counsel fur the prosecution looked towards
the bench fur protection. The judge, how
ever, did nor interfere; nor did he reprove
the -warmth with which they exclaimed
against the 'indecent jnsinuntions of Costel
bee towards n witness .whoSe testimony; frotn
all that appeared, cmuld not be impugned;'
;hut his lordship evidently looked with inter
est to the development Of Ccistelloe's motive,
knowing well that he would not have Z.•ont
witted an indecorum so rnwerfnl without
some powerful secret reason. The -.,ritness
himself, distippointrd nt the falftri.e of the
counsel for the crown to interest the court
in his feelings, became zednal indignation.
Of these cirenra.tantics Costello° took no no
tie,s, but proceeded:
.A.ndo so you swear, sir, that these identi
cca pieces of gold in your hand this mo
ment—where are they?" he asked rudely of
the solicitor for the prosecution. They
were again handed to the witness., and Cos
telloo resumed: "...Intl so y•u swear, sir,
that those idential pieces of gold in your
hand were in the prisoner's keeping?—u(rw
rulnd you are on your oath:"
do swear it."
"Rand me those coins, sir, said Cost°lloe,
in a tone that expressed rngc and fury.—
The witness complied, and handed them to
the counsellor, islio lool:ed upon them with
dismiy. was triuMphani.—
The prisoner tremtled. The wart was
hushed. Custelloe
"You have sworn positively, sir," said he, ,
"dna it will be well for you, if truly. 'Here,
sir, take your blood money." lie stretched
otit his hand, with a countenance half mei.-
ted, as if in disgust; and, missing; that of '
witnes.=, let fall the mass into the lint
before him, by the sheerest accident in the
Wbrid. beg your pardon, sir, for my
JtaPv.r.we'rdness," said Clostblloc ty the wif:-
4.ess; the only approach to civility he bad
inn/ as yet manifested towards him. Then,
offing his linnd int!. his bat and taking up
a single piece, he saidi
"You persist in swearing% sir', that this
piece of money, the property of Mr. (ilea
dowe, was in the prisoner's custody? Now
mind, sir, none of your assumed contempt."
"I mean nothing of the kind, sir."
'"Then why look it? Recollect that you
are swearing away this poor man's life.—
lio you still say, fellow, that this piece of
money was in the keeping of the prisoner?"
:rho witness, brow beaten and !Allied; Le
eame more irritated. Ile took the ducat iti
Ire hand, and scarcely ileigning to glance at
it. said:
''l swear it!"
"And this also?" said Costelloe, taking up
rthother one, and pre.:enting it to him.
"And that also."
"And this?"
"1 eq."
"And this, and this, and this?" said the
knave, producing from the hat, in nieces-
Aion, twenty other pieces of a similar kind.
The witness was horrorstricktn, his hair
moo,: on end. The counsel for the Crown
looked blank; the judge faintly smiled.—
The case was abandoned, and the robber
raved.
The affair was quite simple. It will be
recollected that immediately after his scru
tiny of the ducats at the crown office, which
enabled him to fix in his memory their dates
and effigies, Costellce returned bottle: and
that, in the evening of that day, his confi
de,ntial clerk ~ailed for Liverpool, the least
observable of route. On arriving there the
man went by mail to London, and thence
in a Dutch pacl:::.t to Rotterdam, where lie
bought up :t score of ducats of the dates in
,hicated by his master, with what circa 1
haro just shown.
Paragraphs
'file "note and query" department in
rewpapet , --especially the literary hob
do madals—furiii,lies a tedious amonnt of
ignoranee, intbecility, yet daney, impudence
arid 11011.”1 ,, e. Tie Buffalo Rept!, deNotes
a half column, in burlesque, of this sort of
hieraturr, and gis co a lot of answers to
imaginary que , tions: which are exceedingly
gum-sing. The fiwt of not publishing- the
...nevtion., Lut leatint the reader to infer
them form tilt :LTISWeI , , greatly heightens
.iie fun if the thing. Jlere ate Some speel
litcns Of the lirp7l 7 / 1 /Y.3 replies to corretpun,l
euts:
'EI !quit or. Th , Ith of July doer' not °ern'
cu the 22a of rehrearv, nor ie it , :cc 1,111
vnproie, eontm , ,ln,rati%ol of anything that
ven La ppi.ne4 to, the MA:hest:lr f
Ro,berts“n. ct as not Nit In She :1.,p
p 61. Ife WaB 11111147`r the bell.
.nother. Iteverqc and spank.
Bride. Victoria pins can be Inttl at S. 0
tt.trnunf
'4:atisties. So% en times fire are thirty
Ildr.n. Yon can k cep them up nit'
"ile4licu , . 11,1.1 y wax and
Olen Fel:we/sc. it.
Geographor. I:J.:he;tat• 1., ult the
ra:t of t.
titumnckal:r! rictron dropq cacti
LThuin and camphor, aml rub it.
Very few men Nvill descend
1.m1,i tion
fq far. TO Lc spotien of for alerman, in
solves loss of reputation, friends aid ssiti
t.,ll.iiip. 'Yost can imagine what a man
!most 1.311 eicete4l am suds.
The late Col. Met,' of
olwe of into a dispute in the ("Mee
~1 the Preati , I louse, at Vleksburg. With a
rowdy, when, to end the matter without
further delay. lie took the rowdy by the
"nape if the neck," led him to the door and
kicked him into the street. The kidere I
picked hino.elf up and walked away, and
here the matter ended. Some weeks after
wards McClung was in New Orleans, and
when walking up St. Charles street, saw
the fellow lie had kicked out of the Prentiss
if ()use, kicking ft third person out of a drink
ing saloon. McClung walked np to his old
tte'rjustintanee, once the kiekee,.but now the
kicker, and after scanning him closely, said
"Look hare, my fine fellow, are em not the
saran I kicked out of the Prentiga louse the
other day?" "S fitly, aoftly, colonel," re
nried the rowdy, taking McClung by tit'
iLrrn, "don't mention the man—but
: —bat—r;on and I know trlio to kid."
C 1 etamullia gv2,.
A. PENISYLTA - MA ZDEPESDENT JOURNAL.
COLUMBIA. PA.
SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1855
CHANCE OF lionn.--00 and after Monday
May 10th, all the through trains, passenger
and freight, on the Penna. Railroad, Will be
run, both ways, through Columhia. This
t arrangement will last until the completion
of theenhirgpment °fate tunnel ea the Harris
burg and Lancaster Railroad. The schedule
has been altered as will he seen on reference
to our standing time-table in another col
umn. No trains with the exception of the
slow line will stop at the Washington House
station.
Our Cemeteries.
We last week published a communication
recodnting an incident, vouched for by the
writer, a ,gentlentan entirely worthy of con
fidence, which Was a Most eilttlng and hu
miliating practical commentary npm our
shameful and unaccountable neglect of the
resting place of our friends. This subject
has long demanded our attentitm, but
feeling that an earne.t eloquence which we
lack should apredl to our public and awa
ken a scnco of reverence or of sl!eme, has
bid us be silent. We should be glad to see
some older and more influential citizen MI6-
ate a movement in the direction of redeeming
our burial grounds front the decay and
destruction with which Time and unchecked
Nature threaten them. No citizen of our
town con look upon the spot without a blush;
and we have never seen a strange face at
tending the burial of one of our people with
out a fo!eling of shame and bitter mortifica
tion. We can make no repls when this
neglect is wonderingly commented on by
stranger., and cen but agree with them in
their condemnation. "We have become a
reproach to our neighbor., a scorn and de
rision to them that are round about us."
During the whiter. on visiting the spot,
we found the, fences torn down and hogs and
cattle running and rooting unchecked among
the graves. The fences had probably been
carried off by the pilfering outlaws of Tow
Hill, who know by experience the long-suf
fering and endurance of those having an
interest in the grave-yard: , . Not only do
the fences suffer, but tombs, trees, shrubs
and flowers are alike subject to plunder and
destruction; and a desecration, which, in any
other community, would be followed by
speedy vengeance is here met only with
careless indifference.
But have we a right to expect respect fo r
the resting place of our friends when we,
from whom a tender care of every blade of
grass and every flower which clothes and
decks the holy ground is but a sacred duty,
allow it to grow up a wilderness of under
brush, and brambles, and rank weeds, and
loathsome, poisonous vines and creepers—
permit the fences to fall into decay and the
gates to hang broken from their hinges, so
exposing the enclosure to every passing brute
that "The boar out of the wood cloth waste
it, and the wild beast of the field cloth de
vour it"?
Our forefathers surely selected with rare
taste when they set apart this beautiful spot
fur theirlong rest, and we, their descendants,
owe to their memories at least a restraining
care which shall prevent the mounds and
tombs under which their hones moulder from
the destruction and oblivion whin a few
more years of indifference and neglect will
bring upon them. Could the venerated
founders of our borough rise, to u l the
quiet rural seem: in which they were laid to
sleep a place of resort for the idle and vic
ious of a populous town, its silence broken
with shots and shouts until unseemly ribald
ry, would they not wander. in their ghostly
garb, to beg abroad a decent resting-place,
even by the road-side.
Willi a 'situation which, fir natural ad
; vantages, is rarely exeelled, this ground
might he rendered, with Imt trifling care and
; e-s.penge, one of
.the most beantiful eemete
ries in the country: a credit and subject of
je , t pride hi min f.wri. The view from the
cemeteries, in every direction, is most pie
toresti II 4% and it only Pell' , that the distres
sing 'contrast of decay and desolation in the
grounds be removed. to obtain a scene of
perfectjoveliness. The beautifying of this
has long been a s object of specuLtdion
with us, and we trust to sec oar wishes real
i/ed at no distant day. A few years since a
plan was brotwhed by one interested in the
"old brick — burying ground, for presersing
it from the reproachful desolation which had
taken possession of it, and providing for it,
future ease. It was buggested that. as that
portion of the ground East of the centre
walk was entirely tilled, it should lie rid of
brush, leveled, sodded, and planted with
forest trees, Care being- taken at the same
time to preserve any graves which might still
Lo distinctly mai ked, giving an opportunity
to all who were able to identify the resting
place of friends to repair or erect any mem
orial; that the Wester:l half of the ground,
still partly Naeant, should Le divided and
allotted to the families hating the priv
ilege of burying in the old ground; the. ceme
tery once put in order to Le properly cared
for by a resid,iit custodian. All this is
practicable, and at a small cost, and we trust
that :,01110 measure (this or any other having
ti' save. object) may be speedily adopted
for rescuing our beautiful places of burial
from the slitunc&il decay which has settled
down upon thew. am) ourselves from the
reproach of cold-heartediurwtruluess of our
dead.
The section of an Act or just
passel, which we publish to-day, has a di
rect tearing on the sulieet, and as it pro
tects ell the cemeteries front trespass 'tint'
desecration, should le rigidly enfc,rced.—
VI," thank; of the community arc due Mr.
Mitllln for hi , thoughtfulness in hayingin
troduced intd n private bill a section of
such general _importance and utility.
I. 0. R. 31.—We have been regneqte,l to
notice that Chique , •alunga Tribe, Nn. :19,
1. 0. It. :Nl.. have changed their night of
meeting from 6th to fith sleep of every
FIPSCrI
The Great Fish Question
Congress having settled (?) the Kansas
question, and the municipal (lections.in the
city of Philadelphia and theborough of York
having come off, we had indulgisol in visions
of delightlul calm:and freedom fromihe an
gry discussion of the distraeting qtr,estions
of the day. We had laid out for ourself
tranquil existence, disturbed gply by occa
sional Spring freiliets, endure
even till the next general election for School
Directors. We had resolved upon editorial
notice of "Spring," and had got so far as
"How pleasant it is," when our deep peace
was disturbed, the calm, pure current of our
stream (the Susquehanna) troubled.
Our readers will recall the "fish ques
tion," which so lately threatened to grow
into ri rnpture between our own government
and that of her - Orate nnic Majesty, but which
was eventually settled withont appeal to
arms. Alas! this bone of contention has
again been dragged to light; and two great
peoples are on the eve Cf sanguinely hostil
ities because of shad. r'ar hrls been de
clared as ex,isting between the fishdimen
large majority of the inhabitants) of the
Principality of Safe 'Harbor, and the pisca
tors of our own town, one pitched battle
hdting taken place. Fish, as we have said.
are at the bottom cf the difference, shad
fofinine, the broad foUndatlon upon Which a
superstructure ofsalmon, tea, perch, mul
lets, suckers, Se., rises, constituting a re
markably pretty subject of quarrel.
The "Harbor" fi,hers charge that the
Columl,lans descended the river in canoes.
and, by force of arms, seized and destroyed
private property, to the serious detriment of
the owners thereof. They aver that the at
tack was unprovoked. and threaten dire and
speedy retaliation and vengeance.
Our people, on the other hand, claim that
they acted legally, and in self defence; that
the ilshermen of Harbor had, contrary to
law and justice, erected raekings along the
canal dam, thus preventing all tith from as
cending the stream, thereby increasing their
own "catch" of shad, salmon, mullets, and
other of the finny tribes—upon which the in
habitants of that town and the adjacent
province principally live and thrive—and
utterly doing away the profits•of the fisher
ies in the river above the mouth of the Con-
ESE
The incursion occurred on Tuesday of
last week, and the excitement occasioned
by it in the usually peaceful town below us
was frightful; it is even said that the "Grif
fin" cannon was brought out. 'We who
have tarried in Harbor during the "season,"
a patiently interested listener to the un
ceasing and unadulterated fish-talk of the
frequenters of the Mansion House, can ima
gine the majestic flow of piscatory vituper
ation on this unprecedented occasion. How
the flood-gates of fishy wrath must have
opened, and what a stream of finny, bony,
scaly indignation must have gurgled and
foamed fruits the outraged "fish-petal"—
What denunciations must have tees hurled
at the offenders, and how exceedingly pro
vocative of thirst the fishy subject must have
proved!
We arc not well enough informed of the
nature of the obstructions placed in the
stream by the Safe Harbor men to form an
opinion as to the propriety of the action of
our fishermen. The following section front
an Act of Assembly, passed during the ses
sion of ISSI, provides a sufficient remedy
fur obstructions of the river by the dams of
the Su , quehanna Canal Company.
Ste! c.' 9. It shall be the duty of the
Sasquehanna canal company to cause to be
constructed at the dams erected by them
across the river Susquehanna, a sluice fur
the passage of fish, user Which at least one
foot of seater shall pass from the first day
of April to the fifteenth day of May of each
year; the said sluice to extend along the
breast of the dam the distance of from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred yards, in
proportion to the width of the river at said
and to be constructed at and
immedi
ately opposite the main channel from the
lent down stream, .by steps of eightocli
inches perpendicular fill, aud 1 1 ,, r ; L ontal
platforms at the base of each step ~r f nv
feel in width: and if said company shall
neglect or refuse to construct said in
the inamier herein t 3 reified for the space of
ono year tiler the passage of this net, tile
said dams shall he dame,l a nuisance, and
may be :Lbated as other nuisances m ay be
abated according to the laws of this (ions
mmtwealth.
it is usscrtod, however. that the racking
destioyrd I.v the olunibians was attached
to the don: by the Harbor fishermen, and
not by the authority of the company. We
cannot, therefore. without further evidence
than hearsay, pronounce either party in the
right, except upon the broad, unimpeach
able principle that a Columbian eauuttt be
in the wrong.
The law Lay been appealed to, and a dc•
eision which will serve as a preeeedent fur
all future time, is confidently looked For
,luring the rigs of Douglas.
Ltnic,s' Fain.—On Thursday. 'Friday and
Saturday of next week the ladies of the
Lutheran Church, of this place, will hold a.
fair for the benefit of the church, at the Odd
Fellows' Hall. Those having the affair in
charge have -made careful and extensive
preparations, and will offer to the public a.
large variety of fancy articles, refreshments
and we trust that a liberal patronage
will repay their efforts in behalf of their
church. The past fairs held by this congre
gation have been marked by eminent pro
priety and free from the objections made by
many to bazars of this kind. Visitors will
be certain of courteous treatment, and the
display on the tables will be certain to at
tract a crowd.
1"% .—We hare reeeired a communica
tion from the Rev. Robert l'inn, of the Rap
tigt church, corner of Fifth street and Elbow
Lane, stating that the members of his con
gregation are now holding a fair, the pro
ceeds to he applied to the repair of the
church, and desiring through our columns to
appeal to the community asking aid in the
undertaking. We lack room this week to
permit the writer to spenk for himself, but
lay facto before our readers and ask them
to consider the wants the Rev. Mr. Pinn's
congregation, and to e ncourage . the laudable
effort to keep its place of worship in repair.
XED—Whcn we hear mcn b0a...1, of their
owl. talent,. ' we incline to think that their
talentß,hould be reckened na the East Ind;-
:ins reckon rupees—by the /ac!,..
49,-We give below the 4th section of a
Lo.w_passed at the last session of our Logic
ian*, entitled, ."an act to "perfect the title
to lots in a Burial-ground in the Borough of
Columbia.'f The other sections relate ex
clusively to the New Cemetry, laid out by
Mr, Mifflin, but this will hefound.,to by
of general interest.' We are constrained to
acknowledge.that some, check irtus - necesiurry
to the wantonness` of boys or the - inn:lice of
older persons, whose trespassess and injuries
have been frequently complained of.
SECTIOit 4. That any person or persons
marking or mutilating or breaking any of
the grave stones, or monuments, or break
ing down fences; or destroying shrubbery
or vines, or trees, or pulling 'flowers, or
climbing within the enclosures of any lot,
or firing or discharging guns or pistols in
said New Cemetery, or any other Cemetery
or Burial-ground in the borough of Colum
bia, shall forfeit and. pay not less than five
nor more than fifty dollars, to be recovered
by any person seeing for the same, which
shall be recoverable before any Justice of
the Peace as debts of like amount are re
coverable.
AunnorrrEs.—We imire examined si)eci
mons of Summeril's art, and can honestly
recommend his establishment to the public.
His pietufes are clear and life-like, hnd
terms very low. fro is the only operator in
the town who has the right to take like
nesses by this process. See . advertisement
to-day.
Philadelphia Correspondence.
PHILADELPHIA, May 5;1855.
slt ,S'eason —Sltad—"Little Britain"—Ox-
Ard—"Squeezers'"—.llll—"Tar River"—
Divastrons Consequences—Kansas—Relig
inn—Thc nut—lleterodory—liunicipal
Eteetion.
This is the full flush and bloom of the
"fish season." Shad are abundant about
these days, and they are cheap—of course
they nrc. :of a cause us their being abundant
about city boarding. Shad is übiquitous,
incessant, unintermittent; n persistent in. ,
trader on your private moments. The vio
lent "sissings" and'sputterings of shad-fry
mending from the subterranean kitchen,
break up and dissipate your morning slum
bers: the fumes of shad-fry obtrude their
dainties through your fingers in the act of
facial ablutions, and darting into your nos
trils, annihilate the fragrance of "balms of
a thousand flower" power. Shad drives you
sniffling from your chamber; and then with
wonderful assurance greets you as you enter
the breakfast room with shad-lassitude
stamped upon you brow. Your are perfectly
shad-rid, sick of perpetual shad, and long
earnestly fur the end of "the season."
Experiences of "Little Britain" recur to
you; of "Oxford," lovely scat of female
learning—and deceptive interviews between
city greenhorns and country wags in female
noise! Other scenes of recreation and
- •
amusement or health-promoting labor, rise
before your imagination; but mixed up with
all these things in your pleasant reveries,
are long lines of shad-wagons, snail-like
winding their way into the shady regions of
"Little Britain"—formidable caravansaries,
which stop at every well or spring to water
—and "freshen up" the wilting shad.—
Breakfast at Dodger's, and supper at
Squeezer's—beth on shad, come to your
memory; and a passing shadow rests upon
your face, as you think of poor M. (now,
alas, no more) and his last wild joke, when
on a certain line sunday morning, (after a
steady two weeks shad diet without a single
intermission) lie walked up to Squeezer, and
thrusting his hands deep into his pockets,
extending his tre.rik-works, and putting on
that peculiar quizzical expression of count
mane, requested Squeezer as a very partic
ular personal favor, to treat him and "the
party" on that day, just by way of rarity, to
a dinner on—shad! The "feelinks" of the
party and the way they gave vent to them,
may be imagined.
lint, jesting apart, the present purpose
of "the subscriber," is of a rather serious
and practical nature, showing some inconve
nience; likely to result from a protracted
fish diet—not so mud: attributable to that
imagre su , tenance itself, as to the conse
quences to ensue on changing to food
or a more substantial nature, which are
sometimes rather disastrous. if not CCCIISIMI
- r horrible.
Our illn , tration is taken from what Henry
Ward Beecher and other wholesale and re
tail dealers in compound terms, would call
a "life-experience," the scene of which lay
near the "T.ir" hirer in the "Old North
State" of the Carolinas. Near the banks of
that stream and in the centre of b'a clearing"
dwelt a poor man, very poor indeed, in
worldly goods and chattels, so poor that he
had not even one horse; his wife drove him
in the plough, and so they put in their corn
and yams, nu.de the crop from year to year,
and flourished with no increase except in
family. On an unlucky day a new neigh
bor with herds and flocks moved into those
diggings. He hired our poor friend to do a
day's work, and' with his wages presented to
"Old Tar" a small joint of veal. Tar took
the gift to his cabin, and on the following
scorning giving directions to his wife to
"bile it off the bones," betook himself to
hoeing yams and ruminating in pleasant
anticipations of his first fresh meat dinner.
Mealtime came, and the whole joint was
consumed by the family, "Old Tarr" proba
'
ply eating a good deal Moro than his fair
proportion. In the afternoon, ns usual, his
wife led him oat and hitched him up to
plough the corn; but Tarr was so spirited
and gay. he would hardly stand to be
hitched; and as the thoughts of more veal
dinners ruse up, he became utterly unman
' ngeable, and strange as the mtinouvre may
seem in a biped, actually kicked up, ran off,
and broke the plough "all to smash," lodg
ing the good woman in a brush fence about
one rod to the right of his track.
This proses that a fish country, especially
,
a aerriay country, is a country by itself.
and a herring community is a "peculiar
I people;" its customs and modes ef life
I should not be invaded by outsiders and their
crude notions. Moreover, any people who
I live on fish half the year, ought, for the
safety of their institutions, to live on fish the
I whole yezw--.-and all the time.
The result of the Kansas "imbroglio," as
given in the proceedings of Congress, on
-Friday last, create not the si!ghte4 "fcel
' ing" in this community. No one, save the
"wire-pullers" feels any particular interest
in the internal affairs of a far distant terri
tory; and if the "arrangement"—such as it
is—suits the inhabitants of that territory,
the fact will not create any "indignation"
worth mentioning in any Pennylvania con
stituency: In Massachsetts, of course; the
thing_ will be different; for Massachusetts
is the- foster-parent and nurse of the -Uni
verse, outside of Massachusetts., and while
her local Legislature is the most vascillating
and puerile on the faze of the earth, and her
Legislators of such a type that the State
Treasury is compelled to provide them with
pictorial pagers fbr their amusement during
Legislative hours, her "outside" care of all
the United States Teraitory, find contiguous
islands, is so remarkable as to call forth the
silliest strains of adulation froth "ha sons"
wherever they may be scattered. Pennsyl
vania people are not credited with very quick
perceptive powers, and perhaps they do not
furnish forth a due proportion of the "smart
fellows" who serve themselves and swindle
their country; but they can see thing or
two after a while, and are just et the present
time pretty full of cohtempt for a largo class
of political hucksters who buy up second
hand principles dirt cheap, and sell them at
ten times their value, under the pressure of
false pretences; who do a good deal of blow
ing and advertising, and some blustering,
besides quite an amount of threatening and
vengeance-declamation. But summer is
coming on now, the weather will be hot very
soon, and it is time all this fuss and nonsense
was over. So thinks Congress; so, probrbly
think the people of Kansas, who ought to
be planting their corn, instead of sowing
dissension, in view of which facts the huck
sters had better spend the summer in fishing
about for another "issue" with which to
keep themselves and their gecat deeds con
stantly before the people and in sight of the
Treasury.
The "Revival" is wide awake now and
has left the public halls about the city, to
dwell in a large tent, which is singularly
enough pitched on the lot adjoining the
Academy of Music! This may be termed
"carrying the war into Africa." But Or
thodoxy has not the battle all to itself.—
Friend Curtis is awake too; Friend Curtis
is up and doing. Friend Curtis dent exactly
carry the war into Africa; but, as it were,
lie "compromises" with Africa, makes a
league with Africa, and gets Africa to come
over and join him. As an extra attraction
now, besides knocking off the "five cents
admission fee to pay expenses," he makes
Nota Bene promises that "some of the most
popular opera airs will be performed during
the evening," at their meetings., Great man
that Curtis! Great tactician! Encourages
the fine arts! Adores music, worships
painting, worships—himself! in point of
fact worships every-thing—except God.
The municipal election which took place
yesterday has resulted in the choice of the
combined:opposition ticket by an average
majority of abour 2300 votes. The issue
was local, and turned upon questions of
economy in the city government. On one
side the. Democrats showed what they claim
to be a faithful administration of affairs, and'
great retrenchment during the past two
years. But the Opposition broke down
every thing by the force of magnificent
promises the fulfillment of which the people
will wait for with some degree of anxiety.
CENTIZAL lIOIREVATHIC DISPENSARY.—The
Trustees of this institution have just issued
their fourth annual report for the year end ;
ing April 1, ISSS. Dy the report we should
not ,judge that houvepathy was in its decline,
nor do the results of the treatment corrobo
rate the statements of the opponents of the
practice—that the laboring classes could not
be affected by the small doses of the homre
pathist. Notwithstandin g most of the patients
are those who live in the midst of dirt and
wretchedness, under the influence of miasms
emanating from their vile surroundings, suf
fering from effects of poorly-veutilated apart
ments and a starvation diet, the results are
most satisfactory, only G deaths having oc
curred out of 1,407 cases. The expense of
the new system, also, in comparison with that
of the old, is small, as we find from the re
port 3,01-1 pre , criptions have been given out
at a cost, including rent, fuel, Re., of $2.52,75.
For pecuniary aid, the Dispensary is depend
ent on private subscription, and this year's
expenditures hare exceeded The receipts
$33,75. The directors have endeavored each
year to enlarge their sphere of usefulness,
and have lately increased the list of attend
ing physicians, The rooms are open for
patients from 12 to 1, and from 4 to 5 p. m.
daily. and on Sunday from 12 to 1 p.
Within a short time the Association has
been regularly incorporated, id is now
under charge of a Board of Trustees, who
intend, as early its possible, establishing a
Hommpathic. Hospital, where persons can
gratuitously receive the benefits of this
treatment without the disadrautngcs men
tioned above.— Tribune.
Mons I, TENDENcr.—"Where is your little
boy tending?" asked the good ulna as he
was inquiring of Mrs. Partington with re
gard to the proclivities of Ike, who had
rather a hard name in the neighborhood—
he meant the direction for good or evil the
boy was taking. "Well," said the old lady,
"he isn't tending anywhere yet. I thought
some of putting hint into a wholesome store,
but souse says the ringtail is the most bene
ficious, the he isn't old enough yet to get
into a store." "I meant monsmx tending,"
said her visitor, solemnly, straightening
himself up like an axe handle. "Yes," said
she, a little confusedly, as though she didn't
fairly understand, but didn't wish to insult
him by saying she didn't. "Yes, I should
hope he'd tend morally, though there's a
great difference iu shopkeepers, and the
moral tenderness in some seems a good deal
less than in others, and in others a good
deal more. A shopkeeper is one that you
should put confidence into, but I have always
noticed sometimes that the smilingest of
them is the deceiviugost. Ono told me the
other day that a calico would wash like a
piece of white, and it did, just like it, for all
the color washed out of it." "Good morn
int:, ma'am," said her visitor, and stalked
out with a long string attached to his heel
by a piece of gum that had somehow gut
upon the floor beneath his feet.—Buston Ga
zeUe.
£A certain invalid of our acquaint
ance, doubly afficted with a painful coin
pfaint and an unmanageable hard-mouthed
temper, regularly retains as helper to the
sick nurse a stone-deaf old woman, whom
he can abuse without violence to her feel
ings. how much better to have emulated
the h'e'avenly patience in sickness of which
woman—in spite of Job—has given the
brightest examples; women, who endures
the severest trials with a meekness and sub
mission unheard of among men, the Quaker
excepted who merely said when his throat
was being cut rather roughly—" Friend,
thou dost haggle!"—Thomas boil.
A.&-Some wag remarks truly, when lie
says that "popularity in politics is too see
your name in large type posted on a fence."
Somebody will inquire as to who you are,
and when the first rain comes you will dis
appear.
Penn'a R. R.—Departure of Passenger
Trains.
Trains East. ILA , ave Columbia. Arrive at Thera.
Fast Lino, 1.10 A. r. 4.40 A. !if.
Through Express, 9.28 12.40 p.
Harrisburg Ace., 2.50 p. 31. 6.45 "
Mail Train, 7.40 " 11.15 "
Trainc West. bare Columbta. Arr. at Harrisburg
Through Express, 2.22 A. i. 3.30 .s. Mr.
Mail Train, 11.17 " 12.40 r. si.
4.05 r. 31 5.10 "
Fast Line,
Harrisburg Ace., 7.40 "
COLUMBIA LUMBER MARKET
IVTIOLES t r.r: PRICES.
Common Cull Boards Sr. Grub Plank, $lO 00
Culling do 13 00
2d Common do 18 00
Ist Common do 30 00
Parma do 36 00
Hemlock Boards and Scantling, 11 00
Do do do lung lengths, 18 00
Pine Scantling, 1 5 00
Plater Lath, $2 00® 3 00
Shingles, 12 00(g),18 00
Columbia Post Office
31.111,q CLOSE:
Through Mail for the Eust—S A. M. and
6.40 I'. M.
Way << S A. M.
Through awl Way Mail for the West—G.2s
P. M.
°'" " " South-11.30
ME
Mail leaves for Mozustville on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday—closes at 6.•10
P. M.
leans for 3fanor, Highoille and Sttfe
Harbor, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
—closes at it P. M. .
Dfuil Silry Spring, on Wednesday and
Saturday.
31.1118 ARRIVE.
Eastern-2.40 A. M. and 11.30 P. M
Western-7.40 A. M.
Southern-12.03 P. M.
Columbia Post Office, Jan. 2, 1858.
RATS, ROACHES, BUGS, INSECTS, &c
What the people ,ay
Nem, York. April 12.
Dann SlR—Having a great Imlay rat. around my sta
ble and shop, I thought 1 would try your Rat nxtertilin
mot. and I ght one of your boxes, arid fixed it accord
ing to your direction.. The next morning I found over
one hundred and filly dead rats. I take pleasure in say
ing that it will do lame than you 'a) it will. I 100,
also tried it on atesmtlioats. and salt-lied them that it is
the greatest thing of the :ire.
J. ITN DERFULL, No. 435 100) Street
IrrSee 'Coatar'z' advertisement Ili another colu.lin
tilt) S. IP5s.
OXYGENATED BITTERS IN EUROPE,
Froin licv. L. 1)oolittle. a higbl re-peetal.le elvnzyrn.til
Paris. Noveinher I, 11'52.
DCAI2 Stn—Abolll IWO yea:, niltee 1 wade 11, of a few
holder: of your Ovyeenated fruterg. fer a stemfuelt Corn
plutunt q Melt ♦vu' at that lune reheAed.
Strut Inv clay In F.turrinna and I , :funce, I have found
lap old circuity. Irritability et the stomach. returning
aemu. I have not found any preberiptuon to tuflortl rue
reutef. awl I made muumuu, rut London for your Oxyge
woe., Utilv tutu•. but could rot find :III; I write :row to
Leg you will do Me the favor to scud by the earliest
stenciler to llavrc. half u dwelt bottles.
An old friend a( urine in Englund. Onptain .Tnekcon
of the 11. m-it Artn),l found, tut ray - arrival, hulfering
Vain A .112trin. IrtnniteKtly the re.talt m alyaperman Send
an UWIIIIOIIIII hula 11 drecn bootee:, a ritoold lake 1,11/11V0
the .Calptaiii try the toe , heioe.
1 urn too aware that toy name ii known to 300. 1
hut, been the p•mulent elerp man Or .4/1110 ta tatty
three year.. ot Slaerhronl. nod Loonuxbrook. Cannata
which charge I hope to be able to lettaral 1111111-
rpring. I remain, dour sir, your obedient vereniit.
1.. 1/001.1'1".11.1'..
5..11, \V 1 , 0,10 & C0..134 Wri.lnnelon curet. Boston,
Propnt tore. Sold by then' agents everym here.
Ala 3
I lot.t.ow.vf 'f , ll 3 u.t.s —(;Lateral debility, low spirits. nod
nervous irritation. are the tines noble consequences of
indi cesium. Ili:twenty the stonineli, chair the boa Is.
and regulate the ...n eretions \salt these wonder-workinu
Ping, nod the airctigth ret liens, the depression cease., the
herons Minn This In not theory, but pruetical
truth founded cm long years of experience• volumes of
te-tinion, and the concurrent tidniv , aon or till ine•lwal
:nen who hone ever witnessed the effi . ete of the remedy.
In thus country, fl)spep-in has heretofore been 0.. a
I,olllrlallit. 111111 it might Le termed 11 " 11.111011111 In
stitution." H. however. tlf speptim., p nerally, are wise
tinough to r,.....0rt to tlic, remedy, the th,cut,e Nvlll anon
become a rarity.
TOE I Inns. Fun—The lio, of n man in n !don,.
!woad on a bor., /11 picture of the
Ilort.e fair. at alliVill•ritlCl,ll as the i101 ,1 12.1i1C111-
RI•iVCS to. It is a reorral rproark t flirt if Ibis French
Jock e) look. to ,1 II in a Moo,. ho, brit, would
he lonlc in a hinal.ofit tail from tho brown those Clothing
11..11 • Itorklfill Wilson.. No. GOI and 603 Chesifial
eirmt, shove SIVI li. Philadelphia (np I tin
"V KOMA benuliftil and
ta-0.11,1 lIAT tur :-.print.. eonthimag in •yiumetrieol
proportion the tovortie line-of the , traight cloy",
wkui the graresul curve of the lately popular 1,11-
cross it. worn duru' tint settler. Gentlemen 111, In
vited to call and examine this elegant 11A1'.proparej
solely by WA Main:FON.
410 Chestitut•truct, Philadelphia.
April 10, IS-Y.3-3m
1000 DOl.llllO REWARD will he pact for nny
w:11 r«tr PRATT & Drrciwirs
MAGIC 011. for the following di4en,ie—Rhermrin
kill. Neuralgia. treesionr,Contraded Jointc,
Choke l'ainc, Panic in the Side or Bark. Ilearl,eke,
Toothache, Sprain, Sore Throat, Cuts. Brui-es. But tic.,
and all Di,e.c.c. oldie Shin, Mn-elec. owl thief:Mod,
None geemne without the , nrilia In re of PRATT A.
L`GTCHCR dumbed to each lithe] Principal Oilier,
000 Waclangion :meet. Brooklyn. N. V.
The great ininthcrof per-on , 'lint have been imme
diately relieved in nil the eitiec and town. where It
been aced, in well us in this rity,sustuni them in
saying. In all candorolnit it it tine ;;reate.l cure in the
world for pain. ever cold.
Dr. C. It II RR R, Sole Whole•ole Accra for Colum
bia. Sold by all recordable Drugs into th-onghout
he United ISl.itec and Canada. [Uct. 17, laZi7-1y
r17 . 1 . :441/AT.ITY TO iti.t.'—Uniformity of Priers! A
New Peatute tit Every 0111' 111. OWII 4 :11C•
rnan.—Jones & Co.. of the Crescent One Prier Cloth
ing Store," No. 200 Marko t .irect, above Sixth, Phil
adelphla. in addition to having the largest. coal to
ned told fashionable stook of clothing in Philadelphia.
mode rip rralp (or ret til sates. have eon-waled
every one his own salesman, by lancing marked in
figures, on cacti nitwit., the very lowest prier it eV, II
be sold for, no 11,14:3" cannot ro•Auly vary—ill VMS!
buy All,.
The goods , Are All welt sponged and prepnred and
greet pains taken won the making, ro iliat all ean
buy with the 1,111.1.-u:ince of getting a yowl
xi the very lowest prier.
Remelt - 1(1er the Cret.ceitton Market. nltove Sixth,
Nn 200 JONES Lt. CO.
June 13, y
(to Tttestlay. the `27111 of April. 1 4 .5 , . by the Jo-
F.eplt Young, Mr. Sullen. KLAIR to 11118.1 CATHARINE
NS ant, Loth of Colombia. Lonen.ter en . Pa
•zra..3T.
On the 25111 ultimo, I , ,Torrro9 NVonnnaltlME Sri - rote. soli
of Nelson and Sufic S. :Sutton, iu the 10th month of Inc
age.
-He bus gone to Ihm who brah said, `Stier htUe
01,11,1ren 10 a ewu • we, and forbid then. not, for of
suet, is the kingdom of heaven "
MRS. A. E. ARMS,
Si; ILL MTN THIS DAY. MAY Oth. an n• 'Z . : . 4 d
Yl gortment of FANCY AND STRAW MIL- •
LlNial Y.
IlTay F. 1F..5-t".%•
lIAIR DRUSIIES AND
AT the Family Drag Score of TIMMY' GRRT•.N,
Front ptree[, enn be lind Fine Tormie Shell Red
ding sod I'm kr' Combs Bonin nod Horn Comb.,
Pufr Combo, Fine MAIM Itaek ■nd other
Brii.hi•s;n superior al•ortmwrl. thily good &nide.
kepi for sole. whorl, ore .nld at the Inwe.t prieeo.
AT NO 3, WOl.l-"S LOW, FRONT ST.
NOTICE!
CuCVMLIOL Ilpve. May 4 1 - '; ,
THF-Dirr•clorq of thiz III•411111oll 11a then 1n declare.:
a dividend of three per cent., pat able ou and all.,
the 144 b
Maya, 1858.
A Lliireisopi indebied to the Columbia Water emu.
.11 puny. arc hereby notified to.make immediate pa) -
mem, and all per,ous having claiins, is ill please pre...eitt
them duly eta hentiuted for NettlBMettl.
!flay &, 1/3.59. THOMAS LLOYD, Assignee
Statement of the Columbia Bank
ON the morning of sth Noy. 1: 4 5Q. ne requiredby an
Act of Assembly, of Vithrietober;
Loans and Discount•,
Specie,
Notes of other Ranks,
Checks and Drufti,
Due by Bunks,
ltcul Estate,
rsonal do,
Columbia Dmlge,
Notes in circulation,
Due to Banks,
General Deposits,
Interest depows paynble at differ
tilt lilac, tet per contract,
LANCASTER COUNTY. SS.
The above statement is correct to the best of my
I no wlethte and better. SANVL SIIOCIL
Swot'. and .thtqeribed before roe this 4th ItTny,lBs.;
May r. Itts4. FRANCIS 11. EBUR, J. P.
EVERY ONE ACKNOWLEDGES
THAT the Ambrotypes taken by Summeril;.
at his gallery. S. It; Cartier of Front and Locust.
',met:, surpass anything of the picture kind ever
seen before. So perfect and 11M-like are they, that inn
Nicwing them you Mitigate the original present
Mother- who have been unable to obtain picture+ of
their babes and young children. on account of the
tedious process with many operators, have
only io take them to Sumineril, who. in a few seconds,
WIII produce is likeness so natural that it will take at
mother's eye to distinguish between babe and picture.
Fathers! mothers.. stsiersc. brolinerr7 now IP the
time to procure one of those Imperishable Ambro.
types. and thus secure alit features of beloved friends.
Life is uncertain; but Amlirotypes arc lasting,
All are invited to call and examine my specimens.
ID - - membei: that I have the exclusive right for
taLing Ambrotypes, tit WO borough- of
Columbia.
9.00 "
“00. 1 ,1 S over TretleniclOv Hat Store, corner or
l'rotti and Locu,t vtrectn, Colombia, Po.
• -T. L. SUMMERIL.
=
AND STILE ANOTHER CARD.
An Ordinary Old Style Arrangement,
/ S it has become customary for the Mer
chanh or four borough, to specify their mode of
doing Ini-uses , , the undersigned respectfully calf
the ettemioil the patron:me of the inhabi
tant.. of Columbia, to the 'lore of 1. 0. Bruner & Co.,
ori the earlier of Third a 11l Union streets. They do
1101 Weill' the ey u •me of inalliiii1111111.; •kvCRAL Of even
oar oei,on to outetinse their goodsin the city', but buy
their Li WII gnuds for each, effect their own stiles, dist
pen, will; show windows, :nal are Willing to credit
till hone, men. and do not exact the half cent from
the elisfoiner unjustly.
\No have Jo, received a new and full assortment .
of Diy (food-, have re-fitted our ell-C With the best
Judie, and childreiOs shoes of till deveriptioll4; have
u full supply of Croceriev, and, hi het, every nein
that can he had in nay other store out of the city.
I. 1). Jilt LINEN,
11. F. BRUNER.
Nay S.
OUR ROL/IC
ON "SOMETHING TO WEAIt.”
C FONDERSIIIII wholesale and re
. Lao dealer Dome.tic Dry Good 4,
H F •
ore.
G roe ne, Clunn. (Inca and Qlleell.Wllre. Carpeting,
Floor and Tabl, Oil Clmhc, I.rmkinf!.
SHAWLS AND MANTILLAS.
A full line - Canine (.111 colai+,) Stella, Silk,
Thihet and Cashmere Shawls and Mantillas, of the
neweqt and mo,t iashiouahle styles, suited to all
41.111 4 and pocket+.
SPRING AND SUMMER DRESS GOODS.
nabrarina Summer Silk+, rich priori' Clialliee,
Mine, a'quille, Challie
Taunter., Crape de l'urrie, Organdies, Jaconet+,
Law.,
SILKS AND EMBROIDERIES.
The reputation at t he l't,mlec Store for belling Goal'
Silk. end hood,ome Etnhrottlertei. ii well known,
and purchasers con al way,. find the lorgeot aolort
mem, :be best and most fasMonalde goods, at;thlo
•••tobli‘loteettt.
PARASOLS & LADIES SUN UMBRELLAS.
Of evert• in,. lc. (ullo. and price.
CLOTHS, CASSIMERES AND VESTINGS.
Lllll4l, SOllll,lOl ate., for men and boys wear,
at the lowest !ash pm tees.
Bleat bed and unbleached Muslin., Linen and Cot
ton ! . . 4 .ltrieting.,Twkings,Cheek,Calleoes. Toweling.,
at a sand! ad Vailer On 1.0..1.
.HOSIERY, GLOVES, &c.
lii this branch '•we moll lie beat." Our stack Is
large, embracing even• kind, fur all ages and sexes.
A liberal share of public potronaze Is respentfally
solicited, guaranteeing our pile,. cannot liconisily bo
ninler,old,"sytili it long yerili.liek and a broad thumb "
PAPER HANGINGS Br. WINDOW SHADES.
Columbia. 31.. y a, 1555.
MATCHES! MATCHES!
1 r 0 GROSS Superior Friction Matches.—
CCllFor sale by E. WILLIAMS,
May 8, 1658, Columbia.
An Act releatire to the Columbia and Chestnut
Ilill .7'urttpil:e 'load Ownpaily
SEcrioN 1. Be it Enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly
met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority
of the same,
That upon the request of the Gate Keeper,
every wagoner, teamster or carter, passing
through any gate on the road of the Columbia
nod Chestnut Hill Turnpike Rood Company,-
with a loaded wagon, cart, or other vehicle,
slialliweigh such loaded wagon,cart or other ve
hicleon the scales,provided . and furnished bysaid
Company for that purpose, and for every re
fusal or neglect to do so after such request,
shall forfeit and pay to said Company a penalty
of live dollars.
SLCIION 2. That every wagoner, carter or
teamster, obstructing the road of the Colum
bia and Chestnut Hill Turupike Road Company
ith his wagon, cart or team or otherwise,
after notice from the gate keeper or other olli
ter of said Company to remove the obstruction,
shall forfeit and pay to said Company a penal
ty of live dollars, and a like penalty for every
hour such obstruction shall be continued, after
such, notice to remove it.
SLCTJON 3. If any person or persons shall
pass through any toll-gate, or over and upon
any part of the road of the Columbia and
Chestnut Hill Turnpike Road Company, with
any animal or animals, or any vehicle or ve
hicles, without paying toll, it shall and may
be lawful for the said Company to sue for and
recover toll from such person or persons, at
debts of like amount are now by law recover
able, with cost of suit, and in every such suit.
the collector of tolls shall be a competent wit
ness for the plaintiff. "'loaded, That such•
suit shall be brought within three years from•
the time such person or persons shall have so.
passed through said gate, or over and upon
said road, without payin‘ , toll; and the Proviso
of the fifth section of the Act approved April
nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and.
fifty, relating to Turnpike and Plank Road,
Companies, shall not apply to the said the Co
lumbia and Chestnut Hill Turnpike Road Com
pany.
SECTION 4. That every wagoner, carter or
teamster hanlfbg over said Columbia and
Chestnut Hill Turnpike Road, or any part of
it, any greater weight than three and one-ball
tons, exclusive of wagon, at any one load, un
less by consent of said Company previously ob
tained, shall lorfeit and pay to said Company
for every such load, a penalty of live dollars.
SECTION .5. That for every violation of this
Act, the owner or owners, as well as the
driver or drivers, of any team, cart or wagon,
orj other vehicle, shall be liable, and may
be sued jointly or severally, for the penalty or
penalties imposed by this Act, and any penalty
imposed by this Act may be recovered by the
said the Columbia and Chestnut Hill Turnpike
Road Company, before any Alderman, Justice
of the Peace, or Court of Record of this Com
monwealth, la lib costs of suit.
SECTION G. That the said Columbia and
Chestnut Hill Turnpike Road Company shall
not demand toll from any person or persona
r.nd repassing from one part of his, her
or their ,arm to any other part of the same.
G. NELSON SMITH,
Speaker of the House of Representatives, pro.
fern.
WILLIAM H. WELSH,
Speaker of the Senate.
Approved, The Fourteenth day of
Anna Domini one thousand eight hundred and .
fifty-eight
WM. F. PACKER
Columbia, May 8 1858-It.
F RESII FLOUR.
A Cliolcs: :ot of Frunily Flour. of white w*Heat, jog;
I 1 received, soul guerantecti, hy
13 F A Prni.D.
Nog 1,2 end 4 . 3 Canal Moir
May 1,18
SAAVL SHOCIJ, Cashier.
NOTICE:
EIMEI2
611E3E1
1141.1,Q91 117.-
00
2.237 05
134.9(10 29
2-6,700 41
27,002 59,
11,520 05
41.532 54
/57,301.1 Op.
DEM
LIABILITIES.
24,975 00
11.090 10
7f 1 :904 9;3"
METI
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