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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1854.
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J5&- We regvet to learn that FkaXK
UK Starbird, Esq is no more. On
Sunday,, last, be loft home for Trenton,
and on his return home, yesterday, was
taken sick on the cars, reached Easton
about 2 o'clock, and died at the Uuitcd
Hotel last evening about sis o'clock. His
remains will bo brought to this place, for
interment, to-day.
03" By divine permission the Rev. Dr.
Castle, will, preach in the M. Chorch in this
place, on Sabbath next, it being the third
quarterly meeting occasion for the present
conference year.
Row "between a Catholic Priest and bis
Congregation.
A row took place on Sunday, of last
I week, in the German Catholic Church, in.
Uticagrowing out of a difficulty between
the priest and tho St. Joseph s Society,
concerning a banner. Legal measures
had been resorted to, which had resulted
in favor of the Society, and the priest not
relishing the decision which had been
rendered against him, stated from his pul
pit that there were thieves and liars pres
ent, and that he could not proceed with
the services of the Church until they left,
lie then withdrew when a fight followed
among the congregation. Four of the ri
oters were arrested and held to bail.
Singular Coincidence. The last
line ever set by Mr. Charlton, a Pitts
burg printer, whose death occured recent
ly, was this 'And even at last the sol
emn hour shall cornel' Having done this,
he staggered from his case, under a sud
den astack of disease, and in few days
died and was buried. The solemn hour
had come.
"tjjTLiFE in the Clearings." By
Ms. Moodie. Just published, by DeWitt
& Davenport. Price 50 cts. paper, 7o
cif. cloth. This work, from the no less
hnppy than prolific pen of Mrs. Moodie,
in perhaps, more interesting than any that
have preceded it, not even excepting her
admirable work 11 Jiouzhins It in the
Bush,'' to which this is a sort of a com
panion. It abounds in brilliant descrip
tion" of men and things that she saw in
the "Clearings," which of course present
a strong contrast to what she met in the
" Btish?' Her descriptive powers are as
fresh and as natural as ever, while her
now happy and contented mind presents
tbingsof a brighter coulcur dc rose than
he formerly did under more adverse cir-j
tuini-tanccs. No better reading can be!
elected for amusement and instruction!
than these, what may be called the gifted1
author's Life Histories, viz: "Flora Lind-
j iy;y "Roughing It in the Bush, - and
'Lifc in the Clearings."
Per "sale at the Jewelry Store of S.
Mclick, Stroudsburg, Pa.
lilvL. Editor: In looking over the pages
of your most excellent paper, I see thatC. R,
Ardre, is the agent for the snle of Wrights
t?.!ver Medal Spring Mattrespps, certamlv
ne of the best articles of the kind ever pre
sented to the public. It combines cenren
ie.ice, comfort and durability. Jt is sn pecul
iarly cons! reeled as to make it one of ihe best
end most comfortable couches in case of sick
ness, as it can be elevated or depressed tosuil
the ee-ire and ease of the invalid. We might
rR.-onebly expect that it will find its way in
to ettry family and v. hen once tried it nev
er uiH be abandoned. At a comfortable and
healthy lounge, for the summer season, it re
commends itself to all who are fond of con
fort and rightly oppreciate health. We would
recommend all h'mse keepers to call and ex
amine the article for themselves, feeling as
sured that they will purchase immediately.
A Readeb of Tirn JcrrEneoM.vs.
Barnum Outdone. Tho Cardinal
Vicar of Home has issued an edict in
which, after attributing the Cholera to
sina of the Romans, he directs that the
finger ot St. Peter, tlio arm of St. Roc.
the heart of St. Charles, and other relies,
shall be exposed to the adoration of the
faithful, in order to avert the wrath of the
Almighty.
The Elections.
Delaware held her election on the 14tb.
The principal partees in the field were
the regular democracy, and tho "Amer
ican," the latter composed of tho bulk of
the Old Whig party and the Know Noth
ing democrats. This new party swept
every thing Governor, Member of Con
gress, Legislature, and County officers.
Scic York. Clark, (Whig) is elected
Governor, by 283 majority.
$2 We would respectfully invite our
readers to the School Report in another
column of to-day's paper. It is a report
fcr the month just ended, for the Upper
Department of the Public School, in our
Borough, setting forth in a very brief
jnanncr, the attendance, leESon3 recited,
and progress of each. It is a subject in
which every parent should feel an inter-1
est in tho advancement of the rising gen
eration, who, in a short time will be men
and women, and who will have to act a
parent's care over their offspring; for a:
"the twig is bent the tree is inclined," fo
do all in your power to arouse their ideas.
Make them up, encourage them onward,
get them to tiink for as soon as the
youth begins to think he begins to learn.
-Jieraemhar the progress of the world de
pends upon the advancement of America,
and the advancement of America depends
upon the intelligence of her citizens, and
tho iutelligence of the latter depends upon
our Common Schools.
Sale of a Costly ShawL
The great Cashmere shawl the finest
nccdle-work shawl evcr seen in America
which cost S2700 at Constantinople,
and was imported expressly for Exhibi
tion at the World's Fair, was sold at auc
tion, in New York, a few .days since, for
one thousand and twenty-five dollars. The
ourcfiascr's name was given as Jas. De
Wolfe. Another sold for 3500.
,s
EST A lady, on being asked to join the
daughters of temperance, replied that she
intended to join one of the sons in the
course of a week.
Mormons in Kansas.
A Mormon settlement is being made in
Kansas. About two thousand families go
out in charge of Elder Eratus Snow, one
of the Twelve, to a point about one hund
red miles west of the town of Kansas.
Warren County Bank. Amid the
general crash of Banks thro'out the coun
try, we notice that the Warren County
Bank, at Warren, will open its doors next
Wednesday or Thursday. J. Y. James,
E?q , is President, and Herman Lenard,
Esq., of New York city, Cashier.
A Substitute for Ringing Swine.
An English breeder of stock has re
commended a mode of dealing-with these
mischievous animals, which it is said may
supercede the necessity of putting rings
- .1 Ti . l" t !S
in meir noses, n consists in simpiy snav
ing off with a razor or sharp knife the
gristle on the top of the noses of young
A Curious Prediction.
Mrs. ' Swissbclm, writing about some
prediction in reference to the Eastern
War, makes the following remarks. Dr.
W'ilsou of whom sho speaks, was a learn
ed and worthy mau who never spoke
from mere impulse, or enthusiasm but al
ways from deliberate and intelligent con
victions of the truth of what he uttered.
'Six years aso we heard Rev. D. Wil
son then of Allegheny city, and Professor
of Theology, m the Reformed Presbyter
ian Church, say that in less than ten
years a war would break out in Europe,
between Russia and the Western Powers
a war which would be one of the most
terrible ever recorded in the annals of his
tory, and which by its wholesale slaugh
ters would carry the name of Christen
dom with a thrill of wonder to the most
remote and barbarous nations, awaken
curiosity about civilation, that would pre
pare the way for the introduction of the
Bible and Chiistianity into those benight
ed hands; whose people would be taught
by the rumors of this war, to respect the
arts of civilization. This declaration was
made again and again in public, from the
pulpit, and was tho result of a life-time
study of the prophecies of the Bible.
The war then uuthought of is now be
gun and the aged preacher always said
the Western Powers would be victorious
that tho teeth of the great Bear would
be forever broken, and with them the
powers of the Pope. Wc heard this same
J it... ST. 1,
man preuici tue iuexican war vuuia uu- r , w rt,.t
fore it began and tell uuat UZ :"'! woulo j Conrad Z. Warnic
be. He also predicted the great fire of j T,!;cpdure C. Hants
'45 in Pittsburgh, and we incline to think
his gift of second sight was more reliable
than that of the maker of this old statute,
and that the Russians will not be masters
of Constantinople. From the first word
about proposed hostilities between Russia
and Turkey, we have been iu the habit
of telling our friends to buy their flour
for it would be $15 or $20 per barrel be
fore it would be c'5 again, so we still think
it will be, for we are of opinion our preach
er saw far into prophecies already writ
ten, lie said this would take place
would be very terrible and general, and
thai it was the last war before the uni
versal peace of the Millennium.
.c..
Destructive Fire Judsons's Hotel in
P,uins.
New York, Nov. 20. The fine build
ing sitnated at Gl Broadway, opposite
Exchange place, and known as Judson's
lote!, took fire about 8 o'clock this morn
ing, and from present appearances, will
be entirely destroyed, with its contents.
Several of the boarders narrowly escap
ed with their lives. The loss will reach
over S50U,000.
second despatc ii.J
The central walls fell in about half past
nine with a tremendous crash ; the exter
ior, now ever, are yet standing.
The fire is said to have originated from
one of the heaters used for warming the
house.
A number of the scrvnuts in the build
ing were rescued from the windows and
balconies.
The loss in the building and contents
is now put down at not over S100,000;
chiefly insured. The loss to the board
ers is about S20,0'J0.
The amount paid in salaries to Bos
ton clergy, of all denominations, is esti
mated at the annual sum of 8240,000.
The Methodists pay the smallest salaries,
REPORT OF THE UPPER DEPARTMENT
OP THE
ftMMMI illil
FOE THE MONTH ENDING NOVEMBER 9th, 1854.
the Unitarians the largest.
pigs, ine place soon beats over; and
the pigs, pre thus rendered incapable of
rooting.
Chinamen in America. The last
mail from California brings intelligence
that the Supreme Court of that State has
decided that the Chinese fall under the
meaning of a clause in the Constitution of
California, which says that no black or
mulatto person shall be allowed to give
tyrd-ence in fayor of or against a white
man.
A Lofty Mountain. Mount Hood,
in Oregon has now been ascertained by
actual measurement to be full eight thous
and three hundred and sixty feet high.
This is the highest peak in the American
-continent, and one of the highest in the
vor!d. From this peak mountain lops
live hundred jniles distant are distinctly
cecn. The mountain is volcanic, etnoke
being Feen to issue from the summit.
To Get Rid of Cockroaches.
Common red wafers scattered in the
haunts' of these vermin will often destroy
or drive them away. Red wafers are col-!
ored with oxyd of lead a deadly poison.
We have tried this remedy in our oScc,
and know the truth of ibis reccint.
A Large Time Piece
According to the Lafayette(Ind.) Jour
nal, -the prisoners in the jail at that place
have a jolly good time everv da'. It
. "Tl line" r? fit A . . 1
or they have been provided with a violin,
and one of the number being a good play
er, they have frequent cotillion parties,
or eti'g dances, which have the advan
tage of being 'select,' without that stiff
ness an formality peculiar to such en-
rrrfnlnmnnfs in 'birrlmr circles' The-
have recently made a valuable acquisition
to their number. An itinerant showman
who had fallen into the clutches of the
law, and owing to the tightness of the
money market, was unable to pay the
cost, and was caged to satisfy the insult
ed dignity of the State. He got up au ex
hibitiou the first cveuing of his incarcer-
Georginnna Blair
Mary "0 Fowler.
Marlha D. Clark
Mary Diehl
Susan Wiiitemute
Esther Wintemute
Elizabeth Swartwooil
Mary Ann Staples
Hester Staples
Cecilia Knecbt
Eliza Knecht
Rebecca Dean
Catharine Stumer
Mary Keller.
Charlotte Swartwood
Alice Dieher
Rachel Keener
Elizabeth Burnet
Sarah Walton
Ruthanna Stnrner
George W. Best
J. Allen Clements
John M. Walton.
John Boys
William Boys
Daniel C Staples
Theodore Staples
Charles D. Clark
A. Brittain Miller
Cicero II. Drake
Elmer H. Delong
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James Edinger
Edwin A. Schoch
John Skelton
Edwin Staples
Peter Brown
Eugene Walton
William Cahill
Martin L. Walton
Frank Stamer
John Diehl
John Burnet
Joseph Y. Walton
William Stone
Samuel Stone
John Palmer
Aaron Youkin
Arthur H. Davis
Andrew J. Durling
William Walton
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5 failure. Each recitation is marked, and the above is the average for the month. In
Speilinand Arithmetic the number at the left indicates how many were correct, that at the
ri.ht incorrect. Thus, 112 43, means 112 right . and 43 wrong.
LEWIS D. AIL, rrj,
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Prairie Tires.
The western heavens are nightly aglow
with lurid reflections of the burning prai
ries. To any one who has never before
seen them there is something sublimeal
most awful, in these sights. The sensa
tions they awaken are strange, and, to a
mind superatitiously inclined, might not
be unmixed with terror. We have seen
nothing equal to the first we beheld of
these scenes. Long after night had
clothed the landscape in darkness the en
tire hcav.ens at the south and west, from
the horizon far up toward the zenith,
seemed a canopy of fire, with shadows
undulating like waves reflected from the
surface of a lake of liquid flame. No
light below the clouds could be seen,
which circumstance greatly heightened
the effect. The
siirht
is one, however,
utmn nrwl line nnntinimd ttiom poor vinon
Tt, T? : C i 1 i J ' I """"J
au reiSu v4uaiiuy urua urciouj- t0 the amusement of his companions."
the mechanism of the great Loudon clock
"The pendulnra is 14 feet long, and the
weight at the end of it is 100 lbs. ; the
dial on the outside is regulated by a smal
ler one within : the length of the minute
hand on tiic hour figures 2 feet 2i inches
the bell is about 10 feet in diameter,
weighs 4 tons, and is said to be audible
at a distance of twenty miles."
Three Persons Murdered.
Lancaster, Nov. 20. Cornelius Ilearn,
an Irishman, residing in Drumore town
ship, murdered his wife, child and ser
vant on Saturday last. He has been ar
rested and is now in custody of tho law
A Leading Question.
One of the leadiug questions said to be
asked of a candidate for initiation into
the mysteries of tho Know-Nothings, is
Will you do your utmost, on all , occa
sions, to renew and perpetuate the potato
rot, in order to keep the Irish out of the
country i Ine candidate mutt respond
"I will."
Prices in Kansas- Common labor
commands, so far as the demand for it
exists, 1 per day and board, and me
chanical labor 31,50 to 31,75 per day.
Good cows arc worth 3-0 to 830; horses
570 to $100, and oxen from 850 to 375.
Flour 33 per barrel, and meat 6 to S cts
per pound.
Chicago is a Great Place.
There were received at the Chicago
post-office, during the three months end
ing September 30th, 1854, the enormous
number of 2,109,374 letters, of which 2.
091,874 were delivered at the windows,
leaving only 18,000 not called for. Dur
ing the same period 862,756 23, were re
ceived for postage. Chicago is about the
thu d post-office in the Union. There are
made up and sent off daily, packages of
mails lor two thousand different post-of
fices.
The annual sweepings of the streets-
of Paris sell for 3700,000, after they are
collected at the depot, for manure.
JgJ9 Emigration to the United SfcoW
this vcar m jea($-sVfc0JQp. .
gSf The difference between rising ev
ery morning at six, aud eight, in the
course of forty years, amounts to 26,2lP
hours, or tnroc years, ono hundred and
twenty-one days and sixteen hoars, which
are equal to eight hours a day for exact
ly ten years so that rising at six will be
the same as if ten years of life were add
ed, wherein we may command eishi hours
every day for the cultivation of our mindt;
and tho despatch of business.
3There are one thousand Odd Fel
low Lodges in the United States. They
exceed 300,000 members, and their rev
enue last year was P8l4fM) CiAA if
which becomes common and loses much
of its interest to those who witness it al
most nightly during two or three weeks
every autumn. Yet there is much more
of the grand aud tho sublime in this flame
reflection than in the actual fires which
cause it.
A great deal of fine writing has been
wasted, innumerable excellent adjectives
have licen misused, in describing theso
prairie fires. Writers who happened to
sec them once in their lives have told of
them in terms the most extravagant, and
lugged them into works of fiction to do!
wonders in the nay of roasting herds of
wild Indians, buffaloes, horses, &c. One
of the first books given to tho child at
school contains, even at the present day,
an execrable woodcut representing divers
quadrupeds using their legs for their lives
to get away from the fire, which is furi
ously pursuing at their heels. It is Unex
plained, however, to the child that every
animal in a wild stato will flee from the
sight of flame; that it is an instinct of his
nature, and not any knowledge he may
have of danger, which makes him do so.
The character of a prairie fire depends on
the wind and tho combustible nature of
the grass. If the latter be dry it of course
burn3 rapidly, and in a high wind the
fires will move with great speod; but the
flames never mount very high, and the
space over which the name exists as it ad
vances is at most but two or three feet in
width, as the flame burns down very rap
idly as it goes on. A horse, with rider,
might always be able to leap across with
case and safety. The most sanguine
prairie fire we have ever seen, which was
with a full 'ten-knot' wind, might have
been crossed by a man on foot with small
damage to his pantaloons and whiskers.
Once over, he is entirely safe, a waste of
only blackened ashes, without smoke or
cinders, reaching to tho very bordor of
tuo blaze.
The Indians, understanding the instinct
of animals -to run away from the blaze,
sot the prairies on fire to frighten tho game
trorn covert. lhey have no fear them
selves of sustaining any damage, bavins
no feuces, or stacks, or houses to be oon-
sumed, the only disastrious effects, we be
lieve, which prairie fires can have. Chi
cago Times.
MARGARETTA S. MILLER,
Gov. Pollock.
The November Term of the Northum
berland county Court was the last, for
three years at least, in which Gov. Pclloek
will associate with his brother lawyers at
the Bar, or address a jury of his fellow
eitizens. By next term he will have re
moved from his usual field of activity and
usefulness, to another sphere, more exal
ted, but not less honorable, in which eve
ry member of the State should earnestly
hope that he may be as successful a3 he
has been in the practice of his arduous
profusion.
During the last two weeks thoso who
have attended our County Court have been
witnesses of one of the most remarkable
features of our Republican institutions
a featuro which no other government on
earth presents, which is the highest com
mendation of the one under which we live,
and which especially endears it to every
raau's heart. Among the inmates of the
Bar they observed a plain, unassuming
gentleman, with no mark or badge to dis
tinguish him from those who surrounded
him, who came in and went out with the
Much distress now prevails among the
laboring population at Richmond, Ya.
in consequence of the high rate of pro
visions, and the great depreciation in la
bor, consequent upon the completion of
the Ship Lock and other works, which
during last winter, afforded employment
to hundreds, who arc now idle.
Population of Mexico.
According to tbe latest census, of the
Republic of Mexico, which is published
in the last Mexican papers, the ontire
number of inhabitants in the twenty-eight
States is 7,853,395. There are 83 cities
and towns; 193 large villages; 4909 vill
ages; 175 haciendes or states; 6092 farms
and hamlets. Tbe largest State is Mex
ico, which contains 1,001,875 inhabitants,
and the 6inallet in, Bya California j. with i ThQiStatoi.ofConnocticutisyfcutirel.v
S.vow. Wo understand the mail from
Patten came into Mattawamko anr nn
Thursday night on runners. At the for
mer plaoo there were eicht inches of snow
and at the latter four inches. AVe learn
also that there was snow all the way from
oonntn to Mooseuead Lake, at which
latter place there was ono foot. Bannor
Journal, ,11th. - . ' .
crowd, who at one moment is seen in fa
miliar conversation with an acquaintance,
and the next is pleading a case before a
jury in the prosecution of hi-? profes-ion
nothing to show that in a few months
he will occupy the holiest position in thu
Oommonwealth. That plain gentleman is
James Pollock, Governor elect of a State
large, and rich, and populous enough to
make an empire. A beautiful commen
tary upon the free, enlightened and pop
ular character of our institutions.
It was the professional duty of Mr. Pol
lock at the November Term to conduct a
case in favor of several industrious young
mechanics of Milton, who had sued for the
price of a steam -engine which they had
manufactured and disposed of to certain
purchasers. His speech before the jury-
was one of those happy and effective ef
forts for which he is justly celebrated.
His numerous friends, in fact all who were
in the Court House irrespective of party,
listened with pleasure, and, it may bo
said, also with regret, to this, one of bis
last speeches previous to taking his seat
in the gubernatorial chair. Wc would
not wish to have our feelings misconstrued
when we say that wc hope he may as soon
as possible return again among us.
During tho late campaign wo were po
litically oppo.-od to Judge Pbllock. We
at this moment believe that it would be
better for the interests of Pennsylvania
had Gov. Bigler been re-elected, inas
much as wc are convinced by experience,
that the doctrines and mea-mres of our
party, sustained by a Democratic Execu
tive, are best calculated to advance the
prosperty of the Commonwealth. A per
sonal comparison need not bo made be
tween the present Governor and the Gov
ernor elect. Both gentlemen have their
fine points of private character; but com
pared politically, Gov. Bigler, in our 0
piniou, has decidedly the advantage of hi
Whig .successor. However, that point
was fully discussed previous to the elec
tion. Judge Pollock will leavo North
umberland county with tho "well wishes of
his fellow-citizens, both Whigs and Dem
ocrats. Sunbuty Gazette.
The Acquisition ot Cfab'a"
It i3 now intimated that, the recent
ministerial and ambassadorial conference
held at Ostend, tbe object of Met was
to adjust the difficulties bettfoen this
country and Spain, has resulted va a re
fusal on the part of Spain tomake repar
ation for past outrages and indignities ot
our citizens and commerce, as well as an
indemnity for the future. It issaid that
the question has assumed a position whero
the United States if left wiih the alterna
tive of abandoning the whole matter'
where it is, or of demanding the immedi
ate release of the Island to the United
States by sale. This failing, then, of
course, it muat either back out or make
conquest of it by the force of arms. It
is understood that Mr. MeRea, our Con
sul at Paris, who arrived here in the A
rabia, was the bearer of despatches con
veying this recomendation of the tbe A
merican Ministers, nnd urging upon the
President immediately to make the avow
al, nnd tako steps to carry it into effect..
The matter is now being deliberated up
on by the Cabinet at Washington, and
the country will look with deep interest
to the result.
How much there is of this new chap
ter in the crudsade for the acquisition of
Cuba, we must learn from the develop
ments of the future.
The New-York Times states that at tho:
late Congress of American Diplomats at
Brussels, the members agreed in report
ing tho utter absence of Democratic feel
ing in Europe. In Spain there are no
republicans. 'Mr. Sickles went purposely
to Madrid, and reports this as the result
of his observation. France is lost in ad
miration of its prude-nt and practical gov
eanment. Revolution in Paris is out of tho
question. Austria has succeeded in gain
ing the hearts of her subject?. Even
Kossuth himself is quite forgotten by tho
people, the Magayar aristocrcy being hU
only adherents. Poland has no chances, ,
except in the suite of Monarchal combin
ations, and Italy is completely tired of"
the madness of MazziniEm. So of the
rest. Eurojie is satisfied. The people of
the old continent are not ripe for freedom.
James Smith, captain of the Julia Moul-
ton, has been on trial for several dnya',
past, in tho United States Circuit Court,.
New York, on the charge of having been
engaged in the African Slave trade. Tljo.
offlnce was clearly proved, and the only
defence was an attempt to prove that ho
was not a citizen of the United States,
and of course, not amenable to their'
laws. His counsel, however, did not sue-.
ceed in this, and on Thursday evening
last the jury returned a verdict of guilty,
and the prisoner was remanded for sen
tence. His counsel asked the court to
grant some time to make d motion for a
new trial. The court said it must bo
made bv the middle of this week.
The punishment for the offence of which
Captniu Smith stands couvictcd is punish
able with death ; the foreign slave trade'
being declared, by the act of 1820, to bo
piracy. Thi3 is ihe first conviction ever
had under the law.
States
25.000.000
The United States.
31 : Territories 9 : population-
agriculture, annual value,
$2,000,000,000 ; corn, most valuable,
yielding annually, 3400,000,000; tbnngc,
4,505,000 tons, capital in manufactures
3000,000,000; imports, 1853, 3276,937,
G07, and export, 3230,975,159; labor,
(other than agricultural,) annual value,
81,500,000,000: aggregate individual in
come, 31,000,000,01)0; California cold
per annum, 31,00,000,000; coal fields,
surface, 133,132 square miles; receipts
for custom, lands, etc., 1853, 361,337,
574; expenditures for the same tirae,S443,
563,203 ; national domain, 2,174,188
-quarc miles of hind; national debt 350.
000,000; banking capital, 3300,000,000 r
schools, 81,000; academies, 6,000; col
leges, 231, and churches, 3,800. Onlj
one in twenty-two of its white inhabitants
caunot read or v. rite, and nineteen mil
lions of its twenty-one millions of whites
arc native born. Its mountains are tho
highest, its prairies the most cxtensrvo
and beautiful. Such is its present; what
will be its future 1
Heavy Sentence.
Two girls were tried in Manchester,
New Hampshire, a short time since, for
borso stealing, &c, and wore sentenced,
October 31st, to four years hard labor in
the state prison. The bravado which
they displuyed during trial gave way
wboriHbo sept'oncoi'waa pronouncedy and
A Coxvojation of Bisiiops of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, it is said, will
take place on or about the 2d of Decem
ber next. They will meet in Baltimore,
and have sessions for several days. Sub
jects of considerable importance to tbo
vital interests of Methodism will form tho
basis of their deliberations; whilst it is
anticipated to have a missionary demon
htration during their stay in Baltimore.
The following are the names of tho Bish
ops, in the order of seniority : Rev. Be
verly Waugh, Rev. Thomas A. M'on
uis, Rev. Edmund S. Janes, Rov.
Matiiew Simpson, Rev. Osman C. Ba
ker, Rev. Levi Scott, Rov. Edward
R. Ames. Baltimore American.
The year 1854 begins and ends on Sun
day,, thus having fifty-three Sundays.
January, April, July, October,, and De
cember have fivo Sundays each. -It, is
said suoh an array of Suudnys will not
occur again until 1882. J
Russian Prisoners in England,
Two hundred aud four of the lato gar
ison at Alaud are confined at Lewes.--
The men are Finlanders, but the officers,
although Russian born, aro descendants
of Frsnch and Gorman famillies, Tho
officers are permitted out on parole. A 7
large shud has been fitted up for tho men ,
to make up toys in for sale to the public;
and hero may be .seen a considerable nutn
her of them seated on the ground cutting'
out of single pieces of wood with a knife
chainsrrepresentations of crowns of thornsr i
and puzzles. Mo.-t all tho men speak
three. Lnjua.-us Turkish, Swedish, andv
K ' T!. London Times says :
'If a comparison were made betweon
the prisoners now iu this jail ond ono of
our re-iments we almost fear the 'North
ern barbarians' would carry off the palm.
Tho majority of them are not only able totf
'ay road & but can write tolerably well, par tjc
nd ulfriytheaorgcaDr
m fofiiecrs." r -t f 1 - '
not 'curious'
only 1,200 inhabitants.'
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