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.