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WHJC NOfcSSNATfONS.
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.ION TO W'XA 4..inras,terCmintj
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Sl'KVKYOIt fiENERAl-,
1 SHCESTIAft' 31 Y IS 56 S, Clarion Co.
tecT The Democratic State Convention
rs-f mbled at llarrisburg on Thursday of
: t v,cok, and nominated John C Knox,
V i , of Tioga county, for Judge of the
supreme Court.
SwDTThe crops of wheat and rye, in
Northampton county are unsually heavy
this reason.
rsr A call said to be signed by 900
!o il voter-, has been issued for a "people's
t. ovci.tiou, to be held at Montpelicr, Yer
ujiit, i Hh iust, to take measured to sc
j:c tho repeal of the LijKer law.
Why iwf Sell the Public 'V6i;tfsYponS wife' the State' have all thes
rCan anybody give a good reason why
our publie works shall not bo sold, our
debts paid, and our burthen of taxation
rcmoviidX Here is an argument for the
other side, from the Philadelphia Public
Ledger .'
suckers preying on her vitals and eating
out ner substance, Ihe prospect, inaeed,
looks dreary enough.
Consider again how the purity of our
elections are violated, in order to perpet
uate this horriiflc dynasty, the intriguing
1 1. m . 1 . W
! ana the - unuer7 mm .are .mau
sale
cx-
!UtO
vitro ng, ofllavors to
ttoaru arc sent round to the difk-rent
counties about the-time of their annual
county meetings land when their nomina
tions for office are made, in order to use
their influence in. certain ways the un
due influences thevexert by distributing
tmrerent leading men m the
various counties, and it is enough to
make every thinking citizen of Peunsyl-
vama, every iriend to her interests pause
r .
and reiicct, and -resolve to his utmost to
remove such a foul blot from her escutch
eon. Let ua take warning from the ex
perience of the-past
7 he Daily .News sa's, the supply of
I this season will fall short of the dc
ii J from 00,000 to 1,000,000 of tons.
.irn tnnHn lien of
V l ... . i , J -'
,u -.ySiu uaa as y0l been made , how that persons in the pay of-.the Canal
which will so demonstrably allevinto n ! Rn,r.l a
of a portion of our burdens, as the
of the Main. Line of Public Works,
tending lrom Philadelphia to Pittsburg.
A bill for their sale for the sum of fifteen
millions of dollars, was introduced
the last Legislature by Mr. Q
Philadelphia: but owning to the late hour
at which it was brought forward, and the
opposition from quarters from which if
was to have been expected, it was hot
acted upon. It is proposed to show, in
this communication, "he past and present
unprofitableness of the Main Line of
Public Works, and the great gain of the
State in the event of their sale.
The Main Line was finished between
the years 1830 and 1E?33j thus havin
been in operation already over twenty
years. The cost of construction, accord
ing to the Canal Commissioner's Keports,
was $15,050,077. The money borrowed
for constructing them was obtained at f
and G per cent. average about 5A. j
Therefore, in order to pay the interest of j
the money thus expended upon it, the
line should have made a net yearly divi
dend of about 525.000. But what has
been the fact? Has the line paid an a
mount anything like this? Far from it.
The total not revenue received from the
.7 a 'cThc catch of mackerel at the
' ol shoals this season has been very
rpp, being estimated, by rood iudces
" Ilad, as more than 2000 barrels,
of sjood quality-. The Ports
. at'i Chronicle says: about 100 barrels
Mi;:ed around the inlands last Sun-
hnc, up to the beginning of the present
year, amounts to 5524.520. Supposiii"
kum mm iu unv uuuu in operation lor
twenty-one years, this would give a year
ly average income of $203,072; or about
H per cent, on the cost (if construction.
Had the works paid S per cent, in twenty
years the income would have equalled the
COJ
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The Lady's Bosk.
' for August is already hTO and
in its cover may be found a vast a-
i.t of beauty fortheej'e as well as an
but supply of food for the mind.
I -) 1 'ition to numerous articles of choice
i uling for tho ladies, Godey frequently
fi9 u a full and accurate description
ct h-wiiy of the large manufacturing es
t il lu-htncuts in and about the city of
I rilidelphia, with engravings represent-;
i j ' f different mechanical departments
t, fitleen miiiions df dollars, instead oi
oeing ten miJtions less
works
So that while the
have paid oniv near sir million
the people of the State have been obliged
to pay ten millions, as interest on the mo
ney for constructing the line. Whilst
the works have paid but IjJ per cent, the
people have paid from their own pocket
over 3 per cent. Instead of receiving an
average net income of but $208,000 we
should have received a bout 800,000 year
ly, in order to meet the interest on the cost
of construction. And thus have we been
obliged to pay nearly 5550,000 yearly,
to keep up these unprofitable works. How
have the cliltcrluj: prospects, that wnrp
J- -j x J
at first held out, of a line of improvements
paying their own cost in a few years, and
eventually relieving the people of the
burden ot taxation, been dashed to the
T . i r . i earth! and how have not the peonle been
we consider of much interest to the j ,i i A ti' wctu
reader containing as they do a
. n.ount of useful information. For
L j.es, he gives in the August num
. n.v verj' haudsomo cew style pat-
made to suffer the weight of hcaw. nn
prcssivo taxation J
But it may be said, that now when the
public works are just beginning to pay,
it would be folly to dispose of them. Let
cms for window curtains; Besides pat- . Vi A luu "uon' Xl
. . , ' ' fiaLb PJl is true that the receipts upon the Main
rr,, i various articles of ladies soaring i Line are greater now than they have ever
npl .a ciubroidery, tl-c. "CJontcntiuen! been bofwo; bul wo will Sad that at this
'ttr
u m Wealth'7 is a pretty engra
ru .is we look upon it forcibly ini-
us with
the truth of the old pro-
ses L. A. Gofeu, Ko. 213 Chest
:, Philjidelphift. Terms S3 per
day the' arc fa
from paying the iiHcrest
V
1
SFc-;ivy Bank StoEiixcry.
, July 26. The Mechanics and
, , Bank in Jersey City, was cnter-
iwght, and robbed of $9000. The
Mole the keys at the Cashier's
. with which they entered thebauk
i rur.dereil the vault of the above a--rt,
w bills and specie.
)n T Mersellies left a bundle at ihr-
- terday, coataining $1200. priu-
. j ri-jles of ihe NorA Biver Bank,
tw- thieves also carried off.
iu
The death penalty has been abo!-Wi;consia.
r v;
"ix ihonsaijd cxliibjlors display
r s in the Hew York Crystal PaL
" KU-eiroplated iron siilfiags are in
and almost defy
'ulj.ii' u in Bolajid,
t. n.
CJ ( 'ne of Quoca Victoru's state
. t is said, causes an expeadilure of
' for dresss fee.
tJ TLe gallant Whigs of CajuUria
biy hdve nominated Miohael Pan
for net legislature. He's a
..c ttaui.
Fi'Jit. rankee Sulivan has an-
s.'- 1 that, he made a match to fight
! 1 rriwey, the champion of Califor
ubjut the middle of autumn, for
jJ0 a tide.
."r:,i
The SpirHualista " of Illinois are
i grand kupckmg convention at
jton on the 20fb of next month.
rett informs The Spiritual Tdc-
t. at "hpints make themselves vis
? j tl bodily eye hi JJover, Athens
y. rHTx." According to Mr. E. they
-j- i i;K, cure disease and talk ''in an
tluinair voice." They also state
M tlr Brble-is not exactly what many
' supposed it to be,"a0d mrc other
r rrnrlun winch it "ininv,F.f j
yviWHl, II til UU.
ranters had a i?c-nic in Favmin.rn
' il urhday, at which two pick-po-kets
arreted.
" a j roof f filie- ;fact that. girls arc
M art,-le, and that the world could
t'rvv.ell gr ulong without fhem4
-vi j l r Ptotes it as a fact, that if all
jil were driven ot of Uie woi'lfl, in
on tne cot. in itoou tne net receipts
were 8508,0008300,000 less than what
they should have been. In 1851, the net
receipts 331,001 leaving nearly half
a million to be made un from nthnr
sources. And in 1852, the receipts were
485,561 or more than 8300,000 less
than what they should have been. Thus
the State sustains a yearly loss of from
three io five hundred thousand dollars,
which she would not sustain if she were
to sell the Main Line at cost. Nor can
we hope that the line will ever be a pay
ing one while it is in the hands of the
.Mate. bcov. .hitler, m his last annual
message, says," In view of these things,'
(non-interruption from fire and flood, and
the general prosperity of the state) "and
the energetic competition which has'grown
up around as, it would be unsafe to an
ticipate any increase in this net income
for any year hereafter, until the North
Branch Canal and the Portage Railroad
shall have been completed." And this,
too, in face of the fact, that the Main
Line lacks more than 300,000 of making
5 per rent, on its capital. Even then in
crease of receipts on the Main Line would
probably not more than pay the interest.
on the money esppnded on the Portage
and the Columbia Railroad.
It must then appear to cvey candid
mind that the State would be a great
gainer if she were to dispose of the Main
Line at cost a gainer, even if she were
to sell them at five or sis millions below
cost. A gamer still, according to the
average receipts, if she were to sell them
at ten mHHons bclcrw cost. Why then
shall fIic not sell them? Can any one
besides a Carnal Commissioner. fnV0
single reaeon why they should not be
sold? i apprehend not. If any one thinks
ne can, let nna try.
Bui these are not the only reasons why
uie oiaie snouia sell ner public works
it i. it , i .
luougn nicy must ne strong enough to
convince almost an' one. There can
scarcely be a doubt, that if the publie
works were oijcc iu (he hands of a private
company, they would pay handsome
dividends. I he fault with them has gen-
ciaiiy occn m the currupt management,
not m rite amount of trades or other
cause?. JVrr have wcranv (rnannfv fW
for the future they will be better mana-
gea man they have been in the past. As
long as they are owned by the State, and
controlled by a Board of Commissioners
who-have no-direct rnterests at stake, ex
cept they be private ones, how can it b
expected thai (hey will ever be profitable?
or tnat nicy will ne conducted m a pru
dent and honest way. As long us the pub
lic works are managod by this corpora-
j tion of three indrvhluals, generally broken
down politicians, nominated and elected,
not with regard to integrity and honesty
and fitnes, but rather with reference to
party cliques and factions, so long will
the public money be squandered; go long
will all-Mie uuder-offioes be filled by poi
itiiag, whoae only means of living is by
offieo or eicajiflg, to tjio exclusion of .men
fkoa eaierpii Qthm ii o
The Ottoman Empire Constanti
nople and its Defences.
As the last advices from Europe are
decidedly of a warlike character, and,
should hostilities lake place, Constantino
ple promises to be the central point of at
tack and defence, we can hardly furnish
our readers with anything of greater
present interest than the following. It is
furnished by the correspondent of the
London Times, who is evidently conver
sant with military subjects generally, and
especially with the subject matter of thib
commnication. He has apparently at
tentively examined the capabilities of de
fence of that city, in case Constadtiuople
is attacked. The following is his de
scription of these defences :
It requircrs a -very favorable wind, or
the assistance of steamboats, to enable a
fleet to penetrate into the Dardanelles.
The mail-boat takes sixteen hours frcm
the entrance of the strait to the Golden
Horn the port of Constantinople. The
fortifications raised at tho Dardanelles
have, moreover, added still more formil-
able defences to those created by natuio.
Two formidable batteries, well armed, arc
erected at the very entrance of the t-trait,
at the point of which tho waters of the
Black ea fall into the Mediterranean.
These batteries are called 'cddil-Balsar'
and 'Kumkalessi.' The system of bat
teries on the two sides is continued on the
strait itself. These battcri-es are mount
ed with 400 guns and served by a bri
gade of artillery, commanded by a Pasha.
A regimeut of the brigade is lodged in bar
racks on each side, and well exercised by
handling their guns, for, as is well known,
the artillery is the best corps in the Turk
ish army.
Among the guns by which the passage
of tho Dardanelles is defended, there is
one that deserves paiticular notice. Such
guns bear the names of kemmerliks in
Turkey, and cast stone balls of the weight
of 3 0 quintals. The charge of gunpow
der is nearly one quintal. The battery
in which the kemmerliks are placed is
called 'Sultaniiets 'Battcrv of the Sal
tan.' It is situated on the Asiatic side,
near the residence of the Pesha, who
commands the brigade It is the largest
battery at the Dardanelles. It contains
102 pieces of artillery. Opposite to it
on the European side, are two batteries,
the 'Xamasia, placed sido by side with
the 'Kiln Bahar,' with 6G guns. The
latter contains the largest piece of artil
lery in Turkey. It is a kcnnnerlik, which
casts stone balls of 12 quintals' weight.
The point on which these batteries is e
rccted is the narrowest- in the Dardanel
les. Any ships which should endeavor
to force the strait, would, conseouentlv.
have to pass under a cross of fire of 200
pieces of artillery, without counting all
the others v.hich they might meet in their
passage.
The Dfirdanelles could stop a French
or English fleet which should endeavor
to reach Constantinople It is through
this strait, which forni3 the southern mar
itime gate of Constantinople,- that the
combined fleets of Great Britain and
France must pass to arrive at the capital,
or beyond it. to protect it on tho side of
the Bosphorus and the Black sea. It is
through tho Bosphorus, which forms the
northern maritime gate, that the Russian
fleet, coming from Odessa, would have to
enter. Now, let us sec what are the means
of defence on the side of the Boshporus
and the Black Sea. This is tho mott
important subject under existing circum
stances. It is the point the most menaced
because it is by that, that the Russian
fleet will arrive from Scbastopol, in case it
should make a serious attempt by sea to
take possession of the capital of Turkey.
The Russian fieet in the Black Sea is
composed of 13 ships of tho line,
Uood There are 21 batteries, well armed, on
both banks. Each of those batteries forms
a small stone fortresSj provided with bar
racks, powder magazines, and a mosque
and behind each is a small villace. The
batteries are placed partly in the Bos
phorus, opposite each other, so that
ship attempting the passage would be ex
posed to the cross fire of both banks.-
Two others are situated out of the Bos-
phorup, on the iiiuropean Bidet and two
on the Asiatic coast of the Bldck Sea
The two batteries erected at the extremi
ties of the points of the Bosphorus are
provided with light-houses (feners) and are
for that reason called that on the Asiatic
side, 'Anatoli Fener,' and that in Europe,
'Rumili I'ener. Ihe Pasha, at tho head
of the Artillery of the Black Sea, resides
atliumih Fcner, and his house cdmmands
an extensive view of the sea
In the Bosphorus itself, close to the
entrance, are eight batteries, four on each
side. Those are the batteries chiefly for
defence. They contain 105 guns of the
largest siec. I hey are placed m the nar
rowest part of the strait, where the width
docs not exceed 1500 yards Tho waters
of tho Black Sea rush through this pas
sage with impetuosity and its navigation
is rendered still more dangerous by the
shallowness of the water in one epot
where the vessels, in order to avoid the
shoals, are obliged to approach within
200 yards of the Asiatic batteries, so
that a fleet which should attempt to force
an entrance, would be literally riddled
by shot.
rurthcr on in the strait this system oi
batteries continue. Some are placed on
a level with the ground, so as to sweep
the surface ot the sea, and others arc e
rected on the summit of rocks, plunging
their lire on the ships. Ihe guns are
mounted on a stone platform, in order to
obviate the inconvenience occasiar.ed in
manoeuvering them by the changes in the
temperature. Above each battery in a
wooden tower of symmetrical construction
surmounted by a long pole for the flaes
Ihcse poles serve as telegraphs for the
transmission of orders along the whole
line of tho Bosphorus. When a ship of
Uttoman iSavy passes, the batteries sa
lute her by hoisting a flag bearing the
crescent and the star. The Sultan some
times comes to breathe the sea air in one
of his palaces on the Bosphorus. All the
batteries then hoist a large banner bear
ing a white sun on a crimson ground.
A brigade of artillery is specially
charged with the service of the batteries
along the Bosphorus and Black Sea, and
another is entrusted with the defence of
the Dardanelles. It consists of two regi
ments, of Eix companies of 150 men each,
in all 1800 artillerymen. These artil
lerymen arc well drilled, and were or
ganized by the Prussian colonel Kuez
kowsky, assisted by a numder of non
commissioned officers he had brought
with him.
It will be seen by this summary de
scription of the fortilications of Constan
tinople, that the capital or the Turkish
empire, even if abondoned to itself, would
not be so easily conquered. The elements,
the approach to the Bosphorus on the
sides of Black Sea, the dangerous passage
of the Straits, the fortifications construc
ted by the Turks, the numerous batteries
erected on both side of the channel, and
the 451 guns mounted on them, served
by good artillerymen, are means of resist
ance agaiust which, in all probability, the
ilupsiau fleet would fail.
If we add to tLoso the Turki
and, in case of nted, the En
rrench fleets, ii will easily
that bonstantmoplo is not
or fallmir into the hands
. w . i--, is t v J . iu u u ii
way the mask, and de.
cret designs. Ihe
said one must hay-
such nuts; and thj
believe that he has tic
best can answer th
A Strons; Storr.
The Paris correspondent of ihe Daily
Register, of Philadelphia, tells some
the stranrrest stories of doing in tha
strange city, which we see anywhere. He
hag very extensive means of procuring
information, or a very extensive imagina
tion we know not yet which. Tho fol
lowingj it will be seen, is stated as :
fact :
'A poor bird fancier, living in one o
the fauborgs, and earning a modest in
come by raising birds for the markct,has
a child of three years and a half old, af
flicted since its birth with a pulmonary
complaint. Six Months ago the doctors
told the father that the child's lungs were
almost entirely destroyed, and that it
could not live long. About three months
since, tho little creature seeming to be
perishing rapidly, and each day becoming
more fretful, the mother placed its cradle
in the large room where the birds were
kept, thinking that the child might be a
muscd and forget its sufferings somewhat,
in the noisy society of its feathered com
panions. The child, in fact, seemed to
take an interest at once in watching the
birds, and the mother after a few days
noticed that it would lie still for hours
apparently free from pain, a thing which
had not been known since its birth. The
doctor, who still dropped in occasionally,
soon remarked a notable change for the
better in the young invalid, and coutinu
iug his visits more frequently, astonish
ing the parents at the end of six weeks
by declaring that he believed the lungs
were healing. At any rate, the child could
sit up and play, and began to have an
appetite. But m tho meanwhile a strange
malady had attacked the birds they no
longer
flew around the room, but
re
mained silent and drooping on their
perches, eating very little, and gradually
dying off one ni a time. The owner see
ing this, but little suspecting the cause,
had the whole tribe removed to the house
of a friend, also a bird fancier, in the
v.neie ne inougnt tne pure air
might revive them. Thev had nnf. Wn
wenty-four hours in their new abode be
fore they began fo get better, and in a
few days they had resumed all their life
and health. But also f.hn
j'wv Vlili
eft in Paris bebamc visibly worse. The
physician, wishing to try an experiment,
had two birds, a parrot and a linnet bro't
back to the room. In a week they both
were dead, and being opened, the doctor
noticed all the signs of rapid consump
tion. The fact was immediatnlv ronnr.
J WSV
ed to several members of the ' jnndinnl
faculty, and birds of every description
were sent to the child's room. Every
one of them died, seeming to give its
little mite of life to aid the child to live.
The child is not yet dead, and has been
taken to tho country, while the doctors
are busy studying the phenomenon which
chance has thusbrought before them.'
qutv
opinion now, as in tho bcginLl
question, is, that io Ln a.i England
i ranee arc united to pr ,t Turkey fro
aggression, Russia wia be r rl- es to
assail her. It is not aloite Kb Und and
franco that arc interest! in protecting
fill e -
i urKcy irom rum. All Europe is enual
ly so, in maintaining its own equilibrium
ihe success of that aggression would be
followed by a general war, and Europe
wishes lor peace
which O are oi 120 guns,- 8 frigates of 00
guns, i corvettes, and 12
vessels of in
This fleet is supplied with a
park of artillery of large calibre, but it
io ueiiuicm iu sieamijoatSj which renders
its evolutions difficuk, and might become
dangerous, particularly in the neighbor
hood of the Bosphorus. The navigation
oi the Jiiacii sea oilers, in fact, much
danger. The winds are inconstant in that
sea. They cannot be depended on for
many days in succesion. The wind va
rics from one roint to another, and raises
such a swell that a flet at spn cmAA
with difficulty escape, for there is, in fact,
no harbor on the Asiatic side, and Vama
is the only port on the European side
i .. ..
capable oi receiving ships or largo ton
nage. But Varna is a very strong place,
belonging to Turkey, and to which the
Russians could not have access easily.
The black Sea is, moreover, frequently
and suddentlv covered with a thick foir
so thick that it is impossible to see 100
yards ahead, and, consequently, lanre
ships navigating together, run the risk of
lalling afoul of oach other, or of running
on. the shoals. The banks of tlhe two
sides of the Bosphorus are covered thro'
out the pear, with the wrecks of shins
and dead bodies which the sea has
thrown up.
.Humerous modes of defence have cre
ated, moreover by artificial" moans to de-
eiuuhe entnuifl of 4ha. :IofcQriis.
Belrldcrc Delaware Railroad
ihe contracts on this road befcwnnn
Philipsburg and Belvidcre, for gradin
and Masonary, have been given out.
'i-i. i .i i
-luu luiiuwjug snows tue uisposition
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sections so lar as we have
Commencing at Philips
it
the different
ascertained,
burg;
Sec. 29, Retained by the Company
" JO, Let to Solomon McCullough, & Son.
.ii, iot declared on the Mth.
32, Let to Patrick & Moonev.
33, )
31. Dispositiou not known.
35. )
30, Let to Hugh Malonc & Hauc.
)7 )
a' Let to Robert L. Williams.
" 30, Joseph Savitz and Colonel Lcntz
" 40, Let to William Jackson & Son.
41. ) -
" 42, y LcL 10 C W- Ange!& J. Phlcan.
The road follows the bank of the Dela
ware, and thus keeping mostly alonr the
hill side the grading fs made easy. The
work will be about the same as that ho.
Iov Philipsburg. Tho stone is principal
ly lime Btouer loose grain, convenient for
masonary. jb'rom Section 20 to 35 inclu
sive, tho work is under tho immediate
superintendence of A. A, Haines. The
heaviest contract is section 40. bolow tho.
rift taken by Jackson & Son. At each
end of the section there is n high point of
rociv io cue through; and a deep valley to
un, requiring an embankment of about
0,000 cubic yards.
A Moilcat. Way of ' tellin it"I hav'nt
seen your wife lately," Raid a gentleman
to another, in an omnibus. "No," was
the reply; "she has retired from society
e . .! ii . . .
or a wiiiie, ror the purpose of attend in
to ojis of those -little,, affairs which add to
ih$ dutiei of the .oensu6t(mker,"
Let lie Bloomers alone will yc
A young lady, a Bloomer recently
ftrned at Onskany, was "horned" by
be viihage rowdies She fired :
leads, and they ran away
some of the villagers
resolved to try it over.
next night, and challen-
shoofc again, calling her a
n this the young woman fired
5 above them; but they laughed
corn, aud at last goaded to indig
she sent a charge of shot rattling
rout their brainless pates, and wounded
and limping, howling and cursing, they
retreated in confusion. The citizens gen
erally sustain the ccurse of the girl, as be
ing quite proper and justifiable. Syra
cuse Chronicle.
TSic iLast 2ropositiou.
A gcntlomanru Iowa proposes to keep
cities free from thunder storms "for so
much a year." To most people, this offer
would be looked upon as preposterous
i
and yet it is not. Yc have no doubt
whatever that an outlay of ten thousand
dollars would keep Now York as insulted
as glass table will sealing-wax legs.
hat a gentleman in Iowa proposes to do
for U3 has already been done for the vine
growers ol tho south of France. By
means of a well arranged system of light
ning-rods, a whole district has been ren
dered inaccessible to those destructive hai
storms which so frequently follow in the
train of thunder showers. What has been
done in France can be dono elsewhere.-
If wo can teach lightning to write, we can
teach it to behave itself. Loiccl Mass.)
Courier.
High Price of Morses,
The N. Y. Sun says the unusual higli
price of horses is a subject of constant re
mark. It i3 true that, during the last
thiiteeb years, less attention has been
paid to breeding than necessity demand
ed; but the inain cause df the scarcity of
these important animals grows very much'
out of tbe large emigration to California;
Droves of them are bought in the North
west and Western States to be driven o
verland to the Golden State. Two thou
sand fine horses have been started within
the last year, to be followed by many
more, whose duty it will be to revive the
old fashidned stage coach mail routes on
the Pacific coast. Stage horses are need
ed all over the country, and as the roads
improve, the demand for therri increase
both for public and privato conveyance':
The following horrible talo is told by
the Springfield (Mo.) Advertiser, which
received it from a correspondent at Ozark;
Missouri :
"On Tuesday, evening, 21sluit., a gen
tleman, who says- he lives near the mouth
of James, in Stone llivcr Co., on his re
turn from Springfiield home, to which
place he had been on business connected
with the Land office, was overtaken on
the road betweeu Collior's old place and
the head of Crane, by three villians, who
manifested a disposition to stop his prog
ress. He became alarmed, and attempt
ed to make his escape from them. They
gave him chase, and his horse became ja
ded, and discovering they had got ahead
of him, he turned off froin the road. See
ing they were about to overtake him,- he
abandoned his hcrsc dnd attempted to
make his escape on foot. lie was soon
overtaken, however, his throat cut, and
his pockets rifled, and then dragged into
a thicket, in which he was endeavoring to
conceal himself bofore he was overhauled.
Here he wrfs abandoned supposed to be
dying. But he survived until Wednesday
ruing, when one of the wretches re
turned and cut his throat again. He had
crawled to the road which leads from tho"
neighborhood of Porter's over to Kim
berling's orr James, below Yoak man's
Mill, and was tracked by his blood, it is
supposed. Kimberliug had started from
home on some business, aud came up just
at the time, running off the villain before
he had finished his work. Mr. lumber
ing was perfectly horrified at the specta
cle before him. The trachea was cutoff,
so that articulation was prevented. Mr.
Kimberling galloped back to Alexander
Berry's where the people were assembled
"or meeting, got help, and returned S3
puickly as possible. While ho wa3 gone
the fiend again returned, and finding him
not dead, told him he should not live to
give evidence against him. The noor fel-
ow, apprehending the murderers' return,-
had got out his knife, and intended to-
ry to defend himself, nis knife was
discovered a rock was dashed against
his head which stuncd him his throat a
gain cut with his own knife, and the work
was supposed to be finished. Howevor
"the ways of Porvidence are inscrutable
and past finding out." Mr. Kimberling
returned in a few minutes after. the mur
derer had left him, with several ofht3
neighbors. They succeeded in getting
him to a house where Mrs. Messinger
stitched up, as well as sho could-, the hor
rible cut, so that he wns able to give the
information above detailed. T.he poor
fellow may get well: he seeing to bo com
fortable as could be expected; swallows
water well, and breathes through the nat
ural orifice. Fortunately h'e had but lif-
tle money, and they did not get that, ho
having plnced it in a side podket in his
coat, and they failed to examine all his:
pockets. We have since learned that tho
name of the injured man is John Bussel. '
BuHcr for California.
It has been ascertained by parties who
have taken especial pains to find out, that
(,JoO packages of butter havo been put
on board vessels bound for California,
rom tho 1st to tho 30th of Juno last, at
N. York-; also, 5,700 packages from Bos
ton, (somo of the vessels not yet loaded or
cleared,) making total amount 22,050.
Computing each paokago at $20, a3 an
average, make3 $441,000. The above
estimate uoes not ineiuuo what goes un
der the name of merchandise. From tho
5th of last February to 15th March fol-
owing there was shipped 21,GflO One
louse in Ohio has shipped aomo 1 ,800 fir
kins within six weeks ; also, one house in
oston,ovcr 1,200. The March shipments
were the heaviest that ever were shipped
in one month for California.
Mrs. Partington, telegraphing from
Cape May where sho is extemporary ad
journing for the approving of her health",
says : " Wc have three hyrometefs con
stantly in the shade, but they don't do
one might of good; it's not less than 54
40 iu the sun this minute. The doctor
says I may expect cither a cavalcscenco
or a collapse but I have forgotten which
in n few days. These doctors are stf
reserved in their manners to patients lhaJr
I shoTridtf't wonder if I had both.
Singular Case
Tne Exeter Xcivs Letter states tliat a
gentleman residing in that town owns a
cow which he dares not send out. to pas
ture or into the street, such is her mali
cious disposition and perfect hatred of the
human species, andcsneciallv of womnn.
A J "
and children. Tho owner of the cow also-
has a cat upon his promises, and although
the gentlest treatment & all the blandish-'
inents of the dairy have been proffered it..
no person has been able to lay hands up
on it or even to lure it into tho house.
Strange as it may seom,. these two wild
animals have the best understanding be
tween themselves, and appear to be per
fectly happy in each other's company. '
While few persons dare approach the hca
of the cow, the cat sleeps in her manger
or upon the cows back, eating with tho
cow from one pail, and receiving tho kind
est treatment IVom her.
Cot a Baby ! Jenny Lind ftoldaohmidf? .
is the happy mother- of a fme and healthy
daughter. Jenny, who has treated tha
world to music and madn it na.v roiindIv
... x v
or it, will now bo treated to music herself.
md pay rouudly for it, too. we, warrants
As Lyrou save. "Time at . last aotlali.
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