STAR OF THE NORTH.
*. W. WEAVER, TDITOR.
illooinsbur* Thursday May 11, 1838.
Fast Times.
Jn these days distance is nothing to the
Traveller, and we live in times that are cm
pbilicallv fast. Last Friday ahernoon at
half past threa we started upon H flying tour
through Schuylkill county—arrived at Port
Clinton it lime for an excellent supper in
The depot rooms—at 7 o'clock took the even
ing train of cars for Poltsville, where we de
spatched a little business— took an hour's
hearty laugh in Jerry Merrifield's Theattei
and enjoyed a good night's rest at Colonel
Ktrrcher's "Exchange." In the morning af
ter breakfast we look a ride through the half
dczon towns of the ooaf'region East of Potts
lillojin those mountains which have become
the hives of countless human beings, and
gwnrm with tho thousands who perforate them
like a honey-comb; teeming all over and all
Ihnugh with life and toil. We arrived at
Tumaqua in limoto execute alitllo more bu
siness; and then took the Express train ol
cars by which we reached home at noon on
Saturday.
Some of these noons we may start on an
other tour—takes look at Niagara next morn
ing, and return home in time for supper.—
Or, on some Monday morning we may start
for Kansas wiih Ihe word behiod us that we
will be "back next week."
A New Hot-Blast Antharaoiie Furnace has
been erected at Williamsport, Lycoming
county, in this State, by Messrs. Bingham,
JMcKiniiey bi Co. The arrangement for feed
ing the furnace, the Press of that place says,
ia novel, economical and ingenious. A largo
stock car with circular iron body and trap
bottom, is drawn up an inclined pi me to the
luntiel head, by the engine, when the body
of the car striking a lever, disconnects it from
Ihe gearing, and the car is thence run by
hand npon the-track over the opening, and
the stock deposited hy the movement of a
lever connected with the trap bottom ; re
turning, life descent of the car is regulated
at pleasure, by means of a double break.
HON. WALTER T. CowrrT, who died at
Macon, Geo., on the 7th inst., was a promi
neni Slate Rights Democrat of that State, an
eminent lawyer, and often officiated as a
Methodist clergyman. He represented Geor
gia in the House of Representatives, many
years ago, and was subsequently chosen U.
S. Senator. On the expiration -of his term
In the Senate, he retired to private life. Mr.
Colquitt was a great natural orator, and bad,
wbi'e he look part in politics, a leading in
iiuer.ee in Georgia.
t3T Judge Jordan has decided lo grant tsv
■ern licenses until the Ist of October; but at
Williamsport last week he decided that a
county Treasurer has no authority to issue
licenses to fnerchants for the sale of liquor,
jude Pearson has decided that the Court has
no authority to grant licenses at this lime,
bat that the county Treasurer raty.
U" We are pleased to notice that a new
post-office has been established at the Rail
voad station near this place, to be called''Ru
perl," and Mr. George S. Gilbert, the gentle
manly Tkgeut of the Cattawissa Cgmpay, ap
pointed Postmaster.
QT The Governor has advertised the Main
Line, including Railroads and Canal, from
Philadelphia to Piltaburg, and the appurte
nances, for sale by publio outcry at the
" Philadelphia Exchange, Tuesday the 24th
of July next, at half-past 7 o'clock in the
evening.
iy Col. Henry L. Kinney of fillibuster
notoriety was oil Tuesday evening arrested
•I Philadelphia on an indictment for viola
tion Ihe neutrality laws of the United Stales.
He surrendered himself, and walked into
Court to offer 84,500 bail, belore Judge
Kane.
A BP" Judge Conynghtnr. last week directed
that tavern licenses should on their face say
Ihe holder could only sell liquor until the Ist
of October next, and not to any minor, or
person of known intemperate habits, nor on
Sunday.
BP" ON Monday week ihe Councils of the
city of Erie, Pa,made an additional subscrip
tion of 8200,000 to the slock of the Sunbury
•nd Erie Railroad, providing that if is expen
ded on their end of Ihe line, and that the
work be commehoed within a reasonable
line.
iy "Sag Niohli" (Say Nothings) is a
aew secret political organization rising tip in
opposition to the "Nix Welters" (Know
Nothings.) Two secret societies rnling in
dependent freemen is a sublime state of af
fairs for an enlightened, republican country,
truly I
OF Open American party conventions
have been he'd in Northumberland, North
ampton, Montgomery, tad we believe other
counties in Pennsylvania; and numerous
meetings in other States have been held for
Ihe same object
HAVIKO a GOOD TIME or IT. —The liquor
dealers in New York, by the Recorder's de
cision, have the privilege of selling as much
liqnar as they please without lioense till the
4th of July next. Those who passed the
prohibitory law did not anticipate this re
sult
X3T Now sweet potatoes are among the
loxories of the season at Petersburg, Vir
ginia.
ISF The manuscript of Mr. Lake's com
mvoteation published in oor last number
tan be rein at oor office
From Philadelphia to the Lakes la a day
By ihe new railroad arrangement travel
lers can now take the can in Philadelphia
ut 6 o'clock in Ihe morning, and reach Niag
ara in ihe evening of the same day. Ry this
route, Detroit ia advertised to be reached in
24 hours, Chicago in 84 boors, and St. Louis
in 48 bourn.
There are at this time si* daily trains run
ning over the Catiawissa Road—three North
j ward, and three for Philadelphia. The fol
lowing are the limes at which each one pas
res Rupert Station, as furnished to us by Mr.
Gilbert, the Agent of the Company.
Trains moving South.
Way Passenger Train 4. 45 A. M.
Freight and Accommodation 11. 30 A. M
Express 3. 15 P. M.
Train) moving North.
Express 11.45 P.M.
Freight and Accommodation 1. 40 P. M.
Way Passenger 19. 47 P. M.
The way passenger and accommodation
trains stop at all the stations except Union.
The Express trains slop only at Williams
port, Milton, Danville, Rupert, Summit, la
maqua and Port Clinton.
At Port Clinton, the Express traiu stops
20 minuies for passengers to take supper
when going toward Philadelphia. The Ex
press train which leavea Philadelphia in the
morning stops 20 minutes at Williamsport
for the passengers to take dinner.
A Mail Train leaves Philadelphia, at 7 30,
I A. M., running to Poltsville' oidy.
The Night Exnros* leaves Philadelphia at
3 30 P- M, and reaches Niagara Falls at
10 30 A. M, in time lor Train to I etroil,
Chicago, &o.
Distances Jiom Philadelphia {via. Cattawissa
It. It. ) to Niagara Falls.
Manaynnk 7 Milton 172
Conshehucken 13 Umonlown 177
Norrislown 17 Mtmcy 187
Port Kennedy 21 Williamsport* 197
Valley Forge 23 Trout Run 212
Phcuuixville 27 Ralston 222
Royer'e Ford 82 Canton 237
Limerick 34 Troy 250
Poitaiown 40 F.lmira 275
Dooglasville 44 Horse Heads 280
Birdsborough 49 Millport 287
Reading 58 Havanua 293
Allliouse's 06 Jefferson J296
Mohrsville 68 Siarkey 307
Hamburg 75 Penn Yan 318
Port Clinton 78 Gorham 330
Ringgold ' 88 Canandaigna 342
Taniu(]ua 98 East BlnomfialJ 350
Summit 110 Honey Falls 363
Ring.own 123 Caledonia 375
Beaver 130 La Roy 382
Maiuville 138 Ratavia 388
.Cattawissa 145 Tonawanda 432
Rupert 147 Niagara Fails 437
Danville 154 Suspension Bridge 439
Moresburg 160 [*Liuner.]
This Route with its connections, forms
the shortest and most direct route to Canada
and the Lakes.
Only one change of Baggage between
Philadelphia and Canada or the Lakes.
Passengers purchasing Tickets by this lino
have the privilege of stopping at any of the
above points and resuming their seats at
pleasure.
Well managed, according to the public no
tices, this must become one of tho most
profitable and pleasant thoroughfares in the
Union.
Important lo Millers.
We feor thai scarcely a njillet in Pennsyl
vania has attended ;o the obligations ol the
following act of the legislature, which was
passed Antil 15th, 1835, and may be found
under the head of inspections, section 38,
Purdons Digest. It is duo to the purchaser,
and community generally, that it should be
complied with immediately. And as many
of our millers have some six or eight dif
ferent brands, they are liable to heavy pen
alties for every month they continue this
I old mode of business:
"Every miller and bolter of flour for ex
portation, shall cause his brand-mark as a
foresaid to be entered with the Clerk o( the
Court of quarter sessions ol the County where
be resides, together with his name and place
of residence, under penalty ot five dollats
for every month during which he shall have
exercised his said employment, without
having made such entry."
or A new Amorican Manufacture, that
of plate glass, has been commenced in Will
iamsburg, N. Y., where plates of glass ton
feel wide and twenty feet long, will be made.
A plate teia feet square can be made sn
strong that it will hold a ton weight, and so
clear that we'could read the fine print of a
newspaper through a piece four inches thick.
It ia a singular fact that the best English
plate class is made from American Hand.—
With New Jersey, possessing the propel raw
material in so remarkable a degree, it is
lingular that this article has been so long
i in ported.— Ledger.
CF The King of Belgium is a Protestant,
though his subjects are mostly Catholics.—
The king of Saxony ia a Catholic, though the
greater part of his subjects are Protestants.
The King of Greece is a Catholic, though most
of his subjects are of Ilia Greek Church. Of
the 15.500,000 European sbbjects of the Sul
tan of Turkey, 11,370,000 are ol 'he Greek
Chnroh, and 260,000 are Catholics, while
only 3,800,000 are Mohommedans.
II hat ii Baggage? —ln a recent tail in N.
York, the question came up, whether a gold
watch ia an article of wearing apparel, to be
deemed baggage. The Superior Court deoi
ded it ia an arlicle of wearing apparel, and
when not carried about the person, but in a
trunk, while travelling, ia to be deemed at
baggage.
Seizure of Counterfeit Money —On the Blh
insl., the police of Cinoinnali, Ohio, arrested
George H. Cady, and found in hit possession
35530 in counterfeit fives and lens, of the
Farmers' Bank of Charleiton, Va. They sf
terwarda arrested a man in the honse and
found about 330,000 in the same kind of
note*.
DEAB EVERYWHERE.— The price of meat
baa risen 15 per cent, in Paris within two
months. It is now entirely beyond tbe
means of the poor. .
EDUCATIONAL.
SCHOOLS SHOULD DE ENLARGED.
If only direolors would properly classify
their scholars and grade their schools, in
struction could be much improved and
cheapened. In all towns where it is at all
practioable'all those scholars in the same
stage of advancement should be sj'nt to the
same school, and then there should be entire
uniformity a text books. A good teacher
can then instruct 70 scholars with more
plensute to himself and more profit to them
than he can a school ol 25 like some we
have visited. Each scholar in a class will
learn from Ihe answers of the others, and
the advanced ones will drag the slow ones
along. The teacher will be more interested
with a large class thfn with a small one.
The Philadelphia and Lancaster schools
are twice as large as those iu this neighbor
hood on on average, and yet each schol
ar there receives more instruction than
here
In Kdinburg one teacher with the help of
monitors in classes will take charge of from
100 to 600 scholars in the primary depart
ments. In Baden the maximum is 80, and
in Prussia schools average 40 scholars.
Addition to the Schoo^Law.
The laie legislature passed a supplemental
school-law, which will help, to some extent,
io adapt the one of last year to the warns of
the people. The first seven sections relate
mainly to the independent districts establish
ed by special acts of Assembly. The follow
ing are the other sections which possesses
general interest.
SECT. 8. Tlinl the state superintendent of
common schools shall, OD the application ol
the boards of directors of a majority of the
school districts in any county of this com
monwealth, stating their desire to increase
| the salary ol ihe county superintendent, fix-1
t ed at nny of tho periods named in the thirty
ninth section of the school law of one thou
| sand eight hundred and fifty-lour, or at any
subsequent triennial convention of directors,
appoint the limn and piar-e of re assembling
of ihe convention of directors, who shall have
all the powers conlerred by the said thirty
ninth section.
SECT. 9. That the Pennsylvania School
Journal shall be recognised as die official or
gan of the depattmenl of common schools el
this commonwealth, in which the current
decisions made by the superintendent of
common schools shall be published free of
charge, together with ell official circulars and
such other lettets n( explanation and instruc
tion as he may find it necessary or advisable
lo issue fiom time to time, including his an
nual report; and the superintendent is hereby
authorized lo subscribe for one ropy of said
School Journal, to be ser.t lo each board of
school directors in the stale, for public use,
and charge the cost thereof to the contingent
expenses of the department of common
schools.
SECT. 13. That the superintendent of com
mon schools be authorized and directed to
pay out the stale appropriation to the respec
tive school districts, for this present school
year, in all cases where bona fide efforts
have been mada to" comply wuh the.provis
ions of the law requiring tho schools to be
kept open fofir months, but failed from want
ol teachers or timely knowledge of the late
law, or other cause which shall be deemed
just and satisfactory lo the superintendent.
Under this act such townships as Pine and
Mountplensanl will receive their state appro
priation, but instead of the ordinary affidavit
the facts of the case must be set cut and
sworn to. But districts where no efforts
were made to procure teachers or to hove
four months school will still fail to obtain the
appropriation.
ItEXIGIOUS PIIEDILECTIUNS
Of the Memheri of the General At unity of the
State of Pennsylvania for the year 1855
Known at the Know-Nothing Legislature.
SENATE
Presbyterian, - - -15
Methodist, 2
Episcopalian, - - • • 5
Baptist, .... 2
Friends or Quaker, .... 4
German ftelorm, .... 2
Lutheran, .... i
AotiSeclarian .... 2
33
HOUSE or SEPnESENTATIVKS.
Presbyterian, .... 33
Methodist,' - - - -25
Baptist, • • • -10
Friends or Quaker, .... 6
German Reform, .... 3
Unitarian, • . • - . l
Universalis), .... 2
Lutheran, • ... 6
Episcopalian, 1
Congregalionalist, - - • 1
Free Thinker, 1
Big Church, - - ' • • - 1
Don't Know, 1
No particlar seat', . - 7
Dutch Relorm, .... I
100
Rcgisiered Letters.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—The Post Office
Department has issued a series-of instructions
for the guidance of Postmasters, in receiving
valuable letters for transmission by mail.—
The plan ia to go into operation the Ist of
July, on and after which letters can be regis
tered and receipted for upon a fee of five
cents being paid. Extraordinary care ia to
be taken to ensure tbeir sale delivery.
[The instructions require all letters alleged
to be valuable to be registered at the office
of mailing, on payment of a receipt book
kept for the purpose, and kept separate from
ibe regular account of mails received and
sent. Tbe reoeipt book is to be kept by the
postmaster or a person specially designated
by him fot that strvioe and all registered
letters to be receipted for oa delivery st the
office of their destination.}
WHOLESALE MARRYING. —Six sisters were
recently married in the same night, at their
house, in Somerset eouoty, Pa.
From the ledger.
WHERE TO DIG FOR GOLD.
Every few monlha, since the discovery of
the California goki fields, a rumor has been
started of new aurilerous regions. Now
they are said to be locafed in Virginia, now
in Texas, now in the Carolinas, end now in
Arkansas. Influenced by these reports, ad
venturers desert home, family and avoca
tion ; endure unheard-of toils; often perish
miserably of disease; and generally end in
utter beggary. A few, indeed, return with
fortune, but they are broken in health ; but
the majority come back penniless, or die
alone in a foreign land.
Vet all this while, there are gold fields ly
ing near at home, and which may be work
ed without the risks of a strange climate.—
They are fields which were worked by our
fathere before us; which were found eminently
productive; and which offer prizes quite as
great still. Fortune may be sought in them
without encountering the privations of exile,
the hazards of a distant venture, the lawless
ness of a new settlement, or the demoraliza
tion of a semi-buccaneer community. Nay!
fortune is far more sure to be won, if the
experience of our fathers is to be taken, by
delving, mining and assaying in their fields,
than in those of even Colitornia and Aus
tralia.
These auriferous regions are industry,
economy and perseverance. No man, how
ever few his original advantages, who will
work these goldsn mines, but will finally
secure compelance, if not wealth. It is here
at home, here at our tery doors, that the
wisesi men dig for gold. Selecting some one
pursuit, they study or practice till they mas
ter it, and then thoroughly prosecute it, con
centrating all their energies for the work.—
Are they merchants? They rise to be great
er millionaires than ever came from San
Franrisco. Are they lawyers? They win
houor as well as wealth. Are they mechan
ics? They soon attain lo comfortable cir
cumstances, and finally often to riches, lo
honors, to power, while their fellow appren
tices, who sought gold fields elsewhere,"
have died miserable beggars abroad.
WH care not what a man's pursuit may
be, lie will prosper if he aticks 10 it. For
tune, to he won, must be besieged. But he
who runs about the world, in chase of the
fickle jade, w ill find that, ignis Jotuus like,
ehe always eludes his grasp. "A rolling
stone," the proverb says, "gathers no moss."
Men, who seek gold fields or. the other side
of the globe, when industry, thrift, and en
ergy are certain to yield success at home,
resemble the old woman, who wasted the
day in looking for her spectacles, which, all
the time, were perched above her nose.
Those who despair of prosperity at home
rarely mend matters by going away, unless
they also mend their habits of business,
and, in that event, fortune would smile on
them if tltey staid at home. II thoae wbo
adventure in foreign gold fields would sub
mit to half the privations here, which they
are forced to undergo there, or would exor
cise similar perseverance, they would soon
discover, that, inslcad of traversing oceans
to get at wealth, they could dig gold at their
own doors.
Exciting Times in Kansas and Missouri,
CHICAGO, May 8, 1855.
The Flatte Missouri Argus of the Ist inst.,
publishes the proceedings of a mass meet
ing held at Webster, Mo., at tvhicb the fol
lowing extraordinary resolutions passed:—
'•That self-defer.ee requires the expulsion of
every perron bringing into reproach negro
slavery ; that robbers and traitors have no
right to the protection of the law; that they
ratify the proceedings at the l'arkville riot;
that they approve of the resolutions in re
gard to Methodists, and add thereto all min
isters preaching prejudicial to slavery; that
ibey have no arguments against abolition
papers, but '-Missouri river," "bonfire" and
"hemp-rope." That they pledge themselves
lo go lo Kansas and help to expel those cor
rupting the slaves; and that thevcall agtand
mass-meeting at P&rkville on tlie Sth inst."
The Hiss Affair in the Muss, Honse.
Boston, May 14.—There has been much
confusion and excitement in the House this
afternoon. Mr. Hiss twice resumed his va
cated seat, and was each time removed by
the Sergeant-al-Arms, by an order of the
House, passed almost unanimously It is pre
sumed Mr. Hisi acted in this singular manner
by the advice of his Counsel.
Messrs. B. F. Bnllor and Benj. Dean, Coun-
I sel for Mr. Hiss, have published an address
denouncing his expulsion from the House as
an arbitrary act, and intimating that the
members of the House feared an impar
tial developement of all the facts in the
case.
THE COST or BOMBARDING SEBASTOPOL.—
The bombardment of Sebastopol, by the last
advices, had continued for thirteen days
pouring an incessant fire upon the '.own, and
according to the English advices, makings
steady progress against the works, though
(•orlsohakofl's report, the latest, says the Al
lies' fire was slackening. The iron shotfired
into Sebastopol exceeding anything of the
kiud that the annals of war have ever record
ed. Five hundred guns, firing one hundred
and twenty rounds a day, gives a total of six
ty thousand rounds, which may weil be term
ed an "infernal fire." as Gortachakoff oalled
it. it is estimated tlial the amount of shot
fired in the thirteen days of the bomhard
ment'by the Allies, equalled thirty-five mill
ions one buodred thousand pounds, which
would cost, not including the transportation
and the powder, $313,380. The powder
would cost $702,000, making a total of over
a million dollars. This, if it resulted in the
capture of the place, would be cheap, but the
correspondent of tbe London Times, who is
a spectator ol the bombardment, says, in his
last letter, " we are not one inch nearer the
town than we were last October."
The Expulsion of Hiss;
BOSTON, May ll.— After an exciting night
session of seven hours, the Honse, this
morning at 2 o'clock, passed a resolution
expelling Hiss by a vole of yeas 137, nays
15.
HOARDING HOI'HES AND HOTELS.
VVe have been favored with a bill passed
by the Legislature of thie Stale, just closed,
of which the following is a copy. It was
got up, and an interest taken in its passage
into a law, through the instrumentality of
our friend, Parker, present member of coun
cils of the city, and Jas.B. Reese, of Lehigh
county; and while, more
rigid and stringent than may suit the notions
of many persons, it will produce much good,
und save many 'a boarding-house keeper,
with a large iamily of children depending
upon her exertions, from being robbed
weekly or monthly of a portion of her hard
earnings;
An Act to Protect Keepers of Hotels, Inns and
' Boarding Houses.
SEC. I.—Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of this Common
wealth of Pennsylvania in General Assem
bly met, and it is hereby enacted by the au
thority of the same, That whenever the pro
prietor or proprietors of any hotel, inn or
hoarding house shall provide a good, suffici
ent and secure safe in the office of such ho
tel or other convenient place for the safe
keeping of any money, gooda, jewelry and
valuables belonging to Ihe guests and board
ers of such hotel, inn or boarding house, and
rhull notify the guests and boarders thereof
by placing in every lodging-room, parlor and
public ball or other conspicuous places,
printed cards or stating the fact that
such Bafe is provided, in which such goods,
jewelry and valuables may bo deposited,
and that the proprietor or proprietors (hereof
will not be responsible for said money,
goods, jewelry and valuables, unless depos
ited in said safe, and if any such guest or
boarder shall neglect to doposit such money,
goods, jewelry or valuables in such safe,
the ; roprietor or proprietors aforesaid shall
not be liable for any loss of such money,
goods, jewelry or valuables sustained by
such guest by theft or otherwise: Piovided,
That nothing lierein contained shall apply to
such an amount of money and such articles
oi goods, jewelry and valuables as is usual,
common and prudent fur atij such guest or
boarder to retain'in his room or about his.
person.
SEC. 2.—That whenever the proprietor or
proprietors of any hotel, inn or boarding
hoove shell post in a conspicuous mannet as
aforesaid, notices requiring said guest or
boarder to boll the door of the room or
rooms occupied by said guost or boarder, or
in leaving ihe said room or rooms, lo lock
the door, and deposit the key or keys with
the proprietor or the clerk at the office, and
if such guest or boarder shall neglect so to
do, the proprietor or proprietors as aforesaid,
shall not be liable for any baggage or such
| guest or boarder which may be stolen from
said room or rooms: Provided, That said
proprietor or proprietors shall clearly estab
lish the fact of said room or rooms having
beer, left unbolted or unlocked by said guest
or boarder at the time of the loss of said
baegage as aforesaid.
£kc. 3.—That if any person or persons
with the intent lo cheat and defraud design
edly by any false cr fraudulent representa
tions, or by any false show of baggage, goods,
or chatties, which are calculated lo deceive
any hotel, inn, or boarding house keeper,
shall obtain lodgings and credit in any hotel,
inn, or boarding house within this Common
wealth, and subsequently thereto refuse to
pay for their safe, board and lodging, such
'person or persons so offending, shall upon
conviction of such offence in any Court of
Quarter Sessions of this Commonwealth, be
punishable by imprisonment in the county
jail of said county, for any period not more
than three months, at the discretion of said
Court, and be liable to a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars.
Sic. 4 —That all proprietor or propriotora
of hotels, inns and' boarding houses within
this Commonwealth shall have a lien upon
the goods and baggage belonging to any so
journer, boarder or boarders, for any amount
of indebtedness contracted for boarding,
lodging or entertainment, for any period of
time not exceeding two weeks, and shall
have the right to detain said goods and bag
gage until the amount of said indebtedness
is paid, and at llio expiration of three moaths
the said proprietor or propriotora may make
application to any alderman or justice of the
peace of the proper city, borough or county
who is hereby authorized to issue his war
rant to any coustable within said city, bor
ough or county, and cause him to expose
the said goods and baggage to public sale,
after giving at team ten days' notice, by pub
| lie written or printed notices, put up in throe
or more public places in the ward of said
city or borough, or in the township where
said inn, hotel or boarding-honse is located,
and after he shall have sold the same he
shall make return thereof to the euid justice
or alderman who shall, after payment ol all
costs, and the same amount of indebtedness,
pay over the balance, if any there be, to the
owner or owners of said goods aod baggage;
Provided, that the owner or owners of said
goods and baggage shall have the right to
redeem said goods and baggage at any lime
within the said three months, upon paying
the amount of said indebtedness, and at any
time previous to the sale as aforesaid, upon
paying also the additional cost established
by law for the like services. Approved
May 7tb, 1855.
Lieut. Bonaparte'* Opinion aboat Sebar
topol.
BALTIMORE, May 14. —Lieut. Bonaparte,
formerly of the U. S. Army, and now an of
ficer of the French Army in the Crimea,
writea to hia father by the last packet, that
the allied forcea can at any lime take Sebas
lopol, but not without a great aacrifice of
their Iroopa. He doe* not aay they could
keep it, after getting it. *
Stnlt Agricultural Fatr. —The next Slate
Agrioultuial Fair will be held at Harriaburg.
the citizen* having aubacribed the *um re
quired to aecure it. The annual addreaa be
fore the Society will be delivered by the Hon.
Frederick Watts, of Carlisle, its first Presi
dent.
V The Lewiaburg Democrat i* offered for
sale.
NEW YOU If CORRESPONDENCE.
MONDAY, May 14, 1855.
The ltlinoil arrived yesterday from Aspin
i*all with the mails and 81,115,00# in gold
dust from San Francisco. Everything Is
gloomy in California—trade dull, markets
overcrowded, money light, and business
men financially embarassed. The mail
packet Golden Age, which runs between
Panama and San Francisco, was wrecked
on her last trip to the latter pott, by running
on a shoWing rock 216 miles above Panama.
The crew and gold dust were saved by the.
John L. Stephens, which took them all back
to Panama.
The anxiety with which Ihe arrival of the
nekt steamer from Europe is looked for is
intense. It appears now certain that either
thejiexl steamer or the following one must
necessarily bring us news either of the cap
ture of Sebastopnl, or the defeat of the allies.
Heavy bets among sporting men and others
are pending on the result.
Premonitories of Summer have made their
appearance in New Yotk. The open-air Ice
Creameries are in full-operation, to the man
ifest delight ol the newsboys, of whom a do
zen or so may now be seen surrounding a
slaud near the Tribune office, each with his
pennyworth of sweetened refrigeration in
one hand, and a spoon in tlio other, feasting
like a young Sardanapulns. There are b'g
strawberries, too, or hot-bed growth, in the
confectioners' windows, at five dollars a
dish. Summer cravats have succeeded the
moir antique and sa'.in scarfs and lies in the
glass cases of the furnishing stores; and
light silks, bareges, and French muslins are
seen behind the plate glass fronts of the dry
goods stores. The newspapers have com
menced putting their accumulating rural fa
vors under the separate head of "Country
Board:" and the steamboat companies are
out with their Summer programmes. Many
of our fast youths, precocious in everything,
have already donned cream-colored felts and
while vests; and last Sunday, the green as
pect of the Elysiun Fields, tempted quite a
large delegation from " Young Germany"
over to Hoboken. The first swallow has not
yet parted, with glossy wing, our dusty at
mosphere, but is doubtless making a bee
line hither from the of Africa or .
some other terra incognita. The temperature
is warm onongh for.June, and the genial
weather, as well as the advertisements of
the " blood purifying" quack doctors, warns
us to " prepare for Summer."
Barnum's approaching Baby Show ia in
bad oder here among persons of refitted
tastes. There is a certain low sphere within
which Barnum's operations succeeded well,
and it is a sphere in which he in very much
at home. People who are merely swindled
out of twenty-fivo cents cannot afford to lose 1
their temper about such an insignificant sum. j
Many will lose even twenty-five dollars,
provided their curiosity on ordinary matters
only is trifled 'with. A man would be a
little ashamed to kick up a row about being
deceived as to the genuineness of a black
man turning white, a woolly horse, or any
thing of that kind. Barnom should "there
fore have confined his swindling operations
to playing upon the lower (acuities of the
human mind, with which people will allow a
little trifling, art! Itingh at their folly at being
taken in, and nt the low cunning of the ras
cal who "did" them, while they of course
hold him in contempt. Bjt it is quite anoth
er thing when you attempt to mislead Ihe
higher intellectual faculties of a people, their
highest class o? tastes, or their moral or reli
gious elements. The villian who does or at
tempts to do any of these things is held in 1
just contempt, and when there is no stat
ute or common law to punish him, ha is
morally l)nched. When Barttum endeavored
to emerge from his low sphere into a higher
one, there to play his accustomed pranks, he
look the first step to bring down upon him
self the contempt and enmity'of upright
men. It was thought by many, before he
went into the Fire Atinihilator business, and
allowed to be claimed for that invention,
without contradiction by bim, qualities tbat
it did not possess, that he was a good-natured,
rollicking, mischievous fellow, but by no
means bad at heart; but the public at length
saw that he would stick at no outrage of
public sentiment to put money in his pocket.
When the whole mercantile interests of
America, and men who devoted years to sci
entific pursuits, where bamboozled on a sub
ject to' which they justly attached so much
importance, eveiy one who was blessed
with a moderate Rmount of brains above
his eyes, immediately understood that the
tricks he had before attributed, as much to
a fun-loving propensity as to a disregard of
truthfulness, wore nothing more or less than
the genuine uricoutrolable outbursts of selfish
wickedness. Bernum did not succeed with
the Fire Aumhiiator. Afterward, a few of
his imitators and others who lost money by
the fall of Crystal Palace stock, got him elec
ted President of tbat Association ; but right
minded tnen had lost confidence in him,
and he failed in thai, as he will ever fail in
everything that he undertakes requiring the
confidence and capital of men of integrity—
Mrs. E. Oakes Smith has given him a smart
rap over the knuckles, on hia Baby-Show
scheme, and as her letter will no doubt be
extensively copied, it ia doubtful if lie can
get any well-known lady to aot as a judge in
hia committee. One thing is certain, which
is, that he cannot by any possibility get a
lady of acknowledged soc,al position to enter
his Museum for such a purpose : nor would
he have the temerity to ask her. it should
be understood by provincials, that lor a Isdy
in New York to gain and retain a foothold
in the drawing-rooms of persons of refine
ment, it requires something more than that
her husband has advertised aaraaparilla -or
bats largely, and made money by it. A few
of this latter class may be found by Mr.
Baruum willing to add incidentally to their
husband's notoriety.
A young scamp baa been arrested here for
a robbery at an Irish wake,committed on the
person of Ihe son of the " ould man " whose
memory the assembled guests were invited
to regret, aided by the inevitable rot-gut,
without which no Irish corpse can be decent
ly buried.
Yesterday afternoon, some excitement was
canted by ibe discovery of a qnantily of coun
lerfeit quarter dollars, amounting to ebon
five or eix bushels, in the lower part of the
house, corner of Beekman and Nassau streets,
which has been in the course of demolition
for a week put. The basement, under the f
floor of which the spurious money was dis
covered, was lately occupied as an eating sa
loon. *
I-'BCRALOrrER.—Gen. James Irvin has of.
feted to donate two hundred and fifty acres
of land in Centre county, to the Pennsylvania
State Agricultural Society,, for a Farmers'
High School.
13f A gentleman who started on Monday
of last week from Philadelphia informed ua
that he reached Niagara at to o'clock on tht
evening of the same day.
The Wheat Cropin Okio.—T he report is that
from all parts ot Ohio, the coming crop, if
not injured in filling, will be larger than any
preceding year.
TOLLS A T UK \CH H A VK.\
COLLECTOR'S Owtca, • )
aur B °" ch Il " ven > Mi' 30, '55. I
A- W. WEAVER, ESQ.:
• Dear Sir —The following
is a statement showing the amount of Toll
&c , received at this Office during the month
of April, 1855:
Receipts in April, 1855, $9 491 41
Amount per last report, 3!544 80
1 Total sm't. received since Ist
Den. 1854, 813 036 31
Respectfully yours,
PETER ENT, Collects.
On the 3d inst., by the Rev. Dr. IVaisou,
Mr. SEYMOCK D. BALL, F.sq , of Minersville
ochuylkill coumy, and MARY JANE, daughter
of the Ute Ttioma* Pollock deceased ot Mil
ton.
3J&aTia;^V
In Danville on Tuesday Ihe Bth inst., Mr.
DAVID ROCKAFELLER an active energetic and
respected business man, aged 38 years.
In Danville, on Wednesday the 9lh lost.,
Dr. BONHAM R. OEARHART, aged 46 years.
In Huntington on the sth inst., Mrs. So-
BAN, consort of Peter S. Tresoott, aged 63
years, 9 months and 7 days.
tr ALL advertisements to insure insar
lior. must be handed in by Tuesday evening
of the week tbev are iulended to be pub
lished. .
" NOTICE ~
IS hereby given that my wife Lydia has
left my bed and board without any provo
cation or excuse, and against my consent.
I am therefore compelled a' 1 hereby do cau
tion all persons against giving her any credit,
as I will pay no debts of her contracting af
ter this date JOHN MELJCK.
| Light Street, May 14, 1855—3t.
Notice tp Contractors.
CJF.ALED PROPOSALS will be received br
ike undersigned at the House of GEO.
P. STEEL, in the borough of Wilkes-Bsrre,
until sundown of Thursday, Ihe 7th day of
June next, for the building of a NEW LOCK
nt the outlet into the pool of the Nanticoke
Dam, on the Lower North Branch Division
of Ihe Penn'a. Canal.
Plans and specifications of the woik will
be exhibited si* days previous to the letting.
GEO. W. SEARCH, Supervisor,
Lower N. B. Division.
May 1 7, 1855.
Public Sale of Heal Estate*
DV virtue of an order ol the' Orphans Court
■*-* of Columbia county, Setb Shoemaker.
Administrator of John Shoemaker, lale 01
Hemlock township, Columbia county, decea
sed, will on Siilurilny the 16 tk day of June
next at 3 o'clock, in the afternoon, expose to
public sale upon the premises,
A TRACT OF LAND.
situate in Hemlock township, Columbia
county, adjoining lands of Adam Slroup,
Veniali Reese, Thomas J Vamlarslice and
others, containing about Fourteen Acres, of
improved land, on which there are a two
story frame Dwelling House, and a bank
Barn, Late the estate of th e said Johu Shoe
maker.
SETH SHOEMAKER, Adm'r
By order of the Court.
JACOB EYERLY, Clerk
Bloomsburg, May 15, 1855.
LISTMIF LETTERS
REMAINING in the Post Office at Blooms
burg, May 16th, 1855.
Ar'.ley Catharine, Lewis Charles,
Adams Robert, Maul Joshua,
Borben C, Osier J,
Bird William, Parker Clemuel T. R.
Ball Joseph, Roges John,
Brnvious Lucy, Roth Andrew,
Rartletle Samuel, Reigliard B. F.,
Benham J W, Kifiledifile Jacob,
Good Chas. S, Roe Francis M.
Gross Adam, Schwarz Merger,
Goy Joseph, Troub Jacob,
Huner William, Taylor G. W.
Hewellyn Hughes, Ziegler John,
Henrie George, Crulher David ship
Horn Angalme, Evans Philip, do
Kin ley Rosolinda, Hughes David, do
Kealer Esq, Portser Andreas, do
Lincli Daniel,
I3T Persons calling for any of the above
letters will please say thev are advexise'd.
PHILIP UNANGST, r. M.
BOUNTY LANDS.
A GREEABLY to the law of the 3d March,
** 1855, persons who have been mastered
into the service of the United States, and
served fourteen days, are entitled to receive
a Land Warrant for 160 acres, and those per
sous who have received less quantity, are
now entii led to receive e Warrant sufficient
to make the 160 acres.
The undersigned has received the lew and
the lorms adopted by the department at
Washington, and will undertake the procur
ing of Warrants for those who may desire
his services. R. W. WEAVER.
Bloomsburg, Marob 16, 1855.
EXECUTORS NOTICE.
TVfOTICE is hereby given that letters testa
mentary upon the estate of Elizabeth
Unger, late of Bloomsburg, Columbia coun- -A
ty deceased, have been granted to Ihe un.
designed residing also in Bloomsburg. All
persons having accounts against the estate
are requested to present them for Settlement,
and those indebted to the decedent to make
payment without delay to
PHILIP UNANGST,
Bloomsbuig, Ap rtl 20 '55.—6w. Executor
BI&ABY <&
EAGLE HOTEL*
Mo- 130 North Third Ntreet. übeve Itaee
PHILADELPHIA.
Samuel A BRACT. GKOIGE B Baews
[June 6;h 1854-iy.