CLECTRO.MAGNETISM AS A MOTIVE
roWER.THE IMPORTANT QUF.S
TIO! SETTLED.
Professor Page, in the Lecturet wbich he
it now delivering before the Smithsonian ln-J
ititution, tales that there is no longer any
doubt of the application of this power4 as a
substitute for steam. Ho exhibited the most
imposing experiments ever witnessed in this
branch of science. An immense bar of iron,
weighing 'one hundred and sixty pounds,
WAS made to spring up by magnetic action,
nd lo move rapidly up and down, dancing
like a feather in the air, without any visible
support. The force operating upon this bur
he stated to Average three hundred pounds
through ten inches of its motion. . lie said
he could raise this bar ono hundred feet as
readily as through ten inches, and he expected
no difficulty in doing the same with a bar
weighing one ton, or a hundred tons. He(
could make pile-driver, or a forge-hammer,
with great simplicity, and conld make an
engine with a'atroke of six, twelve, twenty,
or any number of feet.
The most beautiful experiment we ever
witnessed was the loud sound and brilliant
flash from the galvanic spark, when produced
near a certain point in his great magnet.
Each snap was as loud as a pistn) ; nrd when
he produced the same spark at a distance
from this point, it made no noise at all. This
recent discovery he stated to have a practical
bearing upon the construction of an electro
magnetic engine. .Truly, a great power is
here; and where is the limit to it?
He then exhibited his engine, of between
four and five horse power, operated by a bat-
tery contained within a space of three cubic
feet. It looked very unlike a magnetic ma
chine. It was a reciprocating engine of two
leet stroke, and the whole engine and batte
ry weighed about one ton. When the. pow
er was thrown on by the motion of a lever,
the engine started off magnificently, making
ono hundred and fourteen strokes per minute ;
though, when it drove a circular saw ten
inches in diameter, sawing up boards an inch
and a quarter thick' into laths, the engine
made but about eighty strokes per minute.
There was great anxiety on the part of the
spectators to obtain specimens of these laths,
to preserve as trophies of this great mechan
ical triumph. The force operating upon his
magnelio cylinder throughout the whole mo
tion of two feet, was staled to be six hundred
pounds when the engine was moving very
slowly, but he had not been able to ascertain
what the force was when the engine was run
ning at a working speed, through it was con
siderably less. The most important mid in
teresting point, however, is the expense of
the power. Professor Page slated that he
had reduced the cost so far, thct it teas less
than steam under many and most conditions,
though not so low as the cheapest steam en
gines. With all the imperfections of the en
gine, the consumption of three pounds of zinc
per day would produce one horse power.
The larger his engines, (contrary to what
has been known before,) the greater the
economy. Professor Page was himself sur
prised at the result. .There were yet prac
tical difficulties to be overcome; the battery
had yet lo be improved; and it remained yet
to try the experiment on a grander scale, lo
make a power of one hundred horse, or more.
Nat. Intelligencer.
SMALL NOTES THE PENALTY.
The forty-eighth section of the General
Banking Law, passed at the last session of
the Legislature, contains the following provi
sions relative to notes of a less denomination
than Five Dollars, excepting only the lleiief
issues of the State :
Sec. 48. That fiom andnfterthe 21st day
of Augnst, one thousand ei; lit hundred and
fifty, it shall not be lawful lor any person or
persons, corporation or body corporate, direct
ly or indirectly, to issue, pay out, pass, ex
change, put iu circulation, transfer, or cause
to be issued, paid out, passed, exchanged,
circulate or transferred, any bank note, note,
certificate, or any acknowledgment id indeb
tedness whatever, purporting to be a bank
note, or of the nature, character or appear
ance of a bank note, or calculated for circu
lation as a bank note, issued, or purporting
to be issued by any bank or incorporated
company, or association of persons, not loca
ted in Pennsylvania, of less denomination
than five dollars. Every violation of the pro
visions of this section by any corporation or
body corporate, shall subject such corpora
tion or body corporate to the payment of five
hundred dollars; and any violation of the
provisions of this section by any public offi
cer holding any office or appointment of hon
or or profit under the constitution and laws of
this Slate, shall subject such oflicer to the
payment of one hundred dollars; and any
violation of this section by any person, not
being a public officer, shall subject such per
son lo the payment of twenty-five dollars,
one half of which shall go to'lhe informer,
the other half to tho county in which the suit
is brought, and may be used for and recov
erable in any action of debt, in the name of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, as well
for the use of the proper county, as for tho
person sueing.
Webster on Mann. The Boston Bee has
the following from its Washington correspon
dent :
Agenlleinan of this city, having rend Mr
w 1 , . .i.. i ...
0raO.A Munn'. hi. ul nr ii-rn . tin. ... Al.. t
Webster: '
"My Dear Sir: Mr. Mann lias written
another letter, but 1 pray you to take no no-
ticeofit. Let him rail unanswered. "
To which ?.Ir. Webster replied :
Wasuinoton, July 27, 1850.
"My Dear Sir: Make yourself quite easy
I shall not answer Mr. Horace Mann's railing.
St. Judo writes, that when Michael, the
Archangel, contended with ihe devil about
the body of Moses, he did riot bring against
him a railing uccusatioii.
"Archbishop Tillotson remarks, thai, iu
this particular, tho Archangel acted quite
prudently, as he knew that in a contest of
tailing, the devil would be too hard for him.
' Yours always, truly,
DANIEL WEBSTER."
Thc Reports or Gsn. Tavloe's Embae
aisiMtim Contradicted. Messrs Mum
sell, Whilst Son, of Now Oi leans, who have
ban a General Taylor's agents for twenty
years, contradict all the statements relative
10 bis pecuniary embarrassments. They as
sert that be leaves in bank stocks and other
valuable property, the sun of $20(1,000; that
ht never rave a note in hi life, and died
tIbouI outing a doller.
TEE .A.X-OI.XCA1T.
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, SAVURDAV, AUGUST IT, ISM.
H. B. MASKER, Editor ml Proprietor.
I To AmETurn. The circulntion of tho Piinhury
Amcricnn nrnnnir the iliflercm towns or! Ihe Pmnuchannil
in not e-xwioded if equalled by any paper Kitl.lcd in North
em remiKvlvanin.
TUT" I.iT OP l.F.TTEltfl in piitplinhed in thi pnper,
In nrrnr-liinee with the taw rcqiiirine tliein lo be published
iu tli pnper ImviiiR tho Inrgcet circulation.
Democratic State Nominations.
For Canal Commissioner : I
WILLIAM T. MORISON,
Of Montgomery County.
For Auditor General:
EPHRAIM BANKS,
Of Mifflin County.
For Surveyor General:
J. PORTER BRAWLEY,
Of Crawford County.
DEMOCRATIC COCSTY CONVENTION.
Tint Democratic electors of Northumberland
countv, are respectfully requested to meet at the
usual places of holding delegate elections in their
resncrtive Boronchs and Townships, on Saturday
the 17th day of August, 1850, for the purpose of
electing delegates to the Democratic County con'
vcniinii to ha held iii Suuburv on the Monday fof
lowing, to form a Democratic ticket to be supported
at the ensuing tall election.
0. M. YORKS, SAMUEL ENT,
VVM. H.KIPP, SAMUEL LANTZ,
REUBEN ZARTMAN, WM. WILSON,
A. ARMSTRONG. H. READER, Snr.,
SAMUEL T. BROWN.
Standing Committee,
July 20, 1850.
BOLD RonBERT.
The house of Lewis Dewart, Esq., in
this place, was entered by burglars on
Monday night, and robbed of money and
other valuables, to the amount of several
hundred dollars. The viHians effected
their entrance through the cellar door out
side, and when ir. the cellar struck up a
light, where several matches were after
wards found. From thence they soon
found their way to the desk in the front
room, which they opened, and took there
from, from $90 to $120; mostly in old
gold coin. Also a gold watch, a pair of
gold spectacles, and a piece of silk hand
kerchiefs. They then proceeded to the
paper case, and examined the deeds, mort
gages, notes, &c, which were found scat
tered over the floor. Xot yet satisfied,
they took from Mr.Dewart'scoathis pocket
handkerchief. They then proceeded to
the closet, in the back room, and collected
all the silver spoons, together with a few
iron ones. Not wishing to retire the same
way, they opened the bar of the shutters of
one of the front windows, and thus made
their escape from the house. Mr. Dewart
was in his chamber immediately above the
front room, but from loss of sleep for seve
ral nights previous, he enjoyed his slum
bers too profoundly to be disturbed by the
robbers. The same night an attempt had
been made to effect an entrance into the
house of Mr. Youngrr.an, where the County
Treasurer, Mr. George 13. Youngman, re
sides. O""" Cameron TowNfinr. This is a
new township erected at the last Court, out
of that part of Coal township lying south
of the Mahonoy mountain, and .named Cam
eron township, in compliment to Gen. Si
mon Cameron, the greater part of whose
early life was spent in this Borough, and
who has a host of warm personal and po
litical friends throughout the county. The
division was a proper one, as the mountain
is made the natural boundary, and there is
no coal south of the mountain. Coal town
ship is now substantially a Coal township
throughout, and contains probably more
coal than any township in the Union.
05" Shamokin Coal Tbade. The Rail
Road from this place to Shamokin, which
had been damaged by the late freshet has
been repaired. The Messrs Fegelys, who
had put their whole force of miners and
laborers on the road, for the purpose of re
pairing it as speedily as possible, commen
ced, on Tuesday last, to run their usual
trips of coal trains, and are now ready to
supply the trade as usual.
kOSSI'TH AND GENERAL CASS.
At the commencement of the present
,.: r n -
Dvraoiuii ui -uu"icia lusi winter, urn. wlla
O
' introduced resolutions to suspend our dip-
Imatic relations with Austria, on account
of her oppressions and cruellies towards
j the gallant Hungarians, then fighting for
! their liber'.ies. On that occasion he made a
most eloquent speech in favor of the reso
lutions. The Washington Union of a late
date publishes an eloquent letter from the
Hungarian leader and patriot, Louis Kos
suth, addressed to General Caw, express
ing the fervid thanks of himself and his
down-trodden country, for the efforts of
the former to suspend diplomatic relations
with Austria, in token of reprobation lor
her flagitious conduct.
Battle between tae Danes and
the HoLSTEiNERg It will be seen by the
late accounts from Europe that a bloody
battle has been fought at Idstedt, in which
the Danes achieved a victory over the
troops of Schleswig Holstein. The strug
gle was a most desperate one, involving a
loss of 7000 men killed, wounded and
niissin?. , .
SUNBURY AMERICAN AND SHAM0K1N
I'PflOJf COUNTY CONVENTION.
The Democratic Convention to nominate
candidate! was held at New Berlin, on
Monday last. The candidates for Congress
were John Cummings, jr., and Isaac Slen
ker, Esq: The Convention, we under
stand, was" not as harmonious as it might
have been. The delegates in favor of Mr.
Slenker refused to go, jnto Convention.
Forty delegates from twenty districts were
present. Of these twenty-six were in fa
vor of Mr. Cummings, and nominated him
on the first ballot. The seceding delegates
in favor of Mr. Slenker immediately alter
the Convention held a meeting in the
Grand Jury room, and passed resolutions
condemning the proceedings of the Con
vention, and recommendins a meeting of
the people on the 1st Monday of Septenv
ber next.
0j? Tho Texas Boundary bill has al
ready passed the Senate, and now we have
the passage of the California bill by that
body. The bill establishing the Territory
of New Mexico will soon follow, and then
the exciting question of shivery may be
considered as finally settled, so far as the
Senate is concerned. The House will no
doubt concur with the Senate. Let this be
done sneedilv. and the other necessary bills
-i ' -
be passed, and then adjourn.
Electro Magnetic Engine. rlt
will be seen by an article in another col
limn that Mr. Page of the National Insti
tute at Washington, has succeeded in using
electro magnetism as a motive power, and
has put in operation an Engine of 4 or 5
horse power. Should the discovery turn
out to be what many friends of science
have predicted, it will prove one of th
greatest discoveries of the age. The dan
gers of steam and lire will be then super
seded, and thousands ol human lives annu
ally saved Irom destruction.
SLAVE EXCITEMENT.
There has been considerable excitement
at Washington and Baltimore within the
last few weeks on account of the escape of
slaves from their masters. Gen. Chaplin
of New York, who aided in the escape of
Ihe klaves belonging to Mr. Toombs and
Mr. Stevens, members of Congress, from
Georgia, has been arrested, and will be
tried in Maryland. We trust he will
meet with merited punishment. Such
visionary mad caps do more to perpetuate
the bonds of slavery than any other class
of individuals, especially at the present
time, when the South is already highly ex
cited on this subject.
Fifteen slaves made their escape to Co
lumbia, from Maryland, a few days since.
The most revolting feature in slavery as
it exists in this country, is the domestic
slave trade ; tho selling of slaves, and fre
quently the separation of husbands, wives,
and children. The following scene, and it
is not the fiist one of the kind, that has oc
curred of late years at Washington, is cal
culated to touch the most obdurate heart.
Such scenes in the capitol of this glorious
Union are disgraceful to the age in which
we live, and should not be tolerated by
Congress an hour longer than necessary.
The more liberal minded Southern men
are themselves in favor of abolishing the
slave trade in the district.
The runaway slaves have been so numer
ous of laic, in Washington, under the instilla
tions of tin? abolitionists here and elsewhere,
that the ownem of this species of property
have become Vfry much alarmed, and hence
are disposed to move tliem to safer parts of
the United States, or to sell them to slave
traders. A cruel incident of this kind is ex
citing great sympathy there at present. The
family of William Williams, the coachman
of Presidents Polk, Taylor and Fillmoie,
wero suddenly, on Friday morninp, seized
by a slave trader, and taken from their
homes, in that city, off to Baltimore, to be
sent to New Orleans. His wife, over 50
years of agp, three daughters and three grand
children, weie thus snatched from him iu an
hour, to a fate worse lo him than death ; to
be sold south to Ihe highest bidder, and sep
arated from him and each other. The poor
man wrung his hands, rolled on the ground,
was nearly crazed in fact, by' the dreadful
ful parting. After many years toil, he very
recently purchased his own freedom, but his
family wero owned by some one in New Or
leans. The President feeling deeply for his
distress, gave him money and let him go to
Baltimore, to see (hum again. Williams
found llio ttader would take Ihe sum of S3,
200 for them, and returned with the hope of
raising that amount here lo redeem them.
A petition was drawn up, and to-day circu
lated about the City and House of Represen
tatives, setting forth ihu fact, and asking' for
assistance, which was so promptly rendered,
that the prospect is, in Ihe language of Wil
liams himself, ' very fair."
The President, Mr. Webster, (Jen Scott,
and a number of Senators, members and citi
zens, have contributed funis from 85 to 50
Mr. Corcoran gave S200, which was Ihe
price asked for ihe aged wife, and he made
her "free" al once. Besides doing this, Mr.
Corcoian has purchased one of tho women,
who has lived in his family for soma years.
Mrs. Com. Patterson another, and Mrs. Gen.
Townseud a third, who lived with her for
some years past. So the children, for whom
$1,500 were asked only remain to be pur
chased by iheir grandfather and he is in a
fair way of raising this money.
: U" The Whigs of Union county have
nominated James Armstrong of Lycoming,
for Congress, and Col. Eli Slifer of Lewis
burg, for Assembly.
j tty Jenny Lind on her way to this
country, is to give two concerts at Liver
pool. Tickets are selling at $25.
tt?" The American Law Journal has
made its appearance in a new dress. The
uly number, is the commencement of a
new volume. The printing and paper are
excellent the pages are longer, and the
journal contains a much greater quantity
of matter than previously. The contents
of the number before us are highly interest-
ng. Among them are abstracts of deci
sions of the Supreme Court of the United
States and of the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania, remarks upon Professor Web
ster's case, and upon Renewing Patents
by Congress.
BANK OF NORTH C1 BER LAND.
This Institution which has always main
tained its credit, and justly ranks as one
of the best conducted Banks in the State,
has already commenced issuing $10 bills
from a new plate, to supply the place of
the counterfeit $10 bills recently put into
circulation, the first counterfeits that have
been attempted on this Bank. These notes
are beautifully executed. The handsome
groupe ot figures on the left end of the
note, will puzzle the counterfeiters prodi
giously, lo imitate. There are four notes
on one 6heet, all exactly alike, excepting
the letters designating the issue of each
plate, viz : A. B. C. D. Being somewhat
curious to know the cost of engraving such
"pictures," we were informed that the ex
penses of the plates was about five hundred
dollars. The Bank deserves credit for it
promptness and liberally, in protecting the
public against counterfeiters.
The $10 counterfeits of the old plate
may be known by the line of the horses
belly, on the left side, which in the coun
terfeit is almost straight; also by a block
under the horse, which is indistinct, in the
counterfeits. The horse on the right, has
his mouth nearly closed in the counterfeit.
In the genuine it is open.
ttF" Population of Sunbtry. T. S.
Mackey, Esq., the Deputy Marshall for
this countv, while attending court at this
place, the past week, embraced the oppor
tunity as a favorable time to take the cen
sus of the Borough of Sunbury'. We are
indebted to him for the following statistics,
the result of his labors :
Number of Families,
Number of Inhabitants,
No. of Inhabitants in 1840,
Increase,
227
1213
1108
105
fX?" The Southern ultraists and nullifiers
who voted against the passage of the bill,
admitting California, presented a protest to
the Senate, with a request that it be placed
on the records. Opposition being made it
was postponed. It will most probably be
received as a kind of salvo or sugar plum
relief for the consciences ot these disunion
patriots, especially as it cannot do any
harm.
VNION COIKTY.
John M. Baum, Esq., of the Union
Times, has been nominated for the Assem
bly, in Union county, by the Democratic
Convention. We congratulate friend Baum
on his nomination, and should be pleased
to do so on his election, in October, if tho
thing can be done in old Union.
Juiix Walls, Esq., of Lewisburg, was
at the same time appointed delegate to the
4 th of March Convention. This is a good
appointment, and a deserved compliment
as there are few more steadfast and true
democrats in the county, than Mr. Walls.
New Counterfeit on the Farmers Bank
of Reading. An altered note on Ihe Far
mers Bank of Reading has just appeared.
The principal vignette is three human figures
anil a nondescript animal. On right end,
two human figures, and on left the figure 5
in a large die. The name of the Bank and
the words "State of Pennsylvania and Read
ing" inserted.
York Bank Counterfeits. The new
counterfeit notes on Ihe York Bank, have
been widely circulated and three men have
been arrested in Montgomery county, and
lodged in jail after having passed some $800
of the counterfeit notes in that county, Bucks
and Lancastei. The counterfeits are S'sand
10's, and may be easily detected by observing
that the words "The York JJant" are placed
in a semi-circle over the vignette.
Crossing the Atlantic Captain Em
mons, the veteran chief steward of the royal
mail steamships, sailed from this port in the
Asia, on Wednesday, on his one hundred
arid sixty-eighth voyage across the Atlantic
ocean, within Ihe twelve years last past.
Allowing the distance across to be 3,000
miles, he has sailed within Ihe period over
500,000 miles, averaging one trip each tweu
tj -six days Boston Journal.
A Cure for the Bite or Venomous Ani
mals. Immediately on the introduction of
the poison, make positive pressure with a
lube, of any kind, sullicioutly large to en
compass tho outer edges of the wound. By
this piocess the superficial circulation is in
terrupted, and tho venom is almost iustan
tanously exuded from the injured portion of
Ihe body. The rule applies lo a musquito
bite.
"The British Empiie, sir !" exclaimed
a John Bull to a Jonathan, "is one on which
the sun never nets." "And one," replied
Jonathan, "on which the tax gatherer never
goes to bed."
The Steamship Pacific, on ber last pas
sage out, ran in one day, by observation,
the extraordinary distance of Art hundred
and tvxnty-tix miltt.
The Oswego Times says that near ont
hundred sail of vessels are lying idle in
that port.
JOURNAL.
LETTER FROM KOSSUTH TO OEIf. CAM.
The Union of Saturday publishes the fol
lowing letter from the renowned Hungarian
leader and patriot, Louis Kossuth, addressed
to General Cass, U. S. Senator from Michi
gan. The intensity of patriotic feeling which
it manifests, the beautiful simplicity of its
expressions, and its confident hope iu the
progress of the great cause of human liberty,
will commend it lo the warm regard of eve
ry true-hearted American .'
Kutalva, (Asia Minor,) May 25, 1850.
General: It is already ton mouths that 1
have the anguish of exilo to endure.
Nature has man's mind with wonderful
elasticity endowed. It yields to many chan-
cs of fate, and gets accustomed even to ail-
versily. But lo one thing the patriot s nean
never learns to inure itself lo tho pangs of
exile.
You remember yon patrician of Venice,
who. when banished, feigned high treason,
that he might at least from the scaffold cast
over Ihe Rialto a glance once more.
This fond desire I can easily understand.
I can so tho more, because yon Venetian)
though exiled, knew his fatherland to be
happy and great ; but 1, sir, carry the dolor
of millions, the pains of a down-lrodden
country in my wounded breast, without hav
ing even the sad consolation to think that it
could not otherwise be. Oh! had Divine
Providence only from treason deigned me to
preserve, I swear to the Almighty God the
threatening billows of despotism would have
fallen like foam from tho rock of my brave
people's breasts. To have this firm convic
tion, sir, and, instead of tho well-deserved
victory of freedom, to find one-self in exile,
the fatherland in chains, is a profound sorrow,
a nameless grief.
Neither have I the consolation to have
found mitigations of this grief at the hospita
ble health of a great frea people, Ilia con
templation of which, by tho imposing view
of freedom's wonderful powers, warms the
despondent heart, making it in the destiny of
mankind believe.
It is not a coward lamentation which
makes me say all this, General, but ihe
lively senso of gratitude and thankful ack
nowledgments for your generous sympathy.
I wanted to sketch the darkness of my des
tiny, thai you might feel what benefit must
have been to me your beam of light, by
which you, from the capital of free America,
have heightened my night.
It was in Broussa. General, that the notice
of your imposing speech has leached me ;
in yonder Broussa, where Hannibal bewailed
his country's mischief, and foretold the fall of
its oppressors Hannibal, exiled like myself,
but still unhappier, as he was accompanied
in exile by Ihe ingratitude of his people, but
I by the love of mine.
Yes, General, your powerful speech was
not only the inspiration of sympathy for un
merited misfortune, so natural to noble, feel
ing hearts; it was the revelation of the jus
tice of God it was a leaf from the book of
fate, unveiled to the world. On that day
General, you were sitting, in the name of
mankind, in tribunal, passing judgment on
despotism and the despots of the woild; and
as sure as the God of Justice lives, your ver
dict will be accomplished.
Shall 1 yet have my share in this great
work or not 1 I do not know. Once almost
an efficient instrument in the hands of Provi
dence, I am now buried alive. With hum
ble heart will I accept the call to action,
should I be deemed wo: thy of it, or submit
to Ihe doom of inactive snfferings, if it must
be so. But, be it one or thn oilier, I know
that your sentence will be fulfilled. 1 know,
that aged Europe, at the son of fieedom's
young America, will herself grow young
again. I know that my people, who proved
so worthy of liberty, will yet, notwithstand
ing their present degradation, weiyh heavy
in this balance of fate ; and I know that, as'
long as one Hungarian lives, your name,
General, will be counted among the most
cherished in my native land, as the distin
guished man whoj a worthy interpreter of
the generous sentiments of the great Ameri
can people, has upon us poor Hungarians the
consolation bestowed of a a confident hope,
at a moment when Europe's decrepit politics
seemed our unmeiited fate forever to seal.
May you be pleased, General, to accept
the most fervent thanks of an honest friend
of freedom. Let me hope that should Mr.
Ujhazy, (my oldest and best friend, and pre
sent representative in the United States,) irt
interest of the holy cause to which you have
so generously your protection accorded, ad
dress himself to you for something which you
might, in your wisdom, judge convenient and
practicable, you will not withhold from us
your powerful support ; and please to accept
Ihe assurance of my highest esteem and
most peculiar veneration L. Kossuth,
Alio Governor of Hungary.
The the Honorable the General Cass,
Washington.
1 hope you will excuse my bad Euglish.
1 thought it my duty to address you in your
own language.
United States Senate The lerms of
the following United Slates Senators, expire
in March next, ( 1851.)
Democrats 2'iciie.-Maine, Ifannibal Ham
lin, (re-elected ); New Y'ork, D. S. Dickin
son ; Indiana, Jesse D. Bright; Virginia, Jas.
M.Mason; Pennsylvania, Daniel Sturgeon;
Tennessee, II. L. Turney; Missouri, T. 11
Benlon ; Wisconsin, Henry Dodge ; Florida,
David L. Yuleo ; Texas, Thomas J. Rusk ;
Michigan, Lewis Cass; Mississippi, JelTur
on Davis.
Whigs Eight. Connecticut, B. S Bald
wiu; Massachusetts, R. C. Winlhrop; Ver
mont, Samuel S. Phelps; Rhode Island, Al
bert C. Greene; Delaware, John Wale;
New Jersey, Win. L. Dayton; Maryland,
Thomas G. Pratt, (re-elected f, Ohio, Thomas
Ewing,
Appointed by the Exeoutive of the State, J
until the next meeting of the Legislature.
FotTY-six females arrived at San Fran
cisco from Adelaide, New South Wales, ou
the 23d of June. This ia the largest shipment
of that article yet made lo California iu any
single bottom.
THIRTY-FIRST COffOrtESS-1st !.
important Proceeding Passage in thi Senate,
ofths California Bill Thirty-four Tlas to
Eighteen Nays. j
' Washington. August 13, 1850,
Senate. The California bill was taken
up.
Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, addressed the
Senate in opposition to its passage, warning
the Senate of the serious and fatal conse
quence likely to follow the consummation of
a measure so subversive ef the constitution
and violative of the principles upon which
our forelathers founded the union ol these
States.
He felt thnt tho fate of the Union hung
upon this measure, which enacted the Wil
mot Proviso in effect, though not iu form a
provision which the legislatures of sovereign
States declared that they would resist lo the
last, In conclusion, he Warned the Senate
that Ihey were about lo plunge into an abyss
in which would be buried all the glories of
Ihe past, und all Ihe hopes of the future.
Mr. Clemens slated the reasons which
would impel him lo vote against the bill.
He would do so first because no census of Cal
ifornia had been taken, and there wasnoevi
dence before the Senate that at the time of
the adoption of the Constitution of California,
her population was sufficient to entitle her to
one representative In Congress. Again, that
Constitution was formed and adopted under
an executive and military dictation, and for
the purpose of excluding the people of one
half the States ot the Union from participa
lion in the benefits of the new acquisitions.
After some further remarks relative lo Ilia
pioprioty of resistance to this measurcj he
declared himself ready lo perform whatever
act his Stale required of him. If she direct
ed him to resist it in other fields, he Was
ready to obey her no matter what her man-
date. If this was treason he was a tiaitor.
and intended to continue such.
Mr. Houston defended the vote which ho j branches. Arcnitecturt, Masonry, UotanV in
should give iu favor of tho Dill. H pictured : U"n il """ Arts ...d
1 Jst'icnr(,i.
tho evils vf disunion, and scouted all idea of ! n Illso or.yma f,.nturc not founjl
of such a result. He argued the prnpiiety j in any o'her weekly jnurnnl in the county, vis!
and justice of admitting California, and do- an CilVial List of Vatent Claims prepared ex
, ... ., , I pres.-lv lnr its ro.vnnna nt the Patent Ollice. thus
clared himself ready toassume every respon- r,isfi't,lliilg it ,,,. ..American K.-ptYtery of Invent
sibility devolving upon him, because of his ' lions."
vote in favor of that measure. In the course I I" connection with the puhWiin drpajtment
of his rerr.aiks he alluded to the Nashville
Convention in terms far from complimentary .
Mr. Bainwell defended that body from the
aspersions of the Senator from Texas, lie
also opposed the passage of the California All let'.ers must be Post Paid and ilir.x'ted to
bill, and Ihe characterized it as the act of Ml.NN&CO.
. , .i Publisher? of The. Scientific American
an unscrupulous majority trampling upon the , j,,,,,.. Kcw.York.
rights and feelings of helpless minority j inducements for Clubbing.
Mr. Ewing arose lo reply lo uu intimation , Any person who will send us four subscribers
which he understood lo have been thrown i fr si months, at our regular rates, shall he enti
out vesterdav hv Mr. Berrien. In thn ..(Ted ! tlci' t"0"0 r"i'' for ,l,e mmv h'"S of liino; or
that the late Executive had interlered in
moulding ihe institutions of California, and
deluded the peoplo in the adoption of the
Constitution formed by them.
Mr. Berrien denied having intended to
make any such charge. hi) only said that a
, ,
letter, which he lead to the Senate, enter- 1
tained such an intimation
After further debate by Messrs. Davis, of
Miss., and Houston, and some conversation
. . r. , , . .
between Messrs. Cass and Clemens, relative
to the consistency of the course of the former
upon the Wilmot Proviso, the question was
taken, and the bill passed yeas 34, nays 13,
as follows:
Yens Messrs. Baldwin, Bradbury, Bell, !
Benton, Bripht, Cass, Chase, Cooper, Davis,
f M -. n;nl-;..r... rv . r w;,, r . i .
ol Iowa, Douglass, twing, belch, lireene,
I Hale, Hamlin, Houston, Jones, Miller, Norris,
Phelps, Seward, Shields, Smith, Sprnanee,
Sturgeon, Underwood, Upham, Wales, Wal
ker, Winlhrop, Whilecoinb.
Nays Messrs. Atchison, Barnwell, Butler,
Benieii, Clemens, Davis, of Miss., Foote,
Hunter, King, Mason, Morton, Pratt, Busk,
Sebastian, Soule, Turney, Yulee.
The passage of ihe bill was greeted with
demonstrations of applause.
Mr. Butler signified a desire to enter a pro
test to Ihe bill, on the part of the minority.
Mr. Douglass moved lliat the bill lo esta
blish a Territorial Government for Now Mex
ico be made the special ordor for to-morrow,
twelve o'clock.
Mr Butler expressed Ihe desire lo have the
fugitive slave bill taken up and acted upon
first.
Mr. rOOte expressed his great Surprise
,t , r , . p .i i .
that gentlemen fiom ihe South should eudea-
Or 10 delay action Upon the Territorial Bill,
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and Commented with Some Severity Upon the
c .
action of many Southern Senators.
After further debate the motion to make
the bill a special order for to morrow was
agreed to on a division Ayes 25 Nays H.
The Senate soon after adjourned.
Hot the Amerieau.
THE W00D6.
Am Susanna.
TIhmo 't a cliarin in I hose simple words,
Come lo the wood,
Whore we have roamed in childish glee.
Through iu inounmin solitude,
Where oil we've gathered berries bright
When our path was strewed with liowers,
And uandeied to our hearts delight,
liL'iieain those wild wood bowers.
Come to ihe wood,
U! come to the wood,
We love its cool and bhady dells,
lis mountain solitude.
ow,the wood's are preen and gay,
Sweet with perfume,
Fanned by the summer gales,
In flora's gayest bloom,
The forest lyres (.weelly tuned
Swept by the mountain breee,
Chaunt their own sad lullaby,
The music of the trees.
Come lo the wood,
O ! come to the wood, trees.
We'll pay our respects 10 the brave old
Which for centuries have stood.
There's muiio in the mountain rill,
To lull the care worn breast,
And Ihe mossy bank is free lo lay,
The weary limbs to rest.
Whilst through the old tree tops,
The xephyrs gently play, haunts
And tbe wood nymphs dance ia their fair
And thus pas old time away.
Come to the wood,
O ! come to the wood,
We love its cool and shady dells,
It mountain solitude,
i'uiifcwry, August 1-
PUBLIC VENDUE.
TIfILL bs sold on BsturJsy the Slit dav of"
August, I860, at (he House of Peter HileJ
man, In the Borough df Sunbury, the following
prrfprrty to wn: ueus, Bedding end Bdsteds
Tables, Chairs, Bureaus Ifon Potts end Kettle
Dried Fruit, of virion kirlds, ont Lot of Corn irt
the ground, J Lot of Potatoes in thb tffoond, GN
den Truck, one tmrrei of Soft gonp drff banter's
tools, Apples and Prnclios on the trees. A Varie
ty of Household and Kitchen furniture, anil vt'rfou
other articles.
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock A. f., ofiaiil
day, when tho conditions will he marie known by
PETER HILEMAN.
Sunbury, Ang. 17, 1850.
Xotlcc to Hrlilgo itulMcn.
PROPOSALS will be received at the house J
1 William Veacr.in Sliamokintown on Tiles'
day llie 3d day of eptoml)cr ncit, for the pur'
pose of rebuilding a briilire across the Shimokirf
Creek, near sain town nu wnere plans and spe'
cification will be exhibited.
JACOB HOFKA,
CHARLES WEAVER
WM. WILSON.
1 Commissioners.'
Sunbury, Aug. 17, 1850.
to" idnbzAificsT" '
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i jt";
NIMCE. DYSPEPSIA, CHRONIC OIJ
N EllVOt'S DEBILITY. DISEASE
; TUB KIDNEYS,
n n't ilW'.-iw-siiriMin from a itiHnnlered tiverorrto
Itl-ril 1 1 tiif head. ArhWv tf Ihr St'miic-h,. Nauftrn.-
Itirit.urii. ilistr ir Fin.iK- t'uIltu-M r weight in the
Stnitiai-h. .iir KniHali ns. ninkhia .r liutU'riny at th pit
1 tin- S!inii:r!i. iv naming if the lieail, hurried and dilfu-aK
hriMlhln:;. Ilip.ua n!! at tla !ttnrt. rlinkitHr or maforatilig
M-n;tli im wlioi inn lni v'!nr,. llimm-n ol' viaion,
ft .laor wv'f b.-ftavthf rk'ht. I'crrr und cHII jmiHi in Ihe
brail. l-hat-nty il'pt'r'n'iitii.n, yclhiwiirtft nt the nkinamt
ryi-s, paia ill ill ante , Itm-tw chest, liuilis, A-f., sudden
liisl;rs nl'hi'a Itariitntf in the ltrsh.- C'littun rnmgitiingtf
vl uvii. and pn-at ilt'i'ieci' n 1 Fpitil.
CAN UK Kl'I'KCTl ALI.V Cl'lifcl) BV
ID?.. HO CPL AITD'S
t I.i.tiili.Vi 1) .IItMA. it I'll EH
JJ I! . c . .VI . JACKSON,
AT THE
UCKMA.N MhDlClXE STOHE,
Ko, 1-0 Arch St., Philailflphl,
Their piver ovt-r tlie ttlt-ive diwntct it mA crlld, if
ciuuiiutl, t'V uny oiIht itit'nititiii in the L wiled ttatti,'
u ibr t-urc uilfjt, m titauy cuca ullrr ukiUtftl pliyttcwjts
lind mi led.
ThtfH! iirtirr lire worthy they nUeii.ton of in vat id t.
P-wumn;; (in-ill virtuf in ttrt r-ficulwi of diactuttof
the Liver mttl k-ffvt-r gknula, cxrciirj( the m at aeaicliiiif
I AVer in wtvktU'Mi ui u) uHtM'tiena oi'Die riigraih'a organa,
tlmy arr, withul, ami, tvrluii uik! pWtaunt.
I'iojii the IJirsiuu jUcc.J.
Tlia llililor Kiiu, Drr. '-J-.M
4K. ilotvFl.AMi' CICLKBRATSIV (XKMAX ItPTTnC fot
the cure or Lavt-r i'tui(Luut. Jaundice, ly apellate, Chrwuie
j Ur mtxltcmea i Ihe day. TUeae UiUeia ha Uea ad
by ttuHiauiMia, mid a t'rtfiid at our albow asryi he hat kim-
lrccived ' riVetll41, and p.menTiorc ol u7
i CV.inpiamliromlUeuaeul UiiaieiHcdy. We ara eonmc4
llml' 111 llie UM o(" theM Hittera, the put i eat conataiiilf
guuw etrengthand vigors fart worthy of great eonak
I ruti'ii. They are pleaauwt in taate and emeu, aud can
I UModby wl'tB llie deiicuteatoniachawitheai
eonawa
fa.
ly, under any circumua. Waare aoeaking frvan es
pcrieiice, uiki iu trie amtciea we wo viae in pit uae."
Judge M. M. Noah, a peiitleiima with great aci enti fie
and luerury attaiiunenta, aunt ia hi i'eilr York Wacklf
MeaaeiiKftr.M Januurv 6. t-n
Dr. Moorland' a German Bitwra.-Here ia wecmratkm
t whiuh the leading prraaea in the I'nioii appear to be uiiani
m 1 luouB in recouiiiieiidiuy. uiid lh reuia ia obvioua. It i
! made alter a preemption ruahed by one oS the timet eele
j brated phyaiciana ot' modern tiiuea. the late Dr. Chr etcphef
Wilhetin lloofland, ProtVaaur to the I'niveraitjr of Jena.
I private t'hyeieiau to lite King ol' Pruaaia, aitd ue of th
! (ireuttt iiHxhcaJ wrilcra Germany baa ever produced, lia
wua emphatically tae eiirjny 01 miinmif, mm uieselora a
iiwdii'ine of which he waa the inventor and uiduraer may
lie ctmtidt-nlly relied on. He apeciuLly raooiuiuendea) it in
Liver Complaint, JJyapapeia, Debility. Vertigo, Aridity of
Die toiiiaili. CouitNputi-n. and all coin plaint ariaing from
a disordered conditio) ol the elomadi, the liver and the
liileeline. Nine l'luUidoUllna papera eipreaa their jonvw
tion ot' it envi-llmine, and at vein I of the editor apeak of
itH!.:ciB from their own individual experience. Under
tlirau nriiimtitiice,w, we leel warranted, not ily in calling
the altrntl 'ii of our rentier to the preat-ut preaent proprie
tor' (Dr. I. M- J-teka m1) prepunuiut., but iu reooiuiuatal
ing the utt tele to a I litliu'ted 11
Mure Evidence.
The "Phil'idrlphia Paturdny Gazette," the beet family
ni'wopvper publifhed m the I nittd r-utce, tbe editor aa
of
Dr. lloofland $ German Bitters,
It ia aeldtm that we recommend what are termee! V
lent .Miilu-uic. tu llie cuittiiteiu'e .ihI pvtriNiuge of hi
router.-, ih1. thttr!ure, when we recommend Ir. Hoaf
htnd's (formuii liiuem, we wi. it lo be dwtiiieily Mnrtet.
tinl lliut we ure .peukiii (f lli. uoMrum. of Um
dny.thui Bre n"i'l uIkhii 1'iira bi irt period end then lor.
KLlti'4i ul'tei Ihey h.vediiie Ihcir guilly race ol nuecaiei,
but ol' . meriiciue loiuj u.uiUilied, HiiiverwUy urised, uia
winch but lurt tlie lirarly .prova! ol the .cully iMelf.'1
Tbut line medicine will cure XUrer Complaint ua Dy.
pein, no one auiidoubt, after using it a. directed, h acta
pMilically upon lli. auwiaca aud liver it ia preaerabla
to taloiucl in all billmua (Iimum-i tbe eject ia irauMdiata.
They can be ariiuiinMered lo Kerual. or Juiaut wua aafatr
and reliable benefit, at any time.
BEWARE OF COlTNTKRraT.
This mrVlic in. haa atained that high character which ia
aeoeamry lor all medicine, to attain to indue eoaatelfellera
to put forth a apuriou. article at the riak of tea livas of
laoee are iiinoceuUy deceived.
I.OOK WELL TO THE MARKS OF THE GENUINE
They have the wriuea lignatur. of C. M. JACK80N
apoa the wrapper, and the name blows ialae bottle, wit.
our which they ara euuikiue.
For aale, wholeaaie aud retail, the (
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