-IM
, Itctairiol hut lie craliCvinff to ner4'Xm
haft, to Icam that Washington Irvine, a
rjeBtletnan so admirably qualified for the
ibsk, lias i Dfcn lor some time past occupied
in the preparation for the press of a new
work of surpassing into-est to bo entitled
7'Ae Pictorial Ilistory'of General Wash-inglon-'
TheU. S. Telegraph, says
mis nniuiiaui wurn win uoumies become
the crowning litcray cflbrt of Mr. Irving,
it is one that.engages his warmest sym
pathies, and which will tinqutstiotiably
bring mm requfs itiun all his power and
renins- 'J'lio accemnauinir illi.nmtinnQ
i r..t.tu . i .
w wined n 1 t. in inimnpr noiti'nun i-.ua -i :
hundred, will bo incorporated with the text
and will be exqusitely engraved on wood.af-
' Iap f lift Unnntil'i.l t.: . r i
,w ...v. vbnuuiui uusign oi unapman-
Aims HotsK Statistics. It appears
from a published statement that of 2400 in
mates of the Philadelphia Alms House, 1000
fin? inlpmnnrtn T - .1.. i .
....v....v.u.. J,, ujc surgical waiu lor
males, there are 86 pathnts not one o
whom is tetnpf.rale, and in that for fema!
eg
wnere tno number of patients is 40, there
are button who arc not addicted to habits o
intoxication. What a commentary is afford
ed by these facts, upon the degrading and
miserable effects of an indulgence in tlto
use of ardent spirits-
j.evis ji(eiurneu. Yo learn that Mr,
juovis, says me I'Diladelphia Spirit ofth
limes.lale Uaslner of the Schuykill Bank
is now in the city under tho plenery pro
loclion of thedivernor and attornoy Uen
erai. i t)e livening Journal says that
uisciosures may now be looked for in rela
lion to tne disposition ol the funds proem
,u ujr MIC OJJUI tUUS IS3U0 01 11)0 StOCK. Of 111
U1 eHMCft.as wen as the parties
Who were privy to that forgery, and who
have herutuforc stood masked before the
world, as pious moral, and exemplary
citizens- Jbinanciering' jus now is lamen
muiy ill a uiscount-
The New Orleans Bee of the 20h says:
'The West India Royal Mail Steam
Biup leviot. touched ut the Balize on
Wednesday evening from Vera Cruz. Let
icrs received by her bring the gratifying in-
leiugcncu oi mo release ol eight of the A-
mencan prisoners of the Santa Fe Z?xpedi
non, mr iVenuall being one litem. The
jiariicuiars ol their release, wo had not as-
certainetf. lien. Thomson i-ad reached
Mexico some days, before, and it was
thought that his aciivo and decided course
nau eoectea their liberation.
The following is said to be the rates of
mortality, in the principal cities of Enroupe
Vienna, ono in twenty-two: Home, one
in twenty-four, Naples and Amsterdam.one
n twenty-nine: Madrid one in. thirty-live
Paris, one in thirty six; Geneva, one in
forty-three; London one in fortv-four.
On Thursday week, an old man by tho
name of Shiner, a resident of Ponghkeep
sie, and eighty-six years of age, committed
suicide by cutting his throat.
Good butter is sellingln Washington city
at sevenly-fivo cents per pound, and inferior
ct fifty cents-
The brig Sarali Elizabeth, Capl, Doano,
Wth missionaries as passengers, sailed
from Boston on Monday, for the Sandwich
Islands. Improssivo religious services
were held on board before she leftjthe Union
wharf.
Tire Now York Express discredits that
England has loaned, or guaranied'a loan of
615, 000,000 to Santa Anna- '
It is estimated that one thousand conven
iens to religion have laken place in Lowell
Mass, since the 1st nf January last.
lho corner stone of a new Catholic
Chnrch was laid In Baltimore on Sunday.
I The spiic is to be 187 feet high.
ui) Wednesday weoK snow was so deep
,m Montreal, Canada, that the mails arrived
Lin that cilv in slcdires.
Up to the I2d nil- there had deen 1003
applications in Maina lor llio benefit of the
I bankrupt law.
j Tbe bankrupts in the Dertroit Distiid,
I New York, amount to one hundred and
tweqty.pne sum involvcd,S2,000,000.
Jlavt Collapsed. The New York and
Erie Railroad Company 1 hey have
In an assignment to their creditors. We
v n nil um ut it' ,U",,,,..,- .....
rail. road tho road to ruin-
New Orlliaaranhrii. The. editor of the
OSIOU I railscript says llu lias bccii a ions.
nm nnn mpiolmnt to another, in which
. fl II-. I .1
in Dimn n u'.ini idiiuiiii n a . mu t
Youvoulv, Verily, 'the school-master is
ibroad,'
A rich, vein of lead has.!-,befih,'djccoveted
in Johnson county. Iowa: ;vi !
The amount of American salt imported
into Canada during the past seasons, esli-
mated at 40,000 bbls,
The Dayton Transcript says that the
crops in Ohio, will be abundant.
The democrats of New York hld a
meeting last week.IIon. Aaron Vanderpool
ptesidenling, ard pasted spirited resolution
to sustain'the suffrage party in Rhode Island.
The State of Louisana, produces yearly,
70.000,000, pounds of sugar.
Enakim Walker, a sergent, in the armv
of the Revolution, died at Boscawen, N-H.
a few days since, aged 00 years- He was
in the batile, of Bunker Hill, with four of
his brothers one of whom was killed.
Tho Pennsylvania Statesman, savs, that
tno crops in lumbeiland, county nevei
looked bettor at this season, of tho year
than they do now. Tho wsther has been
peculiarly favorable, to the growth of the
wheat crops.
Tho Mail running betwen Whceling.and
Zanesvilc, was robbed last wesk by the
driver. He has been apprehended, and is
awaiting dial.
Tho authorities in Canada, are making a
road ol plank from Hamilton, at the head
ofLake Ontario, to iJort Sarnia, opposite
Fort Gartiot a distance of 180 mies. A
railroad was first proposed, feui that was
too expensive, and they have adopted this
as a substitute. The planks, three inches
think, be laid across the road upon heavy
timbers.
1 here was a sovere hail storm in Bucks
co. last week.
Bork, who killed his wife; while drunk
in Albany, last week, has hung himself
with a handkerchief
The packet ship Thomas P.Cope during
the recent passage fromLiverpool, encounter
ed immense masses of ice. The officers
saw ssveral large ice island, ono of which
rose to the height' of three hundred feet
above the sea.
State Stick sold three weeks ago at
$32 for $100 certificates; since, thoy have
been gradually rising in prico, and on Fed-
nesday sold in Philadelphia at $51 for the
S100- This is bad enougbt but shows as
times grow harder that the credit of the
State grows belter.
Tho Virginia 'Old Dominion' announces
ts dispoistion to support.JiioN C. Calhoun
of South Carolina, for President, and Silas,
right Jr. of New Yoik, for vice Piesi-
dent, of the United States.
Ono day last week,. - niia was plying
on a raf. " Cincinnati, it suddenly slipped
overboard; a fins Newfoundland.dog which
was present, sprang in the water, dived to
the bottom, seized the struggling child, and
safiely deposited it on tho raft.
Fm. Leach of Pleasantville authorises
tho contradiction of the report that he had
killed himself by cutting his throat. He
declares upon his honor, (hat it is not true
The Iowa Capital Reporter says, 'the
times are so hard in Iowa city, that the
boys catch pike biting at the naked hook-
Coal hss been found within three m iles
ol Rochester, Y. Y. A ton or more has
been used, and stoves are now constructing
fo its use.
The work on tho ZJunkcr ill Mon
ment has been resumed, and tho obelisk
will be completed this season.
There aro about 25,000,000 of British
capital invested in American State bonds,
banks, canal and railroad shares.
One of the members of the Firginia Leg
islature, it is said jfls before ho started
home, went round to most of tho stores
and got samples of their coffee so that he
finally trotted off with his saddle, bap-'"''
fillod with it" "7 oesi ll,ai l"u ,UJ,K"
forded.
Somo of tho male sex, indignant at
tho pioscriplivo policy of the ladies, avow
ed in the popular phrase 'total abstinence
or no husbands ' determined to retaliate
and have sfarted the watch-word, 'natural
waii's or no wives.'
The distance between New York and
Now Orleans is now accomplished by ths
mails in eight days, aiout fourteen hundred
miles. Not many yean ago thirty days
was the usual time occupied for tho trans
mission of intelligence from one oity to the
other.
Very Backward. The season in Low
er Canada. Frosts and snows are yet com.
mon si Quebec. Icicles in ono hand, flowers
on the others the differcnee betwoen Qu
bee and PliladelphU.
. Shad haVQ-jjeen ihVs ipupt, in
Aiiegncny river.at l'reeporlt.Armstrong
county the lust over caught in that river.
Cure. It is said that warts may be ef.
factually, cured by washing them with water
in winch common soda has been dissolved.
numuu iiib uunKer run Monument
has been resumed. It will be completed
win season.
Snow fell sufficiently to cover the ground
at row creeU.J Washington County, P- on
me Z7IH uit.
The Pennsylvania of Saturday last savs
Wo learn from good authority, fhatthero
is iti irum in tne rumor which has been
jcin-rany circuiaieu within da?s, that tin
postmaster of this citv is about 'in l,R
ed.
mi r
t ne reonle s Uavernnr Mr. Tinrr r
unoue Island, arrivel at Ba timore. mi Mnn.
, ..... WUa. U
un ins way to tne uapital.
The Baltamore Republican tells of a girl
uimyii uoui'i, who sings so sweetly that her
moiiin lias been taken for a sugar p!a:ita-
I1UU
The extensive Powder work at Savannah
(.Illinois,; were sirmk by lightning a short
time since, and blew up with a tremendous
expiuiian. mo lives were lost, providanti
ally- as the workmen were all at supper.
The effe ct of the income tax proposed in
uugiauu oy sir itooeri reel, has been to
make people who beforo vied vU nnnli
othor in in showing how much they were
worth, now take the same pains to prove
nu.v very poor iney are.
Ir is said Jonathan Roberts, oftho Port
1'iiiiadelphia, has been dncb-.ed by the Pres
ides; to discharge certain of the under
officers in his department, and that Mr.
nooerts leeis no mclnation to comply. If
these tl:ings are so, Mr. Roberts himself
wil probably have permision to retire.
Mr. Giddings. who presented a petition
for a dissolution of tho Union, and subse
quently introduced resolutions i n conrYirmilv
tuBriiiali views in respect to the c.-.ae nf the
Creole, and for which hv was publicly
censured by Congress has returned to that
oouy, under a new election:
The Navy Mr. J. Clarke has introdnc
ed into Congress a bill, providing for the
esiauusiimenmi turee additional grades in
the Navy of United Stales; those of admi
ral, and rear admiral.
We are ploased to learn that the Presi
dent of the United States, has granted an
appointment for the admission of Jajids
Oakes, (son of Samuel Oakes.Esq. of Lim
estone township. Columbia coiinty,)jiito
the Military Acudemy at West Point, -as a
Cadet Aliltonian.
Judge Noah and the Molhionists.
Judge Noah in his charco to ilie.n.-
ofSessnins in iV.. V.l- elf ae-
linn I., i h. "iion convention which is to
assemble in that city for the discussion of
the repeal of the Union. The Judse con
aiders the nbject illegal. Tho following
are tne Judge u opinions upon lio matter:
It is dillicult to believe that even fanat
icism, carried to his fullest extent, could
have the boldness to broach doctrines of
the most treasonable imporl, in the mi&t of
a population devotedly attached to the
union of the States. The people ha"o an
undoubted right to assemble and discuss
any queslion eonnected with themnipiian
anco of tli.-ir own iightc,and the preserva
tion of our free instiluiions; but it is un
reasonable to suppose that any atlampt to
carry out tho subjects of this meeting, how
ever ostensibly humane they may be that
such convention will be permiicd to sug
gest, much less discuss, a profect embra
cing a dissolution of our happy form of
government, btiould the experiment how
ever be made, which would evidently tend
to a disastrous breach of the public peace,
it will be your duty to present the agitators
and indict every person whose aptive agen
cy may lead to such results; and this Court
by the rigid enfoicemcnt of the laws, will
convince any body of men, making this
city the theatre ( f their deliberations, that
their objects and intentions must be strictly
legal, rational and justifiable.
A proclamation was issned by the Gov
ernoi of Michigan on the 27ih ur.Jii.tim
S!!$gdplcV some two" and a half
millions of her indebtedness, on ihe ground
of damages sustained by the failuio oftho
contracting partieswith whom the St&to loans
were, negociated to pay up back instalments.
f.TiTMF.n On Saturday evening:April
30, by Samuel Creasy. Esq Mr DATIEL
BOON, to Miss JUDITH YONHER.of
Abntour,
n it, tb uit. Mr JOHN A- STER
RET of Lewislown, to Mm SARAH.
CHAPMAN, daughter of the late Judge
Chapman of Nortnnmbarlana.
n iim I7ih of A7atch. by the Rev. D.M
H.llidav. Mr. OLIVER P. BLUE, of
T.iwtv. to Miss MARY M. IUSHEL,
daughter of Afr, John Rihsel. of Mon
tour-,
. Judge' Hineksonh'a8 befV-'"'finfi)"!?iKlo
lais and cost, for an assault oiu the Eciftor
oi the ujmton Ilnpbbliean- '
'Phn . r
..w vonai uuiiimissioners are maxing
an excursion to the western sectiou of
rennsyivania, for the purpose of investigate
.i.g jiuuuu iinjirovmenn
OBITUARY.
n j.i r vrfi hme' on Tues(Ia.v last, MARY
UM1LINE R. aged 4 years, daughter of
Leonard B. Rupert, Esq,
DIED, In Briarcrcek. on the Gih inst.,
after along and painful illness WILLIAM
eldest son of John and Harriet Doak, aged
17 years 1 1 months and 7 diys.
On Wednesday evening the 4lh inst. or
consumption, ANNA MARGARETTA,
wife of Peter Workheiscr. tt It
aged 75 years 1 lmonths and 24days. '
rfn t i . ' evening inn oi scarlet lever,
if' ILLIAM, son of 'hilip H0L.,, aet 4
y e:is8 months and 1 1 dam.
M.tJoV.illiamspf)r,, on ,hs 7lh '" Mr.
J HOM AS HALL, pr01 r eterof the'United
States Hotel.'
Bissolutiosi of Pariucrship,
JrOTlCE h hereby given, that tho Copaitncr
XJ slop heretofore existing under the firm of
R & J- STAMBAC1I.
has this day, May 10, 1842, been dusolvcd by mu
tual consent. All persons indebted tn thn ii-m n.
requested to settle their accounts with, and those
linving claims aBai list the firm will present them
for settlement to, J. STAMBAOII.
ItEuBEN STAMBACH.
JACOB STASIBACH.,
N. B. The business will
COB STAMBACH, who solicits a continuance of
public pationage.
rrt'The Itooha and A'otea of Tlr,h,, c.
hack will lie placed in tho hands of Joseph Ilrabst
Esq, for collection. Persons wishing to save cost
will please call and scuie then aicjunts.
REUBEN STAMBACH.
Military Election.
HE enrolled inhabitants, subieet tn Miliiin
dutv. residintr within thn (IrM It
Division, M aro herebv notified ihnt an Rlnr.tinii
will be held on .WO.VW.J1", the Qth day of
JtV.VJS next, between the hours of 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, and G in the afternoon, to elect by
ballot, one person for Briuadicr General, nnd n
parson fat Brigade Inspector, for said Brigade; and
aiso; one penonjor Uotoncl ma one perionfor
Lieutenant Colonel for each Reciment. and one
person for Major for each Battalion in said Biig
ade. The Volunteer Battalions in said Brigudc,
win eiect new umcers according to the number of
companies belonging to their respective Battalions.
agreeably to tho 33d section of. the Militia. Law.
i na Elections will be held at the following places,
The 1st, Battalion ofthe 7th 7.!''
at the public house, of" ' J
- .aitauon ot tne 7tn itegiment will elect
at the public house of Jacob Frvcr in Middleburc.
The 1st Battalion of the 43d Begimcnt wilt
elect at ihe public house of Col. Samuel Reabcr, in
East Buffalo township.
The 2d Battalion of tho 43d Regiment will elect
at the public house of Capt. John Foster; in Mifflin
burg. Tho 1st Battalion of the 45th Regiment will
elect at tho public house of Charles Weaver, in
Suhbury.
The Sd Battalion oftho 45th Regiment will cleet
at the public house ol Gorge Smith in Upper Malio
noy township.
Tho 1st Battalion of the 48th Regiment will elect
at the public house of Henry Eclibret, in Milton.
Tho 2d BatUlion of ihe 48th Regiment will elect
at the public house of John 13. Smith, in Washing
tonvillo. The 1st battalion ofthe 71st Regiment will elect
at the public house of Robert Hagenbauch, Mc'
Uowell's Mills.
Tho 2d battalion ofthe 71st Regiment will elect
aUhe public houso of Charles Hartman, in Catta
wissa. Tho battalion of Volunteers commanded by Lt.
Col. V. Best will elect at tho public house of Wil
liam Ilcnrio,in Danville.
Tho battalion of Volunteers commanded by Lieut.
Robert P. McClay, will elect at the public house of
Jacob Fryer in Middleberg.
Tho battalion of Volunteers commanded bv Ma
jor James Taggart, will elect at tho public houso of
Jacob Hoch, Dry Valley, Union county.
The battalion of Volunteers commanded bv
Major Samuel II. Laird will elect at thc.ntihua.J
nouno ot Jot, ban-'""
Tho battalion of Volunteers commanded by I.t.
Col. James S. Dougal will elect with tho ut bat
talion of tho 48th Regiment in Milton.
Maiors of their respective battalions will superin
tend tho elections and make returns to me agreea
bly to the 14th section ofthe Militia law.
DANIEL FOLLMER, Inspector,
1st Brigade, 8th Division, 1. M.
Brigade Inspectors Office,
Limestone, May 7, I04i'. S
RQPQSklA will bo received by the County
flnmmiRs'ioiierfl. on tho 10th day of May next
at the house of Jacob Reed, in Pottsgrovo, for re
niilrintr ihe abutmouta and such.other work as may
bo necessary to the bridge near Win. TaggarU.ovcr
OhilisquaquocreeK. pijjTERICH,
CHRISTIAN WOLF,
JACOB DEMOTT,
Commissioners.
Comndisiouen' Office, Oanville, May G, 183
Orange vi lie ItiSil,
. ORANGEV1LLE, Col, Co.
By J, C. Hughes
THE subsrriber informs h;3 fr;enjs arilJ if,,
public generally, that
vtll known atantl. find flttArl If lli In .rtJ ....I
he is now prepared to entertain company In trie be!l
manner. Hi'j UAIi tvlll l.X-. f.,:.i.j ..i.st
tho best of Liquors, his tabh with the best the mar"'1
uiioru, anu naving good ttabling and attentive
hostler?, he solicits n shnrn nf rnililin iniMn... .hJ
Jlaltera himself he shall be able to give general saf
isfaction.
JOSEPH C, HUGHEt),
OrangCTilI, Afay, 1842.
Susquehanna Hotel,
COLOAtBM COUNT T, PA.
CHARLES IIARTMAN
OS ESPEOTPULLy informs his f.lend, and
jh. u o puDiie, mat ho lmS purchased the abova
largo and commodious well known House, laiclr
o cupiedbySamuel A Brady, d having newly
fitted it up. and furnish d with Enilre XwFur
mtiiro, is now prepared to entertaiu all who may
call on Lim m the best manncr.As his AU will nf.
fl, l l T 3 m$ llln 1,cst ,he roun"y marltrt nf.
for.ls, ho natters himsell he shall be ablo to givn
fheTcustom l Whmay faVOf llf'" !,h
Cattawista, May 1842,
BI.OOM8BUBO ABTILLEKY.
h....?M i fth,L?comPanyi" meet at tl
heuso of Charles Doeblers in Bloomsburg rn
oturday the Ulh day of May mst.'H
Sr nSlU kmtIl?ar,ernn. complete uniform
tor military exercise and drill.
H. WEBB, Captain.
We have boenrequested to annonnce
21ENJJ1MIN P. FORTNER,
oi "cor ndtatthrIcction in June-for
QljCOJlsElM)f the 71tt ncgiment f. M.
Wo aro requested to announce, that
LI. Col. MICHAEL R- HOTVER,
will bo a candidate for tho office of COLONEL of
the 71st Regiment, P. M, at the ensuing Juno
election.
We arc requested lo anhounce that
Major ANDREW CR1VLING,
will be acandidate for the office of LIEUTENANT
COLONEL of tho 7J st Bcgiment, 1'. M. at tho
ensuing June eleetiou.
BRIGADE INSPECTOR.
We are authorized to announce.
Cnpt.JOIIN FOSTER
of Union County, as a Candidate for the offi of
IlItlGJDE VSPECTons y "ie June cleg.
Hon.
"SITS STIFF'S SAjLE.
BE? V virtue of a writ of alias fiere faci-ts to mo
J2J5 ducctcd, will be exdoscd to public sale at the
Court House in Danville, on Monday, the 30th day
of May next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. Iho fullowiug pio
petty, vii :
One Ffth Pait of ten aores of land, sit
uate in Derry township.'n Columbia county .bound,
cd by by lands of Robert McOoy.Moser and others.
ALSO,
Tho undivided One Fifth Part of two
and a half acres of land in the same township, and
adjoining lando of John Seidle, Frederick Switzer,
ond others, all cleared and in meadow.
Seized, takn in execution, and to bo sold as tha
propeity of Andrew B. Cummings,
JOHN FRUIT, Sheriff,
Snrnirr's Oiricr, 3
Danville, April 29, 1842. 3
ic
N pursuance of an order of the Orphans' Court
uf Columbia County, on
Thursday the 30th day of June next,
at ten o'clock in the forencon, William J. lkclcr
administrator, $c. of JACOB ALE, lato of Mount
Pleasant towncosp, in said county, deceased, will
expose to sale by public vendue, upon the premises
rorty Acres
ofthe noilh end of a certain tract of land situate in
Mount J'leasant adjoining Daniel Force, Daniel
McCarty, Edward Cawnce and William Ikelcr,
contaiuing 00 acres, about 41) acres of cleared land
on the premises but no buildings, late the estate ef
said deceased, situste in ths JownshjD,nf JrW"-
DanvleRpTV ' 2
MILITARY NOTICE.
Ths 71st Regiment, 1st Brigade, 6th Division
Pennsylvania Miliiia, will meet as follows for pa
rade and inspection.
The Volunteer Ritle Company, commanded by
Captain Staley, the militia companies commanded
by Captains Patterson, Slucker and Campbell, will
meet at Rhoersburg. on Fliday, the 20th day of
May next, at 10 o'clook, A. MV, equipt nccordiug to
law. "v
The other companies oftho 1st Baltallion," to
wit : Vqlunteers, Captains Swaby, Webb" and
Hazlet, and militia Captains Yost, Dewitt, Bci lle
man nnd Staupher, wtthtluir respective comp&
nies, will meet at Bloomsburg, on Saturday, tho
21st of May.
Tho 2d Batbllion will meet at Cattawlssa, o
Monday, the 23d day of May, and the Volunt
companies attached thereto, to meet at the tarn
time and place.
m. McDowell, col.
April U, 191?.