STAR OP pi NMITIKj
K. W. WKAVKK, EDITOR.
aiDMKktiqt, Thursday, March. 20, 151. I
CATTAWISHA RAILROAD.
The work or completing tho Ca'mwigsa
raHread, WHS are mht Htm go on vi„xi illm
mer in ornu. TWr Mock has Ullcn into
the l)amls of men possessing requisite
energy and enterprise and the city capital
ist J •( awakening (0 importance of a iliiect
railroad cotnmunioitloti with the North.
Wrt our neighbor* to be within a hall
day'* journey ol Philadelphia rauat work a
vaat change in the business of this coitimu
r.ity,and must totally revolutionise tho op-,
prcreive credit system which has been such
a .dull, dead ch>g upen business hore.
A railroad communicatiod with Philadel.
pbta w>U open a readjaeaah market to the
-rest agricu luteal and lumber prodncts of
tbie region, and the iron and coal interests
here will find in it a most bou itiful and heal
thy protection. Wo look with high interest
JO see tho work in progress, and feel assured
that nothing could more highly benefit this
community,
New Mall Ront.
At the close of the late session of Congress
the following new mail rout wns establish
ed " From Blnomsburg; Columbia coun
ty, via Uuckliorn, Jerseytown, Whitehal'
and Bulla Tavern to Muncy, in Lycoming
county. This rout will be of good service
to lite towns west of us, and will furnish
their best means of communication with
Philadelphia. The travelling from the
Wert Branch to the city will now in a groat
degroe pass through Blnomsburg, and we
•bail hereafter have a daily line of stages
from this place to Potlsville through the
whole year, at least until the new Cattawisaa
Uailroad shall be ii ilshed.
A Fancy BALL. —The merry ones of Hot
lidaysburg enjoyed a fancy ball at that place
on last, week, and the editor of the Standard
rotes the personages and dresses with a
happy gustorthat smacks of good old ''Fal
ernian red," rucli ns is not interdicQd by
the Temperance Society. He ia certainly in
most merry mood and the fairy forms that
yctdlit osaund-hie bewildered vision, attest
that the company of wmiblaiiceil characters
enjoyed tltemnelves to their heart's content—
that they away till broad day light,
and went net homn till morning. Among
.other items of his chronicling, he tells that a
rumple of wags, dressed in fancy costumes,
in their researches after ' brandy-an'-water,"
on the nigblof the ball, fell in with a coup
le of counuymen whom they induced to bo
lieve that there was a circus in town.—They
pursuaded them to the Hall and seated them
among the spectators, where they looked on
quietly, for a long time, when one drawled
out—
"Come Jake, let's go back—tl n such
a circus—there aint no horses, nor no tumb
ling"
State IIOIK! to JUtporle.
A proposition is now beforo the legisla
ture for laying out n new state rond from this
place to Laporte in Sullivan county, going
byway of Kolirsbnrg, and avoiding the
mountain which the old road crosses abovo
the head waters of Fishingcreek. A bill for
this purpose has been read in the Senate by
Mr. Bucka.V.w.
S3T We inrite Billion to the extract
from General Packer's spJ >ec ' l u P on our rs '-
psge to day. He fully unileisu" 0^8 | m
porta nee of a-cai'road communica^' 011 w "''
Philadelphia, and urges the matter upon' 'he
legislature and city capitalists with fot'pe
and ability. The railroad if finished aocor
ding to the survey .made would run along
the edge of our town and make this the de
pot forthe farmers of Columbia. The out
let for'ihedumtmrmen will be at Milville for
ibis county, and at Williamsport for <Lycom
ing.
X3T The uew. church lately erected near
Iron s.reet by the American Primitive Meth
odist denomination of thiia place will bo
consecrated to religious worship on next
Sabbath. There will be aervico in the mor
ning at 10i o'clock, at 2 in the afternoon,
and again at (4 in the evening-
A Trne republican.
Hon. William Bigler who it to be the
next Democratic candidate for Governor
last week went down the river on a rsft. He
staid over night at Colutnhi*. and then won'
on hia way with hia lumber. Mr. Bigler is
u tiu'o republican and one 0 the people.
THE DOLLAR MAGAZINE, (late Balden V)
for April comes lrora the oharge of the
brothers Duyokinck with a gladsome smile
and a budget of well written talea and poe
try to. ease lha tired mind ar.d lighten the
•addnned heart of maid or man.
jy One reason given why Londoners
•Milled the use of wood in constructing the
building lor .the World's Fair, is that there
would be ao many Yankees there they were
afraid they would whittle it down.
TAX METHODIST CONFCIENCE has appointed
Rev. J. S. lee and T. M Goodfellow on the
Moamsburg.eircuit, J. A.Metiok and H. G-
Dill.onjhe Berwick eireuit, J. France on the
Danville.circuit, and S. L M. (looser at
Northu u etland. Mr. Waring goes on the
Carlisle distant.
XT It was thought to have the North
Branch Canal filled to day, but owing to the
Hie snow sqnall we suppose we shall not
yet for • lew days to come bear the echo of
the boatman's horn.
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Newspaper Subscribers.
Ws pake itgrtule in all esses to diteon
tinue a paper when requested, if anaspages
■re panFup, but hot ntberwila, if the sub
scriber nidney. We hake mpt
with pMpns cj our list, likMhe nan ma
tioned in ib'a following paragraph,,which we
copy foc'/ae information of all such who are
not ac quaiuted with the law on the subject:
*.lr. Jasper Harding, of Philadelphia, not
long since recovered a large sum, (about
Si2o, we believe) fora subscription to the
Pennsylvania Inquirer, of a man residing in
1 Rhode Island. The subscriber took the pa
per for some simp, and then sent the pub
' Usher notice of discontinuance, without for
warding money for payment. • The publish
er took no notice of this, nor of several sub
sequent notices ol refusal to take the papers
from the post office. The result was, that,
notwithstanding the Rhode Islander did not
receive the papor for several years, yet ho
was forced to pay Mr. Hardiug the whole a
mounl up to the period claimed in the bill.
Death of General McDuffie.
By the Southern mail we have received
the iiitelligenao that Gen. George McDuffie
died at 9 o'clock, A. M., on Tuesday, the
11th inst., at the residence of Richard Sin
gleton, Esq., in Sumter county, S. C. Gen-
McDuffie had been an invalid for several
years, suffering from a softening of the
brain, or some kindred disease, which not
only destroyed his physical strength, hat se
riously impaired hia mental vigor. He held
for many years a very prominent position in
the South, and has served as Governor of
and United States Senator from South Caro
lina.
New HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. A despatch
from the Patriot office, Concord, datod March
12, 8 P. M., says it ia certain by returns
from uearly the entire State, that DINSMORE,
the Democratic candidate, will fall short near
ly 3,000 of an election. The Democrats, it
is ascertained, without much doubt, will
have a majority in the Legislature (though
reduced from last year) who will elect Dins
more Governor.— ATWOOP, the repudiated
candidate of the Democrats, received the
Free Soil vote, and 4,000 to 5,000 Democrat
ic and Whig votes. His total vote will be
about 12,000. Messrs, Peaslee and Hibbard
Democrats, and Perkins and Tuck, Whigs,
are certainly elected to Congress. The netv
Constitution has been lejecled by a large
majority.
THE TARirr —The idea that M. Hunter's
bill increased the duties ou importations is
evidently an erroneous one. The Rich
mond Enquier, of yesterday, publishes a
letter from Gen. Bayly, the chairman of the
Committee of Ways and Means in tho last
House of Representatives, in which he Nays
the only object, and the only effect of this
new appraisement bill, is to give the tajiff
of 1846 the efTect which ita founders design
ed, but which he says was in part changed
by a recent decision of the Supreme Court,
fixing the time at which the value of the
goods to be charged with duly was to be as
certained. The Court decided ihat under
the act of 1846, the value was to bo fixed
at tho time of purchase—the new bill fixes
it at the time of shipment.
The National Assembly of Fra.tce have
passed a law which concerns many French
citizens in the United Slates. It is a bill ex
tending the term within which French citi
zens established in foreign countries must,
Dy emancipation or sale, divest themselves
of tho slaves of which they may have beeu
owners at the moment of the abolition of
slavery by the Provisional Government in
1848, upon pain of losing their citizenship.
The time accorded is fixed at ten years.
SCHUYLKILL COUNTY. —The Democratic
County meeting held at Orwigsburg, on
Monday last, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to the Judicial State Convention,
was weft attended and passed off with en
tire harmony. The delegates appoinled
w.erd instructed to go for the nomination of
Hon L KUER, the highly popular Presi
dent Judge ot" fbat District, and Hon. Ellis
Lewis, who ha* preeidetl in Lancaster coun
ly for some years, W.tlk gfeat oredit.
Gov. Marcy and Gen. Scott have become
good friends again, a coolness having exist
ed in their sochd intercourse ever since ihe
Mexican war. Ge.n. Scott forgave the fire in
hie rear, and Gov. Marcy forgot the the quer
elous complaints of Gen. Scoft. They shook
hands, toasted each other, and a.* now on
as good terms as ever.
A Ncu> Way to Defeat a Bill.—A bill to a
mend the charter of the Buffalo and Missis
sippi Railroad Company pasted the House of
Representatives of the Indiana Legislature,
and went to the Senate, where it waa itolcn
to prevent its final passage
PLURALITY LAW.-— The Senate Committee
in the Massachusetts Legislature have repor
ted favorably on a ball for a plurality law to
elect Representatives to Congress and 'Presi
dential electors. It ieisaid that the bill will,
in at.' probability, pare.
THE CUBAN INVASION.—A despatch from
New Orleans, dated, March 7th, says, tliat in
the cases of (JAN. QUITMAN, Gen. Henderson
and all other* charged ™<h participating in
the Cuban Invasion, A no,'!* proeequi has been
entered.
ADJOURNMENT or THE SENATE.—THRF Uni
ted States Senate, which has bean in aere.'on
since the 4th inst., on Executive business,
adjourned tint die on Thursday atteraoor..
MILEAGE— Dr. Gwiu's constructive mile
age for the extra session of tho Senate a
mounts to Hi,300. Wfoight and Gilbert, for
their journey* to and from California, is $56-
00 each.
W Our thank* are due to Hon. William
H Seward of the U. S. Senate and Merer*.
Cessna and Buckalew ef Har/isborg for pub
lie documents
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HARHIKBUHO, Maroh 14.
HOUSE —The bill lor thq registration ot
birth", marriageo, and death*, was made the
special order of day Uftr Wednesday,
March 28. I
Ike Canal Board and Superintendent of Pub
Ik Works. —The Bill to abolish tho County
Boant, and providing for the electiou of a
( Superintendent of public Works, was con
sidered and killed, by an indefinite dostpone
ment. Tjie friends of the proposition voted
agairtsj tke motion to postpone. The follow
ing i the vote ;
„■ Yeas—Messrs. Benedict, tfigelow, Blaine,
Blair, Bonham, Brindle, Brewer, Joseph
Brown, Cooper, Downe, Dunn Ely, Evans,
of Berks, Feather, Fegely, Fretx, Gale, Gnf
fey, Haldeman, 'Hemphill, Henry, Huplet,
Jackson Lowry, Leech, I-ent, Lilly, MoKean,
Mcßeynolds, Monroe, Mowry, of Somerset,
Mowry, of Wyoming, Olwine, Parker, Pat
ten, Reifsnyder, Rhoads, Riddle, Roberta,
Scoullor, Rhugcrt, Shut I, Skinner, Souder,
Steward, Thomas, Trune, Cessna, Speaker—
-51.
Nays—Messrs. Armstrong, Baldwin, Bent.
| Bowen, Broomall, Alex. E. Brown, Cassiday,
5 Cowden, Demers, Dobbins, Dorian Dungan,
, Evans of Indiana, Fiffe, Gi'obs, Gossler.
. Griffin Hague, Hamilton, Hart, Hnnsecker,
. Killinger, Kunkel, I.aughlin, Maclay, Mc
I Cluskey, McCune, McKee, McLean, Morris,
, Nisley, O'Neill, Penniman, Ceckhow, Reid,
I Rhey, Robertson, Simpson, Slifer, Smith,
. Van home, Walker—42.
Bills pasted.— The bill to charter the Far
: mert' and Mechanics' Bank, at Easton, was
C taken up and passed finally. Yea* 45, nays
. 40.
The House then adjourned.
HARRISDURO, March 15.
SENATE— Free Banking— On motion of
Mr. Walker the Senate resumed the consid"
eration of the bill to establish a ays tern of
General Banking, based on Slate stocks, the
question pending being upon the adoption
of the twenty-first section of the bill.
Several new sections were then added to
the bill—one relative to Bankers under the
provisions of the bill keeping (heir notes at
par in Philadelphia and Pittsburg, &c.
The title was agreed to, and on tho ques
tion, -'Shall the bill be transcribed for a third
reading?" it was agreed to by the following
vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Brooke, Carothers, Canon,
Cunningham, Frtck, Guernsey, Haslett,
Hoge, Ives, Lawrence, M'Murlrie, Myers,
Robertson, Savery, Walker and Matthias,
Speaker—l6.
Nays—Messis. Bailey, Buokalew, Crabb,
Fernon, Forsyth, Frailoy, Fulton. Jones, Kon
igmacher, M'Caslin, Muhlenberg, Packer,
Sanderson and Shime;—l4.
The bill was than ordered to be printed, as
amended.
HOUSE. —Mr. Penniman, on leave, moved
j. that the Canal Commissioners be requested
to communicate to the House the name of
, each officor, mechanic or laborer on each
lino of the public works, designaring the
| otfice, the duties, anj compensation and lo
cation, and the practicability of reducing the
number; which was agreed to.
Reports of Committees. —Mr. Bigham, (Ju
diciary,) a supplement to tke 5300 exemp
tion law; also a bill for tho appointment of
three examiners of accounts in Philadelphia
city and county, with negative recommenda
tion.
Mr. Cassiday, (same,) with amendments,
the bill requiring persons taking transcripts
of justices' dockets to pay justices and con-
stables' fees.
Mr. Rhey, (same,) with a negative re-
commendation, a supplement to the act rel
ative to the $3OO exemption law ; also, with
amendments to prevent frauds in the putting
up and sale of manufactured goods.
Ruil Road Iron,
1 One of the items of freight at Danville,
'< awaiting the opening ot navigation on the
' North Branch Canal, is thirty-five hundred
tons of finished rail-road iron, in front of the
' Montour Works; and the pile is growing
daily. Besides, there are large quantities of
smaller iron, pig metal, hollow-ware, and
1 otner tonnage ready for shipment at Danville.
—Danville Intelligencer.
GOLD DUST. —A consignment of several
' hundred ounces of gold dust was received,
a short time ago, at Philadelphia, for our
1 enterprising townsman, Mr. Louts LANO,
who, with an energy peculiarly his own,
has established about a year since a branch
of hie eloro in San Francisco, California,
1 under the superintendence of Messrs. GA
BRIEL BERNHEIMER and Wx. ZUBER- We
are glad to hear of their success, which they
' have shown in such a tangible form as al
luded to above.— Danville Democrat.
r
TV The members ol the Baptist Church
' of this place, hare been holding a protract
ed meeting for several days, which, we are
pleased to state, has been the result of
much good. On Sabbath last, the Rev. D.
A. NICHOLS immersed three persons in the
River Susquehanna, opposite tbie borough—
Danville Democrat.
THE GIRLS— They think of Hymen and
they can't help sighing. When their lovers
forsake them they can't help crying. They
•it at the window and can't help spying—
They screw up their corsets, bring on con
sumption, and can't help dyiug.
OT New-York having sent one United
' States Senator Sea ward, have lately been
1 attempting, as an appropriate accompany
ment, to send out a Fish. But so far we be
liot withont success.
ty A correspondent of the Centre Demo
crat strongly urges John B. Button Esq. of
Carlisle as the next Democratic candidate
for Canal oommioeioner.
OT To spin, to weave, to knit, to sew,
. waa once a gtri'a employment; but now to
drere and catch a bean, i all ehe calls en
joyment
■
Correspondence of 800. Goorpe W.
Woodward.
LOOK HAVMT, Fetj.l2, 1881.
How. GKO. W.
| The undersigned, Demooroiio citizens of
Clinton county, anxious to obtain the servi
ces of the ablest jurists belonging to their
party—of men whose abilities and integrity
of purpose are above reproach or suspicion,
and in whose character the whole people of
the State can have the most unlimited con
fidence. to as Judges of thi Su
preme State, respectfully re
quest l you to permit them to uao your
name for that honorable post. As you have
signified your determination not to be a
candidate Car the Judgeship which you have
filled for nearly ten years with so much
credit and honor to yourself as well as ad
vantage to the people, we hope you will per
mit the use of your name for the more im
portant position we have indicated.
With sentiments of the highest esteem,
wo subscribe ourselves
John Smyth, Allison White,
Jacob Brown, J.G. Quiggle,
G. W. Halsnbalce, J. C. King,
John If. Laverty, James White,
Robert Crawford, G A. Crawford,
TIIOB. Mahen, W. A. I'aoker,
J. Moorbead, Lyons Mussina,
N, L. At wood, D. K. Jackman,
Philip Krebs, P. B. Kephart,
George Crawford, B. W. Morrison,
Thos. M'Ghee, Jas. Fearon,
H. 1,. Dieffenbaph, Chae. Carskaddon,
James Chatham, r and others.
WILKES-BARBC, Feb 36, 1851.
Gentlemen. —Your esteemed favor asking
me to permit ray nsme to be used as a can
didate lor the Supreme Bench, was received
during my late circuit through the 4th dis
inot and would have been sooner answered
but for the multiplied and absorbing duties
of a last term of Court which left me no
time for correspondence.
When I was at Harrisburg in tha early
part of the winter, tha impression seamed
to be general that I desired and expected a
nomination for the Supreme Bench, and from
all I heard and saw, I was constrained to
think that my nomination depended on my
own consent. To every individual, howj- VO i .
with whom I spoke on. '.he subject I declar
ed my dsiericiuation not to be a candidate.
When I came in your distiict to hold my
last Courts, the subject was daily pressed on
my attention. The prevalent desire seemed
to be that I should run for President Judge
o( that district, but as it was pretty well un
derstood that I was determiced not to do
that, many people took pains to express ver
bally the desire you have couched in terras
of so much kindness in your letter. On all
occasions I declared my determination to be
a candidate for no judicial station. I feel
obliged to repeat to you, Gentlemen, the an
swer I have so often given before. My pur
pose is fixed, and I cannot auticipate circum
stances that would induce me to change it,
to avoid all judicial office and devote my
self, for a few years at least, to professional
life.
Every man must be his own judge iu
such matters, and his conclusions when de
liberately and distinctly expressed,
are entitled to respect.
Ido not wish to be understood as unwil
ling to make a sacrifice of personal prefer
ences for the benefit of the public. On the
contrary I hesitate not to say that my reasons
for declining jneicial stations, if ten times
stronger than they are, should be cheerfully
sacrificed, if I believed it were necessarvfor
the attainment of any great public good.
Personal interests and domestic considers
tions must, when real necessity exists, give
way to public demands. But this is not
such an occasion. There are many Gen
tlemen more competent and worthy than
myself, who are willing and anxious to fill
.ho places on the Supreme Bench, and
whose circumstances oppose no obstacles to
their devoting their time and attention to ju
dicial labors. Indeed, according to my own
estimate of my (pAliGcation* for that station
as compared, with thoSe of some other men,
I feel that I am promoting the public inter
ests by deoiining a nomination and giving
place to them.
Pardon me, Gentleman, for a few words
more. The expressions of opinion that have
reached me on this subject from various
parts of the State have been sufficiently flat
tering, but those that have come from you,
and your judicial district, have afieclod ma
most deeply, and are moet highly prixed, be
caose of the peculiar opportunities you have
had, for ten years, for forming your opinions.
It has happened to me in life to be greatly
misrepresented on every point where a pre
judice might be produced or inflamed, and
for this reason it was consoling and gratify
ing to my feelings, beyond expression, to
bear, in my lata and final visit to your die
trist, an almost universally approving
voice. The esteem of those who know one
best, valuable in Itself, is peculiarly so in
contrast with prejucice successfully excited
where one is but partially known.
Accept, Gentlemen, my thanks for the
honor you hnve done me and believe me to
be very truly
Your friend and obedient servant
GEO. W. WOODWARD.
To H. L. Diffenbaoh, Allison White, J. W.
Quiggle, Jacob Brown, George W. Haler.-
bake and others.
TWe perceive that our friend TRAUGH,
of tho Hollidayaburg Standard, haa been
prosecuted for Libel, for telling the TRUTH
about L. H. Williams, a Federal office-holder
in Blair oounty. The Standard says it it
"Au attempt, on a small scale, to revive the
Old Sedition Lav, which punished with fine
and imprisonment all Democratic presses
that dared to tell the TRUTH or tptak there
ipcctfullly about Federal office-holdert." .
tW The following is good sdyics—
When the grata is M T,
Then put the:
XW By the law of Fraaee no priest, doo
■ tor or attorney is allowed to accept a death
| bed legaey.
From the Mining Register.
TEHUANTBPEC TREATY.
* This treßy, conotaded between our gov
ernment amjlhmt 01 Mexico, was one of the
most important that came for consider*-
lion in tho Senate. It was Miified but a few
days since. By it, our eitixens are secured
great advantages, being granted land 80
miles, in Width, from the the Atl;tntiu to the
Pacific, which, however, at tbq same time,
opens to Mexico it hew and magnificent
route for the oommfrae pf Europe and Asia.
The treaty reflects great credit On Gov. Let
cher who negotiated it, and furnishes a
strong evidence of the unlightened spirit
and practical good sense of the Mexican
government. We have been in a habit ot
underrating the talents, tact, and forecast of
Mexican statesmen ; bnt the treaty of Tabu
antepec shows conclusively that Mexico un
derstands her own interests now and re
mains not a passive spectator of the world
events, which must effect a complete revo.
lution in navigation and commerce.
Tito Tehuantepec treaty gives our citizens,
it is true, a strip of land 60 miles wide, ex
tending from ono ocean to the otber; but of
what value would that land be to her with
out the improvement* contemplated by our
citizens, She gives our citizens a rich mine;
and w-e work it and share the profits. It is
the best investment Mexieo can make of her
treasure, and the only means by which it
can ever become productive. Besides our
increased intercourse with Mexico will not
only open new sources of wealth to our en
terprising citizens, but alto serve to alloy the
prejudices and ill feelings excited by the
late war. We shall learn to appreciate the
many excellent and high-minded qualities
of our gentle neighbors; and they, as it is
to be hoped, will become satisfied that we
cherish no other sentiments toward* Mexico
than that of a generous friendship, which it
is the interest and duty of both sister Re
publics to cultivate in regard to each other,
and the common destiny of this continent.
From the Penntylvanian.
NEWS FROM EUROPE.
England presents a strange R(J . 1
cording to the = ast by
lh ~ Lord RUSSKLL, who is a free tra
der, went out because of hit opposition to a
measure for the liberalizing of the elective
franchise, and Lord STARLET, who is a pro.
tectionist, is invited by the Queen to form a
new Cabinet, and fails to do so, because of
a difference with Sir JAHES GRAHAM on the
question ol the papal supremacy. Can it
be that free trade is regarded a a fixed prin
ciple of British polioy, that no notice seems
to have been taken of the difference on that
question between RUSSELL and STANLEY, in
the attempt to form a new ministry! We
can hardly think so, when we reflect that up
to the last moment of the RUSSELL regime,
the war between tho fiee trade and protec
tion parties was waged with unceasing bit
terness, and the London Times rejoiced in
saying that the resignation of I.ord JOHN
could not be claimed asa protection triumph.
And yet, after he goes out, Lord STANLEY,
Who is the head of tho Protection party in 1
England, is invited to create a Cabinet, aud
fails only because of a difference on anoth
er subject, and that not the Tariff question !
Would STANLET go in and support free trade!
If he would not, could he survive the at
tacks of the free traders in Parliament? The
next steamer will see a Ministry formed, i (
is possible, with WELLINGTON in command .
bnt it will be giving his name only to fuse
the elements of a new administration, and
o hide the inconsistencies of those who
could not live if they tried to lead themsel
ves.
The Public Domain.
A disposition is manifested during ever)
session of Congress to grant away public
lands for the benefit of the Western states,
upon one pretext or another, and the final
result of this policy of profusion bids fair
to take tho form of an ultimate cession of
the public domain to the States within
whose limits it may lie.
Such a specific appropriation of a common
property in which all the Slates hare an in
terest is palpably at variance with justice—
unlets there be some equivalents which
would be satir factory to the older States.
The General Government has in its posses
sion more than one thousand millions of a
cres—a property to whidh the new States
have only their proportionate claim. If this
property is no longer to yield revenue to tho
national treasury a fair distribution of its pro
ceeds among all the States would be just
and proper. Such a policy did prevail ooco
for a short time. At present, however, the
public domain is pledged to the redemption
of the public debt, or portions of it—so that
neither the polioy of distribution nor the
policy of cession to the new States nan be
fairly resorted to.— Mining Register.
0T Thomas M'Laughlin, convicted of the
murder of his wife, was executed at Cum
berland, Md., on last Friday. The Allsghe
ni an, says:
"At the scaffold the prisoner manifested a
considerable degree of firmness. The at
tendant clergymen thop spent about half an
hour with him : after which, at three min
utes past meridian, the drop fell, and after
hanging eight minutes he was pronounced
dead by a Physician present—the fall hav
ing dislocated his neck- He died with the
struggle scarcely preceptible, and without
making a publio confession. After the body
was ont down, it was taken to the Catholic
burying ground, and there interred.
The Washinton Union has been purcha
sed by A. J. Donelson, who will lake pos
session of It as an editor and proprietor on
the 14th of April. Gen. Roberr Armstrong,
ot Tennessee, will b* associated with him
gae equal proprietor of the establishment
Father Ritohie retires after forty-seven years,
of partisan service.
EF* Can't our Legislatura be invited to at
tend the World's Fair J—free passage and
bull-frogs included It would make a nice
Summer's excursion
, From the Ledgerr
THE HntTiin MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
The cnwtt*eent for a Tory leader, ancf-
E gave liko full powers to form a ministry.
' He could do iti; It then requested the iftcum •
bent Prime Jiliiister to form a new cabinet.
He tried to select material.from Whigs and
lories and failed. , The occepiers f middle
ground, or Peelitet, then'tried, end failed;
And whan the steamship sailed, the' old
Prime Minister, Russell, was still in office,
with only a minority of the House of Com
mons to sustain him. Some circles and
cliques were greatly excited about this ano ■
malouscondition of English politics, but the
people generally were very quiet. in the
mean time, the crown seems not inclined to
dissolve the preseut Parliament and try a
new electioh.
This is a new phase in English politics.
Horetofor a majority in the House of Com
mons has always been regarded as a minis
terial nucessity. Hence publio opinion, or
rather the opinion of the ruling aristocracy,
has always decided that a ministry must ro
tign, so soon as it was defeated in any one
question, however inconsiderable. And the
non-voting, disfranchised population, six in
seve.r, always took for granted that the min
istry mutt resign upon a defeat, that, the
government could not proceed till a now
ministry were appointeJ, and that, without
a ministry, revolution and snaroy were inev
itable. But now the experiment of con
ducing a government with a beaten minis
try has been tried, at least for a few days or
weeks, and without producing any mischief;
and the English people have an opportunity
of seeing that na'ional salvation does not
depend upon a ministerial majority. Thus
has one old conscrva live prejudice be-,,
overturned. Thus has the English mind
had an opportunity for seeing that the social
and political machine oan move quietly in
its appointed path, though its attendants are
changed, must change their seats or their
dresses.
What if English ministers be beaten upon
one measure ? Must ihfiy therefore neces
-v osaten upon all ? Because they
cannot carry through the Legislature a bill
againit corse racing, are they necessarily
poworless upon a hill to reform the criminal
code, to reduce the army, to relieve a col
ony from bad laws, to abolish sinecures?
In other words, because they cannot do one
thing, can thsy do nothing? This supposes
that the English people lose all confidence
in a ministry upon every thing, so soon as
tney disagree with such ministry upon any
thing. And to think thus, tho English pco
-1 pie must entertain all their opinions in loti,
according to pattern caids, and reject the
whole of eaolrtot, upon discovering a (law
in any one of its ''items." But the success
of the late experiment proves that the Eng
lish are growing wiser in politics, more en
lightened upon the proper oporalibn of free
institutions, more American in tit ir political
philosophy. With us, a legislative majority
against the Executive is no novelty. It is
rather tho rule than the exception During
the whole Presidency of Mr. Adams, the
Senate were in opposition to him, while he
was sustained by one House and opposed by
the next. General Jacksor., in the Presiden
cy during eight years, was almost constantly
' opposed by the Senate, and for half of the
time at least by the House. "Mr.Tyler was
1 continually opposed by both House and Sen
ate. Mr. Polk did not always find the Sen
; ate on his side, nor General Taylor the
1 Honso; and the prosent Executive seems to
' be opposed in some things by one, in some
' by both. Nor are disagreements!!! Cabinets
uncommon with us. General Jackson re
moved one Cabinet in the lump, and made
sevoral changes afterwards. All the cabinet
of Mr. Tyler excepting one, suddenly resign
ed upon his veto of a bank bill ; and he
: made several removals alterwards- Then
the veto, that power practically unknown ir
: England, is irequently exercised with us
' without producing anything worse than a
little scolding from the disappointed party.
And why ere all these things done so
quietly in the United States? Becauso the
people are enlightened enough to know that
the stability of the government, or the peace
and prosperity of the country, do not depend
upon the agreement of tho legislature and
executive upon every thing. The people of
England are beginning to comprehend this
American doctrine and practico. Let them
live and learn. We see in their present
quiet amid this ministerial crisit, an indica
tion of their progress in Ameritaniems yet
more irapcrtant. ll' they car. beat a minis
terial critit now, they can bear an ecclesias
tical yitit hereafter; then an aristocratic cri
tit, and ultimate a royal critit. And the
French too are quiet under a ministerial cri
tit. They are beginning'.o learn that fight
ing for liberty is unprofitable bnsir.esa. when
they can much more easily and safely vote
for it. The Americans have not fought for
liberty since their revolution. Yet they have
continually kept and improved it, simply by
voting for it frequently. American sunshine
is rapidly penetrating and dispelling Europe
oil fogs.
MAKBUOE. —A very singular and extraor
dinary marriage took place in this oily yes
terday. The names of the happy couple
made man and wife are Mr. Thos. Shores
and Mrs. Susan Anderson, whose united a
ges number over one hundred and forty yean,
or sevenly years each. What is still more
extraordinary about thisyou/A/u/ and newly
wedded pair, is that the minister who united
them iu the holy bands of wedlock is the
son of the happy bride. Verily, wonders wi 1
never cease.—Modison ( Indiana) Banner.
Fire.
We regret to leant that the large Foundry,
Machine, Pattern and Blacksmith ahope, of
Messrs. MUTER U l.rrN>tcorr, situated in
; White Havefi, Luzerne county, were totally
. consumed by fira on Sunday night lat. The
fire is supposed to havo been the work of
•n incendiary. Loss about $15,000, little or
no insurance— Carbon Democrat.
QT "If the blind lead the blind, both shall
fall into the ditch "
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IVO'I'ICE is hereby given to all logatece,
creditors and other persons interested iu
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1. The first account of Jacob Garretson,
acting Kxocutor of tho last Will and Testa
ment of Alexander Garretson, lato of Ihe
Borough of Danville, in the County of Col
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ministrator of the estate of Mary Bartul,
lato of Roaring Creek township, Columbia
county dee'd.
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istrator of tho estate of Henry Juhnson lato
of Madison township, Cohutbia county,
dee'd.
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M. Gilmore, Guardian ol the person and
estate of Edward Reed Wheeler, one of the
heirs of Thomas C. Fo.-ter, late of Briar
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late of-Mifflin township, county,
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Frees, Administrator of Ihe Estate of Cath
arine Nicholas, late of Briar Creek town
ship, Columbia county, dee'd.
8. The first and final acoount of John Bo
gart, fAdmi-istrntor of the estate of John
Vandling, late of Liberty township Colum
bia county, dee'd.
9. The account of Allen Sht-llhammer
and Daniel Neyhard, Administrator* of the
Estate of George Sliellhammer, late of Cen
tre township, Columbiacounty, dee'd.
10. The account of Abraham Mosteller,
Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Abraham
Mosteller, Sr., late of Mifflin township, Col
umbia county, deceased.
11. The account of Caleb Thomas Execu
tor of the tail WilTand Testament of Eph 1 -
rnim McCollum, late of Madison township,
Columbia county, dee'd.
12. The final account of Charles and Ste
phen Michael. Administrators of the Estate
of Adam Michael, lain of Beaver township,
Columbia county, dee'd.
13. The account of John Kelchner, Exe
cutor of ihe last Will and Testament of Wil
liam Kelchnei, late of Centre township,
Columbia county, dee'd.
14. The account ot John Rants and Ja
cob Christian, Administrators of the Estate
of John Christian late of Madison towzthip,
Columbia county, deceased.
The account of George Hughes, Adminls
trator of tbe Estate of William Holliughead,
late of Cattawissa township, Columbia Co ,
dee'd.
JESSE G. CLARK, Register.
RXOISTEK'S Orricc, J
Bloomsburg, March 18, 1851. (
" CAUTIOiV ~~
All persona are hereby cautioned against
purchasing a note of hand given by me to
Aaron Hess, dated about the last of May
1850, and made payable six months after
date, for $5O. A credit of $3O is eodoreed
upon the note as paid on tbe 11th of Metch
1831, and I have a legal defence to the bal
ance on tbe note.
JOHN THRASHER.
Centre township, Maroh 14th 1851.
A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT of Lvlies
Gaiters and Slippers just manufactured and
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