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An Unfavorable Contrast.
"Look here upon this picture, and on this."
Democracy in Pennsylvania, (say.; the Har
risburg State Sentinel,) if we may base an
opinion on the acts of its Conventions and
the spirit of the press which sustains them,
amounts now to nothing more than a blind,
servile adherence to the National Adminis
tration. Principle seems to be ignored ; in
tegrity set aside; virtue scouted ; and honesty
sneered at. Either the leading men of the
party have been smitten with blindness, or
the corruptions of the central government
have reached and infected this portion of the
circumference. In the better days of the
Republic, the Democracy was known by its
principles, and was sustained or condemned
as it adhered to or departed from them ; but
now it is nothing strange to hear from men
of reputed intelligence that the President's
acts are laws which every Democrat is bound
to support, and that the only test of Democ
racy is obedience to his will. This is the
servile doctrine which is now taught by the
Buchanan office-holders and presses of Penn
sylvania—ancl, he who dissents from it, in
their judgment, places himself without the
pale of the party. Against this doctrine ev
ery true-hearted Democrat must rebel. The
transition from freedom to slavery is too
abrupt to be acceptable.. It is the doctrine
of subjects, not citizens; and while it would
be proper enough under a despotic govern
ment, is little less than treason in a demo
cratic republic, where the people, and not the
President, are sovereign.
It is gratifying, however, that this disgust
ing subserviency is scarcely noticeable out
side of Pennsylvania. The degeneracy in
political morality is nowhere as extensive as
it is here. In other States a few officials,
and, here and there, a pampered press, ex
hibit the same servility. But there it is a
mere speck on the surface, whilst here, not
only the outside, but the whole heart is rot
ten.
There is one fact to which we desire par
ticularly to call attention. Whilst the presses
and politicians of Pennsylvania connected
with the old Democratic organization have de
serted the principles and compromises of the
party, and support the mischievous heresies
of Buchanan, the Democracy everywhere
else in the free States sustain, in a body, the
true interpretation of the Cincinnati plat
form, and declare Popular Sovereignty, as
universally understood before the inauguration
of the President, to be the leading feature of
the Democratic creed. Even in the South,
where the Slidell, Brown, and Davis class of
politicians—taking Mr. Buchanan's ground
—are endeavoring to pervert the Cincinnati
platform by misinterpretation, and use it
solely for the protection, of slavery, the mod
erate class of men, who are conservative in
their views, democratic in their principles,
and hold the preservation of the Union to be
a matter of higher importance than the diffu
sion and protection of slavery, adhere to the
Platform and the Compromises, and repudi
ate the dangerous heresies which the Presi
dent and his supporters are seeking to ingraft
in the Democratic creed. When we compare
the toadyism and sycophancy of the Buchan
an party of Pennsylvania with the spirit and
integrity of the conservative Democracy of
the South, we feel mortified at the depth of
our degradation, and see more clearly than
we did before, that the election of our " fa
vorite son " was the greatest curse that could
have befallen us.
Whilst, in imitation of the President, his
organs and his office-holders in this State
have committed themselves to ultra slavery
views, the conservative Democracy of the
South have adhered in - good faith to the true
doctrines of the party. In proof of this we
quote from three leading Southern Democrat
ic papers, and have others in reserve.
The (Raleigh) North Carolina Stanclant
says:
" Non-intervention by Congress in the local
government of the territories either means
something or it means nothing. The policy
was inaugurated for some purpose or it was
not. If we understand what was meant by
non-intervention, it meant that the territories
could regulate their own domestic matters in
their own way subject in all things to the con
stitution of the United States. The purpose
for which the policy was inaugurated was to
remove the whole question of slavery from
the halls of Congress, and thus to get rid of
a most irritating and dangerous agitation."
The Louisville (Ky.) Democrat says :
" If the Democracy take this position, (Con
gressional intervention in favor of slavery,)
the prohibitionists of slavery will carry every
Congrassonal district in the free States, and
elect the next president. That will be the re-
suit as certainly as the sun will rise and set.
This is just what the agitation of this sub
ject is to effect. The opposition see it and
know it. Beware of the trap! The Demo
cratic party is the last tie, political or reli
gious, that binds the North and South together.
The disunionists are eager to push this ques
tion, as it proposes to cut that tie asunder;
and the opposition don't care for right, so
long as they get office."
The Lexington Statesman, understood to
be the organ of the Vice President, has the
following remarks on the non-intervention
dogma:
"To look to congressional interference is to
subvert political principles which we have
learned to regard as the fundamental doc
trine of the Democratic party, to inaugurate
a domestic policy in direct conflict with that
theory upon which alone there seems to be a
hope for the permanent adjustment of our sec
tional difficulties, and finally to concede a
power which, if exerted to its legitimate ex
tent, would place the extension of slavery with
in the control of an abolition Congress.—
Congressional legislation in protection of sla
very in the Territories, irresistibly caries
with it the power to legislate for its exclusion.
The duty or right of Congress to protect can
not be maintained without admitting the
power to abolish. If Congress can intervene
for one purpose it can for another. The
South cannot assert a principle, and expect
to reap only its advantages. We must abide
by its full enforcement."
Aer There are several good stories told of
the President, occasioned by his recent trip
to North Carolina. It is said that while he
was on the train between Norfolk and Wel
don, a gentleman asked him if he rested well
on the Chesapeake boat coming down. Mr.
Buchanan replied, " well, sir, either I was too
long or the berths were too short, and I did
not sleep as comfortable as I might." This
remark was overheard by the, captain of the
Bay Line, who instantly replied : " No, no,
Mr. President, the reason you could not sleep
was because you were in the Bridal cham
ber,' and, as this is the first time in your life
that you occupied such a couch, it is no won
der that you could not sleep."
The Raleigh Register, is responsilile for the
following :—Mr. Buchanan was riding in a
carriage with Gov. Ellis, when they stopped
at a well, to enable the former to get a drink.
The Governor asked Mr. Buchanan, if it
would not be as well- to have a little some
thing in the water. The President thought
it would not be amiss. The Governor in
quired of a friend if he had "anything along?"
The friend happened to have "a little," which
he handed to the Governor in a bottle neatly
done up in a paper and accompanied with a
cup. The cup was handed to the President.
Gov. Ellis had by this time unwrapped the
bottle, and, on handing it to the President,
there was displayed-on it a handsome label
bearing the words, " Osburn's Syrup," upon
seeing which Mr. Buchanan exclaimed, "why
Governor, fin not wor»zy."
TUII NG AND- FEATHERING WOMEN AND
RIDING Titu.r ON A. - RAIL—The Wheeling
(Va.) lidelligencer, says, for sometime past a
woman named Sarah Gatton, with her daugh
ter and son, have been living in Mount Lib
erty, Belmont county, Ohio. Their habits of
life were rather opposed to the regulations of
good society in this county. Their house
was the resort of men whose names were not
altogether Unsullied, and the women lived in
open adultery with two persons, much to the
shame and disquietude of the Letter people
of the village. On Friday night last, a par
ty of men made a descent upon the premises,
cut out the front part of the building, and de
molished everything in the house. The law
less party then emptied the feather beds, and
after thrashing young Gatton severely, tarred
and feathered him. They made him promise
to leave the house and go to work. After
this, Mrs. Gatton and her two daughters, the
latter of whom is only 16 years of age, we,
treated to a coat of tar and feathers and ac
tually carried through the streets on two rails,
together with a man named Bryan, and the
son, who occupied a similar vehicle. When
the house was broken up, two men, named
Henry Philips and James Travis, escaped
through a back door. This is the second or
third time that Mrs. Gatton has been tarred
and feathered:
Death of Judge Burnside.
We are extremely sorry to hear of the sud
den death of the Hon. Judge Burnside, which
took place at Bellefonte on Friday last. It
appears that the Judge was about to take a
ride in a buggy with his nephew, to which a
young spirited horse was attached. The
Judge got into the buggy, and before his
nephew had got in, the horse became un
manageable and ran off at full speed. In
turning a corner the vehicle was upset, the
Judge violently thrown out, and almost in
stantly killed.
Judge Burnside was President Judge of
the Centre Judicial district at the time of his
death, and was universally respected for his
legal ability and deportment in life. Tie
was married to a daughter of General Cam
eron, and leaves several small children and a
very large number of friends who mourn with
them at this sudden bereavement.
MOUNT VERNON.-It is understood at Wash
ington that the entire amount necessary for
the purchase of Mount Vernon has already
been subscribed—thirty thousand dollars only
remaining unpaid; but the association will
not close the subscription lists until a suffi
cient sum shall be in hand to improve the
property now in the most neglected condition.
This done the possession of Washington's
home will pass at once under the control of
the association,
CELEBRATION OF COLORED MASONS.—The
colored Masons of Lewistown, Pa., dedicated
a hall and opened a Chapter at that place on
Friday last. The occasion was celebrated by
a grand parade and other ceremonies, which
were participated in by a number of brother
Masons from Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Hun
tingdon, Hollidaysburg, Bellefonte and other
places. A banner was presented to the
Lodge by the ladies, with an appropriate
speech on their behalf by Mrs. Jernima Mol
son ; replied to by on behalf of the Lodge,
by Frederick C. Revels, the G. 11. P. of their
Grand Chapter. This ceremony over, they
paraded the streets of the borough, to the
music of a fine brass band from Philadelphia,
which accompanied the Philadelphia delega
tion. After the parade, an address was de
livered at the Town Hall by Edward E. Ben
nett, of Harrisburg. The Lewistown Demo
crat says of the address :—"This address was
in good taste, often eloquent, and highly
commended brall our citizens who heard it."
A concert by the band, and a ball in the
evening, terminated the day's performances.
The Democrat adds:—" The deportment of
those who participated in the exercises of the
day and evening, was such as to command
the respect and approbation of all who wit
nessed them."
ger' Notwithstanding the great amount of
croaking with which we have leen favored,
(nothing unusual, by the way, at about this
time of the year,) the indications are that the
crops throughout the country will be more
than an average. A letter from Illinois says:
" The wheat harvest has already commen
ced in Southern Illinois, and the yield is said
to be better than ever known before in that
part of the State. The prospect for a good
crop of corn in 'Egypt' is favorable. Fruit
in that region will be abundant. Peaches
were injured here by the late frosts, and the
insects will probably destroy all that remain . .
After taking into the account all the draw
backs upon the next crop, Illinois will be
able to feed all the Eastern States from her
surplus."
In Michigan the grass crop is ruined, but
farmers arc planting again."
Henry Buehler, Esq., a well known
and highly esteemed citizen of Harrisburg,
died on Wednesday morning, a week last, at
his residence in that town, in the 60th year
of his age. Mr. Buehler was for thirty years
the proprietor of the popular hotel known by
his name, and had an extensive acquaintance
throughout the State. He formerly tool: an
active part in politics, as a member of the
Democratic party, and filled the office of Clerk
of the State Senate for several sessions. He
was a son-in-law of the late Governor Wolf.
The Harrisburg papers truly describe his
character, when they say that he was an up
right man, a useful citizen, a kind and char
itable neighbor, and a true friend, who never
spoke ill of any one, but drew towards him
the respect and affection of all by his exem
plary demeanor in every relation of life.
INSECT RAVAGES.-A gentleman who re
cently traveled from Lexington, Va., to
Lynchburg, says that the forests on the road,
particularly in the vicinity of the former
place, are literally swarmed with locusts.—
Lie observed several large branches of trees
completely riddled by these insects in making
deposits of their eggs. The grasshoppers in
the neighborhood, as stated by the Telegraph,,
"are (thawing everything up." Stalks of
wheat are stripped of every blade, and green
corn, potatoes, and even tobacco, are devoured
with astonishing rapidity.—Richmond Dis
patch.
CLEARFIELD COUNTY.—The Clearfield. Jour
nal thinks there will be three quarters of a
crop of wheat and rye in that county. The
Indiana county papers think the farmers
there will get about half a short crop. Fa
vorable weather has greatly improved the
prospects in all the frost smitten region.—
Unprecedently large quantities of buckwheat
have been sown in the parts damaged by the
frost.
Bunorxo.—The Germantown Telegraph, re
minds us that this is the period for "budding"
fruit trees. After July it will be too late.—
The cherry especially is easily propogated by
budding, and many who failed to graft the
pear in the spring resort to this substitute.—
Indeed, during the last two years, cherry
grafting in this neighborhood has almost en
tirely failed, and from causes we do not
know.
Tun CROPS.—The crops, notwithstanding
the late frost, are beginning to look quite
promising again, and wheat excepted, every
thing around here gives indications of a plen
tiful harvest. The young corn is coming up
finely, and late potatoes look remarakably
promising. Tomatoes, too, have greatly im
proved within a few days, while the oats crop
is excellent, and promises to be above the av
erage.—Pittsburgh Chronicle.
MIFFLIN COUNTY.—Harvesting.—Our rural
friends are about commencing to cut their
grain. From all the information we have
been able to glean respecting the crop, the
yield of the early wheat will be abundant.—
The late, wheat has suffered to a greater or
less extent from the ravages of the weevil.
TIIE LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.--By an arri
val at New York, we have four days later
news from Europe. No more fighting had
occurred. The Austrians continued to re
treat, and were pursued by the Allies.
Letter From "Occasional."
LCorrespondenee of The press,]
WesnlNcToN, June 28, 1859.
I have repeatedly asserted in this corres
pondence that the most unscrupulous and vi
olent defamer of every Democrat who stands
up for principle, as against the policy of the
present Federal Administration, is Attorney
General Jeremiah S. Black. The burden of
his song, for more than a year past, has been
that all such men are "Black Republicans,"
and out of the Democratic party. Some facts
are beginning to leak out in regard to Judge
Black's own record, in addition to those al
ready given, which prove not only his own
sympathy with the Republicans, but his con
tempt for the organization of the Democratic
party. There are, I understand, at least two
letters in the hand-writing of Judge Black,
written by him to Illinois, while Mr. Doug
las was making his terrible canvass against
proscription and fanaticism, in which the
Attorney General calls upon his correspon
dents to oppose Judge Douglas and to aid the
Republicans. These letters will no doubt see
the light of day in the coarse of time. That
they were written, is unquestionable, and
that they are in the hands of responsible per
sons, no less so. It is not to be supposed,
however, that Judge Black wrote these letters
on his own account. By no means ;he is the
merest instrument of the" President, and
though he performed the degrading task with
subservient alacrity, there is no doubt that
the brain which suggested the blow, and the
heart which supplied the venom, were Mr.
Buchanan's. So anxious were they to ac
complish the overthrow of Douglas that they
compelled their dependants to co-operate with
the Republicans in Illinois, and to oppose
the regular organization of the Democratic
party in that State. The animosity of the
President in regard to the distinguished Sen
ator from Illinois, has never known any
bounds ; indeed, there is but one other man
whom he hates more violently, and I need
not suggest to you the name of that individ
ual. The last letter of Judge Douglas has
furnished new fuel to this flame, and has
given another pretext to the President to di
rect his office-holders to renew their warfare
upon him.
Talking of letters, it appears that Mr.
Wendell, public printer, has in his possession
another Presidential document which has oc
casioned a good deal of discussion and con
sternation in certain circles in this city. I
am not of those who have been permitted a
sight of this precious missive, hut I feel au
thorized to say that it is in existence, and
that its contents would throw far into the
shade the celebrated and affectionate epistle
of the President to Robert J. Walker, as also
his letter to the Du Quesne celebration, and
those other (locum en ts connected with his name
which awakened so much interest and curiosi
ty during the investigations of the last Con
gress. In the Wendell letter it is asserted
that Mr. Buchanan, over his own signature,
does not hesitate to recommend the disburse
ment of a large amount of public money to
certain favorites connected with newspapers
in different parts of the country. The sub
sidy to the journal now conducted by the
German-Austrian in your city, which, it is
alleged, passed through the hands of the col
lector of your port, is set down at a large
figure, while the gilded crumbs, thrown to
lesser organs in Philadelphia, Columbus, and
elsewhere, entered into an aggregate which,
if presented to the country, will occasion
some trembling in high quarters. Mr. Wen
dell finds it impossible to indemnify himself
for all his advances. His share of the pub
lic printing will not justify it, and the Presi
dent continues to refuse to open his private
puise to make good the liberal payment to
his private supporters, made by those who,
on the strength of his assurances, expected
to be reimbursed. I feel that Ido not make
any improper allusion to this delicate suhject,
inasmuch as Mr. Wendell is very free in con
versing about it himself, and will no doubt
deny it if it is a misrepresentation'.
The Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Cobb,
is considerably agitated at the somewhat au
thentic news from Georgia, to the effect that
the Democrats in that State intend presenting
as their candidate for the Presidency in 1860,
that accomplished statesman, Alexander 11.
Stephens. This, coupled with the fact that
in the late primary elections in Mr. Cobb's
State, the Administration was almost univer
sally repudiated, as it is generally despised,
does not show that Mr. Cobb has made any
thing by his motion in going back in favor of
his declarations of popular sovereignty in
1856.
The awful defeat of the Administration
party in San Francisco, California, in the
election of delegates to the Democratic Con
vention, shows that the power of patronage
is diminishing its- the sands of the Adminis
tration are running out.
4 110 -
What a Millionaire Pays for his Board
and Clothes
John Jacob Astor used to say, that all he
got for taking care of his immense property
was his board and clothes. One of the "sol
ids" in-our own city fares no better, and yet
he counts his wealth by millions ! Mr. Long
worth gets his clothes and board only—and
nearly every man has the same—and yet he
paid into the county treasurer last year, in
the way of taxes, the sum of $37,570 56 !
Rather expensive boarding and clothing !
The extent of Mr. Longworth's property
may be judged of by the number of pieces of
real estate which he owns in this city alone.
In looking over the tax duplicates, yesterday,
we found that he was assessed upon three
hundred and sixty-six pieces of property, in
his own name, within the city limits, and
that he paid the taxes upon forty-six other
lots which have been leased. Four hundred
and twelve houses and lots, and vacant lots,
in all !
- -
The total value of this property now, can
hardly be estimated. Six years ago, in 1853,
when the last valuation of real estate was
made for assessment purposes, the 36G lots
footed up an aggregate of $1,348,730! A
portion of the lots have doubled in price
since their last valuation, and others have ad
vanced two hundred per cent. in value.—
Many have doubtless remained at about the
same figures as in 1853. His present resi
dence on Pike street, "Belmont Place," is
put down on the tax roll at $187,300. On
Monday he paid his semi-annual tax, which
amounted to $1,785 28.
In addition to his property inside the cor
poration, he owns a considerable amount be
yond the city limits. His personal property
is taxed at $153,840. To look after all these
houses and lands—to watch the titles, and
pay the taxes—to receive the rents and the
thousand grievances of dissatisfied tenants—
furnishes labor sufficient, and hard labor too,
for even an energetic Jerseyman. Our West
ern millionaire certainly earns his bread and
clothes.—Cincinnati Gazette.
The consideration of this subject is now oc
cupying a large share of public attention, and
the doctrine of General Cass in his letter of
May 17, is being severely handled. It would
seem from the following precedent, that the
General concedes a point, upon which former
administrations, have been careful to insist.
The New York Express says :
Francis Allibert, a native of the Depart
ment de Var, in the South of France, left
there during the drawing of the conscription
in 1839, and was actually drawn as a con
script, and was therefore an echape de la con
scription. He arrived at New Orleans, made
the usual application for citizenship, and was
duly naturalized in 1845. He was successful
in business in Louisiana, and in July, 1852,
after an absence of nearly fourteen years, he
returned to visit his family in his native vil
lage, and, under the vigilant police in France,
he was arrested in twenty-four• hours after
his return. He immediately wrote to Mr.
Hodge, the nearest American consul. The
latter, that he might the better attend to the
case, immediately requested that Mr. Alli
bert might be brought to Marseilles, which
request was promptly acceded to by the Gen
eral-in-Chief commanding the military divi
sion. He was brought before the Tribunal
de Guerre as an Insoumis, and condemned.
Mr. Alibert was willing to pay four thousand
francs for a substitute, but M - r. Hodge would
not allow him oven to make the offer, but ob
tained a rehearing of his case, appeared in
person before the Tribunal de Guerre, and
and pleaded the case ; and after two trials
and a detention of six months, he was ac
knowledged an American citizen, and orders
came
_from the Minister of War at Paris, di
recting lass release. Mr. Hodge gave him a
passport, which was wised by the police, and
with which he remained some weeks with his
family, travelled through France, and em
barked at Havre on his return to the United
States.
The correspondence on file in the Depart
ment of States gives the full details of the
case and Mr. Everett, the Secretary of State
under Fillmore, on the 3rd of March, 1853,
(the last day he was in office,) wrote a com
plimentary letter to Mr. Hodge in which he
says :
The Department was gratified to learn
that F. Allibert, whose arrest and imprison
ment as an lit.vounzis, although a naturalized
citizen of the United States, as mentioned in
your communications, has been released.—
This is undoubtedly due to the firm and de
cided stand maintained throughout the long
controversy in your official correspondence
with the authorities on the subject.
" It is much to be desired that this case
may be considered as a precedent, as yon inti
mate, and that hereafter naturalized citizens
of the United States may visit France without
danger of arrest for military service. In this
event, a hurtful source of irritation and un
friendly feeling will he avoided."
[From the Chicago Times.]
We alluded yesterday to the fact that at
the South the newspapers are beginning to
discuss the question of the next Presidency
with a great deal of freedom. We also poin
ted out the cause of this discussion, and sta
ted its effects as indicated in the changing
tone of the Southern press. There is no
doubt whatever that it is now evident to the
sagacious politicians of that section of the
Union—as it has long been to us—that if they
persist in the foolish attempt to substitute for
the plainest Democratic tenet in our platform
the most anti-Democratic dogma that can
possibly be conceived, namely, intervention
for protection of slavery in the territories,
that the Democratic party North will be ru
ined, and the South left to rely on Abolition
ists to protect them in their constitutional
rights. Once let this be understood—and a
child can understand it—by the masses in
the slaveholding States,
and we shall have no
further trouble on that head. As a matter of
sectional interest, the effort to have Congress
intervene to establish and protect slavery in
the territories would be disastrous. There is
no way Congress could do this effectually;
and there would be no end to troublesome
litigation. As a question of policy, it would
be still worse. In case the friends of a slave
code should engraft that as a plank (of which
there is no danger) upon the Democratic plat
form—what would be the result ? Is any
man in the South so insane as to suppose that
a Congress could ever be elected that would
enact a slave code ? The only effect would
be to defeat the Democratic party in the na
tion—for it is as certain, in that case, to be
killed at the South as at the North. No ; a
policy so suicidal will not be insisted on by
any party of respectable numbers in any
Southern State. On the contrary, it is deem
ed by the wise and prudent men of the nation
their first duty, as it is their chief necessity,
to set to work to help the Democracy of the
North to redeem some of their lost strength.
With the doctrine of non-intervention the
people of the North are satisfied—give us
that for a platform in 1860 and victory will
be easily won. And the Northern Demo
cratic press should at once cause it to be made
known to the ends of the Union that we will
accept of nothing less.
One other influence that has been at work
in the South, we attribute to the unanswera
ble speech of Mr. Douglas in reply to Mr.
Brown, in the Senate, February 23 in oppo
sition to a congressional slave code, and in
defence of Popular sovereignty in the terri
tories—which speech has ha a wide circula
tion in the South, and been extensively read.
Of late, too, many leading . Southern Demo
cratic newspapers have printed this speech,
and as its sentiments come to be rightly ap
prehended by the people, it is receiving in
dorsement.
OCCASION A I,
HOW TO 1.11 ANAGE T lIE LITTLE ONES.—We
find in one of our exchanges the following
suggestions, in behalf of the little folks,
which are deserving of consideration. The
writer soy-, .•witv that the warm weather has
come, let r iur children amuse themselves out
of doors. Di in't keep them shut up like house
plants, until they become as pale and thin as
ghosts. Strip off the finery, put on coarse
garments, and turn them out to play in the
sand—to make "mud cakes"—to daub their
faces with anything of an "earthly nature,"
which will make them look as though they
had entered into a co-partnership with dirt.
Keep them in the house and they will soon
look like, and lie of about as much value as
a potato which grows in the cellar, pale, puny,
sickly, sentimental wrecks of humanity.—
Turn them out, we say, boys and girls, and
let them run, snuff the pure air and be hap
py. Who cares if they do' get tanned ?
Leather must he tanned before it is fit for use,
and boys and girls must undergo a hardening
process before they are qualified to engage
in the active duties of active life,
Alleglaaice
An Improving Public Sentiment
Pennsylvania Farm School.
The Farm School in Centre County is said
tobe in a flourishing condition. It consists of
four hundred acres .of land, two hundred of
which is a donation to the school by that
large-hearted man, Gen. Irvin, and two hun
dred purchased of the same gentleman by
the school, at sixty dollars per acre. The
land is rolling, is all underlaid with lime
stone, and is consequently naturally dry, and
will require no artificial drainage. It is sus
ceptible of a high state of cultivation. Fifty*
acres have been planted with fruit trees of
various kinds. The nursery of fruit trees
and evergreens occupies seven acres. A large
breadth has been sown with wheat, which
promises well. Eighty acres is planted in'
corn, and of potatoes, root crops and garden
vegetables a due proportion. The school
or college building is situated on rising ground.
Not quite one-third of it is completed, and it
will accommodate one hundred and twenty
students : one hundred and four are in atten
dance. When completed, it will accommodate
four hundred. The building is limestone, five
stories high, besides the basement, which is
fourteen feet high. The basement of the part
yet to be built, is up. Funds are wanted to
complete it. Congress passed a bill appro
priating the public lands for an agricultural
school in Pennsylvania, the interest on the
proceeds of which, at $1 25 per acre, would
be about $38,000 per annum, but President
Buchanan, Pennsylvania's hopeful son vetoed
it. The admission fee for students is $lOO
per session, or term of ten months, commen
cing about the middle of February, and end
ing in the middle of December. The students
work three hours each day on the farm, or at
whatever may be to do. Boarding, washing,
light, fuel, text books, &e., furnished. Here
they have an opportunity of acquiring all the
useful branches of an English education, and
a practical knowldge of Farming and Horti
culture besides ; and that, too, without the
risk of losing their health. The daily labor
on the farm, wholesome diet and pure moun
tain air, are all conducive to health. These
items, gleaned from an authentic source, we
give for the information of farmers and others
in our County, who take an interest in the
progress of the inatitntion.—Harrislatra ?el
egraph.
I=
Report of Horace Greeley and Others on
the Pike's Peak Gold Regions.
Horace Greeley, of New York, and two
other gentlemen, having visited the Pike's
Peak gold mines, have published a report of
what they saw. Their report concluded by
protesting against the infatuation which has
urged thousands to hurry out to that region
unprepared. It says that five thousand per
sons are already reported in the ravines where
new discoveries have been made. The scar
city of provisions, and the difficulties of the
journey are rehearsed, and those who hope to
be in the mines are warned that probably in
the middle of October '• this whole Alpine
region will be snowed under and frozen
up." To sum up, there is reported to be
rich gold mines, very little food, and a
great multitude of miners already on the
ground.
The report states that Mr. Dean, from lowa,
on the sth inst., washed from a single pan of
dirt taken from the claim, $17,80, and has
been offered $lO,OOO for the claim. S. G.
Jones & Co., from Eastern Kansas, have run
out sluices two days, with three men; yield
$255 per day. John 11. Gregory has sold his
claim for $21,000, and has been prospecting
for other parties at $2OO per day, and struck
another lead on the opposite side of the val
ley. Zeigler, Spain & Co., have taken out
as high as $405 per day.
Some forty or fifty sluices commenced, are
not yet in operation ; hut the owners inform
us that their " prospecting" shows from ten
cents to $5 to the pan. As the " leads" are
all found on the hills, many of the miners
are constructing trenches to carry water to
them, instead of building their sluices in the
ravines, and carrying the dirt thither in
wagons or sacks. Many . persons who have
come here without provisions or money, are
compelled to work as common laborers, at
from $1 to $3 per day and hoard, until they
can procure means to sustain them for the
time necessary to prospecting, building sluices,
&c. Others, not finding gold the third clay,
or dislike the work necessary to obtaining it,
leave the mines in disgust, after a very short
trial, declaring there is no gold here in pay
ing quantities. It should be remembered
that the discoveries made thus far are the re
sult of but five weeks labor.
CHESTER COUNTY AFFAIRS—A WHITE GIRL.
RUNS AWAY WITH. A NEGRO.—An recurrence
which has given rise to a good deal of eseitc
!meat, took place, a few days since, in Oxford
township, Chester county. A white girl—a
white woman, respectably connected—was
living in a farmer's family as a domestic. A
mulatto was employed as a laborer. The two
became enamored of each other, and resolved
to marry. The party to whom they applied
to perform the ceremony, however, declined.
Before the marriage was effected the girl's
parents were informed of the condition of
things. They were horror-stricken and over
whelmed with shame. No time was lost, and
every effort was made by them to dissuade
the deluded girl to forego her purpose. Her
brother also remonstrated with her as only a
brother can. All efforts, however, to induce
her to give up her swarthy lover were una
vailing—they only made her cling to him the
closer. The matter became noised about the
neighborhood, and a disposition was manifes
ted to lynch the black fellow. This came to
the ears of the infatuated girl. She met the
dusky fellow. Their purpose was at once ta
ken ; they determined to elope together, and
did so. They disappeared from the neighbor
hood about ten days ago, and they have not
since been heard from. It is supposed they
have gone West. The girl's parents are al
most distracted. This is the account that
has' been given to us.
RECEIPE FOR TESTING EGGS.—There is no
difficulty whatever in testing eggs ; they aro
mostly examined by a candle. Another way
to tell good eggs is to put them in a pail of•
water, and if they are good they will lie on
their sides, always ; if bad, they will stand
on their small ends, and large end always up
permost, unless, they have been shaken con
siderably, when they will stand either end up ;
Therefore, a bad egg can be told by the way
it rests in the water—always end up, never
on its side. Any egg that lies flat is good to
eat, and can be depended . upon. An ordina
ry mode is to take them into a room moder
ately dark and hold them between the eye and
a candle or a lamp. If the egg be good—
that is, if the albumen is still unaffected—the
light will shine through with a reddish glow ;
while, if affected, it will be opaque or dark.
ififir We hear people talking about large
potatoes—we are out—who will bring 'us a
sample