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 <ll,OOO in value, from levy and sale
under execution. The manifest tendency of
this law, must be to restrict credit, and to
confine its advantages "more exclusively a.
mong the men of property and wealth. It is
this distinctinction which the law makes
that we dislike. The general restriction of
credit, we regard as a blessing to the busi.
ness community, hut property will naturally
be too much the basis of credit, without the
need of any further impetus in that direction.
Property should no more the basis of credit
than it should of suffrage, for as ii the man
and not the money that votos; so, too, should |
it be the man and not bis property, that is
Kusted in onr credit system.
THE MAGAZINES. —Graham's and Sartain's
Magazine for May, are received, and present
thisir usual variety of fine engravings and
choice litcratnre. Both of these works pro
mise sn early portrait of Jenny Lind, Sartain
in his June number, and Graham in July -
Mr. Graham, has again taken his chair as the
Ed itor for his Magazine, and this is a decided
improvement upon the previous "adminis
tion" in his office. Five copias of either
work, containiu£ the portrait of Jenny bind,
can be had one dollar.
PCTEESON'S Ladies Magazine for May, is
also on hand, with a.r excellent mezzotinto
" Children Bathing," and tales enoegh to fur
nish a boarding-school Miss with dreams for
a whole tnotiih. Terms, 52 per annum.
PRINCIPLES or TIIF. HUMAN MIND, deduced
from Physical LAW, by ALFRED SMEE, F. R.
S., ia another of tlieso useful and valuable
physiological works which Fowler & Welle,
of New York continue to issue. It is a col
lection of most valuable metaphysical knowl
edge Price 25 cents.
THE LADY BooK for May, come* along with
plates of rare merit, and of superior
excellence. " Playing Mother" is a capital
engraving, and upon the whole, we may fair
ly say that this nuinber is ono of Godey's
best.
toPWadttil—Solnc shingles from the roof
of a dog's mouth.
TIIE GALPIIIN CLAIM.
THERE is great commotion at Wa.-hi|Jj|tt>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
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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,
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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
<OO members, and the Senate of about 75.
With such a number tbe hired borer could
do little or nothing—money would not reach
round the house, and even log-rolling among
the members would be at an end; for the
more members that you have disinterested
on any subject, the more upright will be tho
decision of that body.
The majority in a small body is of but a
few members, and half of these are easilv
managed by proper means, when they are
once known. While in a large body the
majority would be a goodly number; and in
most cases, at least, more than corrupt bo
| rers would like to tamper with.
The only objection than can be suggested
to this reform is that it would cause an in
creased expense in paying so many mem
bers. But these who talk thus lake only a
superficial view of the matter. If there
were 275 members of our Legislature, the
people would sooner see the cost, and
would then insist, in earnest for short sessions.
These would save to the Btate ten times
the amount ol the member's pay. Private
bills would not so much press out of attention
the public business; and boring for special
legislation would be a precarious means of
livelihood. The general tone of our legisla
tion would he more wholesome, and less
tainted by corruption.
And then too the counties should pay the
wages directly to their members. The tax
payers would more plainly see where their
money went, ar.d in the annual published
county statement would appear the sum
paid by the county forlegislation. The mem
ber is the guardian of the county's interest
in the legislature, and as he is the officer of
the county it were right that his county
should pay him. The state-tax hftd better
go to pay on our heavy state debt.
I give to you these hastily prepared sug
gestions, and hope to see the subject soon
brought in its strongest light before the peo
ple.
ty 7b the Ladies. —Kid gloves may be
cleaned with milk. Husbands may be sub
dued by the use of the broomstick. Paint
of adhesive quality may b$ removed from
the oheeks by washing in strong ley, and to
prevent the skin from beooming rough anoint
it afterwards with lamp oil. Monkey jack
ets, it is said, will not be the fashion this
summer.
Prize of Five Thousand Rupees. —A prize of
five thousand rupees is ofiered by the Agri-
Horticultural Society of India for an improv
ed cotton cleaning machine, capable of sep
arating the short staple cotton grown in Indi
a from the seed, and possesing such quali
ties of expedition, simplicity and compara.
tive cheapness as to render it likely to come
into practical use. The Society's prize of a
gold medel will also be given to the Success
ful competitor. The Governor is to approve
the machine.
JUDGE IRVIN, of the Western District of
Pennsylvania, who was Judge of the United
States District Court for that District, has ten
dered his resignation, which has been acc
epted by the President of the United States.
It is stated that a number of the membem of
the Bar in that District had prepared a peti
tion, asking his impeachment upon charges
therein specified—but that, with a view of
putting an end to all excitement growing out
of the matter, Judge Irvin preferred to resign.
OHIO ELECTION.—The Pluindealer says,
that the Democrats have carried the state,
almost two to one. At tk* last accounts, it
was asceitained that 61 Democrats yyero c
ioutedaad 31 Federalists, and 3 Free Soilers,
JEIINSYLVAIWA LEGISLATURE.
(Correspondence of the Star.)
, HARRISBURG, April 13th, 1850.
MEMRI EDITORS,
( The closing scenes of the ses
sion ere drawing a dark picture for (he peo
ple of Otrr old Commonwealth. Rest pulls
every string to make capital for Montoui
coun'y, and tries to drive those whom he
cannot buy. Thus, he threatens the Berks
! members that they shall not have more
' than three members in the coming ap
_ porlionment bill. The Luzerne members he
' would attempt to intimidate by hinting that
unless they rote for Montour, ttero shall be
I no appropriation this year to the North Branch
extension. During each of the last three
days an ineffectual attempt was made to gel
the Montour bill before the House. On
Wednesday, on a motion to suspend the
t rules, the voje stood yeas 46 nays 42 ; two
thirds being required. Of the yeas, twenty
four were Whigs and twenty-two Demo
crats.
On Thursday Mr. Porter again* moved to
sucpend the rules, when the vote stood yeRS
58, nays 35.
New Commissioners have been appointed
to review the location of the county-seat in
Sullivan county, and meanwhile the county
records go back to Laporlo, and the couris
are to de held there.
A Reapportionment bill will bo passed
in a hurry, and 1 think it will bo of such a
character that some Whigs will vote for it,
and the Governor be likely to sign it.
HARRISBURO, April 15th.
This has been a busy day in the House.
The Bank Committee reported bills to extend
about a dozen bank charters. The select
Committee on the Apportionment reported
a new bill.
i An act to prohibit the banks from issuing
I notes of a less denomination than five dol
lars passed finally by a vote of 54 to 27. A
section of this bill prohibits the circulation
of relief notes.
A new revenue bill pas ed final reading
by a vole of 55 to 25.
The Forrest Devorce case came up again,
and, after being amended to annul the mar
riage contract absolutely, passed finally,
yeas 42 nays 40. The Wethorill divorce
case also came up and was lost, yeas 34
nays 45.
The rules being suspended to take up the
apportionment bill, after a lime the Mon
tour bill was taken up and its merits discus
sed until the adjournment.
Judge Conyngham of Luzerne is highly
spoken of as a proper candidate for one of
the Judges of the Supreme Court under the
new amendmendment to the constitution.
He would make a strong candidate and a
good Judge.
The Governor to-day sent in to the Senate
another veto of an amnibus bill. The one
man jiowor is becoming very convenient
when it is the other ox that is gored. J.
New Brunswick Wishing to be annexed.—
While one section of the country looks upon
the disunion of the States as a cure for polit
cal evils, another part of the continent con
siders union with them a panacea for those
which they are subjected to. Canada has o
penly espoused a union with the United
States, Jamaica has given several intima
tions of that kind, and now we have New
Brunswick openly proposing it. There was
an important debate in the New Brunswick
Colonial Parliament on the sth inst., on the
"state of the province," in the course of
which Mr. End made a glowing picture of
the desolation and ruin of the country, which
the attributed to the Colonial policy of the
mother country, and openly advocated ann
exation to the United States as the remedy.
He treats the "gagging despatch" of the Co
lonial Minister as a hoax. The St. John
Morning News expresses the opinion that a
majority of Annexationists will be returned
to the next Parliament, and says, "a master
spirit is required to embody the scattered o
pinions of the people, and to give them sub
stance in the shape of a well refined princi
ple, that can start upon some broad question.'!
Gradually, but not very slowly, the minds ot
the colonists are preparing for the event,
which seems inevitably foreshadowed in tho
present discontented mutterings.— Ledger.
An important question. —The question
whether a charge from the pu'-
pit one of the church members with crime,
and read the individual out of church, with
out being liable to the civil law, has been
decided in the affirmative by tho Supreme
Court of Massachusetts. The action was
one for slander, brought by a female against
the minister, for accusing her pulitibly of vi
olating the seventh commandment. The
Court decided that the minister was only per
forming his duty as instructed by the church.
Electro- Biology is a wonderful science,
though under other names its wonders were
tolerably well understood. Professor Fiske,
the greatest professor of this science now ex
tant, was rather non-plussed, as fertile as
such professors are in excuses, a few days a
go, in New Orleans, after asserting that by
his mere will he could sober a man howover
drunk he might be. A skeptic went to the
guard-house, he got a negro who was dead
drunk and had four men to carry him to the
lecture room. The experiment, however
was declined by Mr. Fiske, on thej ground
that the subject was "not drunk enough,'' and
it was not proper to present a drunken ma;.,,
except figuratively, to a respectable audience.
ABBOTT LAWRENCE, the American Minister
to England, has rented a house for which he
pays $lO,OOO a year, $lOOO more than his
salary. Abbott Lawrence may rent and oc
cupy such a house, but Benjamin Franklin
never would have done it.
-#•- —.
HP A down east chap, walking with a la
dy, stumbled and accidentally felt. The la
dy, thinking to cqmrqiserate his mishap, pbg
served that she rt regreted his unlucky faux
pas."
'!J iiid||,t hprl my fore paws," replied ho,
"it was my kucc. - '
. J—l-l-f
1 eriible Explosion
An extra from the office of the Daily Re
public at Bulfalo, dated on Sunday, at 3 o'-
clock, gives foil particulars of a dreadful ac
cident at Biflolo. It says "The steamer
Troy, from Sandusky and other ports on Laka
Erie, attempted, at half past two o'clock tftf
5 afternoon, to get into our harbour, bat being
1 obliged to desist, by the stength of the ice,
e Veered for Black Rock, to land her passett
. gera. When just entering Niagara river, off
6 the head of Black Rock Pier, her boiler ex
ploded with a terrible report, which mitut
6 have been heard far miles, blowing a part o!
lt her upper machinery and sundry of her pas
• sengers, the most of whom were gathered oii
her upper deck, overboard."
The whole number of dead, as ascertained
is 12.
n
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0 IMPORTANT LAW—A bill passed the Vir
. ginia Legislature, at its lato session, and is
y. now a law, appiopriating $30,000 perannun*
to toe colonization of free nogroee of that!
0 Slate ia Africa. It also imposes an annua]!
is tax u P on eery free male negro irr tho-
State, from 21 to 50 years of age, to be app.
lied in the samo way.
u We shuuld have no objection to see every
Southern State pass a similar law, as, in that
8 event, Pennsylvania would be in less dan
ger of being overrun by this kind of popula
j tion—in nine cases out of ten a curse to any
a community in which they arc located.
THE ALBANY (N. Y.) Evening Journal
(Whig) expresses its regret that the Whig
. members of Congress do not extend to Ger,
J Taylor a warmer support than they do. Rats
a seem to havo an intuitive knowledgo of
J when a ship is in a sinking condition.
5 Death of the Clerk of (he House of Repre
sentatives.
k WASHINGTON, ypril 19L_A. M.
1 I announced to you by telegraph last eve
ning, the dangerous illuess of Mr. T: J.
i Campbell, Clerk of House of Ropresenta'.ives,
anil that he was not expected to recover hav
, ing been given up by his physicians. This
- has proved, alas, too irue, as he breathed his
, last this morning at one o'clock. He was
3 sick one week. His remains will be taken
1 by his son, and the Hon. Mr Anderson, to
Tennessee. They will leave in the morning
3 by the Charleston route. The House will
- probably adjourn over on Monday.
WASHINGTON, April 14.
Mr. Campbell s death will be announced
f in the House to morrow, and on Tuesday an
f election will take place to fill the vacancy.
2 prominent among the condidates ie James C.
- Walker, the present reading Clerk ; Col.
i John W. Forney. Albert Smith of Maine,
St. Clair Clark, and Gen. Woolbridgo.
3 tut!
Subscription lor Dr. Webster's Family-
BOSTON, April 14, P. M.
The recent calamity that has occured to
this family, has incited their old friends in
Boston to raise for them a handsome dona
tion, as a testimonial of continued friend
ship. The widow of the late Dr. Parkman
heads the list with Ssoo,"which has already
reached above $50,000. — New York Globe.
Successor of Mr. Calhoun.
BALTIMORE, April 13, 1850.
The Governor of South Carolina has offer
ed the vacant seat in the United States Sen*
ate to Langdon Cheves, but he has declined
j. accepting it.
f *****
South Cnroliua U. S. Senator.
Charleston, April 15.
Francis H. Ellmore, Esq-, has been app
. ointed by the Governor of this State, United
. States Senatorf to fill the vacancy occasioned
, by the deth of Mr. Calhoun. Mr. Ellmore
i has accepted the appointment.
1
r Democratic State Central Committee-
The members of the State Central Com*
• mittee are requested to meet at McKibbeti's
• Merchants' Hotel, in Philadelphia, on Wed
, nes ay, the First day of May next, at 3 o r
( clock, P. M., to take such action as may be
necessary to secure tire nomination of enndr
> 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,
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