A. W. WEAVER T B. 8. GIT.MORE, EDITORS. ■HooßKburp, Thursday, April 18, 18SO. IYV. B. PALMER, general new spatter, sub riiptimi. and aduertiting agent, N. IF. Corner of Third and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, taPK. W. CARR, U. Stntes newspaper agent, Third and Walnut sts., ojtposilc the Exchange, Philadelphia, and CYUEORGE PRATT. 164 Nassau street, New York, trill receiee and receipt for subscriptions and advertisements fir the "Star of the North." dire. Pr.iRCE General Advertising Agent, Bulletin Buildings Phila., is also agent for sub scription and advertising in the Star of the North. OTB. M. GH.MORR, SR.. will act as our agent at Berwick, Pa., in receiving and receipting for subscriptions, advertisements and job-work. Ad vertisements left with liim on Tuesday will ap pear in our paver of the same week. All orders or job-work left with liim will be attended to im mediately. The Forrest Case. Some sickening Jovolopmanls of high life are breaking out in this case. The witnesses on the part of Mr. Forrest depose that they have seen his wifo intoxicated—that in the absence of her husband she had a young man concealed In her house for three days— that at such times she introduced into the mansion, men and women whom hor hus band had forbidden to enter his house; and that she sat up with these all night, in riot ous drinking and laughter, until, at morning the servants on entering the room, found the j broken glasses thrown about the room, and the guests in the disordered dresses of the pre vious evening; their mistress being the rule ing spirit of the company. Mrs. Forest at other limes was found half sitting and half laying in the lap of a sea captain, with her arms around her neck—and in this wise the scandal runs on ad infinitum. Now all this is either true or false. If true it it a deplorable picture of the dissipa tion of those in luxurious high life. If false, it is a dark and dastardly conspiracy, got up by the monomaiii ic with hiS endOTOua wealth, to ruin a defenceles and innocent wife. In that event, it is awful to think of She bribery and corruption which envelopes the plot As yef| we cannot pass judgment ia the case ; but at best the evidence iu it is a'foul libel upon human nature. Forrest is a misanthropist; and it is a well .known fact, that actors are very much pre disposed to irfsanity. The wear of mind is with them more excessive than with any other class e/ people, and what makes it so much worse, is, thai a single faculty memo ry alone—is continually exercised to weari ness, white the oilier facuiJeS are dormant. A horrible suspicion may have made this mtn of y w orfut intohoot, a crazy loot. , As to Mrs. Forrest, she is the daughter a proud English nobleman; and, likeimo.st heighborn young women of her rank in soci- l ety, has received a fashionable, a dangerous education, rafher than a rational and useful one. She has seen life only in one phase, and knows not how the one half of mankind live. Her imagination has been cultivated into a heated and morbid activity. She was reared with views of life oat she can never realize. Of the true world of flesh and blood she knows nothing. She reads the sickly French novels of "George Sands," and be comes the victim of either her perverted pas sions, or the suspicions of a husband whose mind is as disorted as hers. In either case she is ruined so far as the rational en joyments of life are concerned. She is mark ed a doomed woman, and, to a sensitive one like her, this breath cf suspicion blown upon her fair fame, is a thousand times worse than death itself. _ Homestead Exemption. A law lately signed by the Governor of New York, exempts a homestead, not ex ceeding n amohg the members of the cabinet/rhe ' knowing onea oonfess that ,h(Re must be a ' dismemberment of that bodyy and the hang ers on are' in great tribulation to know whb -shall suffer most by the explosion. The im mediate cause of this event seems ti be a base fraud which some plunderers have per petrated upon the President. It seems that in the early settlement of Georgia, a Scotch hunter named Galphin purchased some lands of the Indians for rum tmd brads trinkets. In the revolutionary struggle he became dispos sessed of this land and lost it Thereupon he npplied to the British government for an indemnity, but without receiving even a res -1 pectt'ul hearing. Next ho applied' to the state of Georgia for payment, and, not being troubled with modesty, renewed his applica ■ de . to me state legislature year aftor year, until that body gave him very pointed no [ ticetoquit his annoyance. In 1839 the . Georgia legislature appointed a committee to . investigate the merits of the claim, and a i majority of that committee reported among other things as follows "That they have carefully examined all the facts and evidenoe contained in said re pott, upon which thedimants have relied to establish their claim, and are clearly of the i opinion that the State of Georgia is not liable ' for the debt. And the Committee fully concur with the conclusion arrived at by the Com missioners, who have investigated the claim that the State of Georgia is not bound injustice • or equity to pay it, or any part thereof." (See i Georgia House Journal, page 369, Session of 1839.) Hi' s report was adopted, after discussion, by a vote of 106 to 31. An attempt was then made to instruct the Georgia United Slates Senators to urge this claim upon Con I gress, but this attempt was voted down by 96 to 52. Still, Monsieur Touson was not to be put I off in that style, and for years the claim f was pressed before Congress. Galpin mean while died. His heirs handed the stale claim around to different attorneys, but none of them cared about working for it. Among i these was Mr. Forsyth, at one time a mem . bcr of Mr. Van Buren's cabinet. Finally George W. Crawford got hold of the claim, , jtnd spent several seasdns at Washington to i get it allowed by Congress. By means of cleverness, rich suppers and champagne, the • bi" was passed in 1848 amid .the confusion i of the last nJurS of the session. The neat sum of 548,000 doliaiC wabanded over to Mr. Crawford for the heirs of Galphin. But Monsieur Touson came again this year, and, not satisfied with the payment of his claim, now asked for the payment of in lerert upon it. Father Whittelsey, the Comp trolleref the Treasury, promptly decided that to pay irterest was neither the law nor the custom of government; since the Trea sury was presumed ready at ah times to pay claims against it properly attested. Mr. Crawford being now in the Cabinet some cat's-paw of his was sent to the Attorney General, for his opinion ; and Mr. Johnson at once decided that the interest upon the claim should be paid. This interest amounts to 5193,000, and Mr. Whittelsey paid it at lust, under protest. The payment of this sun.' became a matter of shameful notoriety at the Capital, and at last reached even the President. Congress appointed a Committee of investigation, and the whole villainy is leaking out (o open day. If the Committee "hush up" the fraud, we shall next expect to see Mr. Crawford paid b the government for the oyster-sup. pers and champagne which he has spent to get his claim allowed. Or we shall look to see the California squatters all apply to Con gress for reiubursment, if they lose anything by their adventure, or cannot hold their lots in the auriferous region. Galphin was just such an adventurer as those who now go to California, and knew by what tenure he held his land. At that time (in 1773) there was no government which guaranteed to him his Indian title, and hence none is now justly or equitably bound to indemnify his heirs. Stale claims of this sort are continually brought before Congress, and urged by ev ery despicable device. The national Trea sury is plundered year after year, and every new session ef Congress brings on a new and more hungry eet of robbers, and borers No wonder that tv'e need high tariffs to keep up such a profuse an J u. n qarded expenditure of the people's money. We are pleased to see that this one case is to be probed to the quick. It wi. I .' afford a wholesome lesson to the people, it" ah' the facts come out; but the commentary upo." 1 republican legislation wilt be a sad and sorry' | one. !f General Taylor had been a statesman ' he wjul'l have prevented the payment of the 5193,00i> interest. Almost every man a bout Washington knew of the case, and the President owed it to his station to press in quiry when the matter was discussed. If such a case bad arisen in General Jackson's time, he would have vowed "by tho Eter nal" that the frwnd should not disgrace his administration. The case proves that the President is duped, deceived, and disgraced by bis advisers, and is in himself unequal ' to the position into accident has thrown him. 1 LANCASTER COUNTY. Tho late Democratic convention of Lancaster chose Reab Frazer, J. B. Amwake, J. M. Dnnlap, C. M. Johnson j John Houston and J. M. Dare delegates to the Williamsport convention with instrnctions for Peter Martin Esq., of Lancaster oonnly 1 for Canal Commissioner. k-' MM THE BERWICK TELEGRAPH, is the name of l a new paper started at Berwick by J. M. SN VDER. It is the same size as the laid "Stan dard" published there, and is Democratic in i politics. We wish it success. , ! LEGISLATIVE —On last Tuesday a bill eup- \ plementary to the act incorporating the Cat tawissa, Williamsport and Erie railroad, pas sed the House of Representatives on final , reading. The Montour bill is lakl over in the House for the present, and not likely to be readied i again this session. t RgLt TLL"""? V _ "TT;' — ~~~ : COl'llT PROCEEDINGS. Court o 05. last Monday looming, | with Judges Anthony. Wilite and jCovettho ven on the bench. I The new Mfeetables were qualified, and the bsgnce of the day was spent in presenting positions yfce. On Tuesday morning tho Grand Jury (Samuel B Deimer, Foreman) reported a true bill against Sarah Dep oe, for Larceny. The defendant was arraigned and plead guilty. Being only sixteen years of age, was committed to the House of Refugo during her minority. A true till xva* also returned against James Low, for keeping a gambling room connected with the ten-pin alley, near Bloomsburg. This room is the place where the affray arose a lew works ago. Another true bill was re ported against Wo. Robison, for ttnuisance in creating filth, and mud in the gutter of \fain Street, in the vicinity of the Bloomsburg Court House. Tho indictment against Morris Van Bus kirk, for Assault and Battery, was returned not a true bill, and the prosecutor to pay the costs. The cross indictment against Daniel Mullwlland, for an Assault and Battery with intent to commit a felony, was reported a true bill. These bills arise out of the late affair at Lou's ten-pin alley] in this place. The trial to test the sanity of Matthias Kline, of Orange township, came on next.— Comley, Buckalew and Hurley, for Relator, Hendrick B. Wright, Bancrofl, and Rhodes for Mr. Kline. This is the case which has been already tried by two Inquisitions, one lit Orangeville, and the other in this town The Relator, Mr. Welsh, insists that the old gentleman is beside himself, upon some sub jects, and unable to conduct his pecuniary afiairs. Mr. Kline is a man who has accu mulated considerable property, is now eighty odd years of age, and entertains, what the community adjuge, to be at least very eccen tric views upon the ological subjects, witch craft, &c. He is present during the trial, ard has a very strange phisognoray, a dead, dark, sallow complexion, and of very bilious tem perament. The counsel for the defence con tend Mr. Kline is the same eccentric individ ual that he has been years, and nothing more than eccentric and passionate. They urge that it is the old gentlemans property which ga 1 # rise to this application for a Commission of Lunacy. The case is still in progress as we go to press, and will occupy nearly the whole week. \ Oil Wednesday morning the Grand Jury presented the following report, and was then discharged. To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of the County of Columbia : Tho Grand Inquest of the Commonwealth of Pent aylvania, inquiring for the body of the County of Columbia RESPECTFULLY REPORT, That in pursuance of their duties, they have examined the public buildings, and find the banisters of the stairs in the prison are broken down, and should be repaired.— Some stools are also needed in the prison. The walls about the jail house need repair ing and protection: we would recomend large stones to be placed upon the wall. A large table is needed in the Grand Jury room likewise a better stove The Court House we find in good order. The Iron railing recommended by the Grand Jury, to be placed in front of the Couit-house and portico, we also recommend. Also, a part of a State road, commencing at-the head, of John Allertson's lane, in Fishingcreek township, to be opened until near Samuel McHenry's, in Sugarloaf township, and like wise theopeningof a part of a newroad laidout in Mt.Pleasan*. township near Andrew Melioh. And in conclusion, we would recommend that the supervisors oi each township, should repair all other roads outof order, without delay. All which is respectfully submitted. S. B. DEIMER,-Foreman. April 17th, 1850. ON WEDNESDAY noon tho Registers ac counts were confirmed. On Wednesday evening the court gran ted tavern licenses to the following persons: Anthony township, John Crawford, Beaver, Joseph H. Shuman, Bloom, Enoch Howell, Regina Worman, Robert Hagenbuch, C. H. Dmbler, Samuel Blue, Peter Sbug, Zachariah Ross. Briarcreek, R B Stedman, Jeremiah Baring. er, Geo. W. Nicely, Centre, Samuel Harman, C attawissa, Jacob Dyer, Charles Hartman, Stacy Margerum, Danville Borough, John Rhodes, Cornelius Garretson, Jacob Cornelison, Wm. Henrie, John Deen, Derry, John Derr, John Seidel, Jos. Lev ers - Jucob Seidel, Fish- n S' SimonTodd, Greenwood, Wertraan, Hemlock, Jup- M?Reyrio!ifo. Limestone, A W Hause, Charles R Hock, Mesne, Isaac Yetter, Isaiah Shuman, Madison, John Welliver, Mount pleasant, Frederick Miller, Montour, Geo. W Freeze, Mifflin, Lydia Echroat, John Keller, Orange, R Brewer, Jacob Good, Alfred Howell, Samuel Achenbacb, Roaringcreek, Isaac Rhodes, Ellas R Was ser, Benjamin Hanch, Emanuel Karns, P S Yeager, Jonathan Hauoh,, David Yeager, David Reinbold, Vally, Philip Correll, Only onei application lor license was re jected. t3F The New York Tribune is now en larged to double its late size. This journal is published by the celebrated HORACEGREE LY, and ffthe most respectable Whig journal that we receive. iy Lord Mortimer Goodwin who was convicted at January Sessions in Luzerne couu.'v for passing counterfeit money was last week sentenced to the Eastern Peniten tiary for four ye.trs. Eraslus Seott, who plead guilty upon an indictment for horse-stealing, was likewise sentencedJer two year*. BTThe estate of the late Doctor Purkman is estimated at THREE MILLIONS or DOLLARS, which cuu uow be divided among his heirs. | The Fell Election*. The people of the Slate wi(l be called tip on to choose several new Mate office)* at the coming fall election. An Auditor Gene ral, a Surveyor General and an Attorney General are to be choose; and this will give anew feature to the eleotlou. A pertinent question at this time is, how shall these of ficers be nominate^l Shall the Williams port CoTMrentytti these officers, or shall new County conventions be held through the state 1 For ourselves, we are in favor of the former plan, and think the dele gates already chosen can judge as iairly as any others qf the qualifications requisite in the men to be nominated. would be use less to go to the expense and trouble of new conventions in every county. We hope to see the State Central Committee take this matter in hand, and make an early decision as to the proper course to be pursued. MUSICAL CONCERT—.We had the plea sure of listening to the "New York Vocal ists" on last Monday and Tuesda^evenings, and found their musical treat a most rioh and refined one. Their music is every where pronounced fully equal to that of the best companies, and to this judgment we can haartily accord our assent. Their Base and Alto voices are second to none, not except ing the great Bass of the Bakers. PICTURES.—We invite attention to the ad. vertisemont of MR. MERRY in another col?- umn. Every body should get a correct like ness of his friends, and while you are at it, return your own fac-smile to them. These tokens are the most valuable of gifts. If you are yet young it may be well to suggest that your likeness ot this particular time will be quite as good looking as you could ex pect it to be hereafter, Mr Merry can attend , to yo 1, and has a good apparatus. is over Mr. Lutz's Drug store. Rights ol Hotel Keepers. Judge Parsons of Philadelphia, recently delivered the opinion of the Court of Quarter Sessions, in a case of importance to the pub lic.—A person who was objectionable to M. P. Mitchell, of the United States Hotel, had Deen ordered out of the house by the pro prietor and cautioned never )o come into 'it , again.—A few days afterwards he appeared once more, in company with a friend, who had some business with a guest of the house Mr. Mitchell, again ordered the obnoxious r person to leave the house. The latter refus ed, and was then put out, but with no greater force than was necessary. The per son thus removed, prosecuted Mr. Mitchell for an asault and battery, when on motion for a new trial the Court decided that, though an innkeeper is bound to receive strangers and travellers, who apply for entertainment, yet he is not obliged to receive other persons. He is bound to keep an orderly house, and has a right to compel a person to withdraw who are nuLguests, and who are disagreea ble to him or the inmates. Extent of Telegraph Lines Our telegraphs—now no longer a novelty, but still a surpassing wonder—are spreading rapidly over the Union' No less than 7,400 miles were centered at a single point' one day, last week, and the whole extent of tele graphic linesiover the country is elflmated at 10,000 miles. Think of communicating from one end of this wide Continent to the other, from the farthest point "down East" to the extremest point of the Pacifiq, in a trifle more than "less than no timo." Shak apeare must have had this in view when he makes one of the creations of his fancy talk of putting "a girdle about the earth in forty seconds." Shakspeare shoulhave lived in our day—for this, in at least scientific and me chanical working of genius and imagination, is essentially the Shaksperian age; an age in which the genius of the bard might have freer and fuller scope, arid revelled amid re alities of which even his imagination had no conception. The venerable red building in North Ham ilton street, used for many years as a tanner- ' y, has been demolished. Under the floor of the wld house, a son ON was found, which is legarded as quite a relic. It is about the size of an American dollar, and contains around the edge the initial letter of each of the thir teen original states. In the centre are the letters G. W. encircled by a wreath of flow ers, and around the outside of this wreath, the words '.'LONO LIVE THE PRESIDENT." We have no doubt it is one of a style of Buttons worn in the republican days of Washington, although it would scarcely suit the Broad way dandies of the present day.— Easton At gus. CLERK OP THE HOUSE.—On last Tuesday the House of Congress proceeded to ballot for a Clerk in the place of Mr. Campbell de ceased. There were five ballots and no choice when the House adjourned. The highest vote given 63 for A. MoClintock Young. Walker the subordinate Clerk of the House had 51 votes. Col. Forney olthe Pennsylvanian is not a candidate. WILLS MADE ON SUNDAY.—A case was re cently tried by Judge Lewis, which involved a question as to the validity of a will made on Sunday, while the testator was in danger of immediate death, or entertained a well grounded belief that such danger existed. The court decided the will to be valid; and, that if a will were made on Sunday, under no such pressure, the court would, in the ab sence of proof, presume that circumstances of necesity existed to justify the act Some of the papers have added a pair of spectables to the likeness of old Dr. Jacob Townsend, and are publishing it as the por. trait of Doctor Webster. In Ohio the law allows parties to a loan to stipulate for any rate of interest not excee ding 10 pdr oent. The legal rate, where there is no express iigioeuieul, shall oontjii- ti per ceut, ...y ■.. . * I For Ike Stat of the North. MESSRS. EDITORS: One year from next I all we elect a Governor to wield the helm of our good okt Keyftone; and the great impor tance and necessity of having a firm, capable and honest man to occupy this responsible position, has been felt and seen by us all.— Who should be the candidate of the great Democracy ? A man who is a firm, radical democrat, and who loves his party for the sake of its heaven born principles. A man who will at all times, and under all oircutrv stances defend the rights of the people against Corporate Monopolies, and unholy corrupt Legislation. A man possessed of a sound judgment, a quick discerning mind, and good morals. Such a man it Col. REAH FRAZER, of Lancaster. FISHING CREEK. April 16, 1850. REMARKS :—Our readers aie aware that we do not like the system of puffing every body indiscriminately, for office, and we have re fused to publish a number of such lauditious. But the suggestion of our friend above,strikes us as a thing of such justice, and so fair a tribute to hard-earned merit, that we give it a place with the heartiest good will. Colone] Frazer, is ore of the hard-working Demo, crats, uho toil on in the heat of the contest without ever looking for a reward. He has done yeoman service for years in a county where he could not possibly look for any oth er reward than the conciousness of doing his duty, as an American citizen; and it is among men who have thus proved their dis interest ed and honest attachment to political faith, that we may obtain reliable men for eminent public station. We would be most happy to see Col, Frazer nominated for Governor, and feel assured that he would be a terror to the corrupt borers and other evil doers about the State Capital. He would be as fearles as was the lamented Shunk. His election would be beyond a question, if he should be nomi nated, and would stump the Slate. For the Star of the North. LARGE LEGISLATURES. Y A PENNSYLVANIA SENATOR. Some few reforms have been effectually pressed before the people within the last years, but much more still remains to be done. Atnong the most important of re forms is this, that we should have a reliable and pure legislative body. Our House of Representatives should consist of at least dates for the offices of Auditor General ami 3 Surveyar General, by a Democratic Statu Convention, those officers being made elect ive by Act of Assembly. A lull attendance of the Committee is earnestly requested. J. GLANCY JONES, CHAIRMAN. Gin. G. WESTCOTT, Sec. Democratic papers throughout tho Slate please publish t?' The bill incorporating the First Bap tist Church of Lewisbnrg, passed final read ing on last Saturday. iV" Ry a late act of tho Legislature all criminal prosecutions for misdemeanors, ex cept for perjuries or forgeries are limited to two years. i IdP The citizons of New Otleans are lux i uriating on peaches—rich, ripe Bnd luscious ! , Reader don't your "mouth water!" ' FF" We are pleased to meat with one ■ young friend Mr. Smith, formerly of this place, In the occupation of n degnereotypist. ' Ho takes a good likeness, and his friends of 1 auld langsyno will of cotirso call on him. ' His rooms c.re in the Brick block nearly op -1 posite tho Court house. I CURE FOR BAD FITS.—Not by any pa I tent medicine, but by a good suit —not such , a suit as a man can get into at court, but such . a neat, well-made and fashionable suit of clothing as every body should wear; just such as you can find at A. H. Ellis', if you will call and examine his stock of coats, pants, vests, and other articles of dress at the lower door of the new Exchange Block near ly opposite the Court-House, in Bloom sburg His stock of ready-made clothing ie not the "slop-work" made up for sixteen oents a day, but is cut with attention and made up to wear . and not only to sell. Mr. Ellis has also on hand an assorment of S cloth, cassimeres, sattinets, and suitable trim ' raings; so th'at he is prepared' fe make up clothing to order at the shortdW notice. He will pay particular attention fo cutting out, IE