Central Railroad 7* leetin
At an adjourned meeting of the citizens of
Lancaster and adjoining counties, held at Oak
lid!, Little Britain township, April 30, 1533, fa
vorable to the Philadelphia and Baltimore Ccn
ti'd Railroad, on motion Et.wooo BizowN was
called to the chair, and ii,wr S. l!e!C!er and J.
J. Evans appqit,ted ,reretazts.
Enos Pennock, having heretofore !wen ~ppointe
d to select a suitalho per.om to t ninny a route
fur a railroad from Pine Crove Forge to Peach
liottoro, reported that be had employed a suitable
The Bulletin gives the following sketch of
Jous BANNISTER Ginsox, who died at the United
States Hotel, Philadelphia, on Tuesday morning
last: "Judge Grnsos was born in Carlisle, Penn
sylvania, in the year 1780, and was consequently
seventy-three years of age. Ile was the son of
(:comm GIBSON, a well known and distin
guished ollicer of the Revolutionary war, who
fell while fighting with the Indians at St Clair's
defeat, in 1791. He was educated at Dickinson
!College, where he graduated in 1500. Ile then
studied law under Thomas Duse.ts, Esq., of Car
lisle, and was admitted to the bar in ISO 3. Af
ter sonic interval, employed in the selection of a
place to commence practice, he finally opened an
office in Carlisle, where he soon won a high rep
utation as a lawyer. Ile was sent twice to the
Legislature, in 1810 and 1511, giving a zealous
lEurricane , and Hail Storm. PPort to 'e administrations of Gov. Scrum:
and President IMAnisoN. In 1512, Gov. SNYDER
A violent and destructive hail storm, accom
appointed him Judge of the 11th Judicial Dis
panied by a hurricane of wind, passed over the ;
county I trier, just organized in NorthernPennsylvania,l
lower end of this county, our neighboring
of Lancaster, and portions of Harford and Cecil and in 1515 he was elevated to the Supreme
I Bench. 1527, on the death of Chief Justice
counties, Maryland, and New Castle county,
Ida ware, on Friday, the 22J ult., which did CU
LMAN . , Gov. SDULTZ appointed Min to the
g,reat damage in its course, tearing tip „ ceu, vacancy, and he held the office from that time
uprooting trees, and unroofinguntd 1&..51, when the amenihnent to the Cousti
and destroying!
lotion made the Judiciary elective. Having re-
houses, barns, .S.c. Mr. Cross' barn, in Lower
ceived the Democratic nomination,Judge Ginsos
Chaliceford township, was blown down, and four
was elected to the Supreme Bench by a large
of Samuel R. Lane's buildings shared the same
majority, and drew the nine years' term, of
late. Win. Wilson's barn was demolished, and !.
all the best timber on his farm twisted and torn which scarcely a year and a half had elapsed at
up as if they were reeds. Widow . his death. This is a mere outline of a long ju
house w a s, al,o, prostrated, and Philip Hoonsel-
dicial life, which was marked as much by labor
man's house and shop unroofed. Caleb Atkins'
as it was by sound learning avid clear intellect."
On Wednesday the remains of Judge Gicsos
two barns and a wagon house—a part of Wm,
Stokes' house, and a house of John Shots' were , were taken to Carlisle for interment.
-
also destroyed. Many more persons suffered ! - -
I hi. county, but we have not learned their names. I The Case of MeCrear3 - .
1. despatch dated Baltimore, May 4, says that
A per-on who was caught ill Ihe woods describes
Lowe refuses to surrender McCitcAnv on
the ',en,. to us as "awf u l," and he can scarcely
Gov.
the requisition made by Gov. Brener:. if the de
for his escape from destruction, amid
spate!' be true, it only confirms a prediction
the talling timber and the unbridled fury of the
I
t emp :d Voik Mpa made a short time since. by the Elkton Demurral,
e
; published ill the WWII where McCimany reLided,
land we may say, also, confirms the expectation
en. s it Per
On motion, it was resolved, that a committee
of seven be appointed in view a suitable route
for said road.
Whereupon the chair, with the assistance of
the secretaries, appointed the following persons,
viz: Dr. James I'. Andrews, John .1. Eva:l , ,
I.ee, Slater Brown, John IlllcSparren, Joseph
Raliance, Isaac S. Webster.
On motion, Enos Pennock was added to the
above committee
On motion, it was resolved, that this meeting
adjourn to meet at Daysville,Cliester county, on
tSiturday, the 14th of May, 1553, at 1 o'clock
P. M.
On 'notion, the meeting adjourned.
Legis! al h e HIE: s
The Peuti , lvania Legislature, at it,. late ups- of the people of this state. What does Gov.
Sion, sac.; the Reading I. , ,:cne, passed 110 lens Lowe care whether Mcrnnarty was guilty of
than five hundred and six bilk; but as many of kidnapping or not—the !net that the Governor of
these were “mni l ibu," bilk, embracing a number Pennsylvania asked for his delivery is a sufficient
iii iljertS, Ih , ro were, we lied, on carefully excuse for a refusal to surrender him. Well, so
going over The 11-1, no Je=s than eleven hundred be it. The man that kidnapped two free girls—
and sixty-seven distinct arts 01 . Legislation. Of declared free by a Court in the city of Patti
; his number thirty - -one were acts incorporating more—and who was perhaps instrumental in the
new railroad companies; seventy-eight referred death of :k1 ILLM:, with whom one attic girls ro
ta railroads already iu existence; ninety were j sided in Chester county—this man Gov. Lown
acts incorporating new plank road companies or I refuses to surrender, for reasons best known to
supplemmtary to old anti the great mass re- • himself. The act, however, is in keeping with
ferred to every sort of subject, fioin providing I Gov. Loon's character, and accords with his
(or the expenses of government, down to bombastic message delivered to the Maryland
ging a urn. :11ony of the matters that constuned Legislature about a year ago—a message which
the time of the Logi , lature, were of no, most made him the laughing stock of sensible people
trivial Charact,r, and might all have hero corn.: in his own state, and was ridiculed arelyrehere
prehended in a (ow _carrel biirs. When %V M I out of it.
this growinc evil of special law-making, which I Gov. Lown's course is calculated to lead to a
has already entirely destroyed everything like system of retaliatory measures that may event
-tern and ni,iformity in our civil code, b e sally destroy the union and harmony which
checkoilt If the people are awake to their own exiet between our own state and Alary-
I.velfare, they will demand a radical reform in Janet--and this we fear will yet be the result
this respect. in term , not to be disregarded
Lc•banosi I - alley aailroad
The citizens of Lebanon again assembled in ' of tie National Safety Company, No 62 Walnut
Ow Court House on Sat at tar evening last, for street, two doors above Third street, Philadel
the puipose of takirie further measures to ensure phia. This Safety Fund is reputed to be one of
the construet ion of the Lebanon Valley IZailroad, the safost and best managed moneyed institutions
A ;Lumber of letters ssrre read from di , tinguishad in that city, and tt e. grert prosperity which has
gentlemen intere:ted not only in the Lebanon attended it now enables the Directors to pay five
Valley road, but al,o from others interested in per cent. interest, instead of four per cent. as
the Pinegrove, Lancaster and Pho•nixville road. fru wetly; and the money is always paid back
A resolution was adopted instincting tier coin- when called forr withoill. the necessity of g iv i n g
on subscriptions to commence on Monday , previous notice. Such of our readers as have
morning ail canvass rho borough from house to money lying idle, will no doubt avail themselves
bo u , e , for sul , -criptions to the stock of said Roads. lof the soperior advantages which this Saving
A letter was read from Dan. Cameron, in which Pond offers to them.
he pledgedlf to snk . cril/e $l O , OO O to the
C77on Monday morning, last Sheriff A LLEN
valley ti• people of Lebanon county do
received from Gov. Do:L171: the death warrant of
their tdy• al-0 stated that if Lebanon
county male the start he leek certain that Atrium lireivt• Friday, the 15th of June, has
Le ran ge t $ inu,noo of pi 'vale subscriptions in Lees fixed for the day of execution.
The Grand Jury of Philadelphia have made a
special presentment against SEEING for the mar-
Falai Accidenl. der of RANK. It in doubtful whether the case
Mr. Abraham Illetelier, and old and esteemed will he brought to trial.
Dauphin comfy. Ernniiocr
citizen of this county, who has re:ided for many
SAcniFICE 01' 111.:a.tN the, last
years at the II Way II ms.e. between York and
Hanover, met with an accident cin Monday of fete days, besides several minor disasters of the
same says the Joninol of Commerce, we
St Weok h hi:: death a few hours class '
have recorded the loss of 125 lives by the wreck
after• wm. on Li.; Way Lome from Jefferson
with a load of taik, and bad take,, bus scat on' and burning of the steamer Indopendence, on the
the weg„o, from ,hi„h he ..„,id enta n y fen, the Pacific coast; 1:5 by the collision on the Central
and Southern (Mich.) Railroad, and •2:1 by the
wagon passing over him. Ile ,as found a short
time a ft er by It,' rea d s id„ , i n
osi _
t ion. A phy , ician it - a itnnlvdi,.tety burning of the Ocean Wave, on Lake Ontario.—
se'li F t
for T o this must be added scores of persons maimed
but Le. died before any assi,ta„" could b e ren : or disfigured for life.
tiered. it W:4, :,547 1,1 tamed on examination that IlKsTnrcTivi.: Finn.—On Saturday, a dwelling
several of hp, ribs were broken. lle was about house occupied by one of the miners at George
c..! years of age.— York Rum/die/in. Millers' mines, West Norwegian, near Potts
ville, accidentally took fire and burned with
Tut: Gv TII WORLD.—
such rapidity that only a portion of the furniture
Dr. George G. Shumand, of Arlan-as, recently
was saved. Most unfortunately for the poor
delireied a speech upon railroad 211411121'S ut Fort
man, so me smo in Miners
we
' Banest Notes, saved
Smith. Ark., din iiez imule ]mown the '
11 ,111 hard earnings, re Nest
with the
very-
tia. world lies about three hundied wiles west - building.
of Ens' , iSm llll (Ark..) in the plains explored by DlT'Samyrr..l. Ptcuaxlis, Esq., for many years,
Capt. Matey last year, extending over an area and at the time of his death, Grand Scribe of the
of Hoe.: hundred mil., North and South, East Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of
and West. The strata in same places is twenty Pennsylvania, died in Philadelphia on Tuesday
feet thick, of th , t pure,t kind, sshite, and in some last. Mr. I'. had been sick for several months.
instances transparent. Ile says teat thrie is a
sufficient quantity of it to supply r,• whole piize of one hundred dollars has been
svoild. and would employ a railroad Li itS trans. "carded to W. L.
Ar"C '
N. D.,
of
Philadel
portatmn one hundred yeurs, phia, by the Committee on Prizes of the. National
, Medical Convention, for a treatise on "The
•- -
the late fire at San Franciseo, we notice peons 'Tumors of the Uterus."
a large quantity of Ayers Cherry Pectoral 11:7 - • The Nor York Tribune estimates the
burned, in the possession of one of the Druggists atnount paid for advertising in New York city at
of that eity. Gold will not control disease, and more than two millions of dollar: per annum.—
even in that riphir country they roust provide The .Noith .leirrican thinks this one great secret
thr: lie,: of all remedie: kir colds , eoug,lis, and of the success of New York.
i‘li°‘' ll, ' ll, 01 11,, Indeed, we happen to.
Imow that it is an eompan- S•rxwann, jr., recently convicted
inn of ai " l "'. l ii•ra, who are so much of rape, made an unsuccessful attempt last week
and so cant innally eapirse to the ever-changing to escape from the Lancaster County Prison.—
iitpl,:r:• r ne hrIS since been placed in irons.
THE COLUMBIA SPY.
Columbia, Pa., Saturday, 111 - ay 7, MI.
IGENCIES
V. B. PALMER. l'hiltt.telpitia. Nev Vort. :tut! llos.ton
I:. 'V.Cwlut• C. •II:l J. Well.Sl,l, S. K. Cont.:,
Iphin.
tuuur 1.1,. - rr. NO, I Ili St,eet, NVW York.
WILIIAM THOMSON S. K. Comer ui 1:.1Moott , :tud
,'alvert Streets, I;,siiimore.
Death of Judge Gibson.
SAVING FrNn.—\l'e direct the attention of our
.rpoders lo Ihr oilvo'rt isornont of the Savinz Vonil
PgOSPERITY.—We see statements like the fol
lowing, which we copy from a "metropolitan"
paper, in most of our exchanges, having refer
ence however to places of less note:
"Philadelphia, like New York and Boston, is
enjoying unexampled prosperity. Property rises
in value, labor is in good demand, business is ac
tive, sat and profitable."
To all outward appearances, these signs indi
cate prosperity; but we would put this plain
question to our cotemporaries, one and all, lor an
answer: Do you find, in this period of "unex
ampled prosperity," that debts are more promptly
paid, and that money circulates more freely? Our
answer would be in the negative.—Gertnantozon
7Wegraph.
Our answer is the same. Notwithstanding
business of all kinds, everywhere, is in a pros
perous condition—labor is well rewarded, capital
is well rewarded, and the demand for mechanics
and laborers is greater than it perhaps has ever
been—still we do not find that debts are more
promptly paid, or that money circulates more
freely, than when lousiness was depressed, and
every person was crying "hard times."
This thing of "paying debts" is a very diffi
cult subject to comprehend. Some persons ap
pear to have an innate antipathy to paying their
debts—contracted it may be for furniture to dis
play in their houses, for dress to decorate
their persons, or for food to supply the wants
of the body; and many persons—alas, too many
—will send their needy creditors off time after
titne, saying "call again—it don't suit to pay to
day," though at the very time they have surplus
money rolled safely away in their purses. This
class of persons is not confined to those wlio care
Ihr "neither God nor man," but they can be
found even among those who "occupy chie(seats
in the synagogues," and who "for a pretence
make lung prayers." Why they act so, is to us
a mystery. They owe the debts, they know
they must pay them, and yet they frequently
require persons to ask, and ask, and ask again
for that which they should and could pay on de
mand.
Yes—we agree with the editor of the German
town Trkgraph---debts are not more promptly
paid now, although business prospers to an un
precedented extent, than they were years gone
by. The miser holds on to his money because
he loves it; the profligate and intemperate be
cause they use it in pandering to their carnal ap
petites; but why the man who pretends to be
honest and upright does so, is a problem the so
lution of which we leave to older and wiser
heads. That there are many men of this char
acter, however, in every community, is a fact
which cannot be denied.
The Recent Legislature.
Much fault has justly been found with the
Legislature for one of the last acts of the session
—the grand fi wile—the least, the spree that came
MT, at the expense of the tax-payers of the state,
(provided the next Legislature will make an ap
propriation to foot the bills contracted—for, by
sonic great oversight, no appropriation was made
for that purpose.) The Pennsylvania Legisla
ture, however, is not the only one that comes
tinder the condemnation of the people and of the
press. The Californin Legislature is in the same
predicament. We take the following article
from a late number of the San Francisco Whir! ,
from which it will he seen in what light the
"youthful talent" of California is viewed:
"The proceedings in the Assembly will tend
to confirm all opinion which is rapidly gaining
ground in this State, that the majority of those
who are deputed to represent the justice and the
interests of the people, have not proved them
selves worthy of their mission, and have not de
served the suffrage which elected them. Should
we lay before the people of Californimand through
other newspapers before the entire Cilion, the
secret history and personal causes of the corrup
tion which prevails at Benicia, it would cast a
shade over the gond name of our noble State.
The integrity and youthful talent of California
has not made itself felt in the organization of out
goVerlllllela. The most generous and honorable
people in the world are unfortunately the most
careless and unsuspecting in their choice of
rulers. Nevertheless, the day of retribution will
arrive for each and all. The facts lie purda, and
will be sprung upon many hereafter, when they
least expect it."
Franklin anal Marshall College.
The first session of this Institution will com
mence in this city on Wednesday, the 11th of
May instant. The Preparatory Department,
under the superintendence of Her. Jos. li. DEnn,
will also open at the same time. The former
will occupy the old college buildings in Lime
street, and the latter Russet's building in East
King street, until the new College Buildings are
erected and ready for the reception of students.
The Faculty of the College is constituted as fol
lows:
Rev. Dr. Philip Scholl, President elect and Pro
fessor of Mental and Moral Philosophy.
William. \l. Nevin, I.:sq., Professor of Ancient
Lazo napes and Belles Let t res.
Rev. Theodore Apple, Professor of Mathematics
and Mechanical Philosophy.
Rev. Thomas G. Porter, Professor of Natural
Science.
!Mr. Adolpheus L. Komppen, Professor of German
Literature, Aesthetics and Dist ory.
John 1.. Atlee, N. D., Professor of Anatouly and
Physiology.
'llie Professorship of Agricultural Chemistry
has nut yet been filled.—Examiner.
The Coupler&Fling Cases.
On Monday , Grant;:m BowniAN, of this city,
charged with mahing, and selling counterfeit
gold dollars, was tried in the United State,; Dis
trict Court, Philadelphia. He was defended by
J. S. ('ones, of Philadelphia, and RuAn FnA zoo,
of this city. There were five bills against him,
but as the witness, IsAne lianssov, upon whose
testimony the U. S. District Attorney, JOIIN
Asti:MEAD, Chiefly had to rely, had escaped be
yond the reach of the process of the Court, the
prosecution was not very strong in proof. The
prisoner was tried on the live bills at the same
time. Verdict not guilty.
This case failing, several others, who were
held to answer for the same of with the
same testimony against them, were acquitted.—
Komi incr.
ia="lVe learn from the Hartford Courant that a
passenger car has just been finished for theeentral
Railroad .Company, by Messrs. FALEs & Gunr,
of Hartford, which for beauty and finish exceeds
anything of the kind ever witnessed in that city.
The pannels of the doors and the front of the la
dies' saloon are papier melte, richly inlaid
with pearl, and present a gorgeous appearance.
7Anothcr sea tiger, (?) said to be much
larger than the one that died at Harrisburg a
'short time ago, is now on exhibition at Lan
; caster.
Town and County Matters.
Dn. Alarms' Lzczunc.—According to an
nouncement, Rev. J. G. Mounts, D. D., of Balti
more, delivered a Lecture in the Odd Fellows'
Hall on Tuesday evening last—subject, "Per
sonal Adventures on the Alps"—for the benefit
of the Lutheran Church in this place. The Lec
ture was both instructive and entertaining, and
was listened to with deep interest. The Dr.
commenced by saying that he appeared before
the andierfce as a lecturer. He was not a lectu
rer by profession, although he had lectured some
in his time, and was always willing to serve in
that capacity whenever he could interest or ben
efit his fellow men. He then entered upon his
subject, and in a familiar yet forcible style dwelt
upon his adventures on the Alps—those far
famed mountains, the resort of travellers from
all parts of the world. Aided by his pictoria
representaticMs, he graphically illustrated many
interesting scenes that he witnessed, and adven
tures in which he participated, in his Alpine
travels. He closed with a quotation from SCHIr .
r.ca's play of "William Tell," in which is de
scribed
that thrilling event in the history of
Switzerland where Tell, at the command of the
stern and tyrannic GESSLIM, struck the apple
from the head of his son.
We !lupe Dr. M., at some future time, may be
educed to favor our citizens with another lec-
WEIGH OFFICE, COL'EMBIA.—The following ex
hibits the number of cars and amount of freight
weighed on the scales at Columbia, during the
month of April, 1553, as compared with the same
month last year:
Through cars in April, 1553, 4,9.03
Way ac CC r: 1,315
5,518
Through and way cars, 1852, 3,613
Over and above last year,
Through freight in April, 1353., 30,002,C00
Way 4' 4( 44 8,57.1,600
35,577,200
Through and way freight, 1252, 23,111,000
Over and above last year, 15,165,600
JAcou .1%1 AYER, Weigh Master.
- n 7 . In taking down one of the old houses be
longing, to the Lutheran congregation, in South
Duke Street, last week, a Horse Chestnut (des
cu/us) was found imbedded in mortar in one of
the walls, where it must have remained since
the erection of the building, 102 years ago. The
epicarp is smooth and hard, and there is no doubt
that the kernel is perfectly sound. The Ves
try of the Church have it in possession.—Exam
iner.
1:0' - 'We invite attention to the advertisement
of Dr. E. K. YOUNG, Surgeon Dentist, who has
opened an office at the corner of Front and Locust
streets, in the house recently occupied by Alr.
J. J. McLAvoimix. Mr. Y. has had several
years experience in his profession, and we doubt
not he will render satisfaction to all persons who
may engage his services.
CHILD DROWNED.—On Tuesday last, a child
about 2!_, years of age, named BENJAMIN TOMEOW,
son of Joss Tomnow, jr., was drowned in the
race of atNir.r. Goon's wooden mill, on Mill
creek, Upper Leacock township. The child was
playing on the bank and fell in. The body was
recovered two or three hours after, about a
quarter of a mile below—ind. Whig.
Scnoot. DinEcTor.s.—On Tuesday last the fol
lowing persons were elected Directors of the
Public Schools in Lancaster for the ensuing year:
Rev. N. A. Keyes, Rev. Bernard Keenan,
Thos. 11. Burrowes, George M. Steinman, Dr.
John L. Alice, John Zimmerman, Dr. P. Cassidy,
John Wise, Peter McConomy, C. A. Heinitsh,
Gen. Geo. Ford, A. Slaymaker. •
I_l2 — A correspondent of the Examinrr, writing
from Penn township, recommends the publica
tion of an Illustrated History of Lancaster county.
Should any person undertake the task, we hope
the book may be an improvement on the history
of the county published several years since in
Lancaster.
Irr''The dwelling house of MenAct.Dloont, in
West llempfield township, with all its contents,
was entirely destroyed by fire on Saturday night,
the 23d ultimo. The house and furniture were
insured for $lOOO in the Southern Mutual Insur
ance Company, of Lancaster county.
IS7 - At a meeting of the Lancaster and Susque
hanna Slack Water Navigation Company, held on
Monday last, the following gentlemen were
elected r‘lanagers for the ensuing year, viz: C.
IV. SPINWALL, JOHN REYNOLDS, LEWIS licasonv,
Am:mum PEriins and JAC0111111:SMAIN.
Sruccs uN: LIGUTNING.—During the thunder
gust on Friday, the 22d ult., a frame stable of
Mr. SIMoN EICHLER, in Litiz, was struck by
lightning. A little son of Mr. Emit-En was in
the stable at the time, but escaped uninjured.—
Ind. '.Vhig.
I:L .- "rotatoes seem to be a mere drug in this
meridian. They are selling at from 25 to 10 etc.
per bushel, and the demand is very light. We
learn that many farmers are feeding their cattle
with them. Last spring they sold for $1,25 a
$1,50 per bushel.
BASIC Dtvtntsus.—The Banks in this county
declared their semi-annual dividends on Monday
and Tuesday last. The Columbia Bank divided
per cent., and the Lancaster Bank, Lancaster
County Bank and Farmers' Bank, each 5 per cent.
FINED.—Two Agents were fined twenty dol
lars and costs, on Wednesday last, for permitting
their cars to run into town at a greater speed
than four miles an hour, contrary to the provi
sions of a borough ordinance.
D"The Public Schools of Columbia closed
this week, after a session of seven months.—
They will be re-opened about the first of October.
CO"Mr. F. K. CrllltAN, of Marietta, has been
appointed to a clerkship in the Philadelphia Post
011 ice.
The new silver coin has made its appear
ance in our borough. It is now disbursed at the
Columbia Back.
OZ' Therain on Thursday night was the hea
viest that has fallen in this vicinity for several
BM
Editorial Gleanings.
RECEIPTS OF GOLD n•r TIIII I%lINT.—Tile Phila
delphia Bulletin learns that the amount of gold
deposited at the U. S. Mint during the month of
April, has been about four and a half millions of
dollars (Sl,500,000)—not equal to the extraordi
nary deposits of the month of March, but still
quite equal to the average. During the same
period the exports of specie to Europe have been
about 5692,000—leaving a large surplus in the
country.
RthtErNcert:s.—The press does not seem clearly
to understand, as well it may not, in the mass of
confusion of the end of a session, what provision
was made in regard to relief notes. The provi
sion in the appropriation bill is, that all sums due
to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund are to
be paid over in the most defaced of this filthy
currency, which is to be cancelled, and never
again re-issued.—Harrisburg Keystone.
DEATH FROM CHLOROFOII3I.—Mr. La Fore, a
citizen of Brookville, Intl., went to Cincinnati, a
few days since, for the purpose of having a large
and painful tumor removed from the back of his
neck. At the requer. of the patient, chloroform
was administered by the Doctor, and the opera
tion performed. In a few minutes, however, he
sank back and was soon a corpse. He was also
affected with a pulmonary complaint.
RAILROAD A CC/DENT.—SYRACt. se, May I.—The
night express train, leaving Albany at G!.„ P. M.,
ran into an emigrant or cattle train going East,
just at the tunnel at the eastern end of this city,
on Monday night.
One car loaded with cattle was broken to pieces,
and the cattle killed. The engineer of the pas
senger train was badly hurt, but no one else was
injured.
NEWS FROM Cur...t.—Havana news to the eve
ning of the 20th ult. has been received. The
most important feature of the intelligence is the
announcement of the landing of a cargo of six
hundred Africans near Matanzas, on the 28th, by
the famous slaver Lady Suflol6:. The Havana
papers are still busily engaged in discussing the
appointment of Mr. Soule, as H. S. Minister to
Spain.
1,005
EAILTIIQUAIiE AT WIIEELING.:-At nine o'clock,
on Monday morning, quite a severe shock of an
earthquake, which lasted for several seconds, was
experienced in Wheeling. The Argus office
shook so as to start the compositors from their
stands, under the apprehension that the building
was about to topple to the ground. It is said to
have been the most severe shock ever felt in that
section of country.
IlThe Kanawha Republican says of the plan
of employing girls in setting type:
We once tried the plan of employing girls in
setting type. It succeeded well. They learned
rapidly and made good compositors—but tvc
could not keep them—they would get married—
and all, we believe, got good husbands.
SUDDEN DEATir.—On Sunday of last week, Mr.
John Ward, Sr., of Annville, Lebanon co., was
on his road to Minersville with his wife and little
grand-daughter, and when near Tremont, he com
plained of feeling bad, and got out of his vehicle
to walk awhile, but had gone only a few steps
when he fell down and expired in a few minutes.
There is considerable emigration this year
from the surrounding country to California. A
large number of teams and Moves of cattle are
daily passing this place on their way to the gold
region, via Evans' route, which four years of
constant emigration has decided to be the best
now known.
12:7The Limerick Examiner says that there
was remitted to Ireland last year, through the
Provincial Bank of Ireland, by parties in Amer
ica, to enable their friends to emigrate thither,
no less a sum than .1:600,000, in sums under £4,
and averaging £3 Os.—the price of a passage.
11 Information has been received from the
Sandwich Islands, that King Kamehameha has
made another strong appeal to our government
to intercede and prevent the encroachments of
the French, which now threaten the complete
subjugation of his dominions.
NEW 'Vont:, May 2d.—The schooner John Clark,
which arrived here this morning, from Port as
Prince, brought a piece of mahogany, weighing
nearly three tons, with numerous other articles,
sent by the Emperor of Hayti for exhibition at
the New York Crystal Palace.
EC:7"An English paper states that several cases
of bad health had been traced to papering rooms
with green paper. The color is formed in part
with arsenic. In some parts of Germany this
kind of paper has been forbidden by the authori
ties.
FIVM TUG CTIEROICEE NATioN.--The Tahlequah
(Cherokee) Advocate, of the 13th ult., chronicles
two more murders in the Nation, the murdered
and the murderers all being Indians, and being
drunk at the time the murders occurred. The
Advocate says:
OAny person having any knowledge of the
death of Mr. Henry Tipple, if dead, or his where
abouts if living, by ,sending the same to the editor
of the American, Rochester, N. V., will obtain a
suitable compensation from his friends. Penn
sylvania papers please copy.
I:C 7- Portugal is about the size of Maine, and
has a hundred inhabitants to each square mile.
Massachusetts, Ihe most densely peopled of the
States, has eighty-four inhabitants to the square
CO — lt was frankly stated by John Q. Adams,
in one of his congressional speeches, that the
four years which he occupied the Presidential
chair were the most unhappy years of his life.
117-A Florida paper states that according to a
careful estimate recently made, there are only
256 Indians in Florida, and only SG of these men
and boys able to bear arms.
0""A correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer
says that the cholera is prevailing in Clarkesville.
Mecklenburg, and on some of the plantations on
the Roanoke river.
0:7"A decree has been published increasing the
salaries of teachers in the public schools of
Trance
=Dr. Kane, of the Arctic Expedition, still
continues quite ill of inflammatory rheumatism
at New York.
05 7- The average net income on all the German
railroads is .5 3-10 per cent.
D - Answer to Puzzle in last week's raper—
" Judicious Advertising is the Life of Trade."
- -
Burning of the Ocean Wave-.
Twenty-Eight Elves Lost.
Oatn:Nsisimo, N. Y., May I.—We learn from
Kingston, C. W., that the steamer Ocean Wave
was destroyed by Site on Saturday morning, si x
miles west of the "Ducks, " on Lake Ontario.--
Stephen Blackman, one f the crew, furnishes
the following account of the disaster:
The Ocean Wave took fire from her furnace on
her downward trip off the "Ducks," about forty
miles • above Kingston, on Saturday morning
about 2 o'clock. When the fire was first discov!
ered, she was about a mile and a half from the
shore, which she was immediately headed for
but so intense was the heat that the machinery'
gave out, and she drifted to sea. The upper
cabin was consumed in about 15 minutes, and in
about two hours the hull went down. T hoss
saved were taken off by the schooner Georgiana.
The Ocean Wave had on board 14 cabin and
9 deck passengers, beside four children and the
crew, who swelled the number to about 50, of
whom 21 were saved. Among the crew saved
were Captain Wright, and both mates, Thomas
Oliver, the purser, both wheelstnen, the second
engineer, Mr. Blackman, and a number of deck
hands. Among the passengers saved were Mr.
Francis Kier!' and wife, both of whom Were
burned but not dangerously, Mrs. French, ofCorn
wall, and the wife of Mr. Moore, of Gore Bank,
Hamilton. These three were all the females
saved. A small vessel on her way down sent a
boat to the assistance of the ill-fated steamer,
but the men being frightened, pulled away again.
The schooner Georgiana then hove in sight, low
ered a boat, which was manned with her mate
and two sailors, and succeeded in picking up
eighteen persons. In two minutes after the res
cue, the wreck went down. She bad drifted
eight miles from the shore before she sunk,_
The captain, first mate, and one passenger,
reached the shore near the disaster, and the ves
sel brought the rest to Kingston.
Amongst those lost are Mr. Turnbull, first en.
gineer; Julius Saunders, bar keeper; the cook, a
Mrs. Ronald; a nurse and three children of the
cashier of the Gore Bank, Hamilton; three ladies
names unknown; Mr. Lyman B. Fiske, of the
firm of H. S. Humphrey, of Ogdensburg. Whole
number lost at least 2S. The progress of the
flames was so rapid that it was impassible to
launch any of the boats which were on board.
The Ocean Wave was owned at this place by
the Northern Railroad Company, and has been
running between this port and Hamilton for
freight and passengers. She wus on her down.
ward trip. She was insured in different States
and in the Canadas.
Red Ants.,
How to be rid of the little rascals who run out
upon the china, and climb the lumps of white su•
gar when company is in to tea, just as if they
were invited—this is the question with many a
householder. A correspondent of the Cu/iirator
says:
Several years ago my father rented a house,
almost over-run with them, and they were de
stroyed in the following manner:—A piece of
shag-hark (hickory bark) was laid upon the shelf
in theyantry, where they seemed to be thickest,
and it attracted them—indeed it seemed more of
a favorite with them than anything they could
get. 'I he piece we had, about four inches wide
and two feet long, was red with them in an hour
or two, when with a sudden jar, they were
shaken into the lire, and the bark set as a trap
for them again. In our case this was an entire
exterminator.
SUICIDE. -A melancholy instance of suicide oc
curred yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock. A
Chinaman, named Che-1 n, was indebted to a gam
bling bank at a saloon in Dupont street, between
Kearny and Washington. Finding that he could
not meet the demand, he deliberately took opium
to such an extent as to produce death. lie was
not quite dead when discovered, hot was too far
gone to be resusitated. The Coroner's inquest
was in accordance with the above facts. We
believe that in China it is the custom to kill
one's self when largely in debt, especially when
the creditor is unusually hard-hearted. We hear
that a number of suicides from this reason, have
occurred in the mines, during the past year,
among the Chinese. This is almost equal to the
wholesale disemboweling practiced among the
Japanese—whole families of them "ripping them
selves up," when found guilty of any political
offence.—San Francisco Whig, March 30.
LL.-"Tlie New York Courser says:—Some idea
of the business done upon the railroads of the
West may be formed from the following. A
few days since there started from Detroit, a
train of eighty-fire cars in one string, propel
led by two of the most powerful locomotives
in the country. The train was bound for Chi
cago, and the greater part of its vast load was
carried to the merchants of that thriving village.
Since the first of April, just such trains hare
started almost daily from the depot of the Cen
tral Railroad for the same place. On Thursday
evening a passenger train left the depot for the
west composed of 20 of the splendid new passen
ger and luggage cars, of this company, contain
ing DUO passengers and almost one quarter of a
mile long.
SINGIA.An AecingsT Iv PAnts.—A horrible ca
lamity has just occurred in Paris, and it may
be well to make it known, as such accidents
ought to serve as examples. A gentleman, feel
ing a slight itching in his ear, took up a friction
match in order to dispel it. In the ardor of a
conversation he was sustaining, he introduced
the sulphurous end; the contact soon produced
ignition, and the downy lining of the ear caught
fire; a portion of the sulphur adhered to the flesh,
and burnt there persistently. The unfortunate
man never spoke again. His sufferings were so
agonizing that his tongue became powerless, and
after two days' torment and unavailing efforts
of the surgeons, he died.
CURIOUS ATTEMPT TO EPSET A STEEPLE. - Th i!
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Times, of the 22d, says: "As
attempt was made to blow down the tall steeple
on the square, on Sunday night last. Holes had
been bored in three of the posts surrounding the
bell, and charges of powder put in, secured by
plugs. A small gimlet hole served to introduce
the match. Two of the charges went off about
midnight with a sound like the discharge of a
cannon, splitting the posts, but not seriously en
dangering the stability of the steeple. The third
charge remained on Monday morning. The de
sign was evidently to throw the steeple down
on to the main building to destroy it."
CThe savage aboriginee of New Holland sol
emnizes his wedding by striking his lady's skull
with a club, in token of her submission to him-
Among enlightened nations, however, the bride
groom seals the compact by placing a plain gold
ring on his wife's finger. Wedding rings m a y
be hail, as well as Watches, Bracelets, Chain' ,
Silver Ware and every article of fine Jewelry,
by calling at the establishment of Wm. Bally
Son, 216 Market street, above Sixth, south side ,
Philadelphia. Bargains!