught 'pertaining to hu
manity, save when si me. foundering vessel
has plunged, with, her„hapless, company, to
eternal silence and darkness of the abyss?—
Does it seem, I say, alt hut a -F it - lint - 2.1e of art
that the thoughts of living imOd—the thoughts
that we think up here ou,the u eartb?s surface,
in the cheerful light . of da,y—about the mar
kets, the exehanges: 'and the.easous, and the
election's, and'thetreaties; and the wars, and
all the fond- nothings .uf daily , life , ---should
clothe themselves with elemental
- sparks, and
shout with fiery, .speed in a moment, in the
twinkling of an eye, - from hemisphere to
hemisphere, far down among the Uncouth
monsters that ~ w allow in`l.the- nether seas,
along the:wreck-paved-floor,. thirough the oozy
dungeons-of the rayless deep;. that the last
intelligence of the.crops,.3o4lSe dangling tas
sels will in a few monthS be' coquetting with
the west wind on these boundless prairies,
should go flashing. along the .slimy -decks of
old sunken - galleons, whielLhave -been rotting
fur ages; that messages of.friendship and
love, from warm living besoius i should burn
over the cold green bones-of:men- and wo
men, whose hearts,- once warrahs ours, burst
as the eternal gulfs closed and. roared over
them .centuries ago?" - - • •
BEDFORD C 01.7 N TY... 1 74110, ti-..Ndministra.-
tion party of Bedford Co. met in Convention
last week and noiuinated thb•following tick-
12111
Congress—Francis 'Jordan. a
Assembly—Geo. G.-Williams.
Commissioner—Gideon D. Trtitit
Poor Director—Henry M. Hoke.
Auditor--James Camel.
Coroner—Wm. Showman. •
A SHOWER OF FLIES.--A recent number of
the St. Louis Democrat says: '
"On the down trip of the steamer Editor,
in the Illinois, the other night, at 6 o'clock,
a shower or stream of the Mormon or shad
fly poured upon her decks to the depth of six
inches, and it was a very difficult matter to
shovel them overboard. They were so nu
merous as to put out the' watchman's light
and envelop everthing in Midnight darkness.
The trees along the shore look as if borne
down by these short-lived inseets. The visi
tation is said :to prognosticate a sickly sea
son."
lutportamt Decision of Supreme Court
upon License Bonds.
LIGHTNER, Error to the Court of
vs. Common Pleas of
Tim COMMONWEALTH, Huntingdon eoun
for use, &c. ty.
OPINION BY STRONG, J.
This was a scire facias upon a judgment
entered on a bond and Warrant of Attorney
of a licensed liquor dealer, under the Act of
Assembly to regulate the sale of intoxicating
liquors, passed - March 31, 1856. The defend
ant, Lightner, having a license to sell spiritu
ous liquors in quantities of not less than one
gallon, was convicted of keeping a tippling
house, was sentenced and paid the fine im
posed, with the costs. In obedience to the
tenth section of the Act, the District Attorney
then caused judgment to be entered upon the'
bond, and proceeded to enforce its collection- -
Upon the trial, the defendant contended that
the bond was intended only as a security for
whatever fines and costs might be imposed,
and that a breach of the condition worked' a
forfeiture only to that extent. The Court,
however, ruled that the forfeiture was entire
instead of partial, and this presents the prin
cipal question' in the case.
Under the Act of Assembly, the required
condition of the bond is, not that the obligor
will pay whatever penalties may be imposed
upon him by the Court of Quarter Sessions;.
but that he will - faithfully observe all• the•
laws of this Commonwealth relating to his- ,
business. The bond would seem, therefore,.
to be substantially. an agreement by the•
obligor to pay the stipulated sum on condi
tion that he fails to observe all the laws of
the Commonwealth relating• to the sale of in.:
toxicating liquors. •
That it was not intended merely to secure.
the payment of-fines imposed and costs, may
also be argued from the fact, that the statue'
requires imperatively "whenever any judg
ment for -any forfeiture or fine shall have
been recovered, or conviction had for any vio
lation of the provisions of this Act or any
other law for the observance of which said
bond shall be conditioned" that the District
Attorney. shall enter judgment upon it, midi
institute suit upon that judgment, without
regard to-the fact that the fine imposed may
have been paid. Why institute suit if noth
ing can be recovered ?
Again, the proeeedings directed to be insti
tuted upon the judgment are declared by the
statute to be "with like effect" as those upon
forfeited bonds and recognizances. Yet in
suits upon these the whole penalty is
,recov
ered, unless it has been remitted or modera
ted by the Court, in which the bond or re
cognizance has been taken. It must not be
overlooked that the effect spoken of by the
statute is not such as attends a suit upon an
official bond in which, though the judgment
is for the penalty, the execution is awarded.
only for theamount of damages sustained by
the party aggrieved by the Act which works:
a forfeiture.
If any thing more were needed to show
that this is a correct construction of the ob
ligation, it might be found in the 31st section
of this Act. That section makes provision
for the distribution of the fines recovered,
and after enacting that a portion of the fino
or penalty shall lie awarded to the informer,
declares that " the residue as well as the pro
ceeds of all fi►rfeited bonds as aforesaid shall
be paid to the Directors of the public schools"
&e. Those Directors are, therefore, entitled'
not only to the' finerecovered, that is actual.:
ly paid, but in addition thereto, to the pro
ceeds of the forfeited bond. Yet there can
be no such proceeds if the construction of the
plaintiffs in error prevail.
It is however argued that there would be
no necessity of instituting suit if the forfeit
ure were entire. There is however the same
necessity which exists in the case of all judg
ments with a collateral condition. The judg
ment does not show upon its face a right to
execution. It is for the performance of a
collateral condition, and in every such case
there must be debt or vire facias upon the
judgment. _The defendant is entitled to a day
in Court to show that he has done no act
which works a forfeiture.
MN
Again, it is urged that if the whole penal
ty may be recovered after the first convie
tion, inasmuch as the license in not forfeited
until after the second, the Commonwealth
will have no security for the interval which
may elapse after the first conviction has taken
place. She has, however, the security which
arises from an imminent forfeiture of the B
emuse, not, indeed,- surety for the payment of
the second penalty, but security against
transgression. But without this, the con
struction contended for by the plaintiffs in
error, would give the Common Wealth no ad
ditional security. The liquor dealer's bond,.
not being an official bond, the first judgment
and execution would exhaust it, and it would
cea•re to be available fur any after uses.
The construction which the Court below
put upon the -bond was therefore correct.
'raking this view of the case, we do not
perceive that the Act of April 20, 1858, can
have any"effeet upon the case. It was not
passed until after this case had been judi
cially determined. We are to enquire whether
the Court below rendered a judgment accord
int,(i to the law as the' law then was. Wer
think they did. The Act of 1858 will reach
cases in which that of 1856 is yet to be con
strued, but Cannot affect any judicial inter: ,
pretation made before it was passed.
There are some exceptions taken to the ad
mission of evidence, in none of which do. we
discover error. The plea was. payment. It,
admitted the existence of the judgment as re
cited' in the 'seirefacias. That the judgment
was marked for the use of the School Direc
tors of Shirleysburg township was a matter
with which the defendants had nothing to
do. It was. certainly no reason for excluding
the judgment. admitted by the pleadings.—
Armstron a• vs. Lancaster 5, Watts 68'. Com
monwealth vs. Lightner 9, W. & S. 117.
The record of the conviction for keeping a
tippling house was rightly admitted. Keop
ing a tippling house is an offence under Alm
Act of 1856, as well as under. other laws of
the Commonwealth, and it therefore worked
a forfeiture of the penalty of the bonds.
ENERAL CASS.-. 1 deeply regret that Gen.
Cass grows more feeble every day. His at
tention to the duties of his department has
been incessant ; but he has not been well for
several months. I most sincerely hope that
he may obtain rest and rescue from his pro
posed jaunt. The onerous duties of the De
partment of State are entirely too much for
his constitution.—Cor. of the Press.
Q 1
jIIADRANGITLAR.--Nevr York politics, or
politicians, are getting a little mixed. They
have now four distinct and separate organi
zations: Democrats. Knwo-Nothings, Black
Republicans, with three wings and one tail ;
and, lastly,at Syracuse a few days ago,tlie State
was safely delivered of a fourth, which was
christened " Temperance and Liberty par
ty." Gcrritt Smith was its nominee for oov.
ernor.