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R. w. WEAVER EDITOR.
Blooinsburg, Thursday, Kept. 5,
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS.
Flection held Oct. 8, 1850.
FOR CANAL COMMISSIONER,
W. T.MORISON.
FOR AUDITOR GENERAL,
EPH. BANKS.
FOR SURVEYOR GENERAL,
J. P. BRAWLEY.
Democratic County Ticket %
FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
Reuben W. Weaver.
, FORCOUNTY SURVEYOR,
"Solomon Neyhartl.
FOR AUDITORS,
John Keifer, S year*,
Gilbert C- Nl'Wnine, 1 year.
REPEAL
Heeting*.
THE citizens of Columbia County are re
quested to meet in COUNTY MEETING
the COURT-HOUSE in Bloomsburg on Sal",
us-day (he Tib day or September
■lekl, at 13 o'clock, noon, for the pur
pose of nominating repeal candidates for
MEMBER of the LEGISLATURE and COUNTY
COMMISSIONER, to *ie supported at the
• -coming fall election tby the peoplo of Col
umbia county favorable to the repeal J"of the
ilaw erecting Montour County.
WM. M'KKLVV,
E. LAZARUS,
DANIEL KELLER,
GEO. W. LOTT,
JOHN F. DERR,
GEORGE HUGHES,
HAKMAN LABOUR.
Repeal Committc-
THE COUNTY CONVENTION.
The meeting of the delegates in this plaCe
on last Monday was characterized with the
utmost harmony and good feeljgg. A few
delegates were prevented from reaching
'here on account of the storm and high wat
er, but their votes would have made no ma.
terial change in the result.
It will be noticed that delegates wye in
the conventiou from the lower end of the
county, thus showing that the true Democ
racy of Columbia recognize no division of
the county, and have the utmost faith in tho
repeal movement.
For Congressional Conferees, Messrs Derr
and Funsto:. understand tho feeling of the
county, and, as the Congressman is conced
ed to Lozerne, will concur in the nomination
of any good Democrat who shall bo fairly
the choice of that county through its Demo
cratic Convention.
While Columbia concedes the Congress
man, she claims the Senator, and presents
to the District a man unexceptionable as a
Democrat, and of the most eminent ability.
Mr. Buckalew was the unanimous choice ol
'the Convention, and those who know him
best feel that his thorough knowledge of pub
■lie questions, and the character lie has won
for himself, are the best guarantee that their
interests will be well sustained by him in
the Senate. At the bar, in political contests,
in Democratic Slate Conventions, and where
c ver else he bus been tried, his ability and
integrity have been proved and established-
There can be no doubt of bis confirmation
by Luzerne county and triumphant election
afterward. ,
For Member and Commissioner the Con
vention made no nomination, leaving it to
the Repeal Meeting of next Monday io pre
sent men upon that issue.
The editor of this paper received the
nomination for Prosecuting Atiorney, a fa
vor for which he returns his warm acknowl
edgements to various friends. Having re
ceived an appointment to the same post just
before the decease of Gov. Shunk, and been
ousted shortly afterwards in consequence of
the advent of a Whig State Administration,
the Convention, we suppose, conceived the e
•would be a propriety in putting u in nomi
nation. If ohosen to the post proposed, we
shall endeavor to discharge its dutios with
fidelity, and in such a manner as to
justify the partialities of those who hvve pla
cet) us in the attitude of a candidate.
6" r. Neyhard the nominee for County Sur
veyor, is an industrious practical surveyor
who has for several years been the Deputy
of the Surveyor General, and applied him
•eelf most attentively to his business. He
lhas been a Justice of the Peace in Centre
-township, and is one of the most steady of
the Democratic faith.
Mi. Keiler of Maine is an honest and up
right man, by whose election as Auditor the
people of the county have evety assurance
that they will secure a faithful guardian of
their interests. The office is one of high im
portance to the tax payers, and it is due to
them to elect a man in whose integrity they
can have full confidenoe. Mr. Keifer will
rlake the place of Mr. Harder.
Mr. McWaine of Madison is nominated
to fill the place of Mr. Davia of Limestone
who bad been oppomted by th i Conrt. He
tea gentleman of intelligence, waa a school
teacher for some yeers, and is an excellent
jaccountant.
Emanuel Lazarus, '.he Represent ative del
egate to the Stale Convention is a radical
Democrat who will give a good report at
Reading for the Democracy of this county—
. a man, It Is enougL to say, who enjoys the
utmost confidenoe and fullest respect of his
neighbors, and of the citizens of the whole
ttountjr, *
THE PAMPHLET LAWS.
The pamphjet laws for 1850 have at last
reachedfipand we find a book of ovct 1100
pages, conlflDmg 478 new laws, which the
people are supposed tp understand without
ever seeing them. Many of these laws also
are compounds, or ompibus bills, each cov
ering a dozen suhhtcts of legislation. Thu
on an act which runs over
8
independent subjects. It upon
subject of bail gtveu by au executrix, talks
about colored convicts, tAien of the statute of
limitation, next of £Yonnd rent, of married
women, of hawV en an j 'pedlars in Butle r
and Union counties, of the Schuylkill coun
ty poor-bouse, and so on ad nauseam. On
page 623 is a law incorporating the "Cecil
ian musical beneficial association of Phila
delphia," and on page 1057 we learn .that
the wheels of legislation were stopped to de
cree that the name of this corporation shall
be Cecilia and not Cecilian. On page 1056,
the legislators marx out the manner in
which the peoplo of Sul.ivan county shall
hunt deer; and,say these Solons, if you
do not shoot them just according to the act
of Assembly it will be a dear business for
you, and we shall fine you five dollars, for
your fine sport. Oh dear! Hereafter let no
nice young man go hunting the fine dears of
romantic Sullivan, for ho shall
fined if he finds them.
In these day#deer are killed according to
act of Assembly, music is manufactured by
law, and ere long we may expect the air,*
water and bread of our lives to be doled out
to us in scantly pittances by the expert legis
lators of the state.
Very few of these 478 new laws art of a
general character or interest; most of them
being acts of incorporation, or supplements
to such acts. Tho Sheriff's proclamation
w hicli wc publish to-day points out the al
terations which have been made in the
elections laws relating to our locality. We
have been told that an act was passed chan
ging the place of holding the the election
in Roaringcreek township to Kurnsville, but
if such an act did pass, we suppose it must
be tied to some omnibus bill of a private
character upon which the tax has not been
paid, and which is hence not yet In force,
for we do not find such a law by the hasty
glance which we have given the book. An
act passed fror tho benefit of one of the
churches of this town does not appear, we
suppose for the same reason.
By one of these published laws, the citi
zens of.Cattawissa township are hereafter to
elect only one supervisor ini tead of two as
heretofore, and the repairing of roads in
that township shall be given out by contraot
for tho year. Proposals are to be received
by the supervisor on the first Monday of
April at the place of holding the election for
the township.
By ' another act the President of the
Bloomsburg Railroad iron Company is au
thorized to subscribe to the slock of the Cat
tawissa, Williamsport and Elmira railroad
Company an amount which shall not exceed
one eighth oi tho stock of said Company.
DESTRUCTIVE FRESHET.
Scarcely have the publio works of our
stale been repaired, when we are called
upon to record another storm and freshet,
and the fear that most serious damage has
again been done to the line of pubiio im
provement in this region. On last Sabbath
a great Quantity of rain fell in a series of
showers, and during the whole of the fol
lowing night the storm poured down in tor
euts and threatened to sweep off every
thing. Fishingcreek was nearly as high as
at the freshet o f a few months ago. The
river overflowed its banks and above Bor
wick river, canal and flats were one sea of
frightful ruin. Houses, sheds, grain-stacks
and boats were carried down by the boiling
stream.
At Nescopock the storm poured down
from the mountains, like a terrible avalatich.
The dam above Wesller's forge was partly
torn sway, and the flood coveted every thing
so soon that people were surprised by it in
their houses, and drowned before they
could escape. Twenty-three persons were
missing. Two, (one colored the other
white) have since been found in safety.
Six dead bodies were taken from the scene
of ruin on Tuesday morning, and it is feared
that most of the yet missing 15 are drowned.
The small bridges on the south side of the
river in this county are many of them torn
away. A gentleman who was at Mainville,
five miles from here, on Monday morning,
tells us he was compelled to travel 25 miles
around to get here.
The Schuylkill must have been very high,
for at this writing (Wednesday noon) we
have received no Philadelphia mall since
last Saturday, also no Wilkesbarre mail
since Saturday, and no Danville mail on yes
terday.
L# The Montour Democrats last Mon
day met '.n county convention, and nominated
Daniel Frazer of Mahoning for Sheriff and
George Mears jr of Franklin for Treasurer
We are also informed, that they were queer
enough to select Senatorial and Congression
al confers es. Better wait, gentlemen, until
your county once has a separate existence.
The Senatoria I Conferees are instructed for
Valenli ne Best! Wonder whether they will
ask to go into the Whig or Demecratio Con
ference. If their Senatorial Conferees go
for Felty Best, we suppose a delegate from
Montour to the State Convention would go
for the Native American candidate for Gov
ernor.
POSTMASTERS CONFIRMED.-—' The Senate has
confirmed the following appointments of
Postmasters in this Stale: —John MeGrew, at
Alleghany city ; Benjamin F. Arndt at Eas
lon ; Andrew Mortimer, at Pottsville ; Henry
Rhoads, at Reading; Samuel Ware, at .Ken
sington; Thomas H. Sill, at Erie.
MICHIGAN.— At the next general eleolion
by a resolution of the Constitutional Con
vention of the State, the question of negro
suffrage is to be decided by the people.
A Railroad for Sato.
By a resolution of the Legislature, the
President of the Board of Canal Commis
sioners, has advertised for sale that part of
the Philadelphia and Columbia llailroad, ex
tending from the Eastern end of the Schuyl
kill Inclined Plane, (including the Schuylkill
brtilge,) to the corner (of , Vino and Broad
itreets, in the city of Philadelphia. This
part of the road is made useless to the State
by the new one to avoid llie inc.lined plane,
and hence the sale. It cannot be sold for a
less sum than two hundred thousand dollars.
The Reading Railroad Company will most
probably be the purchasers.— Exchange Pa
per.
This Reading Railroad Company is the
same which last winter obtained a dispensa
tion from our state Legislature, absolving it
from the payment of its honest debts for
twenty years. The Corporation which was
granted the privilege of scouting its honest
creditors, and which legally turned off its
honest toilsmon impaid and in want, can
now purchase magnificient Railroads and
Bridges. Last winter it had not a cent to
pay the sweat and toil upon which its stock
holders grew sleek and fat, but now it has
8300,000 to invest in a new speculation.
Shame upon the legislation which thus
tampers with the cause of Justice ! Shame
on the law which thus holds from labor its
hard-earned reward, while the unfeeling
debtors revel injlhe riotious luxuriance of
their rich spoils. When such Corporation*
apply to the legislature for special favors let
them be told to go and pay (their workmen
before they indulge in purchases of 8200,000
Railroads. When these follows talk of "pro
tection," with their sly oily grace, let the
people examine how the Corporation protects
its subotdiuates. When these demagogues
prate about the " pauper labor of Europe,"
see whether they are not themselves the
most grinding and oppressive ot taskmasters.
When they attempt to prejudice and seduce
by "free soil" mania— inquire whether it
is not their own system which, when carried
out, grinds down the hard-fisted laborer to be
the bondman who must bow at the bidding
of the "Company," and wait its pleasnre,"
mayhap for twenty years, for the bread
which his hard toil has earned. Judge these
loud-mouthed tricksters by their fruits rather
than by their promises ; and look at their
practice rather tiian their profession.
The Censns.
Deputy Marshalls Cook and Ellis are
now engaged in taking the census in this
county, and for the benefit of our readers
we give the questions which will be asked
of the farmer. It will be we| to cut them
out and prepare answers in advance of the
Maishalls call, for these questions are some
times not so easily answered at a moments
notice.
Productions of Agriculture.
Name of owner, agent or manager of the
farm.
Acres of laud—improved—unimproved ;
cash value of farm; vaiuo of farming im
plements and machinery.
Live stock, June 1, 1850.—Horses, mules
and asses, working oxen, milch cows, other
oattle, .sheep, swine; the value of live
stock.
Produce during the year ending June 1,
1850. The value of animals slaughtered
during the year. Wheat, bushels of; rye,
bushels of; Indian corn, bushels of; oats,
bushels of ; tobacco, pounds of; ginned
cotton, bales of 400 lbs. each; wool, pounds
oi; beans and peas, bushels of; buckwheat,
bushels of; barley, bushels of; potatoes—
Irish, bushels of, swoet, bushels of; value of
orchard products, in dollars; wine, gallons
of; value of produce of market garden;
butter, pounds of; cheese, pounds of; hay,
tons of; cloverseed, bushels of; other grass
seeds, bushels of; hops, bushels of; hemp
—water rotted, tons of; flax, pounds of; flax
seed, bushels of; silk cocoons, pounds of
honey and beeswax, pounds of; value of
home made manufactures.
Repeal Meeting.
The citizens of Franklin township met at
Thomas' School-houso on Saturday evening,
Aug. 24th, when, on motion LLOYD THOM
AS Esq. was called to the chair, Daniel
Zarr, Jacob Yetter and Peter Kline were cho
sen Vice Presidents, and B. P. Fortner Secre
tary of the meeting.
A committee was appointed to draft reso
lutions expiessitfg"rtie sense of the meeting
viz: B. P. Fortner, Reuben Knittle and Ja
cob Kosiaafoorder, who, at the conclusion
an addrejpjj) the meeting, presented the fol
lowing
Resolved ;.3'hM our county has been divi
ded by treaqhery, thereby subjecting us to
support Iworounty organizations instead of
one, in a county which ranks among the
smallest, and at the courts of which the
whole legal business has frequently beeu
done in four days. *
Rteohtd; That we will use all honorable
means in endeavoring to have the law erect
ing Montour county repealed at the coming
session of the legislature.
Resolved , That we wtll heaHily support
the candidate for member who may be cho
sen by the Repeal Convention, irrespective
of party, as well as the candidate foi Senator
in favor of repeal.
Resolved; That the proeedingsofthis meo
ting be signed by the officers and published
in the papers of the county friendly to the
repeal of Montour county.
Signed by the officers.
Nomination In the XlXth Congressional
District^
We have before us a telegraphic message
dated Greentburg, Aug. 30, announcing the
noraiualion of John Snodgrass, as the Dem
ocratic candidate for Congress in the West
moreland, Bedford Cambria district.
THE AMERICAN LIVE STCOK INSURANCE
COMPANY.—A company with this title has
been chartered ip Indiana, with.a capital of
850,000. It is organized for tho insurance of
horses, mules, and all descriptions of live
stock, against all the combination of risks,
fire, water, accidents, and diseases. Proper
ty of this kind is as liable to injury as*ships,
steamboats ltousos, furniture, and is as prop
er au object to secure by insurance from
risks as any other species of properly.
I II it
Democratic County Convention, |
PURSUANT to notice of tho Democratic
Standing Committee the Delegates elected in
the Several election districts met at the
Court House in Bloomsburg on Monday
September 2d 1850.
On motion the Convention organized by
choosing the following office.s ;
President,—J ACm~EVANS.
Secretaries, — A/peafiowell, Geo B. Runyan
The following Delegates appeared and
took their seats in the Convention—
bloom—Wesley Roat, Leonard B Rupert,
Cattawissa —lsaac S Munroe, Reuben
Stambach,
Centre— Jacob Hagenbuob,
Franklin —Peter Kline, Wm. Rohrbach,
Greenwood —Jacob Evans, Perry Smith,
Hemlock —Franklin M'Bride, James Roat,
* Jackson —John Savage, William Roberts,
Limestone —Wm. J M'Kee, Geo. B Runyan,
Madison —John Allen,
Montour —John Deiterich, Daniel Gigger,
Mt. Pleasant —Jacob Shipman, Wm J lkler,
Orange —Benj. llayman, Alfred Howell,
Roariugcreek— Geo. W. Dreisbach, Henry
Metz,
Sugarloaf —William Stevens.
On motion, Thomas A Funston and Iram
Derr were chosen Conferees, to meet Con
ferees from Luzerne and Wyoming, to nom
inate a Democratic Candidate for Congress.
On motion of W. Roat, —Resolved, that
we concede the Candidate for Congress to
Luzerne County.
The ConventionJUen proceeded to nomi
nate a Candidate for Senator—when
Mr. Deitrich named CHARLES R. BUCK
ALEW—whereupon Mr. Buckalew was u
nanimously nominated and declared the
Candidate for Senator.
Peter Kline and Morrison E.Jackson were
then chosen Senatorial Conferees, to meet
Conferees from Luzerne County.
On motion—
Resohed, that this Convention will dis
pense with nominating candidates for As
sembly and County Commissioner, for rea
sons of character.
The Convention proceeded to choose a
candidate for District Attorney—
Mr. Hayman nominated R W Weaver
Mr Deitrich nominated John G Freeze
The Convention proceeded to vote with
the following result:
For R. W. WEAVER— Messrs. W Roat,
Munroe, Stambauch. Hagenbuch, Evans,
Smith,J. Roat, Gigger, Shipman, Ikeler, Hay
man, Howell, Driesbach and Stevens—l4
For J. G. FREEZE—Messrj, Rupert, Mo
Bride, Savage, Roberts and Deiterich—s.
Whereupon REUBEN W. WEAVER was
declared duly nominated for District At
torney.
Upon proceeding to choose a candidate for
County Surveyor, Solomon Neyhard of Cen
tre and Samuel Everet of Orange were
named.
The vote was taken and resulted—
For S. NEYHARD—Mcrjrs, W. Roat, Ru
pert, Munroe, Stambach, Hagenbuch, Mc
Bride, Suvago, Roberts, Deitrich and Ste
vens—lo.
For S. EVERET- Mturs. Evans, Smith, J.
Roat, Gigger, Shipman. Ikeler, Hayman,
Howell and Driesbach—9.
So SOLOMON NEYHARD was declared
duly nominated for County Surveyor.
Tho Convention then proceeded to choose
candidates for County Auditors—whereupon
JOHN KEIFER of Main was duly nomina
ted for the term of three years, and GIL
BERT C. McWAINE of Madison for the
term of one year.
On motion — EMANUEL LAZARUS of Orange
was unanimously chosen Representative
Delegate to the next Democratic State
Convention at Reading.
The following Standing Committee was
chosen for the ensuing year, viz :—Hiram R.
Kline, Charles Kahler, Isaac Yolter, John H.
Quick, John Keller, Isaac S. Munroe and
Frauklin Mcßride.
Adjourned.
ROYAL MARRIAGE. —The King of Denmark,
Frederick VII., has marriad a dressmaker,
the hat foreign intelligence says. This
makes the third wife the king has had; and,
as his two former were princesses, with
whom he lived unhappily and was divorced,
he has gone to the ranks of the people in
hopes to find a temper more congenial to his
own, his experience in royal tempers not
being favorable to further experiments in
those quarters. His first wife was his cousin
Wilhelmina, whom he married in 1828,
when he was Crown Prince. After living
with her several years, they quarreled 40
that his father him from Copenha
gen; in 1837, they were divorced, and the
year after she married another man. The
Crown Prince waited fhree years before fol
lowing her example. His second wife was
the Princess Caroline of Meoklenburg Strel
itz. From her he was separated in 1846,
their marriage being of about five years' du
ration.
THE PEACH TRADE. —The growers of peach
es in Jersey and Delaware are now reaping
their harvest. On Monday, about 32,000
bushels arrived in New York, in seven
steamboats, four of which were from Wash
ington; N. J, two from New Brunwick, and
one from Araboy. On Tuesday, some 70,000
or 80,000 baskets arrived, the greater part
of which were of middling quality, and
sold at from 12} to 37i cents per basket.
The better qualities, which have just begun
to come in, command $1 25. Farmers from
New Jersey say that the oroj, this year, in
that State, will be lam;,, than ever before
known.— Public Ledger.
C A telegraphio despatch from Pittsburg
announces the nomination of Salisbury and
McClintock for Congress. Resolutions were
passed recommending Col. Wra. McCaud
less for United Status Senator.
Twenly-third Congressional District. —The
Democratic Convention of tho 23d District,
now represented by Mr. Thompson, met at
Warren on the 21st inst, and nominated C.
B. Curtis, Esq., of Warren, for Congress.
ANOTHER PuiNricLn.—The Baltimore '
Sun, alluding to the explosion of the Havre
tie Grace Bank, the moment the law in this
State against small notes drove the worth
less issues of that institution back, says that
a larger amount ol bills were in circulation
in Baltimore at the timo of the failure than'
ever before, and mechanics, small slorekeep.
ers, andjieople who generally earn their
labor aro the sufferers. At
the amount of the money in
circulatiori was unprecedented, and but two
persons are known to have entirely escaped.
Some had as high as S3OO on hand, and oth
ers smaller sums down to one dollar. A
number ot poor laborers and females, in
that vicinity had saved small sums of mou
sy, and suddenly found its value to have di
minished to one-fourth of what it purported
to be. The resident directors at Havre de
Grace are men of good standing, and state
that, so far as the bojks of the Bank show
its condition is not beyond resuscitation and
the redemption of the liabilities. They
hare taken possession of its assets. A box
supposed to contain specie reached there on
Thursday, and was also taken possession
of by the directors. A large majority of the
stock of the Bank is held in Wall street, New
York, and Moses Y. Reach was one ot the
principal founders.— Ledger.
A Century Ago.
On the 14th of April, 1743, says the Penn
sylvanian, Benjamin Franklin, postmaster of
Philadelphia, not iced the public that the
northern post would set out for New York
every Thursday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon,
until Christmas. At this time the commu
nication between the cities is so continuous
that if a passenger is "left" it's a matter of
little consequence. He can take a seat for
a few minutes till the next train starts, and
will hardly have time to smoke a segar be
fore the bell rings. Besides the fine boats
going round by sea—the Camden and Am
boy R R Co., and its connections, runs five
trains a day between Philadelphia and New
ork—(at 6—7 J and 9 o'clock, A. M., and
3j and 5 o o'clock P. M.,) the run
ning time being about four hours and a half.
—PotlsvUle Emporium.
Wrought Ircn produced by Anthracite Coal.—
We learn from the Nrtvaric (N. J.) Adverti
ser that a new and successful psocess for
making refined wrought iron directly from
the ore with Anthracite coal, has 'just been
perfected by Mr. James Ronton, of that city,
whose efforts are said to have resulted in
the discovery of a more simple and practi
cable method of deoxydizing and refining
the metal than has been hitherto accom
plished. Mr. R. and his associates have e
reeled a furnace at Charlottenburg, Morris
Co., where the process has been fully and
satisfactorily tested, and strong certificates
given. An experienced blacksmith has al
so tested the iron, who pronounced it un
commonly good. From all the testimony
adduced iu its favor, it is apparently an im
porlant and valuablo improvement, combi
ning in the manufacture, cheapness, with a
rapidity and uniformity of quality, capacity
to be used in any part of the country.
A SINGULAR CASE.— a Miss Purbeck recent
ly died in Salora, Mass., who had been sui
fering from a painful and singular malady
for nineteen years. When she was about
fourteen years old, during a fever, there was
a large gathering of some kind in the back
of her neck. It was lanced, but so unskil
fully, that she was thrown into a great deal
of nervous agitation. Shortly after she was
turned from a sleigh, and received a severe
blow on tho upper part of the spine. When
about twenty seven years old, she became
subject to spasms, which continued up to the
day of her death. She never left her bed,
took little nourishment, struck her face often
violently with the palm of her hand, open
ed and closed her mouth with a force that
sometimes broke her teeth, while her right
shoulder-blade made a noise as if it was
dislocated. But what is pecu liar about
this case is, that during the whole period of
her suffering, she never slept for more than
a few minutes at a time. By taking large
doses of opium, she could produce a semi
unconsciousness, but no profound sleep.—
Public Ledger.
GALPHINISM AGAIN.— Some of the public
officers under the late administration must
have thought that the Government was a
great goose, and that it was proper to pluck
it on all occasions. An Ex-Attorney Gener
al, from Louisiana, it is said, has presented
fee-bills against the United States for servi
ces, &0., amounting to $60,000 or upwards.
Mr. Whittlesey, the First Comptroller, reject
ed the entire account, with the exception of
a single i.em for a small sum, whieh, being
unsatisfactory to the claimant, an appeal
was taken to the Secretary of the Interior.
Mr. Ewing, upon a review of the case, con
firmed the decision of Mr. Whittlesey as far
as he went, and rejected even the solitary i
tem that the Comptroller had allowed, but
went further, and referred the whole subject
matter of dispute-to the then Attorney Gener
al for his opinion -Mr Johnson had. fcot deci
ded the case when he retired,
TEXAS AND THE BOUNDARY BILL.—- The
Washington Republic says thererhas mst a,,
tired in that city, immediately from Texas, a
gentleman of the highest intellgenoe, who
gives it as his decided opinion that the Tex
as boundary bill, passed by the Senate, will
meet with the sanction of an overwhelming
majority of tho people of that State. The
despatches sent by the correspondents, by
telegraph, at the South, are of a difieftnt
complexion.
EST The Pasha of Egypt is said to be
rapidly converting the ancient ruins on the
Nile into materials for building factories and
other similar works.
I3T The names of Hon. Robert Dale Ow
en utid the Hon. John Pettit, are announced
as candidates for the office of U. S. Senator
in Indiana.
Execution of Dr. John White Webster at
Boston.
BOSTON, Aug. 30
This morning, Professor John While Web
ster suffered the extreme penalty of the law,
for the murder of Dr. George Parkman in the
• Boston Medical College, on the 23d of No
vember, 1849.
The execution took place in the yard of
the Levferelt street Jail, in presence of übout
three hundred persons, wh,o were invited to
attend by Sheriff Kveletk^^^
Long before the time the execu
tion, the streets in the vicinity exhibited an
extraordinary excitement, and thuusandscon
gregated on the roofs and in the windows of
all the buildings in the vicinity, iu the hope
of getting a view of the prisoner, either as
he stood upon the scaffold, or as he passed
thrpugh the yard to it. Premiums wero
freely offered and given for choice places
where the scaffold might be viewed.
Strangers poure J into' the city by thou
sands, and vied with the citizens in exer
tions to get a good view of the last sail
scene. A large awning was erected over
the scaffold, which to a considerable extent
i obstructed the view. It was announced that
the execution would take place at nine o'-
i clock, though the persons admitted were no
tified to be present at eight o'clock.
Among those admitted to the jail yard
were several reporters for the press of . this
and other cities.
The f risor.er was attended in his cell, be
fore tne execution, by Rev. Dr. Putnam and
a few others, and appropriate and deeply af
fecting religious services were held.
Considerable time was consumed by these
and orher causes of detention. The prison
er was at length conducted from the jail
through the yard to the scaffeld, walking
firmly and conducting himself with the com
posure that he has all along exhibited.
He aseended the scaffold, the rope was ad
justed by Sheriff Eveleth, and at precisely
twenty minutes before ten o'clock, the drop
fell, and he was swung into eternity.
He died without a struggle, and after be
ing suspended for some time, the body was
taken down and carried into the prison a
gain.
Professor Webster's bearing up to the
time of the execution was firm as ever. He
expressed the deepest penitence for his
crime, and his sense of the full justice of his
sentence and execution.
No new confession was made, as was re
ported would be the case, and no new state
ments have come - to light as yet, since the
execution. The repoit that he left any olh.
er statements, to be opened after his death,
is not believed.
In compliance with one of the last re
quests of the unhappy mun, his body will
be laid out in the prison, and remain there
until to-night, when it will be removed to
his late residence in Cambridge, from
whence it will probably be interred privately
at Mount Auburn.
Mrs. Webster and her daughters aro as
yst unacquainted with tho fact of his execu
tion. Their last visit to the prison was yes
terday, the Usual day fot their visits, and as
they always parted as if they were never to
meet again, nothing unusual occurred to in
dicate to them that the day of execution was
so near. The.sad intelligence will be com
municated to them as quietly as possible, to
day, to prepare them, in a measure, for the
reception of tha corpse to-night.— Evening
Bulletin.
Pennsylvania Californians Supposed to be
Murdered.—We learn from the Pottsville
Emporium that it is feared in that place that
two young gentlemen from Schuylkill coun
ty. Peter K. Aurand, son of Capt. Peter Au
rand, of Tamaqua, and Solomon W. Miller,
son of Jacob W. Miller, Esq., of Minersville
who went out to California, last year, have
fallen victims in that country to the dagger
of the assassin. The Sau Francisco papers
mention the murder and robbery of a Mr.
Miller and a Mr. Orlando, and it is believed
that they are the two persons first named
who had formed a partnership in business,
and opened a store in the neighborhood
where the murder is said to have occurred.
A. BEST, Esq., of this place, has received
a letter fromS. S. Wilson, formerly of Dan
ville, now in California. It is a long and
interesting letter, and enclosed specimens of
California gold. Mr. Wilson says he would
not advise any of his friends to go to Cali
fornia with the expectation of making "their
fortunes by mining. Still, he says a man
can make more there than he can iu the
States. Wilson, Alexander Frick, John
Cowden, and John D. Pelrikin, aro doing
tolerable well.— Danville Intelligencer.
THE JENNY LIND HALL., which is being
constructed in New York, is to be lIQ f
high. The entrance hall, fronting on Broad
way and Mercer streets, i; i 0 be 25 feet
wide, 30 feet high, an d 200 feet long. The
stairways occupy 70 feet, and will be very
imposing in their general efleol. It is de
signed to have the Hall complete by the
first of October.
The Census in Schylkill County. —The bor
ough of Minersville, 2,964 souls. In 1840
this borough numbered 1,266, and in 1845,
2,180, showing an increase in tho lost five
years of 780. The number in Branch tp.,
according to the present census, is 2,6 63;
and in South Manheim, 766.
BAKE FAILURE— The failure of the Ha
vre de-Grace Bank (which was fonudod
principally by a gentleman of New York,)
has caused considerable excitement. Tho
citizens of Baltimore, are heavy losers;
one firm of brokers losing 85,000. ' Many
merchants und quite a number of poor peo
ple are sufferers.
Kew Roman Catholic Church.— -The Comer
Stone of a new Churce about to be erected
io the Borough of Mauoh Chunk, will be
laid in accordance with the ceremoniss pre
scribed by the Roman Ritual, on Sunday,
the Bth day of September.
Wyoming County 1
The Democratic Convention for Wyoming
county, met on the 26th inst., at Lees's Old-
Stand, m Eaton, and nominated the follow
ing ticket :
For Senator, S. S. Winchester; for Repre
sentative, E. Mo wry, Jr.; for Commissioner,
Josiah Rogers; for Prosecuting Attorney,
Wm. M. Piatt; for County Auditor, P. O.
Dunlap, for Treasurer, Jatnes Fitzgerald; for
County Stfryeyor, Alfred Hine.
Their delegates to the Congressional Cou-_
venlion were instructed to vote for Col. H. B.
Wright.
Affairs ia Pittsburg.
Pittsburg, August 29.—The Democratic
Convention yesterday nominated Mr. Salis
bury, the working men's candidate for Con
, gress the full term.
Gen. Moorehead was nominatee for As
sembly.
A resolution was passed by the Conven
tion, recommening Col. S. W Black for Gov
ernor and Colonel Wilson McCandless for
U. S. Senator.
There were five deaths from ChcUera in
[ Allegheny city yesterday. The uisease now
assumes A milder form.
Eric Congressional District.
The Democratic Convention met here on
the 22d, and nominated C. B. Curtis, Esq.,
of this place for Congress. The prominent
competitors were Gen. Seth Clover, of Cla
rion, and D. Barley, of Jefferson county. The
nomination was made by the casting vote of
Erie County.
A FATAL ArrRAT.—We learn that last
week a quarrel arose between two men liv
ing near Sloyers in Luzerne county and a
bout three miles from Berwick, which turn
ed into blows, and finally resulted in tho
death of John Henry, one of the disputants.
George Hoflman was the name of the other.
The subjMf ot the quarrel was some "land
in controversy between them. Hoffman has
been arrested, we are told, and is now in the
Luzerne county jail.
A Woman in male attire -—ln Providence,
on Saturday, a woman named Maria Pierce,
was fined S2O dollars and costs for parading
the streets in male attire.
EY Question for a Debating Society.—
Which is the most proud, a girl with her
first beau, or a wonen with her firs: baby J
CF" Love.— A passion that canses young
women to spoil their wOYk and young men
their appetites.
Talking of "enlarging" newspapers,
the editor of the Chicago Journal suggests
that it's not the largest calf that makes the best
veal!" _
CURE FOR BAD FITS—Not by any pa
tent medicine, but by a good suit —not such
a suit as a man can*got into at court, but such
a neat, well-made and fashionable suit of
qjothing as every body should wear; just
such as you can find at A. tf. Ellis', if you
will calland examine his stock of coats,
pants, vests, and other articles of dress at tho
lower door of the new Exchange Block near
ly opposite the Court-House, in Bloomsburg
His stock of ready-made clothing is not the
"slop-urork" made up for sixteen cents a day,
but is cut with attention and made up to wear
and not only to sell.
Mr. Ellis has also on hand an assormentof
cloth, cassimeres, sattinets, and suitable trim
mings; so that he is prepared to make up
clothing to order at the shortest notice. Ho
will pay particular attention to cutting out.
MARRIED.
On the 29th ult, by the Rev. H. Funk, Mr
ISAAC K. MCCOI.LVM, ofSugarlonf township, to
Miss LAUDEUUACH, of Fishingcreek town
ship.
On Saturday Aug. 31st, by Thomas Pain- 4
ter Esq., Mr. JOHN LLOYD, to Miss ELIZA
BULLEN, all of Bloom township Columbia
county.
DIED.
In Wilkesbarre, on Monday morning of
last week, after a protracted sickness, Mr.
ROBERT PORTER, aged 43 years.
At the residence of her brother-in-law, Dr..
Josiah Jackson, in Cherry, Sullivan Co., Pa.,
on the 19th inst., Miss ANNA ABBOTT aged'
70 years, formerly of Wilkesbarre, anil
daughter of the late Mr. Philip Abbott, of
Kingston.
At his residence in Hanover, on Friday
the 23d inst., at 9 o'clock A. M. GEORGE
KOCHEB, in tne 82nd year of his age.
JBridge Letting.
Proposals will be received by the County
Commissioners oq Tuesday, the 10th day of, /
September, A D, 1850, between the hour* •
of 12 and 3 O'clock, P. M., at tho Mill of
y N Jones in Fishingcreek township, for
building
An Arch Bridge,
over Huntington Creek, ot the following de
mens ions, to wit.-
Isangth 80 feet between abutments, width
18 feet from out to out, abutments 14 feet
high, from low water mack
Proposals will also be received on Wed
nesday, the 11th da, of the Bame month,
between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock, P.
M. at the Furnace of Fmcher & Thomas' in
Caltawissa Township, for building
An Arch Bridge,
over Caltawissa creek, of the following di
m'unions io wit:
Length 100 feet between abutments,
Width 18 feet from out to out, abutments
15 feel higlt trow water mark. j
jar Plans and specifications to be seen on I
day of felting. I
By order of the County Commissioners. i
WESLEY ROAT, Clerk.
COMM'S* OFFICE, )
Bloomsburg, Aug. 23, 1850. J
Administrator's Notice,
Notice is hereby given that letters of Ad
ministration have been grunted to the sub
wriber upon the es(pte ofjohn Lazarus deed,
lulo of Fishingcroek township, Columbia eo.
All persons liuvMg.claim* nguiiißt tho estate
wiH will to the administrator,
and those indebted are requested to make
early payment to him. v
JAMES S. WOODS.
„ Administrator.
Bloomsburg, August 29th, !850.-6t " ,