Sl)c 3fcffcvsonian.
Ylmixluy, January 19, 1851.
Wo tender the Hon. Richard Broad
head, U. S. Senar, from this State, our
thauks for several valuable public docu
ments.
jgy- We are requested to state that the
'Stroudsburg Dramatic Association" will
give an entertainment at the Court House
in this place, on Tuesday evening next.
The pieces selected for the occasion arc,
44 The Hero, or General Howe and the
-Quakers," a dramatic sketch never before
performed. Also an excellent drama, in
two act", entitled the "Golden Farmer, or
Jemmy Twitcher in England." The
whole to conclude with the Comedy ol
"Faint heart never won fair Lady."
The persons composing this Associa
tion, arc citizens of this place, and have
espcuded considerable time and money
in qualifying themselves for this occasion,
and respectfully ask the citizens of
Stroudsburg and vicinity, to turn out on
Tuesday evening uex and give them a
jull house.
Tickets : 12A cents, to bo had at Mcl
ick's Jewelry Store.
CJamcs Quinn, was tried at Wilkes-
Rarre last week, for the murder of Mahala
Wiggins on
board of a Canal boat last
summer.
Ihe following in relation to
thin case, -wc extract from the "Record
of the Times."
"The trial of James Quinn for the mur
der of Mahala Wiggins came on, Thurs
dav morning, the evidence and pleas of
counsel wefe continued for two da'?; the
Judges charge was delivered Saturday
morning. The Jury returned in a couple
of hours after with a verdict of guilt' of
murder in the first degree. The facts
disclosed in the testiraon' were so clar
and indisputable, that the prisoner's
counsel conceded the murder, but .dis
puted the degree. Malice aforethought,
premeditated killing, being necessary to
constitute murder iu the first degree, the
penalty of which alone is death. They
contended that there was no malice, no
premeditation shown, but that the deed
was committed in the heat of passion, or
when the brain was reeling from the ef-
i'ccn of intoxication, that the prisoners
mind was not in a condition to reason
calmly, &c."
aTThc Hon. John J. Crittenden,
(Whig) has been elected a United States
Senator, by the Legislature of Kentucky,
iu pkee of Hon. Archibald Dickson,
whose term expires on the 4th of March,!
1?55. The vote stood : For Crittenden,
78; for Powell, (Dem.) 55.
It is well remarked by a contemporary
that no one can fill the station better.
He is a man of generous impulses, able
aud felicitous in debate beyond most men
who have ever shone upon that theatre,
of wide legislative and administrative ex
perience, and signal ability. No man
will stand higher in that body, and amon
Whigs no man will be more prominent!
for the highest gifts in their power to be
stow.
CSrWe learn by a late number of the
uNczo York Tribune that the aggregate
circulation of that paper is now 11G,G00
copies.
Rsreuiis of Monroe Count y.
The following is the amount of Revenue
paid to the State Treasurer, by this
County, during the fiscal year, commenc
ing on the first of December, 1852, and
ending on the 30th day of November, 1853,
according to the Auditor General, Re
port :
Tax on Real and Personal Es-
tati $2,504 91
Tavern Licenses, 993 00
Retailers, do (313 iq
Tax on Writs, Wills, Deeds, &c., 150 00
S4.321 01
Payment to iriom ocs County.
Pensions and Gratuities 540 00
common aciioois 148 51
8188 51
Pittsburg Municipal Election.-
Ferdiuand E. Yolz, the Whig candidate
for Mayor, is elected by 1000 majority,
oemg the largest majority ever given to a
Whig canidate in the city. The Whigs
elect all their Select Couucilmen but one,
and all the Common Council but six.
Adams, Whig, was elected. Mayor of Al
legheny City.
John T. Cross, of Pike county, has
been appointed "Revenue Commissioner
for the Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne
Judicial district.
J&"ln ton counties of Pennsylvania
iherc arc 203 iron works, and over $11,
000,000. of fixed capital ctuployeiin the
manufacture. f
Br-It is said that " Time cuta'u'own
alWboth great and snialK" House-rents,
however, arc-an exception iurStroudsburg;
for they, like Millrites, arc always going
up.
Decline of Methodism. The Chris
tian Advocate ami Journal of this week
"ives a tabic showing the total number of
members of tho Methodist Churches in
New York to have been, in 1843, 9,700;
in 1845, 0,571: 1847, 9,326; 1849, 8,893;
1651, 9,289: 1853, 9,319 and showing
a decrease in ten years of 400 members,
while the population has nearly doubled
Cuke for Hydrophobia. AtUdina,
in Frirtile, a poor man suffering under
the torires of hydrophobia, was cured
by draughts ofiigaTvcn him, by
mistake, instead of auothcroortion. A
physician of Padua got intelligence of this
event, and tried the same remedy upon a
patient nt the hospital, administering a
pound of vinegar iu the morning j another
atnpon, a third at sunset, aud hc man
was speedily and perfectly cured.
- in M in.
Joseph Bailey was, on Tuesday last, c
lected State Trcaaurer for tho eusueing
year.
Bclviderc Ba?ik. At a meeting of the
Board of Directors of the Belvidere Bank
held on the 11th inst., John I. Blair
was unanimously re-elected President,
and Joiin Stuart Cashier. Mr. Stuart,
in consequence of a continuance of ill
health, declined, whereupon Israel Har
ris was appointed Cashier the change
to take place on the 1st of April next.
Bclviderc Intelligencer.
Another Great Fire in New Yorki
On 3Iouday of last week the celebrated
Mctropolitian Hall, and the Lafargc Ho
tel, two of the most magnificient buildings
in the city, were burned to the ground.
Loss- by fire, about 350,000, and but
one half covered bv insurance. A great
amount of prope: ty was stolen from the
Hotel aud from adjoining buildings which
were vacated through fear of the spread
of flames. From one house alone, over
S30-000 worth of valuables were taken.
Mitiie Uifie,
A Paris correspondence of the New
York Tribune gives an account of the
new rifle used by the Turks. in picking oS
the officers of the Kussian army at Oltc
nitza. It is designated as the Minio ri
fle, receiving its name" from the maker
Major Minio. It is constructed with
back bight, scaled to distances, and car
.jiC? ..li n(wAAHrmnit . y . n .
show the power or the gun, the writer
gives the resulfaf a target firing at di
tances varying from 432 to 1244 yard
At the latter distance, Major Minie placed
three balls in the center of a target, th
size of a man's hat, off-hand and in sue
cession. He professed, the ability to d
it all day, and to teach any man of ordi
nary abilities to do the same. If this i
so, it beats Yankee rifledom. Only thin
of popping of an officer at three quarters
of a mile.
Gov. Aiexi Ramsey.
We are glau to notice that the investi
gation of the charges against Gov. Ham
sey, of Minnesota, which were committee;
to Judge loungand Col. Gorman, ha
been closed, and the result is the complete
exoneration of Gov. Ramsey from all im
putations. The report was made to the
President, aud has not yet been published
One of the charges was a violation ofth
Sub-treasury act, as if that act could be
or ever had been strictlyadhcrcd to. Gov
Ramsey had six hundred thousand dolla
rs
to pay to the Indians. He had a draft
on the New York Sub-treusury for the a
mount, but 'found it impossible to take
more than a sixth part of it in specie, and
even this amount it required eight men to
lift. The balance he took in drafts upon
the two best banks in New Y"ork city and
their bills, which are always preferred to
specie in the West. The other charces
were found to be equally frivolous witl
this. Daily JSews.
New Employment for Women. We sec
it stated in the city papers that women
have taken up the trade of boot and shoe
making that their specimens thus far are
confined to summer shoes and gaiter boots
uiu&iiy lor cnuaren ana tneir sex. unc
writer says that the work is equal in
strength and beauty to man's, and that
women can make their $12 50 per week,
at their trade, as easily as the one-quar
ter of it in factories.
.
A train of lbrty two cars came down from
Columbus over the Columbus and Xenia and
Little Miami Railways on the 5 (h inst., hav
ing 041 them three thousand seven hundred
and sixty-four hogs, weighing in all about one
million two hundred thousand pounds.
HIT3 uc taxable property of the State
of Texas has increased one hundred per
cent, in the last three years. It is now
stated at 899,155,114.
U J3 The Jiog stock on the farms of O
hio, Iudianua, Kentucky, Missouri, Illi
nois and Iowa, is estimated io amount to
nine millions of hof.?, W , -
Rights of Carried Women.
The Pitblurg Fast of last Monday
states that Judge Williams, of the Dis
trict Court, read an opinion, on Saturday
in the case of JLlobinson vs. Patterson, iu
which an important principle, as regards
the rights of married women, was settled.
The issue between the parties, argued be
fore the Court, was, whether a married
woman since the passage of the Act o!
1848, could execute a bond in her own
name, for the payment of money. Judge
Williams, decided that she could; that
the Act of 1848 invested "her with the ex
clusive ownership, of her property, aud
also with the responsibilities attendant
upon such ownership.
...... M
JIjtA male slave, 24 years old, sold
at Clarksburg, Ya., last week, for $1502,
and another, a female, 18 years old, for
$1030.
gg-Five dollars per hour wero charg
ed for sleighs on New Year's day in New
York city.
Fruitful. John Heed, of solcbury
township Bucks county; has a sow that
gave birth to nineteen pigs in March last;
aud to twenty more about two weeks ago.
Is there another in the county or State
that can equal this?
: ,3.,
J j- The estate of Anson G. Phelps
lately deceased iu New York, is 52,000,
000.
About one-third of the citizens 0
Thibedeaux, La., it is stated, have been
indicted for gambling.
rxi " iiqt uorn nas aireauy, 11 is saiu
uti .1 n j;i 1 i 'i i
netted its author, Solon llobinfon, the
very handsome sum of 86,000.
1'IXANCES OF iEW XCRK. me an
nual report of the Comptroller of th
State of New York estimates that for th
fiscal year, ending 30th September nest
the ordinary expenses of the State w.i
exceed the revenue by the sum of 6192,
202. I he dificiency of tho past yea
reached 8419,212. The total debt of the
State is 824,288,508.
Whig Statu Co ssiuii Hoc.
At a meeting of the Whig State Com
mittee, held pursuant to public notice, in
Philadelphia, on Tuesday, the 13th
December, in the absence of the Chair
man, A. K. Corny.v, Esq., was called to
the Chair.
The obicct'of the meeting having been
stated, it was on motion of Col. Ectie, o
Somerset, unanimously,
Resolved, That a Convention of Dele
gates of the Whig pavtr be held at liar
risburg, on the 15th day of March, 1854
for the purpose of nominating a candi
date for Governor, Canal Commissioner
and Supreme Court.
A. K. CORNYN, Chairman.
Henry S. Evans, Secretary.
jgrA. correspondent of the N. Yorl
Iribune has been giving the names
the Presidential candidate?, talked of in
ashington. Among the Whigs h
names John Dell, of Tennessee, J. J
Crittenden, of K, J. M. Dott3, of Ya.
John M. Clayton, of Del., and Ja. A
Pearse, of Maryland. All good men and
staunch U lugs; but we believe Genera
Scott would run better than either
them. It will be impossible to unite sucl
a vote as Gen. Pierce received, again on
any Candidate, while admiration for the
character and distinguished services
Gen. Scott will increase his vote at leas
by the number of Whfgs who saved the Un
ion by voting the Locofoco ticket in '52
Gen. Scott deserves that the disgrace, to
the American neoDle of defeating him
with such a man as Gen. irank Pierce
should be speedily wiped out. Record of
the limes.
Arrc.il of the EJ. S. I?2;uIi;iI at
Erie. Jan. 13. A telegraph despatch
directed to the Mayor of the city, from
the Hon. J as. Ihompson, now 111 Hans-
burg, and who is counsel for the people in
Erie, was received at this place to-day,
ording suit to be brought against the U-
nitcd States Marshal and his aids, in the
name of each prisoner wbfc had been ar
rested, for false imprisonment. The Mar
shal and aids were arrested by the Sher
iff, and on refusing to give bail, were
committed in default to the County Jail
lue parties, however, were afterwards
released from jail, on procuring bail in
the amount of 55 000 in the suit of each
plaintiff. J heir securities are Ptcscott
Metcalf, of Erie, and Mr. A. Stone, of
t-lcvelanu.
Mr. Metcalf was a Director in the Erie
and Northeast Road, but says he has re
signed 111 consequence of the uon-compli
ance ol the other .Directors in the propo
sition agreed to between himself and the
citizens.
Mr. Stone is a Director in the Erie and
Cleveland Road.
A meeting was held in the Court House,
at wnicn tne speakers advised the -people
1 1 1 . 1 ....
to preserve tne peace.
I his action on. the part of the Penn
sylvania authorities is received here with
the greatest enthusiasm.
Ihe Marshal has received a copy of
all tne proceedings in the case, and will
doubtless send them to Pittsburgh.
JCSrTbc population of the Territory of
uregon is stated to be 40.UU0.
r . -.-.. " .
o-e
A slave, aged 24, and a blacksmith bv
trade, sold at Augusta, Ga., last week,
or bi,o-iO' and another, who was a
pricklayer, for 1,250.
fiItis estimated that the Rothschild
Brothers are worth from ten to fifteen
millions sterling, or from SGO,OQO,000 to
Pennsylvania Legislature.
JanMI. In the Senate, a petitioiufor
a Rank at-New Castle' Laurence counfy,
was presented.
Mr. Qui-'gle, irom tne select committee,
reporteu in iavor 01 luussra. vmu, rjumi
r n n i v i 1,1 r i.
erson cc uo., as iowum. uiuul-u, iui luu
contract to print a daily record.
The committee was accordingly au
thorized to contract with the same.
The amount of their bid is 1,495.
Mr. Darisc, from a select committee,
reported on the joint rules, with amend-
HncciS one prouiuuiug auy 0111 uuiiiuiu-
'i! i.:n
in" more than one subject except those
making appropriations. J he amend
incuts were unanimously adopted.
In the House, the senate's resolution
in relation to the publication of a Daily
Record was concurred in.
Jan. 12. In the Senate, several reso
lutions were offered: and at noon the
contested election for Philadelphia coun
ty was taken up. I he committee was
formed by drawing the names of Senators
from a box. Seventeen names were
challenged and thrown aside. The com-
- - -
mtttee consists of Messrs. Price, ttucka
lew, Mellinger, MeParlaud, E. W. II am-
lin, Jamion, R. D. Hamlin. They were
all qualified by the bpeaker.
The following nominations were made
for Treasurer: Asa Dimmock, John
Strohm. W. Goodwin. J. Cr. Jones, John
Reakler, Joseph Daily, Georgo Anderson
N. P. Hubbard, J. Ilugus, Isreal Painter
J. M Rickcl and Adam Whitenbcrgcr.
Among bills reported was one regulat
in" railroad guages at Eric.
In the House, nothing of interest wai
done.
Jan. 13. In the Senate, nothing 0
much iuterest was done.
In the House, the following nominations
were made for State Treasurer:
J. M. Rickel, Joseph Daily, John
Strohm, George Sanderson, J. G. Jones
J. R. Struthers, John Wreightlyf Wm
Rrindlc, L. Durke, G. J. Rail, W. Laird
Georcc Scott, J. McCandless, J. D
Guthrie, Wm. Mcllvaine, M. McCaslin.
Mr. Hamilton reported an act provid
ing for the more effectual punishment 0
crimes, heretofore punishable by death.
Mr, Rail introduced a bill to regulate
the width of the Railroad guages tu Erie
count'.
Jan. 14. In the Senate, the subject 0
a sale of the Public Works, was referred
to a Select Committee, by a vote of 17 to
J 14.
Mr. Darise read a bill to.annal the
charter of the Franklin Canal Company
me Dill to consolidate tne city anc
districts of Philadelphia 'was read, and
the Senate then ajourned.
In the House, Mr. Rail read a bill to
annul the charter of the Franklin Ca
ual Company.
A committee was selected to investi
gate the contested election of Carlisle and
bimpson.
President Walker.
The probable fate of this man should
be a warning to all filibusters, lie is
man of much talent evidently, and of a
thorough education, having graduated in
medicine both here and in Paris, and af
terwards passed through a course of lega
studj'. lie is said, too, to have been re
markably amiable in his disposition, and
until a short time before falling amon"
filibusters, a lover of peace.
The second chapter of his life is brief.
On the 17th of October last, he headed a
band of forty five men and sailed from
San Francisco for Lower California with
intention to subvert the Government 0
that province. The company landed a
Capo St. Lucas, the extreme southern
point of the Peninsula, on the 28th; thence
pushing up the Gulf they landed at La
Paz on the 3d of November, kidnapping
the Governor, frightening oft his house
hold, ran up their own pirate flag, skirm
ished an hour and a half to the death of
seven of the Mexicans, pronounced the
land on which they had done their mis
chief a "New Republic," hastened back
to Cape St. Lucas, where they arrived on
the cth of November, slipped up to Mag
dalena Ray on the west coast, and then
for three weeks disappeared from our
sight.
Our late telagraphic dispatches from
rsew Orleans resume the broken thread
They arrived at San Diego on the 2d ol
December and on the next day, while out
on an excursion, wero attacked bv thn
Mexicans, twelve or fourteen of their num
ber were killed and the remainder chased
to a house at Euscncba and held in siege
by several hundered men, who had taken
possession of their boats. To all human
calculation, it would seem that tho cud of
this company of bravadoes was fast ap
proaching. Its only hope of rescue lay
in the possible arrival of the bark Oneta,
which sailed from bau I'rancisco on the
13th, with 250 men, aud arms in plenty
for their relief. Should this rescucine
band be favored with fresh breezes, it
seems not impossible that they may ar
rive in time. Uut, starting ten days after
Walter's defeat, the defeated reduced
in number, probably to some thirty or
even less, with an outraged populace
thirsting for their lives, it will be strange
indeed if they effect their escape. At a-
ny event, it is probable that the brief his
orv ot t in ".nwHinnh n nf rnlifnv;n
may now be written, and no appendix ad-
ded to maUc it perfect. JSeio York Times
1
A flew Source of IStJVomsc.
It is highly probable that during the
coming session of the Legislature, a law
wUl be enacted, imposing a tax per cavi-
ta upon all individuals who pass through
the state ot Pennsylvania by the Lake
Shore Railroad. This road extends from
Buffalo westward; and passes through E
rie County, Pa. Tho travel is already
immense about a thousand a dav and
is rapidly increasing. A tax of fiftv cents
per head on all passengers, would soon
nablc the state to pay off the public debt.
-Fhiladdph ia Enquirer.
,9
Jefferson Davis. has been elected to the!
U. S. Senate bjvtljc legislature of Missis- i
lLoss of the
STEAMSHIP SAW FI5AMCISC;.
And 240 of her Passengers?""-
Terrible Suffering and Fnvalwns. Lite
Balance of the passengers ana me wp
TLcscuedr-Col. Washington and Maj.
Taylor and Lady Lost.
New York. Jan. 13 7-A P. M. The
British barque Three Dcll?,froin Glasgow,
arrived this afternoon, orings us uie uuu
intelligence of the fate of the missing
tcamship San Francisco, hence the ist
of December for California. '1 he 1 hrce
Rolls reports having fallen in with the
San Prancisco on tlic aueruuuu. ui
lat. 33, long. 59. Ihe
stnamer was utterly disabled, and had
been drifting for some days, thougu since
the 28th the force of the gale had dimin
ished. The ship, however, was not in a
sinking condition, though the pumps were
required to be kept going, aifd the Three
Rolls lay by her until the 5th of January,
when she took from her 01 ncr pas
sengers and the crew.
The remainder of the passengers were
taken off by the barque Kelby, bound to
Roston, and the ship Antarctic, bound
from N. York to Liverpool. The rescued
passengers report great suffering on board
the steamer. One hundred and fifty of
the passengers had been washed over
board during the gale, and ninety other?
killed and drowned. Tho Captain and
all the crew were saved. The San Fran
cisco soon after Trent down.
Col. YVashington, and Major Taylor
and his lady, Capt. Field and Lieut.
Sm:t.h arc amonir the number lost. Of
the rescued, Major Wysc, Lieut. Winder,
Col. Gates, Major Merchant, Col. Rurke,
Capt. Judd, Lieut. Fremont, Lieut. Loesor
and Lieut. Yan Yoort, including all the
ladic3, except the wife of Col. Tayler,are
on board the barque Kelby.,
Lieut. C. S. Winder and Lieut. Chand
ler arc on board the ship Antarctic.bound
to Liverpool. Alt the troops saved are
divided between the three vessels.
George W. Aspinwall, of Philadelphia,
is among the passengers saved.
&
Mr. Soule and his son have commenced
filibustering operations in Spain. They
have each fought a duel about Madame
Soule's drerfs the father with a French
Marquis, the son with a Spanish Duke
xNoDody was hurt in cither encounter.
ibis circumstances saves the transactions
trom utter riuicuic. ;ucis toucuing uie
decorations of the toilet should not be
Duels touching tlie,
fought with bullets of lead, though if
there must be such, no more proper man
can be found to fight them than the A
mcrican Envoy Extraordinary. We
trust he went to the field in his own vel
vet embroidered coat, with all his other
toggery, and brought it back safe and
sound to its congenial bandbox.
The transaction began with
one
ball
and ended with two
Thc question sug-
gests itself, if
a remark on Mrs. Soule's
dress causes two duels, how many ought
an observation on Mr. Soule a coat oc
casion? Tribune.
Horrible. A man living in Athens Co
Uhio, visited romroy some timo ago, in
company with his father in law. While
there became intoxicated aud left town
with a iug full of liquor. On reaching
the home of the former, they demanded
supper. She requested the husband to
hold the bade while she prepared th
food. The child becoming fretful these-
two men, the father and grand-father,
made fiends by alcohol, chopped its head
off with an axe.
Executions During the Year 1853.
Months.
January,
Fedruarj',
March,
April,
May,
June,
July,
No.
Months.
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,
Total,
No.
5
o
A
1
G
5
6
8
10
10
5
o
01
More Fork. On 'the 2Gth ult., George
Ely, of Upper Makcfield, slaughtered :
hog about fifteen months old, that weigh
ed 581 pounds.
The banking capital of the State of
New xork amounts to thc enormous sum
of seventy-seven millions fourteen of
which has been added duriug the past
year, the result, undoubtedly ot the Free
Uauking bystcm.
Era luitKEv. Mr. Jesse Temple, of
this county, sold about New-Year's day a
turkey, weighing 28 lbs. It was taken to
.
New-York by the purchaser, and sold
for 88. Fifteen dollars was afterwards
offered for it, and refused. Trenton Gaz.
Thirty. six Days without Food. Thc
SV. Lawrence Rqniblican gives the seem
ingly well authenticated fact of Mrs.
Paiue (wife of Otis Paiuc of Morely, N.
x.; having sustained tho thirty-six last
days of her life without food she having
refused to take it. She was insane.
Hon. Wm. L. Ilelfcustcin, of Shamokiu,
Pa. has shipped 60 tons of coal to Lan
caster, as a donation to tho poor of that
MS native; city.
Anti-Rent Difficulties Settled.---Iccording
to the Tribune, the difficulties
iu the Anti-Rent district of New-York
are m a fair way of being settled. The
Courts have decided in favor of tho title
of the Yan llensselears, and it is now of
fered by the present owner to sell the
fee-simple at tho rate of 82.60 an acre.
Tho terms are liberal and should be
promptly accccdcd to.
US?" A Mrs. Miller of- Roxbury near
Chambersburg Pa., droped dead, a short
time since in class meeting. 'She was giv
ing her experience, and when suddenly
shouting glory expired.
: The Oyster trade of Baltimore is said
to-jimount to morcthan all tho wheat ami
eornrjused in the State of Maryland.
FOREIGN NEtVS.
Arrival of the Baltic.
Four days later from Fhiropei-r-State of
Eastern Affairs. the "demands "oj the
Czar. Lord Falmcrston again in the
Cabinet. Further Advances in Bread
stuffs. Nv York, Jan. 128 P. M. Tho
United States Mail Steamship Raltic,from '
Liverpool, with dates to the 2Sth of De
cember, arrived at her wharf this evening,
at lh o'clock, after a passage of 15 days.
Her news is four days later than our
last previous advices, and in some respects ,
is highly important.
Tho Liverpool Cotton market closed -very
firm on the 27th, the sales of the
previous turee days navmg nceu iu,uv,
bales. '
There had been a further advance iu
Dreadstuffs, and Flour was activo at 37ft
a 38s (id for Philadelphia, Baltimore and.
Western Canal.
The demand for Wheat was active,aml
prices had further advanced 2d per 70
lbs. Corn bad advanced from 6d to Is.
The London Money market was steady.
Consols had further advanced, and elbied
at 94 A.
The leadiug item of news from Eng
land, is the resumption, by Lord Palmcr
ston, of his seat in the Cabinet. Tho
stop is regarded as likely to have an im
portant bearing on the affairs in the East.
The latest advices from Constantinople -and
Vienna, represent the aspect of af
fairs between Russia and Turkey to bo
very seriou?, though the occurrences of
the last few,days indicate little progress
on the part of the hostile armies.
All efforts at negotiation have thus far
proved unavailing. The Sultan, however,
it U stated in a Vienna dispatch to Paris,
has indicated a willingness to send a
plenipotentiary to the conference of the
four Powers, provided that Russia first
evacuates the Piincipalities.
The Czar on the other hand has stated
his fixed determination not to agree to
any proposals for peaceful negotiations,
unless material concessions from the
Turkish Government be first obtained.
Several further skirmishes are report
ed on the line of the Danube, but little
advantage had been gained on either
side.
It is reported that the demand for tho
combined lleets of England and rrauco
jt0 c,)tcr thc jlucI- Sei
A u teleffJ
ea has been refused.
nnrf. j tulnrrrnnliofl trnm P:1VI-
ba, ofiicfally declarcd war a-
gainst Turkey, aud that a powerful hos
stile force is shortly to be put in motion.
The Shah of Persia is said to be march
ing on Nothern India at the heal of.v
force of forty thousand men, and ono
hundred guns.
The English were concentrated on the
frontier of Peshawur and marching to
Afghanistan to command the Lhylcr
Pass.
The overland mail from India brings
some items of important news.
The state of affairs in the Rurmeso
empire remained, unchanged.
A famine has occured in the northern
districts of Madras-, and much sufferin
rr-
pievails.
Tho cholera is decreasing in Bombay.
There is much sickness in the Dritish
army.
In China the fighting was progressing
and thc Imperialists were suffering great
los, although largely reinforced.
LATER. Ry thc arrival of thc Eu
ropa, at New York, on the 16th from
Li
verpoo!
we have thc intelligence of an
advance in Breadstuff's; and that a rumor
was current in Paris that Pierre Soule,
the American Minister, to Spain, had
been killed in a duel.
JIjo Mortality in EEii!nR!p!na.
During the last year there were 9,750
interments in Philadelphia and districts'.
Thc principal causes of death were: Con
sumption, 1,246; Convulsions, 543; Chol
era Infantum. 39Q; Dysentery, 369;
Scarlet Fever, 338; Typhus and Typhoid
Fevers, 363; Yellow or Malignant Fever,
170; Infiamation of the Lungs, 339;
Small Pox, 64. Thc total number of
deaths, compared with thc population,
taking it at the lowest computation, 400,
000; is about the ratio of ono to every
forty-one of the inhabitants aunualh',
more favorable than any other large city
iu the United States, but still not so fa
vorable as in London, with all its des
titution, and other vice, prolific sources of
disease. Why is this. Ledger.
Extraordinary News from 'Aus
tralia A letter in thc Bristol (Eng.) Journal,
dated Hobart Town, Australia. Sentcm-
ber 8th, states that an extraordinary dis
covery of gold has been made fifty six
miles from Geelong. Tho gold is found
ono hundred feet from the surface. Tho
writer says 17,000 ounces were taken out
in three days by a few persons, and one
man got out a lump weighing 190 pounds.
Thc writer adds that a tumult had oc
curred among the digger., and that tho
military had been ordered out to nuell the.
disturbance
High Piuced Cows. Cassius M. Clav
purchased two cows at a sale of imported
fctock, December 31, iu Cincinnati, fop
82,300. S. Meredith, of Cambridge, (la.)
bought two others for 81.800. These!
were high-bred herd-book Durhams. Tho,
remainder wero withdrawn for want of
sufficient bids.
A Fatiiarchal Gathering. The Kcw
Berlin star contains an account of a recent
family gathering at thc residence of tho
don. Mr. Middlcswarth, in Beaver, thcra
were with the old patriarcb and his wife,
11 childrcu, 80 grandchildren. 1 irrnnt
grandchild and a large number of neighs
uuia,
IUAKE&IJGK).
At Richmond Lower Mt. Bethel, oriiho
7th by Rov. T. W. Simper.,. "Mr. AJbert
u. Witsell to Mrs. Ja.ne uordonj bothl
Stroudsburg, ;-,'
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