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SUNBURY AMERICAN AND SHAM0K1N JOURNAL.
CALIFOKNIA NEWS,
AHRIVAL OF THE
ELDORADO.
IWO WEEKS LXTlCtl Ft!
CALIFORNIA.
000,000 IN WI.D.
interesting Intcliwnrct Great Inundation
and Destrtx'.ion of Property.
New York, April 12.
.The steamship El Dorado, from San Juan
ml Chnjfren, wilh intelligence fiom Califor
ilia to the ISth ult., arrived here this niter
noon at five o'clock, having corn" tip In
the city unannounced, owing to the dense
To?.
The El Dorado brings S800,000 in gold
duct of which 5780,000 is on freight, and
I ho remainder, $150,000, in the hanJs ol
passengers.
The passenger trains nn the Panama Kail
Road are now running from Aspinwall to
Huona Vista. Tha trains start immediately
on the arrival of the steamers, ami passen
gers leaving Aspinwall in the morning ar
rive at Panama at midnight.
Aspinwall is beginning to assume the ap
pearance of a thriving city.
A most disastrous flood had occurred on
the rivers, and the city of Sacramento, Ne
vada and Marysville had been completely
overflowed, causing a frightful destruction of
property.
Thii loss at Marysville is estimated at
$10,000. At Sacramento, the embankment
gave way, and the flood washed through tho
town, carrying ofT into the river a number of
houses.
Al Marysville, all the stoics were sub
merged, and a large quantity of goods were
destroyed.
At Nevada, two quartz mills, the theatre,
the Empire Hotel, und several dwelling-houses
were swept away.
The bridges at Salmon Falls and Coloma
were carried off, and it is thought that every
briJge on the South and Middle Foik rivers
has shared the same fate.
The country between Sacramento and the
mines is impassible. The Hall of the Le
gislature was surrounded by water, ami the
members cou!d only reach it by boats.
Nearly all the houses on the Marysville and
Sacramento road floated oil", and many of
the finest brick building in Maiysville hare
been rendered uninhabitable.
The damage at Sacramento is estimated
at 840,000.
The crops, it was thought, would not be
materially injured.
Many lives had, been lost along the rivers
and the destruction of cattle was very great.
At the last accounts, the water was rapid
ly subsiding.
At Sail Francisco an expedition has been
projectej to go to a newly-discovered gold
mine on Queen Charlotte Island.
The Indians are still giving trouble. A
parly attacked Clark's train near Sacramen
to, and in the fight that ensued four of the
Indians were killed. The party of whites
in charge of the train were forced to aban
don their goods. Two Indians were after
wards taken and hung.
Immense quantities of snow had fallen in
the neighborhood of Duwnieville.
The intelligence from the Mining Districts
was not favoiable.
A detachment of United Slates troops
from New York had arrived there.
Lookinq-Glasses for Bin us. A corres
pondent of the Gardener's Chronicle says :
"The fullowing plan is perfectly etlica
cious for scaring birds from fruit and othr
produce. Ono of my servants having by
chance broken a looking-glass, it occurred to
me (hat broken pieces, suspended by a
estring, o ns to turn fieely in every direclinn
would give the appearance of something
moving about, which would alarm the birds
f accordingly tried the plan, and found that
no bird, nut even tho most foolhardy of
(hem, dare come near. They had attacked
my peas ; on suspending a few bits of the
looking-glass amongst them, the marauders
left the place. The tomtits attacked my
scckle pears, to which tliey seem very par
tail. A bit of looking-glass suspended in
front of the trees put a s'op to the mischief.
My grapes were then much damaged, before
they were ripe, by thrushes and starlings;
a piece of looking-glass drove these away,
and not a grape was touched afterwards. I
had before tiied many plans, bul never
found any so effectual as the abovo."
Tlie Spirit of the Times says, on the sub
ject of racing time : '-No horse ever went a
mile within a niinule, although it has been
alleged of the Flying Dutchman. Such a
feat is impossible, for it would lequire a
horse wilh a stride of ninety feet, and per
form it once every second. The best time
ever made was in a four mile race by
Fashion. The lime was 7 minute and
381 seconds.
A Medical writer in England is endear
orjug to prove that salt was the "forbidden
fruit," anil that if it was no longer used by
human race, "their beauty, bodily perfec
tion and power of mind" would exceed any
era before known in the uoild.
Our friend Prentice is getting up n new
kind of sheep, that will take to water like a
.Newfoundland dog. The breed is a cross
made by giving a hydraulic ram the rou of
the sheep-pen. It takes Ezra.
An Irish sailor, as he was riding, made a
pause ; the horse in beating ofT the flies
aught his hind foot in the stirrup ; the sail
at observing it, exclaimed "How now Dob
tin, if you are going to get on, I will get off,
for, by the powers, I will wi ride double
with )u."
It w said that ten grains of phosphate of
lime, washed down with 'swallow of cod
liver oil, latee times per day, will cure con
umplion ia its eirly stages.
It i slated that by Ihe recent adramsu in
Reading Rail Road slock, a New York
spccuUur hl lealiM'J f 1 10,000 clear profit.
THE AXORIS-aUT.
SUNBURY.
.RATI RDAV, APRIL IT, ISM.
II. B. MASSER, Eil I lor and Proprietor.
V. n. PAI.MKR Is out anthnriseil ajrent tuwuve iil
rtiption and silver! iiinft at huofficc, in Philadelphia, New
York, Boiton aixl Baltimore.
To Adtktib. The circulation of the Punbury
American tunnnff the riiffnrait town, nit fli Si,n,..l.nt...n
it not exceeded if equalled by any paper puhli.hed in North
ern Pennsylvania.
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DEMOCRATIC STATE NOMINATION.
POR CA.N'AI. COMMISSION!:!!,
WILLIAM SE ARIGHT,
of Fayette County.
EDITOR'S TABLE.
limine.. Nailers.
Gonr.t's Luiv's Hook for May is already on
our table. The leading engraving in this num
ber is Janunry and May, and is a beautiful spc
cimen of nrt. The rending matter is from among
our host American authors. Thope who want
to subscribe to tins periodical can do so through
us.
JuCnXAL OF THE I'll A 1 K LI X IxsTITl'TK.
The April number of this valuable scientific
Journal lias been received. It contains a list of
the patents issued in February and also n va
riety of other useful information on scientific
subjects.
The Sciiuol Joi-nAL. This is new work
published by Thomas II. IJurrows, of Lancaster,
intended originally for Lancaster county.
Scott's Weekly PArr.n This is probably
the largest as well as one of the best weeklies
published in the city. Friend Scott is a clever
and an energetic business man, am! deserves tho
success he has reaped.
I.vrnorED Lihiitxixo Rons. Our readers
will perceive by tho advertisement nf Mr. T. S.
Mackey, that ho has made still further improve
ment in his lightning rods. Mr. Mackey is an
intelligent and ingenious citizen and has con
structed a lightning rod that is highly commend
ed by a large number of his neighbors and fel
low citizens.
ri7 Printino Ink. For sale for cash,
at this office, kegs ol 25, 20 and 12 pounds
each.
Congress continues doing little or
nothing for the people, except President
making, for which the people do not thank
them, as they intend to do that themselves.
KF" The apportionment bill published
in another column, has passed the Senate
with some amendments. What theamend
ments are we have not heard. The House
will, however, have a say in it.
THE APPORTIONMENT BILL.
The legislature has had the apportion
ment bill before them for some time and
will have no little trouble in forming the
Stale into such Congressional districts ns
will give general satisfaction. The last hill
introduced unites this County wilh Dau
phin and Lebanon in which the democracy
of old Northumberland is to be completely
swallowed up by the whig majorities of
these two Counties. This will never
do. Old Northumberland and her unterri
fied democracy will never submit in being
thus unceremoniously surrendered into the
hands of the Philistines.
ttJ" Our Lewisburg friends are deter
mined to have a large Hotel in that place,
and have accordingly raised a handsome
sum'by stock subscription for that purpose.
That they will accomplish the matter, we
have no doubt. There are but few, if any
towns in the interior of Pennsylvania,
where more enterprise is exhibited than by
the citizens of Lewisburg. They have
great faith in the mottoes "push" and "per
severe" and do not fail to profit by it.
The great misfortune of Sunbury and
Northumberland, is, that their men of
means have acquired such an inveterate
habit of multiplying by u', that they can
not be induced to adopt any other rule of
arithmetic.
THE MAIM: LIQIOH. LAW.
This law alter undergoing various muta
tions in the shape of amendments as it pas
sed through the Senate, so that its friends
would hardly own it, was finally killed in
the House of Representatives, by a vote of
4G to 50 on the first section of the bill.
The friends of the law however say, they
"do not intend to give it up so" but will
renew the war with increased vigor next
session. In the mean time, the friends of
the law intend to organize themselves into
an opposition, to all candidates for the le
gislature, who are not open and avowed
friends of the measure. Col. Wallace of
the Philadelphia Sun, quoting from the
Reading Journal "thinks it all for the best,
that the bill as amended was defeated, that
the people want the Maine law and not
the miserable apology agreed upon in the
Senate. They want all or nothing "5-1,
40 or fight." Failing in getting their mea
sure through this winter, they will "try
again" from year to year encouraged by
the hope that
"Tui TKMrsaAXc'i Utile, thui begun,
Hequeatheri from bleeding sire to m,
Though Untol oft will tui si won."
rF" The rainy season is not peculiar fo
California alone, as we have already expe
rienced. Its duration here is, perhaps, not
so long. For the fortieth time we now
look for cl ar weather.
ARMAKI) MARK AST,
Who formed one of the Cabinet under
the provisional government of France, af
ter the flight of Louis Phillippe, has de
scended to the tomb. After the elevation
of Louii Napoleon, he went into retire
ment, poor but wilh an untarnished reputa
tion. He was an accomplished scholar
of great learning and ability, and as a jour
nalist exercised great influence. His friend,
Lamarline, the poet and statesman, and one
of the finest writers of the times, has writ
ten his obituary, from which we take the
following beautiful extract:
His death has been ascribed to Ihe sad
ness of a fallen ambition. This is another
calumny. His heart was broken before his
fall or his elevation. Obscuiity became his
disposition. lie loved solitude and leisure ;
ho had, like a child, something of merri
ment that sported with his misery like an
old man, soiiielhiinj of repose which looks
to eternity for renuital. He felt hi nmbi
approaching before his evening, and he ac-
uiiiumt-u iiimseii 10 tne lonio hy solitude
ami even separation from his friends.
May his soul repose in peace ! may his
family be consoled, and his country nut be
forsolful ! Ho leaves behind him Ihe sole
ediliee which it is given to the longest life
to prect nnon the earth. I mnn ivmn
This name has been attached by accident
io a unci ..line, out to creat things ; and of
all those rreM thine, he perhaps, has done
the most difficult he has touched a revolu
tion, without staining his hands therein
with a drop of blood, an atom of spoil, or a
single tear !
And yet hf dies fallen yon say ! It is
true. He believed in God and in tho peo
ple. The people have deceived him ; God
w ill not decieve him. Let us pray for his
soul.
fXT" The bill to lease the public woiks
has been defeated. This is right. The
public works are now in a way ot becom
ing valuable. Should they get into the
hands of lessors, for a term of years, they
would probably give them up at the end of
the term, in a condition that woujd require
all the rent to put them in order. In a
fewyeats, when the North Branch Canal
will be completed, and with proper man
agement, they will yield a nett revenue of
at least two millions, and relieve us from
the payment of State taxes.
PRAVINO MALIIINKS.
A late writer gives an account of pray
ing machines, used by the natives in India.
The prayers are written or printed, and
pasted on a cylender, which is revolved by
a crank, and thus each prayer is alternate
ly brought up to the view of the god Budd
ha. Unfortunately, praying machines are
not confined alone to the Buddhists of In
dia. They are found in every portion of
the world, and used by Jevs and Gentiles
Christians and Pageans. Unless the
heart is engaged, we look upon the human
body, as nothing more or less than a ma
chine, operated upon by some invisible le
ver or crank.
We would advise all who wish to be bur
ied decently io call at Charles Dolery's and
secure a metallic coflin.
We clip the above from a southern pa.
per. These nullifiers take things very
coolly, and select a coffin with as much non
cA'ilunce as they would a coat. But we
, are surprised that they should be willin" to
j encase themselves in a northern coffin made
out of "protected iron,"
When death himself ttint ceatcleu dun
Who wain ox utl yet wain run uune
shall summon them to secede from this glo
rious Union.
(CP" Our Union county cotemporaries
are almost constantly at loggerheads.
Their interchange of compliments towards
each other must be highly refreshing to
their readers. Practice has made them ex
perts, and we doubt whether they could be
i excelled in their line by any, this side of
I Billingsgate.
j LET" The New York Tribune appears in
a new suit of type, and as it is always
printed on good paper, it is one of the best
printed, as it undoubtedly is one of the
j most a!dy edited papers in the Union.
' Tim length of the Sunbury and Erie Rail
road to bo constructed is 96 miles, and noi
I the least important of its many advantage
is iiitt tact mailt will connect wilh all the
; principle coal regions of ihe Susquehanna.
The Columbia Democrat gives its read
ers the above information. We presume
the Colonel was thinking of the Susque
hanna Rail Road, from Harrisburg to Sun
bury and Williamsport. There is a big
difference between the two.
Wei.I., the weather has settled beautifully,
thank goodness. Phila Sun.
Not so fast Colonel the settling process is
not yet finished.
Louis Napoleon is afflicted wilh a severe
complaint in his head, which at times, causes
great pain. It is slated that, if these attacks
should continue, he will be altogether unfit
to transact any publio business.
Sunday Work. The Typographical As
sociation of Pittsburg have unanimously
adopted a report and declaration that they
wilt not hereafter labor on the Sabbath
on any terms.
Murder with the Cross. At Logrono,
iii Spain, recently, two priesls quarrelled in
the church vestry, until one of them beat
out the other's brain with a crucifix.
New Rail Uoad Project. A meeting
was held at Clearfield, Pa., en Saturday, in
favor of a rail toad from Erie to connect
with the Pennsylvania Rail Tioad at Ty
rone. For California, Ho ! About a dozen of
Ihe citizens of Lycoming county young, har
dy, active, enterprising men are now ma
king pieparations for an early start for Cal
ifornia by the overland route.
BUNBURV tr ERIE RAIL ROAD MEETMO.
Pursuant to a call, that D. L. Miller, Esq.,
President of the Sunbury and Erie Rail Road
would address Ihe citizens of .this place and
vicinity, on Ihe subject of the Sunbury and
Erie Rail Road, a meeting was assembled at
the Court House on Wednesday evening the
14th lust. On motion the meeting was or
ganized by calling HUGH BELLAS, Esq., to
the Chair, and Hon. Alexander Jordan and
Andrew Gvrrr, at Vice Presidents, and
If. C. Lawson and . B. Matser, Eiq$., as
Secretaries.
The object of the meeting having been
stated, on motion of H. B. Masser, Esq., the
Chair appointed R. M. Frick, G. F. Miller,
and J. J. Naille, Esq., a committee to wait
upon D. L. Miller, jr. Esq., President of the
Sunbury and Erie Rail Road, and inform him
that the meeting was organized, and would
be pleased to hear his views on the subject
of that gieat improvement.
After a few remarks by the chairman, Mr.
Miller proceeded in his remarks, which were
listened to w ith great attention by a large
and most respectable audience. He spoke of
the great interest felt in this road, which will
Iravetse the one third of the Stale, and com
pared its advantages, in point of grades and
distance, wilh the New York and Erie Rail
Road. Thu h ieliest grade and that only for
a few miles, being but 52 feet to the mile.
He also referred to Ihe fact, that, when this
road is completed, the distance from Erie to
New York through Philadelphia, will be eicht
miles less than over the New York and Erie
Rail Road, and that mile for mile, the cost of
the road would not be more than half as
much that (he lake trade was eight times
as great as Ihe Ohio river trade amounting
to 200 millions of dollars more than all our
foreign commerce.
Over fifty millions of dollars have been ex
pended by New York to reach the lake trade
the New York and Eiie road alone costing
24 millions, which, six months after its com
pletion, paid 8 per cent on that amount. He
referred to Ihe fact that the great safety of
our road, as compared wilh the New York
and Erie, would be of immense advantage,
and that statistics piovo that all our great
roads are now paying more than 6 per cent.
The President also staled that enough had
already been subscribed to warrant them
putting umler contract the grading and
bridging of the load between Williamsport
and Erie.
He also read a letter which he had ad
dressed to tho Commissioners of the County
on the subject of subscribing S200,000 to the
stock of the company.
He snid he had made a calculation, and
would vouch for its correctness, which pro
ved that one quarter of a penny per day, as
sessed on each of the 4,600 taxable inhabi
tants of the County, would, in 30 years, pay
off a subscription of 5300,000 and leave a
surplus of S35.000.
At Ihe supgestion of the speaker himself,
interrogalaries in relation to different mat
ters, were put by Messrs. McCarty, Pollock
and H. B. Masser.
In conclusion he spoke of the Susquehan
na route becoming the great thoroughfare
fur tho travel south, from the north and
north west to the seat of government.
Mr. Miller having concluded, on motion
of II. B. Masser, the thanks of the meeting
was tendered to him for his able and inter
esting remarks.
Corrofpondenee of the Phila. Ledger.
LKTTI:R FROM WASHINGTON.
Analysis of the vote on the Compromise Rfso-
lut was Cards and Speeches on the subject
Position of the Northern Democracy
Maryland Resolutions in favor of Cass
Predictions verifiedCalifornia for Doug
las. Washington, Apiil 8.
The analysis of ihe vote on the Compro
mise is si i 11 the fruitful theme of Congres
sional oratory. We had a letter from Mr.
Stanly, and a capital speech from Major
Polk on the subject ; also, a card in the
"Union," from Mr. McLanahan, who was
unavoidably absent when the vote on Mr.
Hillyer's Resolution was taken ; having had
a dimier-paity at his house on that day
Other cards are being published, expressive
of adhesion, and regretting absence.
All that I have to say is, that it is a thou
sand pities that Pennsylvania, which has
given such indubilable proof of loyalty Io
the Union and devotion to the Constitution,
should, on the last vote, have had seven
Democratic members absent, and one (Mr.
Grow) voting against the resolution, making
eight out of the fifteen Democrats. The six
absent Democrats. (I thought at first there
had been but four,) were Messrs. MuNair,
Morrison, J. Jones, Dimmick, Parker and
Gilmure. They were absent the whole day
being either detained by other business of a
private nature, or by indisposition. I have
no doubt they would all have been glad to
vote for the Resolutions, had they been pre
sent in Washington ; but their absence gave
rise to ull sorts of unworthy surmises, espe
cially now on the eve of a Presidential
campaign. It is a singular coincidence, too
that a majoiity of the Democratic members
from Viigiuia, voted against Mr. Hillyer's
Resolution, establishing, at least nominally,
a mysterious connection between the voles
of the two sister Stales. The Cass men in
Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the leading
Douglass men were all in their places,
avowing they would stay a month in Ihe
House, rather lhan adjourn and not vote on
the Resolutions. Judge Bayly had a dinner
party at his house ou the same day ; but
Mis. Bayly had to lead the gentlemen into
dinner without her husband, who was ready
Io encamp in the House of Representatives
for the night, rather than adjourn without a
vote. These little episodes in the history of
Congress, are not without interest. All the
Democrats from Illinois, and all the Demo
crats Indiana, (with the exception of one
Free-Soiler,) voted from first to last, on all
the intermediate and on all the direct ques
tions, with the majority. Only one Whig
member from all the New England Slates,
Mr. Appleton, of Boston, voted for the reso
lutions ; and all the Democrats, not known
as Free-Soilers, toed the mark, New Hamp
shire leading off.
You will remember that I predicted that
Maryland would go for Cass. The resolu
tions passed by the Democratic caucus of
the Legislature, published in the Baltimore
Sun of to-day, and expressing the strongest
possible preference for the great statesman
of Michigan, are bearing me ont, and show
conclusively that the two delegates to the
Baltimore Convention, appointed at large,
are Cass men, if I did not know this fact,
from a still more direct source, which does
not admit of a doubt.
And with Ihe same certainty do I Inform
you, that the delegates from California stand
three Douglas men and ono Houston ; and
that Ihe second choice of these Douglas
men ia Cass, and I am w illing to stvke my
reputation for veracity on that, whatever
other stories may be ciiculated to the con
Irarv. The two Senators fiom California
here in Congress, are both Cass men, and
Mr. Marshall, we know is for Douglas, and
tho Douglas leader in the Houne.
The Whigs hold n Caucus to-morrow.
Let us see whether Mr. Seward will be able
to push Mr. Fillmore off the track. I shall
endeavor Io get a glimpse of ihe whole mat
ter, meanwhile, 1 doubt whether the Seward
influence will extend further south lhan
Noilh Carolina and Kentucky. 1 rather III ink
it won't. OnsERVER.
PENNSYLVANIA LEC.ISLATlllE
IlARRisnuRri, April 10.
Senatk The following bills were sever
ally considered and passed :
To authorize the Pennsylvania Rail Road
Company to hold the Powelton estate.
To incorporate the Odd Fellows' Widows'
and Orphans' Asylum.
To incorporate the Westminster Collegiate
Institute.
Mr. MeCnsliu read in place a furlhe' sup
plement In ihe act incorporating Ihe Penn
sylvania and Ohio Rail Road Company.
The bill to incorporate the Broad Moon"
tnin and Mahnnoy Rail Road Company was
taken up and passed finally.
The bill to incorporate tho Cornwall and
Phiruixville Rail Road Company was also
taken up and passed.
The Senate thou took up and non-concurred
in the amendment of the House to
the Senate bill, authuri.ina tho employment
of counsel in the case of Rachel Parker, the
alleged free negro girl, recently abducted
from Chester county.
The amendment gave the Governor power
to pay the expenses of counsel, which were
not limited.
The Senate adjourned.
House. The joint resolution in favor of a
grant of the public lands by Ihe Government
to aid in the construction of the Erie and
Sunbury Rail Road, was taken up and pas
sed The bill atliorizing the publication of the
laws of Ihe State in ihe. newspapers, after be
ing debated at some length, on second read
ing was negatived.
The supplement to ihe act incorporating
the Susquehanna Rail Road was considered
and passed.
Mr. Rhoads introduced a bill authorizing
the lease of the publio works of Ihe State
to John Snodgiuss of Westmoreland county,
and John W. Geary, of California, for a pe
riod of fifteen years.
The House then adjourned.
IIaiuusdiik;, April 12.
Senate Mr. Robertson introduced a le-
soluliou providing for a final adjournment of
the Legislature on tho -Till of April.
Thu bill fiom the House, apportioning ihe
Slato for the election of members of Con
gress, was then taken up, and passing Com
mittee of the Whole, was repoited to the
Senate, and then postponed until to-morrow.
The bill for the relief of the heirs of
James Rankin, who was arraigned for high
treason on March 6th, 1778, and his proper
ly confiscated was ihen taken up on second
reading. The heirs claims 30,000 us res
titution. The bill was discussed at much length,
and then postponed.
The bill closing the Trusts created by the
Bank of the United States, was Ihen taken
up in order, when the Senate resolved itself
into Committee of the Whole upon it, for thu
purpuso of general tiniL'udii.enl.
Subsequently thu bill came up again on
second reading, and after being discussed
at some length, Ihe Semite adjourned.
House The general Appropriation Bill
was taken up, being tho special order of
Ihe day.
The claims of Judge Jones and George
M. Slrond, for extra pay, were defeated
The salary of the Judge of the Lancas
ter District was increased to two thousand
dollars.
Two hundred thousand dollars were ad
ded to Ihe bill, for relaying ihe North I rack
of Ihe Columbia Rail Road. The bill was
then postponed for the present.
A supplement to the act incorporating the
Fanners' Hay and Straw Market Association
passed finally.
When the will becomes duly resigned to
God, in small things as well as great ones, all
the affections will bo reduced into their prop
er state in their proper season.
During the past winter a Detroit house
sent East 12,944 prairie hens or grouse and
40,433 quails, besides partridges, wild tur
keys, &c, in large numbers.
On the back of a one dollar bill, is endors
ed, '-The last spot of S2000 which I made
in California in six mouths. Riches have
wings."
Pa, how long does the Legislaiure sit 1"
'Three or four months, my son." "Why,
cur geese only set five weeks !" was the
rejoinder of ihe hopeful youngster.
In addition to muiders, suicides, burgla
ries, abductions, assaults, &c, Detroit is vis
ited by spiritual knockers.
Tub Massachusetts Senate, on Saturday
passed to a third leading, after an animated
debate, the resolves in favor of intervention.
The census returns will occupy twenty
large volumes, or ten thousand pages.
The bowie knife is a conspicuous agent in
almost every Kentucky argument.
The steamboats now make ihe run between
Salem and Philadelphia in four hours. '
Sl'SQUEIIANNA RAIL ROAD.
The Baltimore American of Tuesday
last, contains the address of the Committee
appointed at the late Convention in that
city in favor of the speedy completion of
the Rail Road from Bridgeport, opposite
Harrisburg, to Sunbury and to Williams
port. We have not sufficient room for the
whole address, but lay before our readers
the following important extracts, which
evince a determination on Ihe part of the
citizens of Ballimorehat assure us that (he
road bptween this place and Harrisburg
must and will be speedily madp.
In Ihe deliberations to which the two
Conveniens (that at Sunbury in May last,
and ih is lately in Baltimore) have furnished
occasion, between the several interests con
nected with this road, the parties concerned
have come to an informal ni movement or
understanding of which the import i, that
tho lower or more Southern di vt-;i-i i.f thi
road, that is, the section lni"L bi-t-'ceii
Bridgeport and Sunbury, a du ai i-e of
about or near fifty miles shall he under
taken by the Cily of Baltimore in conjunc
tion with the four Coal companies whose
works intersect that division, and with the
counties more especially allied to Ihe same
division ; whilst the tipper, or more northern
section, from Sunbury lo Williamsport, shall,
in like manner ba committed to tho country
contiguous lo it or in oilier words, that tho
funds which may bo contributed by the
Ciy of Baltimore and those of the Coal
companies ns well as those of the conter
minous counliy, shall be applied to thu suc
tion extending from Bridgeport lo Sunbury
as far as tho amount may be necessary to
the completion of tl:at section.
The whole line of iha r.i.id from Bridge
port to Williamsport is estimated as well
as an estimate can be made, before survey
or location to bo about ninety miles in
length. The grade is computed to be about
two and a half feel lo the mile, and the
creator portion nf the route will occupy a
level river bank, with but few impediments
to Ihe easiest and cheapest character of
construction. These features of the country
through which the road must pass, it is said,
by those who are competent lo speak upon
such a question, will place this work in the
class of th' least costly of such structures
known to ihn experience of our engineers.
It is estimated that tho whole work may bu
made for two millions.
In considering the question of contribu
tion towards these funds, the Convention, in
their memorial to the City Council, have in
timated that a loan of the credit of this city
to the amount of $500,000 would meet the
expectation of the oilier interests associated
in tlie si liemo ; and it is to this subject that
thu Committee now specially invite the nl.
tention of their follow citizens. They have
a proposition to make, in reference to this
point, which I hey hnpo will prove accepta
ble to eveiy interest concerned
They do not wish lo embarrass thu city
by any financial measuie which may in
volve. Ihe necessity of advancing nny money
whatever, or which may exjioso tho city lo
a probable hazard of any increase, now or
hereafter, to thu rales of taxation. The
scheme which they have In propose cari i'nl
ly avoids, as ihey think, any actual outlay
of even the smallest amount, nod ceilainly
avoids thu probable couting"ncy of any ulti
mate loss ; whilst, on tho other baud, the
demonstrable success of the enterprise must
infallibly, in increasing tho tiadu ami
wealth, increase also the revenues of ihe
city.
They propose
1. That thu city sh.tll make a loan of
their bonds for S-'iOO.OOO to (he Baltimore
and Susquehanna an. I York and Cumber,
laud Kail Road Companies, upon an under
taking, on the part of Ihe.o two Companies
to secure and indemnify the city against
loss by a pledge of the properly and reven"
uus of these Companies respectively.
2. That the bonds be issued for such
amounts as may be found convenient, bear
ing an interest of 6 per cent., and redeema
ble in twenty years.
3. That the two Companies regulate be
tween themselves ihe ratio in which each
shall receive thu bonds, and their respon
sibility lo each other in the amount of ihe
seen rity.
4 That the bonds shall bo delivered to
the two Companies, and be applied by
(hem lo the construction of the road, as fol
lows Whenever tho two Companies shall de.
mand of tho City an instalment of the
bonds, and it shall be shown, to Ihe satis
faction of Ihe City authorities, that there
have been subscribed and paid to the road,
from other sources, the sum of one hundred
thousand dollais, then the City shall, upon
the requisition of the I wo Companies, deliv
er to them the like amount of one hundred
thousand dollars, in bonds, and so of the
next hundred thousand, and of Ihe succes
sive iusialmems of the same amount, on ihe
same conditions until I ho w hole sum of
S500.000 in bonds is supplied, ll bein un
derstood that this loan by tho City and ihe
corresponding subscriptions by which, in
each instalment, it is lo be preceded, shall
be upp'ied to the consiruclion of that por
tion of the road extending fiom Biidgepoi'
lo Sunbury, and begiuing at Bridgeport.
5. That the Iwo Companies, having thus
become the proprietors of bonds, shall make
such stipulations and ariangements wilh the
new Company for the application of these
funds to ihe construction of the road, as
they may find expedient ; that is to say,
that Ihey shall either loan them lo the new
Company, with Ihe reserved privilege of
converting the amount into stock w henever
Ihey may choose to do so or to subscribe
the amount once to the slock, on such
conditions as they may find advisable
taking care, in either case, to stipulate
for Ihe application of the money to the
construction of the road from Bitdgeporl to
ward Sunbury.
Of the value of the road, when completed
it is presumed there can be no difference of
opinion amongst our citizens. When it is
seen that this communication, once opened
lo Williamsport, wilt form the link of con-
rteetion with Ihe roads penetralin
w iorx, and dirergi
eral lines 10 Ihe Lakes; that it
unite wilh the toad now projected
Sunbury and Erie, thus opening a
travel to the whole of North-west
ylvania as well as New Yoik, a
will be, and must necessarily be
years the only Kne lending Soull
the nccomodalinn of the travel o
population which inhabits the wide
which wo have referred ; it mi
every one who reflects upon it, tha
in our country presents a more reti
mise of profitable investment tha
The only parallel to it may be fou
nn.L ...1 . ' L . t .
mua nini-ii, under sim ilar dam
cupy the Valley of ihe Mohav
markableat this lime for the larg
they yield.
In the desire and expectation of
expression from the citizens of B,
the Committee have prepared a mei
tho Council copies of which th(
distributed through the city. To th
orial they earnestly invite the pi,b
lion. They hope that it will find s
favor to secure to it (he sir-nature i
man hi me ctly who feels an jn
j Ihe growth of (lie business, the poj
j and w ealth of Baltimore.
, J- P. Kennedy, M00re jj. Fall,
Henry Tin-any, Joshua Vansan
j W. Wno.lville, J. H. Carter,
I Wm. F. Murdoch, Dan. Holt,
P. II. Sullivan, G. W. Lurman,
Z'ius B.untiin, Juhu S. Gittiu..,
New Advertisements.
WILLIAM W. SPHATT
j R BERKI1Y notifies all persons indebted
i on hook ni-couiit or otherwise, that
j left his books nnd nrciiuntu in the hands
i .iinmermnn. Esq., of tSunbiirv, for collet
! Persons wishing lo mvc costs should call
j 1'or settlement, without dclnv.
! April 17, 132 3t.
! Xoticc.
i . , . .... .
win i, is urri'iiv bivcii Hint Jacob 1)
man, Trustee of the Estate of KrcJcri
ker, iWd., has filed his account ill this olli
that the same will be presented lo the next
for coiilirmnlion.
JAMES BEARD, I'rot
Sunbury, April 17. I SOU.
Estate of GEORGE EEIBLER, D
"JVTOTK'K is hereby given that letters of
islrution have been grunted tolhesuhi
on the estate of drome. l.Yihlrr, dee'd., I.
Miainnkiii township, Norlhuintcrland cour
All persons indebted to said entitle or h
claims against the same, are requested (o cc
the subscriber for settlement. t
JONATHAN H. DEIBLER, Adn
iShaniukiu, April 17, lf-oti. Ct.
" II1PR0VED LIGHTNING ROD
iPJTHE subscriber has constructed a Llti
J.
NINO KOI) on true Philosophical pr
nles, bv which building supplied with thru
I rendered perfectly seeurc against ilestruetioi
i ..l.i,. .... t .....i
rod, as well ns Ihe preparation of the ground
is on an entirely new plan, making a more
feet conductor than mi y heretofore in use.
Measures have been taken to secure Lc!
1'atoot fur the improvement.
Persons desirous of seeiirinir their lives
property from destruction bv liiditniuf;, can 1
eoniliirtiirs put up to their hnildinir in the 1
perfect and substantial manner, by applying
ther personally r by letter, to tho uiidersigi
at the fallowing prices:
Tor In It. J inch cupper rod voM plated
point, niilnl yl.ttiita tip, $5;
And forty cents lor every additional foot
out fortv.
For -10 ft. ili' h tubular rods gold pla
ted point, tuliil jtlatiua lip, IS
For 4(1 ft. iron rod gold plated point, jo.
id fil.iiiim lip, 15
For -10 It. iron rod tilvrr plated point, 10
And twenty cents for every additional foot o
forty. T. S. MACKEY.
Milton, Sept. 6, 1851 ly. cap 17, 1K52.
PROCLAMATION.
"VOT1CE is hereby civen that a Spec
Court d Common Pleas, in and lor l
County of Northumberland, to commence
tl
tho Court House, in the boiou-h of Siinbur
at ID o'clock, A. M. on Monday the 31
dav of May 1852, and will continue ON
WKF.K.
Jurors are requested lo be punctual i
their attendance, at the lime appoiule
agreeable to their notices.
Given under my hand at Sunbury, the 17th da
of April, in the yuar of our Lord one thoi
sand eight hundred and fifty-two nd the li
dependence of the I nited Stutcs of Aincric
thu 7Gth.
WILLIAM B. KIPP, Sheriff.
Grid save the Commonwealth.
List of Jurors,
OF Northumberland County, for May 31
1852. Special Court.
Lewis. John Clapp, John Dimm.
Hklawahk Joiiu Nicely, K. H. McCor
mick, Isaac Vincent, Charles Fox, Ephmiin
Hilliaid, Samuel Sees, Simon LanlZ.
Ti b bi t. Henry Ludwir.
Point Henry Moigan, Win Hamnr.
Miltov. Thomas Siriue, Wm. C. Wilson,
J. H. Mct'ormii k, Gen. K Header.
NoiiTiitMDtiiLA.vu James DcitTenlach,
John Hummel, Chailes F. Little.
Sfsni'Rv Ira T Clemen, Hiram Piice.
liusii. Joseph IYji:;.
Lower Ai'ci'sta. Henry Sheib, William
Bloom.
Jackson. Frederick ShrerTler, Jacob Wei
ser. Samuel Clark, John I'l.uk, J. li. Iieigel.
Trevouton. Geo. Weavei, D. W. Doin-
bauph.
Low eh Mahonot. Michael Bittinc;.
Uri'KR 11 Jacob Holla, F. Mou
rer. Peter Geis
Siiamokin. A li: ami ns Miller.
LIST OF CAl'SKS
inOK Special I'oi rt of Common Ple of
Noriliiimli'-ilaiid Counly lo be held iho
5lh Munday of May 1852.
PLAINTIFFS. PCFENPANTS.
, .. , .. SI) Jordan S Hunter
Lom. for Suinl r urman v Mtt jorjn
Samuel A Jordan el tl s John Arnold
Aarou Heppart vs Ira T Clement
Henry Knser vs Henry Yonlheiiner's sdm'r
George E. Gehrig et al v Peter Warey
tora U n m I. IUsnenian vs et
Kohert Philips vs Junies Kenny, jr
Georgo Guruinn vs D II Howell et al
Coin, tor Fred's, Wesver . Henry Uardsher At
and W ile
Jacob Krj
Mat.wnoy and Sh.mokin ? AbruUin Paul
Improvement Co.
Jaliiea Koss vs Jacob II RtuWU
James tlraham. J.me. fc j,
Uarullu-rs ft al
Heuiy Douucl et al vs Hugh Bulla
JAMEh llEAVO). Troth';.
Prothunotary's Otfice, )
Sunbury, April 17, 1852.
EXTRACT OF COFFEE An eicellenl
article more wlioleaoias and much cheaper
than Cuilae itself. Foj aala at liuAoihce.
April 17,