STAR Of THE NORTH. g*a JUln'.'M.'V I'Vi ■■ <i-., , . ■ *. W. WEAVE*, TOITOR. Thursday, May 8, taai. j DELEGATE ELECTION. ~ ThD meet alio voters of ColuanVi* .- ♦y,,|urt hereby requested to meet in their reopeetivo townships, at the places of bow ing ilie eloctiuns; between tho houia of ouo an J four P. M., on Saturday, the lOth of May, 1851 ; for the purpose of choo sing two dele gales for each township, to represent said township in a county Conven tion, to meet at the Court Houso in Blooms burg, on*Mtii>Jay the J2th day of May, at 42 o'clock, for tho purpose of taking such measures an tuay be necessary and proper, (by selecting eonlereea or otherwise,) to se cure a harmonious representation of this County ami District, in ihe Reading and Hat risburg Conventions, to be held in June nest. H. R KLINE, Chairman. CHARLES KAHLER, ISAAC S MONROE, JOHN H QUICK, ISAAC YKTTER, JOHN KELLER, EUAN KLIN M ; BRIDE, . Standing Committee. The luvatiss of Cuba. A number of Wall street roosters and Southern Hoispcrsbaveagai.i set their hearts upon the captuie of Cuba. They will fur nish the funds if somebody else will do the fighting. If tho rich Island should bo wrest ed from Spain they will agree to take the profits of the expedition, but if the Quixotic band should be captureo no Wall street 'bull' or 'bear' will bend his neck to suffer. Al ready the financiers dro turning an honest ponny by speculating in tbe stocks of tho ( Cuban " government that is to be," ami that paper is really bringing ten cents on the dollar- Hundred* of dollars ro spent to get up the Cuban fever" and every emigrant ship is bearded before it lands at New \ofk> by the emmistaries of \V:" street. Verdant Hungarians and Irishmen ate indl'°d 10 enlist in the cause of the ' patriots,'' and | groat is the noiße raised for Cuban freedom | by the fat, sleek Wall street millionaires, all bearded and bravo at —a goat. Men who have-cotidurled such financial operations as \hoso in the Lohigh county Bank, the Plain field Rank and tho Susquohanna Batik, know that the wealthy planters of Cuba are sick of the extortions of a profligate and depraved government in Spain, and have some money to spend for their lreedom." * But it is a fixed fact that this beautiful bland so fertile in rum and sugar, dark oyed maidens and molasses must become a pirt ol the American Union. The rich broad acres upon which tho sun of smiles • i kindly were not meart to le forever trod ! down IO sterility by the iron heel of the. oppressor. 1 " """ ■ • Spain is not a protecting and strengthening government to Cuba, but a galling and un """Tceling "taskmaster. It administer* tis re lentless code only at the point of the bayo - net or through the tax gatherer. Plunder is ite justice, and rapine its rules of right. And sotne'.ime hereafter, when those who atfl now fattening jyion tho misfortunes of the men they deceive, and who transfer fictitious slocks ; shall be themselves trans ferred into the real stocks, we may hope to see Cuba bee and becoming a bright spot in the confederation of our happy slates. THE CD It'll EN CY. At this time gold may be said to be at a discount of 24 pe' ce 'it, for there is that difference between the standard of gold and silver in favor of the latter. We hence hear of persons sending silver to Philapslphia to have it sold for gold, and then exchanging this gold for paper wherewiih to pay their accounts. Banks will pay out gold, hut hot silver This condition of the cur rency is brought about by the late heavy influx of gold from California, and illustrates quite fully one of the first laws of trade— '.hat the vslue #f an article is regulated by the demand for it. It shows that two kinds of currency, (us specie and paper,) will not circulate freelytogethei', when they are of •unequal va'uo. That which is worth most - wilt always be housed up, and the will ever be paid out first. * TbeprgHe at notion that there is not spe cie eno'dfpTin the country for change and that we ttivsl have small notes it based on a f fallacv which the above principle best ex grfaipa. Specie will never circulate freely while lite country is flooded with deprecia ted bank notes, since every ragged dollar bill locks up a dollar of apeoie until the real currency of tho country is all driven from circulation. Specie ami papat will no more amalgamate as a currsncy than will water fid* win, oil. But the fact noted above also illustrates how an inflation of currency in general > lieipens money and increases .'he price ol every thing else. As an increase of B°' ( ' has reduced the value of ibut metal, so oJ*®' an increase of paper money depreciate its value as compared with specie. At suoh time* llto debtors in the community—the tr.eu who have been doing business upon nothing—are benefitted, sir.ee they are etta . bled asore easily to pay off their debts ; but the real capitalists of the country aro in fact injured. . ANOTHER EDITOR GONE —We regret to have ihe painful duty of recording that S. B. Chase Esq., the senior editor of the Man bote Democrat, last week io a temporary ftt ot absent minded nof* mysteriously lelt his office for Great Bend and there deliberately hung himself—in the noose matrimonial. We tender our condolence to the junior. "MIUTARV APPOINTS!XST.—Joseph B. Mil ler, of Centre township is appointed Aid de camp to Gen'l. M. McDowell, with tbe rank u f Captain. ' EF*Tho la-t sorviver of the Wyoming Massacre Mrs. Hannah Mills, died at Men den. Conn ,on the sth inst., agod 83. The \ massacre, it will be recollected took plaoe ja 1773, by the Indiana of ttf hx na'ions Mr. Donhaia's Speech. upon (ha subject of Pepeal ing abolition law of 1847, H a production worthy of the beet statesman of the country^lt presents a masterly argu ment upon the constitufionaßtjr of tbe fugi tiva slave law, and upon the impolicy of attempting to subvert the constitution by each a law as the Pennsylvania kidnapping act of 1847. The speech was prepared to be delivered but as tho subywßt ea'Ae wßHjMmp day of U.O session when there for debate, Mr. Bonham contented himself with offering au amendment which em bodied his views, and bis speech is now published for the sound views it contains. Near its conclusion, the following eloquent remarks occur " The races should be kept distinct and separate, and their attempted unior. will only result according to the opinions of the most learned physinligists in a hybrid amalgam— incapable of furthet propagation, and which can only bo saved from utter extinction by throwing off its ill assorted affinities, and resolving itself back agaic into its orignal elements—tho unadulterated ebony and alabaster—the black and white, which the finger of God has painted with his own pen cil. The designs of Providerce are inscru table and "past findiug out," and because in the divine councils it was deemed fit that there should be an infinite variety in the orders of creation, an infinite variety in moral, intallectnal and physical organization, are we to rebel against its decrees, and at tempt by our finite views and feeble exer tions to reverse tho natural order of things— to bring down that which is high and elevate that which is low, to one common and un distinguished level I There would seem to | he a connecting link between animate and | inanimate nature, from the straggling sua weed on tbe ocean rock to the torpid shell fi!i. There would seem also to be a regu lar gradation in all created things, and in b mfwiiw pwwi ot H intelligent being* from the highest arch angel done to tbe creslure that has little more capacity than the monkey or the ourang outang. But be cause this is so are we to quarrel with the I cr?H' v ® power? In these things the wisdom of the wise ie foolishness, and the strength of the mighty weakness, "Tho Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopafd his •pots." Without that infinite variety, the woild would be what is was not created. If there were nothing crooked there could bo nothing straight. If there were no vice, wo could not see tho beauty of virtue by the contrail. Can our philanthropists eradi cate the poison of the asp or the adder, change tho ferocious spirit of the tiger, or make the birds and beasts of prey lose their instincts wftieh were implanted in their na ture, no dbubt for wiso purposSs? If they | cannot, can they elevate a degraded and inferior rare to a point of culture, sufficient to make them the equals of ourselves, and Ut toT enjoy flong" vrMv -a* ail ska right*, privilege* aud immunities, political and so cial, which we enjoy and nje anxious to vouchsafe to our clrlhlromond ur children's chiidrou to the remotest generations? If not, why these spasmodic exertions to ac complish impossibilities? Ido not wish to . 1 speculate, but it is well to analyze the ten dencies and. objects of many of the mi* gukied philanthropic efforts of tho day—to see where they lead, aud for what they are i intended ; aud I merely throw oni a few .tutus that others with more limo for such investigations may trace the subject to its legitimate and appropriaja conclusions." TIIC-CONTESTID ELECTION AGAIN. —On the 12th there is to be another hearing, and the taking of farther depositions on the subject of the contested Congressional eleotion in this district. Mr. Fuller has given Col. Wright notice to appear at Danville on th at day. Now one thing is evident from this. Mr. holier roast teel tbat some evidence hal already been taken which renders his con. dition dangerous, and which requires a re ply. It is an admission that the late tele graphic despatches of his friends from Dan ville were false, ane that they were aent off merely to make political capital, and to hide up the festering frauds of last fall's election at Danville. Both parties to this contest say then that •ome important evidence has been elicited. 'liif t*'egraph agent said there was nothing of'any ttoiC— lhat bm one or ,w0 iUeal votes had beau fcM And now if this is to be taken for a samp.'-' °f telegraph s fairness and impartiality, the pi'bhc will soon think its business will requite a in vestigatioti as tho Congressional elec.'on' and ere long it will be about as reliable • the " spiritual knookings,-' and humbugs of that order. Bold Theft. One day last week SIOO was stolen from the carpet bag oi Judge White of Clearfield at the Woodward house in Look Haven, Clinton county. Subsequently a suspicious looking fellow named James Stewart was arrested and committed to answer at the mx i court. The prisoner disappeared quite mvsler.>*ly a afterwards, and tho money ,' vb ' oh 1,9 wa * charged with stea ling was found . Kid alon ,ha road • #hor l distance below Lcc Vport. THE Wmo sJeas M TBI. neighborhood still echo the otv that no-fraudulent vote, were d weave red in the 1." investigation at Danville. Are you ash*" 19 '- 1 ** a you have said heretofore i" 1 " 8U jr-ct, or is it a game of brag 'hat you think you can save your des.ner.tto eaße We hope to have lite evidence pobhshsd at ! ' full length before anything ftrther o'one in the matter, and then the whole tiatter will be in such a shape that tho truth on no . jlfcftgfer be distorted or concealed. " Messrs. J. H Fullrtier kCo, of Wtlitams pot!, have deicrmined to make a bid for the g manufacture of Unele Sam's letter pouches. . The Lycoming Gazette thinks, if they sue o ceed in getting tho cataci, it will bring to s i the town #40,000 a year, while the Work [For the Star of the, Nqrth.) Bloonskms Lveewh. Punoant to notice, a large number of voung men convened in BlooaHburg, Wed nesday evening, April 80th, 1881. for tbe par pose of establishing a Lyceum, when the following person* were chosen as officers of the meeting. John P. Taggart, C. Menseh and Wra. Batkley, Vice Presidents, and I. W. McJsetvy-frSecrotary. - Jo |, n p ~r— *~ the meeting,will) forth in a very elaborate manner, the object ana beneficial results of an association of this kind. Ho was followed in speeches of equal brilliancy by Messrs. McNinch, & Banyan. After which the association adjourned, to meet again in the Lectnre Room of the Pres byleria n Church, on Tuesday evening, May 13th, 1851. THE CONTESTED ELECTION CASE in Phila delphia between Hon. R. Kneass and YVm. B. Reed for District Attorney wasdecidmd on last Saturday in favor of the contestant Mr. Reed. Judge Campbell dissented from his brethren of the benoh and delivered a lengthy and able minority opinion, embody ing his views. Tbe whole bench seemed to agree that a legal voter cannot be compelled to tell for whom he voted. Judge Campbell was of opinion that a man cannot be allowed to disclose his vote on tHI witness stand whether willing or not to do so. King end Keily decide that a witness may be allowed to tell for whom he voted, A RAILROAD CONVENTION is to be hold on the 3d of May next at Georgetown, Northum berland County, Pa., which the Sunbury Gazette says will be tbe largest and most important Improvement Convention that has assembled in that section of the Slate for maay years. Tho principal towns in the Susquehanna valley, and all, in fact, who ate interested in the construction of a rail -1 rtmrt from Smrtmrylo ftrnr;-wnt lmro repre sentatives in this Convention. From present appearances, the Gazette says, there is eve'ry prospect that the road from Hariisburg to Suuburv will be put under contract at an early -day, as the right of connecting the York and-Cumberland Road, with the Penn sylvania Railroad, is coupled with thechar ter of the llarrisburg and Sunbury head. There are also provisions and conditions conncoted with the charier of tbe Susque hanna and Erie Railroad, commencicg at the northern terminus of the Susquehanna road, and terminating at Erie, which will insure the completion of one hundred and sixty miles of that road at an early period. Tne conditions alluded to grant the right of way along the lake shore for the construction of a road connecting the New York and Ohio improvements, but before this connee-1 lion can be commenced, forty miles at each end of the Susqoehanna and Erie road, must 1 bo completed before the connection can bo ' ' wsett. 'Vk**. it will be. seen tbst the pros I poets are now bright for the early comple ' 1 riot of these great improvement*, *n,l *ll , that is wanting is harmony, energy, and ! concert of action. py A stranger on a visit to Williamsport was so much pleased with tbe beaulilui lo \ cation, upon a superficial view of tho town I and its inhabitants, that ho almost concluded to purchase a permanent homo for him®of i and family. The want of a proper sympa- thy, however, on the part ot the cilize r ., 8 for the distressed and afflicted, tee m - 4 have dotcrred him from doing so. T n wan . dering through the place he < ,: lS r -overe j ) on the bank of the river, unpro tected in any manner, old negro and his wife, shivering f", o'n cold, and aurround ed with a few -^rticles of old furniture, which lay sr.oi'.jng upon the ground. They had been in that suffering situation since the flrat oi April. In a communication in the Gazette this stranger says the place has quite a number of churches, and many preachers and church members, ane yet the j first quality of Christianity— charily —appears to be wenting. Treatment such as this, no matter what the color of the poverty atrioken persona may be, ia deserving of severe cen sure ; and the reproaches cast upon the citizens ol the town, bye visiter, were well merited. THE IRON INTEREST —The Pottsville Reg. ister says:—Ttie iron interesi is gradually 1 improving throughout the country, with a I healthy market, though as yet there has been little advance in price Iron-produoing es tablishments whioh have been suspended for ' months by thsShsgjesaion of the market, are I I ag.tit) being set in motion. This fact will gj T g increased vigor and tone to the coal trade. The blaet furnaces at Mount Savage, Md., are now in Alii operation, and a new rolling mill for the manufacture of the cele brated compound rail is to go Into immed'.-ie operation. The Oregon Furnace, situated in Baltimore cqunty, was put in blast on the I 3d inst., and now i* in successful operation, Uwoitig out about 60 tons of iron a week. ET We have been kindly furnished with a copy of the "The Pocket Companion," a new work just published by Dewitt & Daven ■ port, N. Y., for Machinists, Mechanics and Engineers. OLIVER BKTNE, a celebrated scientific writer, and known as tho editor of the Dictionary of Mechanics and Enginesr -1 iag, is the Author. After a careful exami ' nation, we do not hesitate to say that it ia, 1 in our opinion, infinitely superior to any Treatise of the kind now in use, and one 1 that should be in the hands not only of the ' mechanic and working man, but of every 1 person desirous of much information, in a 1 small oompasr, on a most every useful sub ' iect. Price Jl. \ MONSTER BALLOON.—MR Wise, the great Atn.eriean screnant and distinguished author on thd ait of balloon, has now in preparation a fltbMfW balloon, holding fifty . ihouaand cufaie feet of gW, and capable of • carrying up sixteen persons eae hundred . and fifty pounds each. He ezpeede have ; it ready for a:-con*ioe frorrt ;hi city about tho Ist of June.—lstfysr "" "III'IT'T P''l H'MV 11 ~ • From 4 Valley Spirit. A NIM NGFC. If it be true in all cares that " when rogues fall but honest Men will get their daw," we may t-ohfidently expect justice to be done to the Democracy of Pennsylvania at no distant day, as "one of the most scri- , monions quarrels on record Is now going on between a number*/ the corrupt leaders of the Whig par'y this Ststo. The fight is na'only now Koinc * l ," , PnlspSbeen going," tm rnrlTgnrbr . JCT ..i r conducted than at presets!,) anilwllf {IMBi - bly go on until the Demoeracy drive the contending parties from their fastnesses— The captains whu are doing the most shout ing on the one side are Hon. JAMES COOPER, United Slates Senator from Pennsylvania, and Charles Gibbons, Esq-, late a member of the Pennsylvania Senate Irom Philadel phia city; and on the other, Mr. William D. Lewie, Collector of the Customs at Philadelphia, and David Paul Brown, Esq., a distinguished member of thd Philadelphia Bar. Both parties have submitted their "Accounts" to the public, whose duty it , will be to strike a balance between them. When Lewis' nomination came up in the Senate for confirmation. Mr. Cooper op posed it. He did so because, as he alledged Mr. Lewis had appointed men to office who were notoriously incompetent and corrupt, and because nametired been forged in the Custom House to petitions praying for the confirmation o r Mr. L. Mr. Cooper has clearly established the fact that Collector Lewie'-Chief Weigher, George Reed, ihrongh whose hands about fifteen thousand dollars pass annually, is "a man of bad character and so-illiterate that he cannot read or write. He swears to his accounts without knowing what '.hey contain. To offset 'his charge of appointing rascals and ignoramuses to important situations, Mr. Lewis brings forward several letters address ed to htm by Mr. Cooper, in which the Senator modestly asks to be permitted to IMUO* about ten parsons who shall hold office in the Custom Bouse. Iu the first of these letters he says that if permission be given him to name tnat number, he " will begin by naming George Read for the situa tion of Weigher, for whose appointment he is anxious." lit another he givoa a list ol ten men whom he wonld" lite to have ap pointed, and at the head of that list stands the name of George Read. Here Mr. Cooper is fairly caught; for while lie proves that Reed is dishonest and incompetent, Lewis ! proves that Reed was appointed at the solic itation of Cooper himself! Having " arranged the preliminaries," these champions of whiggery and "decen cy" go to work on one another with great vigor. If we believe a lithe of what Lowis says, we must believe Cooper and Gibbons to be the meanest and most black hearted of men ; ami if we believe but a small moiety of what Cooper and Gibbons affirm- | we must conclude thai Lewis and his rr AP Reed are more fit to be inmates ot a v testis than officers of the gover* , ARRIVAL CV ELrPHANTs.-T*,- e ts arrived at New kork or, F jnnJay> bfingjJ # Urge and valuaole froi.^ t o , Uva from India. oonsigj,, e ' a t() MesSr , p T Bar . num &. Seth P,, ' rfowg) intended for their great Muse jnr Caravan, t i, e first exhibition of whi'_ n be gj ven ; n Newark, to-mor : row - "I consists of nine els ' Plants, one being a calf not yet a year old, together with six boa constrictors, a porcu- I pine, Ihe only live one ever brought here ; i a Burmese bull, and aoy number of mon keys. A native chief of the Burmese accom panies the animals. POLITIC* IN MASSACHUSETTS.—^ The Boston Courier advises lire Whigs of that State, .if they wish to succeed, to take the position of opposition to the repeal or modification of the Fugitive Slave Law. The Post contains a long aniens on DfctWocracy of Masea chnsntts, in which it is inserted that they must some out of their present position of allies to the Free Soilers, or they will no longer be codlidcred part and parcel of the National Democratic party. A SPEEDY MODE OF TAKING THE CENSUS The London correspondent of the National Intelligencer says that, by a well arranged plan, the census of tho population, &0., of Great Britain was taken, by returns made to the proper authorities on the Ist instant—'A* whole business being done in that tingle day I ADVERTISING —Tha following instance of tho advantage arising from a judicious sys tem of advertising is given by the Philadel phia Inquirer: "A member of a leading firm in'south Third street yesterday itiiorraivi us that a few j days since he commenced advertising in the | columns of the Inquirer. His first advertise j meat ha/i beep, published a few hours, when it attracted the attention of a stranger, who immediately called at his office, and, after a conversation of a few minutes, made a pur chase, on which our friend realized a profit of eleven hundred dollars I This is an un doubted fact, and it speaks volumes as to the value of advertising." A VERITABLE BULL !— The Pitisburg Des patch, enumerating the purchasers of tickets at auction, for Jenny Lind's concert, saye : "We omit the-iiamas of Col. Kay, who took ten tickets, and soma others, by request." A BIGOTED FATHER. — Tho late Duke of New-castle, the bigoted Tory, bequeathed the whole of his ptoperty to his second son, the eldest, to whom it would have legally fallen, not having been as staunch a proteo lionitt as his father wished. W A Second Advert excitement appear* to be beginning at Morrisvilie, near Trenton. A number of persons of this faith have re sided there for sometime past, and Joshua V. Himes, a disciple of halber Miller, and editor of the Seeoed Advent Aerakl of Bos ton, is now rid teasing meetings there. OT In the Supreme Court of Rhode Is land, on Wednesday, the puy in the aqit Of Julia A. Perkins vs. Francis Honey, for a breach of pmrntMof marriage, rendered a verdict of three thru rand dollars for the plaintiff .FVom the Lewuburg Chronicle. Remarkable Discovery- On last Saturday afternoon, as Mr. Thomas 1 Howard, pf Kelly tp., three miles from this c place, Was digging a diteh neat his dwelling, r on (bit dorth bank of ihe Bu (felloe creek, he " camo upon an obstruction, which when dug f up, proved to be the ivory tusk of a mam moth or mastadon, or some other antedilu .vian monster, of which no living specimen has been seen by human eye*. The tusk, ■ aa-fpttpd. was in feet long, moderately cor- , veu, TJTrrer metre s in* "trmtrrc t,,. and four inches at othor ; from which we" may reasonably infer that tho animal to which it originally belonged could not have been unlike a t'ennsylvanian bank barn in bulk and dimensions. If such an "insect" could take a leisurely stroll through our val leys at the present day, to see how the world had progressed since his time, wo im agine he would pronounce tho present race of bipeds and quadrupeds decidedly "small potatoes," and be disposed soon to retire from society iu / disgust—though ho -would ■doubtless Jeavo behind the renutnuon of be ing emphatically "some punripkins," himself. The task was found two feet below the sur face, in a layer of blue clay, x wbich rested on a bed of sand and gravj. It was a good deal injured in getting it out, before its real character was perceived. Since being ex posed to the air, it crumbles rapidly upon being handled, but vta structure and material ar{ plain and satisfactory. A specimen can be seen at this office. —A sim ilst relic was found week before last on the farm of Mrs Whitmore, inTunk hannocfe Borough, Wyoming county, whilo digging the North Branch Canal. It was about ten feet below the surface, in a strata of sand. The piece found is 3 feet 4 inches long, 5 inches in diameter at one end, and 4i at the other, Knd weighs 33 lbi. Interesting debates. The Timbuotonian Association "down r-cimin In rtitrtmn lhn_anniiiiri "wlmli am de greatest man, de Ex-Fugitive stave' Sirnms or Dan Webster 1 Gumbo takes "de affirmative," and it is expected the decision will be dat he am. I After that will come up the question, hr.w ' many respectable men does it take tr. < half as respectable as a half reformer <• kard ? Jtnn " The exercises will close with. ~. , * 'discuss ion of the question. ought rrot . . women to chop saw-logs and mer. to r.u .u u w • cp. C • . f U .. M l " e babies * The Society for the amei\o r .• . tv ... .a'ion ot Woman's condition will assist ; n , w . , question. UeDaUn tlu \ lMt 1" E "R JN .4 AND THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. —"lne y f n ... , or i fak- • the Mormon residents of the Salt j r /alley will make a proposition to | ( " r yOgress, through their delegate at Wash- | inglon, to construct th e Pacific railrqod from ; ' Salt Lake City to tho Pacific Ocean, if the j * United Stales Government will build the I ml un itill inie rmmlia'.. road beiwaan | Missouri and the Salt Lake connection. ' Mr. Madison, in writing to Alexander 5 Hamilton in July, 1770, whon tho question o.'a conditional notification of the U. S. Con r stituticn was before the New York Con n vention, said "The Constitution requires an adoption in tolo and forever," and as such * it was adopted by the several Slates. Amply > provision was made that new States might " come into tho Union; but no provision > whatever that old States might go out. PRECAUTION. —The London papeis say that there will be thirty thousand troope within five miles of Hyde Park on the occasion of * the opening of the Great Exhibition by Her f Majesty. If this exhibition had been held i in the United States, not a single soldier f would have been considered necessary to ■ preserve the government or keep a revolution from breaking out. In republics the govetn f mem is the people, and revolutions are al f ways accomplished quietly and peaceably s a: the ballot box. Armies are never thought i of as a part of the police establishment. TußKien FASHIONS.— Paris no longer rules - in fashion. Constantinople is dividing with 1 it its former supreinaoy in matters of that 1 kind. The ladies in some of the towns in f Western New York have entirely abandoned j French fashions, and adopted the Turkish e costume for travel liqg purposes. The men view the innovation rather dubiously, as the first step towards the assumption of the pan f taioons altogether. If the Turkish fashions - are to prevail, however, the men need not - object to tho change. The women can take '.he uonsers, and the the men the Turkish i uumber of wires r i.■ .. . j.. . s BARNUM finds the temperament of Pentl " sylvsuia congenial with his purse so he is D inclined to become a citizen of the Key it stone state, and expects to flourish here like a green bay tree to a goodly ripe ago. it ___________ 0 CF Mr. Benedict a member of the legis lature hat returned to his post as editor of tho Carbondale Citizen, and makes hit bow 1 sgatn to his readers with amenity and grace. Under the new Constitution of Koutucky, 4 there are 5213 officers to be eleoied by the people !—There are more than 10,000, prob f ably 15,000 candidates, all of whom, except j those for judicial stations, arc expected to mount the stump. It is computed that the v aggregate time in electioneering, will equal ' 80 000 days! rr The Westmoreland Argus heads its ' marriage notice* with an immense kitchen - mop, crossed by a harpoon piercing a coup * le of goose eggs, designed to represent 1 kearti. t! —- tar A furious and bloody riot look place | a) the Circus in Carlisle on Monday evening which resulted iu tome very severe injuries ' to one of the men connected* with the Circus. ' —He wta so much braised and maltreated a as to be unable to leave with the Company 1 on the following morning, and is still detain * ed st Carlisle, in £ very precarious rorrdi j tion- ... v . A Gang of Villains Broken op. Detroit, Tuesday, April 32.—< The Beiljt Tribune of the 31st, published at Detroit, , contains the following—"Wo . briefly an- j nounoed on Saturday the arrest'of a gang of ( men in Jackson County, who were organized j for the roost nefarious purposes that deprari- ( ty could suggest. Our readers will remem- , bor that for the laat two years the Central , Railroad Company pare been constantly an- , noycd along their line by persons whose ( sole oeeupation seemed to be in placing ob- , •structions on the-tgad, and otherwise de- , stroy mg "tntrpi tfpofly ur w, At , ono time, so systematic had thetr work of destruction become, that the Railroad Com- , pany were induced to employ a conple of shrewd persons, whose duty it should be to travel along the line and detect the offenders but so well organized were the band that for 10 months they eluded the roost persevering inquiries. Some four weeks ago one of the persons employed by the Company obtained an ink ling of the organization, and by alroit man agement succeeded in Worming himself into the confidence of the initiated ; but before they would trust him to any considerable 1 extent, it was required as a proof of his al legiance, that .lie should Are the Depot at I Niles on a ceriaii night, provided it was not previously done by an individual from this • city, who was to be sent on for that purpose. The night came, and to ward off suspio'.on or betrayal, a# well as to secure full xsonfl dene# of the gang, toe Depot was necessary precautions, however, having been made to avert any serious da mage to buildings. The newt that the. Depot at Nilea bad been set on fire, but fortunately discov ered in time to prevent ii ß p estruc ,j 00i M once gave to the new recr.bt the fullest con fidence of the gang, and, be forthwith was admitted into the r.ios*. jocret councils of'the leading desperadoes.. Counterfeit!'.,j, OMO stealing, incendia rism, burgla.iy ( robbery, and smallest petty larceny, we i 0 t he sworn objects of this mou -i — U1 jjnuanon. utte ot mew insignr was m olow up the track and cars by an in 8* 'if v nsly contrived torpedo, so arranged as 10 oe fired by the loeomotive, and explode while the passenger ears'should be over it. The informant continued to act with them until he had procured the names of thirty or forty of the conspirators, and their places | of residenee, confined principally to Leona, ; Center, Jackson, Michigan, and to this city. ; Before plans had been matured for their ar rest, the notorious Joe Dowt—who, it is ■aid, was the general of the concern was taken from this city to Pittsburg on a requi silion of the Governor of Pennsylvania, and the management of the gang devolved upon a fellow calling himseff O. D. Williams, then in this city, but a resident of the State of j New York. j This person, it is asccrtaiheJ, was to leave i i Detroit tor BuQ'alo on Thursday night; and | as his arrest at that time would bo the signal i I for a general dispersion of his accomplices, j it italarmiuad In ll him prousntl while [ I an officer furnished with the requisite pa | pers should accompany him, and make the ! j arrest during the passage, thus giving time Ito perfect a capture of his companions in this Stat?—That arrest was made by Wm. H. Goodnow, of the Custom Mouse, who . was acting as United States Marshal, and Williams was brought back to Detroit on Saturday night, under escort of that officer. On his way up, Williams requested officer Goodnow to mail for him a letter to Detroit, as soon as lie should get there. This, when they got to the prison, Mr. G. consented to do, bnt received a reply that it was not then necessary, as the gentleman to whom he had written had also become an inmate un der the same roof. On Friday night, the time it had been agreed to make lb arrests in the interior, an extra train of cars was sent out from this city, with a large number of officers and as sistants engaged for the occasion ; and such were the arrangements made and carried out, by leaving squads along the line, that st La, ona, Michigan, Center and Jackson, thirty three men were arrested simultaneously about day break on Saturday morning, and brought in and lodged in jail on Saturday, P. M. Among the prisoners arrested are \ three Justices ot the Peace, fire men called Doctors, one Judge and four Constables— the latter belonging to the township of Leo na, not au officer of which, from Supervisor to Postmaster, but is said to be implicated. in this city Washington Gay and Fratus Smith were arrested on Saturday, and in the house of the former was found a variety of implement* for burning buildings, and so constructed as to burn for one hour, or three days, before setting fire to the building By oee of these machines, it has been discov ered, that the depot of this eity was fired last fall, which resulted in the loss ol one hundred thousand dollars worth of property. The arrests were made on a writ trom the United States Court for stopping the mail and for counterfeiting U. S. ooin, and the prisoners will probably be detained until the next session of the District Court. Intemperance and Murder, We learn from the North Branch Democrat that a man by the namo of Bra.nhi!l wns last week committed to the jail at Towanda, Bradford county, charged with tho murder of his wife. . It appears that Brarahill was in toxicated, and on reoeivilig some slight pro vocation from his wife, choked her to death. The parties residod in Wyalustng, Bradford county, and the crime was cbramitie-) at their resideuoe. Ctra* Bonne ALREADY in MARKET !—A Sa vsnnah correspondent of a Boston paper says, the bonds of the ncu> Qvvenment that is to be taken Cuba ie revolutionised have been eelltng at Savannah alt winter to raise the ueedlul funds. They have been taken at ten cents on the dollar. He also mentions a report of the purchase of a steamer, possibly the one seized in New York. CoaFiuunoN.—On Sunday last in Trinity Churefa, Right Rev, Biehop Pouer adminis tered the rite of Confirmation to forty per* snne in Pottevltte A Targe e>tgw£*iait was ! present. v'vffWv* . ;-i ladlf atitioa Meeting ia It. Y. - A meeting of the Irish citizens of Nesr York was h#U at the Shaksapeaw Hotel in that City 'on Tuesday (set, condemning ia strong terms Sir Honry Bulwer and Ms Astoc House speech. A letter trom Mr. Bulwer to the President of the sons of St. Patrick srae read to the meeting in which lye disavows any intention to offend or speak slightly of any class of people by his nee of tho woh? OUT. The letter, however, did Dot appmr - to give satisfeclipo to the meeting. A memorial wae adopted and signed to Ptoeh dent Fillmore, coiling open him to take the necessary steps" fiTprocure MI. Btrtwert re. call. Another meeting relative to the *am subject is to como off iu- a few days. Daniel Webster's Carelessness. The Oswego Palladium relates lbs follow ing anecdote, as never before given to th* public. It ie a good one, and characteristic! too " A few years ago he took a trip west visiting Milwaukee Chicago, &o. As usual, tie.was out of money and his friends made up a purse of 31,000 for him, and 000 OS two of them went along to look a little afbf financial matters. cached Albany on his return, w'.ih a hundred dollar bill in h P oo liet, and hope* were entertained that thie '.vould enable him to reach home. Wabetet and his friends passed a night in the city, and when they were about to proceed in tho morning it was found that the God Uke's money was gone'. " Where is that hundred dollar bill you had when we reached the city? inquired one of*his friesds. "Thun der," replied Webster, after fishing for it awhile in his vest pockets, "I gave it to the porter for blading my boots thie morning." The Wotld'e Fair in the United State*. A meeting of the delegates of the various Railroad and Steamboat companies, was held at the Astor House ia New York, a few days since, with referenoe to the inoreaeed facilities that will be required by the publlo on the-ueonsiim of- the- prspssa J- WoiWe Fair, to be held on Governor's Island, in 13- 52. Resolutions were adopted to bold sr. adjourned meeting at the Astor House at It o'clock, on the 30th April", to consider tho means of acom-nodaiing the incroa-od amount of travai which may be expected, and earnestly requesting the attendance of all the directors of all the railroads mad steamboat routes, and the proprietor* of steamboats and stages at such meeting. " Country Paper*. We wish ail who are in the habit of ta king city papers in preference IO those pub lished in their own county, to read what Sar tain's Magazine says about couiUry papers: ! In nothing has there been a more marked i change within the last ten years, than in the elevation in the character *f the country press. „Since the general establishment of | the telegraph, they are enabled to anticipato ; the great city papers in the early publics- I lion of the latest news through the interior j | and with'the Increased importance which I this gives to their issues, they have acquired a corresponding 'degree of energy and effi ciency in the promotion of all liberal and i patriotic undertakings. us 1 " Thomas E. Franklin Esq., of Lan caster city lias been appointed by the Gov ernor to be Attorney General of the Com monwealth iu the room of Hon. C. Darragh, resigned. Or \ western writer thinks that if lb* proper way to spell tho is " though,", ate " eight," and bo "beaux" the proper way of spelling "potatoes" is poughteighteauz. ET The horse which was mysteriously left at Mr. Barman'* hotel in Shickshinny a few-nveeks ago, has found an owner in Mr. Andrew Broudhead of Pike county, who has missed the animal since last fail. The Franking Pr.vitegs. The Hon. J. Crittenden, Attorney General of the United States, has decided that mem bers of Congress are entitled to the franking privilege, under the late law, for the wools term lor which they are elected, and all fas mer decisions respecting thirty days' privi lege are reversed. GOOD ONE.—A Western critic reeord* the following astonishing effects produced by Jenny Liud's Echo song on on* of lb* "milky mothers of the herd." Ou the last occasion ot that song's being sung in the town alluded to, a venerable cow, disturbed from a pensive reverie in the court heuse yard by the delicious melody of Jenny's call, "Coma Kine," immediately obeyed the summons by bellowing forth a respon sive "I'm a coming On inquiry, (the writer says he learns.) it appears tbat the maternal grandfather ol this cow waa its ported stock, and that in the early part ol her own life, she was fed on Swedish turnips. MILITARY ELECTION.—The official returns of the Military Election for Brigadier Gee erat, held on the Slst ultimo, show a tin vote of 151 for Captaina Clement and Pott. Another election will be held shortly in Sohnylkill county. SHAKSPEABS.—An English aotot on visiting Niagara Falls, wrote home—Oh, "what a all is here , my countrymen !" OF The frost has destroyed the peach blossoms in the neighborhood of Wilfiams- married. . In OrangeviUe, on the 31th of April, by the Rev. Mr. Seibert, Mr. DAVIB Buoesr, of Bloom-burg, and Mi** MAROABSIS daughter of Joseph Hayliurst, of the former place. On the 23d tilt,, by tho Rev. SI 8. Shedden, Mr. JAKES E. CALDWELL, of Milton, to Mist JANE FINNEY, ofM'Ewensviite. VPIEP- ' L A> At his residence in Jersey Show, on tho 24ib ult., Maj ROBERT S. BAILEY, aged 44 years 2 months 1 nay, after a lingering Ufo ness, ot consumption. la Bloorasburg, en last Monday morniag, WILLIAM HLxDaanaoT, raaof Aaron He idc fhm, iged about J5 yisrs. t " '
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