R. w. WEAVER EDITOR. silointir.i„, Thursday, Jan. o, lgSl. TJIE SENATOR qt/ESTIUN. "Every true Democrat ia anxious that hia political representatives at Harriaburg should make choice of a mail for United State* Senator whose election would bo a like creditable to the party and an honor to the state. Pennsylvania should bo able to send ■ not a mere politician, but a statesman to the highest legislative council of tho nation. From such a state there should go a man of auch commanding mind and dignity that his counsel would be like oil upon the troubled waters of these times, lie should be able to give rest to the political Commotion of these troublesomo times. And drat should i be a permanent and not tnorbid roat of the great public questions of these day*. It should not bs a mere lethargy to be follow ed by a mere fitful %ver of excitement—it should not be tho mere depression 4nd ex rymatioii which follows a feverish state of tho body politic—it should not be only a Wfom; •On ri pwtuilS, bOUghl by bad and baneful votes ; but it should bo a recurrence to the fundamental principles of oar political faith, and tbeao should be put .forth by a man trusting to them and devoted .to their auceess. Men long and actively engaged in the details and turmoils of political life, ate '.oo apt to trust to temporary expedients ; and ' not a few fall to regard politics as a mere game in which every petty trick is justifia- 1 ble as a means to gain same assumed im portant end. Hon. George W. Woodws.nl -a a man who is not a politician of tricks, management and expedients; but a statesman of eminent talents, and kith a full iutotiigenee of all po- 1 lilical questions. He has never managed j - himself into political eminence, but his j .friends are (host who reaped his ability; . and the stations he has filled were given to him because he TYPE kuowa In half JMOU well title" lorV.rem ; sod tot because he ■ electioneered, to get them. Thoy were the -tributes to Ids manifest menial aud moral merits, and not tho trophies of political per- j tiuacity and recklessness. Though most } meanly treated in 1845, he never demeaned , 'r.mseli to •. onto down from the beach into j the arena of potty politics to chastise pot- ; ; house politicians in a spirit of malice and passion. He has held bnt few officers, and . theso. all be honored. I - in a peliticid point of view Judge Wood- j ■ wetii's election would bo most fortunate for the. U'nnocratio parly. It would vindicato ' .the party organization and party usage. Every Democratic member of the legisla- ( lure, by voting for Judge Woodward, can 1 clearhiiAtcif of every imputation of break ir.g party discipline. Hero is a man who ( stands above every thing like a fictions spir- ( it, and whose eleotion will be a full Demo- • cratic victory. He is a man who has not ] -meddled in tho little details of securing del- j .. egates, eonventioue and nominations for any . particular set of men ; and whoso whole eu- 1 orgies would hence be devoted to the princi ples rather than the men ot his party ; and to all his political kindred alike. He is a man | whose whole political character is identified | • with a strict adherence to party discipline, < , aud a vote for hint will be a vote for party | usage and organization. The Whigs and Cameron. Tfce FoitsviHc Journal and Schuyllfill Ha ven Map, mo Copper Whig prints thai tlie Whig members of the logislature should vote for Camoron as United Slate's Senator because he would favor the "pro tective system." Well, let the "tariff Dem v crats(!)" see.whore they Hand. I ready . -touch in 1844 did this tariff rant disgrace the i Democratic party, and in 1845 destroy its organization by affording a pretext for tariff Domocrats to vote with Whigs for Cameron. Was not that a leaf in Democratic history that should have taught us something? Or are we to ant after the same heresy and fall into the same trap aguin ? Is the protective tarifi to be a pretext again for Whigs and Democrats to vote for some irregular candi date upon a platform of one idea 1 It was Mr. Cameron's heresy that he went for tho protective features and specific du ties of the act of '42 L'ut it ia late—very late— too late in the day fer those who once dared not whisper against his heresy, to re proach ind revile him new, wnen thoy steal the sin that was laid at his door. THE DISTRICT REDEEMED. Wo annnounced lost week that the Elev enth Congressional District was redeemed from Congressional misrepresentation, and .now the official returns comfiim our assu . ranee, and render it absolutely certain that we have a Democratic memher from this district. The fallowing are the official ma joiitiu* for John Brisbin Esq., the Democrat ic nominee Columbia * 248 Wyoming 191 Montour 315 752 LuseHte gives a majority for Dana, volun teer Democrat, but we have not yet learn ed tht ofboiai number. We are told It ia a bont 350. DEATH or JOSEPH VETTEK. W regret to announce* this week the death of Mr. Joseph Yo:ter of Cattawiaea * township ;eneof tho Commissioners or Col umbia oouaty. He was taken suddenly ill at Cattawiaea on last Wednesday, and died .on Thursday morning He was a highly .estimable aqd worthy citizen,* good neigh- and an hens* men. THE STATE LEGISLATURE Commenced it* annual session at Harris burg on last Tuesday. The preparatory oeucuees of the two parties in the House were held on Monday. The Democratic concus was full, and among other partici pants was Mr. Joseph Brown the Indepen dent Democratic member of Northampton who was elected against the regular Demo ecatic nominee. The vole for Speaker stood as follows: John Cessna of Bedford 34 John S. Rhey of Armstrong 17 Scattering • 7 And so Mr. Cessna is to be tj l 0 Speaker. He is a gentleman of talent, ahd ability, and a true and radical Democrat. The Whig mombers determined to vote for George H. Hart of Philadelphia for Speaker, and for the following other ofilcers:— Clerk— -Daniel Fleming, Sergca; ' a - Arms-—John Scckrist, Door keeper—Jacob M. Jonea. OFFICIAL. Columbia County Election Returns. Districts. John Britbin. E. L. Dana. Bloom, ]6l 171 Briaroreek, 71 80 Beaver, 00 39 Centre, 84 j6 Cattawissa, J6 58 Fishingcroak, 40 11 Or—Bi ft ouJ, 3g *2 Hmmimrk, IO 13 Jackson, 35 4 Maine, 28 30 Mifflin, 19 60 Mounipfeatant, 27 18 Montour, 59 5 Madison 6 3 Orange, 89 43 Sugarloaf, 88 00 Roaringcreek, 11 14 TOT* 1., 833 586 Mj. for Briebin, * 246 OFFICIAL Ol the Special Election. Brisbin. Dana. Wyoming 642 451 Luzerne 1527 1838 Columbia 832 586 Montour 784 408 3625 3283 .. . . _ ii mSmt 1 * -*H Brisbin's majority 342 ILLNESS OF JfDOK ANTHONY.—It was pub- J licly noted that Judge Anthony was too un well to attend "the Courts of Montour and Sullivan counties. For soreral days past he has been reported quite seriously ill, to the regrets of his many friend-. Judge Wilson of fio Union district supplies his plaoe at the Northumberland court, but we have not yet heatd of any one to fill the place for the January Term of this county. We antici pate but a very short term. FIRE.—We learn that tho dwelling house of a Mr. Furd in Fairmounl township, Luz. Co. was dostroyed by fire 011 one day of last week. Three small children were left alone in the house for a moment, while tho moih ei went to a neighbor's on an errand, and they commenced playing wiih the fire; when ono of them run under the bed with an ignited torch and the whole house was soon in flames. The children were rescued from the fire by the daring and bravery of a boy, wi o rushed into the burning pile to save life. None ol the furniture was saved. W Among the on dils of those days we hoar that Judge Kidder of the Schuylkill dis trict has resigned his Judgeship, and that Governor Johnston has appointed or is about to appoint Joshua W. Comly Esq., of Dan ville to the vacancy. GP" The ooupty Commissioners arc now in session with the Auditors making the an nual settlement of the public accounts. Tho vrffiACey in the Board of Commißionr wili b,3 bjjp]>!i p -d by an appointment at tho next court.' The zw'dg* l of the Court and the two remaining Commiszib!? o '* t ' ia appoinl menl. _ GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE.—The February number is already on bar.d and betokeils that an American Magazine in these days can be such a thing of magnificonce as would pass for an English annual. SARTAIN'I MAGAZINE for February is also received and pours forth such a flood of beauty as surptises and dazzles us until we bardly know where to begin enumerating beauties. OT The Harriaburg Keystone and Demo cratic Union are to Mm published twice a week, as usual, during tho ensuing session of the Legislature.—Terms 82 each, during the session—or 83 per annum including the session. FIRST SHAD.—The first shad caught this season at the South was sold in the Savan nah maifcet for five dollars, on the 18th in stant, and forwarded to Macon. Usa or ALLIGATORS.—In Florida alligators are now extensively killed for their oil and hides—the rough skin on their belly is tan ned aud used for saddles. An inexaustible inpply i* annually produced. tW It is computed that 5000 persons per ished the last season on the overland route to California. _ _ BP" Tho new Volume of N. P. VVillis' Home Journal opens with a gem of |, nura - her. < f|ii tW The Clirtton Democrat has a statement concerning the Lumber passing that place. It appears that 1657 rafts have gone down the river during the present year. IV Mrs. Forrest and her sister, Mrs. Voor hies, are employed as vocalists in the choir of Trinity Church Now York. W A new Post-office has bean establish ed at Trevorton, Northumberland oounly, and Wm. Alwater appointed ?• M From the Harriaburg Keystone. The Tnrill ia Pennsylvania. y We have noticed with surprise and regret, ) a disposition manifested in certain quarters c to discontinue hostility to the peruioious - Whig principle ol protection, and to concede - that the Democracy have been wrong in 1 battling against it. ?; ig fresh in our recol - lection, that when instructing resolutions 1 were offered in the Legislature last winter, in favor of increasing the duty ondron and qpal Ib.ey were met with a united voico of con demnation by the entire Democratic press of the state; and yet some of the papers 1. which then opposed that movement, have 1 since abandoned the position at that time 5 assumed with the na'ional Democracy, and . have fully endorsed the principle of the r repudiated resolutions. -Such unsteadiness is wholly inexplicable. We can see neith er wisdom nor propriety in retracting steps which have been firmly planted upon solid and immovable groftd; nor do those who have thus left the onward marching ranks of the enlightened Democracy, offer Jany other reason for their return, Ibau that it is wise aid proper to rescue the subject of protec tion from the strife of parly, and 'elevate it . into an abstract principle for all men to con template and decide upon, independent of political connexions. There can be no doubt but this is wrong, and it is probable that those who have giv en this unfortunate intimation, have done so without reflection, and in comtdlanca wiih. the wishes of interested clamorers. No principle more clearly marks the distinc tion between the two great national parties than that of protection. Ic is the offspring of the same corporation spirit which has ever aotuated capital in its incessant clamours for exclusive gnvtleges and class legislation. It is also marked by the old characteristic of baaing its claims to favour upon false preten ces— itpretends a warm attachment to the interests of labor, while its real object is to increase 'ill power and accumulation by robbing labor. The course of the national democracy is right on this subject, and the revenue princi ple is the only true one in adjusting taxes upon imports, as long as that system of sus taining the governme.it is allowed to prevail. On this platform the democratic party hat taken its stand. There should bs no falter, mj, in suaiailii'lg rr ITresls upon sound principles which endure always, and will be strengthened annually as its truthfulness and propriety become more generally understood. A DOWN EAST ROMANCE.—Tho following iucident has just been communicated 10 us from a source in tvhicb we place implicit confidence. In the year 1814, a Mr. Thurston, of Poiv nal, was married to a young lady of that plaoe, with whom he lived for two or three je ire, and then wont to the British Provin ces where, a short time after, it was repor ted that he was exeouted for trespass upon the King's timtTec lands. A year or two af ter this report-becamo current, and which was supposed by Mrs. T. to be true, she married a second time with a Mr. Lovell, with whom she lives until his death, which occurred a few years since. Since that time nothing has occurred to occasion a doubt of the truth of the rumor respecting lier first husband, until a few days [ since, a person called upon her and stated that her first husband had recently died in Hudson, N. Y., having been injured by a , fall from his carriage, and offered her 850 for . an assignment of her right in his property [ This sho very wisely refused to do. The : noxt day, another man called and offered . 8150, which sho likewise declined. An in quiry was instituted, and we understand the result is that a fortune of some 330,000 will probably fall into her hands. Thruston left some eight or nine children by a second marriage ; but us this, in the oyo of the law, wm.it illegal, sliu remains the solo heir Lewiston Falls Journal. THE NEWSPAPER IN CHINA.—The official paper of China has a namo which means tho Fekin Gaxctle. It is impossible to ascer 4iui when its publication was commenced, but it 66?ui" to he the oldest newspaper in the world. TherSia a tradition that it began under the Tsang dynasty, in the latter part of the tenth century, n 7" originally a sort of handbill, containing official u? l '"* s .' P o9l ' ed upon the walls of the Capital and sent* 12 manuscript to provincial officers. At Can ton it is printed for the pubiio at large and •old. It appears every other day in the form of a pamphlet of ten or twelve pages. The Homestead Bill. —The Homestead bill before Congress provides forgiving to every head of family, who is a citizen of the United Slates, one hundred and sixty acres of land out of the public domain. The Repub lic, though not opposing the bill, suggests a doubt of its propriety, and one effect ef the law will be to destroy any advantages that might have been expected by our soldiers from the Bounty Land Law of last session. No head of a family would pay the soldier anything for his warrant or his land if he could get his one hundred and sixty acres for nothing. .' . . The repairs of the Schuylkill Navigation works will be all completed in a substantial manner by the opening of navigation, the , Pottsville Journal eaye. The number aud oapacity of boats will be *0 increased as to enable thorn to carry 800,000 tons of coal to ' Philadelphia and other accessible points the present year. The expenses, it ia stated, will be not over $225,000, being less than ( one half the cost at first anticipated for the repair*. ' IV A Slate Temperance Convention ie to be held at Harriaburg, on tho 23d of thia month. r The entire amount of city taxes- levied in New York for the year 1860 was $3,230,- 085 02. , IV A turkey weighing 284 pounds, was sold in Philadelphia for sl4. TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA. FELLOW CITIZENS: Certain members of i the State Centra) Committee having met a' i the Merchant's Hotel in the City of Philadel i phia, on the erasing of the 30th of Decem i ber, 1850, and, by their resolve, attempted to chnr.go the place and time for folding i the Judicial Convention, from the Borough of Harrisburg. on the second Wednesday of 1 June next, to on the sixth of June next, I cteem it my duty to ex f press to you my conviction, that this meeting > was informally called together, and that its action is wholly void. Of the motive for this open departure from established usage, disorganizing in its ten dency, hazardous in its consequences, and calculated to lead to imputations against the prudence and forecast of those participating in the movement, it is not my place now to speak ; I prefer mther, that those who were active in the call, should satisfy you that they were governed, in their course, by de votion to your interests, and not by a meek subserviency to ambitious men. Whilst the regnlur masting of the Commit ee on tne 20th of November last, came to gether in pursuance of a call explicit as to its object, the call tor the irregular meeting of the 30th of December, concealed its pur pose. If the question of a separate conven tion and fhe time and place of its meeting be of any important* to the Democratic par- was the eti- ep J ■ a — .--n-i-- —— ting wnrmeiOT WTIST benefit can possibly accrue by merely changing time and place, that is comraoiisurafe with the risk incurred in attempting to effect that change, is an in quiry of far more importance. To concede to this irregular meeting the power to annul the legitimate action of the Cential Committee, would be to declare that seven of jts members in any part of the State, coming voluntarily together, should bind the party by their determinations. Such a doctrine would be subsersive of the ob jects for which the Committee was raised, and lead to confusion and defeat. Viewing the proceedings of the irregular meeting of the 3Qth of December, in the light I have indicated, and holding the reg ular meeting of the 20th of November to ! have defirritily settled both the line and j place of the pmaCt'HMM uunreriTtOTl to j put in nomination cur tne so- [ premo Conit of the State, I hereby announce j that the delegates elected to that convention will assemble in the Borough of Harrisburg, on the second Weiflfcsdav of June noxt. ' JOHN HICKMAN, CI airman of the Democratic Slate Central Committoe. West Chester, Pa., Jan. 1, 1851. Bo.uis.—One of our agricultural exchanges points out a great error in tho making oi roads from tho groat waste ot horse flesh, caused by the unnecessary steepness of b ills over which they arc required to climb in maaay our long travelled roads. A little more circuitous route, on a nearly level road, would enable the team lo reach a poiut at an easy trot, with less fatigue and in half the time. The entire cost ot tho land on some new route and the expense of grading and working a road, would be repaid semi annu ally by the economy in time and horse flesh. The power of a horse to draw on a level is equal lo 1000 lbs. In a rise of 1 in 100 feet he enn draw only 900; 1 in 50, 810; 1 in 44, 740; lin 40, 720; 1 in 30, 640;-1 in 26,540; lin 24, 500; 1 in 20, 400; lin 10, 250. In round numbers, upon aslopo of 1 in 44, or 120 feet to the mile, a horse can draw only draw three quarters as j much as he can upon a level; on a slope of 1 in 21, or 22l£feetto the mile, he can draw only half as much; and on aslope of 1 in 10, or 528 feet to the mile, only one quarter as much. Though a horse ou a lorel is as strong as five men, yt on a sleep hill it is less strong than three ; fqr three men, carry ing each 100 lbs., will ascend faster than a horse with 300 lbs. The that a gentle undulating road is less fatiguing to horses than one which is perfeclly level, is pronounced erroneous. The King of Denmark and his Wivu.—A letter from Hamburg, datod the 6th ultimo, contains the following :—The latest news from Copenhagen is of the Ist ult. Accord ing to a rumor circulating in . the capital at Jhat date, and in which there is reason for believing the Jf'HC had resolved to separate from Madame Kae'2<^- n : lhe Itll * tress whom he recently married ana pfindblod. The motives which may have led to the res olution aro but vagaely understood. Should it be realized, Madame Rasmussen will make the third legitimate wife from whom the king will have separated within a few years. The first was daughter of the late king, his uncle, Frederiok VI; the eeoond a Macklenburg princess; tLe third, as every one knows, was one of the ballet corps at the Copenhagen opera. As the priee of this matrimonial rupture, the Couuteas Rasmus sen is to receive .an annuity of 12,000 dollars, besides apauagos. Telegraph Under Water. —Thero are three lines of sub-marine telegraph wires in work ing order under the Hudson River, four un der the Connecticut, two under tho Dela ware, and eight under the Harlem river. All ooated with gutia peroha. And one, on O'Reilly's line, under the river at Chicago. The correct census of Schuylkill county i a 62,212. The increase ill ten years has been 33,130—a very large addition The public debt of the United States on the 30th of November, was $64,228,238. It is in contemplation in Edieburg to em ploy paupers in the cultivation of waste lands. The present strength of the Army in Ire land is 35,000. The number of peewits exiled from Romo, •inee the reMun nf lhe Pope, is 36,000. i i The Small Note Law. Like most other democratic measures, this : law, since it has been subjected to the test of practical operation, has proved the wisdom o( its adoption. Throughout the State with tho exception of one or two of the northern Irontier counties, the opposition to it which was so virulent at first, has almost entirely ceased. Even the whig press have failed, of late, to designate it as the "iniquitous loco toco act." It bas done all that was expected of it: It has driven out of the State near two millions of tho worthless currency of our neighboring States, the exodus of which has been marked by the crash of tho rotten in stitutions which had heretofore manulactur ed and spread their depreciated paper over the country, with perfect -impunity. The failure of the Maryland banks attest this fact. And if our neighbors in the counties of Pot ter, Tioga, and Bradford havo obeyed the law in good faith, and as good citizenship would direct, it will have been the means of averting a calamity, in the recent failure of the bank of Corning, which would other wise have visited them with peculiar severi ty. Add, to this dispersion of the rags, the fac* tba* through this law's operation their place has been supplied with silver and gold, and that, too, at a time when silver coin is in great demand in all parts of the world, and its increasing public favor may bo in part accounted for. Our farmers now re ceive lor their produce or give for their ne —uu - n —i r ...„ f .i 1 .j, me naru cash. The longer the law exists the lets ob jection there will be to its enforcement, and tho more popular it will become in every part of tho commonwealth. We hope to see the legislature, this win ter, put down its foot upon all attempts to repeal this truly democratic measure.—Ly coming Gazette. ECLIPSES FOR 1851 —There will be four eclipses in 1851, —two of the sun and two of the moon. A partial eclipse of the moon, on the 17th of January, will be invisible on this continent. An annal eclipse of the sun ou the Ist of February, invisible in Norlli America, but central and vertical in the la dim Ocean, near the Isle of Java. A par i tial eclipse of the moon, on the 18th of July, I vifiibla thrauflk m4iu Uiiituti _-j ntTJT nliti Bituuow, 1 o'clock, 6 mill.; mid | die of eclipse, 2 o'clock, 35 min.; last con- I tact with shadow, 4 o'clock, 8 min.; mean time, morn; magnitude of eclipse, 8 2-5 digits on moon's southern limb. A total eclipse of the sun, on the 28th July, partially visible. This eclipse will be total at Baff in's Pay, Labrador, a part of Greonland, and in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Newfound land. HEART-RENDING CASE. —During the (ronton dous storm on Monday afternoon, a poor woman, who resides about two miles from this city, oil the Shaker lload, started for {he town for the purpose of buying a small bill of groceries. Having effected her purcha ses, she left for home, the storm still raging more violently. She continued her progress till within a few rods of her home and her little children, when she became so embed ded in a snow drift that she froze to death. Her husband, who is a laborer connected with the Troy Turnpike, went homo about night fall, when he found his children hall perished and crying for their mother's ab sence. She leaves a family of nine children. —Albany Knickerbocker. RAILROADS IN THE UNITED STATES. —Tho total number ol miles of railroad in opera tion in tho United States, at tho beginning of the present year, was 8797, which cost to build them, 8286,455,078. In Now York, the number of miles of railroad in opera tion is 1402, at a cost of 855.202,060. Penn sylvania 917 miles, at a cost ol" 835,401,033. New Jersey 259 miles, costing 88 225 000. In nil BSO, is estimated at 2,680,000 tons. About 1000 operatives will be employed the coming winter. A Bio BOOK.— In the course of a sermon preached at Boston, on Thursday, Professor Park stated that all the sermons delivered in the land in the course of a year, would make 120,000,000 large octavo pages. D. C. Kitchen, formerly of Berwick, has associated himself with Geo. M. Reynolds, Esq., in the publication of the Lackawanna Journal, at Carboiidale * 4 Take Your County I'npers. Wo copy the following excellent ml vice : from the lant number of Graham's Moga > zine:— "We bop; there is not a subscriber to "Graham," who has overlooked the proprie ty and duty of sustaining, by bis subscription and advertising, the paper of his own coun ty, This duty is the first, even before sub scribing to i'Graham." The prosperity of the county in which you live—its thriving business character—active intelligence, and more thau all, Its very moral strength de pends upon the liberal policy of each and every one of you, toward the central point of your greatness— Your own County Jour nals. Now think of this!—belore you squander your dollar upon some ephemeral, trashy, and perhaps pernicioas sheet of a distant oil y. The telegraph and railroad hare brought jhe news early to your editor—earlier than you will get it from afar by duo course of mail. Now, encourage his heart and strengthen his hands by a manly support, and let his sheet widen, lengthen and brighten, under tho genial influence of a generous and i proper estimate of his position. If you want literature, as well as news and general miscellany, he will give you "Gra ham" and his paper for, perhaps, £4—but, GRAHAM himself does not want you unless you appreciate and support your own coun ty newspapers—he has no just right to re ceive, or you to remit him 83, while this debt remains unpaid at home. Go to !-—you are a dull fellow !—stupid ! and would not understand us. Put your three dollars in n stocking and g to sleep drowsy !—enact Rip Van Winkle over again—but come not to usj GRAHAM wants subscribers that have brains, heart soul —a quick eye to perceive a duty and a truth, and manly courago to meet and back thorn—now "Life's first, bast duty, always is at homo." Try our suggestion reader, and you will feel more like a man, the first day you take hold of the newspaper of your neighborhood as a subscriber who has paid his 82 and done a proper act of citizenship." Carious Commercial Fact. Onii if jlimmmM iei ' ' "SWfncen of record is-the fact that for centu ries before the Christian ore, the principle, not only of modem warehouses, but of tho Cunard and Collins' steamer, was recom mended by Xonopho, in his "lieuenue of ths State of Athens." "And if we build shops, warehouses, and exchanges," says he, "for common retailors, tho rents of the houses would be a great addition to our public ro venues, and the magnificence of tho build ings would bo an ornament to the city. "As the public builds galleys lor wars, it might likewise be for tho advantago of state to make a new experiment, and merchants ships fur trade, which might farmed out, like the other branches of revenue, upon good security : for, if this sign were found practicable," it would formH considerable article in the increase of our public revenue." Another Comet. —Mr. Bond, of the Astromi cal Observatory at Harvard University, bas discovered another comet, making the eleo ' enth first seen a Cambridge, before any in formation thereof had reached this country. The comet was so faint that it could not bo seen through a four feet telescope, It ap peared like a very faint nebulosity, whoso right ascension was 22h. 334 m., and its south declination 4 deg. 36 mitt. It is sup posed to be the same as that seen by M. Fayo, Nov. 22J, 1843, as the calculations of Nicolai and Leverriur assigned to it a period of 2717.68 days, with an ecccnlriciiy of 0.55596. and an inclination of its orbit to tho ecliptic of 11 deg. 32 min. 31 sec. Removal of the Body of Stephen Gtrart l Ciiy Councils having dotermined to cause the removtu or tne remains or me rmiamnro pist, Stephen Girard, from tho grave yard attached to the Church of the Holy Trinity, at tho corner of Sixth and Spruco streets, to , the grounds of the Girard College for j Orphans, tho matter was referred to the com- 1 missioners of the Giraid Estates for appropri ate action. Accordingly on Friday ihe body was privately exhumed and conveyed to the establishment of Mr. Simon Gartlane, under taker, in Thirteenth street above Chcsnut, in whose custody it now is. It will remain in this place until arrangements are made for its reintoiment. We are informed that the public authorities design to connect with this event suitable and imposing ceremonies— and the Grand and Subordinate Lodgea of Masons will probably cooperate with them, id producing a grand demonstration com memorativo of the great virtues of this public benefactor. The preparations, whioh, it has been said, ate to be on a very extensive scale, it is expeoted will take some consider able time to perfect. The Masonic fraternity have contemplated turuning out in process ton, with all the insignia belonging to the order. Such a display has not been wilnce sed in this city for many years, and when it will take placo, it will probably be exceed ingly handsome. A monument is to bo plac cd over the remains ol Mr. Girard at their final resting place.— Public Ledger. The Prize Wedding to Trvortou. Thistown, which sprung .into existence, minerva like, only six months since, is al ready a thiiving busy placo, numbering more inhabitants, larger stores, and better hotels thau soma county towns a quarter of a con tury old.—The first wedding came off on ths 24th ult., and the happy conpU, according to previous stipulation, were entitled to the fol lowing premiums, viz: the wife to the beat dress in the Company's stote and the hus band to a town lot. The group of statuary, ordered by Con gress, of the sculptor Greenough, emblemat ic of the oarly settlement of our country is nearly ready for shipment, Tho artist will reseivo 820,000. tST The debt of the oily of PoMen en the first oi the year was 81,756,652. This is ex clusive of the ttatardebi J ll' ALMANAC ft fob ml. jjfp* 5 6 7 8 8 10 11 1 ! 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A great Dyspepsia Ouror, propnrod from lion et. or the fourth Stomach of the Ox, after direction of Baron I.iebig, the great Physi ological Chemist, by J. S. Houghton, M. D , No. 11 North Eighth Street. Philadelphia, Pa. This is a truly wonderful remedy for Indigestion, Dyspepsia, Jaundice. Liver Com plaint. Constipation, and Debility, curing after Nature's own method, by Nature's own agon#, the Gasiric Juice. Soo Advancement in another column. MARRIED. On tho 17th ull., by tho Rev. I S Loo, !:• Light Street, LEWIS V MYERS, of !loar:ii nr-ot. B.wl \li* Er tIIUTM BoUOttMAN Of 11] O forrnur place In Mifliti township, Columbia county. 011 the 17th ull., by the Rev. 1 Babl, Mr. STE i PHEN Tt'RHtucH, of Black creek, I.uz. Co. and Miss HANNAH HETLKR, of the former place. Iu Ni'scopock township, Luzerne county, on the 24th ult., by ths same, Mr. PHILIP FENSTKMACHBR, ol Uollen' ack township, and Misa CATHARINE BoirootE, of the forrnor place. In Ilollouback tp., Lux. Co., on the 25th ult, by the same, Mr. SAMUEL Eao, to Miss ELIZ ABETH UOUCH, both of that place. In Briarcreek township , Columbia county, onthe 31st of Deeember, by John Doak, Esq., Mr. FREDERICK MICHAEL, aud Miss E MZABETM SIIULTZ, both of Centre tp., Colum bia co. By tho Rev. D. S. Tobias, on the 28th ult.' Mr. JOSEPH WIYMIER, and Miss CATHARINE REMLY, of OrangeviUe. By the same, on tho 2nd inst, Mr. DANIEL P. Fox, to Miss MARIA HARTMAN, of Maho ning. On the 96th ult., by the same, in Hollon back, Mr. JOHN HART, to Miss ANN M. DRUM, both of tho above named place. On Sunday evening of last week, by tho same, iu Berwick, Mr. Ku HUMMEL, to Miss DESIAN KiixTOß, toth of Salem, Luzerno county. On thfl 29th ult., by tho Rev. P. Willard, Mr. DANIEL WITMIER, to Miss CAROLINA L. KREPPS, all of Danville. On the 31st inst., by the same, Mr Amies TVS BEHRENS, to Mrs. LUCY JANK SUE BP, all of Dauvitle. DIED. LA Miflliimlle, on the 18th ult., SARAH JANE, daughter of Mr. John Keller, aged 1 j ear, 3 months and 12 days. In Mifflin tp.,*on the $1 inst, ABRAHAM HESS, aged about TO years. In Black creek township, Lnzeme county, on the 24th ult., Mr. GEORGE SHRLLUAMER, aged 73 years, 7 months and 11 days. At the residence of her son-in-law, (Will iam Moore,) in Valley township, on Satue day the 21st of December, 1850, Mrs. HAN NAH SECHI.KR, widow of tho late John Sech ler, of Mahoning, aged 69 yoars and 8 mcnthe. In Roaringoreek township, r on Thursday, January ?J, Mrs.Catharine Mensoti, widow of the lalo Adam Munich. [Heading pi,pure pica* cepy.J