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Preaching.
Tim Rev. Mr. 3IcNair will preach in
the Presbyterian Church in Stroudsburg,
on Sunday morning 30th inst. at half past
(en o'clock, and the Ecv. Mr. Condit in
the afternoon at three o'clock. Mr. Con
dit will also preach in the Smithfield
Church, athalf pasttenin themorning, and
Mr. MeXair at three o'clock in the after
noon of the same day.
Kosrc Company
We are requested to state that a meet
ing of the citizens of this Borough and
adjoining townships, friendly to the or
ganization of a Horse Company and to
take measures for the detection and pur
suit of horse thieves, will he held at the
Hotel of Joseph: J. Postens, on Satur
day afternoon next, at 3 o'clock.
Horse stealing has become so system
jzed, ana depredators nave oecome so
hold and expert in their operations, that
it is high time some measures were adop
ted to counteract their purposes and serve
as safe guards of the property of our citi
zens. Horso Companies exist in many Coun
ties in this and other States, which have
proved eminently successful in attaining
the objects of their organization.
All who feel interested in the enter
prise are respectfully requested to be pres
ent at the time and place above stated.
The pupils of the Stroudsburc
Academy intend holding an exhibition in
die Court tiouse next r rid ay evening,
October 2Stli. The exercises will con
sist of Declamation and Singing. An ad
dress to Parents will be delivered by the
Principal. Admittance free. The exer
cises will commence at 7 o'clock A col
lection will be taken up for the purpose
of making some necessary repairs to the
Acadein v.
The esamation of the school will take
place at the Academy, Saturday morn
ing. Parents and others interested in
the cause are invitted to attend. The
next quarter will commence Monday, Oc
tober 31&t.
Snow.
About 7 o'clock on Monday morning
laat, a snow storm set in, which lasted
about two hours, when the storm cbansred
Lo rain and hail and continued through
out lie entire day. This is the first fall
of snow we have had ia this place, this
reason.
The distant hills, which but a few weeks
4ago were rich and beautiful in all their
unfsded luxuriance, are now assuming a
"varigated aspect; the sear and yellow leaf
arousing us to a sense of universal decay
iaod man's final destiny.
B t'S rest! uV.l JVC District.
The following is the official vote in this
iElepreeeBUtlive District Monroe and Pike ;
by which it will be Eeen that Edinger falls
(Ehort 109 votes of having a plurality.
Edinger. Eilenberger. Clark.
fiiojiroe 1162 078
IPifce 310 191
470
272
Tola! 1502 669
742
II wag amusing to watch the manouverinir
ttpoti ihe little political chess board of this
Coanty, for Representative, in the late can
vass. The word of promise was doubtless
held to the car of moie than one, for that of-
fic. and indeed for every office in the gift of j
I lie people, provided their influence andhat
of their reactive friends could be secured to
acrwmphsu an ulterior object, pointing with
Xkc precision of a sun-dial to the Judiciary,
itiaay, from all parts of the count', were ea
ger to be entered on the course and to dedi
cate their selfacrificing and most patriotic
ssertions to the dear people, in a fat office ;
btA it wjjs with much difficulty that the 'llo
tnaa FuUiers" in Strouueburg made them be
lieve that tlicir candidacy would dampen cer-
. tain judicial nsperalions and that really, the
coHiitn' could be saved without them. But
in Edinger they were disappointed. He, two,
was cavalierly told to withdraw from the
contest, but he positively declined, and the
sequel shows that he acted wisely, for he has
out-generaled his competitors and triumphed
over those, who by a combination of fortui
tous circumstances, were reluctantly coerced
into an acquiescence in his nomination ; and
who are supposed to have given the nominee
the cold shoulder at tiie polls.
If certain brawlers, for " regular nomina
tions" stuck to the ticket, it is strango, pass
ing strange, that Edinger should full behind
the judicial vote in this Borough and Stroud
township 116 votes. The Representative
elect, is entitled to credit for the shrewdness
manifested in the contest. More anon.
i23 A cabbage weighing twenty seven
pounds has been raised iu Bucks county
this seeson.
JJjTurkey has two hundred thousand
men under arms.
JC3 In Belgium, there is a nunery
which contains nine hundred nuns.
What a sum of wa&led life.
Wayne Count y Official Returns.
Dimmick Porter
42 48
18 14
9 48
78
49 60
36 23
31 167
29 S7
90 169
9 - 49
35 23
74 133
10 35
2 49
33 162
10 29
25 61
21 44
60 118
40 57
3 98
120 123
13 24
10 97
7 23
794 1760
Berlin
Bethany
Buckingham
Cnnnnn
Clinton
Cherry Ridgo
D..tnnecus
Dy berry
Monesriule
Lebanon
Manchester
Alt. Pleasant
Oregon
Pan pack
Palmyra
Promptun
Preston
Scutt
Salem
Stirling
Smith Canaan
Texna
Pleasant Mt.
Vayinart
VVavue
Carbon County GOiclai Returns.
Dimmick. Porter.
Banks 18 104
East Penn 00 55
Franklin 143 7
L. Towamensing 136 12
Lausanne S7 62
Kidder 56 22
Mahoning 137 9
M. C. Borough 193 147
Nesquehoning 02 12
Packer 89 10
Penn Forest 37 15
Summit Hill 39 178
Up. Towamensing 67 6
1101 639
Pike Connfv Official I
Dimmick.
Porter.
119
72
43
47
31
16
76
63
13
24
Lehman.
Delaware,
Dingman,
Milford,
Wcstfall,
Shohola,
Lacka waxen,
Palmyra,
Green,
Blooming Grove,
Porter,
31
84
52
60
52
25
91
12
43
20
' 7
484
512
The following is the official vote lor Rep
resentative in Pike county:
Edinsrer. Clark.
Eilenbergcr.
Milfurd 51
Wcstfall 51
Shohola 20
Luckawcxen 45
Palmyra 11
Green 19
Blooming Grove 27
Porter 1
Lehman 20
43
4
17
72
o
24
12
6
48
17
11
1
53
Delaware
Dingman
Total
63
32
340
37
10
272
191
State Officers.
The offieial returns from all the counties
but Bradford, Elk, Forest, M'Kean, Pike
Potter, Sullivan and Venango, foot up as
follows: Supreme Judge Knox 146,
409, Budd 113,099 democratic majority
34.310; Caned Commissioner Forsyth
146,830, Pownall 115,135 dem. majori
ty 31,745; Auditor General Banks
143,435. McClure 113,749 dem. major
ity 31,055: Surveyor General Brawley
140,025, Myers 110,492 dem. majority
23,535
The remaining counties will in
the democratic majority about
It is sufficient for all usefal pur-
crease
2000.
poses.
The Legislature.
From a list published in the Democrat
ic TJnwn, it appears that the several coun
ties of the Commonwealth will be repre
sented in the Legislature as follows :
SENATE.
Whigs. Philadelphia city 2, Mont
gomery!, Chester 1, Lancaster
ihumberland and Dauphin 1. Adams and
Franklin 1, Erie and Crawford 1, Butler,
Beaver and Lawrence 1, Allegheny 1,
Somerset, Bedford, and Fulton 1, Juniata,
Mifiiin, and Union 1, Schuylkill 1 total
Democrats. Philadelphia county 2,
Berks 1, Bucks 1, Northampton and
Lehigh 1, Carbon, Monroe, Pike and
Wayne 1, York 1, Cumberland and Per
i "I i T" n ii
ry i, centre, Jyconnnir, ouilivan ana
Clinton 1, Blair, Cambria, aud Hunting
don 1 , Luzerno, Montour, aud Columbia
1, Bradford, Susquehanna and W3'oming
1, Jioga, Potter, McKean Lik, Clear
field, Jeherson and 1'orest 1
Venango, and Warren 1
WiKlitnofnn finrl f"ironn
, Allegheny 1
1 A rincf rmirr
Indiana and Clarion 1, Westmorland and
Fayette 1 total 18.
JWitive. Philadelphia county 1
ASSEMBLY.
Whigs. Adams 1, Allegheny 4, Bea
ver, Butler and Lawrence 3, Blair and
Huntingdon 2 Dauphin 1, Delaware 1
Erie 2, Indianna 1, Lancaster 5, Lebauon
1, Philadelphia city 3, Somerset 1, Union
and Jumatti 1. total 26.
Democrats. Allegheny 1, Armstrong,
Clarion and Jefferson 3 Bedford, Cam
bria and Fulton 2, Berks 4, Bradford 2.
Bucks 3. Carbon and Lehigh 2, Centre 1,
Chester 3, Clearfield, Mckean aud Elk
1, Clinton, Lycoming aud Potter 2, Co
lumbia and Montour 1, Crawford 2,
Cumberland 2, Dauphin 1, Fayette and
Wesmorcland 4, Franklin 2, Greene 1,
Luzerne 2, Mercer, Venango and Warren
3, Mifflin 1, Monroe and Pike 1, Mont
gomery 3, JNorthampton 2, jSorthumber
land 1, Perry 1, Philadelphia city 1,
Philadelphia county 7, Schuylkill 2, bus-
quchanna, Sullivan, and Wyoming 2, Ti
oga 1, Washington 2, Wayne 1. York 3
total 70.
Native. Philadelphia county 4.
The Tavern Keepers in Philadelphia
are moving for tho repeal by the next Leg
islature of the Sunday Liquor law,
Debts Gf the Great States.
The funds of the nations of Europe fall
with the prospect of war, and the English
funds have fallen, by the accounts from
Europe by the Arabia. The Tew York
Courier, writing of the indebtedness of
Europe, observes that whatever the Four
Powers can do to avert war they will do.
To two of them England and Prussia
war is a most exhausttng debt; to the
othcrlwo France and Austria it is ab
solute bankruptcy. Wo quote : "France
has a debt of over one thousand millions
of dollars. To pay the interest on her
national debt; to support her standing ar
my of three hundred and fifty thousand
men, and navy of three hundred and thir
ty vessel; to sustuiu the dignity of her
present court, and to meet the current
expenses of civil government, France has
to raise an annual revenue of three hun
dred millions of dollars, which is more
than one-fifth of the annual amount of all
the united incomes of the people.
Austria is worse oft still. She has a
debt of eleven hundred millions of dollars
and a revenue of only one hundred and
twelve millions.
Prussia has a debt of one hundred and
thirty-five millions of dollars.
The English debt every body knows.
It would crush any nation but England;
and the world sees how it grinds her even
with her gigantic energies.
2s o continental power, save perhaps
Russia, has extensive credit. The abso
lutist governments have borrowed money
till the necessity of extrinsic support has
uearly become a settled law of their ex
istence. But capitalists have had too
strong a lesson of the ruinous effect of
this system in the untold losses they have
sustained by Spain, Mexico and the south
American republics, to shut their eyes to
the consequences of supply ing States with
means to do what they are unable to do
by their own positive resources."
Death of Ih AragOj (lie Asirsne-
Francois Dominique Arago the distin
guished French Astronomer, whose con
tributions to Science have classed him a
mong the highest in the list of European
savanSj died in pans on the first of Octo
ber, aged 67 years and 7 months. The
discoveries of Aras,o in Science have been
numerous and important. His determin
ation of the diameters of Planets was sub
sequently adopted by Let place. His dis
covery of Colored Polarization, and that
of Magnetism by Rotation, gained him
the Copley Medal. As Secretary of the
Academy of Science, he had a vast field
for research, and published many notices
of new applications and discoveries. He
was a member of nearly all the scientific
societies of Europe and of some in this
country. A paper on the Physical Con
stitution of the Sun,submitted by him to
the French Academy, embraced many of
his own investigations and results, and
comprised some remarkable observations
on the True Place of the Sun in the Uni
verse, the conclusions of which be crcn
cralized in his assertion that athe sun is
a star, and its physical constitution is i
denticaLwith that of the millions of stars
with which the firmament is strewed."
It was not alone as a scientific man
that Arago achieved celebrity. He was
distinguished iu literature, in oratory, and
in politics. During the brief existence of
the Provisional Government in France, in
1S48, he held the important post of Min-
ister of Marine, and ably discharged its Sa" eu uiorougniy cmocra uc
. , . - , . Her Governor is a Democrat, all the Ca
dutics. After the election of Louis Na-I - n :..: r. ' .
poleoji to the Presidency, he abandoned
politics, and was in the habit of deliver
ing regular courses of astronomical lec
tures at the Obscrvatorie. In his death,
France has lost one of her greatest scien
tific men.
rPlin r? nnfi'ine! iC Tine-1 1'mii
From a carefully-corrected table in the
New Orleans Commercial Bulletin, we
learn that the whole number of deaths in
that city, from tho 28th of May, the time
of the breaking out of the yellow fever,
until, the 3d of October, were ten thou
sand nine hundred and ninety-six, of
which eight two hundred and fifteen were
caused hy the fell destroyer. The great
est number of fatal cases in one day was
two hundred and fifty-four, on Hie 22d
of August, when the disease appeared to
have reached its culminating point, and
has since gradually declined. It is announ
ced that acclimated persons may now re
turn there with perfect safety.
Hogs and Crops in Tennessee. A let
ter to the Cincinnati Price Current, from
Nashville, says there is a very large in
crease in the number of hogs of last year
say three times as many. Buyers were
only offering 82,50 net. This, however,
ellers are not willing to take. Old corn
is plenty, and the prospect of the new
crop is good probably better than with
in the last ten years, it is retailing at
31,50 per barrel.
As the eun in all its splendor was peeping
over the Eistren hills, a newly married man
exclaimed "The glory of tho world is
rising!" Ilis wife who happened to he getting
up that moment, taking the compliment to
icrself, simpered " Whnt would you say,my
dear, if I had my new dress on!"
i no
Our country is disgraced by the ridicu
lous names applied to partisans in some
of the political papers. In New York
tho Whigs arc called Woolley Heads and
Silver Greys the former being the oppo
nents of the Fugitive Slave Law. The
Democrats bear various appellations
Old Hunkers, Adamautines, National
Democrats, Hard Shells these are the
names given to that branch of the party
who maintan that the Frec-soilers should
have none of the spoils. They arc in fa
vor of the Fugitive Slave Law, and sup
port the President, though they disap
prove of many of his appointments, and
are opposed to Marcy, Dix, &c. Dickin
son, Bronson, Clinton, and Brady, seem
to be at the head of this division. The
namesgiventothe others are, Soft Shells,''"
Barnburners, Unterrified Democracy, &c.
The old Free Soilers, headed by John
Van Buren, compose a large portion of
this branch. They pretend to be par ex
cellence, the supporters of the President,
and swallow the Baltimore platform, Fu
gitive Slave plank and all, tho' with many
wry faces, indicating that the Buffalo plat
form would set much better upon their
stomachs. The division is the most nu
merous, and has a majority of the offices
and newspapers, aud the control of Tam
many Hall. Tho Washington Union
sides with them, and therefore a new Ad
amantine daily has been started at the
seat of Government (the Sentinel) by Be
verly Tucker. Each part' has a sepa
rate ticket for state officers, and the great
est animosity exists among them against
each other.
In our neighboring county of Luzerne,
party names, though uot so numerous,
arc even more ridiculaus. The friends of
Mr. Wright, who has long been recog
nized as the leader of the anti-Beaumont
party, are called the Bobtail faction, while
their opponents are denominated Switch
tails and Ghsppcrhcads!
Alas! when will such follies cease?
When will parties be called by their prop
er names names indicating their real
characteristics 1
-The are also called Patty Heads.
Carbon County Gazette.
Death fey Hydrophobia
A most shocking case of hydrophobia
occurred in Jefferson township, Berks,
county, last week, resulting in the death
of Mr3. John Strouse, of that township.
on the 15th inst. It appears that some
two mouths ago the dog bacame frantic
in pursuing the chickens and about the
house, aud that Mrs. Strouse, m attempt
ing to punisn him, was severely bitten in
the hand. Owing to this strange beha
vior the family became alarmed, secured
the do. and soon found him to be raving
mad. The dog was subsequently killed.
Ihe family immediately sent for a physi
cian, and tried the celebrated Stowe's
cure, but all in vain. The medicine took
no effect, and on the evening of the 15th
instant Mrs. Strouse died the horrible
death peculiar to hydrophobia.
No Merc Wood or Coal Fuel.
We verily believe that a way has been
discovered of warming houses by burining
gas, that will speedily do away with the
use of wood and coal for all heating culi-
nary purposes. This will astonish old fo
gydom ; but we have entire confidence iu
the success of this great discover, and
have made arrangements to have the
Mirror office warmed by the process.
Tho'flame from a single gas burner, such
as we now ue, can be so diffused as to
produce any required degree of heat at
a cost for gas, and that, too, at present
city rates, of only alouljijlcen cents a day!
We regard this discovery as one of the
latest wonders and most useful achievc-
incuts of the age
Ncw York Mirror.
A One Shied S(ae,
The Philadelphia Inquirer says, Penn
sylvania must, for some time to come, be
.l-.l il 1.1 TV i
nal Commissioners are Democrats, and a
Democratic Legislature has just been elec
ted. This' we regard as unfortunate, for
a party that posesses so much power is
apt to commit many abuses. Tho pros
pect of a sale of the public works is by
no means favorable. J he people at large
have not thought it worth while to second
the movement, and the party in power
will, it is apprehended, directly or indi
rcctly resist any bill authorizing such
sale, should one be submitted, as is likely
during the next meeting of the Legisla
ture. The Laic Prise Firiit.
The ' Albany Register,' of Tuesday a
week, says :
J " Wo are gratified ro learn that Gov
ernor Seymour, with a promptness be
coming his character and position, has
taken energetic measures to brni all the
parlies and accessories in the late brutal
prize fight at Boston Four Corners to ius
tice, and to cause such punishment to be
administered to them as the violated laws
and outraged decencies of life require.
In this, the Governor will he applauded
by every right minded man in the com
munity. As it is a matter of some doubt
which State has jurisdiction over the
place where the outrage was committed,
Governor Seymour, we understand, has
corresponded with and secured the co-op
eration of the authorities of Massachusetts
and Connecticut in enforcing the law a
gainst the offenders."
Morrisscy has advertised that he has
received from the referee the 32,000
staked upon the fight.
Sullivan rc-challeui-es Morrisscy, say
ing that he (Sullivan won the late fh'ht,
"but, in order to convince the public and
your few prejudiced friends that lam your
?uper;or in a twenty-four foot ring contest
and in liberality, I am willing to give the
disputed money to any charitable institu
tion, viz: Fire Department, Widows' and
Orphans' Fund, or to any other charita
ble object you can name, and make a new
match to moot you again for S5,000, to
come off witl)iu six weeks from this day."
- Party N.
From ihe New York Herald Oct. 1 1 .
The Financial and Political Con
dition of the United States,
The year 1837 wa3 one of the most dis
astrous in the annals of our country.
One thousand of our most distinguished
merchants shipowenra, manufactures, and
financiers, in the city of New York, broke j
down in the space of two or three weeks, j
and forty thousand more were struck
down in the country, causing failures to
the amount of five hundred millions of
dollars, and involving all the banks, and
the States themselves, a few years after,
in tho same catastrophe. 'The social
calamities which followed in the train of
this terrible reversion in trade and fi
nance are yet fresh in the minds of thou
sands. Families in wealthy and affluent
circumstances were reduced to penury
widows and orphans to whom a compe
tency had been secured, driven to want
and the honest workmen, depending
for the support of their wives and chil
dren on the wages of their daily labor, a
bandoned to idleness and de.-pair. The
savings of years of patient indu.-try, tho
wealth amassed by long and successful
labor, were swept off by one fell blow,
and the hopes and prospects of number
less families irretrievably ruined.
What was the origin of this commercial,
financial, and social revolution?
Many causes no doubt conspired to
produce it; but the chief cause, to which
all others were subordinate, was the ad
ministration of Martin Van Buren, and
its mercenary spirit, which had already
infused itself into the three last years ol
the administration of his immediate pre
decessor. It was the spoils politicians of
the Albany Legcncy, with Gov. Marcy at
their head, who produced the calamity of
1837. It was the men who looked upon
the whole problem of govermeut as the
art of procuring majorities at the polls,
no matter by what reckl iss or despicable
means, who did the mischief. What
were commerce, manufactures, agriculture
justice, the honor of the republic at home
and abroad what the gicat mission of
the United States, to men who treated
every office under the government as plun
der, and whoso governmental philosophy
and ethics were summed up iu Marcy's
motto, "To the victors belong the spoils?'
The administration of Martin Van Bu
ren was ushered iu vain with great prom
ises, and with reiterated professions of
honesty, and integrity. A surplus of thir
ty millions had accumulated in the treas
ury, sufficient to control commercial en
terprise and to effect every species of in
dustry; the country was supposed to be
prosperous beyond all precedent; yet at
bottom there was nothing but delusion,
false pretensions, arrogant presumption
and want of system and knowledge in all
the arrangements of the goverement.
The crash at last came wealth, credit,
tho surplus in the treasury, the populari
ty and power of tho administration, finally
Martin Van Buren himself, together with
the Albany Regency, and all the vaga
bonds and spoilsmen under it, were swept
from the board.
We are now on the eve of a similar rev
olution, under the auspices of Marcy and
the younger Van Buren. The vultures
and spoilsmen of the party have again
possession of the government and are
prostituting it to the same infamous pur
poses. Our paper circulation is more ex
panded than it was in 1837 ; banks have
multiplied in ail directions; State credits,
county credits, town and city credits,
as well as railroad and canal credits, have
multiplied beyond anything dreamed of
in 1830 and 1837, and the
increasing
imports win soon raise uie surplus reve
nue in the treasury from thirty to fifty
l Ml ,
millions of dollars. And in the face of
these appalling difficulties, the threatening
aspects of our foreign relations, and the
approaching revival of sectional agitation
at homo, the power and influence of the
administration arc frittered away in the
distribution of the spoils among drunken
vagabonds and rowdy politicians! In the
midst of a financial crisis, and surrounded
by danger from which to escape will re
quire all the talent and all the experience
of thinking and reflecting statesmen, our
Secretary of the Treasury issues his man
date to the Collector of New York to take
care of the weighers, gangers, tide-waiters
ml watchmen of the Custom House!
Is thi: not cnoxigh to alarm our busines
community? Can they look with passive
indifference upon the present condition of
the country! Are they willing to trust
their property and credit the resuls of
their enterprise and labor to the hand
of the present spoils Cabinett ? Have
they not an abiding interest in the faith
ful, energetic and statesmanlike manage
ment or public affairs And arc they
not in the end tho victims of every weak,
vacillating, corrupt, pluudenng adminis
tration.' hy, then, should they not
move in a body to rid the country and
the President of Marcy, Davis, Gutlirio,
and tho whole bunch of governmental
burglars, whose minus cannot rise above
the consideration of public plunder and
the distribution of the spoils among per
sonal friends and mercenary followers?
Let the business community take the mat
ter in hand at once; let them form associ
ations, and appoint committees whose
special business, it shall be to procure the
removal of the Cabinett, and let them not
rest till the task ia accomplished. Wc
are on the eve of a great revolution in
finance, commerce and politics, and it is
the duty and interest of every honest man
to contribute his share to avert the dan
ger.
Fine Chickens
On Friday afternoon last at tho North
ampton Agricultural Fair our friend F.
V. II ILL, of Easton sold four of his pure
Chittagong Chickens, for one hundred
Dollars twenty five dollars apioce. The
chickens were bought for lion. T. Butler
King, Georgia. The Farmers of this
county will hero perceive that raising the
right kind of Poultry is rather profitable
business, and wo hope this evidence will
induce them to improve their breed. E.
bentincl.
A Faiiurci
Ole Bull's Norwegian colony in Pottor
county has proved an utter failure. The
colonists have gdiie to seek a more fa
vorable location in the west and some ara
returning to their native land. Ole Bull
has lost some $40,000 by the operation,
and has been victimised by sharpen and
speculators.
The spot chosen was on a flat on tho
top of the Alleghany mountain an in
hospitable and barren region where there
is snow two-third3 of the year, not even
fit for those from the cold regions of nor
thern Europe. The project of Ole Bull
was based upon the most liberal plan and
its failure is a matter of great regret to
all who entertained most sanguine wish
es for it3 success.
A Snake Story. The Elenville Jour
nal says: Silent Wilds and George Bull
killed a snake on the mountain near the
plank road on Tuesday, which measured
over seven feet and a half in length.
Wilds says it was not a black snake, but
that, like Joseph of old, his snakeship
wore a coat of many colors. He was
black, says W., about two feet from his
head, then green spotted to within about
the same distance of his latter end, at
which point the color became a light yel
ow. Self Sale into Slavery.
A singular instance of a color
ed man selling" himself into
slavery, was brought out in the
Mayors's court, in Richmond, Va.
recently. A man named Jones,
a witness in a case of larceny,
slated that he was tiie slave of a
Mr. Carrington, while the book
of the Hustings Court showed
him to be a free man. On ex
amination it appeared that Jones
was emancipated in Richmond,
iu 1851, and that appended to
the evidence of his freedom was
an injunction from the Court, to
leave the state, on penalty of be
ing sold for the benefit of the
State. Instead of doing so. it
appeared that he sold himself to
Mr. Carrington, and had actually
received part of the purchase
money at the time of the sale
The Mavor stated in strong terms
his conviction that the whole
proceeding was illegal, and that
the State had claims for forfei
ture, which could be enforced in
spite of the negro self sale T
but, for the purpose of bringing
the novel question before a
higher court, he had the man
held to a hearing before the next.
Hustings Court, on the charge
of remaining in the Common
wealth, contrary to law.
A New Counterfeit!
Bicknell's Reporter thus de
scribes a new counteifeit on the
Farmer's Bank of Lancaster,
which has recently made its ap
pearance. ,5 s, spurious. Vignette, a
man and woman, the latter with,
a rake in her hand, and thm
former holding a fork with the
prongs resting on the ground.
Denomination on either end of
the note. The vignette of the
genuine is three men and a wo
man. One on the right end, two
females, one holding a sickle and
bundle of wheat, and on the left
a man on horseback, and between
names of officers a do- lyin
down alongside of a chest.
The Strike in Lancaster
The operatives in the Cotton
Factories at Lancaster, this State,
struck on the 12th inst in favor
of the ten hour sj-stem of labor.
Very large processions were
formed and marched throuali the
streets, stopping occasionally to
listen to addresses. Tho excite
ment was unbounded, and the
proprietors of the factories be
coming alarmed for the safety of
their properly and persons, called
upon the police for protection.
There were 350 females in the
procession, and a largo number
of males.
We are happy to state that a
satisfactory arrangement was
made on Saturday the 15th inst,
between the Operatives on a
strike, and the Managers of tho
Mills.
Thanksgiving.
Governor Bigler has issued
his Proclamation fixing- upon the
fourth Thursday in November
next, lor 1 hanksgiving in Penn
sylvania.
HTSome 1000 acres of land
have been purchased in Iowa, on
which a colony of monks have
settled. Among their peculiar
habits may be mentioned that
they never mingle with the world
and when they put on a new suit
of clothes the suit is kept on,
sleeping or waking, till it falls off
or becomes until o wear.
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