-7VSKS2rrl 'Writ ."ri-'cV ljc 3cffcv50ujau4 TlraKSD AY ,li AE CII 2M555 UrigBWMfcBB WW'W"'a,!lV'ro ' CJg-The Public Schools of thin Borough, commence on Monday, April 30th,and continue open till Fiiday, August oil, v.Lcn there will be a vacation of four weeks. I he following Teachers' have been select ed to take charge of the school?, viz : LEWIS D. VAIL, Frincijxil. Assistants , Miss M S. MILLER, ELIZABETH MALVEN, " MARY DIEHL, CATHARINE PALMER, MARTHA GORDON. School Examination. To-morrow is the day appointed for the examination of the scholars connected with the upper department of the public lbools of this Borough. Wc would urge t'pon every parent and tax-payer, in thi .bce, to attend, and see what progress ha; been made by the scholars. A New President Judge. The Hon. James M. Porter, President JjJirc of this District, has resigned. He tendered his resignation to the Governor n the 23d inst. His Excellency has np l jii.ied the Hon. Thomas S. Bell, of Chof- t- r county, to fill the vacancy. We un .tr land that Judge Bell, will be in at t.:. lance at the adjourned court to b De: J of j h M in thi place, on the fourth day Ai :il next. Tho Easton Whig, of . v i. :r.B u, -nf . "!.J with restored health, will soon be la ennc;ed at the bar. l'.Mo: County. In obedience to an Art of A.ssembly passed during the early .i , n i . 1- -' p-iit oi ie present cession, me peopie oi Uton County have voted on the question rf dividing that County, and the official ; r.saHis as follows: Whole number ofr, Jr. and Joseph Metzgar; Assessor,; noJW 5081. of which there xvcre , Thomas E. ileiler ; Asnlant Assessor,. 2')bjlr the division, xijjrJn a majority of T:--""-ns fires have been raging in i t; oprairieeof Carolina. and about Lexington.! L -nidra.Gtdsdon. and Cheraw: vast aaiountbj M pmpcrty nave Been oeroyeci. incmu.ng ufce, mins.lenccs, leiegrapji lines, ranroaas. i & A fire started in the woods, ubout fif- . :i . r ii i . 'Pi 1 ' r ri-.u with great rapulity along ' . Railroad, and on Friday evening n,i!ndliie Fixe Mile Pct. e4 l eJiagly violent and destroctive, and hapj Treat injurv to the farms on its route.-; A .rain loaded ilh cotton, taken in Kings-; t -r. raurht firn from iLornrrPnl nrimrninpl ... , , ri ,,Alfi 8nfl lW "rs.coniammgcgmy oa.es.i wire iniiiii.'u. j uu i ciiiuniuur ui iiiu ujiji: . ' o mi Ut Five Mile Pott, when, finding ii j Samuel D. Phiphcr and John Dcwitt:1 From and after the first day of Janua .pfibie to pass without extreme risk, they Constable, Simon H. Smith ; School Di-' ry, eighteen hundred and fifty six, post-t- 'urncd to the Seven Mile Post, and the en- j rector.3, George W. Labar and Francis ma? ters are required to place postage "ftr came to the city for order. During: R. Dunbar ; Overseers of the Poor, Jo- Stamps upon r.ll pre-paid letters on which - 'grLi part of Friday the city was completely -pb Stcttler, Jacob Di tuck and Anna- such stamps may not have been placed Fl.r -uded in smoke. " ' ! n5as Ovcrfield ; Inspectors, Joseph II. 0- j by the writers. .. jverfield and Henry Everitt: Auditor,! By the second section of the act, the A clave Doctoring bis Sick Master. 4 Post hoc, propter hoc. A gentleman in VnlMma, in exerting himself one da', felt n 5 ..Idfii pain, nnd, fearing his internal ma ) ..ery had been- thrown out of gear, sent for a -grn on hie plantation, who made some f'cueion to medical bkill, to prefcribe for :n. The negro having investigated the cifo, prepared and administered a dose to his p t tJ.t willi ihc utmofct confidence of speedy c -re. No relief being experienced, however, Uic iicnileman sent for a physician, who, on rrr.ving inquired what medicine he had give ls aiHsterl Bob promptly responded," rosin i nd alum, bin" " What did you rive hirn thai f irl" continued the doctor. " Why," replied Bub, de alum to draw dc pnrls to gedder, j:id de rosin to snddcr uin." The patient eventually recovered. Pennsylvania State Lunatic Kospitalr We have not been furnished with a copy of the report of this institution for the j year 1854, but from a synopsis published ' in sonic of the city papers, we learn that; Shannon, Henry Eilenbrgcr, Clinton -f the whole number of patients admitted j Urodhead aud George F. Bamberger; to tba institution during tho four years it ! Assessor, John I. Labar; Assistant A- bas been in operation, although a reason-J sessors, Thomas Brodhead and Henry Ei- able number have been discharged as res-j lenb'crgcr ; Auditor, James G. Kintner; t rcd or improved, yet there is a reraaiu-' Town Clerk, George F. Bamberger. dcr which increases annually, and mav be ToI5 tiaiiua coDHdored as a permanent charge TLi Justicc f h p .f,. Ad was thirty-seven in tho year 1351, aud n . 1 1 m i v- t j o i f j i 10;o i Constable, Charles Kiser; Judge, Samuel one hundred and six in 18o2, and one u c n i i j a I,. ;nicri i . Mudcuberrer ; bupervisors. Christian hundred and eighty-two in I rod, and two c. i iit i t n- t i j juLinis";! ri ti Stout aud Peter Bonser ; Inspectors, H i bundrod and fourtqJi in lo&4. Dunngtbc , ' A i- i ..aZa en,.? ram Blower and J nomas Albert : Audi- Jast Tear one hundred and tort'-four pa- . 7J .- ,r , . , J , . , f j tor, Petor Merwinc; Assessor, Win. Ad- rnts have been admitted, seventy being ' . A ' ... ,,.., twenty-six patient-, of whom one hundred and twelve have been discharged, twenty cvcn as restored, twenty-two as improved, thiity as stationary, and twenty-two byj death. Of the remaining two huudrcd; and fourteen, the number of timl ij nn: hundred and twenty-seven, and of females eighty-seven. The report says that more than threc hundred patients cannot be ac rorutnodatod in the institution with benefit, jnd as applications for admission aro in rrraHHg, many uiUbt necessarily bo re fused. In viow of thin, the niauagerrf re commend the e itfibh-hnie'U of another. Eoiougli and Township Office The following U a complete lUt of nil! Officers elected in the Borough atid tlif- j ferctit townships, in this Count', on the 1 1 flth insr. . ' 5! i'ju font's. Justice of the Peace, Michael M. Bur net; Constable, Charles Sliafer; Judge, Oiin B. Cordon; Inspector?, John Keen er and Thomas Stone ; Assessor, Nelson Cooke ; Chief Buries?, Joseph ,7. Postcns: Councilmen, James C. Paljuer. John II. Wolfe, by dcuhani Walton, Philip S. Brown and Oliver D. Stone ; Overseers r ii, 11.,,.; .1 t r i , ol the i'oor, Uaiiu'l J. U.-trauder and xi-.mii. - m. ..... c-.i.-ivk. , William Clement N. Stokes, Theodore Schoch, Philip Swart wood ; Auditor, Abraham Bm-h ; Town Clerk, George Swartwood. '-- viiv(iui? ; no. Justice of the Peace, David CobU and j William B. Thompson ; Constable, Fran- cis iveiicr ; Supervisors, Benjamin Van horn and niram Warner; J mire, John Pope; Inspector, John Gearhart and William Madden; Auditor, Theodore Drodhcad ; School Director.-, Charles Hcbard, Joel B. VHet and William B. Thompson; Assessor, John P. Gearhart ; Overseers of the Poor, John P. Dov.ling, E;q. and Samuel Case. i..,. -u Ju,ticeof the Peace, J. E. Iloodma- ,acoD xrawij uvcracew oi t ,e cher; Constable, Charles Everitt; Su- Z' and Barnct Mixsell Dcrvisors. Jesso SiHn anA PhJlm iimE,. Scjlonl Erectors, Jacob iicjniucl and Ja- Ovcrscersof the Poor, Eeuben Ifeiwy v,.l n O- i: . c i i -r.. ' .mi liuiuj, oignn ; ccnooi L;ircciors, I'e ter Gilbert and William F. Edmunds; Assessor, George B. Weis ; Judge, Dan iel H. Wiess ; Inspectors. Thomas Alte mose and John J. Green ; Assistant As sessors, Michael Smith and John J. Bnr thold; Auditors, Thomas Kinlz and Jos. Dorshimer. Justice of tho Peace, John Ilartcr; Con-.-table, Anthony IT. Berber; Supervisors, Anthony Cr. Berber ami "Danii-1 Smith : Judge, Joseph Borgrr ; Inspectors, Rcu-1 ben Chriatman and Jacob Englert; As-! thelsessor, John M. l'rantz: As.itant As- sessors. Anthonv Frxuiv R,.r.,r. ! Overseers of the Poor Pnul JJ-rcr-and Adam Smith , Town Clerk, Jacob Cor rcll. Rasaiils;!. Justices of the Peace, Charl -r it. , ton and Charles I x,.M forma is experiencing atrcauy the enects . Miller; Constable, c , , , ,. c" .i ' , 'jof the bad policy of importing more than icrvisors, Jesse an , , , r Charles Kuth ouner i Huskirk and Joseph Kcmmcrcr : School ' Directors, John Marsh, Joseph Kcmmer-j ;Ocr; Uversocrs Poor, Frederick! Kiscr and Andrew Groner ; Town Clerk, j 'eter Williams; Judge, Samuai Custard. I Jrkosi. ! . ; Con.stabfe, James EdmonJ les Edmonds; bupervi - "?nfd An"7 SlPc.r; inters U illiam Lm- . i ?ora QC0T(rc Sctzer Inspectors, John ...J A -I... -r t rV- ' railey and Jonathan Keener r . ' . .TSualic BssulaiFioicI. q ?ca j H. Eilcnbcr- i 2Cr and ltudolnhus Smith: Supervisors, t. . .Joseph lliulUe and John Kcmmcrcr; An- 'auvcnutmcni in .u:c ui uai kacuuii,us. and oUd against, j0SCph A 7j05Sorj . Inspectors, Jo-! As it contains information important to for the division. seph H. liouser and Emanuel Bittenben-! r readers, we deem it best to give it i .- .u -maul uwui , .juui;, -JUM-pu,..,!.,: tn i 1 f r 1 - - " " f tlir. linnc nf Lulker : Assessor. John PosMntrcr : A.- . i i ,. , . " " . . , ' , " :re ! ui) every sinsse ictier conveveu in me it had sisiaui Assessors, Joiin u. uraiiev. I'niiip J h(lftr(ipn :n fl- TTnffnd ctnt n,e fire ivapj g "Mjr j Auaitor uobr i V. i-raney ; for a di,taDCC not csccedinc threc thoa 1, W illiam Uverneld : Assessor Jacob an- Postmaster General is authorized to cs auken ; Assistant Assessors, S. W. Labar tablish a uniform system for the rcgistra- and John Clark ; Town Clerk, Jacob IR ftion of valuable letters. This provision Eilcubcnrcr. .nf the law will be carried into effect, and Constable, Josiah llcckmar. ; Supervi sors, Amos Shick and Casper II. Metzgar; School Directors, Daniel Metzgar and George Transue ; Assessor, James S. Bis binjr ; Assistant Assessor, George Warner and Gideon Burritt; Auditor, John S. Bisbing; Inspectors, Linford D. Bellis and Samuel Shick ; Judge, John Alliger; Town Clerk, Enoch Werkheiser ; Over seers of the Poor, Johu Woodiing and Jacob Lon. SicJitrifird. Justice of the Peace, Samuel Gasebeer and -4bram Fenner; Constable, Samuel Williams ; Supervisors, Jacob Cramer, Thomas McNeal and Charles liouser ; Overseers of the Poor, Charles M. Strunk and Daniel-Custard : Judne. John Huff- man; Inspectors, Evan Croasdale and Henry Miller; School Directors, David Butz and Philip Grcenamoyer Polk. Justice of the Pe Justice ot the I eace, Philip Kresge; pcr room, where the gas had been turned! one ot the Departments at Washington, Constable, Conrad Frabic; Assessor, Cor- j down, and gave vent to her wearied spir- who was sent upon this dirty business, nclius Smith ; Inspectors, James Shafer jit by ejaculating, "Thank God, they are having cot into difficulty in Ohio, crow- aud Michael Heiney; Judge, Peter Kel-iull ler : Supervisors, Peter Kunkel, sr. and George G. Hawk ; Overseers of the Poor, Dawalt Fisher and William M. Jones; Town Clerk, Joseph G ruber ; School Di rectors, Reuben George, Daniel Sacger and Aaroji Hin"y; Auditors, George S. 1 Hawk. Paradise. Constable, Andrew L. Storm ; School Directors, Oliver D. Smith and John J. Price ; Supervisors, Abraham Transue and James Heller.; Judge, Elijah Dcch ; Overseers of tho Poor, ...Samuel Bowman and Charles Henry ; Inspectors, Charles Transue and George W. Nauman ; As scssor, John Storm ; Town Clerk, Levi Transue ; Assistant Assqsors, Jacob .Bow man and Adam Utt. Si icv. Justice of the Peace, Jacob Price ; Su periors, Peter Sees and Josiah B. Snow: T.w? CJ.. lii. t c t i Tr . "u"r5,: wnin i rice ; ccnooi ujrcciun:, m t i tit',,. -,, .Christian Pcnnel. William M. Burrows, Peter Sees and Charles Price; Inspectors, n imam Kj. aim joun a. rnw ; vs- scssor, llobcrt Lomax; Assistant Asses-j sora, Joseph Fetherman aud Georpclnk : tll'ltl lfl -iinvnn I til. Constable, James S. Price ; Overseers -of : 1 1.,, U n r T..1. l AA-'tir ir Town Clerk, James Palmer. Justice of the Peace, Joseph AKcmose; Constable, John G ruber; Judge, Jacob ttonscr; Inspectors, George Mixscll and Henry Altcmosc ; Assessor, Charles Bus kirk; Assistant Assessors, Samuel Metz- gar and Enoch Van Buskirk; Supervis ors, Peter Arnold and John Mixscll: Auuitor, j'jnoen an iiusKiric ; lown I cob Bonscn ! Juttice of the Peace, Silas L. Drake ; Constable. George Hollered ; Supervisors, Daniel Groncr and Daniel Lee ; Over seers of the Poor, Charles Swiuk and John Fclkcr ; School Directors, Robert W. Swink, Joseph B. Miller and William I S. Bees ; Assessor, Wayne C Drake ; As- .-itant Assessors, Stroud Burson and Melchoir Dreher ; Judge, John Frankcn field ; Auditors, Robert Brown and Jame? Kerr ; Inspectors, Joel D. Dunlap and ! Lewis L. Keller C??S ; Town Clerk, Peter 'rhc'c WSiS an arrival from California, 'a,ure of California had adjourned suic j . . : j t. l l x : i fc i. ; ffiuioui cicciin" a u.o. oeu;uor. liiisiness at San Francisco has been en tirely prostrated, owing immediately to :i p: 1 i.: l . f..: line iaiiuru oi iivo uauMiiir uuuh. jiu:- j cue is auie 10 pay lor. ,0. , Kc7 Postage Act. j Wt find the follow inserted as an ?lace in our columns : Ao?fcc to the Fu 1'ost masters. otice is !,crel) Notice to the Fitulic, and Instructions to eby given, that, agreeably to an act oi Vjuij to an act of Congress approved March Uj 1SS5 tlre follo are to be charged, U nrApril mzl j on and after the first in lieu of these now cs- Tnfi inilfs inn cent From and after said Grit day of April, jprcpaymcnt on letters is required, ex- jccptillg Upon Such as arc to Or from a ,forein eountr, o 'foreiL - n country, or to officers of the cov ernment on official business. The frank- inn-nrivilerre remains uncbanfred. special instructions therefor will bo issued to postmasters, as soon as the necessary blanks can be prepared and distributed. JAMES CAMPBELL, Postmaster General. Fost Office Department, March 9, '55. The meat Crop. The Mcsscnger, published at Ilanna bal. Missouri, learns from farmers that .the prospects lor a good wncat crop 'throughout nothern Missouri are inore . f it. promising than they have been for some years past. In Illinois the prospects for an abundant wheat crop arc also good. We learn from the Alton Courier, the ed itor of which paper has recently made a trip across the central portion of Illinois, that, "however short the crops might have been last year, it has not deterred the farmers of the State from seizing every portion of favorable time during the fall for sowing their wheat, and the rcsull hhows that there arc at least twenty per cent, more acres now in wheat than in any previous year. The winter has been 'esceedingly favorable, and if wc should ) be blessed with our ordinary spring, Illinois will have an amount of wealth in that single crop which it would be difficult to estimate." A Heartfelt Sentiment Inopportunely Expressed. A large and brilliant party was given shiouable circle a few weeks since, hundred miles from our metropolis, stivities were kept up to so late that the fair hostess became com pletely wearied out. Some fifteen min jutes after tho ladysuposcd the last of the guests had, left, she walked into the sup stuffed and goncl" "2fot quito all," squeaked a voice, "1 nave returned to find an ear-ring which I suppose I dropped while at tho supper table." The hostess's chagrin can be belter imagined than de scribed, when, on turning round, Bho dis covered one of her nearest fashionable neighbors ! Boston Fupn . r t iuipwiflllill'Wr I Ml I' A certain Cure for Scrofula. Nicholas Loncsworth, the famous mil lionaire and wine grower of Cincinnati, .... . it . ,". r..i . publishes tUC lOHOWing cuiu iui aciuiuui. uPut 2 oz. of aquafortis on a plate, on which you have two copper cent?. Let it remain from 18 to 24 hours. Then add for ounces' of clear strong vinegar. Putt cents and all in a large mouthed bottle, and keep it corlscd. Begin by putting four drops in a teappoon-ful of rain water, and apply it to the sore. Make the np plication three times a day,. with a soft hair pencil, or one made of soft rags. If very jutivfvt, put more water. As the sore heals apply it weaker. I request editors, in all parts of the Union,, and a- broad to copy this, and to republish it ; , :'-.. . mnrtrr i PM flua,lC1 VAvnVnPn i . Cincinnati, 0.. Nov. 18, 18o4. P. S. Capt. Ilarkncss, ot our city, tlie ' ! annlicd it without wat . .- - . . f 11 . 1 r, ana no miormeu ! l,n tl.ni.l.f !f rx-ah 11 Vinrn liia r IIIC lllillj IIU HIVUJJIIU it liuuiu uuiu off. But the next day it was cured. His was a small sore, and had been attended to for months by one of our best physicins, without any benefit. . o Shooting Affair at Dunkirk. The Fredonia Censor, of Tuesday, the loth inst., states that, on the previous Saturday night, a couple arrived at Dun kirk in the cars, and stopped at the A mericau IT? i?! ?he.m thev passed as hus- nanu anu wuc. ju wuuu. muiuiug uv. true husband of the woman arrived in pursuit, and requested to be shown to their room. Being directed to it, he burst in, and presenting a loaded double bart relied pistol at tho gay Lothario, attempt ed to discharge it, but it failed. The scuffle being heard by others, assistance arrived, and the wcanon was taken from him. lie was taken before a Justice, and examined in the afternoon, and in an interim of the trial, while standing at the doorway, he levelled another pistol, which ho had procured subsequent to the 6rst at- 1 tempt :it the destroyer of his peace, and Ultiiai "uu ii. x utiu iiuaacu uiu iu- tended victim, but tho injured husband, supposing it had proved effectual, de clared that both were now ruined, and he was satisfied. Subsequently he appeared convulsed, and avowed that ho had taken poison, but whether this was actually the case is not determined. The Dunkirk Journal gives the name of the husband as Wainwrighfc and that of his wifo's paramour a Miller; and states that W. married his wife in Clear field County ,in this State,about three years aj,0 sue oeinrr tnen 0niv aoout niteen years old. He treated her very badly, nu Mnier, wuo boarded witii them, at length induced her to go off with him. The pair have resided at Orlean, 2"ew York, since October last; but Wainwright having tracked them out, they escaped to Dunkirk. After giving an account of the affray, the Journal adds: " Wainwright was immediately arrest ed and committed by Esq. Brown to May ville Jail, to await his trial for assault and battery with attempt to kill, and Miller recognised to appear as a witness, and being unable to procure bail was com mitted to jail likewise. We understand both Miller and Wainwright are under bonds in Pennsylvania, for some unlaw ful acts committed there." The Warren Railroad. The supplement to the charter of this road, having excited a good deal of dis cussion in the Legislature, and beiii a subject of interest to mauy of our patrons, wc copy the following notice of the meas ure from the Trenton correspondence of the iScwark Advertise!: "The Warran II ail road Company rep resent that they are constructing two tun nels one at Yanncss Gap, twenty-eight hundred feet long, and one at vass Gap, nine hundred feet long; that the Yanncss Gap tunnel, although let to the best con tractors in the country, who are driving it night and day, with men and steam power on account of water and the hard ness of tho rock, it is found impossible to complete it in time for connecting roads; as this road is intended to connect the Central Bail Boad of New Jersey, with the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail Boad, and will bo an important link for the transportation of coal, and in the general north western trade. The privilege asked for is the right to construct a temporary road over the Van ness Gap Mountain, to operate until the tunnel can be completed, and an cxten sion of time to complete the tunnel, be cause of the impossibility to accomplish it during the existence of the present char ter. The Morris & Essex Railroad Com pany have opposed tho application, be cause they own a surveyed route through Vanness Gap, for the contemplated ex tension of their road to the Delaware riv er, and they claim that the change of track applied for will interfere with their loca tion, and that the design is to render this change permanent instead of temporary. ,0, . . JJjThc administration and its press es have for months been engaged in de nouncing secret political organizations as embodying every thing that is base, mean and anti-democratic. One would think that such a virtuous crew would not be guilty of the very offence which they have so fiercely condemned. Yet, alas! for the consistency of the Shams; it has leaked out that agents have been sent from Washington to the West, particularly to Ohio, to institute what arc called "Sa Nicht" Societies composed exclusively of foreigners, and intended especially as a counter cheek to the Know Nothing As sociations. One S. W. Johnes. a clerk in ing out of a drunken frolic, felt impelled to make a clean breast of it, and so let out the secret of who ho was, and what business he was pursuing. After this, wc hope the Washington Union, and other Pierce organs, will be a littlo more mod est in their attacks upou tho Know Noth- lugs. husscx Ii agister. I I TTI A Veritable Sea IConster. The lawrence (Mass,) Home Review states that Mr. A. D. Pillbury, of Law--rence, while in Ipswich a few days sinco, discovered upon the ice opposite that town a short distance from the shore, a queer monster jof'the seal species being one of thoso curious animals known among fish erman as sea lions. Procuring assistance, he succeeded, after a desperate struggle, in killing and capturing the creature, and by the aid of ropes, dragged him to the shore. His prise weighed three hundred pounds. Fall of Black Snoic Professor Fair child, of Oberlin, Ohio, states that on Feb ruary 7th they had in that region a fall of dark-colored snow. The crystals were in tlic form of dense icy pellets, above' the twentieth of an inch, and when melted it yielded about a half inch of water. The suow had a distinct smoky taste, and on filtering it through paper a dark sooty substance was obtained. Oil from the Bmccls of a Mountain. It is reported that a large number of springs have been discovered in Western Penn sylvania, which, by a process of evapo ration and distillation, yield an oil equal n purity to the best sperm oil. It is rep resented as furnishing a brilliant light, and as not being affected by the cold with the thermometer fourteen degrees below zero. It is said that four thousand gal Ions of this oil has already been produced. Is there any truth in the report ? A Common School State Convention The Superintendent of the common schools of Pennsylvania has issued a call for a State convention of county superin tendents at Ilarrisburg, on the 11th day of April nest, for mutual consultation, and the discussion and adoption of such measures as may tend to a more complete and effective organization for the advance ment of common schools and the cause of j popular education. . A great baby Show U announced by Barnum to come off at the Amcricao Museum, N. Y., on tho 5th of June, last ing four days. Infants under five-years of age will be admitted from any-part of the world. Cradles and retiring rooms will be provided for 100 babies and their attendants, and the premiums will be a warded, ranging from 100 to $25- Now is "sugaring time" in Vermont, and the Tcrraonters are full of work and sport. The amount of sugar annually made in the State is Gr00(y)00 lbs., worth 8650,000. - - ' . Singular Occurrence. During a thunder storm on the 9th in.-'t., the house of Amos Wooten, near Wilmington, N. C, was struck by lightning, which in stantly killed a little son of Mr. W., and injured, more or less, the whole family; nlo. discharging two loaded guns, one of which was melted at or near the breech. Census op Mexico. The Mexican papers have recently been publishing a census of that country. From it wc gath er that there arc in that country S5 cities, 192 towns or large villages, 4,900 vil lages, 119 missions, &c.; 170 haciendas, and 6,092 farms, &c. Population 7,853, :J95. Col. Fremont has recovered his suit fori 44,000 acics of land in California, through the decision of the U. S. Supreme Court, and is thus made the richest man in A mcrica. Col. F. paid three thousand dol lars for the land. Curious Case of Seduction. At Rochester on the 21st instant, Eliz abeth Rombcrgh, a smart, young swiss girl, only eighteen years of age, appear ed before Justicc Moore and made oath that Benedict Salle, who is a man of prop erty, had seduced her under promise of marriage, and had failed to fulfill his ob ligations. Complainant stated that she had been but a few months in the. coun try, and went to reside with Salle about the first of January last. That she had waited patiently for him to consumatc the marriage contract, but ho failed to do so, and now 'gave her to understand that he did not intend to do so. A warrant was issued for Salle, and placed in the hands of a policeman, who some time after re turned with an old man of seventy, lean ing upon crutches, and apparently just ready to step into his grave. This was Salle, charged with the seduction of the fair young Swiss girl of eighteen. That ho was guilty of all with which he had been oliarged was soon made clear to the magistrate and all present. He said that he would marry the girl with pleasure. Upon making this announcement, the face of therfcmalc was lighted with joy, and her eyes sparkled with delight. She was as ready and anxious to havo the cerc moucy performed as ever bride could be. It was proposed by the parties that the judge at once unite them in the bonds of wedlock. Justice Moore declined to of ficiate. Uc said he could not be the in strument of joiuing tender youth to decrep id old age there was no imperative rea son why the' should marry, and many why they should not. They went away in search of a priest, who has less com puuetions than the police justice. Fast Day. The Governor of Maine has appointed Thursday, the 12th of A pril, as a day of fasting and prayer, but what for is not stated. In the Island of St. Kitts, West Indies, tho Governor op pointed a day of thanksgiving and prayer, in consequence of the cholera having ceased its ravages. Post Office Bobberies. The secret agents of tho Post Master General have done a brisk business lately. Within the last two months, somethinir like 20 mail robbers have been arrested in different parts of the country, and a- bout half of thorn have boon triccHind con- lemncd to imprisonment. sate Presidential Candidates' for 1856; Democratic, Daniel S. Dickinson. Whigt Nobody;; Steam, GEoiirjE Law. Knmv Nothing, "Sam.'. Fiisio?i, Somebody. The contest will be probably between Somebody and ''Sam." The race is to be an "orful" one, and the result is"a "leetlo'' doubtful. The Sritixa Flight. In Indiana, wild pigeons are flying in greater abun dance than ever before known in tho Spring'of the year. They pass over Terrc Haute in clouds by the acre. Their course is northward in the morning and south wardly in the evening. J. Elijs Bonitam, Chairman of the Democratic Central Committee, and for a number of years known as a leading pol itician in Pennsylvania, died at Carlisle, on Monday evening of last week, aged.38 years. . CST" The Evening Bulletin offers to pay handsomely any spiritual mediums who will summon the spirit of Nicholas Ro mankoff, and if he is defunct he will of courso answer and inform the public when ho died; how he died whether by apoplexy or poison: if poisoned, who kil led him; what be was killed for; what i the propectr of peace in Europe; what ef fect did his death produce on the stock market; what is the price of consols; is cot ton down or up; how is flour, and what is the state of the market for beef and ba con, to say nothing of putty. Here's a chance! .!. A bill to secure to women equal rights with the sterner sex, making marriage a species of limited partnership, with pri vate and joint property, and securing to widows the guardianship of their children, has been ordered to a third reading in tho House of the New Jersey Legislature. . The Ocean and its Depth. Professor Olmstead, of New Haven, has contributed to the last number of the New Englandcr (a quarterly publication) an article entitled "a Philosophical Survey of the Ocean," from which wc extract tho following paragraph. The author com mends highly the labors of Lieut. Maury. .The waters of the ocean cover nearly three-fourths (or more exactly, fivc-scv-cnths) of the surface of the globe ; and of the thirty-cighi millions of miles of dry land in exisienec, twenty-eight beloug to the northern hemisphere. The moan depth of the ocean lias been variously sta ted, but may for the present be taken afe four miles ; the numerous soundings now in progress will soon enable us to speak with more definite on this point. Enough has already been donc-to prove the depth is exceedingly unequal ; that like the sur face of the earth the bottom of the ocean here rises in mountain peaks, and there sinks in deep valleys. Until recently the deepest sounding ever made was that by Captain Scorsby in the polar seas, which was short of a mile and a half. As late as 1843, the maximum sounding was that of Captain Ross, in the south Atlantic, and gave 27,000 feet or a little over Eve miles, without finding bottom. But more recentiy, at a point of the Atlantic farth er north, Lieut. Walsh, of the U. Schoon er Tanc, without reaching bottom, to the depth of 34,200 feet, or nearly G miles. Within a short time Capt Dinham communicated to the Roal Society a re port of having reached the bottom of the Atlantic, in a passage from Rio Janeiro to the Cape of Good Hope, at the aston ishing depth of 7,70G fathoms, or miles; a depth so profouud, that the plummet occupied in its decent from thareel near ly V hours. From these results it ap pears that the depth of the ocean exceeds the heights of the mountains, since the loftiest summits of the Ilimmalaya are a little more than 28,000 feet, or 5 miles. Notwithstanding these in the immediate vicinity of places where no bottom could be found, were spots of no uncommon depths. The facts indicate that the bed of the ocean is diversified like the surface of the earth. TheGulf of Mexico is thought not to exceed on an average one mile r and the Greenland seas aro of such mod crate depth, that whales, when harpooned often run to the bottom, as is indicated by appearance when they rise again to. the surface. Whales are even supposed to seek a part of their food at the bottom of the sea. A Mother's Prayer. A mother had heard of the arrivaliof her sailor-boy outside the Cape, and was awaiting his return with the anxiety a mother alone can know. With faith strong iu God, she prayed for his safety. News came that the vessel was lost. The father, an unconverted man, who had preserved a sullen silence, now wept aloud. The mother observed, "He is in the hands of Him who docth all thing3 well," and again the subdued and softened spirit bowed, commending her son and ber husband, in an audible voice, to God. In tho morning, the little gate in front of tho dwelling turned on its hinges, the door opeued, and- their son, their lost, loved son, stood before them. The vessel had been driven into one of tho harbors on the coast, and was safe. The father rushed to meet him. His motfier, hang ing on his neck, earnestly exclaimcd,"My child, how co mo you here!" "Mother," said he, as the tears coursed down his sun burnt face, " I knew yoiCdpray mehomc.yr What a spectacle! a wild, reckless youth- ack nowlcdging tho efficacy of prayer. It seems he ra3 aware of his perilous sit uation, and that he labored with the thought, "My mother prays; Christian's prayers aro answered, and I may bo saved." This reflection, when almost ex hausted with fatigue, and roady to givo up in despair, gave him fresh strength, and with renewed courage he labored till tho harbor was gained. Christian mother, pray for that son who is likely to be wrecked in the storm of life,, and his prospects blasted, forevcri "lie may be saved. -
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