SUNBURY AMERICAN AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL.
possible facility to those who have uiulertHken
1o examine tha mihjoct,iinl in thalhave offer
ed most convincing proofs that they wore
not parties to any attempt at deception.
We hare not yet told the half of what w
are fully satisfied is true, upon the best of
authority; and rot connected with the family
in any way, but for every thing which we
have named above, we have the most relia.
ble. and. to us. undoubted and undoubtable
testimony. We are as perfectly satisfied
with the truth of what we have repealed at
though we ourselves had witnessed it.
" Correspondence of the N. Y. Tribune.
i .' 1 The gentleman alluded to
and a lady happened both to be looking at
"tha middle top pane of glass in a window of
,the parlor. A round ball Btruck it noiseless
ly in the centre from the inside, and after
two of three slow rebounds against it, fell
dead down to the floor and rolled toward
tnem . It was a turnip, covered with minute
multitudinous, and most beautifully formed
.mesmeric characters. A like writing appear
ed on the wall, in a corner, part on one wall,
part on the olhcr. The characters were
formed with geometrical accuracy of outline.
All manner of things were thrown, fiom an
ounce to fifty pounds or more. A brick flew
from the exact centre of a large mirror brick
and shadow in opposite directions, the for-
-!:!. ...iih vinWnnn nmin the middle of
the carpet, at the feet of the witness, who
happened to be opposite the mirror, with his
eyes on it. It was distinctly seen; yet not
the shadow of on agenci-, and an ingenious
experiment to lest, failed entirely. Various
rooms were fixed up with great ingenuity to
represent funerals, and pageants similar to
Unman Calholio performances. There were
several human figures, mostly serious, but
some very ctotesque, in appearance and pos
ture. These were formed out of whatever
came to hand best fitted for the purpose
, It was curious to see how every wardrobe
and trunk and lurking place in the house was
ransacked for materials. The neck of one of
the female figures, kneeling at the foot of
the bed, in a chamber, her arms crossei
head bowed, and an open Bible before her,
was formed of the leather top of a carpet
bag, rolled up. There were four other figures
one on each bedpost ; a flying figure, with a
Wrasol, was pinned to one of the curtains of
a window. In rooms, closets, every where.
these figures were stumbled upon. The
great wonder then was the sculptural beauty
and fullness of their outline, their number.
and the incredibly short time in which they
were reproduced after being pulled all to
pieces, and the simultaneousness of their ap.
pearance. As fast as they could be destroy
ed in one room, and that often at a touch
ihey would reappear in another A taste and
effect was shown in theirariangement which
it would ordinarily take hours to produce
The editors of the New Haven Journal,
who visited the house, thus gives his opin
ion :
' "We were shown the broken candlesticks,
the broken pitcher, some thirty or forty bro
ken panes of glass in the windows, the bruised
bedstead, fcc, all of which appearance show
pd a hold, nerseveriiiff and very destructive
I '
disposition on the part of somebody or some
thing but how skillfully all this destruction
was accomplished, we cannot say, not hav
ing witnessed any of it. Of course therefore
it will not be expected that wo should admit
the idea of any supernatural agency, upon
any such evidence as was before us; though
we readily grant that the worthy gentleman
of the hou.o is perfectly sincere in his own
nnininn ill reirard to this matter. But that
i
his views are founded in error, we Rre forced
to believe, both from the absence of any de
rrnonatration in our presence to the contrary
and alse from their variance with the known
! nf nature ami of Providence, and with
the history of mankind."
F (10.11 TEXAS.
r Bv the arrival of the 6teamhin Palmetto,
Captain Smith, we have Galvestun dales to
the 19th inst. We give tho following items:
Judge Wheeler, of the Supreme Court, ar
rived at Galveston on tho 18th, suffering se
verely from a fall received in Houston.
'. The U. S. Surveying schooner Morris had
rrived, and tho ofticets were engaged in the
hydrographic survey of the Bay.
. We learn that a number of influential citi
zens of Houston contemplate the organization
of Public Schools under the general law
passed by the Legislature.
The legal profession (says the Houston
Telegraph) has been quite nonplussed by the
astounding announcement that llio Supreme
Court has decided that there is no appeal un
der the statute from a Magistrate's Court to
the District Court.
We learn from the Wesleyan Banner of
the 17th, that a man, called Gerard Hayden,
of Bultersville, Fayette county, was burned
to death by a negro on the 4th ult. It ap
pears Hyden was engaged in opening a farm
on the Navidad river. He had rented some
land about three miles from his new place,
and feeling indisposed, loft two of his ne
croes and a German, and went to his camp.
Thev soon followed him ; and one, called
Bob, went into the camp on pretence of get
ting medicine for the German, leaving the
other standing outside. Hayden gave him the
medicine and got into his bunk again, when
' he was knocked in the head by a maul, by
the negro, who then dragged him to the fire
'and tried to burn him up. His bones were
' brought to Rutersville on the Sunday follow
" ing, and interred. Both the negroes are in
' irons.' A boy, to whom it appears the negro
had confessed the crime, disclosed the affair
' at the examination. The negroes belonged
'to a Mr Goodwin, and were brought to the
' county about four years ago, by Mr. Hayden;
5 from Mil.
' We understand lhat the people of the Up.
per Trinity country now have entire confl
dence in the permanent and tegulur naviga
tion of that river, and that large quantities of
cotton and other produce, which have here
t tofore been hauled to Rod Hiver, will here
i after seek a market through Galveston.
The steamer Ogden went up the Brazos as
far a Richmond, the I tut trip, and found no
dilfioully in the navigation. This is the first
steamer buill for sua, w hich has gone up so
' far, and the success of the enterprise afford
pinch gratification lo the people of tort Ben
county . A'. U. Crtseiit City, April 22.
THE AMEFJCAIT.
SUNBURY.
SATURDAY, MAT 4, IMII.
II. B. MASSER, Editor end Proprietor.
To Abvkhtui!!!. The circulation of the Bunbury
American among the different towns on the Suaquehannai
in not exceeded if equalled 1T any paper published in North
ern Penneylvanifl.
THE LIST OP LF.TTF.US i published in this paper,
In accordance with the taw requiring them to be published
in the pnper having the largest circulation.
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CJ" An apprentice to the Printing busi
ness wanted at this office. A good boy of
about 14 or 15 years would find a good
situation.
OCT" Puess rort Sam:. As we have
enlarged our paper we offer for sale a good
second handed Washington Iron Press, the
same on which the American was formerly
printed. The plotin measures 21 by 30
nclies full. It will be sold simply because
we have no further use for it.
tt3" We are indebted to the Hon. Jo
seph Casey for valnable public documents.
r7The editor's absence must account for
the deficiency of editorial in our columns
this week.
KF Congress has yet done nothing of
importance in the way of legislation, and
propably nothing can be done until the
exciting question of slavery is settled.-
There is now a fine prospect of a compro
mise by the patriotic and liberal minded
men from all sections and we trust that ere
long the whole question will be finally
settled.
KF If the Gazette is really serious about
competing with us for the Post Office ad
vertising, let them make the necessary proofs
at once. Such silly twaddle as that indul
ged in by the Gazette of last week, shows
its weakness and may serve to amuse the
editor, though it will never convince his
readers. Had the editor any fixed or gov'
crning principle, we might reply with some
expectations of satisfying even him. A
few weeks since he asserted that we had
no affidavits to prove our circulation. Now
he asserts with equal ignorance or reckless
ness that those affidavits may include our
German subscribers. Another evasion
equally as profound, is lhat some of our sub
scribers are not paying subscribers. Th
third, that we have a larger exchange list.
We confess, we have not only a larger, but
a much belter exchange list, and should
exceedingly regret if we had such a meagre
list to cull from as that of the Gazette. Our
exchange tisi is not surpassed by any paper
in Northern Pennsylvania, and we are sure
our readers will find no fault wilh us on that
account. In regard lo publishing the Trea
surer's sale, we presume, even the Gazette
will hardly question our right to do so sim
ply because the editor happened .o be Trea-
surer.
To cut the matter short, and put an end
to the quibbling of the Gazette, we say that
the town circulation of our English paper
is nearly one hundred per cent greater, and
our general circulation at least fifty per
cent greater, than that of the Gazette, and
the editor knows this and will therefore
ever consent lo an investigation of the
matter. If he will, let him name his time
nd place, and we will agree to submit it
to any disinterested persons that can be
named.
KF There is nothing which adds more
to the beauty of a country town than the
shading of its streets by well chosen forest
rees. The Commissioners have during the
past week, been endeavoring to decorate
our public square with them. While we
congratulate them upon a generous spirit
which none of their predecessors have ever
manifested, we must say that the best taste
has not been exhibited in the selection and
planting of tho trees. Those which require
a century to complete their growth are not
exactly suited to the purpose, and such bare
poles as rear the gaunt forms about the
Court House would be more in place in a
bean or hop garden. Some little regard
should have been paid to uniformity ; a
row of pines, maples, lindens or poplars, set
at equal distances from each other, is very
pretty, but when every species is stuck into
the ground without respect to order or regu
larity, each tree leaning in a different direc
tion like the muskets of an ill disciplined
militia corps, at a shoulder, we are not pre
pared to say that they are very ornamental
We say again, the attempt is very credi
table to their hearts; and as these trees
will scarcely survive the year, we have no
doubt they will have better luck next time.
ffJ" Montovr County has at length
passed both branches of the Legislature, and
waits the signature of the Governor. We
can not pretend to doubt the wisdom and
justice of the Act, tince the Solonj have
passed their judgment upon it; and must
admire the energy and perseverance of our
friends of Montour. They have fought and
bled in the cause as if their liberty depend,
ed upon their exertions. Bloomsburgers
were obliged to knock under; tut let them
take comfort in their defeat,
For tlerculra liimieli' muat yield to otliU )
A u.l many tr..kci, though with a little axe,
Hew down, and fi:U Ihe liardeat limbered i-ult.
K7 An Inquest was held by Justice
Zimmerman, on Wednesday last, upon the
body of Noah Fasset, a raftman from
Bradford county, who was drowned a few
weeks since in the Susquehanna. The ver
dict of the jury was "death by accidental
drowning. The body was intered in the
cemetery of this Borough.
E7" Fetter's Daguerrian likenesses are
the talk of our place, as they are the most
splendid portraits ever taken in Sunbury.
Persons desirous of obtaining their second
self, should not neglect to call on Mr. Fet
ter, with the assurance of obtaining a pic
ture equal, if not superior to the puffed city
daguerreotypes.
PROFESSOR WEBSTER'S CASE.
The Boston Post publishes the following
letter, which, it says, came through the post'
office, post-marked as dated
Terhc Haute, (Ind.) April 18th, 1850.
To the editors of the Boston Post. Gentle
men : I Icel it to be my duty to inlorm you,
nnd through you the public, that Dr. Purk
man, who is supposed to have been murdered
by Prof. Webster, and for which supposed
ninriler Prof. Webstar is now under sentence
of death, was in this city on Sunday evening
last.
He came to this place on a canal boat from
Covinylon, and was recognized by a gentle
man here who was formerly intimate with
him. He accosted him, but Dr. Parkman
turned abruptly away, and soon after left in
the stage for St. Louis, under the name of
A M. Thiston. The gentleman who knew
him is R. W. Dillinghamer, of this place, by
profession a dentist. He is ready to swear
to the identity of this person with Dr. Park
man. Hoping that this statement may be of some
effect in at least restraining the too hasty
execution of the uiijubI sentence under which
Prof. Webster is now lying, I remain, gentle
men, Yours, respectlully,
Joseph A. Atwood.
Miss Webster's Letter. Tho Boston
papers contain the following Card, which,
as we have published the letter alluded to,
we give place to :
Card. A letter of Miss Harriet Webster
has been published, and has gone and is go
ing the rounds of the newspapers, contrary lo
her expectations or consent. The letter to
which it was an answer was from a town in
New Hampshire, and from a person wholly
unknown to her or her family. The letter
contained strong expressions of sympathy
and kindness for Dr. Webster and his family
&c, nnd requested an answer. Gratitude as
well as politeness, dictated an answer, of
which she and her family regret the publicity.
Those papers which have published it are
requested to insert this Card.
Cambridge, April 17, 1850.
Death of a Minister. The Rev. Peter
McEnai.lt, of the Baltimore Annual Confe
rence of the Methodist Episcopal Church)
uieu very siiuiioniy on llie lain ult , near
Philipsburgh, Pa., on the mountain. He had
alighted from his carriage to adjust some
thing that was wrong, and complained of a
stitch in his side, remarking that in a few
moments he would be a dead man, when he
almost instantly expired. He had been for
sometime in feeble health, and was exten
sively known and esteemed.
Another Dreadful Steamboat Disaster Thirty U
Forty Ltrce Loat, -
Cleveland, (0.) April 29.
An extra, issued from the office of the True
Democrat, published this morning, gives the
following particulars of another terrible steam
boat disaster :
On the 21st, the steamboat Anthony Wayne
stopped at Sandusky, with ten steerage and
20 cabin passengers. She took from the
train 34 passengers which, including her
crew of 20, made in .all 84 souls on board.
On Sunday morning, when nearly oppo
site Vermillion, both boilers blew up, making
a complete wreck of the boat, and hurrying
from 3 j lo 40 human souls into eternity.
Nashville Convention Virginia Elec
tion. A large town meeting was held at
Richmond on Saturday, 27th of April, at
which it was resolvo'd not lo send delegates
to the Nashville Convention, under present
circumstances preferring to await the re
sult of the agitating questions now pending
before Congress.
The Democrats have gained so far 6 mem
bers, of the Assembly, and the Whig 4.
The Legislature will be Democratic.
A Rival to California. A letter from
Paris says in the province of Leon, Spain,
the richest gold ore has been discovered. All
the inhabitants of Grenada have left the city
Tor the country ; and the rands of the river
Dauro, as well as those around the city, are
filled with the precious mineral. The mono-
mania of gold digging is general now in
pain ; 3,000 men were already engaged in
washing, digging, and fighting for the acqui
sition of these unexpected riches.
Extraordinary Crime in France. A
frightful crime, which never could have hap
pened out of France, and which bespeaks
recklessness selfishness, morbid feelings, and
an utter absence of religion, courage, and
morals, has just horrified St. Leu. A rich
proprietor, and a moire for several years,
passionately loved a young girl. The fami
lies were, like the parents in "Romeo and
Juliet," at war; and they could not agree.
But after several years of pressing solicita
tions, he obtained the hand of his mistress.
They were married. A grand party cele
brated Ihe wedding and the reconciliation.
They couple retired. At six in the morning
a pistol shot was heard. The husband was
found dead an ante-chamber; the young wife
asleep. A letter explained the suicide. It
was written evidently before the highest
point ot human felicity, nnd could not des
cend. He could not bear to be less loved, or
to love less. "I die of happiness."
Ireland, notwithstanding the curse of
previous blighls, is becoming one great potato
field, and to the neglect of every thing else
i but barley and oats.
From the Naamn (N. P.) Gaxette, March 90
TERRIFIC TORNADO AT NEW PROVIDENCE
A tornado, of a most terrific and destruc
tive character, has visited us, causing s loss
of property which will prove ruinous to many
and what is still more distressing, a great loss
of life. We have heard of six persons killed,
and it is feared that there are several more.
During the whole of this morning, the wea
ther appeared threatening, the thunder be
ing loud and almost incessant towards the
south. About mid-dav. it became as dark as
we ever recollect to have seen it. About one
o'clock, the tornado came up, from the south
west, demolishing houses and walls, and root
ing up trees.
From the Nassau Gazette, April 3.
We are enabled this evening to furnish our
readers with a rather ample statement of
what took place in the southern suburbs of
Nassau, and likewise of some accidents in
our haibor on that gloomy, and never, by
many, to be forgotten day.
In the southern suburbs of tho island of
New Piovidence, including Grant's Town,
Delancy'n Town, and Bain's Town, there are
known to have been six persons killed ; seventy-four
buildings were totally destroyed ;
three were materially injured, and six slight
Tho diameter of this dreadful power seems
to have been from twenty to thirty yard'
And its force is proved in the ease with
which it overturned stono pillars, and smote
into ruins houses of great stienglh. We have
heard that it lifted one woman to a considera
ble height from tho ground, and that her arm
was broken by the fall. Seventy-four houses
it appears, were totally demolished in the
Southern suburbs, and some of them were
carried quite away, so that no remains of
fragments of them have been found. A scene
of more utter desolation than that presented
in the path of the tornado, it is almost impos
sible to conceive. And that which gave a
peculiar lerribleness to its character was its
suddenness. It caused the death of eight in
dividuals three .men, three children, and
two women. One man had his head com
pletely severed from the body; others their
skulls fractured, so as to cause instant death
One woman died during the Saturday night
in the school room, in Bain's Town.
YELLOW FEVER IN BEIIIA-IIAYTI
ARMS.
Boston, April 27
IN
The brig "Boston," from Behia, 10th inst.,
reports that tho Yellow Fever had been rag
ing terribly at that place, sweeping off sea
men of vessels in port, and slaves in great
numbers.
Government reports mukes the total mor
tality in the province at 88,000.
just oeiore tne "Uoston" lett, a severe
thunder stotm occurred ; after which the
disease began to abate.
Several vessels arrived from Hayti with
dates to the sixth. Business was improving,
and the blacks were preparing to invade St.
Domingo ju May.
Romantic Incident. The Cincinnati 6'u-
zstle states lhat about four years ago, a lady
ol that city induced a at roct-sl roll n tir, intem
perate woman to give up a child, a little
bright-eyed daughter, of six years of sgr, to
her guardianship. The woman complied,
and disappeared. A short time since, the
lady received a message from the woman,
requesting her immediate attendance, as she
was dying, and had something of importance
to communicate. The lady went as directed
and found the poor woman in a miserable
hovel, and in the agonies of death The in
formation she had to give, was, that the child
was heir lo a considerable estate, left by its
father, and that the father's brolher, who had
the disposition of the properly, lived some
where down the river. This was all the dy
ing mother could state
After her death, inquiries were made, and
it has recently been discovered that the uncle
is a wealthy and respectable citizen of Louis
ville. He has claimed his ward, and the lit-
tie unfortunate is now enjoying an income of
ourieen uunureu uouais per annum, do-
queathed to her by her own faiher. "This
may seem iiko ticuou," says ine uazette, 'but
the parties are all known to us."
Shocking Barbarity A Baltimore corres
pondent of the Washington Union writes to
that pnper that on Friday last a terrible case
of barbarity at sea, was on that day, brought
before lho Baltimore authorities. Captain
William R. Gardener and his first mate, Hen
ry Humphreys, of the Frances Jane, were ac
cused by their crew with beating the cook
to death on the outward bound paseage a
colored man, named David Thompson. On
the second day out he was accused of being
impudent, and was tied up and lashed with
a rope until the blood streamed from his back
A few days afterward they accused him of
Duttinir sea water into the victuals he was
cooking, when a bucket of potato paring and
garbage was brought out, which the captain
ordered him to eat, and both stood over him
with rope's ends whenever he ceasd eating,
and actually beat until he fell exhausted on
the deck. He was then ordered into the ca
boose, but being unable te move, was drag.
ged there by the mate, where he was shortly
e J 'i
afterwards found by the second mate, perfect
ly dead. Ihe accused were Dound over in
the sum of 82,000 each, to answer at Ihe
next term of the United States district court.
Government Funds. Mr. Young, the
new Clerk of the House, has selected the
Hank nf ihe Melronolis as a depository for
the funds of the House of Representatives.
tu f,,n,l. uera heretolore held bv the Bank
of Washington. The requisite bonds for tho
f.keer,ins of the funds were eiven on
m.i- w. bv tho President and Trustees
r.t,Rnir
Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.
Interesting to our Iron men The President
of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has advertised, at Pittsburg, for 8,000
tons of Iron of the H pattern, 8,000 tons of
which aie to be dolivered at Pittsburg and
Beaver, before the close of canal navigation
the present year. This looks like going
ahead. The Pittsburg Post says none of Ihe
Pittsburg Rolling Mills have machinery stilt
ed lo making railroad iron.
crvise;of the united states ship i
OHIO.
This gallant craft left Boston in December,
1846, nnd has just returned there, after be
ing in commission lor four years, uuring
which time she has sailed 63,000 miles.
She was first ordered to the Gulf of Mexi
co, and a portion of her officers and crew
were on shore at the Navy Battery during
the siege end capture of Vera Cruz. Three
hundred and fifty of her crew, with s due
proportion of officers, were absent from iheir
ship a fortnight upon the expedition, to and
capture of, Tuspan, by Com. Perry.
After the capture of all the principal Mexi
can seaports In the Gulf, the Ohio left that
station, and after stopping a few days at Ha
vana the only American line-of-baltle ship
ever in that port, arrived at New York on
he 4th of June, 1847. Difficulties with Bra
zil oocurringat this timo, and all diplomatic
intercourse suspended between lhat country
and the United States, the Ohio was ordered
immediately to prepare to sail for Ihe sene
of these new troubles. Leaving Now York
on tho 26th of June, with the Hon. David
Tod on board, the U. S. Minister Plenipoten
tiary to tho Court of Brazil, sho arrived at
her destination on the 7th of August. After
remaining on the Brazil station for four months
and friendly relations having again been re
stored between that country nnd lho United
Slates, lho Ohio, in obedience toordeis, pro
ceeded on around Cape Hern for the seat of
war in the Pacific Ocean, West Coast of
Mexico, and Coast of California. Portions of
her officers ami crew were stationed on shore
while holding possession of the seaports upon
the coast of those countries, until peace was
proclaimed there in June, 1848.
From this time until the dale of her de
parture for home, she wasemployed upon the
coasts of Lower and Upper California, West
Coast of Mexico, and the Sandwich Islands.
She arrived at Upper California soon after
the discovery of the gold mines; and the
most irksome and trying service performed
by the oflicers and crew on the whole cruise,
was upon that coast, during several months
of the first year of the gold mania, The Ohio
left San Fiancisco on the 15th of September
last on her homeward-bounded voyage, and
visited the Sandwich Islands of ihe second
days; she then passed on through the Society
Islands and Paumotu Group, and arrived at
Valparaiso on Christmas day. Leaving Val
paraiso January 4th, 1850, she arrived at Rio
Janeiro February 19th, and sailed from there
again on the 28th for Boston. She is to be
stripped and thoroughly repaired.
The Washington Moni-ment. A Wash
ington coriespondont of tho Baltimore Sun,
Sun, says :
"I am requested lo state that no inscrip
tion for the Washington National Monument
has yet been adopted, or even thought of, by
the board of managers. If ever that subject
should come up before tho present officeis,
any other language than plain English, for
such a purpose, would not be, for a moment,
considered."
Very good, the English may be called now,
what tho Latin was in its day. Ihe universal
language. Theie is scarcely a quarter of the
world, however remote, where it is not to be
hoard. The enterprise of lho Iwo great com
mercial nations whose mother tongue it is.
will make not only its sound familiar to
every ear, but extend world wme tne uuerai
ideas and principles which it embraces.
living language of that influence is not te be
despised for the sake of a dead one, even
though the latter was once almost as univer
sal. Native Wines. Mr. John Williamson
near New Richmond, Ohio, has a vineyard
capable of producing grapes for the manufac
ture of four or five thousand gallons of wine
yearly. He sells it generally by the Varrel,
at from SI 25 to 51 50 per gallon. Ihe
"lina" for this vear. we learn, have been
eagerly sought for, and principally used for
-i - j i i
new vineyards. Mr. Williamson thinks that
the increase of vineyards thissprins will Ger
ail,iy Z00 acres, being a greater in
creage 0f tUe Tne thi8 year than ever before
y0 are of opinion that the culture of tho
grape in Ohio will excel, in profits, any cal
culation yet made. Cin. Cum., April 20.
Case or Webster. The Boston Post of
the 29th ult., says it is understood that the
Counsel for Professor Webster have taken ou
a writ of error, upon the ground that the or
der in the Municipal Court for certifying the
indictment up to the Supreme Court, was not
fully set forth in the certificate by the Clerk
of the Municipal Court
Life of a Locomotive. It is estimated
in England that the life of a Locomotive i
one hundred and fifty thousand miles.
If the value of an engine is $0000, it cost
four cents for every mile run. The usual
railroau lare lor passengers is auotu iour cem
a mile, so that a passenger at this rate would
pay no more for his passage than the actual
cost of the wear of Ihe Engine, if no other
passengers were carried except himself, and
no freight taken.
Th Half Dozen Indians in Florida still
baffle lho attempts to remove them. Billy
n f i - . i u: , ... : . i. i. :
Bow Legs has evacuated his town with his
followers, and with Sam Jones, has retired
into Ihe southern extremity of the Ever
glades, where they are perfectly secure from
the operation of the army during the sum
mer. "Great country this, as Mark May
berry very originally observes
Singular enactinu or the Crucifixion
-A Be'hn paper slates lhat there is in Rus
j Place Aiinerdale, where a most
mgumr custom exists, tvery ton yea,.
ful ecenes of the crufixion are enacted by
the villagers. Some are dressed lo repre
sent soldiers and Jews, some as i nansees,
and many men, women and children stand
around as the crowd of spectators, while on
- the three crosses are nailed figures in wax,
anj ai the feet kneel women who represent
the Marys. The whole scene is gone through
I wiih in all the details, and lasts all day.
This very singular performance, which has
I Deen kept up since the middle ages, is an
nounced to take place again in tne momn ol
- June of this year, and strangers are invited
ho w itness (l
A Disastrous Storm and Conflagration
did great damage to the city of Mexico on
the 29th ult. The wind blew a Derfect hur
ricane from the south-west, doing genera in
jury throughout th city, and filling the
streets with wrecks. In the midst of this
gale a fire broke out, the sparks from whioh
set fire lo two other remote quarters of the
city. Happily, however, the general solidity
whioh characterizes the struclursof Mexi
can houses stopped the progress of the flames
about 5 o'clock in the evening. About a
hundred families were deprived of their
homes by this lamentable catastrophe. The
damage is estimated at $500,000. During
the fire Ihe French Foreign Legion, under
the order of M. Le Vapeur, the French Min
ister, did good service, and one of its mem
bers was severely wounded. A young sculp
tor named Jose Maria Miranda was nearly
Killed, the Minister of Relations had np
pointed a committee of four to collect and
receive subscriptions in nid of the suffere
and Ihe President had headed the list wilh a
donation of $100.
Important to Lawyers At the last spe
cial term of the Supreme Court held in this
city, Justice Sill decided that in cases of the
publication of any legal notice in a news
paper, the affidavit of the publication should
show the particular days on which Ihe pub
lication was made; and that an affidavit
staling that a notice or order had been pub
lished once in each week, or twice in each
eek, as the case might be, without statinc
on what particular days it was published.
was insufficient, and would not be received.
livffulo Com. Adv.
Powers' Stati c or Eve. The friends of
Hiram Powers, and all the lovers of Art, will
earn w ilh regrel lhat the great work of our
sculptor, Eve, which has some time been ex
pected m this country, for Mr. Preston, of
S. Carolina, has been lost by a shipwreck off
the bpanish coast. We believe it was con
sidered Ihe artist's master-niece, bv his
a i .r
friends in Italy. It was larger than the
Greek Slave, though of life size.
The Southern Convention, says the Buffalo
Courier, "agitates" Georgia after the follow
ing fashion : Gwinnetto county gives 14
votes for delegates to the Nashville Conven-
ion; Burke county, 47; Cass, 100; Floyd,
50: Cobb, 126. This was on the 2d inst.. a
lay set apart by the Legislature to elect dele
gates. An awful excitement, truly 1
Job's question, in tho 38th chapter 35lh
verse. "Cun'st thou send lightnings that Ihey
may go and say unto thee, here we are V is
no longer a problem. The telegraphic light
nings says a great deal more.
"Shall I help you to some of the tomatus-
sus ?" inquired a young exquisite of a venera
ble physician, as ho sat opposite to him at
one ol our hotel tables. "No, sir, I thank
you," replied the learned savan ; "but I'll
trouble you for sume of the Palasussus, if
you please." It is said the young man never
mentioned "Tomatus-sus" again.
A lady of Dr. Stcedly, of Owachita city,
immediately on reluming from New Orleans
lately, with her nnsband, was seized wilh
cholera, and died in a lew houis. when tho
the doctor who attended her devotedly, was
also attacked, and was a corpse in fifty min
utes.
The Earthquake which occurred in the
West lately, seems to have been particularly
severe in Tennessee. Not far from Nashville)
a huge rock, weighing several hundred tons,
was loosed from its bed and precipitated
down a hill, fortunately doing no injury in its
descent.
Ch acres an American Citv. The Ameri
cans at Chagres have constructed their mu
nicipal government, and have elected Capt.
M. K. Taylor, formerly of Baltimore, Ma or.
SALE OF REAL ESTATE.
BY virtue of a power in the Will of Henry
ShntVer, Esq., formerly of Sunbury, dee'd.,
will be exposed to sale, at the premisss, on Satur
day the Soth day of May next, at 10 o'clock A. M.
of said diy,
A House and l ot of Ground
on the corner ef River and Market streets, at pre
sent occupied by Mrs. Wharton, as a public house.
The location is a good one fur business the house
is a largo two story brick building, frame dining
Room unJ Kitchen Urge and convenient stuble,
Ac. The terms of aale. will he made known on
the day of sale by
JOHN FA RNS WORTH,
Trustee to sell.
Sunbury, May 4, 1850. 3t
GREAT ATTRACTION.'!
SEW AXIS CHEAP GOODS,
JOHN V7. TOILING,
Market Street, Sunbury, Pa.,
AS just received and opened a large assort
ment of superior and choice Fancy and
btaple Dry Goods, well adapted to the coming sea
son, which he will sell at the lowest prices. His
stock consists of general assortment of almost all
articles of use in the Dry Goods line, consisting
in part of
Cloths, Cussimeres, Summer.Stuff for
Clothing und Vesting.
1 a dies Drews (ood.
Gloves, Hosiery, Laces, Shawls, Muslins, Sheet
ings, Tickings, Fine Muslins, Ginghams,
Linens, eVe.
A LSO i A general assortment of
GROCERIES,- HARDWARE, QUEENS.
WARE, LIQUORS, DRUGS, AND
MEDICINES, PAINTS
AND DYESTUFF,
and every variety of articles.
rS Country produce of all kinds taken In ex
change at the highest market price.
Sunbury, April 37, 1850.
CENTRE TURNPIKE ROAD.
THE Stockholders are hereby notified that an
election will be beld at the house of JAMES
LEE, in the borough of Northumberland, on
Monday the 3d duy of June next, between the
hours of 10 o'clock A. M. and 4 o'clock P. M., for
the purpose of choosing officers to serve for the
ensueing year. J. K. PRIESTLEY, Pres't.
April 87, 1850 It
ADMINISTRATOR S NOTICE.
LETTERS of Administration upon the estate
late of Hon. Calvin Blvthe, dee'd., have (bis
day been granted to the subscriber. 11 persons
having claims agauist said estate are noliliej to
present Ihein without delay.
FREDERICK LAZARUS, Aduj'r,
Sunbury, April 87, 1850 Oj
SHERIFF SALES.
BY virtue of certain Writs of Ven. Stpont), tf
me directed, will be exposed to sale by pub
lie outcry at the house -of William Weaver in
Hhamokin town, Coal township, at 10 o'clock A
M., on Saturday the 11th day of May next, that
following real estate to wit.' certain Lot of
Land, situate in the town of ShaiWokin, Coal town
ship and county of Northumberla-wd, bounded by
"'"'l1""1" street, rranklin street and th Dan
ville and Pottatown Rail Roaxf, ettifnfting one.
eighth of an acre more or teas. Whereon is one
ted a frame Machine Shop and Locomotive house
ay iv ieei, a irame Blacksmith shop 3 by
20 feet, s frame Carpenter Shop 85 by 4 feet,
and a frame Engine and Boiler houae IS by 30
feet. Seiwd taken in execution and to be sold a
the property of the Danville and Pottatown Rail
Road Company.
ALSO:' ., . .....,..
At the limine of Frederick Sticker m the Bo
rough of Milton at 10 o'clock, A. M, on Monday
the 13th day of May next, a certain Lot of Land,
situate in the Borough of Milton in said county,
In that part of said Borough called Lower Milton,
bounded on the north by an Alley, on the eait by
an Alley, on the south Pcrrv Lane and on th.
west by lot of Mrs. Oldwin, containing one-ightrr
of an acre more or Iors, whereon is erected s two
story framo. Dwelling Houae. Seized taken in
execution and lo be Bold as the property of Chas,
RohiWh. JAMES COVERT, ShrtT.
Hlicrifl a office, Sunbury, )
April 20. 1850 la j
J. H. ZIMMERMAN,
jrSIlCE OF THE PEACE,
Sunbury, Pa.
Office in Deer Street, immediately opposite th
Public School Houae.
Cy Munic collected nnd nil biiniiieiw pmmptt)- and cart
full) am.-ht!,il to.
April 20, 18.10
PEACH TREES FOR SALE.
CEVERAL Thouanml peach trcea, about SO va-
rictics of the very best selection, ripening in
aucccssion from the earliest to the latest; Alio, a
very choice lot of
APPLE, CHERRY, PEAR, APRICOT,
NECTARINE,
Quince, nnd Cirapo Vinci
Also, a Inrfje quantity of
ORNAMENTAL TREES, .
Persons wanting Trees, will please forward St
their orders to the
Fair View Nurseries,
Morriatown, Burlington county, New .
P. B. MINGLE, corner of Front and
Jersey, or to
1 Market St..
1 hilndelplua. Ordcra from unknown correspond
ent must be accompanied will, the cash or satis-fm-tory
reference. Trees will be enrefutiv crafted
when required for n-nsunahlc charge. 'Descrip
tive cntnlosue with prices attached, will be fur
iib"licd rjratia o post-paid applicants.
JOHN PERKINS.
Morriatown, N. J.
II. It. Mistr.it, Sunlmrv, Agent.
April 2(1, 183(1.
NEW STOKE!
A XV.XV STOCK OF GOODS,
At the Store formerly occupied by John Bogar,
In Market Street, Sunbury.
'IHK snbs.-riU-rs respectfully inform the pub
X lie lliiit they have just received, and aro now
opening;
A HANDSOMK ASSORTMENT OF DRV GOODS
Consisting in -part of '
Cloth, Cassimcrrs, Satttnctts, Vesting, Panta
loon Stuff, Calicoes, Ginahams, Lawns,
Vesting, Flannel, Cambrics, Linens,
Fine Muslins, llar.dkcrchiifs,
Cloves, (fc ,
IlarrfiTarc, Queensware,
Diilgs axii Mtniinuj.
ALSO:
A lrgc assortment of
Groceries, Fish, Salt and Plaster.
Ladies Shoes and Uain-rs, Fluid and Fluid La in pi
All ol winch will lie sold ou the most reasona
ble terms.
IT? Country produce cf all kinds taken in es
I'hunye at the best prices.
JOHN BUYERS & CO.
Sunbury, April 13, 1850 ly
PHILA. AND READING RAILROAD.
SIMMER ARRANGEMENT FROM
rillLAMXPHlA AND POTT8VII.LE.
OjJ'ite nf the l'hila. iV Reading Ruilrowl Co.
Philadelphia, March 29, 1650.
Two Passenger Trains Daily, (except Sunday.)
ON and after AprilUt, 1850 two trains will
be run each way, daily, between Philadel
phia and l'otlsvillc
Morning Line, Accommodation.)
Leaves Philadelphia at 7J A. M, daily except
Sundays.
Leaves Poltsvillc at 7 J A. M. daily except Sun
days. Afternoon Line, (Fast Train.)
Leaves Philadelphia at 2J o'clock, daily, except
Sunday.
Leaves Pottsvillc ut 2 o'clock, daily, except
Sundays.
Passengers cannot enter the rnr unless provi
ded wilh Tickets.
The afternoon, or fast trains, do not stop at Au
burn, Althouse's, Uirdsbnro', Rotrer's Ford, Val
ley 1 o!lo, Port Kennedy, spring Mill or Falls.
NOTICE. Filly pounds of baggage will be al
lowed to each passenger in these lines; and pas
sengers are expressly prohibited from taking any
thing as bagguge but their wearing apparel, which
will he at the risk of its owaer.
By order of the Board of Managers,
8. BRADFORD,
April 13, 1850, Secretary.
NEW ARRANGEMENT
And Prices Reduced.
THOMPSON'S
Susquehanna Express and Freight Lint
IS NOW PREI-AHtD TO fOKWARt) '
Goods and Packages,
Daily from Philadelphia to
Selinsgrove, Northumberland, Sunbury,
Danville, Bloomburg, Milton. Lewis,
burg, Muncy, williamspori, cVc.
Bi Rail Road asd Exraaas Casai Boats
NEW EXPRESS Offict North Third St'.
Freieht Office at CRAIG If BELLAS' Corner
of Broad dud Cherty streets, Philadelphia.
April6, I860. tf
ORPHANS' COURT SALE.'
IN pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court
of Northumberland bounty, will be expesed
to public sale on Saturday the 4th day of May
next, at the House of Charles Lcisenring in 8ha
mokin townshi)), to wit ; A certain
'I'l-nct of riiiiiiproved JLand,
situate in the township aforesaid, containing One
Hundred and Three Acres and eighty perches and
allowance, adjoining lands of Matthias Reed, John
Fagely and others, Late the estate of Alba C.
Barret, dee'd. Sale to commence at 10 o'clock
A. M., of said day when the terms of sale will be
made know by CASPER J. REED, Adin'r,
By order of the Court, )
John P. Pursel, Clk O. C.
April 6, 1850 ts
JVRE; Oogniac Brandy,
H do Jamaica fcuirits,
do Holland Gin.
A freJi supply Just received end for sale by
bunbury, March 9, '50. HENRY MAS