STAR OF THE NORTH.
R. W. WEAVER, V.DITOR.
Illoomsburt, 1 hurt day, Apill 3, 1851. j
( TIIE.WORLD-S FAIR.
We fear there will be many unfair things i
done nt thil congregation of all fair and foul j
things. The American fair will be represen
ted, ami some of them will no doubt bo so
fair that it will take two English cockneys |
and a boy to measure iu the eye a full ap- >
precialton of all the beauty enjoyed by one \
of these charmers ; just as it takes two men j
and a toy to look to the top of some Amen
can tree. The Yankee girl* do grow *ome
tall boautie, and the American lair is fair
enough for any reasor.aMe mortal who fares
on omelet and oysters, or oti muffins and mut
ton. Fellows who run over half the world
for a lair, generally larc about like Ed. For
rest, and find that the high spiced fare of
aristocracy don't agree well with a republi
can system and stomach. Such base, high
blooded matches, like Jenkins' high blooded
bays, are generally fractious, and attended
with plenty of mettle and misery, or temper
nnd toddy. The traces of early affection, or
the tracesatcnjugal suffer some, and when
the poor romantic devil shuts his heart he
may ope i his jugular.
Poor Forrest, if he has tho soul of a man.
feel* like beiug in the pillory ot purgatory;
and though of the mould and mind of a
Vng, the dirtiest beggar on the street laughs
at him, and ho may go down to his grave,
the uupilied man of misery and money. The
name of that woman upon whom lie lavish
ed the richest treasures of his frShik, fond
heart and generous love, is now in the mouth
of every blackguard and bar room loafers of
the laud, and the filthiest crawling creatures
of the city's purliens bandy about her name
with the oiuha and jeers of drunkenness.
The Whig Candidate for the Presidency.
The Whig party of the country seems to j
•make choice of General Scott for its next j
Presidential candidate. Tho same contempt
for the discrimination of the people is mani- j
fest here which marked the choice of liar- |
risoii and Taylor. The candidate is not to j
be chosen from those of the party who have j
manifested high talents foi statesmanship, j
and who are known to understand the ngita- ,
ting questions of public policy. Ha is not |
M be selected for his extensive acquaintance j
with tho political relations of foreign govern- i
ments, nor even that tie understands that un- J
*ler which lie himself lives. But he is to cap- j
tivate the dull fancy by an empty name. Tho I
rigid discipline of the camp is to fit him for [
H statesman. Tito prestige of hi* military j
fame is to win him a place where the syco- j
■phants whom the honest people will never |
trust shall fawn and fatten around him.
General Scott might live the balance of j
his days in quietness, enjoying the respect .
of all his countrymen, and the full measure
of h's fame. But he can gain nothing Ijyl jy
becoming the narrow-minded partisan.
If he could ever be President he, might
wear himself out for the aggrandisement of
n greedy pack of demaggr UP-,, but he would
only detract from his and like Tay"
lor, become less a ttatio jnl man, as lie be
came more a politician.
But there is no danger to bo apprehended
from the military fame of General Scott *o
long as the D'omocraey can find such stan
dard bearers as General Houston, who with
n handlul of Texan petriots defeated the
Mexican Army, while General Scott with all
the military force of the Union did no more.
The sober minded people of the country
are gelling tired of taking candidates on
trust, nnd think thny have had enough of
that class o( men who haTe no political
character to embarrass them ; and in such
men as General Houston they find not a
Bravo soldier alone, but a patriotic states
man of the most correct, clear and enlight
ened view* of government—one who alike
jhy intelligence and experience is compete.;!
<to rule over a nation.
(7*7110 public examination of Mr Brad,
ley's scholars on fast Thursday and Friday
is every where well spoken off. The speak
ing and reading by the scholars on Thursday
nnd Friday everiog was certainly indicative
of minds well trained in the matter and man
tier of learning. Where all did so well, it is
very hard to say that any did best, but it will
not be invidious for us to express our espe
cial gratification at the well written and well
delivered original address of William H.
Shoemaker, who was some time ago a
Fcholar ot Mr. Bradley; and we feel the
more tree to speak thus after the many com
mendations wo have heard of this nddress,
from tho*e whose judgment is of strong
weight in such case.
MR. KEMJUENTIRE CONTEXT of last Saturday
and Monday evenings passed off with
credit to himseK and his pupils. The
juvenile* er.holars were pleased—the
parents gratified with the fair program
of their children, and Mr. Kemmerer well
satisfied the friendly countenance and gener
ous patronage of his large audiences. It baa
certainly been a cheap and useful school fur
the-young singers.
*Ncw AaiußGtiJEHTa.— By the advertise
ment Of the Reading and Philadelphia Rail
road company, in another column it will be
seen that there are now two daily trains run
ning from PottsvKlo to Philadelphia, one in
•he morning ar.d another in the afternoon.
By thie arrangement passenger* cn leave
Bloomeburg any morning and reach tho city
on the evening ol the same day.
MR. Caosat's CONCERT, on last Tuesday
evening was well enjoyed by the company
present, and he deserved to have an audi
ence of such a goodly nurabcf as should
1 are done justice to his musical talent*.
Canal Commissioner.
Uoth the Democratic papers of Chambers
burg arc out in the strongest terms in favor
of John B. Bratton, Esq , of Carlisle for the '
the next Canal Cofhmision6r. The Valley '
Spirit edited by J. M. Cooper, Esq , contains '
a forcible editorial article urging the qualifi- '
cations of Mr. Bratton, and copies the testi- '
monials of the following newspapers in hia
favor:
The Star of the North. 1
Lancaster Intelligencer; ' j
York Gazette;
Reading Gazette ;
Pcnnsylvanian ;
Geltsburg Compiler;
Montgomery Ledger; (neutral.)
Fulton Democrat;
Harrisburg Union;
Terry County Democrat;
Tioga Eagle;
Bedford Gazottc;
Juniati Register; (
Pittsburg Post.
The Valley Sentinel lias also an article in
high commendation of Mr. Bralton's taleut j
and integrity fitting him for the office, and t
these outspoken marks of esteem from the t
immediate neighborhood of Mr. Bratton's
home certainly do him high credit. When
Democratic papers of all shades of opinion 1
concur in his favor it is the best proof that 1
lie would make a fit candidate for the whole '
party, and an officer who would do honor to '
hia political co-laborers. 1
For ourselves, we have hetelofore spoken '
iu his favor, rather because of his own qual
ifications than lor any claim which his c
neighborhood may have to furnish the can '
diillao. For though the southern tier couri- '
ties have unquestioned merit, that is a mat- '
tor for them to urge, and wo hare, besides '
this, always regarded local claims assecon- '
dary to those of intelligence and integrity. 1
We are now pleased to see the strong coun- '
ties of the Valley doing justice to a merito- s
rious and respectable citizen, who combine* '
every qualification to be desired in acandi- I
date; both of competence and proper local ,
position. e
c
Sliam Marriage Declared Legal.
A tew nights ago, the members and atten- *
dants of Rev. Mr. Bainbridge's Methodist 1
Church in Harlorn, New York, assembled in 1
t'lo basement thereof, upon the occasion of a v
donation patty for the relief and benefit of v
their pastor. We are informed that the fes- t
tivilies of the evening were closed with the t
ceremonies of two 'marriages in fun.' These, | i
were performed by ore of the party nar 16( | i
Justin Ti-dd, who joined Mr. Wm. P iymm 1
and Miss Jane Kellogg, Mr. Robe-.i Craw- 1
ford and Miss Emma Jones, i', tha holy
bonds of Matrimony, by requ eß t. It seems i
that the parties were only >;, i fun t buf alas !
it was announced that Mr. To jj was a Jus- 1
Lee of the Peace at Morris,,ana, and having
performed the hytr.eniai.t.eremonies in good
taith, and with all th d appropriate solemni
ties, he declared '] l)B marriage legal, and left
the unhappy c juples to ponder over the re
sult of their foolish amussment. The brides
and groo, ms a |j demur at the decision of the
I ani i are about taking steps to procure
I <b\orces. The Sunday Times says they are
, as fast married as unmistakable law can
j bind them.— Coudcrtport Union.
Importaut Meeting of Coal Operators.
! I'ottsville, March 27.—A meeting of the
| coal operators was held this afternoon, and
I very largely attended. A committee was ap
i pointed to wait up an the President of the
Reading Railroad Company, who is in Potts
ville, and ask for a reduction of tolls. The
> committee waited on Mr. T., who stated that
j he would lay their proposition before the
i Board of Directors, and giv.e them an an
swer in time to communicate at another
j meeting.
| Ttie meeting thdn unanimously moved to
; suspend shipments by Railroad, as far as
| possible, until Thursday next, to which lime
they adjourned to meet again.
The operators, with a few exceptions,
signed a paper, to comply with the resolu
tion of the meeting, and a committee was
I appointed to confer with (hose that were not
| present.
The operators in Philadelpqia, who hold
• wharves ih Richmond, were urged to unite
with tiiCe in Schuylkill county.
Cattawissa and Little Schuylkill Railroad.—
A correspondent of the Pottsvii.'C Mining Re
gister writes from Harrisburg as follows :
"I am creditably informed that the Catla
wissa Railroad Company, whose road runs
* from ihe Lehigh to the Susqnehonna, 47
miles in length, which was graded ten years
since, Wive actually purchased the iron to
lay Ihe track this coming season."
The iron alluded to, we learn, staa purcha
sed of an English agent in New York by E
R. BinDLE, Esq., lormerly of the Montour
Iron Co. in this place, and comprises about
5000 tons. We most sincerely hope and
trust, that the work may now go on, and
thai ere long we shall have a Railroad to the
Susquehanna. It will gtvo a new impulse
to business in this whole section of the coun
try, snd be of immense benefit to our iron
establishments, who must now accumulate
their stock on hand and lay up thousands
and thousands of dollars, during the winter
season, for want of communication to mar
ket. A connection between this borough
and Cattawissa might easily be formed—ihn
instance being only about 8 mile*. We go
for tbe Cattawinaa road, if no more direct
communication can be obtained.— Danville
Democrat.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FARM JOURNAL-— A. M.
Spongier, Esq., proposes, on the Ist of April,
to commence tbe publication of a monthly
Agricultural paper, with the above title, in
the city of Lancaster.—lt will be edited by
S. S. Haldeman, Professor ot Zoology in the
Frauklin Institute, A work of this kind is
greatly needed in Pennsylvania, and if con
ducted with tho proper ability, every intel
ligent farmer in tbe State should encourage
it. Tbe Farm Journal will be issued in the
same size and style of that well kuown agri
cultural paper, the Albany Cultivator, at the
■ low price of SI a vcar. Clubs of ten for #B,;
or twenty for 15 ,t
MR.-AIICKAI.EVI SPEECH.
On Wednesday of last week the bill to repeal
the kidnapping act of 1847, came up in the
Senate, and was debated at length by Sena
tors Guerneey and Walker against and Buc.k
alew and Hugus for the repeal. Mr. Guern
sey was willing to go for so much of the bill
as should give the prisons of the state to the
use of the national government officers to
hold fugitive slaves, and in this shape (re
piali ig the 6th section of the acf of 1847,) the
bill finally passed by a vote of 18 yeas to 7
nays. After Senator Walker had spoken
against the bill, Mr. Buchalew addressed the
Senate, and we give the following note of
his speech from the Ilarrisburgh correspon
dence of the Pennsylvanian:
Mr. Buckalew then obtained the floor, and
made a noble anil powerful speech in favor
of the bill, abounding in passages of the
most moving and patriotic eloquence.
He said that the speech of the Senato r
from Erie had remiuded him of that truthful
line:
" Oh ! Liberty what crimes are committed
in. thy name." That he had often thought,
that no public man could be engaged in
l bing more injurious and destructive to the
welfare of the nation, than in this excite
ment of discord and enmity between Ihe
different States, which should be bound to
each other in a spirit of kind regard, and of
friendship—that the Senators who acted in
favor of the bill before them were not in
duced or driven to do so by any dictation
from any quarter,—that he knew the feeling
of his constituents, to be in favor of the re
peal of the odious act, which never was the
product of Pennsylvania brain, policy, or
design, but which had been imported from
Massachusetts, and placed upon our statute
books as an insult to the southern portion of
the Union, and which ought now to be swept
from our code, and blotted out from the
statute book*, as a matter which hail already
been a disgrace to us. He said that tb' e peo
ple of his district of both politic*.'! parties,
were in favor of this repoal, and had instruct
ed their Senator, and theic members of tho
other House, to vote for u 'mat they wero a
german population, b',t iutelligent upon this
•übject, nd that i> no part of their na
ture or their De mocracy to be driven or dic
tated to by a-.iy interest or any power except
what w}-, emphatically their own. They
were O'ppoged to the policy which drew from
'Be Idave States their pauperism, and scat
•*3red it around the commonwealth of Penn
sylvania in the outskirts of every city and
town within it, and the policy whicli went
to swell tho catalogue of crime committed
amongst its population and till its prisons
with negro convicts. That they were also
anxious to live with their Southern neighbors
on terms of fraternal relationship, and dis
charge to them and the Constitution Which
binds us all together in a glorious Union, all
their obligations in good faith and fidelity.
That the friends of the bill, like their fathers
in the days of Franklin, were actuated and
impelled in their efforts, by a spirit of wisdom
and justice, and that no charges of bending
the supple knee of subserviency to the
South could drive them Irom their positions.
That they did not ask Senators to be influ
enced in any such way ; nor to bow to the
dark spirit which nnfortunately brooded over
a part of our land; but that they could only
ask them to go back and drink at those con
stitutional founts which were familiar to our
forefathers, and which, in their time, gave
to the legislation of Pennsylvania a very
different character from some of that which
the records of later dales contained. That as
long as he should occupy a seat in the Leg
islature, and as long as he could lift his
voice in its Halls, or elsewhere, he desired
thai Pennsylvania should maintain a loyal
attitude, and occupy that position, which her
greatness, her location, and the loyalty and
patriotism of her population justly deserve in
our great and glorious confederacy.
Mr. Buckalew rehearsed some of the
early and pleasing history of the old Key
stone State, and showed that the spirit in
which the friends of the repeal of this ob
noxious law wero acting, wa9 tho same as
that in which the Ur.iou was established, and
that spirit in which it must be maintained.
WORE AT HOME. —In the work on tho Lon.
don poor, by Henry Mayhew, there is an
account of a class of street vagabonds who
number at least fifty thousand souls whose
demoralized condition is worse titan that of
any savages. This class is called the "Cos-
IprmongWf/' and it is positively appalling to
contemplate thf Tst amount of vice, ignor
ance and want pxistiitg among it. Only one
tenth—at the outside, pno-teslll—of 'he ecu
plos living together and carrying 011 cos '
ter mottgering Hade, are married. Much of
their time is devoted to the beer shop, to lo.l"
theatres and dance houses, where every en
tertainment is of (he grossest and most
corrupting description, and to gambling, of
which the cosier is immoderately fond, dog
fighting, rat killing, pigeon shooting and j
fighting Mr. Mayhew says that the costers
have no religion at all, and but little idea of
a future state. With such a picture as this
before them, and such a wide field for the
exorcise of philanthropy, it is surprising that
English philanthropists cannot find sufficient
work at home, without coming to this coun
try to agitate subjects whioh they do not
comprehend in all its relations, and the agi
tation of which threatens such mischief to
this Union.
THE STAXE or OHIO, it is stated in anew
York paper, can raise wheat enough to feed
all England. England has a population of
about seventeen millions. The production
of wheat iu Ohio in 1845 was 13,572,000
bushels which would be rather short meas
ure fcr tbe consumption of seventeen mil
lions of people, In 1846, the consumption
of wheat in England was estimated at 15,-
200,000 quarters, or 121,000,000 bushels, a
quantity greater than the whole production of
Ihe United States in 1845, whioh was esti
mated at 106,548,000 bushels. Ohio is a
great wheat growing State; but not yet equal
to supplying the want* of England, which it
should be remembered, has considerably '
more than s few people in it.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
HARRISBURO, March 31.
SENATE. —Passed Second Reading the bill
incorporating the Farmers' and Mechanics'
Bank of Easton, by yeas 15, nays 11.
AFTERNOON SESSION.— BiIIs Passed. —Bill
incorporating the Odd Fellcws'a Hall associ
ation of Lewistown ; bill relative to Foreign
Insurance bill authorizing St.
Peters' ChureJ* an#Clrist Church, Philadel
phia, to sell cetßiaJteai estate.
A motion that the Senate proceed to the
second reading of the bill re-annexing the
county of Montour to Columbia, was ruled
out of order.
The bill increasing the capital slock of '.he
Soutnwark Bank from $250,000 to $400,000,
was taken up and passed to third reading.
The bill contains the following provision-
That the stock authorized to be issued by
this act, shall be sold at public sale for cash
—the proceeds of such sales to form a por
tion of the capital and assets of eaid bank
and that notue of such Bales shall be inser
; ted daily, for two weeks, in two newspapers
i published in Philadelphia; and that such
shall be sold in lots of from one to fifty
shares.
HOUSE. —The Appropriation^bill was taken
up and amended, so as to give $20,000 to
the Delaware Division Canal, and slo°ooo
were twlhe Western Pennsyl
vania Hospital. *
The House adjourned whilst discussing
the appropriation of SSOOO to the sisters „f
Mercy of Allegheny
ACTERNOON SESSION—A b,i( was intro
duced this afternoon for the appointment of
Commissioners IN investigate the affairs of
the Northampton lianh, Lehigh county.
Nearly the whole afternoon was consumed
in discussing the appropriation of $45,000 to
o'omplole the Western reservoir!.
Collection of State Taxes.
The Board of Revenue Commissioners
| have recommended to the Legislature the
passage ot a law containing the following
provisions:
1. Making it the duty of the County Trea
surer to collect the Slate taxes and pay the
same to tho Treasurer of the Coxnmon
-svoahh. .•*-•- , , .
2. Requiring the Treasurer o f each Coun
ty to attend at the place of holding elections
in the several townships, wards and bor
oughs of the Commonwealth, on or before
a Jay to bo fixed by law, lor the purpose of
j receiving the Slate tax—from which a cet
j tain per centage, as determine by tho Le
| gislature, shall be retained by the County
j Treasurer, as his compensation lor services
| rendered tho Commonwealth.
I 3. Taxes unpaid after the day designated
1 by the Treasurer, shall be paid to the Coun
j ty Treasurer, at his office, before the Ist day
of Octobet of every year; after which time
! the Treasurer shall issue his warrant to the
| Sheriff, authorizing and requiring liirn to
collect the unpaid balances, with the addi
' tion of five percent, for his compensation.
1 4. Making it the duty of the County Com -
inissioner to allow such abatements and ex
| onerations as they may think just and rea
j sonable to the Sheriff, up to the Ist of Jan
i nary annually, after which time the Treas
' urcr to charge the Sheriff with the unpaid
| balance.
| THE LAW REGISTER, kindly sent us by
> John Livingston Esq., of New York, is worth
! more to a member of the legal fraternity than
our thanks. The work contains the name,
| post office, counß" and slate of every lawyer
j in the United States, and a variety of other
| matter of interest to the profession. Accor
ding to this book, the whole number of
| Lawyers iti the United States is 21,979.- —
I Supposing that of the above number 979
have retired from practice, and the annual
■ emoluments of each practising lawyer
; avenge SISOO (which Mr. Livingston thinks
i correct) we find the total 7 income of the pro
j fession to be $31,500,000 a year.
In Pennsylvania there are 1,739 lawyers,
white New.York ia More than doubly bless
led and has 4,374 peace makers. Philadel
i phia has 447 ; Alleghany 170; Lancaster 58 i
: Lycoming 31; Berks 52; Schuylkill 24, and
Columbia 12.
Rapid Legislation.
I The most rapid piece of legislation, says
| the Daily News, ever recorded in the anr.als
iof any legislative body, waa the passage of
| the Light House Bill, in the United States
| Senate. The motion was made to take it up,
! and carried; it was read a first, second and
j third time, and passed; sent to the House
( for the signature of the Speaker and for tho
I enrollment; returned to the Senate, signed
i by its President, and sent to the Executive,
i all within the space ot five minutes 1 The
j motion to take up was made only five min
-1 utes before (he expiration of Congress.
j KF*About a year ago much was said
j about tho Middfoton divorce case, being up
on the application of a Lieutenant in the
Navy 1° be divorced from his wife upon the
i tho charge ag.iiust her of conjugal infidelity.
; It now appears that Mrs. Middleton came
from Europe to meet her accusers, and has
j convinced her husband that the whole aecu
silion is a conspiracy of officious mischiof
makers. A reconciliation has taken place
between the husband and wife, and the
twain romantic ones promise to bo happy
agnin.
THE PORT CAHBON BAND lately went to :
Summit Hill on Sunday to play for the "Sons
of Erin" on the following day. On entering
the village, they struck up "Hail Columbia,"*
when the steedy and sober burghers inter
fered, and the authorities fined each member
of the band, R the tune of $4,50.
INTEMPERANCE. —Of 286 paupers admitted
to the Schuylkill county, Pa. Almshouse, du
ring the year 1850, intemperance caused
154 of the cases, and of 230 paupers remai
ning in the institution on the 3d inst., 113
were beggared by intemperance.
ROSBERT— The collector's offioe at Lan
caster was robbed of SI3OO last week. A
reward of S4OO is offered for the detection
of the thief end the recoverp of the money.
OT lord John Russell has reconstructed
a ministry, and is again at the Lead nf the
English government.
tST Schuylkill County was organized in
1811, out of portions of Berks and North
ampton counties ; and comprises probably
the most extensive and valuable coal forma
tion in the country. The present population
is set down at 60,716—with 967 productive
establishments. The first courts au.horized
to be held in the county, after its organiza
tion, were held at the then house of Abra
ham Reiffsnvder, in the township of Bruns
wiclc.—Gen. Robert Porter was the presi
ding Judge. At the December term, 1811,
Geo. Wolf, Chas. Evans, Frederick Smith,
Wm. Witman, Jas. B. Hubley, John Spayd,
John W. Collins, M.J. B.ddle, Samuel Baird,
and John Ewing were admitted to practice
as attornies. Wm. Green was Sheriff.—Mi
ning Register.
To THE POINT! —On the wall ia onS of the
jury rooms at the court house in Orwigsburg,
appears the following line.4, written iff pen
cil marks, ip, ' o old characters :
"Men disposed to fine and fury,
Should not serve upon a jury :
Nor should men of stubborn temper,
On a jury panel enter;
I-est in matters very foolish
They should be a little muleish!
Written by one of the eleven who was
I compelled to stay in the court house all night,
j through a stubborn juryman, in the cao of
, —, Sept term, 1819."
OF" Berks County was originally formed
out of Philadelphia, Chester and Lancaster
counties, in 1752; it was quite a large coun
ty, but lias been greatly stript of its fair pro
portions by the mania of late years for an
nexation and splitting up of counties. In
1792, she gave some of her territory to
Northumberland. Berks comprises the most
fertile soil in Pennsylvania, and its decided,
unwavering democratic population, have
gained an almost world-wide fame, for big
majorities at election times.—Mining Regis
ter.
j WTbe new city government of Carbon-
J dale has gone into operation, and the cily
fathers seem to bo well pleased with the now
regime. James Archbald, Esq., is elected
Mayor; and there was a large assemblage
at the Methodist Church to witness the in
auguration of tho new rulers. Judge JessOp
admmisted the oath of offico to Mayor
Archibald, and explained to the citizens the
' operation of the new city law. Tho city is
to keep up its independent organization, and
pay S3OO tax into the Luzerne county treas
ury.
17* In looking over a history of Mining
operations in Schuylkill county, we find that
' as far back as 1814, drifts had been run on
the heads of veins, in several places and
the coal brought from them in wheel bar
tows ; and it was not till 1827, that the rail
road was introduced into drifts. From that
period drifts and slopes or shafts, have been
the universal mode of milling.
CJT Wm. B. Foster, in a communication
j to the Canal Commissioners, strongly urges
i an appproptiation for tho enlargement ot the
| Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Ca
! nal, so as to make it conform more nearly in
j its dimensions with the Lehigh Canal, with
I which it connects.
I A Cabinet Council has benn held in rela
i tion to the construction to be put upon Mr.
j Hunter's Bill. It was decided that a proper
: construction of its provisions will no( include
! freight as one of tho elements of value upon
| which duties are to be assessed. The action
| of the Treasury Department will, of course,
j be in conformity to this decision.
; ELOPEMENT AND QUARREL. —An incident
| is given in the Cincinnatli Enqurer of the
; elopement of a young couple, a boarding
j school mis* and a journeyman printer, on
board the steamer Belle Key, and the end of
the sequel is, that after a four days honey
tnoon, they had a quarrel, and the lad> left
the boat, leaving her lord boliiml.
VW DEATH IN THE CARS. —The Harrisburg
American says that Mr. Challcnder, of York,
died suddenly in tho cars on his way home
on Thursday evening. He had just effected
an insurance upon bis life in tho sum of
SSOOO in the Keystone Mutual Insurance
Company, a few hours before, and left Har
risburg in apparent health.
t#"Tot HvEßis out with a challenge to
fight any man in the world forSlo,ooo a side,
and he offers to give any man from England
$3,000 to meet him here. Tom should have
a chance to try bis physical strength upon
some of the stone blocks at Sing Sing
No Liauoa ON SUNDAY. —Tho District At
torney ot Scuylkiil county, in accordance
with instructions from the Court, has ordered
the proprietor* of the different Hotels and
licensed Drinking Establishments, to close
their bars on Sunday, uttder penally of per
secution.
TRIAL FOR SEDUCTION— A suit for damages
was tried in Norristown, Montgomery Coun
ty, last week, brought by Abraham Getiman
against Charles Schwenk, for the seduction
of his daughter. The jury gave a verdict in
favor of plaintiff for $2,500.
AMERICANS AT THE WORLD'S FAlß.—Fra
zer's Magazine communicates the surprising
information that 20,000 Americans have se
cured berths to go to the World's Fair. There
will be considerable addition to the number
before the exhibition closes.
A CLOCE FOR SIXTY CENTS. —Mr. Chauncey
Jerome, of New Haven, Conn., has actually
made a time piece, which he will warrant to
keep good reckoning, and which he sells for
sixty cents at wholesale, and one dollar at
retail. The works are all made of brass-
He makes upward a hundred a day of these
articles.
OF The Methodist denomination of St
Clair, Schuylkill county, have it in contem
plation to erect, the coming season, a large
Church
KIDNAPPERS SENTENCED.— George F. Al
bert! and J. Frisby Price, convicted some
time since in the Quarter Sessions of Phila
delphia, for kidnapping a colored woman
and child, and selling them into slavery
were brought up for sentence on Saturday
last. They were placed in the dock, in com
pany with three blacks convicted of murder,
i when after an "address from Judge Parsons
upon the enormity of the ofTence, Albeni
was sentenced to pay a fine ol SLOOO, and
undergo an imprisonment of fen years in tho
Eastern Penitentiary, and Price to pay a fine
of >7OO, and undergo an imprisonment of
eight years in the Eastern Penitentiary.
BALTIMORE RAILROAD CONNECTIONS. —Meet
ings have been recently held in York county
?a., to consider the expediency of building
a branch railroad, to connect tho Tidewater
Canal at Peach Bottom with the Baltimore
and Susqilehhanna Railroad at or above
Parkton. The right of way was freely of
fered by tho landholders on the proposed
rou'e, and committees were appointed to
make the necessary arrangements. It is ad-
I ded, that it is proposod to connect this
branch at the same point at which the branch
to Westminster may'conn Oct, so as to form
a continuos road to unite Eastern Pennsylva
nia with the Great West, by a connexion
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railrood be
i yone Hagerstown.
PARDONED—WiIIiam McFaUden, druggist
who was sentenced by the Philadelphia
Court of Quarter Sessions, on Saturday l.isl,
to three months imprisonment, on a convic
tion uf involuntary manslaughter ii causing
(he melancholy death of Miss Nell, of Moy
anion sing, by an unfortunate mistake in
pulling up a prescription, lias been pardoned
by Gov. Johnson. The Judges of the Court
united in the application for pardor..
nr A Correspondent at San Francisco
| gives the leilowiug account of tho value of
| women in that city Women sell hero for
I from five hundred to as high a* ten thousand
| dollars a piece. If a good looking young la
jdy was to come to this country, I have no
| doubt but that she might get as high as twen
ty or thirty thousand dollars for herself.
There was a ship came from Chili day be
fore yesterday and let go her anchor within
speaking distanco of us, and she had nine
ty three women on board of her. To day
! at twelve o'clock there \va but one loft, and
I she was about seventy years old,
I
Caudidntes and Watch-Word*.
I Some papor ha* the following summary :
Scott and Canada.
| Houston and Cuba,
t Seward and Free Soil.
I Isaac P. Walker and free farm*
Robert J. Walker and free trade.
Cass and circumstance*.
Jeflersou Davis and Southern rights.
Chaplin and coffee's right*.
Liu •rolia Molt and Women's rights.
Americans are very popular in Germany.
An American student, on leaving tho Uui
versify of Gottengen, lately, was honored
| with a triumphal procession of the student*,
i in presence of a great con -onrse ot speeta
| tors. On reaching ihe principal hotel, an
I immense stirrup cup was produced, and all
! the students drank wine therefrom in solemn
J order, to the health of the American student.
I The American llag was borne aloft in the
| parade.
1 THE LOTTERY DEALERS IN HI IS TON. —Tho
Boston city authorities are waging war
against all kinds of gambling in that city,
and the lottery dealers of course are inclu
ded. Eleven of these gentry, engaged in
selling tickets for lotteries in Delaware and
Maryland—agents for which are to he found
|in almost evory one of our cities, Philadel
phia not omitted—were arrested and scut to
jail on Friday last.
GOOD HIT —In the Convention to frame
j the new Ohio Constitution tho proposition to
| allow nogroos the right to veto recciveiT IS
I votes —and that to allow women the same
! right, 7. The Louisville Democrat exclaims
thereupon— 1. What should be thought of a
State that likes niggers better than white
women 1"
CV An an election held at Tamnqua,
Schuylkill county, on Friday of last week,
D. 11. Goodwin was elected chief-burgess ;
M. Bailey and R. Ualcliff, councilrnen, and
i Jacob Moser, constable.
! ry* Hon. Jacob Weygandt of Easton an
j Associate Judge of Northampton county j
j having been elected a Justice of the Peace,
j has resigned his Judgship, and Isaac Wye
! kotf Esq., has been appointed Associate
Judge by the Governor and confirmed by the
Senate.
THE LICENSE LAW OF CHESTER COVMTV—
The report that a majority of the townships
in Chester county, under the new law, elect
ed Brady, opposed to license, is a mistake.
From returns, it is thought, that not more
than 10 townships out of the 52, of which
the county is composed, have voted anti
license.
iy Tho HartforJ Times insists that freight
is includod in the charges to be added to the
value of imported goods when ajvpraised ac
cording to the new law.
THE WHEAT CROP.— Our accounts from
different parts of Eastern Pennsylvania, af
ford cheoring hope of an abundant Wheat
crop the ensuing season. We learn also
that in the wheat growing regions of New
York, the crop wears a promising appear
ance.
OT The merry yoong ones of Pittston are
getting into the enjoyment of surprise par
ties.
OT T. E. Curiiss, Esq, of Pittston last
week lost his wallet containing S4OO, and
oflers a reward of SSO for its recovery.
EPTbe Little Schuylkill Railroad compa
ny, it is said, contemplate erecting the com
ing keasou, a uew passenger depot at Tama
qua.
WRIT OF ERROR ALLOWED—TIN Supreme
Court on Saturday allowed a writ of error in
the caso ot Martin PifTer, convicftd of mur
der in Schuylkill county,' and now under
sontence of death. The case u we undcfti
stand is, that after the jury were sxvdrn at the
close of a week they were adjourned ad.
journed until the following Tuoadaj- which
was after the week for which they were or.
initially aummoned. They attended upon
the day epocified—the evidence Was gena
into and the defendant found guilty. It ••
alleged that this proceeding wis erroneous.
WHIG COCRTESY.— The Editor of the Phil
adelphia "Daily News," (peeking of the
"Pittsburg American," a good whig, calls
him a "wilful, unblushing liar, and a black
guard," for charging the former with sayiog
that the "unity ot the whig party depended
on supporting Fillmore for the Presidency in
1852 " The office holders and the disap
pointed expectants are pitching into one an
other like "a thousand of bricks''about who
shall be the whig nag iu the race of '52.
Tim KIDNAI'I'IVO CASK. —The following is
| the vote iu thn Pennsylvania Senate on the
repeal of the Gib section of the Kidnapping
law of 1347.
Yeas—Messrs. Bailey, Brooke, Ctabb,
I'ernou. Forsyth, Frailey, Frick, Fulton,
Guernsey, Huge, Jones, Kouigmacher, Mn
lenberg, Myers Tacker, Sanderson, Shiftier,
and Matthias, Speaker —lß.
Nays—Messrs. Carothers, Carson, Con
ninghain, Ilaslctt, Malonc, Savery, and
Walker—7.
Tnr PoT.tToa ROT. —The rosolro passed
by tlto Ma*sachus?ott Legislature, offering a
reward of ten thousand dollars for a remedy
for the potatoe rot. has been approved by the
Governor. The otlcr extends to any person
within the Commonwealth, who shall satisfy
the Governor ami council that by n test of
five successive years, lie lias discovered a
sure and practical remedy for the petal oe
rot.
ty The subscription of ten thonssml
shares to the stock of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company has been made by tho Presi.
iletil of lire Board of .Commissioner* ol the
Northern Liberties
The Official Census of Berks County
makes the population 77,176, houses 12,981,
families 13,925, farms -1,g97, produotivu
establishments 1,283; deaths last year 799.
! MR. WHITNEY, the proprietor .if the rail
; road to the Pacific, lias gone to Eurojie to
I coulor with ilie English Government tipoo
; the subject.
| tyAn interesting arbitration was tried
; before a " flax seed" court at Pittston on
j last week, in whicri the subject of the cou
| test was a pig claimed by both parties. Ver
, diet for plaintiff— of course
| r — ' ~ ' ■-! I .
MARRIKD.
j Oil the v7ih of March, by the Per. Wm.
i J. Eyer. Mr EHK HARDER, o'l Cattawissa, to
j .Mis* ANNA PRICK, of Main town*
I ship.
In Berwick on Thurslay lat, hv the Rev
I. Buhl. Mr A IRON KEI CIINCR, to Mii* Ktlz*
ABEETII I- ESTER, both of Centre township.
I _On the same dav, by the same, M'.
GEORGE SMCMAN, to Mrs MART JOHN, both of
M.iiimvilie, Columbia county.
In Conyngham, on Tuesday last, by Rev.
B. B. Hamlin, Dr. CHARLES BRCNDAOE and
Mrs. BITE, both of the former place.
In Mifflitivillc, mi Monday tho 21th nit-,
1851. by Samuel Creasy, K*q, Mr. BENJA
MIN DRAKE, of Centre lownshio, and Miss
MARGARET J. KELCIINKK, of Mitllinville, all of
Columbia Co.
On the 19th ull, by tho Rev 11. Funk. Mr.
\\ ILLIAM B. ROBRINS, of Greenwood, IN Miss
MARTHA JANE KLINE of Jackson, sll of Col
umbia Co.
DIKD.
At his residence in Lewisburg,nn Sunday
morning the 231 nil. Gen. ABBOT GREEN, in
the 87ih year of Ids age.
In Danville, on Monday evening, March
2lih, Mr. WILLIAM IIARTAIAN, aged 65 years.
At one of tho West India Island, on tho
25ih of February last, JOHN PORTER, late of
Northumberland.
The deceiso.l bequeathed ? 11.000 to the
first Presbyterian Church of Northumber
land, SI,OOO to the Northumberland new
school Presbyterian Sabbath School. $3,000
to the Foreign Missionary Society, $3,000 to.
the Home Missionary Society, $3 000 to the
Presbyterian Publication Society; and the
bulk of his estate, some $90,000, to his rel
atives in Ihe city or New York. The intel
ligence of his death AV*S communicated to
his friends, by the American Consul, at St ■
John's.— Danville Intelligencer.
In Salem lp., on Sunday last, Mrs. Kliutob
wife of Philip Kliutob.
Suddenly on last Sunday, in Huntington
township, Luzerne county, Mr JOHN BRIT
TAIN, a highly respectable oiiizen, aged
about 84 years.
On Cuosday last, in Huntington township,
Luzerne county, Mr*. LARISII. wife of
George Larish, agsd about 40 years
-BJ£ HOOTS & SHOES.
LOWEST FRICE3
AWBWMHIJO WIHLSSOSJ
Respectfully announces to nis friends and the
public that he has taken the Boot and Shoe
Store lately kept by Warren Russel, where
he has always on hand and makes to order
all kinds of Boots and Shoes at the following
prices:
Men's fine calf or morocco boots, 54 a 4 50.
do kip or cow hide, 8 25
do calf f hoes 2 00,
do cow hide I f5
do miners', nailed, 2a 21 50,
Ladies'gaiters, 2a2 25
" Lace boots. 8 62
" Thick soled slippers, lal 37
" Putnn soled, 100
" Excelsiors, 1 25,
Boys', youths' and children'a shoes in pro*
portion. He manufactures bis work of the
best of stock—warrants it to wear; and
is determined to sell it as low as othera
can their Yankee or city work. Call and
see for yourselves, Shop on Alain st., next
door below Hartman's Store.
Htoomsburg; April Ist, 1851.