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,