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W. WEAVER
Thursday, August 8, IBSO.
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
Flection held Oct. 8, 1830.
FOR CANAL (O>I.MISSIONF.II,
W. T.MORI SON.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
EPII. BANKS.
FOR SL'RVKVOR CRN*KRAI.,
J. P. BRAWLEY.
Democratic County Conrcntiou.
The Dcmocralic citizens of Columbia
county are requested lo meet at the places
ol holding the general elections lor their res
pective townships on Saturday the 31st day
of August next, between the "hours of 2 &. '(>
0 clock. P. .VI., lo elect two persons as Del
egates, to represent them in a Democratic
Convention lo be held in the Court House in
Bloomshurg on the following Monday tho 2d
day of September, at 12 o'clock M.. to nom
inate candidates lor the several offices.
The Convention will also at the same
time choose Delegates to the next Demo
cratic Slate Stale Convenlio.t to bo held
at Reading.
By Order of lite Standing Committee.
1.. B. IU'I'EUT
i Chairman.
A PARALLEL.
1 One of the most heartless display sof pol
itical feeling wo ever heard of took place lien
'Robert Peel was on his death-bed. A weal
thy farmer of Suffolk county caused the
bells of tho parish of Bores St. Maty to ling
a merry peal. In another place a landhol
der sent the oner round with the news '-that
'the farmers' enemy" was at the point of
flealh— Exchange Paper.
The corn laws of England arc based upon
the samo principle as the miscalled "Amer
ican system.'' Tho farmers there arc the
iprotected class, and constitute Ihe ruling pow
er of the country. All other interests arc
made subservient to them; aifd tho hardy
toilsinan of tho manufactory must live and
die the slave of indigence and tax. The
•doctrine of tho protectionists there is that
legislation must tnako the busines of the far
mer profitable—that his success does not
depend upon his industry or economy—that
•the price of an article does not depend upon
the demand for it in tho community, but
that legislation must crcato a demand—that
it is lor the law, rather than for energy and
'prudence, to overcome tho obstacles to suc
cess in business. Just like it is tho heresy
of the manufacturers here. Manufactories
must be started, whether the wants of the
community call for them or not. They must
be propelled by tho legislature if there is
nothing else under tho sun to encourage
them. Tho manufacturing interest must be
prstecled, though every other one should
languish and fail. The lords ol the loom
must be patnpeied, though the poor child of
labor who cams riches for him should be in
want of bread. Tire case is just parallel,
with that of tho English farmer.
And then the English /and-Lord, like his
American, prototype, creates panics. . lie
cries for the corn-law as American protec
tionists cry for tariff. He denounces Sir Rob
ert Peel while living, and insults his mem
ory when dead. Ho follows him with a
hue and cry to the gtave, and then laughs
over his ashes with a fiendish glee. When
the down-trodden and oppressed of Ireland
stretch out their emaciated bauds to the
world for bread, and cry to heaven for .help,
he says, ''it is for me to fix the pricejof grain,
and the foreigners shall not inipoft, even
though half the kingdom starve. Let the
govcrniiienlpi'oto/ me, and I will lake care
ol tho poor."
THE PITTSTON GAZET+E is a new Whig pn
per published by GEO. M. IIICIIAIIT and 11.
S. PuiLirs at Pulsion in Luzerne county.
It presents to a very respectable appearance,
and betokens that industry and energy which
will make it prosper. Mit. KICIIART is from
this county and we lake pleasure in com
mending him in all things but his politics to
the patronage and confidence of the Luzerne
, people.
'Harper's New Monthly M"gasine for Au
gust is a most interesting publication. It
contains the choicest selections f(om the En
glish Reviews and is in itsolf a complete
vaile mecum &f current literature. It is also
the cheapest Magazine published in this
country, containing 114 clearly printed dou
ble column pages to the number for S3 per
annum. The work has already a circulation
■ of 111,000 copies.
EST WE learn from the Laneastcrian that
the ikrrisburg Telegraph has been indulging
iu some wild freaks of imagination upon
• sur article of o few woeks ago headed "A
.nothej Chapter on the Tariff." The "Tele
graph" shield have reached us that week,
-at least, if it commented on our article. At
other times we do not feel its loss. Wo
shall be pleased to reply to tho article if it
-is sent us, for the tarilf is a subject which
Steven grows old, and which wo are always
.ready todiscuse.
,17 The powder mill of Elijah Hammer
Mtd Michael Seltzor of St Clair in Sohuyl
kiU county, was blown up on Monday of
la-tweek, for the fifth time within the past
few years th|£ it is in operation. Five lives
were lost by this last explosion, and about
.300 pounds of powder destroyed.
X3f. Rev. DAVID J. WALLER, the pastor of
tho Presbyterian Churclt of this place has
resigned his charge of the congregation here;
the resignation to date from the first of Oc
tober next. i
lutcrual Improvements.
Tho hill upon tho subjoct of internal Im
provements which is now before tho House
of Congress makes appropriations to 81 ob
jects and grants 92,087,000 00 for clearing
out rivers and harbors, removing sand
shoils, making surveys. &e. This is lo bo
the beginning of profligacy and extrava
g.mco. This sum will no sooner bo granted,
•ban a new swami of greedy speculators
will flock around Congress, to beseige it
with their importunities. An appropriation
of two milliiKts of dollars will only sharpen
the appetites of Ihe plunderers. Thoy prowl
about the Capital, bankrupt in character and
f'-rtune ; degraded in the respect of honest
men, and desperate for any emergency.
They live upon what they can extort from
tho public treasury. They grow rich upon
the fat contracts which they obtain by their
influenco upon members.
Mr. Fillmore will lend his influence lo
pass this bill, and will then sign it. General
Jackson fearlessly vetoed such an iniquitous
project, and Mr Folk also stood up to vindi
cate the great cause of the people. Put
'ho new President— quantum mulatas ah illo !
lie is a caricature of Jackson's and Polk's
devotion lo the republic. Bnt under Ihe ad
ministration of a profligate man like Mr.
Webster, we should think economy anil pru
deuce a mirae e.
At this rato of expending tho people's
money we shall no doubt soon bo told that
there is an urgent necessity for a change in
our tariff law, to bring into lite treasury at.
increase of revenue. The "protective sys
tem'' is a natural and inseparable adjunct
lo this policy of sqandering the public funds.
A SUGGESTION IN KINDNESS.
Wo regret to see tho appearance of dif
ficulty in the Senatorial District composed
now -of Bradford, Wyoming and Susque
hanna counties. Conferees front these conn
tics met last week lo fix the basis of repre
sentation in tho conferee conventions which
arc lo be hereafter held in ihc district. Tho
members from Bradford insisted that the
number of conferees to which each county
shall hereafter he entitled shall be ill propor
tion lo tho itslaxiiMes, its population, or its
Democratic vote. The members from Wy
oming and Susquehanna insisted that each
eottnty should I#; entitled lo an equal num
ber of conferees. The representatives from
Bradfoid county withdrcw, and the other
delegates then adopted their own proposition.
Now we dislike lo interfere in theso mat
ters, but it just scents to us that as a peace
maker we can make a proposition which
shall be fair and Democratic. The true doc
trine is that the Democratic vote should be
the basis of ropreseutatiou in a Democratic
conference. For this purpose let the vote at
the last preceding presidential election be
taken. If it is agreed that each county shall
have one conferee for every 1000 Democrat
ic votes ami an tuhlitioual conferee for an
excess of more than 500 votes over this re
lio, the result would bo that Wyoming with
its lft>2 votes for t'afcs would have on con
feree, Bradford with its 1889 qotes for Cass
two conferees, and Susquehanna with its 25-
02 votes for Cass three conferees. Of
those who in Btadford voted to defeat the
Democratic candidate for President could not
expect lo be represented in Democratic con
ference. Such a settlement as we propose
would make it the interest of each county to
give a true vote in 1852 for the Presidential
candidate of the national Democracy.
Important Decision.
Tho tax'imposers of this state have been
compelled to search on the earth agd in tho
earth, in water and under the water lor ob
jects of taxation to pay the interest on the
heavy state debt of Pennsylvania. These
subjects of taxation have become "100 *lU
tncrous to mention," as the ai'ySiiisements
say; and in 1816 an act of the legislature
made a sweeping classification for this pur
pose, and one so very indefinite that it may
be strained in its construction to include al
most every thing. Under the tlth section
of this act a case lately came before the Su
preme Court to lest whether a miller is com
pelled to take out lieenso for hauling about
and selling tho Hour which he manufac
tures.
The defendant, Bertoletle, a citizen of
Rcrks county, was tho owner of a flour nttd
grist mill, with a farm thereto attached. He
raised grain oil his farm, and also bought
grain. He took tolls for grain ground, for
customers at his mill. Ho manufactured
into flour the grain raised as well as bought.
Sold tho flour BO manufactured to his cus
tomers, not only at his mill, but he sent it to
tho city of Reading and other places by his
team from week to week through the year
and sold it by the hundred weight to hiscus.
lomerS. The Suprmiie Court decided that
ho is compelled to take out and pay for a li
cense to do this business. This taxing the
very bread we cat is about as bad as the
British system of taxing every thing, from
tho swuddling-cloth of the cradle to the
shroud of tho grave. Still, under the act of
Assembly the decision was ns doubt correct.
W Tate, by an ill-natured falsehood of
last week, attempts apain to pick a Quarrel
with us. But he shall not be gratified. We
have too much regard for the union, harmo
ny and success of the Democratic party, and
pro ardently desire the triumph of the re
peal Question, to play into the handß of the
enemy by a mischievous and useless quar
rel. We have never electioneered for Felty
Best's or Simon Cameron's candidate for
Canal '.Commissioner, and shall continue
now, as heretofore, true against the division
of the county; and ready to sncraflce all
personal feeling to avert disaster and defeat
from the local question in which are sodeep
ly involved the interests of those who have
generously patronized s, and with whom
all our sympathies and feelings are indenli
fied.
IF The translation from the German upon
our first pago to-day will be found interest
ing and instructive.
A Lecture from the Pcnnnylvnuian.
We regret to seo some pretenifed Demo
cratic papers of the stale attempting to puff
Mr. Given the editor of the Mercer Press I'qp
hi? defence of Simon Cameron's ttltoson to
the Democratic party. They do not givo his
Cam ronism and Wilmolism as the reason
fot their sickly laudation, but it is very ap
parent what spirit moves them. They dare
neither puff nor defend Cameron ; but Mr
Given defends him, and they puff Mr. Given.
The Pcnnsylvitmiin, with the usual fine dis
crimination and fidelity of Mr. Forney, ex
plains how he of the Mercer Press might
fare, if tho Camoronian disorganization
which he preaches wero practised in his
own ense. It explains how he who stabs at
the organization of a party, has no right af
terward to invoke tlrat organization for his
own protection. As this article speaks our
sentiments, we apponed it for tho attentive
perusal of every true Democrat; and hope
that its castigalior. may prove profitable to
the erring ones of the editorial fraternity.
'"The editor of the Mercer Press , who is
himself a candidate for Congress, in the
Mercer district, has undertaken to justify the
| course of CAMXROS and WILMQT, and to take
those to account who contend that tho first
should not be returned to the Ik. S. Senate,
ami that the second has forfeited nil claim to
the name of a Democrat. Tl<p propriety of
the discussion of the merits of theso gentle
men, is manifest; for the one is unmistako.
ably in the field by his friends for tho Sen
ato, and the other looks forward to bo re
turned to Congress from the Xllth district.
It is the duly, then, of the Democratic press
to sound tho alarm. To fail in this duly, is
to perpetrate a wrong upon the people; and
to evade it, is only a more censurable way of
proving recreant to a plain trust.
If the argument of the editor of tho Mer
cer/Ven were brought homo to himself, he
would bo painfully convinced of its true
character. His justification of trie disorgani
zing course of General CAMERON, who was
elected by pledges to Whigs and Natives, a
gainst the regular Democratic candidate for
Senate; and his apology for WILMOT, who
went against C.\ss afler being pledged to
go for him; who used his Proviso to prolract
the war, and who finally arrayed himself a
fininst the Democrats in the last House of
Representatives in Congtess ; both justifica
tion and apology can be, and may bo, used
against himself, should ho get the nomina
tion ol the Conference for Congress. In
deed, this justification and this apology may
have the very effect ol producing discord
and disorganization in the district in which
he is a candidate; for if tno logic of the
Mercer Press is true, then its editor, or any
other Democrat, may have a unanimous
nomination, and bo opposed by a volunteer,
professing lo be a Democrat, in the face of
pledges to the contrary, and who may bo e
lected by a majority purchased by corrup
tion and deceit. If the samo doctrine is fol
lowed out, the attempt of such a man, after
his successful treason, to g el back into pow
er, is nojt to be denounced for fear of divi
ding tho party ! Wo wish no such sad ex
perience to the gallant Democracy of the
Mercer district. They have had troubles
eiieugh and to spare: and wo hope they
may be harmonized upon a candidate who
will unite all sections of the party. But this
result is not to be produced by apologizing
for and defending two of the most thorough
disorganizes in our State. at a moment, too
when they are both again .demanding favor
at the hands of the people."
A merited Compliment.
We ate pleased to learn that on last Sat
urday tho citizens of Orangeville gave a
public dinner, to Mr. B. F. Hayhurst and the
hands of his new foundry. Some sixty per
sons participated in tho tt[lu
paitook of lite "UlTipiuona repast provided by
Mr Brewer. Every thing passed off in the
best style, und with the most friendly feel
ings. After the cloth was removed toasts
were drank complimentary to the new en
terprise of Mr. Hayhurst, and to the mechan
ical skill of Mr. L. H. Maus of this place,
who erected the fine engine for the new
fundry. •
Tho good citizens of Orangeville are doing
themselves grent credit in the appreciation
which they bestow upon the new business
enterprise anieng them. The foundry is an
accession to their town, and its proprietors,
under such auspices as those of last Satur
day, must prosper.
TUB BAI.TI.HOIE OMO. —This is the leading
musical publication of the country, and is
indispensable to those who desiro to keep
booked up in tho popular music of these
changing limes. It is published monthly by
W. C. Peters, Baltimore, at 51,50 per annum
Wo invite attention to the proceedings of
the Roaring creok repeal meeting. The peo
ple are moving in this matter and the war is
carried into Africa, when the citizens of
Montour county itself protest against divis
ion und urge repeal.
Who wishes to learn Phonography ? the
system ot short-hand writing by which
speeches are reported,accurately. Let such
send at once to Andrews St Boyle, New
A'ork, for the Phonographic Class-Book and
Phonographic Reader. From these the art
of correct reporting can soon be learned, and
the books erst only 624 cents. Copies can
be soen at our office.
17 General complaints are raado of
tho non delivery of the Pamphlet Lows of
the last session. It is now the second week
in August and the public are not yet in pos
session ol the acts of the last Legislature.
ii
137 None of thq County bridges upon
Fishing Creek were destroyed or injured by
the late flood, the bridges recently erected
upon that stream being substantially built,
and the flood upon it not being as violent as
that which a few years since produced such
extensive injury.
Repeal Sleeting
In pursuance of public notice a 'meeting
of tho citizens of Koarjiigcreek and the ad
joining townships war held at the public
house of D. Reinbold in Numidia, on Satur
day afternoon, August 3d. Tho meeting
was organized by lie appointment of the
following officers.
DANIK.L KKF^ffßTrcsidcnt,
Jacob R Hower, Haines Fox, Iteuben Fah
ringerEsq., Henry Metz, Judah Cherrington,
Thomas Thomas, Win Myers, Osborne Wil
liams, Oliver Evens, Peter Keller, John
Hogelatul, John Snyder, Potor Miller and
Simon Hine Vice Presidents'.
Samuel MArs, H C M'Cauley and Ahiram
Keller Secretaries.
The meeting was addressed by several
persons, and of these Benjamin P. Fortner
Esq., gave a detailed history of the division
bill, and explained the barter and sale of
Best's vote in the Senate.
The following resolutions were then unan
imously adopted.
Resolved, That we arc determined to se
cure the repeal of the unjust division bill
erecting Montour county, and will use every
honorable and fair means for that purpose.
Resolved, That we will this fall vote for no
man as a member of tho legislature who
shall not be known to us as a true and reli
able advocato ofjepeal, and that forhischar
acter we will not trust to pledges or prom
ises.
Resolved, That the manner in which the
new county line divides Roaringcreek town
ship is unjust to the tax-payers of the por
tion proposed to be left in Columbia, ma
king a township to consist of only about 80
taxables, with a range of roads most expen
sive to be kept in repair,' and which have
been an onerous burthen thus far even upon
the whole township as it existed.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
NEW CHURCHES. —Tho Primitive Metho
dists or Ranters will erect a new church this
fall, upon Third Street at the foot of Iron
Street in this town.
The Baptists havo also a subscription in
circulation for building a church in Blooms
burg, for thoir denomination. They expect
to get the building up this fall.
EF* THE real property advertised to-day
in another column offers a fine opportunity
to purchasers. Sale on Monday of court
week. __________
REASONS FOR DECLINING A CABINET PLACE'
—lt is understood, says the New York Cour
ier, that reasons of a pecuniary nature in
duced Mr. Bales to decline a seat in the
Cabinet. He has a large family, most of
them young, and Would be compelled to re
sign a lucrative practice. The salary of a
member of the Cabinet is S6OOO per year,
but the receptions, parties. See., which ho is
forced to give make the offico far from lu
?rative.
A Lino of Mail Stages has been establish
ed from Independence, Mo., to Santa Fo, to
run monthly- The stages are so construct
ed tfiat they catffio used as boats for ferry
ing the streams. Eight men guard the mail,
who are provided with firearms capable of
firing one hundred and thirty-six shots with
out stopping to load.
nr The female operatives of the Lancas
ter Cotton Factory No. 2, have addressed a
note to the Lancasterian, staling they again
commenced work, but at a reduction of 20
per cent, on their former prices, "lhey also
wish to know vhether the reduction applies
to tho salaried officers as well as to them
selves. The Lancasterian cannot answer the
inquiry^
"When toiling millions work to fill,
The wealthy coffers strong;
When hands are crushed thai work and
There mus* he something wrong."
Gov. QUITMSK, of Mississippi, indicted in
Louisiana for participation in tho Cuban Ex
pedition, does not know whether or not to
yield to a requisition upon himself for the
delivery of himself to the Governor of Lou
isianna to be tried for the offence. He has
constitutional scruples about the business,
which, under the circumstances, it will prob
ably tako some time to remove.
CP" The Or.eida Conference or the Meth
odist Episcopal Church met at Honosdale,
Pa., on the24th ult., Bishop Waugh presi
ding. The session will probably continue
till Wednesdoy of this week. About 200
ministers are in attendance, chiefly from
Northern Pennsylania, and Southern Penn
sylvania, and Southern and Central New
York.
CT Toe sustained by the Schuyl
kill Canal wHI bo repaired, tho Pottsville
Journal says, by the 10th of August—a por
tiou of the work will be in operation sooner.
Many of tho boatmen iiave an tiered severe
ly by the loss of their boats, and the opera
tors also by the loss of coal.
iw A New Boston Notion. —battlefield, the
principal witness in the Parkman murder
case, has been offered the sum of SSOOO,
to travel six months with an exhibition of a
couple of full length wax figures of the late
Dr. Parkman and Professor Webster
The MattcA Chunk Gazette states the relay
ing of the Beaver Meadow Railroad with i
ron rails, will be finished during tho present
week, when the place of shipment will bo
as formerly, at East Mauch Chunk.
The Cincinnatians, when their water is 100,
thick with mud, as is frequontly the case
aro in the habit of filtering it through a cane
bottomed chair. After that it sits well on tho
stomach!
Gov. Hubbard, of Maine, has been unan
imously re-nominated by the Democratic
members of the Legislature.
A meeting haa been held in Georgia de
nouncing Clay's Compromise as a "base
concession."
Green, the reformed gambler, is abbot to
attempt the suppression of gambling in New
York city by means of an association of
which he is to be executive agent. He is to
employ a kind of secret police or spy sys
tem to note the visiters. This precious vol
unteer scheme for lessening tho duties of the
proper public officers will bo likely to do
more mischi4Hk)Mo£ l l. In the hands of
unprincipled meTi IT may be made the means
of cxt orting hush from the visiters
of such places. safe mode of
suppressing unlawful piactises is for the
proper public officers to do it themselves,
and that public opinion should be sufficient
ly strong and sound to compel them to the
task. If gambling is a violation of law, there
is a legal remedy which public magistrates
know how to enforce. All supernumerary
aid only afford additional excuses to neglect
ful magistrates to losson their own exertions.
It may be wise policy to set a thief to catch
a thief, but a gambler, however reformed,
is not exactly the person to commence a
moral crusade against gambling.
MR. WISE AND HIS BALLOON. —At Lancas
ter, on Saturday last, Mr. John Wise, the Ae
ronaut, attracted a vast crowd to see his bal
loon ascend, in which himself, his wife and
children, his sistsr, ar.d one of his friends,
had secured seats for the voyage. Previous
to the hour of ascension, numbers were let
up on trial trips into the air in the balloon,
which was not then fully inflated, by means
of a chord some five hundred feet long.
Two dollars was freely paid for those trips
by each passenger. A storm came up very
suddenly about three o'clock, and Mr. Wise
was anxious to leave in oider to get a start
of the tempest, but was resisted by his
friends. Shortly after the wind became very
high, and before means could be taken to
prevent it, the balloon was rent asunder, and
tho whole of the day's sport spoiled. We
learn that the intrepid voyageur will make
another attempt in about two weeks from
Saturday last.
The body of the deceased infant of tho
Queen of Spain had been embalmed and
was to bo placed in the royal chapel. A
mong the measurs employed to preserve
the lifo of tho Prince were poultices, baths ol
ether, inflation by the hollows, and finally
the placing of the body in tho warm skin of
a sheep, which was killed in the royal cham
ber.
117' Important Legal Decision In the Dis
trict Court of Alleghany county, Pennsylva
nia, Judge Lowrio lias recently decided that
a building coramitteo may sue or collect a
subscription made for building a church. W.
Chambers, one of the building committee
himself, was sued in tho name of the other
members of tho committee, and judgment
was rendered against iiim.
Pittston Bridge. —The contract for
building a bridge across the Susquehanna at
I'ittston, Luzerne county, has been taken by-
Messrs .Trescott & Hurlbut, who have been
prosecuting the work in a spirited and ener
getic manner. The abutments are already
finished, and the piers are being reared.
Laborers are now scarce in the country
not an idle hand is to be picked up in Schuyl
kill county. Between the increased de
mand lor agr owing to the wet sea
sons, and the urgent works on canals breaks
everywhere, there is employment for all.
This is the case, we are assured, thronghout
the State. The increased crops require •
' large additional amount of As lon as
this is thq j. ase th ?:3 , g no excuse f or even
"1? ILost;idle to be without employment.
AN IMPORTANT DECISION. —Monday, in the
Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia, Judge
King delivered the first opinion, under the
new law, in reference to the rights of mar
ried women over tho property possesed by
them. By this decision, a wife has not only
the absolute control over her own property
while living, but may dispose of it as she
pleases, by will, at the death, without regard
to the husband's courtesy.
CORWIN AS A FINANCIER. —The Hollidays
burg Standard thinks the following extiact
from Corwin's Mexican speech, of February,
1847, constituted his claim, in Mr. Fillmore's
eyes, to be regarded as financier enough for
the Treasury Department:
"While the American President can command
the army, thank Heaven I can command the
PURSK. While the President, under the penalty
of death, can command yonr officers to proceed,
lean tcU them to COME BACK, or the President
may SUPPI.Y them as he may. He shall have NO
TVHOSfrom me, in the prosecution of a War
which I cannot approve/
W Carlysle, an English author, asking,
"what thing to admire has America ever
done," has been fitly answered thus: "She
has producod a girl, deaf, dumb and blind,
who, with her own hands, did sewing e
nougli to send a barrel of flour to somo of
your starving countrymen, sir?"
EW If tho girls will kiss, let them perform
the ceremony as if they loved it. Don't let
them sneak about the thing as if they were
purloining cheese, nor drop their heads "like
lilies o'er pressed with rain." On tho con
trary, they should do it with an appetite, and
when they "let go," should give riso to a re
port that will make the old folks think some
body is firing pistols around the house.
t?" Washington Adams Jefferson, Madi
son, Monroe, and Taylor, left the Presiden
cy, each in his 6Glh year. Had John Q Ad
ams been elected for a second term, he
would have done so, 100. Polk and Van
Buren younger, Jackson and Harrison older.
LV The Lawrence Case Settled by our
Ghost.—
Why this diMrce ? Because my friend
Kentucky's raws are so inhuman,
They won't allow a free white man j
To marry with a colored woman.—Boston
Post.
ACTORS AND ACTRESSES IN SOCIETY —The
following is from the pen of N. P. Willis,
who was recently cowskinned by Forrest,
charged with keeping too late home with
Mrs. Forrest:
"That tho society of actors and actresses
is the most entertaining and agrceablb of all
society, is generally admitted. That men of
rank and of high official standing in Eu
rope. frequent it-shemsdves, with no impu•*
tatiou on their moral character, but do not al
low their wives to frequent it, is also under
stood. That it is the wit, playfulness of
thought and manner, disregard of burthen
some etiquette, quaint mixture of the dra
matic with the common placo impulsive
ness anil frankness— and not the immorality—
of the class, which makes its charm, is, wo
fancy, what every ono will allcw as well.
But where these fascinating qualities exist
without Ihe immorality, as they do in many
cases, is it not a pity, (in a dull world like
this,) that so charming a creature should be
lost to tho best society of ladies and gentle
men ? Should American wives avoid the
society of actors and actresses, (because
Marchionesses and Baronesses do.) and let
their husbands enjoy its fascination, (asMar
qusses and barons do,) without them'?
Would it not act powerfully on the moral
character of the profossion, if actors anil ac.
tresses were excluded from society only on
the same grounds with other people, and
welcomed gladly to circlee they could so en
liven and embellish, as long as they were
as good repute as other people ?—Wo sug
gest a compromise in this matter, as very
good material for an Americanism.
A MONSTER DIVIDEND. —The Pacific mail
Steamship Company, of which Messrs. How
land & Aspinwall are tho representatives,
have declared a dividend of fifty per cent., —
their first dividend. The Journal of Com
merce states that this company started with
a capital not exceeding 5600,000. It ghas
since purchased the steamships Unicorn,
Tcnnesseo, Cherokee, and Philadelphia, for
which there must have been paid all of
§700,000. This fact, considered in connex
ion with the dividend above mentioned, will
afford some idea of tho profits of the busi
ness.
The North Curollua I. ;on.
WASHINGTON, August s.—By a despatch
just received from Nortli Carolina, by a
member of the House, 1 learn that the Dem
ocrats have gained 2,500 volos in the coun
ties hoard from in North Carolina. Heed,
Democrat, is certaiily elected Governor.
Tho Democrats have gained six members
for the Legislature. Tho Legislature will
doubtless be Democratic.
The Cnbiict.
WASHINGTON, August s.—Mr. Henry S.
Grierhas declined tho Secretaryship of the
Interior. Ho prefers, no doubt, coming to
the Sen alp. Nj Secretary of War yet. Uon.
Scott answers admirably ad interim.
THE COMMISSIONER OP PATENTS. —A corres
pondent ol the New York Tribune intimates
that Mr. Ewbauk will probably be removed
from the office of CoiHmissionor of Pateuts
and that Dr. Lee. of Georgia, the well known
agriculturalist, will be appointed to the va
cant office.
HAZLETON COAI."WORKS BURNED.—A de
spatch received in Trenton, N. J., on Sun
day, slates that the sugar-loaf the coal
chutes, breakers, mechanic's shops, saw
mill were all burnt on Sunday
morning. These works belonged to the
Diamoud Coal Company, and were one
mile from Hazleton. The business of the
! Company will, it is supposed, be suspended
for the season, andfwilt cause a further re
duction of the supply of coal from that re
gion.
The Compromise Bill was defeated in tho
Senate on Wednesday of last week by stri
king all from tho bill except what relates to
Utah. This proposition prevailed by a vole
of 34 to 25. The bill has bees revived,
however, and President Fillmore has sent a
message to Congress in which he takes ultra
Whig ground in defiunco of the rights of
Texas.
Democratic State Central Committee
The members of the Democratic Slate
Central Committee are respectfully requesj
ted to assemble at MCKIBBEN'S Merchants'
Hotel, Fourth near Arch street, on MONDAY
EVENING, August 21. 1850, at 8 o'clock.
JOHN HICKMAN, Chairman.
BAD SIGN— The sheriff of Schuylkill coun
ty has advertised property of 30 persons for
sale among them several large property
holders—Enos W.M'Ginnes, Howel Fisher,
and Kobert Morris.
ty Sir Henry Bulwer, the British Minister,
says his own government will be delighted
to leain that Daniel Webster has been selec
ted as Secretary of State. Not a doubt of
it.
SULLIVAN COUNTY,— The Commissioiters
to locate the County seat for Sullivan Coun
ty, attended to that duty last week, and fixed
upon Laporte as the County seat.
The Telegraph.— The Hon. J. M. Porter, of
Easlon, was last week elected President of
the Philadelphia and Wilkosbarre Telegraph
Company, in placo of G. H. Hart, Esq. re
signed.
The Bank of Northumberland, we under
stand, is about to issue ten dollar tiolos from
a new plato, in order to defeat the circula
of the counterfeits which have latterly made
their appearance.
SERIOUS LOSS. —The loss of properly by tho
late storm and freshet in Lancaster county a
lone is estimated atone million of dollars
. :—.
A quantity of unripe poaches were hawk
ed about the streets of Now York, on the
2d inst at two quart.- lor a penny!
Fatal Singe Accident.
j An accident occurred to the passengers
! coming from Harrisburg in the stage or open
' wagon which has been running between the
| Junction and Northumberland, since the high
water, about threo o'clock, on Thursday
morning, at Northumbulund. The wagoit
being Heavily laden, there being eleven pas'
stingers in it, the bridge over the basin, a lit
'ile north of the West Branch bridge, in the
town of Northumberland, gave way, precip
itating horses, wagon, and passengers in the
water. One of the passengers by the name
of Jones, from the neighborhood of Harris
burg, was killed. He was found in Iho wa
ter under the wagon. It iB supposed that
some of the timbers of the bridge struck
him and killed him, or stunned him so com
pletely that he could not help himself out of
the water. Another of the passengers hail
several of his ribs broken ; and the rest
were more or loss injured. Two of the stage
horses were drownded, The bridge has
been in a bad condition lor several years,
and wo have been told that the council of
Northumberland, often urged its repair by
the cana! officers, but it was rever attended
| to.
Mr. Jones, we have been informed, was a
1 poor man, about sixty years of age, and was
on his way to Danville in search of employ
ment.—Sunhtry Gazelle.
Disasters n ttie banes—Aggregate toss
el Life.
The committee appointed by the citizens
of Clereland, Ohio, to consider the causes
of steamboat accidents on tho Lakes, have
made their report, from which we gather tho
following facts:
"From 1830 to 1850 there were seven ex
plosions on tho Lakes, by which 111 lives
were lost; during the period between 1836
arid 1850 eleven steamboats were destroyed,
by fire, causing a loss of 801 lives ; from
1840 to 1850, a period of ten years, there
were thirty-ono collisions by steamers, by
which 62 persons were killed The loss of
life on tho Lakes during the last ton years,
lrom explosion, fire, and collision, amounted
to 977. Tho committee was unanimous in
their adoption of a memorial to Congress
setting forth the defects in tho present sys
tem ol Lake steam navigation, and in re
commending the passage of a law embrac
ing suitable remedies."
PHOEESSOU WEBSTER AND SITCIDE. —Tho-
Boston correspondent of the New York Trib
une, says :
Professor Webster is in remarkable good
health, is constant in his devotions, and ap
pears liko a man who realises the awful and
ignominous fate which awaits him. Ho is
allowed Iho usual articles in his ccjl that ho
had before Iho decision.—l mention this be
cause some have thought it a matter of sur
prise that he-should bo allowed a knife and'
fork, glass ware, &c., they being impressed
with Ihe idea that ho would commit suieid t.
He once said, when spoken to upon ttiat
subject—'•/ am too much of a christian to com
mit suicide" We shall see. Bots run high
that ho will never bo hung—that ho will takt
his own life. Others are as equally as
fierce in bottling that ha will be hung.
Prof. Webster is according to the jail ro
coid, in the 551h year of Ins ago, and is five
feet two inches and one-eigth in height.
APPOINTMENT.— General A. L. Roum
fort of this County, was yesterday unani
mously appointed by the Board of Canal
Commissioners, Superintcndant of the Mo
tive Power on tho Columbia Railroad, in
j place of Col. Wm. English,'"resigned. Gen
| oral Uoumfort is a radical democrat of the
I true Jeffersonian stamp, and his appoint
i me "t 'dl give universal satisfaction to the
| Democracy of this section, and will reflect
credit on the appointing power. We feel
' certain that the interest of the State, and tho
! gratification and the benefit of the public
j will be advanced bj this most excellent ap
• pointmont which takes effect on the first of
; September.— Spirit of the Times.
I ELECTION OF JUDGES.— It appears from re
cent disclosures, that an organized attempt
to prevent the consummation of this mea
sure, is now on foot A circular dictating
the minutim of a secret movement, has late
ly been issued from this city, signed by Gar
rick Mallery and C. Ingersoll. It advises
tho appointment of two delegates—a Whig
and a Democrat—from each county, who are
to meet in a general convention for the pur
pose of co-operation and efficient action.
We imagine that the people are too wide a
wake for the success of any schemes. It,
is well enough, however, to be warned in
season.— Times.
CF" The body of a female child between
three and four years old, was found among
the willows bordering the river, a short dis
tance below this place alter the sobsklanca
of the lalo flood. The child was drownded
in the Mehoopany creek, about forty miles
above, and the body had floated this long
distance. Its parents hearing of the recov
ery of tho body, wo loam came after it, anil
took it home for burial. Wo hear varirtns
rumors of the bodies of a number of men
being found in tho river above this place,
but cannot trace them to any authentic sourcp.
WUkestmrre Farmer.
TIIE MINKRSVII.LE BULLETIN —Mr. George
Wynkoop, has issued a prospectus for a
Weekly paper to be published in the Bor
ough of Minersvitle, Schuylkill county. It is
to be impartial in politics, and as far as pos
siblo to bo made a "Family Newspaper. '
We wish the new enterprise abundant suc
cess.
SMALL NOTES.— It should be borne in miml
that the law prohibiting the circulation of all
Bank notes of a less denomination than 85,
except the Relief No'es of the State, under a
severe penalty, takes effect on the 21st inst
Up to that time we will receive Small notes
of all Solvent Bai.ks for SubbCfipiion ordobtrt
due this Oflioe