The star of the north. (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, June 21, 1855, Image 2
STAR OF THE NORTH. R. W. WEAVER, EDITOR. llloomßburß Thursday June 21, 1853. A Case Tor Remedy. t)or papers were all mailed last week Upon Wednesday evening at ibe Blooinsburg office, and yet on Saturday noon they had not yet reached the Catlawissa office which is only about four miles from this town, By this means the people at Mainville, "Beaver Valley, Catlawissa Valley, Roaringoreek, Wright, and perhaps some other offices will not "receive Their newspapers which were published on the 14tb Inst., until next Satur day the 23d as they receive only a Saturday mail. And this while they live almost with in sight of die town from which they cannot bear in less than 9 days! Mr. Rahn, the postmaster at Cattawissa informs us that these delays are common, and we think they must be so from the complaints we hear. Messrs. Cnangst and Rahn are not in fault, for they ure always attentive in their office. But eveinl gentlemen at Cattawissa inform us that the. mails reach their place very irregularly, and we have in this instance been a personal wit nas* to ih default of tho contractor iui Coil- j veying the mails. The attention of the De partment has been called to the matter, and j we shall therefore look for a remedy. liounty Lund Militant*. Last Thursday we received the first boun ty land warrant of which we have heard in this county under the new act of Congress. It is for 120 acres, bearing the seal of Ilia Department of the Interior. Tho engraving i is about a foot square, and primed on the fi nest quality of Bank note paper. The vign-1 ette represents an army marching to Batde;. j en the right is a Medallion head of Hon. j Richard Brodhead, U. S. Senator, and beneath it, a party of soldiers, listening to the perfor- j /nances of a drummer-boy. On the left, is a ; Medallion head ol Hon. R. McCellatid, Sec retary of the Interior, and beneath it, an Ag ricultural 6cene ; with a portrait of *' The Fa ther of his Country" in the border at tho bot tom. The holder or assigns of these War rants, can locate them ut any Latul-Office in the United States, upon any of the public lands, subject to sale at either the minimum or lower giaded prices. The present warrant is issued to Mrs. Eliz abeth Shive, widow of ihe late Daniel Shive of this place, to whom a 40 aero warrant had been issued under the old law. The num ber is 3576, though the application was num ber 8293 ; so that it would appear less than one half of the applications are successful for warrant at the first examination. fST With itching malice and envy the ' Democrat continues to whine at us. and to ~ talk about its melodious "squeak," as if wo troubled it very much. With its character istic stupidity it says our defence of Mr. Buchauan is "abuse," and tries 10 hide the treacherous manner in which it ha3been de ceiving Democrats while it was doing the dirty work for the Whigs and Know-Nolh iugs by calling names when reason failed it. And then to cap the climax of ihe ridiculous, its nominal editor attempts to quote Laiin from Virgil! If that was not too silly to be not.ced it would truly be as wonderful to tell as any event that occurred since Balaam's ass spoke in a Btrange tongue when very much hurt. EST Col. Steploe, some months since ap pointed Governor of Utah Territory, in place of Brigham Young, whose term expired, has declined the appointment, and recommends the reappointment of Young. From this it would appear that the gallant Colonel does not oonsider YourTg and the Mormons so very hostile to the National government. Col. S. has resided for some time, with a detachment of U. S. troops, in Salt Lake City, and is pre sumed to be acquainted with the disposition of its government and people. In Wantnf Men. —Both England and llus ia appear to be hard pushed to find hnmnn food for powder in the present sanguinary war they are waging, for while England is enlisting foreigners in America and Germany. Russia has brought into Europe the barbar ous hordes of Asiatic Tartary, and are forci bly incorporating into their army the Baya •zid, the Armenians and Kurds. With such immense armies in the field, and the contin ual loss of thausatids by disease and battle, the case cannot be otherwise. ty The Pennsylvania Stale Agricultural Society have published their regulations lor the next exhibition at Harrisburg. The days selected for the Fair are Tuesday, Wednes day, Thursday and Friday, the 25th, 26ih, 27ih and 28lb days of September. The Ploughing Match will take place on Friday, the 28th, in a field adjacent to the place of exhibition Competition is invited from all the United Stales. " GUESS AGAIN I"—The 'ten thousand Irish men' who defeated the Know-Nothings in Virginia, unfortunately for the veracity of the Washington American Organ, are disposed of by the census, which shows thst there are but TOOO foreign born persons in Virginia— men, women and children I The K. N's. will have to guess again for a reason for their un expected defeat. tar The Pamphlet Laws of 1856, are now printed, and will doubtless be promptly dis tributed by the Secretary of the Common wealth. The volume is rather above than below the average size, containing 790 pages aud 666 acts and resolutions. t3T At the late Unitarian festival in Bos ton, Mr. Packer, the President, on behalf of the laymen, publicly thar.ked the clergy for letting politics alone in their pulpits. Iy Gov. REEDKR left Easton, on Wednes day, on bis return to Kansas territory. OT LattTuoaday night,a very heavy white 1 frost fell in the vicinity of Pittaburg, Pa. ' The Failure at Lancaster, Pa. The Lancaster Inland Daily, referring to the failure of the Lancaster Savings Insti tution, through its Treasurer, Mr. Brough'.er, says: " The deposits are set down at >550 000, and from this statement it is estimated that the. depositors wiil realise from 75 to 80 per cent, on their deposits. Some seem inclined to believe that they will eventually realise the whole, and thai ihe institution will be again nut into operation. We fear that the hopes of such will (ail. Tho most favorable reports of failures of this kind are apt to put forth at first. But we should rejoice if the hopes of the most sanguine should be reali sed. "Since the above was in type we learn that additional assets have been obtained, which will materially lessen the losses to the de positors, and that efforts will be made by the trustees to save all, provided they are secon ded by those interested." It is slated that a portion of the assets con sist of 870,000 worth of Shamokin Coal Mine stock. A letter in the Philadelphia News al so says: " Col. Realt Frazer, one of the largest stockholders, is using every means possible to bring the concern to a satisfactory close and has cfiered to give 810,000 to the asset fund to enable thein to realise an acceptable dividend; tho ' Daughters cf America ' have their all 52,t00, in iho bntik. '•The trustees of lite iuslitniion are the Hon E. Sl,teller, President; Col. Reah Fra zer, Hon. C. Kieller, Newton Lighter, Esq., j John S. Gable, Adam Wolf, and Dr. Jeremi- j all B. Stubee. These gentlemen are all known to bo men of means. "The security of Mr. Bronghter, as Ireas . urer, George Krug, A. VV. Russell arid Henry j Reed, are bound in the sum of 820,000.. Mr fore the People. . J There are some politicians in, and out ol office whose names some how or other, are continually in the newspapers. The weak est Cabinet officer, or Senator, and the leas' distinguished member of a Sia'.e delegation j in Congress, are sure to be the subject ol the I most newspaper pulls. The 'Slingtown Trum pet' and the "Boobiesburg Herald" are 6ttre | to have tho Hon. Mr. Snigglefriiz, continual ly before the people. Some of the uninitiated may possibly think that merit gets the hon orable gentlemen so prominently before the public but those who understand the ropes, know very well how it is all brought about These men are so mediocre, that they attract attention on account of their intellectual emallness, and they are therefore compelled to give themselves a fictitious importance, so as to keep from'being dwindled into abso lute insignificance by the public gaze. They would be enquired after if they iveie to keep out of the papers, and they have cunning enough to know that it would never dp to be looked at, at home. Their plan is to suggest to a quondam, toady 'rieud, to see the editor of the 'Trumpet' or' Herald,' and give them a blast. This is done by the editor with an eye to the future as a matter of course, and very soon the lion. Mr. Snigglefriiz is copied in to the city dailies, and he tjkes quite a dis tinguished jaunt around the country. We begin to think we can tell by 'he "cut of the jib" of a paragraph whether the Hon. mem ber has had a "finger in Ihe pie" in getting it afloat. There is a certain want of an oc casion to speak of these gentlemen, that al ways betrays them.— Westchester Republican. Senator Jones ot Tennessee, Ex-Governor Jones, of -Tennessee, now United States Senator from that Slate, and the most prominent and influential Whig pol itician in the Sourhwest, has written a strong letter condemnatory of that abominable fac tion which is endeavoring to destroy our civ il and religious liberty in the United States, and which is known by the name of Know- NothingUm. Gov. Jones adds another to that large band of gallant and distinguished I Whigs in tho South who, although they are desirous to overthrow the Democracy, will not couseoi to do so by using the weapons of bigotry and intolerance and ride into power by nullifying die best aud most sacred pro visions of the Coiislituiion.— Cin Enq. 'I he whig I'urty- Last fall the Whig party fused very quietly with Know-Notliingisni, congratulating them selves that Ihe Cayennes would help elect their ticket. But the result proves that it was the whig* wtio helped tho Know-Nothing to olect, coueeqenily a large aud respectable portion of the parly who "helped" to secure the election of ihe present Know-Notning stale functionaries— L'oilock, Curtain, & Co., are now bitterly opposed to Ihe "oath bound" clique. Among the most prominent papers that have "spoke out" on this subject, are the Lancaster Examiner, the Norristown | Herald, ihe Delaware county Rcpublicn , tho I Chaiuberabnfgti Whig, Washington Com monwcalth, and Pittsburgh Gazette. * Washington AU.iirs Washing/on, June 19.-Presidetil Pierce has called upon Governor Reader and the other officials of the Territory of Kansas, to ac count for certain speculations in that Terri tory with the half breeds, in violation of the actsof Congress, and has informed Gov. Ree der that he caoriot be kept in office unless the impressions now on his mind shall be removed by satisfactory explanations. Gov ernor Reader promises to give the requited explanation when he shall have reached Kansas- Important Decision. The Supreme Court lately made an impor tant decision for Ihe business and commer cial community. It is tho effect that where a promissory note is made payable at a Bank, no formal demand of payment is necessary; and consequently, a notice simply slating Ihe fact of the non-payment of the note is suffi cient to charge the indorser. I3T At a Sunday Schtiol Celebration, a few weeks ago, oil Wslker'a Point, Milwaukie, Wis, fifty-three barrels of lager beer were consumed! The Kclorm Legislature- During the election campaign last year, it was industriously circulated that, as the Dem ocratic aud Whig parlies had become corrupt, it was necessary a new party should be for med, which would not only reduce the ex- I per.sea ot government, and consequently the | taxes imposed on the people, but enact whole- I some and judicious laws. The Know-Noth j iug organization was breathed into existence, aud the people by hundreds and thousands connected themselves with it under the hope that some reform, would bo effected. The election of Mr. Pollock to the gubernatorial chair, and a large majority of Know-Nolhirgs to tho populur branch of the Legislature. It j is unnecessard to recapitulate the acts of the j Legislature - They are not even entitled to j the common respect of the people, much less their appiobalion. And il is universally ac knowledged. such a Legislature never before congregated in this Stuie, and the constant, earnest prayer of all is, that it may never again. llut, as the people were induced to join tho Know-Nothing organization, and under its power elect men to the Legislature, with coirect notions of reform, it is but due they treould know how far economy characterized the action of their representatives. The Dem ocratic Legislature of 1854, was made an es pecial target for the fire of Ihe Know-Noth ing and Whig presses. It was pronounced corrupt—its action misconstrued, and its ex psiifes heralded forth to the tax-payers of the Slate, as an evidence of the most reck less extravagance. Because the Legislature was democratic, the democracy of course were compelled to take the responsibility; and as it did, so we now deem it but fair to test its reckless extravagance with the one which old Father Time has just driver, out of existence. The expenses of iho Legislature of 1851, embracing only the pay ol Senators, Members, C lerks and officers was 879,849 09 The expenses of I lie last Legis lature, embracing the same items, are $101,627 73 Difference, 822,778 64 Thus will (ho lav-payers of the State per ceive that in their efforts to reform, by elect- j ing Know-Nothings to the Legislature, have increased the expenses of Ihe Legisla ture $22,778 64. In this calculation we have not -included the contingent expenses—post age, printing, newspapers, &c., for the rea son that the accounts have not all yet been settled. When the correct account shall be made out, it will be found to reach at least tidily thousand dollars of an increase. It rruisl also be remembered, that the last Legislature was in session the exact time o( the Legisla ture of '54, and therefore this increase of ex penses did not arise by length ol session. Now, what we desire to ask Hie people is, how much better have you made yourselves by connecting with the Know-Nothing or ganization, under the hope of reform ? You believed that the Democratic Legislature ol 54 was a reckless, extravagant one. You were told this, by those who desired to ob tain the offices, and who used the worst means to induce you to believe them. You reposed confidence and trust in what they said, and went to the polls, giving your votes to men who were deceiving you all the time. From the above comparative statement of the expenses ofllietwo Legislatures you can readily see how you have been duped and fooled. If iho Legislature of 1854 was an extravagant one—if it was corrupt, as you were made to believe it was, how much more so has been the Legislature of 1855, which increases the public expenses, so far as can at present ba ascertained, $22,778 64? Will it be said this is an item of no account—that is too small for consideration ? Small as it is, it nevertheless proves that the people have gained nothing by the change, and that in endorsing Know-Noihingisin us a means of refoim, they bpt helped tnea iuto power whose only object seemed to be to teach succeeding Legislatures what extravagance was. We might go on aigl ddate upon this sub ject, by referring to the increase of expenses in (he Siuto Department. But we are not mean enough to do such a thing. Tho poor clorks in the various offices are the only per sons who earn what they get. They are too poorly paid ; and it would be a source of grat ification to us were we able to record the fact of their compensation being increased. An increase ol their pay shall never ba made by us an item of political trickery, or the means of rendering odious an administration. But it is the increase of die legislaiive expenses of the government of which we complain. Had wholesome legislation been effected— had reform been practiced—had corruption not eked out in its action from the commen cement to the ond of the session, we should have been content. But when the reverse is the case, when thtf Democratic Legislature of 1854 was charge 'with the worst extrava gance, the people must know how admira bly the reform Legislature of 1855 outstrip ped it by increasing the public expenses.— Harrisburg Union. Practical Counccl. —Amos Lawrence, cf Boston, in his " Diary and Correspondence," gives ihe following characteristic counsel: "Ai the commencement of your journey tho difference between going just right or a little wrong will be Iho difference between finding yourself in good quarters or in a mis erable bog or slough at the end of it. Do r.ot cheat yourself by doing what you sus pect may be wrong. You are as much ac countable to your Maker lor an enlightened exetcise of your conscience as you would bo to me to use due dtligenco in taking care of a bag of money which I might send by yon." "Good principles, good temper, and good manners will carry a man through the world much better than he can get along with the absence of either. The most im portant ts good principles." "Temptation, if successfully resisted, slreuglhens the char acter; but it should always be avoided."— "The moral taste, like Ihe natural, is vitia ted by abuse." "He whose life ends at thirty may have done much while he who has reached the age of ono hundred may have done little." " Briug home uo foreign fancies which are inapplicable to our slate of society." EDUCATIONAL. Tiro Itights of Schoolmasters rind Parents. The following, from tae Boslon Traveller, will be read with interest: A case of considerable inleresl was Iried before Justice Labb, of Cambridge, on Sat urday. A citizen of Newton was complain ed of for assault upon the school ni&ster at that place. It appeared that the master was in the habit, as is now the general custom, of keeping the child of the defendant, with other scholars, after school hours, to learn Iter lessons, which had been imperfectly reci ted during school hours. The parent, be lieving that the detention was illegal, went to the school-house and demanded his child. This was after regular school hours. The master said the child should go as soon as she had recited her lesson. The parent at tempted to enter the school-room to take his child, but his entrance was resisted by the master, and the assault npon the master was the result. The court ruled that the keeping of a child until the lessons of the day had been perfected was legal; that tho parent, in attempting to enter the school-room in opposition to the will of the master, was in tho wrong; that a child placed at school by the parents is under the control of the master until regularly dismissed; and that a parent cannot withdraw the child from school du ring the day against the master's will, ex cept through ftio intar vent ion of an officer and the school committee. The defendant was fined S3O and costs. Are House Plauts Injurious to Health} During daylight healthy plants, by means of their leaves, absorb carbonic acid gas from tbe air, and give out oxygen gas. This tends to purify the atmosphere. But by night, and when the plants is in a sickly slate, also when the leaves are about to fall, tho reverse of this lakes place, and oxygen is absorbed, and carbonic acid given out, the same as by animals, Ihough in a very limi ted quantity. Partly owing to this, but perhaps chiefly to the concentration of the odors given out in an apartment, may be explained the fact, that plauts have an injurious effect upon persons who sleep in Ihe room where ihev are kept. What five-lettered, monosyllabic, plural word is that which, if the plural sign bo ad ded, becomes a dissyllable and singular, ar.d its meaning almost directly reversed? Mourning Costumes. —The ordinary color for mourning it America and Europe is black ; but in China it is white, in Turkey violet, and in Ethiopia brownw Origin of Banks. —The name bank is de rived from banco, a bench, which was erec ted in Ihe market-place for the exchange of money. The first bank was established in Italy, by the Lombard Jews, in 808. Some of these Jews settled in London, and the street where they resided is called Lombard Street. Blue Stocking. —This was originally the name of a literary society. It originated in the fact of Benjamin Stillingfleet, the distiu quished naturalist and writer, who took a most active part in establishing literary soci eties, always wearing blue worsted stock ings. The beautiful and talented Mrs. Jern inghatn is said to have worn blue stockings at the conversazione of Lady Montague; and from this peculiarity Ihe term has since baen applied to literary ladies. AIiKIVAIi of flic LOUIS. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. NEW YORK, June 19, 11 P. M.-—The steam ship St. Louis, from Havre and Southampton, reached her wharf at a few minutes before 11 o'clock, this evening, bringing London dates to the Gib instant,and Liverpool to the sth in stant. FROM THE SEAT OF WAR —Since entering the Sea of AzofF, four steamers of war, and 240 vessels employed in carrying supplies to to the Russian army in the Crimea, have been destroyed by the Allies. Tho Conferences at Vienna were formal ly closed at the late sitting, held on the 4th inst. A despatch from Piince Gortscbakoff, da ted 29th of May, states that the Allies had occupied Kertch, but had not pushed inland. He also reports that in consequence of meas ures he has taken, the Allies w ill not be able to cut ofi the communications of the Russian army. Another despatch says that Gen. Onscha koffhad arrived at Perekofl, with his division jof four inlantry regiments, each 3, C00 strong. CLERICAL SCOUSDREL. —A clerical gentle man,of Silk-en address, on Thursday last dis appeared with the wife of a gentleman resi ding on South Cteek. The "gay Lothario" in clerical orders, some two or three weeks since, being called to the neighborhood of South Creek, was invited home by the gen tleman. He pretended to be unwell,and stay ed some days at lite house. He then look a brief trip abroad, lectured on temperance, and returned to the house of his hospitable friend, quite sick—so much so, indeed, as to be closely confined to the house. He was a guest for some three or four days, when,on Thursday,the 10th, his host,having some bu siness to transact in Pennsylvania, loft home, not suspecting anything amiss. Hardly had ha gone than the clerical scoundiel suddenly recovered his health. His carriage was got out, and the unfaithful wife, packing up her things and some of her husband's, had them conveyed to the carriage, and with her sanc timonious paramour took her seat, and bade adieu to pleasant home and her two children, her innocence and peace of mind, to link her destiny to shame and the veriest rascal that ever the sun (bone upon.— Elmira (N. Y.) Republican, 181 h. THIS New York Tribune says:—"We learn I bat the tickets used for the grand K. N. ban] quet at Philadelphia the other evening were bought, for the pupose, of a German importer in the City, and were made in Germany, lith ographs and All. Considering this was a Native-American festival, one would suppose that American cards would have been good enough for the occasion."' From the Ledger of Friday. Dissolution of the ■' Amcrlcau" Conven tion. The Secret Council, which hen been in Fession in this city far several days past, have voluntarily partially lifted the mysteri ous veil which covered their doing!, and the fact is revealed that the Convention has suffered a collaps in its attompls to establish a national parly—split upon the slavery question—the Northern and Southern wings being entirely too ultra to unite on one har monious platform. The majority resolutions, trying 'to plaster together the two ends of these extreme opinions, was a cement of too soft a character to hold. Abolition and Free Soil would not be joined to pfe-slavery, and no sooner were the mjority resolutions car ried, than the Northern delegates " bolted," and now avow their determination to carry out "American" doctrines on their own hook- The delegates from twelve Stales se ceded from the Council, held *a seperate Convention, and adopted the following reso lutions : To THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITRD STATES.— The undersigned, citizens of the various States assembled at Philadelphia on this fourteenth day of June, 1855, feel constrain ed under the existing state of afTairs, to af firm the following principles: First, The unconditional restoration of that lime honored compromise known as the Missouri prohibition, which was destroyed tu uitor ctterogaril of the popular will: a wrong no lapse of time can palliate and no plea for its continuance can justify ; and that we will use all constitutional means to main lain the positive guarantee of this compact until the object for which it was enacted has been consummated by the admission of Kansas and Nebraska as free States. Second, That the rights of settlers in Ter ritories to the free and undisturbed exercise of the Elective Franchise guaranled to them by the laws tinder which they are organized, should be promptly protected by the Nation al Executive, wherever violated or threaten ed, and that we cannot consistently act with those who will not aid us in the correction of those national wrongs, and will not even per mit their fair consideration and full discus sion. Third, We further declare our Continued and unalterable determination louse all hon orable efforts, to secure such a modification of tlio naturalization laws, aided bv such an elevation of public sentiment as shall pre serve the true interests of the nation, and shall guarantee the thiee vital principles of a .Republican Government, spiritual freedom , a free Bible and free schools, thereby promoting the great work of Americanizing Amer ica. Fourth, That we invoke the arm of iegis- [ lation to arrest that growing evil, the depor-j tation, by foreign authorities, of paupers and convicts to our shores; and thai as our Na tional Constitution requires tire Chief Execu tive of our country to be of native birth, wo deem it equally necessary and important that our diplomatic representatives abroad should not also possess foreign prejudices to bias their judgement, or to influence their official ac tion. No more slavo territory—Bushwell White. OHlO.—Thomas H. Ford, L. H. Olds, Joshua Martin, J. K. Marley, George R. Martin, A. McKay, H. B. McAbae, John E. Rees. INDIANA William Cnmback, Schuylei Colfax, Godlove S. One, J' S. Harvey, F. D. Allen, Jas, R. M. Bryant. MICHIGAN.—IsraeI Coggeshell, Moses A. McNaughton. ILLINOIS.—Wm. W. Danenhower. Will iam H. Young, Henry S. Jennings, D. L. Eastman. MASSACHUSETTS.—Henry J. Gardner, Henry Wilson, J. W. Foster, A. C. Carey, 11. W. Rugg, James Buffingten, Andrew A. Richmond. NEW HAMPSHIRE—Anthony Colby, Jesse Mann, Stephen B. Sherwin. VERMONT.—EveIyn I'ierpont, Joseph 11. Barrett, Roland Fletcher, R M. Guilford, Jo. D. Hatch. MAINE.—Louis O. Cowan, A. S. Rich mond, Benjamin D- Peck, John L. Stevens, John S. Sayward, Joseph Cowell, Jatnes M. Lincoln. lOWA.—James Thoringtori, Wm. Loung ride. RHODE ISLAND.—Jabez C. Knight, Na thaniel Green, William H. Sweet. CONNECTICU R. — David IT Booth, Thos. Clark, N- D. Sperry. WISCONSIN —D. E. Wood, R. Chand ler, C. W- Cook. The Convention which adopted these res olutions was held yesterday at the Girard House, and immediately after the adoption, adjourned sine die. The majority of the Council consists of 97 members. ■ We have not heard whether they have followed the example of the seceders and adjourned also. Eiy The Contested Election case in Union county, in relation to tho division of said county, was tried at New Berlin, on Tuesday of last week. After argument, the Court quashed tho petition of the New Ber liners, on account of informality in the spec ifications, and the divisions of Old Union it, therefore, now a fixed fact. There was great rejoicing in Lewisburg on Wednesday. The feeling of the different parties ran so high, that the Lowisburgers brought their own tents and victuals with them, in order to obviate the necessity of patronizing the New Berlin landlords. This is a little ahead of the bad feeling tbat used to exist between Danville and Rloomsburg during the Removal and Division times. But then we live in a pro gressive age .—Danville Democrat. ELECTIONS —Alabama, Arkansas, lowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas hold their elections on the first Monday in August, Tennessee on the first Thursday, and North Carolina on the second Thursday of the same month. Ou the second Monday in Septem ber the eleofion in Maine occurs and that of Vermont on the first Tuesday of tbe same month. CF" A gentleman lately travelling in Tex as, couated 113 deer while travelling Irom Columbus to Richmond. INFAMOUS.—An attempt to destroy the lives of the passengers of a railroad train was made on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 011 Tuesday night, by fastening a heavy piece of limber across the track, near Har per's ferry. The freight train, which reaches that point a little alter 5 o'clock in the morn ing, but a short lime in advance Ex press train, lan upon the timber, and the lo comotive was thrown from the track and badly broken. The engineer and firernar. narrowly escaped with their lives by jumping from the looomotiue, after the) had reversed it, and before it struck the timber. The pun ishment for such an offence ought to be made the same as that for murder. It is more afrocious than nny crime that can. be perpetrated, for it is the coolest premptlitaled murder against innocent travellers, with whop the villian who conld plan such mis chief could have no cause of diflerenco or I ill-will. THE SEA OF AZOFF.—The Sea of Azoff, which the news by the Atlantic informs us, is now completely occupied by the Allied squadron, communicates wiih the Black Sea "by the narrow strait of Yenikato. It is not more than 200 miles long, and its greatest bredlh is perhaps 100. It is shallow and en cumbered with sandbanks,having in noplace ! more than seven fathoms of water. Its shores are generally marshy, and its commerce, which is trifling, centres at Taganrog, which is at its N. E. extremity. Kerleb, which is said to be in the hands of the allies, is a small town on the strait of Yenikale, of not more than 1000 inhabitants, but with a good harbor. It bad a small fort. A VALUABLE AHTICLE—China grass is an article which should bo immediately intro duced iuto tjy United Stales. In China it is cultivated along the borders of rice fields.— In Queen Elizabeth's time clothes made of it were imported into Europe. The Hollanders preferred it, for fine fabrics, to those made of flax. The tenacity is such that a thread may be spun one hundred and seveulj-five feel long without winding. It is fifty per cent, j stronger than flax. A thread over six miles in length weighed only a trifle over one thou- j sand two buudred grains. THE REV. SVDDEY SMTTH.— A Decided Sell.— Lady Cnbebs had a great passion for the gar den and the hot house, and when she got hold of a celebrity like the Rav. Sydney, was sure to dilate upon her favorite subject. Her geraniums, her auriculas, her dahlias, her carnations, her acacias, her lillia regia, her ranunculas, her marygolds, her peonies, her rhododendron prorutubers, mossy pompone and rose pubeseens, were discussed with all the flow of hot-house rhetoric. " Mv lady," asked the Reverend wit, " did you ever have a Psoriasis SeptennisV' [This is the medical name for the seven years ilch.] -'Oh, yes! a most b-e-a-u-l-i-f-u-l one ; J pave if to the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dear man! and it came out so in the spring!" Pit OGRESS OF REAPING MACHINES.—We I have been informed by a manufacturer of ag- j ricultural implements—one who is excellent authority—that between fifteen and sixteen j thousand reaping machines will bemanutac lured and sold this year in our country. The demand is so great that manufacturers cannot \ make them fast enough for their orders. : This affords evidence of agricultural prosper- j ity, as the cost of these machines will amount to neatly two millions of dollars. ' Our farmers exhibit wisdom in usir.g and patronizing machinery. A reaping machine will save the prion of itself in one season Scientific American. GRAIN IN THE WEST.—A letter from Bu- J reau county, Illinois, says that all the ware houses along the railroads are full of grain, and many thousand bushels are piled up in bags along the side of the track. Long trains of cars groan under the weight of grain with which they are loaded. The farmers plead with the buyers for more bags, and the buy ers with the railroads for more cars. All the farmers have planted from one to thirty acres more than last year, and all now looks well for a heavy crop. Not Much Like Famine. — The receipts ol broadauffs at the upper lake ports are tre mendous, and in the face of the immense receipts of corn, and the export demand but nominul, with a limited distilling business, the present prices of this description of grain cannot be maintained. 103 436 bushels were received at ports on the upper lakes in one day. At Buffalo ami Oswego the re ceipts reported on Monday reached 8,824 bbls.of flour, 82,897 bushels of wheat, 180,- 027 bushels corn, and 193,275 bushels of oats. Decline in the Cattle Market Frices. —At the New York Cattle Market, on Wednesday, 13lh Inst., prices where one to two dollars lower than last week. There were twenty three hundred bullncks in market, and the rate at which they were sold brought the price of the meat at an average ol ten cents a pound, ranging from nine to eleven cents, with only half a dozen or so at twelve cents. This will enable butchers to reduce prices to about the standard before the enormous rise in b{py. The late high prices have brought quite a number of cattle from Texas. The Beale Case. —lt is rumored that the Jud ges of the Supeme Court are unable to agree in the case of Dr. Beale, on the writ of error asking for a new trial; that two of their num ber are for affitming the proceedings of the Court below, one for amending the Record in some way, and the other two for a reversal. If this be true, themotion for a new trial /ails. | At all events nothing further will be done in ' tbe matter until August next, when the Jud ges meet at Bedford. Jury System Among The Indians.— The Austin State Gazette remarks that one good ev idence of progress is to be fonnd in a late a meudment pioposed to be made by the Gen eral Council ol the Choctaw Natson, that judges shall have full bower to summons a jury of twelve men to decide all criminal aats, with the exception of murder. The Choctaw* are doing much for the order and peace of society. ■ ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. ONE WEEK LATER FROM EUROPE. NEW YORK, June 13.—The Steamship At lantic, Capt. West, arrived at 9 o'clock this morning, with Liverpool dates to the 2d iilat., one "week later than before received. She brings intelligence that the Allies have captured Kerteck, in the sea of Azof, and al so die Russian Camp on Tehernaya, besides being successful in a number of brilliant ac tions before Sebastopol. FROM THE CRIMEA.—The r.ews from the seat of war is tho most important since the intelligence of the battle of the Altna. The news comprises three distinct success' es by the Allies, j Firstly. The French, in a series of saugui nury conflicts, lasting the whole night* of the 22d and 23d of May, took, and retained, an important position of defence, the Place d' Armce, before Sebastopol. No fewer than 8,000 men were killed or wour.ded, mostly by the bayonet. Secondly. The Allies made a rapid ad vance, and seized and retained the Russian lines on tlie Tehernaya, without much loss* Tito Russians retreating to the hills. Thiidly. The secret expedition of the Al lies has obtained easy possession of Kertsch, and thus commands the Sea of Azoff, iu which are now fourteen Allied Steamers. The Russians, on the approach of the Al lies, blew up the forts and burned four steam ers, thirty transports, and half a million sacks of bread.-tnfls. 1-ranee und England have declined any fur ther conferences at Vienna. Tut LATEST. —The French have establish ed a camp at Tehorgouu, and it is said that Belgium will furnish twenty thousand men. No hopes of peace now prevail. By the previous arrival we had a brief an nouncement of the French having drireu the Russians from a strong position of defence, the Place d' Armee, before Sebastopol, which occurred daring the nights of the 22d and 23d. It was a most sanguinary affair, the posi tion being demanded by nearly the entire garrison. The total loss on both sides, in killed aod wounded, is set down at B,ooo* General Pelissier says the Russian loss is enormous, and that ol his own troops consid erable, though much less. The French still retain the position. Gen. Gortschakoff's account of the affair is as follows: ' Yesterday evening seventeen batlalliona of flie enemy, with reserve, attacked the trench of the counter-approach, commenced the day before, in front ol Bastions Nos. 5 and 6. The combat was sanguinary, lasted during the whole night. Our twelve battall ions lost nearly 2500 men driving back the enemy." Gen. Pelisser telegraphs, on the 25th alt., at 10 o'clock, I'. M.: To day we have occu pied lite line of Tehernaya ." The enemy were not in force and offered little resistance, retreating rapidly to the bills. We have definitely established ourselves in the works in front of Sebastopol, carried on the 22d and 23d. An armistice was agreed upon, for tlva pur-' poso of buryjng the dead, which enabled us to estimate the enemy's losses. There mast have been from 5,000 to 6,000 killed or wounded. On the 26th ult., the enemy had not made any demonstration either in front or against tne lines on the Tiboruaya. Tho work on the new fortifications at Ka millech is progressing, The Sanitary condition of the army is good. O.i the 27th the expedition against Kertsch and Zeuikule was attended with complgl success. The enemy fled at the approach of the Al lies, blowing up their powder magazines aqd fortifications, and burning their steamers.* it is rntuored in Paris that Gen. Pelisser I has attacked and routed tho Russian army ; under Gen. Lipruudi. Gen. Canrobert ia also reported to have been wounded, and another General killed. Tho rumor is regarded as doubtful. MORE VIOLENCE IN KANSAS.— PeopIe Dri ven f> cm their Homes. —We leam that mob violence is still the order of tho day in the vicinity of Douglas. On the forenoon of Monday last a gang of twenty five or thirty land pirates, who represent the pro slavery ' interests of Missouri in Kansas, visited the i house of Mr. Hancock, in Lecompte, and or. dered him to leave the premises with his goods in five minutes. Mr. H. refused to comply with the demand, when the ruffians, led on by Mr- Jones, of Westport, marched to the front of the house, and Ordered the company to fire upon him. A parley ensu ed, after which he deserted the habitation, erected with much labor, and allowed hia goods to be taken out upon the open prairie. It is said that a matt by the name of Sim mons pretenped to o-.vn tho claim. After leaving Hancock's c.'aim they visi ted the dwelling of Mr. Oakly, and re-enac ted the scenes just narrated, with the addi tion that the torch Was applied and the tene ment burned. Mr. Oakley's claim was purchased from a Southerner a few months since for 3250, but the new ououputil was in favor of making Kansas a free Stale, hence the outrage.— Kansas Herald, Jane 2. iy The Newnk Advertiser stales that many of the liquor dealers in Jersey City have determined to give up the sale of liquor until they can procure license and do it legal ly EF" The Globe Iron Works, of New York, turned out on Wednesday last, a casting weighing eighty-eight thousand pounds—tho largest, it is said, ever effected iu a single mass in this country. Land IVarrants —Among the claims allow ed is a large number for 80 acres, the piste for which is not engraved, neither will the i Pension Office receive it until about the 2d Of July uext, so that claimants of that class will have to be patient.