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nesday, the First day of May next, at 3 o'
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Brigade Appontmenta.
The following are the Stafi officers of the
Columbia county Brigade 9th Divieion P. M.,
each bearing the rank of Captain.
Wm. B. Kipp, Brigade Major,
Joseph P. Conner, Brigade Quartermaster,
Conrad Bittenbender, Aid-de-Camp.
17* Hon. A. McClintock Young wss on
last Wednesday chosen Clerk by the House
of Congress in the place of Mr. Campbell,
deceased. The Freesoilers this time voted
Democratic.
XV Gen. John A. Purviance the present
Auditor General and John Laporte Esq., the
Surveyol General decline being candidates
before the people next fall for the offices
they hold.
XV Charles Gearhart the young man who
was arrested in Ohio some months ago upon
a charge of robbing the post-office at Dan
ville, escaped from the custody of the U. S.
Marshall at Howardville Centre Co., on tho
night of the 12th inst. He complained of
being sick, and, when he hnd thus induced
the Marshall to take off his irons, he took
the first opportunity to elude that officer's
vigilance and escape. The Marshall imme
diately offered a reward of $l5O for the ap
prehension of the young man, and he was
again arrested a few days afterward.
XV Wm. Mulholland, the Itishman a
gainst whom an indictment for stabling was
pending in the Quarter Sessions of thie coun
ty, escaped from jail early on last Thursday
night.
MONTOUR BILL.
The following is the vote given in the
Senate on last Thursday on the Montonr bill
ou final reading.
YEAS —Messrs. Brawley, Cunningham,
Drum, Fernon, Frailey, Ives, Jones, Kooing
macher, Lawrence, M'Caslin, Malone Muh
lenberg, Sadler, Sankey, Savsry, Sterrett,
Streeter and Best, Speaker— lß.
On Saturday, on the motion to reconsider
the above vote the test was as follows:
YEAS —Messrs. Crabb, Cunningham, Dar
sie, Frick, Haslett, King, Koningmacher,
Lawrence, Malone, Matthias, Savery, Shi
mer, Stine, Walker—l 4.
NAYS— Messrs. Brawley, Drum, Femon,
Forsyth, Frailey, Fulton, Hugus, Ives, Jones,
M'Caslin, Muhlenberg, Packer, Sankey,
Sterrett, Streeter, Best, Speaker—l 6.
Lackawanna Coal.
The New York Express saya, such has
been the demand for this coal during the
past winter, for ia steamers for California,
Ice., that although the Delaware and Aud
son Canal Company had reserved 60,000
tons for winter use at Rondout and in New
York, yet the supply is now entirely exhaus
ted, and they are reluctantly obliged to noli
fy their customers thai they can furnish no
more till the arrival of new coal by their ca
nal early in May.
Sale of Water Pewer.
It ie announced publicly by Mr. Thomas
Bennett, Supeviaor of the West Branch Divi
siou, Pennsylvania Canal, that sealed propo
sals will be received by him at the Collect
or'* office. Dunnsburg on Monday the 27th
May next, for the sale by the State of the
surplus water at the South end of the Queen's
Run Dam, at the out-let look on the Bald ea
gle side out at Lockhaven, and also at lock
No. 1, Jersey Shore. The right to uae said
surplus water, will be oonveyed by the State
fer tbe term of fifty years—rent payable Semi
annually—and subject to the provisions and
conditions of tbe Aot of Assembly on that
subject, passed slh May 1841.
XV Jke new Mayor of Pittsburg having
had a drunken man before him who had
been picked out of the ditoh, before a rum
tavern, dismissed the prisoner, but fined the
tavfm keeper fire dollars.
XV T%* Editrut of the Lancaster Literary
Gazette says she would as soon nestle her
Dos# in I rat's nest of swingle tow ss sllow s J
man with whiekeis to kiae her.
VfiNe have Sen kiii<]ly fornislio4 With ttio j
following iotcrestiiijf letters from a California
emigrant—Mr. Benjamin Lodge a joung
man formerly of this county, a eon of Mr
Jonathan Ixxige ot White Hall. The firat
gives an interesting account of travels ia the
wiktemeaa, and ia dated: —
FOST Laiwi,July 21st 184*.
"We are now encamped near the Black
Hills, and so far, I- like the expedition well.
I weigh 10 pounds heavier than when I star
ted. We did well in getting Spanish mules
for our journey; for they have improved in
flesh and spirit. We have passed 200 teams
sinee we started; and, I thitik have been
very fortunate in commencing our journey
late in the season, for the cholera followed
those who travelled along here cs.:'y. I
have not seen a case of it since I left the
Missouri River. That aire- m W as very high
when we crbsse/a it, and we were carried
down 'some two miles in crossing. We jour-
V.'ey to average nearly 25 mdes per day, and
have on some days gone 40 miles. I would
advise emigrants to either pack, or take a
very light wagon, for heavy wagons appear
to be plenty here, and good ones worth from
eighty to a hundred dollars have been sold
for 82. Some emigranta have burnt their
wagons and we'find the iron scattered about.
The Laramie river is a awift and beautiful
stream, some three feet deep and 200 feet
wide. I found some small particles of gold
10 miles west of Fort Kearney. They were
as thin as gold leaf and not larger than a
pin head. It appears that the gold was
washed from near the Rocky mountains.
Some comes from the south fork of the
Plaite River. I have seen nearly 1000 Indi
ans since I started. They all appear friend
ly. but want presents. Red blankets and
chewing tobacco trade best with them.
They have many fine horses and mules.
One of our men traded one blanket for an
Indian pony. 1 shot one buffalo the other
day, which would have weighed 1600. It
was fat, and as good eating as any beef.
We have passed 100 graves on the plains,
of those who died of cholera. Some bo
dies have been dug up from these graves by
the wolves, and the bones scattered about in
every direction."
The second letter is from the gold region
as follows:
Dcaa CREEK, December 18th 1849.
Dear Brother
I am sloping in the gold mines
this winter, 100 miles East of the city, on
Deer Creek. I have not yet had time to get
to the city. We found pasture rather scarce
after we left Fort Laramie. I left my wag
on the desert and pack ed through. It will
not pay to bring a wagon over the Siera Ne
vada mountains. In some places it is as
much as an animal can do to climb down
the cliffs, and we were compelled to unload
our wagons and let them down with ropes.
The only way to travel is to take a couple of
mules to a man, and pack through with noth
ing but clothing, blankets, psovision and gun.
I am mining on the banks of the Deer creek,
and my proceeds average an ounce and a
half of gold per day. Tbe highest sum
eamod by my work an one day here was 942.
Since the 3d of October 1 have earned about
9800 by mining and working at my trade.
Deer, (from which this stream takes its
name,) are fat and excellent eating. I kil
led two which I sold for one dollar a pound,
realizing 200. Flour is worth 9150 per
cwt—potatoes 82 per pound—fish 81 per
pound—butter 93 per pound—sugar 91 mo
lasses 8,60 per quart—coffee 50cti—pork
91,25. Teaming from the city to this place
costs 81 per lb. There is no enow yet in the
valley, but plenty on the mountains. With
two comrades I lire in a little log cabin.
One of my comrades says he has taken out
81600 in one day—of ten as much as 9200.
I have found two or three pieces of metal a
mong my gold, which I think are platina,
though I have not yet tested them. Four
miles up the creek are the dry digings where
out of one rich ravine alone 8100,000 have
been taken in gold. One man washed out
32 ounces in one day.
Many of the emigrauts who were first this
fall to get iuto the mountains have already
accumulated fortunes and returned to the
states. Many others have brought their fam
ilies here with the intention of selling down.
The country here does not seem adapted to
farming. The hills are of red color, and in
wet weather it is almost impossible for a
horse or a mule to travel over them. I have
hired out mules as high as 88 per day, each.
Indians are quite as plenty here as gold.
They often live for a long time on the emi
grants horses and cattle which they steal, but
acorns also form a large share of their food.
These are more abundant here than in any
other place I ever saw. A number of thA
Missouri emigrants have brought negroes
with them, but tbe Indians, having no affec
tion for the colored gentlemen as neighbors,
have lately killed several of them. From
present indications I should think these Indi
ans will yet become treubleAne to the white
emigrants. BENJAMIN LODGE.
HENRY CI.AT is now in his 74th year. Dan
iel Webster is in his 68th year. Col. Benton
is about 67 years of age. Lewis Cass is 68.
Mr. Seward is about 50. Mr. Cooper is 40.
He is one of the youngest members of the
Senate. Mr Bradbury is about 45 years of
age. Truman Smith is about 60. Mr.
Bright, of Indiana, is 3A. Mr. Dodge, of
Illinois, is 37. Mr Dayton, of New Jersey,
is 43. Mr. Down is 50. Mr. Clemens is 35
Mr. Uphamis6B.
s* A itaf and dumb couple were married at
Pittsbaig, on Tuesday last. The ceremony
was performed by writing. They are 'astf'fo
be wealthy, and highly respectable Jmere
is no danger Bf the lady being
wife." IJT*
I V A Caution to Houiewivet. —An old lady
in Holland, whose fole ocsupation was bous
wifery, scrubbed her sitting room floor until
she fell thfoffgh into the cellar, and disloca
ted tier shoulder.
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COURT FKOtjgF.PpBB. jf
Reported for the Star offyNorth
CASE or MATTHIAS KLINE, DH alledfid lu
natic. fhk, B- .B- B .
Commonwealth at the re- In the Court of
lation of Abner Welsh Common Pleas
vs. of Columbia
Matthias Kline. County.
Traverse of an Inquisition finding the aaid
Kline a Lunatic.
Tuesday, 16th April, 1850, this cause came
on in Court for trial.
Jl/r. Hurley stated the case to the jury, and
the following witnesses were examined for
Commonwealth :
Rev. George Nr*tU sworn—
Has kuown Mr. Kline over two years,
knd conversed with him on religious sub.
jeots. Heard him say that the inoon was
the molhe*. of all living—that Jesus and
Christ were twins, and that he got no relief
of hit lameness until he threw away Christ
and called on God. Heard him since his
wife's death deny the legitimacy of hia chil
dren. His wife died Ist of June, 1849. Be
, lioves him to be insane and incapable of ta
■ king care of his prtperty.
Jacob D. Kline, Esq. sworn
Is a nephew lo Mr. Kline—haaknown
him well. Has heard him deny his onildren
sinej his wife's death; before that always
called them his. He has two children, both
daughters, and both married. One about 40
years of age, married to Joseph R. Morris;
the other 28, married to Abner Welsh.—
Heard him say they had tried to poison him
at Mr. Welsh's two or thfee times, by putting
sometning in his coffee. Heard him say the
moon was the mother of all living—that Je
sus and Christ were twins, and that every
man was Christ, That he had thrown away
Christ and believed in the great God who
made heaven and earth, and then had got
help in one night so he could walk up stairs
without his cane. He said there always
were witches, and if there were none now,
he wondered what had become of them—
Always treated his wife kindly until her last
illness. Have heard him since her death
denounce her as a bad woman. Believe him
to be of unsound mind and incapable of ta
king care of his property. He owns 2 farms
in Orange township, worth over 95,000. He
generally quotes scripture for his religious
views.
Hon. J. Covanhoven worn—
Has known Mr. Kline since 1834. In
September, 1149, he wanted me to write a
will for him. He then denied his children.
Had before then acknowledged them: He
also wanted a deed written for one farm,with
name of grantee blank, as he did not know
to whom he would convey it Put him off,
and did not do his writing. He said that his
daughter and a girl at his house put poison
in his coffee at two different liases. He de
nounoed his wife, who was then dead. I
think he is insane and not capable of taking
care of his property.
Emanuel Latarut tworn—
In summer of 1849, Mr. Klice got me
to write advertisements for a vendue fer him
He said he would sell his pioperty because
he had no children. That was the first time
I ever heard him deny thsm.
Dr. George W. Lott tworn—
Have known Mr. Kline sixteen or se
venteen years, and been principal physician
in his family. One morning called to see his
wife. He asked me if I had seen the effects
the devil had produced the night before—he
said he had been producing his ravages all
over the country. Since his wife's death he
denied his children—not before. He told
me they had poisoned him twice at Welsh's
1 believe kim insane, and conclude he is
not capable of taking care of his properly.
Elijah G. Ricketts sworn—
Was at the old man's vendue in Au
gust, 1849. He objected when his daughter
bid on articles, and got very angry. Some
persons were talking near the stairway, and
he came up enraged, and said they were
conspiring against him. Became so angry
he frothed at the mouth. He showed a par
tiality in having property knocked off to cer
tain of his brother's children. The orier re
fused to sell his land, and the sale ended.—
Think he is not a sane man nor capable of
taking care of his property and family.
John Cool sworn—
Was also examined as to the events
and incidents at the vendue.
John B. Edgar sworn—
He wanted me to whip his son-in law
and offered 50 seres of land to have it done;
on a subsequent occasion offered 25. Do
not believe him to be of sound mind.
Samuel Kline sworn—
Mr. Kline came to nt in February,
1849, stated he wasgoing to will his proper
ty to myself and two others ; if we would
not accept it he would go to Jersey and give
it to some one there. In April, 1849, he a
gain earn* with a will written, and it was
executed in presence of others. He came
back again in June, stated he was going to
sell his property, and wanted advertisements
written. I put him off . Some time after he
told me his property was advertised, and he
wanted me to attend the sale and bid off the
homestead farm. Said I might give my note
at the sale, and he wenld afterwards give it
up to me. I did not go. After vendue he
eame again, said he was going to out me
short for not attending vendue. Said he was
going to give Mrs. Oyer 10 acres. The last
week in August he came again ; showed me
blank deed for mansion farm, said he inten
ded it for me; said de was going to make
deeds for all his land. He repeated this to
my brother John. We put him off and no
thing was dene. After vendue he told me
he had a notion of getting * new wife, had
one in view. He said her son-in-law had
consented by giving him his buggy. He is
in his eightieth yeer.
Mrs. Margaret McCowan sworn—
When his wife was sick he asked me
and others to run a race with him across the
kitchen. We declined. He then ran as fast
as he he could, and stamped as he went
He used assafwtida to keep off evil spirits.
He had it iq abagjaruund his neck: have
seen it in his chews of tobacco on the win
dow.
Rosanna Khnt sworn-.
Lived 1 yest aad 7 weeks with Mr
P r P JI 1 K,
Kline prior to his vrifo'a (tenth. Ho sal
spirits were determined to take hikJtfe. and
fassafotida to keep theitt < off. tie ctr
it in his gartes, night-cap, clothes, and
bag around his neck. He said the evil
spirit ruled the night, and the good spirit the
day. He said I had tried to poisen him with
a cake and he threw it away. He said I
tried to poison him with a cup of coffee, 1
drank it myself te convince him that it con
tained no would look among
the dishes, to the cupboard and look in
the sugar-bowl, and examine the grounds in
his coffee-cup to find poison. When he said
I had given him poison his eyes sparkled
and he frothed at the month. He said he
knew why his wife wanted a certiain piece
of fish cooked. God had revealed to him a
bout midnight what it meant.
He said he conld not raise the dead, but if
he kept reading and his wisdom increased
he thought he could after a while.
Sarah Welsh sworn—
He told me he was going to shoot the
evil spirits with silver and they would go
■creaming through the air. Heard him ray
more than onoe that Christ was a bastard.
Eltruda Kline sworn—
One morning he had a cold. He said
the devil gava him this. He said the witch
es were running around his bad all nigbt and
he had hallooed at tbem till his own voice
waked him. He said he had given np the
vendue notes to his brother's sons.
OA. flimtl Kttnt sworn—
He has told me that Jesus was 4000
years olderthan Christ: that they were twins:
that Joseph who was so!d into Egypt was
Christ: that the Son of perdition to be re
seated was Christ: and that every man was
Christ. He has told me (he moon was the
mother of all living, and that it was revealed
to him that he would be the oldest man. He
told me that the day before my father was
kilted by an accident, he had seen that he
would not live. Ido not believe him to be
sane, nor capable of taking care of bis prop
erty.
Peter P. Kline sworn—
The morning after his wife's death
and before the funeral, he came out on the
porch. He said he had thought he would
have to go; the devil was at him. He said
Michael ami his angels had fought the devil
and his agels; he had fought tgith Michael
and they had conquered. He said the dev
il bad kiil#j| tys wife and my father, and
that God killed good people, and the devil
wioked ones. He wanted to show me what
God had done to him ; and stamped across
the porch Making a great noise, Believe him
to be insane &c.
George L. Kline sworn—
Saw him on him on his porch one
morning very angry at his son-in-law, who
was starting away on horse back. He star
ted at him, and every two jumps shouting
"God is with me." Before first inqnest he
said God had revealed to him thsd he should
plead his own case: told me be had given
up the vendue notes. He said Christ was
the Unknown God of the Athenians.
T. J. Hutchison Esq, sworn—
Drew a will for him in November or
December 1847. The legatees were his
wife, daughters and grand son. His spoke
of them as such expressly.
Thomas Painter Esq. ticom—
About five years since drew a will
for him. He left his estate to his daughters,
and spoke of them as such.
Several other witness were examined for
the Commonwealth, whose testimony wrs
not very material The foregoing is but an
outline of the testimony of the witnesses
named.
Mr. Rhodes then opened for the Traver
ser.
Forty-three witnesses were called for the
Traverser most of whom stated that so far
as they knew, or were acquainted with Mr
Kline, they thought him capable of taking
cere of himself and property, and accoun
ted for rghatchange there was in him on
the ground of old age. Many of Them did
not live very near him, and were not very
intimately acquainted with him for a few
years past. A number o£ them, however,
have been on terms of intercourse with him,
of late, and most of them have known him
for many years. Evidence was given by
some of these witnesses to the effect that
the old man had denied his children a long
time ago, and that as early as about *IBO6,
he had a difficulty in his family attended
with a separation from his wife for a few
months, in consequence of charges he made
against her of incontinence, and followed
by an action of slander against him at Sun
bury by the man implicated in his accusation.
This domestic difficulty was a few years be
fore the biyth. of any of their children.
Evidence was further adduced to prove
that he had always been a temperate, in
dustrious and economical man in his busi
ness, (Mttgh always of a suspicious tem
perament of mind. His family relations for
20 or 30 years prior to his wife's illness had
been of tut amicable and affectionate char
acter^
The evidence was closed on Friday mor
ning.
Mr. Backalew then spoke fot the Com
mon wealth.
Ha cited, Constitution Fa. Art. V. See.
VI., authorizing the courts to exercise power
over the persona and estates of those who are
non compot mentis. Act of Assembly of 13th
June 1835, relating to Lunatics and habitual
Drunkards; the 68th saotion of whioh pro
vides, that the term hmatic shall include ev
ery person of unsound mind, whether he
have keen such from his nativity, or become
such from any cause whatever, M'Elroy's
Case, 6 Watts It Surge ants Reports 451, de
cided by the Bupretne Court in 1843. It
was incited that the present case was clear
ly one of partial insanity and resulting inca
pacity ; and that the jury, particularly in
view of the daoision in the case of M'Kisoy,
should render a verdict for the Com'wlth.
Friday afternoon :—Messrs. Bancroft and
Wright addressed the jury on behaH of the
Traverser; The former contending ia par
ticular that a belief in witches and spirits
was no evidence of insanity, and oiting the
proceedings in Massachusetts in the days of
Cotton Mather, and other eases in point, as
iUustration^lthi^llj||umen^ lalter
went over the etdjjencw'for the Mmfdpco and
appealed withemphnsis to against
verdict that would rubjec t to a
curtailment of his rights in regard to his
property, and perhaps also to personal res
traint.
Saturday morning:—Mr. Comly conclu
ded for the Commonwealth, reviewing the
wftole case, and replying to the objections
urged by the defence.
After a chaige by his Honor Judge Antho
ny, the jury retired and the Court adjourned.
In the afternoon the jury came into court
with a Verdict in favor of tha COMMONWILTH.
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
Second week.
Monday 22 April 1880, the Court appoint
Col. Hiram R. Kline Committee of the per
son and estate of Matthias Kline, found to
be a lunatic; and directed the costs ot the
Inquest and of the trial in Court, to be paid
out of the esta'e of the said Matthias Kline.
Henry Hartman J This was an action to ro
cs. > cover the rent of a hou.e
Noah S. Prentis. ) and lot in Bloomsburg.
The Plaintiff had leased the premises for a
year to one Penman at a certain rent—During
the year Penman relet to Prentis, and the lat
ter again relet to a man named Jones, who
continued to oconpy*until the expiration of
the year. The defendant contended that he
was not liable as te had not actually occupied
the premises. The Verdict was for Defen
dant. Clark for Plff, Weaver h Buck slew
for Defendant.
In the matter of the contested election in
Danville Borough, the depositions were read
by Mr. Baldy, from which it appeared that at
the late Borough election there were some
more votes for Justice of the Peace in the
box when they were counted off than there
were names on the list of voters; and some
of these voters also deposed that they had
not voted for Justice of the Peace. Some
tickets in the box were in bunches. The
conrt set aside the election, and a new one is
to be held.
Action for balance due
Menaaseh Bowman, on contract for boating
vs. ■ iron-ore from Blooms-
Joseph Sharpless. burg to Berwick.
Claim $57 50
Plaintiff's relied upon a written agreement
for the delivery of the ore, which did not
state whether it should be gross or neat.
Defendant admitted to be due to plaintiff"
$4,40 and defended the balance on the
ground that in the absence of a stipulation
in the contract, the custom of the country
would rule ; and the custome being to buy,
sell and boat ore in gross; in the absence of
contract, he was not bound to pay as per
calculation in neat.—Verdict for Plaintiff $6,-
60—upon entry of Verdict defendants Coun
sel obtained a rule to show cause why the
costs shoald not be paid by Plaintiff, as a
tender of slo—was made to him before ap
peal was entered, the suit having originated
before a Justice of the Peace.
Bancroft ft Stewart for Plaintiff, and Jack
son ft Hurley for Defendant.
Loyd Thomas ) Ejectment. This case vra
vs. I tried on Tuesday and Wed-
Peter Mourer. ) nesday, and is oi no general
inteMst. Pleaants for plaintiff—Coraly for
DelUinloiit.
The next case tried was Levi Ashton vt.
Abraham Cool. This was an action of tres
pass, but only nominal damages were claim
ed, as the main point in the case was to test
the title to some land. Comly and Bancroft
for Plaintiff. Hurly and Montgomery for de
fendant.
The arbitrators in the case of D. N. Kown
over vt. The Danvillo Bridge Company re
ported an award in favor of the plaintiff lor
31836,42.
The jury in the case of Loyd Thomas vs.
Peter Mourer returned a verdiot for defen
dant.
In the case of the Com. vs. C. F. Mann
et a!., the defendants counsel withdrew their
appearance from the record, and judgment
went by default for the Commonwealth.
TH* VOTI roa COMPROMISE .—The following
is the decision in the Senate on Thursday
on Mr. Douglass' motion to lay the proposi
tion for a Compromise Committee on the ta
ble, so as to take up and dispose of the Cali
fornia bill. It will be observed that the yeas
are from the free states with the exoeption of
those of Delaware, while the nays are all
from the slave states excepting four—Messes
Bright and Whitcomb, of Ind., Cut, of Mich,
Dickinson, of N. Y., and Webcttr, of Mass.,
—The vote stood.'—
Year.—Messrs. Baldwin, Benton, Bradbury,
Chase' Clark, Corwin Davis of Mass., Day
ton, Dodge of lowa, Dodge of Wiscon sin,
Dougiase, Felch, Greene, Hale, Hamltn,
Jones, Miller, Norris, Phelps, Seward, f®uieUl
Smith, Spruanct, Upham, Water, and Walk
er—26.
Naps.— Messrs, AtohiniOn, Badger, Bell,
Borland, Bright, Butler, Can, Clay, Clem
ans, Davis of Mississippi, Dickinson, Downs,
Foots, Hunter, King, Mangum, Mason, Mor
ton, Peaiee, Pratt, Rusk, Sebastian, Soule,
Turaey, Underwood, Webster, Whitcomb, and
Yulee—2B.
OF* Execution! in Massachusetts. —The num
ber of executions in this Commonwealth, du
ring the past 20 years, nuder senteece passed
by the Supreme Judicial Court, is 8.
tW Location qfthe Pottsnille Priton. —A lo
cation for the prison has been selected in
our borough by the Commissioners of this
county. The prison lot is situated in Market
street, South side, above Market Square. The
ground was purchased of Andrew Russel,
Esq.— Miners Journal.
£W Destructive F ire. —The ooal works of
Messrs Rrittsin, in Cass township, Schuyl
kill county, consist of a twenty horse power
engine, breaker, tec. were destroyed by fire
on Tuesday morning last. The loss is esti
mated at 812,000 —no insurance.
SLOOHINO IN APRIL.—WE learn from the
Albany Express that the snow on the Hel
derberg is quite deep, and the sleighing there
was never bolter than at present.
Correspondence of the Star if the Nattk
FROM IIARRISBCRU.
. HARKISBCRO/ April
4 On Thursday afternoon the M on t° ur ®Pun
ty bill with the House amend meals ta
ken up in the Senate and passed. This is a
ruse of Bests, but it remains to be seen what
he can make out of it. Yesterday morning
a motion was made to reconsider this bill,
and under the rules, ibis motion lies over
one day.*
The Bank Committee reported about a
dozen Bank bills yesterday. The apportion
ment bill came up and, after being amended,
passed second reading by a strict psrty vote,
Best voting with the Demociats. The a
mendments are the following:
The counties of Tioga, Potter, McKean,
Elk, Warren and Jefferson were made the
18th distriot, to eleot one Senator.
The counties of Mercer, Venango and
Crawford were made the 19th district, to se
lect one Senator.
The county of Erie was made the 20th
district, to elect one Senator.
The counties of Westmoreland, Bedford j
Fayette and Somerset were made the 24th
district, to elect two members.
The House took up the Appropriation bill
and after agreeing on some items, discussed
others until the hour of adjournment. This
bill appropriates only SI,OOO for payment of
back repairs on the North Branch Canal, and
$5,000 for repairs on that brauch after Dec.
Ist, 1849
Five o'clock Postccipt. The Senate has not
reversed the veto on "Montour," but the ap
portionment bill ts defeated by a tie vote of
16—Best refusing to vote either way.
April 23, 1850.
In the House, on yesterday last, the appro]
priation bill passed second reading. In Com
mittee of the Whole, the apportionment bill
was offered as one amendment, and "Mon
tour" as another. This was agreed to. Mr.
Former then offered as an amendment to the
amendment that the Montour county bill be
left to a vote of the people of Columbia.—
This was also agreed to. Ayes 43, nays 17.
This morning the House refused to agree
to the amendments of the Committee made
yesterday, and the bare appropriation bill
passed.
The bill to provide for the election of Pro
secuting Attorneys passed final reading in the
House, with only 3 votes against it. J.
BENTON IN MISSOURI. —CoI. Benton wages
uncompromising war against the disunionists
in his own State. In a recent letter in an
swer to some friends proposing a union of the
two Democratic branches in that Staie, he
eaye:
I was sounded upon this point last summ
er, when the articles were going through the
Calhoun papers, for a general convention of
the party, as it was called to meet and settle
all differences. I answered instantly and truly,
that I would sooner sit in council with the six
thousand dead, who had died of cholera in St.
Louis, than go into convention with such a gang
of scamps, and that is my sentiment to day.
Fear of seeing Whigs elected can have no
effect upon me, under present circumstances
—not even a fear of seeing a Whig elected
in my own place. lam for the country and
the Union, and the country and the Union
require Calounism to be exterminated in
Missouri; and lam for the extermination as
couagely as the Calhounites are for the diso
lution of the Union, "at all hazards, and
without regard to consequences."
The Coasproaaise Committee Is the Sen
ate.
In the Senate, on Friday last, the Honora
ble Henrr Clay was elected chairman of the
Select Committee of Thirteen, and Messrs.
Cass, Dickinson, Bright Webster Phelps,
' Cooper King, Mason, Downs, Mangum, Bell,
Berrien, were, on the next ballot, elected
the remaining members of the Committee,
without opposition.
KendalL, in one of his late letters from Par
is says there is a large house in the city fited
up for the reception of cats, dogr, birds, &c.,
when attacked by disease, and where they
are nursed and physicked according to rule.
They have a class of practitioners who con
fine themselves exclusively to the cute of.
these animals, and fortunes are made in the
way of business, by members of the profess
ion.
APFSBCUTION or HONCSTT. The New Or
leans Picayune relates how a man of that
city lost a pocket-book containg eleven thou
sand dollars; how it was found by a boy
who at Once deformed to restore it to its
rightful owner,; how having done so, and
the owner, having satisfied himself that he
had recovered all his money, magnanimous
ly thrust his hand into his pocket and drew
forth a whole dollar, which he generously be
stoweo on the astonished finder
A Question.—The Protectionists, in their
petitions for high duties on iron, make a
great point that Great Britian has been pour
ing in so many additional thousand tons of
iron, that the manufactures find it almost, im
possible to get along at all. But as this addi
tional iron is all regularly consumed, does
not this fact prove that the low prices of iron,
so much complained of, have conferred great
benefit upon a vast class of mechanics, and
upon the people geneally?— Pennsylvania.
RIOT. — The Syracuse Star announces that
ridiculous proceedings have been resumed
among the laborers on the canal at Geddes
on the N. York public works. A notice has
been posted on the canal bridges, to the afr
eet that if any per son goes to work for less
than seven shilling per day, he wilt
with sudden death: also any person har
boringfor boarding shall meet a like fate.
CP* Great DrcUnein coffee.—lt will bis
seen by our Commercial article, says the N.
0. Cresent, of the Bth inst., that over >OOO
bags of Rio coffee have been sold vithin a
day or two at eight cents per pound. Early in
February the current rate was 14} cents, so
that the fall m prices since that time ieabout
six and a half cents per pound, ox more then
$lO per bag-
CRUX HAURKmUR^—MONTOUIt
Again.
Correspondence of. the Philadelphia Inquirer.
S* HARRIHBI T KU, April 20.
Thorxts no waSKof excitement, of its kind
in HarrUburg, now a days. The sessions
generally commence with a "scene," and
close pretty much in the same manner—ctdV
yesterday morning; Tottr correspondent
strolled in the Senate Chamber, and took
his accustomed seat at twenty minutes be
fore nine o'clock, by the dial over the main
entrance. Being occupied in his busineese
for some time, and mesaentarily expecting
to hear the hammer of the Speaker calling
the senate to arper, he again glanced all the
clock, when lo! at the same i neuutt the glitt
tering points suddenly fell back ten minute*,
here was a mystery, and still pondering as
to what it might mean the voice of the Chief
Clerk was heard calling out "what's the mat
ter with the clock 1" Several Senators imm
ediately pulled out their watches, and at once
asserted the Senate time ten minutes too slow.
All this may seem of very little interest, but
when taken in consideration with a few eth
er fir eh, it may assume to be a matter of seme
importance. k
It will be recollected, perhaps, that on tho
afternoon previous, the bill to erect the New-
County of Montour had been attached as an
amendment to a House Bill, and thus pass
ed finally a second time. It was then ready
for the immediate action of the House, after
being taken there next morning, by the Clerk
immediately after going into session— but
while in charge of the Senate, still liable to a mo
rion to re consider ! It had been pretty well as
certained, that the motion would be made,
and hence, the friends of the bill were com
peted to resort to a ruse, to get it out of the
possession of the Senate before that motion
could be affected The House is called to
order at nine o'clock, and opened with pray,
er, which occupies about the minutes; and,
of course, gives the Senatp just that length
o f time a start in the tranaction ot business.
The object then, was to have the hill ann
ounced in the House in lime, to rave it from
the motion to re consider; and hence, some
convenient hand was found to setback the Sen
nte timet
But it failed—the trick was discovered I
and even while the Clerk held the bill under
his arm'and was half way down the aisle,
on his way to the House, the Senator from
Washington (Mr. Lawrence) announced that
he rose to "a privaleged question,, before the
Clerk heft tho Chambe. ! Au effort was made
to rule him out of order, but the gentleman
insisted upon his right to a motion, and ther
upon moved "to re-consider the vote taken
on the final passage of the bill to erect Mon *
tour." The speaker hesitated in his deci.
sion—(it might have been that HE was anxi
ous to get the bill out of the Senate)—and
requested the gentleman from Washington
to point out the rule by which he insisted up
on his right to make a motion at that time.
Mr. Law rence referred the Speaker to the
printed order, and aaid it waa "an ea tablish
ed rule—a rule of common tense, at least.''
Finally, the Clerk returned to his desk, and
"Montour" with him ! for thatime being.
It was generally conceded through the dqy
that the hopes of "Montour" getting through
(he House of Representatives were growing'
"beautifully less," and wbsther this opinion
worked out the occurrences of this morning,
in the Senate, I leave you to imagine.
New School Law.
The bill regulating Common Schools, a* it
passed the House of Representatives last
week, repeals the 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th and
29th sections of the act of 1849 relative to
Publio Schools, are re-enacts the 6th and
7th sections of the act .of 1836 relative to
Common Sshools, and the 6th, 7th, Bth and
9th sections of the act of 1838 relative to the
same subject. The Board of Directors of any
School Districtjhave power, if they see fit, to
allot the collection of school taxes to the low
est and best bidder, under such terras as
they may by their regulations prescribe : Pro
vided, that security shall in no case be ta
ken in a sum less than double the amount of
tax assessed in said districtr The compen
sation to a collector is not to exceed five per
cent, on the amount of money collected and
paid over by such collector on his duplicate
The Scool Directors of every district in the
State shall annually, on or before the first
Monday of May, and by the votes of not less
than four members of the Board, levy such
ar. amon nt of tax on their district as shall, to
gether with snch additional sams as the dis
tricts may receive out of the State Treasury,
and from other sources, be sufficient to keep
the schools open according to the terms, qf
this act, and shall establish a sufficient num
ber ol schools to educate every individual of
the age of five years and upwards, residing
n the district.—The School Directors aro to
determine the length of time during which
the schools shall be kept in opperatio*: Provi
ded, that in no district shal they be kept open
less than three months, and that the amoui.t
of tax levied shall not exceed five mills on
each dollar of valuation for any one yon:
This law shall continue in force during the
next current school year, coding on tho first:
Monday of Jnne, 1831; after which no
change shall be made, unless by a
majority of the taxable inkabitants of any
■cholt district voting on the question.
AH EXPLODED IDES— The purity of tho Tay
lor administration. Taylor's pledges broken
—Clayton's truckling—Swing's pilfering
speculations in land warrants, and Crawford's
in for a penny in for a pound in the Galphin
claim. As to the office holders, we can par
don them. We expeeted nothing better and
are not disappointed.— Union-
The Meaieetalea CMS.
8t Louis, April 22.—The jury in the Mon
tesquion ease, unable to agreo, weredischar
ged on Saturday morning.
A SPLENDID Odd Fellows' Hall is about to
be erected in New Orleans- ft is estimat
ed to cost $l?5,ooo, and thw annual rental
will be about $25,000. The- comer stone
will be laid ou die 26th ist., and the build
ing will be erected by October, 1851.