Xvocsal izitcalligessoo. Fird-Seurle, Hotel Burned. Our community were startled on Sunday morning last about 2,! ; ',' o'clock by the direful alarm of fire from which we had been exempt for a long time. The flames were first discovered in the News Office of Geo. on Public Avenue, two doors above Searle's Hotel, kept by Charles M. The r alarm was not given until the flames were seen bursting out of the roof of the News Mee, but in time to save all the effects of the Express Office, which adjoined the hotel. Our efficient firemen were upon the ground immedi ately, but the fire spread so rapidly that before their pipes could be brought to bear upon it the Express Office and Hotel below, and Harvey Stamp's grocery above, were being rapidly enveloped in flames. There was hut little sir stirring, which was in deed very fortunate, for with a common wind lila believed that no human agency could have prevented the &sumo:ton of all the row of bpild trigs on the west side of Public Avenue, our of. nee being ineludtsi. It ~,on beetune apparent that the hotel must burn, and busy hands were at work removing the contents, while the fire men, in connection with a bucket company, underthe direction of Avery Frink, stuateoled almost against hope in arresting its further pr., grew; beyond Harvey it Stamp's grocery. The name efficient work was U done upon the building west of the hotel 7 .ith the Nam , happy result, and almost as miraculous as it al, pears to those who viewed the situation, 11., buildings were destroyed except the Hotel, Ea press Office and News Office, all of which wet,. owned by Leonard Searle, The total loss is estimated at about $15,000. Insuredmostly by Stroud it Brown, as ffilloiva Leonard Searle, on building, 0,000. C,M.Koon on furniture, etc., 417,(100. Gem C. Hill ototoek, 4/1,200. J. T. Cockayne, on give:l.y building. 4:2;000. Benstock & Hawley, meat market, E. L Weeks it Co's stock oqdry goods was yen much injured by removal, but covered by an in snrancc of $l,OOO. Harvey t Stamp's grocery stock had been insured, but by a recent change of the firm, and a neglect to transfer the poli cy, it is chained they cannot recover. Such be ing the case, their loss will be considerable. Being one of the number who wa.s in immin ent danger, we can truly say that bad it not been for the very praiseworthy efforts of our efficient fire department, we believe we should not be sit ting at this time securely in our sanettim pen ning this article_ We cannot say that we would be glad to return the compliment, as we hope none of them will be similarly situated.— But we shall hold than in grateful ca - m(11- branee. A man by the name of titstrge Winters was a rrestedon Monday and ',kips! in WI, charged with nilfi•ring, about Vino worth of , jeweiry front a trunk belonging to Mri. Boon; which be car ried from the hot.•l while it wa. burning. The trunk aftewards was found broken open, and the jewelry mi.sAing. If vil!). pnnislonevq, for theft meenia hnolly ,offickut. Ire , uch cow trinaactlon. Spring Elections. A bill is before each Ilonse of the Pennsylva nia Legislature to repeal so much of the ilegis try Law passed last winter as directs the elec tion for city, borough and township officers to be held the second Tuesday of October • 'lna re turn to the old system of holding Spring Orr-- lions for these otbeers' on the third Iridav in )larch. Cigar Box Decision. to reply Co a communication addressed to the Commissioner of Internal Revenue h) a eigar box manufacturer at Easton, asking if old cigar poxes could be sold after having removed the Rumps and re-papered the boxes, the Commis -11/oTher SLItC9 as follou-s: "After destroying and removing the ammo , . from old cigar boxes you can sell them, but old Cigar boxm cannot be used for packing eigarv, though thec may have been cleaned and repo pered. Old cigar boxes however mar he broken -up, all traces of former tc:e removea from the suaterials„ and new boxes made therefrom, which may be used for packing boxes." Fire at Montrose Depot, Benjamin Case, agent at Moo - ose depot, tele graphed to A.lathrop of this. place on Monday afternoon last, that a fire had occurred there de atmying two ear loads of hay and twelve coal cars, and also had serion;ly damaged some hides belonging to Mr, Lathrop. %cw Judicial Dip.trici. The bill introduced in Ciangrens by Gen. Cake, "to rre,ate the Northern Judicial District of Pennsylvania," is one in which our citizen,, will fee/ nonsideralde interc,st. It provides that the counties of Schuylkill, Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wyoming: Luzerue, Columbia, Montour, North umberland, Union, Snyder, Sullivan, Lycoming, Clinton, Cameron, Elk. Sasqueltanna, BrAdford, Tiaga, Potter, and McKean, shall form a judi cial district of the United States, to be styled the Northern District of Pennsylvania, and the ap pointments of judges, clerks, &c., for the same. Courts are to be held in Williamsport at present. Terms of the circuit courts are to be held al>o at Wilkesharre and Pottsville_ The bill will prob• ably become a law. Closing Cracks in Stos-es js may be convenient to kno' a ready method of chishig ep cracks, which are not tinconitnon. In asst-iron-stores; and we are assured that the following receipt is a reliable one. Good wood asket are to be sifted through a fine sieve, to which is added the same quantity of clay, finely pulverized, together with a little salt. The mix ture is to be moistened with water enough to make a paste, and the creek of the stove filled with it. This cement dotal not peel off or break away, and assume, an extreme deg,rce of hard ness after being heated. The stove must be cool when the application is made. The same suit statues may be used in setting the plates of a stove, or in fitting stove pipe, serving to tender all the joints perfectly tight.—Piai. l.e fps r. A New Floor Coverin,7. An exchange says "Save all your newspa pma, and when you get enough for the purpose, makeapaste as for putting on wall paper, and lay them down, one by one, pasting them till }our door ii covered, then let it dry ; then lay another in the same way. When again dry get some wall paper of a suitable color, and paste all over it. When dry go over it again with a good coat of varnish, and you hare a good cov ering for your Soar, which will wear as long as carpet, and look as well as oil cloth. This is a cheap method of covering bedrooms that arc not much used." lar.Non-paying subscribers arc thus talked of by a Western editor: "Wagons cannot run without wheels, boats cannot run without steam,'bullfrogs cannot jump without legs, or a newspaper Carried on everlastingly without money, no more than a • dog can wag his tail when he has none. Our subscribers are all good, but what good does a man's goodness do when It don't do any good? We have no doubt that every one thinks that, all have paid except him self:end/fa we are a clever fellow, and his no. 0 9Frq is a tittle matter, it Makes no difference. SLUMP ' _ 1 Explanatory. Since the publieution, in the DRAIOCILAT of lest week, of the report of the public meeting relating to the Judiciary question, a dispute has arisen among those participating in the meeting, 'as to the second resolution. The author of the resolution, and others, think it was intended to cover all the bills pending in the Legislature (or any to be presented) in reference to additional Judges and new places for bolding the courts. I But several lawyers present at the meeting claim that the 'subject of an additional Judge was not properly under consideration, and that those words in the resolution, as printed, were not adopted or intended to be adopted, so fares they !'understood. It is proper to here state, What I was not known to the public, that several !aw -1 , vets had signed a petition or letters in favor of I the passae,c of an act to provide for an addition ! al Judge; hence they could not consistently op pose it. This card is published to explain that the participants in the meeting differ as to its real object. The reporting Secretary was not prts ent during the discussion prior to the adoption of the resolutions. and only citnsented to act as reporter upon condition that the resolutions, &c., should he furnished hint. He correctly •re• ported what was reduced to writing and handed to him, at is shown by the original draft of the dhputed resolution which has been presented. J. G. Robins It k generally supposed that the robins emi grate to tie• south during the winter mouths. t h e following account it would seem that ... te it is not the case:—Two gentlemen crossing the - . .antla ich Mountains, New Ilanirshire, dis covered a deep valley, and appmehing it found it clothed aid' hemlock, spruce, fir, and tama rack, grin iag so near together that it was with aillirully that dery made headway between theta llefore they came to this growth the snore nas seer a foot in depth; after entering it was only six inches, the residue lying on' the tops of the trect:, asking guile a roof, and ex cluding Ilhwtt of the light of day. After mak ing their a ti.er cads, they were irurprised to find the place an extensive robin "roost," occu pied by thousand s , and so thickly were they congrezate,i that they might have killed DM' berg with th.cr afising stick , . in crossing the premises 1.. north—about 30 rods. I[ost• to Meagurr Corn to the Crib Atb.r . krelinz the corn. m u ltiply t h e l engt h and breadth of the house together, and the prLduct by du , d^pth, and divide , the last product by 12, and the quotient will be • the number of barrel. of , helled corn in the crib or house. if there be a remainder after the divis ion it will he many twelfths of a barrel of shelled corn tv, r Example-12 feet long. IZ=ItE! 6 barrels shelled own. 5 bushrly in the barrel MO bushels shelled cone- If farmers would cut the above mmaurement out and pri •-crNe it, they will not only find it conveniem for reference, but will he aide to as certain the number of bushels in their wagon bed without trdstinz to the calculation of iithers CV' A German paper says that the simplmt post oilier hi the world in to be found on tho southern extremity of America. For some years past a small barrel has been fastened by an iron chain to the outermost its:ll of the mountains ovorhanging the Straits of Magellan. opposite Tierra del Fuego. It is opened by every ship which passes through the Straits, either to place letter, in it or to take letters from it. This post office. therefore. taloa+ care of itself. it is confined to the proterlion of seafarers, and there is no example of any breach of this trust having oc curred. Erich ship undilrtaltes the voluntary transmission of the t-mitents of the barrel, if their destination is within the limits of its vow- • tr .. A' This... , keeping home,. should, twice a week. throw into the manger a handful of salt and 3lix them by putting in three parts of salt to one of asheq. Horses' relish this and it will tend to keep them in good flesh and their hair short and fine Postage on Newspapers. The citition having arisen, whether a sub scriber to the lienmerat livtng in this county, but oho revers-es the paper at the Post Mice outside of the county, should pay postage on it, we wrote to the Post Office Department on the subject, and received the following reply, viz: WASIIINGTON, Feb. 1, 16;0. reply to your letter of January 24th, I have to say, that bona fide subscribers to weekly newspapers can receive the same free of postage if they reside in the county in which the paper is printed and published, even if the office to which the paper is sent is without the county, pmvidea It is the office at which they rrgular4y reecoass, Jut arripul at 4.(ED. R. LATHROP'S DRIDIS GOODS Ls buys csantilled, of ail Styled wad Prima LXROE STOCK Of nate and Caps, Pars, Ready IlLsde Clothing. Mad auras, Barren, Sackings. Boras Blankets, 10-4 Blankets, Bed Spreads, Hardware, Crockery. Boots and 41100 S, £O. £O. 4C- We are Agents for the Oelebreted PARHAM 'SEWING MACHINE! A. I D. S• LLTIULOP I=3 BE IT KNOWN! Tbst w t►tyeet sad best seleetloa of BRADY RADE cLarnma, CLOTHS a cam ismunt. DRESS GOODS OF ALLICINDfi., DO- Me. STIC GOODS. 811AWL8, CLOAKS. FURS, RATS CAPS• LADIES' A IiEVTN FURNISHING (WOOS. MILLINERY GOODS, FAVY GOODS, TRIMATIGII, etc etc, tobe foetid to Oils put of the State, can atolls he Coned at the wall-huovro arid popular store of 'Guttenberg, itosenbaum 4 'Co M. S. DHSS %LIES, mrreiscating this arm Ituut rose, arriving laxly from New York trub A VERY EXTENSIVE STOCK, of above mentioned goods, amiable for the Fall cud Winter neaten, and baying taken partlentarpaine la Is )ecting handeente styles and designs, as well as teekinx tv the old proverb, a penny laved is penny earned.' ' We flatter onreetres or haring BARGAINS Oar all atm Trent to no raying In making their pnrchaan• We would reeinest sad! and laepertion orourgoods tIVITENBERO, IiCOSENBAOLL • 00 Iloutroae, Oat. Ist, ISM FAIIII FOR SALE! The aril:weber teen for sale his Flengjate tat the net part of New =ford township, cog ON IIt:NDILED AND NEV -TREES ACRES, army Improved, well watered by Ppringa, and II small creek. There are two homtea: one new, and three barna, one new, and other outbuilding., and cod orchard& The land not improved to heavily tim bered. Teims the rim. Toe Ihrthve Informotion eaD mo or address the euberiber at New Millard, Illsq's Co. PAL NOV. 10, FA47).—tf JACOB \TATMAN. IRE RAILING, w PorStole Pmts. Asylums. be. Iron Made**. Wire Webbtag roe Sheep sod Poultry Yards, Be.,ss and tree Wire Ciotti, Mese,. Nader. Screens for Coal Ores, Send. &IL slaro v red Qiuth for Spark Arrestrrt, Landscape Wires fat 1n d..., cte. raper Matzen' Wires, Ornamental Wire *ark. etc. gravy Intenniitino by addrefstag the mart ugatiorers. g. WALK hg SONS. Aix7.llo N. sixth et.. PMls4stphls. TUE ELIAS HOWE SEWING MAMMI Aelmottlekrod by all to ho the best Sewing Wallas in the world. Don't boy any one until you We Wool th.m. Nov. lth MO. E. L. WEEKS ,i, CO., Agents. MEM For Mnikrat, Coon and Fox tiltior. by Noy. ?4. %gnus & co ABEL TLrIIRELL, Ass jest rettinmed from New York with a bap ad dlttoo to his renal stock of choice goods. Mantrame, Nor. dd, 110. - • M 11 1 111 1 10 1 .1114 TO TRY WORKING CLASS.—We are now prepared to bunt& ml cline! with Oolootant employment at home. the whole of the time or for the !mare momenta.. fittelnceenew, fight and profitable. Persaglyof either sex teeny earn from SOc. to SS per evening; lid a pro. portional sum by devoting their Irani* time to the bus tome. and girls earn nearly as much as even.— The t al who ere Ibis notice may tend their address. and test the Inaelnese. we make title unparalleled oda: To snob as are not well wigged. we will send $1 to pay for Inert-F=llle of writing. Fall partienlats, a valuable sample. which will do to eormenee work on, and a co. py of 114 Pm*? a Lireroory Compantoe—one of the tar c.o. and beet family newipapers publlebed--all seat free try midi. /Under, Wynn want permanent, profita ble work.yddrews R. C. A L LEN 8 CO., Augusta, Maine Noy. a tee—tut pri:KBAIERSINT Iftvears this WONDIrIaFUL SALVE ba been Ma grad of en old Conneettent Dimity by the gimlet Phebe Baker. or Now it rower forth to bless man. kind. Ito power to ALLAT'FAIX, to warns ansrusitta. to tail. novo*, lo very eotratordionry ; the like of it has nary been known. 1000 persons already tiess tea Ilrno^.. One pennon Won .4 1 %Might Isl Pa. and I would not he without It for $lO. or I bad to go +dirks wrr to N. T. for it." ['try - Adana recotnmerrd It. end S 1 pots ere ordered daily for lloapttals and Puldle Institu tions, to every part tittle T. b. For Cuts, Burns. Boils, Bruises, Bores Ulcers , WITH: Cancers, Bore NIEPles, Broken Breasts, unzip OUT IT ped Lips and Hands, ruptions, blind and ni THE bleeding Piles, Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, r i HOUSE.bites of animals, in sects, Mc. DON'T DE eta keep it for tate. I are given rway to {yet Ire virtue. Veraa to year,Vrepatet and get arm. f pass sena safely packed,. by express. COSTAR CO.,llllCoward Street, N. T. AU Drnal 10,000 50x $3.0 Addr CUSTOM WORK. MERCHANT TAILORING. An decant assortment of Cloths, Doeskins. Cosh:term BMWS. eh Verret anal Taney Vesting*, se., for CUM= Work. Aimlama Is ken. Good tilting and workmanship snaranterst or no, sale. at 6MrasaagD, Itossmaattai, d, Coa. 'VVIZARD OIL and nearly everything I esa cored of Denfocia and Catarrh by eeimple rent edy, and - wID send the receipt free. Ja1.014 MIL LTDOETT, Hoboken. R. J. JEWELRY A TURRELP. At TIIMIELL'S.