SUNBURY AMERICAN AND SHAM.OK.iN JOURNAL. LKTTKR rilOM nAnOLONOENCCRIfll, sh TO CHIiiatorHER FALLON, K. Orric Phila fc Sukbort R. R. Co. ) Philadelphia, Jan. 29ih, 1853. J CiiRitTof her Fallow, Esq., Prtiidtnt of the Sunbury and Erie Rail Road Company : Dear Sir, The Philadelphia and Sunbiity Rail Road Company will have twenty fire nuieg 01 the road finished, from a point two miles west of Mount Carmrl to Sunbnry, with heavy T rail by the 1st of May next. When the connection with the Reading Kail Road i completed, (which will be dur ing 1854) the Philadelphia and Sunbury road will form the ahorteat route fiom Phila delphia to Lake Erie in connection with the Sunbury and Eiie, being 26 miles shorter than by the way of Harrlsburg, and It miles horter than by the Caltawissa and Tamnqna road. By the way of the Philadelphia and Sunbury, will be peculiarly tho Philadelphia route to Luke Erie, and while our road will be greatly benefitted in connecting with the Sunbury and Erie by the through trade and travel, the point of view to whiih I wih to call your nttenlion, a promoting vastly our mutual interests is the feasibility of carry ing large anthracite coal tonnage from the second coal field over part of our road, and the entire length of the Sunbury and Erie, on terms more advantageously than bv anv other channel connecting any of the other anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania with the Western Lakes. I claim that as soon a your road can be completed, there will be a demand for anthracite coal on the Western Lakes of at least 1,000,000 of tons per an num, and that the Sunbury and Erie can get this tonnage (or any greater supply) from oui Shamokin coal region, so as to deliver it at the harbor of Erie at a market price of 84 per ton, and yet enable your company to make a profit of S 1,600,000 per annum from the carrying of the coal alone, besides af fording yon peculiar advantages for carrying freight from the West to the East. Although the use of anthracite coal in steamers on the Western Lakes has been scarcely intro duced yet two years, the recent report of the Committee of the City Councils informs us that in the past year 300,000 tons of anthra cite coal were taken from Philadelphia to the Western Lakes. This coal must have been carried a distance of about 700 miles nd cost at Lake Erie over S8 per ton. If the superior qualities of anthracite coal as a fuel would induce this consumption in scarcely two years after its introduction, and when furnished at a cost of over S3 per But this route, in such small boats, oan scarcely be contemplated as a medium for transporting coal to the Western Lakes. It will undoubtedly furnish supply for a large local trade, large enough, perhaps, to equal its capacity. It will, therefore, be perceived that the Shamokin and Erie route has, in distance, over the route from Soranton to Dunkirk, an advantage of 28 miles over the route from Scrantoti to Buffalo 35 miles, and over the route from Pittston to Dunkirk, regarding the transhipment at Elmira, of 66 in lie The advantages of the Sunbury and Erie in distance, however, become comparatively very insignificant when compared with the extraordinary advantage of carrying coal as back freight. It will be borne in mind that the cars of the Sunbury and Erie will run the entire length of its road in reaching the Shamokin Coal Mines. This is not the case with return cars on the N. Y.and Erie. The Lackawana coal region is not in the line or in the course of the N. Y. and Erie from Dunkirk to N. York but is reached by the road of the Lackawana Rail Road Company 48 miles in length, and running off in a wes terly direction from N. York. The return cars of the N. Y. and Erie road could not reach the Lackawana coal fields without going and returning a distance of forty-eight milef, equal to a deflection of ninety six miles. If, therefore, the cars or boats car rying coal from the Lackawana region go west loaded, and return to their coal fields comparatively empty, the consequence is that the distances are nearly doubled upon them, as compared with cars carrying coal over the Sunbury and Erie, which go out loaded, and return not only with cargoes pay ing expenses, but freighted with such goods as will pay a more profitable remuneration than the coal carried westward. I think it rlpnr. fhorafnra. ihnt in rpfrnrrtinir vniir t. ., ...... 0 inordinary advantages in distance, and car rying coal as lack freight, that your road will outrival all possible competition for carrying coal. The next consideration is, on what terms can you afford to carry for our load 1, TEE SUNBURY. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY , ISS3. H. B. KAISER, Ed Iter Had Praprlftor. To Adtiitiii. Tht circulation of the Sunbury American nmoiif the different towns on the fteeqaehaniia I not exceeded If equalled tT anjr paper published in North ern Pennsylvania. EDITOR'S TABLE. ' Bnaiueaa Notices. Bi-ds ash Blossoms. This is the title of a new monthly publication got up at New Berlin, Union County, by Mr. J. Flinn, devoted eiclu ively to the compositions of young ladies, stU' dents, cVc. Ths Illustrated Kiwi. This Pictorial published by Messrs. Beach Sc. co. New York, has greatly improved. No. 6, dated February 5, 1 8.53 is already on our table. Its contents are va ried and its enbelliHlimunt well executed. RcaiRCAn Asro Skllms, 113 North 3d street Philadelphia, advertise an extensive assortment of confectionary in this weeks yapcr. Onrniss' Couht Ball Some valuable prop erty in Nortli'd, late tlio estate of J. B. Boyd is advertised for sale. K Sunbury and Erik Railroad. The ' Lycoming Gazette savi that Mr. Moorrhead, the contractor for the two sections opposite Willismsport, commenced operations on Monday last. Mr. Moorehead doing the first work with hit own hands. There can be no doubt that this road will now be completed to Erie in a rerjr few years. There is one great feature in this road that lew have taken into consideration. We mean the coal trade between this and Erie. Anthracite coal can be transported cheaper from Sunbury to Erie, or to the Lakes by the Sunbury and Erie road, than by any other route known. E7-The Tbeverton Company have a! lotted to Mean. Savidge & Woolverton, of Augusta township, the work of construct ing a basin and a portion of rail way. &c on the west side of the river, at the canal, near Chapman, in Union county. This work is estimated to cost about $50,000, and is intended to accommodate the coal trade of the Trevorton Company, who have already contracted for the construction of a bridge over the Susquehanna at that point. The contractors have already commenced the work. IE- We refer our readers to the able let ter of David Longenecker, Esq. President of the Philadelphia and Sunbury rail road, to the President of the Sunbury and Erie rail road. 07- We are indebted to Messrs. Berg stresser, Waterbury and others of the legis- t lot lire, f.-vr favnrs &r. C7Tiie Ice Crop. A number of our citizens on Friday and Saturday last, were 000,000 of tons of anthracite coal annually engaged in filling their ice houses. The to Lake Erie ? j ice is about ten inches thick and clear as The experience of the Reading Railroad crystal. There never was a more favora- Company will enlighten us on this point 0e time for security this winter croo of By their late report it appears that the actual summer luxury. The scene on the ice cost of carrying their coal over their road, iu 1 , , . .1 -i . u 1 . . . ; was a busy and interesting one, kinntfl QA null. Xr hn alar, rnq, lii.arn n. - from it into the coal region, averaging 5 miles mi rdfrous assault at nortuumber- in length, making in all 18 miles, was 54 land. 64-000 cents per ton. But we must bear in ! Our borough was thrown into a state of ! K7"0ur democratic friends of Montour and Columbia still continue in hot water, in relation to their political, as well as ! their geographical affairs. The conferees of the two counties, met at Danville, on the 22d of January, to select a representa tive delegate to the State Convention. The Columbia county conferees conceded to Montour county the delegate, but protested against the nomination of Col. Best who, they alledged, was not a democrat. Mon tour county persisted ia the nomination of Mr. Best, when the Columbia county con ferees nominated John Deen, jun. of Dan ville. After a number of ineffectual ballots the Conferees broke up. It strikes us, if the Montour democrats think Col. Best a good enough democrat, that the Columbians have no right to object. This idea of reading men out of the party for alledged delin quencies, and frequently by persons "tarred with the same stick," is becoming some what fancical. We would advise our Montour friends to cut loose and annex Correspondence of the Phila. ledger. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, Jan. 29 A telegraphio despatch was sent from here, a day or two ago, purporting to be newt from Concord. Soon afterwards, the newa was contradicted from Conoord, from high authority. It seems, however, that the political owls, who see best in the dark, when nobody else can exercise tho faculty of vision, have taken advantage of the calm by again reviving the newa that the State Department had been offered to some of their favorites, and that Gen. Pieree has in vited certain persons to designate for him a member of the Cabinet from Pennsylvania. Both stories were manufactured out of the whole cloth. The idea that Gen. Pierce would axk any body to select for him a member of his Cabinet, is simple ridiculous. 1 repeat, that some time ago, I have seen a letter from Gen. Pierce to a fiiend of his, in Congress, stating that he is quite willing to assume the responsibility of making his own Cabinet ; and that, while he is thus willing to exer cise his judgment at his peril, he hopes and expects that he will be patiently indulged in the operation. 1 tell you no iv, that half the stories that this man was written to, that the other had a Cabinet appointment offered him that a third has been consulted, &.C., are untiue ; and that their being paraded in the public prints has been a source of great annoyance to Gen. Pierce, who has thus been sadly misrepresented. Otherwise all these devi ces are certain to fail of their object. Gen. Pierce comes from the land where the peo pie have their eye teeth cut early ; and has been too long in politics himself, not to see through anything which is transparent to everybody else. He must be a smart fellow who shall take in a Yankee. Observer RAIL ROAD ACCIDENT. About 8 o'clock yesterday morning, a frightful accident occurred 011 the Columbia Rail Road, one mile above Christiana, in Lancaster co., as the night train was coming eastward. The train was running at the rate of 35 miles per hour, and consisted of an express, baggage and the passenger cars, besides the locomotive. When it reached the point designated, the hind passenger car was thrown from the track in consequenoe of one of the rails breaking, and in that con- and the miner are actually reduced to ab-1 solute want. In one place they held a meeting, 'and forced a trader to tell what flour he had on hand at 40 centa per poond, and all who were able to leave did so, thus leaving provisions for those who were una ble to find their way through the snow to the vallie. In some place the cabins are entirely covered with snow, and the roofs of many have been crushed in, thus cutting off the last chance of protection. A few daya since we were visited by terrible southeast pales for two dais. Several light tenements were, blown down, and some in jury was done to the shipping in the harbor The whole country between Tehanna and Sacramento is under water. At the latest dates the water was paitially subsiding. Many miners are in absolute want in Yu ba. The snow 10 feet deep, still falling - Flour is selling at 43 cents per pound. The Stockton Journal says that Main and El Dorado sheets are in a terrible condition the mud being full breast deep to horses, and as they plod their way through, each succeeding step entirely submerges them But two lines of stages are now in success. fill operations between Stockton and th mines. They make the trips usually in two days the price bpinjr S25. The miners on the Rattlesnake and other bars, on the low er North Fork, have turned rlt.ineu anil lumber dealers sinre the flood. Many of them have seemed an imnicnsn amonnlif drift wood from the numerous flumes above, and have disposed of it at veiy remunerative P'ices. The "Union" says the (lucid has destroyed a vast amount of stock which had been hoarded above and below Sacramento It is said that out of over 100 teams on the Caleveias road, some of which started eaily in the month, but two or three had reached their destination. The oalauce had stuck fast in the mud. Moat of the teamsters had 1 el u rued disheartened to Stockton. The small pox was pievailing at Mur phy's Camp, and the citizens had erected a hospital for the benefit of t tie sick. The health of Sjcrumeuto was goud. JTo reign News. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA LATER PROM EUROPE. New Yoai, Jan. 30. The steamship Af rica, with four days later intelligence from fcutope, arrived this afternoon. The Africa was detained until Sunday, by order of government, for the purpose of sending despatches. ENGLAND. The London Daily Newt announces that Kossuth is again about to visit the United States, for the purpose of Stirling up the Democrats. The Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company have contracted for the building of a new screw steamship, ot 2200 tons bur then. The death of Frincit JIaJiai U not yel fully confirmed. FRANCE. Cherbourg has been selected as the port of departure for the French and American sieainship line. A contract has been made fur building fifty three large steamships. New Advertisements. Iin tt r it Yn 4iiKfart I li i e a - lk!. coal can be furnished at S4Per Ion, this ar- I mi,'dflhal. 'he Readine Company carry their j considerable excitement and consternation, m m. I ......wa vi a.uiiu j 1 1. . it uuiiiiijt iu q( iwnnuay evening last, on me receipt OI ",l""lu"ui "u re,"rn tneircars DacK '.tlUnnh r. H snatch fmm Nnrthnmher. licle, the consumption of which king such rapid progress fiom its use in pro. pelting steamboats, and fur all domestic and manufacturing purposes, in the Canadas and country bordering on the Lakes, will find a market on the Lakes of from one to two mil lions of tons per annum, with the prospect of an indefinitely greater increase ! Assum ing, therefore, that this demand will exis', themselves to some other power. OCT Lewis U Hause was tried at the 1 the same distance empty, to that the cost of , . .1 .. . j . f Danville Court, this week, found guilty of !,, ,M . . e V . 1 land, announcing the attempted murder of - , r . I 54 64-100 cents per ton is in fact for drawing , , ' . 7, ro . ; passing counterfeit rroney, and sentenced 1 0 ' A ' Vnmnrnn h en nl Vo incaviii rs Chan ' the distance of 196 mile,, u hir-h i. r,l M "i- oem.ruvr, ou mr miles less than your company would traverse with our coal. The cost of transportation does not increase exactly in proportion to the West Branch Bridge at Northumberland. Mr. Simpson is, himself, in such a criti cal situation, that but little information can to fifteen months imprisonment in the Eas tern penitent:ary. The father, son and son-in-law, are now occupants of the same prison. booms in the Susque- distance traversed. It is the cost of loading be obtained from him. We have, howev (Sir A large meeting was held at Wil- eome the supply ! That coal cannot contin- 1 1. , ! "7 r """" " " , appears mr. Simpson was on Mi liam.porton Tuesday evening, in opposition ue to be taken from the Schuylkill eoal field. I ba 93 m:ie, in len.h or ,79 Rul , r. return Dome ,rom Northumberland to be- t0 any law prohibiting the floating of logs by the way of Philadelphia, in competition 1 -aidins this consideration in vour faTor i l'ngrove with his horse and sleigh, accom- ami construction of bo with coal tent from the Lackawana coal 0,her thir.es being eoual with vou. as on the Panied by another man, Mr. Hains. They hanna. field, by the way of the North Branch Canal Reading, the cost of transportation would be had not P''ded f v he bridge, or the Lackawana Rail Road, via Great ' within a fraction of 78 centa per ton. But j when they met Wm. Vandyke, on the same Bend, ia most manifest. 0,her thing8 re nQt e Th(j comjng from tne opposite side of the Tne supply must come, therefore, without ( ing road ha, one adTalltlge 0Ter and brid his falher Jos. Vandyke and several f ,h. North Kr.n,h c l.ZZZTZ I ,ha! . Mn,i!luou- down brother., behind, all of whom had been at a . " . a VW!UD1 V I I Will the Lackawana coal fields. With bury and Erie 1 propose to show greater portion of this supply m AMERICAN AND ENGLISH LADIES AND SLAVEIIY. We find in the Loudon Daily News the en tire resolutions adopted by the American ladies at Milan, in response to the ladies of England, on the subject of slavery. They are communicated to that paper by Mr. dition the car ran about 150 yards, and then j Hume, the veteran relorincr, to whom they fell down the embankment some 16 feet . were sent by the American lailies, and who There were ten passengers in the car, all of! introduces '.hern with some moM judicious whom were so much stunned that they were tenaiks. lie sajs: not conscious when the car fell over. The -The resolutions agreed :o at Milan, by stove was upset, the car set fire to, and j the American ladies of Anglo-Saxon orgin, completely destroyed in less than ten min-. aro we) worthy of attention of the Duchcs utes, together with all the furniture a band- 0f Southerland, and of all those, her noble some gold watch and chain, a carpet bag coadjutors, whose sympathies have been en. and hat belonging to Judge Wright, of ! listed and excited by reports of the suffer- H I'natt is, in having a continuous down grade brothers, behind, all of whom had been at a I . . ' . vely from j whh lhe lraile. Whal differenc. in tha cosl hjo(. Some wofd h fM j ''n, praying , that he 1 thi" ".'T "i" m8ke Cann0t b" ClearlT 1 Fd btw Mr SimP"". Wh W mat be a'ppl e that the ascertained ; but I suggest that a liberal al- 1 . . v . , ' . . . I applie ust come ' u....-. .i,- j . , . . walking, and Mr. Vandyke, the latter hav- Schoo s. tu,,, lowance lor this advantage would be 22 cents 1 . 0 . . ... ... . ."" Correapnndence of the Public Ledger. r-E.IMSVLVANIA LEGISLATURE. HaRRisauac, Jan. 29, 1853. Senate. Mr. Forsythe presented a pe tition, praying that no increase of the Mili- made, and that the same d to the support of Common from the Shamokin coal field. This coal 1 ner t0. which ou, . mak, lh ,. r j ing run against or taken hold of Mr. Simp- field will then have advantages over the ( ing coa! per toni overyour road from Sunbury i0"' horse- Mr. Hains in the meantime go- ... u.Dmm., to Erie, one dollar. We suscest vou should mg lorwara witn tne norse and sleigh oJ Mr. The act to incorporate the State Capitol Savings Bank was taken up and passed final lyyeas 15, nays 14. Mr. Barnes read in place a bill to incorpo- no iransn.pmenis ana cnieny ana most ma- . al ,hi8 co have $, 50 fi, on Thaj Simpson. Mr. Vandyke made an attack on teria.ty ,n the fact that (w.tb a thght im- woulJ make ch , , $2 5Q j M g. w- fc fc ., and rate the Chamber.burg and Pittsburg Rail mnvAman Ar nhtin rra in fnm Mn.vat:..M ' 1 1 rs 1 r . .. ....6 .. . ..)u.K . t.nh .1,- i .. ik.Jt,: -..liiB...k.C.k.,. noau vompany. House. The supplement to the act incor l . , . .11.1. 1 l " ia" '""lis" 1110 com bi ounuury uru linn urinai iiiiii-i uriuie ue w iwire mat can ue readitv sufr??eRif4i-n ihA mnl enn h ' J . 1 , s l, ... . 1,50 per ton, making the cost of the coal taken as return freight in cars which must , . , . '. , b . ' 1. u u 1 1 . . . .... ; de ivered at Erie, for consumption, 84 per ton. otherwise be hauled back empty, and which I .. . ...... . . . , , . ... 1 , . ' . . 1 Seeing that thit most valuable end can be on the other principal roads connecting the . . . . . ... . ... .. . , accomplished, that our Company can at once West with the East, to wit : the Pennsy va- ' e . J v ' , , ,. . ' , .. , , . ... furnish you a trade that will of itself pay a ma road, the Baltimore and Ohio, the New 1 ,..,,.,, nnn ' j only to suggest to you three points for consid .eration: that your toad and ours shall run York and Erie, and Albany and Buffalo, are in fact, hauled back at great expense, com paratively empty. Your road could have this return freight, not only to save the cost of running empty cars, but, in fact, to real ize the revenue of a $1,500,000 per annum uu 1110 iranuuriuiiuii ui i.uuu.uuu luua ui r . . . . iur cariiiu uuai, w o uuua in auuu iiiiuruvn- coal, as above stated, which I now proceed ' ,. i t,,, ,l i r ' ' j ments and change in the present moJe ot to show. ' construction, that will adapt them for carry- The distance from Shamokm (about the in , mifCelane00, freight and merchandize, average point 111 the Sharr.ckui Coal field .. . .. . , , T . , . ... . 1 our obedient servant. from which coal going westward will be . . . , ., , , David Longeneceer. T ' ;. . . President Phila. and Sunbury R. R. Co Nilnnnrw In l ria aa at nr0.nii I ft. imnlAil II . j .w 1" 1 " of it. Mr. Simmon immediately retreated towards the Collector's office.at the end of P,r,in8 ,h" HaJtle1'on Coal ComPy the bridge pursued by Mr. Vandyke A. j The ,o ,h(j Lako ne reacneu tne uocr, ue oeggeo io oe lei ,n, 1 fior Ral, Road) wai lake P) and , motim immediately, "as this man was killing him." mad8 l0 amed the same by strikins out all The door was immediately closed on Van- ' that portion relative to the Lake Superior dyke before he could enter, by a lady in Rail Road, and inserting the "Sunbury and into and connect with each other at Sunbury : the house, when vandyice struck his knife : trie Kail Kuad," which was agreed to, and that you permit no deviation in your road into the door, swearing he would kill him. ln r'gi'"l resolution, thus amended, pas fiom the Pennsylvania cause, and chieflv I Mr. Simpson's companion, unconscious of . ,ed- that in the building of your cars and ours, 1 anvthmir serious havins taken Dlace. storj- Mr- 51,8,1 oflBreJ resolution, which was T... j a r . 1 ,u. mnn : ..r . !. ..!,.. I .... . J i . I 1 ... e HLIICCkl IU, IIIAI 1;U1IICS UI IIIC B1.I1UUI ot tnp sniilh end rtt thi hrintra u-mtincr fnr e i i I'- ' - o- b 286 miles but I am assured, on the best authority, that you have ascertained by your late surveys that this distance can probably be to much shortened that it will not exceed 250 miles. I will assume that it shall be 260. The entire distance from Shamokin to Erie will be, therefore, 279 miles. From the Lackawana coal field there will be, on the completion of the North Branch Canal, two double routes. From Scranton to Buffa lo or Dunkirk, by way of Great Bend, and from Pittston (at an average point on the North Branab Canal,) to Buffalo or Dunkiik ; by the way of Elmira, from Scranton to Dunkirk, continuous rail roar1, the distance is 207 miles, with grades considerably greater than on the Sunbury and Eiie. From Scianton to Buffalo, the entire distance is 314 miles, with transhipment at Ithaea from ears into canal boats. Fiom Pittston to Dunkirk, with transhipment at Elmira (ram about 50 toti canal boats, (being about the capacity of the ascending canal) the dis tance u 295 miles. But regarding the Iran shipment at Etmira TVom boori into carinas eertainly equal to a distance of 50 miles, it would then be 345 miles. How much more should be allowed for the inability of so fee. ble a canal navigation to compete with fail road, I am unable to say. The expeii nee of the Schuylkill canal, before its en largement, demonstrated that canals with capacity for boats of from eu to 70 tons bur then only, cannot successfully compete in the transportation with rail roads. Ths distance from Pittston to Buffalo (the whole distance by water ia email 50 ton boats,) ranges from m to 840 miles, as i.tsr st I caa ascertain. Thb Railway Undertaeinoi in this coun- i Mr. Simpson is a lawyer by profession, ry now in actual progress, and to be pushed , formerly of Elmira, and was married but a forward during this year, amount to 12,000 few yPan since, to a daughter of Jess C. miles, costing 8300,000,000. Of this amount ! Horton, Esq., near Northumberland. To of railway work on hand, it is also estimate J j ,fllicted wi(e wilh her two ima) child. that more than s,utu miles, or nearly one half, will be finished duriug the year, making 18,000 miles. The amount of capit n these 18,000 miles of railroads cannot be less than $450,000,000. him to come up. For a long time after he was taken into the office, Mr. Simpson was ; ,ha UM of ,he meinber.. laws, and lhe decision of lhe Superintend ent, 111 relation to the same, be printed for unable to speak, and bleeding profusely from four wounds inflicted in his abdo- Hii situation is truly critical, and men. his recovery is yet extremely doubtful. Mr. Flanigan, a supplement to the ac I requiring a registration of marriages and births. Mr. Kilborn, a bill to abolieh Capital pun ishmenl. ren, the appalling intelligence must have been terrible, and there are but few, who fAial rt m if rnmla nnpn in lhn IT. States, of i ' 9 amount of capital invested ot P1 ynP-,n,l w,ln n" na filicted family. A Cargo or Ladies roa California. The French ship Sonsonatte arrived at Val paraiso, recently, with a cargo of 200 ladies, for California. The young ladies quite en livened the streets of that city for a few days, and one or two soft hearted estrengeros tried bard to induce some of tbem to remain, bu( it was no go. The ladies said that having come so far, they were determined to see the elephant. MoBMOMs im England. A late letter in the Christaiu Advocate and Journal states that Mormon'um is prevailing extensively among the lower classes in England. In the nait-yearly report of the London Conference of this sect, dated June, 1152, 35 different orancnes are enumerated, incliwlin iaa i ders, 21 priests, 28 teachers, 67 deacons, and 2,352 members. A Mormou cflicial paper publiseed at Liverpool, professes to circulate 23,000 copies. AaaivAL or the TaiAsuaa. N,v York, Tan 30 TVia .... n : - "TOiii arrived here this morning from Aspinwall with avsi S2 . 000,000 in gold from California, Ufure re- ported as on the way. Sheriff Kipp, on hearing of the occur rence, promptly proceeded to Northumber land, and about 9 o'clock in the evening brought over Vandyke, who is now lodged in Jail in this place, to await his trial at the April term of our court. Ai the mat ter will be legally investigated, we forbear making any comments. There are various versions in regard to thii terrible catastro phe, the substance of which we have given at derived from different sources. Since th' above was written we have learned that Mr. Simpson's case is more favotable, and the probability now U tha! he will recover. E7 Pennstlvakia. According to the triennial assessment, just completed, there are in this State 506,133 taxable inhabi tants, the counties of Forest and Montour excepted, no returns being received from them. If we allow 14,000 inhabitants to these two counties, and fix the proportion of taxables to population at 1 to 51, the population of Pennsylvania at ths present time would be 2,797,731. XXXII CONGRESS-Srcead Seaelon. Washington, Jan 29. House The House concurred in the re port of a Committee of Conference on cer tain disagreeing votes of the two Houses : "That the act, approved 22d February 1849, granting five years half pay to certain widowa and orphans of officers, non-com missioned officers, musicians and privates, both regulars and volunteers, to be so ex tended and construed as to embrace the wi dows and minor heirs of the officers, son commissioned officers, and privates, both regulars snd volunteers, of the war of 1812, and of the various Indians wsrs sinoe 1779." SlICIDE IN A PILPIT. Just as we were going to press, we learned that a Mr. Charles Fultz, a shoemaker, resi dent of Schuylkill Haven, in this county, committed suicide in a rather singular man ner, on Sunday evening last. It appears that for some time he had been an officer of the German Lutheran Chuich of that place, and on the evening referred to had convened and opened a. Prayer Meeting in the building be longing to that congregation. He went through the exercises in bis accustomed manner, and nothing unusual was noticed about bis appear ance. Upon tba congregation's retiring, he wss seen to unbolt one of the window-snut tsrs left the building with the others, and was discoveied ths next morning suspended lifeless above tha altai ! It ia supposed n biaiued ingress through lbs window. Mi ntrsvillt Bulletin. Clearfield co., and three carpet bags, fiilled with clothing, the property of the passen gers. The occupants of the car were im. mediately looked after and taken out. All received severe injuries. Two men, said to be contractors for lhe new Cathedial, at Pittsburg, who were sitting together, had their legs and arms broken, and one is said to have been seriously injured internally. Their lives are despaired of. Judge Wright was cut about the head and slightly injured the shoulders. Another passenger was badlv burned and received a .fracture of the . The train which should have arrived in this city at 10 o'clock, did not arrive until fler 1 o'clock, and as soon as the accident . . ..1 T-. was matte Known at me oiuee, iiiessrs. Bingham It Dock, with a surgeon started in n express train to the place where the painful accident occurred. CALIFORNIA NEWS. ings of tho slaves iu the U. Slates of Ame rica. ''We should indeed be happy if misery and suffering could be removed from this and other lands ; but we are assured 011 tho best authority, that there will always be poor and suffering moitals, and that li-gislatiou can never entirely prevent poverty and wretched lies. But as Christiana and considerate per sons we ought to look at home to what is passing hourly before our eyes, or wi:hin the sound of our cat riage- heels and, we may add, in almost every parish in our be loved country, and consider whether our le gislation is ut and equal." The following are lhe proceedings: At a meeting of Ameiican ladies, of Anglo- Saxon origin, held at Milan, Lombardy, on the 30th day of Di-cember, 1853, Mrs. Catha rine Howard in the chair, the following re port was read and unanimously adopted : lit. The meeting views with feelings of SHERIFF SALE. BY virtue of a certain writ of Alia Ten. "Erf. to me directrd.will be sold by public vendue, al the Court Hotiee, in the borough of Sunbury, at 1 o'clock, P. M. on Monday, the 28th of Feb ruary, hist. The undivided three-fourths parts of a ctrtain Tract of Land, situate in Conl township, Northumberland coun tv, adjoining lands of John Boyd, Wm. Wilson, Peter Maurer, Michael Kroll, and Frederick Kra mer, containing 367 acres, and 70 perches, with allowances, surveyed October 83, 17S4, and a warrant granted to Matthiaa Zimmerman, dated, August 87, 1793. isiezed taken in execution and to be sold as the property of John Suavely. WM. B. KIPP, Sheriff. Sheriffs Office, Sunbury, ) Feb. 5, 1852 4t. J PEUIT AND CONFECTIONARY. RUB1NCAM AND SELLERS, Wholesale Manufacturers and Dcalersin Confectionary of all kinds, No. 113 North Third SI. brlow Itace, PHILADELPHIA. rjHE attention of Dealers ia requested to an A crimination of their stock, which will h found to be at i.KANT equal to any in this city. FOKEKJN FHUITS of all kinda in season. K. U. Oidcra by mail or otherwise promptly at tended to. February 5, 1853. Cm. To the honorable the Judges of the Court of Quarter sessions for the county of J'or thumbtrland. Tlie imilcrnigneil petitioner riectfully ulii its tne tl'n. Court to (jiiriil her a license to keep nn Inn or tavern al tha house she now uerupiea, siluate In .Market street iu the borough of Sunbury. CATHARINE noUl.TON. We the unilersiirned citizens of the borough of Sunbury, N.irtliumlierlaiiii county, being aiquanilcj with the and Petitioner, do certify Ihnt she IS ol u.kki repine lor n niesiy and icniiwrunre, anil that she is well provided with house room uud olhei conveniences for the ai-coininodiitlon of strangers and travellers, and Ihnt nn liinor tiivein is neces sary for the ncronimodiition of strung-rs and travellers. Jno P. I'jrs.-I, Geo. C Welker, Wm. II. Kipp, John. Young. W. T. Grant, n. II. Awl, Fred. Ijinrus. Win I.. Dewa.t.J U. Mnsser, II. 11. Masser, James Heard, Jamea Covert, P. l.nzafus. Sunbury ,Feb. a. IBJ3 3t. I i, ARRIVAL OF THE STAll OF THE WEST- TWO WEEK LATEH FROM CALIFORNIA. 2,000,(100 ill Gold Coming. Heavy snow storm in California Floods on the rirers The whole country bctu-een Jo hanna and Sacramento under wa'.er Great distress among the miners. The steamship Star of the Wert arrived at New York, on the 28th inst., from San Francisco, with 400 passengers, and dates from California to the 1st inst. The Oregon anil Noith'Tner took down to Panama ueiirly 82,000,000 in gold. The continued rains and snows throughout California, during the last fortnight, have caused lhe streams to rise in torrents, doing much damage. Bridges have been swept away, banks overflowed and rancheros car ried off. Yast quantities of stock perished. and many lives were lost ut Sacramento, Stockton and Marysville. The whole country between Tehama and Sacramento City is entirely under water, while Marysville is partly inundated, and though Sacramento City is well protected by- levees, the lowei portions are submerged The waters al the present lime are sub.id' ing, although the rains still continue. On the mountain streams the loss of min ing implements is great, and all work for the present is suspended. The bridges are swept away, and the fences destroyed. Fortunately, however, few lives bave been lost. The southern portion of the mining districts have surTered equally with the northern. The city of Stockton has been partially inundated and property to a consid erable amount destroyed. The bridges on the Colorado, Stanislaus, and other streams are swept away, and communication with the mining towns suspended. The flood is universal. The waters are higher tban dur ing tbe memorable winter of 1149. There ia great scarcity of provisions, and tbe con. sequent bigb prices have occasioned mucb suffering and distress. It is feared that ma ny bave actually died of starvation. A large number of miners subsist entirely upon beef and potatoes, whilst hundreds of others bave nothing but bailey and potatoes. In portions of Yuba, Sierra county, the snow was already 10 feel deep, and still falling FUliLIC SALE. IN ptirauanre of nn order of the Orphans Court ot Northumberland county, will be expoaed to sale, on .SATURDAY, the iiGth day of FEBRU ARY int., at the house of James Lee, in tha bo rough of Northumberland, the following desert bed property, belonging to the estate of J. U. Ijoyd, dee'd. A Lot of Ground, in said Borou?h, numbered 45 in the plan of tha town, bounded' north-east by an alley, south-east by an alley, south-west by King street, and north west by lot No. 46. TWO CONTIGIOUS LOTS OF GROl'ND. in said borouirh, Noa. 237 snd 238, bounded ..orili.rniit bv Hanover street, south-east by an interest the late doings of nn assembly of alley, south-west by an alley, and north-west by ladies in Loudon, tinder the auspices of her Grace lhe Duchess of Sulheiland and her no ble coadjutors, on the subjrcl of African Sla very in the United States. 2d. The meeting is deeply sensible of lhe evils of rlavery, uud will u.-e all just and honorable means to ameliorate, and finally to abolish it, wherever, and under whatever form it rnny now exist. But unfortunately for the efforts of American ladies, and for humanity, the subject of alavery in lhe Uni ted States, w hen honestly examined, is found, just at this time, to be surrounded with such appalling danger, involving the happiness of their social circles the fortunes and lhe lives of their fathers, husbands, sons and brothers the veiy existence, of the federal constitution and tho union of States that it must not surprise the noble ladies of E.igland, that American ladies rhould recoil wilh af flight from the mischief which any hasty zeal might occasion, or that they should deem it their present duty to remain submissive in the position allotted to them by the Al mighty, until lime and occasion shall render their agency useful. 3d. The meeting respecifully tenders its thanks to the noble and honorable ladies as. sembled at Siafford house, for iheir apprecia tion of lhe value of liberty, and the rights of man, and, under the present circumstances of African slavery in the United States, would earnestly entreat them to look at home, and examine the condition of Christian freedom in the United Kingdom, and then employ their leisure, and use their amiable and pow erful influence, where it 'can be successfully exercised in gently removing those anti quated monopolies and lime-worn restrictions which now so heavily preisnpon and impov erinb their people. In correcting the errois and simony of Iheir exclusive church in re- lieving the lands from burden of a complex hierarchy in individually adopting the lib eral principles of the Christian Liturgy of the Church of America, and by such efforts, while they may gain for themselves a well earned reputation, and an undying historic fame, Ihey will be the means of extending the area of freedom, and irsuring to all men equal lights and liberty of conscience. All which is respectfully submitted. CATHARINE HOWARD, in the Chair. Jave Gbat, Secretary. lot No. 239. TWO CONTIGIOl.S LOTS OF GROUND, in said borough, Noa. 174 and 175, bounded north-east by Queen street, south-east by lot No. 176, south-west by Duke street, and north-west by lot No. 173, w hereon is erected a one story LOG HOUSE. J. 13. SMITH, Adm'tor de bonis nen. North'd, Feb. 5, 1853. 4t. Good Himoa is the blue sky of the soul, in which every stsr of taleni will shine more clearly. . Stray Sheep. CAME to tbe premises of the subscriber in Augusta township, about two miles from Sunbury, about eight weeks since, six stray sheep. The owner is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges snd luke them away, or they will be disposed of according to law. JACOB l'ICKHART. Upper Angusta, Jan. 29, If 53. 3f TOthe Hon. J0RD.1X, Esq., Presi dent, and his .Issocwtcs, Judges of the court of Quarter Sessions, of the County of Northumberland. THE petition of JA.MK.S COVERT.of the B .rough of Suubuiy iu uid coumy, humbly represents, Tuutlie propo ses keeping a public home or tiivein al the old stand lur luerly occupied by linn ill said Borough, ai.d that he is well ore-wired for the accommodation of Travellers, Ac. lie therefore piaya your houoia to grant hint a license l i keep a Tavern, during the eiuumg year, and he will pray, Ac. TO THE JLDGK3 AUOVU MENTIONED: Wl ili l.u.iitw.rs. residents of the BIlid Borough do hereby rcrtifv, that James Covert the applicant for the li cense, is a null of good repute for aoiiwly and lemperai.ee uud is well provided wt'h House-room and coiiveuieneea for the Lodging and acc-iHiiniodalion of Ptrsngcrs snd '1 ra velleis, sud inula public bouse there is necessary j they tlierefoie recommend him as a proper petsou to be licensed to keep a Public House. JAMKS IIKAItl), M. t.. MHVDEL, W. H. TIIO.MrSON, O M. UIHKtJ, JOHN HAAS. YD. Y BI Ic. iT, II. II M ASSKIt. C O. 11KNJ. HF.KFNER, 0K?-.;.li HL' F I. AZ A Itl'S, C.J. BUI MB. 1IIIIAM I-HICE, J.B.MASSKU. Sunbury, Jan. 40, 1843. 3t. TO Me Hon. JORDJX, Esq,. Presi dent and hit Associates, Judges of the court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Northumberland : TI1F netitiouof SAMUEL THOMPSON of the Bor- M't!m he ia well provided with steUing for horses sad sll eoenienc.-elLry lor the suinuul of Mnu.a 'Heefor'.' resnecKu" W, Cu' grant him a IhTnlaei heieiu named, and be will pray Ac. TO THE JI DGE8 ABOVE MENTIONED : WE the subseriliere, residents af the Borough of Bona. rv do hereby certify that Annuel Thompson die applicant for the licei'se, is s man of fod repute f. honesty and ,mp,nmc.,ad is well provided wilh house room and eouieiueiiees lor Uie lodging and are Mnmodsiwu uf nrrnn . travellers, end Inal a Pbuue House there is aeaes Lrv: ihey therefore, recomineiid him as a proper pereosj u be licensed Iu keep a Public House. H B MASSER...... PETER W .GRAY, FRANCIS UtHr-nt L.'XkT riiVID HOIPT ' JAMr.ft BhAKl), BKNJ. HF.FFNKR, ED V. BRIOHT, O. W. KKIIlt., GEO. ZIMMERMAN, t-imbury, Jsii. 1S4S HENRY D WHARTON, W. M. ROCKEFELLER, W.T. GRANT, P. B. MAKrtR,
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